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Tzedakah Collective
A congregation's Tzedakah Collective demonstrates the synagogue's dedication to social justice through its various activities.
Tzedek, Tzedek, Tirdof: Justice Justice Shall you Pursue
A confirmation class curriculum on human trafficking that culminates with the students presenting what they’ve learned to educate the entire congregation.
Tzedekah Mutual Fund
A new and successful program to educate congregants about diverse disaster relief initiatives and to raise funds to support people in need throughout the world.
Ubumwe Center Preschool Project
The Ubumwe Center Preschool Project has two main goals: education and fundraising.
Underwear Month
During the High Holy Days and following month, congregation collects packages of underwear to distribute to local homeless community. Community Contact Information: Temple Micah Washington, D.C.
Union Temple
Union Temple partnered with The Hope project to help unemployed adults Union Temple in Brooklyn, New York partnered with The Hope Program, a Broolyn-based non-profit that teaches unemployed or under-employed adults the job skills necessary to move out of poverty.
University of the Streets: Education for the Homeless
The Temple began a program in which congregants teach what they know best to homeless residents at a neighborhood shelter. In addition, the Temple created a library for the homeless shelter and formed a tutoring program.
Vote No on Question One
Congregations came together to defeat Question One, a proposition to eliminate the state income tax.
Walk/Run/Ride/Jump for Darfur
The Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes, NJ, held a one-day (6 hour) event in April 2006 to raise awareness of the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan while simultaneously raising $62,000 for humanitarian aid.
Shavuot Reexamined: How Can We Elevate the Holiday?
How can we reexamine this often-underlooked festival and apply it to our lives as Reform Jews? In this interview, Rabbi Matt Green of Congregation Beth Elohim (CBE) in Brooklyn, N.Y., talks a bit about what Shavuot means to him and how we, as Reform Jews, can apply it to our lives.