Octo­ber 7, 2023, was not just one of the most trag­ic days in mod­ern Jew­ish his­to­ry; it rep­re­sent­ed a pro­found moral and spir­i­tu­al chal­lenge to lib­er­al Jew­ish denom­i­na­tions in Amer­i­ca.

It’s a chal­lenge Jews have faced before, and we rose to the occa­sion; but are Jews of today up to the chal­lenge? We have the oppor­tu­ni­ty — and the oblig­a­tion — to reclaim a Jew­ish vocab­u­lary of sanc­ti­ty, activism, and the desire to stand apart from today’s world. Tikkun Ha’Am/Repairing Our Peo­ple is a cry from the heart by one of Amer­i­can Judaism’s most pro­lif­ic voic­es. His mes­sage: the role of faith is to chal­lenge us as indi­vid­u­als and to chal­lenge soci­ety.

Rab­bi Jef­frey K. Salkin chal­lenges us to rethink con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish iden­ti­ty, Israel, spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, and pop­u­lar cul­ture. Rab­bi Salkin invites read­ers to think deeply about the con­tem­po­rary world, show­ing that Judaism has a stake in our world’s polit­i­cal, reli­gious, and cul­tur­al battles.