This posting was contributed by Richard Smith, a retired government official who lives in Virginia, and who is spending a month in Kibbutz Nir-Am to chronicle the courage of Israelis under fire on his compelling site, www.iron-rain.com.
This is being written late afternoon on Wednesday, Febr…
This posting was contributed by Toni Young of the Jewish Federation of Delaware. Toni is a vice chair of UJC’s Board of Trustees and chair of UJC's Global Operations: Israel and Overseas Coordinating Council. On February 18, we were visiting a resilience center in Sderot when the…
This posting was contributed by Aviv Wasserman, and was written on January 22, 2008. I don't usually write columns, but I felt the need to share with you my experiences from a night in Sderot, which I found very meaningful. It all started a few weeks ago. I received an invitation to a Tu…
This posting was contributed by Ohad Drori, a social worker with the Emergency Fund for the Gaza Perimeter. On January 27, 2008, I was appointed by the Jewish Agency to serve as a social worker and to be responsible on behalf of the Jewish Agency for the Emergency Fund for residents of the…
This posting was written by Nitai Schreiber, the director of the Sderot-based Gvanim Association. Gvanim, whose partners include JDC and JAFI, works with Sderot and with nonprofits to develop services for vulnerable populations. Gvanim has received vital support from the Israel…
