Supporting Four Important Mitzvah Opportunities

We look forward to seeing you on Sun May 19 for the final session of Am Yisrael SJS for 2018-2019 (5779).   We hope you will be able to support four important mitzvah opportunities:

1. Kira Friedel is selling "Healthy Food For All" bracelets at $3.00 per bracelet ($5.00 for two bracelets) to support Leket Israel  https://www.leket.org/en/ for her Israel/Passion Mitzvah Project. 

NOTE : If younger students who don't know Kira personally bring envelopes with $3 in them that have the words "Leket Israel" written on them, we will get your "Healthy Food for All" bracelet this Sun May 19.

 

2. Noah Youderian is collecting books for Bernie's Books https://www.berniesbookbank.org/ for one of his Mitzvah Projects.  There are boxes set up in in Classroom #9 (second floor of SJS building).

 

3. There are boxes set up in Classroom #5 (second floor of SJS building) for our end of SJS year food drive.  According to the coordinator of this program at the Ark, the following are the items most needed by the Ark clients:

  • Torah Tots with a Twist (Newborn-3.5 years): gefilte fish
  • Gan (3.5 years-6 years): herbal tea (caffeinated or decaf)
  • Alef/Bet (1st-2nd Grades): pasta sauce
  • Gimel (3rd Grade): applesauce
  • Dalet (4th Grade): tuna
  • Hei (5th Grade): oatmeal (plain oatmeal is best, but any will be appreciated)
  • Vav & Zayin (6th & 7th Grades): soups (ie. Chicken soup with noodles or matzah balls, etc.)
  • Prozdor & Pardes (8th, 9th & 10th Grades): corn
  • Tichon (11th & 12th Grades): peas
Please click on this link for the full Food Drive Message: https://conta.cc/2ViReCK

4. Each SJS class is collecting Tzedakah throughout the year to support organizations that each class chooses with their teachers. The class totals and organizations chosen are listed in the chart directly below.   Allocation Percentages, can be modified by students speaking with their teachers and the class as a whole coming to new consensuses.  

Shavua Tov/שבוע טוב

Charlie Sherman, MAEd, CJE
Head of School
Am Yisrael Conservative Congregation
4 Happ Road
Northfield, IL 60093
Cell phone: 847/708.1805
Fax:  847/446.7202