![]() ![]() With a few friends and a student of his, Arnie Steinberg, Rabbi Stern originally serviced six families, providing for their needs with the utmost discretion. The project was the brainchild some 19 years ago of Rabbi Shmuel Lazer Stern, to honor the memory of a friend. Rather, it is a study in how the performance of a mitzvah can unite a community. The story of this remarkable organization is not one of how a community can unite to perform a mitzvah. The packages were arranged by Tomchei Shabbos, which reaches more than 1,000 people, each week. The trophies that these people vied for were mitzvot, and the competition spanned all parts of the Orthodox community. In fact, the only thing that was stolen was time - a few moments plucked free from the frenetic activity of the last days before Pesach. The prizes that each family clasped were packages of food, but they were not the spoils of urban war. Many of them had small children trailing along.Ī scene from the LA riots? Hardly. Every few moments, another person emerged from the building, triumphantly holding aloft a box of valuables. Cars were backed up helter-skelter behind a warehouse. In an age when many communal mitzvot have become the province of specific groups, this hands-on project draws volunteers from across the board. The first article was about a successful united effort in Twin Rivers, New Jersey the following story came to us from the West Coast. Fortunately, achdut is not limited to any one locale. ![]() The Winter issue of Jewish Action initiated the first of a series of articles created to highlight and encourage instances of mutual cooperation between diverse groups of Orthodox Jews. ![]()
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