Gesher volunteers joined Nechama on October 18 in Austell, Georgia to help a local family who had been devastated by the flood of 2009. The flood was so devastating that many people lost their homes and almost everything they owned. Nechama, a national organization dedicated to helping communities devastated by natural disasters, set up shop in Georgia to help. Gesher volunteers dug right in, providing the muscle power needed to clean and gut a home destroyed by 4 feet of water.

Congregation Gesher L’Torah Gives Back to the Community

Project Isaiah, a nationwide food drive created by The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, was once again a huge success at Congregation Gesher L’Torah.  We collected over 600 lbs of food during the High Holidays.  Building on that success, Gesher L’Torah “extended” Project Isaiah. On Tuesday, October 6, 2009, students from Gesher L’Torah’s Religious School visited the Product Rescue Center at the Atlanta Community Food Bank. 

Religious school students, teachers, parents and the Rabbi will join other volunteers at the Product Rescue Center. They will deliver food that was collected by the congregation during Project Isaiah.  They will also be involved in sorting, inspecting and packaging all food drive and salvaged food items that will be distributed to nonprofit partner agencies in the North Metro and North Georgia area.  This is the second trip volunteers from Gesher L’Torah have made to the Food Bank and at least two more trips are planned this year.   Congregation Gesher L’Torah is very proud of our Religious School students for taking part in such an important effort.