A eighth grade "Mitzvah Corps" curriculum includes weekly classes focusing on social issues, tikkun olam, and weekly volunteer placement in community service agencies.
A confirmation class marketed a concert that raised over $4,000 for the “Women for Women International Fund.”
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.
Red Cross Blood Drive organized at the synagogue.
Synagogue can hold a drive to test potential bone marrow donors.
The Temple participated in an interfaith youth trip to Nicaragua with a local Presbyterian Church. They helped build homes and spent time caring for the Nicaraguan children.
Creation of a week-long day camp for local homeless and battered children.
Distribution of toiletry kits to local homeless shelters.
Congregational families with children visit a local senior community.
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.
Creation of a community garden to harvest and donate produce to area food banks.
Musically talented synagogue member(s) performs to raise money for local charities.
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.
Visit a different social action website each night of Chanukah. Use these sites as a springboard for volunteer work and charitable giving.
A congregation's commitment to Social Action initiated two comprehensive projects. The first was an annual three-day trip for underprivileged students which takes place at URJ Greene Family Camp. The second project, which was done as a fund-raising effort, the committee began offering intra-congregational shalach manot baskets, thereby performing the mitzvah of sending food packages to friends and relatives on Purim. In addition to these projects, the Steering Committee created the Mitzvah Messengers program to encourage the congregation's children to become involved in the community.
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.
Congregants bring the “spirit of Christmas” to needy families through gift-giving and by hosting an annual Christmas dinner.
Drawing connections between the Exodus and modern day issues of slavery.
Emphasizing Purim gift-giving to children in crisis.
A synagogue “adopted” a local low-income public school by donating school supplies and volunteering as tutors and mentors.
Youth prepare weekly lunches for the homeless.
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.
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.
Creation of a local interfaith day of service.
Congregations and individuals donate surplus Judaica to developing Central and South American Jewish communities.
Shul-In educates youth about the special needs of physically and mentally challenged adults.
The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL) presents educational resources on responsible energy use for Chanukah programming.
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 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.
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.
A congregation's Mitzvah Day initiative which has turned its efforts to a Mitzvah Weekend, educating and learning about the weekend's theme: Foster Children. The Mitzvah Weekend began at Friday night services with a speaker, who updated congregants on the status of the local state's foster care system. The next morning, congregants met for a panel discussion that outlined the needs of foster children in the local area.
Transitional housing shelter for homeless women and mothers with young children which began in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Special canned goods collection and volunteer work during the Counting of the Omer.
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.
Synagogue provides bedding and personal materials for a homeless shelter.
The Pluralism Project's case study initiative looks at the ways in which the Middle East conflict often emerges as a challenge to interfaith relations. “A Sign of Division” is in two parts: the “A” case brings the reader from the description of the dilemma to the point of a proposed solution; the “B” case describes the outcomes and resolution of the dispute.
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.
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 group of teens from NJ is dedicated to raising awareness about the kidnapped Israeli soldiers
Volunteers participate in one-on-one intergenerational hour-long social gatherings including Torah study. Participants then gather to regroup, share their experiences and reflect.
High school students explore issues of local homelessness by spending a night in make-shift cardboard box shelters.
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.
youth program modeled after the college Alternative Spring Break
Bar and Bat Mitzvah students participate in meaningful i-fundraising efforts with ORT America and help fellow students around the world.
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.
An annual gift giving program that benefits children, families, and seniors that would not normally have the funds to celebrate the holidays.
Raise awareness of captive Israeli soldiers by leaving 3 chairs open at community events.
Volunteers from the Temple, staff the Traveler's Aid information booth at the airport.
A congregation's Tzedakah Collective demonstrates the synagogue's dedication to social justice through its various activities.
Congregations came together to defeat Question One, a proposition to eliminate the state income tax.
Temple Dor Dorim cultivated meaningful personal and communal relationships with two local churches, creating the foundation for genuine interfaith collaboration on a series of events aimed at the entire local community and designed to raise awareness of the suffering in Darfur, as well as within our own communities.
Throughout the year, the congregation had a "Mitzvah of the Month" which provided supplies and caring for the Wimauma community of farmworkers.
