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GUCI Camp Tikkun Olam Program: "Keep Indianapolis Beautiful"
GUCI campers worked throughout the summer in a Tikkun Olam project facilitated by Keep Indianapolis beautiful. They helped create parks, staffed the Boys and Girls Club, and fixed up neighborhood gardens. URJ Myron S.
RUSH (Rural Self Help) Initiative
Congregation supports local underprivileged community using Maimonides' teaching that the highest form of tzedakah is to help people help themselves. Community Contact Information: Temple Emanu-El Birmingham, AL www.ourtemple.org Goals: Assist an impoverished local community.
PumpCan Project
Teens in grades 7-12 across the state went door-to-door on the evening of October 31, Halloween, “trick-or-treating” for canned goods to donate to local shelters.
Sample Pride Shabbat Sermon I
PRIDE AND THE PROMISED LAND: JOURNEYS OF JUSTICE Delivered in 2013 by Rabbi Adam Rosenwasser Edith Schlain was born in Philadelphia in 1929.
Yad B’Yad: Joining Together to Heal the World
Temple Dor Dorim cultivated meaningful personal and communal relationships with two local churches, creating the foundation for genuine interfaith collaboration on a series of events aimed at the entire local community and designed to raise awareness of the suffering in Darfur, as well as within our
Musar: How it Connects My "Jewish World" and My "Real World"
Musar connects my Jewish learning and burgeoning spiritual awakening with what I used to call my “regular” life, the bridge between my two previously separated worlds.
Healing the World: Jewish Values, Social Justice and the Community
Temple Beth Shalom in Santa Fe, NM has an on-going multifaceted program Temple Beth Shalom in Santa Fe, New Mexico has an on-going multifaceted program of education, action and advocacy.
Social Action Fair
A congregation's attempt to foster and support the dynamic engagement of the synagogue’s members within the local community via a social action fair.
Genocide in the Human Heart: From Holocaust to Darfur
Dialogue between a rabbi and a contemporary African politics professor focusing on incidents of massive mass killing where ethnicity, race and religion played a role.
The Friendship House
A congregation created three comprehensive projects for the Friendship House, a homeless shelter for abused women, children at risk, migrant workers, and the Sunrise Community, an agency for developmentally disabled adults.