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Nothing Like A Home Cooked Meal!
Monday, September 19, 2011One of Yad Eliezers more remarkable programs is the Home Cooked Shabbos Food program. This program matches up young women living in Jerusalem with their impoverished neighbors...
A Tzedakah Extremist
Thursday, August 02, 2012I’ve met all kinds of extremists in my life: political extremists, religious extremists, environmental extremists, but I must say, I was surprised to meet a tzedaka extremist...
Full Circle
Tuesday, April 23, 2013A group of young ladies came to the warehouse recently to volunteer, but had no idea what was waiting for them...
Let Us Rebuild
Thursday, July 11, 2013Ahuva is eighteen years old. She is a smart and sweet young lady who works hard and gets good grades. You would never know what she faces when she comes home each day...
Poverty too close to home...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014I first met Meir Laredo twelve years ago...
How would you prepare for Yom Tov if you had 15,000 children?
Sunday, October 05, 2014Your next son will be home from Yeshiva with the ravenous appetite of a growing boy. Your teenage daughter has grown surprisingly tall over the summer and needs almost a whole new wardrobe...
A Rosh HaShana reality check - What is this all about anyways?
Tuesday, September 08, 2015Rosh Hashanah, High Holidays donation opportunities in israel Rosh HaShana is nearly here. I'm stressing about how I'm going to do all of the shopping and cooking...
Are you hungry?
Sunday, July 17, 2016Help us support hundreds of thousands of children in Israel living below the poverty line Thanks to donors like you, Yad Eliezer is able to provide food security to many thousands of...
Back to Life
Tuesday, April 10, 2018Helping Children and Families Living in Poverty in Israel The haggadahs have been read, the matza has been eaten, the special dishes have been packed away...
From Soda Cans in Oregon to the Hungry in Israel
Thursday, August 02, 2018One Family's Fascinating Life Journey with Yad Eliezer on the Itinerary Yad Eliezer is all about helping the poor. But behind that help stands our donors. We always appreciate them...
A Miklat on Polansky St.
Friday, August 17, 2018On a Nondescript Street in Jerusalem a Unique Miklat-of-Sorts is Open for Emergency Relief Since 1951, there’s been a law in Israel requiring all homes, residential buildings and...
Every Donation is Crucial
Sunday, October 14, 2018How You Made the Difference Just a few weeks ago, as we do each year, we ran our High Holiday campaign...
A North Carolina Tzedakah Box
Thursday, November 08, 2018One Family's Weekly Custom Brings Help to so Many in Need The tzedakah box (charity box, or "pushka") is among the most quintessential Judaica items found in Jewish...
The Importance of Thinking Small
Sunday, February 17, 2019Regardless of size, all donations help us support families in need This week we get treated to a mini holiday of sorts-Purim Kattan, the "Little Purim" of the Jewish...
Purim Masks and V'Nahafoch Hu, Yad Eliezer Style
Wednesday, March 13, 2019This year, make it a different kind of Purim for the needy Milka Benziman has been working as the intake coordinator for decades at Yad Eliezer...
And...We're Back
Monday, April 29, 2019Pesach is behind us but poverty remains. Help us support the needy. The haggadahs have been read, the matza has been eaten, the special dishes have been packed away...