Here’s one especially heartwarming way to add meaning to your Valentine’s Day this year: make a special gift in support of The Fellowship’s Operation Warmth.
This emergency campaign will distribute blankets and provide food to help 30,000 impoverished senior citizens in Israel survive these harsh winter months — people like Yelina, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor from the city of Lod.
Yelina has been living all alone in a damp, mold-infested apartment since losing her husband several years ago. She has no living relatives to help her.
"My house is freezing and I’m so desperate for warmth," she told us when she arrived at an IFCJ blanket distribution. "To give food and warmth to a cold, hungry elderly person is surely greatest kindness in God’s eyes, and that is exactly what The Fellowship does."
It truly breaks my heart to speak with elderly men and women like Yelina who have already endured so much hardship and now find themselves in such a desperate position.
While I’m immensely relieved we were able to help Yelina in time, I know there are still so many other elderly Jews in the Holy Land who urgently need our help. That is why I am calling on friends like you to make a special donation in support of The Fellowship’s Operation Warmth.
With so many lives at stake right now, please help us provide winter relief to elderly Jews as quickly as possible by taking action today.
On behalf of Israel and the Jewish people, thank you for your compassion and support.
With prayers for shalom, peace,
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President
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