MW is a young women who lost a parent in a terrorist attack. ATZUM supplied her with a computer to help facilitate her studies.

November 2008

Dear Karyn,

I think of ATZUM a lot. Without the computer, I wouldn’t be able to accomplish anything as it’s required for all my studies and without it I would not be able to learn. It is the best gift/help I have ever received.

It’s very hard to both work and study. With the computer I can watch a class live, send in my work… In short, the computer is a life saver for me.

MW

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Daniel Gabay, a student at the Arts and Sciences High School in Jerusalem, volunteered with ATZUM during the 2005-6 academic year. Daniel tutored a teenager whose family tragically lost two children.

In June 2007, Daniel received the school’s mathematics award of success and is going to Switzerland to represent Israel in a worldwide competition of excellent math students. Speaking at the award ceremony, Daniel said that his volunteer work with ATZUM had an important impact on his scholastic success. He said that it’s not only what one learns in the classroom that helps a person improve his or her skills but also what one does outside of the classroom.

Below is a letter from Daniel to ATZUM thanking us for giving him the opportunity to volunteer.

Dear Roberta,

A year ago I met a young teenager through your organization – ATZUM. During that year I met him once a week for few hours in my school. I taught him mathematics and spoke with him about graphs and equations, but most of all I tried to simply be there for him. We became friends, and although the idea was of me teaching him, it soon became mutual.

I want to thank you and to thank the entire organization for giving me the opportunity to give something to others. Though I spoke with you only several times, I always felt free to call and ask you for some advice.

I can only hope that more people will have the opportunity to guide others, and that your organization will continue its blessed activities.

Thanks for everything,

Daniel Gabay

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February 14, 2007

Thank you for all the good things that you do for me. I will never forget the help that ATZUM is giving me

I want you to know that when I finish my learning it will be my pleasure and honor to join ATZUM one day in helping other people with what I am learning today.

God bless you

God bless ATZUM

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June 15, 2005

Dear Precious People at ATZUM and Gracious Donors,

We wanted to express what is in our hearts:

Thank you for the donations.
Thank you for the warm caring and the deep worry -
Even if you (the donors) don’t know us personally.

On the days when the darkness is greater than the light;
On the days when it seems like all hope is lost;
On the days when we find ourselves wrestling with the most simple things in life;
In these days we found a ray of light in people: good, caring and thoughtful people that you are.

Thank you to all the donors for the donations that supported our family of eight people.

There are no words to thank you.

We pray that HaShem (God) will protect you. May you merit to do many more good deeds.
We send a special thank you to the righteous Roberta, HaShem should protect her.

The D Family

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January 2006

To Levi and to the Entire ATZUM Staff,

All of your acts of kindness are done with only the purest intentions. It is wonderful that you would never ignore the cries for help of anyone and that you are attuned to the concerns of even the smallest individuals who are struggling to survive. You do all that is in your power to assist those in need by bringing their concerns to the attention of those who are in a position to assist them.

I therefore want to modestly tell you how much I value the fact that you are there to listen to me and to give me help that comes out of your concern for others!

Throughout my entire complicated and difficult life, I never merited to have this love and caring. For someone whose life was so hard that loneliness came knocking on her door, I know how to value this.

I wish you a Happy Hannukah!!!
And hope that your homes will be filled with light.

With Many Thanks,
NG

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November 11, 2004

Dear ATZUM,

I’d first like to say that no words of gratitude can possibly express how grateful I am to you for all the help that you have given me. I can’t possibly explain how wonderful it is to meet people like you who are like an island of peace and sanity, that represent for me what the world should be like. I wish that everyone could have the opportunity to meet people like you. I’d like to specifically thank Roberta Bernstein, who accompanied me along the way since I came in contact with ATZUM, who does her work in the best fashion – even better then the best! Similarly, I’d like to thank Nomi Roth Elbert who gives me such warmth and caring.

Your assistance has helped me with my studies (through the computer that you gave to me half a year ago). The money that you gave to me to help purchase a car, was such a huge help. I hope to be able to return some of the love, warmth and caring that you gave to me through my volunteering with a family in the Sderot area. Through this volunteer experience, my car that you helped me to purchase can serve other people by giving them the same spark of light that you gave to me and continue to give to me all the time.

May you always have the ability and strength to be able to do the holy work that you do. I am thrilled that you have enabled me to volunteer and therefore I feel that I can join with your organization by giving from myself to others.

Thank you very, very much for everything!

TD (A young woman whose father was killed in a terror attack)