Social Action

At Shir Hadash we embrace the Jewish value of tikkun olam, healing the world. We are working on a variety of issues including:

Food Insecurity: We support our local Centre Street Food Pantry in Newton with food drives every year during High Holidays and Purim along with financial donations. We also encourage hands-on involvement in the pantry through volunteering and support it in other ways, such as a drive for toiletries for distribution.

Racial Justice: We recently offered a participatory program to discuss a relevant documentary.

We received an AREV grant from the MA Synagogue Council to fund a workshop on racism, run by KAVOD Boston, which many members attended. Our ongoing work includes such projects as ending voter suppression and studying the subject of reparations