And the final count is...

It’s been over a week since Summer JAM ended. But the PANIM office keeps on rockin’. There is lots of excitement here because we just counted all the tzedakah money that the Ba’Olam committee raised during the summer for the Save Darfur Coalition. After several fundraisers, including four weeks of Shabbat-o-grams (notes written to fellow participants on Shabbat), as well as an amazing Jukebox JAM diner, the Summer JAM community raised...$303!!!! I am incredibly elated with the amount of money we raised, but even more so, how much time and effort many students spent raising awareness around this cause. The genocide of Darfurians, as the participants learned this summer, is at the top of the social justice agenda. I hope that the students became even more engaged and will take further action to help make "Never Again" a reality in their home communities for Darfur and genocides around the world.

-Lani
JAM 2008 Mentor