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Make a Difference for Victims of the Myanmar Cyclone Disaster
AS UJC's overseas partner, the JDC has opened an emergency mailbox to raise relief funds for victims of Cyclone Nargis, which devastated portions of Myanmar on May 3.
Living our Values of Tikkun Olam - PEARL tele-conference callDate: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Click here to register for this and other PEARL: Providing Education And Resources for Leadership tele-conference sessions. Processes and Programs in our Congregations; Taking Action in the Larger World; Living our Values of Tikkun Olam Inside and Outside. This call will explore best practices for creating committees and buy-in for effective social justice work in our congregations, including integrated youth and adult education and tikkun programming, as well as service-learning, decision-making and advocacy outside our communities.
Bet Am Shalom's Cantor Benjie Schiller to Give RecitalWhen: Sunday, May 18
The program, “Life Song Cycle - A musical reflection on the journey of our lives,” will include her own compositions and works of other Jewish composers. A dessert reception will follow the concert. Admission is $36 for adults and $18 for students and children under eighteen.
Omer Week Three - Hunger and PovertyThis week's Omer Study Packet on hunger and poverty highlights teachings from the 2006 JRF Omer Study and from our partners at Mazon: A Jewish Repsonse to Hunger and the Jewish Council on Public Affairs (JCPA). Especially time-sensitive is the action alert on the 2007-2008 Farm Bill, currently making its way through Congress. We also feature innovative programming from JRF congregations Dorshei Derekh, Mishkan Shalom and Darchei Noam.
Mishkan Shalom "One Book Miskhan" Panel Discussion this SundayWhen: Sunday, May 4th, 10 - 11:30 am
Donna Kirshbaum and Isaac Saposnik Among Forward's "Jewish World's Newest Rabbis"
Read more to learn about them.
Chapel Hill Kehillah helps launch local CBCO network!JRF member community "Chapel Hill Kehillah" of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has helped launch a chapter of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) to do the work of Congregation-Based Community Organizing (CBCO). Their first event, Sunday, April 27th was a successful, powerful and inspiring event. http://www.chapelhillnews.com/front/story/14211.html "We had hoped for founding member commitments from 14 organizations and churches and 170 attendees. By the end of the evening we had 250+ people and 29 organizations making founding member commitments and over $19,000 . As the article states, it was a truly historic event here in Orange County. Thanks to JRF for all the encouragement." L’shalom, For further resources on CBCO work see www.jrf.org/cbco
Omer Week Two - Sustainable Communities: Environment and Social JusticeFrom constructing new buildings out of recycled materials, to installing a compact-fluorescent ner tamid, to joining together in song, In partnership with COEJL and JCPA, our hope is to motivate and educate our congregations in sustainable practices, with the goal of reaching 100 percent participation in the years ahead. Building upon the resolution on the environment passed by JRF in 1990, our movement continues to labor towards facilitating a globally sustainable approach to living in faith community. During this second week of Omer teaching, we are highlighting these many environmental sustainability initiatives taking place ...
Salute to Israel Parade: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the State of IsraelJun 1 2008 - 1:00pm Jun 1 2008 - 5:00pm
Register Online Now Omer Week One - Congregation-Based Community Organizing (CBCO)During our first week of Omer teaching, we are highlighting the efforts and energy within our congregations engaged in congregation-based community organizing (CBCO). As you read through it feel free to add comments on this page about your own experiences in community organizing or use the listserve or web page to ask questions. Below as an attachment, you will find a PDF resource packet and the recording from our Community Organizing and Congregational Advocacy - PEARL tele-conference call, featuring:
For more information, please contact Rabbi Shawn Zevit at JRF, 215-885-5601 x 24.
Omer Learning Initiative 2008/5768
From Seedtime to Harvest: Beginning on the eve of the second day of Pesach, we are instructed by our tradition to count the days of the “Omer” until the fiftieth day, which is when the first barley crop would be harvested. It is also the Jewish holiday of Shavuot when, according to our tradition, the Jewish People received the Torah at Mt. Sinai. The counting of the Omer is a bridge between Pesach and Shavuot – between a moment of liberation and a moment of self-definition and direction at the beginning of our evolution as a religious civilization. It is an opportunity to deepen our study and close the gap between ideas and action for the tikkun (rebalancing, repair) of the challenges we face in our world.
The Search for Leaven before Passover, Letting Go with the Help of a Dog
Our cocker spaniel Boaz likely claimed the other seven. You can read (or listen) to whole piece at everydayandeverynight.com. Happy Passover.
Rabbi Brant Rosen Among Newsweek's Top Rabbis in America
With Rosen's leadership, JRC is gaining notoriety as "America's greenest shul" for meeting the highest standards in green building practices in its recent renovation. Newsweek's criteria were rabbis' inspirational abilities; leadership within the congregation, denomination and the community; and skills in meeting the spiritual and personal needs of congregants.
Teva Seminar on Jewish Environmental Education
The Teva Seminar is a four-day innovative professional development opportunity for those interested in camping, gardening, environmental sustainability, Jewish education or just plain having fun.
Congregational Based Community Organizing and Congregational Advocacy - PEARL tele-conference callDate: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Click here to register for this and other PEARL: Providing Education And Resources for Leadership tele-conference sessions. For the last two years JRF has partnered with the Jewish Funds for Justice and some of JRF's own leading rabbis and lay leaders in the field of congregation-based community organizing to help promote and develop spiritually activist communities.
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