Social Action

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Temple Emanuel Social Action Activities and Links

Care Packages for Our Soldiers in Iraq
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Temple Emanuel; participates in many Social Action Events. Some of which are outline below:

	We work along side St. Aidans Church collecting for the local families who are hungry.
	We have participated as a Temple, in domestic relief efforts for Hurricane Victims.
	We have, and continue to, collect items of comfort for the troops in Iraq. At this time we are collecting for a soldier who is a friend of our Rabbis.
	Our temple has walked in several Breast Cancer walks and we are open to putting together other such walks. Please contact Social Action with your ideas and offers to help.
	We have a standing Caring Committee that has helped many member of our congregation and will continue to help any member in need.

International Social Action

Save Darfur Now - A Call to Action

As a people intimately acquainted with the horrors of genocide, we are obligated to speak out and take action when other peoples are similarly threatened. As Jews, we cannot remain silent. Today, in Darfur in the Western Sudan over a million people have been forced from their homes. They live in squalid refugee camps facing starvation. Without our help, they will not have food. Without our help, they will not have water. Without our help they may not live. Let us act to protect them.

How You Can Help

Below is a list of actions we can take now to address the imminent crisis in Darfur

Donate funds to the Reform Movement's Sudan Relief Fund. Make a donation on-line to the URJ, or send checks payable to the Union for Reform Judaism (write "Sudan Relief Fund" in the memo section of your check) to:
Union for Reform Judaism,
Attn: Sudan Relief
633 Third Ave., 7th Floor
New York, NY 10017

Donations to the Union's Sudan Relief Fund will be used to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Sudan through reputable agencies. The Reform Movement will work with its coalition partners in the Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief, convened by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and the Save Darfur Coalition, convened by the American Jewish World Service and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, to identify the most appropriate recipients of these humanitarian funds.

Send Post Cards. Urging your Senators and Representatives to address the needs of the Sudanese people by increasing U.S. aid while also supporting United Nations and other international efforts to address the crisis in the Sudan. SEE OUR TEMPLE DISPLAY

TEMPLE EMANUEL SOCIAL ACTION LINKS

Below you can find links to various web sites and links.

These links are avenues in which you can further explore and learn about the projects our Temple is currently participating in.

This page will be updated as changes occur in our Temple projects.

These web sites explain further the projects in which our temple is currently participating.

Please visit these sites and continue to support our community and our world with your own Social Action!

American Jewish World Service

http://www.ajws.org/index.cfm

This is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to participate in Humanitarian projects. American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is an international development organization motivated by Judaism's imperative to pursue justice. AJWS is dedicated to alleviating poverty, hunger and disease among the people of the developing world regardless of race, religion or nationality. Through grants to grassroots organizations, volunteer service, advocacy and education, AJWS fosters civil society, sustainable development and human rights for all people, while promoting the values and responsibilities of global citizenship within the Jewish community.

Religious Action Center

http://rac.org/ and RAC Interest Projects

This web site is full of Social Action information. It is a site that allows you to express your personal and political feelings. This web site has many links itself, including the Crisis in Sudan link.

Union Of Reform Judaism

This web site has a social Action section that again has a link for you to click on to learn more about Sudan,

http://www.savedarfur.org/

http://urj.org/relief/sudan

Please send notes and cards to this soldier.

We are also planning on mailing boxes to this soldier.

If you would like to help contact the committee.

PFC James F Young Jr

    DTC, STB, 4 ID, G3

    Unit 43029

    APO AE 09344

      james.f.young1@us.army.mil

St. Aidans Parish

http://www.staidanparish.org/social.htm

This is the link that tells us about St. Aidans Social Ministry and contact person if you wish to communicate with the Social Ministry office.