CARE Committee (Community Action Reaching Everyone)

CARE Committee – Community Action Reaching Everyone

Our Outreach

In keeping with Jewish teachings and the tradition of Tikkun Olam (healing the world), our CARE Committee participates in diverse outreach projects every month of the year. The JCCP/CBT is known for our longtime generosity in collecting food for families experiencing food insecurity in Bergen County. As our Jewish calendar year begins, we encourage our members to bring non-perishable food to the synagogue on Kol Nidre Eve for Operation Isaiah, which provides much needed help to the local food banks. Last September we contributed more than 125 bags of food and other necessities to Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Northern New Jersey for them to distribute to needy families. We have bins in the synagogue lobby for our ongoing food collection throughout the year.

Each year we provide and serve food at the Walk-In Dinner program in conjunction with Family Promise of Bergen County. The JCCP/CBT holds Spring and Fall Turkey and Food Drives to help ensure that people are not forgotten at holiday times, regardless of their religion. At Thanksgiving, our congregation “adopts” needy families in Paramus and brings at least 25 meals, including frozen turkeys, to the Paramus Food Bank.

Just in the last year we also collected school supplies, held a Toy Drive in conjunction with the Paramus PBA, collected new or gently worn coats for the Jersey Cares Coat Drive. We ran a “Souper Bowl” collection of canned soup for JFCSNNJ, collected Personal Care Products for BVMI (Bergen Volunteers Medical Initiative) and wrapped holiday gifts in Paramus Park Mall with donations earmarked for the Center For Hope and Safety (rebuilding lives beyond domestic violence).To thank our members for their ongoing support, we have delivered a challah before the High Holidays to every family living locally for the past three years.

The Jewish Community Center of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah takes great pleasure in knowing that our members have been extremely generous with the time and effort and money they have devoted to our projects. Our youth, seniors and all those in between are working together to stay involved in helping the community. Since March 2020, the CARE Committee has sponsored successful projects every month, donating, delivering, collecting and doing for each other within the synagogue and out in the community.

Contact the CARE Committee

We would love to have you join our group!

Sandy Alpern, Beth Chananie, and Ruth Smith    Co- Chairs

Call the JCCP/CBT office, (201) 262-7691 and your message will be forwarded to the Chairs of our committee