In response to the devastating attacks on Israel's civilian population in recent days, Tent of Oliver Foundation has decided to send $2,500 in financial aid through Colel Chabad.
We encourage you to partner with us in supporting Colel Chabad's efforts to help needy families that are located in areas directly impacted by the attacks.
You can provide support through the following methods (both methods provide a tax deductible receipt):
Through Tent of Oliver: In providing an online donation through our Donations Page, make sure to select "Israel Emergency Aid" in the "Project Selection" dropdown menu.
Directly through Colel Chabad: Please click on this link.
Please see below for more information on Colel Chabad and the pivotal role they are serving throughout the current and ongoing crisis going on in Israel. And please share with others.
Colel Chabad features a nationwide program that runs year-round in partnership with the Israeli government to provide grocery gift cards to poor families, run soup kitchens across the country, provide baby formula to nursing mothers, run dental clinics, assist terror victims, run a group for developmentally challenged adults in Jerusalem (Bais Finger), and much more.
In response to the current crisis, Colel Chabad's systems and connections were in place from before the war allowing them to increase their capacity effectively and quickly. As such, Colel Chabad is situated on the front lines and plays a major role in Israel's emergency response team.
As the number of those impacted by the war increases, Colel Chabad is focusing on five additional projects to help (while continuing all other programming):
Providing aid and resources to the 2,552 families from the Gaza envelope who lost their homes, possessions, and livelihood in a single moment last Shabbat.
Providing cooked meals to elderly holocaust survivors who cannot provide for themselves.
Providing food to the families still living in the Gaza envelope. They cannot leave their homes to procure sustenance for themselves.
Providing food for any shelters that are open throughout Israel.
Many primary breadwinners have been called up to reserves to fight. This leaves their families with no income. We are working to provide financial aid to the families of those actively serving who need it most.
Latest updates from Colel Chabad (dated October 13, 2023):
All 22 Colel Chabad soup kitchens are closed due to the dangerous nature of leaving one's house. We are delivering food directly to those who need it (including 4,000 meals in the South alone).
Overstock food from army bases is no longer a source of food for Colel Chabad. We now have to source all food from caterers.
We sent emergency clothing to those from the South who have been displaced.
In their free time, our Get Chesed volunteers visited elderly, homebound, and holocaust survivors.
Our Beis Finger residents held a rally in honor of the Israeli soldiers.
We sent 1,200 sweaters to soldiers who were called up North without the proper gear to keep them warm.
As a reminder, you can provide support through the following methods (both methods provide a tax deductible receipt):
Through Tent of Oliver: In providing an online donation through our Donations Page, make sure to select "Israel Emergency Aid" in the "Project Selection" dropdown menu.
Directly through Colel Chabad: Please click on this link.
Psalm 83
A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.
Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God!
For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head.
They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones.
They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You:
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites;
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Assyria also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah
Deal with them as with Midian, As with Sisera, As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,
Who perished at En Dor, Who became as refuse on the earth.
Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb, Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Who said, “Let us take for ourselves The pastures of God for a possession.”
O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind!
As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire,
So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten them with Your storm.
Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O Lord.
Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,
That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth.
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