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October 31, 2024, 10:58 am Edit
Temple Emeth’s social action committee sponsored a food drive for Teaneck’s Helping Hands Food Pantry – the Janice Preschel Project and the Center for Food Action in Englewood. Congregants took home an empty supermarket paper bag after Rosh Hashanah services, which they filled and brought back before Yom Kippur. (Barbara Balkin)
Temple Emeth’s social action committee sponsored a food drive for Teaneck’s Helping Hands Food Pantry – the Janice Preschel Project and the Center for Food Action in Englewood. Congregants took home an empty supermarket paper bag after Rosh Hashanah services, which they filled and brought back before Yom Kippur. (Barbara Balkin)

The Jewish Family and Children’s Services of Northern New Jersey’s Corner Market food pantry received more than 100 bags of groceries and several checks from the JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah’s High Holy Day Operation Isaiah monthlong food drive.

From left: JFCS Chief Development Director Michele Wellikoff; Debbie Zeiler, Ruth Smith, and Sandy Alpern of the JCCP/CBT CARE Committee, and JFCS volunteer coordinator Stacey Frenkel. (JFCS)

JFCS appreciates the continued relationship it has with JCC of Paramus/CBT, which holds drives to support JFCS throughout the year. According to JFCS, “It is a true blessing when organizations can come together to help those who struggle with life’s challenges.”

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