Over 350 Louisville Homes are Warmer Thanks to Project Warm
Over 900 Volunteers Participate in 18th Annual Blitz
During the months of October and November, over 900 volunteers participated
in one of 8 Project Warm Blitz Days weatherizing over 350 homes of
low-income seniors & disabled persons in Louisville. With Natural Gas
prices at historic highs, these events provided a valuable service to the
community by making homes more comfortable, reducing home heating costs, and
providing a perso…
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MaAfrika Tikkun partnered with SAUJS, Limmud and the Orange Farm community to hold the first Heritage day Community Build project. It was a chance for people from vastly different cultures to interact and work together in the process of help to uplift the impoverished Orange Farm community. We built a swing set, planted trees, donated a jungle gym and painted a mural. The Orange Farm community was involved in all the activities. This gave both the Jewish community and the orange farm community a…
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Mitzvah Day helps those who can’t say ‘thank you’
Congregation-wide event teaches importance of community service to future generations.
On Sunday, Nov. 16, Congregation Emanu El hosted its 17th annual Mitzvah Day. More than 500 volunteers, along with nearly 300 students from Emanu El’s Helfman Religious School and Becker Early Childhood Center, participated in the congregation-wide community service event.
This year’s Mitzvah Day involved 33 different service projects, all…
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Never forget.
This mantra is the main message of the Holocaust, a testament to the bravery of all those who suffered and died as a result of Nazi rule, a safeguard to ensure that this part of history will never repeat itself.
Today, however, nearly 60 years later, aging Holocaust survivors must face an ironic fate: being forgotten. In theory, of course, the memory of the Holocaust is still very much alive. Media coverage on the subject is frequent, and museums and memorials dedicated to its vict…
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Visit the music Strawinsky
Art knows no age, and therefore good music and ballet break the barrier between generations, incantand hearing, eyes, but especially the soul of the public.Radu brought catchment 2 pieces of ballet's Strawinsky who arouse your adoptive our grandparents, both fascination and discussion. Ms. Feller watched with melancholy scenes of ballet, and remember her good friend, Mrs. Ester Gonda, director of first ballet school in Romania. Domnul Profeta discuta cu R…
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The Brotherhood Synagogue is launching an environmental program with Teva. Program will include such events as Green Shabbats, which will raise awareness about the environment.
Young Israel of Forest Hills's Social Action for Ashkenazi and Sephardic Youth…
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Kehillat Yedidya Blood Drive
Last night, I visited Kehillat Yedidya's Blood Drive and Social Action fairin Baka. The Pluralistic Orthodox congregation does an event like this twice a year, and it was an interesting chance to learn about a number of non-profits working for the benefit of the community.
Yedidya board member Randi Garber explained that the shul, founded in 1980 by a group of British and American olim, sets social action as a major part of its community commitment. In…
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EVERYTHING...BUT THE TURKEY
The 9th Annual
November 24 & 26, 2008
"The outrage of hunger amidst plenty will never be solved by “experts” somewhere. It will only be solved when people like you and me decide to act".
Frances Moore Lappe, social change and democracy activist and author
Give thanks this Thanksgiving holiday, in a very special way.
On Monday and Wednesday, November 24 and 26, Morris Cafritz Center for Community Service Department of the Washington DC Jewish Community Center wi…
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Kol Chai Reform synagogue enjoys mitzvah day:Kol Chai joined thousands of volunteers to celebrate Mitzvah Day on Sunday November 16th. We were happy to involve several children from Middlesex New Synagogue as well. Children from religion school spent the morning involved in a number of activities. The younger children along with their assistants packed boxes of gifts for Barnado's. Everyone found it quite difficult to cover shoeboxes but we managed to fill 48 boxes which were taken…
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Andrew Roth
The unsung hero is a champion who deserves to shine, writes Erica Morris - the everyday person who works to change their corner of the world, be it through charity work, selfless giving or random acts of kindness, with no thought to reward or recognition.
But their efforts don't go unnoticed and this week, the Jewish News is launching its annual search for an outstanding individual who will be honoured as our Community Hero 2008.
To help us choose a worthy winner, this year we've jo…
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Post-Election Community Engagement Project
ACCESS’s dialogue with the NY Urban League Young Professionals takes on a new dimension through a hands-on community service project in Washington Heights organized through the NY Restoration Project. This rebuilding project also marks the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht – a meaningful time for us to reflect on the past and future.
Rebecca Neuwirth
ACCESS@American Jewish Committee
Check out the vision ajc.org/access
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Where: Kehillat Yedidya
Rehov Lifshitz 12, Baka
When: Sunday 16 November
17:30-21:30
For more information:
Randi r6724025@bezeqint.net
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Almost every Friday for the last month, Kara Zucker and Lindsey Caplan of CU Boulder Hillel have led a group of students through the process of packaging up Shabbat dinners and delivering them to local elderly people in need.
About 10 students have participated by coming to Hillel, wrapping up the food, and then splitting up into small groups to deliver it to the homes. CU Hillel partners with the local Jewish Family Services to find out who to deliver to.
Wren Siegel
Program Director - CU Bould…
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A solar revolution dawns in the desert
Nov. 4, 2008
Ehud Zion Waldoks , THE JERUSALEM POST
The Arava Power Company (APC) announced Monday an agreement to utilize kibbutz land in the Arava and the Negev for solar fields generating at least 500 MW, and eventually one gigawatt (GW) or more - a move which could potentially revolutionize Israel's energy market and put the country solidly on the path of electricity from renewable sources.
In addition to the basic environmental value of so much solar…
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Arava Power Company today announced that it has reached exclusive cooperation agreements with 15 kibbutzim, including Ketura and Yotvata, that own land available sufficient for the production of up to 500 megawatts of electricity at photovoltaic farms.
Kibbutz Ketura owns 40% of Arava Power. A group of US investors, led by company president Yosef Abramowitz, own the rest. Today's agreements are the first between a solar power company and kibbutzim in the Negev and Arava, where solar energy farms…
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מעורבות חברתית בהלל תל-אביב
תוכניות שונות המציעות לסטודנטים אפשריות להתנדבות, לימוד, ניסיון הכרות עם עולם מושגים רחב העוסק בצדק, תיקון עולם ועשייה חברתית. כל זאת תוך הפנמת התוכן לצד העשייה של הסטודנט/ית ואפשרות "לגדול" ולהיות מעורבים ומובילים בעתיד – התכניות עתידות להפתח עם תחילת שנת הלימודים.
ומי אשר לב לו
התנדבות שבועית בבית הילדים באזור בו שוהים ילדים ממדינות מתפתחות הנזקקים לניתוחי לב. ההתנדבות כוללת ליווי אישי ומפגשים קבוצתיים אחת לחודש ויעסקו באתיקה רפואית, פסיכולוגיה, סוציולוגיה…
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Shma_Oct.pdf
Dear Friends,
The October Sh'ma focuses on trafficking — the coerced labor affecting women, children, and men worldwide. Though politically trafficking usually is associated with involuntary sex work, it is, in fact, a far more complex phenomenon involving many forms of coerced agricultural, factory, sexual, and domestic labor. Traffic…
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Julia Neuberger's government commission on volunteering offers us a vision: a society in which people enrich their lives by enriching the lives of others through the giving of time.
On Mitzvah Day (16 November) we ask people to give time, not money - a recipe for the most heartening example of community spirit and collective action.
Our charities rely on armies of volunteers giving time. Volunteers drive, visit, collect things, bake, run events and entertain. People want to volunteer but they d…
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Ilana Babaeva
ilonka_baku@yahoo.com
hillel_baku@mail.ru
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Final Cheshvan Flyer.pdf
Please join us by participating in one or more of the following social action activities
to help celebrate Cheshvan as a month of positive action to improve ourselves
(tikkun pnimi) and to improve the world (t ikkun olam).
For additional information
and for information on activities at area synagogues, go to ww…
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