Mitzvah Opportunities

Please note that space is limited for the project listed below.  Reservations will be taken on a first come first serve basis.  For more information or to RSVP for the project, please contact Elissa at (312) 357-4803, or e-mail YWCcouncil@juf.org.

ARK Hanukkah Gift Wishes - This project is closed, however, you are welcome to join us at Little Threads, a Roscoe Village children’s clothing store, to drop off gifts.  We’ll socialize, eat and create cards to go to American soldiers through the *AdoptaPlatoon Soldier Support Effort™. 

Sunday, December 14 2008
Little Threads, 2033 W. Roscoe Street, Chicago
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Family Friendly

*AdoptaPlatoon is a soldier-support grassroots effort that provides support to more than 10,000 service members deployed overseas. 

An unlimited number of Volunteers can participate in this project.

JUF Uptown Cafe

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
909 W. Wilson, Chicago
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Adults only

The JUF Uptown Cafe is coordinated by the Dina and Eli EZRA Multi-Service Center under the auspices of the Jewish Community Centers of Chicago. This cafe, which is a kosher, anti-hunger program, provides 4 meals per week to people who are hungry while nourishing their spirits. 

12 Volunteers are needed to serve food and converse with guests at their tables.

Deliver Passover Food Packages

Sunday, April 5, 2009
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Location released as date approaches

Family Friendly

Maot Chitim of Greater Chicago provides food to needy Jewish people in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs for Passover and Rosh Hashanah so that they may observe the holidays in a traditional and dignified manner. Volunteers will meet a truck at an apartment building and distribute food boxes to individuals’ apartments.

15 Volunteers are needed to deliver packages to clients’ homes

JUF Uptown Cafe

Thursday, May 21, 2009
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

909 W. Wilson, Chicago

Adults only

The JUF Uptown Cafe is coordinated by the Dina and Eli EZRA Multi-Service Center under the auspices of the Jewish Community Centers of Chicago.  This cafe, which is a kosher, anti-hunger program, provides 4 meals per week to people who are hungry while nourishing their spirits. 

12 Volunteers are needed to serve food and converse with guests at their tables.

Beautify a Jewish Child and Family Services group home facility & make meaningful crafts

Sunday, June 7, 2009
1:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Location confidential – will be released once signed up.

Family Friendly

Cost: $18 per participant for Glazed Expression supplies

Jewish Child and Family Services (JCFS) runs numerous group homes for foster children and disabled adults in the city of Chicago.  You can put smiles on the faces of those in need by planting a beautiful garden at a JCFS facility in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago.  Then spend the remainder of the time painting a new set of dishes for the JCFS facility, in partnership with Glazed Expressions. 

20 Volunteers are needed.