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Temple Sinai Tabs for Souls

reaches new milestone

By Sue Huntting
ears ago, when Temple Sinai tabs from the Abundant Life Church.
7 graders initiated the Tabs Businesses, as diverse as Florida Un-
th
Yfor Souls project as a way of derwater Sports, Fresh Start Café and
deepening their study of the Holocaust, Char-lee’s Salon, display collection Temple Sinai is your home for the
it was hard to imagine what would be boxes on their counters. Students at High Holy Days. Visit
involved – and how long it would take Southside Elementary have collected
– to collect six million tabs. Up until them as a class project. sinaisrq.org/membership to learn
now, our major milestones were one Although the counting and the
million, and then 1.5 million, the num- totaling are part of what keep the mo- more about us and how to join!
ber of children presumed lost during mentum going, we are forever cogni-
the Holocaust. zant that each tab, regardless of origin, L'Shana Tova
Thanks to the efforts of people size or color, represents a Jew who was
in our local community and around killed. It is hard to comprehend the loss
the country, as of May 2021 we have of six million lives, but we continue to
reached yet a new milestone – two work on bringing to life a visual repre-
million tabs. A network of people and sentation of that loss.
businesses regularly collect and con- Aluminum can tabs may be
tribute large and small baggies of tabs. dropped off on weekdays at Temple
A friend of a temple member in Illi- Sinai or mailed to the temple at 4631 #InnovativeReform
nois mails in boxes of tabs. A former S. Lockwood Ridge Road, Sarasota,
custodian delivers huge quantities of FL 34233.

4631 South Lockwood Ridge Rd., Sarasota, FL. 34231
(Enter off of Proctor Rd.)
941-924-1802
Temple Sinai students count aluminum tabs
www.SinaiSRQ.org Office@SinaiSRQ.org

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