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Homebound Mitzvah Program Looking For Volunteers To Make a Difference to Jewish Seniors over High Holidays
West Palm Beach, FL, August 22, 2008 – For eleven years, volunteers of all ages and from all walks of life have made a difference to homebound Jewish seniors in the community over the Jewish High Holidays and Passover. The Homebound Mitzvah Program of MorseLife, as this program is called, will bring volunteers and Jewish seniors together again for the High Holidays this September.
MorseLife’s Homebound Mitzvah Program is seeking caring volunteers – individuals, families and groups – to deliver High Holiday packages on Thursday, September 25th to more than 2400 Jewish seniors throughout Palm Beach County and vicinity. Packages include kosher meals, prayer books, a DVD of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services, and other tradition items.
Just as important, volunteers are asked to provide some “quality time” to Homebound Mitzvah Program recipients – sitting and talking with them for a while to bring some additional warmth to the delivery.
Pick up locations for volunteers are the MorseLife campus on 4847 Fred Gladstone Drive (off Haverhill Road) in West Palm Beach, or on the Jewish Community Center campus in Boynton Beach at 8500 Jog Road.
Since 1997, the Homebound Mitzvah Program has been reaching out to the area’s homebound elders in hopes of diminishing the loneliness and isolation frequently felt over Jewish holidays. It was founded by Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz, who had nurtured a similar program called Dorot in New York to help isolated seniors, and is made possible through the generosity of community philanthropists called “Mitzvah Makers” and through a grant from the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County.
To volunteer for the Homebound Mitzvah Program and bring joy and traditions to seniors in Palm Beach County, call (561) 616-0707.
MorseLife is a nationally-recognized provider of health care and residential services for seniors and their families in Palm Beach County. A charitable, not-for-profit organization, its programs include short-term rehabilitation, long-term care, housing: independent and assisted living, home health care, case management, adult day centers, meals-on-wheels, and research and training. Founded in 1983, MorseLife has built a reputation and tradition of caring for seniors with excellence, dignity and compassion -- honoring senior living -- now and forever. For more information, visit www.morselife.org.