Mitzvah Day
SAVE THE DATE, Donate to Fill Care Kits & Start Knitting!
A day of Social Action, Service Learning, Charitable Giving
and Acts of Loving Kindness
Mitzvah Day, Sun. Feb 11, 10am-1pm in the HT Social Hall!
This is a collaboration between Hebrew Tabernacle & Beth Am.
Click here to FILL A CARE KIT
Join the Knitting Circle for Mitzvah Day, Sun afternoons, starting Jan. 14, 3-5pm in the Gold Wing Lobby. We’ll provide the yarn & some needles (or bring your own), and you can Learn to Knit or just knit & chat as we make warm hats and scarves for migrants and other homeless neighbors. Kids and grown ups are welcome!
- Support migrants, refugees and neighbors experiencing homelessness
- Knit/donate hats & scarves – Donate & sort winter coats & blankets – Assemble toiletry Care Kits
- Support neighbors experiencing food insecurity
- Bring non-perishable foods in carts we’ll deliver to the Fort Fridge
- Support our Earth
- Attend a workshop for adults on climate justice advocacy in NY state
- Attend story time & workshop for kids about caring for our planet
- Support voting rights & reproductive rights
- Write to our representatives about issues that matter
Schedule of Events
10am to 12:45pm:
- Kids’ Care Kit Assembly Line
- Winter Outerwear/Blanket Sorting/Bagging
- Art Projects for Kids on Repairing the World
- Receiving Food Donations for Fort Fridge
- Advocacy Letters, NY Equal Rights/Reprod. Rts. Amendment Pledge
- Knitting Circle for hats/scarves
Special Events:
11am-12pm
- Adult Workshop on Reform Jewish NY Climate Justice Campaign
- Early Childhood Story time (1/2 hour)
12pm-1pm
- Elementary Fruits of the Earth Workshop & Story Time (3-4th grade)
- Adult Orientation to Reclaim Our Vote postcard campaign for voting rights
12:45pm
- Food Caravan with Carts & Kids to the Fort Fridge (181 St/Ft Wash Ave)
- Car Caravan with Care Kits & Winter clothes/blankets to Uptown Wagon volunteers’ homes (131st & 137th Streets)