Youth programs director helps IDF orphans cope with loss
A Q&A with Shlomi Nahumson, the director of youth programs at the Israel Defence Forces Widows and Orphans (IDFWO) organization
Donors help Gan Yeladim daycare avoid closure
Rosh Hashanah is not yet upon us, but those who were planning to pray for a long life for the Gan Yeladim Day Care Centre may just have had their prayers answered in advance. Last week, a spokesperson for the centre announced that the facility avoided closing its doors permanently at the end of July, […]
IDF orphans find respite in GTA
For the fifth year, widows and orphans of Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror were treated to a free vacation to North America’s East Coast
Putting children at the centre
Some families are blessed with child after child who makes them proud. Others seem to struggle with their children at every turn. What separates the one from the other? Genetics? Providence? Dumb luck?
Art show raises funds for SickKids clown program
Therapeutic clowning “is an innovative and effective therapy and like laughter, is contagious,” says 70-year-old artist Joel Dimitry
Jewish daycare centre in danger of closing
Parents and staff were informed June 1 that declining enrolment has led to the possible closing of the child-care facility
A taste of empty nest syndrome
“We never get to see you anymore,” I say to my son with more than a hint of Jewish guilt. “When will you have time for us?” – It’s weird to hear my parents’ words come so easily from my own mouth.
We owe it to our kids to expose sexual predators
Exposure is the best – perhaps the only – form of protection. We owe it to our kids.
Camp George celebrates 18th birthday with fundraiser
To mark its landmark birthday and to raise money to renovate the mirpa’ah, Camp George is hosting a dinner and dance event at Temple Sinai Congregation on April 30
Israeli orphans celebrate bar and bat mitzvahs together in Jerusalem
Some 110 Israeli children who are orphaned or lost one parent celebrated their bar and bat mitzvahs in Jerusalem
