Noah Helfstein: Gives Bar Mitzvah Money to Help Israeli Children

TIKKUN OLAM is Hebrew for “repairing the world.” It is an important concept in Judaism: Human beings must strive to make the world a better, more just place.
 
On the occasion of his bar mitzvah last year, New Yorker Noah Helfstein donated the $76,000 in gifts he received to inspiring and educating kids in Israel, especially those from disadvantaged families. Even at 13, Helfstein was a budding scientist with a keen interest in Do-It-Yourself technology. (Among other accomplishments, he built his own 3D printer.) The money he donated — in conjunction with the UJA Federation of New York’s “Give a Mitzvah – Do a Mitzvah” program — helped fund a tour throughout Israel of the “Maker Bus,” a mobile technology lab. Helfstein hoped the bus tour would encourage young Israelis to become scientists, inventors and technology developers.
 
Source: Ynennews.com
 
Note: Additional inspiring stories of b’nai mitzvah generously acting to repair the world will appear in this space in the future.
 
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