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Jewish actress Mandy Patinkin issues a reminder of conscience to Jewish people: "How can you do to others what was done to you and your ancestors?" As volunteers at the Conscience Foundation, each week we choose an act of conscience from around the world and from everyday life. We strive to make these acts visible. This week, our volunteers voted to select an act of kindness that went to American Jewish actress Mandy Patinkin, for her powerful appeal to her community, her his

Jewish actress Mandy Patinkin issues a reminder of conscience to Jewish people: "How can you do to others what was done to you and your ancestors?" As volunteers at the Conscience Foundation, each month we choose an act of conscience from around the world and from real life, and we try to make it visible. This month's chosen act of kindness, selected by our volunteers, is the powerful appeal to conscience by American Jewish actress Mandy Patinkin to her community, her histori

When we call ourselves Vicdan Foundation , we are not simply choosing a poetic name. We are putting at the center of our work a word that carries a very specific moral experience, shaped by the history and everyday life of this land. In many conversations, people try to translate “ vicdan ” as “ conscience ” or connect it to “ consciousness ”. These words come close in certain ways, but they do not really touch what we mean. For us, “vicdan” is the place where moral clarity,