April 6, 2025, All Day
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Please join us for our 2nd Annual Day of Service! We will have many activities for hands and talents of all ages and abilities!
More information is available when you click the available links. If you need still more information, email the activity coordinator at the email address provided.
Service Projects at TBE
- Blood Drive (more)
- 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The need is constant; the gratification is instant. There is no substitute for blood. Donors provide the only supply of life-saving blood for those in need.
- Register to give blood using this link.
- To volunteer to work the drive, please contact Jacki Skole (blooddrive@templebethelnj.org).
- Garden Cleanup
- Help spruce up TBE with planting and weeding. Bring gloves and tools.
- Contact Vicki Schwartz (garden@templebethelnj.org) with questions.
- Kitchen Prep for Pesach
- Our Ritual Committee seeks volunteers to clear our kitchen of chametz, and make our refrigerator, cabinets, and carts Pesach ready.
- Contact Lisa Schatz (KitchenPrep@templebethelnj.org) from the Ritual Committee to help with this important mitzvah!
- Library Organizing
- Our library books have been reorganized and the sections need to be labeled. Help to make our library more user-friendly, shelve some books, and make new friends.
- Contact Linda Paulanski (library@templebethelnj.org) to volunteer.
- Review Repair Needs for Prayerbooks
- Ladles of Love Tastings
- Sample what our Ladles of Love team has to offer and learn how you can join and help! Questions? Contact Dana Shapiro and Rich Wolff ladlesoflove@templebethelnj.org
Creating at TBE
- Toiletry Bags and Coloring Books for Agape House Residents – Hosted by the New Member Engagement Committee
- These bags will provide needed toiletries and entertainment packed with love for families coping with housing insecurity.
- Contact Membership Committee Chair Elayne Weitz at chairmembership@templebethelnj.org
- Cards
- Get Well and Sympathy Cards to go with Ladles of Love deliveries (refuah shlemah)
- Pesach cards for Holocaust survivors and shut-ins to go with Pesach deliveries
- Elijah’s Promise Snack Bags
- Assemble snack bags for clients of Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen in New Brunswick. This is a fun, hands-on way to help ensure healthy snacks for those in need.
- For questions, contact Tamar Yarkoni (snackbags@templebethelnj.org).
- Pesach Bags for Holocaust Survivors & Low Income Seniors
- Assemble bags that will be delivered by Jewish Family Services to Holocaust Survivors & Low Income Seniors for Passover.
- Matzah & Macaroon donations welcome! Ask friends and family who may have their free 5lb box! Please contact Linda Paulanski passoverbags@templebethelnj.org with any questions.
- Homemade Snuffle Mats for SAVE Animal Shelter
- Dry Soup Ingredient Jars
- Fleece Blankets for HOME Guests
- Provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to families who are unhoused with the gifts of new hand-knotted blankets
- Contact Mark Reynolds (homecoordinator@templebethelnj.org) with any questions.
Advocacy at TBE
- Civic Engagement
- Advocacy How-to’s
- Voter Registration
- RAC-NJ Immigrant Trust Act Campaign
- Learn about Immigrant Trust Act, write postcards to state legislators
- Learn about our Refugee Resettlement volunteer opportunities
Collections at TBE
Note: All items can be brought to the temple in the week leading in to April 6
- Food Bank Network of Somerset County Donations
- Giving Network Household Collection
- Recycling Collection
- Temple Beth-El’s Green team welcomes you to bring the following hard-to-recycle items to Temple in the week leading up to and on our Day of Service on April 6: Batteries, styrofoam blocks, discarded pens, wire coat hangers, textiles, old media of any kind (VHS and audio tapes, CDs, DVDs), old cell phones and tablets, and other non-functioning consumer electronics. We know you hate to put these items in the trash!
- Please contact Dave Cohen (greenteam@templebethelnj.org) with any questions.
- New Children’s Books for Manville Library gifts to kids
- Librarians will distribute books (pre-K through grade 2) to children who otherwise would not own books of their own
- Contact Nina Hertz or Linda Paulanski with questions library@templebethelnj.org
Community Activities
- Grow-A-Row
- TBE Volunteers will participate in a Community volunteer event with America’s Grow-a-Row tentatively on April 10. Help cut and plant potatoes, which produce hundreds of potatoes for those in need. Date and location: April 10th from 9:00-12:00 at 150 Pittstown Rd, Pittstown, NJ 08867 Registration is required.
- Please email Jeff Rubin at CommunityHarvest@templebethelnj.org to sign up.
- Singing at Laurel Circle – 100 Monroe St, Bridgewater
- Join the choir in singing Pesach tunes to assisted living residents. Meet at 1:30 p.m., singing begins at 2:00 p.m..
- If interested, please contact Cantor Risa Wallach
