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Shalom Corps is accepting proposals for three new projects: Heritage Community Impact Initiative Shalom Spot – Web-based Platform for Managing Communities Implementation of Volunteer Projects in the Field Heritage Community Impact Initative connects young Jews to their heritage, to themselves and one another, while strengthening their Jewish identity through meaningful and responsible volunteering by joint […]
Shalom Corps prides itself on its mission to connect Jews from all over the world through a global Jewish volunteer movement. Shalom Corps is committed to meaningful action and social involvement across communities around the world through universal Jewish values. Through volunteer projects across borders, volunteers can participate in “Tikun Olam,” the fixing of the […]
Today, April 5, 2021 at 19:30 (Israel Time) we invite you to tune in via our Facebook Live for a riveting talk with Einat Nathan. Einat Nathan is a parenting expert, bestselling author and skilled public speaker. She is certified by the Adler Institue and the Ministry of Education for Parental and Group Instruction and […]
Shalom Corps in partnership with the NYU Bronfman’s Institute for Impact and Intrapreneurship is pleased to announce that February 23rd, began a long-anticipated course on Activist Journalism. This course offers its participants training sessions, and practical tools in theoretical journalism in order to help our partners around the world document their volunteering activities. During their participation […]
Hi everyone, we chose to finish this week with a bit of wisdom from this week’s parsha, Zipporah. We hope you like it! Is Yitro (Jethro), the father of Zipporah, the quintessential volunteer? A careful reading, with a focus on Yitro’s actions and words, might give us our answer: “And Yitro heard…everything that God did […]
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson Our current circumstances, while unfortunate, just might give us an opportunity to understand Tu B’Shvat a little differently. Tu B’Shvat, the 15th of the month of Shvat which generally corresponds to January, is the dead […]
“Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it” (Primo Levi) Shalom Corps marks this International Holocaust Remembrance Day by saying: We Remember. The date commemorates the end of the nazi genocide that resulted in the deaths of 6 million Jews and 5 million others. Each one of these people had families, lives and […]
Shavua Tov everyone! This last Thursday, Shalom Corps hosted their first Jewish Service Learning Webinar, in partnership with @OLAMtogether. Educators within our program shared experiences, got to know each other, discussed ideas and explored possibilities together. Thank you everyone for joining!
Do not stand idly by while your neighbor’s blood is shed (Leviticus 19:16) • Despite the great improvements towards racial equality since the Civil Rights Movement, racism is still a big part of our reality today. Racism is defined as the systematic discrimination of people based on skin color, which affects the lives of People […]
As part of our ongoing work, we are proud and happy to announce a new collaboration with NYU Bronfman’s on the Press Officers’ Certificate. We are certain this new endeavor will prove to be extremely fruitful, as it will help you – volunteering organizations – to spread your message and gain exposure, professionally and efficiently. […]
Shalom Corps and OLAM will be providing an opportunity for educators within our program to get to know each other, share ideas and explore possibilities together. We will be sharing resources and guidance which will help you to deliver exciting and impactful learning on your program. Do not miss this amazing learning opportunity. The webinar […]
Happy New Year everyone! May 2021 come with great blessings and lots and lots of volunteering! To celebrate, Shalom Corps would like to do a short recap of what we have done in the past twelve months. Are you ready? In 2020, Shalom Corps worked towards launching the Local Model during the Covid-19. In […]
On November 10th, Shalom Corps joined a national competition for Organizations to tackle problems they viewed as important using a self-improvement mechanism that they’d create – an improvement team. The competition, held for the first time over the internet rather than being a physical meeting, hosted hundreds of different groups all eager to show […]
The heritage project happened in partnership with Shalom Corps and U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad. Shalom Corps is proud to have contributed to Hillel Mink’s mission. Hillel Minsk has just organized their 7th MEGA (Memory. Education. Generation. Action) volunteering project on preservation of Jewish heritage in Brest, Belarus. The city […]
Shalom Corps is proud to announce the Local Campaign Kick Off on December 15th. In June, we announced a competition to come up with a volunteer project that could help improve local communities. After going through the many submissions, our prestigious judges narrowed it down to just 5 proposals. We then opened voting to […]
On October 14th-15th, we at Shalom Corps were part in organizing the Focal Point 2020 Conference. We joined OLAM to partner with them on their yearly conference centered around helping Jews engaged in global service, international development, and humanitarian aid to help each other improve their methods of assisting the world’s most vulnerable individuals. This year […]
