Media Coverage
Bethesda Magazine "The Alchemist" - January 2012
Jewish Week “I Met Heroes of Israel” - April 22, 2009
Israel supporters rally near Obama hotel – JTA: January 11, 2009
Operation Embrace Sderot 2008 video
Washington Jewish Week “Glimpsing Hope Amid Terror, UMD program exposes students to Sderot’s agony” – November 19, 2008
Operation Embrace Partners with the Elie Wiesel Foundation
Washington Jewish Week “Turning Rockets into Vessels of Hope” – July 17, 2008
Jerusalem Post “Maryland, Ra’anana ‘embrace’ Sderot” – May 29, 2008
Foxman Post Traumatic Stress Disorder group received embrace at Rambam in Haifa – March 2008
University of Maryland, Mitzpeh Israeli ‘Hero’ Recounts Suicide Attack – December 2007
The Jewish Voice and Opinion “Operation Embrace Gives Financial and Emotional Support to Israeli Victims of Arab Terror” – December 2007
The Washington Jewish Week “We Are Survivors Not Victims” – November 22, 2007
Gazette.Net “Israeli Terror Survivors Thank Potomac Group” – November 21, 2007
The Washington Jewish Week “Kids helping kids be kids JCCGW campers embrace their peers in Sderot” – July 20, 2007
Jerusalem Post “US Jews arrive to assist Sderot Kassam victims” – November 19, 2006
Jewish Women International Magazine Aviva Tessler, Aiding Israel’s Terror Victims -Fall 2006
KMS Activities in Support of Israel
JTA – Women To Watch – WJW “Jewish beliefs, overcoming obstacles common themes for female honorees” -De.c 20, 2006
Washington Jewish Week “Philanthropists in training CESJDS students make bar/bat mitzvah grants” -Dec. 13, 2006
Washington Jewish Week “Operation Embrace to meet missile victims” -November 23 2006
Jerusalem Post “US Jews arrive to assist Sderot Kassam victims." -November 19, 2006
Washington Jewish Week “Most of all, the World needs dreamers who do” -December. 8, 2005
Jerusalem Post “Katsav calls for better coordination in helping victims of terrorism” -November 29, 2005
Washington Jewish Week “Ohr Kodesh embraces terror victim“-August 18, 2005
Washington Jewish Week “Teddy’s with a message” – May 19, 2005
Washington Jewish Week “Finding Extra purpose on a trip to Israel” -March 31, 2005
Washington Jewish Week “Honoring healers,educators and the arts” -December 9, 2004
Potomac Gazette “Operation Embrace aids Israeli victim of terrorism” -November 23, 2004
Gazette ” Women ‘embrace’ victims of terrorism” – June 9,2004
Jerusalem Post “American Jewish women visit victims of terror” -May. 13, 2004
Washington Jewish Week "Embracing the Holiday Spirit" -4/1/2004
Washington Jewish Week “Face of terror Operation Embrace holds panel with victims, Maryland police” – November 13, 2003
Ladies Home Journal “Comfort in crisis” -August Issue
Jewish Bulletin News “U.S. grassroots effort ‘embraces’ terror victims”
Jerusalem Post “Operation Embrace shows terror victims the power of love” -November 6, 2002
Atlanta Jewish Times “Grassroots Activism In Atlanta and around the nation, individuals raising funds for Israel”
Washington Post ”Group Aids Survivors of Violence” -August 15, 2002
Montgomery County Journal “An Intimate International Embrace” -May 21, 2002
Washington Jewish Week “Faces of terror attacks Local network embraces Israel’s survivors” -May 16, 2002
Jerusalem Post “Operation Embrace-Efrait Ravid, receives a Laptop Computer” -May 10, 2002
Washington Jewish Week “Operation Embrace aids terror victims” -November 15, 2001