Fall Mitzvah Sunday Highlights - November 13, 2011
More than 600 congregants - including close to 300 Religious School students - participated in a day of mitzvah projects around Manhattan and at the Temple.
Outside the Temple, we worked with organizations such as Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter, Educational Alliance, Women-In-Need, and Yorkville Common Pantry (YCP). We served lunches, visited with seniors, worked in a local park, and had a pizza party with shelter kids. At Shaaray Tefila, volunteers baked desserts and made sandwiches for City Harvest, knitted blankets for teens in residential treatment centers, made fleece scarves for the homeless (YCP’s Project Dignity) and gifts for elderly shut-ins, and wrote letters to soldiers serving abroad. A JeTSeT contingent put up Thanksgiving decorations at senior housing.
Sunday students in Grades K-5 made Chanukah cards for Kesher bags, placemats for a Met Council senior lunch program, centerpieces for DOROT’s Thanksgiving banquet, and mural decorations for a senior housing site. MASA families helped with our letter-writing effort to soldiers abroad. Older students made sandwiches at YCP and assisted staff at Met Council housing with a greening program and served lunch to clients. One class heard from the head of YES!Solutions, a grassroots organization helping the homeless and other vulnerable populations in our city, and made gift bags for the organization to distribute with food on Thanksgiving. And a few TaSTy members, accompanied by Cantor Dubinsky, worked with teens at Park Avenue United Methodist Church to make fleece scarves for Project Dignity.
Special thanks to project captains Susan Birenbaum, Carol Crossen, Ethel Donner, Matthew Haiken, Jamie Hirsh, Jill Hunter, Joanne Jahr, Becky Kipnis, Dave Kleckner, Jen Levine, Andrea Linne, Lisa Pinchoff, Betty Shulman, Susan Shulman, Paula Dwoskin Sitzer, Michael Sitzer, Susan Stein, Robert Stolz, Sabrina Wax, and Renee Weisbaum. And to Sondra Silver and Irene Kamaroff for staffing the Shaaray Tefila “Post Office.”
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Our Spring Mitzvah Day
Sunday, May 6, 2012