TIKKUN OLAM

UPCOMING TIKKUN OLAM

EVENTS

Get involved!  Sign up this week for your favorite project(s)!

On November 25th, from 2:30 - 4:30, B'nai David-Judea Congregation will visit the tidepools of Cabrillo Beach. We will meet at the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro.
The tour will be lead by the Aquarium education staff. It begins with an informative slide show in the John M. Olguin Auditorium. The staff naturalist will lead a ramble over the rocks at low tide. Life ranging from sea anemones to mussels, sea stars, crabs and tidepool fishes will be revealed! Please wear outdoor clothing and sneakers. The visit costs $1 per person.
Please contact Emily Cohen at emilyjc@mac.com or (310) 876-0537 to RSVP by November 9.

Please help us help those in need celebrate Hanukkah by participating in BDJ's annual Hanukkah Toy Drive to benefit the children of Tomchei Shabbos families.  Please bring NEW unwrapped toys (or money) to the BDJ office between November 8 and November 22.  Please also let us know if you are available to deliver the toys (dates to be determined).  Tomchei Shabbos tells us that BDJ is its main resource for Hanukkah gifts.  For more information, contact Susan Fink at stlfink@aol.com or 310-201-0150 or

Robert Smith at srsmink@aol.com or 323-965-6327.

Give Blood

BDJ’s Annual Blood Drive

Sunday, November 25th

To Schedule an Appointment

sign-up online at www.givelife.org

sponsor code: BnaiDavid

or send Carina Miller an email with your preferred
time b/t 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM, at millercj99@hotmail.com

HANUKKAH AT THE ALCOTT CENTER

WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS!

Our Annual Celebration will be on

Sunday, December 9th from 3:30 to 6:00pm

Spin Dreidels/Eat Latkes/Sing & Dance with our BDJ band

More Information to follow … To volunteer contact

mjbspitzer@aol.com or rhodauziel@yahoo.com

At the congregational meeting last June some members expressed that they felt disconnected from the synagogue’s activities because many of the announcements were placed over the internet. Don’t worry if you don’t have a computer, you can still be part of the virtual BDJ community. If you are interested in a synagogue class that would teach you to:

Use a computer to access the internet.

Open a free a-mail account.     Send and receive messages.

Open and view pictures.          Navigate a website.

Please call Debra Rabin @ 310 286 0564, or Amram or

Rav Ari in the BDJ office

(310) 280-9169 with your interest.

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B'nai David Judea is committed to social action - engaging in acts of tikkun olam. B'nai David members regularly volunteer their time in order to assist individuals and organizations with needs, both in the Jewish community and in the greater Los Angeles community.

The Tikkun Olam Committee seeks your time. This year, the shul participated in Tikkun L.A. and Mitzvah Day, two city-wide social action efforts whose impact was felt throughout Los Angeles.

B'nai David volunteers enjoy an ongoing relationship with the Alexandria House, a shelter for battered women and their children, by sharing dinner and play time with these families.

B'nai David has worked with Project Angel Food for three years, providing volunteers to deliver food to persons with HIV/AIDS who cannot leave their homes.

B'naid David provides lunch to the homeless people in our community with the Tikkun Olam Lunch Program.

B'nai David has consistently provided dedicated volunteers to the Federation's Koreh LA program that responds to the literacy problem in Los Angeles by providing readers to students in L.A. public schools who are reading below grade level.

Under the guidance of Neal Shapiro, shul volunteers have made a tremendous contribution to the environment of our communty, by planting and maintaining trees in the neighborhood.

B'nai David's Tikkun Olam Committee has great ambitions. We look forward to building a relationship between shul families and families in the community who have children with disabilities.

We would like to reach out further within our own membership by continuing the Dorot program that matched up shul members of different ages and culminated with a Shavuout intergenerational lunch.

Most of all, we hope that shul members will come forward who have interest in social action to help us go from strength to strength.