December 31, 2007 / 22 Tevet  5768

Adam Silverman (in orange sweater) of New York City, whose family are members of the Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan, donated over $40,000 of his Bar Mitzvah gifts to the Jewish Agency for Israel`s athletics and tennis activities among Ethiopian immigrant children from the Jewish Agency`s absorption center in Mevasseret Tzion, near Jerusalem. The gift is within the framework of the UJA Federation of New York`s, "Give a Mitzvah, Do a Mitzvah" project.

Photo credit: Brian Hendler