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   David Moldau (Books for Israel Committee Chairman)
   together with members of the United Synagogue Youth
   at Ner Tamid who are helping to screen, sort and
   pack books for mailing to Israel.

David Moldau, who helps to head up the book drive committee at Temple Shalom in Salem, also coordinates the book drive at Temple Ner Tamid in cooperation with the nearby Christian Renewal church. Hundreds of books
have been contributed to the Massachusetts book drive, and most particularly since 2004, the youth of Temple Ner Tamid have been taking an increasingly active role in the taxing physical and attention-demanding work of screening, sorting, processing, and packaging the books for mailing. Together with Temple Shalom, Ner Tamid has adopted the Ma'alot flagship of schools in northern Israel. David Moldau visited Ma'alot in 2003, bringing over a hundred and fifty choice books in a suitcase when he attended a conference to show solidarity with Israel.

Temple Ner Tamid continues to make a great contribution to the Massachusetts based book drive and, as a result, more and more schools in the Ma'alot area are starting and enriching English language libraries.

The people of Ma'alot and the surrounding towns are grateful to the congregants at Ner Tamid, and their friends at Christian Renewal Church, for their care and support.

Book Sorting and Processing by USYers from Temple Ner Tamid

Amanda Comak, Laura Sherman, Bekah Cline, Yael Mazor, Craig Kaufman,
Leah Budelman and Sara Rosenbaum -- all USYers at Temple Ner Tamid,
join David Moldau, book drive coordinator, to screen, sort, and pack books.

The March 2004 mail out included books donated from Temple Ner Tamid Members as well as books donated by Temple Shalom in Salem, and Christian Renewal Church.
David Moldau writes:
"Several of the youth have already been to Israel and so this project took on special meaning."

Some photos from David Moldau's 2003 visit to Ma'alot, Israel


Speaking to students David explains about the congregation's involvement in the B4I project	David is thanked and introduced to the school headmistress.	He shows some of the books he brought with him in a huge suitcase



Books and more books	Meeting with students in Ma'alot	David carried about 160 books with him all the way to Israel

Temple Ner Tamid of Peabody, Massachusetts,
a Jewish congregation affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism,
is located approximately 17 miles north of Boston.
Temple Ner Tamid was founded in 1959 and its membership presently consists of more than 300 families and singles,
living in Peabody, Danvers, Lynnfield, Middleton, Salem and other surrounding communities.

Visit Temple Ner Tamid's web page at: http://www.templenertamid.org/index.htm