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| October 2005 Highlights
Jewish Social Action Month
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|  Daniel Sokatch: Our tradition and history compel us to stand with those fighting for a living wage and decent working conditions wherever they are, especially in our own communities. Today, too many Jewish communal professionals, teachers, communal service workers, and synagogue employees, cannot afford for their own families the services they provide to the Jewish community. And too often, those who clean, staff, and guard our institutions do not receive adequate wages or affordable healthcare. We need to pay those who work for our community wages that enable them to live lives of dignity. We need to ensure that all those who make the Jewish community run — from rabbis to janitors — have the same access to healthcare that we demand for ourselves and for our children.
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| Yonatan Glaser: While Tikkun Olam has remarkable prominence in the psyche and life of North American Jews, Jewish educators have only begun recently to address how to seriously invite learners to become part of the community of Jewish social activists.
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| Yossi Prager, Simon Greer and Ruth Messinger on Chesed and Tzedek: Ruth Messinger, Executive Director of American Jewish World Service, Yossi Prager, North American Director of The AVI CHAI Foundation, and Simon Greer, Executive Director at the Jewish Fund for Justice, address questions about Jewish service and justice.
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| For
Sale: Living Words V: A Source Book on Israel in a Time of Struggle
A timely resource for rabbis, educators, and families to  address
the crisis in Israel. Included are High Holiday sermons, new rituals
for celebrating Israel's Independence Day, Responsa on the Prayer
for the Peace of Israel, essays and resource materials to teach
Israel in synagogues and schools.:
Available now www.Jflbooks.com
Foreword by Yitz Greenberg bookorders@JFLmedia.com.
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| “Promoting and nurturing diversity and pluralism within our communities on campus recognizes that we have much to learn from those whose experiences differ from our own—not only because of our differences but because of what, despite those differences, we share in common.”
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