Social Action
The Temple Beth David community is actively involved in tikkun olam (healing or repairing the world). We understand that each of us has a responsibility to change our surroundings and, by extension, the world for the better through participating in tzedakah (justice and righteousness) and g’milut chasidim (acts of loving kindness).
Contact Gail Mann, Chair of the Social Action Committee.
Supporting the Community
Sunday Sandwich Hevre
Students, parents and adult volunteers join together to form the Sunday Sandwich Hevre (SSH) - a hevre is a group of friends who do things together. SSH makes sack lunches for hungry people at Father Bill’s and Mainspring Homeless Shelter in Quincy.
Contact Gail Mann.
Family Table – JF & CS
Help our neighbors, colleagues and classmates who are living with food insecurity. As part of Family Table South, a program of Jewish Family and Children's Services, we provide 30 boxes of whole grain pasta and 30 cans of salmon to the pantry each month. Please bring cans to the bins at TBD. Place an order on Amazon from the Family Table Wish list. (Quantities of 12 cans or 8 boxes are more helpful and less wasteful than delivery of single items).
Contact Lynn Kaminski.
Interfaith Walk For Hunger
Temple Beth David joins with local houses of faith to support Project Bread, a local organization that serves the nearly 18% of Massachusetts households that are food insecure (2020). We host a three mile local walk in the fall, coming together to help feed the hungry.
Contact Jeff Greenwald.
Other Ways to Fight Hunger
Volunteer with or donate to the Greater Boston Food Bank or the Westwood Food Pantry.
Additional Resources
Guided by Jewish values, JALSA and NCJW work for social and racial justice and civil rights and liberties. Protecting access to abortion and reproductive health care is a priority. Find out more on their sites below.
