Temple Israel Sisterhood      Women's Auxiliary Organization

Caring Community

Caring Community recently made donations to:

Windemere Elementary School in Akron for their “100-Book Challenge.” Each child is given a book when meeting the challenge. The program improves vocabulary.

The clergy and teachers in the Gedaliah Gertz Education Center of chocolate Seder plates and gave the office staff candy for Easter.

Common Ground Relief, a health clinic in New Orleans where free medical services are offered to Hurricane Katrina victims. The donation will buy medical supplies. A Temple Israel congregant volunteering for a second time this year giving medical care in New Orleans delivered the Caring Community donation to the health clinic. 

The Shaw JCC Summer Day Camp for the purchase of equipment needed for camp and activities.

Caring Community is providing Shabbat Boxes to congregants and our Akron neighbors who are in emotional or physical need. The box includes a meal of cooked chicken, salad, fruit, vegetables, dessert, and challah and is delivered on Friday. Contact Carol Blum to recommend a recipient or to help with distribution of the Shabbat Boxes.

 
Please donate toys and books to the Juvenile Court Library by placing items
in the red container located in Temple's lobby.

For home, hospital or hospice visits from Rabbis Lipper and Werber, Rory Sanders or members of Bikkur Cholim, call Temple Israel's office at 330-762-8617. If you were unable to attend the November 6th Bikkur Cholim training session, call Eileen Schonfeld at 330-867-6289. Meetings are the third Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in Temple's library.

 Did You Know that Caring Community: 

Sponsors 100-Book Challenge and tutoring reading at Forest Hill Elementary School (need volunteers)

Donates hand-knitted scarves to Head Start (Tallmadge) preschoolers & winter wear to elementary students

Donates toys and books to Juvenile Court and CSB (please continue bringing these items to Temple)

Purchases family holiday meals and provides emergency services to residents of Summit County

Assists Hurricane Katrina Relief by providing supplies to Free Medical Clinic in New Orleans. Bring boxes of Band-Aids (any size) & insect repellent to the temple entrance and put them in the box marked "Hurricane Katrina medical supplies."

AND MORE!

  • Networks with other temples, synagogues, churches, schools, and service agencies to determine the needs of individuals and their families, and identify community resources?

  • Distributes flowers for Temple Israel and Sisterhood for the High Holy Days and Pesach? 

  • Provides holiday food, clothes, and toys to families for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Hanukah? 

  • Gave three JCC Day Camp scholarships?

  • Provided Funds for Jewish Family Services’ Senior Adult program at the JCC.?

  • Funded the Cantor Gedaliah Gertz Education Center tuition scholarships? 

  • Provided funding to assist college students with special needs?

  • Funded special medical needs? 

  • Supported Community Health Education Program on Adolescence?

  • Provided Shiva Assistance offered to congregants and their families? 

  • Offered support to hospitalized congregants and their families (hospital and home visits, sent flowers, and provided meals)?
     

ABOUT SISTERHOOD.  Sisterhood welcomes and needs the support and participation of each woman of Temple Israel.  Sisterhood allows us to channel our energies into meeting the contemporary needs of our lives, of our congregation, and of our community.  Through Sisterhood we can recognize and fulfill our obligations and our potential as Women of Reform Judaism.  

Sisterhood is … a community of women joined together to do more than each one can do alone. Sisterhood is … a group of women … wives, sisters, mothers, grandmothers, doctors, lawyers, clergy, individuals … trying to balance the many diverse demands in the all-too-few hours of each day.

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Women of Reform JudaismTemple Israel Sisterhood is a member of Women of Reform Judaism, The Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, representing 100,000 women in 600 local Sisterhoods throughout the United States, Canada and thirteen other countries.  WRJ is the women's agency of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the central body of Reform Judaism in North America
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