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Times of Israel:
Jewish writers say the post-Oct. 7 English literary world has blacklisted them featuring Erika Dreifus
Read more here
Rabbi Matthew Gewirtz’s Posts from Israel
February 2024
TBJ’s Solidarity Mission to Israel
January 2024
Please click the buttons for clergy and participants’ stories, and enjoy their photographs and videos below. On Friday, February 2, some participants of the Solidarity Mission shared their experiences with fellow congregants at Erev Shabbat services. Listen to their words here.
We are privileged to hear from TBJ congregants who have been to Israel in the past few months.
Please click the buttons for their stories, and enjoy their photographs and videos below.
ISRAEL REFLECTION 3: Video below
For the latest communications to the congregation, click here.
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For immediate action, and to stay up to date on current legislation, AIPAC has set up a 45-second action by texting “ISRAEL” to 24722 to reach out to your member of Congress, Senators, and President Biden. Once you send the text, you can follow the steps when prompted. By subscribing, you will continue to receive updates and most current prompts.
For something more tangible, we urge you and your families to write directly to our elected officials. Click here for a sample letter to help guide your writing, either via mail, email, or phone. If you live outside the Essex/Morris/Union congressional districts, please find your elected officials here.
Take 1 minute a day to support the release of hostages. The site was created to generate significant pressure on US elected officials to demand the release of the hostages in Gaza. The website simplifies the process of contacting your elected representative simply by entering your zip code: oneminuteaday.com.
How You Can Help: Ways to Advocate for Israel
United Hatzalah is launching an emergency appeal to raise funds to provide essential supplies and equipment for their volunteers during this state of war. TBJ has a long-standing and powerful connection to United Hatzalah—we partnered with them last year to rescue Ukranian Jews and have supported their life-saving work for many years. UH predicts that their emergency supplies will be gone within a few days, just as they are needed more than ever. Every dollar goes to help support those protecting and defending our Jewish State.
Checks may be sent by mail:
Friends of United Hatzalah
442 5th Avenue, Suite #1866
New York, NY 10018
Or donate here
How You Can Help: Giving
The Israel Healthcare Foundation is an independent American non-profit organization that seeks to improve the quality of healthcare for all Israeli citizens. A key focus of IHF is Clalit, Israel’s largest health services provider, to forge strategic partnerships, solicit funds, and make new grants. Clalit was founded in 1911 by a group of 150 immigrant workers to create a mutual aid healthcare association. Today, Clalit is the major health organization in Israel, and one of the most progressive public health associations in the world. Humanitarian tenets still remain the cornerstone of its philosophy and practice. Currently, they are looking for funds to rebuild the clinics that were destroyed during the first attacks by Hamas on October 7.
Israel Healthcare Foundation
25 West 45 Street, Suite 504
New York, NY 10036
Or donate here
Gifts to the Emergency Fund for Israel are providing immediate support to our partners on the ground in Israel to assist victims of terror, help rebuild damaged infrastructure, and address the unprecedented levels of trauma caused by these horrific attacks and the war. In addition, targeted funding from the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest is being used to support our partner communities in the South of Israel, including Ofakim and Kibbutz Erez, most impacted by the terror attacks. Learn more
Now, more than ever, they need your support. Israel will prevail and the Jewish people will stand together as we always do. Am Yisrael Chai.
Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ
Attn: Emergency Fund for Israel
901 Route 10, P.O. Box 929
Whippany, NJ 07981-0921
Or donate here