November 13, 2009
Survival Kits For The Homeless
I'm curious how much good survival kits will do as most homeless are mentally ill? If they had a clue about how to take care of themselves, they wouldn't be homeless?
Filed under Homeless by Levi Ben Avraham
June 19, 2008
Tough Love For The Homeless
Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times
Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky, left, of B'nai David-Judea Synagogue in Los Angeles, chats with Bobby Alexander, who is homeless, on Pico Boulevard. Kanefsky, 44, helps the homeless, elderly and poor of the Pico-Robertson district.
Helping the poor of L.A.'s Pico-Robertson district is a good deed and a holy act, a rabbi says. But he knows he needs boundaries.
They began lining up in front of the synagogue well before sunrise.
The homeless, elderly and poor of the Pico-Robertson district — 100 of them — held up white registration cards as they shuffled through the doors of B'nai David-Judea.
Filed under Homeless by Levi Ben Avraham
At 11:45 a.m. (April 10, 2008) as I was preparing to snag my beauty rest in the sun, I got a message that I could get a free lunch at a local shul that feeds the homeless. It seemed like a good deal at the time. I had no idea it was going to be a fleishig (meat) meal.
Filed under Homeless by Levi Ben Avraham