Social Justice
“It is not your responsibility to save the entire world but neither are you free from doing your part.”
– Rabbi Tarfon, Pirke Avot
TEMPLE SINAI CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 2020
Temple Sinai's Tikkun Olam Center in concert with Union of Reform Judaism’s (URJ) Religious Action Center (RAC) is developing a variety of civic engagement activities in support of three goals for the November elections:
- Ensure that 100% of eligible congregants nationally are registered to vote and do so;
- Combat voter suppression especially among minority voters and among inactive or unregistered voters in six states: Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona; and,
- Engage young/student voters. Pennsylvania is a targeted state of importance for RAC as well.
The Tikkun Olam Center is planning activities in each of these areas. If you are interested in getting involved, please respond by clicking here and filling out the Google form.
REMEMBER: Please check your voter registration status and apply for your mail-in ballot at: www.votesPA.com. This is a convenient website for all election-related issues.
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The Tikkun Olam Center for Jewish Social Justice provides the means for all our members to engage in social activism with our highest vision and values as Reform Jews. We recognize that "repairing the world" is a central, defining characteristic of Reform Judaism. As our center understands it, it means creating an inclusive community in which members engage in social justice, through social service, advocacy, and respectful discourse, as an expression of their Jewish identity.
Partnering Community Organizations
Our local Congregation based Community Organizing Network – PIIN – The Pennsylvania Interfaith Impact Network View Rabbi Gibson giving the closing prayer at PIIN'S most recent public action meeting below!
Our Reform Movement Congregation-based Community Organizing efforts – Just Congregations of the Union for Reform Judaism
Our national Community Organizing network – The Gamaliel Foundation