Tikkun Olam

Judaism maintains we are in a dynamic relationship with God. We are in a brit, or covenant with God that involves partnership. This implies that Jewish education is not the transmission of knowledge only for the sake of acquiring knowledge rather it is transmission of knowledge for the sake of developing a moral perspective and making good deeds habit. It is with this in mind that, through Jewish life at Levine Academy, students are engaged in tikkun olam (seeing the world through God's eyes and devotion to its healing and improvement) in the advancement of Jewish survival and continuity, justice, peace, and freedom, as well as eliminating crises, such as hunger, poverty, racism, and wanton environmental destruction and waste.

Each grade level at Levine Academy commits to tikkun olam through a social service or Mitzvah projects, which includes learning about communal or world needs, raising funds and/or supplies for aid and relief, and actively participating in the community, giving assistance to those in need. Levine Academy middle school students are also individually responsible to supply a number of personal social service hours in the community, fifty percent of which choose to go beyond their required amount. Furthermore, as a whole school we dedicate ourselves to collecting tzedakah and to educating ourselves about various communal, national, and international needs. In the past we have collected thousands of dollars for the Tsunami Relief Fund of the Joint Distribution Committee, we sent mishlo'ach manot (care packages) to lonely, immigrant Israeli soldiers, and we educated and informed others about the genocide in Darfur.