Projects 2020

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• Open to All = Yes then the Project is open for anyone to join; if you wish to Join this Project, click ENQUIRE to contact the Group
• Open to All = No means the Project is confined to the Group/Community

Group/Organisation	Project Type	Open to All	Description	Join Project	Age Group	State-Suburb
:Challah Baker	Make and Share	Yes	Make Bake Give Challah Making challah is a lot of fun and of course delicious to eat. It's also very special to make a challah to give to someone else to enjoy. Challah can be made any day of the week and Mitzvah Day is a great day to do it! My idea is to make a challah to give away, or make one to keep and one to give away, or you could make more to give away if you would like. You can then choose who to give your challah to. This could be a neighbour, or someone who lives alone, someone who is unwell or a family member who would enjoy this surprise from you. Please enquire for the recipe and instructions.	ENQUIRE	All	VIC
Australian Jewish Genealogical Society (Vic)	Other	Yes	Zoom Presentation by Hannah Sweetman titled From Verona to London. My Family's German & European Ancestry	ENQUIRE	Adults	VIC
B'nai B'rith Fellowship Group	Seasonal Cheer	No	We normally put on a concert for senior citizens but in this Covid year, we will visit (if permitted) or contact the people on our list		Adults	VIC-Caulfield
B'nai B'rith Unit Akiba	Collectathon	Yes	Collectathon of food items, toiletries and household items We are collecting non-perishable food items (with a use-by-date that is AFTER 1st March 2021) as well as toiletries and other useful household items, for distribution to needy residents of the City of Glen Eira. We welcome all contributions to this most worthwhile project. To arrange for the drop-off or collection of goods, or for any enquiries, please contact Helen (ENQUIRE) hefisher@optusnet.com.au	ENQUIRE	All	VIC-Caulfield North
B'nai B'rith Unit Gesher-Rabin & JECO/JCN	Collectathon	Yes	Reverse Garage Sale / Collect-a-thon B'nai B'rith Unit Gesher-Rabin, the B'nai B'rith Environment Group and The Jewish Ecological Coalition (JECO) will be collecting items for recycling/repurposing/reuse by others. As well as helping to reduce landfill, we also aim to educate the community about alternatives to sending stuff to landfill. For information about the items we will be collecting see this form (Reverse Garage Sale - flyer 2020.pdf).	ENQUIRE	All	VIC-Carnegie
B'nai B'rith Victoria	Other	Yes	Menorah Awards The B'nai B'rith Menorah Awards are presented annually to members of the Jewish Community who have performed voluntary work of benefit to the community, usually over a long period. This year for the first time they will be presented online via Zoom on Mitzvah Day, from 7.30pm. This year we have five awardees – Raizel Fogel, Claude Fromm, Vicky Grosser, Geoff Sandler and Marianne Schwarz. Presentation of their awards will be followed by a talk by Sally Capp, the 104th Lord Mayor of Melbourne and an inspiring speaker and role model. Tickets are free but bookings are essential. Book through https://events.humanitix.com/menorah-awards.	ENQUIRE	Adults	VIC-Melbourne
B’nai B’rith Hatikvah Unit	Other	Yes	As our usual project, making Calico Dolls for Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation (which we have been doing all year even with COVID-19 restrictions by allocating to individuals) could not be included this year because unable to get together on Mitzvah Day we are, instead, collecting non-perishable foods for the Salvation Army.	ENQUIRE	Adults	VIC-Doncaster
BBVic	Entertainment	Yes	Mitzvah Day Concert BBVic Showcase: fostering Jewish musical youth has moved to an online platform in 2020. We want to engage a group of our young musicians, 8-25 years of age, to play and participate in a live-streamed event from our channel: https://bbvic.net. The young musicians will gain valuable performance experience. Traditionally our young musicians play live at community functions and for the Elders. We will edit a concert from both pre-recorded and live performances. From 1.30pm-3.30pm we will live-stream the event. Audience members can attend on a pay per view basis of $10 through trybooking. After the concert, the film will be edited and released for replay at community functions and for the Elders.	ENQUIRE	All	VIC-Caulfield
Beit Shalom Synagogue	Cookathon	No	Biscuit Baking We are planning to bake up dozens of biscuits for the clients of Catherine House, a shelter for homeless women in Adelaide.		Kids	SA-Hackney
Board of Jewish Education NSW (BJE)	Social Inclusion	No	BJE/Friendship Circle BJE is joining forces with Friendship Circle, organising 4 Sunday morning soccer sessions. BJE teens will be taking part in fun activities together with teenagers with special needs.		Teens	NSW-Eastern Suburbs, Sydney
Board of Jewish Education NSW (BJE)	Other	No	jwave Food Drive jwave parent volunteers are planning a food drive whereby jwave families will help to collect non-perishable food, high school students will pack hampers of food and primary school students will either make cards or participate in some other age-appropriate way. jwave will be partnering with OzHarvest and the collection will happen in November and the packing of hampers in December. jwave is a new initiative of BJE that brings together families outside of the Jewish day school system to connect, explore and share Jewish experiences, friendships and community.		All	NSW
C Care	Social Inclusion	Yes	Connecting our community through food and friendship Join us at a C Care session on 15th November, to connect our community through food and friendship. Sign up for a session here https://www.ccare.org.au/sessions/. The session bookings will only open on Saturday night 7th of November. If you see a message that reads: “We don’t seem to have your details as a C Care Volunteer, please click on the Register Volunteer Link in this page so we can get you registered. Thank you.” Please click here https://www.ccare.org.au/get-involved/volunteer-sign-up/ where you can register as a volunteer. Once completed you will be able to book in via this page after 1 hour.	ENQUIRE	All	VIC-St Kilda
Carmel School	Collectathon	No	Working at Menora charity garage sale Collecting toys and items for Chanukah sunshine packs made by Menora charity for children of families in need in the community.		Kids	WA-Dianella
Chabad Malvern's Giving Kitchen	Cookathon	Yes	Our Giving Kitchen Charity Cook-off Chabad Malvern's Giving Kitchen is responding to the Covid crisis that is affecting our community with a Charity C00k-off, making nourishing meals to be distributed to families in crisis.	ENQUIRE	All	VIC-Malvern
Emmy Monash Aged Care & Darchei Shalom	Cookathon	No	Residents and staff, joined virtually by volunteers of Emmy Monash Aged Care and Darchei Shalom, the social action group of Caulfield Shule are joining together to bake cakes to be used in the Darchei Shalom "Soup Sandwiches and Chat" program run for all residents of the Community Housing at 150 Inkerman Street.		Adults	VIC-Caulfield North
FoodFilled & StandUp	Food Rescue	Yes	FoodFilled x StandUp FoodDrive Come and donate your non-perishable food items at the FoodFilled hub (2-16 Selwyn St, Elsternwick) between 11-2pm on Sunday the 15th of November. All donated food will be distributed to a variety of charities, with a specific emphasis on StandUp's Refugee partner organisations. Find more information about these organisations FoodFilled and StandUp	ENQUIRE	All	VIC-Elsternwick
Friends and Family	Collectathon	Yes	Nappy Collective 2020 has certainly been a challenging year but even more reason to do a mitzvah. Nappy stress is the experience of families not having enough nappies to change their children as often as they need to. A family experiencing nappy stress is likely to cut back on other essentials like food in order to access nappies. So clean out the cupboards and find those left over nappies or hit the shops and buy some new ones….. Let’s see how many nappies we can collectively donate to mums and bubs in need. Come along, bring your donations and help us sort the nappies for those in need.	ENQUIRE	All	VIC-Gardenvale
Irisim	Other	No	We are walking in memory of a recently deceased friend and member and donating to Caring Mums which is an organisation very close to her heart.		Adults	VIC
Jewish Care Victoria	Entertainment	No	JCV have a number of small but joyful activities planned to engage and unite members of our organisation and community. The dedication of others, including; volunteers, community organisations, and JCV staff, Elders and clients, will see nature blossom in the homes through flower arranging, and the power of music and dance will entertain and delight everyone involved.		All	VIC-Melbourne
KEDEM Synagogue Community	Collectathon	No	Collecting groceries and making meals to freeze for Project Dignity Crisis Relief. This is then delivered to students and families who are on bridging visas and have no income and no access to government support.		All	VIC-Malvern East
Kehilat Nitzan (with Our Kitchen Table)	Other	Yes	Food and Toiletries Distribution to the Disadvantaged in St Kilda Volunteers from Kehilat Nitzan are preparing savoury muffins, home made cookies, fresh fruit and nutritious sandwiches. Along with volunteers from Our Kitchen Table who are making pamper packs, this will all be distributed personally to residents in rooming houses in St Kilda. These residents are all experiencing stress and hardship in some way.	ENQUIRE	Adults	VIC-St Kilda
Liron Choir	Collectathon	No	Members of the Liron choir are helping the ABCA organisation (Australian Books for Children of Africa), to pack up books for a shipment to Africa in November. The books will then be distributed to children in rural Africa. The majority of children there are impoverished and deprived of adequate education resources.		Adults	VIC-Caulfield South
Magen David Adom Australia	Blood Bank Donation	No	Blood Drive Donors will donate much needed blood or plasma at the Blood Bank in Caulfield.		Adults, Teens	VIC-Caulfield
March of the Living Australia	Other	Yes	March of the Living's Global Kristallnacht Initiative 2020 With the upcoming 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht – The Night of the Broken Glass – on November 9th, please join this global initiative spearheaded by International March of the Living in partnership with its sister/brother organisations around the world, to pledge our commitment and shed light on the fight against antisemitism, racism in general, hatred, bigotry and intolerance of all kinds and towards all peoples. This is a virtual continuous campaign where people are invited to: 1. Write and submit their own personal messages/pledges of support on-line on a dedicated website www.motl.org/let-there-be-light 2. On the 9th of November we are asking people / schools / institutions / houses of prayer to leave their lights on as a symbolic gesture showing their solidarity with this cause. Also on this day, the Frankfurt Jewish community’s 100-year-old Westend Synagogue as well as the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem will be illuminated with all the on-line messages. 3. On November 10th at 11:00AM Australian Easter Standard Time, the International March of the Living, The Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience at Rutgers University, and the Jüdischen Gemeinde Frankfurt will present a specially produced media event which will air on the www.motl.org website – for further information and to pre-register, please visit https://www.motl.org/kristallnacht/	ENQUIRE	All	Global
Mazon Australia	Working Bee	No	Volunteer at St Kilda Mums We need 20 volunteers (no children) to sort donations at St Kilda Mums in Clayton. We will be socially distancing. Please bring a non-perishable food item for the Mazon Australia Street Pantry.		Adults	VIC
Melbourne Jewish Book Week	Hosting	Yes	Reach out with a book Share your love of books and reading by reaching out to a friend, relative or stranger by – * Sharing a book recommendation * Reading a book to someone * Lending a book to someone * Support your local bookshop and buy a book for someone	ENQUIRE	All	VIC
Menora Charity Fund Inc	Other	Yes	Garage Sale Massive garage sale - manned by Menora Volunteers including Carmel School Judaica Staff and Students and the Menora Mitzvah Teens Time: 6.30 - 12 noon Funds raised directed to families in need of support within our community for the month of December including Chanukah.	ENQUIRE	All	WA-Yokine
Menora Charity Fund Inc	Collectathon	Yes	Menora Charity Sunshine Packs Menora Charity would appreciate the donation of any brand new items for children and young adults to include socks, undies, stationary, toys and educational games. These goods will be packed in age appropriate packs. These Menora Sunshine Packs will be distributed for Chanukah to families who are shown kindness by Menora Charity. NOTE: Donations can already be dropped at the Menora Charity warehouse.	ENQUIRE	All	WA-Yokine
Mount Scopus Memorial College - GBH	Other	No	Writing letters to thank essential workers Children will write letters, create cards and drawings to distribute to our essential worker.		Kids	VIC-St Kilda East
Mount Scopus Memorial College - Kinder	Other	No	Each Kinder rooms across out two campus's will be organising their own Mitzvahs within the school and community on the day.		Kids	VIC-Melbourne
Mount Scopus Memorial College	Collectathon	No	We will be doing a food drive in collaboration with Food Filled.		Teens	VIC
Mount Scopus Memorial School	Other	No	Yr 4-6 will perform acts of kindness in Jewish Studies classrooms		Kids	VIC
NCJWA WA	Collectathon	No	Collecting household items and food items for the needy in the community.		Adults	WA-Yokine
NCJWA(Vic)	Collectathon	No	We are making hampers for residents of a Domestic Violence Shelter		All	VIC-Caulfield North
North Shore Temple Emanuel	Collectathon	No	Receiving donations of non-perishable food items from students and their families. Also, cleaning up rubbish around the periphery of the synagogue.		Kids	NSW
Our Kitchen Table	Make and Share	Yes	Hand made Mitzvah Our Kitchen Table is continuing what we LOVE most - engaging volunteers to make a difference to the lives of people in need through craft related activities. Join the Our Kitchen Table community (in your own home), to make a hand scrub, hot chocolate sticks and a card activity. These will all be given to the elderly living in isolation, to the aged care staff, and to disadvantaged seniors. Please signup via https://www.trybooking.com/BLTRS.	ENQUIRE	All	VIC-Caulfield
Our Kitchen Table (with Kehilat Nitzan)	Other	Yes	Food and Toiletries Distribution to the Disadvantaged in St Kilda Volunteers from Kehilat Nitzan are preparing savoury muffins, home made cookies, fresh fruit and nutritious sandwiches. Along with volunteers from Our Kitchen Table who are making pamper packs, this will all be distributed personally to residents in rooming houses in St Kilda. These residents are all experiencing stress and hardship in some way.	ENQUIRE	Adults	VIC-St Kilda
ReachHealth	Other	Yes	Giving Back Program Giving volunteers 5 free sessions of osteopathy with Dr. Boaz Gilboa at ReachHealth clinic.	ENQUIRE	Adults	VIC-Elsternwick
Sholem Aleichem College	Other	No	Cards for Jewish Care Our students will be making cards for the residents at Jewish Care.		Kids	VIC-Elsternwick
Souper Kitchen	Working Bee	Yes	Souper Packing Day Join us this Mitzvah Day & help us pack care packages for community members in need, learn about Souper's work, make new friends and have tons of fun!	ENQUIRE	All	VIC-Caulfield North
Temple Beth Israel (Tamid)	Other	No	TBI Tamid Gives Back Our Tamid students (Prep-Year Six) will write cards and fill a bag with kindness (new goods) for primary-school aged children from refugee and asylum seeker families.		Kids	VIC-Throughout Melbourne
Temple Beth Israel	Other	Yes	'A few suggested ideas for this Covid year. Support your local animal shelter eg saveadog.org.au; Donate non perishable food to foodbank eg www.secondbite.org; donate clean books to local street library eg streetlibrary.org.au; Donate baby and infant clothes to StKilda Mums stkildamums.org; make and donate reusable masks for local charities and friends …..		All	VIC
The King David School	Social Inclusion	No	The King David Senior School will be collecting food for Mazon Australia and writing cards to the elderly in our community with wishes and love. Students will also be facilitating bonding activities to strengthen the school community after not having much time together.		All	VIC-Armadale
The Leo Baeck Centre for Progressive Judaism	Collectathon	Yes	Neighborhood Clean Up/Food Drop We will ask people to wear green and pick up litter in a neighbourhood. We will log the number of pieces collected to see how much we collectively beautified our surroundings. We will also be in certain neighbourhoods to collect non-perishable items to be delivered to a food pantry.	ENQUIRE	All	VIC-Kew
WIZO Masada	Collectathon	Yes	Collecting non-perishable food and toiletries for local Jewish and non-Jewish people/families doing it tough.	ENQUIRE	Adults	VIC-Caulfield
WIZO Matan Group with CCARE	Other	No	Buddy Boxes Boxes of items provided to both the recipient and the buddy. 14 people booked in to the CCARE Hub pantry room on Sunday 15 Nov from 1:30pm-2:30pm.		All	VIC
WIZO Victoria Kids	Working Bee	Yes	Bags of Love MITZVAH DAY is a very special day when people all over the world unite to do good deeds and help others. This year we are excited to collaborate with Impact for Women, supporting women and children fleeing Domestic Violence. We are making lolly bags as part of their Christmas ‘Bags of Love’ to hand out to the children. We would love your help to make these lolly bags and will be setting up a COVID safe environment to do so. We will have packing stations at a park in the Glen Eira area where we will have 30 minute shifts where each family gets to make as many lolly bags as they can. If you wish, you may bring some new craft supplies to go into the ‘Bags of Love’. WIZO Kids will supply pre-wrapped lollies. Children must be accompanied with an adult.	ENQUIRE	Kids	VIC
WIZO WA	Food Rescue	No	Food collection We are collecting non perishable food items to be packed by WIZO KIDS for distribution to a local Perth charity.		Kids	WA-Yokine