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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Two Valley rabbis are preparing to question to the Middle East connected a ngo aimed astatine helping and healing.
Rabbi Rick Winer and his wife, Rabbi Laura Novak Winer, person taken galore trips to Israel successful their beingness and accidental since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas warfare successful October.
In a fewer weeks, they volition beryllium starring a radical with the ngo of helping arsenic galore radical arsenic possible.
October 7th, the commencement of the Israel-Hamas War successful the Middle East, is simply a day hard to hide for galore passim the world, including Rick and Laura, who accidental Israel is similar their 2nd home.
"This onshore is truthful important to truthful galore antithetic people, and those roots are past and historical for everybody, and we should beryllium capable to unrecorded unneurotic arsenic neighbors with respect and peace," Laura said.
In mid-February, Laura traveled to Israel for 5 days with a radical of Jewish educators from astir the country.
Their ngo was to carnivore witness, perceive stories, volunteer, and enactment those successful need.
"I was successful the marketplaces and talking with the shopkeepers, and they don't cognize me, and I don't cognize them, but we person this transportation due to the fact that of who we are arsenic members of the planetary Jewish assemblage and conscionable crying unneurotic astir the pain," Laura explained.
She says each idiosyncratic she talked to has a story, including a young miss who shared however she spent her day erstwhile the warfare started.
"She volition ever retrieve that her 9th day was spent successful a sealed country with her family," Laura said.
In June, Laura and her hubby volition caput to Israel with the aforesaid ngo of lending a helping manus successful concern with a synagogue successful the Midwest.
They're besides looking guardant to learning astir the bid and reconciliation enactment she says galore are dedicating their lives to...with the extremity of normalcy and peace.
"Being capable to past stock it arsenic we travel backmost present is important and gives radical anticipation that is indispensable during challenging times," Rick said.
The mates volition pb the radical of volunteers successful mid-June.
If you would similar to larn much astir the mission, you tin telephone Temple Beth Israel.
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