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Opportunities to Get Involved
H E L P W A N T E DFamily Mitzvah Makers Purim Mitzvah Project
Sunday, February 17 • 1:00 pmMenorah Park Chapel, 27100 Cedar Road
While Purim is a time for fun, it is also a time to reach out to others by making and delivering shaloch manot, gifts of Purim treats. Come with your children or grandchildren to help decorate, pack and deliver Purim Shaloch Manot bags
to Park members who reside in area nursing homes and senior facilities to brighten their day. All children must be
accompanied by a parent or other adult to participate. Please RSVP to Ellen Petler at [email protected] or
(216) 371-2244, ext. 122 by February 11th.Please provide all names of volunteers, phone number (cell
& home), and an email address.This mitzvah project is sponsored by the Park Family
Mitzvah Makers, a group that brings together Park families to help others in the community. Bonnie Harden and
Michelle Sharp are co-chairs of the group.
Gesher’s AnnualBag Lunch for the Homeless
Mitzvah ProjectSunday, February 17 • 10:00 – 11:00 am
Park Synagogue EastHelp make 200 brown bag lunches for the homeless. All
adult members and elementary-age children and older are invited to volunteer! Children must be accompanied by a
parent or grandparent. Community service hours for students are available.
Participants will be asked to donate kosher food needed to make the lunches (list sent with RSVP) or monetary
donations to purchase these items. We are also collecting and packing travel-size personal care items this year.
Please bring new, unopened bottles of shampoo, lotion, conditioner, mouthwash, etc.
Even if you can’t volunteer, we welcome food and monetary donations. Please note: All food donations
must be kosher and unopened.
RSVP’s are required by February 8th. Please contact Miriam or Dan Rose, co-chairs of the project,with the
names of everyone volunteering, phone number, email address, and the amount and kind of food you would like
to donate at [email protected] or (216) 595-0810.
Greater Cleveland Congregations Update Medicaid Expansion: The GCC is strongly lobbying our state politicians to support Medicaid Expansion in Ohio (Affordable Care Act, a.k.a Obamacare). There was a meeting on January 24 at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church where close to 1,000 people from the Cleveland area showed their support for Medicaid Expansion and urged our legislators to support it. GCC is the convener of 27 organizations in our community who support this effort.
Education: The GCC is monitoring the Cleveland Metropolitan School District's promise to responsibly spend the school levy money to improve education.
Criminal Justice: Now that Tim McGinty, the new Cuyahoga County Prosecutor is in office, we are holding him accountable for the promises he made to the GCC to improve how the justice system works for its citizens. We need people to follow up on letting the community know how the collateral sanctions bill will affect people re-entering the community after incarceration.
There is also a group working to see if the GCC should take up the issue of gun violence reduction, and what, specifically, should be done.
We need more Park members involved in the Greater Cleveland Congregations and its important work! To get involved or for questions, please contact Susan Reis ([email protected]) or Michael Weil ([email protected]), Co-chairs of Park Synagogue’s GCC Core Team.
Men's Club Annual Yom HaShoah Yellow Candle
Distribution ProgramSunday, March 3 • 9:30 am • Park Synagogue East
Once again, the Park Synagogue Men’s Club is organizing the Yom HaShoah Yellow Candle program, in which they package
and deliver yellow candles to Park Synagogue families in our community. Throughout North America, families light one Yellow Candle the night of Sunday, April 7, Erev Yom
HaShoah, in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
Thank you to those who have donated their time and money to this important program in previous years.
They need many volunteers to deliver candles to approximately 30 households each. This can be a fun activity with the kids or grandkids. Your help is much appreciated. If you're interested email [email protected] or call
Aaron Saidel at (216) 789-0163.
