US Jewish Gap Year
US Jewish Gap Year
Tivnu
The Tivnu Gap Year Program is a 9-month residential experience for high school graduates, ages 17-20, from across North America and beyond. Participants work, study, and live together in Portland, Oregon, building homes, creating community, and exploring the connections between Judaism and social justice. Go here for more information.
AVODAH
AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps strengthens the Jewish community's fight against the causes and effects of poverty in the United States. We do this by engaging participants in service and community building that inspire them to become lifelong leaders for social change whose work for justice is rooted in and nourished by Jewish values. Participants in our service Corps program live out and deepen their commitments to social change and Jewish life through a year of full-time work at anti-poverty organizations in Chicago, New Orleans, New York, and Washington, DC. This work partners Corps members with service providers and residents in low income communities and equips our Corps members and alumni to emerge as lifelong agents for social change, whose work for justice is rooted in and nourished by Jewish values. After participants complete this intensive year-long program, our extensive alumni network provides a broad platform for long-term leadership in social change and Jewish life.
Each year, AVODAH recruits people in their 20s from across North America and from the full spectrum of Jewish life to spend a year working on urban poverty issues as full-time employees in local non-profit organizations in Chicago, New Orleans, New York, and Washington, DC. During their year of service, participants live and study together, forming an intense and diverse community of people making a connection between social activism and Jewish life. This work partners Corps members with service providers and residents in low income communities and equips our Corps members and alumni to emerge as lifelong agents for social change, whose work for justice is rooted in and nourished by Jewish values. Corps members help bring housing, education and other basic services to thousands of people each year, and save each organization we partner with an average of $18,000 dollars in staffing costs, since Corps members live on a basic stipend during their year of service. After participants complete this intensive year-long program, our extensive alumni network provides a broad platform for long-term leadership in social change and Jewish life. Go here for more information.
Wed, May 31 2023
11 Sivan 5783
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Friday ,
JunJune 2 , 2023
Friday, Jun 2nd 10:30a to 11:30a
Join Rabbi Polisson at our monthly, free, drop-in playgroup for children ages 0-4. Celebrate Lag B'Omer, Shavuot and Cinco de Mayo! There will be Cinco de Mayo-themed blintzes as well as coffee, juice, and cookies. Meet local parents while the kids enjoy the playground, hear a story, sing with the rabbi, and engage in an age-appropriate sensory craft/activity. Playgroups will take place outdoors, weather permitting, or indoors with masks and air purifiers. -
Sunday ,
JunJune 4 , 2023
Sunday, Jun 4th 7:00p to 8:00p
Join us for a discussion with Ernesto Rivera. Ernesto’s journey back to the ways of his forefathers started in 2007, after hearing many stories from the family about being Jewish and the different traditions the family practiced. This journey has been exciting and sometimes challenging due to the lack of knowledge about the Anusim or Conversos from the greater Jewish Community. -
Sunday ,
JunJune 11 , 2023
Sunday, Jun 11th 11:00a to 12:00p
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Sunday ,
JunJune 11 , 2023
Sunday, Jun 11th 12:30p to 1:30p
Rabbi David joins Rabbi Polisson and Or Atid member Mark Thirman in a Jazz trio performance. -
Tuesday ,
JunJune 13 , 2023
Tuesday, Jun 13th 7:30p to 8:30p
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Friday ,
JunJune 16 , 2023
Friday, Jun 16th 6:00p to 7:00p
Join us for Rabbi Polisson’s last Kabbalat Shabbat at Or Atid. With percussionist Nadav Friedman and member Alex Tottenham on sax. -
Saturday ,
JunJune 17 , 2023
Shabbat, Jun 17th (All day)
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Wednesday ,
JunJune 21 , 2023
Wednesday, Jun 21st (All day)
We are looking for individuals who can help prepare 40 bagged lunches, which include sandwich, snack, dessert, fruit & drink in their home, to be delivered to a Waltham community day center. Email Social Action if you are interested in helping! -
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JunJune 25 , 2023
Sunday, Jun 25th (All day)
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Sunday ,
JulJuly 23 , 2023
Sunday, Jul 23rd 2:00p to 3:30p
Enjoy ice cream and family events
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