You Are Yudit’s Lifeline
Her suffering takes an enormous physical and emotional toll having to choose between eating, keeping the lights on, or having medications...
Elderly Jews like Yudit face gut-wrenching choices each day.
They simply cannot meet their most basic needs for food, medications, rent, and utilities. And many struggle with crippling loneliness, missing the companionship of their spouse and families.
Yudit is a Holocaust survivor whose childhood tragically changed forever the day the Nazis stormed into her small Ukrainian hometown in 1941.
To save little Yudit’s life, her terrified parents rushed her off to their non-Jewish neighbours who hid her from the soldiers. Thankfully, she eventually made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) and escaped persecution. Though she survived the long horrors of the war, she now faces deep loneliness and sorrow after her husband of many years passed away.
This suffering takes an enormous physical and emotional toll - having to choose between eating, keeping the lights on, or having medications.
Fortunately, Yudit found the Fellowship-supported Yad LaKashish workshop (Hebrew for “Lifeline for the Elderly”) in Jerusalem that assists older women and men-who often feel lonely and useless-find purpose and friendship as well as meaningful ways to supplement their food, clothing, and other needs through the crafts they make and sell in the shop.
And until the blessed day comes when Israel can devote more funds to social services than to needed national defense, the vulnerable of Israel count on you as a safety net.
You can provide this “safety net” of provision along with the heartening message, “You are not alone,” to someone like Yudit through your best gift today. Thank you for your compassionate heart for Israel!
