Chesed

Chessed is an important focus at TABC. Our chessed department focuses on experiential programs as well as discussions revolving around our chessed trips. Engaging students in meaningful chessed projects in a supervised, enjoyable, and meaningful way plants seeds for a life long commitment to chessed. Care is taken to extend the experience beyond the chessed event itself. Meeting with the students before programs enables them to be set up for success and the post trip meetings help the students reflect on these valuable, and often life altering experiences.

Students are required to spend ten hours per semester involved in chessed. TABC students volunteer for local shuls, youth organizations, nursing homes, hospitals, YACHAD, and many other chessed organizations.

Chessed Trips

Providing meaningful opportunities for our students is a priority. Students have been taken to help with hurricane clean up in River Edge, NJ after Hurricane Irene, participated in a Chanukah program at the JCC with special needs children and adults, visit residents at Care One, volunteer with Bonim Builders, participated in Midnight Run, served food at a kosher soup kitchen, participated in the Hebrew Free Burial Association cemetery clean up, and participate in a weekly Lunch Buddies program with our Sinai students.

Disaster Relief Missions

Disaster Relief Missions are a highlight of the TABC experience. Students spend three to five days involved in life changing work, helping people who were recently struck by natural disasters. Students have travelled to New Orleans, Galveston, Atlanta, Nashville, Rochester (MN), and Springfield (MA) to assist in these critical missions. Spending time cleaning up and repairing homes that have been ravaged by natural disaster, students return from these experiences with a new perspective and appreciation for the impact they can make in someone's life. These trips are run in partnership with NCSY.

This program is limited to juniors and seniors, enabling every graduate to have the experience of participating in an overnight chessed experience.

Camden & Baltimore

In expanding the overnight chessed trips, students have travelled to Camden and Baltimore. Each trip provides a variety of chessed experiences, exposing students to programs that help inculcate an understanding of what it means to be a caring person. 

This program is limited to juniors and seniors, enabling every graduate to have the experience of participating in an overnight chessed experience.
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