New Chesed Project Extends Outreach to Congregation Members
With the launch of the Chesed Project over the High Holy Days, Emanuel is stepping up our efforts to respond to important events in the lives of our members. As a community, we want to welcome the arrival of newborn and newly adopted children, offer sympathy when a loved one is lost, and provide assistance and support in the face of accidents and illness.

Sadly, we often hear about such events much after the fact, when our presence and support could have been so helpful earlier. So we are asking your help to improve our information in the following ways:

• Please tell your family that when an important event like a birth, death, or illness occurs in your family, the Emanuel office should be added to the list of those important to notify. This is the first, all-important step in our being able to reach out to you.

• Similarly, when you hear about such events in the lives of other congregants, please call the office to let us know. Do not assume that we already know about it, as often we do not.

With your help, we will reach our goal of becoming a chesed community in which every member feels valued and cared about and in which we can truly offer acts of loving kindness to one another.

Emanuel’s Caring Kitchen gets together every few months to cook food. Whether for illness or a shiva, people to whom they have delivered food have let them know how cared about they feel and how nourished in spirit as well as body they are by the offering. The Caring Kitchen could use a few more volunteers to make deliveries, so if you drive and would like to be on the roster for deliveries, or if you would like to help cook next time we get together, please leave a message for the Caring Committee coordinator at the Temple office. Contributions to Emanuel, specified for the Caring Kitchen, are also welcomed to help defray the cost of groceries. Your dollars will be transformed into nourishment and caring for those in need.

Gardening Volunteers Needed!
Help is needed cleaning up, maintaining, and planting Emanuels grounds.
Volunteers are welcome at any time and will be needed throughout the summer. Contact Barry Glaser at b.glaser@sbcglobal.net or leave a message for him in the Emanuel office if you can help.

Loosely Defined--a social group for members in their 30s/40s
Loosely Defined is a new social group at Emanuel primarily for members in their thirties and forties without children. However, immediately upon creating the group, three founding couples started famillies, some twenty-somethings joined, and we invited prospective Emanuel members to join. Making us—Loosely Defined. The events have included a Shabbat dinner and a pot-luck at Ravinia. The group also joins together at Share Shabbats, for holidays, and at life cycle events. Please contact the office or check the events page for upcoming events.

Many are looking for a synagogue to call home. If you know someone who may be looking for a synagogue home or a family who may wish that we contact them about membership, please encourage them to contact the Emanuel office at 773-561-5173 or info@emanuelcong.org, or let our clergy know and we happily shall reach out to them.

Shabbat Honors
If you wish to have Torah, Haftarah or Candle lighting honors, please contact the Emanuel office at 773-561-5173.

Shop for Emanuel!
The next time you're shopping, could you think about picking up a little something extra for Emanuel? The Congregation office is always in need of the following items: audio tapes for the Cantor to use in preparing material for students, 8.5" x 11" white paper for inkjet printers, pens (any kind), markers (any kind thin or thick)
Food Supplies: kosher wine and grape juice, ground decaf coffee, tea bags, disposable napkins, styrofoam cups, disposable tablecloths

Would you like to read Torah at a Saturday morning service? If you know your Alef-Bet, our Congregational Cantor would like to help you reach your goal. Please contact Congregational Cantor Shelly Drucker Friedman at 773-561-5173 if you are interested.

Volunteers Needed in the Emanuel Office
Volunteers are needed in the Emanuel office for a variety of tasks, answering telephones, assembling mailings, photocopying and data entry. Call (773-561-5173) or email the Emanuel office at info@emanuelcong.org if you can help.