Sisterhood offers a variety of avenues to help those in need. Various programs take place each year, resulting in charitable contributions to many fine organizations.

• Proceeds from sales of the annual High Holy Day Challah Sale go to MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger.
• The High Holy Day Food Drive more than fills the ARK's trailer each year.
• Sisterhood's Chanukah Mitzvah Project, the "Wish Tag" program, generates gifts for clients of the Jewish Children's Bureau and the ARK during the holiday season.
• The sale of Sisterhood's new cookbook raised for software at the Waukegan School District, as part of Temple Jeremiah's campaign to benefit the students there.
• Sisterhood's Annual Women's Seder supports SHALVA, an agency which works to prevent domestic abuse in Jewish households.

Thanks to everyone for their generosity.

Annual Holiday Challah and Honey Sale for Rosh Hashanah

Every year Sisterhood sells lovely packages of challah, honey and apples prior to the High Holy Days. Proceeds go to MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger.

High Holy Day Food Drive

Please Bring Food Items to Temple on Yom Kippur:
Friday September 17 & Saturday, September 18, 2010

Every High Holy Day season, Sisterhood collects Kosher food and non-food items from our congregants for donation to the ARK's Food Pantry, the only Kosher food pantry in the Midwest. In addition, volunteers are needed to distribute bags on Rosh Hashanah and to collect the donated items on Yom Kippur. Please contact Margo Oliff for more information and to volunteer.

Chanukah Mitzvah Project

Wish Tags

Each year, Sisterhood, in cooperation with the ARK and Jewish Child and Family Services, sponsors the Chanukah Wish Tag program. The ARK provides Sisterhood with a list of "wishes" from its needy families - children and adults. Sisterhood places these tags in the temple lobby and congregants purchase gifts based on the tags.

The drive has resulted in a tremendous outpouring of gifts, from bicycles and DVDs to dolls, games and computer programs.

Sisterhood Chanukah Decoration & Gift Sale

Sisterhood offered a "mini-boutique" before Chanukah in 2008 and 2009 featuring a wide variety of items and free gift wrapping. Proceeds benefited Sisterhood's social action projects and events. Learn about our 2008 Sisterhood mini-boutique.

Serve-A-Meal

Volunteers are needed to serve a meal at the Jewish United Fund Cafè, 909 W. Wilson, Chicago at various times. Please call Roberta Mallon at 847-948-7799 if you can lend a hand.