Why hasn't chassidim started this:
We have Hatzoloh, Chaverim, Shomrim etc.; now check out this program for volunteers:
(J.T.A.)...The Jewish Community Justice Project is a partner of the Centinela Valley Juvenile Diversion Project, which has been running a victim-offender restitution program in Los Angeles since 1992.
Four years ago, the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles funded this joint project between Centinela and two L.A.-based Jewish groups, the Progressive Jewish Alliance and Beit T'shuva, a Jewish recovery program.
According to the agreement, the Progressive Jewish Alliance trains volunteers to mediate in cases forwarded by local law enforcement and juvenile courts. There currently are almost 60 Jewish volunteer mediators.
"The alliance with UJA has been so exciting because they've recruited motivated, dedicated volunteers," says Centinela's executive director, Steve Goldsmith. "The religious component, the education of teshuvah, really keeps the people motivated."
The mediation project is based on the legal concept of restorative justice, according to which offenders must take personal responsibility for their crimes and make restitution directly to those they have offended.
Participants say it dovetails neatly with the Talmudic notion of teshuvah, which specifies that one must seek forgiveness from those one has wronged before asking God's forgiveness, something Jews are meant to do every year between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur..
Any chassidim got some extra time for some good work localy? Let the beepers ring!
(J.T.A.)...The Jewish Community Justice Project is a partner of the Centinela Valley Juvenile Diversion Project, which has been running a victim-offender restitution program in Los Angeles since 1992.
Four years ago, the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles funded this joint project between Centinela and two L.A.-based Jewish groups, the Progressive Jewish Alliance and Beit T'shuva, a Jewish recovery program.
According to the agreement, the Progressive Jewish Alliance trains volunteers to mediate in cases forwarded by local law enforcement and juvenile courts. There currently are almost 60 Jewish volunteer mediators.
"The alliance with UJA has been so exciting because they've recruited motivated, dedicated volunteers," says Centinela's executive director, Steve Goldsmith. "The religious component, the education of teshuvah, really keeps the people motivated."
The mediation project is based on the legal concept of restorative justice, according to which offenders must take personal responsibility for their crimes and make restitution directly to those they have offended.
Participants say it dovetails neatly with the Talmudic notion of teshuvah, which specifies that one must seek forgiveness from those one has wronged before asking God's forgiveness, something Jews are meant to do every year between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur..
Any chassidim got some extra time for some good work localy? Let the beepers ring!
posted by Yeshiva Orthodoxy
at 2:49 PM
2 Comments:
i am all for it where do i sign
You have to be under five foot six,look like you're perpetuily catching a bus, have more equipment on your belt than Nasa owns and be either self-employed or unemployed.
You sign up in shul during layning.
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