NU Campaign

We aim to change the world by supporting important causes through unique designer t-shirts! Learn the unique MESSAGE, printed on the INSIDE of the shirt, by your HEART, and share it with the world, everytime you wear your shirt! http://www.nucampaign.org

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Migrating Birds

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Migration is one of the most amazing natural phenomena on earth. It is performed by butterflies, fish, turtles, deer and many other animals. The longest migrations of all are those of birds. Israel, located at the junction of three continents, is crossed by migrating birds on a scale unparalleled anywhere. Studies over the past decade show that about 500 million birds cross Israel's narrow airspace twice every year in the course of their migrations. Consequently, Israel has become an attraction for bird enthusiasts worldwide. Although Israel has laws that protect migrating birds, the massive migrations have created a grave safety problem for both the Israel Air Force and the birds. A joint study conducted over the past decade by the Israel Air Force and the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel led to several solutions that have reduced the number of accidents involving aircraft and birds by 88 percent, thereby helping to protect pilots, aircraft, and the migrating birds that fill Israel's skies by the millions twice each year. Research on migrating birds in Israel, based on satellite and radar monitoring, makes it possible today to track the birds from Israel to their winter nesting grounds in Africa, and back northward, via Israel, to their summer nesting grounds in Europe. At the The International Center for Study of Birds Migration, located on the main highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, interdisciplinary and educational activity is being developed to permit computer tracking of migrating birds and exchange of information with ornithologists and students in neighboring countries. Migrating birds do not recognize political borders, and serve as ideal symbols of the era of peace that is dawning in the Middle East. (From the website of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

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Larger than Life

Larger Than Life, an Israeli nonprofit organization, aims to improve the quality of life and the welfare of children and youth with cancer and their families in Israel, regardless or faith, race, or gender. It is the largest organization in Israel of its type.

The organization was founded in 2000, in Israel, by a group of parents of children with cancer, out of their knowledge and understanding of the disease and its implications, as well as their awareness of the many difficulties that children with cancer and their families face daily.

Our wish is to create a substantial change in each and every aspect of the lives of these children and their families. We operate in all hospitals across Israel and in the homes of sick children from the Negev to the Galilee.

Throughout the entire year, the organization organizes a variety of activities for children and their families by dedicated volunteers and trustees. The following projects are part of the Larger Than Life activities: the Smile Train for Purim, Summer Camp, Establishing music and computer rooms in the hospitals, The Dream Trip to Disneyworld, Medication Funding Foundation, Fun Days for Mothers, Making Dreams Come True, and more.

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Israel Aid

"To save one life is as if you have saved the entire world." Talmud. Since 1948, the State of Israel has provided international aid to more than 140 countries worldwide including recent natural disasters in South-East Asia, Kenya, Turkey, India, Myanmar, Haiti, New-Orleans and Japan

For over a decade, IsraAID has been helping people all over the world overcome extreme crises and has provided millions with the vital support needed to move from destruction to reconstruction, and eventually, to sustainable living.

"כל המקיים נפש אחת מעלין עליו כאילו קיים עולם מלא" (משנה, מסכת סנהדרין,ד, ה) מאז 1948 ועד היום מספקת מדינת ישראל סיוע הומניטארי ללמעלה מ-140 מדינות ברחבי העולם. ביניהן לאחרונה הוגש סיוע באסונות טבע בדרום-מזרח אסיה, קניה, טורקיה, הודו, מיאנמר, האיטי, ניו אורלינס ויפן.

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Israel, Since 1948

Here are some of the reasons why we will be celebrating Israel's Birthday this year @65: Israeli Technology Advances Key Agricultural Techniques Because Israel is 60 percent desert, its farmers and agricultural scientists have long focused on expanding both the yield and quality of crops, as well as making agriculture more efficient overall. Drip irrigation has become popular with fruit and vegetable growers in dry weather areas, from Southern California to the Middle East. The world’s first surface drip irrigation system was developed in the 1960s at Kibbutz Hatzerim near Beersheba. Similarly, Israeli scientists have developed genetically modified, disease-resistant bananas, peppers and other crops that are expanding the world’s food supply and helping to keep prices down at grocery stores around the globe. Israeli Doctors Have Developed Life-Saving Treatments and Drugs Throughout Israel’s history, Israeli doctors, scientists and researchers have produced countless medical advances. Whether achieved through independent research or joint projects with the United States, the medical discoveries made by the Jewish state are improving the lives of millions of Americans and others around the globe. Israeli High-Tech Developments Are Used Around the World Israel’s high-tech civil innovations have left an important mark on homes, offices and businesses around the world. Many offices now have computerized phones that plug into the Internet, taking advantage of Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP. VocalTec Communications of Herzliya, Israel, developed the first practical Internet phone software. Similarly, those who enjoy chatting with friends over the Internet might be interested to know that this online phenomenon originated in Israel. Although the technology now belongs to AOL, Israel’s Mirabilis developed the first popular Internet chat program, ICQ. Every day, millions of Americans watch online streaming video for entertainment or educational purposes. Metacafe, the world’s third-most-popular video sharing website, was founded in Israel. Likewise, tech-savvy Americans over age 30 remember the original IBM Personal Computer of the early 1980s. What they may not know is that its brain, the Intel 8088 processor, was developed by Intel’s Israel division. More recently, the Pentium M series of processors for laptop computers using the Intel Centrino platform, as well as some of Intel’s latest processors (Yonah, Merom, Woodcrest), were also designed by Intel Israel. In addition, Amazon.com’s Kindle e-reader owes much of its success to technology developed in Israel. Israel Contributes to a Cleaner World In an era of booming populations, shrinking resources and environmental degradation, Israel leads the world in such critical fields as solar power generation and seawater desalination. As nations struggle to make the best use of their resources, Israel’s cutting edge technologies promise to improve the health and living standards of hundreds of millions across the globe, while making industry more efficient and minimizing the environmental impact of human activities. Israel’s plan to break from gasoline dependence is providing structure and predictability to the marketplace, combining long-term public sector commitment with regulatory stability to send a clear message that innovation will have a home in Israel. Through investments in basic science and industrial R&D, and the launching of pilot programs and full scale-ups for promising technology, Israel is taking the lead in confronting one of the most pressing security issues of our time. A country of under 8 million people, Israel alone cannot end gasoline’s global monopoly nor end the West’s dependence on hostile petro-regimes. But together with international partners, Israel can serve as a generator of intellectual property and a test-bed for innovative solutions, challenging the economic and security vulnerability that the United States and Israel both face through gasoline dependence. Israel has also set a national goal consistent with the Copenhagen Accord to increase its share of renewable energy in electricity generation to 10 percent by 2020. In the same period of time, Israel plans to reduce its electricity consumption by 20 percent. 'AIPAC'

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“Yiyeh b' seder“

Conflict….high prices….lack of Mexican food options. How’s an Israeli to cope with the daily stresses in this wonderful country? With Israel’s unofficial official phrase, that’s how.  “Yiyeh b' seder“. Two simple words, one magical outcome. Just say these words and your problems willwash away. Let’s put it this way: when your neighbors are trying to kill you and your country was born out of the ashes of the Holocaust, most things which aren’t REALLY BIG are kind of small. 

Let’s practice: “I have a headache.” “Yiyeh bseder!” “My dog just died.” “Yiyeh bseder!” “I just lost a leg in a boating accident. “ NOOOO PROH-BLEM!  We have bigger problems to deal with, my fellow Israel-lovers. We’ll get through it! We always do, right?

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Declaration

On May 14, 1948, the day in which the British Mandate over Palestine expired, David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first and longest serving prime minister, also known as the ‘Founder of Israel,’ proclaimed the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel, at the Tel Aviv museum. The following day the Arab armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq invaded the new Jewish State, in what became known as the War of Independence. The fighting continued until the signing of the Armistice Agreement in July 1949.

In the Declaration of Independence, David Ben-Gurion states that, The Land of Israel, Palestine, was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books. After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political freedom…… The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people – the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe – was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem of its homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State, which would open the gates of the homeland wide to every Jew and confer upon the Jewish people the status of a fully privileged member of the comity of nations… It will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations… We extend our hand to all neighboring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighborliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East. The State of Israel has overcome many obstacles since David Ben-Gurion made this speech and is today a thriving first world country with a strong economy, army and society. With many challenges ahead we look to its founders to gain inspiration to tackle the future!

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"If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert."

David Ben-Gurion: First Israeli Prime-Minister

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About ten years ago, a little girl called Katya, who was then four years old, arrived in Israel, from Moldova,  with very serious heart defects. She was brought out by Save a Child's Heart, an Israeli-based international humanitarian project, whose mission is to improve the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children from developing countries who suffer from heart disease. Katya was near death and her body was deep blue due to the lack of oxygen. Some five months and four highly complicated surgeries later, after Dr. Cohen and his team had worked their magic, Katya was ready to go home. A few days before she left, she drew a picture, as only a child of her age can, of a hand holding a little girl with a heart. When she was asked to explain her drawing, she told the following story to Dr. Cohen and the head nurse: "I had a dream, there were many colors over my bed, then a very big hand came in the middle of the night. We flew to a far-off country and they gave me a new heart, and I could run and dance." To support the cause click here!

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Why I started NU Campaign?

Four years ago, I sat in my apartment, in Jerusalem, listening to the radio and could not believe what I was hearing. As the show went on, the DJ would periodically stop his show and announce that another terror rocket had just landed in the Southern Israeli town of Sderot, which borders the Gaza Strip. After an hour, in which dozens of rockets had been launched, it became hard to comprehend the harsh reality which was occurring only 1.5 hours away from me.

I soon learned that in almost 8 years, over 6000 rockets had been launched (back in 2009) toward the South of Israel and 97% of children in the area were suffering from PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. (today that number is over 10,000 rockets.)

While we were designing the shirt, something unbelievable happened. An 11 year old girl, Ella Abekhasis, together with her younger brother were on their way back from a youth group meeting in Sderot, when the alarm siren went off. Ella, knowing that she only had 15 seconds to find shelter, looked around her and saw that there was nowhere to run.  She placed her younger brother on the ground and covered him with her entire body. Tragically, the rocket landed 10 meters away from them and she was hit by shrapnel and instantly killed. Her brother, walked away physically unharmed.

I was so moved by this story – how such a young girl can do such an extraordinary thing facing such crazy circumstances- I felt further compelled to do something. I wrote the story down and told the t-shirt printers to print Ella’s story on the inside of the shirt, by the wearer’s heart i.e. at the closest point of contact between the material and the person’s heart. My goal was that everytime you wear this shirt, you would carry Ella’s story close inside and become her, and the people of Sderots, ambassador, wherever you go.

My family gave me some money and we had 1000 t-shirts printed. I would go around Israel meeting incoming student and tourist groups from abroad and tell them the story and then sell the shirt. I would do this after work and would meet them wherever they would have me, on the bus, hotel lobbies, center of town etc. Whatever money was made went straight back into buying more shirts. I did this for a year, with one t-shirt design, and the response was incredible.

I did some more research and came across 2 facts that changed my perspective of the country that I was living in. First, Israel has more non-profit organizations than any other country in the world, per capita (over 32,000) and in every field imaginable from health-care, charity, protection of environment and animals, culture, education, sciences, human-rights, politics etc. Second, Israel is always amongst the first countries to respond with international aid, in the wake of global natural disasters and has done so over 140 times since its establishment in 1948. This to me reflects a shift in paradigm, in that, taken the way Israel is so negatively portrayed in the media as a region of war, conflict and hatred, this is a country that ‘statistically’ cares more about issues in the world then any other. It was with this that NU Campaign was established. Taken from the ‘Yiddish’ word 'NU' which means ‘C’mon, I wanted to inspire people to take action for these important Israeli and global charitable causes.

Today we represent over 20 organizations and are fast growing and our shirts have been sold in over 25 countries worldwide, through our website. We have a retail store in the center of town in Jerusalem, and we continuously work with college campuses, communities, youth groups and organizations worldwide   So, NU? What you waiting for? Learn the story! Buy the shirt & Change the world!

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Danielle Goldstein has a dream- to assemble the first-ever Israeli equestrian dream team and lead them to victory at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. A dual citizen of the U.S. and Israel, Danielle competes for Israel on the international show jumping circuit. Driven to elevate the quality of Israel’s national equestrian reputation around the globe, she is canvassing the Jewish world for potential equestrian teammates.

The sole purpose of ‘Team Israel’ will be to bring pride and positive attention to the State of Israel. This goal will be achieved through the success of a world-class equestrian team that will compete worldwide under the Israeli flag. While building the team, Danielle will also begin laying the foundation for an equestrian culture that will positively impact Israeli society. Key elements will include the establishment of an equestrian center to train the next generation of Israeli riders and a framework for increased equestrian education in Israel. NU is proud to partner with Danielle in helping her achieve this incredible goal! Proceeds from the campaign will benefit the Israeli Equestrian Federation and help bring Danielle’s dream for Israel to fruition. "The international Jewish community is so small relative to other groups, and the bias against Israel is so powerful. I am hoping to shine a light on Israel through excellence in international sports." -- Danielle Goldstein

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Guess who came to the NU store in Jerusalem today?

Our store got taken over by the US woman's Maccabee softball team ahead of their final game in Israel tomorrow. It was not yet clear who their gold-medal clash would be against (Israel or Canada) but what was clear, was that this was one fisty group of girls. Not only did they buy lots of NU shirts, supporting important charitable causes, but we were impressed by their level of involvement in social causes back in the US.  Good luck Team USA and we hope you take it!!!

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What does it mean to wear a NU Campaign shirt? It means you care, it means you want your cause close to your heart, and it means you want to show the world which cause you represent. So buy a shirt, put it on and become a representative of your cause to the world!

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Check out the NU Campaign online store to see all of our amazing designs! Enter coupon code tumblr to get 10% off your order! Go to www.nucampaign.org today! 

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Welcome to NU Campaign!

Who Are We? NU Campaign is a store that gives back, that gives to charities and causes.  

How are we different?  NU Campaign has a unique custom made design for each charity or cause we partner with, and 20% (WOW!) of every sale goes directly to the charity or cause associated with the shirt.  

We aim to change the world by supporting important causes, through unique designer t-shirts!

How are we special?  Printed on the inside of every shirt is the story of the charity or cause associated with the shirt.  Every time you put on your NU shirt, not only are you supporting the cause, you are literally wearing the story close to your heart! 

Wow! Where can I get one? Head over to our online store at www.nucampaign.org TODAY!! 

LEARN THE STORY. BUY THE SHIRT. SHOW YOUR SUPPORT.