Social Action

At Kol Rinah’s Second Annual Mitzvah Day, 100 members of our congregation assembled meals for forty dinners and forty senior care kits for clients of Operation Food Search and created over 100 packages of hearty soup mix for the Harvey Kornblum Food Pantry. We decorated flower pots and planted them with spring flowers to brighten the rooms of residents of Crown Center, made toys for the animals cared for by the Humane Society of Missouri and blankets for both BJC Hospice and the St. Louis Crisis Nursery, and sent greetings to Israeli Soldiers. Adults donated 18 units of blood, which can save up to 54 lives! And we had a glorious day sharing those experiences with each other, as a community. (We ate quite a few hot dogs along the way, thanks to the Kol Rinah Brotherhood!)

 

None of this would have been possible without hours of work from the dedicated staff of Kol Rinah – Stacey Hudson, Karen Kern, Meir Zimand and Nancy Greene, our wonderful Rabbis, Noah Arnow and Scott Shafrin, Brotherhood, Sisterhood, KoREH, Monica Lynne Neidorff Early Childhood Center and the many, many volunteers who staffed the activities, purchased supplies, checked you in and cooked your food, set up the activities and cleaned up after everyone had left. It definitely took a village!!

 

If you missed it, please join us for our Third Annual Mitzvah Day, on the calendar for May 5, 2024!