Tikkun Olam/Social Justice

Tikkun Olam programs, decision-making and programming in our communities

Lori Rubin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:37:46 -0500

Start: May 9 2012 - 1:00pm

End: May 9 2012 - 2:15pm

This call will explore best practices for creating committees and buy-in for effective social justice work in our congregations, including integrated youth and adult education and tikkun programming, as well as service-learning, decision-making and advocacy outside our communities. As well, as part of JRF's ongoing Sustainable Synagogue Initiative, these sessions will focus on Jewish values and successful greening of synagogue life. Special focus on texts and traditions on religious and ecological consciousness and sustainable practices in ritual, programming and policy aspects of Jewish communal life, using alternative energies, and emerging best practices.

Expected Preparation (Written and Audio):

http://jrf.org/omer/home

http://jrf.org/pearl/2008/living-our-values-of-tikkun-olam-inside-and-ou...

http://jrf.org/pearl/2011/Sustainability

Tikkun Olam: Advocacy, community organizing and external partnerships for change beyond our walls.

Lori Rubin — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:28:32 -0500

Start: May 23 2012 - 12:00pm

End: May 23 2012 - 1:15pm

This session provides a forum to discuss social justice organizing in faith community, including developing policies and procedures for dealing with advocacy issues in your own congregation. Many Reconstructionist clergy and lay leaders have led the way in their communities to start and grow "CBCO" networks, transforming their own congregations in the process. We will also discuss drawing others to your community who are already drawn to this work, leveraging the larger community of organizations and professional organizers to amplify your potential for success, the benefits of working in diversity, and thinking about your own internal leadership development so as to effectively pursue this work.

Expected Preparation (Written and Audio):

http://jrf.org/pearl/2008/tzedek-tzedek-tirdof-actively-pursing-social-j...

http://jrf.org/pearl/2009/cbco-congregation-based-community-organizing

Sustainability and Greening of Jewish Life II

Lori Rubin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:14:40 -0500

Start: Jun 15 2011 - 12:00pm

End: Jun 15 2011 - 1:15pm

As part of JRF's ongoing Sustainable Synagogue Initiative, these sessions will focus on Jewish values and successful greening of synagogue life. Special focus on texts and traditions on religious and ecological consciousness and sustainable practices in ritual, programming and policy aspects of Jewish communal life, using alternative energies, and emerging best practices.

Sustainability and Greening of Jewish Life

Lori Rubin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:32:20 -0500

Start: Jun 1 2011 - 12:00pm

End: Jun 1 2011 - 1:15pm

Below you will find a packet of texts to be used in the call in addition to the PowerPoint presentation that will be used and uploaded later, and a copy of the packet from the 2009 PEARL call on Sustainability.

To listen to a version of this presentation go to http://greenfaith.org/programs/denominational-partnerships/the-reconstructionist-jewish-movement

Sustainability: Sustainable Living 4.0

Lori Rubin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:13:12 -0500

Start: Apr 14 2010 - 12:00pm

End: Apr 14 2010 - 1:15pm

As part of JRF's ongoing Sustainable Synagogue Initiative, this call is a follow up to the very successful synagogue greening calls of the last two years, which had over 60 participants from 40 JRF congregations. This call will feature some of JRF's leading communities and their work in creating financially, socially, environmentally and spiritually sustainable Jewish communities as a way of growing in individual and home life as well as community and the planet at large. This year's call will focus on individuals and communities who are taking a spiritually-centered approach to their environmental practices within and outside the walls of congregational life.

To prepare for the call please see previous Omer sessions on Sustainability at:

http://jrf.org/omer2008-enviro

http://jrf.org/omer/2007

For Sustainable Synagogue Initiative Resources see:

http://jrf.org/Sustainable_Synagogue_Resources

http://jrf.org/climate

http://jrf.org/Jewish-Climate-Change-Initiative

The audio recording of this call can be accessed here: http://jrf.org/node/2610

Diversity and Inclusivity in Sacred Community

Lori Rubin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:08:42 -0500

Start: Apr 1 2010 - 12:00pm

End: Apr 1 2010 - 1:15pm

"In Reconstructionist circles, making our communities inclusive is one of our chief goals. We are acutely aware of the barriers that people encounter when they contemplate belonging to the Jewish community.. the Reconstructionist commitment to inclusivity is not only based on a desire to be warm and welcoming. It is deeply rooted in a commitment to democratic values and an understanding of the evolving nature of Jewish civilization." Exploring Judaism (200), Staub and Alpert, p. 118-9. http://jrf.org/resolutions

Our Passover tradition teaches us that a mixed multitude went up together with the Israelites out of Egypt and that we are to open our doors to the stranger and needy especially as we contemplate our own freedom. This call will look at how we can grow our communities in terms of inclusion in multiple area of Jewish life (e.g. Intermarried, GLBT, physical needs).

Listen to the audio portion of this call at http://jrf.org/node/2591

Packet material is attached below.

Tikkun Olam: Living Our Values Inside and Outside: Processes and Programs in our Congregations & Larger World

Victoria Cangelosi — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:50:50 -0500

Start: May 22 2008 - 10:00am

End: May 22 2008 - 11:30am

Tikkun Olam: Congregational Based Community Organizing and Congregational Advocacy

Victoria Cangelosi — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:47:44 -0500

Start: May 13 2008 - 10:00am

End: May 13 2008 - 11:30am

For the last two years JRF has partnered with the Jewish Funds for Justice and some of JRF's own leading rabbis and lay leaders in the field of congregation-based community organizing to help promote and develop spiritually activist communities. Two conference calls were held last February in conjunction with a national CBCO training conference sponsored by JFSJ in Santa Clara, CA. This call is for anyone who is interested or has embarked on this powerful method of social justice organizing in faith community.

Download a resource packet.
You can listen to the audio recording of this call by clicking here: http://jrf.org/node/2629

Sustainable Synagogues, Part 2: JRF Congregations Best Practices of 2008

Victoria Cangelosi — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:43:15 -0500

Start: May 5 2008 - 10:00am

End: May 5 2008 - 11:30am

As part of JRF's ongoing Sustainable Synagogue Initiative, this call is a follow up to the very successful synagogue greening call of last June, which had over 60 participants from 40 JRF congregations. This call will feature some of JRF's leading communities and their work in creating financially, socially, environmentally and spiritually sustainable Jewish communities.

Download a resource packet.
You can listen to the audio recording of this call by clicking here: http://jrf.org/node/2631

Tikkun Olam: CBCO-Congregation Based Community Organizing

Hattie Dunbar — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:17:01 -0500

Start: Jun 4 2009 - 12:00pm

End: Jun 4 2009 - 1:15pm

Since 2006, JRF has partnered with the Jewish Funds for Justice, the Interfaith Organizing Initiative and other social justice networks in the field of congregation-based community organizing to help promote and develop spiritually activist communities. Many of our clergy and lay leaders have led the way in their communities to start and grow "CBCO" networks, transforming their own congregations in the process. This call is for anyone who is interested or has embarked on this powerful method of social justice organizing in faith community.

Please review JRF CBCO and CBCO Omer Project resources.

To listen to the audio recording of this call, please click here: http://jrf.org/node/2598