Helping Hands Chabad Umass Amherst

03/03/2021

Want a kit for your dorm room or apartment? Message me and make gifts for nursing home residents!
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02/28/2021

UMass Chabad

With the Jewish holiday of Passover coming up at the end of March, we want to assure parents and students that there will be Pesach Seder options for campus. We will work with campus regulations to ensure that students wishing to celebrate the holiday will be able to do so. As we get closer we will give more information. Please reach out and message us with specific concerns you may have. A safe and happy upcoming Passover to all!

02/22/2021

Helping Hands memory!! Hope to be back doing good deeds as a group soon! Till then I can drop off a project for you to do in your dorm or apartment!

02/16/2021

UMass Chabad

Purim is coming! There will be treats on campus! Hold tight!

02/11/2021

Craft kits so locked down students can still participate in community service!
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02/07/2021

UMass Chabad

Many thanks to UMass students who are working with their roommates, apartment mates, pods, to create lovely gifts for elderly nursing home residents. Helping Hands UMass Chabad has kits if you would like to get involved.

02/01/2021

Let's wrap gifts for kids at local emergency rooms!

02/01/2021

Delta Sigma Pi. Guys that bake!!!

Delta Sigma Pi! Thank you for your community service! Warm challah bread to the nursing home. Residents very appreciative!

02/01/2021

UMass sorority and fraternity students team up for a night of baking for elderly Amherst residents!

02/01/2021

Let's make challah to share!!

02/01/2021

Cookies anyone? Take home a bag and share one with local elderly residents! Win win!

02/01/2021

SDT sorority sisters creating art for nursing home residents!

02/01/2021

IGU of yesteryear making challah bread for assisted living residents!

When you go home for Thanksgiving, take some time to remember someone in your family or in your neighborhood who may not be able to celebrate because they are alone or ill.
Give them a call.
Invite them if you can but at least wish them a meaningful day if you cannot.
They will be thankful that you thought of them !
A better world, one good deed at a time!
Thank you IGU for baking Challah to share with the nursing homes and for creating beautiful Thanksgiving and Chanukah cards to distribute to elderly friends!!
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and remember to give thanks!!!

02/01/2021

UMass Helping Hands is inviting small pods ( students with whom you live or interact as a safe group) to attend in person community service projects or accept a community service project kit to be completed in your dorm or apartment. These kits are craft oriented and will be shared with local residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
Message Yocheved Adelman if you would like to be part of this project.
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01/24/2021

UMass Chabad

UMass Chabad

Move in!
Welcome back to Amherst!
We are here for you!

01/06/2021

UMass Chabad

We want to let you know that we are here for you on campus in Amherst. We are working with the school to provide covid safe ways to celebrate Judaism on campus with small in person Shabbat meals or Shabbat To Go in a box to take to your dorm. We will find ways to meet safely to study, hang out and celebrate Jewish holidays like Purim and Pesach. Please reach out to us and let us know how we can make this semester special despite the challenges. Our community service program Helping Hands will also offer ways for you to help the local population. Enjoy the rest of your break!!☺️👍

01/03/2021

UMass Chabad will be offering small in person Shabbat meals or Shabbat To Go boxed meals this semester.

01/01/2021

Happy New Year!
Fill it with kindness!

12/15/2020

Chabad.org

Chabad.org

Listen to the Lights:

A letter from the Rebbe to all participants in public Menorah lightings in the USA.

11/10/2020

Been hard not visiting at our local nursing homes. We miss our real " senior" friends!
Helping Hands is starting a " Caring Card" project. Students in pods, cohorts or with roommates can receive a box from Helping Hands with cards that can be filled with warm messages, snacks for sustenance while they write and decorative stickers to add a finishing touch to the correspondence!
Message Yocheved Adelman to request a box.
We drop off and pick up.
Bring a smile to real senior's face!

09/21/2020

A young man who dedicated his life to helping others was tragically taken from us. Let us perpetuate his mission by creating a mentorship program for young people. Everyone needs a shoulder to lean on, a listening ear and a warm receptive heart.
Be a part of that light. Thank you!

08/26/2020

UMass Chabad

In person socially distant student Shabbat dinner at UMass Chabad. Service 7:30pm. Dinner 8pm.
Reservations required to ensure safe seating.
Please message privately Yocheved Adelman on Facebook or text 413 693 3280.
Also available Shabbat To Go bags with grape juice, challah, soup, boxed dinner and dessert.
Vegetarian option. Message Yocheved Adelman on Facebook or text 413 693 3280.
Reservations for dinner and requests for Shabbat To Go need to be received by Wednesday night.
Thank you and stay safe!

08/24/2020

SinaiScholars.com

SinaiScholars.com

Sinai Scholars Society. Jewish life and learning on university campuses.

08/12/2020

UMass Chabad

With all the changes to the UMass Amherst attendance plan, UMass Chabad would like to make sure we can still help fill the needs of Jewish students who will be in the area in off campus housing or in the limited dorm availability.

Please reach out to us to provide a Shabbat kit to help students celebrate Shabbat in their own space, or to attend a small in person socially distant Shabbat dinner.

Chabad is also formulating plans to help students hear the Shofar for Rosh Hashanah, as well as provide free pre- fast and post fast Yom Kippur foods and arrange covid safe ways to celebrate Sukkot.

Please reach out if we can be helpful in any way for any UMass student in the area.
Working together for UMass.
Yocheved Adelman
UMass Chabad
Helping Hands

07/10/2020

UMass Chabad, which serves both Jewish students and the general student population on campus, will be offering fall programming in accordance with state and campus recommendations.
UMass Chabad will continue to provide for the religious needs of Jewish students on campus through social distancing for in person Shabbat and holiday prayer services, providing kosher dining opportunities for Shabbat and holidays either in a socially distant setting or by pre-arranged pick up or delivery and by offering Jewish cultural and educational classes which will be arranged online or in person in small group settings.
The Helping Hands Community Service Program for all UMass students will continue to provide opportunities for students to show care and concern for elderly residents of Amherst in both safe and authentic ways.
UMass Chabad will also continue its program of delivering soup and other comfort foods to students who are sick both on and off campus.
The staff at UMass Chabad are available at any time to meet in person or speak by telephone with any students in need of support of any kind.
Parents are invited to be in touch with UMass Chabad before and during school if we can be of help to their student.
Working together we can help keep our students, staff and the wider community as safe as possible.
Rabbi Chaim Adelman can be reached at 413 626 7820.
Mrs Yocheved Adelman can be reached at 413 693 3280.
Chabad House at Amherst
Helping Hands Community Service

06/24/2020

We may not be at school UMass but wherever you are your Helping Hands go with you! So help at home or in your community in safe ways! A better world one good deed at a time!

06/08/2020

Helping Hands Chabad Umass Amherst's cover photo

04/01/2020

Keep helping. Check on family, friends, neighbors in safe ways!

03/18/2020

UMass Helping Hands friends.

Now that you are home please do your best to stay safe and keep those around you safe. Use your caring nature to help out at home as much as you can and to reach out through phone, text or other safe media to friends and family around the world. Check on elderly or lonely community members and offer support in safe ways. G-d bless!!!

03/18/2020

When you go home for Thanksgiving, take some time to remember someone in your family or in your neighborhood who may not be able to celebrate because they are alone or ill.
Give them a call.
Invite them if you can but at least wish them a meaningful day if you cannot.
They will be thankful that you thought of them !
A better world, one good deed at a time!
Thank you IGU for baking Challah to share with the nursing homes and for creating beautiful Thanksgiving and Chanukah cards to distribute to elderly friends!!
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and remember to give thanks!!!

03/18/2020

Helping Hands Chabad Umass Amherst's cover photo

02/24/2020

Thanks to UMass business fraternity for baking challah bread for the nursing home! Delivered warm and much appreciated!

02/24/2020

Thank you to our UMass business fraternity for baking challah bread for nursing home residents! Delivered warm and much appreciated! A great way to spend your Sunday afternoon! A better world one good deed at a time!

02/20/2020

Getting ready to bake Purim hanantash cookies with a great crowd of UMass Amherst students!
A fun night helping others! Win win!
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02/10/2020

Coming soon! Helping Hands Hamantash Purim cookie baking! Bake a bunch. Take some home. Share with nursing home residents too! Win win and yum yum!!
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