SOCIAL ACTION

The Fabrangen Cheder Community engages in social action through tzedakah, community service, and activities that promote social change. Each family contributes to a tzedakah fund, which the community distributes to Jewish and secular local and international charities. The community decides how to distribute the funds, often with Cheder students' participation.  The community also periodically collects food, books, clothing, and other needed items for local homeless shelters, and regularly helps a local food bank deliver large food donations.  And often a Bar or Bat Mitzvah will organize a tzedakah project.

Community service projects have included volunteering at a food pantry, harvesting produce for soup kitchens, participating in local park clean-ups, and fixing up the grounds of an underground railroad museum with Muslim families (pictured above).

Members of the Fabrangen Cheder Community seek, in their personal and - in many cases - professional lives, to promote peace, social justice, environmental protection, and human rights. Often, Cheder families come together to participate in a rallies, marches, and other activities that reflect these values. We encourage children to articulate and act upon their own beliefs about social and economic justice.