Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund

I often try to find the delicate balance between my current events commentaries and my reports about the latest  happenings with our children’s projects. As the saying goes, there is never a dull moment in Israel. Yet, despite the fact that people enjoy reading my news updates,  sometimes my urge to comment on the latest news reports takes over. It often takes a gentle reminder from a friend/supporter to blog about what’s new with the children (so thank you Michelle!).  Feedback from the readers, whether through comments on-site or off, is always welcome.

The Music Therapy program is literally bursting at the seams! While I would be very happy if the need for this program would disappear, the recent increase in terror shooting attacks on the roads, as seen in the recent murder of a kindergarten teacher, a father of seven children, has only increased the demand for our services, and the therapy with music program is one of the most popular. We have close to one hundred children being treated in that program alone in the course of a month, which has necessitated the evacuation of a storage room to enable the creation of a second Music Therapy Room in the Center, so we can have simultaneous music treatments in two separate rooms designed specifically for music. This of course will increase our equipment and infrastructure needs, as we will need to duplicate most of the instruments, as well as acoustically insulating the rooms so they won’t disturb the treatments in the other rooms. This will require the partnership of our beloved friends and supporters and, as always, a little help from above, but we will get there!

Here in Israel, we celebrate our New Year on Rosh HaShanah, which usually falls in September. Obviously, most of the Western world celebrates New Year’s Day on January 1st, and therefore, I want to wish all of you a happy, a healthy, and a spiritually uplifting year!

David Rubin

Shiloh, Israel