Welcome to the Temple Sinai Social Action Committee web page! Our goal is to share our skills, our time, and our energy to work for social justice and gemilut hasadim (acts of loving kindness) for our neighbors who need help with food, clothing, shelter, and education. All congregants are welcome and encouraged to participate in the Social Action Committee.
We strive to run a project every month or two.. The 2025-2026 Social Action Calendar may be found below. Please consider donating and/or helping whenever possible.
August 14 – September 14 – Back to School Drive
October 17th and 19th – Mitzvah Cooking
November 2 – Serving at My Brother’s Table
December –Coat and Sock Drive
January – Book Drive (especially Children’s books)
March – Shalach Manot Baskets for the JF&CS (Jewish Family and Children’s Services)
April – Passover Meals
April and May – Boxes on the Bima
June 7th – Creating My Brother’s Table Lunch Packages
Ongoing programs include outreach to those in need (sick, elderly, mourners), resettlement of Jewish families in need, and reading to the students in the Lynn School system.
Prior projects include:
- Hosting the Jewish Family Table Food Pantry and volunteering to sort, pack, and deliver food to needy families on the North Shore
- Boxes on the Bima – celebrating Shavuot, the grain harvest, by collecting boxes of cereal during the 7 weeks between Pesach and Shavuot
- Habitat for Humanity—painting houses and providing food for volunteers from out of state
- Collecting School Supplies for needy children
- Babysitting to raise funds for disaster relief
- Delivering warm winter clothing to area shelters
- Recycling mobile phones for battered women
- Serving meals at soup kitchens in Lynn
- Collecting Sox in a Box for homeless shelters
Please contact me or any Social Action Committee member for more information. Thank you for supporting Social Action Committee initiatives!
Committee Chair: Debbie Goldman degoldman722@gmail.com