Fellowship Blog

Yael Eckstein and Ana, an IFCJ recipient embracing in a kitchen while holding a bowl of food.
Faces of The Fellowship: Ana
Ana is a 92-year-old woman from Belarus living alone in Israel. She participates in The Fellowship’s With Dignity and Fellowship project, which provides impoverished elderly assistance with food, medicine, and companionship. Ana…
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92-year-old woman in a green and orange top staring directly into the camera.
92-Year-Old Offers Thanks for The Fellowship
Shulamit is a 92 year-old beneficiary of The Fellowship’s With Dignity and Fellowship program, which provides food, medicine, and companionship to impoverished elderly in Israel. After a life of volunteering to…
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IFCJ promotion featuring Darya, IFCJ disabled recipient who's laughing as she's sitting in a library.
Faces of The Fellowship: Darya
No matter how much 14-year-old Darya tries to bundle herself up, she is always cold. She suffers from hypothyroidism, which can be easily managed with a balanced diet and medication.…
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Israeli Menachem Avidom in glasses as he looks up in the air.
Israelis You Should Know: Menachem Avidom
Menachem Avidom was an Israeli composer of vocal, orchestral, and chamber music.
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Yekaterina Lipinskaya, an elderly Jewish woman with a tree behind her.
She Saved the Man Who Helped the World Play
During the Holocaust, Yekaterina Lipinskaya helped save the life of Henry Orenstein, a man who would go on to revolutionize how both children and adults enjoy life in our modern…
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IFCJ promotion featuring Yuriy, an elderly Jewish man who's an IFCJ recipient with the text: With the Fellowship, I know I am not alone.
Faces of The Fellowship: Yuriy
Imagine trying to survive on only $48 a month – around $1.50 a day. It sounds impossible. Yet each month that is exactly what Yuriy, an elderly resident of Kiev,…
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Irina and Bella in dresses sitting on a bed in a yellow room.
Project Spotlight: Hesed Homecare Workers
Fellowship-supported Hesed is a network of Jewish community centers and social services that provides lifesaving aid to impoverished Jews throughout the former Soviet Union. Hesed means lovingkindness in Hebrew, and that’s exactly…
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Two men, one of them Moshe Sharett standing outside of a wooden building.
Israelis You Should Know: Moshe Sharett
Moshe Sharett served as Israel's second Prime Minister, helping the modern Jewish state navigate a turbulent period during its early years.
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A woman lighting a menorah with sixteen other people as some of them are wearing IFCJ branded shirts.
Celebrating Hanukkah – and Aliyah – at the Airport
The Fellowship celebrated Hanukkah with new olim (immigrants) from Ukraine who just arrived in Israel on a Fellowship Freedom Flight! They lit a menorah in the airport to observe the…
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Asiya and Alexander, IFCJ recipients sitting on two chairs beside each other in their home.
Providing for a Precious Elderly Couple
This year, The Fellowship’s Winter Heating project warmed the homes of 20,651 elderly citizens across 105 Israeli cities. We focus on the elderly, offering winter heating to senior citizens who live…
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Elderly man looking straight ahead with a gray background behind him.
They Are Our Brothers, Like So Many Others
Monsignor Jules-Gerard Saliege was the Archbishop of Toulouse whose work to improve the situation for French Jews during the Holocaust saved countless lives.
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IFCJ promotion featuring Nastya, an IFCJ recipient with the text: Thanks to the Fellowship I will never be abandoned.
Faces of The Fellowship: Nastya
The world in which 9-year-old Nastya lives is full of challenges. Her tiny apartment, just one small room and a kitchen, is in an old Soviet apartment complex in a…
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