SEEN: Good Deeds Day

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Suzanne Pollak
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Thousands turned out this year for Good Deeds Day, a volunteer event run by the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. Volunteers from 72 organizations signed up to lend a hand on nearly 100 different service projects. Good Deeds Day is now a permanent annual event, thanks to a $500,000 gift from Dr. Stuart and Ellen Lessans of Rockville.

Photos by Geoffrey W. Melada

Dozens of volunteers joined Artists 4 Israel and the Israel Forever Foundation to make healing kits for Israelis and canvass paintings to decorate Israeli bomb shelters, including Ethan Aronovich, (below) and Dalia and Aryeh Siegel, (above), with mother Orna Siegel looking on.
Dozens of volunteers joined Artists 4 Israel and the Israel Forever Foundation to make healing kits for Israelis
and canvass paintings to decorate Israeli bomb shelters, including Ethan Aronovich, (below) and
Dalia and Aryeh Siegel, (above), with mother Orna Siegel looking on.

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Nancy Simon and granddaughter Alex Simon make felt pillow cases for the Interfaith Clothing Center of Montgomery County.
Nancy Simon and granddaughter Alex Simon make felt pillow cases for the Interfaith Clothing Center of Montgomery County.

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From left, William Daroff, vice president for public policy and director of the Washington office of The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), poses with Ronald Halber, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, and Halber’s children, from left: Larissa, Shoshana and Alex, after volunteering at the JCC in Rockville.
From left, William Daroff, vice president for public policy and director of the Washington office of The Jewish
Federations of North America (JFNA), poses with Ronald Halber, executive director of the Jewish Community
Relations Council of Greater Washington, and Halber’s children, from left: Larissa, Shoshana and Alex, after volunteering at the JCC in Rockville.
From left, BBYO members Margaret Devins, Leah Holzer and Sydney Weinstein make blankets for animals at Congregation Beth El in Bethesda.
From left, BBYO members Margaret Devins, Leah Holzer and Sydney Weinstein make blankets for animals at Congregation Beth El in Bethesda.
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