Social Justice
Intro to Jewish Social Justice
What Jewish about Jewish social justice?
Educator: Rabbi Seth Goren
Course Details
Sessions
4
Recommended for
Everyone
Description
What is "Jewish Social Justice"? What does it mean to repair the world as Jews?
This 4-session course, created by Repair the World, will explore a range of tensions: What is the relationship between learning and action? Should we preference immediate needs or long-term impact? How can we prioritize among the variety of inequalities? Is our primary responsibility to our own community or the broader world? Does your desire for justice come from your relationship to Judaism or somewhere else? Through traditional and modern sources, we'll seek to understand what Jewish social justice is, and how it can guide our efforts to improve the world.
This course was made in partnership between Project Zug and Repair the World.
Sample Materials
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Educator
Rabbi Seth Goren created a Project Zug course for Repair the World when he was the Director of Repair the World: Philadelphia. Now, he is Hillel Ontario's Chief Education & Campus Officer. After earning a B.A. and M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania and teaching English in the Czech Republic, Seth received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1998, interned at the Israeli Ministry of Justice, and practiced human rights, commercial, and consumer protection law. His commitment to interfaith community and justice led him to Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's rabbinical school as a Wexner Graduate Fellow. He served previously as the Executive Director of Repair the World: Philadelphia and as the first Director of Jewish Student Life and Associate Chaplain at Lehigh University, where he also taught courses on interfaith dialogue and Jewish law. He is an avid Bruce Springsteen aficionado and the proud father of Liana, age eight.
