Op-Ed: Taking Responsibility for your Family Finances

by Lazer Avtzon

For the past 18 years, the Global Jewish Assistance & Relief Network (GJARN), an international humanitarian assistance organization I founded in 1992, has helped hundreds of thousands of people throughout the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and since 2000 in Israel.

Due to the economic crisis, and with donations declining on a regular basis, I began looking into credit repair and loan modifications, first as means of helping many of our donors who were facing difficult times, and more lately, as a means to supplement my personal income, while I continue to manage directing Global Jewish on a greatly reduced salary.

Day by day, I am shocked to discover local families who outwardly seem to be faring well, to actually be on the verge of home foreclosures, tanking credit, over burdened with debt, etc.

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CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute is happy to present a Beautiful Photo of the Rebbe Davening Shacharis in the late 1970’s. To learn more about the Rebbe Visit: www.portraitofaleader.org

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The Jewish Week

If you regularly run laps around Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on Sunday mornings, or Thursday evenings, you might pass a pack of bearded men, with one striding confidently in front. This is Chaim Backman, the leader of the TriChai Triathlon Club, the first triathlon group geared specifically to Orthodox Jews.