Tag Archive: Orphan Bride

Mazel Tov News from the Home

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It’s always thrilling to report happy occasions from the Rubin-Zeffren Children’s Home. We have the pleasure to share two wonderfully joyous events and we know that as friends, you will be as excited as we are. Malkie G.’s Engagement Living in the Home for virtually a decade, Malkie G. has made great strides in so many ways. …

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Witnessing a Winter Wedding Celebrated with Warmth: Our Esther Gets Married

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One of the greatest joys each of us from the LevLaLev Team can derive, is to see one of our dear and precious girls stand under the wedding canopy – the chuppah, together with her intended one, about to embark on a new and wonderful life together. On the eve of January 20th, Esther was married, and …

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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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Abracadabra: A Heart is Healed

  It’s easy to see why this headline I saw last week compelled me to read the entire article: Abandoned Teen Dawn Loggins Graduates from Homeless Custodian to Harvard University An abandoned girl scrubs toilets while becoming a top student and candidate for Harvard University. Just how amazing is that? Those of us who have …

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Mothering, Against All Odds

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“All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln One of the greatest blessings of my life is having an adoring mother who never fails to show her love: http://lev-lalev.org/a-mothers-love. Anyone who experiences her magnetic personality is not surprised to learn of the four children who were nurtured …

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An Orphan Invented Your Computer!

First Lady and activist Eleanor Roosevelt was orphaned at the age of ten

(…and your microwave, and the music streaming out of your headphones….) Doesn’t it seem like Purim was ages ago? Only last week we were celebrating the life of Queen Esther, an orphaned girl who saved her nation. Our appeal was to consider the disadvantaged girls at the Rubin-Zeffren Children’s Home in Netanya, many of whom …

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Have You Given Today?

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Of everything I’m grateful for, my husband’s sister, Michal, sits close to the top of the list. From the time we first met as roommates in seminary over two decades ago (wow), I knew right away that she would always be one of the most giving people I would ever meet. Her often empty closet …

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Independence: Growing Up and Letting Go

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“Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.” - Elbert Hubbard Anyone that has potty-trained a child knows that true independence won’t happen until it’s wanted desperately enough. In our family, one Weinstein toddler was simply too immersed in other things and curiosity of the world to give up …

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Two Brides, Oceans Apart, both Close to my Heart

Like other brides, there was plenty to learn when I first got married. One thing was the value of ceiling fans in the kitchen and dining room, handy solutions when trying to masquerade a burnt dinner. Another thing was frying onions at the time my husband was expected home. Nothing evokes the notion of a …

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