Temple Israel has a wide range of service programs that target both local and foreign projects.

In our greater Tallahassee community, Temple Israel prepares and serves dinners at The Shelter downtown, delivers Meals-on Wheels each Labor Day, and works hundreds of hours collectively in the spring in conjunction with our annual Mitzvah Day project.

We also support our own congregants in need by bringing Shabbat meals of comfort for those who have recently experienced the death of family members, are recuperating from illness or surgery, or more on the upside, are adjusting to a new birth or adoption.

In addition, our Israel subcommittee has "adopted" an Israeli orphanage and our Tallit Sewing Circle uses its revenues to support the Jewish World Service.

New projects are always in the works, and the committee very much welcomes new, enthusiastic members!

  The May 2008 Board of Trustees approved the plan described in the powerpoint presentation posted here.

The mission of the garden is threefold:

(1)    to nourish one's spirit through appreciation of nature's beauty and bounty;

(2)    to engage in acts of mitzvot through cultivating, harvesting and sharing the garden's bounty; and

(3)    to develop feelings of compassion and tolerance through working with others in the garden and practicing lessons of environmental sustainability.

Over a ten-year period, five components of the garden will be created by our congregation:

·          Bereshit Memorial Garden (planning and implementation begins this year)

·          Shemot Rain and Butterfly Gardens

·          Vayyiqra Learning Center

·          Bamidbar Promised Land Vegetable Garden (first to be created!)

·          Devarim Meditation Garden

The initial work of clearing the old vegetable garden and preparing the soil for planting

family-size raised gardens will begin in July 2008. An orientation session will be held at the Religious School orientation on August 17, 2008. Classes in sustainable square-foot gardening will be held in the fall.

Contact Audrey Byrne, 656-6946 for further information.