Hungry for Music - The Gift of Music
Daniel Awerbuck is involved with the organiziation Hungry For Music hungryformusic.org which is a non-profit organization that provides the gift of music to underserved children who have a desire to play. Daniel will be collecting instruments from schools, music teachers and music stores. Through this agency the instruments will be provided to students wanting to learn or teachers who have students in need of an instrument.
Clarity: Water - Safe Drinking Water Program
For Sarah Arnow mitzvah project, Sarah is focusing on the problem of safe drinking water in small villages. She is helping raise money to help a community build a well so they will have a sustainable water supply. She has teamed up with Mia Hurst, a local yoga teacher, to raise funds for a well through Charity: Water. They hope to raise a total of $5,000, enough for a village well for about 250 people. For more information regarding this program visit: http://www.charitywater.org/about/.
Interfaith Housing Emergency Lodging Program
Aaron Kreitman has taken on as his mitzvah project to cook and serve two I-HELP meals at local community churches. I-HELP offers single men shelter, food and support though the continued support of over 60 congregations throughout Monterey County, including Congregation Beth Israel. I-HELP has never missed a night of offering services for the homeless in its 13 years of operation. For more information on how you can help, visit http://www.shelteroutreachplus.org/index.html.
Save the Honey Bees Project
Isaac Leker has chosen to increase awareness about disappearing honeybees and provide information about the ways that individuals can help. One-third of our nation’s food supply depends on bee pollination, but bees are vanishing in astonishing numbers. Häagen-Dazs has launched a campaign to help fund bee research at www.helpthehoneybees.com. For more information about the current state of bees in the U.S. visit the University of California, Davis Department of Entomology website http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm.
Ag Against Hunger Project
Maya Pollack mitzvah project is inspired by her pararshat, Emor, where Leviticus 23:22 tells the people to “not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and stranger.” Maya is working with the organization Ag Against Hunger to organize a gleaning day for her grade at Santa Catalina. The food gathered that day will be brought to the Food Bank for Monterey County, which provides food for 90,000 Monterey County residents.
