Social Action Bea Sacks & Alison Diez - Social Action Co-Chairs Meets second Sunday of the month Get the SOCIAL ACTION NEWS HERE - IN PDF FORMAT MAZEL TOV to Bea Sacks. Thank you for all you do. From your social action family. CAB Drive Can and Bottle Days First Sunday in March, April and May 9:00 a.m. to Noon to benefit HOSPICE MATLOSANA Klerksdorp, South Africa In the tradition of tikkun olam, the Social Action Committee has adopted Hospice Matlosana as a "repair the world" project beginning this spring. In a joint effort with Henry Ford Hospice, we are pledging our support in an unusual enterprise. Will you please bring your clean and empty deposit cans and bottles (CAB) to temple on the first Sunday of the month and we will do the rest: redeem the funds, and send it to Henry Ford Hospice who will ensure the shipment/mailing to the Hospice in South Africa. If, instead you wish to return your cans and bottles to the store, you may donate the proceeds to temple. The funds received will help support Matlosana's care of its dying patients, most of whom are suffering from AIDS. Matlosana also runs a day-care program for pre-schoolers who have HIV in the family (parent and/or preschooler). Despite the arrival of life-saving medications (now available to about a quarter of those who need them), several thousand people are dying each day of AIDS, and some 10 million children are AIDS orphans in southern Africa. This project is our way of helping our distant friends in a work of compassion. IT TAKES A CONGREGATION Call Bea Sacks 248-398-3737 if you need more information. What are Jewish values re: Climate Change & Global Warming  Social Action Committee Mission Statement: "The Temple Emanu-el Social Action Committee promotes tikkun olam, the repair of our world, by facilitating projects and programs, and inspiring others to do mitzvot for the sake of the family, the community at large and the Torah." In January’s bulletin, Temple president, Sheldon Klein, commented on our Social Action Committee. He “admired” the activities we have sponsored, but at the same time noted that this should not be done by a handful of active members, while others look on admiringly and sometimes send a check. In this context, he says, “lovingkindness, gemilut chassadim, really means to serve/help the other with one’s own life/time.” ******************************************* A partial list of social action projects is below: Click on underlined projects for more information or to open pdf about that project. Chaveet - bring a can of food for Chaveet whenever you visit Temple. Yad Ezra Food Delivery Warren Fitzgerald Clothes Closet St. Marks Food Pantry - open pdf flyer for complete information. Without the support of faith communities and other partners, St. Marks Food Pantry would not be able to fulfill its mission. Temple Emanu-El has once again chosen to be one of its faith community partners. Empty Bowls ('07) Annual Yom Kippur Food Collection Winter Coat Drive Political Asylum Ethiopian Jews to Israel Russian Jews to United States Kosovo Refugees Valle Nueva, El Salvador - Children’s Greeting cards and community rehabiltion MCRI- Affirmative Action Ballot Proposal Brown vs. Board of Education Grape Boycott AIDS awareness and relief - Wellness House, Selma’s House Temple Award for AIDS program at the 1990 bienniel in Baltimore, MD AIDS Shabbat services Habitat for Humanity MOSES Red Cross Blood Drive Introduced the Mitzvah Project concept for B’nai Mitzvot Global Warming Initiative - EMPHASIS starting now! Bricks and Mortar Workshop Global Warming Resources Reform Jewish position on climate change Aitzim Chayim - Trees are Life Temple’s vegetable garden Temple’s wildflower garden Peace Pole Holocaust Remembrance Book “ ... And So We must Remember.” AND MORE *********************************************** A Light Among the Nations “How Many Jews Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?” If you could conserve energy and help stop global warming in one simple step, wouldn’t you? CFLs use 75% less energy than incandescent light bulbs. This means less production of greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and toxic waste. If every U.S. household replaced one bulb with a CFL, it would have the same impact as removing one million cars from the road. COEJL and the JCPA, have launched a nationwide campaign to address the climate change crisis. This is a call to action that can change how American Jewry responds to the daunting environmental problems confronting us and future generations. Take this one easy action. Install energy efficient, cost effective compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. from the Social Action Committee *********************************************** Temple Emanu-El Social Action Committee and the Michigan Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (MI-COEJL recently presented : **SURVIVAL OF OUR PLANET - EVENT OVER but the need continues. Stay tuned for information on how to make your life and home more "Green". Bricks and Mortar - Dollars & Sense Our temple together with MI-COEJL (Michigan's Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life) sponsored an event on "Green Building."  If you own a home, work or worship in a building, this program is for you.  Through some information we will be posting here, you can learn how to save money, live comfortably and make a difference for the future. PLEASE CHECK BACK.  As Jews, we are Stewards of the Earth - a value that began with God's commandment to Adam to serve and protect the Garden of Eden.  And as Jews today, it is our responsibility to honor this commandment as we work to protect and preserve our planet.  More coming on our environment and what we can do. *********************************************** Survival of Israel - emergency fund for students Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, located in Haifa and repeatedly shelled by Hezbollah,  is the primary source of science, technology and entrepreneurship - the engines that drive Israel's economy.  An Emergency Fund for Technion Students has been established  to provide direct and immediate aid for the returning students whose lives have been turned upside-down due to the military call-up.  Your generous and timely gift to this fund will assist those students on a case-by-case basis, and help the Institute sustain Israel's cutting-edge in science and technology, so vital to its security, prosperity and endurance. Contact Bea Sacks or Alison Diez *********************************************** Hurricane Katrina - from Rabbi Klein I am suggesting that donations to the general relief effort be made through our Union for Reform Judaism, Social Action Center. You can donate directly by going to http://urj.org/relief/index.cfm Your gift will be immediately directed to agencies working in the field..

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contact Temple at 248-967-4020
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call Temple for phone number or send email to Bea Sacks or Alison Diez.