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Moishe Alexander Donates to Cheder Chabad
In 2008, Moishe Alexander donated $85,000.00 CDN to Cheder Chabad (http://www.chederchabad.com).
About Cheder Chabad:
The Shmuel Zahavy Cheder Chabad of Toronto is a school dedicated to raising Jews that care. Besides a comprehensive secular education, our students receive a thorough grounding in Torah scholarship and classic Jewish values. In the renowned spirit of Chabad - Lubavitch, this is enriched by Chassidic warmth, imbuing them with a deep sense of concern and responsibility for others. Our education equips them to grow up as proud, conscientious Jews, with the broad Torah knowledge and strong commitment necessary to develop into Jewish leaders of the future.
Moishe Alexander Donates to Sick Kids Foundation
Moishe Alexander donated $50.00 CDN to Sick Kids Foundation (http://www.sickkidsfoundation.com) in 2008.
About Sick Kids:
SickKids Foundation is the largest non-governmental granting agency in child health in Canada. Established in 1972, SickKids Foundation has granted over $500 million to The Hospital for Sick Children and over $60 million to researchers across the country.
Through its National Grants Program, SickKids Foundation invests $4 million annually across Canada in paediatric research, focusing on issues important to children’s health which have not been addressed elsewhere.
Our mission is to inspire our communities to invest in health and scientific advances to improve the lives of children and their families in Canada and around the world.
We have invested our community’s contributions in world-leading children’s health research and care. We believe there is no one else in Canada as dedicated as we are to eliminating the gap between what is happening in child health research, education and training, and what should be happening.
Moishe Alexander Donates to United Chesed
In 2008, Moishe Alexander donated $1,700.00 CDN to United Chesed of Toronto and Vicinity (http://www.unitedchesed.com).
About United Chesed:
Providing emergency rapid support, to families and individuals requiring food, clothing, shelter, medical, financial, and social support both directly and through a vast networking system.
United Chesed is a registered not-for-profit charity organization, that is unique. We provide emergency rapid response, with and average of 24 hour turn over time, to those requiring food, clothing, shelter, financial and social assistance.
We are dedicated to fulfilling the needs of the growing numbers of Jewish families living in poverty in Toronto and the GTA.
United Chesed assists individuals and families on a short-term basis until they are able to provide for themselves or other agencies in our network take over.
Our Future Vision
* To create a unified body which will serve the Jewish community with all its resources for the benefit and maintenance of the Jewish residents of Toronto and its suburbs.
* To establish and maintain an active network of communications between synagogues, as a result of which various aspects of Chesed can be obtained.
* To enhance and create a climate of Sholom Bayis with all the involved parties for the well-being and stability of the Jewish community in Toronto and be an example for other communities in North America.
United Chesed of Greater Toronto is the brainchild of Thornhill Dentist, Dr. Brian (Baruch) Price. Dr. Price, implemented his vision to establish an umbrella organization, to serve the impoverished Jews in the GTA regardless of affiliation. The organization was developed to serve two purposes, provide basic needs to people and act as a support network, able to connect individual with vital resources in the community.
For the past seven years, through its one stop referral service and working with the representatives from many organizations, United Chesed has helped thousands of individuals in desperate need of food, shelter, clothing, medical and social assistance.
November 12, 2005, Dr. Price and his team organized their first community awareness and networking event at the North York Civic Centre. The Keynote speaker, Mr. Paul Godfrey, CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays, said “he was impressed with United Chesed’s mandate to unify Jewish charities to educate the community. It is with great hope and faith in the ENTIRE community that United Chesed firmly believes that no child, adult or elderly individual will be without bread on their table.”