This meeting has been cancelled.  If you were planning on attending, please contact us at 202-408-1423 or info@jufj.org.

 

Join JUFJ's Fair Purple Line working group as we plan our next steps to preserve communities and affordable housing along the proposed purple line route in Maryland. All are welcome. Please contact linz.morris@gmail.com for more information, or to RSVP.

Please join us to celebrate AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps' work and honor our 2009 Partners in Justice, Heather Booth and Rabbi Fred Reiner. 

To make a donation or purchase tickets click here. here.

We look forward to your joining us in recognizing Fred and Heather's many contributions to our community!

AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps is a year-long program for recent college graduates that integrates social justice work with Jewish learning and community building. This year, 18 Corps members are serving anti-poverty agencies in DC, such as DC Central Kitchen, Bread for the City, So Others Might Eat, and N Street Village, as well as many others. AVODAH is a close ally of JUFJ's, and every year, many Avodah corps members get involved in JUFJ's work.

Puppet Underground is honored to bring together so many fabulous DC performers including Quique Aviles, Anu Yadav, Johonna McCants and more!

We will have excerpts from Classlines, a new multi-media theatre project exploring issues of class in the DC Metro Area.

We also welcome ONE DC's (Organizing Neighborhood Equity DC) "Weaving Shared Visions", a digital storytelling project exploring multi-ethnic organizing.

Also expect to see poetry, a puppet show about an old DC scandal, surprise musical guests, and a cranky show about DC voting rights history (if you get there early)!

SUGGESTED DONATION: $5 - $10 sliding scale. Proceeds from this cabaret will be benefiting Visions to Peace, a youth leadership development and movement-building project located in Washington, D.C. Visions to Peace uses arts, media, and education to build and strengthen youth-led community action and organizing for safety and peace. You can find out more about them at: www.visionispower.org

As people of faith, we recognize the moral imperative of working for a health care future that includes everyone and works well for all of us. Across traditions, we unite hands and hearts, believing together we can bring to pass a more just society in which we all have access to affordable and quality care.

Please bring:

• Banners that represent your congregation or religious organization
  
• As many people as possible
• Your prayers for healthcare reform for all

For more information, see www.faithfulreform.org, or the event's new website www.webelievetogether.org.

Please join DC Minyan for a lunch and learn about ethical kashrut standards after services on June 6th with Shmuly Yanklowitz. Shmuly is a co-founder and director of Uri L'Tzedek, the Orthodox Social Justice movement. A rabbinical student at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York and a Wexner Graduate Fellow, Shmuly has Master's degrees in Human Development and Psychology and in Jewish Philosophy and is working on a Ph.D. in Moral Development and Epistemology.

All are welcome at JUFJ's next working group meeting as we work to ensure that the Purple Line improves the lives of all communities along the future Purple Line corridor in Maryland.

For more information, contact linz.morris@gmail.com. 

Join Rabbi Jill Jacobs, rabbi in residence at Jewish Funds for Justice in New York, as she speaks about her new book, There Shall Be No Needy . Then, join an optional group learning session with Rabbi Jacobs on the origins of the Jewish concept of tikkun olam/healing the world.

Copies of There Shall be No Needy will be available for sale at the event. 

This program is being hosted, and sponsored, by DC Beit Midrash and JUFJ. 

Tuesday May 12, 2009 marks the one year anniversary of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa. St Bridget's Church in Postville Iowa, the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs in Chicago, Jewish Community Action in Minneapolis, and communities of faith around the country will mark this anniversary in a variety of ways; all communities are invited to join them.

We mark this day, in part, to let the people of Postville know we have not forgotten them, and to strengthen our own resolve to fight for immigration reform, an end to raids, and improved working conditions. We invite you to mark this day by joining gatherings, marches and interfaith prayer vigils being organized across the country.

 

On this nationwide day of remembrance and solidarity,

Join the Am Kolel community for a Shavuot/Shabbat Retreat with Dr. Judith Plaskow, renowned feminist theologian

 

Come Celebrate Shavuot,
Z'man Matan Torateinu, the time of the giving of our Torah!

Including joyful prayer, meditation, music, hiking, campfires, yoga and more!

Topics Include:

"Seeing Through Feminist Lenses"
"Standing at Sinai with the new Women's Torah Commentary"
"Sexuality and Covenant"
"Texts We Love to Hate"
"Next Steps: Beyond Gender?"
Come for Shavuot, Shabbat or both!

This seminar will introduce the participants to the rich scope of religious environmentalism. It will consist of: a brief survey of the history of the religious environmental movement from its beginnings over forty years ago; an overview of traditional Jewish and Christian views on the God/human/natural world relationship; the viewing of part of a new documentary, Renewal, which features a number of faith communities acting out their commitments to the earth; and specific steps your home congregation can begin taking to protect the earth.

This seminar is particularly geared to religious educators, religious leaders and religious leaders-in-training. However, all interested parties are welcome to attend.

Led by: Rabbi Lawrence Troster, Director, Fellowship Program GreenFaith, and Beth Norcross, Coordinator, Green Seminary Initiative and Adjunct Faculty, Wesley Seminary

Please direct questions to Beth Norcross at BethNorcross1@aol.com or Larwrence Troster at rabbiltroster@greenfaith.org.