Jewish Reconstructionist Federation

Special thanks to Lynn Friedman, Estee Pollak, Ros Goldstein and Samantha Papurt, for making this project possible...

What to Expect:
The Food Bank typically welcomes us with a short over-view of their mission and facility presentation (which is quite fascinating), and then we all divide up into tasks, most of us forming an assembly line. With plenty of good old tunes reverberating from the speakers, we are all doing our jobs side by side of making boxes, filling boxes, taping and stacking boxes, loading and reloading....most of us are filling the boxes with all of the food items donated to the food bank and delivered to the poor elderly population in OC. The rest are doing all the jobs that prepare the boxes and finish closing them, stacking them etc for delivery or storage.

Who Can Go?
Registered Western Gathering adults and all No'ar Hadash teens may sign up to go. There is room for 40 people so we will fill the bus on a first-come first serve basis.
Sandles are not allowed for safety reasons and layers are recommended.

Where is it?
The Food Bank (as we call it) is 17 miles from University Synagogue, approx 20 minute drive.
We will take people by bus altogether and get you back to the synagogue for lunch at 12:30.

Community Action Partnership of Orange County Food Bank distributes 17 million pounds of food annually. In addition to the 24,000 people that the Food Bank serves directly each month, it provides food and personal care items to 300 non-profit service organizations, such as social service agencies, churches, shelters, soup kitchens and senior centers. These organizations serve the homeless, disabled persons, seniors on fixed incomes, the unemployed and the working poor.

For More information about the Food Bank: http://www.orangecountyfoodbank.com