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	NORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY (GREAT NECK, NY)/YESHIVA HAR TORAH (QUEENS, NY)
		On the evening of February 7th, sixth grade students from North Shore Hebrew Academy and Yeshiva Har Torah gathered together at the Strike Bowling Alley in New Hyde Park, NY. While many rounds were bowled over the course of the event, the reason behind this meeting was much more significant. The students and their parents came to explore how they might incorporate tikkun olam into their upcoming Bnai Mitzvah celebrations. They met representatives from fifteen local community service programs that work with Bnai Mitzvah students and learned about a number of opportunities available to them. At the Bnai Mitzvah Fair, Areyvut met with over fifty students and parents to help plan a social action component to their Bnai Mitzvah preparation. Staff members helped students developed project ideas that were closely connected to their individual areas of interest and offered additional resources to guide their service experience. Each family that met with Areyvut received a copy of the “A Kindness a Day Calendar: 365 Ways to Make a Difference” as a starting point for their involvement in acts of kindness. Areyvut would like to thank Rabbis Shalom Jensen and David Saltzman for inviting us to participate in the Bnai Mitzvah Fair. For more information on North Shore Hebrew Academy, visit their website at www.nsha.org. For more information on Yeshiva Har Torah, visit their website at www.hartorah.org. For more information on Areyvut’s “A Kindness a Day Calendar: 365 Ways to Make a Difference", please click here.