International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
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Yael Eckstein visits the Ukraine to bring much needed aid on Flickr.
This January, Yael traveled through feet of snow and freezing temperatures in the remote villages of the former Soviet Union, searching out Jews in need. She found many Holocaust survivors who have been lost and abandoned and are living in run down homes without food or heat.
(Photos: Colin Rosin)
Ethiopian Sigd Holiday - 2012 on Flickr.
Earlier this month, members of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel celebrated Sigd, a holiday unique to Ethiopian Jews that honors the renewal of the alliance between the people, God, and the Torah. Sigd, which always falls 50 days after Yom Kippur, is a time for the Ethiopian Jews to examine their hearts and amend any behaviors not pleasing to God. To read more about this holiday, visit: http://bit.ly/V1r65W
Photo: Michal Fatel
Today 240 Ethiopian Jews were welcomed at Ben Gurion Airport in Jerusalem by excited family, members of the press, and The Fellowship’s Rabbi Eckstein and Yael Eckstein. READ about their life-changing move. http://bit.ly/VZtDT1
Ask the Rabbi - August 2012 (by IFCJ25)
Rabbi Eckstein explains the practice of “doing a mitzvah”, a key concept in Judaism.
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The Fellowship Helps Distribute Hebrew Bibles to Ethiopian Immigrants, a set by IFCJ’s Fellowship on Flickr.
Rabbi Eckstein attended a ceremony in the Jerusalem municipal center with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and religious leaders of the Ethiopian community. At this event, some of the 1,000 Fellowship-purchased bibles, printed in both Hebrew and Amharic languages, were distributed just in time for Shavuot. The Fellowship is providing the bibles printed in Amharic, the native Ethiopian language, for use in synagogues and Ethiopian spiritual centers across Israel. The Amharic edition also contains the Hebrew text, side-by-side, to help readers gain Hebrew-language skills.
Faces of the Fellowship: These rambunctious children live in Ethiopia and are hoping to someday become citizens of Israel. Until they can reach their new home they live in a Fellowship transit camp where we make sure they have the food, education, security, and medical care they need.
PM Netanyahu’s Message on Israel’s 64th Independence Day. #Israelat64
Rabbi Eckstein went to one of the largest absorption centers in Israel, where he celebrated, together with his friend and hero Natan Sharansky, a mock Seder meal to teach newly-arrived Ethiopian immigrants about Pesach (Passover). Indeed, The Fellowship is sponsoring Passover Seders this Friday night in 16 absorption centers for almost 6,000 Ethiopian Jews who recently immigrated to Israel. In addition, The Fellowship works closely with the Jewish Agency in helping care for the future immigrants during their wait for aliyah, bringing them to Israel, and helping them in their resettlement process. For more photos of this mock Seder visit our Flickr set.
