Solidarity with Israel Initiatives
Below is a summary of features to get involved appearing on different
websites and we shall be including more as they come in.
 Education
Department, JAFI: Send a Letter to an Israeli Soldier
A worldwide campaign with the IDF to enable you to email, fax or
post to Israeli soldiers: Identify and connect today!
Email
- Email with Online interaction in Jewish World
http://www.jewish-world.org.il/whatsnew.asp?id=2&Language=english&pagelink=194
- Just Email LetterToSoldier@jazo.org.il
Letters
- Headed Fax [Letter to a Soldier]:
972-2-621-6133 or 972-2-621-6214
- Express mail to Israel:
Letter to an Israeli Soldier
The Jewish Agency for Israel
POB 92
Jerusalem 91000, Israel
- US mail via New York:
Letter to an Israeli Soldier
The Jewish Agency for Israel
633 Third Avenue 21st Floor
New York, NY 10017
 The
Jewish Agency for Israel Solidarity Campaign & Updates
http://www.jafi.org.il/daily/index.asp
- Daily updates on rallies, conferences
- Volunteering options for ages 18-65 http://www.jafi.org.il/daily/vol.asp
or http://www.partner.org.il/news/0204-volunteer.html
- Physicians
- Magen David Adom
- Civil Guard
- Maintenace & supplies - Sarel Program
- Children with Special Needs
- Kibbutz
- Also: Ideas to buy Israeli goods, give help to victims of terror
http://www.jafi.org.il/daily/involve.asp
- Your input welcome to Yehuda Weinraub
Email:eugenejo@zahav.net.il
or yehudaw@jazo.org.il
 "A
Friend of Israel" - Be Counted!
http://www.our-support.com/
April 17th is Israel Independence Day. The Israeli Foreign Ministry
is featuring a support website which you can access to show your
support for Israel by reading the ideas and signing a petition.
Sign your first name, city and country in the space provided
on the above link.
 Care
Packages for IDF soldiers
Stand with us
http://www.standwithus.com/actions/action_student.asp
This student action page at the Israel Emergency Alliance offers:
- A US address for contributions to cover care packages:
Friends of IDF
298 5th Ave.,
5th Floor,
New York, NY 10001
- A Tel Aviv IDF address for worldwide letters and cards to
Israeli soldiers:
AVVIS,
Rehov Weizmann, 60,
Tel Aviv,
Israel 62 155
Send Pizza & Pepsi to Israeli Soldiers!
Another kind of care package, you can send fast food to Israeli
soldiers! Prices are consistent with current pizza costs and additional
dollar/delivery overheads.
http://www.pizzaidf.org/
One million delicious gourmet chocolate chip cookies
baked by volunteers for sale in one pound gift boxes at $9 each.
Kosher, parve.
Proceeds of $500,000 will be donated to help families struck by
terror in Israel
http://www.millioncookies.com
Fly A Cake
has launched a non-profit initiative to make a small difference
in the lives of victims of terror. For a donation of $18, $36
or $72, you can make a difference and brighten up their lives
with your package of chocolates and freshly baked cookies. The
package, together with your own message, is delivered individually
by Fly A Cake. All money received goes towards the contents of
the care packages and delivery costs.
main@supportvictims.org
.
More information on
http://info.jpost.com/C002/Info/Organizations/Fly-a-Cake/index.html
 Counter
the Boycott Campaigns!
Not only are we asking you to buy blue and white, but to buy from
companies being targeted for trading with Israel by an overt,
new, Islamic boycott initiative.
There are currently 22 companies from AOL Time Warner through
Intel, Estee Lauder, Marks & Spencer, Nokia to Selfridges,
which are in this position. (http://www.inminds.com/boycott-israel.html)
You should buy products, services and e-cards from these companies!
Please do not write letters of protest to the boycott websites
listed - write them to the Department of Trade, Commerce and so
on.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center
Leads Protest to the World Medical Association on the International
Anti-Israel Campaign and Boycott.
Join in and make your voice heard! http://www.wiesenthal.com/eContactor/eContactor.cfm?eid=905037&mid=247&lid=84
 Israel
Solidarity campaign websites
We bring here the names of major Support Israel campaigns which
are running Action Ideas on their websites :
Israel Rally http://www.israelrally.org/10.pdf
Washington solidarity & rally site.
Lists 10 ways to support Israel;
Diary of Events;
Updates.
Israel Emergency Solidarity Fund http://www.walk4israel.com
New York based crisis and rehabilitation site. Offers:
Walk for Israel - logistics
One Family Fund - support for victims' families, including long
term programs.
Direct contact opportunities with victims' families
Project Embrace - Twinning between communities and victims' families
Database of incidents
Israel Emergency Alliance http://www.standwithus.com/
Los Angeles based information and action site.
Rally and events diary
Membership in action groups, information groups
Media articles
 Solidarity
Ideas from Newspaper Articles
Jerusalem Post, June 26th 2002
Make a personal connection to Israel and show you care with
your greeting and wish for Israel. In a campaign called "Dear
Israel," more than ten thousand hand-made cards, drawings,
and messages of hope from children around the world are to be
put up around the capital, at sites hit by terror attacks and
businesses closed due to them, starting today. The campaign is
the initiative of Dana Rone Saroken with the Solomon Schechter
Institute and with the support of the Egged bus corporation, which
is mounting an exhibition at the Jerusalem Central Bus Station.
It is hoped to extend it around the country.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&cid=1023716558220
Children's messages to be posted at sites of terror attacks
The Jerusalem Post April 9 2002 - Professor Shlomo Avineri
A letter to an American Jewish friend
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/04/09/Opinion/Opinion.46543.html
"What does support for Israel mean?"
In view of the decreasing number of visitors to Israel, other
solidarity options are explored and community members exhorted
to act:
Ideas to organize demonstrations at PLO Arab representations to
protest their misdeeds and inaction.
"Do it in your hometown."
Daily News (New York) April 5, 2002, Friday - A. M. Rosenthal,
former NY Times opinion columnist.
Preview available - http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nydailynews/
Full article from JAT action or purchasable on server.
IGNORE HATE TODAY, DIE TOMORROW
"Jews, listen and you will hear the sound of breaking glass."
[...]
"We can use our political, ethical and financial resources
against the Jew-haters..." [...]
"Most important, we can turn to our own leaders of
government, industry and commerce."
 Sign
these Petitions!
Solidarity - petition.
From: Take A Pen
For first time, a group of EU parliament members from every political
trend will request an EU enquiry commission into the use of budgetary
aid given to Palestinian Authority. As you know there have been
reports indicating that EU financial aid has been misused to finance
terrorist activities against Israel.
Establishing an enquiry commission at EU level is an exceptional
procedure. Parliament members must obtain 157 signatures (1/4
of EU Parliament members) in order to have this matter passed
to vote in full session.
Parliament members leading this action:
François Zimeray (PSE, France),
Ilka Schröder (Green/ALE, Germany),
Frédérique Ries (ELDR, Belgium),
Willy De Clercq (ELDR, Belgium),
Olivier Dupuis (GDI, Italia)
The email and fax addresses of all members of the EU parliament
can be found at:
http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep5/owa/p_meps2.repartition?ilg=EN&iorig=home
Please keep letters short and send a blind copy to Take
A Pen.
While one may also have grave reservations about current President
Jacques Chirac's financial support from virulently anti-Israel
sources, this is not the only worry for the Jews of France today.
Last night, Jean Marie Le Pen ran second in the first round of
France's presidential elections.
Political lLife makes strange bedfellows. As someone recently
wrote on the numerous recent incidents of Antisemitism in France
(albeit, largely orchestrated by violent Muslim groups), "I
hear the sound of breaking glass"
This is a petition, accompanied by Ed Koch's letter on France's
recent and distant antisemitic, plus its pro-terrorist record.
http://www.mesora.org/france/France.asp
To monitor and condemn teaching of hatred in schoolbooks in Palestinian
schools and PA media; To take measures to ensure that EU allocations
are not used to fund such hatred sign the Bnai Brith Petition
to the European Parliament on hatred and incitement
http://www.kh-uia.org.il/petition/stop.asp
Petition the UN Security Council to declare that "suicide" bombing
is a Crime against Humanity. The Petition can be found at www.petitiononline.com/1234567b
A petition protesting the horrific acts of hate-crazed terrorist
bombers who blow up innocent Israelis.
Sign at: http://www.petitiononline.com/2israel/petition.html
Project One Percent
www.walk4israel.com
www.pledge4israel.com and info@pledge4israel.com
Project One Percent is a solidarity move, where students dedicate
one percent of their summer earnings to victims of terror. Funds
go directly to families through the Israel Emergency Solidarity
Fund - One Family (Mishpacha Echad).
Project One Percent is approved by Hillel and other organizations
working with students; please inform your lists and Jewish organizations
about it.
As of May 20th, 1,200 American students have joined the pledge.
Memorial Web Sites
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs: In Memoriam - photo biographies
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0iky0
Israel Emergency Solidarity Fund (also contact with families of
victims)
http://www.walk4israel.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Victims
Shiri Negari memorial website
http://www.shiri.us/
Gila
Sara Kessler memorial
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