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When your religious community can't agree on which social justice causes to prioritize

Our synagogue's social justice committee keeps having the same arguments about whether we should focus on local poverty or global climate action and we're stuck because everyone thinks their cause is the most urgent form of tikkun olam. We've been meeting for months and we're further apart than when we started.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Groups struggle when competing moral imperatives create paralysis rather than coordinated action for repair.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Jewish tikkun olam — repairing the world?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.