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MOBILE SCHUL ARRIVES AT KIBBUTZ ELON, FIRST SCHUL IN 80 YEARS!
Our first Mobile Schul was delivered to Kibbutz Elon (located close to Nahariya, near the Lebanon border) on the 8th of Av, 12-August 2016! We received a beautiful thank you note from one of the members who wrote: “. . . for the past five years we were struggling together against the administration of the Kibbutz, local community council and Israel Land Authority for permission to have a schul! A.H. was there patiently supporting, pushing, helping, listening, guiding and negotiating with such great sensitivity and intelligence—and we finally succeeded. Last Friday, the eve of of "Tisha B'Av" we prayed for the first time in our mobile synagogue. I have no words to describe the feeling of elation, joy, and satisfaction that gripped the congregation and the members of our Kibbutz! We came to the land about 80 years ago or so, and until today we never had a Schul.. . .On a Personal note, my grandmother OBM, lost her parents and seven siblings in the Shoa. They were all from Romania and were deported to Auschwitz. My grandmother lived with that trauma all her life. She shared what happened to her with my mother, may she live till 120, who shared it with me. My relatives were murdered only because they were Jewish! Today, when I prayed in that Schul I knew that we were victorious over the Nazis, may their name be forever blotted out!”
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MEZUZOT MEH AMI
This Secular Moshav formerly a Kibbutz, is located in the middle of one of the largest Arab cities, between Hadera and Afula, known as “Um el Fahem.” In fact, because of the location, members’ lives are stake every minute! In the 1970’s the Kibbutz disbanded temporarily. The neighboring Arabs destroyed their homes and burned their fields! A.H. has been working with there for the past ten years. They now have a small Schul. More recently, they asked for Mezuzot to be placed on their communal buildings. A.H. together with a Sofer (Scribe) presented a special program explaining the significance of a Mezuza and of a Sefer Torah. Both adults and children attended and participated listening and watching as we placed tens of Mezuzot on buildings throughout the Moshav. Mazal Tov to Meh Ami on taking this big step! May we continue to grow and go from strength to strength!
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SEFER TORAH FOR PELEPHONE
Pelephone employees located at the headquarters in Givatayim wanted a the Sefer Torah, and a place to Daven. The administration was not keen on this idea. But, through their persistence, they secured a small room where they now daven. AH donated the Sefer Torah on three conditions: (1) they read from it every Monday and Thursday; (2) the employees of a large insurance company located in the next building be permitted to daven with the Pelephone employees, and (3) every employee at Pelephone (1,000 of them) be invited to attend. Men would be given Aliyot and women, a misheberach. Now they also started a minyan at 8:00 a.m. to allow employees who live far away to daven Shachrit!
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