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Sharing the warmth
Great Park youth involved in the bar- and batmitzvah programme, together with learners from King David, distributed over 1 000 blankets and jackets to children cared for by outreach organisation Afrika Tikkun.
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The children attending the handover at Uthandu Centre, sang and danced and expressed appreciation to the Jewish community. Blankets and warm coats will also be distributed at other Afrika Tikkun facilities.
Raelene Tradonsky has involved the King David Foundation in partnering with the community-wide Lag B’Omer event, at which the blanket drive took place.
Rabbi Dovid Hazdan of the Great Park Synagogue, said that there is no bar- or batmitzvah gift as valuable as the one we gave.