Donate Now We Said Never Again. Shalom, Carl, Visiting the elderly is always an incredibly moving experience, one I wish you could share with me. I’m so blessed to be able to hear their stories, hold their hands, and give them your loving gifts of meals, blankets, and warm clothes. Irina is one of those sweet souls. She has suffered — and continues to suffer — more than anyone ever should. Yet she is one of the kindest and most positive people we’ve ever met. “I don’t have many guests, so it is very important [to me] that you feel welcome,” she said, greeting us with a smile. Her smiling mouth and gentle eyes are about the only body parts she can still move. You see, Irina is nearly paralyzed, Carl, stuck staring at the same chipped ceiling in her cold apartment for 15 long years. If you look closely at the picture above, you can see the head-shaped stains on the wall, where Irina has laid, unable to move, for more than a decade. But despite these challenges, she is filled with such an inner light. It’s so unrelenting that I can only describe it as God’s light… …especially since Irina doesn’t have much to smile about. Her tiny pension isn’t even enough to buy food, let alone turn on the heat. Her only comfort is the homecare visitor you provide for her three hours a day. She has no family and no one else to look after her. Only you.  It breaks my heart to say it, but without your compassionate support, Irina would surely die. We urgently need your gift today to rush emergency survival supplies to Holocaust survivors and elderly Jews like Irina who are on the brink of death.  Elderly like Irina only have a few years left with us — and they deserve to live those years in comfort and dignity, not freezing and starving to death. God’s people urgently need your help. Carl, we don’t have much time. This is a life-or-death situation. As temperatures plummet in the former Soviet Union, the lives of thousands of elderly and survivors hang in the balance. We need your emergency gift of $50 immediately, so we can provide lifesaving winter warmth, as well as the basic provisions needed for survival.  Your holy gift will provide essential items like firewood, medicine, warm blankets, and hot meals that will keep vulnerable and elderly Jews like Irina alive through the harsh winter months. God has promised us that “the generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor” (Proverbs 22:9). Please be a blessing today to a Holocaust survivor like Irina — and know that God will bless you in return for your faithfulness. With blessings from the Holy Land, Yael Eckstein President and CEO Donate Now PS With the overwhelming needs in the former Soviet Union and around the world, we’re doing whatever we can to keep Holocaust survivors and other elderly alive. Please support our Operation Winter Warmth drive with your prayers and generosity to give lifesaving aid to Jews like Irina.