MLRT Mitzvah Projects 2018-2019

Mazel Tov on your upcoming B’nai Mitzvah.  We are excited to be on this journey with your family.  Part of the B’nai Mitzvah training process is a requirement for each student to complete a mitzvah project.  (We ask that you spend 13 hours on your project. Mitzvah projects can be done individually or with a group.)  

We have set up five group B’nai Mitzvah projects for this year to assist you in completing the mitzvah project requirement while working with other students/families from MLRT.  We ask that students volunteer a minimum of three times with the same organization to count it as their mitzvah project.  

We are currently finalizing the dates for each of these projects for Fall 2018-Spring 2019.  The day of the week and time of the day for each project are listed.  
​If you are interested in participating in a specific project, please follow the link below and sign-up.  We will then contact you with all the details. 

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Here is a description of each available project:


Ardmore Food Pantry @ St. Mary’s Episcopal Church - Students and an accompanying adult will learn about food insecurity in our community and Jewish responses to hunger.  You will assist clients of the food pantry in picking out boxes of food to take home.  Parents volunteer with student 

Address: 36 Ardmore Ave., Ardmore, PA 19003
Day:  Monday
Time: 5:45pm-7:30pm

Penn Hillel Soup Kitchen – Students will work with Penn Hillel student mentors to set up the dining hall and make packaged lunches for the soup kitchen guests that they can eat the next day. When the doors open, students will serve the guests and then – everybody’s favorite part – get to sit down and converse with them. In this informal setting, volunteers and guests build enduring relationships. Parents drop off student or volunteer as well.

Address: 215 S. 39th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 - Hillel’s Falk Dining Commons at Steinhardt Hall
Day: Sunday
Time: 5:30pm-7:15pm 

Lankenau Hospital Challah Delivery - Students will deliver fresh loaves of challah to Jewish patients at Lankenau Hospital.  You will accompany an adult volunteer into the rooms and wish the patients a “Shabbat Shalom” living out the Jewish value of caring for the sick. Parents drop off student.

Address: 100 E Lancaster Avenue, Wynnewood, PA 19096, meet at the admissions
Day: Friday
Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm

Mitzvah Food Project in Bala Cynwyd – Students and an accompanying adult will gain first-hand knowledge of the issue of food insecurity in our Jewish community.  You will help deliver meals to the Brith Shalom House in Overbrook for residents who are homebound.  Parents must drive student.

Address: Pick food up at Jewish Family and Children’s Services located at 345 Montgomery Avenue, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004.
Deliver food to Brith Sholom house in Overbrook at 3939 Conshohocken Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19131 
Day: Monday 
Time: 5:00pm-6:30pm

Challenger Baseball - You will be a buddy to a baseball team of mentally and physically challenged children.  You will help them with batting and fielding living out the Jewish value of treating everybody with dignity.  Dates will be in the Spring 2018.  ​

Address:  TBD, but local      
Day/Time: Spring 2018