In classic AMIT-style, Yeshivat AMIT Ashdod 9th grader Dannel M. turned the health “crisis into an opportunity,” corralling students and friends into a nationwide chesed effort to help quarantined seniors and others.
AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled was recently honored for its decades-long work with some of Israel’s most vulnerable children: The surrogate-family home was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for education at the 17th Jerusalem Conference.
When we sit down at the Seder this year and recite the Ma Nishtana, Why is this night different from all others? – it won’t be because of the matzah, or the bitter herbs, the dipping, or the reclining. In fact, those rituals will likely be familiar and comforting. What will be different this year is who will be there. For many, our moms, dads, children, grandchildren, favorite great-aunts, and once-a-year Seder friends won’t be there with us – painful medicine in the war against COVID-19.
