Schechter’s Israel Emergency Campaign 2024-2025

Schechter’s Israel Emergency Campaign 2024-2025

Support Schechter’s Efforts to Assist the People of Israel in Our Time of Strife!

 

Helping the Town of Ofakim: 51 of the citizens of Ofakim were murdered on October 7th, 2023. Schechter continues to run the Midreshet Schechter branch of its adult education program, adding additional programming to help people cope with trauma. 

 

The Schechter Institute has also opened a new Spiritual Care Program in Ofakim to teach local educators and leaders to cope with trauma using Jewish sources, art therapy, music therapy and psychodrama.

 

The Schechter Rabbinical Seminary has opened the new B’khol Nafshakh program in September 2024, which provides retreats for soldiers who have just completed their IDF service or long periods of reserve duty. The retreats combine prayer, havruta study and relaxation to help the soldiers return to civilian life via Jewish living and learning.

 

Neve Schechter in Tel Aviv is now running two cohorts of its Artists’ Bet Midrash for young Russian and Ukrainian immigrants who arrived in Israel in order to escape one war – and ended up in another war. The program provides a monthly stipend and includes creating art, videos and music based on Jewish text study; Shabbat retreats; and psychological counseling.

 

TALI is relaunching its bilingual Friends Across the Sea curriculum on Jewish peoplehood. Each class will prepare by studying alone, followed by online sessions in which the two classes study together. The program provides an opportunity to meet peers from different countries and engage in Jewish value-based learning. In a reality in which Diaspora and Israeli Jews need to support each other, Friends Across the Sea will strengthen Jewish peoplehood via peer learning.   

 

We ask for your support during this emergency. 

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