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Repair the World, along-
side AEPi and Moishe 
House and other Jewish Service 
Alliance partners, announced 
the “Passover Earth Day 
Challenge,
” aiming to contrib-
ute 5,000 Passover Earth Day 
Challenge service actions leading 
up to Passover and Earth Day 
— both occur April 22, and as a 
part of Global Volunteer Month 
throughout April. 
The Passover Earth Day 
Challenge will launch on 
Saturday, April 13, with daily 
acts of service running until 
Tuesday, April 30. Challenge 
participants will be encouraged 
to participate by either down-
loading a digital workbook or 
posting their act of service to 
Instagram or TikTok, using 
#PassoverEarthDayChallenge 
and tagging @RepairtheWorld to 
submit their completed service. 
The challenge includes the fol-
lowing 10 environmental plagues 
and 10 acts of service:
• Environmental Plague: 

Water pollution; Acts of 
Service: Clean up a waterway.
• Environmental Plague: 
Plastic waste; Acts of 
Service: Clean up plastic 
waste.
• Environmental Plague: Fast 
fashion and overconsumption; 
Acts of Service: Recycle or 
donate clothing or old house-
hold items.
• Environmental Plague: Air 
pollution; Acts of 
Service: Carpool, use public 
transit, bike or walk.
• Environmental 

Plague: Industrial agriculture; 
Acts of Service: Cut food 
waste, compost, and donate 
excess food.
• Environmental 
Plague: Deforestation; Acts of 
Service: Plant a tree.
• Environmental 
Plague: Environmental disas-
ters: Acts of Service: Prepare a 
first aid kit to share.
• Environmental 
Plague: Invasive species; Acts 
of Service: Remove invasive 
plants and replace with wild-
flowers.
• Environmental 
Plague: Energy consumption; 
Acts of Service: Unplug for 
the day.
• Environmental 
Plague: Environmental 
unawareness; Acts of 
Service: Host an environmen-
tal plagues seder or conver-
sation.
For more info, go to werepair.
org/get-involved/campaign/pass-
over-earthday. 

Haggadahs to over 200,000 
families over the past 
six years. PJ Library will 
once again offer anyone 
celebrating the holiday a 
downloadable PDF version 
of In Every Generation: 
A PJ Library Family 
Haggadah. 
Aside from the 
traditional prayers and 
readings, this interactive 
guide to the Passover seder 
offers up specially curated 
videos of songs and 
blessing and explanations 
that help make the holiday 
a fun, engaging and 
family-friendly experience. 
 

Finally, PJ Library 
curates age-specific books 
for its subscribers from 
birth through age 8. Last 
year, children ages 3 to 
4 received a delightful 
spin on a classic Yiddish 
folktale In Our Teeny Tiny 
Matzah House, written by 
Bill Wurtzel and illustrated 
by Claire Wurtzel (Apple 
& Honey Press) in which 
Kitzel the cat can’t hear 
himself meow, as his house 
is too noisy. But it’s about 
to become noisier because 
Passover is about to begin! 
 Kids ages 6 to 7 were 
sent A Persian Passover 
(Kalaniot Books), set 
in 1950’s Iran, written 
by Etan Basseri and 
illustrated by Rashin 
Kheiriyeh, which finds 
Ezra and Roza looking 
forward to celebrating the 
holiday until they have an 
unfortunate mishap with 
the community matzah 
baking oven. 
If families don’t want to 
miss out on getting books 
each month, including for 
future holidays, sign up 
today at PJLibrary.org. 
 

Repair the World Launches ‘Passover 
Earth Day Challenge’

Initial preparations are under-
way for the next U.S. election 
for the World Zionist Congress 
(WZC). The American Zionist 
Movement (AZM), which 
administers the vote, has 
announced that any group that 
may be interested in running a 
new party slate for the election 
must file an application by May 
15, 2024, with its proposed 
platform and candidate list. 
Procedural details are posted at 
azm.org/elections. 
The 39th Zionist Congress 
is currently scheduled to be 

held in the late fall of 2025 in 
Jerusalem. The vote in the U.S. 
Jewish community to elect 
the American delegates to the 
WZC will likely be conducted 
during the early part of 2025. 
As the international “parlia-
ment of the Jewish people,” the 
WZC is the only democratical-
ly elected global Jewish forum 
and is the direct continuation 
of the Zionist Congress first 
convened by Theodor Herzl 
in 1897 in Basel. The delegates 
and the bodies they form at the 
WZC determine the leadership 

and influence the policies of 
Israel’s National Institutions: 
the World Zionist Organization 
(WZO), the Jewish Agency for 
Israel (JAFI), Jewish National 
Fund-Keren Kayemet LeIsrael 
(JNF) and Keren Hayesod — 
which together allocate nearly 
$1 billion annually in funding 
in support of Israel and Jewish 
communities around the world. 
As there are many required 
steps in qualifying a slate for 
candidacy, interested organi-
zations should contact Herbert 
Block, executive director of 
AZM at hblock@azm.org or 
elections@azm.org for further 
details on the election rules, 
procedures and criteria. 

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