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Each year, the National Jewish Committee on Scouting offers five scholarships worth $7,000 to Jewish Eagle Scouts who also earn the Ner Tamid or Etz Chaim religious emblems. Some scholarships are based on financial need and others are not. Interested Scouts should go to the NJCoS web site: http://www.jewishscouting.org/ for more information and applications. For 2008, applications will be accepted from 11/15/07 to 2/29/08. Selections will be announced on or about May 1, 2008. Interested Scouts can also contact: Jay Schnapp, Chairman, Sub-Committee on Scholarships, National Jewish Committee on Scouting, BSA via email at: jschnapp@pipeline.com 1 .Educate yourself about the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Visit the following websites: www.savedarfur.org www.genocideintervention.net www.ajws.org www.nytimes.com (columns by Nicholas Kristof) www.sudanreeves.org (columns by Eric Reeves) 2. Join the Genocide Intervention Network -- the first-ever permanent anti-genocide comstituency. 3. Urge your school, company, or state to divest from the genocide in Darfur. Visit www.sudandivestment.org to learn about the models of targeted divestment developed by the Sudan Divestment Task Force. 4- visit FidelityOutOfSudan.com to learn about the Boston-based effort to persuade Fidelity Investments to divest from the most unscrupulous companies doing business in Sudan. 5. Log onto www.savedarfur.org and sign the petition urging President Bush and the UN Secretary-General to take the following steps to stop the killing in Darfur: -Push for the immediate deployment of the already-authorized UN peacekeeping force. -Strengthen the understaffed African Union force already in Darfur until me UN force can be deployed. -Implement a fair and lasting Peace Agreement. -Increase humanitarian aid and ensure access for delivery. 5. Organize Darfur fundraising events@speakers, concerts, sporting events@at your school, community, or religious institution. 6. Join the MA Coalition to Save Darfur and help organize local and regional events. 7. Purchase Darfur t-shirts, wristbands, posters, and signs at www.savedarfur.org. Brookline Residents are now able to tune in to Channel 3 on cable Thursday nights at 7:30 for Israel National News.
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