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Community By Emanual Wright Making a Difference Students from renowned Brooklyn Yeshiva trade beach for chesed former student and today a community leader A Amy Sasson participated in the first Alumni chesed Mission in 2009. All praise for the program’s spiritual and inspirational leader, she wrote at the time of Rabbi Besser as “exemplifying the true spirit and value of chesed. We were amazed by how he lives to give, and we feel honored to have him as a role model for our children. In addition, getting to meet the creators and directors of the many facilities we visited in Israel, helped us to understand not only what the organizations do, but also to realize the true greatness of the people who helped create these institutions. We were all inspired to give more in any way we can, and to believe that we, too, can make a difference.” Mission of Discovery “The program began during the second Intifada,” Young students of the Flatbush Yeshiva of Brooklyn School in Israel. Rabbi Naftali Besser has been running chesed missions to Israel for Yeshiva of Flatbush High School students for the past nine years. Two years ago he initiated similar missions for the Yeshiva’s alumni. The impact of these missions upon the participants has been life-changing. The Inbal Jerusalem Hotel Spring-Summer 2011 16 explained Rabbi Besser to Inbal Magazine during his most recent student mission in February. “Israel was going through a traumatic period and there was an urge at the Yeshiva to show solidarity not from New York but in Israel. We needed to be amongst Israelis and what better format than to expose our students to how Israel cares for its less fortunate citizens. That we chose to initiate this program during the trying time of the Intifada only enhanced our commitment.” This first mission set the tone for what was to follow. “Visiting the various institutions, we realized that however much money people may donate from the USA – and they do most generously – it does not come close to personally coming to Israel, meeting the people and saying some words of chizuk. We send a clear message to the people we meet: “We in America, care about you’.”
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