{"id":31023,"date":"2018-11-30T03:50:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T11:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=31023"},"modified":"2018-11-29T23:32:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T07:32:38","slug":"good-neighbours-good-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2018\/11\/30\/good-neighbours-good-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Good neighbours, good work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Students in grades 6 and 7 hand out sandwiches on the Downtown Eastside Nov. 15. <em>(photo from RJDS)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 15, 60 students from Richmond Jewish Day School and Az-Zahraa Islamic Academy went to the Downtown Eastside to meet the people in the neighbourhood and hand out food that had been prepared earlier.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31024\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/nov-30-community.30.RJDS-RAC-Week-pic-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/nov-30-community.30.RJDS-RAC-Week-pic-1.jpg\" alt=\"photo - Students in grades 6 and 7 hand out sandwiches on the Downtown Eastside Nov. 15\" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/nov-30-community.30.RJDS-RAC-Week-pic-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/nov-30-community.30.RJDS-RAC-Week-pic-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/nov-30-community.30.RJDS-RAC-Week-pic-1-150x106.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students in grades 6 and 7 hand out sandwiches on the Downtown Eastside Nov. 15. <em>(photo from RJDS)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe students, staff and administration of Richmond Jewish Day School have always been committed to doing what we can to improve the lives of those less fortunate among us,\u201d said Reesa Pawer, student life coordinator at RJDS. \u201cOne of the ways we have done this is by actively participating in a week of Random Acts of Chesed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of Random Acts of Chesed Week, Grade 6 and Grade 7 RJDS students worked together with their neighbour school, Az-Zahraa, to put together 700 bags of food and more than 500 sandwiches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in grades 6 and 7 hand out sandwiches on the Downtown Eastside Nov. 15. (photo from RJDS) On Nov. 15, 60 students from Richmond Jewish Day School and Az-Zahraa Islamic Academy went to the Downtown Eastside to meet the people in the neighbourhood and hand out food that had been prepared earlier. \u201cThe students, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1352,3076,5260,446,8534,1049,1959],"class_list":["post-31023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-az-zahraa-islamic-academy","tag-education","tag-interfaith","tag-multiculturalism","tag-rdjs","tag-richmond-jewish-day-school","tag-tikkun-olam"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}