Areyvut Archives
"Make a Difference" Day 2009 a Great Success!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Areyvut would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for participating in "Make a Difference" Day 2009.
We appreciate your support and thank you for contributing to the success of this program.
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Organization
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Location
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Project
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Contact Person
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Jerusalem, Israel |
Sending care packages to combat soldiers without family in Israel, combat units and severely wounded soldiers.
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Barbara Bloom Silverman, Founder |
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| A.H.A.V.A. - English Learned in a Natural Method | Mitzpe Yericho, Israel | Raising funds for the A.H.A.V.A. Scholarship Fund thereby supporting families participating in the program with chronically ill individuals. | Gaila Cohen Morrison, Director |
| Am Echad, Inc. | Rockville, MD | Help raise money for Am Echad which provides financial and moral support directly to destitute and disabled elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union. | Igor Feldblyum, President |
| American Zionist Movement | New York, NY | Hold a vigil, say a prayer, read a poem or wear a dogtag in support of Gilad Shalit who has been held captive for nearly 1,000 days. Join the Facebook Virtual Rally! | Karen Rubinsten, Executive Director |
| Areyvut | Bergenfield, NJ | Each week we will be performing acts of chesed in our community. Check back on the website for future project dates and times. | Daniel Rothner, Founder & Director |
| Canfei Nesharim | Roseland, NJ | Are you cleaning for Pesach? Canfei Nesharim invites communities to collect materials such as Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFLs), non rechargeable batteries, cell phones, ink cartridges, and plastic bags, and donate materials as appropriate to support local non-profits. | Evonne Marzouk, Executive Director |
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Taunton, MA |
Coordinating a special cereal box collection for a local homeless shelter. Tzedakah collected between March 22 - Passover is designated for a local soup kitchen. |
Anne Heath, Rabbi/Cantor |
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Paramus, NJ |
Partake in various events with children with special needs or visit and interact with them in their home. |
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| Hebrew Free Burial Association | New York, NY | Join the HFBA for "Chesed Day" on April 26th from 12-2pm by pitching in and helping clean up Silver Lake Cemetery. | Andrew Parver, Director of Education and Outreach |
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Herzl/RMHA Upper School
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Denver, CO
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Collecting cell phones for soldiers.
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| Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind | Warrington, PA | Raise funds and awareness by sponsoring a puppy. Funds will be used to train puppies so that they can be used by people who are blind living in Israel. | Michael J. Leventhal, Executive Director |
| Israel Special Kids Fund | New York, NY | Help raise funds for various camps that work with children with serious chronic illnesses and disabilities. | Hillel Weiner, Executive Vice President |
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iVolunteer
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Brooklyn, NY
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Visiting with Holocaust survivors.
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Sheva Tauby, Director
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The Jaffa Institute
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Flushing, NY
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"Adopting" an underprivileged child in Israel by supporting their participation in a variety of programs.
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Shira Skolnick, Youth 4 Youth Coordinator
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Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (JASA)
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New York, NY
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Create greeting cards, challah covers, magnets or other crafts to be distributed to the elderly.
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Abby Lerner, Assistant Director of Volunteer Services
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| Jewish Family & Children's Services of Greater Mercer County (JFCS) | Princeton, NJ | Visiting a local Jewish nursing home, collecting food for a local Kosher food pantry and making casseroles for a local soup kitchen. | Celeste Albert, Coordinator of Teen Programs |
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Jewish Family Services of Bergen County & Northern Hudson (JFS)
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Teaneck, NJ |
Package and help deliver meals through the Kosher Meals on Wheels Program (KMOW).
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| Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey |
Union, NJ |
Kids For Wish Kids is a Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey program that enables students to discover philanthropy by selecting their own fundraising project and managing it from state to finish, all students are encouraged to get involved. | Stacy Kreizman, Director of External Events |
| Maot Chitim of Greater Chicago |
Lincolnwood, IL |
Maot Chitim distributes a total of 10,000 holiday food boxes to the Jewish needy in the Chicago land area before Passover and Rosh Hashanah. They are able to accomplish this due to the help of their 1,500 volunteers each holiday. | Audrey Schiff, Executive Director |
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Jacksonville, FL |
Hygiene products drive. collected items will be donated to the local Jewish Family and Community Services and distributed to needy community members. |
Edith Horovitz, Mitzvah Project Coordinator |
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Jacksonville, FL |
Students in the 8th grade will be receive CPR and First Aid training. |
Edith Horovitz, Mitzvah Project Coordinator |
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| Martin J. Gottlieb Day School |
Jacksonville, FL |
7th grade students learned about PedsCare, a pediatric hospice care center and delivered new stuffed animals to be distributed to the children. | Edith Horovitz, Mitzvah Project Coordinator |
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Multiple Sclerosis Association of America
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Cherry Hill, NJ
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Join the Dine in Nine program!
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Malcolm Friend, Director of National Volunteer Services
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Skokie, IL |
Create artwork to be displayed on the walls of hospitals, orphanages and shelters around the world. |
Lauren Perlman, Founder & Director |
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| Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning | Rockville, MD | 8th - 12th graders are invited to join the Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning for a hands-on service project. The park clean up will take place on Sun., Mar. 22nd from 1-4pm at Cabin John Regional Park. | Alana Tipton, JYPI Service Learning Coordinator |
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Hackensack, NJ |
Susan Podbielski, Director of Development |
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| Project Medishare | Miami, FL | Help raise funds for Project Medishare and provide access to health and development services to over 80,000 individuals living in the Central Department of Haiti. | |
| Project Sunshine | New York, NY | The Kids for Kids program works with children, schools and other community organizations to teach young people the importance of volunteering and giving back to others. Children participate in community service projects to create craft kits, surgery dolls and Sunny Grams greeting cards that are sent to hospitalized children throughout the country. | Caitlin Moses, Senior Program Coordinator |
| Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union | West Orange, NJ | Through April 6th students will be collecting unopened, non-perishable food for the Interfaith Pantry of the Oranges. The Food Pantry is in need of the following items: jam, cereal, peanut butter, powdered milk, macaroni and cheese, dessert items, pasta and tomato sauce as well as the following canned items: fruit, beans, vegetables, and soup. | Adam Shapiro, Dean of Students |
| Solomon Schechter School of Westchester | White Plains, NY | Collecting "Box Tops for Education" for a local health clinic and creating Get Well cards for clinic patients. |
Shira Leibowitz, Rabbi
Brandi Minchillo, Educator
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| Weinbaum Yeshiva High School | Boca Raton, FL | On March 25th from 9am-4pm the school will be holding a blood drive in coordination with the Community Blood Centers of South Florida. | Heather Andron, Chesed, Tzedakah and Israel Coordinator |
| Yeshivat Noam | Paramus, NJ | Yedidainu, partners Yeshivat Noam students with special needs children where they participate in arts and crafts, sports, singing and viewing entertainment together. Yedidainu helps promote sensitivity and awareness of children with special needs among the Yeshivat Noam students | Shelley Fisher, Co-Chair, Yedidainu Subcommittee |
For more information about "Make a Difference" Day or any of Areyvut's programs and projects, please contact an Areyvut representative at (201) 244-6702 or info@areyvut.org.