Adat Shalom’s ‘Volunteer Day in a Box’

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Adat Shalom’s ‘Volunteer Day in a Box’

Enthusiastic and talented volunteers of all ages participated in Adat Shalom’s Volunteer Day in a Box, supporting 10 organizations throughout Metro Detroit. Boxes full of hands-on projects and step-by-step instructions to create more than 1,000 items to benefit those in need were put together, picked up and delivered.

Each project was designed with the event’s core values in mind: Repair the world: tikkun olam; feeding the hungry: ha’akhalat re’evim; big hearted: lev tov; kindness to animals: tzaar ba’alei Chayim; and working as a community: kehillah tov.

While acts of kindness are not saved for one day a year, Volunteer Day is always very special thanks to the community that plan, implement and get creative during the event. Individuals, grandparents and grandchildren, cousins, friends and neighbors all had fun while spreading kindness.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF ADAT SHALOM FAMILIES

Rabbi Aaron Bergman and volunteers Geula Rapp, Charm Levine, and Clara Elinger sorting fleece for the dog tug toys that went to the Michigan Animal Rescue League.

Elliana and Gabriel Shayne are enthusiastic about the projects they created to donate to those in need. Director of Adult Learning and Youth Engagement at Adat Shalom Jodi Gross works with Adat Shalom student and project volunteer Olivia Herskovic on creating a scarf.

Micah Issner, second grade, and his grandfather Jim Issner engineered a system for making the tug toys. Madeline Friedman and her dad, Jaron Friedman, picked up their box of projects.

Cousins Leah Levin and Benjamin Elkus of West Bloomfield baked for the Detroit Community Fridge.