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New Soup Kitchen Opened in Tzfat for 100 Children

In our new soup kitchen for children, each child receives a hot, wholesome meal including:

  -chicken or fish
  -two side dishes
  -two salads
  -unlimited bread and drinks

We also send everyone home with 2 sandwiches, fruits, and milk for school the next day. Social services such as private tutoring, school supplies, clothes, counseling, and medical support are provided for each child.
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The Yad Ezra VeShulamit Organization was established and in Jerusalem where it has been functioning for more than a decade, by Mr. Ariel Lurie, an individual who could not bear to stand on the sidelines and watch the plight of so many needy families that he knew.
Today, the organization provides assistance to people and families of dire need throughout the country, with the support of many.

The workers and volunteers work towards the goal of the organization: to ease the suffering of families of orphans, widows, single parent families, large families, etc.

The organization attempts to realize its goal in the following ways:

BASIC ACTIVITIES

Distribution of Food Packages throughout the Country

Each week the organization distributes over 2500 food packages at various distribution points throughout the country (including 1000 packages within Jerusalem)

Each package contains: chicken, fish, fruit, vegetables, legumes, canned goods, challa for Shabbat, and more.

Volunteers distribute the packages.

During the holiday season, almost ten thousand (10,000 !!) packages are distributed.

Yad Ezra Veshulamit operates soup kitchens throughout the country, and, in addition, operates soup kitchens from private homes together with families willing to cook and provide both snacks and hot lunches for hungry children.

A truck departs each day from Jerusalem filled with such food portions, which are then distributed to the various soup kitchens throughout the country. The food is well stored and properly refrigerated until its distribution to the needy families.

In especially difficult and extenuating circumstances, the organization provides financial support to families (e.g., widows and orphans, or where a family member is in need of expensive medical care, etc.)

The organization arranges for special fund raising drives to help achieve this goal, and then passes the donations straight on to the families. The organization tries to match individual donors with “adopted” families.

Once a week, a volunteer from the organization holds individual sessions to “lend an ear”, so to speak, with people who want to discuss their problems, after which they are directed to proper professional help (funds are raised specifically towards this aid).

One example: An engaged orphan bride was sent by our organization - on her wedding

day - to a “beauty salon”, and besides the treatment which she received there free of charge, she also received a financial “gift” from them!

The organization arranges special “bazaar sales” of clothing, footwear, toys, school supplies, etc, at very low rates.

MANPOWER

There are at present over 500 volunteers active in the organization, over two hundred of which also bring their motor vehicle along. These volunteers come from all different walks of life, and they work at all hours of the day and night, in all weather conditions, all towards the goal of helping to provide for those in need.

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Food is collected by the organization a wide variety of ways:

School children go door-to-door collecting; or sometimes bring food from their own homes.

Telemarketers get donations from food warehouses and/or other businesses.

There are over 100 “collection stops” outside supermarkets throughout the country, where shoppers can donate from their purchases to needy families.

Just recently the Ministry of Agriculture has directed our attention to the agricultural center in Bet Dagan, who provide us now with generous supply of potatoes.

Between Wednesday mornings and Thursday afternoons, fruit and vegetables are brought in bulk to the head offices of the organization, along with all the food that was gathered at the “collection stops”.

The volunteers then begin to divide up all of the food and fill the individual packages.

From 1PM every Thursday, families begin to arrive to receive their package.

There are many families who feel to embarrassed to personally come and pick up their parcel. For these families, volunteers (over 100 at present) drive to their homes and leave their packages outside their doorstep.

Over 200 volunteers work in sorting and packaging.

ACCEPTANCE CONDITIONS

Anyone interested in receiving a care package must fill out a detailed questionnaire.

Additional documents must be provided, e.g. ID cards, income Tax returns, medical documents, etc.

A committee then deals with each request based upon the information provided, and decisions are made also based on specific special needs of each family.


MAIN HEADQUARTERS

The head office is situated in the Jerusalem’s Bet Yisrael neighborhood on 28 Shimon Rokach St. The weekly distribution also takes place from this location.

ADDITIONAL BRANCHES

Place               Manager’s name          Address

Yavne               Naim Sharon                 Moshav Ben Zakai 13

Betar Illit           Deborah Asis                 34/3 Igrot Moshe St.

BetaR Illit B       Joshua Sharabani          21/5 Kaf HaChaim St.

Kadima             Hagit Nussbaum            POB 396

Tel Aviv             Ro’i Segal                     5 Emden St.

                       Natalie Semadar            56/8 Isaac Harif St.

                       Orli Golan                      15 Kehilat Lodz St.

Brachfeld           Naomi Tyri                     10 Yehuda Ha Nasi St.

Kiryat Ata          Karin Cohen                  16 Ha-erev St.

Ashkelon           Nitza Naim                    450/5 Hovevei Tzion St.

Ashdod             Iris Farjin                       3 / 4 Rav Hisda St.

Ashdod             Gabriel Biton                 10/5 Uziahu Blvd. 

Netanya            Ravid Eisner                  Benjamin Blvd.

Safed                Talia Kadosh                 11 Ha-Yud-Aleph St.

Bet Shemesh    Chavit Naki                    10 Nahal Revivim St.

Bnei Beraq        Miriam Ne’eman 16 Shivtei Yisael St.

Holon                Esther Shaulov              33 Ha-Arava St.

 Kiryat Yam       Leah Cohen                   29/11 Jerusalem Blvd.

Tiberias             Hagit Schein                  127/4 Rabbi Akiva St.

SOUP KITCHENS

Ashkelon           Nitza Naim                    450/5 Hovevei Tzion St.

Jerusalem         Chaya Mizrahi               Shmuel HaNavi

Sderot               Sinai Shimon                 1 Habrosh St.

Kiryat Gat         Penina Levy                   9/14 Ramot David

Jerusalem         Shiran Cohen                 237 Achot Yehudit St.



It should be noted that our organization is highly recommended, including recommendations from The President and the office of the Chief Rabbinate.

The organization has granted assistance to people referred to us through the Ministry of Welfare, and to soldiers based at the Julis army camp.

Dear brothers throughout the world!
Many of your brethren in Israel now find themselves in dire situations, with no means of providing even the bare minimum of sustenance for themselves.

Statistics released by the Israel National Insurance Institute on April 18, 2004 show over 600,000 children living below the poverty line – that accounts for almost one third of all children in the country!

Other reports also indicate many, many entire families suffering from lack of food.

It is sad and unfortunate to admit that on more than one occasion, this situation led to suicide!!

We are in desperate need of any and all of your assistance.Respectfully yours,
Ariel Sh. Lurie
Director
Yad Ezra VeShulamit

Visitors to Jerusalem who would like to experience the real Israel are invited to spend an afternoon volunteering for Yad Ezra VeShulamit. What better way to give meaning to your Bar Mitzvah, or other Simcha, than through helping Israel's poor. For more information, please call: 011-972-526760037 or 347-408-1028.


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