SUMMER
& SCHOOL YEAR
DIFFERENT WAYS YOU CAN SERVE
1) Summer Israel Experience
2006
This amazing summer exchange is a five week adventure that combines community
service with a Boston-Haifa exchange program. Get to know your new American friends and then be prepared to get to know a group of your Israeli peers like you've never known Israelis before. For more information about the TFTZ Summer Experience scroll down or
Click Here for Summer Experience Program Details!
2) The Youth Literacy Corps
This involves a weekly commitment to tutor and mentor inner city children. You have
the option of participating in either the Fall, Winter or Spring sessions. Vans are
arranged to stop at Brookline, Newton, Needham, and Sharon High Schools.
Click Here for an Application! - Word - Adobe pdf
3) A Monthly Program of
Service Opportunities Planned By Teens
The teen steering committee plans a calendar of events, ranging from working with
children, serving at a homeless shelter to providing speakers for issues discussions.
Come to all the events, or come to the ones that interest you most.
FEATURED ISSUES: FOCUS ON
SUDAN (get wristband!)
VISIT OUR DISCOVERY PAGE FOR DISCUSSION RESOURCES
4) Summer Service Opportunities in Boston
Contact the Teens for Tzedek Office to find out about Summer Opportunities for all those
not attending camp or going away. Placements are not staffed by the JCC, but sites allow
arranged drop in community service. Example include literacy tutoring in Cambridge or farming on Waltham Community Farms. Contact Dave at 617-558-6512 - or tzedek@jccgb.org, for more questions.
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Teens for Tzedek Monthly Program of Activities
General Info for all Teens for Tzedek Events:
*The cost for each Teens for Tzedek event is $5.
*Transportation to and from most service events is provided from the JCC.
*You will be asked to submit an Emergency Contact Form prior to participating
in your first Teens for Tzedek event.
*You must register for each event. To sign up, go to the online sign up page or
contact David Cohen at 617-558-6512 or
tzedek@jccgb.org.
Sunday,
March 12thSpring Literacy Corps Training
All
participants starting a new session THIS YEAR must attend - even if you
participated last year.
Time: 4-6 pm
Grades: 7-12
Location: LSJCC
Monday,
March 13thSpring Literacy Corps Training #2
All
participants starting a new session THIS YEAR must attend - even if you
participated last year.
Time: 3-5 pm
Grades: 7-12
Location: Sharon High School (The room closest to Ms. Bender's room)
Thursday, March 30th
Jewish Community Advocacy Day
Teens for Tzedek/JCRC Joint Event
A day of activism and political awareness. Learn about the critical issues of the day and take your concerns to our state legislators.
Time: 9:00 - 1:00
Location: State House, Beacon Hill - Boston
* Note: This event does require missing a day of school. Program coordinators will be glad to contact schools regarding this. Many schools are already aware of the program and are supportive of the day.
Thursday, April 6th
Freedom Seder for the Homeless
Time: 6:30-8 pm
Grades: 7-12
Location: Cambridge. Site TBA
Sunday,
April 16th
Serving Dinner at Rosie's Place
Time: 3-7:30 pm
Grades: 7-12
Location: Boston (Meet at LSJCC for Van)
Sunday,
April 23rd
J-Serve
Time: TBA
Grades: 7-12
Location: TBA
Sunday,
April 30th
Save Darfur Rally in Washington, DC
Time: TBA
Grades: 7-12
Location: Washington, DC - Logistics TBA
Want more info on any Teens for Tzedek event? Contact David at 617-558-6512 or tzedek@jccgb.org
Remember, TO SIGN UP FOR ALL EVENTS CLICK HERE: Sign Up!
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Further Program Descriptions:
Teens for Tzedek Youth Literacy Corps
A TeenJCC and TELEM partnership program
Spend an afternoon a week teaching a child to read and being
his or her mentor. This incredibly rewarding commitment allows
you to build a real relationship with the children you help.
You can can choose to participate in any or all of the Fall,
Winter or Spring sessions. Reserve your place NOW!
Pickup from the following
schools for THIS SESSION:
Mondays: Newton North & Newton South
Tuesdays: Norfolk Aggie and Sharon
Wednesdays: Needham, Newton South and Brookline
Thursdays: Newton North and Newton South
Thursdays Team #2:
Weston Middle School
Please Note: This is approx. a 10 week commitment.
TFTZ Literacy Corps is the teen literacy-tutoring program of the Greater Boston Jewish Coalition for Literacy, a collaborative program of Teens for
Tzedek and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston and the Telem teen service initiative.
For more information or an application contact David Cohen
at tzedek@jccgb.org or 617-558-6512 or get an application here!
The Summer Israel Experience
This unique summer program brings you together with approx. twenty other socially
conscious teens who have a desire to explore the land of Israel through the lens of
Social Justice and Community Service. You will easily bond with this group through
your orientations in the spring - and at the same time get ready for the task of living
with twenty Israelis over the next five weeks. During the first two and a half weeks, the
Israelis are your hosts in Haifa, where you will stay overlooking the Bahai Gardens.
You will work in the community at places like hospitals and animal shelters, and you
will also get to experience "home hospitality" by staying with the family of one of the
Israeli teens. During the next two and a half weeks, you will reverse the process as
the whole group will come back to America do help the Israeli's explore the American
Jewish Experience and our particular Social Justice Issues. This is only the tip of the
Iceberg for this trip however as you will also get the opportunity to tour, bond and learn
from each other. For more information about the TFTZ Summer Experience contact
David Cohen at tzedek@jccgb.org or 617-558-6512 or Click here!
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DO YOU LOVE KIDS?? Volunteer to help in the AfterSchool at the Leventhal-Sidman
JCC! Get community service credit and have a blast playing with and caring for the
children who come to the JCC AfterSchool Program. For more information, call Lois
Packard at: (617) 558-6496