Charitable lesson

By Observer Staff
| 4:00 a.m. June 13, 2013

Temple Emanu-El Director of Religious Education Sabrina Silverberg and students Katie Hurwitz and Abbie Jo Mount display the blue boxes used to collect tzedakah donations.

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Temple Emanu–El Religious School donated its tzedakah — which means charity of righteousness in Hebrew — for the 2012-13 school year. Children donated to the tzedakah Sunday mornings and raised $1,329.26 throughout the school year. Students voted to donate the money to animal shelter Nate’s Place; the children’s care facility Everyday Blessings; and the Israel-based charity for young cardiac patients Save a Child’s Heart.