Yom
HaAztmaut, Israel Independence Day - 5 Iyar
Areyvut offers a unique opportunity for schools and young people
to create innovative and meaningful programs that make a difference in the lives
of Israelis during Yom HaZicharon and Yom HaAztmaut.
The Ziv Tzedakah Fund, founded by Danny Siegel, is a
non-profit organization dedicated to the collection and distribution of funds
to various little known tzedakah (charitable) projects in Israel. The
Fund provides money and support for individuals and programs that offer direct,
significant, and immediate services with a minimum of overhead and bureaucracy.
One example of these groups is:
Savtas (grandmothers)
Sandwich Project of Beit Frankforter. In response to numerous reports of hunger
among Israeli school children whose parents cannot afford to provide their sons
or daughters with a proper snack, the savtas who visit Beit Frankforter,
a day center for elders in Jerusalem, initiated a daily sandwich project for
these children. Currently, thirteen local schools benefit from the savtas' nutritious
donations.
Visit Ziv
Tzedakah Fund
for additional projects.
Born of values hewn from Jewish sources, a healthy and
hopeful Israel must be a society compelled by a search for justice for all its
citizens and workers. Addressing urgent needs one person at a time, ATZUM /
Avodot TZdaka U'Mishpat - Justice Works, empowers social justice projects to
assist those severely disadvantaged by inadequate access to Israeli public
protection or private concern. One current project is:
Victims of Terror.
In addition to the anguish and pain of mourning and suffering, countless
Israeli families have been put at grave risk economically by death, maiming or
serious injury. Many of those same families, and countless more, urgently seek
relief from the growing unemployment that besets an Israel under assault. ATZUM
works to get funds to those families, particularly to those whose major wage
earner has been incapacitated.
The North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ) is
a grass-roots, non-profit organization founded in 1982 with four mandates:
- To
help Ethiopian Jews survive in Ethiopia.
- To
assist them in reaching Israel.
- To
aid in their absorption into Israeli society.
- To
preserve their unique and ancient culture.
In Israel, NACOEJ's work includes an after-school program of
intensive remedial education for over 800 Ethiopian elementary school children,
a high school sponsorship program to help over 1,000 Ethiopian teens attain a
quality high school education, and a college sponsorship program that enables
over 300 Ethiopian students to pursue university degrees. In addition, NACOEJ
operates a Bar/Bat Mitzvah Twinning Program to introduce American Jewish
youngsters to their Ethiopian Israeli counterparts, and a school supplies
collection program to provide basic and essential learning materials to
underprivileged Ethiopian youngsters. Click
here
for information on these programs.
