Month: January 2010

How is it to live in Rocket City?

Sderot, A Year Later

It has been pretty much quite and calm for the past year; on one hand that is good but on the other it is not so good. During the past nine years Sderot’s economy has also been hit hard with every Kassam that exploded it the town. Businesses closed, jobs.
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Psalm 27:4

“One thing I have desired of the L-RD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the L-RD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the L-RD, And to inquire in His temple.” What more could a man ever want, what more.
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Meet Gena

There are many people we have met and helped, Gena is one of them. She is the mother of four and up until the 29th of September 2004 was the grandmother of five. September the 29th “Tseva Adom” sounded as it has so many times before. In 2006 it sounded.
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The First Two Weeks of 2010

We are now two weeks into the New Year and a lot has happened. The New Year started out like this: Dozens of residents of Sderot and other Gaza border communities marked the one-year anniversary of Operation Cast Lead on Thursday (New Years Day) by waving Israeli flags and releasing.
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Help Wanted

Mental illness is a terrible thing and unfortunately Sderot is not exempt from its share of people suffering with mental illness. House of Ester is an organization that helps about forty mentally ill people here in Sderot each day with a day care program. Their day starts at 9 a.m. with arts,.
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Happy New Year

So often our New Year’s resolutions sound something like this… I will stop smoking, I will stop eating after 6p.m, or I will stop this habit or stop doing that thing. No one has ever made the New Year’s resolution that they will become an alcoholic or a thief. Most,.
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Job 42:10

“And the L-RD restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the L-RD gave Job twice as much as he had before." What did Job pray to G-D about his friends? “G-D get them” or perhaps, “Do to them what has been done to me” or maybe, “Give.
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News

As we begin this New Year, we change our calendars, we set up new books for accounting, and we even make a few New Year resolutions. We hope that the coming year will be better than last year and we start the new year off with new hope and expectations..
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Hanukah Party 2009

We Thank G-D for the ability to have a Hanukah party this year. His faithfulness goes beyond description. Preparation began two weeks before Hanukah with all the volunteers getting involved in making decorations, packaging candy and candles, packing gift bags, handing out invitations, making phone call, helping with set-up and.
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