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Keren Klita—Aid For Russian Immigrants
View the agency’s website
Many American Jews believe when Jews from the FSU arrive in Israel their needs
are covered from A to Z. Not so. Things such as room heaters, bedding and kitchenware
come not from the government, but from Keren Klita. This agency creates and maintains
Jewish identity programs, youth-at-risk assistance, networking for jobs, and loan
programs. It provides parent effectiveness training, student textbooks, and tutoring.
It helps its clients cope successfully with the overwhelming bureaucracies of
the Israeli government and its social services agencies. Keren Klita volunteers
shoulder most of the burden. So effective are these volunteers that “98%
of donations to this agency go directly to benefit families in
desperate need of the aid.” Not a bad record! Not bad at all!
Here is a case in point from Keren Klita’s files. On November 21, 2002,
a terrorist bomb blew up a bus going through a mostly poor Russian immigrant neighborhood
in Jerusalem, Kiryat Menachem. One of the many victims was 32 year old Helena
Ben Dovid. Helena and her parents made aliyah in 1990 and she became a math teacher.
She married a native born Israeli, who also died tragically, a few weeks after
the bus bombing. Their three children, ages 4, 3, and 2, are now orphans in the
loving custody of their pensioner grandparents, who are not fluent in Hebrew and
who are not very able to deal with the Israeli bureaucracy. Enter Keren Klita,
with funds to cover living expenses and expertise to navigate through the bureaucracy.
Imagine what this horrorstruck family would have done without Keren Klita! Imagine
what Keren Klita would have to do without you!
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