“It has its challenges, but really we love it,” says Fraidy Deutsch* about being one of 14 kids. “That is we did, until…” Her voice trails off. The Deutsch family* was flipped upside down recently with the diagnosis of their father, a respected Rabbi & talmid chacham. Weighed down by medical debts, the family was forced to downgrade to a one-bedroom apartment. Each night, roll-out mattresses cover the floors of the shabby living room. Their father continues his Torah study & teaching despite being violently ill. Other members of the beis midrash were alarmed when the rabbi lost consciousness mid-shiur.  Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl, who knows the family personally, released a powerful video address asking the public to help the Deutsches.

“It has its challenges, but really we love it,” says Fraidy Deutsch* about being one of 14 kids. “That is we did, until…” Her voice trails off. The Deutsch family* was flipped upside down recently with the diagnosis of their father, a respected Rabbi & talmid chacham. Weighed down by medical debts, the family was forced to downgrade to a one-bedroom apartment. Each night, roll-out mattresses cover the floors of the shabby living room. Their father continues his Torah study & teaching despite being violently ill. Other members of the beis midrash were alarmed when the rabbi lost consciousness mid-shiur.  Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl, who knows the family personally, released a powerful video address asking the public to help the Deutsches.

Dear brothers and sisters, My name is Rivki and with Hashem’s help I will be getting married very soon! My happiness is not complete because I have no way to pay for anything! I do not have any relatives or friends who can help me pay for my wedding. I beg of every Jewish soul to please open your heart and donate whatever possible to my wedding fund. DONATE NOW! You have an incredible opportunity to invest in the great mitzva of hachnosas kallah, and you will be wiping away the bitter tears from my eyes. In the zechus of helping me, Hashem should send you shefa and hatzlacha in all areas of life in good health. Tizku limitzvos. Rivki CLICK TO DONATE!

It was the end of their first date and Yair & Rachel were starting to worry. It seemed the worst case scenario was taking place: They really liked each other. Why would this be bad news? Well, because then they’d have to tell each other the truth.  “Ever since my father passed away,” began Rachel nervously, “things have been difficult.” Yair’s eyes opened wide. “Ever since my father passed away, we have struggled too.” The young boy & girl opened up and found that they had shockingly similar “secrets.” Both of them had lived in poverty since their fathers had passed away at a tragically young age. Yair’s father from cancer, Rachel’s in a car crash just outside her house.

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Please extend your hand and help the young widow who has been left alone with her four children, the oldest being 8 years old and the youngest a baby. With her husband’s tragic passing after a prolonged illness, she has been left penniless and is unable to feed her young orphans all this in addition to the many debts accumulated during her husband’s illness. CLICK HERE TO DONATE! Dear brothers, we must not abandon her and leave her all alone, in accordance to the rabbonim we are creating a fund which will support her with her monthly expenses and with the help of askanim spread out the debts so that her home won’t be confiscated. The father of orphans is urging us – help my children and in that merit I will have mercy on yours, so that you will see much nachas from them in good health.

When Rabbi Eliyahu Greenberg’s phone rang at 6 AM this past Sunday, he didn’t recognize the number on the blinding screen. But when he groggily picked up the phone and heard the voice on the other line, he jumped out of bed.   It was Rabbi Cohen*.   An old friend from yeshiva days, Rabbi Cohen eventually became the Rav of Odessa, Ukraine, and though once close, the two had lost contact over the years. When Rabbi Cohen explained why he was calling, Eliyahu was amazed at the hashgacha– As the head of a chesed organization that helps needy families in Israel, he was just the right person to help.   Then, together with the help of Rav Moshe Brandsdorfer, Rabbi Greenberg started out on a daunting mission: To save the Jews of Odessa.

Please extend your hand and help the young widow who has been left alone with her four children, the oldest being 8 years old and the youngest a baby. With her husband’s tragic passing after a prolonged illness, she has been left penniless and is unable to feed her young orphans all this in addition to the many debts accumulated during her husband’s illness. CLICK HERE TO DONATE! Dear brothers, we must not abandon her and leave her all alone, in accordance to the rabbonim we are creating a fund which will support her with her monthly expenses and with the help of askanim spread out the debts so that her home won’t be confiscated. The father of orphans is urging us – help my children and in that merit I will have mercy on yours, so that you will see much nachas from them in good health.

A vulnerable message from a Bais Yaakov girl from Eretz Yisroel named Batel Sasoon has been leaving readers speechless over the past couple of weeks. This is Batel Sasoon’s moving story: My name is Batel and I am engaged Boruch Hashem to a very good bochur. A kallah is always very busy but because of my financial background, I haven’t been busy at all. This is my story: When I was younger my parents got divorced. My mother is not religious anymore and my father is out of the picture completely. The Veiner family of Beit Shemesh were incredibly kind and took me in. I owe them everything. But now I am getting engaged and the Veiner family have a large family of their own. I can’t ask of them to pay for my wedding after all they’ve done.

Right now, something historical is about to occur: Hundreds of refugees of all ages are on an El Al flight and in a few hours, they will be landing in Ben Gurion airport. They have survived one of the deadliest wars we have seen in decades, and they are coming to Eretz Yisroel with nothing but the shirts on their backs. They face the terrifying prospect of starting over– New country, new culture, new language, new people. They are scared, exhausted after being on the run for days, and they are all alone. But not for long. The Rachmastrivka Rebbe, Rav Naftoli Nussbaum, Rav Chaim Feinstein, Rav Boruch Mordechai Ezrachi, and Rav Reuven Elbaz are responding to the desperate situation with a passionate mission– To help them survive.