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.

Short-term Service Learning- Jewish Week Article

JESNA Education and Service Learning Resources

Participate in Camp JRF's annual family service week JRF Teen-Parent Week of Service.

Some of these activities include the 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
• Repair the World launches Repair Labs, where rabbis, educators, program directors, camp and youth movement staff and many others can quickly find what they need right now, learn from our leading lights, and share what we are all collectively learning together.
• 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.