A Community Lover's Guide to the Jewish Community
[We are in the process of re-launching this blog and plan to be up and running by March 2013. Please stay tuned...]
WE’VE MADE A BOOK AND HAVE STARTED A COMMUNITY CONVERSATION - COME AND JOIN IN....!
We are collecting Jewish community stories and this website is a space to showcase all the amazing and inspiring ‘stuff’ going on in our community!
In November 2012 we published ‘THE COMMUNITY LOVERS GUIDE TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY’ - an online book featuring some of the most inspiring initiatives and projects from around the Jewish community. The book is part of a series of similar books featuring stories and perspectives from around the world – not just the Jewish community. For example, other people are writing ‘community lovers guides’ to London, Manchester and New York! You can find out more about the project here www.communityloversguide.org
This website will complement the book by providing a space to share photos, videoclips, audio, drawings, ideas and written words – in fact, anything that is inspiring people to 'do community'.
In particular we will feature community initiatives that:
- Challenge the traditional ways of doing things inspire people to do things differently
- Are people led, rather than organisation led
- Involve 'hands-on' doing, learning or other types of creativity
- Seek to include, involve and connect people
- Are run resourcefully, re-using or re-imagining or sharing resources
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Happy Givers is an initiative to encourage young Jewish people to honour the practice of ma’aser kesafim, giving 10% of one’s income, which derives from Jacob’s commitment to God: “of all that you give me I will surely give one-tenth to you” (Genesis 28:22).
The Happy Givers events — named as such because giving promotes a sense of well-being — feature representatives of charities who try to persuade the audience to part with their cash.
Guests pay a small sum to take part — half of which could go towards a pledge — and are expected to donate at minimum amount to one or more of the causes.
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