Social Action

Social action/social justice may take a variety of forms:

• Serving the less fortunate in our community;
• Contributing resources to a world-wide, national or local relief effort;
• Advocating for causes which reflect our Jewish tradition, by contacting local or national legislative leaders;
• Educating our congregation about current issues and events that call for us to respond based on our tenets of Judaism.

Temple Am Echad has participated in the following ways:

• Collecting food for distribution to local food banks during the High Holy Days and Passover;
• Informing congregants about current public policy issues which are concerns of the Reform Jewish community.
• Working in conjunction with the Religious Action Center (the social justice arm of the Reform Jewish Movement), we have written postcards to low-propensity voters (non-partisan).
• Sponsored a Reproductive Rights Shabbat to educate our community
• Collected toys to donate to needy children
• Worked with RAC-NY to help pass the bill Less Is More