The Social Action Manual - Six Steps to Repairing the World

Klappentext Through passion and hard work, teenagers can make a difference in tikun olam--"repairing the world." The six workshops in this handbook expand teens' understanding of why doing social action is important and show how to successfully plan, execute, and evaluate a social action project or initiative. Along the way, teens learn Hebrew terms within social action, study Jewish texts that highlight social action, and read success stories of teenagers who created powerful social action initiatives, such as Shifra, the soup kitchen seamstress, Shelby, the jeweler for women in Darfur, and Matthew, tree planter extraordinaire. CONTENTS: 1. What Is Social Action? 2. Getting to the Issue 3. Looking for Needs to Choose a Project 4. Putting Your Project into Action 5. Doing and Assessing Your Project 6. Living a Life of Social Action

Product details

• Authors: Noah Farkas, Noah Zvi Farkas, Behrman House
• Publisher: Behrman house incorporated
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2010
• EAN: 9780874417739
• ISBN: 978-0-87441-773-9
• No. of pages: 62
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism