Direct Services

GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK
Congregants & visitors are asked to bring a donation of canned food each time they come to Temple Israel. The donations, collected on the Baker's Rack, go to the Greater Boston Food Bank.

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SUNDAY'S BREAD
Saturday's/Sunday's Bread is a program that serves free hot meals to people in need in Boston every Saturday and Sunday at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, 35 Bowdoin Street, Boston.  Its mission is to provide healthy meals in a safe and inviting atmosphere. This is an interfaith, interracial, interdenominational activity of people concerned with the hungry in the Boston area.  Over the course of its 25 years, Saturday's/Sunday's Bread has served more than 300,000 guests.

Temple Israel's long-standing commitment to Saturday's/Sunday's Bread is to provide volunteers on the first Sunday of each month.  Volunteering is a four-hour committment.  To learn more, please contact Sumner Shore or Dee Shore (617-527-4417) or visit the website.  If you'd like to volunteer, please contact Rebecca Herst (617-566-3960 x143).

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FAMILY TABLE
Help Feed Needy Families
Temple Israel has received its assignment for the coming year from Family Table, a community program which provides kosher food to over 150 needy Jewish households in the Boston area. Temple Israel's assignment will be collecting kosher peanut butter and raisins. Temple Israel is responsible for 40 jars of kosher peanut butter and 40 boxes of kosher raisins each month. Please note that Temple Israel's assignment has been changed and we are no longer being asked to provide tuna fish, but raisins instead. 
Please think about bringing a jar of peanut butter or a box of raisins with you when you come to the Temple. You can leave the kosher peanut butter and raisins in the designated basket next to the Baker's Rack in the Sherman Lobby. Family Table thanks the members of Temple Israel for their support throughout the year and especially its help with deliveries and special appeals.
For questions about Family Table, call TI Family Table Coordinators, Cathy and Michael Malamut at (781) 329-9096 or email to Cathy and Michael Malamut.

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THE GREATER BOSTON COALITION FOR LITERACY

We invite you to become a literacy volunteer at the Willian Henderson Inclusive School in Dorchester.  The Henderson School is a model school for parent involvement and serves a diverse cultural community of students, some of whom have special physical and academic needs. 

Members of Temple Israel have served as reading partners to students in Grades 1 and 2 for the past 12 years through the Coalition for Literacy program coordinated by the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC).  The program involves tutoring a student in reading once a week, after school, for an hour.

Training and resources are provided by the Coalition; Appreciation and positive experiences are provided by the students and their parents and teachers.

For more information please call Rhea Bufferd at 617-969-5562.