Erev Yom Tov is full of lists.
The menus, the recipes. Setting a table that feels just right. Hostess gifts if you’re away, or the perfect simanim-inspired desserts if you’re staying in. Clothes for the kids, shoes that (hopefully) fit until Sukkos, something new for yourself too.
We know. Because we’re right there with you.
But while we’re busy preparing all the things that make Yom Tov beautiful, there’s one vital preparation that can’t be left out:
Why? Because right now in Israel…
There are thousands of families that are not picking out meats or shopping for new shoes.
They’re wondering if they’ll have enough for chicken, or even challah.
That’s why each year before the Yamim Noraim, American Friends of Yad Eliezer/B’ezri runs a $3 million+ High Holiday campaign—a trusted initiative that thousands of donors worldwide join in supporting to help 7,700+ families prepare for Yom Tov with dignity:
- $1.2M is going to 850 widows and their 6,000+ children
- $1.2M to 3,500 struggling families, including 800 single mothers
- $700K in food aid to 3,360 soldiers from disadvantaged homes, including 660 reservists still serving on the frontlines
What Your Gift Does
When you give before Rosh Hashanah, you’re not just filling a table with food—you’re filling a home with dignity, relief, and the message that they’re not forgotten.
That’s the power of the mitzvah of tzedakah: it changes someone else’s Yom Tov, and it changes the way you enter yours.
This Yom Tov, prepare beautifully.
The outfits, the table, the food.
And prepare meaningfully—with a gift that lasts beyond the Yom Tov table.
Check off your final preparation, donate at bezri.org/yomtov
Because the best way to begin a sweet new year is by making sure another family can enter it with simcha too.
