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Through programs of care and compassion, The Fellowship fulfills its mission of assisting poor and needy Jews in Israel and around the world. Below you'll find in-depth information on the current projects supported by your donations to The Fellowship.
Community Assistance
- Medical Care - The Fellowship provides for a variety of medical services in Israel, including dental care, transportation to medical treatment, and medical equipment. During Operation Cast Lead, The Fellowship provided desperately needed medical equipment to Barzilai Hospital.
- Job Training and Placement - The Fellowship helps provide adult education and job training to widows, single mothers, and others who are not prepared to enter the workforce but are suddenly forced to in order to survive, as well as programs that equip immigrants with the skills they need to integrate into Israeli society and the workforce. Additionally, it supports programs for the elderly, creating jobs that help supplement their income and restore their dignity.
- Women’s Programs - The Fellowship supports some programs specifically developed to support Israeli women, such as business initiative programs and community centers.
- Victims of Terror and War - Guardians of Israel supports efforts that not only protect people from terrorist attacks, but help victims deal with physical and emotional trauma. Guardians renovates and supplies hundreds of bomb shelters, helps secure buses and bus stations, provides emergency medical supplies, security and rescue vehicles and supplies to Israeli soldiers, supports trauma centers, and fills other critical needs.
- Security - The Fellowship provides debit cards with monetary value to needy soldiers, as well as grants to purchase necessary clothing.
- Feeding the Hungry - The Fellowship supports a variety of soup kitchens which provide nutritious meals and a social gathering place to Israelis in need. Our meal delivery programs provide hot meals and monthly food boxes, including packages with special items for the religious holidays of Passover, Rosh Hashanah.
- Kupat Yedidut - Fellowship-sponsored Special Needs Funds allow local welfare departments in Israel provide direct and immediate aid to the needy. This aid includes electrical appliances, food coupons, one-time grants.
- Rabbi’s Emergency Fund - In order to celebrate our 25th Anniversary, and to prepare for future emergency needs of Israel and needy Jews around the world, The Fellowship began the Rabbi's Emergency Fund for the express purpose of making available emergency relief designated exclusively for delivering quick aid to Israel and her people in need worldwide.
- Cities Without Violence - This program is designed to counter the rising phenomena of violence in Israeli society.
- Dental Care for Children - While Israel provides general medical care to citizens, dental care is not included. The Fellowship supports projects providing dental care for needy Israeli children to receive the oral care they need.
Elderly
- Basic Needs Assistance - The Fellowship provides a variety of basic needs for Israel's elderly, including renovating houses in disrepair, sponsoring workshops for handicapped elderly, funding community centers, and providing meals and other services.
- Winter Heat for the Golden Age - This program provides Israel's elderly with a winter heating grant, preventing them from making the difficult choice of purchasing food, medicine, or heat during cold winters.
- Holocaust Survivors - The Fellowship has launched a major program to assist Holocaust survivors in desperate need in Israel, the former Soviet Union, Latin America, and Europe. Through this fund, the survivors are provided with a special gift of $300 to $600.
Youth
- Youth at Risk - After school programs for youth at risk provide a variety of services including therapy, tutoring, mentoring, nutritious meals, life skills training, a warm shower, and a safe place to spend time with friends.
- Boarding Schools and Orphanages Fellowship support helps provide for basic needs of students in boarding schools and orphanages, preparing them with the education and support necessary to grow into healthy, productive citizens.
- School Supplies - Students need certain tools in order to flourish academically, some of which their parents cannot afford on their own. The Fellowship provides everything from pens and pencils to book bags and desks.
- Day Care Centers Israeli parents need child care during working hours. Fellowship-sponsored day care centers provide the children of working parents with a safe environment, quality care, and oftentimes their only warm meals of the day.
- Fellowship Cards Fellowship Cards are special debit cards given out to Israeli families, allowing parents to buy their children clothing, shoes, and other basic essentials.
- Pre-Military Programs Many Israeli youth, especially new immigrants, need assistance preparing for their time in the military. The Fellowship supports Pre-Military Programs providing them with the skills and experience necessary to succeed in the military and post-military service.
Youth
- Angels of Hope - In the former Soviet Union, thousands of orphaned, abandoned, and impoverished Jewish children suffer from debilitating poverty, malnutrition, and physical and emotional disabilities. Through Isaiah 58, these desperate young people are provided with safe places to live, food, clothing, medical care, and other basic needs.
- Heftziba - Due to the global economic crisis, the Heftziba School network in the former Soviet Union, which provides Jewish education to approximately 10,000 children, found itself in a perilous financial situation. The Fellowship stepped in to provide funding for basic needs and transportation, saving the school system from closing down.
Elderly
- Basic Needs - Hundreds of thousands of elderly Soviet Jews live in shocking poverty. Isaiah 58 provides home care, medicine, meals on wheels, and other life-sustaining aid.
- Fill the Pantry During the long, harsh winters in the former Soviet Union, The Fellowship provides elderly with food, clothing, and heating fuel.
Relief efforts in Georgia
- During the recent Georgia conflict, Fellowship support helped transport Georgian Jews to Israel and provide emergency assistance to those living in the conflict zone.
- Aliyah On Wings of Eagles helps needy Jews make aliyah, the return home to Israel, escaping extreme poverty and anti-Semitism. Over the years, Fellowship efforts provided Freedom Flights to Jews in the former Soviet Union, Ethiopia, India, Argentina, and Arab lands.
- Klitah Through On Wings of Eagles, new immigrants in Israel receive resettlement assistance to help them become full, productive Israeli citizens. Many new olim (immigrants) arrive with little more than the clothes on their backs. Klitah assistance helps provide Hebrew education, housing, medical care, food, job training, and schools for their children.
- Youth Movements Program Some youth need special assistance in the Klitah process. The Youth Movements Program is designed to help integrate immigrant youth into Israeli society.
- Spiritual Centers The Fellowship constructs community and spiritual centers for Ethiopian olim, allowing them a place to spend time with other Ethiopian immigrants and worship.
Stand for Israel aims to engage people both spiritually and politically on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people by encouraging them to pray for Israel and teaching them to advocate for the Jewish state.
Latin American Outreach
Several years ago, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein was named the Goodwill Ambassador of the State of Israel, with a special emphasis on Latin American communities. Shortly after, The Fellowship launched an initiative to build bridges between Latino Christians and Jews. We have been a presence at several conferences in Latin America, and launched a successful Ask the Rabbi radio program, educating Spanish speaking Christians about the Jewish roots of Christianity.
Teaching Initiatives
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein is a renowned biblical scholar and expert in Jewish-Christian relations. He has spoken at countless churches and conferences, published several books, and hosted educational radio programs. Recently, he has begun hosting Journey to Zion, a dynamic 30-minute teaching program focusing on the Bible and Jewish roots of Christianity before a live studio audience.
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