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Tikkun Olam, repairing the world, is a central principle of Reform Judaism. Members of PTBE have many opportunities to engage in tikkun olam, including becoming a member of the Caring Committee, making sandwiches for SSH, or through religious school and youth group projects. You can also find news from the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, the social action arm of the Reform Movement.
SSH = Sunday Sandwich Hevre
Each month we make 300+ lunches to feed the hungry in OUR community.
Here’s how you can help:
· Donate supplies – we especially need cookies, carrots, juice boxes and paper grocery bags (with handles)
· Come to Fellowship Hall and help us prepare and bag the lunches
· Volunteer to drive the food delivery to Samaritan House
· Donate money for supplies that need to be purchased
In the Haggadah it is Written:
“All Who Are Hungry, Let Them Come and Eat!”
Fill a Seder Sack to Make a Passover Mitzvah
and Send
Greetings to Loved Ones
Join with Jewish Family and Children's Services (JFCS) and PTBE in our community-wide mitzvah project to provide Passover food bags to more than 400 of our Peninsula neighbors in need before the first Seder on March 29.
Brit Adamah—A Covenant with the Earth
Download a copy of the Brit Adamah—A Covenant with the Earth—
for the coming year. Decide what you will do this year to help save the earth!
MATAN CHAIM: THE GIFT OF LIFE—Organ Donation
To see the Reform Jewish Response on organ donation visit: http://urj.org/jfc/bioethics/donor/faqs/
Home and Hope (formerly Interfaith Hospitality Network)
July 17 - 31, 2011
December 11-26, 2011
PTBE is a founding member of this coalition of churches and synagogues in San Mateo County which provides shelter, meals, and assistance for homeless families, and increases community involvement in direct service and advocacy.
We are committed to providing compassionate care and support to homeless families with children through community supported shelter and intensive case management leading back to self-sufficiency.
PTBE volunteers serve as hosts for homeless families staying with us. Volunteers may help a number of ways; prepare & serve meals, socialize with guests, or help children with homework. Other volunteers are needed for set-up and breakdown, food shoppers, and those who can do laundry. Most importantly, we need overnight hosts.
Please consider helping...volunteer just once a year, do just one thing, because together we have the power to transform the lives of the people we help. . . and our own.
Please contact Home and Hope Chair, Dolores Gould or call the temple office if you are interested in participating or would like more information.
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