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About On1Foot

On1Foot is an online database of Jewish social justice texts designed to support and promote the teaching of social justice in the Jewish community. This educational resource allows users to search and browse hundreds of biblical, rabbinic and contemporary Jewish texts about social justice, upload new texts and create custom source sheets using the texts and suggested discussion questions.On1Foot makes the canon of Jewish justice literature more accessible, provides user-friendly tools to bring that literature to life and energizes and deepens Jewish engagement with social justice.
 
Useful for the development of sermons and divrei Torah, classroom training and volunteer enrichment, family education and Bar and Bat Mitzvah preparation, On1Foot was created with the following goals:
  • To make the full catalogue of Jewish texts on social justice available and accessible to users.
  • To extend the breadth and depth of Jewish social justice education.
  • To serve a central forum for discussion within the Jewish social justice movement. 
About American Jewish World Service
 
On1Foot is a project of American Jewish World Service (AJWS). AJWS is an international development organization motivated by Judaism's imperative to pursue justice. AJWS is dedicated to alleviating poverty, hunger and disease among the people of the developing world regardless of race, religion or nationality. Through grants to grassroots organizations, volunteer service, advocacy and education, AJWS fosters civil society, sustainable development and human rights for all people, while promoting the values and responsibilities of global citizenship within the Jewish community.