Jewish Reconstructionist Federation

In preparing my report for the JRF board meeting, I've collected a handy set of web links which describe JRF's active initiatives in Tikkun Olam. I thought it would useful to share these on the JRF web site.

1. 2009/5769 Year of the Sun/ Solar and Alternative Energy Initiative http://jrf.org/birkat-hahammah
2. 4th annual Jewish Social Action Month http://jrf.org/jewish_social_action_month
3. Tents of Hope initiative for Darfur, Nov 7-8, 2008 http://www.jrf.org/Tents_of_Hope
4. Rabbis for Human Rights, 2nd international conference http://www.jrf.org/rhr-conference
5. Addressing labor ethics, kashrut and humane treatmant of animals, http://jrf.org/agriprocessors-update
6. Supporting voter registration and rights, http://jrf.org/get-out-the-vote-2008
7. World-wide and national poverty and hunger alleviation, http://www.jrf.org/ONE-AntiPoverty, including video link
8. JCPA/Interfaith national Colaition on Ending Poverty: http://jrf.org/fight-poverty-with-faith
9. JRF has a long history of supporting justice in our country's immigration policies and working with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS, http://www.hias.org/) in ensuring humane treatment of immigrants and fair Federal immigration policies. We have been part of an interfaith coalition and process that has developed an interfaith statement on integration.