eJewish Philanthropy · May 1, 2013 · Original
by Marla Gamoran
In 2012 Repair the World, the leading national nonprofit organization mobilizing Jewish volunteers in the U.S., released a research study, entitled “Serving a Complex Israel: A Report on Israel-based Immersive Jewish Service-Learning,” which highlighted the potential of Israel-based immersive Jewish Service-learning programs (IJSL) to serve as “a core strategy for Israel engagement, demonstrating significant positive… Read more »
ELI Talks · April 24, 2013 · Original
by Rabbi Sid Schwarz
Young Jews today have been raised on too much of the “what” of Judaism and not enough of the “why”, contends Rabbi Sid Schwarz in his ELI Talks: Finding the Chosen People in Haiti. This conversation explored this statement as well as many other questions to deepen the conversation about service and Judaism. Streamed live… Read more »
The Chronicle of Philanthropy · March 10, 2013 · Original
by Debra E. Blum
David Eisner was a senior executive at the high-flying Internet company AOL in the late 1990s and early 2000s before he was tapped by then-President George W. Bush to run the $1-billion Corporation for National and Community Service. He left that post in 2008 to make room for the next appointee and moved into the… Read more »
Detroit Jewish News · March 14, 2013 · Original
by Ben Falik
J-Serve teens team with BBYO and Repair the World to experience Detroit. Albaro Aguirre, 9, of Detroit gets a ride from J-Serve volunteer Sierra Stone, 17, of West Bloomfield. (Photos by Brett Mountain) It would take three lifetimes to fully comprehend the depths and dynamics of Detroit. But three days immersed in the city provided… Read more »
eJewish Philanthropy · March 11, 2013 · Original
by EJP
Each year, more than 2,000 college students and other young adults participate in immersive Jewish service-learning (IJSL) Alternative Break (AB) programs that are run by nearly a dozen organizations. Repair the World’s new study, “Breaking for Change: How Jewish Service-learning Influences the Alternative Break Experience,” investigated the short-term impacts of participation, and explored whether there… Read more »
Haaretz · March 06, 2013 · Original
by Danna Harman
Growing number of post-graduates coming to Israel to dig in their heels in less-than-glamorous locations and do some good. A new generation of young Jews are coming to Israel to prusue Jewish learning while contributing to, and interacting with, low-income populations. Photo by Eliyahu Hershkovitz Masada: check. Jerusalem’s old city: check. Tel Aviv’s nightlife: check. Bedouin… Read more »
The Jewish Voice · March 6, 2013 · Original
by JV Staff
Hundreds Attend YU Jewish Job Fair Seeking Communal and Educational Careers Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) and Institute for University-School Partnership hosted their annual Jewish Job Fair on YU’s Wilf Campus on February 28. More than 50 Jewish day schools and 20 community organizations from across North America, including the Orthodox Union, Nefesh B’Nefesh, Repair the… Read more »
The Jewish Week · February 12, 2013 · Original
by Steve Lipman
School’s overseas volunteer program is latest sign of growing Orthodox outreach to the non-Jewish community. Rachel Sterman, center, who served as a volunteer at a Mayan village. Photo courtesy The Center for the Jewish Future Outside a small school building in a small village in rural Mexico, Stern College student Rachel Sterman is sitting with some local… Read more »
Trinity College · January 31, 2013 · Original
by Trinity College
Group encounters Breadth of Religious Traditions during Winter Break Who knew that a diet of stewed chicken three times a day for almost a week could be so satisfying? Yet, the group of about two dozen staff and students from Trinity were barely fazed by the fowl-dominant cuisine, so enthused were they by their weeklong… Read more »
· February 11, 2013 · Original
by AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps
NEW YORK, NY; February 11, 2013–When AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps was founded in 1998, few Immersive Jewish Service Learning (IJSL) programs were in existence. Fourteen years later, IJSL has grown into a field with dozens of programs and thousands of alumni. As a pioneer in this space, AVODAH, in collaboration with Repair the World,… Read more »
Repair the World works to inspire American Jews and their communities to give their time and effort to serve those in need. We aim to make service a defining part of American Jewish life.
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