Activities
Chaverim volunteers respond to calls at any hour and perform the following duties:
- Assist people locked out of their home or vehicle
- Repair flat tires and pump low tires
- Boost car batteries
- Assist cars stuck in snow, mud, etc.
- Give rides to motorists whose cars are disabled
- Transport families to weddings during snowstorms
- Give directions for those in unfamiliar areas
- Obtain gas if someone's gas tank runs dry
- Assist with burst pipes
- Assist with loss of essential services such as gas, electric, water, or telephone
- Provide members for a shiva minyan
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“I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Both at-home and working mothers can overmeet their mothering responsibilities. In order to justify their jobs, working mothers can overnurture, overconnect with, and overschedule their children into activities and classes. Similarly, some at-home mothers,... can make at- home mothering into a bigger deal than it is, over stimulating, overeducating, and overwhelming their children with purposeful attention.”
—Jean Marzollo (20th century)
“That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreative body in man or woman. But of course this fear and hate had to take on a righteous appearance, so it became moral, said that the instincts, intuitions and all the activities of the procreative body were evil, and promised a reward for their suppression. That is the great clue to bourgeois psychology: the reward business.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)