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	CHAGIM (HOLIDAYS)
		*Rosh Hashana* Organize a Rosh Hashana dinner through the Synagogue for people who may not have family or friends to share the holiday with. Make a New Year's resolution relating to improving yourself. As a family determine a tzedakah that you would like to support and have everyone in the family make a contribution. Donate your change from the week in between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur to tzedakah. As the prayers discuss life and death, sign up for a CPR course in your area so that you will have the ability to save someone's life. Encourage people who attend Tashlich (throwing away their sins) to be careful that while doing so not to speak about others. If you are in the New York area, join Dorot the Sunday before Rosh Hashana, to make packages for the holiday and deliver them to the elderly. Contact Dorot at 212-769-2850 and ask for Lisa Horowitz. Pre-registration is required. Visit their website at www.dorotusa.org or email volunteers@dorotusa.org for more information. If you live outside the New York area, visit www.friendlyvisiting.org to find an organization in your area that promotes friendly visiting programs for the elderly that may have a program specific for the holiday. Go apple picking and donate the apples with honey to nursing homes. Make New Year cards for terror victims, the elderly, or hospitals. Contact the chaplain of your local hospital and arrange to get the lists of Jewish patients staying in the hospital for Rosh Hashana. Go around to them with a smile and a shofar and ask if they'd like to hear the shofar blown. Make tzedaka boxes and give tzedaka daily in the days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur- as it says "Repentence, Prayer, and Charity removes the evil decree (Midrash Raba Bereshit 41:15)." Return to Chagim List