Section: Making a Difference
Tikva Market: An Investment in Chesed
Posted on 07 August 2008
You can find a bottle of Coke for half a Shekel, but you don't really want to end up shopping here.
Times get hard. Families suffer. Some families don’t even have enough money for groceries. Actually, that’s an understatement. There are thousands of families in Jerusalem alone who cannot afford groceries. But that’s not the ...
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The Negev: Moving Towards the Future
Posted on 07 August 2008
THE FUTURE OF THE NEGEV IS OUR PRESENT
Grassroots leaders and the business executives work together to bring Zionism into the 21st Century
When Mark Twain visited Palestine in 1867, he made sure to visit the Negev, but was hardly impressed. Following his visit, he wrote The Innocents Abroad and referred to the ...Comments (0)
Job Katif: Restoring Lives, One Job at a Time
Posted on 06 August 2008
The summer of 2005 shook the entire country. Many of those actively against the Disengagement traveled down to Gush Katif to help the residents, while others attempted to physically prevent the evacuation. Casts of international reporters camped out in the area for weeks, while the media broadcasted the devastating evacuation of thousands of Israeli ...
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Captives in Their Own Land
Posted on 29 July 2008
As Sara prepared to jump out of the third- floor window, she recalled there was a phrase that Jews were meant to say when sacrificing their lives. Not knowing when her father and brothers were intending to come and kill her, she had no time to spare. “Baruch atah Hashem Elokenu Melech Haolam Shehakol ...
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Zichron Menachem: A Reason to Live
Posted on 24 July 2008
Menachem Ehrental was 15 years old when he died. After a 14-year battle against the deadly cancer in his body, Menachem had no more strength to fight. “I can’t bother. I don’t have the energy anymore,” he told his father shortly before going to sleep for the final time. The Ehrental family was devastated ...
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Keeping the Doors Open at Carmei Ha’Ir
Posted on 23 July 2008
A Peek Inside
My sister is a tour guide. She is excited about many places in Israel, but the first place she first wanted us to see when we had just arrived in the country, was Yerushalyim's Carmei Ha'Ir.
Located at 72 Agrippas, in Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda market, Carmei Ha’Ir looks like just another fancy restaurant. ...
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Not Just Clowning Around
Posted on 22 July 2008
A cheerful tune wafts through the doorway, diffusing the tense silence of the hospital ward. A colorful figure skips into the room, and the nurses break out in smiles. Dressed in rainbow knee socks, a pink tutu and a bright red nose, Yolana, or Yoyo as her clown character is known, is greeted cheerfully ...
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Crossroads Center
Posted on 03 June 2008
Twelve years ago, hundreds of teens loitered in the streets of Jerusalem late at night, but no one knew where they came from. They weren’t the typical Israeli teens that hang out on the streets, but no one knew if these kids were visitors, tourists, or immigrants. Eventually, it ...
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