Hanukkah

HANUKKAH CELEBRATION: Hanukkah's Light on the first night

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CHAI 20s/30s: Hanukkah Shabbat dinner

EMBRACE-a-family

We will be supporting the Embrace-A-Family program through Jewish Family Service. This program provides holiday cheer for individuals and families in need across San Diego County. 

This dignified approach of providing direct financial gifts empowers recipients to use the funds where they need it most—whether that’s for food, gifts, or anything else a family might need during these challenging times. Your support provides individuals and families with holiday meals, care packages, and direct financial assistance—making this holiday season a whole lot brighter. 

Make your donation here

HANUKKAH PACKAGES for SENIORS

Assembly: Sunday, December 11 | 9:00am

We will be assembling Hanukkah Care Packages for seniors to help make their holiday a bit brighter. Volunteers are needed for package assembly! The packages will include Hanukkah ritual items, treats, and cards written by our VTS students.

We hope our gifts will bring light and joy to those in need this year. If you would like to volunteer, please email dvinick@cbe.org.

ADOPT A KINDNESS FAMILY

Congregation Beth El is "adopting a family" in collaboration with Kindness Initiative (KI). Our adopted family are Jewish Ukranian refugees who are trying to rebuild and get back on their feet. Help us brighten Hanukkah for this mother, father, and 2 young children. 

We have made a one-year commitment to contributing $360 monthly to our adopted KI family, as well as help them with other needs throughout the year. You can help by donating funds here, or by helping fulfill this family's Hanukkah wishlist here. 

KI believes no Jewish household in San Diego County should face life’s challenges alone. Through wrap-around services, the KI team seeks to alleviate the pressures and complexity of financial insecurity, by assisting Members to access the resources they need to achieve self sufficiency. By adopting a family, we will make a substantial difference in the life of a specific, local Jewish household. KI families struggle with impossible financial choices: paying for food or medicine; rent or utilities, transportation or childcare. For KI Members who have lost jobs, become ill, face mounting financial challenges, or are on the brink of homelessness, the "Adopt a Kindness Family" program helps prevent displacement, and the downward spiral of ever more difficult circumstances.

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CARE PACKAGES FOR LONE SOLDIERS

The Tikkun Olam committee will be gifting care packages to lone soldiers this year, in collaboration with the organization M'Ever Layam. These packages will bring comfort to soldiers away from their families this Hanukkah.

If you'd like to contribute to this project, please do so here. See more about the organization here. 

usy krispy kreme fundraiser

Sign up below for our 3rd annual USY Krispy Kreme Fundraiser. $12/dozen for Original Glazed donuts to either be enjoyed by your family, friends, teachers, people you wish to gift them to and/or to be donated. Save almost $4 through the fundraiser, compared to in-store prices!  All orders will be placed 11:00am Dec 11th, 18th & 23rd. Those that contribute will receive a voucher via email, redeemable at any Krispy Kreme indefinitely. All proceeds will go to the youth department's Social Action/Tikkun Olam (tzedakah) fund.  For more information or with questions please email emily@cbe.org

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