Teen Tzedakah Project A Success

The P'nai Or teens would like to extend our incredible thanks to the community that supported the tzedakah project of baking Challah recently in the merit of our beloved Reb. Aryeh ztl"l. We raised about $1200 that we are able to give to tzedakah, fulfiling our commitment to membership/matching grant for the Southwest Community Health Center and also to Abir's Aramin's Garden Rroject of Combatants for Peace.

Thank you for the tremendous effort from Stan Swartz, for baking with teens, without teens, working to wee hours to finish gluten free and spelt baking. Your loving hands reached a lot of families for Shabbas. Todah rabah from all of us.

Thank you to the following contributors of time and resources:

Gabriel Bakery, owner Amilcar Alvarez and all his employees for their incredible generosity of the bakery, the ovens, help, ingredients and patience. If you know Amilcar or Jan Zuckerman, please especially thank them personally. Their gift of their bakery was what allowed us to bake in such huge quantity this year.

New Seasons -Concordia for their donation of organic flour.

Fred Meyer -Burlingame for their donation of eggs.

P'nai Or members, St. Marks members and friends of the Portland community for their enthusiasm and for purchasing Challah and making generous donations to this project.

The P'nai Or teens that helped by baking, organizing and offering your homes:
Ilan and Lieba Swartz-Brownstein, Corey Brown, Arden Goldberg, Zoe and Issac Donnell, Naomi and Emma Fredgant and all the parents of all these beautiful people that helped in numerous ways. "Behind every great youth group, is an amazing group of parents!"

Thank you to Milt Markewitz and Cathy Zheutlin for schepping tzedakah challah, to Mark Needleman for baking/washing dishes and to Corey and Terri for a tremendous effort of record keeping throughout this project.

This was a huge reflection of a community that works together for the good of the world. Todah rabah.