TIKKUN OLAM
Repairing the World
“Tzedek, tzedek (social justice) shall you pursue.”
—Deuteronomy 16:20
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Mitzvah Makers. A featured part of the B'nai Mitzvah experience, creating and seeing through individual projects for a better world. B'nai Mitzvah Resources
Greater Boston Interfaith Association. 60 congregations of all faiths using their combined power for social justice on issues such as aging with dignity, health care for all, youth stress and health, and usurious lending practices. Learn more.
Habitat For Humanity. Shir Tikvah provides a team to build affordable housing with Greater Merrimack Habitat for Humanity. No special skills are required, but if you have skills they'll be put to use! Learn more.
Keshet's Transgender Working Group. Works for transgender inclusion in the greater Jewish community. Learn more.
Chesterbrook Learning Center. An after-school program, located in Waltham, serving economically disadvantaged school-age children. This program provides homework help, academic enrichment, healthy snacks, indoor & outdoor games, arts & crafts activities, access to computers, and a safe, nurturing environment.
Temple Recycling Program. Temple Shir Tikvah collects recyclable plastic, metal and glass in bins in the kitchen. Some changes have been made in our efforts to recycle more in the kitchen. We now have durable plates, cups, and silverware. Please use them. You can wash them in the dishwasher.
We are still collecting clean recyclable containers in the blue recycle bins. The company that picks up our garbage will pick them up regularly. Questions?
Somerville Homeless Coalition. One Sunday per month we provide a meal for 12 adult residents. We also pick up meals and deliver them to the shelter. Learn more.
Family Table. Each year we are responsible to collect 50 each of two food or household items to be donated to Family Table, the Boston area Jewish food bank serving over 100 families. Learn more.
The Chesterbrook Learning Center is a free after-school program located in a low-income public housing complex in Waltham, that serves the school-age children who live there. Its mission is to open doors for these children by providing mentoring, academic support, and enrichment. Temple Shir Tikvah is helping by collecting books which will be sold to fund the program or, if age appropriate, used in the Center, and by collecting other items such as school and art supplies.Items requested:
If you would like to participate in any of these programs, please contact us or join us for the next meeting.
Temple Shir Tikvah has been working with Greater Merrimack Habitat for Humanity on affordable housing projects in Lawrence for more than 10 years and we have chosen Saturday April 28th to volunteer as a group. Volunteering with Habitat requires the commitment of a day - we are expected to arrive on site at 8:30 am and we work until 3 or 4 in the afternoon with a break for lunch. No skills or tools are required; there is always something to do for everyone at any skill level. Often it only takes a little bit of instruction for someone to learn a new skill and apply it!
It’s a fun day and a great opportunity to make connections, not only with other temple members but also the families who will be moving into the homes we are creating! If you are interested in participating or have any questions please let us know!
“Learn to do good. Devote yourselves to justice; aid the wronged.” —Isaiah 1:17
