Congregation provides holiday meals and gifts to less fortunate families in their area.
Congregation “adopts” the Ukrainian Jewish community of the Zvenigorodka shtetl.
Local clergy work together to create an inter-religious coalition to combat homophobia.
A program designed to sensitize the congregation's youth to anti-Semitism and racism develops into a multicultural dialogue program.
Congregation sends non-perishable kosher food to hungry Jews in Ukraine.
Congregational families with children visit a local senior community.
Congregants throw a holiday party at a center for children with emotional and cognitive deficits.
A congregational Toy Drive for Russian Jewish immigrant children. This program has been running for more than five years.
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.
Temple Sinai in Oakland, CA organized and launched the Consultation on Social Justice modeled after the Religious Action Center's Consultation on Conscience
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.
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 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.
Congregation involves local Jews in building a house with Habitat for Humanity.
Congregation feeds the hungry in the local community.
A synagogue and an African American Baptist Church united to create an after-school academic enrichment program.
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.
Interfaith program to assist and foster care parents and children.
A congregation's Social Action Committee's initiative to show the community's solidarity with Israel. The community joined forces with the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism and decided to sponsor twenty Israeli children to spend the summer at Jewish overnight camps in the New England area.
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.
Integrates Passover observance with combating hunger by partnering with MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger.
A weekly brown-bag lunch program for children at a neghbouring daycare center.
A coming together of various multicultural groups participating in a broad range of activities in order to infuse social action programs in the local area.
"Not In Our Town" is a lecture-film program about the people of Billings, Montana, who joined together when their Jewish neighbors were attacked by white supremacists.
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.
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.
The synaoguge partnered with other social service organizations to begin phone calls to elderly people in their area.
Three-part program educating the Jewish and GLBT communities about homosexual victims and survivors of the Holocaust.
Project Ezra is a non-profit organization that serves the Jewish elderly of the Lower East Side in New York City.
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.
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.
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.
An interfaith coalition of Jewish, Christian and Muslim clergy and lay leaders, whose purpose is to foster mutual understanding, respect and cooperation.
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.
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.
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.
