As we ramp up for the holiday season your gifts helps fill a need that is bigger than normal. It comes at a time when many of the people we help, on a good day, struggle to make ends meet, no less meeting the added demands on their already depleted.

As we move into the month of Elul (on the Hebrew calendar) we move into the fall holiday season. The word Elul in Hebrew means “to search or to search out”. The fall feasts are a time on introspection, of searching out one's heart. But for some the fall feasts.