One of the goals of our Salon program is to reach out to people in our community who do not know Shaare Zedek and bring them into our donor family.
Nomi and Daniel Silverman hosted a Salon, October, 2011. Daniel connected us to Joey Goldstein, President of Yeshivat Yavneh (a major institution in the Hancock Park area). That connection led us to the concept of developing a Chesed Project for Yavneh’s 8th graders during their upcoming trip to Israel. The goals: providing the students with a meaningful experience and connecting Shaare Zedek to families who could become supporters.
Prof. Halvey, Uri Schwarz, Marla Haruni and other SZ staff members developed and ran what turned out to be a VERY meaningful and inspiring experience at SZ for the 30+ students.
Tonight, at Yavneh, with about 200 in attendance, Gitta and Jack Nagel, on behalf of SZ, presented students with Certificates of Appreciation. Gitta’s OUTSTANDING can be found below the pictures.
Now comes a most important part of the process – personally speaking with as many of the families whose children participated as possible…..
But first, as always, the Music Video – of pictures taken during the Chesed Project at SZ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
PICTURES (Gitta’s presentation is right below the pictures)
Remarks by Gitta Nagel
Yeshivat Yavneh - Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem Ceremony
Motzei Shabbat, February 9, 2013
Good evening, Shavua Tov:
My husband, Jack, and I are extremely impressed with the learning you did this Motzei Shabbat.
We are so pleased to see the outstanding education that Yavneh continues to provide for our student body, as we strive to remain the number 1 school in our community that teaches… Torah with Modernity. This has been our motto and hopefully will remain in perpetuity.
Who could ever imagine in 1959, when our first born, the future Doctor Ronnie Nagel was ready for school, we, with a handful of leaders from Congregation Shaare Tefilah created a Day School in this neighborhood, which continued to grow and is now on its third site with third generation students and filled to the brim in this magnificent campus. A REAL Kiddush Hashem. Amen.
Tonight, however, I am here representing the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. Shaare Zedek is celebration its 110 anniversary serving All the citizens of Jerusalem (Jewish, Christian and Muslims); providing them with outstanding medical services. Politics and religion are left "outside the door."
Known as the "Hospital with a Heart," Shaare Zedek, with over 800 beds is famous for the way it cares for its patients and treats their families with respect and dignity.
It's not only a world class teaching hospital with state of the art Operating Theatres and Emergency Department which our 8th graders visited, but is also renowned as the hospital in which almost 20,000 babies will be delivered in 2013, making it the hospital with the most deliveries in the Western world.
By the end of this year Shaare Zedek Medical Center is proud to open the two floors of its new Children's Hospital complete with its own Emergency Room, Out Patient Clinic, Day Care, Dialysis Center, and a School for those children that are sometimes confined for as long as six months.
And now on behalf of our dynamic director and good friend, Mr. Paul Jeser, and as a trustee of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, and as a founder of Yavneh, please permit me to express Shaare Zedek's appreciation for the wonderful and meaningful Chesd Project Yavneh's 8th graders performed during their recent trip to Israel.
The work that they did preparing equipment and supplies to be used throughout the hospital and especially in the Operating Theatres, was of significant assistance to Shaare Zedek's staff. In addition to this project, we also want to express our thanks for the donation of a much needed pediatric Pediatric Wheelchair that the 8th Graders donated with funds that they raised throughout the year.
As Yeshiva students, you learned in school that when we became a nation we, the children of Israel, made a pledge to Hashem at Har Sinai "Na'aseh V'e Nishma - we will listen and we will do."
Your participation and support of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center is concrete evidence of your fulfilling this pledge Na'aseh V'e Nishma.
Before I call those of you who are here and who participated up to receive a Certificate of Appreciation as well as present Yeshivat Yavneh a well-deserved plaque of recognition, we want to show a short video of pictures taken during your visit to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
