(Courtesy of SSTC) Suburban Torah was lit up on Erev Chanukah as members of all ages came in on Sunday to help pack food for the Jewish Relief Agency and partake in a children’s program in advance of the Festival of Lights. Families helped sort, pack and seal boxes filled with canned goods, pantry necessities and other foodstuffs for people with food insecurity in the Greater MetroWest community.

“SSTC really came out in force,” said Rabbi Moishe Gurevitz, director of the Jewish Relief Agency in MetroWest, adding that shul members “put their time, energy and ahavas Yisrael into helping others.”

Rabbi Gurevitz added that “the packages the Jewish Relief Agency gives out helps senior citizens, single moms and families who are struggling with a most-basic need—food.”

Sunday’s events followed a jam-packed, pre-Chanukah Shabbat that included a communal dinner attended by nearly 200 people and a special guest speaker, Rabbi Shay Schachter from the Young Israel of Woodmere.