LANCASTER, PA — President’s Day Weekend is off time for most high school students, but in York, PA, a group of sixteen Ramaz students got down and dirty, hacking away as they volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, and then, spontaneously, for Chabad of Lancaster.
Building Houses, Doing Mitzvahs: Ramaz Students, Chabad-Lubavitch and Habitat for Humanity
LANCASTER, PA — President’s Day Weekend is off time for most high school students, but in York, PA, a group of sixteen Ramaz students got down and dirty, hacking away as they volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, and then, spontaneously, for Chabad of Lancaster.
When Deedee Benel, Educational Director of Activities at Ramaz Upper School in Manhattan contacted Habitat to coordinate the students’ volunteer effort, they told her that their help was welcome in York, where more hands were needed in finishing the construction of housing for the poor.
Benel looked up the nearest Chabad House and found Rabbi Elazar Green, Chabad representative to neighboring Lancaster. His response, she says, was “phenomenal.”
Though Habitat had offered a place for the students to sleep as well as a kitchen to prepare their meals, the place was a church basement and the food from a non-kosher kitchen. Both were obviously unacceptable to these Ramaz students.
Green offered the Chabad House for accommodations, but the space was too small to suitably house everyone. Instead, he helped arrange lodging at a nearby motel.
Pittsburgh
Rabbi Green your the best, doing everything for the Jews in York and Lancaster, keep up your good work.
Elazar Green
Why, Thank you!
It’s Great to hear from old fans.
yanky
nice to see you elazar!
Yanky (shluchim 61)