Washington Jewish Week Online Edition: "Service with a J Project aims to build Jewish identity through civic works
by Eric Fingerhut
and Chanan Tigay
Hannah Roth has participated in service projects at her synagogue, but Sunday's outing to clean up Watts Branch Park in Northeast D.C. was different.
The 14-year-old Annandale girl mulched the base of the park's trees, while some kids picked up trash and others cleared branches and debris. Unlike, for instance, the time she made food for a congregational event, on Sunday, she was helping 'people who really need it.'
'It's nice to fix it up. It's scary what it's become,' Roth said of the park, which she and the more than 100 eighth-12th-grade volunteers were told had fallen into disrepair in recent years, a result of being used "
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