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Published December 25, 2011, 12:00 AM

'Tikkun olam'


Edna Tasten receives a Christmas dinner from Danny Friedman as David Tasten watches. About 20 volunteers associated with Temple Israel helped serve Christmas dinner at Union Gospel Mission on Sunday. Several of the volunteers wore caps like Freidman’s, with the Hebrew phrase “Tikkun olam” written on them. The phrase means “repairing the world,” and has come to connote social action or

community service. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)

Read the article: Union Gospel Mission gets a Jewish Christmas gift