Kol Tikvah, Reform Temple of Parkland

Home
Contact Us
Directions
Calendar

    · Sisterhood Home

    · Sisterhood
      Membership

    · Social Action


Mitzvah Day
 Registration!
March 21, 2010


Mitzvah Day Wish List


Social Action
 "We can...repair the world"
Tikkun Olam

March 21st is Mitzvah Day!
REGISTER ONLINE TODAY!
Click here for Mitzvah Day Wishlist!
This is the day that our entire congregation comes together to embrace the concept of “Tikkun Olam”. The day is spent volunteering with your family on a variety of projects that will help local, national and international causes. Please contact Betsy Kallor at 954-796-2133 for more information.

Local Family Flying Weekly to Haiti

Jerry and Susan Lowenstein, long time members of Chabad of Parkland have been active in assisting Haitians and in particular the Canaan Orphanage in Port Au Prince for the past 7 years. This orphanage has 100 children who need food, water and supplies. Jerry will be flying into Haiti on Tuesday on his private plane with food and medicine. These supplies will go directly to assist the orphanage and then to others in Haiti who desperately need help. If you would like to help, please bring supplies to Chabad of Parkland at 7170 Loxahatchee Road, Parkland, FL 33067. Items that are most needed are non-perishable food, diapers, formula and medical supplies. Please try to bring the supplies before this Tuesday. He will be flying at least once a week for the foreseeable future.


Kol Tikvah will be sending gift packages to our troops

On Mitzvah Day, we'll be making "gift" packages for the troops. If you have a relative or a friend in the Armed Services, please send their APO address to Nat Nussbaum at nlnmktg@aol.com .

Wish List to benefit Family Central:

Social Action is collecting new and gently used items for Family Central. Collection boxes are located in the Education Building. Please donate: infant & children's clothing, toys, educational games, puzzles, arts and crafts, DVD's, videos and music.

Salvation Army

A Collection box is available in the Education Building lobby for collection of warm clothing, blankets and pillows.

Relay for Life
Please join Kol Tikvah's Relay for Life Team!  Visit HERE to register or donate to our team.

Relay For Life (04/30/10) is Parkland’s signature fundraising event to benefit the American Cancer Society. For more information about this relay event or our Kol Tikvah team, contact Harlene Zweig hszcpa@gmail.com  To check out Team Kol Tikvah's progress or to join our team or to make a donation, log onto www.relayforlife.org/parklandfl

Jewish Family Services is in need of gift cards from grocery and discount stores (Publix, Target, Walmart, etc.) to be used for purchases of food, clothing and personal items. You can help by donating a gift card for any denomination. Just put your Gift Card in an envelope marked “Social Action” and drop it off at the Temple office (remember to indicate the gift card value). You may also contact Elise Goldman to arrange for pick up.  Our necessities may be someone else’s luxuries…no donation is too small…YOU CAN make a difference!!

Social Action Meeting Dates ~ 7:00PM Oneg Room
 March 16 ~ April 27 ~ May 25 ~ June 15

ý Mitzvah in a Minute! ý

ý Give a day get a Disney Day: Beginning January 1, 2010 a day of volunteer work can get you into a disney theme park for free. More info and register here.
 ý GoodSearch.com and GoodShop.com: Visit these sites and your purchases can benefit charities.
 ý WECARE Food Pantry is in need of volunteers to help distribute food and pack bags. Please contact Susan Baigelman at WECARE 954-792-6700 ext 306 www.sorefjcc.org.
 ý Men's and children's clothing donations are needed for our Father's House Soup Kitchen serving the homeless in Pompano Beach.  Drop off location: Front porch of the Heise Residence at 6749 NW 62 Terrace, Parkland. Please call Nancy Heise 954-254-7173 for more information.
ý Do a mitzvah in less than a minute! Click on this website & donate a free mammogram.
 ý Xerox is doing something cool! If you go to this web site,  you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed services. 
 ý Click here to send free holiday e-cards from American Greetings to your friends and family. For each card sent by the end of 2009, Kraft Foods will donate enough money for ten meals to Feeding America.
ý  Click here to help feed people at freerice.com
ý The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting  enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of  getting FREE FOOD donated every day to abused and neglected animals.  It takes less than a minute (about 15 seconds) to go to their site  and click on the purple box 'fund food for animals for free'. This  doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate  sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food  to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for  advertising.  Here's the web site! http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/
ý  Shop for a good cause. Help women worldwide.

If you have a community project or a B’nai Mitzvah project that you would like to post and share with other temple members please contact Harlene Zweig at 954-579-5868.   YOU CAN make a difference!

Check out the URJ SEC Social Action Newsletter

The URJ SEC Social Action Committee has created a newsletter!  They hope to publish four issues each year and bring you news of social action activities both nationally and in the region.  In this first issue you will find articles about various congregational projects that they hope will spark some interest and be replicated by other congregations.  At the end of each article is a contact person for more information. There is also information about some national initiatives and reference materials.  Please take the time to read this publication.  Click here!