Welcome

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to the CDE-TUJ Social Action Committee's official unofficial blog -- highlighting events, activities, resources, and commentary on issues of special concern at the Temple of Universal Judaism. Get in the TUJ spirit: join us in our effort to "repair the world."

Scroll down for Calendar, "1-Minute Activist", and useful links.

New! Read about the 2010 Heschel King Service with honoree Ruth Messinger. Click on Heschel-King link at right.

New! See "One-Minute Activist" below to link to Haitian relief donation sites.

New! Complete 2009-10 Fifth Saturday Lunch Program calendar and new contact information. Click on Community Lunch Program link on right.

Calendar

Saturday, January 30. Fifth Saturday Community Lunch Program (all day, 85th and Park). Calling all cooks, servers, and dishwashers! Please see Community Lunch Program link at right for more information, and contact organizer if you wish to volunteer.

1-Minute Activist -- Clicks that make a difference

Add your voice to others: Click on links below to send email to officials or take other action.

Donate online to help Haiti rebuild! Contribute through Union for Reform Judaism or American Jewish World Service. Contributions before March 10, 2010 are tax-deductible for tax year 2009 or 2010.

It takes 1 minute to buy a $10 net to protect an entire family from death by malaria for 4 years! Nets go to African refugees, including Darfuri refugees who have crossed borders into the Central African Republic and Chad. .Join the URJ-supported Nothing but Nets campaign.

Is your bank or mutual fund supporing genocide? Visit Investors Against Genocide to find out -- and to quickly and easily send an automated email to the companies on their target list, letting them know that “Americans do not want their family savings invested in companies that help fund genocide” in the Sudan and elsewhere. (ongoing campaign).

Visit the Religious Action Center for timely Action Alerts on Food Stamps, America's Climate Security Act, and Birth Control Protection. Just fill in your zipcode to connect with your Congressional representatives.

Stand in For Victims of Darfur: Human Rights First seeks “at least 200,000 caring people” to symbolically stand in for the victims of mass atrocities in Darfur and help build a lasting peace in Sudan. Use their web site to add your name to their list – and tell a friend. (35,717+ people as of 4/28/08).

Links

Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life

Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism A tremendously rich, inspiring, educational, and timely collection of resources from Reform Judaism's social action "mother ship"...an indispensable guide for congregations and individuals in taking constructive action on the major social issues of our times.

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

SaveDarfur.Org

American Jewish World Service

NYC United for Peace and Justice Chapter of moderate national coalition of over 1300 groups opposing the Iraq war, includes many faith communities.

Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty ( "The numbers on Jewish poverty are shockingly high -- defying the stereotype both among non-Jews and Jews, that Jews are always wealthy. I'm especially concerned for the Holocaust survivors who are dying out, many of whom have lived interminably difficult lives. This organization, however, doesn't deal exclusively with Jewish poverty and their concerns do extend beyond the Jewish population ." -- Lesley)

Sierra Club

TUJ in Action

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