Judaism has a variety of ideas about the afterlife, but it's not emphasized in our theology and it's not really connected to redemption at all. Redemption is when there's justice and peace on earth. [NOTE: the author is a Rabbi]
Now, let me suggest first that, if we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. . . . We must develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone; no nation can live alone, and as long as we try, the more we are...
Ordinary love, anonymous and unnoticed as it is, is the substance of peace on earth, the currency of God's grace in our daily life. from Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life