Congregation provides holiday meals and gifts to less fortunate families in their area.
Congregation “adopts” the Ukrainian Jewish community of the Zvenigorodka shtetl.
Initiative to educate community about issues of gun control, safety measures and awareness.
One congregant realized that many children began school wearing shabby clothes and without school supplies. The Temple created a committee in which families would "adopt" a student and buy clothes, school supplies, and other necessities for the start of the school year.
A program designed to sensitize the congregation's youth to anti-Semitism and racism develops into a multicultural dialogue program.
Distribution of toiletry kits to local homeless shelters.
Congregational families with children visit a local senior community.
Congregants throw a holiday party at a center for children with emotional and cognitive deficits.
Synagogue sponsors an annual charity 5K walk/run.
Congregation provides social welfare services to alleviate the devastating effects of poverty on the community.
Collect and distribute books to under-resourced classrooms or disadvantaged families.
Congregation sponsors an annual Christmas Dinner for their local homeless, distributing meals, toys and care packages to families in need.
Congregants volunteer regularly at local soup kitchens.
Musically talented synagogue member(s) performs to raise money for local charities.
A synagogue's attempt to expand the work of its social action committee by increasing the number of Temple members involved in social justice programming, the number of programs involving other faith groups, and the numbers of programs addressing poverty issues in the local area.
On designated day, participants were asked to wear “Stop the Genocide in Sudan” T-shirts around town.
Visit a different social action website each night of Chanukah. Use these sites as a springboard for volunteer work and charitable giving.
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.
Congregants bring the “spirit of Christmas” to needy families through gift-giving and by hosting an annual Christmas dinner.
Tzedekah collective to fund a variety of projects throughout the year.
A social action program where funding and supporting a religious school congregation in the Former Soviet Union is done.
Interfaith effort to raise money for Israeli-Arab co-existence initiative.
A congregation's social action program which enables temple family members to participate in such programs, focused on inner-city residents. These intensified efforts resulted in greater participation in synagogue social action in and around the congregation.
A congregation's initiative that focused on three programs that have been particularly successful: a homeless shelter for men to assist them and offer support; an AIDS education program; Mitzvah Day program which supported and helped the wider community in meaningful and profound ways.
Congregation involves local Jews in building a house with Habitat for Humanity.
Emphasizing Purim gift-giving to children in crisis.
Congregation feeds the hungry in the local community.
A synagogue and an African American Baptist Church united to create an after-school academic enrichment program.
A synagogue “adopted” a local low-income public school by donating school supplies and volunteering as tutors and mentors.
High Holiday tickets had sign-up information for six upcoming social action projects.
Youth prepare weekly lunches for the homeless.
Hurricane relief committee created post-Katrina to aid those affected and prepare in case of future disasters.
Volunteers augment donated food at the Inspiration Cafe, cook, and serve one Thursday evening a month. Every Saturday, volunteers pick up day-old goods at a local grocery store and distribute it to local agencies.
The congregation continues to do tikkun olam projects through partnerships with various churches and other inter-faith groups throughout the year.
Interfaith program to assist and foster care parents and children.
Congregations and individuals donate surplus Judaica to developing Central and South American Jewish communities.
Shul-In educates youth about the special needs of physically and mentally challenged adults.
A synagogue's Social Action Committee has implemented an ongoing program of tikkun olam. The synagogue creates year-round programs, demonstrating the congregant's unwavering commitment to those is need, at home or abroad.
Congregants prepare holiday gift packages for Jewish seniors.
Integrates Passover observance with combating hunger by partnering with MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger.
Tzedakah project focusing on the mitzvah of tikkun olam during Chanukah.
Congregation and local NAACP co-sponsor annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative service at synagogue.
A weekly brown-bag lunch program for children at a neghbouring daycare center.
A community's initiative program which suggested inviting guests to a "Mini-Mitzvah Day" after services to add a socially responsible element to Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrations.
The synagogue created a Mitzvah Day Carnival in which the most vulnerable children received a happy and carefree afternoon at the Temple. Children of immigrants and those with Down's Syndrome partook in the carnival and were welcomed to an afternoon diversion by Temple members.
A congregation's Mitzvah Day initiative which has turned its efforts to a Mitzvah Weekend, educating and learning about the weekend's theme: Foster Children. The Mitzvah Weekend began at Friday night services with a speaker, who updated congregants on the status of the local state's foster care system. The next morning, congregants met for a panel discussion that outlined the needs of foster children in the local area.
"Not In Our Town" is a lecture-film program about the people of Billings, Montana, who joined together when their Jewish neighbors were attacked by white supremacists.
The synagogue runs a homeless shelter from November until April in which guests are given a hot meal, a warm bed to sleep in, and a breakfast in the morning.
fund raising to help homeless shelter in Cleveland, Ohio
The Temple works to provide shelter for the homeless and needy one night a week during the long winter months. They provide warm meals, a place to sleep, and breakfast in the morning for those who need to take shelter in the synagogue.
A congregation's community outreach program to support an impoverished community in rural America by using Maimonides' injunction that the highest form of tzedakah is to help people help themselves.
Local Jewish community worked together to create multi-faceted social action programming.
A synagogue's Social Action Committee's partnership with Legal Services to help impoverished clients work towards self-sufficiency.
A synagogue's initiative which strives to improve the basic living standards of impoverished families who live in sub-standard conditions in Mexico. Temple members feel motivated to continue this work because providing shelter and helping others work toward self-sufficiency fulfills an important Jewish value.
Congregants assist needy families in the area by preparing and delivering monthly packages of canned goods, preserved foods and family favorites.
This project is now in its third year at Congregation Shir Tikvah (Troy, MI). Congregants provide Chanukah gifts to less fortunate children, seniors and homeless adults in their community in a very personal way.
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.
This program helps and assists more than one hundred Jewish families from the Former Soviet Union in adjusting to life in a new country and in reconnecting with their Jewish heritage.
High school students explore issues of local homelessness by spending a night in make-shift cardboard box shelters.
A congregation's commitment to moral and social issues working in a variety of different agencies to raise funds to pay stipends for young people to do volunteer work in various community agencies such as nursing homes, camps, facilities for the disabled, and youth recreation programs.
The Giving Tree is an annual gift-giving program that benefits children, families, and seniors that would not normally have the funds to celebrate the holidays. This program has blossomed into a year-round programming project benefiting over 2,000 people.
An annual gift giving program that benefits children, families, and seniors that would not normally have the funds to celebrate the holidays.
A congregation's initiative to help and assist the homeless. The community works in tandem with a local church two to four times a year to house homeless families for a week, supplying shelter, meals, supplies and emotional support. This congregation became a leading homeless advocate in its area by encouraging four other congregations to support the shelter.
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.
Beth Hillel's Intergenerational Retreat
The Temple created a multifaceted AIDS awareness/action Project. The project provides assistance, support, advocacy, and education for all who are infected, affected, at risk, or concerned about HIV/AIDS.
The Temple created a Tikkun Olam project for every grade of the religious school. In this way, students learned Jewish texts throughout the year, were involved in the project with their families, and were able to build ongoing relationships with other Temple families.
A congregation's initiative to enthuse congregants to participate in community service projects. All of the projects, though, served to make Temple members more responsive to the needs of the community and to make the Temple more of a part of the community.
Volunteers from the Temple, staff the Traveler's Aid information booth at the airport.
A congregation's Tzedakah Collective demonstrates the synagogue's dedication to social justice through its various activities.
A new and successful program to educate congregants about diverse disaster relief initiatives and to raise funds to support people in need throughout the world.
During the High Holy Days and following month, congregation collects packages of underwear to distribute to local homeless community.
Social Action calendar was created to allow congregants to choose activities that fit in their schedule.
With a focus on congregant’s social justice interests, synagogue provides numerous programming and advocacy opportunities all year.
Congregation creates a year’s worth of programs and opportunities to think about and do tzedakah.
