Archive for February, 2009
Moishe Alexander Donates to Zareinu Educational Centre
Moishe Alexander and Canadian Funding Corporation donated $72.00 CDN to Zareinu Educational Centre (http://www.zareinu.org) in 2008.
About Zareinu:
Zareinu is a Jewish Day School and Treatment Centre, which provides special education and individualized therapies to children with a wide range of physical and developmental challenges.
We believe that “special” children are valuable members of the community and have the right to receive an adapted education, opportunities for improving life skills, communication strategies, and respect for their individual strengths. We believe the family is an integral part of our efforts and their input is treated with respect. We encourage parental participation in planning individual programs. We believe that every child has potential. We believe in a coordinated, cooperative effort to develop and provide therapies and learning strategies that will improve the quality of life for each child and family.
We strive to battle prejudice and encourage inclusion through opportunities for supported integration whenever possible.
We advocate for acceptance of children with special needs in the community.
Our teachers, therapists and consulting specialists are experts in their respective disciplines. Our team is multifaceted, ensuring that we offer opportunities for children to take their first steps, communicate their first words, share a smile and reach for that important hug.
Moishe Alexander Donates to Canadian Down Syndrome Society
Moishe Alexander and Canadian Funding Corp. donated $100.00 CDN to the Canadian Down Syndrome Society (http://www.cdss.ca) in 2008.
About the Canadian Down Syndrome Society:
The Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS) is a vital resource linking parents and professionals through advocacy, education and providing information.
Services and activities include:
* Information and Education
* Research Collaboration
* Advocacy
* Public Awareness
* Events and Conferences
* Current Resource Centre, Library Publication Clearinghouse and Resource Catalogue
* Parent and Professional Support
* Professional Resource Council
* Quarterly Newsletter
* National Down Syndrome Awareness Week held annually from November 1 - 7
Moishe Alexander Donates to Torah Umesorah
Moishe Alexander donated $72.00 CDN to Torah Umesorah in 2008.
About Torah Umesorah:
Torah Umesorah - National Society for Hebrew Day Schools (or Torah Umesorah תורה ומסורה) is an Orthodox Jewish organization that fosters and promotes Torah-based Jewish religious education in North America by supporting and developing a loosely affiliated network of 760 independent private Jewish day schools catering to more than 250,000 children, yeshivas and kollelim in every city with a significant population of Jews. The previous executive vice-president of Torah Umesorah was Rabbi Joshua Fishman, a disciple of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner (1906-1980). Rabbi Fishman retired in June 2007, and the current Menahel is Rabbi Dovid Nojowitz, who returned to the U.S., after serving as Rosh Kollel in Melbourne, Australia for a quarter century.
The organization was established in New York City in 1944 at a time when the United States was at war with the Axis Powers and Europe’s Jews were facing the genocide of the Holocaust by the Nazis. Yet it was precisely at that time that the call went out, challenging the prevailing mood of the times, to establish a totally new network of Jewish day schools across North America. Torah Umesorah was founded after Lithuanian Yeshiva deans witnessed the success of the Chabad-Lubavitch School system started by its education arm, Merkos L’inyonie Chinuch (Central Organization for Jewish Education) established 1941. Merkos established a network of Jewish schools starting in the early forties, was founded by Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe and directed by his son in law and successor Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
The originator and leading personality of this new idea was the Hungarian-born Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz (who insisted in being addressed as “Mr. Mendlowitz”) who was then serving as the head of the Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn. He was supported, encouraged and guided by a group of colleagues (mostly leading Eastern European-born and educated rosh yeshivas ["deans"]), such as Rabbi Aharon Kotler (1890-1962) the rosh yeshiva of the Lakewood yeshiva in New Jersey, and others.