Our Mission is to pursue social action and justice through:
Mount Zion’s Board of Directors signed this Brit Olam on behalf of the congregation in June 2017. It was reaffirmed by the Board in June 2019. We are one of over 250 congregations that have signed it as a way to ground our community work outside our walls in our Jewish values.
Mount Zion is a MN Interfaith Power & Light Climate Justice Congregation. Climate Justice Congregations are communities of faith and spiritual practice that are committed to living out their faith and values through effective and sustained action on climate justice.
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News and Resources
- Our new Welcome the Stranger Initiative invites MZ members to act now to support newly arrived immigrants.
- Read Dr. Ellen Kennedy’s Op-Ed in MinnPost “A wrongful-death lawsuit and the growing movement against ‘ecocide.’”
- Read Mount Zion’s letter to the congregation about the passage of our Position Statement on Repairing the World – Protect the Planet.
- Read Dr. Ellen Kennedy’s opinion piece in the Duluth News Tribune on January 2, 2025: “Global courts poised to criminalize environmental devastation.”
- Listen to Mark Ritchie, former secretary of state, discuss food insecurity and the climate crisis. You can also, read the introduction Ellen Kennedy gave before Mark’s speech.
- Report on Criminalization of Ecocide at Global Courts from Dr. Ellen Kennedy.
- MZ’s Tzedek Committee Appreciates President Biden’s Apology to American Indians.
- Saint Paul Sunnies Developmental Swim Team.
We have a rich history of community action.
Tzedek has been a big part of Mount Zion Temple identity. Learn the history of Tzedek at Mount Zion with this video.
