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.
Partnering with local church and women’s shelter, volunteers clean and beautify a neighborhood block.
Synagogue sponsors an annual charity 5K walk/run.
Congregation provides social welfare services to alleviate the devastating effects of poverty on the community.
Monthly social action activities for families with children grades K-3.
An interfaith program to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict including a lecture, painting exhibition and a series of community dialogues.
Program to train social service agencies on how to help at-risk families become aware of public resources available to them.
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.
Creation of a community garden to harvest and donate produce to area food banks.
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.
The Passover ritual of removing leavened products from the home provides an opportunity to collect soup kitchen donations.
Visit a different social action website each night of Chanukah. Use these sites as a springboard for volunteer work and charitable giving.
Congregation holds Environmental Advocacy Forum.
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.
Congregation organizes 40 hours worth of volunteer activities around Passover.
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.
Pairing congregants with foster children to provide gifts, arrange special events and help subsidize costs for foster parents in need.
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.
Annual gleaning project to provide fresh produce to area food banks.
Congregants had two choices for Shabbat worship (traditional service with an environmental theme or a musical family service), followed by a homemade dinner with local produce, optional breakout sessions on different environmental topics, and an expo with exhibits from community organizations, local energy conservation programs and the congregation’s committees.
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.
Combats the city’s homelessness problem by engaging in advocacy, education, marketing and direct service efforts.
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.
Creation of a local interfaith day of service.
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.
Partnership with PEILE, a Guatemalan nonprofit organization building schools in underserved areas.
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.
Miracle Menorah provides gifts to women, children and families during the holiday season.
Hands-on service opportunities for families that include a strong educational component.
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.
Families donate gifts or money to charitable organizations instead of exchanging gifts on the sixth night of Chanukah.
Transitional housing shelter for homeless women and mothers with young children which began in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Lecture-film program about the community in Billings, Montana, who joined together in response to acts of hate.
Special canned goods collection and volunteer work during the Counting of the Omer.
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.
Synagogue provides bedding and personal materials for a homeless shelter.
Local Jewish community worked together to create multi-faceted social action programming.
Synagogue partners with local Legal Services to help their clients work towards self-sufficiency.
Synagogue helps improve the basic living standards of impoverished families in Mexico.
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.
Congregation supports local underprivileged community using Maimonides' teaching that the highest form of tzedakah is to help people help themselves.
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.
Conservation project to save trees, educate about conditions of farm workers and teach value of gleaning.
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.
Congregants can “buy” Passover items from a virtual store to donate to Jews in need.
Congregations came together to defeat Question One, a proposition to eliminate the state income tax.
An interfaith county-wide rotating homeless shelter.
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.
