TZEDEK is Gilboa’s social action and leadership development program for high schoolers – it is where Gilboa teens put their values into action!
2021-22 Program Registration HERE!
See upcoming Tzedek meetings and events HERE!
The program addresses three main areas through learning and hands-on experience:
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Gaining Hands-on Organizing and Social Action Skills
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Exploring Social Justice Education Rooted in Judaism
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Developing Leadership Experience (Hadracha)
A key aspect of the program is trainings and partnerships in the community. In previous years, for example, the program included:
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Immigrant justice work, including helping to organize a vigil at the Adelanto Immigrant Detention center
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Participating in the campaign to pass SB10 and end cash bail in CA
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Organizing 101 training with Bend the Arc
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Learning about re-entry programs at the Amity Foundation and with A New Way of Life
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Creating music for social change workshop with filmmaker Melanie Zoey
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Learning about student protest movements at the Boyle Heights Museum
Contact us for more info!