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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.
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.”
Moishe Alexander Donates to Ontario SPCA
Moishe Alexander donated $950.00 CDN to the Ontario SPCA (http://www.ontariospca.ca) in 2008.
About the OSPCA:
Through its province-wide network of 50 plus Communities, the Ontario SPCA (Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) is one of the largest, most responsive animal welfare organizations in the country, providing care and shelter for tens of thousands of animals every year.
As a non-profit charitable organization, the Ontario SPCA is unique amongst animal welfare organizations in Ontario: the Ontario SPCA Act mandates the Society to enforce animal cruelty laws and provides Ontario SPCA Community investigators with police powers to do so.
For over a century the Ontario SPCA has provided province-wide leadership on matters relating to the prevention of cruelty to animals and the promotion of animal welfare, and worked with its Communities to encourage humane and suitable animal care; call attention to unacceptable practices that harm animals; investigate cruelty complaints; carry out rescues; bring perpetrators of cruelty to court; advocate for humane laws; and provide care to all animals in need.