50 Mitzvot
Thank you to all members of the Temple Sinai Community who helped us generate this list of 50 mitzvot in honor of Temple Sinai’s 50th Anniversary celebration.
- Donation to a nonprofit charity
- Donation to a nonprofit charity
- Food and cash donation to a family in need
- Made a lasagna for the EOC dinner
- Read/visited with seniors at Wesley Nursing Home
- Made a lasagna for the EOC dinner
- Volunteered at the dance museum
- Welcomed Skidmore students into our home to celebrate the holiday
- Donation to a nonprofit charity
- Volunteering professional services to a health care foundation
- Donation to a charity through sponsoring others in a walk-a-thon
- Planned a fundraising event
- Members of the congregation participating in Mooncatchers program to help girls in Third World countries.
- Built a sukkah, hosted friends and ate in it too!
- Donation to the Comfort Food Community
- Mentoring a high school junior
- Chairing a committee to raise funds for disabled children and adults
- Volunteer at the Book Bag at the library
- Made doggie treats for the dog shelter
- Shoveled for a neighbor
- Donation to Code Blue
- Preparing to work as an advocate for children with disabilities
- Volunteer greeter for Code Blue Shelter
- Made lasagna for EOC
- Donated towels to Saratoga County Animal Shelter
- Donated hand warmers to Code Blue Shelter
- Caleb and Dale Eglin (age 9) collect donations for the Shelters of Saratoga every year instead of receiving gifts for their birthday.
- Hannah Thompson volunteers during her school lunch period to help a new student from Mexico learn to read.
- Hannah Thompson is a member of Saratoga Humanities Youth for Transformations, a teen-age theatre troupe that creates and performs pieces for productive change, advancing the “act” in “activism”.
- Delivering challah to Wesley
- Visiting with an elderly lady at Wesley
- Delivering challah to Prestwick Chase
- Organizing a food drive at Skidmore College for the benefit of Franklin Community Center
- Helped to clean up the town of Manchester, VT
- Spending time with elderly people in the community
- Helping Sustainable Saratoga with the bring your own bag program
- Playing pool with an elderly man at the Senior Center
- Doing yard work for an elderly couple
- Helping grandparents around the house with chores
- Taking care of someone’s dog during their surgery and recovery
- Volunteering at a refuge center
- Donating to a charity
- Sponsoring a tee at a charity golf tournament
- Doing the sound at a community dance event
- Donating a bag of non Passover foods each night of Passover to the Franklin Community Center food pantry.
- Donating handmade blankets to the Veteran’s hospital
- Leading Shabbat services
- Chanting Torah
- Volunteered at the EOC soup kitchen
- Donate to the Friends of the IDF
- Monthly reoccurring monetary donation to “Mazon – A Jewish Response To Hunger” charity.
- Volunteer as a board member for the Capital District chapter of the Jewish National Fund.