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Project Harmony Israel

Project Harmony Israel 318 W 100th St, Apt 6A, New York, NY 10025 Contact: Meg Sullivan, Co-Founder/Co-Director meg@projectharmonyisrael.com 917-476-6296 Project Harmony is a 4-week English language summer camp that aims to create a safe social space for Arab and Jewish children from Jerusalem to relate to one another as kids. We believe in working towards peace through shared experience, one summer at a time. See our website for fun pictures from previous summers!  Launched in the Summer of 2010, Project Harmony is a 4-week English language summer camp that aims to create a safe social space for Arab and Jewish […]

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Lev LaLev

Lev LaLev 14 Melnick Drive PO Box 1210 Monsey, NY 10952 Contact: Sheena Levi -Director of Outreach 845-367-7130 x 105 sheena@levlalev.com Lev LaLev Fund is a non-profit organization that works to support the Rubin-Zeffren Children’s Home in Netanya, Israel. The home supports all the needs for over 100 girls, ages 5-18+, who have been abused, neglected and abandoned by their families. Beyond basic needs they often also require mental health facilities. The girls are mainstreamed and given the same opportunities as anyone’s own daughter would including higher education and assistance in paying for their weddings. Lev LaLev has a special Bat Mitzvah Project […]

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Keren Or

Keren Or 350 7th Ave., Suite 701 New York, New York 10001 (Center is located in Jerusalem) Contact: Elizabeth David Dembrowsky info@keren-or.org, 212 279-4070 Keren Or (Hebrew for ray of light) is the only center of its kind in the world under Jewish auspices devoted exclusively to the care and rehabilitation of children with visual impairment who are also physically and/or mentally disabled. Keren Or’s state-of-the-art facilities, dedicated staff, and individualized therapy programs allow each of their students to reach his or her maximum potential. There are several ways to make a difference in the lives of blind children with multiple […]

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Boys Town Jerusalem

Boys Town Jerusalem 333 E. Lancaster Avenue, #351, Wynnewood, PA 19096 Contact: Deborah Zarwin Rose, Executive Director Mid-Atlantic Region drose@boystownjerusalem.org 215 887-1590 Boys Town Jerusalem is one of Israel’s premier institutions for educating the country’s next generation of leaders in the fields of technology, commerce, education, the military and public service. Since its founding in 1948, BTJ has pursued its mission of turning young boys from limited backgrounds into young men with limitless futures. From Junior High through the College level, the three part curriculum at Boys Town-academic, technological, and Torah-is designed to turn otherwise disadvantaged Israeli youth into productive […]

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Birthday Angels

Birthday Angels Hashaldag 9 Kadima Israel 60920 Contact: Ruthie Sobel Luttenberg, Director 972+9+8919942 birthdayangelsproject@gmail.com Birthday Angels gives every needy Israeli child the esteem building experience of a birthday party with her or his friends. Writing a check for Birthday Angels is MORE than just a donation. It offers you a unique venue to show your concern for the welfare of children in Israel. It’s an opportunity for you in the Diaspora to make a personal connection with an Israeli child. To help build his self-esteem, by making him feel loved and special. By showing him that people care. In other […]

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American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFMDA)

American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFMDA) P.O. Box 52158, Phila., PA 19115 Contact: Sharon Schmidt, Greater Phila. Area Director AFMDA 215 947-7007 Magen David Adom is Israel’s ambulance, blood-services, and disaster-relief organization, serving as emergency medical first-responders for the state’s more than 8 million people. MDA is the only organization mandated by the Israeli government to serve in this role, but it’s not a government agency, so it relies on people like you for funding. So we’re asking students to join us to do a mitzvah and save a life! Members of youth groups and children preparing for bar […]

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JNF-Jewish National Fund

JNF-Jewish National Fund 42 E. 69th St., New York, NY 10021 Contact: Nina Woldin, Education Content Manager 212 879-9305 Over the past 107 years JNF has evolved into a global environmental leader by planting 240 million trees, building over 200 reservoirs and dams, developing over 250,000 acres of land, creating more than 1000 parks, providing infrastructure for over 1,000 communities, bringing life to the Negev Desert, and educating students around the world about Israel and the environment. Create your own JNF mitzvah webpage to raise money for your mitzvah project. The proceeds will go towards a JNF project of your […]

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Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind

Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind Website 732 Settlers Circle, Warrington, PA 18976 Contact: Michael Leventhal, Executive Director 267 927-0205 mike@israelguidedog.org Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind provides guide dogs to visually impaired Israelis. They breed, raise and train the dogs in Israel so that they are familiar with the environment and so they respond to Hebrew commands. The dogs enable the blind and visually impaired Israeli’s to achieve independence, mobility, and self esteem. Sponsor a puppy and learn about the vital relationship between a guide dog and a blind Israeli. Mitzvah project ideas include raising funds for […]

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