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Provides aid to Jewish communities in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. Adopt a Bubbe (or Zayde) program in eastern Ukraine in 22 cities and as many small villages and towns to aid pensioners - the elderly and handicapped. Encourage Bar/Bat Mitzvah "twinning" program to link children in U.S. with their counterparts in Jewish Day Schools in Ukraine and Belarus.
Contacts: Sheila Galland and Judy Patkin
ActionPSJ
24 Crescent St., Suite 306
Waltham, MA 02453
Tel: (781) 893-2331
Fax: (781)647-9474
E-mail: ActionPSJ@aol.com
Web: http://www.actionpsj.org/
Provides funds to organizations helping Jewish children. Has contacts in many cities in the former Soviet Union.
Contact: Scott Richman
JDC
711 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Tel: (212) 687-6200
E-mail: SHLOMO@JDCNY.ORG
Web: www.jdc.org
Orphanage for Jewish children in Moscow, Russia.
Contact: Svetlana Muterperel
bld. 1-1a, 23/29 Lyalin per. Moscow 103062, Russia
Tel/Fax: 7 (095) 916-34-63
E-mail: smuterperel@acceur.com
Click here to see listing on the WJR Website.
Provides homes and schooling in Israel for over 100 orphaned Jewish girls from the former Soviet Union. (Affiliated with Letzion Berina home for boys.)
Contact: Toby Kaufman
Bat Zion
Rechov Yermiyahu 3
Jerusalem, Israel
P.O.B.: 57070
Tel: 011-972-2-5007800
Fax: 011-972-2-5387080
E-mail: battzion@zahav.net.il
The BACJRR's Yad l'Yad program is a grass-roots partnership between a San Francisco Bay Area synagogue or other Jewish group and a Jewish community in the FSU.
Contact: Rose Glickman
BACJRR
459 Fulton Street, Ste. 305
San Francisco, California 94102
Tel: (415) 703-0800
E-mail: rose@bacjrr.org
The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies operates Jewish summer camp near Kiev, Ukraine for 185 campers per year and seeking to expand to serve entire Jewish families as well as children. Over the past eleven summers, 1.200 children have attended Camp Ramah Yachad – 800 of whom have subsequently moved to Israel..The Schechter Institute, affiliated with Conservative (Masorti) movement, is a tax exempt 501 (C)(3) non-profit organization.
Contact: Ms. Raquel Flatow, National Executive Director Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies
475 Riverside Dr, Suite 244
New York, NY 10115-02
Tel: (212)- 870-3178
Fax: 212-870-3176
E-mail: raflatow@jtsa.edu
Midreshet Yerushalayim is an independent Amuta (non-profit organization) recognized in Israel. Grants and donations for Camp Ramah-Yachad in Israel may be sent to: Midreshet Yerushalayim, 4 Avraham Granot St. P.O.B. 16080, Jerusalem, 91160, Israel Att: Mr. Eitan Cooper, Director of Development.
Inquiries in Israel may be addressed to the Institute by
phone (02) 679-0755,
Fax (02) 679-0840,
Adoption agency that places Jewish and non-Jewish orphans in Jewish homes.
Contact: Arnie Gotfryd, Ph.D. Program Director
Caring Homes for Orphan Children a registered business name of Tzivos Hashem Canada, Inc. a licenced adoption agency 3727 Chesswood Drive
Toronto, ON, M3J 2P6
Tel: (416) 630-2472
Fax: (416) 630-3712
E-mail: arnie@tzivoshashem.ca
Since August 1990, Chabad's Children of Chernobyl (CCOC) has evacuated over 2,000 children from the Chernobyl region in Ukraine and Belarus. Once in Israel, the children receive housing, clothing, education, and medical diagnosis and treatment. CCOC also sends medical equipment, medical supplies and clothing to the Chernobyl region and has rehabilitated orphanages in the affected areas.
CCOC
675 Third Avenue, Suite 3210
New York, NY 10017
Tel: 1-888-SOS-KIDS (767-5437) }
E-mail: ccoc@ccoc.net
Web: http://www.ccoc.net/index.htm
Adoption agency; places Jewish orphans with Jewish families.
Contact: Linda Perilstein
Cradle of Hope Adoption Center 8630 Fenton Street, Suite 310
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Tel: (301) 587-4400
Fax: (301) 588-3091
E-mail: cradle@cradlehope.org
Web: http://www.cradlehope.org
EMUNAH maintains four residential children's homes and villages in Israel for children removed from parental custody. Branches in Israel, Canada, the UK, and the US.
The Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS The Federation operates an expanding network of children's homes in the former Soviet Union for both orphans and those from broken families. Contact: Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz, Executive director
5A 2nd Vysheslavtzev Pereulok
Moscow, Russia, 127055
Tel: 7-095-783-8472
Fax: 7-095-783-8471
Website:
http://www.fjc.ru/departments/DeptDetail.asp?AID=81484
List of contacts for individual orphanages
Donations accepted online
Florida Action sends money and material assistance to orphanages in the Vinnitsa, Ukraine area.
Contact: Sandy Cantor, Chairman
10691 North Kendall Drive
Suite 309
Miami, FL 33176
Tel: 305-279-1435
Fax: 305-279-1921
E-mail: sandy4dc@aol.com
Provides homes for hundreds of orphaned girls in Jerusalem.
General Israel Orphans Home for Girls
132 Nassau Street Suite 725
New York, NY 10038
TOLL FREE: 1-888-203-7222
Tel: 212-267-7222
Fax: 212-385-3441
E-mail: info@gioh.org
Donate online:
Distributes food and other aid to needy communities; establishing medical center in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.
Contact: Rabbi Eliezar Avtzon
666 Fifth Avenue, Suite 246
New York, NY 10103
Tel: (212) 868-3636
Fax: (212) 868-7878
E-mail: info@gjarn.org
The Jewish Children's Adoption Network is the only Jewish adoption exchange in the Western hemisphere. (Not an adoption agency.) Helps find homes for about 100 Jewish children every year.
Jewish Children's Adoption Network
P.O. Box 147016
Denver CO 80214-7016
Tel: 303-573-8113
E-mail: jcan@qwest.net
Web: http://www.users.qwest.net/~jcan/
Sponsors and provides seed funding for college-student-initiated projects serving needy children in conjunction with annual "Yom Yeladim" (Children's Day).
Contact: Michelle Lackie
E-mail: mlackie@hillel.org
Web: www.tzedekhillel.org;
Provides support for children orphaned by terrorism.
16/4 Tiferet Israel St.
Old City Jerusalem,
ISRAEL 97500
Tel: 972-2-628-1798 or 972-2-628-1987
Fax: 972-2-628-5536
New York line rings in Jerusalem Office: 212-655-9282
E-mail: kidsforkids@kidsforkids.net
Web: www.kidsforkids.net
American Friends of KIDS FOR KIDS
7750 S. W. 115th Street
Miami, Fla, 33156 USA
Telephone in Miami: 305-238-5600
Fax: 305-255-8077
Tax exempt number#582644930
Donate online
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Day program providing food, education and medical care for Jewish children in state orphanages. Opportunities are needed for children to attend Jewish summer camps outside of Ukraine.
Contact: Anya Logvinsky
Kiev Great Synagogue
13 Shota Rustaveli Street
Kiev, 01023, Ukraine
Fax: (380-44) 246-6065
E-mail: anya@shoah.kiev.ua
Web: www.greatsynagogue.kiev.ua (Russian/English)
Tax deductible donations may be made to:
FJC/Jewish Community of Kiev
FOUNDATION FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
130 East 59 Street
New York, New York 10022
Provides homes and education in Israel for over 140 orphaned boys age 12 years and older from the former Soviet Union. (Affiliated with Bat Zion home for girls.)
Contact: Avraham Shor
E-mail: battzion@zahav.net.il
Provides homes for 100 children and schooling for 500 needy Jewish children in Kiev, Ukraine. Program is run by Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, the American-born Chief Rabbi of Kiev and Ukraine.
Contact: Inna Ioffe
Orach Chaim Institutions
29 Shekavitskaya Street
Kiev, 04071 Ukraine
Tel: (380-44) 463-7085, 4347098, 434-5181, 411-5275
Fax: 418-2334, 463-7088
E-mail: synag@users.ukrsat.com bleich@gu.kiev.ua
Web: http://www.orachaim.com/ (English/Russian)
Donations can be sent in the USA to:
American Friends of Kiev Jewish Community
1846-50th Street
Brooklyn , NY 11204
Tel: 718-436-3290
Donations should be marked for the Orach Chaim Homes in Kiev.
Orr Shalom's Children's Homes is a not-for-profit organization providing residential and therapeutic care to over 1,050 severely abused and neglected children, in a warm, loving family atmosphere.
http://www.orr-shalom.org.il/ (Hebrew and English)
The American Friends of Orr Shalom
Orphanage for Jewish children in Moscow, Russia.
Contact: Svetlana Muterperel
Passin-Waxman Center
bld. 1-1a, 23/29 Lyalin per.
Moscow 103062, Russia
Tel/Fax: 7 (095) 916-34-63
E-mail: info@jewishorphanage.org
Donations may be sent via: Phoenix Charitable Foundation Attn: Lisa Mattson 730 Fifth Avenue, 20th Floor New York, NY 10019
The checks should be made out to Phoenix Charitable Foundation with a note that the donation is for the Passin Waxman Center. Alternatively, wires may be sent to the following account: JPMorgan Chase Bank ABA: 021000021 SWIFT: CHASUS33 Phoenix Charitable Foundation account: 739-030-124 reference: Passin Waxman Center (If donations are made by wire, it would be helpful for the donor to E-mail the Foundation first and reference “Russian Orphanage.”)
Tel: (212)247-6400
Fax: (212) 977-8112
E-mail: lmattson@accind.com
The Raz-Ram Foundation is a unique artistic organization whose aims are to encourage, develop, and promote values in the fields of culture, art, and heritage throughout the population of Israel, and especially amongst orphaned children and youth. The Foundation runs projects that entail creativity and tutoring, as well as activities aimed at conciliation and "joining hearts" across Jewish, Arab, Druse, and Beduin sectors through the medium of art.
Ram-Raz Foundation 3 Birenbaum Street Tel Aviv, 62302 ISRAEL
Tel: 972-3-546-7246
Fax: 972-3-546-7246
E-mail: info@raz-ram.org
Web: http://www.raz-ram.org/home.htm (English/Hebrew)
Stars of David is a non-profit organization providing a compassionate network of support, adoption information, and education to prospective parents, adoptive families, adult adoptees, birth families, and the Jewish community.
Provides homes for 100+ Jewish orphans and runs day school for 600 Jewish children in Odessa, Ukraine.
Contact: Rabbi Baksht
Tel: 00 380 482 234 717
Fax: 00 380 482 496 439
E-mail: orphans@te.net.ua or Sara@tikvaodessa.org
Web: http://www.tikvaodessa.org/
US Contact: Sara Elishis
The Ohr Dessa Project Tikva Children's Home 260 West 36th Street 10th Floor NY, NY 10018
Tel: 212.967.9904
Fax: 212.868.5168
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Acceptions donations of gifts in kind (clothing, etc.); please E-mail for needs
Provides two homes for 100 Jewish children in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Also runs children's medical center, food pantry, support for homeless children and other programs. "Wheels for life" bus goes out two times a week to feed homeless children. It has on board social workers and child psychologists to counsel the children for drug and alcohol abuse and help get them off the streets.
Contact: Rabbi Yossi Glick
Tel/Fax: 38 0562 340039
E-mail: orphanages@tzivoshashemcis.com or
orphanages@tzivoshashem.ru
Donations can be sent in the USA to:
Tzivos Hashem 332 Kingston Ave, 792 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11213
Tel: (718) 467-6630
E-mail: tzivos@tzivoshahsem.ru
Donations should be marked for the "Orphanages Ukraine"
Web: http://www.tzivos-hashem.org/insider/fall98/index.htm
Advocacy group; also provides vitamins to Jewish children in the former Soviet Union. Pairs synagogues and Jewish schools in the United States with Jewish communities throughout the former Soviet Union.
UCSJ
1819 H Street, NW Suite 230
Washington DC 20006
Tel: (202) 775 9770 x13
E-mail: sfcsj@aol.com; chicagoaction@ameritech.net
Web: http://www.ucsj.com/
Provides grants to young people orphaned through terror attacks. (Fund administered by the Jewish Agency for Israel.)
UJIA
Balfour House
741 High Road, Finchley, N12 0BQ
ENGLAND
(Charity Reg. No. 1060078)
Tel: 020 8369 5000
E-mail: central@ujia.org
Web: http://www.ujia.org/israel_now/victim_support/victim_support_fund/?disp_feature=Egm7UW
Donate online
Provides support for orphans in Ukraine.
Contacts: Rita Eker and Margaret Rigal
Carradine House
237 Regents Park Road
London N3 3LF
England
Tel: 020-8343 4156
Fax: 020-8343-2119
Supports five Jewish orphanages (including several of those listed here), schools, and other programs for Jewish children. For a list of programs, click here.
WJR
The Forum
74/80 Camden St.
London
NW1 0EG
ENGLAND
Tel: 020-7691-1775
E-mail: info@wjr.org.uk
Web: www.wjr.org.uk
http://www.worldjewishrelief.org.uk
Online donations accepted. Donors may sponsor a child in an orphanage for 600 British pounds per year.
Jewish Orphans in Ukraine Rejoin Community through JDC's Children's Initiative
It is another snowy Ukrainian afternoon, but 4-year old Yuri is excited. Today is Friday and that means it's time for his weekly field trip to a Hesed Jewish community center in Dnepropetrovsk. Soon, the Hesedmobile van pulls up to the State orphanage where Yuri lives, and along with nearly a dozen other children, he hops on board.
For the rest of the story, click here.
Jewish Boarding School Announces Enrollment
DONETSK, Ukraine - The Jewish Community of Donetsk has announced the enrollment to the Educational Center "Warm House for Schoolchildren." This boarding school accepts boys and girls aged 7 - 15.
Jewish Community Aids Orphanage
LIPETSK, Russia - Fosterlings from a group run by the Orphanage in the village of Dobroye, located near the border city of Lipetsk, welcomed a visit by Rabbi Shaul Adam, the Chief Rabbi of the region.