Dear Friends at CBB, Israel at War: New Daycare Opens at the Leo Baeck Education Center As I've already told some of you, last week the Leo Baeck Education Center opened a daycare for children whose parents are in the security forces, reserve army, police, or other essential services. Here in Israel, schools and [...]
Jason Raede: How You Can Help Support the 300,000 Israeli Reservists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGd5Kxwbim0 As you know we are dealing with an unprecedented call-up of reserve units to fight against Hamas. These are fathers, students, waiters, engineers, doctors, lawyers, construction workers…everyday people who have dropped everything to help defend the people of Israel from terrorism, [...]
By Ellen & Rob Raede Our son Jason served in the IDF in 2010-2011 as a sharp-shooter in the Givati Brigade. This week, after the Hamas attacks, about half of his old unit was called up from the reserves, but not Jason. In fact, because of certain rules, he’s exempt from being called up. [...]
At the One805 Live concert, fund raiser for Santa Barbara’s First Responders held at Kevin Costner’s ocean front estate a week ago, Prince Harry and Princess Megan awarded the “Heart of the Community” to CBB friend Adam McKaig. Adam heads up “Adam’s Angels,” the organization he founded in 2020 at the start of the pandemic. [...]