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Social Action Archive
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Events are listed chronologically. Click on items with blue
links for additional information.
2008/09
Social Action Events - Description |
Date |
Sisterhood Chanukah Mitzvah Project
This project is an opportunity for our congregants
to make the holiday a little brighter for those less
fortunate than ourselves. |
October - November, 2008 |
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Jeremiahans Partner with
Community for Pre-Thanksgiving Feast
Greater Bethlehem Healing Church hosted an early Thanksgiving
celebration for about 450 people in need for which 23
Temple Jeremiah families prepared over 60 pies of different
flavors. The temple's Social Action Committee dedicated
part of its budget towards providing enough turkey and
other “fixin’s” to feed this large
crowd AND 36 Jeremiahans and friends helped prepare,
serve and clean-up at the church. Our volunteers represented
our Caring Community, teen InterAct social action program,
Sisterhood and numerous families who came together to
make it a blessed Thanksgiving for these wonderful friends
of ours on the South Side.
If you are looking for ways to help others celebrate
during the holiday season (or any time) please look
into volunteering with: The
Ark and The Uptown Café, Howard
Community Center, the New
Trier Food Pantry, Northfield
Food Pantry, Deerfield
Food Pantry or go to Temple Jeremiah's list of Tikkun
Olam resources where you will find an easy to navigate
list of over 120 organizations with whom our congregation
partners. |
Saturday, November
22, 2008 |
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Bridge to Success Clothing
Drive
Congregants donated new and "gently used"
professional attire to the temple for donation to Bridge
to Success, a not-for-profit organization which provides
work-appropriate clothing for low-income job seekers.
Bridge to
Success helps provide a "bridge" between
the street and the workplace by providing clients with
wardrobes for job interviews, as well as offering interview
coaching and job training. |
November
6 - 23, 2008 |
Annual Noni Dodge Blood Drive
Every day 1500 donors are needed. Temple Jeremiah responds
every year by hosting a blood drive benefitting LifeSource.
Thanks to all who gave so generously. |
November 23, 2008 |
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Mitzvah Mitten Madness
Our Religious School students collected mittens and gloves
for needy children in the Chicago area. |
December, 2008 |
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Book Collection Drive
for Waukegan High School
As a result of Waukegan School District's
9th Grade High School consolidating with its
10th - 12th Grade High School in 2009/10, the district
requested help converting the library into a 9th - 12th
grade library. Temple Jeremiah helped by collecting
new and gently used age-appropriate books, including such
classics as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Crime and
Punishment. |
February - March 1, 2009 |
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6th Grade
Drive for PADS
Sixth graders collected food and clothing items for the
homeless in Lake County. |
March, 2009 |
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Tzedakah Fair, Bone Marrow
Registration Drive & Stuffed Animal Drive
Representatives from
Chai Lifeline, American Friends of the Israeli Defense
Force, the ARK, Jewish National Fund and the Jewish
Children's Bureau were on hand to talk about their
organizations and explain why our financial support
is so critical.
In addition, as a grand finale mitzvah, children brought
in small, new stuffed animals for donation to an Israeli
children's
hospital.
Bone Marrow Drive - One of our B'nai
Mitzvah candidates, David Pfeifer, hosted
a Bone Marrow Drive during the fair. Over 6000 men,
women and children with leukemia, lymphoma and other
life-threatening illnesses rely daily on the National
Marrow Donor Program. You can help by joining the registry
as a donor or by donating money to cover the cost of
tissue typing. To learn more, visit www.marrow.org. |
April 26, 2009 |
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Blood & Bone Marrow Drive
In response to the dire need for blood, Temple
Jeremiah, in cooperation with LifeSource, hosts an annual blood drive. This year's program also included a bone marrow drive. The drive generated 31 pints of blood, the most we have collected since 2004, and will be used to potentially save the lives of 93 people.
Temple Jeremiah received a letter from Michelle Ireland
of LifeSource thanking the many congregants and community
members who made
this
drive
a success. "Please extend our gratitude to everyone who
gave unselfishly of themselves to help others - they
are our heroes!" she writes. |
November 15, 2009 |
2006/07
& 2007/08 Social Action Events - Description |
Date |
Sisterhood Chanukah Mitzvah Project
This project is an opportunity for our congregants
to make the holiday a little brighter for those less
fortunate than ourselves. |
October - November, 2006 |
Brotherhood Build-a-Playground
Project in Waukegan
As the exciting culmination of this social action project
to benefit Waukegan schools. congregants gathered together
to put up a playground at Waukegan's EPIC Pre-School at
326 Julian Street in Waukegan. Our crew worked throughout
the morning to install slides, swings and other playground
equipment. Sisterhood served lunch to our volunteers. Click
here to learn more
about the Waukegan social action project and to view a
video of the playground installation. |
October 22, 2006 |
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Annual Noni Dodge Blood Drive
Every day 1500 donors are needed. Temple Jeremiah responds
every year by hosting a blood drive benefitting LifeSource.
Thanks to all who gave so generously. |
November 19, 2006 |
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Ta'am Yisrael
Anne and Jerry Lidsky led a group of 8th graders to Israel. |
February, 2007 |
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6th Grade
Drive for PADS
Sixth graders collected food and clothing items for the
homeless in Lake County. |
March, 2007 |
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Project Linus Blanket Day
Temple Jeremiah congregants got together to knit, crochet,
sew, cut and create blankets for Project Linus. A non-profit
organization that donates handmade blankets to critically
ill and traumatized children, Project Linus has donated
over 1,806,000 blankets to hospitals and agencies serving
children in crisis. |
April 15, 2007 |
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Kids First Health Fair School
Collection Drive
Temple Jeremiah collected new school supplies and backpacks
to help underprivileged families.
The backpacks and school supplies went to support the
15th Annual Kids First Health Fair on Wednesday, August
1, 2007 at Miguel Juarez Middle School in Waukegan.
Serving between 1300 and 2000 children, the fair allows
limited-income children in Lake County to meet public
school health requirements and receive preventive health
services. Upon complete of the required services, the
children receive a backpack with school supplies. Thank
you to our generous donors for their support! |
April
22 - April 29, 2007 |
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Bingo Sunday
The 8th Grade Sunday School hosted this fundraiser
for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund. Participants
played bingo, won prizes, ate, relaxed and raised money
for a good cause. |
April 29, 2007 |
Sisterhood Chanukah Mitzvah Project
This project is an opportunity for our congregants
to make the holiday a little brighter for those less
fortunate than ourselves. |
October
- November, 2007 |
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Annual Noni Dodge Blood &
Bone Marrow Drive
 Temple
Jeremiah hosted a Blood and Bone Marrow Drive to benefit
LifeSource. Thanks to our generous donors for giving the
gift of life. |
November
18, 2007 |
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6th Grade
Drive for PADS
Sixth graders collected food and clothing items for the
homeless in Lake County. |
March, 2008 |
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Project Linus Blanket Day
Temple Jeremiah made blankets to donate to Project
Linus, a non-profit organization that donates handmade
blankets to critically ill and traumatized children.
To date it has donated over 1,806,000 blankets. Our
blankets went to Project Linus' Northbrook Chapter,
which distributes blanets to 15 Chicago area hospitals
and agencies serving children in crisis. |
April 27, 2008 |
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The
Penny Project
Temple Jeremiah embarked on an 18-month long penny collection
drive as part of its effort to remember the lives lost
during the Holocaust. Modeled after the "Paper Clip
Project," the temple raised $1800 which went to the
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center |
October
26, 2006 -
April
27, 2008 |
2005/06
Social Action Events - Description |
Date |
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Jacob's Ladder - Collection Drive
for Hurricane Katrina Victims
Temple Jeremiah spearheaded a collection drive of
items to send to the Union for Reform Judaism's Henry
S. Jacobs
Camp in Utica, Mississippi, which served as a distribution
center for Hurricane Katrina victims. |
September,
2005 |
Sisterhood Chanukah Mitzvah Project
This project is an opportunity for our congregants
to make the holiday a little brighter for those less
fortunate than ourselves. |
October - November, 2005 |
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Annual Noni Dodge Blood & Bone Marrow Drive
Once again, Temple Jeremiah partnered with LifeSource
to provide this Annual Blood Drive.
In addition, we also hosted a Bone Marrow Drive this year
to match donors with people in need of a marrow or blood
stem cell transplant. |
January, 2006 |
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6th Grade
Drive for PADS
Sixth graders collected food and clothing items for the
homeless in Lake County. |
February,
2006 |
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L'taken Social Justice Seminar
Rabbi Greenberg and several teenagers participated
in the L'taken Social Justice Seminar in Washington,
D.C. as part of the Religious Action Center of Reform
Judaism. Clicl above to learn more about their trip. |
February,
2006 |
Ta'am Yisrael
Learn about an exciting trip to Israel taken by Temple
Jeremiah 8th graders, accompanied by Anne and Jerry Lidsky. |
February, 2006 |
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6th Grade
Drive for PADS
6th graders collected items for the homeless in Lake County
in cooperation with Public Action to Deliver Shelter and
Supportive Services (PADS). |
February,
2006 |
Confirmation
Class Fundraiser for Rwanda
The Confirmation Class sold $1740 worth of popcorn with a
profit of $852 going to aid the Women's Equity in Access to
Care and Treatment for HIV/AIDS Initiative (WE-ACTx) in Rwanda.
The goal of this group is to provide medical care to HIV-positive
Rwandan women and their children who survived the 1994 genocide
and to widows living in poverty. |
Spring, 2006 |
| Rally to Stop the Genocide in the
Sudan
Over 400,000 have been killed in the Darfur region
of the Sudan and over 2 million people's lives are at
risk. Elected officials and religious, community and
human rights leaders joined together at a rally to stop
the genocide. |
May
1, 2006 |
2002/03,
2003/04 & 2004/05 Social Action Events - Description |
Date |
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Habitat for Humanity |
January -
December, 2003 |
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Tzedakah Fair 2003 |
February,
2003 |
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Locks of Love - Salon Extravaganza |
May 18, 2003 |
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Jeremiah Student Dedicates Bar
Mitzvah Proceeds to Food Drive |
September
6, 2003 |
Sisterhood Chanukah Mitzvah Project
This project is an opportunity for our congregants
to make the holiday a little brighter for those less
fortunate than ourselves. |
October - November, 2003 |
Annual Noni Dodge Blood Drive
Every day 1500 donors are needed. Temple Jeremiah responds
every year by hosting a blood drive benefitting LifeSource.
Thanks to all who gave so generously. |
November 16, 2003 |
Project NACOEJ (North American Conference
on Ethiopian Jewry)
- Display of
Ethiopian Products
- National Photo
Exhibit
- Sharing An Ethiopian
Shabbat
- Fain
Award |
December 7, 2003
March 14, 2004
March 19, 2004
March, 2005
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Congregants Help Project Linus |
April,
2004 |
Congregant Walks for Breast Cancer
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June 5 & 6, 2004 |
Collecting for Our Troops |
Fall,
2004 |
Sisterhood Chanukah Mitzvah Project
This project is an opportunity for our congregants
to make the holiday a little brighter for those less
fortunate than ourselves.
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October
- November, 2004 |
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Annual Noni Dodge Blood Drive
Temple Jeremiah hosted an Annual Blood Drive to benefit
LifeSource. Thanks to all who gave. |
November
14, 2004 |
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