I Urgently Need Your Help!!!! | By Minde Ornelas

I am sure by now you have heard of Kohl's Cares. If you have not, in brief, in celebration of Kohl's Cares® 10th anniversary, they are donating $500,000 to 20 schools each for a total of $10 million. My daughters' school, Bais Chaya Mushka, is currently number 10 (of 20) on the leader-board. This means we are very close in getting this wonderful institution very desperately needed money. Although we are number 10, there is still about a month left till the final results come in, and that means that we have to do whatever we can to keep our ranking within the top 20, despite the fierce competition between school nationwide.

SO I am asking you, urgently, please, if you still have not voted, please just take a few minutes and vote for Bais Chaya Mushka, by clicking here.

I know there are many deserving schools out there, but this one is close to our homes and our hearts. They have touched so many people's lives, and so many people's hearts, including mine and my family's, and we can be sure they will put this so badly needed money to such good use. Can I count on you to partake in this mitzvah with me?

PiRo Gives Back to the Community | Tomchei Shabbos

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Please invite and bring as many people as you can with you. This is a kid-friendly event.

Time to do a good deed and to give back to the community.

Please join us in this mitzvah (good deed). Most of you have done this already, and this is a great opportunity for us to this great good deed together.
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We will get together at the Tomchei Shabbos warehouse in the La Brea area (for location on google maps, go to http://goo.gl/maps/sxe1) at 5:30 PM. (Directions from La Brea: Entrance is on the Right at the first set of Red Gates closest to La Brea; Upon entering the gates, head east (toward Formosa); The Tomchei Shabbos Warehouse is located at the farthest East end of the lot.) Mr Steve Berger will spend a few minutes with us describing the background for Tomchei Shabbos and how it operates.

Afterwards, you will have the choice of helping with packing and shipping, or with the delievery of food to the needy.

Founded in 1977, Tomchei Shabbos of Los Angeles has been lovingly providing essential Shabbat food packages to thousands of needy Jewish families in our community.

Every week, our warehouses come alive with volunteers filling rows of boxes with eggs, milk, fruits, vegetables, challah, wine, candles and everything else a family needs to make Shabbos special. The boxes are then delivered with the outmost discretion and care to the privacy of the recipient.

Tomchei Shabbos is entirely supported by the compassion and generosity of financial support, time and resources of the Los Angeles Jewish community.

The Good People at Torat Hayim Express Their Thanks to the Volunteers from PiRo Social Coffee Club

The following is a letter I received via fax today.  I wanted to share it with you all.

I would like to mention that I am personally thankful to everyone that showed up, and I think Minde and her two beautiful daughters, Heather, and Corey deserve a special recognition and thanks for staying up till 3 AM on Monday morning, finishing the project!

Hope to see you all next time at one of our community service events.  (Just FYI, if you are not sure which event I am talking about, the information may be found by clicking here.

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I Urgently Need Your Help!!!! | By Minde Ornelas

I am sure by now you have heard of Kohl's Cares. If you have not, in brief, in celebration of Kohl's Cares® 10th anniversary, they are donating $500,000 to 20 schools each for a total of $10 million. My daughters' school, Bais Chaya Mushka, is currently number 10 (of 20) on the leader-board. This means we are very close in getting this wonderful institution very desperately needed money. Although we are number 10, there is still about a month left till the final results come in, and that means that we have to do whatever we can to keep our ranking within the top 20, despite the fierce competition between school nationwide.

SO I am asking you, urgently, please, if you still have not voted, please just take a few minutes and vote for Bais Chaya Mushka, by clicking here.

I know there are many deserving schools out there, but this one is close to our homes and our hearts. They have touched so many people's lives, and so many people's hearts, including mine and my family's, and we can be sure they will put this so badly needed money to such good use. Can I count on you to partake in this mitzvah with me?