As Crown Heights residents prepare to spend the summer in the mountains or on a beautiful vacation, we have to have in mind our neighbors and families who unfortunately will be staying home in the hot city, and need our help simply to survive. We hear stories so sad you can’t even imagine, of people who don’t have money for basic food, clothing, medicine, therapy, the electric bill. As for ice cream from the truck in the summer, don’t even mention it.
“CSSY needs to raise between $8,000 and $10,000 per week, summer, winter, spring and fall, to support your needy Crown Heights neighbors, friends and relatives. As of now we are not meeting the demand for the people that need our help,” says the director Benzion Stock.
Other organizations collect money for Pesach or other seasonal extra expenses, but we’re in business every day of the year. With CSSY, everything is personal. We give out food coupons to people so they can buy what they need, not just what we might have at random in a storage place to give them.
CSSY needs your help now, even though it is tough with all the extra summer expenses. Please open your heart and your wallet and give very, very generously. Send us your check today, while you’re thinking of it, or log on to www.CSSY.org. Always remember, a poor person is just a rich person without money.
All members of Anash across the USA received an urgent mailing from CSSY this week. Please donate now and respond generously to this serious crisis.
We thank you in advance and wish you a happy, healthy, successful summer – a summer in which all your loved ones and neighbors will be able to enjoy a life of satisfaction and plenty.
Sincerely,
Benzion Stock
I was thinking the same thing….those of us that choose to stay in the city r we nebach cases? R we to be pitied that we actually have our priorities right that we first make sure our bills r paid and we dont ask for handouts…and thsts why we gave up going to the country
I was thinking the same thing….those of us that choose to stay in the city r we nebach cases? R we to be pitied that we actually have our priorities right that we first make sure our bills r paid and we dont ask for handouts…and thsts why we gave up going to the country
Please….just shut up, and stop nit-picking on the words of the article. CSSY is obviously constantly trying to raise money for a great cause. He was probably trying to reach out to all, ESPECIALLY to the ones that go upstate (suggesting that while they are enjoying themselves in their bungalows, remember your neighbors and community in the city…) People are always trying to criticize good work. I, personally, give here and there what I can, let it be mayser or stam tzeddaka – and at times, I feel I can possibly use their services…Kol hakovod, R’ Benjy.
Here we got poor folks and thank G-d, the Stock boy and others to give their selves over to help the needy. But most of you have to make judgements and a mockery of helping another Jew! Shame on you.
Mosh Cleve, Oh
which lake front homes? would like to go
How much cost to spend summer in the Castkills?
a family of 6 pr example
I believe your saying that all the hot shots in the country think they are living it up, when really the real smart vacationers would feel sorry for them. yes that true go check out America it got the most butiful lake front homes at cheap prices yet these people all pile up on top of each other.
don’t forget the fancy carriages, since when does a baby need to be pushed around in a 1,000 dollar or higher carriage and the mom wearing a 2,000 and higher shietel? ok so maybe it was a gift but don’t you feel embarrassed paying for your food with a benefit card and wic checks ?
stop buying your kids hunters, tory burch and uggs every day, and use the money for more important things!
BS”D oh brother, the request is for funds, why entire dissertations and comments on why and why not go to the country-one gets Benjys drift-help those who need it
There are many families in Crown Heights where both parents are working, sometimes more than one job each, who can’t make end meet. TUITION is the main reason (ironically, Benjy is one of those responsible for tuition in Bais Rivka.) so according to your reckoning, working families shouldn’t be entitled to help? Boy, you must be very comfortable. Maybe you can get of your soapbox and do as Shimshon always said: open your wallet, take out a dollar, and give CSSY the rest. And thank G-d you don’t need their help.
guys,
lets not get carried away, ive been to all the colonies the ones that have “green” or “mountains” in the name they are still modest, you could not get the super rich to agree to be poisoned in any of those places..no privacy no golf no slip for the boats yet they are chilling in front of 30-200 families like they hit the jackpot. nebach
why did this become a conversation about going up to the county we as a community need to worry about the families that need money to live. we need more benjis we have someone trying to help and obviously very caring community member missed the point.
i work full time all year around, living in crown heights. I am very skeptical of fundraisers in general, and people who want handouts, especially people who are young and healthy. it seems the fundraising should be for the old and people who are disabled. just because somebody has a large family and cannot afford to pay for it, does not itself make him a charity-case.
I would continue the end of your post that there are many who haven’t the slightest interest in spending the summer in the country or in a bungalow colony
Let’s face it; especially for those with children, young or not so young, the summer is an incredibly expensive time. The cost of camp plus outfitting and feeding the kids really adds up. Going to the country is not always a luxury. It is sometimes cheaper to take the family to an inexpensive bungalow and forego some of the extras than to stay in the city and pay and pay and pay and pay for day camps and sleep away camps. People have trouble making ends meet in part because day camps (which ARE a necessity for the kids in… Read more »
I remember your wonderful parents may they rest in peace, how your father would constantly do whatever he could for everyone who needed. Your kind sweet mother, always washing the dishes and smiling may they ret in peace.
You are fantastic..take no notice of the last comments.
Hashem loves you so very much, you are an angel.
Go from strength to strength
Cssy does amazing work!
I guess 2&3 missed the point they are talking about
Families who have no money for bread and butter
Why look for something to be negative it’s enough already
This is why our community looks the way it does bit the. Again
You might not get it. So you wouldn’t know!
Many of us working folks are desperate for a change of scene and air and badly need a vacation but can’t afford to get away. Don’t underestimate a person’s need to get away- even if T”G they have enough to pay the rent and buy a square meal.
Please don’t make it sound like staying in the city is a money saving situation. If k”ah you have several children that need day camps, older ones who need overnight camps then staying in the city can be more than a bungalow (if you can find one) We pay tuition through our noses, why can’t the summer be included in this cheshbaen. Most other chassidishe yeshivos transplant the yeshivah learning to the mountains, together with their rebbeim. Staying in the city is quite expensive and then there is the weekend to figure out where to take the kids – in… Read more »
because we prefer it here !
I was thinking the same thing….those of us that choose to stay in the city r we nebach cases? R we to be pitied that we actually have our priorities right that we first make sure our bills r paid and we dont ask for handouts…and thsts why we gave up going to the country
it says in the article:
“families who unfortunately will be staying home in the hot city”
There are many of us who stay here during the summer, please don’t go making it sound like we are to be pitied because of it.
At the same time, may there be no Yid who is lacking anything, but you don’t help matters by making statements that seem to indicate that one should be pitied if they don’t go to the country or on a vacation.
This organization gives Tzedokah in such a wonderful way! many times we had no money to buy food and suddenly these vouchers came in the mail. Yasher koach!