Spiritual Reflection and Service
What makes our service Jewish? How can we articulate the connection between or intersection of Judaism and social justice? We begin to tackle these questions from the beginning of Corps members’ experience, even before they begin their service work.
Detroit Discussion Do’s and Don’ts
Like any question worth asking, “What is Jewish Detroit?” brought forth more questions. Like, “What language do you use to talk about Detroit and Jewish involvement in Detroit?” Here are some answers.
Group Leaders Training Modules – Open Sourced
Free at last, free at last, our GLTI training modules are free at last! Repair the World was involved in a collaborative training program for Jewish service-learning group leaders. BBYO, AJWS and Bend the Arc took the lead in developing training modules for use by the trainers. These modules are now available to all.
Four Great Articles on Jewish Service Learning
Over the last few weeks, we’ve replaced abstracts with the full texts for four more articles from the Jewish service-learning issue of the Journal of Jewish Communal Service (People of the Book, Community of Action). With such rich content we thought it would useful to have a little introduction.
Lessons From Teach for America for Jewish Service-Learning
Aaron Dorfman of the American Jewish World Service has mined the Teach for America model for lessons for the Jewish service-learning community. (Skip to it here.) We also had a chance to interview him about the article, the relationship between service providers and the community, and what victory looks like for any given issue or campaign.
