Fellowship Blog


Promotion for IFCJ featuring a young disabled girl.
Faces of The Fellowship: Vera
Vera, 13, lives in an apartment on the outskirts of Kiev with her parents, Anastasia and Sergey. Vera stays very busy singing in a choir, excelling in school, designing costumes,…
RYE holding an ambulance bag next to an ambulance person.
Project Spotlight: Ambulances for Those in Need in the Negev
Rabbi Eckstein recently visited the town of Bir Hadaj in Israel's Negev desert to help deliver two Fellowship-donated ambulances to the Bedouin minority group living in the area.
Yael Eckstein visited Morocco to deliver food to needy Muslim and Jewish communities living there – NBC News tells us more.
Moroccan Jews & Muslims: a Supportive Relationship and Complex History
Early this summer, The Fellowship’s Yael Eckstein visited Morocco to deliver food boxes to the needy Muslim and Jewish communities living there. She felt inspired by this new Fellowship project, which aims to…
Potato salad with radishes on a blue and white flower patterned plate.
Let's Make Jewish Potato Salad!
Try this delicious summer potato salad recipe infused with Ashkenazi Jewish flavors, like caraway seeds and dill! 
Several people gathered together for Shabbat dinner.
The Power of Amen
A prayer made at a Shabbat dinner illustrates the power of a familiar word, and the power of coming together to talk to God.
Promotion for IFCJ featuring a family of three.
Faces of The Fellowship: Alexander
Alexander, 14, lives with his mother, step-father, and two half-siblings – 5-year-old Ian and 3-year-old Anatoly – in a small apartment in Kiev. Alexander's older sister, Ruslana, lives in Israel.…
Water pooled together in a small brick structure with trees around.
When Past and Present Collaborate
The discovery of an ancient site built by devoted Jews more than 2,000 years ago would save the same land to which Jewish people today are as equally devoted.
Several elderly people standing together and clapping.
His Dear Parents
Rene and Marie Maussion were French millers with six children who rescued and sheltered a Jewish boy for three years, saving him from certain death at the hands of the…
Promotion of a young girl hugging on to an adult.
Faces of The Fellowship: Elizabeth
Eight-year-old Elizabeth lives with her parents, two of her sisters, and paternal grandparents in a tiny apartment in Ukraine. Elizabeth sleeps with her sisters, 11-year-old Sofia and 15-year-old Alexandra, in…
Yael Eckstein working a hot dog stand to honor U.S. soldiers on July 4th.
Project Spotlight: Yael Wishes U.S. Soldiers a Happy Fourth of
For the first time in 17 years, the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft supercarrier docked in Israel's Haifa Bay – and U.S. soldiers were warmly welcomed by The Fellowship
border police soldiers with flags
What Israelis Do for Love of Country
The Fellowship's summer intern in Israel writes about the patriotism she has witnessed among the young people who serve and protect the Jewish state and her people.
A fraying textile against a white background.
3,000-year Old Textiles From King David-era Found in Southern Israel
Colorful fabric from King David and Solomon's time was discovered in an excavation at Timna in southern Israel, allowing researchers to gain new perspectives of the textile industry of this…