A eighth grade "Mitzvah Corps" curriculum includes weekly classes focusing on social issues, tikkun olam, and weekly volunteer placement in community service agencies.
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.
North American bar/bat mitzvah students sponsor and exchange letters with Ethiopian-Israeli peers.
Congregants pledged to volunteer 18 hours a year.
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 charitable centerpieces for a B'nei Mitzvah celebration.
Volunteers are trained to tutor local students.
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.
Partnering with local church and women’s shelter, volunteers clean and beautify a neighborhood block.
A social action project and a five-week religious school curriculum that gives students ages 12-15 opportunities to gain a better appreciation of the issues facing Darfur and how each student can make a difference.
Collect and distribute books to under-resourced classrooms or disadvantaged families.
Creation of a community garden to harvest and donate produce to area food banks.
Congregants volunteer regularly at local soup kitchens.
“Dolls for Darfur” was a national advocacy campaign designed to raise awareness about, and bring an end to, the atrocities being committed in Darfur. Dolls for Darfur provides congregations, camps, and other interested groups with postcards and tiny dolls that represent individuals who have lost their lives in Darfur, as well as detailed instructions and materials for lobbying elected officials and curriculum ideas for educated our youth.
Visit a different social action website each night of Chanukah. Use these sites as a springboard for volunteer work and charitable giving.
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.
Pairing congregants with foster children to provide gifts, arrange special events and help subsidize costs for foster parents in need.
Annual gleaning project to provide fresh produce to area food banks.
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.
Emphasizing Purim gift-giving to children in crisis.
Congregation built a food pantry for a local homeless shelter, decorated their dining room, and assisted in serving meals.
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.
“Honoring Our Own” Shabbat has three components: The rabbi speaks about Judaism and the military and honors active military members and veterans during services; pre-packaged care packages are available at the Oneg for congregants to take home and mail with their own money; and the 7th and 8th graders learn about Jewish values and serving in the military on that Sunday during religious school.
Hurricane relief committee created post-Katrina to aid those affected and prepare in case of future disasters.
Temple Sinai of North Dade supports foster children in the Miami area.
The congregation continues to do tikkun olam projects through partnerships with various churches and other inter-faith groups throughout the year.
Congregation creates a safe space for homeless families.
Congregations and individuals donate surplus Judaica to developing Central and South American Jewish communities.
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.
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.
Donations are collected prior to provide Kosher for Passover meals to Jewish families in need.
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.
Transitional housing shelter for homeless women and mothers with young children which began in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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.
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.
Raised awareness to the plight of the three Israeli soldiers captured in the 2006 Lebanon War.
A three-part camp-wide awareness and fundraising campaign for the captured Israeli soldier, consisting of: an intimate preparation program with the CITs, the camp-wide march and a fundraising run-a-thon called “Exercise Your Freedom.”
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 revamped its social action program and in doing so, motivated congregants to make commitments and contributions to social action at new unprecedented levels.
Conservation project to save trees, educate about conditions of farm workers and teach value of gleaning.
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.
With a focus on congregant’s social justice interests, synagogue provides numerous programming and advocacy opportunities all year.
