Immersive Jewish Service Learning
Immersive Jewish Service Learning engages participants in full-time, direct service for at least seven days. Usually, participants leave their daily lives to travel to another community to learn and serve. In these programs, the learning and service components are fully integrated and aligned with one another, giving participants a cohesive and meaningful Jewish Service Learning experience. Programs include alternative winter and spring breaks, and summer and year-long service programs.
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Adamah: Jewish Environmental Fellowship
Adamah connects people to their roots: to the land, to community, to Judaism, and to themselves by providing educational programs and products in order to build a more sustainable world. Programs at Adamah integrate physical, social, spiritual, Jewish and ecological realms in order to inspire participants to a life of service – to the Jewish community and to the earth. The Jewish Environmental Fellowship is a three month leadership training program for Jewish young adults — ages 20–29 — that integrates organic farming, sustainable living, Jewish learning, teaching, and contemplative spiritual practice.
Programs Jewish Environmental Fellowship
Agriculture, Service, Summer, Fellowship, Sustainability
adamah.org
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, commonly known as “JDC” or “the Joint,” actively pursues its global mission of providing rescue to Jews in danger, providing relief to those that are at-risk or destitute, and supporting Jewish life in developing Jewish communities outside of North America. In addition, JDC helps Israel meet the needs of its most vulnerable citizens, and offers a Jewish response to natural and man-made disasters and non-sectarian development needs.
Programs Short-Term Service Programs, JDC Jewish Service Corps, Ralph I. Goldman Fellowship
Jewish communities, Service, International, Disaster response, Israel, Fellowship
jdc.org/service
American Jewish Society for Service
The mission of AJSS is to build leaders by inspiring volunteers to put their Jewish values into action while providing service to communities in need and developing skills for independent living. Provides 6 week service learning summer trips for high school students.
Programs Service learning summer trips
Summer, High school, Jewish, Service
ajss.org
American Jewish World Service
American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is an international development organization motivated by Judaism’s imperative to pursue justice. AJWS is dedicated to alleviating poverty, hunger and disease among the people of the developing world regardless of race, religion or nationality. Through grants to grassroots organizations, volunteer service, advocacy and education, AJWS fosters civil society, sustainable development and human rights for all people, while promoting the values and responsibilities of global citizenship within the Jewish community.
Programs Alternative breaks, Volunteer Corps, Rabbinical Students Delegation, Study Tours, Volunteer Summer, World Partners Fellowship
High school, International, 18-24 yrs, College, Alternative breaks, Rabbinical students
ajws.org
Avodah: Jewish Service Corps
Each year, AVODAH recruits people in their 20s from across North America to spend a year working on urban poverty issues as full-time employees in local non-profit organizations. During their year of service, participants live and study together, forming a community of people making a connection between social activism and Jewish life. In Chicago, New Orleans, New York, and Washington, DC.
Programs Jewish Service Corps
post-college, communal living
avodah.net
