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(RNS) — Society often expects victims of harm to forgive their perpetrators, regardless of whether they've cleaned up their act, says Ruttenberg. Judaism offers another way.

In her new book, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg illustrates how Maimonides's five steps for repentance can fix the serious harm done by individuals and institutions in contemporary America

(JTA) - Move over, tashlich: Twitter is the new place to atone, thanks to a bot programmed by Jewish coders who want users to apologize better. While

But the bot does more than name and shame — it’s meant to help people improve the way they apologize to each other.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg hasdonated to victims of sex trafficking to make amends for benefiting from the Wexner Foundation, whose benefactor had close ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg tries to make amends after receiving funding from US Jewish billionaire Leslie Wexner, whose ties to convicted sex offender Epstein have come under scrutiny

Danya Ruttenberg, an advocate for making amends, writes of her “unease” as an alum of a program funded by Leslie Wexner, the Jewish philanthropist who had close ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Should those objects be returned? is there a blatant issue here of making amends, reparations? i think we should look at items on a case—by—case basis. and some of the items at the time were considered loot, and i remember gladstone, for example, talking about some items had been taken from ethiopia and saying it would be good if we returned them. and that was 100 years ago and we still havent returned them. theyre in the v&a. and weve got to remember that the british museum, for example, on...

Positive test shows, a 15-year-old athlete testing positive for a potentially harmful prohibited substance, unquote. and shes one of the youngest olympians ever to test positive for a banned substance. back to you. >> yeah, really unusual story. thank you so much for that. lets go to patrick snell now, and patrick, after a slow start team usa starting to pileup the gold medals. >> and great story lines as well around team usa. in particular im thinking of a snow board star lindsey jacobellis. re...