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fter a six-hour flight on Air
Guyana's only airplane, the
10 volunteers took a truck,
a speed boat and a tractor
through fields and muck to get to
their destination.
Their mission: bringing much-

relief organization is taken from the
beginning of the biblical verse,
Ve'ahavta frayacha kn2ocha, or, "And
you shall love your neighbor as your-
self "
A former United Jewish Appeal
campaign worker, Rosensweig, 37,
previously coordinated relief projects
to Sarajevo, Kiev, Rwanda, and
Romania. The Guyana mission, from

dreamed of forming an organization
like Ve'ahavta, not only to serve those
in need but to raise Jewish conscious-
ness.
Rosensweig feels very strongly
about tikkun ha'olam, or repairing the
world. He decries the modern-day
Jewish community's "abhorrent condi-'`
tion of indifference ... toward the
world we are to be a light unto,'" and

Feb. 21 to March 6, was Ve'ahavta's
first. Rosensweig hopes it will become
an annual destination for Ve'ahavta.
His father, Rabbi Phyvle
Rosensweig, was a rabbi in Kitchener,
Ont., and "a true activist," his son
said. "Our home was always open to
those in need. I learned this stuff,
young." Indeed, since his youth, he

hopes his work with Ve'ahavta will
help to change this.
"The Jewish component to
Ve'ahavta is our mandate," said
Rosensweig. "Tikkun olam, tzedakah
and chesed are strong, if not funda-
mental Jewish values." Members of
Ve'ahavta deliver this message through
public speaking in Jewish schools and

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The Ve'ahavta medical corps in Guyana.

needed medical supplies and care to
the northern South American country
of Guyana, the second poorest coun-
try in the Western Hemisphere.
Avrum Isaac Rosensweig, the
founder and executive vice president
of al.: newly formed Ve'ahavta,
explained that the name of the
Toronto-based humanitarian and