Tag Archive: Israeli Charity

Retired Therapist and Gulf War vet visits the Home in Netanya

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Valerie Knowles did not need more than smiles and giggles to communicate with our girls during her recent visit to the Children’s Home. Spending her afternoon at the Rubin-Zeffren Home, she and her friend Eileen Lowey met our Programs Director Bracha Runes who gave them a grand tour. Valerie, who is a retired colonic therapist, spent …

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Will you be at their bat mitzvah next year? Win a free flight to Israel!

American mitzvah girls at the Feb. 2013 gala

VERY exciting news! Thanks to a suggestion from Baila’s mom (see this month’s mitzvah profile) we are adding a new raffle contest to our mitzvah project program. Starting from this month, for each $100 a bat mitzvah girl raises, her name will be added to our annual ‘Fly to the Gala’ drawing. The winning name receives 1 free …

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Ride for Lev LaLev this Passover!

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Will you be in Israel this Passover?  Do you know someone who will? Looking for an amazing Chol Ha’Moed activity for the whole family? Get some great scenic exercise, and help disadvantaged young women at the same time! We hope you will take advantage of an amazing new opportunity to raise funds for Lev LaLev …

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Two Simple Words…

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THANK YOU!! Thankfully with your support, and through the generosity of 4,916 contributions, we have been able to accomplish the following at Lev LaLev’s Children’s Home in Israel this year… Twelve great successes in the year 2012: Began the healing and rehabilitation process for nine new girls who we took into the Home. Instituted a …

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The Afterglow of Giving

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Just one week ago, I was on such a ‘high.’ But it wasn’t only because my elevator had just stopped on the 39th floor of a skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles. I was feeling great because I was about to meet one of our most prestigious Lev LaLev donors. While other moments can be preceded …

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A Legacy of Giving: Honoring Our Late Founder, Grand Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstam, the Klausenberg Rebbe

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Lev LaLev Honors the Late Founder of the Rubin-Zeffren Children’s Home Grand Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstam, the Sanz-Klausenberg Rebbe, of blessed memory, on the 18th anniversary of his passing 1905: Rudnik, Poland – 9th of Tammuz, 1994: Netanya, Israel On the shores of the majestic Mediterranean Sea, the Rubin-Zeffren Children’s Home stands as a living …

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First Days at the Orphanage

Sisters at the Home celebrate together with loving support and friendship

I receive Google alerts. One of them is for “Israel girl orphanage”. It often does not result in many posts, but yesterday I was alerted to the following article: An Orphan in Pre-State Palestine The Israeli film industry is growing in popularity, and this latest film by well-known Israeli film connoisseur Dina Zvi Riklis, entitled The Fifth Heaven, is a period …

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This Kid Knows What Makes the World Go ‘Round

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She did it again. In the moments following my brainstorming session for this week’s blog topic, my prophetess friend – you know, the one I mentioned last time who texts me doses of inspiration – sent this: While we try to teach our children about life, our children teach us what life is all about. …

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Whose Pockets are You Lining? How to Know if Your Charity is Responsible and Legitimate

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My co-workers and I are often asked: Where does my donation go? What overhead do you have? How can I know that my money will go straight to the girls? It’s no wonder that these are the concerns of potential donors. We’ve all witnessed too many incidents when disasters were used as catalysts of greed …

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Esther, the Orphan Queen who saved a people

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As we approach the joyous holiday of Purim, celebrated this year from the evening of March 7th-8th, I have been reflecting on the holiday as my first year celebrating it with Lev LaLev. And I noticed something about the holiday story that before seemed like just a small footnote to me. … The story of …

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