More than 20 Jewish social action groups and communal organisations have signed a manifesto calling on community members to get involved in social action.
It has been initiated by the Jewish Council for Racial Equality, whose founder and director Edie Friedman felt it was particularly necessary following the "dreadful summer - the massacres in Norway, the riots here, global economic and man-made disasters.
"It is terribly important that the Jewish community, although relatively sheltered from most of these events, does not close itself off from the outside world. We have a great tradition of social engagement and this manifesto is asking people to act on it - and not just within their own community. Whatever cause they care about, whether it's race equality or ending poverty, there's a Jewish charity supporting it."
Added the JHub social action co-ordinator, David Brown: "It is very exciting to see the broad base of communal organisations supporting a call to the community to further engage with Jewishly-inspired social action, and to see the range of causes and organisations people can get involved with."
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