by Katie Eacrett | Apr 10, 2023 | Reflections from Israel
Join me now, as I enter Ofra… This month, I visited the community of Ofra, one of the original Jewish communities in Samaria. In 1975, a group of idealistic pioneers, eager to settle in Samaria but consistently thwarted by the Israeli Government’s then...
by Katie Eacrett | Apr 1, 2023 | Reflections from Israel
Heart of Benjamin, in Ofra, urgently needs your help to cover the cost of its Passover camps for special-needs children. This important program provides love, a sense of normalcy, and a fun camp experience in the Biblical Benjamin region—something the children look...
by Kim Troup | Nov 10, 2020 | Newsletters, Reflections from Israel
Sondra Oster Baras and Danny Ehrlich are back in this exciting second episode of CFOIC Heartland’s Virtual Tours! Journey through the hills of Samaria to the community of Ofra, a place of extreme historical and Biblical significance and home to some of the greatest...
by Kim Troup | Aug 8, 2017 | Reflections from Israel
Ofra High School By: Shira Schwartz 8/8/2017 When I asked Yaffa to tell me about the girls she helps in Ofra, she had so many stories to tell, she had a hard time choosing. As the coordinator of the Immigrant Program at the Ofra High School for Girls, she speaks of...
by Kim Troup | May 2, 2017 | News from the Land
by Sondra Oster Baras May 2, 2017 As I write this newsletter I am sitting in front of the television, watching the ongoing documentaries about soldiers who fell in defense of their country, about victims of terror who were murdered because they were Jews living in the...
