Welcome to Standing Together’s B’Mitzvah Campaign.

Thanks for choosing to mark your special year by helping us to provide those of “little extras” to soldiers on army bases in Israel. Those small gestures which let the chayalim know how much we love them and appreciate their efforts to keep us safe and secure: ice cream, pizza, a seder whilst on patrol, a warm undershirt, water pouches or a special unit backpack.

Standing Together’s unique Bar/ Bat Mitzva project combines two important Mitzvot of Gmilut Chassadim (loving kindness for others) and Hakarat Hatov (expression of gratitude). These two Mitzvot develop an understanding of the importance of two central values in the development of a young person living in our “I-centric” society today. Reinforcing that in the midst of our personal celebration, we need to think of others and thank them for all that they do for us.

We know that you can think of many ways to raise funds for this special cause, like bake sales and car washes. Standing Together will help you to get your friends and family involved in contributing towards this cause too.

The idea is for this to be a grassroots campaign, where people give what they can and spread the word to their friends and family. You are now visiting our Bar/Bat Mitzvah campaign on Rootfunding, please login and click on create a branch campaign, set your goal at $1800. Write a few personal words in the message box telling your friends and family about the 5 Standing Together Projects, (www.stogether.org/programs/) which you have decided to sponsor throughout the year as your BMitzvah Tzedakka Project. Be sure to tell them to click on Learn More to read all about Standing Together.  Ask for their support to make this happen, load a picture of yourself, and send the message out to all your contacts. Let us know if you need help info@stogether.org.

Send these messages out to your family and friends a few times throughout the year, whenever it is time for your next project; such as donuts for Channuka or warm clothing for winter. In this way we can continue to provide tokens of gratitude to young soldiers in order to make their service more pleasant.

David Landau.

Director

Standing Together

247idf@gmail.com

050-5580822