Our home-cooked Shabbat meals are attended by 50 Lone Soldiers every week! Chayal el Chayal is the address where lone soldiers know they can come anytime for a loving family and a welcoming home! .

Chaya is a Jerusalem-based spiritual teacher and guide, psychotherapist, and performance artist. She offers private therapy and spiritual counseling in person or via phone and Skype as well as leads spiritual journeys in Israel. As co-director of the Shalev Center for Jewish Personal Growth.

Thursday, May 15, 2008. Leaving so much behind us. I knew then the decision to drop everything and come to Israel for his first tekes was not only the right thing to do for us but for him as well. Tomorrow was monday and we would be seeing Doni as a soldier for the first time on his base.