Their Child Is Fighting Illness.
They’re Fighting to Afford
Rosh Hashanah.
While parents sit at a child’s bedside,
your gift can put food on their Yom Tov table.
Help feed 300+ families facing medical crisis during the High Holidays.
Bring food, clothing, and the warmth of Yom Tov home. Together, we can heal Israel.
Jamie Geller shares why Or Lacholeh’s work matters.
One Mother. Hundreds of Families Like Hers.
Noa, a mother of three, leaves the hospital after another long day of treatments for her 5-year-old child.
She wants her children to walk into Rosh Hashanah with clean clothing, food on the table, and a home that still feels warm — as if Yom Tov (Holiday) is really coming.
But she is exhausted.
The bills are waiting. The fridge is empty.
And after weeks of fear, there is no strength left to figure it out alone.
Noa is one mother. Her family is one of hundreds who need help before Rosh Hashanah.
Your gift can help families facing illness enter the holiday with food, clothing, and the support they need—so they do not have to face it alone.
Your Tzedakah (donation) Gives More Than Food
Sometimes relief is a hot meal after a long hospital day. Sometimes it is groceries bought without shame, a child entering Yom Tov in new clothes, or help with an urgent household need.
And sometimes, it means looking beyond survival: a Chol Hamoed outing, a birthday celebration, or one meaningful dream made possible for a child who has already been through so much.
Your gift tells a family in crisis: You are not alone. We are here with you.
Behind Every Medical Crisis Is a Family Trying to Hold On
One phone call can change everything overnight.
Hospital visits replace homework and family routines.
A parent may need to stop working. Bills rise. Income disappears.
Everyday necessities suddenly become impossible to afford.
For families already carrying the fear and exhaustion of illness, Rosh Hashanah brings even more pressure:
Food for the table.
Clothing for the children.
Travel to treatment.
Another bill that cannot wait.
While other families prepare for the holiday, these parents are doing everything they can just to keep their family going.
Your gift can provide food, practical support, and relief when they need it most.
Choose the gift that can help a sick child’s family enter the New Year with dignity and hope
One-Time GivingÂ
$54
Help Yael’s Family
Provide hot meals for two days so an exhausted mother can focus on healing — not where dinner will come from — while her brave little boy battles leukemia.
$100
Help the Schwartz Family
Sponsor part of a Sukkot Chol Hamoed outing so this family of four can create joyful memories together while their father recovers from surgery. Or provide help towards groceries.
$250
Help Noa’s Family

Provide holiday food vouchers so the family can shop with dignity and celebrate with joy while 10-year-old Noa battles cancer.
$500
Help Bracha’s Children

Provide food, clothing, and shopping vouchers for sweet new beginnings — giving them what they need for the holidays while their mother fights for her life.
$800
Help the Gold Family
Help provide therapy, tutoring, furniture, appliances, or critical holiday practical support for a family under pressure.
Monthly Giving
Serious illness does not end after one hospital stay. Families need steady care — meals, sibling support, therapy, tutoring, moments of joy, and relief from the daily pressure.
Monthly giving helps Or Lacholeh be there again and again, when families need it most.
$18
/month
Helps provide ongoing care and encouragement for families facing serious illness.
$36
/month
Helps build steady support for meals, hospital care, or practical relief for a family in crisis.
$54
/month
Helps sustain year-round care for families carrying the daily weight of serious illness.
$136
/month
(12-month commitment)
Adopt a Family for the Year
Give one family facing serious illness the steady support they need to keep going —
month after month.
You’ll receive private family updates, a personal message, and a few meaningful
surprises along the way.
Client names and faces are protected to respect family privacy.
Support for the Days
No One Can Prepare For
When serious illness turns a family’s life upside down, the entire family is affected. Or Lacholeh provides the practical help, emotional care, and ongoing support families need to get through the days no one can prepare for.


Through our network of care, we help lighten the physical, emotional, and financial burden so parents and caregivers can focus on healing and caring for the people who need them most.
Help a sick child feel like a child again.
Give urgent relief, hope, and joy to a family in crisis.
What Your Donation Makes Possible
Crisis Relief
Emergency meals, food, clothing, and shopping vouchers — when families have nowhere else to turn.
Healing & Growth
Therapy and tutoring Therapy and tutoring that rebuild confidence, restore hope, and strengthen futures.
Comprehensive Support
Ongoing home and hospital support, essential furnishings, and household help — month after month.
Dream Fulfillment
Making wishes come true and celebrating birthdays — moments of joy that carry children and families through the hardest days
Respite & Relief
Day outings, short getaways, live entertainment, fun days, and community events — giving families space to breathe, recharge, and reconnect.
Shabbos & Holiday Support
Shabbos care packages, vouchers, holiday help, and essential support that bring comfort, dignity, and stability during the hardest times.
Or Lacholeh provides careful support. Nothing loud. Nothing humiliating.

Just what a family needs to keep functioning while illness takes over everything else.
Your Gift Can Change a Family’s Story
Families in Crisis Across Israel Can’t Wait
Illness doesn’t end when families leave the hospital. When a parent stops working to care for a sick child, everyday needs quickly fall out of reach. Or Lacholeh quietly steps in — bringing food, relief, and chesed* families can rely on.
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The need is immediate. Families cannot do this alone.
Because relief means:
A full Shabbos table.
A calmer home.
A supported parent.
A child and family who feel cared for.
Give now so no family faces serious illness alone.
*Chesed: acts of kindness
Ready to help a family in crisis?
Your gift brings relief to families in crisis — and gives sick children moments of joy,
comfort, and childhood.
Choose your impact — honor someone, give monthly, or sponsor a program.
Join in the mitzvah of bikur cholim.
Milestone Celebrations
Mark special occasions by bringing hope to families in crisis.
