According to JTA, The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has pledged $52 million to provide food and medicine to elderly Jews living in the former Soviet Union through the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
The “Food and Medicine Lifeline,” a four-year, $13 million per year commitment, was announced Monday by the IFCJ. Many of the tens of thousands of recipients of the aid are elderly and impoverished Holocaust survivors, according to the IFCJ.
The assistance will be delivered through the JDC’s local network of humanitarian services throughout the states of the FSU.