Congregation “adopts” the Ukrainian Jewish community of the Zvenigorodka shtetl.
An interfaith effort to bridge understanding and cooperation between African-Americans and Jews.
Congregation re-envisioned its food drive by requesting non-perishables by assigned first letter.
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.
Red Cross Blood Drive organized at the synagogue.
Creation of charitable centerpieces for a B'nei Mitzvah celebration.
Synagogue can hold a drive to test potential bone marrow donors.
Congregation sends non-perishable kosher food to hungry Jews in Ukraine.
Synagogue sponsors an annual charity 5K walk/run.
Collect and distribute books to under-resourced classrooms or disadvantaged families.
Synagogue members cut coupons to donate to agencies that purchase food for the needy.
Panel discussion and creation of a task force to speak about GLBT issues.
City-wide program supporting HIV/AIDS support organizations by eating out at specific restaurants.
The Temple has built a strong social action program which has seeked to mazimize opportunities for members to be involved.
Visit a different social action website each night of Chanukah. Use these sites as a springboard for volunteer work and charitable giving.
Fill your mishloach manot baskets with Fair Trade products and create a more just and sustainable world while enjoying tasty treats.
Congregants bring the “spirit of Christmas” to needy families through gift-giving and by hosting an annual Christmas dinner.
Emphasizing Purim gift-giving to children in crisis.
Health fair provides important health, safety, nutritional, and insurance information to the local community.
High Holiday tickets had sign-up information for six upcoming social action projects.
The congregation continues to do tikkun olam projects through partnerships with various churches and other inter-faith groups throughout the year.
Congregants organized visits to local cemeteries for seniors who wished to visit the graves of their loved ones.
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.
The Temple creates "Mitzvah baskets" which are baskets filled with non-perishable food items that decorate the sanctuary during B'nai Mitzvah and other special occasions.
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.
The Temple dedicated a Shabbat service to the cause of organ and tissue donation. Through the rabbi's sermon, educational materials, and discussion, the congregation was taught the Jewish position on organ donation.
The synagogue set up an inter-faith conference focusing on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and transgendered (GLBT) people.
The synagogue proves that bigger is not necessarily better! As a small synagogue, they were able to acheive significant results in the community through disaster relief programs, food drives, hosting a shelter, and an Intergenerational Mitzvah Day.
The congregation developed an overall social action program where the values of social justice were included in worship, study, communal activities, and board discussions. From these discussions, they devloped a comprehensive social action program that involved hundreds of congregants during the year.
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.
Local Jewish community worked together to create multi-faceted social action programming.
The synaoguge partnered with other social service organizations to begin phone calls to elderly people in their area.
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.
By rotating where donations are directed, one's contribution to the tzedakah box can serve a variety of efforts.
Reform Jews can help serve the blind and the visually handicapped by volunteering to tape a book or other articles.
The Temple opened its High Holiday services to people with hearing difficulties.
The Temple sponsored a "sock hop" in which the admission fee was one package of socks, t-shirts, or underpants which were donated to various homeless shelters.
youth program modeled after the college Alternative Spring Break
World Food Day occurs in the middle of October. Certain restaurants will donate 7% of their proceeds on that day to fight hunger. Work with your local synagogue and restaurants to help end hunger in your city!
The Potato Project works to save millions of pounds of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and other products that are wasted in the fields.
The Temple revamped its Social Action Committee by creating pledge cards in which congregants can indicate which type of Social Action projects they are interesting in doing and how often they are available to do them.
A synagogue can work to gather cold weather garments for area homeless shelters.
