A eighth grade "Mitzvah Corps" curriculum includes weekly classes focusing on social issues, tikkun olam, and weekly volunteer placement in community service agencies.
Congregation “adopts” the Ukrainian Jewish community of the Zvenigorodka shtetl.
North American bar/bat mitzvah students sponsor and exchange letters with Ethiopian-Israeli peers.
Creation of charitable centerpieces for a B'nei Mitzvah celebration.
Distribution of toiletry kits to local homeless shelters.
Congregational families with children visit a local senior community.
Collect and distribute books to under-resourced classrooms or disadvantaged families.
Visit a different social action website each night of Chanukah. Use these sites as a springboard for volunteer work and charitable giving.
The congregation collaborated with the administration of a local inner city school. Congregants tutored students, others provided supplies and money for field trips, while others gave their time during after school projects.
A congregation's commitment to Social Action initiated two comprehensive projects. The first was an annual three-day trip for underprivileged students which takes place at URJ Greene Family Camp. The second project, which was done as a fund-raising effort, the committee began offering intra-congregational shalach manot baskets, thereby performing the mitzvah of sending food packages to friends and relatives on Purim. In addition to these projects, the Steering Committee created the Mitzvah Messengers program to encourage the congregation's children to become involved in the community.
Fill your mishloach manot baskets with Fair Trade products and create a more just and sustainable world while enjoying tasty treats.
To ensure a coordinated volunteer effort, a proactive committee was formed encompassing representatives from Brotherhood, WRJ-Sisterhood, Youth Group, and the congregation as a whole. This clearing house identifies community needs, organizes and coordinates activities and involves as many congregants as possible in social action projects.
Congregation feeds the hungry in the local community.
A synagogue “adopted” a local low-income public school by donating school supplies and volunteering as tutors and mentors.
Youth prepare weekly lunches for the homeless.
Hurricane relief committee created post-Katrina to aid those affected and prepare in case of future disasters.
Congregations and individuals donate surplus Judaica to developing Central and South American Jewish communities.
The synagogue's B'nai Mitzvah students, teens, and adults work together to improve literacy through tutoring programs, donations of books and backpacks, and through volunteer at after school programs.
A weekly brown-bag lunch program for children at a neghbouring daycare center.
The Temple creates "Mitzvah baskets" which are baskets filled with non-perishable food items that decorate the sanctuary during B'nai Mitzvah and other special occasions.
North American students and congregants help Ethiopian Jews in Ethiopia and Israel.
fund raising to help homeless shelter in Cleveland, Ohio
A synagogue's Social Action Committee's partnership with Legal Services to help impoverished clients work towards self-sufficiency.
Congregants assist needy families in the area by preparing and delivering monthly packages of canned goods, preserved foods and family favorites.
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.
When all the food is being consumed during the Super Bowl- Why not donate a can of soup for those less fortunate.
Bar and Bat Mitzvah students participate in meaningful i-fundraising efforts with ORT America and help fellow students around the world.
An annual gift giving program that benefits children, families, and seniors that would not normally have the funds to celebrate the holidays.
A synagogue's initiative to work with the local Interfaith Shelter Network over the Christmas holiday to provide assistance to those who need the support.
The synagogue has partnered with a local elementary school to improve the literacy of the students. By donating money for new books, buying books, and creating tutoring programs, the synagogue has shown what it means to be "The People of the Book."
Raise awareness of captive Israeli soldiers by leaving 3 chairs open at community events.
The Temple revamped its social action program and in doing so, motivated congregants to make commitments and contributions to social action at new unprecedented levels.
