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.
Donation drive for clothes, books and toys for social worker clients – including survivors of child abuse.
An interfaith effort to bridge understanding and cooperation between African-Americans and Jews.
Congregation set up a school tutorial program for neighboring inner-city elementary school students.
Congregation fundraises to help members of a small Ugandan synagogue.
Congregants pledged to volunteer 18 hours a year.
Congregation built a house with Habitat for Humanity
A synagogue's initiative to aid and assist children who are ill and are in need of support. They host three annual events at a local area Hospital and they encourage as many temple members and children as possible to participate in order to foster one-on-one relationships with the patients.
Creation of a week-long day camp for local homeless and battered children.
A program providing support and training for adult children of the frail and elderly.
Distribution of toiletry kits to local homeless shelters.
Congregants throw a holiday party at a center for children with emotional and cognitive deficits.
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.
Synagogue creates a committee to speak about issues involving Church and State.
Cultivating produce on synagogue grounds to serve at a local soup kitchen.
Congregants volunteer regularly at local soup kitchens.
Grassroots, community-wide advocacy and relief effort to raise awareness about genocidal conditions in Darfur, Sudan.
The High School created a curriculum in which the students learn about the issue of contemporary slavery in Sudan. The program included a slavery teach-in, student rally, and a letter writing campaign to public officials.
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.
Synagogue works in tandem with a local church organization to provide assistance and resources for homeless families.
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.
Congregation partners with a local church to bring resources to Haitian orphans affected by HIV/AIDS.
Congregation built a food pantry for a local homeless shelter, decorated their dining room, and assisted in serving meals.
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.
Congregants provide support services for HIV/AIDS patients and their families.
Hurricane relief committee created post-Katrina to aid those affected and prepare in case of future disasters.
The Temple created an integrated social action program, where each "Mitzvah of the Month" column educated congregants of various social action programs and other approaches to pursue justice.
The synagogue worked with other inter-faith religious groups to educate and speak out about gun control.
Congregation creates a safe space for homeless families.
Interfaith program to assist and foster care parents and children.
The Temple created a tuition free learning center that allows the economically disadvantaged to gain important job skills allowing them to move towards economic self-suffiency.
Congregations and individuals donate surplus Judaica to developing Central and South American Jewish communities.
Synagogue works with an African American Church to ensure racial and economic diversity in the county juries.
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.
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.
Many congregants’ homes experienced serious destruction. The Social Action committee responded by formulating a plan for the congregants’ immediate and long term needs.
The goal of the “March for Dafur” program was, and still is, educating our community about the genocidal conditions in Darfur. Its purpose is to create awareness leading to advocacy.
Congregants worked together with First AME Zion Church to mentor and tutor 4th grade students at Main Street Elementary.
The congregation created a Free Medical Program for those in their community who do not have access to afforable health insurance.
Congregation Rodeph Sholom's reproductive rights taskforce
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.
The Temple seeked "to strip away all the excuses people have for not participating in social action" by offering its members an unusally wide array of social action opportunities.
Congregation B'nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim in Glenview, IL started congregation based community organizing.
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 congregation's partnership with Pioneer Valley Project, whose aim it is to empower low-income and working-class communities to participate in the economic development of the region at every level, from new enterprise ventures to job retention during plant closings, to city and regional policy making. The central goal within this mission is to revitalize the manufacturing sector of the economy to generate good jobs at decent wages.
The Temple began conducting Shabbat services once each month at area prisons and also conducted a Passover seder.
Project Ezra is a non-profit organization that serves the Jewish elderly of the Lower East Side in New York City.
Congregation Emanu-el in San Francisco, CA created Project H.E.L.P.
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.
A synagogue's initiative to infuse social action to its congregants by compelling the congregants, including its youth, to speak out and become involved in the Temple's activities. Temple members have been involved in an AIDS lunch program, repairing homes, collection of food and clothing projects, as well as various other social action programs and advocacy work.
The synagogue's goals are to dismantle racism and economic injustice. They do this by working with other inter-faith groups, by mentoring at local schools, by helping out at Habitat for Humanity, and in many other ways.
126 New York Congregations worked together to create a New York State advocate for Social Justice similar to the efforts of the Religious Action Center.
The synagogue worked together with other interfaith groups to help those people who suffer from poverty and homelessness. They set-up a tent city as well as created a program to allow the homeless the ability to rent their own apartments.
This congregation worked in partnership with Na Me Res (A First Nations organization) to commit itself to respond to homelessness.
The synagogue worked together with other community members to help revitalize a Day Care Center in the inner-city.
A group of teens from NJ is dedicated to raising awareness about the kidnapped Israeli soldiers
Temple Brith Kodesh in Rochester, NY partnered with a local elementary to provide programs and support
The congregation along with other religious groups created a day care center for the elderly. The synagogue members help support the community center through money, time, and other efforts.
A monthly endeavour to collect various items to benefit organizations that provide aid and assistance to people in need. These organizations serve the homeless and people of all faiths.
The Temple partnered with two churches in the South Bronx in order to foster connections between the communities. Through tutoring, blood drives, homeless shelters, and other means, the communities have worked together through iner-faith relations to help make our world a better place.
Congregation sends donations to help support our troops.
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.
Temple Committee Against Human Trafficking brought awareness on the issue of human trafficking to the community.
Temple Isaiah in Lexington, MA engaged in congregation based community organizing
The congregation worked together with members of the Muslim community to build a home for a needy family while breaking down the barriers that existed between the two groups.
A grant program available for public school teachers for educational programs that address community needs.
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.
The Temple has been able to transform its Mitzvah Day into a year-round opportunity for social action.
The Temple partnered with other faith groups in order to press a local school district to adopt a new policy on religion and schools. They also created a Diversity Brekfast and sponsored several inter-faith programs.
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."
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.
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.
A congregation's Tzedakah Collective demonstrates the synagogue's dedication to social justice through its various activities.
During the High Holy Days and following month, congregation collects packages of underwear to distribute to local homeless community.
The Temple began a program in which congregants teach what they know best to homeless residents at a neighborhood shelter. In addition, the Temple created a library for the homeless shelter and formed a tutoring program.
The Temple's religious school engaged in a year long project to support Ethiopian Jewry. They sold embroidery, hosted a Ethiopian-themed Shabbat, and created a national photo exhibit.
Throughout the year, the congregation had a "Mitzvah of the Month" which provided supplies and caring for the Wimauma community of farmworkers.
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.
Congregants sign up for three month commitments to buy an extra can of food each time they shop. Donations are brought to the Temple and donated to local food banks.
