RJCF - Russian Jewish Community Foundation
Russian Jewish Community Foundation (RJCF) is a grassroots all-volunteer charitable organization.
The RJCF mission is to preserve and enhance Jewish identity among Russian speaking Jews and to support Israel.


Letter from our IDF soldier: George Zeldkin (Summer 2019)
Posted on December 19, 2019


Dear Friends at Zionist House and RJCF,

Hello my dear friends!

Before I started writing the last letter, I had decided to read again the first one. So many things had happened during this period, that on one hand seems as if it passed so quickly but on the other hand was filled with amazing landmarks!

During this time, I moved in with my partner, got married, worked and studied at the same time, developed a new hobby of photography, almost finished my degree and thank god, we are now expecting our first child!
School was very interesting. I am so happy that I had the chance to do this degree since it had taught me a lot, expanded my horizon and provided me with deeper perspective. During the end I started feeling the difficulty and it all became harder. But I believe that dealing with challenges and overcoming them makes us stronger. As for now, I have one more paper to finish and several courses.

At work I feel like I need to evolve and hope to get new positions. There is a new position waiting for me, and I hope to do well in it.

If you remember, I had told you before that I volunteer in the "New Guard" organization, which its goal is to keep the lands and property of the farmers safe. I am now in a higher rank in the organization and in charge of a fine crew of guards. Last year I was also marked as "best guard".

I want to use this opportunity to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your help has helped changing my life. I'm sure that if it wasn't for your assistance, I probably wouldn't have finished my studies. Thanks to you I obtained knowledge and now I am motivated to improve myself and maybe even start Masters degree. I promise that I will try to pay you back by doing everything in my power to become a better person, smarter and wiser. I will give out of my time and energy to make my surroundings, my city, my family and my country a better place.
Dear friends, I would be really happy to receive an answer from you, to hear about you and to get to know you personally.

You can answer in any language you would like. I speak Russian too.

Sincerely yours, George Zeldkin










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