We Want to Help Again...
This year, Moshe Gruenberg of Chabad’s Terror Victims Project (CTVP) approached the Russian Jewish Community Foundation (RJCF) and asked them for assistance.
The RJCF has helped in the past, and Moshe asked for more help now, as Israel has and continues to face the horrendous war that began on October 7, 2023.
He spoke with Lina Klebaner, President of the RJCF, who said that “We, at RJCF have raised emergency funds for Israel again. Because Chabad’s Terror Victims Project is on the ground and so effective, RJCF wants to donate again knowing that you’ll effectively bring the help and hope so urgently needed in Israel now”.
Moshe gave an update about what CTVP was doing as the war’s dragged on, and more and more families’ lives were being shattered. He said that there are so many widows now, most of them young with small children, as more soldiers have lost their lives fighting in Gaza and in the north.
This has resulted in many more orphans as well. Children whose mothers must now struggle alone to raise their children in the midst of war and violence - mothers who urgently need all the help and support we can provide for them.
The hospitals and rehabilitation centers have so many more patients to treat as well, many of them soldiers and victims of terror - and their families also need help as they try to be with their loved ones in the hospitals while also making certain that their families at home are being taken care of.
Reservists are being called up to serve many times creating more stress for their families. And the families of hostages wait in agony for their loved ones suffering under such horrific, in- human conditions in Gaza.
Moshe said: “We deeply appreciate that RJCF wants to stand with us again and help us. Your community's tzedakah helps bring the suffering families in Israel hope and support. Knowing that you care deeply for all those suffering in Israel brings much comfort. We thank RJCF and your community for your care and concern.”
And we pray with everyone around the world that peace will come to Israel very soon.