GOOD DEEDS DEFINE THE DAY.Byline: Ivan Sciupac Daily News Staff Writer Hundreds of people across the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. came together Sunday for community service on Mitzvah Day, with some joining this year in the Valley Interfaith Council's CROP Walk. In Tarzana, participants gathered at Temple Judea in Tarzana and then joined forces with additional walkers just up the street at St. Paul's United Methodist Church St. Paul's United Methodist Church is a congregation of the United Methodist Church located in Houston, Texas in the city's Museum District. The current senior minister of the church is Dr. L. James "Jim" Bankston. St. for the Communities Reaching Out to People Walk. Money raised by walkers will go to local food banks as well as charities abroad. More than 3,500 volunteers from 45 synagogues and organizations across the Valley also took part in several other projects that benefit the homeless, the disabled and the environment. Events included a hunger drive by Temple Judea Religious School students, who prepared 500 sack lunches for the hungry. One hundred new trees were planted in the ``Mitzvah Grove'' that was originated last year at Lake Balboa. Volunteers also painted, plastered and washed the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Police Department's West Valley Youth Center in Reseda. In Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. , members of Temple Etz Chaim counted hundreds of donated coins for Project Chicken Soup chicken soup Chicken broth Folk medicine Jewish penicillin A fowl broth with a long tradition as a home remedy for URIs, which may be a nasal decongestant, inhibit growth of pneumococci in vitro, and stimulate immune responsiveness in WBCs Mainstream medicine A in Los Angeles. The program provides kosher meals to AIDS patients. This fourth annual Mitzvah Day was set aside by the Jewish Federation/Valley Alliance for tikkun olam Tikkun olam (Hebrew: תיקון עולם) is a Hebrew phrase that means "repairing the world" or "perfecting the world." Tikkun olam is an important concept in Judaism. - ``repairing the world'' in Hebrew. CAPTION(S): 2 photos PHOTO (1) Charity walkers set out from St. Paul's Methodist church to carry their banner through Tarzana. (2) Karen Schreiber and Randy Hain bag lunches for the hungry Sunday at Temple Judea in Tarzana. Evan Yee/Daily News |
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