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International Jewish AIDS Network
Jewish AIDS Memorial Day

[siehe Kalender]

In response to the growing number of Jewish people who have died of an AIDS-related illness, and the tendency of many people to think that the epidemic does not and has not affected the Jewish community, Rabbi H. Raphael Goldstein and Norman L. Sandfield, Co-chairs of the International Jewish AIDS Network announced a date for Jewish AIDS Memorial Day: Lev B'omer.

Lev B'omer is the 32nd day of the Omer, the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot which has traditionally been a season of mourning for the Jewish people. The Hebrew letters for 32, "lamed" and "bet" spell out the word "lev," which means "heart." A Jewish AIDS Memorial Day "touches directly the hearts and minds of all of us who have loved and lost people to AIDS, and will, we hope, touch the hearts of the people who have tended to ignore this growing, unending epidemic," said Rabbi Goldstein in making this announcement.

To see on which day Lev B'omer falls this year visit a jewish calendar site. "We are urging all synagogues and religious institutions in our Jewish communities to mark Jewish AIDS Memorial Day with special prayers of comfort and hope, and the opportunity to remember the people whose lives have touched our own, each in their own unique way," announced Sandfield. The International Jewish AIDS Network will gladly provide resources and advice on setting up memorial programs in communities throughout the Jewish community, in the United States and around the world.

Rabbi Goldstein is the Director of Los Angeles Jewish AIDS Services, a program of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles, and Mr. Sandfield is a Co-Chair of Jewish AIDS Network - Chicago, a grass roots organization, now affiliated with the AIDS Pastoral Care Network of Chicago.

For more information, or to indicate that your community or congregation will be participating in Jewish AIDS Memorial Day, please call Rabbi Goldstein at (213) 653-8313.

• Rabbi Rafael Goldstein
  Director Los Angeles Jewish AIDS Services
  6505 Wilshire Blvd., #502, Los Angeles, CA 90048
  (213) 653-8313 FAX: (213) 655-1978
  email: rafaeljas@aol.com
• Norman L. Sandfield
  Co-Chair Jewish AIDS Network - Chicago
  c/o AIDS Pastoral Care Network,
  4753 N. Broadway, Suite #800, Chicago, IL 60640-4907
  (773) 275-2626
  email: JANCatAPCN@aol.com
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Jewish AIDS Organizations

• http://jat-uk.org

  AIDS Project (Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco)

  • 1600 Scott Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
  • Contact: Jody Reiss, AIDS Project Director
  • Telephone: (415) 561-1241
• AIDS Special Project Fund (United Jewish Appeal Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of NY, Inc.)
  • AIDS Project, UJA-Federation, 130 East 59th Street, Room 695, New York, NY 10022
  • Contact: Simha Rosenberg, AIDS Project Coordinator
  • Telephone: (212) 836-1483
• Holy Blossom Temple AIDS Committee
  • 1950 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario M5P 3K9
  • Telephone: (416) 789-3291 - Fax: (416) 789-9697
• Israel AIDS Task Force
  • P.O.B. 867, 61008 Tel-Aviv ISRAEL
  • Telephone: +972 3 5661639
• Jewish Working Group on HIV/AIDS
  • c/o Jewish Information & Referral Service
    226 South 16th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
  • Telephone: (215) 893-5821
• Los Angeles Jewish AIDS Services (Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles)
  • 6505 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 608, Los Angeles, CA 90048
  • Telephone: (213) 653-8313 - Fax: (213) 655-1978
  • Contact: Rabbi Rafael Goldstein rafaeljas@aol.com
• Michigan Jewish AIDS Coalition (MJAC)
  • 21550 West 12 Mile, Southfield, MI 48076
  • Telephone: (810) 356-2123
• Stephen Kaufman AIDS Project
  • c/o Jewish Family Services
    5750 Park Heights Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21215
  • Director: Diane Israel
  • Telephone: (410) 466-9200
• Tzvi Aryeh AIDS Foundation
  • Box 150, New York, NY 10025
  • Telephone: (212) 866-6306
  • Contact: Hillel Brown TzviAryeh@aol.com
• UAHC/CCAR AIDS Committee
  • 1353 North Martel Avenue #213, Los Angeles, CA 90046
  • Contact: Rabbi Marc Blumenthal marcblumen@aol.com
  • Telephone: (213) 876-8283
• Volunteer Services to AIDS Clients (VSAC)
  (Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services)
  • 120 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019
  • Telephone: (212) 582-9100
• "Awakening the Jewish Heart" Pin (Jewish Family Services of Atlanta)
  • 1605 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309-2410
  • Telephone: (404) 677-9400 mailbox #101 - Fax: (404) 677-9300

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