Resources for Fighting Hunger and Poverty
- Article: Food Glorious Food
By Danny Siegel
Article on hunger, emergency food resources, and the ways in which the Jewish community can respond. From the Reconstructionist, January/February 1990.
- Article: Jews and the Homeless
By The Reconstructionist Editorial Staff
Editorial about Homelessness. From the Reconstructionist, July/August 1988.
- Article: Judaism and Justice
By Rabbi Sid Schwarz
This is a reprint from a Fall, 2003 article published in The Reconstructionist. The article emphasizes the important connection between Judaism and justice and argues that making those connections for our communities will draw Jews to Judaism.
- Article: Making Our Synagogues Vessels of Tikkun Olam
By Rabbi Mordechai Liebling
Rabbi Mordechai Liebling is the Torah of Money director at the Shefa Fund. This article is adapted from a talk at the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation Tikkun Olam Kallah March, 2003.
- Audio Interview: A Torah Of Money
By Lawrence Bush, Sue Hoffman, Rabbi Shawn Zevit
Sue Hoffman and Larry Bush engage in a lively discussion about the way money has historically been and can be a spiritual tool for communal and societal transformation. Special focus is given to the meaning ascribed to money, issues of class and social justice in Jewish life. An episode of Heart, Mind and Spirit, the first regularly scheduled Reconstructionist radio show in the history of the movement. (The Torah of Money is a service mark of the Shefa Fund.)
- Bibliography: Tikkun Olam Links For Educators
By Rabbi Shai Gluskin
An annotated list of websites that are useful to educators teaching about and engaging in Tikkun Olam.
- Dvar Torah: "Blessed is the One Who is the Breath of Life"
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Shabbat shalom! . . . It's the custom of Christian communities throughout the world to honor great teachers on the anniversaries of their births, and it's the custom of Jewish communities through-out the world to honor ...
- Dvar Torah: "If I were a rich man..."
By Rabbi Lewis Eron
How often have we expressed this wish? As successful as we may be, there always seems to be something more that we want. For most of us, those who need to work hard to pay ...
- Dvar Torah: Ownership of Property, Returning Lost Property
By Rabbi Steven Pik-Nathan
This week's parashah, Ki Tetzey, contains the greatest number of mitzvot/ commandments of any Torah portion. The 72 mitzvot found in the parashah focus on everything from the treatment of captives, defiant children, lost animals ...
- Dvar Torah: Poverty
By Rabbi Howard Cohen
In the middle of Parshat Behar we read about our obligations towards our fellow Jews when they are reduced to poverty. The Torah uses the term "Collapsed" or "Clowered" (mem, vav, ...
- How to: How JRF Synagogues Can Pursue TZEDEC
By Rabbi Shawn Zevit
A guide for congregations to realize their tikkun olam vision of increasing economic justice in America’s low-income communities as part of the Shefa Fund's TZEDEC campaign.
- Program Description: Tzedakah And The Jewish Holidays: Giving For Social Change
By Rabbi Shawn Zevit
Ideas for giving opportunities throughout the Jewish year. Connects each Jewish holiday to the concept of tzedakah and recommends a relevant type of benficiary to support.
- RT Article: Integrating Spirituality and Social Action
By Melanie L. Schneider
Surveying the Reconstructionist landscape. From the Spring 1996 Reconstructionism Today magazine, Volume 3 Number 3.
- RT Article: Tzedakah and Social Action
By Jeffrey Dekro, Betsy Tessler
This article discusses the concept and practice of tzedakah, and its potential interplay with other Jewish values. From the Winter 1993 Reconstructionism Today magazine. Volume 1 Number 2.
- RT Article: Wealth and Covenant: Judaism's Economic Wisdom
By Lawrence Bush
Judaism's economic wisdom and the social responsibility movement. From the Summer 1997 Reconstructionism Today magazine, Volume 4 Number 4.
- Speech: The FAQs of Genocide: Four Questions Frequently Asked of a Jewish Darfur Activist
By Rabbi Brant Rosen
Speech delivered on April 29, 2006 at a JRF gathering the night before the Save Darfur rally in Washington, D.C. The speech answers common questions asked by Jews in assessing the importance of this issue. It is a forceful argument for full engagement by the Jewish community in efforts to stop the genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
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