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Creating a Culture of Kindness
I sat down with Dr. Bruce Powell and Dr. Ron Wolfson via Zoom to discuss their significant new book, Raising A+ Human Beings: Crafting a Jewish School Culture of Academic Excellence and AP Kindness.
Ensuring the Sacred and the Ethical in Sacred Partnership
The URJ offers resources that address the challenges of building sacred partnerships and leading our institutions at this moment in time. We strongly suggest that you take a look at them and begin to apply what makes sense to ensure that you put as much care into how healthy your organization is emotionally as it is physically. Many of these are offered in partnership with movement partners.
Rabbi Schindler 1978 Speech Establishing Outreach
Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, President of the UAHC, gave this speech establishing Outreach to the Board of Trustees on December 2, 1978 in Houston, Texas.
Aboriginal Peoples: Working for Justice and Reconciliation
ABORIGINAL PEOPLES: WORKING FOR JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION Questions You Can Ask: 1. How will you and your party respond to the continuing reality of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls? 2.
Adopt a Caseworker
Raising money to provide food, clothing, furniture, car seats, and tutoring for the welfare recipients assigned to specific caseworkers.
Adopt a Family
Congregation provides holiday meals and gifts to less fortunate families in their area. Community Contact Information: Congregation Shir Ha-Ma’alot Irvine, CA www.shmtemple.org Goals: Engage congregation in addressing local poverty. Assist local families in acquiring specific needs.
Adopt a Social Worker
Donation drive for clothes, books and toys for social worker clients – including survivors of child abuse. Community Contact Information: Temple Beth Sholom of Orange County Santa Ana, CA www.tbsoc.com Goals: Encourage congregation to get involved in local community.
African American-Jewish Alliance
An interfaith effort to bridge understanding and cooperation between African-Americans and Jews.
After-School Tutoring
Congregation set up a school tutorial program for neighboring inner-city elementary school students. Community Contact Information: Rodef Sholom Youngstown, OH http://oh001.urj.net Goals: Allow congregants to use their specific knowledge and areas of expertise to help others.