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Project Ray'ut and The Metropolitan Experience
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In addition to Central’s array of regular programs, we are responsive to emergency needs as they arise. One notable example was our mission to the New Orleans Jewish community in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Grade-wide projects form an integral part of YUHSG’s Chesed Program. Every year, each of our grades selects a worthy cause to support, and the students devote their time, energy and resources to their chosen projects, fostering a sense of unity, purpose and accomplishment.
The most noteworthy and ambitious of these projects are the junior grade’s annual “Project Ray’ut” and “The Metropolitan Experience,” which have become defining moments in our students’ high school careers.
Launched in 2006 at the initiative of two of our students, “Project Ray’ut” is a unique blend of education and service to the community. Participants spend a week in Israel, engaged in activities that address real needs in Israeli society and make meaningful contributions to Israeli life. Past activities have included cleaning bomb shelters, packing food at Yad Eliezer, planting trees, working at the Chazon Yeshayahu soup kitchen and at an Ethiopian absorption center.
Those of our juniors not participating in “Project Ray’ut” are offered a parallel opportunity closer to home. Called, appropriately enough, the “Metropolitan Experience,” the program combines community service with a number of educational and fun activities in and around New York City. Last year, for example, our students visited the Museum of Jewish Heritage and recited Tehillim at Ground Zero. They visited a senior citizens center where they participated in an arts and crafts project, led a birthday party, and even gave manicures to the residents. They also packed food packages at the Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns Kol Ditzrich Food Pantry, and then delivered them to needy families.
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