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Contributed by: David I. Karp on 9/11/2007

Whenever Cub Scouts gather, they recite the Cub Scout Promise. In it, they promise to help other people. They also put their words into action.

For example, the parent committee of Temple Beth Hillel Cub Scout Pack 311 of Valley Village just decided that the Cub Pack will help the Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles by participating in service projects for Mitzvah Day on November 4 at JBBBS' Camp Max Straus in Glendale.

JBBBS describes itself as "specializ[ing] in mentoring children through its many one-to-one and group-based matching programs."

At the camp, the Cub Scouts and their families will assist with renovation and refurbishment efforts for the benefit of more than 1,000 underprivileged children who attend summer camp there annually.

According to the website of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, Mitzvah Day is a five-Valley wide all day annual event organized by the Valley Alliance and carried out through individual participating synagogues and organizations. Mitzvah Day this year takes place on November 4.

Mitzvah Day provides the community with an opportunity to participate in "Tikun Olam," a central concept of Jewish ethics that translates to "repairing the world."

"Mitzvah" means "commandment" but colloquially translates to "doing a good deed."

Temple Beth Hillel chose to use the Scouting program among other resources to teach these and other Jewish ethics to young people. Central to the Cub Scout program at Temple Beth Hillel is annual participation in Mitzvah Day projects to teach their boys, first to fifth grade, about helping other people.

Scouting, at Temple Beth Hillel and elsewhere, is "fun with a purpose."

The Cub Scout Pack's decision to help at Camp Max Straus supports a new relationship between the Western Los Angeles County Council - Boy Scouts of America and Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles.

Representatives of the two organizations met recently to explore the mutual benefits of working together.

The Mitzvah Day project at Camp Max Straus, to which Scouts have been invited, is just the first opportunity for "cooperative interaction to create an enhanced combined effect," words from the American Heritage Dictionary used to define "synergy."

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