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HOT MEALS
Last Monday of Every Month! 10 am – 12 pm, Westchester Reform Temple Kitchen
Sign up to join other members of the WRT community to cook a hot dinner, make sandwiches, and pack sandwich bags for HOPE Community Services. You can also sign up to bake desserts to be included in the sandwich bags, to shop for groceries, or to deliver the sandwiches to HOPE.
Monday, September 22, 2025 – Friday, October 3, 2025
As we enter the new year, we invite you to not only reflect on your own past deeds, but to look outward toward the needs of the world at large. Through our traditional Yom Kippur food drive, we can deepen our High Holy Day experience by donating to those in need and, as a community, work toward repairing our world.
Bags will be provided on the chairs at Rosh Hashanah Services and through the week in the WRT lobby. Fill the bag with the below requested and most needed items. All items will be donated to Feeding Westchester.
Brown or White Rice
Whole Grain Pasta
Shelf-Stable Milk
Canned Vegetables
Peanut Butter
Whole Grain Cereal
Canned or Dried Fruit
Canned Meals
Please donate non-perishable items only. No glass containers, pre-opened or out-of-date items please. When choosing items for donation, please look for labels that read: low sodium, no salt added, no sugar added, unsweetened, reduced sodium, 100% fruit juice, lite.
Delivering your food bags: Your filled bag can be brought to the bin that will be located under a tent in the back parking lot in the parking space closest to the ECC playgrounds.
If you prefer to make a monetary donation, you can donate directly to Feeding Westchester by visiting www.feedingwestchester.org/get-involved/donate/ or bringing a check made out to Feeding Westchester to our WRT office (please do not make the check out to WRT). We will forward any checks received to Feeding Westchester. If you would like to make a donation to help fight food insecurity, you may do so at WRT Hungry and Homeless Fund or at Mazon.
The inspiration for this congregational response is taken from the Haftarah reading for Yom Kippur. Isaiah challenges the people to do more than ritually observe the fast; he implores them to let this fast lead the people to do the work of Tikkun Olam – healing our broken world: “Is not this the fact that I look for: to unlock the shackles of injustice, to undo the fetters of bondage, to let the oppressed go free…to share your bread with the hungry.” – Isaiah 58.
As Isaiah implores the Israelites to let the fast lead the people to do the work of Tikkun Olam, we implore you to join in this congregational response. We look forward to seeing our donation bins overflowing on Yom Kippur.
Men of Reform Judaism (MRJ) is collecting Humanitarian Supplies for Disaster Relief and Recovery for the victims of hurricanes Helene and Milton. For a full list of items being collected, see the flyer below. In addition, MRJ has an ongoing collection for larger medical supplies that are donated to Afya. Learn what medical supplies are accepted here. If you are interested in donating to either cause, please contact Bob Meyerson, MRJ President at RHM321@verizon.net or 914-393-8044.