Focus for the Year
TOTY (Theme of the year)
Our 5786 Theme of the Year, Lo alecha, is all about getting empowered to make a difference to the world around you. As members of a youth movement all LJYniks are a part of something bigger than themselves with the power to make social change. Lo alecha asks us to use our voices to stand up for what we believe in, to embrace working communally and building bridges of solidarity, to feel a duty to help make our world a more just, equal and liberated place.
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The social and political problems we’re facing in 5786 feel scary, but we want Lo alecha to be an inspiring attitude that changes the way we look at these struggles. So let’s learn about how social change happens, how past protest movements have successfully achieved justice, how to resist the status quo and contribute your bit, no matter how small, to improving our world.
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Let’s dig our heels in together!
TOOTY (Tikkun Olam of the year)
Our Tikkun Olam project this year focuses on wealth inequality. Jewish tradition has always had something to say about wealth, poverty and ownership. Genesis teaches us we are custodians of the world, not owners of it. While the Exodus challenges unjust power structures and calls on us to configure a new social order. Contemporary economic injustice is one of the greatest barriers to building the world of shared abundance that our tradition calls us toward.
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This project will allow us to explore the systems that create massive disparities between rich and poor, and the connections between wealth concentration and other forms of injustice - particularly environmental destruction.
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The project combines learning with action. Chanichimot will understand how wealth inequality works, learn about movements that have successfully fought for economic justice, and explore what they can do to change it. The goal is for young people to see themselves as part of a long tradition of challenging injustice.
