3409 Bathurst St Toronto On M6A 2C1
Tel. 416-913-1774 Fax. 416-913-1779
Under the auspices of Rabbonim of Toronto

1 KH Meoroth $26,146.00 CDN

2 Gates of Mercy $16,840.00 CDN

3 Bni Tzion $8,320.00

Total $51,306.00

Circle of Care is dedicated to supporting independence and of the quality of life of individuals in their homes. Circle of Care is a community based non-profit registered charity that has been serving Toronto and area residents since 1974. Over 450 staff and more than 300 volunteers are available to provide assistance in your home.

Offering a wide range of home and community programs, including homemaking and personal support, social work and volunteer supported services, we strive to help clients live as comfortably as possible in their own home environments, and reduce the challenges they face due to physical, emotional, cognitive or mental health issues.

Circle of Care’s outstanding staff and volunteers care about our clients. We strive to enhance quality of life and ensure safety and dignity. We respect privacy, cultural diversity and the unique needs of each client.

Circle of Care is an accredited agency of Accreditation Canada, a member agency of the United Way Toronto and an affiliate of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. Circle of Care provides service on behalf of four Community Care Access Centres (Central, Central East, Central West and Toronto Central) and the City of Toronto’s Homemakers and Nurses Services Program. Circle of Care receives grant funding from the Central Local Health Intregration Network (Ministry of Health and Long Term Care), Community Services Grants Program of the City of Toronto, United Way Toronto, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto

Toronto Jewish Free Loan Cassa was formed with the goal of Helping People To Help Themselves with interest-free loans.

Our mandate to provide interest-free loans to the Jewish community helps to promote self-sufficiency with dignity. By providing loans rather than charity, Toronto Jewish Free Loan Cassa (G’milath Chasodim) Association provides an important service to individuals and families in our community.

TJFLC has been providing interest-free loans to members of Toronto’s Jewish community for over eighty years, even prior to its incorporation on July 12, 1924.

TJFLC is the amalgamated organization that combines the loan services of Toronto Hebrew Re-Establishment Services, Loan Cassa and Educational Loan Program, offering personal, business and student loans to community members in need.

Our loans are helping a broad range of Toronto Jewry with a variety of needs including education, personal and business opportunities. There are approximately 550 active loans outstanding, with a total value of $1.5 million dollars.

Ahmadinejad’s appearance comes as the world continues its debate over how to confront Iran’s pursuit of nuclear technology, a problem of deepest concern not just to Israel and the West, but to Arab leaders who know that a nuclear Iran will become the region’s undisputed strongman. Iran continues to publicly insist that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, but the mullahs in power have little credibility to make such a claim. While some world leaders continue to accept Iranian assurances, others will publicly confirm what’s held privately by many: Just last week, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a reporter that it is “a certainty to all of our secret services” that Iran is working on a nuclear weapons program.

Now, an important new book, The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West, by Dore Gold, an American-born former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, makes the case that world leaders are failing their citizens by not halting Iran’s acquisition of this powerful—and deadly—technology. This failure, he argues, stems from Western leaders’ inability to understand the depth of Iranian enmity toward the West, and to recognize the deception routinely practiced by Iranian diplomats and other government officials.

That deception, according to Gold, is even admitted to by members of the Iranian government. In 2008, Iranian official Abdollah Ramezanzadeh stated in a public debate with advisers to the Iranian president that “[Iran] had an overt policy, which was one of negotiation and confidence building, and a covert policy, which was a continuation of the [nuclear development] activities.” Gold also quotes a speech, delivered by Iran’s former chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Rowhani, in which Rowhani states, “When we were negotiating with the Europeans in Tehran, we were installing equipment in parts of the [nuclear] facility in Isfahan.” These tactics have been all too effective, allowing Iran to proceed with its nuclear pursuits, in defiance of the world’s attempts to thwart them.

Meanwhile, the world’s leaders continue using the same approach—and somehow expecting a change in results. And all the while, Iran edges closer to possessing nuclear weapons.

Coincidentally, Ahmadinejad’s New York appearance bumps up against the anniversary of an event in world history that has become a symbol for short-sightedness and a refusal to address ugly realities: On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from a meeting in Munich with German leader Adolph Hitler. During their meeting, Chamberlain bowed to Hitler’s demand that Czechoslovakia surrender the Sudetenland, a region in western Czechoslovakia, to Germany. Convinced that this would pacify Hitler’s territorial ambitions, Chamberlain told the British people, “My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time. Go home and get a nice, quiet sleep.”

Peace for our time.

Chamberlain’s promised peace, of course, was a phantom: There would be few opportunities for a “nice, quiet sleep” in Europe during the next seven years. Eleven months later, Hitler invaded Poland, and, two days after that, England declared war on Germany. Thus began one of the bloodiest and farthest-reaching wars the world has ever known. Chamberlain allowed his well-intentioned, earnest desire for peace to dominate his thinking to the extent that he turned a blind eye to Hitler’s true ambitions.

This, perhaps, is the overarching message of Gold’s The Rise of Nuclear Iran: If the free world truly wants to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, it first needs to evaluate Iran’s true ambitions with clarity—and to see through the obvious smoke screens thrown up by the Islamic Republic. To do this, world leaders must not allow their own wishes and hopes for peace without confrontation to overwhelm their clarity of thought and perception. Only then will we be able to confront this threat. By providing us with the historical context we need to evaluate Iran’s current activities, The Rise of a Nuclear Iran does a great service to all who truly seek real and lasting peace.

It is a natural human impulse to turn away from things we don’t want to see, but it is rarely productive in the long-term. We live in an unredeemed world full of moral unclarity, but we know that Truth illuminates—it is, after all, one of God’s names. While we must “seek peace and pursue it” (Psalm 34:14), we must simultaneously remain clear-eyed and watchful. We trust in the Eternal and beg Him: “Do not withhold Your mercy from Me, O Lord. May Your love and Your truth always protect me.” (Psalm 40:11)

With prayers for shalom, peace,

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
President

Moishe Alexander was endorsed this charity and asks for the help of the community to help fund the Vaad Harabbanim

What is The Vaad Harabbanim?

The Vaad Harabbanim is an organization that was founded by Gedolei Hador, shlita, in order to supervise all charitable matters in Israel. Until its inception, there was no real control or organization to charitable donations and causes, with the very number of charitable funds being overwhelming, as well as problems like knowing if one’s donation really reached its goal, how monies were spent, reviews and audits of activities, and more.

As the economic situation worsened, it became even harder to ensure that charitable funds could be properly monitored, especially for large families in the Chareidi sector.

Understanding the scope of the problem, as well as the large number of unsupervised charitable organizations and the growing lack of trust among donors regarding their generosity’s destination, it was decided to establish a single, central organization that would be directed, operated, supervised and audited by dedicated and honest Rabbinical leaders. Each request for help would be carefully examined, criteria would be set, and every case would be followed up and reviewed to ensure honesty, transparency and that a person’s hard-earned donation reached its destination in full.

Thanks to its wide acceptance of the entire Chareidi world, the Vaad was able to establish a much wider donor base and therefore meet many more needs of an ever increasing poor and economically underprivileged population.

And so it was, the Vaad was established, rapidly becoming the largest and most central charity fund in Israel.

The Wheel of Fortune and Salvation

But the results surprised even the founders. Within a very short time, the Vaad’s reputation preceded it, and donations increased ten-fold, with the more veteran Gabbaim saying that the Israel before the founding of the Vaad is totally different than the Israel after the organization’s establishment.

The Vaad still serves as Israel’s largest charity fund, and has become the wheel of fortune and salvation for tens of thousands of tragic cases annually. The Vaad has helped countless widows, orphans, families and individuals overcome abject poverty, broken lives, broken families and dealing with fatal and near-fatal illness. In fact, the Vaad is so comprehensive and broad in its clientele base and so honest and efficient in its distribution of funds, that the Posek Hador Harav Hagaon S. Wozner, shlita, has said: “The Vaad Harabbainim is the very essence of charity in its fullest sense, unlike anything else in history.”

Whom to Give?

Naturally, some of the most difficult and tragic cases come to the Vaad for help, due to its size and scope. Even starving children are not an uncommon sight in the Vaad offices.

And it is certainly no pleasure when the Gabbaim enter a home to investigate a particular request and are greeted with peeling walls, disconnected electricity and phone, worn-out mattresses on the floor, and filthy children dressed in rags, not to mention empty cupboards and refrigerators or a father who works until late leaving a sickly and exhausted wife to cope with children and all the problems.

The only address for such cases is the Vaad, but the activities don’t stop there. Seeing its role as being the largest and most centralized charity fund, the Vaad also handles “regular” needs, like making sure a child receives proper dental care, psychological counseling and the like, which can be no less important than feeding a hungry child.

Circle of Care is a community-based, non-profit, registered charity that has been serving Toronto and area residents since 1974. Over 450 staff and more than 600 volunteers are available to provide care in your home. Circle of Care provides care to multiple communities, ethnic and religious groups in more than 20 different languages.

Circle of Care is an accredited agency of the Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation, a member agency of the United Way of Greater Toronto and an affiliate agency of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. Circle of Care provides service on behalf of four Community Care Access Centres in the GTA (North York, Scarborough, Toronto, and Etobicoke/York), as well as, for the City of Toronto’s Homemakers and Nurses Services Program. Circle of Care receives grant funding from the Ministry of Health & Long Term Care Division, Province of Ontario and through the Community Services Grants Program of the City of Toronto.
Moishe Alexander is proud to support this local charity.

Rabbi Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam is presently Rabbi in the Bobover synagogue in Brooklyn.

Moishe Alexander is an admirer of the Bobov Toronto community.

Misunderstanding and prejudice between Jews and Christians remain today, in large part, due to a lack of communication between the two groups. This is particularly true in Jewish relations with Evangelicals. Issues inevitably arise that create tension and ill will between the communities. In addition, many opportunities for inter-religious cooperation through joint programs on behalf of shared concerns are lost due to this lack of communication. It is against such a 2,000 year backdrop of fear, ignorance and mistrust that the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews of Canada carries out its bridge-building work.

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews of Canada was founded by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein to promote greater understanding between Jews and Christians and to build Christian support for Israel and other shared concerns. Like its sister organization in the U.S., the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews of Canada operates under the leadership of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, and is governed by an independent Board of Directors representing both faiths who share our strong belief in building bridges between the Christian and Jewish communities.

Moishe Alexander is a supporter of Israel.

Thanks to outstanding volunteer leadership, unparalleled vision and the incredible generosity and compassion of our donors, UJAFederation continues to re-energize Jewish life today and for generations to come, making Toronto a leader within world Jewry. But with tremendous growth comes great responsibility.

The 2009 Campaign for Our Jewish Future remains committed to innovation and creativity. It supports big ideas, aimed at ensuring a strong and vibrant Jewish future by:

Transforming Lives
New initiatives are underway to help our community’s most vulnerable live more self-sufficient lives, providing them with the dignity and respect they deserve.

Inspiring Jewish Identity among our Next Generation
Programs have been designed to engage and excite our young people, many of whom will be counted on to lead our community in the decades to come.

Engaging a Growing and Dynamic Community
Outreach programs are in development for newcomers to Toronto, particularly Israeli- Canadians and Canadian Jews from the former Soviet Union. There is strength in numbers and we must fortify our own community.

Standing With the People of Israel
Through UIA Federations Canada, UJA is assisting Israelis who find themselves in need of unique social and educational services within the vulnerable communities in which they live. By strengthening and improving their quality of life, we are solidifying the very future of Jewish life across the street and across the globe.

Moishe Alexander is dedicated to help build a better Jewish future.