TAE Social Action
Making a Difference Together
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Highlights of this Month's Email - (Scroll for Details)
Spring Blood Drive - This weekend!
April 7
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Walk to End Genocide - This weekend!
April 7
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Homeward LA - A Theatrical Performance at TAE
of Stories from the Homeless
April 28
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Volunteer to usher at Homeward LA
April 28
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Become a Mentor for At Risk Families and Individuals
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Meals for the Homeless - Sign Ups Available
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Spring Food Drive for Harbor House
April 26 - May 19
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Spring Fling Boutique
April 26
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Relay for Life - Team TAE Fighting Cancer - Sign Up Now
to Walk for 15 minutes - 24 hours or Donate
To Support the Team
May 18 - 19
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Volunteer Opportunities for Many Mansions, Woolsey and Hill Fire Victims and guests of the Shelter.
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Visit
www.AdatElohim.org/socialaction
to learn about TAE 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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Social Action Committee Meeting
The next Social Action Committee meeting will be
Tuesday, May 14, 7 pm
Room 6
(There is no meeting in April.)
All members are invited to join us to learn more about TAE social action, bring new ideas, help plan upcoming events and get involved.
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Upcoming Projects & Opportunities
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Spring Blood Drive - Last Chance to Sign Up
April 7, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Ages 16 and up.
The fall blood drive took place just 3 days before the Borderline shooting. The blood that we collected played a critical role in meeting the needs of our own local community in the aftermath of the shooting. While we hope to never see that specific need again, there is a
constant
need for donated blood because its shelf life is just a few weeks.
If you've never given before, make this blood drive your first. As a donor you'll leave your short time with us knowing that you've helped someone's loved one in need. Hopefully that loved one will never be yours, but if it is, you'll be glad to know that you're part of the blood donor community that helps save lives. Can't you spare 30 minutes and one small "ouch"? (No worse than a flu shot.)
To schedule your appointment or ask questions, please contact our never tiring TAE blood drive coordinator Joyce Bloom,
jbloom1967@gmail.com
805-241-5440
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TAE Annual Walk to End Genocide -
You can sign up on site!
Sunday, April 7, 12:30 - 2:30
Sign up to walk with us or donate to support the cause!
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 us at Temple Etz Chaim at 12:30 pm to register. (1080 E. Janss Rd.)
- The program begins at 1:00 pm and the walk at 1:15 pm.
- It is a short, easy walk – great for the entire family!
- Lots of activities for all ages.
- Contact team captain Marilyn Novak at wistocal123@Yahoo.com for more information.
(click "search" in the top menu, then search teams for "Temple Adat Elohim Pacers")
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Winter Shelter and Conejo Valley Meal Program
The 4th Wednesday of every month at Westminster Presbyterian Church.
The Winter Shelter Committee would like to thank the over 100 individual volunteers, 3 havurot, and religious school families who donated their time and nourishing food to sustain guests at Temple Adat Elohim during this past season of the overnight homeless shelter. A big thank you also to Brotherhood, Sisterhood and other donors for helping to ensure that we had clean bedding for our overnight guests each week.
Together with our community partners, TAE served more than 1,000 plates of food (not including seconds!) and provided safe, warm overnight housing for many vulnerable people in our community this season. We are so grateful for all of you who were part of doing this mitzvah.
We are transitioning into the next season of caring for our homeless guests with meals on the fourth Wednesday of every month at Westminster Presbyterian Church. If you are on the committee's mailing list, please be on the lookout for an email offering opportunities to sign up to provide part of a meal during April-November. If you are not on the mailing list but would like to help, please send an email to
TAEshelter@yahoo.com
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Homeward LA - Stories from the Homeless
Presented at TAE
Sunday, April 28 - 6:45 pm
We will host a performance of Homeward LA – a series of monologues based on stories from people who have experienced homelessness. Homeward LA is a citywide event where over a 10 day period, 50 productions of monologues, based on stories from people who've experienced homelessness, will be performed in venues all around the Greater LA area.
The production at TAE will be under the direction of Leasa Shukiar and includes a presentation from Harbor House Executive Director Denise Cortes and an action fair featuring a service project for Hope Mill as well as information from other groups serving the Conejo Valley homeless community. The cast includes
Sandy Berger, Lisa Bock, David Buss, George Daisa, John Faucher, Nancy Federman, Miriam Goodman, Karen Guetschoff, Donna Schwartz, Parry Shen, Geri Wissot and musicians
Penny Greenblatt, Eric Leicht, Allison Lipman, Bob Mills, Ron Rothman and David Shukiar.
The organizations participating in the action fair are: Food Forward, Harbor House, Hope Mill, Interface Children and Family Services, Many Mansions, RAIN project, School on Wheels, United Way and the Ventura County Office of Education.
Proceeds will go to support the efforts of the Midnight Mission, a nonprofit organization committed to ending homelessness, and Harbor House, a nonprofit organization supporting the homeless in the Conejo Valley. To learn more about Homeward LA visit
www.homewardla.org
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We need your help! We need ushers for our Homeward LA event
on April 28 from 6:15pm - 9pm.
We need volunteers to help our guests as they arrive for our Homeward LA event. Volunteers are needed at sign in, in the parking lot and greeting people as they arrive.
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Be a mentor for at-risk families and individuals.
Conejo Valley Mentoring Program (CVMP)
This new Conejo Valley program will connect local at-risk families and individuals with mentors who will assist them in finding resources to navigate daily issues including housing, food, and health. Mentors will be a stable influence who connect mentees with available resources and professionals.
We are looking for Conejo Valley adults who would like to establish a mentoring relationship with at-risk families/individuals.
Role of the Mentor:
- Be a listener
- Help the mentee develop life skills
- Be a role model
- Be a friend
- Provide informational resources to connect mentees with available professionals related to housing, food, and health. (The CVMP will share these resources with you so that you can provide them to those you mentor.)
The Mentor is not:
- Responsible for the actions of the mentee
- Providing financial or other direct support
- A fixer of all challenges of life circumstances
- The Mentees therapist or doctor
Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen and a push in the right direction
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John Crosby
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
-Maya Angelou
If you are interesting in learning more about the new Conejo Valley Mentoring Program, which is scheduled to begin in the summer, contact
socialaction@adatelohim.com.
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Harbor House Food Drive
Serving the Conejo Homeless and Low Income Families
April 26 - May 19
Harbor House is a Conejo Valley non-profit that provides services to our homeless and low-income families. They have a food pantry that needs stocking to help meet the needs of these vulnerable populations.
Below is a list of the most needed items. Please leave your donations in the box in the temple office any time from 4/26-5/19. Coming to any of these events? Bring your items with you.
Homeward LA - April 28
Annual Meeting - May 19
Religious School or ECC - April 26 – May 19
- PEANUT BUTTER
- GRANOLA BARS
- JELLY
- CHEESE & CRACKERS
- HEARTY SOUP
- TUNA
- CEREAL
- MICROWAVE CUPS - MAC & CHEESE
- CANNED PASTA
- RAMEN
- CANNED FRUIT
- WATER
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Supporting Those that Support Us
Westlake Village Junior Women’s
Club Spring Fling Boutique
Friday, April 26, 12 – 8pm
St. Maximillian Catholic Church
5801 Kanan Rd, Westlake Village, California 91362
For many years, the Westlake Village Junior Women’s Club has provided a significant donation to TAE’s Community Holiday Dinner. The Spring Fling Boutique is one of the ways that they raise this money. Their holiday boutique had to be canceled due to the fires. Please support this event!
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Message from Rabbi Diamond:
Over the past few months, two Jewish women, Michele and Melanie Morgan, have been staying in our Winter Shelter. They are concert violinists who are gentle and kind. You can see them on the two YouTube videos below as well as listen to samples of one of their albums which can be found on Amazon. They have severe diet restrictions, and manage their food independently.
Through a long series of events, they do not have a home, and with the Winter Shelter ending, they are in need of shelter.
Please let me know right away if you know of anyone who has one of the following:
1. A room in which the two sisters can stay
2. A car which the sisters can use
3. A place to park an industrial trailer which they have been given to temporarily use
We are in the process of obtaining violins for them so they can relaunch their music careers. There are times we can make a difference in the lives of our community. This is one of those times.
Time is of the essence, please feel free to contact Rabbi Diamond as soon as possible at 805-497-7101 or bdiamond@adatelohim.com if you can help.
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Many Mansions Volunteer Opportunities
Many Mansions is looking for volunteers who are willing to help with some upcoming events.
Thursday, April 18 - Spring Fair
Children Services is looking for 5-8 volunteers to assist with our Annual Spring Fair. During this event, we invite our resident families to come enjoy a day of face painting, outdoor games, treats, and basket bingo! Volunteers will help set up, run booths and clean up the event. We’re asking volunteers help with the entire event from 3:30pm-6:30pm at our Shadow Hills location.
Bowls of Hope Committee
Resource Development is assembling a dedicated team to once again create an amazing Bowls of Hope event! This team will be helping with silent auction, collecting baskets, raffle items, food donations, mailings, phone calls, and more. The Committee will also stand in as leads during the event in November. If interested in joining this committee, please reach out to Jessica ASAP. We’ll be holding our first meeting soon.
If you are interested in volunteering for any of these opportunities, please contact Jessica Lawson at Many Mansions –
jessical@manymansions.org
; 805-601-5407
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Volunteers needed to help those impacted by the Hill and Woolsey Fires
The Conejo Compassion Coalition has a rare opportunity to provide hands on assistance to those impacted by the Hill and Woolsey Fires. The Los Angeles County Long Term Disaster Recovery Group, which is the group that takes responsibility for the recovery efforts when the Federal and State Agencies pull out, has a need for volunteers to accompany trained case workers on their visits to fire victims. The result of these visits will be a recovery plan, prepared by the case worker for each person that still needs help. This recovery plan is then the basis for funding agencies to provide the assistance needed by each person.
The Conejo Compassion Coalition has been given the task of putting together a team of volunteers who will go with the case workers to interview these victims. Their goal is to put together a team of volunteers that includes 2 or more people who are available each day of the week so that if a case worker is interviewing clients on Tuesday, for example, there will be two or more people to call to try and get a volunteer to accompany them.
The volunteers do not need to be trained as the case workers will do all the heavy lifting, they just need someone to accompany them on their visits.
If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Bob Bland at dr.rab2@gmail.com as soon as possible. Training is scheduled to begin the first week of April.
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Relay for Life - Help Defeat Cancer!
Join TAE's 2nd Annual Relay for Life
team to fight Cancer.
Walk with us or support us with a donation!
May 18, 9 am - May 19, 9 am
Conejo Creek Park South
- Team meeting for walkers will be May 6.
- For a $10 donation, purchase a Luminaria to light a candle in honor of or memory of a friend or loved one who has had cancer, or in support of a caregiver. They will be displayed during the relay.
- You can walk as long as you would like - 5 minutes to 24 hour or come and hang out in our booth.
- Contact team co-captains: Jacob and Cathy Warner dcss4@msn.com for more information.
- Be part of our TAE team...come with friends....make new friends....help fund a cure!
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Food Collection for Harbor House
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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We will be collecting the following items for Harbor House until 5/19.
- PEANUT BUTTER
- GRANOLA BARS
- JELLY
- CHEESE & CRACKERS
- HEARTY SOUP
- TUNA
- CEREAL
- MICROWAVE CUPS - MAC & CHEESE
- CANNED PASTA
- RAMEN
- CANNED FRUIT
- WATER
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Caring Community of TAE needs your help!
Our Caring Community is dedicated to reaching out to those in our TAE community who are in need.
Do you have some time to make a few phone calls to people who are in need to let them know that their TAE family is thinking of them? Do you have time to visit people who are in need of some company while they are ill? If you can help, please contact Cantor David at
dshukiar@adatelohim.com
(805) 497-7101. Please also contact Cantor David if you know someone in need.
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Thank you to everyone who donated Mac and Cheese boxes. We collected approximately 425 boxes that were used as groggers by our religious school students at the Sunday morning Purim Shpiel and then were donated to the Manna Conejo Food Pantry.
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On-Going Projects & Opportunities
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Tzedakah Box
Donations to the Tzedakah Box will be donated to the TAE disaster fund. Our Tzedakah box is located in the foyer right outside the door to the sanctuary. Please help us help others.
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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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