Last year, Brad and I participated in the Ride For The Living (RFTL) supporting the Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Krakow, Poland. It was an amazing experience, and through your generous support, we raised significant funds for the JCC. This year, we'll be supporting RFTL with a satellite, 60-mile ride through New York City, stopping by as many Jewish sites as we can to connect with Jewish history, culture, and community, past and present.
Our ride will be a powerful tribute to Jewish resilience and renewal, and will continue our support against antisemitism.
It may surprise you that just an hour from Auschwitz, Jewish life has been reborn and thriving for almost two decades. Today, 80 years after the Holocaust, JCC Krakow is home to 1,200 members, including 56 Holocaust survivors, dozens of young families, children attending the first Jewish preschool in Krakow since the war, and an entire movement of young people just now discovering their family's long-suppressed Jewish heritage.
This community’s strength reaches far beyond its gates: JCC Krakow has supported more Ukrainian refugees than any other organization of its kind in the entire world. Having been victims only 80 years ago, this community has a special understanding of the responsibility to save others, and they’ve now supported over 500,000 Ukrainians since Russia’s invasion.
Ride For The Living is JCC Krakow’s largest annual fundraiser, and we would be grateful for your support as we embark on this physical and spiritual journey to uplift the JCC’s mission of building a vibrant, welcoming, and compassionate community.
Here is a link to help Brad and me support the Krakow JCC.
Let's build a brighter Jewish future in Krakow together and fight Antisemitism!
With Gratitude,
David & Brad