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Since our founding in 2002, Dream Doctors medical clowns have touched the lives of more than 1.6 million children in Israel. We currently partner with 29 hospitals across the country where our 100 Dream Doctors offer care to approximately 200,000 patients annually.
Our “Dream Doctors” bring light, love, and laughter to the hospital wards and work hand-in-hand with doctors and nurses to make procedures less anxiety-ridden. As professional artists with extensive training, they have a rich toolbox of techniques that ease fear and pain for children undergoing treatment in hospitals and medical clinics. They are able to build a special bond with patients, families and staff, and empower the children, making them feel brave and comfortable in the unfamiliar hospital environment.
The Dream Doctors also travel all over the world to share their knowledge and experience with our friends and partners abroad. They serve as reservists in the IDF Field Hospital Unit and brought humanitarian aid to Nepal and Haiti after the devastating earthquakes and to Houston and Miami after the hurricanes in 2017. With the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dream Doctors serve as Goodwill Ambassadors and have offered training to medical clowns, students, medical staff, and therapists worldwide.
The Feuerstein Institute: At the Institute we teach people of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of ability to think, learn and better function. These goals are achieved through use of the Feuerstein Method, a cognitive technique designed by Israel Prize laureate and renowned psychologist Professor Reuven Feuerstein. The Feuerstein Method identifies a human being’s learning profile, learning potential, and the specific process necessary to maximize that potential. Our programs assist the very young, the very old and those in between.
The Aim Higher Program: For Young Adults of Ethiopian Origin and from the Social Periphery
The Feuerstein Institute is dedicated to creating a more inclusive and diverse Israeli society. Across the political divide in both Israel and the US, it seems one of the few things almost everyone agrees about is the importance of equality of opportunity. That is the essence of the Aim Higher program: to create equality of opportunity for high-potential but socio-economically deprived populations. In Israel specifically, the Institute operates a program for young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds – many from the Ethiopian community as well as the social periphery. The aim of this program is to help hi-potential students overcome cultural and socioeconomic obstacles, so that they can succeed academically, progress professionally and integrate culturally.
Since 2010, when Feuerstein launched Aim Higher, the program has helped support more than 425 Israelis from the Ethiopian community and the social periphery in pursuing their goals and dreams in higher education. As you might imagine, the Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected those served by this program due to furloughs, unemployment and burdens of caring for family members. Even basic issues like access to computers and internet are significant challenges for many of the students served by Feuerstein.
The Lone Soldier Center’s mission is to assist lone soldiers before, during and after their army service. They provide them with food, laundry, basic necessities, equipment, advice, seminars, social events, Shabbat meals and more. By giving soldiers physical and emotional support, The Lone Soldier Center helps them through the difficulties that the army presents.
The vision is to enable every lone soldier to succeed in his or her army service, successfully integrate into Israeli society and become part of the lone soldier family.
The Mussar Institute advances the study and practice of Mussar, a Jewish path of character development and spiritual growth leading to awareness, wisdom, and transformation. Through experiential online and in-person courses based on classic and contemporary sources, The Mussar Institute inspires individuals, organizations, and communities around the world, regardless of affiliation, to align heart and mind with the highest ideals of the Jewish tradition.
TST empowers orphaned and vulnerable children, their families, and communities in Tanzania, East Africa, through residential care for 50 children (0-13 yrs) and a strong family preservation program.
Tomchei Shabbos provides weekly fresh Shabbos food deliveries to needy individuals in Bergen County. All of the packing and delivering is done by volunteers.
Torat Reva Yerushalayim provides Torah study groups for the elderly residents of southern Jerusalem in nursing homes, senior centers and assisted living communities. Torat Reva Yerushalayim also offers unique Bar/Bat-Mitzvah Programs culminating in Jerusalem.
TASK is an urban soup kitchen that serves meals to all who wish to eat. TASK is privately owned and non affiliated. TASK feeds the hungry in Mercer County and offers programs to promote self sufficiency of patrons.
Tsad Kadima (a step forward in Hebrew), is an award winning Israeli non-profit that was established over three decades ago by Israeli parents of children born with cerebral palsy, who took their children’s fate and future into their own hands and embarked on a life changing journey – to help their children reach their full potential and independence and integrate into the community at large.
Today, Tsad Kadima operates several rehabilitative frameworks, various complementary programs and services, throughout Israel, for infants, children and adults with severe physical disabilities and their families.
Their overriding goal is to enable children and adults with severe physical disabilities to become actively involved, reach a level of functional independence, integrate into the community and participate in normative life frameworks.
UJA-Federation of New York is the world’s leading local philanthropy, changing the lives of more then 4.5 million people every year. UJA-Federation’s mission is to care for those in need, shape our Jewish future, and respond in times of crisis and recovery. For over 100 years, UJA-Federation has cared for people in need here in New York, in Israel, and in over 70 countries around the world.
