Triple Header Breakfast

The East Brunswick Jewish Center Men's Club has had several traditions for the past several years. This year we combined them, and added a third, for a Triple Header event. We don't charge for our breakfasts to encourage the widest possible participation. Of course, more important than the breakfast itself was what we did at the breakfast.

For our third year, we've sponsored an annual breakfast to recognize the Unsung Heroes of our temple. These are not only members of the Men's Club, but others who have contributed of their time and energies to make EBJC function. We specifically engage all the arms of our synagogue. For example, our first two recipients are active members or our Sisterhood who run the EBJC Gift Shop, and work behind the scenes doing work like preparing the kiddushes for Shabbat services, cleaning our Torahs' silver pieces, etc. Another honoree, was a Men's Club member who makes many things happen in our temple, and who visits sick members of our congregation at a local hospital.

Second, Men's Club co-sponsors with the Social Action Committee our temple's annual blood drive. We plan these two events together, using the traffic generated by Unsung Heroes to ask people to become heroes themselves and donate blood. .

Finally, this event was held on the day after Tu B'Shvat. In order to mark the New Year of Trees, we had a guest speaker at our breakfast from the Jewish National Fund. Our chapter made a contribution to JNF to support their work, and, perhaps more importantly, many of those who attended took home JNF tzedakah boxes to gather additional funds in their own homes.