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Mitzvah Projects 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 www.birthday-angels.org University www.jnf.org PROJECTS 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.
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