Ideas—Engaging Our Community
ProjectMOT, sending holiday care packages to our deployed American Jewish troops
For the major Jewish holidays we send care packages with assorted pertinent items to our deployed American Jewish service men and women.
Help Save A Community in Africa
Reaching out beyond ourselves we could, in our name, "adopt" children in a needy town or village in sub Saharan Africa and by paying for and furnishing mosquito nets, shoes, clothing diapers, bicycles, vitamins, water pumps etc. and by building a school. This instead of Sister Cities, is partnering with a village. If 100 Jewish communities in the US did this, it would have a yeast like effect on Jewish relationships world wide. It would cost very little comparitively
The young Hillcrest
In the early days of Los Angeles, many well to do Jews, such as my great grandfather, Benjamin Platt, got together and created a country club known as Hillcrest. Over the years, Hillcrest has raised millions of dollars for the Jewish Federation. I think this is now lost with the young community. I think it is time to build a social club dedicated to raising money for Jews. The way to go about this is by putting the wealthiest and most influential young Jews in the community together to start a new young Hillcrest Country Club.
15 MINUTES OF FAME—EVERYDAY!
We all here about certain ordinary people who do extra-ordinary acts, and achieve 15 minutes of FAME! Well my idea is to take 15 minutes out of your day, each day, like clockwork, and take those 15 minutes to plan for or do an act of caring for someone in need, a positive action dealing with your community, or to do something to ensure the Jewish future. This could even be picking up the phone and calling an eldery Jew who has no one in his or her life. You want fame -- you want to have esteem -- take…
Together for 5772
A community-wide rally for 25 Elul (9/24/11) at the Hollywood Bowl, open to anyone with a receipt for $! or more contributed to UJA. Celebrities to speak and perform, followed by an interdenominational Slihot ritual, to send us all into the New Year as a united Kehilla!
JEWS (Jewish Emergency Wheels Service)
What ALL the Jewish communities need-not just those in Los Angeles-is local community mobile units comprised of individuals that can be summonded efficiently to aid those who need help in moving their personal belongings to a new home but lack adequate funds and/or the transportation to do so. I'm both dismayed and confused as to why this hasn't already been successfully implemented for the Jewish community, especially when I have witnessed time and again how OTHER communities-most notably the Mormon community-have been so successful and efficient in this endeavour.
Tiyul Tzedek - A Journey of Justice
We want to inspire every Bar and Bat Mitzvah student to engage in the world as a Jew and to see and experience Jewish values in action. We propose to provide at least 500 Los Angeles Bnai Mitzvah students and their families with a year-long year Tiyul Tzedek, a Journey of Justice.
The Tiyul Tzedek will take students and their families on a tour of Jewish values providing concrete opportunities to act, to learn, to engage and to create. Through this journey each student will come to understand that living a Jewish life means seeing the face of God in…
Sitters for Justice
Sitters for Justice: By teens, for families, supporting justice.
MAKING SERVICE, JUSTICE AND PHILANTHROPY THE CENTERPIECE OF THE JEWISH TEEN EXPERIENCE
Imagine a city-wide movement of Jewish engaging in service, learning about philanthropy and supporting causes that make the world more just. Modeled on IKAR’s Sitters for Justice, teens around the city will organize their peers to offer babysitting services (or tutoring, lawn mowing, dog walking, etc) in exchange for contributions to a fund. We’ll volunteer our time. We’ll network. We’ll use social media to mobilize our friends to pitch in. And then we will come together, Sitters for Justice…
My Jewish Portal & Tools 4 Shuls—Web Tools and Community Portal for the Jewish Community
Imagine a universal set of cutting edge, innovative online tools used by every Jewish non-profit organization to post events, take RSVPs and online payments, accept online donations, post photo galleries and educational material, and keep everyone up to date! Imagine if these tools, that made every Jewish website truly useful to all of its users, could share information! Image if every event that every organization posted on their internal calendar was simultaneously shared on a community calendar! Image if every sermon and piece of educational material posted onto every website was also shared in a national archive! Imagine being able…
Amir
Amir (Hebrew for the top of the tree) is a nonprofit organization committed to the intellectual, emotional, and social development of all youth. Through experiential environmental education, specifically gardening, Amir provides children with an enlightened perspective on their relationship with others and their interaction with nature.
The Amir Project can be implemented at all educational institutions, including but not limited to summer camps, private and public schools, and community centers. Using the educational versatility of gardening, Amir educates children from different backgrounds and tailors its curriculum to match the goals of each community that it serves. In order to reach…