Jewish Reconstructionist Federation

Members of JRC-Evanston volunteering in New Orleans
JRF assists its member congregations as they engage in a wide variety of service-learning initiatives. Many of these were highlighted, with articles and reflections, during the omer learning initiative in 2008.

Some of these activities include the JRF Teen-Parent Week of Service, international trips run by the American Jewish World Service (AJWS) and domestic initiatives sponsored by Spark: the Center for Jewish Service Learning at the Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ).

Service-learning at Camp JRF

• Articles on service learning in the Winter 2008 issue of Contact Magazine
• How to Put Together a Tikkun Olam Family Work Project - By Steve August
• Tikkun Olam Family Work Project Blog
• The National Educators’ Institute for Jewish Service-Learning - 2008
• Havurah team aids Ugandans - by Polina Olsen
• Living in Three Civilizations - by Terri Bernsohn and Robert Israelite
• El Salvador: Encountering Poverty and Possibility - by Isabel deKoninck and Joseph Berman
• Torah in Action: Members of a Chicago congregation travel to New Orleans to "do unto others" - By Pauline Dubkin Yearwood
• Rabbi Brant Rosen's work in Africa
• Schisms that surfaced during Katrina point to the need for soul-searching - by Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman

For more information please contact Rabbi Shawn Zevit at JRF, 215-885-5601, ex.24.