CHILDREN EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT Collect money for a holiday trip for kibbutz students, to help them forget about the daily barrage of rocket Birthday Angels American Friends of the Hebrew Jewish National Fund attacks from the nearby Gaza Strip • Send gifts to the PROJECTS www.birthday-angels.org University www.jnf.org 110 handicapped children that make use of the kibbutz Tzedakah The Birthday Angels Birthday Party Project, a www.afhu.org JNF sustains Israel’s environment needs by rehab/therapy center • Send Bar Mitzvah cards and gifts The following are a list of non-profits/tzedakah non-profit organization, has set a goal to provide AFHU supports the Hebrew University of planting trees and addressing the current water to Ruchama Bar Mitzvah students organizations that your family might think about every child in Israel with his or her own birthday Jerusalem, Israel’s premier center of higher crisis. One Family Fund supporting, whether in general, or in connection party. In 2006-2007, over 3000 underprivileged learning. The American Society for the Protection www.onefamilyfund.org with a B’nei Mitzvah tzedakah project. The Israel children celebrated their birthdays thanks to American Technion Society of Nature in Israel The One Family Fund is the main organization Action Committee of Temple Solel has put this the Birthday Angels volunteers AND to your www.ats.org www.aspni.org that provides support to victims of terror in Israel list together in honor of Israel’s 60th birthday. donations. ATS raises money for the Technion – Israel’s The American Society for the Protection of (and their families). In honor of the occasion, the list highlights a Israel Assn for Child Protection premier Institute of Technology for undergraduate Nature in Israel (ASPNI) was founded in 1986, to Table to Table number of organizations that are specifically www.eliusa.org and graduate students. help raise awareness and support for the work of located in/connected to Israel. Some of the www.tabletotable.org.il Founded in 1979, the Israel Association for Child Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam (Oasis of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel Table to Table responds to the needs of Israel’s organizations on this list are specifically Jewish Protection (ELI) is recognized by the Government (SPNI) , Israel’s oldest and largest environmental ones that serve Jewish causes. Others are not. Peace) hungry. of Israel and other human service agencies as the COMMUNITY www.nswas.org organization. We hope that you and your family will weigh the only organization in Israel that deals specifically Community Resource Center (CRC) competing needs of all of these organizations, Interfaith Community Services of North A village, jointly established by Jewish and I Love a Clean San Diego (ILACSD) www.communityresourcecenter.org and exclusively with all of the various aspects of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, that is www.ilacsd.org and then decide which one(s) you will volunteer child abuse. San Diego County The CRC is our local Encinitas response to with/contribute to. www.interfaithservices.org engaged in educational work for peace, equality ILACSD works to promote regional awareness domestic violence, hunger, and homelessness. Meir Panim Interfaith Community Services promotes and understanding between the two peoples. of environmental issues including resource The inclusion of organizations on this list does www.meirpanim.org conservation, waste reduction and recycling, Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) not constitute an endorsement by Temple Solel. mutual understanding and respect among Shurat HaDin: Israel Law Center www.jfssd.org Meir Panim confronts child poverty in Israel. the member faiths; to deal with issues which www.israellawcenter.org community enhancement, and pollution We have listed these groups because individual prevention. JFS is the Jewish community of San Diego’s members of the Temple Solel family have found Yad Ezra V’Shulamit affect the religious community; to share the Shurat HaDin is dedicated to preserving and response to hunger, domestic violence, and the meaning in supporting these groups during the www.yadezra.net members’ concern for these problems; to voice defending the human rights of the Jewish Surfrider Foundation needs of the elderly (among other things)! JFS last few years. Please feel free to contact Ellen Yad Ezra fights child poverty in Israel. these concerns when, by common consent, People and supporters in the State of Israel and www.surfridersd.org also provides subsidized mental health care to Fox or one of the rabbis if you have questions Casa de Amparo the members feel that moral leadership is around the globe by aggressively invoking the The Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit those in need. about your project! www.casadeamparo.org needed; and to implement programs for Rule of Law within the framework of the many environmental organization dedicated to the basic needs, social services, counseling, and legal systems of the world. protection and enjoyment of the world’s oceans, Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger All charities listed in green directly support the Serves the needs of abused children in San Diego economic development which will empower the waves and beaches for all people, through www.mazon.org State of Israel and those in blue are local in San County. Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of disadvantaged in our community. conservation, activism, research and education. MAZON allocates donations from the community Diego and the United States Rady Children’s Hospital of San Diego Religion (HUC-JIR) to prevent and alleviate hunger among people www.chsd.org Radio Reading Service www.huc.edu of all faiths and backgrounds. Children’s Hospital is our region’s only pediatric www.kpbs.org/radio_reading_service/volunteer HUC-JIR is the academic center of Reform ANIMALS The Radio Reading Service relies on volunteers Judaism. With campuses in Jerusalem, New York, United Jewish Federation of San Diego (UJF) trauma care facility. It promotes pediatric www.jewishinsandiego.org Canine Companions for Independence wellness throughout the County. to read current newspapers and magazines out Cincinnati, and Los Angeles, HUC trains Reform www.caninecompanions.org loud. These recordings are then transmitted via rabbis, cantors, educators, and communal As Jews in America we are all part of a worldwide Canine Companions for Independence is a Reach Out and Read San Diego the web and via a closed circuit radio station as a service professionals. people, with responsibility for each other. UJF is www.rorsd.org committed to building a vibrant and involved national nonprofit organization that enhances service to the blind. Religious Action Center of Reform the lives of children and adults with disabilities Provides new children’s books to infants and Jewish community; deepening the connection Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) Judaism (RAC) by providing highly-trained assistance dogs and toddlers. to, and responsibility for, Israel and other www.urj.org www.rac.org ongoing support to ensure quality partnerships. FAMILIES overseas Jewish communities and expanding The URJ is the umbrella organization for the The RAC educates and mobilizes the American the community’s role in caring for Jews in need. Pegasus Rising North American Reform Movement. It provides Jewish community on legislative and social Kibbutz Ruchama www. pegasusrising.org resources to congregations, and organizes the concerns, advocating on issues from economic www.templesolel.net United Way of San Diego County (UWSD) Pairs wounded warriors with animals, Escondido. network of Reform-affiliated summer camps, justice to civil rights to religious liberty to Israel. Kibbutz Ruchama is Temple Solel’s sister www.uwsd.org institution in Israel. There are many ways to be United Way is an umbrella organization that Children under 18 must be accompanied by an youth groups, Men’s Clubs, and Sisterhoods that San Diego County Library (SDCL) adult to participate in this program. connect Reform Jews to each other. supportive of their work. Here are just a few raises money/organizes volunteers and then www.sdcl.org examples: • Collect, create, and send care packages distributes those resources to many different Rancho Coastal Humane Society (RCHS) United Through Reading (UTR) The County library system promotes literacy and to Ruchama soldiers serving in the IDF • Send school local non-profit organizations. Currently, the www.rchumanesociety.org www.unitedthroughreading.org/index.html cultural exchange throughout the County. supplies to Ruchama students • Become a pen pal with United Way is concentrated on: stopping child RCHS provides shelter for San Diego’s homeless UTR unites families facing physical separation by a Ruchama resident • Contribute to the fund to assist abuse/neglect; promoting financial stability and Ruchama with refurbishing apartments for kibbutz animal population, and helps to facilitate animal facilitating the bonding experience of reading independence; and doing homeless outreach adoptions. aloud together. residents after they complete their service in the IDF • Send supplies to the new Baby House on the kibbutz • and prevention. HEALTH San Diego/Imperial Counties American Red Israel Assn for Ethiopian Jews (IAEJ) MILITARY SOCIAL ACTION Cross www.iaej.co.il/index.htm American Foundation for AIDS Research www.sdarc.org Formed in 1993, the Israel Association for Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Jewish Funds for Justice (AMFAR) Serving the 3 million plus residents of San Diego Ethiopian Jews (IAEJ) is the only organization www.israelsoldiers.org www.jewishjustice.org www.amfar.org County, the Red Cross offers: wellness education in Israel working exclusively to advocate for the Friends of the IDF supports the work of Israel’s The Jewish Funds for Justice is a national AMFAR is dedicated to the support of AIDS (First Aid certification); disaster readiness/ full and rapid integration of Ethiopian Jews into armed forces. public foundation guided by Jewish history research, HIV prevention, treatment education, response; and provides emergency response mainstream Israeli society. IAEJ is an Ethiopian Adopt A US Soldier and tradition. JFSJ helps people in the United and the advocacy of sound AIDS-related public services to families who have a loved one serving led organization that focuses primarily on www.adoptaussoldier.org States achieve social and economic security policy. in the military. education as the key to Ethiopian integration This is the organization that Temple Solel works and opportunity by investing in healthy neighborhoods, vibrant Jewish communities, City of Hope Susan G Komen: For the Cure and mobility within Israeli society. with to support our brave men and women who www.cityofhope.org are defending our country around the world. and skillful leaders. Its holistic approach to social www.komen.org/home Israel Movement for Progressive change includes grantmaking and loans, service For nearly a century, City of Hope has been a Komen is America’s largest grass roots effort to Judaism Join in the effort through Solel, or get involved model for scientific discovery and compassionate directly through the website above! learning, leadership development, organizing, discover a cure for breast cancer. www.wupj.org/Congregations/Israel.asp education, and advocacy. care for those facing cancer, diabetes and The IMPJ is the umbrella organization of all other life-threatening diseases. Among many Reform/Progressive synagogues in Israel. Click Volunteer San Diego.org breakthroughs, City of Hope’s research has led to on the link for a listing of those temples. Many of www.volunteersandiego.org some of the most widely used cancer drugs and them have their own websites with information This is an amazing database of different social synthetic insulin used by millions with diabetes. on how you can get involved in helping to support action opportunities that are available right now For many people, City of Hope is where hope their programming. We are especially impressed in San Diego. Use it to get connected to a new begins. with the work that Or Hadash: The Lyons Center social action project. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation for Progressive Judaism is doing. Please visit their (JDRF) website at www.or-hadash.org.il. SENIORS www.jdrf.org ISRAEL Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC) JDRF is the leading charitable funder and Association of Reform Zionists of www.irac.org Beit Frankforter advocate of type 1 (juvenile) diabetes research North America (ARZA) IRAC is the Reform movement’s public and legal www.frankfor.bizhat.com/centre.html worldwide. The mission of JDRF is to find a cure www.arza.org advocacy arm in Israel. Beit Frankforter is the Jerusalem Center for the for diabetes and its complications through the ARZA is the Zionist arm and voice for the Reform Elderly. support of research. Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) Movement in the United States. They endeavor www.jewishagency.org Yad L’Kashish (Lifeline for the Old) Ronald McDonald House of San Diego to make Israel fundamental to the sacred lives JAFI is the quasi-governmental agency that www.lifeline.org.il www.rmhcsd.org and Jewish identity of Reform Jews. organizes aliyah by bringing a substantial Yad L’Kashish offers the needy, elderly, and SPORTS Since opening their doors in 1980, San Diego’s disabled of Jerusalem the opportunity to remain American Friends of Magen David Adom number of Jews to live in Israel and ensuring Israel Tennis Center House has provided more than 100,000 nights an integral part of society by providing them (ARMDI) their successful integration. It is also devoted www.tennis.org.il of lodging for more than 10,000 families whose with jobs. www.afmda.org to connecting the next generation with Israel The ITC promotes co-existence, physical children face life-threatening illnesses. Their Magen David Adom is the “Red Cross” of Israel. and Jewish peoplehood as a core part of Jewish Yad Sarah education, and safe/healthy living through “home” with 12 bedrooms, laundry and kitchen American Israel Cultural Foundation identity. And, it involves world Jewry with www.yadsarah.org tennis to Israeli young people. facilities provides temporary lodging for families Israelis in shaping the future character of Israeli Yad Sarah provides services for the sick and www.aicf.org Special Olympics of San Diego County of children with cancer, leukemia, and other society. elderly of Israel (and their families). serious illnesses while children are treated at AICF is dedicated to the mission of supporting www.specialolympicssandiego.com area hospitals. Located adjacent to Children’s and developing artistic life in Israel. Rabbis for Human Rights Meals on Wheels of Greater San Diego Special Olympics is a year-round worldwide Hospital, their House provides families a refuge American Israel Public Affairs Cmte (AIPAC) www.rhr-na.org www.meals-on-wheels.org program of sports training and athletic from the hospital and keeps them together www.aipac.org RHR is a rabbinic organization dedicated to Meals-on-Wheels home-delivers two meals competition for all children and adults with during their crisis -- twenty-four hours a day, AIPAC works to help make Israel more secure by education, advocacy, prayer, and action in a day, for seven days a week, and provides intellectual disabilities. 365 days a year. In addition, they provide a place ensuring that American governmental support support of human rights in Israel and beyond. modified diets, to seniors, age 60 and older, where comforting strength and stability are for Israel remains strong. State of Israel Bonds throughout San Diego County. received from other resident families in similar www.israelbonds.com Seacrest Village Retirement Communities 3575 Manchester Avenue situations. Hadassah www.hadassah.org State of Israel bonds are securities issued by the www.seacrestvillage.com Cardiff by the Sea, CA 92007 San Diego Center for the Blind (SDCB) Hadassah is the Women’s Branch of the government of Israel. Seacrest is a non-profit residential facility (with Tel: 760.436.0654 Fax: 760.436.2748 www.sdcb.org World Zionist Organization. It supports many Yad Vashem two campuses) for San Diego retirees. Seacrest SDCB’s mission is to increase the abilities of any important institutions in Israel, including the www.yadvashem.org grew out of San Diego Hebrew Homes, and [email protected] adult with blindness or vision impairment to renowned Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Yad Vashem is the official Holocaust remembrance continues to be a facility that is home to many www.templesolel.net reach their own highest level of independence. authority in Israel. of San Diego’s Jewish retirees.