yep, when you open up the envelope and put aside the little russian proverb card/insert thingy (that has a pre-fabbed message saying "My Jewish Friend, Be assured, you have a true friend in America who is concerned for you and upon whom you can rely to help provide your physical needs. I want you to know I am praying for you. God bless and keep you in the days ahead." — Optional Signature) —- AHEM. yeah when you get to the actual letter/pitch in there it only takes ~1-2 paragraphs to get into the holocaust:
Paragraph 1 speaks about "Leah", an elderly jew in the soviet union ("and now this elderly jewish woman in the former soviet union does not know if she will have ==food to eat== or have ==heat to stay warm– during the year round cold and dampness"
paragraph 2 does what i think we all expected it to do
"Leah is all alone because her husband died in World War 2. And the Nazis, who invaded Russia during the war, killed her children. Sadly, she is also sick, and unable to walk without aid. Plus, she has no wheelchair."
"Leah is typical of thousands of older Jews in the former Soviet Union who are struggling to survive on meager government pensions of roughly ==$50 a month==, and even less in many cases. This makes it [u]impossible for them to buy food and heating fuel to stay warm[/u]"
from there they have it at $17/week to feed 1 person, $34/week to feed 2 people, and of course $51 for 3 and $68 for 4. obviously the costs of sending all these FIRST CLASS STAMPS (40 cents each) and printing out thousands to tens of thousands of these mailings wouldn't have gotten enough scratch to feed anyone…. cuz why use ALL OF YOUR $$$ to feed 30-300 elderly jews in need when you can simply forsake that $$$ and send this out to a whole lot of people and hopefully rope them in for $17-100+ each?
ah well, you know on the surface i don't mean to dive into the issue of charities as a whole, even tho i'm sure some of these sally struthers /.FEED THE CHILDREN things are making a few bucks on the side outside of JUST feeding ppl…. but still it's odd to get one for elderly jewish ppl in russia (of all places) and to pretty much blame the nazis for everything starting with killing off her kids (and husband?) in WW2 and then they forced her to stay in russia where evidently russian social security / pensions are shit and they get $50/month when it costs JUST $17/week to feed them, which is needed when it's $68/month to feed one person and they're only getting $50 (so no heat for them?)
near the end of the letter it says "==your gift of $17== will provide [u]a week's worth[/u] of meals for one desperate Jew in the former Soviet Union—–many of whom are Holocaust survivors!
so there we go… you gotta go to the 3rd to last paragraph on the back side of the letter, but we DID get the H word.
so comeon anons… netinyahu salutes you for helping…. and of course the holocaust killed their kids and mother Russia sends a subtle message of FUCK OFF AND DIE when it neglects their $17/week food costs to give them only $50/month. IT'S TIME TO MAKE UP FOR THE HATRED THAT YOU ALLOWED TO HAPPEN AND BRING ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST!
so send those $17-68+ donations to RABBI YECHIEL ECKSTEIN / International Fellowship of Christians and Jews* / PO Box 96105 / Washingtn DC 20090-6105
comeon anons… it's CURRENT YEAR. haven't you had ENOUGH of the anti-semitism that YOU allowed to happen rising up and claiming more jewish lives? if the nazis didnt kill them the soviet union and their chintzy lack of $$$ will…. and it's time to draw a line in the sand and instead of buying a bag of weed one week YOU CAN FEED 3 HUNGRY DESPERATE ELDERLY JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION!!!!
srsly user next time you spend $17+ on some dumb frivolous shit just KNOW that god is watching and st peter is gonna have a surpris for you at the pearly gates!