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Saying Thank You
Shaarey Zedek devotes a Shabbat to all
the volunteers who make the shul go.
LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER
W
ithout volunteers, Con-
gregation Shaarey
Zedek would be severe-
ly shorthanded. And the
synagogue, which boasts a mem-
bership of 2,000 families, wants
to make sure such help is noticed.
In an effort to recognize the
shul's volunteers — which num-
ber close to 700 this year alone —
April 12 has been designated
Volunteer Recognition Shabbat.
A first-time event that planners
hope to make biennial, "the pre-
sentation and the tribute to the
volunteers is going to take place
at both the Southfield Shabbat
service as well as at B'nai Israel
[Center] in West Bloomfield,"
says Sandy Schwartz, co-chair
of the event.
"I think everybody was
amazed to find out how many
people are really involved in
making the synagogue go
round," says Mrs. Schwartz. "I
think it speaks to the commit-
ment on the part of the syna-
gogue membership to the
success of the synagogue and to
its future and to the leadership For Mrs. Schwartz, the event boards. The next step was to
for being able to rally these peo- is a sort of "dream-come-true." Af- cross-reference lists and eliminate
ple to commit their time. Some- ter helping out at a hospital, she duplications, she says.
"It has been a logistical night-
times it's a little, sometimes it's noticed how much its volunteers
enormous." are appreciated. "Down there, mare for the office, but they real-
And the volunteers run the everybody just hugs and kisses ly bought into it and were really
gamut of ages, back- Without the help and bows down to the vol- supportive in seeing this
grounds and levels of civic of volunteers, unteers. Here we have a through," says Mrs. Schwartz,
involvement. "There are Shaarey Zedek synagogue that is so de- noting that the shul bought a full-
pendent on the volunteer page ad in last week's Jewish
people who spend hours
would not
function.
and hours a week, work-
sector to get any of its pro- News publicly thanking the vol-
grams through, and we've unteers.
ing on synagogue projects
Unfortunately, volunteers from
and just trying to advance the really never acknowledged or paid
years past will not be recognized.
programming and make things tribute to them before."
Shaarey Zedek does not track "We decided [to] start current.
go smoothly and be successful,"
says Mrs. Schwartz. "It crosses its volunteers, so event planners Hopefully this is something that
all age groups because it goes all have spent quite a bit of time re- we will be able to do every two
the way from our nursery school searching and compiling a list of years as leadership administra-
volunteers through our seniors." committees, programs and tions change."
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