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	Select an Archives Section: JP Archives: How You Can Help 125 Archived Articles Found in How You Can Help Next 20 Articles > 1) Posted Mar 17 2010 Call For Help Read Article 2) Posted Feb 24 2010 Shalva Celebrates 20th Anniversary On Sunday evening, March 14, American Friends of Shalva will gather to celebrate two decades of progress for Israel's children with special needs and their families. Read Article 3) Posted Feb 17 2010 A Kosher Pantry Expands In Brooklyn By Eli Perlow A troubling number of Jews, until recently firmly entrenched in the middle-class of the region's socio-economy, currently find it extremely difficult to simply put food on their tables. Read Article 4) Posted Nov 04 2009 Shula's Ambucycle It was the type of call that forces all medics to race just a bit faster. "Pedestrian-vehicle accident, child unconscious in the street." When Rechavia-based United Hatzalah medic Ephraim Cherrick heard the call he hopped on his ambucycle and was on scene within a minute. There he met two other medics from United Hatzalah (the medical first responders throughout Israel) who had already arrived and begun CPR on the shattered little girl. The three medics continued their valiant efforts until the life support ambulance arrived and then integrated with its crew. Read Article 5) Posted Sep 02 2009 Aleh: Caring For My Little Grandson And So Many Others By Naomi Klass Mauer There is a very special place in Jerusalem many people have heard of - but how many really know the magnitude of its work? In fact, Aleh is often confused with another facility with a similar sounding name. But Aleh stands alone in its class. Unlike other places, Aleh accepts children who have no chance of rehabilitation, and all the children receive the same loving care. Read Article 6) Posted Aug 07 2009 Kids Helping Kids Kids need not grow up to accomplish great things. Adults aren't the only ones who can make a difference. Read Article 7) Posted Jul 22 2009 NY Bone Marrow Drives For Leukemia Patient Bone marrow drives will be held in New York City and in Brooklyn for 32-year old Jonathan Haupt. Jonathan has acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), a rare and aggressive blood cancer and is in urgent need of a bone marrow transplant. Currently, there are no donor matches in the existing bone marrow registries. Read Article 8) Posted Jul 22 2009 Bridal Shower For Gush Katif The Gush Katif Kallot Project, which provides a trousseau of practical household gifts and cash to all the kallot and chatanim of Gush Katif, is in high gear for the current wedding season. Read Article 9) Posted Jul 22 2009 Urgent Need For Jewish Foster Parents A wailing infant whose cries are left unanswered; a neglected child; an abused teenager. Sound foreign to you? Read Article 10) Posted Jul 15 2009 *Family Celebrates Upsherin* By Picking Potatoes For Israel By Natalie Marx Twenty-five members of the extended Marks family from Woodmere, New York recently traveled to Israel to celebrate their son Moshe's upsherin. However, this was no ordinary upsherin celebration. Read Article 11) Posted Jul 08 2009 Mikvah USA In Oceanside The effort behind establishing a mikvah in Oceanside, New York began over 50 years ago. Located in a residential area, surrounding neighbors at that time were not interested in welcoming a non-residential property, i.e. a mikveh, into the community. Read Article 12) Posted Jul 01 2009 Yad Leah Sends Lift To Israel Yad Leah marked a significant milestone when it filled an entire 40-foot container with over 1,100 boxes of needed clothes and sent it off to more than 15 different Jewish communities in Israel. Read Article 13) Posted Jun 17 2009 Green Innovation At Yad Sarah From birth through old age, Israelis' needs for medical equipment are met by Yad Sarah's lending service. Spend a few minutes in the doorway of Yad Sarah, and you can see a whole lifecycle walk in and out. One woman limps out with a pair of crutches; another comes in pushing an empty wheelchair over the threshold. Two men hoist the ends of a crib into the back of a car waiting near the entrance. This equipment - like everything borrowed from the lending department - will be returned to Yad Sarah and then sent home with someone else who needs it. Read Article 14) Posted Jun 17 2009 Charity, Support And Some Hoops By Tova Ross Many organizations and charities hold various events to help raise needed funds to continue their operations. Typical fundraisers include benefit dinners, Chinese auctions, and raffles - all worthy and enjoyable affairs. But few organizations have sponsored an inventive activity such as the one by Migdal Ohr Educational Center, Israel's largest orphanage, founded by Rabbi Yitzchak Grossman. In October 2007, the organization held a basketball game between the New York Knicks and Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv. Read Article 15) Posted Jun 03 2009 Walk For Gush Katif A solidarity walk to benefit the former residents of Gush Katif will take place on Sunday, June 7 at Marine Park in Brooklyn, NY. Read Article 16) Posted Apr 29 2009 Lamed Vavniks Who Aren't Afraid to Get Their Hands Dirty** By Devora Mandell, JP Correspondent Rabbi Mendy Rosenberg, a Viznitzer chassid, stands outside his Williamsburg tire shop in rain, sun, sleet and snow, repairing flat tires and replacing old worn ones. Located in an area that was once an industrial area, the shop seems to be out of place on an island sandwiched between towering new building complexes, part of Williamsburg's building boom to accommodate the ever growing Chassidic population. Read Article 17) Posted Apr 29 2009 Women's Basketball Tournament In Memory Of Diane Taragin Annette Lieder-Kaufman was searching for a way to not only make sense out of her beloved sister's untimely passing, but to turn it into something positive. Diane Taragin passed away after a brave battle with cancer, leaving behind seven children and five grandchildren. Read Article 18) Posted Feb 27 2009 ZOA Ninth Annual Mishloach Manot Project On Tuesday, March 3, 2009, Rubin Margules, President of ZOA Brooklyn Region, will be leading a group of volunteers to Israel on his Ninth Annual Mishloach Manot Project for Israeli soldiers. Each year, he said, they distribute Purim baskets to IDF soldiers throughout Israel. Read Article 19) Posted Feb 25 2009 *Merkaz Yisroel Of Marine Park Starts A New Kallah* Fund Merkaz Yisroel of Marine Park, the oldest shul in the Marine Park section of Brooklyn, recently established a tzeddakah fund to discretely assist needy chasans and kallahs. Read Article 20) Posted Feb 18 2009 The Heart Warmer By Sara Yoheved Rigler Last week Hershel Puretz paid 50,000 shekels [almost $13,000] in bi-monthly heating bills to the Israel Electric Corporation. Does he own several windswept mansions? A large factory? A hotel? No, Hershel, originally from Brooklyn, lives in a modest apartment in Jerusalem's Mattersdorf neighborhood. A full-time yeshiva student, he is 30 years old, married, and has three children. The heating bills are not his at all. They belong to a couple hundred destitute Israeli families. Read Article 125 Archived Articles Found in How You Can Help** Next 20 Articles >
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