Month: January 2009

How is it to live in Rocket City?

Cease Fire?

Thursday morning at 5:55 we once again heard ‘Tseva Adom” (Code Red). Oh how I hope and pray the quiet will last. Unfortunately when a Kassam is fired, Israel seeks out and tries to destroy the launch site in Gaza. In retaliation Hamas sends another Kassam and Israel responds by.
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Meet Noam

Noam has lived in Sderot for over thirty years. He was a bus driver for soldiers.  He has a wonderful wife, Marion, 3 children, 7 grandchildren and a great life.  That is until November 2006 when he heard “Tseva Adom.” His life changed in a split second. The Tseva Adom was followed by.
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Fresh Produce

The L-RD never ceases to amaze us. One of our volunteers just happens to have a friend that owns a farm ten miles from Sderot. She asked if it would be ok to see what kind of price her friend would give us for fresh vegetables; we said "sure". Later.
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Feeding People

In the calm of this last week, Hope for Sderot prepared for the first distribution of food. Our main focus is to those injured by Kassam rockets, but how do you turn your head away from the kids that go to school hungry or those who are the poorest of.
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War Update 23 Jan 2009

It was a week without any Kassams fired into Sderot and we thank G-D for that. But… (the big and infamous BUT) even though there were no Kassams the knowledge that at any moment you could here once again “Tseva Adom” puts a damper on the quiet. Yes it was.
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Becoming One

The idea of us becoming one, of working together, walking in one accord and in unity to the glory of G-D is one thing; but G-D wants us to be one with Him as well. Isaiah 1:18 "Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins.
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The Final Word

“ Your mercy, O L-RD, is in the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Psalms 36:5 The G-D of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a faithful G-D, even when we aren’t. David tells us in the twenty third Psalm that the L-RD has a rod and a staff; a.
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War Update

This was another relatively calm week in Sderot. We are still having daily rocket attacks from the Hamas terrorists but not as many. Yesterday a house was hit by a Kassam just a block and a half from where we were celebrating Afeek’s Bar Mitzvah. The synagogue where Afeek read.
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Feeding Kids

Marko was a truck driver. He picked up shipping containers from the port in Ashdod and delivered them. In June of 2007, he picked up, what was supposed to be an empty container to deliver. Unknown to him or the port authorities was that this twenty foot container had a false.
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Bar Mitzvah and Bombs

It was 7:30 Thursday morning as we made our way to celebrate a Bar Mitzvah for Afeek, the son of friends we have met here in Sderot.  The place of worship is a bomb shelter which was converted into a synagogue.  Atop the synagogue sits not your traditional Magen David (Star of.
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