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Sep 18, 2024

Leket Shifts Focus to Helping Farmers After October 7

Answering the needs of Israel’s farmers and hungry families who have been hit particularly hard since October 7, Leket is now focusing on propping up the country’s agricultural industry and distributing more food to those in need. Since its founding in 2003, the Federation-funded Leket has concentrated on “rescuing” crops and prepared food from industrial kitchens that would have been destroyed or thrown away and distributing the items through about 270 partner organizations to Israeli families in need. However, since October 7, Leket has shifted to organizing and dispatching more than 70,000 volunteers to help Israeli farmers plant, prune and harvest crops. Rather than receiving the crops as donations — the traditional model — Leket is buying them from the farmers directly, thereby boosting their incomes. The organization has also set up mobile fruit and vegetable carts in hotels to provide produce free of charge to displaced families.

Kibbutznik Find Healing With Surf Therapy

Kibbutznik Find Healing With Surf Therapy

With the help of Federation funding, Kibbutz Or HaNer recently launched three new surf therapy groups supporting women from families of reservists, men ages 35-55 and adults 55-and-over.

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Do You Want to Be a Diller Teen Fellow?

Do You Want to Be a Diller Teen Fellow?

Diller Teen Fellows, a pluralistic and immersive leadership program for rising Jewish 10th and 11th graders is now accepting applications for their next cohort that will take place during the academic year 2025-2026.

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Eighth Annual Robotics Festival

Eighth Annual Robotics Festival

Scheck Hillel Community School, one of 10 Federation-funded Jewish day schools, hosted the 8th Annual CAJE Jewish Day School Robotics Festival this May.

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Helping Holocaust Survivors

Helping Holocaust Survivors

At 109 years old, Malka “Mollie” Horwitz is Miami-Dade County’s oldest known living Holocaust Survivor, and for the past 11 years has been able to live in dignity, thanks to the Federation-funded Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program operated by our partner Jewish Community Services of South Florida (JCS).

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