The planes are sponsored by the International Fellowship
of Christians and Jews. Ukrainian Jews in the Ukrainian town of Donetsk. In Zhytomyr, Jewish refugees find both safety and
uncertainty Three planeloads of Ukrainian Jews sponsored by the
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews will land in Israel in the coming
weeks, The Jerusalem Post learned on Sunday. According to IFCJ founder Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, the new
immigrants will each receive a monetary payment from the interfaith group as
well as help in navigating Israeli bureaucracy and job placement services once
they arrive.
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The International Fellowship of Christians & Jews is a philanthropic organization founded in 1983 by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein whose stated goal is to promote understanding and cooperation between Jews and Christians, and build broad support for the State of Israel. Eckstein, whose organization is currently running a refugee
facility in Zhitomir for Jews who have escaped the rebel cities of Luhansk and
Donetsk, said that many of those who had escaped the Moscow-backed insurgency,
expressed a desire to emigrate.
The Fellowship's outreach focuses on five major programs:
- On Wings of Eagles, assists Jews in making aliyah (immigration) to Israel from the former Soviet Union, Ethiopia, Europe, Arab lands, and other countries around the world, and helps them with their klitah (resettlement).
- Guardians of Israel, provides basic necessities to needy Israelis by supporting hundreds of projects such as soup kitchens, and by providing food, clothing and basic medical assistance to be distributed while addressing long-term needs like housing, family care, and jobs.
- Isaiah 58, which provides food packages, hot “meals-on-wheels,” medicine, in-home care, housing, heating fuel, clothing, and other basic essentials to more than 200,000 destitute elderly Soviet Jews, and gives Jewish orphans and vulnerable street children in the former Soviet Union the care they need to survive and prepare for a brighter future.
- Stand for Israel, which rallies churches, Christian leaders and others to advocate for Israel by praying for her and supporting her right to exist in peace and security.
- 4Zion, a pro-Israel initiative geared toward students and a younger generation of Israel supporters.
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