Bears from Bergenfield: Bears for traumatized children who need comfort or don't have any toys to hug.

 We offer an opportunity to do hesed, gimilut hasadim, "hands on mitzvah" in a fun, creative, and fulfilling way.

1) Organize a stuffed toy drive at your school, religious center, or youth group. After you collect and sort through the toys, organize a fundraiser to pay the costs of shipping to Israel.

 2) We can be hired to provide your child with a teddy bear stuffing party for as little as $10 per completed stuffed animal set,(when you order 50 or more- $12.50 per set for 50 and under, includes shipping to Israel), or show him/her  how to run a collection for gently used and much loved stuffed animals and collect them for us. We also offer yarn for knitting bear parties.

 

 We make having a bat/bar mitzvah or birthday party easy. No muss and no fuss. Upon hiring us, we will provide you with the animal skins, stuffing, hearts,  birth certificates, and the markers to be used to fill out the birth certificates and help your guests write get well cards.

 We also offer our services to girl/boy scout troops, youth groups, and classroom settings to support the teachers teaching about hesed.

On your next trip to Israel, consider collecting your own toys or take our toy donations,1) get an email from me, sent from El Al, allowing you to bring the extra (3rd) duffle for only $100, 2) get the check from me, 3)and fly them on El AL to Ben Gurion airport to Betty and Ed Wolfe of Kfar Saba for distribution or 4)bring them to a donation site of your own choosing.You can also help us all save the money by taking a duffel to Israel yourself when you go! We usually have 5-10 duffels of toys ready to go. Please help us get the toys to Israel!

We also ship, as part of a consolidated shipment, @$100 per linen box, plus a small fee for door to door delivery to Kfar Saba. You can drop off your donations by us and we will bring the donations to the lift drop off.

YOU can also order a Share with Claire's bears; BEARS FROM BERGENFIELD baseball cap for only $15 or a t-shirt for $20. (designed by our Beth Sholom students).

It is good to share with Claire's bears. Come join the growing Bears from Bergenfield family. I can be reached at 551-804-8749 or my email is lgcg98@aol.com.