Ground Breaking at Lema'an Achai!!

"OLAM HACHESED YIBONEI !"

We are thrilled to announce that Lema'an Achai has 'broken ground' at the building plot, which was donated by the Municipality and is located prominently on Nahal Dolev (between the top of Ayalon Park and the Mercazi shul).Be"H this will be the site of The Ramat Bet Shemesh "Olam Hachesed" Center - The Jewel in the Crown of our Community!

This building will house all of Lema'an Achai's 25 programs, which bring Smart Chesed to our local families suffering from poverty & crisis - and so strengthen our whole community.

1. Have You Been on a Building Committee??

If you have experience serving on a Building Committee, such as for a school, shul or other public building, please contact me (9997107 or email).

Lema'an Achai now needs your experience & assistance!

2. Sponsorship Opportunities: This building will solely be paid for by designated donations. We have a generous (informal) offer of matching funds (up to one third of the total).

Please contact me if you, your family or an acquaintance are also interested in sponsoring part of the Ramat Bet Shemesh "Olam Hachesed" Center?Sh'yiyhe BeSha'a Tova!!

Best Regards,
David

----------------------------------------------------------

David Morris, Chairman
Lema'an Achai - It's All About Caring
www.lemaanachai.org
david@lemaanachai.org
Direct Tel: 02 9997107
Office: 02 9991553Fax: 02 999239840/7
Nahal Lachish
Ramat Beit Shemesh,99093 Israel.

RE-OPENING OF SHEMESHOP

Lema'an Achai is delighted to announce
THE RE-OPENING OF ITS SHEMESHOP
TOMORROW, Tuesday, 20.05.08.

The Shemeshop is a second-hand clothing store open to the general public. It sells new or lightly-used clothing at very low prices. All profits go to Lema'an Achai.

Please note: New location: THE RBS MATNAS, NACHAL DOLEV (one floor up, entrance via the library)
New hours: SUNDAYS AND TUESDAYS
10.00-12.00,
17.00-19.00.

Don't miss out on the amazing latest fashions at knockdown prices!!

Happy Shopping and thank you for your support!

ShemeShop MOVING!

We are delighted to announce that, due to the success of the ShemeShop,which has now outgrown the location under the Shefa Shuk - the ShemeShop is MOVING!

The new location will be at the RBS Matnas, on Dolev, in a large attractiveroom upstairs.Access to the ShemeShop will be via the library (when the library is open),and at other times via the regular stairs inside the matnas (turn left atthe top of the stairs, last room).

The date of the Grand Opening will be announced in the near future, as willthe new opening hours. Meantime, the ShemeShop is *not* operating at the oldlocation.

The ShemeShop is a thrift shop, selling gently-used high quality fashionableAmerican clothing, at rock-bottom bargain prices, to the benefit of everyonein our community.

All profits are donated to Lema'an Achai to help impoverished families getthrough and, Be"H, out of crisis.

I would like to take this opportunity to express the community'sappreciation for the wonderful work of the amazing team of ShemeShopvolunteers, under the dynamic leadership of Ayelet Wagschal.And thanks, of course, to our fantastic partners in the USA at Yad Leah!

Many thanks and yeshar koach to Miri Shalem and all at the Matnas for kindly hosting The ShemeShop, this remarkable Community Program in a greatCommunity Center!

Watch out for further announcements re The Grand Opening & ShemeShop Opening Hours...

David Morris, Chairman

Lema'an Achai - It's All About Caring
www.lemaanachai.org
david@lemaanachai.org
Direct Tel: 02 9997107 Office: 02 9991553
Fax: 02 9992398
40/7 Nahal Lachish
Ramat Beit Shemesh,99093 Israel.

Lema'an Achai's furniture/appliances gemach

Lema'an Achai's furniture/appliances gemach Posted

If you have any of the following to give away, please call Dahlia at 052-619-9373:
- baby's cot/crib- bookshelves- meat grinder- mixer- table and chairs- oven- radio- bedroom closets- highriser bed- fans- computers- Shabbat platta (hot plate)- kettle- dairy toaster oven
Thanks - tizku lemitzvot!!

Susan Hoffman
Chana Pasternak z"l Programs and Volunteers Director
Lema'an Achai, (02) 999-1553 ext. 115

Why Should I Give to Lema'an Achai??

* Question: I Live in Givat Sharett/Migdal Hamayim/Givat Savion/Bet Shermesh.
Why Should I Give to Lema'an Achai??

Answer: Lema'an Achai directly helps the needy of all Bet Shemesh in
two major projects, and five ongoing programs.
If you help fund these, Lema'an Achai will be able to continue these
programs, and even add more services, which are desperately needed in
Bet Shemesh.

** Program One: Lema'an Achai Branch Office **

Lema'an Achai has operated a Branch Office, since June 2007, located
about Broder's Pharmacy.
Under the professional management of Meir Crandel MSW (9996862;
9991553 X107), this program is focused on rehabilitating needy
families in Bet Shemesh.
Using methods developed & proven over the past nine years in Ramat
Bet Shemesh, called "Smart Chesed", this program is UNIQUE.
The objective is not to solely distribute hand-outs, which many
worthy organizations do throughout Israel, but to give these families
a Hand OUT - to solve problems and enable needy families to become
self-sufficient.

The Rambam says this is the highest form of tzedaka. We know from
experience, it's also the toughest to deliver effectively.

Lema'an Achai is the only organization which is supplying these
services in Bet Shemesh.

Some one hundred families from Bet Shemesh, suffering poverty and
crisis, have applied to join this program.
Fifteen of these families have met the program's criteria, and these
are now receiving the intensive help they need to get back on their feet.
We would accept more families, many more, if we had more human and
financial resources to do this.

Your Help Needed: a generous individual donor gave the start-up
funding for the first year's activities only.
The responsibility for continuing & expanding this unique Bet Shemesh
program has now passed to the whole community.
Please donate now to keep this program in Bet Shemesh!

You can also designate your donation for Kimche Depischa for these
fifteen very special Bet Shemesh families - 1800 NIS is the cost for
each family.

** Program Two - Free Dental Clinic **

Did you know that poor people have more pain, worse teeth and more
aural disease?
This is as a result of un-affordable routine dentistry
(stitch-in-time), toffee-diets (cheap energy), and often non-existent
dental hygiene (education).

Lema'an Achai are the sole suppliers of FREE dental services to the
needy of Bet Shemesh.

In the first year of activity, the Lema'an Achai Free Dental Clinic,
located in the old Shuk in Bet Shemesh, has delivered relief to FOUR
THOUSAND children in Bet Shemesh.

This has been achieved in partnership with Tamar Sion, who have
generously provided funding.

* Other Lema'an Achai Programs **

In addition to these two major new Bet Shemesh programs, other
Lema'an Achai programs in RBS also help residents of Bet Shemesh, such as:-

* Financial Seminars - helping people to get by on an Israeli salary
* "Ayala Shlucha" - help for families with serious illness, lo aleinu
* Free Loan Fund - bridging loans, to keep debt from spiralling out of control.
* Citizens Advocacy Center - know your rights, and receive practical
help to get them!
* ShemeShop - thrift shop - shortly moving to the Matnas RBS- open
to everyone!

Lema'an Achai is ambitious to spread the benefits of Smart Chesed to
all in Bet Shemesh, expand, and open new programs - but this can only
be achieved with YOUR help.

* Question: Yes, I want to support these activities. How Can I Donate?

Answer: Tizku lemitzvot!

Local Drop Off Points for Donations
(All donations via these families will be designated for Lema'an
Achai's Bet Shemesh activities)

Broder's Pharmacy - Chativat Harel
Family Wimpfheimer - Maapilei Egoz 6/7, T: 9915898
Family Gross - Shimon 44 (69), T: 9990362
Family Kurtz - Hashoshan 27, T: 9992520
Family Hoffman - Shivtei Yisrael 2/11, T: 9919425
Family Seeman - Tidhar 12 (209) T: 9995935

Secure On-Line: www.lemaanachai.org/donate.asp
Drop-down menu: Bet Shemesh

24/6 Donations Tel: 99999.33

Mail Checks to: Lema'an Achai, 40/7 Nahal Lachish, Ramat Bet Shemesh 99093.

All donations to Lema'an Achai are Seif 46 Tax Deductible in Israel.
US Tax Deductible: "US Friends of Lema'an Achai"
UK Tax Deductible: "British Friends of Lema'an Achai"
Canada Tax Deductible: "Shaarei Tefilla Charity Fund".

Halachik Supervision & Rabbinical Approval: The possek and founder of
Lema'an Achai is Rav Chaim Soloveichik, shlita. Lema'an Achai's
rehabilitation program in Bet Shemesh has been established with the
approval and support of local Bet Shemesh rabbonim.

If you have any questions, please feel free to call (9997107) or email me!

Chag Kasher Vesameach!
David

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

David Morris, Chairman
Lema'an Achai - It's All About Caring

www.smartchesed.org
david@lemaanachai.org

Direct Tel: 02 9997107
Office: 02 9991553
Fax: 02 9992398

40/7 Nahal Lachish
Ramat Beit Shemesh,
99093 Israel.

LEMA'AN ACHAI HAS OPENED AN ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND FURNITURE GEMACH!

LEMA'AN ACHAI HAS OPENED AN ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND FURNITURE GEMACH!

IF YOU HAVE ANY PIECES OF FURNITURE (CLOSETS, TABLES, CHAIRS, COUCHES ETC)IN DECENT CONDITION AND/OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES (FRIDGES, OVENS, KETTLES,TOASTERS ETC) THAT YOU NO LONGER NEED AND WOULD LIKE TO DONATE THEM TO A NEWWORTHY HOME, PLEASE CALL SUSAN AT LEMA'AN ACHAI.

THE SUCCESS OF THE GEMACH IS DEPENDENT ON YOUR DONATIONS!
TIZKU LEMITZVOT!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Susan Hoffman
Chana Pasternak z"l Programs and Volunteers Director
Lema'an Achai, (02) 999-1553 ext. 115

Lema'an Achai has an Emergency Bills payment program

Stop a moment.When you go from your home, to your car, to your office..stop for a moment outside, and notice the chill. It's around freezing point.
Of course, you're only in the cold for a moment, and you're well dressed against the wind.
Now try to imagine that your home is the same frozen temperature as the outside.
And your kids and wife are very cold; their faces, hands and toes are pale blue."Abba, please turn the heating on, we're freezing."But, you know you won't be able to afford the bill IF you put the heating on.

So you don't...Baruch Hashem, Lema'an Achai has an Emergency Bills payment program.

So none of our 160 impoverished families (over 1000 people) needs to be cold this winter.
Please make a donation now to Lema'an Achai

https://www.lemaanachai.org/donate/index.asp

So Abba can turn on the heating AND pay the bill.

Tizku Lemitzvot & Choref Tov,Rav Avrohom Leventhal & David Morris

Lema'an Achai 2007

Your support of Lema'an Achai during 2007 achieved miracles & wonders.

By the nature of what Lema'an Achai does, most of these achievements cannot be publicly reported.So here's some *highlights* that we CAN tell you about...Yeshar koach to our wonderful donors in RBSA!

Services We Delivered to Local Families Suffering Poverty & Crisis...
* FIVE THOUSAND Four Hundred & Ninety Three Hours of support & counseling by our in-house professional team of Social Workers
* Six Hundred & Sixteen Hours of Psychiatric/Psychological Therapy!
* EIGHT THOUSAND Free Dental Treatments - over Five Thousand for Kids!!
* Seven Hundred and Six Hours of Professional After-School Teaching for Kids at Risk!
* Sixty Families received Advocacy Services (new service in 2007!) - 40 of these have had their cases successfully resolved, so far!
* Forty Families Received Intensive Financial Counseling - saving thousands of shekels for each family.
* Over One Hundred and Sixty Families (over one THOUSAND people) received Regular, Reliable Food Stamps - so no-one goes hungry.
* A further One THOUSAND nine hundred & twenty food supplementary packages were delivered (including our unique Shmita-Friendly Aid Packages!!)....and a Further FOURTEEN Projects, Programs & Services, running 24/6!!....by OVER TWO HUNDRED talented devoted & industrious Volunteers!!

We are delighted to report that Forty-Six Families (29%) no longer required Lema'an Achai's assistance, during 2007.

Of these, Twenty-Seven Families (17%) Achieved Independence in 2007 Directly Due to Lema'an Achai.Other Amazing Achievements:-

* Lema'an Achai's joint Social Services Program with The Gush Katif Settlers Council played a critical role in obtaining FIVE HUNDRED MILLION (half a billion!) NIS of Additional Aid for Gush Katif Evacuees, as a supplement to the Evacuation & Compensation Law, in June 2007.

* Lema'an Achai received The Bet Shemesh Prize & Recognition during 2007, for its Leadership Role in hosting & aiding over one THOUSAND refugees from the Second Lebanon War of 2006.

* Lema'an Achai was multiply cited, as part of a whole chapter focusing on Bet Shemesh (the only city to merit this), by the Ben Gurion University National Report on the Response of the Non-Profit Sector during the Second Lebanon War (the non-Government equivalent of the Winograd Report), published in 2007.

* Lema'an Achai established its First Branch Office, located in Migdal Hamayim, servicing Bet Shemesh, Givat Sharet and Migdal Hamayim (in memory of Emma and Simon Wang z"l).

* The Municipality of Bet Shemesh Granted Lema'an Achai a Two Dunam (that's to say, big!) Building Site, on Prime Real Estate on Nachal Dolev, RBS.

Lema'an Achai has ambitious plans (and commitments!) to Help More People Even Better during 2008 - which will require a whopping twenty percent increase in funding.

ALL of this has been achieved, and will be achieved Be"H, solely due to the financial support of private local donors - YOU.

Yeshar Koach and Thank You to Everyone!

We look forward to your continuing and increasing support during this new financial year.

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!!

Please visit our web site at http://www.lemaanachai.org/ for more great news!
Best Regards,
Rabbi Avrohom Leventhal
David Morris

Lema'an Achai's Mesibat Chanukah - 2 weeks & 2 days!

Lema'an Achai is
Delighted to invite the communities of Ramat Beit Shemesh and Beit Shemesh to join in our Eighth Annual Family Mesibat Chanukah
Date: Tuesday, December 4th - 1st night of Chanuka
Time: 6:45 PM
Where: Ulam Sport on Sorek in Ramat Beit Shemesh
Price: In Advance : Child (3-14): NIS 25; Adult: NIS 35
At the Door: Child (3-14): NIS 35; Adult: NIS 45(Same price for 3 years running!)

Featuring:* Candle Lighting, Divrei Torah, ...* The Kol Berama Boys' Choir* Nekudat Tova Theater Group - "Pashut Sameach"* Chalav U'Dvash Pizza and Cotton Candy/Popcorn on Sale* Raffle with Fantastic Prizes*
And more ...Have a great evening out with the family, and help support your local charity!
See you there!-
Ephrayim Naimanejnaiman@gmail.com

Lema'an Achai and Lenny Solomon Present A Music Extravaganza!

Lema'an Achai and Lenny Solomon Present A Music Extravaganza!
Lenny Solomon
Rekia
Kol B'Rama Choir
Advance Tickets ONLY 35 NIS! (50 NIS at the Door)
Motzei Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Chaya Sorah
November 3, 20077:45 PM
Ulam HaSport - Nachal Sorek
Get your tickets at:
(Please call first)
LA Office Lachish 40/7 999-1553
Jo's Club 992-3020
Rubin HaYarkon 4 999-9910
David Ayalon 17/10 999-7832
Leventhal Dolev 53/5 991-5317
Finn Maor 12/3 991-2870
Gerstman HaYasmin 19 999-6589
Hoffman Shivtei Yisrael 2/11 991-9425

REMEMBERING GUSH KATIF

TWO YEARS WITHOUT A HOME
REMEMBERING GUSH KATIF

On Wednesday, August 1, 2007, in the RBS Matnas

8:15 pm Lecture (in English) given by young author Shifra Shomron from Neve Dekalim, based on her book GRAINS OF SAND, THE FALL OF NEVE DEKALIM. The book has received wonderful reviews on Arutz 7. After the talk, the author will answer questions (in Hebrew or English) and will sell and autograph copies of the book (69 shekels)

9:15 pm Documentary Film (in Hebrew, possibly with English subtitles) -- A brand new documentary about the expulsion from Gush Katif, in its PREMIER showing! Produced by a film school student from Gan Or, who briefly lived in RBS after the destruction of her home.

The evening will be in the presence of Vice Mayor Shalom Lerner, under the auspices of the city's Moreshet Yisrael Department, in cooperation with the RBS Matnas and Lema'an Achai's Gush Katif Fund.

Entrance is free.
Gush Katif ribbons and bracelets will be for sale and donations to the Gush Katif Fund will be welcome.

Le'Maan Achai Launches Ahavas Chinam Campaign

http://www.lemaanachai.org/ . 999-9933