Thanks to the generosity of two anonymous donors, your donations to the HHD Tzedakah Project for Family Kitchen and Magen David Adom are being matched up to $1,818 from each donor! Your gifts go to your designated choices and the matching donations from our generous benefactors are divided per the donor’s wishes. One of our generous donors is matching your gifts and contributing the matching funds to our 2024-2025 General Fund. The other generous donor is matching your gifts and contributing their matching funds to the compensation for our next settled Rabbi.
This year’s Tzedakah drive is in honor of the many TBT members and friends who give generously of their time to work at Family Kitchen. Each month Family Kitchen provides more than 14,000 meals to the hungry. We are grateful to participate in their work and hope you will help out by donating to our Tzedakah drive.
We also designate Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical service and a member of the International Red Cross whose members have worked round-the-clock since October 7th.
Please join us and participate in our Tzedakah Donation Appeal during the High Holy Days. Click here to donate to our High Holy Days Tzedakah Projects.
Founded in 1930, Magen David Adom is Israel’s national Emergency Medical Services organization responsible for emergency medical care and blood services. Every year they handle hundreds of thousands of life-saving cases using technological devices among the most advanced in the world.
MDA teaches first aid and emergency medicine, provides professional services including blood services, and engages in humanitarian activities in Israel and around the world. Over 30,000 of MDA’s highly trained personnel are volunteers, the other 10% are employees.
MDA provides treatment to anyone who needs help – regardless of ethnicity, race, religious or political affiliation. In addition to humanitarian aid in Israel for the elderly and the needy, MDA also provides international humanitarian assistance during disasters such as tsunamis and the earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal.
While MDA’s role is mandated by the Israeli government, it is not a government agency but is Israel’s official representative to the International Red Cross. MDA relies on support from donors to keep its dispatch systems, training, and equipment the best in the world.
When you support Magen David Adom, you are helping save lives, every day.
Guided by the belief that nobody should go hungry, Family Kitchen has been providing free meals to anyone in need since 1986. Today Family Kitchen continues as an outstanding ecumenical and community effort serving over 14,000 meals each month as part of their mission “to serve anyone who needs nutritious meals in a safe and caring environment.”
Onsite lunches are provided five days a week and hot dinners are served three days per week. In addition to onsite meal service, Family Kitchen delivers fresh to-go meals to: Bend Shelter, Sisters Cold Weather Shelter, Stepping Stone Shelter, COVO Camp Check-ins, Redmond Collective’s Aid Event, Peace Kitchen Outreach, and to low-income housing. In 2022, Family Kitchen provided 133,472 meals!
Temple Beth Tikvah has worked with Family Kitchen since 2015 – cooking and serving dinners from 2015 through mid-2019, when the pandemic halted our participation, and resuming our service on the lunch shift in January 2023. Our TBT volunteers have helped to make nearly 8,000 meals in that time!
We ask you to please help Temple Beth Tikvah’s outreach effort by donating to our High Holy Days Tzedakah drive in support of Family Kitchen. Click here to donate to our High Holy Days Tzedakah drive.
Click here to donate to our High Holy Days Tzedakah Projects.