Spirituality

Tons Of Food

Shir Shalom divides donations between
kosher and non-kosher food banks.

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emple Shir Shalom collected
more than 11,000 pounds of
food items at its ninth annual
High Holiday Food Drive on

Clockwise, from top left:

Loading food are Brett Mountain, Michigan
Region/National Federation of Temple Youth
social action vice president, and Taryn Mountain,
Shir Shalom's social action vice president.

Event founder Menyl Schwartz displays a bag
imprinted with food drive information.

Judy Gorman and husband Bruce help sort dona-
tions.

Brett Mountain, Loni Marcus, Andrea Lubaway
and Emily Canosa load food into a truck.

Sept. 26.
Merry' Schwartz, who chairs the social
action committee, says bags imprinted with
the biblical phrase, "You shall leave the cor-
ners of your fields," were handed out on
the High Holidays. The temple's request for
non-perishable food items brought many
contributors with multiple bags and bulk
food donations.
Volunteers, including members of the
Shir Shalom youth group, separated kosher
from non-kosher food contributions. They
then loaded them onto respective trucks for
Yad Ezra, the Oak Park-based kosher food
pantry, and Forgotten Harvest, in
Southfield. Schwartz says the sharing of
contributions between the two organiza-
tions stresses to the congregation "the
importance of supporting our community,
not just our Jewish community." fl

— Shelli Dorfman

10 / 8
1999

Detroit Jewish News

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