THE ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore recognizes its obligation to help Jews in need in Baltimore, Israel and around the world.
THE ASSOCIATED, working in conjunction with its primary overseas service providers, the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) allocates roughly one-third of its Annual Campaign budget to Israel and Overseas initiatives.
These dollars facilitate much-needed social services, provide rescue and relief for Jews in distress, ensure quality educational programming, help Jews move to Israel (aliyah), enable personal connections between community members and promote Israel programing here in our own community.
In Baltimore, we are dependent upon a cadre of dedicated volunteers to provide oversight, leadership, and guidance to our expanding Israel and Overseas agenda. Multiple opportunities are available for community involvement and you are encouraged to be a part of the Israel and Overseas people-to-people connection building and allocation processes.
Odessa
A visit to Odessa & Beit Grand
Alan Gill, Executive Director, International Relations at The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, recently spent a day in the field in Odessa. This was his experience:
I write after a day in the life of JDC-Odessa, with an extraordinary feeling of inspiration that comes with being at the core of our most essential work, and with a great sense of privilege and humility to be a part of this precious Jewish enterprise.
I hope that, in the words and photos that follow, you might get an appreciation for the impact of your incredible gift of Beit Grand to this wonderful and caring Jewish community in which your grandparents and family before them were rooted for generations.
Meet Debs
Debra Silberman Weinberg (a.k.a. Debs) has served in many roles with THE ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. She is passionate and full of energy. This year, she will fill a new role: co-chair of Israel & Overseas. THE ASSOCIATED caught up with Debs just as her term is about to start to ask her a few questions:
How did you become interested in Israel & Overseas?
Twenty years ago, I was a re-settlement worker at Jewish Community Services (then Jewish Family Services). Hearing the new immigrants’ stories, one couldn’t help but reflect: ‘what if my grandparents and great-grandparents didn’t make the decisions to leave the Ukraine and Lithuania? Might I have traded places with the clients sitting across the table?’
Israel & the U.S.
Three area companies receive millions for innovation - Foundation to help Israeli, Md., D.C. techies
Maryland high-tech investors, lawyers and entrepreneurs attend a recent Maryland/Israel Development Center event to learn about the potential for binational collaboration.
Earlier this month at a meeting held in Washington, D.C., the Board of Governors of the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, approved $8.1 million of funding for nine new projects between Israeli and American companies. Ariadne in Rockville and Sitel/MedStar Health in D.C. are among the recipients.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012 | 1:00 PM to 2:30 PMDFI Power to the People: Israel's Emerging Civil Society
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