Urban Ministries of Durham
410 Liberty Street, Durham, NC 27701
(919) 682-0538
On the 4th Sunday of each month, Kol Haskalah, Judea Reform and Beth El help provide dinners to homeless and hungry people in Durham. Our small group of Jewish Congregations serves over 200 people each month, and the number keeps growing. We feed all ages, all backgrounds, all religions.
We need donations of casseroles (easy recipe below), cookies, large cans of green beans, sweetened iced tea, and shredded cheese, peanut butter and jelly (there are so many kids now!) You can drop off the food at Judea Reform on the 4th Friday of each month or take supplies directly to the shelter on that Sunday at 4:15 p.m.
Summer means less people to help. We especially need prep volunteers this month. PLEASE NOTE: THE TIMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED FOR PREP. Please consider volunteering your HELP or donating needed food for the Durham Community Kitchen the 4th Sunday of each month. Prep hours are 4:15- 5:45pm. (These times have been changed from the usual hours.) If you wish to help serve, let Renee know and I will pass your name along to the serving crew.
Please call Renee (brauch1@nc.rr.com) at 767-9010 if you would like to participate in this mitzvah. Please let her know what you can donate so that she can coordinate with the other congregations. You do not need to participate every month, but PLEASE consider doing this very small good deed for just 1 1/2 hours to help the needy and hungry or by donating any of the needed food supplies. This is a great family activity, especially for teenagers. What better way to teach what Judaism really means?
Here is the very easy recipe for tuna casserole:
TUNA CASSEROLE
2 bags of noodles (any kind)
3 carrots and 3 celery stalks chopped
2 large cans of cream of mushroom soup (Food Lion has their own brand)
6-7 cans of tuna (drained) (chunk light, any brand is fine)
Cook noodles, blend all ingredients together, put in disposable tin (one really big or two medium ones do fine). Either deliver fresh on Sunday to the Kitchen or anytime to Judea Reform for them to freeze or freeze in advance! So easy! Prepare when you have time.
We also continue to collect non-perishable foods for the food banks and old towels/blankets for the animal shelters. Please bring to any congregation event.
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The
Auschwitz Album
This photo album
memorializes the arrival of Hungarian Jews to
Auschwitz in May of 1944.
It is the only one of its kind, and it is solely
due to this album that we have a visual history
of what occurred in the Auschwitz-Birchenau death
camp.
The album was discovered after the war by an
Auschwitz survivor, Lily Jacob, who donated it
to
Yad Vashem
in 1980. Now, with the aid of the Internet, it
can be viewed by millions of people, anywhere in
the world.
Please share this album, to help assure that
people will continue to bear witness to the evil
legacy of the Holocaust. We must never forget.
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