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A Purim Adventure
Sunday, February 14, 2010Purim with Yad Eliezer is an adventure...
Creative Charity
Sunday, February 21, 2010When her son celebrated his bar mitzvah four years ago, Robin Treistman turned to Yad Eliezer for a different kind of help...
Shulamit’s Purim Miracle
Thursday, March 11, 2010This Purim, the Yad Eliezer telephones were buzzing as matanos l’evyonim donations were phoned in from all around the globe...
Letters: Thank You For All That You Do
Thursday, September 02, 2010As always, it was great seeing you last week. Thank you so much for once again distributing the holiday funds for me...
Saraleh’s Shoes
Monday, September 13, 2010Picture tattered shoes. The cloth is dirty and threadbare. The soles are so worn that parts have simply ripped off...
Sukkot for Tali
Tuesday, September 21, 2010Her voice is flat. All emotion seems stamped out of it. Except weariness.“Milka, I don’t even have a piece of chicken for Sukkot...
"But We Need Help Now"
Tuesday, September 21, 2010Lital* was not accepted to a good high school. Lital was not accepted to any high school at all...
The Keychain
Wednesday, November 17, 2010Aliza* was only twenty two. Her father, a prestigious university professor, and her mother, a comfortable homemaker, had earned their way into the elite upper echelons of Israeli society...
Chanuka in the Hospital
Monday, November 29, 2010Chanuka evokes crisp, cold nights glowing with candlelight and laughter. For other people. Not in the oncology department of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital...
A Chanuka Story
Monday, December 06, 2010It was the seventh day of Chanuka 2009. Throughout Israel, men and women would be leaving work in just a few hours to rush home and light Chanuka candles...
Smiles on Purim
Monday, March 12, 2012The Azulai family of Yerushalayim always struggled to make it to the end of the month...
A Light in the Darkness
Monday, April 30, 2012When the Yasgur family immigrated to Israel from South America, they were as happy as they could ever imagine they would be. But one year after their Aliya*, Mrs...
Thank You for an Incredible Chag!
Sunday, October 28, 2012These past High Holidays, with your generous help Yad Eliezer was able to make a tremendous difference to the poor families of Israel...
Creating Miracles
Monday, March 18, 2013"Mommy, are we going to have meat on Pesach? Last pesach we ate meat...
Purim is coming!
Wednesday, February 26, 2014As Purim approaches, the preparations begin: costumes, shaloch manos, meal arrangements and more. At Yad Eliezer, preparations of a different sort have begun...
Purim Lights, Before & After
Thursday, March 13, 2014Before Dear Yad Eliezer, I don't want to trouble you, but I really don't know who else to turn to...
