Ninety teens from Adath Emanu-El threw a large holiday party for the Covenant House on the night of Dec. 3.
Covenant House provides transitional housing for at-risk and homeless youth in Camden and Atlantic City. The Adath teens hosted 25 young people from Covenant House, sharing in a pizza dinner, games of bingo, and a sundae bar. At the conclusion of the night, they gave each Covenant House participant multiple gift cards, resulting from a large synagogue-wide effort that had brought in some 100 gift cards.
“It was a wonderful opportunity for our young people to really live the value of ‘welcoming the stranger’ and perform a truly important mitzvah as we approach Hanukkah,” Rabbi Benjamin David said.
