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Social
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Social Justice and Partner Organizations
CBST Projects
Honor the Image of G-d: A Jewish Campaign to Stop Torture now back to
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For more information and to sign the Jewish Statement Against Torture visit www.stoptorture.fhr-na.org.
"In regard to cruelties committed in the name of a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.” --Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Environment
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Greening
CBST One of our ongoing goals is to make our
synagogue more eco-friendly
by investigating cleaner power sources, like NY's Green
Power program, and ensuring that we purchase
and use products responsibly, from office and cleaning
supplies to coffee.
Follow the links in this section to follow
along at home and become
greener citizens along with CBST.
For more information about what you can to to help stop global warming, visit Clean
Air-Cool Planet or StopGlobalWarming.org.
Also, read "Want
to do something about Global Warming?"
Make the Switch to Green Power CBST's new environmental group, the Green Team, invites you to celebrate the miracle of renewable energy by signing up for Green Power. Green Power is a pollution-free electricity generated by wind turbines, hydroelectric systems, solar panels, and other renewable sources. For little more than you're paying your electric company now, you can make the switch to Green Power in New York City, Westchester, Long Island, Orange County, Rockland County, New Jersey and Connecticut.
For more information or to sign up, please visit the following Websites:
In New York City: Con Ed Solutions
In Westchester: Con Ed Solutions
On Long Island: Long Island Power Authority
In Orange County: Con Ed Solutions
In Rockland County: Con Ed Solutions
In New Jersey: New Jersey Clean Energy Program
In Connecticut: CT Clean Energy Options
Once you've signed up for Green Power, let the Green Team know by e-mailing us at CBSTgreenpower@mac.com.
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Health Issues
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Register Your Baby, Save a Life: The Gift of Life Cord Blood Donation Registry
For people with leukemia and other forms of blood-based cancer, finding a bone marrow match is the difference between life and death. Often, matches are found within an ethnic group or community; Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews are one of the underrepresented communities within the Gift of Life Registry. Cord blood – the blood from a baby’s umbilical cord – as well as placental donations are particularly promising sources of donation; they can provide a match even when marrow is unavailable. Please go to http://www.giftoflife.org for more information; we encourage you to register, or donate your baby’s cord blood.
Making
Strides Against Breast Cancer
 This
year, our CBST team raised over $3,000 the American
Cancer Society's fight against breast cancer through research,
education, advocacy, and patient services. To make a donation through Team CBST follow this link
AIDS Walk: Annually, Team CBST joins with Rita's Team. Each year, CBST brings a team to the AIDS Walk, and we carry the names of the over 100 members that CBST has lost to AIDS.
 The NYC 2008 AIDS Walk is Coming: Support Rita’s Team!
Last year, on May 20th, 2007, thousands of New Yorkers gathered for the NYC Annual AIDS walk. All proceeds raised benefit GMHC and other AIDS services organizations.
CBST’s own Rita Fischer and her team will be walking again this year—please consider supporting Rita’s Team, the largest individual fundraiser in AIDS Walk History! To sponsor or walk with Rita’s Team, go here for more info.
CBST is a member of the American Jewish World Service's
Jewish
Coalition Responding to HIV/AIDS, created to educate
the American Jewish Community on the dimensions and dangers
of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and to provide a strong, unified Jewish
voice in the debates and to work on issues related to HIV/AIDS
in Africa.
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Stop Slavery and
Genocide in Sudan back to
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Learn more
about what
is happening in Sudan and about slavery
in Sudan.
Visit these sites to learn more:
American
Anti-Slavery Group
American
Jewish World Service
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Church of Holy Apostles
Soup Kitchen Each month, CBST brings a group of dedicated volunteers to the largest soup
kitchen in NYC. Sign
up now!
From the New Yorker, May 26, 2008 - Article on the Soup Kitchen
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Marriage Equality back to
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Clergy,
sign the pledge online
Visit the sites below to learn more...
Empire
State Pride Agenda
Human
Rights Campaign
Marriage
Equality New York
Freedom
to Marry
Lambda
Legal
Straight Alliance for
Marriage Equality
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Bikkur
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Call the
CBST office at 212-929-9498 for more information about our Bikkur
Cholim Committee.
Bikkur
Cholim Coordinating Council This organization supports the
development of bikkur cholim activities by consulting, training
volunteers, providing resource materials, organizing workshops,
and organizing an annual conference in New York City.
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