Worth a read is this Haaretz article that starts: A 13-year-old from New York has decided to give $40,000 he received from his parents for his bar mitzvah to the children of Sderot. The municipality says the money will go to build a park with recreational facilities.
A pretty amazing gesture…
The posting below is excerped from 'Baltimore Israel & Overseas', a blog from The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. To read the full posting, and more from a recent visit to Ashkelon and elsewhere in Israel, click the 'more' link below.
Nearly everywhere I have visited ov…
This blog posting about living near Gaza was contributed by Ilona Lichtenstein, 25, who moved to Israel from Belarus 19 years ago with her family. She lives at the JAFI Ibim Student Village near Sderot.
I live in Ibim, a student village which is also an absorption center for young people wh…
Below is a blog posting from Sigal of the 'Focus on Ashkelon' blog, who has kindly granted us re-use permission. She visited a kindergarten in Ashkelon to see the kids and their Hibuki therapy stuffed animals, which kids in rocket-range areas of Israel are given. During red alerts, the kids…
In a nice bit of timing, YNet published an op-ed by Jacob Shrybman, "Rockets Have Not Stopped" on Monday, 5/17. Just two days later, I found myself on the UJC @JewishEvents twitter feed posting an item saying "First kassam to hit home in Sderot since late Feb; several treated for shock. JPost…
