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Schechter’s Israel Emergency Campaign

Posted on October 30, 2023

Helping the City of Ofakim: Dr. Yael Racov Drory, an active member of the Schechter Institute Executive Committee, has been volunteering in the Development Town of Ofakim for over 14 years in various positions assisting the city’s development. Ofakim was targeted by terrorists on October 7th, where they murdered 51 people, mostly in one specific Continue Reading »

Reflections on the current situation in Israel from Rabbi Chaya Rowen Baker, Dean of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary

Posted on October 30, 2023

October 2023 Shalom, Thank you so much for reaching out … The last 12 days have been overwhelming on every level. We are so deeply sad, and angry, and worried, and scared. The entire country is wounded. Everyone is mourning. Days are filled with funerals and shivas. Everyone is in a frenzy to help in Continue Reading »

Standing with Israel in Israel

Posted on October 28, 2023

By Julia Loeb, WLCJ International President Standing with Israel in Israel On October 9, just two days after the brutal Hamas attack, I received an urgent email from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (an organization comprised of 50 prominent Jewish groups, including Women’s League). Israel’s Foreign Minister had asked the Conference Continue Reading »

Masorti Solidarity Shabbat — Update and Thank You!

Posted on October 26, 2023

Dear Friends: Today we launch our weekend of events around Solidarity Shabbat of the Conservative/Masorti movement with unwavering solidarity with our family and friends in Israel. Thank you all for your support of this initiative and for the robust representation and projects. Our movement organizations offer distinct ways our communities can show support and stand Continue Reading »

Israel Help Needed – Five Wartime Proposals from The Schechter Institutes, Inc.

Posted on October 24, 2023

Dear Friend, Hoping this message finds you & the family OK given the circumstances. We in Israel are as OK as we can possibly be right now.  Rachel, our middle kid, is in a pre-army program right now but thankfully she drafts in one year and will not be on the frontlines. Two Fridays ago, we attended two Continue Reading »

More Israel Resources Before Shabbat (from USCJ)

Posted on October 24, 2023

  Together We Will Prevail Throughout Israel – from the El Al pilot, to TV news graphics, to bumper stickers – the slogan that represents Israel in this moment is יחד ננצח – Yahad Nenatze’ah – Together We Will Prevail. The Israel that we experienced this week is a different Israel than existed two weeks ago. As Continue Reading »

Join the Blue Ribbon Campaign

Posted on October 24, 2023

#BlueRibbonsforIsrael is a unity campaign in support of the safe return of the hostages taken by Hamas terrorists in Israel. It symbolizes solidarity with the hostages, their families, and all who care about their safety. Are you wearing your ribbon? Join the Blue Ribbon Campaign, organized by Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and co-sponsored Continue Reading »

Kol Yisrael Arevim Zeh Ba’Zeh – Israel We Have Your Back!

Posted on October 21, 2023

By Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, WLCJ Executive Director Now more than ever, our Torah Fund theme has special meaning in our lives – Kol Yisrael Arevim Zeh Ba’Zeh – All of Israel is Responsible for One Another. We see the significance of feeling a responsibility, arevut, to take care of each other. A more accurate translation of Kol Yisrael Arevim Continue Reading »

Every Night at 8 pm Israel time the whole nation recites Shema Yisrael with the IDF

Posted on October 17, 2023

Please inform every person, who “identifies ” as a Jew, to say the first passuk of שמע “simultaneously” with the I.D.F at 8 pm Israel time | 1 pm Eastern. DAILY. Please have in mind the safe and speedy return of all hostages and soldiers. Men , women, children, and our BABIES. When Jews fight Continue Reading »

How to Help the Hostages

Posted on October 17, 2023

Never again. Yet it happened again.  Oct. 7 was the most lethal day for Jews since the Holocaust. The atrocities included brutual kidnappings.  I first heard the name, *Hersh Goldberg-Polin, when reading our synagogue advocacy newsletter. Our rabbi is good friends with Hersh’s family. Hersh’s mother wrote: “(He) was camping with his best friend at Continue Reading »