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Heavenly Pennies

Fifth-graders throughout
the area collected
over $6,000 for an
experiment in giving.

JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER

BILL HANSEN PHOTOGRAPHER

ver 300 fifth-graders and their
parents gathered at Temple
Beth El last month to weigh and
bag the pennies they had col-
lected over a three-week period.
Students from 22 Jewish day
and afternoon Hebrew schools
and from the Jewish Parents Institute at
the Jewish Community Center participat-
ed in the Penny Harvest-Tzedakah Experi-
= ence.
Cl)
The event, sponsored by Temple Beth El,
▪ the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan De-
-, trait and Agency for Jewish Education, yield-
1—
E) ed $6,000. The money is distributed to
- organizations ranging from Jewish Voca-
1.1.1
tion.al Service to Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
In its first three years, Penny Harvest-
= Tzedakah Experience raised a total of
$14,000.

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