Myriam's Dream

Due to the depressed economic situation of many families, we know there are many disadvantaged children who arrive at school without a morning sandwich. The grandmothers of Beit Frankforter will arrive at sunrise each morning to make 500 sandwiches for the junior children who attend the local schools. We need sponsors who will donate $6 [...]

Retirees interaction with soldiers – The army has a project for interaction between elderly in Eilat and soldiers at nearby bases. Each day 8 retirees are taken by a minibus to a base where they talk to the soldiers, help them with little things like sewing buttons on uniforms, etc. and they share a lunch [...]

“DEMENTED, LONELY, MISERLY, ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE”…these were some of the associations raised by elementary school youth in a cross-generational survey done by CLICK, non-profi t senior centers in Hod Hasharon, Israel. We learned that children tend to describe the elderly as sad, depressed and close to death. This is also what Myriam Mendilow [...]

David B. Salzman, who served as Grants Chair of MYRIAM’S DREAM since its inception, died on April 14th in Sarasota, Florida where he made his winter home. Dave always devoted extra energy to organizations which provided services for the elderly. On his first trip to Israel in 1984, Dave spent a day with Myriam Mendilow [...]

Myriam’s Dream Bookbindery is busy this summer working on two big projects. The fi rst consists of 150 “Likrat Shabbat” prayer books for a synagogue in Yardley, PA. The books will receive new covers imprinted in English and Hebrew, the pages will be trimmed, the dog ears removed and dedication stickers inserted in each repaired [...]