A Quiet Shabbat

It was a nice sunny and warm Shabbat. The local park was full of kids playing and their parents enjoying a quiet Shabbat. I can't tell you the last time we had a rocket launched at us and that is a nice feeling. By the picture one would think everything.
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How Deep Is The Trauma Of The Citizens Of Sderot

On Monday the 15th. of April  we celebrated 65 years of Israel being a state. We invited family over to the house for dinner. It was going well, everyone was enjoying themselves. There was food, laughter, fun and more food. Around 10 O’clock we heard booms and popping noises, the.
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Meet Serge and Luda

Serge and Luda moved to Sderot from the Ukraine a little over a year and a half ago. They have an aunt that lives here with her son, so at least they knew someone here, they have family here. Like every other person that has made Aliyah there are challenges.
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Meet Tzippy

We have known Tzippy for quite some time know. In the past we were able to help her and at one time she was volunteering with us but that changed. For many years she and her husband wanted children but were unable to have any. Though artificial insemination Tzippy did.
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Have you ever been a victim?

Have you ever been a victim? Have you ever been a victim of a heinous act? Have you ever been a victim of a terrorist attack? Some people can answer “yes” to the first question. I hope and pray not many will answer “yes” to the second Question. The third.
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Rosh Chodesh And Purim Celebrated

Torani Hadash Elementary School was built in 2010 in response to the previous ten years of Kassam rocket fire from terrorists in Gaza. The school is a religious elementary school which means that boys and girls are separated and have different classrooms, teachers and playground areas. The children who go.
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What Would $20 USD Buy?

Someone asked me the other day in an e-mail… “What would $20 USD buy where you live?” Someone else told me, “I would like to send something, but the best I could do is $10 a month”. He felt that a small gift could not do any good, that he.
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Teaching To Fish

There have been many projects we have undertaken in the past four years, but this project we are beginning is probably one of the most exciting projects to date, but we need your help. For the past four years we have been feeding people and we will still continue to.
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Meet Itzac

Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And there be no herd in the stalls— Yet I will rejoice in.
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Quite A Month

September was a busy month. With 432 gift bags to pack plus an additional 1296 food bags to pack and distribute needless to say we put our volunteers to their limits. We had a total of eight Shabbats in the month. Three were related to the three fall feasts of.
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