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Dec 29, 2021, 10:27 PM

Support Victims: Let not History Repeat Itself

Seven and a half years ago, we created Amudim with a mission: to give a voice to the victims of sexual abuse and eradicate stigmas so that those who had been victimized could get the help they needed to...

Jun 18, 2021, 4:07 PM

I couldn’t make this up if I tried

Israel Student Visas Potentially in Jeopardy as Wedding Fraud Creates A Chillul Hashem

Amudim has spent months working around the clock with various government agencies, to allow yeshiva and seminary students return to their studies in Israel. Baruch Hashem, the efforts were successful, but just like that, all that we have accomplished is potentially...

Mar 25, 2021, 12:14 AM

Celebrating Freedom

Pesach is all about freedom, a concept that has taken on new meaning for most of us given what the world has been like over the past 12 months. While we can’t honestly say that COVID is in our...

Feb 24, 2021, 6:22 PM

Lessons from a pandemic Purim

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to realize that Purim this year is going to be very different than usual. Normally, it’s tough to deal with the shortened day when Purim falls out on a Friday, but things...

Feb 8, 2021, 1:07 PM

I’ve been helping Orthodox Jews fight addiction and mental illness for decades. Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski made our work possible.

JTA — On Sunday, the Jewish community lost one of the biggest forces fighting for those who are suffering the most. At Amudim, a crisis intervention organization serving the Orthodox Jewish community, we have been humbled by the increasing number...

Feb 2, 2021, 4:15 PM

A Brilliant Torah Scholar and a Mental Health Giant

At Amudim, we know all too well just how hard it has been to get the Jewish community to accept the realities of mental health challenges and we have been humbled to see how the tide has turned in...

Sep 15, 2020, 5:19 PM

Channeling Our Inner Rabbi Amnon

We thought when we stood in shul last year on Rosh Hashana saying the words of U’nesane Tokef that we understood the full meaning of the prayer penned by Rabbi Amnon on his deathbed in Mainz centuries ago. How wrong...

Sep 6, 2020, 2:03 PM

Amudim Closes Temporary COVID Support Line

It wasn’t long after the first coronavirus case was confirmed in New York that Amudim realized that along with the physical threat posed by COVID, a devastating mental health crisis was about to unfold before our very eyes. By...

Jul 24, 2020, 10:46 PM

Tragedies – Past, Present and Future?

As we prepare to mourn the destruction of the Bais Hamikdash and numerous other communal tragedies that have befallen us throughout the generations, our thoughts naturally turn to understand how these matters relate to us both individually and collectively. Over...

Jun 28, 2020, 1:30 PM

A Bummer of a Summer?

Usually, June is that whirlwind time where the end of the school year looms large and weddings and graduations dot the calendar, the entire month awash in the excitement of sleepaway camp, beckoning enticingly in very near future. But this...

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About Me

Zvi Gluck is the CEO of Amudim, an organization dedicated to helping abuse victims and those suffering from addiction within the Jewish community, and has been heavily involved in crisis intervention and management for the past 20 years.