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Ohef Sholom Temple’s Sisterhood makes part of Mitzvah Day 2020 happen in 2021 with chemotherapy comfort bags Sandi Levi and Anne Kramer
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Members of Ohef Sholom Temple’s Sisterhood craft notes for the bags.
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ike so many other events planned in 2020, Ohef Sholom Temple’s Mitzvah Day had to be postponed in April of last year. Planning for the big day was already underway when everything seemed to come to Sandi Levi and Anne Kramer, co-chairs of the an abrupt halt. chemotherapy comfort bags project. One of the projects scheduled for Mitzvah Day was the purchase and assembly of Chemotherapy Comfort bags for each new patient at Virginia Oncology. As a continuation of Mitzvah Day 2020, OST Sisterhood gathered on July 10, 2021 to assemble the bags. A fleece blanket, bottle of water, snacks, mints, mint tea bags, chap stick, lotion, tissues, ear plugs, deck of playing cards, pens, a note pad, mouth wash, a puzzle book and motivational stones The bags are assembled by the OST Sisterhood members. filled each tote bag. Volunteers wrote and decorated special made monetary donations, donations note cards to tie onto each bag. in-kind, and donations of time made With great pride, on behalf of OST these bags possible. Sisterhood and the Mitzvah Day committee, 150 bags were assembled and Sandi Levi and Anne Kramer served as delivered. The OST Sisterhood members co-chairs of the Chemotherapy Comfort bags and office staff, as well as those who project.
