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Making a Tangible Connection to Israel with Elianna Perez

January 2023 Elianna Perez, Volunteer, ACHI613 Please note that this podcast was recorded before the events of October 7th, and therefore may not completely reflect the current reality in Israel. See updates about ACHI613’s response to the war at the end of the episode’s transcript. Sharon Freundel: I’m Sharon Freundel, Managing Director of the Jewish […]

New Market Lets You Support Israel By Shopping From Home

Elianna Mintz Perez didn’t set out to volunteer for what she calls “Etsy for Israeli goods” for an organization run by older Jewish women. After all, she was working as a successful producer for CBS This Morning and on the verge of getting married. Then when COVID hit, the St. Louis Park native’s outlook began to change.

Shopping to Support Israel? Now that’s something I can get behind

The current ACHI Market categories include Judaica, art, cosmetics, fashion, food, gift stores, jewelry, photos, toys and wines of Israel. One section offers customers the option to purchase Israeli goods online to be delivered to friends and family living in Israel.

Floating on Air- Art to lift your spirits

I must confess- I’m not an art critic or connoisseur but I know what I like. Please don’t give me cubist blocks or triangles that are supposed to represent a face- Like, I was never good at geometry. AND please don’t tell me that someone throwing buckets of paint off the boardwalk onto a canvass […]

Magic and Mystery in the Stones of the Holy Land

When I look at a rock, I see a rock. Anat Perl, the designer of Blessing Stones can look at a rock and see the creation within. In her mind’s eye, she imagines the form that will emerge, and in so doing she brings the essence of her vision to life. Anat is an artist in varied media.

ACHI: Activism Through Commerce

Israel’s Ministry of Economy and Industry has partnered with ACHI to expand the circle of customers and sales of Israeli Manufacturers with “made in Israel” label in the US and Canada.

Bringing Israeli Businesses to Baltimore

Tova Taragin’s of Baltimore is active in ACHI, American Communities Helping Israel

If you want a piece of Israel, turn to ACHI’s website, www.achi613.org and shop Israel online. ACHI’s Baltimore-Washington Coordinator, Tova Taragin can help you.

Can a woman have too many handbags? Puhleeze!

Color, size, function, personality- just about anything and everything determines the chosen pocketbook for your day. Do you need a crossover just to carry your phone and credit card? Perhaps you need a tote bag to carry your wallet, library book, extra water bottle, tablet and three granola bars?

Earrings By Irit- Colorful Sensations

Have you ever spoken to sunshine over the phone? Well, I did! From the beginning of our conversation till the end, a glow seemed to be hovering over me-and it was still dark outside. ( I call my wonderful ACHI merchants early New York time) Irit Digmi  lives in Moshav Michael, between Ashkelon and Kiryat […]

If you can’t bring your own piano- try a tambourine!

If you can’t bring your own piano- try a tambourine! I’ve spent many years trying to learn an instrument. I am musical but my hands apparently are not-the right and the left don’t communicate with each other.  So all those piano lessons in my early childhood(torture), all those do-it-yourself ukulele lessons, all my attempts at […]

No “ouchies” from these Paper Cuts!

No “ouchies” from these PAPER CUTS It’s still dark outside here in the US as I call Lisa Isaacs, resident of Modi’in and charming creator of Handmade in Israel- a business  based on beautiful home-made paper cut art- birthday cards, invitations, albums and pictures. Lisa tells me a little bit of her background.  Her grandmother […]

FANtastic

I’m a fan of fans- especially Fancy Fans, a business created by Sharon Jerusalmy, purveyor of artistic, hand crafted fans for every occasion. Did you know that there is a secret language of fans? Let’s take a short two hundred year trip back to the Victorian age, and we will find that just as men […]

What is in a Name?

Highlighting some of our ETSY vendors “What’s in a name?” asks Shakespeare. Was he thinking of ETSY- the world wide platform for arts, crafts and unique gifts? When one of the founders, Rob Kalin was asked how he and his partners thought of the name, he answered-“These are nonsense syllables, which actually don’t stand for […]

JewelRina- Rina Lutzki-Levy: A Personal Interview

Personal interview with Etsy merchant Rina Lutzki-Levy The first purchase I made on the ACHI Market Place was a beautiful woven necklace with seed pearls from Etsy merchant JewelRina. I loved my necklace so much, that I contacted Rina via her site on ACHI: http:// achi613.org/achi-market/vendors/jewelrina-handmade-jewelry and asked if she could make me a bracelet to […]

Jerusalem Post – Think Israel, buy Israeli

The brand-new ACHI Market (achi613.org) is an online marketplace where 70+ Israel-based vendors can find new customers worldwide.

History repeats itself

During the Second Intifada, Monsey, NY resident Suzanne Weilgus felt a need to do something constructive to help Israeli merchants whose businesses were suffering from a lack of tourism. In response, she organized Ben Yehuda Fairs in Teaneck and in Monsey. Dozens of vendors who were hard-hit by the shutdown in Israeli tourism came to the US to sell their wares.

Think Israel – Buy Israeli’: ACHI Launches Online Israeli Market

The ACHI Market is an online marketplace populated with vendors from all over Israel who can sell and ship their products to consumers throughout the United States. Through an ongoing intensive digital and social media campaign, the ACHI team directs the consumer to its website and the vendors on the ACHI Market, which features a vast array of products from Israel.

Times of Israel: Think Israel – Buy Israeli

A major part of the website is the ACHI Market, an online market populated with vendors from all over Israel, who can sell and ship to the USA. Through an ongoing intensive digital and social media campaign, and employing its extensive network, the ACHI team directs the consumer to its website where vendors on the ACHI Market feature an array of products.

The New BDS: Buy, Display, And Support Israel With The Klee

The Klee is an initiative that urges Jewish families to bring or make some sort of vessel or dish, display it prominently in the home, and keep it filled with products such as candies and nuts (or in the bathroom to hold Dead Sea or other skincare products). It should be refilled with Israeli products whenever it is empty.