Last year the Chanukah Book Drive collected more than $4,000 in cash and resulted in donations of more than 1,000 books to local public schools that don’t have libraries or the funds to buy new books.
To purchase a book for the drive, call (415) 441-6670 or click on the www.jclread.org Web site.
JCL in both San Francisco and on the Peninsula are joint projects of the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Jewish Community Federation. JCL in the East Bay is a joint project of the JCRC and the Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay. It is affiliated with the National Jewish Coalition for Literacy, based in Massachusetts.