- A message from Lisa Pollack, Executive Director of the American Friends of Neve Hanna
Is your Florida Region FJMC Men’s Club or Brotherhood looking for a meaningful Israel Advocacy Social Action project?
Since 1974, Neve Hanna Children’s Home in Kiryat Gat, Israel has provided a loving home for children from distressed and dysfunctional family circumstances. They are the children of Russian, Ethiopian, Middle Eastern immigrants and native-born Israelis. Sadly, these children have been scarred by poverty, abuse, parental neglect and mental illness and drug or alcohol addiction in the home. Neve Hanna was still on vacation when the horrific acts of terrorism unfolded on Shabbat morning, October 7, 2023 in the border region of the Gaza Strip, from which our city is just 15 miles away. This horrific event added additional trauma to the children. These at-risk youth come to Neve Hanna where their physical, emotional and educational needs are addressed. Neve Hanna is affiliated with the Masorti Movement as a Kehillah, the only one of its kind in Israel. The children’s home provides individual therapy, remedial instruction and extensive enrichment leisure time programs to the children. Neve Hanna offers these at-risk youth the chance to grow beyond the circumstances from which they emerged. Neve Hanna aims to instill in its children, a sense of self-worth and an attachment to Jewish Tradition and values.
Partnering your Florida Region FJMC Men’s Club or Brotherhood with American Friends of Neve Hanna aligns with core Jewish values, encouraging global outreach and influence by connecting to the land and children of Israel, community building through meaningful support, making an impact in the Jewish community through the principles of social responsibility: tikkun olam (repairing the world), kindness, tzedakah and social justice. Let’s Build Something Together – email AFNH Executive Director Lisa Pollack at lpollack@afnevehanna.org or info@afnevehanna.org to discuss how you can partner with the American Friends of Neve Hanna.
Neve Hanna Executive Director Lisa Pollack has been working with American Friends of Neve Hanna since 2016 and the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs (now FJMC International) since 2018. She attended the two most recent FJMC International Conventions in Philadelphia (2023) and Chicago (2025) and had the incredible opportunity to meet, network, learn, and celebrate, daven and break bread together with her FJMC brothers. For more information about the American Friends of Neve Hanna at: https://afnevehanna.org/ or email AFNH Executive Director Lisa Pollack at lpollack@afnevehanna.org or info@afnevehanna.org.
This message is brought to you in solidarity by the Florida Region of FJMC International (FJMC). We are part of a confederation of over 200 Jewish Men’s Clubs and Brotherhoods across the United States, Canada, Latin America, and beyond. Learn more about how your Jewish Men’s Club or Brotherhood can affiliate with the FJMC at: https://fjmc.org/for-clubs/affiliating-with-the-fjmc/.
The Florida Region of FJMC serves the needs of affiliated Men’s Clubs and Brotherhoods throughout the State of Florida. Get to know more about the FJMC Florida Region and our growing network of Jewish Men’s Clubs and Brotherhoods at www.floridaregionfjmc.org and please visit and LIKE our Florida Region FJMC Facebook Group at www.facebook.com/FloridaRegionFJMC.
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