In short order, Joe of Lefty’s Sports Academy made a donation “in honor of the Clifton Cheder”
New Jersey’s Clifton Cheder runs an incentive program for boys in the upper grades to finish shnayim mikrah v’echad targum. Age-appropriate portions of the parshah are assigned to each grade (with the oldest boys assigned the entire parshah). Upon the completion of each sefer of Chumash, the boys who finish their portions are rewarded with a special trip.
When the boys finished Sefer Bereishis, arrangements were made for them to go to Lefty’s Sports Academy, a batting-cage center located a short drive from the school. The trip to Lefty’s has become de rigueur for the Clifton Cheder boys, and a school administrator emailed Joe LeCarro, the owner of the facility, to lock in a time and date.
Joe soon responded, saying he would be happy, as always, to host the school’s wonderful students, but he added one condition. He asked that the school send him a link so that he could donate the amount of the school’s fee to assist Israeli citizens. The gratified administrator sent Joe a link to Agudath Israel’s Israel Relief Fund and in short order, Joe of Lefty’s Sports Academy made a donation “in honor of the Clifton Cheder.”
Joe didn’t ask the school to reimburse him, either — effectively making two donations, one to the school and another for Israel’s needy. The Cheder boys had a great time at the batting cages that week, and the kiddush Hashem that resulted from their behavior was a home run.
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