Tag: "Jewish Community Action"

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Raise Your Forks In Protest to Defeat the Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment

Join J-Pride for a potluck dinner featuring a speaker from Jewish Community Action, and discover ways to help defeat the proposed legislation

Top Ten Reasons to Party at the Jewbilee on Christmas Eve

Top Ten Reasons to Party at the Jewbilee on Christmas Eve

Drinks, dreidel, Chinese food, and an amazing lineup of live music and comedy. And really… What else are you doing that night? Waiting up for Santa? He’s not coming! Get your tush to the Jewbilee!

The DREAM Act Shabbat. Pray. Reflect. Act.

The DREAM Act Shabbat. Pray. Reflect. Act.

Jewish Community Action is supporting DREAM Act Shabbat, now thru Oct. 9, to raise awareness of this important immigrant rights issue.

JCA Announces the Tzedek Institute: bringing our community together for social change

JCA Announces the Tzedek Institute: bringing our community together for social change

Jewish Community Action asked tough questions. Our response was to form the Tzedek Institute.

Help JCA Win $25,000 – Vote in Pepsi’s Refresh Everything Challenge

Help JCA Win $25,000 – Vote in Pepsi’s Refresh Everything Challenge

Help Jewish Community Action win $25,000 to support their foreclosure prevention work.

The VOICES of Minnesota’s Soviet Jews: the Inspiration and the Film

The VOICES of Minnesota’s Soviet Jews: the Inspiration and the Film

During an informal brainstorming session I asked, why not document the stories of Soviet Jews in Minnesota? A year later we have 25 hours of raw video footage and a 60-minute documentary premiering on June 8th.

Honoring Legacies: Dr. King and Rabbi Heschel

Honoring Legacies: Dr. King and Rabbi Heschel

Join Jewish Community Action in honoring Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by working for civil rights, racial equality, and economic justice.

A Foreclosure-Free Sukkot

A Foreclosure-Free Sukkot

Sukkot is the time of the year when Jews think about housing. Like the sukkah, housing is temporary, fragile and frightening for some of the members of our Jewish community, and our Minnesota community as a whole. But Minnesota residents facing foreclosure have a strong ally in the non-profit organization Jewish Community Action.

Send a New Year’s message to the new kosher meat suppliers in Iowa

Send a New Year’s message to the new kosher meat suppliers in Iowa

Jewish Community Action is asking you—the TC Jewfolk community—to send a New Year’s message to the new owners of the kosher meat plant in Postville, Iowa.