Tzedakah

Thank you for joining Sisterhood.  Your volunteer efforts and contributions support Temple Isaiah and worthy organizations at home and around the world.  Your membership dues provide the seed money for this work. 

Funds that are raised by Sisterhood go to tzedakah, or to support charities. Here are some of the charities that we support. In addition to these, Sisterhood provides scholarships to Sisterhood members to attend Sisterhood events.

 Financial Support for the Temple

Sisterhood provides financial support for Temple Isaiah. Some of the funds we provide support to are:

• Monica Weinstein Student in Israel Fund
• Arnold Heller Youth Activities Fund
• Social Action: (GBIO dues support)
• College Alumni/ae Gifts
• Kitchen Supplies and Services
• Landscaping
• LEFTY 
• Religious School 
• Social Hall tables 
• Sukkot Bima decorations 
• Holiday parties- families  young children
• Donation in honor of Isaiah's 50th Year

 Sukkot Bima Decorations

Sisterhood provides the Sukkot bima decorations every year.
 

 Gemulit Chasadim

Prepare a meal for a Temple family who needs our support. We will call on you when and if the need arises. Contact Janey Solis if you would like to be on the contact list. When we call, you can decide if you can help at that time.

You can sign up here.

Other Tzedakah Contributions

Here are some organizations that Sisterhood has provided charitable contributions to in the Greater Boston Community:

• Belmont Sport Group
• Caring Canines
• N. E. Veterinary Referral Hospital
• Temple Isaiah School for Casa Nueva
• Children's Room
• Arlington Chapter: American Chronic Pain Association
• Health Care Dimensions
• Horizons Initiative
• Hospice Care Inc/Stoneham
• LABBB
• Mass Breast Cancer Coalition
• METCO Scholarship Fund 
• Minuteman Home Care
• Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy 
• Parenting Resource Association
• Planned Parenthood
• Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
• The Second Step 

We have also made charitable contributions to these organizations in the World Jewish Community:

• Abayudaya- Kulanu
• Action for Post Soviet Jewry
• ADL (Anti-Defamation League)
• American Jewish World Service
• ARMDI-American Friends Magen David Adom
• ARZA (Association of Reform Zionists of America)
• CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America)
• Facing History & Ourselves
• Friends of the IDF
• Israel Women's Network
• Jewish Braille Institute
• Jewish Family & Childrens Service
• Jewish Foundation:  Righteous
• Jewish National Fund
• Jewish Women's Archives
• Koleinu
• Na'amat Women's Zionst Org
• National Tay Sachs & Allied Diseases
• National Yiddish Book Center
• New Israel Fund
• North American Conference for Ethiopian Jewry
• Nothing but Nets
• Or Hadash Congregation/ Haifa
• Religious Action Center
• Society  for Protection of Nature Israel
• Women of Reform Judaism Y.E.S. Fund (Youth, Education, and Special Projects)
• World Union for Progressive Judiaism