Social Action

SAVE THE DATE for Kol Rinah’s third annual Mitzvah Day on Sunday, May 5. It will bring together congregants of all ages to work on projects for the larger St. Louis community. At past events, we assembled meal kits for Operation Food Search and the Harvey Kornblum Jewish Food Pantry, made blankets for children at the Crisis Nursery and residents at BJC Hospice, planted pots with spring flowers for residents at Crown Center, made dog toys for the Humane Society and donated blood for ImpactLife, among many other activities. Help us make Mitzvah Day 2024 even more meaningful. Join the Mitzvah Day Planning Committee. Contact Denise Field at dzfield@wustl.edu for more information. And, of course, mark your calendar for May 5 for Mitzvah Day, 2024! 

 

The Tzedek Team is putting together an email list to keep people informed of LGBTQ+ issues and legislative actions. If you would like to be included on this list, please email Zoya Samsonov at zoya.samsonov@gmail.com. For more information about the current threats to LGBTQ+ rights and what you can do to help, please visit https://promoonline.org. 

 

We are continuing to collect plastic bags to crochet into sleeping mats for those without shelter. Thank you again to Roza Gossage for bringing this project to the Tzedek Team. Students at Kol Rinah have already begun working on these mats. We plan to expand our team of crocheters. Each mat requires a large number of bags, so please keep bringing your clean, dry grocery bags, any color, in the bin in the AsherGeller Entry Hall, the main lobby. If you would like to be included in the initial stages of sleeping mat assembly, please contact Becky Mollett at beckymollett@gmail.com 

 

The Tzedek Team plans to assist congregants and others with access to voting for the November 2024 election, so that everyone can exercise their fundamental right to vote. If you would like to be part of this project or need help with obtaining a voter ID or getting to the polls, please contact Becky Mollett at beckymollett@gmail.com. 

 

Finally, thank you to those who helped save lives at our February ImpactLife blood drive!