Supporting Sderot
As those of you who read the Israel news know, Sderot, a small town on the border of Gaza is contantly under threat of kassam rocket attacks. People have been killed, and about half the town is now living somewhere else. It is very difficult to watch this happening so close to where I live, and still feel like I can’t do anything.
Luckily, an initiative has been started by a group in Efrat called Standing Together. Normally, their area of volunteerism is centered around helping soldiers serving in the Gush Etzion area, but they have expanded to helping Sderot. They have two projects. The first one is supporting the bakery of Sderot, by selling 2 challahs and a 1/2 kilo of cookies or rugeleach for 25 shekels, and the other is supporting both the poor in the area and neighborhood mini-markets by paying 25 shekels to have packages sent from the mini-markets via Yad Eliezer to needy families in Israel.
If you live in the Beit Shemesh/Gush Etzion/Jerusalem area, you can order online from their website.
If you live in my neighborhood (Arnona/Talpiot/East Talpiot), I’m the pick-up and payment site. If you do order on line, please also drop me an email at safranit at gmail.com because last week their website didn’t give me the names of the people who ordered online.
If you are interested in making a donation, but aren’t local, let me know and I’ll see what I can do…I think I know someone who would be able to help me set something up.
Here is a video about Sderot:
To support Sderot also see the wonderful project at www.connectionsisrael.com
Comment by James Feldman — July 8, 2007 @ 9:04 pm