Community Service
Starting in third grade, students at the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan get involved in community service. It is through involvement in community activities that we teach our students many Jewish values. Helping others is a corner stone of our religion and culture, and we are proud to actively prepare the next generation to help.
Please find below a list of a few of the programs that the school is associated with.
3rd Grade -
Penny Harvest and Roundtable School-wide Leaders/Coordinators
4th Grade -
Project Sunshine
5th Grade -
DOROT
6th Grade -
Riverside Park
7th Grade -
West Side Campaign Against Hunger and
FoodChange
8th Grade -
The Literacy Project
Below, please find other community service activities that the middle school is involved with:
Tzedakah Roundtable
Yom Chesed
Schechter Manhattan’s
inaugural Yom Chesed/Family Community Service Day was a success! Despite the
rain, over 70 members of the school community went out in the Upper West Side to
lend a hand and experience the mitzvah
of chesed. A large
contingent worked in Riverside Park tending to a community garden, another group
helped a local nursery school clean and set up its outdoor rooftop playground
for the spring, and a third group baked brownies for a local men’s shelter and
put together food bags for members of a women’s shelter in Washington Heights.
It was a day of hard work, good spirit and meaningful service.
Please click here for the slideshow
Matanot L'evyonim (Purim)
Maot Chitim (Pesach)
Occasional visits to the Jewish Home and Hospital
Weekly tzedakah at Kabbalat Shabbat
Occasional Parent's Association tzedakah committee
