Israel In English: Support Israel in This Passover

Support 1:
Chana Feldman is a bright, upbeat person despite the harrowing circumstances of her life

Originally from Romania, Chana and her family were forced to flee from the Nazis with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Though she was very young, she vividly remembers running for her life.
Today at the age of 80, Chana lives all alone in a small, run-down apartment in south Tel Aviv.
Chana does her best to stay cheerful, but every day is a struggle, and she cannot afford many of life’s basic necessities.
That is why she is so grateful to The Fellowship and friends like you who reached out to fill a Passover Food Box with both food staples like flour and oil and the special foods such as matzah that will allow her to observe Passover with dignity this year. When we arrived at her door to deliver her Passover Food Box, she wanted to personally thank The Fellowship and our donors for “giving me this Passover gift. The fact that people care means so much — especially during the holidays. Thank you.”
Sadly, Chana is like so many elderly Holocaust survivors in Israel — destitute and alone.

Yehoshua Rubin also received a Passover Food Box last week. “Thanks to The Fellowship and our friends in America,” he says, “we will truly be able to celebrate freedom this Passover.”

Or Galfira Beletz, who is 84 years old and about to undergo serious kidney surgery. She can barely move about her small apartment these days and would never have had the special food to observe Passover with dignity if a caring friend like you had not stepped forward to ease her suffering. “Thank God for people who care enough to think about us,” she says. “God bless The Fellowship and its supporters.”

There is now very little time left before Passover, and there are still so many more boxes to fill

Please reach out to provide food to hungry children, impoverished families, and elderly Jews — including Holocaust survivors like Chana, Yehoshua, and Galfira.

Please make a gift to our Fill the Pantry Passover food campaign today.

Source: http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/USENG_homenew
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Support 2:
Dear Friend,

The request I received more than any other while I was in Israel recently is staggering; people need help finding enough to eat. We often think of hunger as being confined to third-world countries, but it is very real in Israel today. Tonight thousands and thousands of Jewish people will go to bed hungry, but together we can change that.

Tomorrow, Jewish people around the world will celebrate the Passover, a wonderful remembrance of God’s deliverance of His people. But for the hungry of Israel, it will not be a time of celebration. The generosity of you and our beloved Jerusalem Prayer Team partners is known across Israel. When we dedicated the renovated bomb shelter in Jerusalem on my trip, the event was broadcast across the entire country, and afterward I was besieged with urgent pleas for aid.

My heart breaks as I think of so many little children and so many aged Holocaust survivors having to face the threat of hunger. It’s awful to be hungry any time, but when others are celebrating it hurts even worse. I remember the pain of hunger I experienced as a child, and today I hope you will join me in relieving that pain for poor Jewish people.

I want to meet as many of these requests for help as possible, but we can’t do that without your help. Today I’m asking you to send a special gift to allow us to provide food for the Passover week to the poor of Israel. We have made the commitment to those who use the Community Center/bomb shelter in Jerusalem that we will provide free food and other daily needs for all who come. There is great opportunity for us to show God’s love to His Chosen People if we act right now.

Israel today stands on the brink of all-out war—a war that will kill or injure thousands of precious Jewish men, women, and children. We must do all that we can to defend the Jewish state and God’s Chosen People. In addition, the Jerusalem Prayer Team is working to meet the needs of the poor and elderly in Israel. Your gift helps us provide warm clothes, food and medicine for those in urgent need.

When you send your gift of any amount, we will send you this beautiful Jerusalem night light for your home.

With your gift of $40 or more, we will send you the light and this beautiful Jerusalem Prayer Team mezuzah for your home. If you are able to send $1,000 or more, we will send you both of those items as well as this large silver-trimmed shofar. Handmade according to the traditions passed down for centuries, this museum-quality piece will tell everyone that you are committed to sounding the alarm for the defense of Israel.

Source: http://jerusalemprayerteam.org/

Support 3:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/unitedwithisrael
More information and donations: http://unitedwithisrael.org/united-with-israel-installs-bomb-shelters/ / http://unitedwithisrael.org/passover-appeal/

Support 4:

We would like to share with you one interesting part of the Passover seder that is close to our hearts. When Moses speaks to the Jewish slaves in Egypt to let them know that they will soon be a free nation, his words speak to the importance of educating our children.

"On that day tell your son, I do this because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt" (Exodus 13:8). Moses tells the Jews what to say, “In days to come … when your children ask you …" (13:14)

The telling of the Passover story to our children is one of Judaism’s most beloved traditions. More than any other statement, it tells our children that we believe in them, that they are our future.

Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks explains, "It may be hard to escape from tyranny, but it is harder still to build and sustain a free society ... To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education."

JerusalemOnlineU.com helps provide this education. JerusalemOnlineU.com gives parents, schools and entire communities the tools to teach their children what is right, what is true, and what Judaism and Israel are all about.

Step Up For Israel, our international campaign which connects young people and adults to Israel by providing them with a strong foundation in Israel education, has already reached over 13,000 people.
Our 10-hour online courses on Judaism and Israel have reached thousands of college students and generated over 51,000 hours of learning. Over 100 organizations and synagogues are now also using our new Israel mini-series.
Israel Inside: How a Small Nation Makes a Big Difference, our new documentary film that originally debuted on PBS in South Florida, recently aired on PBS in Southern California. We are now in progress to have other PBS showings in San Francisco, Tampa Bay, Chicago and Baltimore.
- Israel Inside will be premiering in Boston on April 15 and in New York on April 16, in partnership with The Israel Project. Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, the star of Israel Inside, will be the guest speaker. Click here to purchase New York tickets. Click here to purchase Boston tickets.
- We are also having an International Israel Education Day, "64 for 64," on Yom Haazmaut (April 29th), with 64 screenings of Israel Inside in honor of Israel's 64th birthday. We have surpassed that goal with over 100 screenings around the globe – from the U.S. to Israel, Romania, South Africa, Costa Rica, India, China, Canada.

JerusalemOnlineU.com is ensuring that our children are educated, informed, prepared and inspired to stay connected to Israel and the Jewish people as they face the realities of today's world.

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Support 5:
April 4, 2012

Dear Friend of Israel:

Throughout the history of Israel and the Jewish people, there have been times when we as a people were victims, and times when we were victors.

In the 1930s we failed the test. We were powerless to change the course of events in Europe. The Jewish people were victims.

In the 1950s we lobbied for bipartisan support of the new Jewish state as well as for aid packages that helped Israel absorb Holocaust survivors and grow. We met the test. And we have a homeland today as a result.

But now, that homeland's position is as precarious as it has ever been.

The Arab world surrounding Israel is in turmoil, and Islamic extremism is in ascent. On Israel’s borders, there are estimated to be more than 200,000 Hamas, Hizballah, Syrian and Iranian rockets aimed at Israel’s citizens.

And in Teheran, Iran’s leaders continue to call for Israel and America’s destruction, while rapidly advancing a nuclear weapons program to do so.

There is still time to change the course of these latest threats…time to ensure we are victors, not victims.

But we need your help to do this.

YOU can help decide if AIPAC has the resources to do all the work necessary to keep America and Israel safe at this critical moment.

For as successful as AIPAC members have been in working with our leaders in Washington, we don't have enough political activists to engage all the candidates who will soon be making decisions in Congress for the very first time.

As successful as our college program is, the fact is that AIPAC still doesn't have a presence on many of the four year colleges in America.

As successful as we are in reaching beyond the Jewish community, we have limited staff dedicated to helping educate and involve pro-Israel Christian, Hispanic and African American communities nationwide. We need many more staff and many more non Jewish leaders engaged in our critical work.

History is once again calling. How will we answer?

Your support of AIPAC can help us make the difference. And you can start now with a simple click of your mouse.

Please click here to join AIPAC with a gift of $36, $50, $100 or more and ensure we have the resources to fund all the vital work that lies ahead to help keep America and Israel safe and secure.

Your support is all it takes.

Your support can help us work with Congress to get tougher Iran sanctions bills passed and implemented.

Your support can help give Israel what she needs to defend herself against growing threats on every front.

Your support can help bring student body Presidents from campuses around the country to Washington.

Please use this moment to let your actions be heard. Click now to make your contibution and join AIPAC today.

Your support, along with others in the pro-Israel community, will ensure that at this moment history, America and Israel will win.

Thank you in advance for your help and support.

Sincerely,