Thank You Camp Emunah by Jill Lerner Sent Chana to Camp I This Summer with Great Trepidation
בס”ד CELEBRATING 67 YEARS Panorama THE NEWSLETTER OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR Volume 67, Issue 1 FURTHERANCE OF JEWISH EDUCATION Fall 2007/5768 DINNER DATE Sunday, November 18, 2007 incensed at the exclusion of dren’s Hospitals include Phoenix Chil- Jewish children from the hos- dren’s Hospital, Arkansas Children’s TOY CAMPAIGN pital’s recreation activities that Hospital, Miller Children’s Hospital, he returned with a cartload of Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, GOES NATIONAL toys to cheer up the young- Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, oys for Hospitalized Children, a divi- sters. During the following Miami Children’s Hospital, Chris Evert Tsion of NCJFE, has expanded na- years he spearheaded the campaign Children’s Hospital, Joe DiMaggio tionwide. to bring gifts to hospitalized children all Children’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Since its formation in 1953 the program over New York. Hospital, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, has primarily served institutions in the In the seventeen years since Rabbi Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Min- New York tri-state area. The expan- Hecht’s passing, Toys for Hospital- nesota, University of Minnesota Chil- sion will add eighty-six of the country’s ized Children has given out upwards of dren’s Hospital, Gillette Children’s Hos- Children’s Hospitals, which serve over 20,000 toys and gifts annually to ailing pital and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. twenty-thousand of the most seriously ill children and seniors in nursing homes. NCFJE Chairman Rabbi Shea Hecht youngsters. The program also arranges parties for said, “We are grateful to all of the do- Toys for Hospitalized Children was children in hospitals and seniors in ex- nors who give us the opportunity to founded by the late Rabbi Jacob J.
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