URI LTZEDEK
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Mission Statement
Uri L’Tzedek is an Orthodox social justice organization guided by Torah values and dedicated to combating suffering and oppression. Through community based education, leadership development and action, Uri L’Tzedek creates discourse, inspires leaders, and empowers the Jewish community towards creating a more just world.
About This Cause
We utilize a three pronged strategy in our mission to create a more just world. It consists of Education, Leadership Development, and Action. 1) Since its launch, Uri L’Tzedek has positioned itself as a thought leader in the Jewish community. Our Social Justice Beit Midrash Program convenes Jewish educators, scholars, and cutting-edge activists to create a new hermeneutic that integrates traditional textual study and contemporary social needs. Uri L’Tzedek currently publishes a series of supplements which tie Jewish wisdom into our business lives, our daily lives, and the rhythm of the Jewish calendar year. The series was launched in Spring 2011 with the Uri L’Tzedek Food & Justice Haggadah Supplement to add a social justice element to the seder and Mah Ani: Self Reflection and Social Action for the High Holidays. Others include a supplement on Purim, Tisha b’Av, and business ethics. 2) Uri L’Tzedek has created different fellowships that train emerging adults with the skills necessary to become community organizers, social entrepreneurs, and change-agents. The Uri L’Tzedek Summer Fellowship is a transformative leadership program that combines innovative social activism with leadership development and Torah, while the semester long Amos Fellowship is a unique opportunity to take leadership roles in social justice campaigns. 3) The Tav HaYosher, Uri L’Tzedek’s ethical seal for kosher restaurants, weaves advocacy for worker rights with kashrut in a manner that creates a new paradigm for ethical living, empowers lay leaders to become social justice advocates, and initiates dialogue about the effects of conspicuous consumption, globalization, and community in the Jewish public sphere. Uri L’Tzedek’s leadership has lead a community-wide advocacy campaign behalf of workers exploited and unjustly fired by Satmar owned Flaum’s Appetizing has created immense pressure for their management to agree to an equitable agreement.