5101 US HWY 42 • LOUISVILLE, KY 40241 • 502.423.1818
Volunteering
Social Action Committee
After many years of A Social Action Committee we streamlined some annual volunteer opportunities into the Merry Mitzvah Project and an annual Habitat for Humanity build. These are advertised throughout the Jewish Community and we get several non-Jewish participants. The Merry Mitzvah Project , was initiated by Rabbi David Ariel-Joel to offer Jewish volunteers on December 25 to local agencies to assist their clients, it has expanded to about 6 weeks of diverse Holiday volunteer options.
For about 10 years we have been sponsoring and building houses with Habitat for Humanity. We are the ICE Group: Interfaith Community Effort partnering with Episcopal, Lutherans, Catholics, Pakistani Physicians and anyone else who wants to join us to rehab or build a home for another family.
MERRY MITZVAH PROJECT: usually starts in November with sponsorship of dinner at the Volunteers of America Family Shelter during Hunger Awareness Week, this is when we also start collecting warm weather items. We have a healthy holiday lunch with gifts for female clients of Wellspring Mental Health Agency , wrap gifts for children at Brooklawn, serve meals with St Vincent DePaul, Cathedral of the Assumption and Volunteers of America; play music at Hosparus, engage with medically fragile children at Home of the Innocents, and deliver gloves, scarves, coats to Coalition for the Homeless, Family Scholar House and Volunteers of America. We make and deliver sandwiches to shelters(especially important on holidays when the men only get one meal a day and baked goods for the Rabbis to take on their visiting trips. WE are making a difference in the lives of our community. Come join us!
For more information about the Social Action Committee, contact David Bodine or
Caring Committee
The Caring Committee's goal is to help care for our members in a variety of ways. We visit congregants residing in nursing homes and assisted living facilities or who are homebound. For some holidays we come bearing seasonal gifts. We also hold periodic "cooking days" to stock the Temple freezer with soups, casseroles and sweets which the rabbis take on home visits associated with simchas, release from the hospital, or for comfort. Our volunteers can house-sit during a funeral.
Please contact Susan Waterman if you are able to join our team of volunteers to help us care and befriend some Temple members who can't get out like they used to. Also let the Caring Committee know if you or someone you love would enjoy receiving visitors.
