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Volunteers Needed for 11th Annual Homebound Mitzvah Program for the High Holidays
West Palm Beach, Fla. (July 19, 2007) - Volunteers are needed to assist with the Kramer Senior Services Agency’s 11th Annual Homebound Mitzvah Program for the High Holidays. The Homebound Mitzvah Program prepares and delivers meals, traditional holiday items, and videotaped High Holiday services, to homebound Jewish seniors in Palm Beach County, who would not otherwise be able to prepare a traditional celebration on their own.
Rosh Hashanah is the holiday that marks the beginning of the Jewish New Year. This year, it begins at sundown on Wednesday, Sept. 12, marking the beginning of the year 5,768 in the Jewish calendar. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year for those of the Jewish faith. It begins this year at sundown on Sept. 22.
Since its inception in 1997, the Homebound Mitzvah Program has delivered tens of thousands of holiday meals to local homebound Jewish seniors. Frail, homebound elders rely on this program, and the volunteers associated with it, to provide them with the traditional items that make these holidays so meaningful.
There are a number of volunteer opportunities available this year, however the largest need is for deliveries, and mostly for those in the central Palm Beach County area.
Mitzvah Day: 4-6 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 4
Area students and their families will be helping to assemble boxes, package soup, bake honey cakes, design Jewish New Year’s cards,
etc.
Meal Plating Days: 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m., and 1-3 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 5 and 6
Plate Kosher holiday meals, package soup, etc.
Delivery Day: 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday, Sept. 10
Volunteer Homebound Mitzvah Program meal deliveries will be completed on Monday, Sept. 10, from the Marilyn & Stanley M. Katz Seniors Campus in West Palm Beach at 4847 Fred Gladstone Drive, as well as at the Morse Adult Day Center on the Alex & Esther Gruber Jewish Community Campus at 8500 Jog Road in Boynton Beach.
Literally hundreds of volunteers are necessary to make this program successful, beginning immediately and continuing until the Homebound Mitzvah Program delivery day on Monday, Sept. 10. For more information on how you or your business can volunteer for the Homebound Mitzvah Program, please call the Mitzvah Volunteer Center at (561) 687-5337.
The Homebound Mitzvah Program is sponsored by the Lola & Saul Kramer Senior Services Agency and is made possible through the generosity of our “Mitzvah Makers,” and a grant by the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County. The Kramer Agency is a not-for-profit affiliate of MorseLife, Inc. on the Marilyn & Stanley M. Katz Seniors Campus.