The pursuit of social justice and religious liberty is fundamental to Reform Judaism. There are many places to find great ideas for your congregation's social action activities, including the program bank of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and web sites created by the congregations in the URJ's Greater New York Council of Reform Synagogues.
Includes: NYC, Long Island, Westchester, Putnam and Fairfield, CT
The Five Boroughs of NYC
Manhattan
Central Synagogue
Includes links to:
Advocacy
Alliance for Freedom
Capital Punishment
Gay and Lesbian Inclusion
Joint Heritage Seder
Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday
Mitzvah Day
Volunteering
Congregation Rodeph Sholom
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
Temple Shaaray Tefila Includes links to:
Sandwich Saturday
Soup Kitchen
Help for the Homebound Elderly
University of the Streets; Lending Library; TSTutor
Village Temple
Brooklyn
Congregation Beth Elohim
Plus, special publications from CBE's Social Action Committee:
Guide to Local Giving
Guide to Volunteering
Temple Beth Ahavath Sholom (click "About Us")
Queens
Temple Sholom (click "Ongoing Activities")
Staten Island
Temple Israel of Staten Island
For other volunteer opportunities in the Five Boroughs:
Visit New York Cares
Long Island
Sinai Reform Temple Bay Shore
Temple Beth David Commack
The Jewish Center of the Hamptons East Hampton
Click “Social Action” on left. Includes:
Israel Crisis Fund, Literacy Program,
Children’s Summer Lunch Program, Gleaning
B'nai Israel Reform Temple Oakdale
Click “Social Action” on left for brief description
Central Synagogue of Nassau County Rockville Centre
Temple Sinai of Roslyn Roslyn Heights
Temple Isaiah Stony Brook
Scroll down for information on Soup Kitchen and Food Drive
Community Reform Temple Westbury
Westchester County
Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester Chappaqua
Temple Israel of Northern Westchester Croton-on-Hudson
Larchmont Temple Larchmont
Scroll down to “Social Action”
Sinai Free Synagogue Mount Vernon
Volunteerism (includes Sunrise Assisted Living and Feeding the Hungry)
Social Action Committee (includes Food Drive, Midnight Run, the Bereavement Center of Westchester, and the Westchester Task Force on Children and Loss)
Community Synagogue Rye
Includes links to:
Overview of Tikkun Olam
Social Action Committee
Midnight Run
Inter- and Intrafaith Programs
Synagogue Funds
Tzedakah for Jewish Social Action Organizations
Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester Rye
Includes:
Volunteering, Mitzvah Day, Midnight Run,
and Sponsoring Jewish Immigrant Families
Scarsdale Synagogue-Tremont Temple Scarsdale
Westchester Reform Temple Scarsdale
Jewish Family Congregation South Salem
Overview of Social Action Includes links to:
Katonah Community Center
Annual Blood Drive
Midnight Run
Share-A-Shabbat
Adopt-A-Highway
Congregation Kol Ami White Plains
Woodlands Community Temple White Plains
Includes an extensive list of projects and more web links
Putnam
Temple Beth Elohim of Putman County Brewster
Reform Temple of Putnam Valley Putnam Valley
click Social Action on right
Fairfield County (Connecticut)
Temple Shalom Norwalk
Click on index at left for
Mitzvah Day
Interfaith Council
Temple Sinai Stamford
Click on index at left for Social Action
For more ideas about how your congregation can be involved
in tikkun olam:
Visit the Social Action Program Bank
of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
