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Step-Up Ministry
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.
Successful CSAs: Kol Ami (Philadelphia, PA)
Kol Ami has served for four seasons as a Hazon CSA host site, bringing together the congregational and local community around healthy, locally-grown food.
Support Our Troops
Congregation sends donations to help support our troops. Community Contact Information: RAC’s Support Our Troops site: http://rac.org/pubs/packets/sos/. Goals: Provide necessities to keep morale up among our troops. Give thanks to the soldiers who put their lives on the line for us.
Sustainable Food Systems and Jewish Tradition: Temple Isaiah (Lexington, MA)
Temple Isaiah will explore concepts of sustainability, Jewish traditions, and connections with the natural world reflected in our food systems and eating choices as one of its 50th anniversary (or Jubilee Year) events.
Tashlich for a Just City
This piece of liturgy was written for Jews For Racial & Economic Justice in New York City. Its themes will be resonant for residents of so many of our cities and towns. It may be used in your congregation's High Holiday services or Tashlich ceremony, or in other gatherings for worship or protest. You may also want to include Sowing Bread in the Sea: A Psalm for Tashlich in this service.
Teens for Teens iMitzvah: ORT America
Bar and Bat Mitzvah students participate in meaningful i-fundraising efforts with ORT America and help fellow students around the world.
Temple Community Service Corps
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.
Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom
Temple Committee Against Human Trafficking brought awareness on the issue of human trafficking to the community.
Temple Isaiah Organizing Project
Temple Isaiah in Lexington, MA engaged in congregation based community organizing Temple Isaiah in Lexington, Massachusetts along with three other synagogues came together and formed the Greater Boston Synagogue Organizing Project to transform their social justice work by applying community
The 7% Solution
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!