Oak Park Temple
B'nai Abraham Zion

1235 N. Harlem Avenue
Oak Park, IL 60302
(708) 386-3937

Echad la Echad - Israeli teens visit Oak Park!

Read all about the 2005 Cantor's Mission to Israel. Also see Sheri's Israel Photo Gallery

committee for fairness in the middle east sponsors speakers at various local venues. .

An Answer to the New Anti-Zionists: The Rights of the Jewish People to a Sovereign State in Their Historic Homeland

High School Juniors : study Judaisim in Israel as a Bronfman Youth Fellow this coming summer. Fellowships are awarded based on merit.

details about the ARZA trip to Israel (pdf)

Ideas on how you can help Support Israel

Sar-El Volunteers for Israel

A thoughtful OpEd by our own Chaya Gil

A Brief Primer on Israel (pdf file)-- Especially to be shared with older students

Buy Israeli Products! The Oak Park Temple Sisterhood Giftshop has a very nice selection of Israeli made products. You can also visit www.buyisraelgoods.org for a list of products made in Israel, as well as links to sites selling Israeli made products, or you can order some items directly from www.onlyIsraeli.com or Jerusalem Mall. Other sites where you can find Israeli products or suggestions for finding them locally: AllJudaica.com, The Israeli Partnership, Action Israel

Other ways to show your support:

• Visit the Magen David Adom Web site and find out the latest news in ISRAEL. Visit this site frequently. As the news changes in ISRAEL, so will this home page.
• Support NA'AMAT ( a Hebrew acronym for "Movement of Working Women and Volunteers,") an organization & a movement striving to enhance the quality of life for women, children and families in Israel, the U.S. and around the world.

For a number of links to keep you up to date on Israel and the Middle East, see:

Ha'aretz
Ma'ariv
Yediot Ahronot
Globes
Jerusalem Post

UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITIES ISRAEL EMERGENCY CAMPAIGN GAINS SUPPORT FROM REFORM MOVEMENT. See web site at http://uahc.org/pr/2002/020429.shtml

• AIPAC (American Israel PAC) advocates for the continued strong relations and mutual interests between the U.S. and Israel.
• The National Hillel website provides articles from all major Israeli newspapers reflecting a range of Israeli perspectives and analysis of the news, as well as programs
  in Israel and cultural information about Israel.
• Peace Now provides news & information from a left-of-center Israeli perspective.
• New Israel Fund
• Transcripted excerpt from FOX News Sunday, April 21, 2002, about Clinton's failed peace summit at Camp David.
• The Near East Report is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's biweekly newsletter on American Middle East policy.

Also, in Chicago,

• PeaceNow listserve developed by APN Sam Fleischacker and Doni Remba to share news and information, etc., on Israel and the occupied territories. Also here is an additional very good source also containing opinion essays and analysis concerning Israel and America's war on terrorism.
• www.me-ontarget.com -teachers Elliot Chodoff &Yisrael Neeman from Israeli org
  Livnot. Indepth analysis.
• American Jewish Committee - forbackground, data, opinion
• United Jewish Communities - breaking news from different press services including Agence France Press, which I find more objective than either AP or Reuters)
• www.camera.org - critical reports on bias individual news stories and news org.