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l Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks JDC volunteers in Mogilev, Belarus, teens, youth, families and the elderly. through Jewish Federations of North delivered kits to 70 homebound elderly. In Kharkov, Ukraine, more than 150 America supports the Jewish Agency for These kits included disposable gloves members participated and in Kishinev Israel (JAFI) and the Joint Distribution and wipes, along with emergency contact more than 250 participants from all ages e Committee (JDC.) We do this as part of our information. In Egypt, ahead of Passover came together. mission to make life better for Jews and holiday, JDC shipped about 175 pounds JDC distributed more than 4,500 Jewish communities throughout the world. of matzah and other holiday foods to hygiene and activity kits to Israeli Arab and
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Make your gift Or call 610-921-0624 today! May 2020 SHALOM Page 3 Report finds 18% spike in physical acts of anti-Semitism in 2019 From online news reports has a long-standing methodology for “Since the beginning of the COVID-19 “Alongside trying to control the spread Physical manifestations of anti- collating anti-Semitism data from various pandemic, there has been a significant of the virus and taking care to lessen Semitism against people and property government ministries and bodies and rise in accusations that Jews, as the effects of the financial downturn, around the globe spiked by 18% in that it uses this methodology every year individuals and as a collective, are behind the international community should not 2019 over 2018 figures, according to the to preserve consistency in its data. the spread of the virus or are directly ignore the societal and political crisis annual report by the Kantor Center at Tel During a virtual press conference profiting from it,” Kantor noted. that is already starting to emerge,” Dr. Aviv University. conducted by the Kantor Center, Moshe “The language and imagery used Kantor said. In total, there were 456 such incidents Kantor, who established the center in clearly identifies a revival of the medieval Speaking at the press conference, in 2019, including 169 physical assaults 2010 and serves as president of the ‘blood libels’ when Jews were accused Professor Dina Porat, head of the against Jews, as well as 129 attacks European Jewish Congress, also brought of spreading disease, poisoning wells Kantor Center who also serves as against personal property, 77 against attention to the spike in anti-Semitism or controlling economies,” said Kantor, the chief historian for Yad Vashem, cemeteries and memorial sites, 53 witnessed during the coronavirus arguing that this new phenomenon was noted that governments around the attacks against synagogues, and 28 pandemic. “consistent rise of antisemitism over the world are making efforts to combat against community centers and schools. Extremists on the far-right and far-left last few years.” the rise of antisemitism, but said Seven Jews were killed in anti-Semitic have used various internet and social Kantor said that he was also that it was concerning that despite incidents in 2019, while physical assaults media platforms to blame Jews and Israel concerned about the “the rise of populism these efforts incidents of antisemitism against Jews rose 22%. A researcher for either responsibility for the spread of and extremism that could result from the amongst extremists elements in general for the Kantor Center stated that it COVID-19, benefiting from it, or both. coronavirus pandemic. populations continue to rise. On 761 days, Anne Frank, and the circle of responsibility
By Ellen J. Kennedy But Anne died of typhus in the 761: That’s the number of days that Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at Anne Frank was in hiding in that attic in age 15. Her father, Otto Frank, was the Amsterdam. only member of the family to survive 761 days from April 1, 2020, is May the Holocaust. After the war and his 2, 2022. liberation from Auschwitz, he returned to Note the year: 2022. I am typing this Amsterdam and lived with Miep and her at my kitchen table in my first month of husband, Jan, for seven years. self-quarantining. I have already cleaned We know Anne’s story because Miep out the closets, baked cookies, made gave the diary to Otto Frank, who saw to cakes, organized the freezer, dealt with its publication. the pile of mail on the kitchen counter, Why did Miep and Jan Gies, and the and balanced my checkbook. This was four other helpers, risk everything for 761 after putting in eight-hour days, Monday days to save people who weren’t even through Friday, working remotely. members of their own families? I also have talked on the phone, texted It’s a matter of how we define our friends, visited my family in Montana and circles of responsibility and caring. Maryland via Zoom, communicated with Carl Wilkens was the only American literally hundreds of people online, and who remained in Rwanda during the read the newspapers and the Economist 1994 genocide, when 800,000 innocent Page Shalomevery day. I have been in touch with my people were slaughtered.March At great 2010 risk synagogue, my fellow members of the to himself, he saved hundreds of lives. immune systems. My husband is in the anywhere else in the world. Minneapolis University Rotary Club, Christina Meyer, one of the alumnae from bull’s-eye for the virus. Miep and Jan Gies did everything they Jewish Familyand colleagues Service on various boards that our Summer Institute for High School My selfishness? I see people being could to save the most vulnerable in their I serve on. and College Students, met Carl at the careless, not listening to Dr. Michael midst. Kuno van der Horst, a 23-year-old I have gone for walks almost every Institute. She said, “It was the first time I Osterholm and others about what we student, refused to sign a declaration of Discussion of addiction importantday. Myto husband all and I decided that the understood that our circle of caring can must do to protect ourselves — and to loyalty to the Nazis, which meant death. weekends should be demarcated from go beyond the people in our own family.” protect those at gravest risk, like my He went into hiding — living with the Gies By Sari Incledon, M. 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610.898.7700 Page 4 SHALOM May 2020 We are together By Adi Shalev What have we done so far? If you missed anything, you are more and activities online. Stay updated on the Shalom dear community. We’ve moved a wide range of activities then welcome to go to JFR website weekly emails and social media. I assume most of you know that I came online, including Hebrew classes, lectures, (www.ReadingJewishCommunity.org) If there is anything specific you would back to Israel (temporarily!) because of Hebrew word of the day, Israeli playlists, and click on “Adi’s events” (under “build like me to share with you- please do not the COVID-19 situation. cooking classes, cooking videos, recipes, a virtual community” button) or look hesitate to let me know. Although I’m 5,715 miles away, it’s interactive games, crafts and games to do on my Facebook account “Adi Shalev May we all stay healthy and this important to me to stay in touch with at home, Hebrew high school, movie and Shlicha” with all the programs and situation will be over soon. you and continue doing all my different tv show recommendation and updates activities. Miss you all, programs, but in a different way. from Israel. I’ll continue with a variety of programs Adi, your Shlicha Celebrating Passover with Legos Yom HaShoah through the years
Adjusting to these times, we commemorated Yom HaShoah this year using virtual technology. Over 100 community members took part. Similarly, Jews in the former Soviet Union also had to be adaptive to observe Yom HaShoah and other holidays. Here is a picture of Moisey Schneider wearing a Tallit and leading a secret underground minyan to commemorate Yom HaShoah.
We challenged young people in the community to make Lego creations inspired by the story of Passover. Clockwise from top: “Moses Coming Down The River” by Abraham Graff; “Pharaoh and the Plague of Wild Beasts” by Isabella Gurwitz; “Baby Moses in a Basket Going Down the River” by Maxwell Kabakoff. KIMBERLY SHANK is a Seventh- and Eighth-grade English teacher at Allen Middle School in Camp Hill, Page PA. She grew up in Bernville and March 2010 Shalom t y graduated from Tulpehocken High i School in 2005 along with her Community classmateNews Peter Gernsheimer, grandson of Hilde Gernsheimer. n In early 2018 Kim contacted
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By Rabbi Yosef Lipsker • Our best refuge: HOME You can take a shower. With soap. Warm water too. Chabad Center of Berks County • Our best company: FAMILY You could pray as long and as loud as you want Something invisible came and put • Our wealth: HEALTH and not be afraid of being discovered. You can have everything in its place. • Our real time: TODAY a Shabbat meal and have real chicken soup — not a Suddenly the gasoline went down, • Nature’s call: STOP US little salt in water and leave the rest to imagination. pollution went down, people started • Its message: WAIT, RESPECT Real fish. Challah and bread — soft and chewy, not to have more time — so much time We are not gods, we are not kings, we do not have hard and moldy. White and not coarse black. You can that they do not know what to do the power of controlling everything. get more than one slice a day. You don’t have to hide with it — parents are spending time We are part of a whole, fragile, brittle and vulnerable it from other people. with their kids as a family, work is no something. You can think about making plans for next month longer a priority, or traveling or social What would those who lived through the Holocaust or even next year and have a reasonable chance of life either. have to say about what we are all living through now keeping those plans. Suddenly we silently see within ourselves and — the locking down of schools and synagogues and You can feel your fingers and toes when you wake understand the value of the words “solidarity,” “love,” stores, the staying in our homes, etc. up. “strength,” “empathy” and “faith”. What follows is what each one of us should feel only You have air conditioning and heat. You don’t feel In an instant we realized that we are all in the same in relation to himself but absolutely not in relation to the suffocated by the heat and stench. You have shoes. boat; rich and poor. That the supermarket shelves are general suffering and pain of people No holes in them. empty and the hospitals are full. What might they say if they were here today? You have books to learn from. All types of books. So New cars and old cars are in garages, simply You are restricted where to go and how many you can be locked up for weeks and months and won’t because nobody can get out. people can congregate but you can stay at home die of boredom! You have access to classes by phone With empty streets, less pollution and clean air, the and be in your own bed. No bunker. No ghetto. No and/or by computer. land also breathes. sleeping with animals in a barn. You can go to sleep You have a way to keep in touch with the outside The human returns to his origins, realizing that with at night and expect to find yourself and your family world and at least know that there is an outside world. or without money, the important thing is to survive. safely in the same place in the morning. You can actually know what is happening out there. You Today, HEALTH is the main thing, You have enough food in your home to survive for can be in touch with family and see how they are doing. Our overthrown gods: a few weeks. No rationing of a few grains of barley per You never have to think that maybe you are from • Money person per day. You have fresh water to drink and don’t the last ones alive. • Sports need to limit it. You don’t have to boil it first. If you need medicines, you can actually get them. • Fame You can go to a bathroom and flush away and don’t Let’s keep things in perspective. • Politics need to use a pail in a corner with other people around. You And as His creations, let us beseech our G-d to stop What the coronavirus is teaching us: can go outside to get food and there is food to be gotten. all of the pain and disease in the world and bless it with • Our best protection: GOD You can get food and you won’t be shot dead if discovered. peace and good health. CARES Act has impact on charitable giving
At the end of March, the Coronavirus Aid for taxpayers who do not itemize their Itemizers that contributions to donor-advised funds Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES) returns, the Act provides an “above-the- The CARES Act raises charitable or certain supporting organizations would was passed and signed into law. line” charitable tax deduction of up to contribution deduction limits for taxpayers not qualify for the deduction. Key items included direct payments to $300. If you claim the standard deduction who claim the charitable contribution To learn more, contact Richard at 610- individuals, economic stabilization funds and do not itemize, you will be able to deduction. IT lifts the current 60% adjusted 921-0624 or [email protected] for industry, and support for states and claim a deduction for up to $300 for gross income ceiling, which limited the Disclaimer: The Jewish Federation localities. The legislation also contained your charitable cash donations on your amount of the deduction a taxpayer could of Reading/Berks does not give legal provisions to support the nonprofit charitable 2020 tax return. This is not a permanent claim. This 60% limit has been suspended advice. The views expressed here are for sector, including the expansion of incentives provision, and it expires at the end of for cash donations made in 2020. The limit informational purposes only and are not for individuals and corporations making a the 2020 tax year. Please note that is now 100% of adjusted gross income. intended or written to be used, nor may charitable gift. contributions to donor-advised funds or This allows taxpayers who itemize to deduct they be used, as legal advice. In particular, Non-Itemizers certain supporting organizations would more of their charitable cash donations this and without limiting the foregoing, donors To help bolster charitable giving not qualify for the deduction. year. For corporations, the taxable income seeking tax or legal advice on which limitation on deductible contributions is they may rely should consult their own increased from 10% to 25%. Please note professional advisors. Obituary Frances Mendelsohn, 96, of the Highlands, Wyomissing and formerly of Pennside. Fran was a graduate of South Philadelphia High School and the School of Industrial Art, and was a member of Kesher Zion Synagogue. She was a lifelong artist whose home was filled with her original watercolors and her true passions were dark pretzels, chocolate and Phildelphia Sports teams. She is survived by her children; Jacob, Louise, Barbara, Steve and Elaine and her 14 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
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By Amanda J. Hornberger a role that he loved and felt most accurately hand, to agree with someone does not mean In April the JCC women’s book club met described him. As always, our group felt we to merge with the other.” to discuss our latest read, “Witness: Lessons had a much better understanding of the book • Stand up against denial of facts. from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom” by Ariel Burger. and Wiesel after reading “Witness”. • The body is not eternal but the soul Burger was due to come to Reading for Yom Our key take ways for bearing witness is. Hashoah as part of Literatour Berks (and we from Wiesel: We highly recommend “Witness” by Ariel hope to still bring him this fall) but our book • Listen. Burger for anyone who wishes they too could club read the book in anticipation of his visit. • “The choice is to listen, or not. I hope have been a student of Wiesel. Copies of Burger’s book describes his 20-year that you listen, really listen, not to find the “Witness” are available online from Reads relationship with Elie Wiesel as his student other’s weakness but to find his strength. To & Company Bookshop, our official book and then teaching assistant. The book was disagree, to engage with controversy, does vendor of Literatour Berks and other major a unique perspective of Wiesel as teacher, not mean to refuse to listen. On the other book retailers. Center Jewish Cultural
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Community Calendar Page 8 SHALOM May 2020 Basketball underdog story final film in this year’s series By Amanda J. Hornberger was still reeling from the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Two favorite the 1972 Olympic massacre at Munich and the American 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight from Tel pastimes, Aviv. basketball and Through the of lens of sports, “On the Map” movie theatres, presents a much broader story of how one team RREEADINGADING remain closed captured the heart of a nation amidst domestic but our last turmoil and the global machinations of the Cold film in the 2020 War. JJEWIEWISSHH Reading Jewish The documentary combines the pulse-pounding Film Series action of a high-stakes thriller with an incendiary FFILMILM combines political backdrop to deliver a film that will both for an mesmerize basketball fans and captures the spirit inspirational of a nation triumphant against all odds. SESERIRIEESS afternoon. Winner of more than a dozen awards from On Sunday, Jewish film festivals, “On the Map” has been an 20I5 May 17, at 3 p.m. audience favorite. we will screen Our community is lucky to have the filmmaker, 2020 “On the Map” and Dani Menkin, join us for our screening for a post- have an intimate film discussion. conversation Look for registration links on the website (www. with filmmaker Dani Menkin.* readingjewishcommunity.org), Facebook and in the *Please note that Menkin’s film “Picture of His Life” “On the Map” tells the against-all-odds story of weekly emails in May. is unable to be screened virtually, so Menkin offered Maccabi Tel Aviv’s 1977 European Championship, Escape reality and join us for an afternoon of “On the Map.” We plan to screen “Picture of His Life” which took place at a time when the Middle East basketball and Israeli spirit in this inspiring film. at Fox Theatres in the fall. May 2020 SHALOM Page 9 JFS still serving community in this unusual time By Sari Incledon, M.Ed. fresh, frozen and nonperishable food items Important U.S. Government Info Greetings from to 132 households. Our clients drove up to The Treasury Department and the Jewish Family the building, and masked-volunteers placed Internal Revenue Service are providing Service. During the bags and boxes directly in their cars, special tax filing and payment relief to these unusual times minimizing contact. We also provided food individuals and businesses in response our routines and for 50 residents of B’nai Brith apartments. to the COVID-19 outbreak. The filing work, like that of so We filled their van with food packages deadline for tax returns has been extended many of you, have so none of the residents had to leave from April 15 to July 15. e changed. We can no their apartments. Thanks go to Ellen and Many in-person tax preparation longer see clients in Paul Schwartz, Oleg Umanov, Raymond sites including Volunteer Income Tax person, whether in Gehring, Mike Robinson, Sam Kabakoff Assistance (VITA) have closed to protect c homes or our office. and John and Aidan Incledon for their hard the public and volunteers from COVID-19. Nor can we visit community members work. Thanks also to Solange Mintz and IRS Free File provides free tax i in nursing homes, the hospital or in Karen Kabakoff for making masks for the preparation and e-filing online for those retirement communities. volunteers. making $69,000 or less in 2019.
We are however, still in our office We delivered food pantry parcels Economic Stimulus Check: Seniors v and trying to keep in touch with as many to clients in the Jewish community and who receive Social Security benefits will people in the Jewish community as delivered Passover food orders to people receive the $1,200 rebate as long as they possible. who made requests. As we do every year, make less than the maximum income r So far, (I am writing this in mid-April) Jewish Family Service donated Passover (adjusted gross income up to $75,000 for most of the people we have reached provisions to Jewish inmates at the individuals and up to $150,000 for married out to are coping remarkably well. Yes, Berks County Prison. We work with BCP couples filing a joint return) without any e they miss spending time with friends and Chaplain Larry Mast to make sure all who further action on their part. Recipients family, and they miss all the activities they want to observe the holiday can do so. will receive these payments as a direct usually enjoy. But we are fortunate that Like all of you, we look forward to the deposit or by paper check, just as they for the most part our community is doing resumption of our regularly scheduled would normally receive their benefits. S well. If you or someone you know needs programs, and we will be sure to let CARES Act and Required Minimum assistance please call us. In addition you know as soon as Friendship Circle Distributions: During this time to our social workers, we are fortunate and Movie Monday can resume. In the of economic hardship the CARES that we have several volunteers who are meantime, please feel free to call with your Act and Retirement Protection Act willing to help people in need. program ideas, menu suggestions, or just to temporarily suspends the RMD for l y We were able to hold our April 1 say “hello”. It is lovely that many of you are defined contribution retirement plans, food pantry at the Olivet’s Pendora Park reaching out to your friends with phone calls allowing individuals to leave that money i Clubhouse as scheduled. We distributed and emails. Let’s stay connected! Hope we in their accounts and avoid a penalty more than 6,000 pounds of pre-packed can be together soon. and paying tax on the distribution.
Do you remember? m By Tootie Moyer lookout on every corner — few to a different city every year • You had loads of • Only having a radio, a cars could drive in heavy snow. for a day, we had a luncheon, relatives, now we only have a deck of cards or a board game • Bedrooms were received goodie bags and had few left. a for entertainment. completely dark at night, — a program. Some of the cities • How about these • When you said a cuss no light from computer, TV, were Harrisburg, Lancaster, names? Irene Dunn, Dolores word you got soap in your cellphone or humidifier. and Lebanon. Del Rio, Fredric March, Fred F mouth; now swear words are • Cars had wind-up • You could call a doctor McMurray, Paul Muni, Anthony very common. windows and no air conditioning. and talk to him personally — no Perkins, Mary Pickford and • We had to go to the • We did not have throw- machines. Spencer Tracy. h public library for references — away diapers; we had laundry • When you woke up • We were happy and we even had to walk there. service or washed them ourselves. in the morning and nothing healthy. Most families lived near • There were few cars so • Stores were in business hurt you – now every morning each other, so there was always we could play basketball, skate “forever” such as Croll and something new hurts. someone to see and talk to. and go sledding on every street. Keck, Woolworths, Kresge’s, • Few people lived Stay well – we will see each • We walked to Hampden McCrory’s, and Pomeroy’s. as long as 90 years. Thank other soon and make up for Park to go sledding, we had a • Friendship Circle went goodness for science. lost time.
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Israel21c host factor that the coronavirus is unlikely the availability of Opaganib under discussions have been ongoing in other The first two patients who were treated to evade via mutation in possible future compassionate use to additional hospitals countries as to whether they may administer with a new Israeli treatment for the novel outbreaks of the pandemic.” and countries and are hopeful that opanagib as part of “compassionate use COVID-19 after testing positive have shown After the treatment, the patients needed this treatment could potentially benefit program authorizations” and “potential significant improvement, with one of them less supplemental oxygen as well as COVID-19 patients with life-threatening emergency clinical development programs.” even being removed from the intensive care C-reactive protein, the latter of which is an manifestations,” Dr. Levitt said. Israel’s Pluristem also developed a unit within days of treatment. “inflammatory biomarker correlated with lung The company received the green treatment for coronavirus: A placenta-based Israeli biopharmaceutical RedHill lesions which could reflect disease severity.” light from the Italian National Institute for cell-therapy treatment which has proven Biopharma Ltd. administered the An additional condition of the Infectious Diseases to administer the drug successful on numerous patients upon experimental drug Opaganib for the first time coronavirus is lymphocytopenia, meaning in the virus-ridden country. Meanwhile, which it was tested so far. early in April. The first two patients treated, an abnormally low level of lymphocytes according to the company, demonstrated in the blood, which both patients started significant improvement through clinical trial off with. A few days after the treatment, within mere days of treatment. however, both patients showed significant “We are very encouraged by the improvement in that regard. preliminary findings showing clinical One of the two patients was in the ICU improvement in the first COVID-19 patients and even considered for intubation, but treated with Opaganib, which further within days of the experimental drug being supports its safety and potential benefit to administered, they were released. patients,” said Dr. Mark L. Levitt, medical The patients received the opanagib director. “Our hope is that the unique treatment while receiving the standard mechanism of action of Opaganib, with care for coronavirus, which includes both anti-viral and anti-inflammatory activity, hydroxychloroquine as background therapy. will help COVID-19 patients by reducing Opanagib is a “new chemical entity” lung inflammation and thus preventing that is administered orally and performs the disease from progressing to a stage “anticancer, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory which requires mechanical ventilation. activities.” Importantly, Opaganib is targeting a critical “We are committed to expanding
It’s Simcha Supplement time If you had or are having a bar/bat mitzvah or graduation (high school or higher) in your family this Jewish year, share the good news with the community. Please submit a few sentences about the person and their accomplishment, along with a photo. Text and photos can be sent to [email protected] or to the Federation office. Congratulations to our Shlicha, Adi Shalev, who will DEADLINE IS HERE. PLEASE SUBMIT MATERIAL IMMEDIATELY be working as a supervisor this summer at the Union for Reform Judaism’s Camp Harlam in Kunkletown, Pa. May 2020 SHALOM Page 11 Virtual learning goes on at Chabad RCOS school still fully engaged
The Reform Congregation Oheb Sholom Religious School is fully engaged in digital Chabad’s Hebrew school has continued to run virtually, starting from the first week of school learning. Classes have continued via Zoom videoconferencing, phone calls and emails, being closed, and will be continuing after the Passover break too. To add excitement to our and students have had constant contact with their teachers. Much of the focus has been students’ seders, which were so different this year, all students received a Mah Nishtana magic on maintaining relationships among the students and with their teachers. The highlight box so they could answer the Four Questions with a few magic tricks. Each family received a of the past month was a Passover program with the entire school, featuring a lesson in video of a magician performing and teaching the tricks. After watching it, the kids were able to making matzo pizza. Families have been “attending” services together. On one recent enhance their seders and bring some fun at this difficult time. Shabbat the K/1 class lit candles together. Wanted: Good News! Share your simchas with the community. Just call the Federation office or email [email protected].
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Israel21c.com and durable way to address these Two Israeli researchers report deficiencies.” that they can correct deuteranomaly, This marks the first time tiny a form of red-green colorblindness, optical devices have successfully with customizable contact lenses. been fused to curved surfaces. As reported in the Optical Society Although clinical testing would be journal Optics Letters, Tel Aviv needed before the contact lenses University’s Sharon Karepov and could be marketed, the researchers Tal Ellenbogen incorporated ultra- believe that manufacturers could thin optical devices into off-the-shelf embed the metasurface during contact lenses. the molding stage of contact lens Test subjects saw their color fabrication or thermally fuse them to perception improve up to a factor a rigid contact lens. of 10. “Problems with distinguishing They plan to keep studying and red from green interrupt simple daily improving their unique metasurface routines such as deciding whether transfer process and test it for other a banana is ripe,” said Karepov, applications. from the university’s department of “Glasses based on this correction physical electronics. “Our contact concept are commercially available. lenses use metasurfaces based However, they are significantly optical element is ultrathin and can vision disorders such as refractive on nano-metric size gold ellipses bulkier than contact lenses,” said be embedded into any rigid contact errors can be treated within a single to create a customized, compact Karepov. “Because the proposed lens, both deuteranomaly and other contact lens.”
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During Purim the Religious School kids from Reform Congregation Oheb Sholom got together to write letters to IDF soldiers. Roi, brother of our Shlicha Adi Shalev, delivered them personally to his friends from the search and rescue unit Meir Panim helping during pandemic American Friends of Meir Panim Overseas As the entire world is adjusting to the new reality of the coronavirus pandemic, Meir Panim has quickly pivoted in order to continue providing foods and other necessary items for our clients. We have taken innovative steps to ensure that the new government limitations won’t leave anyone in Israel’s impoverished community without a warm meal. For example, new government restrictions have banned gatherings of 10 or more people in public spaces. So Meir Panim is responding by providing hot meals from their Restaurant-Style Soup Kitchens as takeaway meals. The takeout containers are prepared and are packed up for their clients to come and pick up their meals. We have been asked by many local municipalities to add thousands over and
& I srael above our usual patrons as Meals-on- Wheels recipients across Israel due to the coronavirus pandemic. Our Meals- In addition, Meir Panim’s Tzefat branch Shuka Ohana, visited the Meir Panim Jewish Agency on-Wheels program has become the manager was approached by the welfare center to see for himself the work that for Israel exclusive free meal provider in many ministry to help distribute meals to the is done by Meir Panim. He visited the regions over Israel. homebound people of Tzefat. Due to the center and met with the people for whom Yemin Orde Therefore, our Meals-on-Wheels Coronavirus outbreak, more people than delivering meals is a daily routine. He also program has significantly expanded ever are homebound and not able to go put his own gloves and face mask on and Jewish Federations its meal delivery program to meet out to get food. Since Meir Panim has went door to door to deliver the meals to of North America the growing demands of our patrons been delivering food to needy people the people who are homebound due to who are confined to their homes, already for a long time, it was chosen the virus. Joint Distribution individuals in quarantine, as well those as the community partner to deliver the Meir Panim is supported with local citizens that are now unemployed or meals. dollars through the Jewish Federation of Committee on furlough. In solidarity, the mayor of Tzefat, Reading’s Israel Now program. Meir Panim Yemin Orde deliveries make lives brighter ImpactIsrael touch with staff; informal educators, along with extra-curricular activities to help Our staff has made the necessary teachers, social workers or national alleviate stress, such as music and art. adjustments in order to meet the emotional service volunteers. They use platforms For those at the Village, their hopes are and educational needs of the adolescents such as WhatsApp, Zoom, or by high and they have been very cooperative there. The Yemin Orde Youth Village staff telephone, holding either group meetings with all of the regulations in place. They has delivered study materials and care or individual sessions. Our staff check in trust their educators and know that we are packages for every teen living outside the to see how things are going, allowing for together with them in this. Village and distributing them across Israel. the youth to vent, laugh and keep up their As we look towards next school year, For those without sufficient internet access, spirits. This consistent communication we are making the necessary plans to we are supplying SIM cards as well. is important to reminding teens that we ensure our strong educational environment The 340 who are not in the Village want them here but that because of the is maintained; providing a normative have returned to their nuclear or extended coronavirus situation, it is not possible high school education, promoting families, and many are faced with difficult right now. Hebrew language acquisition, enriching situations. They are experiencing loneliness Yemin Orde’s efforts are supported extracurricular activities, life-skills training and lack of confidence as they are stuck by donors to the Jewish Federation of and much needed therapeutic care. inside, generally in small apartments with Reading. We want our youth to know that when multiple family members, in low-income Youth who are in the Village are divided they come back to the Village, they will communities. Many of their parents have into small family units and remain together. have the same supportive and caring lost their jobs or have been laid off. They have learning materials, schedule of community as before, providing them The emotional connections to our activities and engage in remote learning with continuity and security to help them youth who are outside the Village are their teachers. The daily schedule includes continue their journeys from at-risk youth made on a daily basis, as youth are in scheduled distance learning with teachers to self-reliant.