Social Action
Current Opportunities
Food Bank Farmers Market Volunteers
Volunteers will help the food bank collect donated produce at the Spotsy Farmers Market! Volunteers will be responsible for supervising our FRFB table to receive donations, and engage and encourage customers and farmers to donate fresh produce to be distributed to our neighbors in need. FRFB will provide additional instructions on how the donations will be transported and/or picked up by a partner agency or FRFB team member.
Every Saturday at the Spotsy Farmers Market from April 8th to November 18th
Click here for more info!
* Orientation is required (15 minutes), contact Holly King: 540-371-7666 Ext. 145 or hking@fredfood.org. Can be done over the phone.
School Dressing Days
The Interfaith Community Council (BST is a member) will be holding School Dressing Days this year on July 21 and July 22 for children from financially disadvantaged families enrolled in Head Start through Grade 12. For more information on how to register your children please visit their website: www.InterfaithCommunityCouncil.org
Members of Beth Sholom are being asked to donate the following toiletry items: soap, toothpaste, deodorant, and feminine hygiene products. We are also accepting new or gently used children’s coats, and hoodies and jackets for middle and high school students.
We will be collecting items from now until June 9th.
A collection box is in the Temple lobby. Volunteer sign up info will be coming soon.
Social Action Cares
Social Action During A Pandemic
If you’d like to join us and help build a stronger Social Action network for BST, contact Cindy Green at bst@cindygreen.com. There are lots of opportunities for good, from racial justice, to interfaith understanding, to direct service by helping people, animals, or an environment in need.
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Panera Bread Dough-Nation Program : BST is part of the Panera Bread donation program! We have positions for volunteers to pick up the bread donation from Panera on South Gateway Drive at 8:55 PM every Tuesday and drop off the food to the designated location immediately after (unless otherwise noted). Click here to sign up.
- Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank - go to fredfood.org and click on WAYS TO GIVE or GET INVOLVED.
If you want to help in other ways, consider going online and starting your search here: https://www.jconnect.org/doing-good/
Sun, June 4 2023
15 Sivan 5783
Join the action!
Interested in Social Action? Contact Cindy Green at bst@cindygreen.com to find out how you can get involved and help serve!
On a daily basis, many of us serve and give of ourselves without fanfare or recognition. We are a caring and loving congregation that lives up to the highest ideals of Judaism. Social action has always been an integral part of congregational life at Beth Sholom Temple. Our activities have exemplified the Jewish values of community engagement, service, justice, and peace. The role of the Social Action Committee is to stimulate and support the performance of mitzvot by our members, especially those that help others beyond the Temple community.
Thank you!
We appreciate everyone who makes Social Action's service to the community possible. Thank you for participating in giving back to Fredericksburg and showing others what Beth Sholom is all about!
PAST PROJECTS
You can read about past projects in the Social Action Archive, found here!