mitzvah day
Thank you to everyone who participated in our 27th annual Mitzvah Day!
Save the date for Mitzvah Day 2023 on Feb 26, 2023
Thank you to our 2022 Co-Chairs:
Mitzvah Day Co-Chairs: Amy Ostroff and Jillian Barnett
Soup Contest Co-Chairs: Karen Sepsenwol, Rachel Weissman, and Dana Grodin
All proceeds from the soup contest benefited the Religious Action Center of Florida (RAC-FL), a collective of Reform Jewish congregations and communities statewide working to build a more just and compassionate Florida
Schedule of events
Friday, March 4
6:00 pm Shabbat Service with guest speaker: Eric Ward
7:15 pm Shabbat Dinner.
8:00 pm Salon style Q&A with Eric Ward, with coffee, tea, and cookies
Saturday, March 5
12:00 pm Social Justice Network Lunch with Eric Ward
2:30 pm Miami Sound Choir Concert “Music Speaks Louder than Words: The Historic Role of Music in Social Change” followed by dialogue about solidarity with Eric Ward. Proceeds to benefit RAC-FL.
Sunday, March 6
8:30 am Registration and Breakfast
9:15 am Opening Ceremony at TBS Palm Plaza
9:30 am Mitzvah Projects Commence
12:00 pm Lunch at Temple Beth Sholom with the exciting VIBE 305 Food Truck: A job training program for economically disadvantaged young men
1:00 pm Soup Contest to benefit the Religious Action Center of Florida (RAC-FL).
All Day at TBS:
Blood and Platelets Drives
Booths at Temple Beth Sholom to visit
pre-mitzvah weekend collection projects
Please bring these items to TBS before or on Mitzvah Day. In addition to collecting items in the Welcome Center, project captains will also be accepting Amazon delivery items to their homes or offices. You now have the option of making purchases directly through Amazon wish lists purchases! Look out for the link in Temple Talk in the upcoming weeks.
- School supplies, books, and magazines for children and adults at Chapman Partnership Homeless Shelter
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New and gently used books for the Children’s Trust
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New and gently used clothing (must be sorted into men’s, women’s, children’s, and teenager’s clothing) for a variety of shelters
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Toiletries, baby supplies (diapers, wipes, pacifiers, lotion and body wash, etc.), feminine hygiene products, coloring books, crayons, and pencils for the Children’s Home Society. Amazon Wish List.
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Masks, hand sanitizer, cleaning supplies, toiletries, feminine products, socks, and school supplies for the Overtown Youth Center. Amazon wish list.
PROJECTS
All Ages - Family Friendly
1. Pretty Potted Plants
2. Friends with Firetrucks
3. Rachel Fitness x Dawn Feinberg POP-UP Kid’s Workout
4. Kosher Foodbank Scavenger Hunt
Family Friendly
5. Blessings in a Backpack
6. Mischloach Manot (Purim Baskets) for Holocaust Survivors
7. Lentils and Love: Lentil Soup Project with the Kosher Food Bank
8. Gifting of Wellness
9. Pack a Preemie Pack
10. Hunger Heroes
11. Lotus House
12. Oleta River State Park Nature Walk and Beach Clean Up
13. jLAB Mitzvah Day Project
14. Food Rescue
15. Playdate at Children’s Home Society
16. The Sweetest Gift
17. Giving Back to Gibson Park
18. The Phoenix Reading Project Book Collection
19. Food Distribution with Commissioner Richardson
20. Bullets 4 Life Workshop with the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force
Teens and Up
21. Play, Learn, Imagine, Create (This project will begin at 1 pm)
22. B’nei Mitzvah Family Project: Urban Gardening with Repair the World
23. Let it Shine
24. TBS Sisterhood Toiletry Baskets for the Elderly
25. Bringing Back Memories
26. BESHTY Project with Repair the World
27. Sports and Fun at Gibson Park
28. Blood and Platelets Drive
Adults
29. Flower Arrangements with Yodeah
30. Jews in Canoes with the Tribe
Additional Collections
New to You
The Children’s Trust Books for Free
Booths to Visit
PACT – People Acting for Community Together
Yodeah – Hereditary Cancers in Ashkenazi Jews
Gun Violence Prevention Task Force
American Cancer Society
Wed, July 6 2022
7 Tammuz 5782
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