Tag Archives: Seniors

Fusing Turkeys and Dreidels

Dreidels and turkeys?  Menorahs and cornucopias? Latkes and sweet potato pie? What’s happening this year? On November 28, 2013, Hannukah and Thanksgiving coincide.  That’s the perfect opportunity to merge the concepts of giving, appreciating and celebrating!  Can you think of 8 opportunities to share with your community where you get to make miracles happen and give thanks? Here are just a few ideas but we would love to hear your suggestions too!  Send them to:  Info@themitzvahbowl.com. 1.  Enjoy playing games? Go to a senior facility and organize a dreidel game with chocolate gelt.  It will be a sweet treat for […]

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B’nai B’rith Project H.O.P.E. Helping Our People Everywhere

Project H.O.P.E. Helping Our People Everywhere. In its 20th year, Project HOPE delivers Kosher for Passover food on the Sunday before Passover, April 9, 2017, to 625 of our most needy, elderly and isolated Jewish families in the Philadelphia community. Many Jews who cannot afford special holiday foods depend on B’nai B’rith Project HOPE to provide matzoh and the other Passover staples. To these people the remembrance and visit is often as special as the needed food. Volunteers and their families are needed to deliver to these recipients. Distribution will take place at Temple Sinai, Dresher, PA, beginning at 7am. To volunteer, please […]

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Twilight Wish Foundation

Twilight Wish Foundation P.O. Box 1042 Doylestown, PA 18901 Contact: Michelle Bowren, Director of Wish Management, Wishdirector@twilightwish.org, 215-230-8777 Twilight Wish grants wishes to economically-disadvantaged seniors age 68 and older who cannot make their own dreams come true. Our mission is to honor and enrich the lives of deserving elders through wish granting celebrations connecting generations. Our vision is to make the world a nicer place to age, one wish at a time. We would love to match you with what we call an open wish (a wish in progress) as a wonderful bar or bat mitzvah project. Examples of some […]

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This League Delivers A Happy Pesach

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Jews around the city and all over the world will gather with family and friends in the coming weeks to recall their ancestors’ exodus from Egypt and the beginning of their journey to freedom in the land of Israel on Passover. Not all Jews are readily able to participate in the Passover holiday, in steps the Passover League of Philadelphia. The Passover League, a non profit charitable organization founded in 1933. The mission of The Passover League is to raise funds to help needy individuals and families celebrate the Passover holiday. Seders, funded by The Passover League are conducted at […]

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