"What happens at J-Serve stays at J-Serve"

This year's J-Serve will take place April 25, 2010 will focus on increasing literacy around the Seattle area.  J-Serve will start at the Stroum Jewish Community Center and will be working at sites all around the city.

Why should you participate in J-Serve?

• Earn community service hours for school
• Get experience for your resume or college applications
• Learn leadership skills

J-Serve, the National Day of Jewish Youth Service, is a program created by teens for teens. Upon hearing about Youth Service America’s Global Youth Service Day, a teen leader in the Jewish community asked “Why don’t we have something like that?” Five months later, J-Serve was born.

J-Serve provides Jewish participants with the opportunity to fulfill age-old Jewish values. By engaging in community service, J-Serve participants are fulfilling the ideals of: gemilut chasadim, acts of loving kindness; tzedakah, just and charitable giving; and tikkun olam, the idea that Jews have a duty to help fix a broken world.

Since 2005, we have partnered with Panim: The Institute for Jewish Leadership & Values, and Youth Service America, to create the Jewish component of Youth Service Day.

J-Serve is developed and run by teens and is part of the Jewish Social Action Committe (JSAC) of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.