Monthly Archives: July 2012

Earlier this week the Uri L’Tzedek fellows in New York volunteered for Dorot. Our volunteer work consisted of us escorting some seniors to cemeteries to visit their deceased loved ones. Some brought flowers, others love and prayers. What was so … Continue reading →

Every so often in elementary school, my teacher would pass around the blue JNF box. The coins in it were real, and jingly, but I never knew where they went, and I never thought much about that. It was just … Continue reading →

This past Saturday night, a man named Moshe Silman lit himself on fire in Tel Aviv. The episode occurred at a protest about the high cost of living in Israel, an outgrowth of the “social justice” movement begun last year … Continue reading →

Week three of our fellowship is ending and we’re all wondering what will come next. We’ve delved into new projects, we’ve started new initiatives and it’s strange to think of what will happen as we continue. What happens when the … Continue reading →

I was really excited to start my fellowship at Uri L’Tzedek since it would be the first time I would be involved directly with social justice work. I had worked before for non-profit organizations doing office work, but never before … Continue reading →

….It took doing the Uri L’Tzedek Summer Fellowship’s annual mandatory-for-fellows Midnight Run on Tuesday night to get me to shut up my over-active hyper-analytical excuse-finding machine that sits atop my neck. We signed up ahead of time, made about 100 sandwiches, … Continue reading →