Social Action
Temple Sinai promotes, facilitates and shares in diverse social action activities in response to the core principle of Jewish ethics: Tikkun Olam - mending the world.

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Temple Sinai provides many opportunities and challenges for our congregation to engage in Tikkun Olam. Our social action activities include organizing various drives (food, clothing, toys, etc.) throughout the year and providing support to needy members of our community through targeted programs. We hope for broad participation by our congregation, including our Temple Sinai Religious School students, in our many social action activities.

Social Action Drives
Donations for all charitable causes are accepted through out the year. However, in addition, each month Temple Sinai and the Social Action Committee sponsors a drive for specific needed items. These include books; toiletries, bedding and linens; canned goods and non-perishable food; back-to-school supplies; and gently used, clean warm clothes for men women and children.

Hospitality for the Homeless
The Hospitality for the Homeless is a program developed to work with the Interfaith Council for the Homeless project in Union County. Our mission is to house homeless people in our area. On a regular schedule, Temple Sinai hosts a group of homeless Union County families for one week at a time. Families are housed in Temple Sinai and volunteers help set-up living space, prepare and serve dinners, and stay overnight with the families.

SHIP: Summit Helping Its People
SHIP is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to feed and provide access to support services for the homeless and at-risk homeless people in Summit. Temple Sinai members serve dinner to SHIP beneficiaries the fourth Sunday of each month at the Oakes Memorial Outreach Center.

Share-A-Book Foundation
Founded by one of our Temple Sinai Religious School students as his Bar Mitzvah project, the Share-A-Book is now a non-profit foundation operating throughout the year. The Foundation promotes literacy and the joy of reading among young children in disadvantaged communities. Share-A-Book's main goal is to collect new and gently used children's books from wealthy communities and redistribute them to communities in need in Essex County. Please leave your books in the donations drop box/barrel in the level one lobby.