Focused on perfecting her elaborate decorations, Rye Brook resident Alexandra Spielberg, 4, carefully writes “Happy Passover” on her card for a Jewish War veteran during “Mitzvah Madness” in the Congregation KTI social hall at 575 King St. on Sunday, Mar. 18. In all, the congregation made 25 cards for the vets.
Allene Berman of Rye Brook (left) and Helene Simon of Port Chester prepare four giant trays of baked ziti to donate to St. Peter’s Soup Kitchen in Port Chester.
As a Holocaust survivor who escaped through France, Armonk resident Daniel Vock shares his story while 15-year-old Rye Brook resident Peri Glick takes notes. She is interviewing Vock for the second wave of an oral history project started by Abe Baker-Butler in 2015 because, as Baker-Butler questions, “when these people are gone, how will we hear their stories?”
Rye Brook resident Lyle Margolis helps his 9-year-old daughter Maddie roll coins. “Mitzvah Madness” participants brought coins to roll, donating $580 to Mazon, a national non-profit dedicated to feeding the hungry.
Hayden Goldstein, a 6-year-old Rye Brook resident, excitedly stuffs a backpack with folders, notebooks, markers and snacks to donate to a child in foster care. The 62 backpacks were donated by Future Stars.
After writing “Happy Spring!” Rye Brook resident Bonnie Baker-Butler shows her kindness rock to others at the table. Festivity-goers adorned rocks with kind and positive messages to be distributed throughout the community.
Fito Waisburg and his 4-year-old son Alan, Rye Brook residents, color Star of David emblems to decorate a KTI banner celebrating the synagogue’s 130th anniversary.
Rye Brook resident Bonnie Baker-Butler and her 12-year-old daughter, Anna, work together to color kindness rocks.
Jordana Esterow, 10, and her mother Lindsay, Rye Brook residents, share some mommy-daughter bonding time as they make kindness rocks together.
Emma Margolis (left) and Abbie Wolkind ask David Rosen of Rye Brook to compare how Jewish education is different now than when he was a child.
