Israel Resources
We stand united as a community and with Israel. We are committed to standing up for, being well informed, and effectively helpful toward Israel in this dark hour. Some of the ways that you can be of assistance are listed below.
DONATE FUNDS to the organization of your choice:
Jewish Federations of North America – Operation Swords of Iron-Israel Emergency Fund
American Friends of Israel’s Search & Rescue Unit 669
There are many other organizations doing good work in Israel. Visit ejewishphilanthropy.com for their list of organizations that are working to provide immediate aid and long-term assistance to our Israeli brothers and sisters.
You can purchase a ‘We Stand With Israel’ lawn sign for $36. All proceeds will be donated to IDF Elite Search & Rescue Unit 669. Thank you to Creative Print Group for their generous in-kind donation of the signs and printing. To place your order click here.
ATTEND PRO-ISRAEL EVENTS
TRAVEL TO ISRAEL
There are several opportunities for all ages to participate in Israel Solidarity missions:
Jewish National Fund (JNF) Israel Missions
Keshet Educational Journeys
Ramah Mishpacha Solidarity & Service Trips to Israel
Jewish National Fund-USA has scheduled a series of five-day volunteer missions in Israel. Participants (ages 18 and up) will be housed in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv and spend four to six hours per day working in agriculture or with displaced families, or assisting with logistical duties at an IDF base. Click here to sign up and to get more information on JNF-USA volunteer missions.
Sar-El Israel provides organized opportunities for civilian volunteer service on IDF bases. Email [email protected] or click here.
Volunteer with Livnot u’Lihibanot (Build and Be Built), a decades-old organization that has focused on experiential education and hands-on projects in service to the building and refurbishing needed housing and other structures in Israel. One and two week opportunities. On this volunteer program you can:
- Assist professionals in restoring kindergartens and educational buildings
- Agricultural Harvesting
- Evening Educational Classes
For more information visit www.livnot.org or contact [email protected]
ADVOCATE FOR ISRAEL:
Email your representative and local elected officials. They all have websites with easy links and forms to reach their offices directly.
To contact Representative Donald Norcross, click here.
To contact Senator Cory Booker, click here.
To contact Senator Bob Menendez, click here.
AJC has made it easy to advocate, click here.
To thank Governor Murphy for supporting Israel, click here.
PRAY FOR ISRAEL:
Prayer helps us to focus on what is truly important to us and our community. We are adding the Prayer for the IDF to our Shabbat services, and a Prayer for Israel, the IDF, and those held captive, and including the injured in our regular prayers for healing. Join us for minyan online or in person, come to Shabbat on Friday night and Saturday – now is the time to show strength and resolve as a Jewish community, and one way we do that is by regularly gathering together at our synagogue home.
To download the Prayer for the IDF, click here.
STAY WELL INFORMED:
There are many sources of information about what is happening in Israel.
New! Helpline for anti-Semitic incidents on campus – For more information, click here.
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism – we are part of a larger movement that has been Zionist since its origin and have a voice and role in connection to that affiliation. To find its recommended list of resources, click here.
The Rabbinical Assembly has also been compiling a list of helpful resources and Israel updates, click here.
Subscribe (free) to the daily update from ejewishphilanthropy.com (their newsletter is called Your Daily Phil).
REACH OUT TO ISRAELIS:
Send texts, WhatsApp messages, emails and more. It matters!
The AJC created an easy form to write a message of support, click here.
To view Masorti Olami’s compilation
of hostage support information, click here.
Listen to Beth El members recount their experiences as they return from volunteer trips to Israel:
Rabbi Englander speaking and leading a Prayer for Israel at Unity Rally in Philadelphia – October 16, 2023