Jewish groups launch emergency campaigns for Israel

[King_David]

(JTA) – American Jewish groups are launching emergency fundraising campaigns to send Israel aid while the fighting with Hamas continues.

The Jewish Federations of North America is partnering with the Union for Reform Judaism and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism for a campaign called Stop the Sirens aimed at distributing safety equipment and emergency information, providing trauma counseling and respite opportunities. The funds will be sent over the next two weeks and in the immediate aftermath of the conflict, according to the Jewish Federations. The money will be distributed in conjunction with the federation’s overseas partners, the Jewish Agency for Israel and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

The Orthodox Union has also issued a call for its Israel Emergency Fund to help offer respite and psychological services to children in the conflict zone. B’nai B’rith International also opened an Israel Emergency Fund.

The American Jewish Committee sent $50,000 to a hospital in Ashkelon, Barzilai Medical Center, for the purchase of an anesthesia machine for its emergency room.


Read more: http://www.jta.org/2014/07/11/news-opinion/united-states/jewish-groups-launch-emergency-campaigns-for-israel#ixzz37JNNnrzY

[Scootaloo]

1. Oh, well that's awfully nice of them!

The Orthodox Union has also issued a call for its Israel Emergency Fund to help offer respite and psychological services to children in the conflict zone.

Sweet people.

Oh. Wait, what's that? "Some restrictions may apply?"

[King_David]

2. You seem to have a problem with these Jewish groups,

Which Jewish groups are you ok with ?

[Scootaloo]

3. What in the world leads you to that conclusion?

Am I wrong in my guess that only some children in the "conflict zone" will be deemed worthy of the org's respite and psychological services?

[King_David]

4. As Israelis cope with the incessant rocket fire an ongoing military mobilization as Operation Protec

As Israelis cope with the incessant rocket fire an ongoing military mobilization as Operation Protective Edge continues, North American Diaspora Jews have found their Email boxes flooded over the past several day with appeals from organizations who are rushing in to meet their need to feel connected and do something to help Israel - not exclusively, but primarily, through their pocketbooks.

Emails from the fundraising arms of a variety of organizations offer members detailed updates on daily events as they unfold in the Middle East conflict - and end with the ways in which their organizations are pitching in - or preparing to lend a hand - and an appeal for funds in order to help them do so.

The largest-scale fundraising effort has been launched by the Jewish Federations of North America in partnership with the Reform and Conservative movements in a campaign that has been called ‘Stop the Sirens’ - the fund, they say, is aimed at distributing safety equipment and emergency information, providing trauma counseling and respite opportunities.

Addressing possible concern that donations be focused on true emergency needs and not just for general fundraising, donors are being reassured by JFNA that this is “a special fundraising effort with the understanding that these funds will be deployed to meet needs over the next two weeks and in the immediate aftermath of the conflict” distributed for the Jewish Agency for Israel and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.604713

[ellenrr]

5. It is the Jewish organizations, which are much more right-wing than the Jewish people

there has been in the last decade an opening up of the conversation among American Jews which is very threatening to the pro-Zionist conservative Jewish organizations, whose bread and butter ($) depends on Jews feeling very threatened.

These days every-day Jews (not necessarily belonging to organizations) get together and talk about one-state, two-state, talk about how can a country be "democratic" and "Jewish only" at the same time, argue about whether Israel should continue as a Jewish state.

There even is an org, called Open Hillel
http://www.openhillel.org/about.php
which encourages discourse among college students, rather than requiring adherence to the party line as Hillel does.

all this has the major Jewish organizations feeling very threatened.
as they should- the ability to keep control over the discourse on Israel- which they have enjoyed for decades - is over.

[King_David]

7. Another wishful thinking post.

Here is what the leader of the biggest Jewish group in the USA says about the tiny group JVP.

How a radical anti-Israel Jewish group colluded with the U.S. Presbyterian Church

By Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie
Like virtually all Jewish leaders, I am not too happy at the moment with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for its profoundly unfortunate and mistaken decision to divest from three companies that it claims “further the Israeli occupation in Palestine.” But I am not any happier with Jewish Voice for Peace, a small Jewish activist group that was only too happy to help the Presbyterians along.

http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/.premium-1.600579

Rabbi Yoffie is a leader of a huge Jewish group