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SPOTLIGHT

A diverse mix of religious 
and lay leaders from 10 
large Conservative, Reform 
and Modern Orthodox 
American Jewish communi-
ties, including Rabbi Harold 
Loss from Temple Israel 
in West Bloomfield, are 
visiting Israel on a five-day 
American Friends of MDA 
Rabbinic Solidarity Mission. 
 
The mission’s packed 
itinerary brings the par-
ticipants face to face with 
Israel’s complexities and 
challenges six months on 
from the outbreak of war, 
in a mix of touring and 
personal encounters. This 
is the inaugural initiative 
of the AFMDA Rabbinic 
Advisory Council, a body 
which serves as a non-polit-
ical, non-partisan resource 
to positively engage U.S. 
Jewish communities about 
Israel in general and 
AFMDA in particular. 
 Rabbi Michael Siegel of 
the Anshe Emet Synagogue 
in Chicago, IL, who was 
instrumental in organizing 
the mission, gave voice to 
many fellow participants 
when he referred to the 
delegation as the “culmina-

tion of the desire of rabbis 
across the United States 
to engage more fully with 
Magen David Adom and 
their important work.” 
While acknowledging that 
MDA medicycles may be 
familiar to many American 
Jews, Siegel maintains that 
visiting the country and 
meeting with MDA para-
medics in MDA facilities 
offers another meaningful 
dimension. 
 The five-day mission, 
designed to introduce par-
ticipants to MDA opera-
tions in war and in routine, 
to bear witness to the atroc-
ities of Oct. 7 and to learn 
first-hand about the chal-
lenges facing Israel today, 
includes visits to MDA’s 
Marcus National Blood 
Services Center in Ramla, 
the MDA helicopter team 
at Sde Teman, and MDA’s 
William H. Bloomberg 
Center in Jerusalem. 
 In addition to meeting 
with hostage and bereaved 
families and wounded sol-
diers, the participants will 
receive briefings from dig-
nitaries and political 
figures. 

Friends of MDA Rabbinic 
Solidarity Mission

Rabbi Harold Loss is at the left in this photo of the rabbis in front 
of an MDA helicopter at Sde Teman helipad. 

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