Lakeside Congregation has a very active social action committee which has just passed the torch of Leadership from Joyce Lyon to Len Solof. Looking for a new mitzvah project check out our Lakeside Social Action page and find projects for all ages. I refer many of our B'nai Mitzvah students to this page and they find all the information they need to complete 13 hours of Mitzvot.
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| 7th and 8th Grade at Northern Il Food Bank |
Lakeside's Religious school is also very busy with monthly social action projects. We pack for our local PADS shelter every 3rd Sunday and ask different grades to bring in the food we need to pack 50-100 lunches. Thanks to Jill and Michael Klee, Missy Pos and all of the volunteers who help organize the packing of all of the lunches to those who help schlep the lunches to Waukegan.
On the 2nd Sunday of every month we have one grade go the Northern Illinois Food Bank and we carpool with parents for an intergenerational experience. We pack, sort or do whatever the food Bank needs us to do. This is and was a favorite project of Rabbi Isaac Serotta's and he was instrumental in having the food bank open on Sunday so our families and congregants can experience this mitzvah.
Jill Klee also spearheads our visits to the soup kitchen at Beth Emet which is in Evanston. On Wednesday afternoon's we bring the ingredients, cook the meal and serve it to over 100 people in their community room. Many of our B'nai Mitzvah families have participated in this mitzvah and it always make a deep impression on them.
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| Beth Emet Soup Kitchen |
Our annual mitzvah day will be May 3, 2015. We will again have numerous opportunities to do Mitzvot in our community including participating in the Chicago Walk for Israel.
Looking for some social action projects? Click on this links or come in to Lakeside and I can give you even more ideas.
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