TIKKUN OLAM
Repairing the World
“Tzedek, tzedek (social justice) shall you pursue.”
—Deuteronomy 16:20
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Family Table: Remember to bring canned tuna and canned no-added-sugar fruit to the donation box at Town Hall for High Holiday Services: Our neighbors depend on you. Help kids to read: Literacy tutor training with GBJCL in Sept and Oct: |
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Greater Boston Interfaith Association: Sixty 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.
Boston Area Gleaners: a Biblical term referring to the law that required farmers to let peasants onto their farms after harvest to “glean” whatever produce was left in the fields. We harvest and deliver the produce to food pantries and shelters. Learn more.
Greater Boston Jewish Coalition for Literacy/JCRC: Become a literacy tutor in an underserved school in Somerville and help a child gain a love of reading.Learn more.
Temple Recycling Program: Temple Shir Tikvah collects recyclable plastic, metal and glass in bins in the kitchen. Please pick up these items to be recycled with yours at home since the temple does not have curbside recycling. We are looking for a volunteer to ensure regular pick up. Learn more.
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.
If you would like to participate in any of these programs, please contact us or join us for the next meeting.
“Learn to do good. Devote yourselves to justice; aid the wronged.” —Isaiah 1:17
Temple Shir Tikvah
34 Vine Street
Winchester, MA 01890
781-729-1263
