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Smile! Children help out at a Jewish Relief Agency event in October.

for homebound seniors and volunteer at organizations such as
museums, schools and nonprofits.

RSVP is a secular organization, but many — if not most, RSVP
Philadelphia Director John Eskate said — of its volunteers are Jewish.

The program is open to volunteers who aren’t older adults,
though older adults are the target volunteers. Civic association
volunteers who range in age have participated. The Hillel at Tem-
ple University cooks for RSVP a few times a year, and synagogue
Sunday schools have prepared meals.

“Older adults have health benefits to remaining engaged in
their communities and through volunteerism,” Eskate said. “It has
health impact, mental health and physical health impact. We all
deserve these opportunities, and communities deserve the sup-
port of their older adult populations because they have just so
much expertise and experience. These communities deserve to
benefit from that.”
Visit kleinlife.org/volunteers/rsvpphiladelphia for details.

Cemetery Clean-Up
Between the vandalization of Mount Carmel Cemetery in Feb-
ruary 2017 to more recent problems at cemeteries brought on by
this past summer’s rains, cemetery preservation has been in the
news quite a few times.

Following the vandalization, the Jewish Federation of Greater
Philadelphia set up a program to support volunteer groups’ efforts
cleaning up the cemetery. These tasks can include righting head-
stones or clearing overgrowth.

If volunteers get a group together to clean up, Community En-
gagement Senior Manager Penina Hoffnung, who calls herself “the
cemetery lady,” can help groups organize and get equipment.

“We’re looking to engage people in new kinds of ways,” Hoff-
nung said. “When all of those people, all of that wave of help came
in over the cemetery, it occurs to me [that] these cemeteries are a
way for people to engage in the Jewish community that we never
thought of before.”
Head to jewishphilly.org/mtcarmel for more information.

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