Memorial Park to Sponsor Food Drive
To commemorate the dead and to celebrate life, Mt. Sinai Memorial Park has asked the more than 2,000 people expected to attend a service in September to bring packages of food that will be distributed to the hungry and homeless of Southern California.
On the Sunday between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the memorial park has sponsored for the last 40 years Kever Avot, a musical memorial service with rabbis representing each denomination. Traditionally, Jewish people visit the grave sites of their loved ones between those holidays.
For the first time this year, on Sept. 11 at 10 a.m., food items will be collected to be given to agencies such as Sova (the Hebrew word for eat and be satisfied), a Jewish Community Centers program; Encino B’nai B’rith; the First AME church, the Salvation Army and the San Fernando Valley Interfaith Council food pantry.
“We are really here for the living,” said Memorial Park director of sales and marketing, Fred Ellsberg.
“We’re here to carry on the traditions of the living and generational continuity.”
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