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Chaverim Partners in Mitzvah Birthday Project

Suggested Mitzvot To Do On Your Birthday Month

1. Go grocery shopping with your and fill a bag for food. Bring it to the food pantry of your choice. Suggested pantries: __ Chicago Food Depository __ www.**chicago**s**food**bank.org/ __Moraine Township Food Pantry__, 777 Central Avenue, Highland Park, IL 60035, 847-432-3240 __The Ark (Kosher Food Pantry)__ 8450 North California, 773-973-1000 ark@arkchicago.org TARK Check out [] for other pantries. 2. Join Patty Mason to make sandwiches for PADS bag lunch program. Choose a date: All programs take place at NSCI. Oct. 4(10-11am) Nov. 8(10-11am)  Feb. 21(11-Noon)  March 14(11-Noon) And/or help deliver the bags to PADS. 3. Participate in the Hanukah Gifts for the Needy program and include some gift certificates to restaurants or grocery stores. (See the Temple Bulletin in November for details about the program). 4. Participate in the Sukkot Food Drive and bring your recyclable bag full of food to the Sukkot Family Service on October 2. 5. Provide a Thanksgiving meal to a needy family. (Call the Ark (see above) to find a family who would benefit from this Mitzvah). 6. Prepare a meal for someone who is sick or elderly. (Ask Rabbi Greene for the name of someone in our community who would benefit from this Mitzvah, or contact representatives of Chai at NSCI or Helping Hands of Chesed, two groups from the synagogue that help members in need). 7. Arrange a mini- bake sale. Make goodies and sell them before or after school on Sunday. Donate your proceeds to Feed the Homeless at NSCI, to the Ark, or to another organization that fights hunger. 8. Make Mishloach Manot (Plates of Purim goodies), sell them at the Purim Carnival and donate the proceeds to Feed the Homeless at NSCI, or to the Ark. Or to another organization that fights hunger. 9. Participate in the Maot Chitim project as a family. The project provides food to needy Jewish families on Rosh Hashanah and on Passover. Participation involves helping pack and transport boxes of food. Only children over 12 can pack boxes but families with small children can deliver food. Contact: [|**http://www.maotchitim.org/**] 10. Participate in Chai @ NSCI programs at the Beth Emet Food Kitchen. See Rabbi Greene for more information. Or think up your own project to help feed the hungry. Have fun! // Don’t forget to take pictures, both digital and printed so that we can post them on the Chaverim Wiki and put them in the Partners for Mitzvah mural to inspire others to get involved! //