Rabbi Jonathan Porath, formerly of the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and his associate Eleanora Shifrin formed Neve Orot to assist new Israelis from Russia with emergency needs. Every few months we receive requests for aid to buy food, schoolbooks, diapers, and shoes. The reasons? Most often serious illness, being victims of terror, or even lack of child support. Sometimes we pay for part of a one-month bridge to cover expenses until someone starts receiving income from a new job. Knowing that Jonathan and Eleanora spend as much time as they do making sure they truly understand the situation before we are asked to make a grant, gives us great comfort that we are spending our donors’ funds effectively.
We would like to raise an additional $10,000 to help specific emergencies that Jonathan and Eleanora identify.