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Intergenerational Activities at Reuth’s Subsidized Community Housing – Perach Zahav Matanel

Aging can be a painful process as seniors contend with retirement, loss of friends and loved ones, a decline in functional ability, and more. As a result, many experience debilitating loneliness, and subsequently, a dramatic decline in their mental and physical health. The vision of the project is to improve the quality of life of underprivileged seniors who are living in Reuth’s subsidized community housing.

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Apr 2026
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Mar 2026
Congratulations to Petra Straga, winner of the prestigious  LIYSF prize sponsored by the Matanel Foundation with her Project : “Multilingual Minds, Delayed Neurological Decline ” Price remitted by Lionel Mamane, Matanel Foundation's advisor the 14th of March during the 55th National Jonk Fuerscher Contest in Luxembourg. Originally, this award was intended to offer the winner a summer internship at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel—one of the world’s leading centers for scientific research. So today, we would like to offer a sincere prayer for peace as an absolute necessity. For science, like music, is one of the few things that brings us together as human beings, across borders, languages, and conflicts. It knows no passport. And we hope that this prize will one day regain its special significance—and that these young people will, in a more peaceful world, be able to discover Israel.  
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Mar 2026

Testimonials

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Thank you letter from Yozmot Atid - Goal of 3000 successfull businesses

Women Creating their own Future, Israel

Today, after 4.5 years of hard work, I am proud to report that we have reached an amazing goal: We have enabled 3,000 women and men to establish their own successful businesses! Thanks to your generous support and our amazing staff and volunteers, we are making a real social and economic revolution in Israeli society.

 

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Se rire du destin, Farce pour Pourim

Nathan Weinstock

Le Rouleau d’Esther nous relate qu’Haman, haut dignitaire du roi perse Assuérus, avait projeté d’exterminer tous les Juifs du royaume, complot que surent déjouer in extremis la reine Esther et son cousin Mordekhay (Mardochée). Ce récit biblique est commémoré chaque année lors de la fête de Pourim (« du destin » ou « des sorts ») qui revêt l’allure d’une célébration carnavalesque. Depuis les Temps Modernes, l’usage s’est répandu dans le monde ashkénaze de donner à cette occasion des représentations dramatiques (les Purimshpiln), jeux de scène burlesques préfi gurant la naissance du théâtre yiddish au XIXe siècle. Le texte le plus ancien qui nous soit parvenu fut consigné par écrit en 1697 : il s’agit du « Jeu d’Assuérus », traduit ici pour la première fois.

The Saying of Matanel

The exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov