Lisa M. Pollack, at The Blogs

Jan 2, 2024, 9:46 AM

Comfort and Strength at Neve Hanna Children’s Home During Wartime

Bomb shelter at Neve Hanna Children's Home. Photo: Lisa Pollack

We provide comfort and strength in this dire moment in the history of the State of Israel and Am Yisrael. American Friends of Neve Hanna stands with Israel and the IDF as they protect their citizens. We keep the children...

Jan 1, 2024, 10:59 PM

Neve Hanna: The School Year 2022-2023 In Review

Neve Hanna Children's Home. Photo: Lisa Pollack

American Friends of Neve Hanna is grateful for the love and support of our friends and community. We take a look back on the year 2022-2023, an incredible time of growth, challenges and impact at Neve Hanna Children’s Home...

Jan 1, 2022, 11:28 AM

2021: A Year of Growth and Impact at Neve Hanna Children’s Home

American Friends of Neve Hanna is grateful for the love and support of our friends and community. We take a look back on 2021, an exciting year of growth and impact at Neve Hanna Children's Home. All projects feed every...

Jun 8, 2021, 2:04 AM

Welcome to the Path to Peace program at Neve Hanna Children’s Home

Neve Hanna Children's Home. Photo: Staff

The NEVE HANNA Children's Home is privileged to cherish a Shared Community of Jews, Muslims and Christians. We keep on furthering our communal life characterized by tolerance, mutual respect and peaceful coexistence and consider our Shared Community as a...

Mar 27, 2021, 12:40 AM

Post Covid: New normalcy at NEVE HANNA

The past year has been quite a challenging time for the children of NEVE HANNA due to the COVID-19 pandemic but it did not stop us. When it was necessary to make significant changes in the children’s daily routines...

Mar 19, 2021, 12:11 AM

At Neve Hanna, the road to knowledge begins with a turn of a page

The Neve Hanna Library. Photo: Volunteer staff member.

It has been a challenging time for the children of NEVE HANNA due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When it was necessary to make significant changes in the children's daily routines and keep the campus virus-free, NEVE HANNA relied on...

Dec 17, 2020, 11:57 PM

COVID-19 Did Not Stop Neve Hanna Children’s Home

Rabbi Liron Levy-Rosensaft and the children at Neve Hanna celebrating Hanukkah in December 2018. (courtesy)

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights and miracles, reminds us of the importance of family and friends, a time for solidarity and community, a time for redemption and rededication. These sentiments hold more meaning as we look back on this...

Aug 25, 2020, 2:59 PM

Welcome to the Neve Hanna Yeladudes Bakery

The Yeladudes Bakery. Photo: Meira Gurai Raz

In 2006, the idea to establish the Yeladudes Bakery came after Director Dudu Weger and Founder Hanni Ullman z“l of the Neve Hanna Children's Home, visited the Hershey Company in Hershey, Pennsylvania. They were inspired by how Milton Hershey...

Jul 7, 2020, 9:12 PM

Jerusalem goes to Neve Hanna

In ancient times, when the Jewish temple existed, pilgrims from all over the world came to celebrate the holidays of Pesach, Sukkot and Shavuot in Jerusalem. This year, 2000 years after the second temple was destroyed, the Neve Hanna...

Jun 1, 2020, 2:49 PM

Streetlight: Children spreading light throughout the community

Neve Hanna Children’s Home, in Kiryat Gat, Israel, provides a loving home for at-risk children from dysfunctional families. In 2009, with the initiative of a staff member, a group gathered, to begin a Teenage “Good Deeds” Youth Welfare Club...

About Me

Lisa Pollack is Executive Director of American Friends of Neve Hanna, a non-profit children's organization associated with the Neve Hanna Children's Home in Kiryat Gat, Israel. Neve Hanna provides a warm and loving home for at-risk youth from disadvantaged families. With its individualized therapeutic programs and projects, Neve Hanna Children’s Home strives to meet all the physical, emotional, mental and educational needs of its children. Lisa is the former newsletter Copy Editor and Publicity Consultant for Congregation L'Dor V'Dor, Little Neck, New York. Lisa has community ties within the Jewish Community including Masorti, Aepi, StandWithUs, MERCAZ-USA, Women's League for Conservative Judaism, and the Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs. She is also a Public Speaker, Israel Advocate, Activist, Photographer and Writer.