JUST DON’T SAY “NO”!
It is possible – and definitely more effective – to take a positive approach to teaching children how to spend and save, rather than just telling them what they cannot have. That was the message of “Money and Kid$,” a Mesila workshop for mothers held in Sanhedria Murhevet, Jerusalem. Following an introduction by Rabbi Yitzhak […]
DAY-CARE PROVIDERS PROVIDING FOR THEMSELVES
A four-session Mesila workshop in Bnei Brak is empowering 200 women who are self-employed in childcare and other professions, with essential skills in financial planning. The course illustrates the strong and long-lasting impact of Mesila’s courses for young adults: it was initiated at the suggestion of a young woman who took Mesila’s seminary course several […]
TEACHERS TRAIN AND GAIN
On Chanukah, some 80 teachers who teach Mesila curricula in junior high schools, high schools and seminaries across Israel participated in a one-day training seminar at the Beit Hamoreh teacher training institute in Bnei Brak. The women learned new techniques for teaching financial concepts and reported their experiences and challenges from the field. Building on […]
FAMILY COUNSELORS PUT THEIR HEADS TOGETHER
A series of brainstorming sessions at Mesila headquarters in Jerusalem is giving Mesila’s family counselors opportunities to expand their skills and learn from one another’s experiences. Two sessions have taken place this winter under the leadership of R. Yisroel Gutman, director of the family counseling department. In addition to learning from their peers, the sessions […]
CHANUKAH GELT
Over Chanukah school vacation, Mesila piloted its first financial “happening” aimed at teaching basic economic concepts to young children in kindergarten and early elementary school. Some 180 youngsters and their parents participated in the fair, held at a Bnei Brak school and organized in partnership with the municipal welfare department and the Otzma volunteerism center. […]
B’MESILAH NA’ALEH 7 CELEBRATES MESILA ACCOMPLISHMENTS
More than 350 Mesila supporters, friends and activists came together to take pride in Mesila’s accomplishments at the seventh annual B’Mesila Na’aleh dinner, held at the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem. Creative content, presentations and testimonials made the evening into a motivational and inspirational experience. Mesila honored Mod’in Illit mayor, Rabbi Yaakov Gutterman, for his dedication […]
WEDDINGS WITHOUT WOES
Participants in a Mesila course for engaged couples and their parents in Modi’in Illit, received a prototype of a new Mesila guide to planning and budgeting for weddings. Written and compiled by Mesila’s family counseling division, the guide will be revised for future distribution.
CHABAD HOUSES, MESILA STYLE
They might be dedicated to helping others, but Mesila is showing Chabad Houses in Israel that they can help themselves as well! Some 100 directors of Israeli Chabad Houses attended a lecture on smart management given in Jerusalem by Moshe Elias, who heads Mesila’s business division. In response to an overwhelming request for more extensive […]
ON THE PERIPHERY: HEALTHY BUSINESSES WITH ISRAEL’S HEALTH MINISTER
Israel’s health minister Rabbi Yaakov Litzman got a close look at Mesila activity in Israel’s periphery as he visited a session of a course for local businesspeople in Arad, run by Mesila in partnership with the government’s MAOF agency for small businesses. Rabbi Litzman expressed his admiration for the depth of the material covered by […]
MESILA IN MONTREAL
An audience of several hundred people in Montreal responded enthusiastically to a presentation by Mesila director Shmuli Margulies and R. Lazar Carmel, director of Mesila’s international relations department, that raised awareness about Mesila’s approach to achieving financial stability. In a meeting that followed, community leaders requested that Mesila introduce courses for chossonim and kallos as […]