The Tuesday after Thanksgiving is dedicated to charitable giving.
“Giving Tuesday” is a unique opportunity for alumni to give back to charitable organizations. Also for our annual donors, it’s a unique way to continue their support.
Once again, I’m excited that we have a generous donor, from now until November 29th, doubling your donation to allow us to provide programming for the students attending Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, Reichman University (formerly IDC in Herzliya), Young Judea, Aardvark, and our “Scholarship to Israel” program.
We hope you’ll join us on November 29th in “Giving Tuesday” as we aim to reach our goal of $36,000 (2 times Chai- Life) to benefit our Jewish Student Info Centers.
Every donation to Jeff Seidel’s Student Centers for our “Giving Tuesday” campaign no matter how small will allow us to conduct programming that will empower students as Jewish ambassadors for the future.
If you want to donate before “Giving Tuesday” your donation will be doubled.
Kind Regards,
Jeff Seidel
George Deek is an Arab-Israeli diplomat. In 2018, Deek was appointed Israeli ambassador to Azerbaijan. He is the first Israeli Arab Christian to become an ambassador. Deek grew up in an Eastern Orthodox Christian family in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, in a building where the other tenants included Muslims, Catholics, Jews and a Catholic priest of Jewish ancestry.[2][3] His father, who worked as a tax advisor,[3] was one of the leaders of the Christian community in Jaffa who served as chairman of the Orthodox Association, and was considered a well-known and popular figure in the city until in 2015 a square was inaugurated in his memory in Jaffa in the presence of Mayor Ron Huldai.[4] According to Deek, his grandparents fled to Lebanon for safety when the 1947–1949 Palestine war, having been told that the Jews would slaughter them if they remained in their homes, but expecting to return home once Arab armies defeated the Jews.[3] According to Deek, when the war ended, his grandparents felt that they had been “deceived”, and decided to return illegally to their home in Jaffa rather than remaining in Lebanon as refugees. Since reentering the country was illegal, Deek’s grandfather, an electrician, was arrested and jailed.
