[TA] Toras Aish: Ki Teitzei

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Please read below for an important tzedakah (charity)  opportunity!
 
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Please take out a few moments and say some tehillim  (psalms) for the Israeli 
chayalim (soldiers) & for everyone living in  Israel. Israel also has eight 
soldiers in enemy captivity, namely:

Gilad  ben Aviva (Shalit), captured just outside Gaza on June 25 of this year;
Ehud  ben Malka (Goldwasser) and Eldad ben Tova (Regev), captured on the  
Israeli-Lebanese border July 12 of this year;
Guy ben Rina (Hever),  disappeared near the Syrian-Israeli border in the 
Golan Heights in August  1997;
Ron ben Batya (Arad), captured when his plane was downed over Lebanon  in 
Oct. 1986;
Tzvi ben Pninah (Feldman), Yekutiel Yehuda Nachman ben Sarah  (Katz), and 
Zecharia Shlomo ben Miriam (Baumel), all captured at the Sultan  Yaaqub battle in 
Lebanon on June 
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A  REAWAKENING by Rachel Saperstein, Neve Dekalim/Nitzan caravilla  camp:

E-mail: _ruchimo at netvision.ruchim_ (mailto:ruchimo at netvision.net.il) 

The war, for the moment, is over. The refugee tents at the nearby  Nitzanim 
beach have been packed away. People from the north have gone back home,  the 
damage assessed, the repairs to bombed out properties has begun. Businesses  
have reopened and people have returned to work. The three kidnapped soldiers  
remain kidnapped. There are cries for a serious inquiry into the war that has  
been so badly handled. The government takes no notice.

We, the refugees  of Gush Katif, remain in limbo for we cannot go home and we 
still have no jobs.  We are no longer on the back burner. We are off the 
stove.

Engagements:  Our lives go on. On one of my evening power walks around the 
camp I stopped to  watch singing and dancing at one of the caravillas.

"Rachel, come on  over" Celia called out. Vigorous hand waving was followed 
by Celia running  across the street. "We get a mazal tov! Our daughter and 
Rivka and Shlomo's son  have just gotten engaged!" The young couple have lived 
next door to each  other since childhood in Neve Dekalim. Now their parent's 
caravillas are side by  side. We hugged and kissed and I joined the festivities.

Music: Alex, my  flute teacher, came this morning for our lesson. His wife 
Dora went to fill out  his forms for employment at our makeshift community 
center. The music program is  starting up. Two weeks ago the Gush Katif orchestra 
gave its first performance  after a year's hiatus. Energetic Sophia put the 
players through their paces. I  smiled, I wept silently, I thanked the Lord for 
reaching this  day.

OPERATION DIGNITY provided music stands and practice guitars for the  Gush 
Katif musicians.

Gallery: A busload of visitors from Jerusalem's  Israel Center arrived to 
visit the Gush Katif refugee camp. Farmer Anita Tucker  acted as tour guide. Her 
sister, my neighbor Esther Lilienthal who had  celebrated her fiftieth wedding 
anniversary the previous night, spoke of our  hardships. I spoke of our 
future.

The Orange Gallery, an OPERATION  DIGNITY enterprise, presented a rich 
display of artwork and handicrafts. We sold  and sold!

Requests for our Gallery to appear are coming in from all parts  of Israel. 
Our Marketing Director Debbie Rozen had her own powerful photography  exhibit 
of Gush Katif graffiti in a Ra'anana gallery. There has been a burst of  
creative-artistic energy and our Orange Gallery, despite the lack of a building,  
has given hope and employment to our artists and artisans.

Wedding  Showers: Our young people are getting married and communities 
throughout Israel  are making traditional bridal showers for Gush Katif brides and 
grooms. The  showers have spread to North America and have become a superb 
vehicle to unite  hearts across the ocean.

Our young couples have been receiving their  small appliances, dishes, linen, 
silverware and cash to defray their wedding  costs. Parents, often 
unemployed, have been unable to provide these basics for  their children. The couples 
are filled with disbelief and awe when they receive  their gifts.

OPERATION DIGNITY has had the privilege of being the conduit  for the cash 
gifts. Call Sharon Katz in Efrat [972-(0)2-9932396, 972-524-213600]  for 
information on how you can plan a Gush Katif shower.

A Memorial  Service Bryna and Sammy Hilberg of Netzer Hazani held the 
yahrzeit ceremony for  their naval hero son, disinterred from the Gush Katif cemetery 
and now reburied  in the Nitzan cemetery.

Wearing a black t-shirt inscribed "A Jew Evicted  Me From My Home", Bryna 
cried "I feel that I cannot protect my children. I  couldn't even protect my 
son's grave. What kind of a mother am I?"

A  Police Record Standing close by was Udi. She too had been forced to rebury 
a  son. "How are you, Udi?" I asked. No answer. Her body was stiff, her eyes  
glazed. "Are you alright?" I asked.  
"No".

I tried to hug her but there was no response. Her  husband explained: "She 
had taken a translator's course given by the Defense  Ministry. Afterwards she 
was refused employment because she has a police record.  Refusing to show her 
ID at the entrance to Gush Katif she was badly beaten by  police officers, and 
a report was filed against her. The case never came to  court but the police 
record remains intact. She can never find meaningful work.  Her bitterness has
turned her to stone." 

The hurt, the betrayal and  the anger is always with us. The northern 
refugees have gone home. Major Jewish  organizations have collected millions upon 
millions of dollars to help them  recover from their five-week war. A year later 
we are still begging for our  homes and proper compensation. Here and there, 
an awakening. What made Gush  Katif special will always be with us, and despite 
our despair we go  on.
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Please keep up with news of Gush Katif communities scattered  throughout 
Israel. Access English.katif.Please keep up with news of Gush Katif communities 
scattered  throughout Israel. Access English.katif.<WBR>ne
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OPERATION DIGNITY needs your help to revitalize a  once-proud people of Gush 
Katif. Send your checks, earmarked OPERATION DIGNITY,  to

Central Fund for Israel or Central Fund for Israel
13 Hagoel Street  980 6th Avenue, 3rd floor
Efrat 90435 New York, NY 10018
Israel  USA


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Any names on our mishebayrach list over a month old will be  deleted unless 
I'm told otherwise. Please say mishebayrach for: 

Yonatan  ben Malka 
Baruch Yosef ben Adina Batya 
Shira bat Yaffa (Chazan)  
Moria bat Leah (Zamir) 
Shabtai ben Rivka (Cohen) 
Rachel Chaya bat  Roiza
Rephael Avraham ben Ora Yutel
Labin ben Temimah Esther
Yosef Adam  ben Elke
Leah Sarah bas Raizel
Yehuda ben Yehudis
Miriam bas Chava  Shaindel
Avrohom Chaim ben Yenta Freida
Dovid Yifrach ben  Freeda 
Daniel Mordechai ben  Miriam 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Doron Hanan ben Perel Shoshana


 
 
 
 
 
 
Yechiel Yaakov Tzvi ben Devorah Esther (6/9)
 
Leora Rivka bas Raizal (8/4)
Amit ben Nava (8/11)
 
 
Chaya Sorah Bas Adela (8/18)
Pnina Bas Elka (8/18)
Gidon Ben Yehudit (8/18)

Ariel ben Janette (8/18)
Sha'ul ben Shulamit  (8/18)
Gal ben Shoshana (8/18)
Yuval ben Yehudit (8/18)
Guy Yosef ben  Ela (8/18)
Yitzhak ben Rivka (8/18)
Amichai ben Orah (8/18)
Gideon ben Yehudit  (8/18)
Elro'i Rafael ben Galia Glynis (8/18)
Tzur Pinchas ben Sarit Sara  Rivka (8/18) 
Yogev Menashe ben Bruriah (8/18)
Peretz ben Esther (8/25)
Samantha bas Fatwa (8/25)
Rina Shifra bat Rivka (8/25)
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