#International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

[nitro502]

This commercial just aired on Gameshow Network in the US. I am Livid. They’re acting as though all of Israel has been reduced to rubble. Like they’re just poor innocent victims that were viciously attacked for no reason at all and they have no way to defend themselves. I never expected to see this kind of blatant propaganda right on tv like this. Sure these charities always manipulate the facts, but this is next level.

[irl-magicalgirl]

is this not the organization that funds/supports alt right conservative movements to expand Israel and eliminate Palestine???

[ntgospel]

Organização ajuda 100 mil israelenses afetados pela guerra na Páscoa judaica

Confira a novidade em https://ntgospel.com/noticias/fe/organizacao-ajuda-100-mil-israelenses-afetados-pela-guerra-na-pascoa-judaica

Organização ajuda 100 mil israelenses afetados pela guerra na Páscoa judaica

A International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) está fornecendo auxílio humanitário crucial à população israelense afetada pelo conflito vigente, priorizando famílias enlutadas, reféns e deslocados internos. A organização distribuirá cerca de 19 mil cartões de débito pré-carregados com US$ 162 cada, viabilizando a compra de alimentos durante a Pessach, a Páscoa judaica, celebrada entre 22 e 30 de abril.

Pontos Cruciais

Assistência Páscoa: A IFCJ disponibilizará cartões de débito para aquisição de alimentos durante o período pascal.

Beneficiários: Famílias enlutadas, reféns, combatentes feridos, vítimas do ataque de 7 de outubro e sobreviventes do ataque do Hamas na Faixa de Gaza receberão os cartões.

Alcance da Ação: A Fellowship se destaca como a principal organização humanitária em Israel. Desde o início da guerra, mais de US$ 6,7 milhões já foram destinados a famílias israelenses para a compra de alimentos, medicamentos e itens de higiene.

Suporte Amplo: Segundo o guiame, a IFCJ também fornece recursos para defesa civil, segurança hospitalar, aquisição de abrigos e veículos blindados para comunidades fronteiriças, além da distribuição de kits de primeiros socorros.

Declarações Relevantes

Yael Eckstein, Presidente da IFCJ: “Compreendemos que esta Páscoa será singular para Israel, marcada pela guerra e pelo distanciamento de familiares, alguns dos quais jamais retornarão. Nosso compromisso é, portanto, responder de todas as formas possíveis, especialmente durante o Seder da Páscoa, quando proclamamos: ‘Todos que têm fome, venham e comam’.”

Eckstein: “O tempo de guerra apresenta diversos desafios, exigindo constante adaptação e direcionamento da ajuda. Esta é uma crise interna sem precedentes para Israel, impactando dezenas de comunidades e centenas de milhares de pessoas.”

[dgf2099]

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[n1kk11-blog]

Jewish Justice

Back in 1840 a little jewish girl around 9 years old Anne Frank was trying to survive with her family in a office building because she was jewish and she didn't want to die in her country. She was 15 years old when she and family was transfered to a jewish camp and then murdered along with family and other heros/heroic family's in that camp. More is to be done to help the Jewish communities live a safe and productive life it seems in all parts of the world. Netherlands is no exception. Statue of liberty stands for people to have freedom. Rest in peace Anne Frank and the Jewish community who parished. There are possibly still areas where Jewish families are trying to flee from war to prevent themselves from being tortured or murdered.. America does care about all people no matter the color of yheir skin... prayers for their safety

[infosisraelnews]

L'International Fellowship of Christians and Jews a fait don d'un million de dollars au centre médical Poriya

L’International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) a annoncé un don substantiel pour améliorer les infrastructures médicales dans le nord d’Israël. Alors que les tensions persistent le long de la frontière nord d’Israël, les inquiétudes concernant une éventuelle escalade impliquant le Hezbollah ou l’Iran ont incité l’IFCJ à accroître son soutien à la région. Cette initiative fait partie…

[is-the-thing-actually-jewish]

Maybe this overlaps with the previous info about spotting Messianics, but do you have any advice about spotting legit interfaith organizations from ones that are more or less Christian virtue-signalling? I spotted an ad this morning for the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and the use of 'fellowship' has me a bit on edge, but Google doesn't seem to be turning up anything too sus.

(As a side note, does 'fellowship' show up as a term used in Jewish orgs at anything near the rate it does in Christianity?)

Rating: Actually Jewish/Jew-ish, with an asterisk.

The asterisk is because The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is fundamentally (heh) a Jewish-Evangelical charitable partnership, and given American Evangelical views towards Jews In Israel, there is a strong argument one can make about it basically being a Turkeys For Thanksgiving organization. Yes, they're giving financial support for Jews to make aliyah, and yes, they are helping with charitable needs... but it needs to be remembered that American Evangelicals tend strongly towards the Dispensationalist Christian eschatological viewpoint--that Jews need to be "gathered" in Israel in order to bring about the Apocalypse and the Second Coming of Christ via the mass conversion and mass death of the Jews.

So whether that crosses a line into avoda zora by taking their money for our needs, which they think will bring back their god... that's a discussion for a rabbi, or several. Preferably well fortified with booze. Because, yes, they're doing charity work for Jews... but remember that the organizations that give the Fellowship their $130 million/year budget have a strong overlap with the same people and organizations who are funding Messianic deep-cover training camps to infiltrate Orthodox communities--and there are worries about the Fellowship being used as a "foot in the door" approach for Christian missionizing to vulnerable Jews in Israel.

Several Orthodox and Charedi leaders have come out against the Fellowship on those grounds, and I personally can't disagree.

As for the other part of the question, while, yes, "fellowship" as a term is used in some Jewish orgs, usually in an academic sense (i.e. a "Hillel fellowship" or "AJC fellowship"), it's definitely nowhere near the same use or tone as is commonly used in Christian organizations, where "Fellowship" is often synonymous with a particular denomination's Church structure or even the entirety of Christianity--"Fellows in Christ" and similar formulations. So it's not a red flag, but definitely not a green flag either.

Regarding advice on spotting "legit interfaith" groups vs Christian virtue-signaling, the primary thing I can advise is look at what they do, not what they say. It's a pain, but as the aphorism goes, "Actions speak louder than words".

-Mod Yosef

[rinielelrandir]

Can't believe people think Jews control the government when there is literally a super secretive Evangelical Christian group, the Fellowship Foundation (also known as simply The Fellowship and The Family), that is like the most politically well-connected group in the US, if not the world. Like genuinely these people founded and hosted the National Prayer Breakfast for years, which every US President since Eisenhower has attended and they routinely host and meet with numerous politicians and international dignitaries.

[legaylity]

We have to have the news on all the time at work and I keep seeing some ad on FOX News for the international fellowship of Christians and Jews that supposedly helps Jewish people living under threat of antisemitism but as soon as the ad ends they start up about George Soros funding a tiktok army to make Biden look good. Hate to break it to them but they put the ad on the antisemitism network they ain't getting funded there.

[angeltreasure]

Hello :)

Do you have any tips on where I can donate stuff to? I see you talk about donating and helping the needy sometimes (something I keep wanting to do more of) I feel bad cuz I haven’t been too involved recently :/

I really want to help out or give stuff to people who need it more

Good Afternoon!

Don’t worry, it’s never too late to donate. I got you covered! A good place to start is your own diocese webpage!

Other examples:

- your own family members in need

- your next door neighbor

- your friends

- your church (this is probably the most active with a variety of options!)

- Mental Health Ministry

- Knights of Columbus

- Marians of the Immaculate Conception

- EWTN

- Relevant Radio

- pro life crisis pregnancy centers

- Maggie’s Place

- St. Gianna’s Place

- food banks (don’t donate expired food and be mindful of what is currently most needed) like this one

- hospitals (medical supplies like canes, wheelchairs, etc)

- St. Jude

- homeless shelters (think of clothing, gift cards, food, etc)

- nursing homes

- schools

- Charity and Development Appeal

- The Society of St. Vincent de Paul

- Catholic Charities USA

- Catholic Relief Services

- Kolbe Mission

- Sisters of Life

- Susan B. Anthony Pro Life America

- Wounded Warrior Project

- The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

- You can even donate to homeless on the streets. I always carry an extra bottle of water when I drive, as well as prayer cards and Rosaries. If that person is not next to the highway exit, I’ll go buy them fresh food. For homeless dogs, I have a bottle of water and some dog food in a bowl.

[gothhabiba]

[ID: Text reads "International Fellowship of Christians and Jews FREE U.S. - Israel Flag Pin". Graphic of a pin with the U.S. and Israel flags crossed together which reads "FREE Flag Pin: Show Your Support For Israel." Graphic is captioned "You can show your solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people by requesting your FREE US-Israel Flag Pin. Wear it proudly everywhere you go to show your unwavering support of Israel and Her people." Input form asks for First Name, Last Name, Phone, E-mail, Street Address, City, and State. End ID]

should we just. take these "Offer available to U.S. residents only while supplies last" Israel pins off their hands. stop anyone from actually wearing them.

[mariacallous]

(JTA) — A catalog of calamities is central to the liturgy of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Jewish High Holidays that begin later this week.

We Jews are asked to imagine ourselves perched on the precipice of life and death. Nothing frames it as starkly as Unetaneh Tokef, the roll call of ruin enumerating various disasters that might befall us in the coming year.

With its repetition of “Who by …” fill-in-the-blank awfulness — strangling, stoning, famine and plague — the medieval poem is the stuff of myth and legend, an opportunity to ponder fate and frailty. But for the Jews of Ukraine, the majority of whom remain in the country despite the ongoing conflict, the text is heart-wrenchingly real.

When we Jews pray, we face east, toward Jerusalem. But as the grandson of a Ukrainian Jew, east always conjures “the old country” — that’s where my soul calls home and where I’ve often directed my most fervent prayers. This year, Unetaneh Tokef is a compass for my heart.

I’m sure “who by water” resonates for Lyubov Irzhanskaya. When the Kakhovka dam burst in June, the Dnipro River surged into her second-floor apartment. The 76-year-old retired teacher had hours to decide where to flee.

“Who by fire” must send a chill through Lyudmila Dobroyer, 87 — a Holocaust survivor and the primary caregiver for her son Yuriy, who has developmental disabilities. During attacks on Odesa this summer, her building was badly damaged.

And then there are more workaday terrors, fears that keep me up at night half a world away in my safe Ohio bed. What if I lost my job and couldn’t provide for my family? What if it happened amidst power cuts and sub-zero cold?

“Who shall become impoverished” — ask Evgeniy Moshkovitch, 40, a forklift operator who fled Kherson with his family two months into the crisis. With employers skeptical of the displaced, he’s unable to find a job and relies on Jewish community assistance to pay the bills.

Grim as it is, Unetaneh Tokef isn’t about blindly submitting to fate. Instead, it gives us the keys to our own salvation — ”repentance, prayer, and charity,” it exhorts, “can lessen the severity of the decree.”

Our own hands can rescue us, and post-Soviet Jews, who’ve doggedly rekindled identity and community after the Holocaust and communism, could teach a master class. As a longtime staffer at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or JDC, the humanitarian organization that for decades has aided needy Jews and built Jewish life across the former Soviet Union, I’ve seen it firsthand.

In Ukraine, I’ve witnessed local Jews volunteering for relief efforts in record numbers and my colleagues delivering over 800 tons of humanitarian aid, home care to the bedridden and Shabbat gatherings during air-raid sirens. We’re also addressing new waves of need: unemployment, educational gaps and trauma — all with an imperative to strengthen lives, even if peace remains elusive.

Hidden in Unetaneh Tokef’s horrors are some best-case scenarios, too: “who shall be exalted,” “who shall reach the fullness of their days.” What if it all goes right, the prayer asks? What if we sustain each other? What if we write our most vulnerable into the High Holidays’ symbolic Book of Life?

We can do that by marshaling our resources, as my organization has done since February 2022 with tens of millions of dollars from our partners — the Jewish Federations of North America, the Claims Conference, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, individuals, families, corporations and foundations — and by lifting up individual stories so we understand the stakes if we fail to act.

For centuries, Jews have debated the identity of the nameless Unetaneh Tokef writer who gave voice to the cruel uncertainty of human existence and the possibility of redemption even in the darkness.

That anonymity hasn’t blunted the poem’s cold wisdom — life will often disappoint you, but it just might surprise you, too. I’ve learned that by listening to other Jews who could just as easily be lost to history and have just as much to teach.

In western Ukraine earlier this year, I met Liliya Sumka, the last Jew in a small village only accessible by dirt roads. A 54-year-old widow with cerebral palsy, she ekes by on a $52 monthly disability pension.

For her, the difference between “who shall live and who shall die” is sometimes the stack of firewood and food packages delivered by my organization — or finding God in her own still small voice reciting the Shabbat blessings.

“Life?” Liliya chided me with a wry smile. “You can’t make it through that alone.”

May we all remember that, recognizing that we only get to fullness by giving it — showing up with full hearts and a full commitment to aiding those living on a knife’s edge around the clock, not just in the pages of our prayer books.

[eretzyisrael]

Good News From Israel

In the 18th Jun 23 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

An Israeli startup can train the brain to filter out chronic pain.

Children with psychological problems receive therapy from Israeli dolphins.

3 Israeli startups have independently developed solutions to cure insomnia.

It’s official - another major Israeli natural gas discovery.

Israel beat Korea to come 3rd in the Under 20 Soccer World Cup.

An Israeli kidney donor ran a marathon alongside the transplant recipient.

Read More: Good News From Israel

This week's theme is "together". Having just returned from celebrating together with my family, it was uplifting to read so many news articles of Israelis working together, and also with global partners. Ben Gurion Uni is working together with Israel's OncoHost on a cancer biosensor; Tel Aviv Uni has got together with UCLA to treat memory loss; Israel's BioNanoSim is marketing its eye disease treatments together with a Greek manufacturer; and the world's first AI chatbot for cancer patients is called "Beating Cancer Together" from Israel's Belong.Life. Yad Sarah volunteers have together saved Israel billions by providing ancillary medical services; the International Fellowship of Christians & Jews is celebrating 40 years of uniting Jews together with their homeland; for over 30 years, Israeli children have been receiving emotional therapy by swimming together with dolphins. And recently, a record 1,127 Birthright participants enjoyed Shabbat together at Jerusalem's Western Wall. Rarely publicized examples of "togetherness" include Jewish residents of Judea who frequently save the lives of their Palestinian Arab neighbors; the annual Veteran Games between injured UK and Israeli soldiers; and International legislators coming to Israel to strengthen bilateral ties. Israel and Japan have been connecting together at the Israel-Japan Conference in Tokyo; The latest stage of Israel's National Drone network is testing hundreds of commercial UAVs flying together; and Israel's Steakholder Foods and Singapore's Unami Meats are cultivating no-fish fish together. Finally, Israelis have attained some incredible teamwork achievements. The IDF's Special In Uniform Band just performed their 500th show together; Israel's Under 20 soccer team came 3rd in the World Cup; and two Israelis can be considered "joined at the hip" having just completed a unique marathon race together - one of them was a kidney donor, and the other was the recipient of her kidney. The photo is one single poster on the wall of the arrivals hallway at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International airport. The two images together show two of the multi-faceted sides of little Israel - busy innovating, while conserving and improving the environment.

[peculiarlyayse]

Currently watching a commercial for the international fellowship of Christians and Jews, and I feel nothing but disgust and rage. Thousands are dead in Palestine, thousands ARE dying in Palestine, and this woman is crying "your gift of $45 will give them bomb shelters, hot food, and supplies that are desperately needed!"

You tell me, that 5,000 Israeli people are dead? Oh? What about the thousands of Palestinians that were killed last night, while the Chief's celebrated their win? 🤔

To sit here and cry that Israel is suffering is both laughable and incorrect. Have any Israeli people been displaced these last 75 years? How many Israeli people have lost their family, homes, businesses in the last 75 years?

It's so telling when the script is flipped and the one who was opressed becomes the oppressor.

[rabbuy6]

I commented online just yesterday about those International Fellowship of Christians Grifted By Jews commercials. What a cohencidence.

[edwardfinocchiaro]

40 Years of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

For the last 40 years, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has helped strengthen the connection between Christians and Jews across the globe with the goal of providing essential humanitarian aid to the Jewish people. Since its inception, the organization has impacted the lives of millions through its dedication to its holy work. IFCJ has not only supplied food, clothing, and security to Jews in need, but it has also helped nearly 800,000 escape persecution by providing them with the means to return to Israel.

IFCJ’s journey began in 1983 when Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein established the Holyland Fellowship of Christians and Jews. His initial vision for the organization was to bridge the gap between Christians and Jews and foster a better understanding between members of these different religions. This, he hoped, would help bring an end to centuries of “intolerance and prejudice” that have marred Christian-Jewish relations. IFCJ began its humanitarian work in earnest in 1985, following the relocation of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Thereafter, the organization played a key role in funding programs aimed at helping these immigrants settle into their new lives. In 1990, IFCJ established the On Wings of Eagles program to relocate Jews to Israel from such countries as Ethiopia, Argentina, and the former Soviet Union.

The steady growth of IFCJ, fueled in part by Rabbi Eckstein’s numerous public appearances on television and radio to promote the organization’s mission, led to the organization formally changing its name from the Holyland Fellowship to the International Fellowship in 1991. The name change only gave further life to IFCJ’s immigration programming, which continued in earnest throughout the rest of the decade. IFCJ also conducted humanitarian work through the Isaiah 58 program, supplying basic necessities and medical aid to Jews in the former Soviet Union.

The spread of terrorism in Israel at the turn of the century caused IFCJ to expand its focus to supporting the people of Israel. The organization opened its Jerusalem office in 2000 and introduced a new program, Guardians of Israel, to help those living in poverty. In 2002, the organization launched the Stand for Israel project, which brought together over 5 million Christians in prayer for Israel. Subsequent years saw IFCJ continue to support Israelis facing terrorism by delivering emergency supplies to those in need and repairing bomb shelters.

To elicit more help for its cause, IFCJ has spent years “building bridges” on nearly every continent. The organization set up a sister Fellowship in Canada and launched an affiliate in South Korea. The State of Israel also named Rabbi Eckstein as its Goodwill Ambassador to Christians living in Latin America in 2005.

The growth of IFCJ has enabled it to achieve amazing feats on behalf of the Jewish community in recent years. In 2013, the organization launched its first program run entirely in-house, allowing it to support elderly Jews in Israel without needing to rely on external partners. By 2016, IFCJ had become the leading organizer of Jewish immigration efforts in nine countries.

After 36 years at the helm of IFCJ, Rabbi Eckstein passed away on February 6, 2019. The Fellowship has vowed to keep his vision alive and build upon the foundation that he laid so that it may continue to offer support to Jews in need.