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Temple Beth Am Beach Cleanup at Carlin Park
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
From 8:00-10:00am
This promises to be a great intergenerational event that can bring young kids, older adults and families together for a fun morning at the beach. There will be breakfast served with bagels, muffins, coffee, juice. Last year, we had over 80 TBA members turn out for the festivities and it promises to be bigger and better!
For students, you can also receive community service hours and a sense of pride and fulfillment.
If members or guests would like to sign up or have any questions, please contact Mike or Debbie.
Mike Greenfeld 561-339-8912 mgreen222@bellsouth.net
Debbie Smith dpink1029@aol.com
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THANK YOU!
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank the forty wonderful Temple Beth Am volunteers that donated their time and efforts on Christmas Day at MorseLife Geriatric Center. The MorseLife staff appreciates the sense of community spirit, pride and volunteerism that Temple Beth has been consistently showing for years.
Audrey Ades, Joy Brenner, David & Mary Elias, Marilyn Finkel & Kerry Hollander, Karen & Bob Feller, Stu Fierman, Hermine Gladstone, the Greenfeld family, Lauren Kramer Goldvasser & Jayme Charney, Jan Fuhr & Roger Whitcomb, Tina Izard & son Julian, the Levin family, the Lichtenstein family, Megan Randell, Fran & Dr. Emile Sandler, Hal Siegel, the Steidle family, Stacey Stolman and the Vargas family.
I will keep you posted on other MorseLife activities as they come up. It’s also a fantastic opportunity for Bar/Bat Mitzvah students and teens to earn community service hours and to cultivate and develop a sense of pride and compassion.
Thanks very much for your efforts!
Best Regards,
Mike Greenfeld
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TBA’s 4th ANNUAL Chanukah Wish Drive for
Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options (JAFCO)
Thank you for participating!
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Ongoing Social Action Mitzvah Project
Cooking and Serving at St. George's Soup Kitchen in Riviera Beach
HOW YOU CAN HELP: We need cooks, bakers & servers.
We also need help locating sponsors & food donations.
COOK: The 3rd Sunday of every month in the TBA kitchen at 12:00. The St George Monday meal is prepared at this time and then served the following evening at the soup kitchen. Community service hours are available. DATES: OCTOBER 16, NOVEMBER 20, JANUARY 15, FEBRUARY 19, MARCH 18, APRIL 15, MAY 20
SERVE: The 3rd Monday of every month at the St. George Church, TBA volunteers set up, serve, and close at the soup kitchen. The hours are from 5:00 to approximately 6:45. Community service hours are available. DATES: OCTOBER 17, NOVEMBER 21, DECEMBER 24, JANUARY 16, FEBRUARY 20, MARCH 19, APRIL 16, MAY 21.
BAKERS: We are always in need of baked goods to serve as desserts. Store bought or home made desserts are welcome.LOCAL SPONSORS AND FOOD DONATIONS ARE WELCOME
TO RESERVE YOUR VOLUNTEER SPOT AND/OR FOR MORE INFORMATION
CONTACT MARCY ISDANER AT:
marcy@campmataponi.com OR socialaction@templebetham.com
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Family Promise is up and running - and we need your help!
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FAMILY PROMISE IS UP & RUNNING - AND WE NEED YOUR HELP!
With the High Holidays right around the corner, please consider performing a mitzvah for those in need in our own community. Isaiah 58:7- You shall "share [your] bread with the hungry and bring the homeless into [your] house". We are excited to announce that Family Promise is up & running!!
If you have not heard about this great organization, the following is a brief summary: Family Promise of North/Central Palm Beach County (FP) is an interfaith network which assists temporarily homeless children & their families (up to 14 guests/4 families each week) with meals and housing at host congregations. There are over 150 affiliates in 39 states, including in South Palm Beach County. Temple Beth Am is a supporting congregation in the new North/Central network.
We are teaming with St. Mark’s Church in PBG to help them with their hosting week, starting Sunday afternoon, September 18th through Sunday morning, September 25th. We apologize for the short notice, but the North County network just began 2 ½ weeks ago.
The St. Mark’s coordinators are depending on TBA to help with the following:
1) Lunches- we will be providing food, supplies and assistance for the families to make lunches for themselves (currently 2 families consisting of 2 adults and 6 children), each evening, around 7-8 p.m. Volunteers & donations are needed.
2) Saturday, September 24th- we will entertain the families at St. Mark’s (or somewhere nearby if we can locate transportation). We need volunteers from 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. You do not need to be there for the entire time- let us know when you can be there.
3) Overnight Hosts- They need 1-2 overnight hosts from 8:30 p.m.-6:00 a.m. each of the following nights: 9/21, 9/22, 9/23, and 9/24. We can provide additional details.
4) Wish List- 2 wish lists (one from St. Mark’s for their hosting week, and one from Family Promise) are attached. Items can be brought to TBA & placed in the bins in the lobby.
Anyone who plans to volunteer is welcome to attend a volunteer meeting at St. Mark’s on Thursday, September 15th at 6:30 p.m. in their chapel- park in the east parking lot (off of Burns Road). We can carpool there.
Please contact me at 247-5195 or debbysbaker@gmail.com, or Lois Remick at 627-7736 or lorem47@bellsouth.net if you are interested in helping or have any questions.
It would be wonderful to do a mitzvah before the high holidays and show an outpouring of support for this wonderful organization and the families.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -- Anne Frank
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MorseLife Volunteer Opportunities:
- Homebound Mitzvah Program Shabbat Visitors (please scroll down for details)
- Meals on Wheels
For more information call Nadine Greenberg, Director of Volunteer Services
at (561) 687-5871 or nadineg@morselife.org
TBA contact - Mike Greenfeld mgreen222@bellsouth.net or (561) 339-8912
Homebound Mitzvah Program For Shabbat:
For fourteen years, MorseLife and caring volunteers have been bringing traditions of the Jewish Holidays to homebound seniors who would otherwise be unable to attend services, or enjoy this time with family. Our Homebound Mitzvah Program makes a difference to seniors of our community, and for our volunteers, it remains a wonderful mitzvah.
We are now extending this program to Shabbat, recruiting a few special volunteers to deliver Challah and wine on the first Friday of each month to three homebound seniors in Century Village. As a Shabbat Program volunteer, you would also be “delivering” quality time – talking to them and ensuring they are not having any medical or other issues. The commitment is 20-30 minutes per visit, or a total of 1.5 hours per month. This could also be a multigenerational program for your whole family.
Please consider being a part of this wonderful once-per-month Shabbat Mitzvah Program. For more information, call Nadine Greenberg, Director of Volunteer Services at (561) 687-5871 or email at nadineg@morselife.org.
On the Marilyn & Stanley M. Katz Seniors Campus
4847 Fred Gladstone Drive | West Palm Beach, FL 33417
(561) 687-5871 | www.morselife.org
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THANK YOU... On behalf of the Temple Beth Am Men’s Club and Social Action Committee, I want to thank all of the families and friends that participated in the 1st TBA Beach Clean Up at Carlin Beach Park on Sunday, April 10th. We had 75 people attend the beach clean up. It was a wonderful showing of community spirit, camaraderie and Tikkun Olam and a wonderful way to teach our children about saving our beaches and taking care of the environment.
We hope that this is the first of many beach clean ups for Temple Beth Am. Several people made this event possible. I would like to say thank you to the people who spearheaded the event (Debbie Smith, David Sherman, Rabbi Alon Levkovitz, Debby Baker).
Mike Greenfeld
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