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7TH GRADE GIRLS AT ASHAR SCHOOL IN MONSEY RAISE $10,000 FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LAB AT AMIT FACILITY IN ISRAEL
New York City, August 1, 2004...... The seventh grade class of girls at the Ashar School in Monsey, New York, under the leadership of their teacher, Debbie Jacobson, undertook a fund raising project this year to benefit the AMIT Kfar Batya Youth Village in Israel. The class raised $10,000 to create an English Language Laboratory at the AMIT Schiff Junior High School, which is located on the Kfar Batya campus.
Members of the seventh grade class, all of whom reside in Monsey, Suffern, West Hempstead or Spring Valley, New York, include: Anna Berent, Devora Berger, Rebecca Birnbaum, Sara Birnbaum, Juliana Caren, Katie Diller, Leyat Elkobi, Aviva First, Alexandra Frenkel, Chana Friedenberg, Alexandra Frommer, Aviva Hamburger, Chani Jacobson, Naomi Koolyk, Mira Levy, Elana Lipschitz, Nitsan Nachmani, Leah Rothschild, Sharona Schreiber, Stephanie Simckes, Margot Solomon and Meechal Winfield.
Kfar Batya, which is located in Ra'anana, is the flagship AMIT institution in Israel, named in memory of the organization's founder, Bessie Gotsfeld. More than 1,500 children, ranging in age from 6 to 20, live in Kfar Batya. About 30 percent have come to Israel from Ethiopia and the Former Soviet Union.
In many instances, the children who live in Kfar Batya have no real homes. Many have been removed from their parents' care by child welfare professionals because of extreme poverty, domestic violence, drug abuse or alcoholism.
"The dedication of the girls at Ashar," commented Jan Schechter, national president of AMIT, "who worked so hard to achieve this goal, is most heartwarming. The lessons in selflessness and tzedakah which they learned will stay with them forever and serve them well in the future."
Since 1925, AMIT has been at the forefront of education in Israel, nurturing and educating Israeli children to become productive, contributing members of society. A majority of AMIT's 14,000 children come from economically disadvantaged and/or troubled families. They reflect all Israel: sabra and new immigrant; religious and secular; Ashkenazi, Sephardi and every nation of the Jewish Diaspora. Today, significant numbers of AMIT students are immigrants from Ethiopia and the Former Soviet Union. AMIT's 60 schools, youth villages, surrogate family residences and other programs constitute Israel's only government-recognized network of religious Jewish education incorporating academic and technological studies. AMIT is the world's leading supporter of religious Zionist education and social services for Israeli youth.
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Barbara Goldberg
Director of Communications
212-477-4720, ext. 127
barbarag@amitchildren.org
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