Congregation “adopts” the Ukrainian Jewish community of the Zvenigorodka shtetl.
Games, puzzles, and word problems can help people stay sharp.
A program providing support and training for adult children of the frail and elderly.
Congregational families with children visit a local senior community.
Congregation sponsors an annual Christmas Dinner for their local homeless, distributing meals, toys and care packages to families in need.
The Temple put social action as the centerpiece of its culture. By creating on-going programs in many different areas the congregation enables its members to be involved in many different areas of Social Action work.
Fill your mishloach manot baskets with Fair Trade products and create a more just and sustainable world while enjoying tasty treats.
Congregants provides monthly dinner to residents of a local apartment complex for citizens with physical disabilities.
Health fair provides important health, safety, nutritional, and insurance information to the local community.
Congregants prepare holiday gift packages for Jewish seniors.
Congregants organized visits to local cemeteries for seniors who wished to visit the graves of their loved ones.
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.
The synaoguge partnered with other social service organizations to begin phone calls to elderly people in their area.
Project Ezra is a non-profit organization that serves the Jewish elderly of the Lower East Side in New York City.
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.
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.
The Temple opened its High Holiday services to people with hearing difficulties.
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 synagogue co-partners with a local Presbyterian Church and other supporting congregations and organizations in a program to take working homeless families through proscribed steps or phases to make them self-sufficient.
Temple Isaiah in Lexington, MA engaged in congregation based community organizing
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 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.
Social Action calendar was created to allow congregants to choose activities that fit in their schedule.
