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TAE Social Action -
Making a Difference Together
March 2018
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Visit
www.AdatElohim.com/socialaction
to see all of the available social action opportunities. The information changes regularly, so please check back often!
We have great events planned - Join us!
Marcia & Harold Gordon - Social Action Co-Chairs
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Deliver your filled bags of groceries to temple by this Sunday, 3/4! Bring it to services. Bring it to Chamilton. Bring it to the Purim Carnival.....
This year we invite you to participate in the TAE spring food drive to help Manna like we have never done before during spring. Our high holiday food drive helped fill Manna's shelves. Now, 6 months later, Manna needs our help again. Join fellow TAE congregants in this newly energized spring effort to ensure that no one in the Conejo valley goes without food. An paper grocery bag will be delivered to your home during the final days of February. Please return it to temple by March 4th.
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Spring Blood Drive -
Sign up today!
Sunday March 25th, 9:00 am-1:00 pm
Location: TAE Social Hall
The local blood supply was negatively impacted by the cancellation of blood drives due to
the Thomas fire and subsequent flooding. United Blood services needs our help to replenish the supply. Please sign up and invite anyone you know to join you.
To schedule an appointment, please contact Joyce Bloom:
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Collection Corner - Donations Needed
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Save the Syrian Children - The Big Fill
Collection: March 18 - April 7
Sorting: April 8th, 4:30 - 6:30
Social Hall
TAE is joining with Jewish Organizations across Los Angeles to help Syrian civilians under siege..
Save The Syrian Children was started by an L.A. Jewish couple who looked at their own children one day and decided they had to do something to help the children of Syria. Save The Syrian Children goes where other aid organizations cannot...into the hospitals of Aleppo and Idlib to deliver life-saving medical supplies and basic human needs to innocent children and families trapped in the Syrian conflict. Access to baby bottles, diapers, underwear, socks and other daily basics is nearly non- existent. A lack of simple medical supplies such as gauze and tourniquets is making the difference between life and death for children and civilians taken to hospitals that have been cut off from regular supply.
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March
Projects & Opportunities
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Shoes that Fit
We need 5 more people to sign up!
- TAE is partnering with a second elementary school in Oxnard - Elm Street School - to provide 30 needy children with new athletic shoes.
- Shoes can change a child's life. Participation in sports and physical activities goes up nearly 75% and attendance goes up 43% when kids have shoes that fit.
- Sign up to sponsor a child for a pair of shoes. Please deliver new shoes in the box - with the name of the child you have sponsored on the lid - to the temple office by March 11. Click the link below for more details.
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TAE Relay for Life Team Forming
Join TAE's first Relay for Life team to fight Cancer
Saturday May 19th 9:00 am -
Sunday May 20th, 9:00 am.
- Join our team or donate in support
- Team meeting will occur prior to the event.
- Contact team co-captains: Jacob and Cathy Warner dcss4@msn.com for for more information.
- Be part of our TAE team...come with friends....make new friends....help fund a cure!
(Scroll down on the event page and search teams for "Team TAE")
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TAE Annual Walk to End Genocide Team Forming
Sunday May 6th, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
- The Jewish World Watch Conejo Valley Walk to End Genocide is a community event that brings together advocates of all ages and backgrounds in one united voice to say "We will not stand idly by while genocide and mass atrocities occur."
- Sign up and join TAE's Team - Temple Adat Elohim Pacers
- Meet at the Civic Arts Plaza at 11:00. Walk begins at 12:00
- TAE team co-captains are Marilyn Novak & Karen Stevens
- Contact Marilyn at wistocal123@Yahoo.com for more information.
(Scroll down on the event page and search teams for "Team TAE")
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Chesed (Acts of Loving Kindness) Social Action events for families with children in Kindergarten through 6th grade
- March 25, 6 p.m.: Help the homeless by providing dinner on the last night of the Winter Shelter in TAE's social hall. Email Sarah Reines at
- May 6, Noon - 3 p.m.: Join other Chesed families and the entire TAE community at the Walk to End Genocide. More information in the section above about the Walk to End Genocide.
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Gemilut Chasadim Chavarim
Social Action for TAE Adults
March 18th - Provide dinner at the Winter Shelter in TAE's social hall. Drop off the meal or stay and serve. Click here to sign up.
April 8th - 4:30-6:30pm The Big Fill - Save the Syrian Children
Members of the interfaith community will join us in the social hall to sort and pack donated items for those affected by the war in Syria. See the section above for details. RSVP to socialaction@adatelohim.com.
May 6th - Walk to End Genocide.
Sign up for the TAE team - Temple Adat Elohim Pacers! We are hoping to have a big team walking this year! See the details in the section above about the Walk to End Genocide.
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St. Paddy's Day Interfaith Tater Bake for Refugees
Sunday, March 18, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Church of the Epiphany in Oak Park has invited the interfaith community to share a family lunch of hot taters & all the toppings, salad and dessert, Irish Music and fun! $7.00 per person, $25 per family.
Proceeds benefit the Conejo Refugee Welcome Team that works with immigrant families who have been sponsored to resettle in the U.S. by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles IRIS Program (Interfaith Refugee & Immigration Service).
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WOMEN OF THE WALL AND THE FIGHT AGAINST GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN ISRAEL
Sunday March 25, 2018,
9:30 am
Location: TAE Sanctuary
Join us for a presentation by Cheryl Temkin of Women of the Wall. While men have been allowed to pray freely at the
Western Wall - the most sacred site in Judaism - since its liberation in 1967, women have been forbidden from wearing prayer shawls, praying and reading from the Torah, collectively and aloud. For more than 29 years, Women of the Wall has been struggling to achieve gender equality at the Western Wall. What will it take to ensure that the freedom of religious expression will become a social norm in Israel? How can egalitarianism, pluralism - and respect - become the "new" status quo at the Western Wall and throughout Israel?
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Social Action Committee Meeting
Monday, March 19th, 7 p.m.
Location: Room 6
We will be discussing programming for the 2018 - 2019 year.
All members are invited to join us to learn more about TAE social action, bring new ideas, help plan the next year and get involved.
Contact Marcia & Harold Gordon with questions and to RSVP: SocialAction@AdatElohim.com
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Reform CA on-line discussion of 2018 priorities
Thursday, March 22, 7:00 - 8:00 pm PST
or
Friday, March 23, 9:30-10:30 am PST
- Reform CA is a project of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.
- Teams of lay leaders across the state have been meeting with Reform CA's partner groups and researching bills and ballot measures where Reform synagogues can have the most impact. They are looking at bills and ballot measures in six issue areas: immigration, housing/homelessness, criminal justice reform, healthcare, trans rights, and climate change.
- Congregants are invited to be part of a webinar with the clergy and lay leaders of social justice teams in Reform congregations around the state to hear the results of three months of research by Reform CA's lay lead issue research teams. Learn about bills and ballot measures that our congregation may want to work on.
.... And email socialaction@adatelohim.com to let us know that you've signed up.
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Upcoming and On-Going Projects & Opportunities
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Transitioning from the Winter Shelter to Year Round Meals
The 2017-2018 winter shelter ends Sunday March 25th. Thank you to everyone who cooked, served, chaperoned, did laundry and helped in any other way to make the shelter a reality. A special thank you to the shelter committee for all of their hard work.
Although the overnight shelter is ending, TAE participates with other faith communities in the Conejo Valley to ensure that a hot meal and sack lunch is available to those in need throughout the year. TAE provides the meal on the 4th Wednesday of each month (April - November) at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Westlake Village. Please contact the shelter committee at taeshelter@yahoo.com for more information and to sign up to bring a meal.
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Food Collection for Manna Food Pantry
On-going. Year Round.
The yellow bin in the sanctuary foyer is always available to receive your donations of food items. Make it a habit to bring something to donate each time you come to temple. Leave temple knowing that you made a difference in someone's life.
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On-Going Programs & Events
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TAE has two Social Action Havurot that are always looking for new members. Click the following links for details.
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Tzedakah Box
Currently donations are being collected to help victims of the Thomas Fire. Our Tzedakah box is located in the foyer right outside the door to the sanctuary. Please help us help others.
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Caring Community of TAE
Who: Members are invited to join at any time
Our Caring Community is dedicated to reaching out to those in our TAE community who are in need. If you know someone in need or would like to volunteer, please contact us.
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This monthly Social Action e-newsletter is sent from the Social Action committee at the beginning of each month. It includes upcoming social action opportunities that are available to the TAE community. We invite all TAE members to find your place in TAE Social Action. We hope that you will find a project (or many!) that touches your heart. We encourage you to participate and bring your temple friends with you! There is something for everyone.
If you have charities or projects that you support, please share them with us at socialaction@adatelohim.com. We might be able to involve others in a project that is important to you!
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Temple Adat Elohim
2420 East Hillcrest Dr., Thousand Oaks CA 91362-3198
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