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What You Can Do

There are many things you can do to demonstrate your support for Israel at this time of crisis. Here are some suggestions.

  • Donate to the 2006 Israel Emergency Fund
  • Include prayers for Israel in your worship.
  • Attend a rally for Israel.
  • Post a “We Stand With Israel” lawn sign and proudly fly an Israeli flag at your congregation.
  • Write a letter to your elected leaders. Let them know that we appreciate the Bush administration’s immediate condemnation of the unwarranted attacks on Israel, and that we welcome the news that Secretary of State Rice will be traveling to the Middle East. Go here to locate the contact information for your representative.
  • Urge your members of Congress to vote for resolutions in support of Israel
  • Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. See ARZA's website for suggestions on how to write a letter and the suggested talking points.To find your local editor's e-mail and address, click here.
  • Sign up for a legislative alert from the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.
  • Read the Reform Movement Israel Blog and post your comments.
Israel Resource Guide

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The following lists and links were provided by CAJE (The Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education). These resources below provide you with ways to keep up on the news from the Mideast, take action, support Israel and make donations for emergency relief, join rallies in support of Israel, and offer prayers for peace in the region. A list of some pedagogic resources is also provided.

Please check the CAJE website at www.caje.org for updated links.*

Organizations

Check out these organizations on a daily basis to get updated resources and information on how you and your TYG can help our friends and family in Israel:

News

Check the news online daily to get the updated information:

Pedagogic Materials

Check out these resources for your TYG put together from CAJE and the Jewish Agency for Israel:

Contact

Have your TYG and Congregation contact the President and the Secretary of State of the United States or the Prime Minister of Canada, as well as your Congressional Representatives/Senators or Parliamentary Representatives to:

  1. Voice your support for Israel.
  2. Ask that your government continue to support Israel.
  3. Demand that Hezbollah be dismantled and all foreign militias leave Lebanon.

President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
president@whitehouse.gov

Prime Minister Stephen Harper
80 Wellington St.
Ottawa, Canada K1A 0A2
pm@pm.gc.ca

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC 20520
secretary@state.gov
Department of State Switchboard: 202-647-4000

*CAJE encourages us to make reprints of articles on the website and share them with our friends and congregations. They have asked that we tell them that these articles originally appeared in a CAJE Publication and that these articles on this subject: hamatzav (the situation) and other educational topics, and information about CAJE can be found online at www.caje.org.


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