26 | FEBRUARY 17 • 2022 

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Enthusiastic and talented volunteers of all ages participated in 
Adat Shalom’s Volunteer Day in a Box, supporting 10 organiza-
tions throughout Metro Detroit. Boxes full of hands-on projects 
and step-by-step instructions to create more than 1,000 items to 
benefit those in need were put together, picked up and delivered.
Each project was designed with the event’s core values in 
mind: Repair the world: tikkun olam; feeding the hungry: ha’akha-
lat re’evim; big hearted: lev tov; kindness to animals: tzaar ba’alei 
Chayim; and working as a community: kehillah tov. 
While acts of kindness are not saved for one day a year, 
Volunteer Day is always very special thanks to the commu-
nity that plan, implement and get creative during the event. 
Individuals, grandparents and grandchildren, cousins, friends and 
neighbors all had fun while spreading kindness. 

PHOTOS COURTESY OF ADAT SHALOM FAMILIES

Adat Shalom’s 
‘Volunteer Day 
in a Box’

Rabbi Aaron Bergman and volunteers Geula Rapp, Charm Levine, 
and Clara Elinger sorting fleece for the dog tug toys that went to the 
Michigan Animal Rescue League.

Director of Adult Learning and Youth Engagement at Adat Shalom 
Jodi Gross works with Adat Shalom student and project volunteer 
Olivia Herskovic on creating a scarf.

Madeline Friedman and her dad, 
Jaron Friedman, picked up their 
box of projects.

Micah Issner, second grade, and 
his grandfather Jim Issner engi-
neered a system for making the 
tug toys.

Cousins Leah Levin and Benjamin Elkus of West Bloomfield baked for 
the Detroit Community Fridge.
Elliana and Gabriel Shayne are enthusiastic about the projects they 
created to donate to those in need.

