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Ideas — Social Justice
Collaboration
Collaboration is not a program, nor an organization, but truly is the next big Jewish idea. However important and meaningful new programs and services may be, until the paradigm of the Jewish community becomes one of collaboration money and resources will always be scarce and programs and services will always be in jeapordy of being terminated. These economic times are now requiring us to not simply cooperate - if we at all do that, but to do what we as Jews have always been meant to do with each other...Collaborate!
Da’at Jobs!
(In Daat, all sefirot exist in their perfected state of infinite sharing) Da'at Jobs is a website connecting Jewish congregation members looking for jobs and / or providing services, to other members within their own synagogues, as well as linking to all synagogues in the Los Angeles area “ and then in subsequent cities. Temples, synagogues are notoriously independent and competitive with one another.
OK, as an organization that's fine, it's a business. However, within each synagogue there is a community that supports it and within it, people are in need. We must work together, reach out directly to one…
Do Jew Know Me?
The first of several plays about Jewish Women who have made and make history. Bella Abzug, Emma Lazarus, Henrietta Szold, Maud Nathan, Maud Younger, Ray Frank - to name a few....Do Jew Know Me? will identify, honor and celebrate our unknown, forgotten and unsung Jewish heroines through theater, history and story-telling. These women's stories, their struggles, sacrifices, accomplishments, courage and humor are completely lost - especially to our youth who tragically know more about Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan that Hannah Solomon who founded The National Council of Jewish Women or Ernestine Rose who fought - with Susan B. Anthony…
Children and grandchildren of Survivors of the Holocaust
As a great- grandchild, grandchild, and child of Holocaust survivors, my family's story is/was an incredible journey. My maternal grandparents both came from large families; nine brothers and sisters on both sides.My grandmother was amazing and strong and convinced my grandfather they had to leave Poland. She also convinced her parents and brothers and sisters; but my great grandparents said they needed an extra day to get things in order and that they would be right behind them. That next day, the Nazi's came and forced my family to strip their clothes, and march them to the center of their…
The Jewish Alliance for Animals
The torah calls Jews to both tikkun olum and tzaar baalei hayim, repairing the world and caring for animals. However, throughout the greater Los Angeles region, more than 100,000 homeless dogs and cats are euthanized each year, which is nearly 250 per day. This is far less than in decades past but still too much in a region of 10 million people. The euthanasia of homeless animals is due to several factors. This includes: 1. a lack of people ready to support, adopt or foster homeless animals; 2. too many people buying animals from retailers, puppy mills and breeders and…
The Center for Art and Empathy
With all the traffic in LA, there's one intersection, which has very little activity, but which should actually be as prominent as Fairfax and Beverly in the midst of Jewish LA . . . it's the junction of art and empathy. My idea, the Center for Art and Empathy would be dedicated to using the arts in the service of fostering and teaching empathy as an overarching goal. Jews have an illustrious legacy in both these realms, yet the two are seldom linked and it is in redressing this estrangement where I believe a profound opportunity exists. At the memorial…
Love thy Neighbor
Jewish family education based on adoption of needy urban families in an interfaith framework. To build inter-congregational collaboration and good will in the larger Los Angeles community, congregations will encourage one pilot family to join in a community wide effort to live tzedaka by adopting and caring for a less privileged family of another faith. Hillel the Elder taught that we need to seek a balance between focusing our our community's needs and those of the rest of the world. Love Thy Neighbor does both. We seek to strengthen Jewish families by providing a framework in which to do tikkun…
Music Bridges – Jerusalem – Music Speaks Louder than Words
Music Bridges – Jerusalem—is a powerful concept that will bring together songwriters/artists from the American, Israeli, Islamic and Arab nations to take part in a songwriting collaboration to expand and share their cultural heritage. Ten artists (including several major celebrities) from each of these areas of the world will come together in Jerusalem for a full week of cultural immersion in a private retreat-setting to bolster and further the co-existence efforts in the region.
The group will follow the established Music Bridges format which has proven so successful in Ireland, German, Cuba and Indonesia. After the participants arrive in Jerusalem,…
I Will Remember
We are near the last decade in which our young people can directly connect with those who have lived through the Holocaust, the survivors who themselves experienced the Holocaust as young people. Their personal stories imbue them with a unique moral authority to inspire today’s young people to stand up to our Jewish mandate to repair the world.
I Will Remember is a three-step program in which survivors reframe a young person’s encounter with the Holocaust as a source of motivation and activist community.
Teen-survivor partnerships unite the inspiration of passionate, eloquent elders and the hope and altruism of bright,…
L.A Jewish Sports Tours
My Idea for bringing the Jewish community of LA together is as follows. As a young Jewish man, I feel that sports and food are a great way to bring people together, from all walks of life. Therefore, accordingly, my idea is that we create an organization called Los Angeles Jewish Sports Tours, whereby once or a twice a week, L.A Jewish Sports Tours organizes coach buses to attend a scheduled sporting event, according, of course, to the respective sports seasons. Soon, we would be attending professional (MLB) Baseball games. That is, LA Dodgers and LA Angels games. A highlight…