We spent yesterday’s sunny afternoon at the Stanton Street Shul for a Makor Community Service “Rebuild & Renew” project. Team leader Shauna Wreschner organized roughly 15 Makor volunteers who scraped and repainted the front gate, cleaned out the back courtyard, organized the main corridor, and scraped, primed, and plastered a large section of the walls on the third floor. Volunteers, mainly in their mid-20s, were treated to a buffet lunch, souvenir “Stanton Street Shul Boot Camp” t-shirts, and a historical overview of the shul and neighborhood from docent/board member Elissa Sampson and Rabbi Yossi Pollak. If you’re interested in helping out the next time, or have the itch for other kinds of volunteering, check out the many diverse opportunities on the Makor Community Service page. More pictures from the afternoon below. 

[Makor Community Service]