Project Aid & Rescue, Inc.

03/03/2026

Tonight begins the Jewish holiday of Purim.

For those who may not be familiar, Purim commemorates the story of Queen Esther in the Bible approximately 2,500 years ago, in the Persian Empire (modern-day Iran), when the Jewish people were saved from annihilation.

It is a holiday of courage, faith, and survival — marked by joy, generosity, and taking care of one another.

Purim has four mitzvot (commandments). One of the central traditions is called Mishloach Manot — pronounced Mish-LOH-akh Mah-NOHT — which means sending gifts of food to friends to increase unity and friendship. It’s about community. It’s about showing up for each other.

This afternoon, my dear friend Elizabeth asked if we were sending aid to Israel. I told her we are. She said she wanted to send traditional Purim gifts. I shared that while we can’t send food right now, many people have chosen to donate paramedic medical bags as their “Mishloach Manot of the times.”

This morning alone, Project Aid & Rescue, Inc. purchased 30 paramedic trauma bags, which have already been distributed inside Israel to medics and first responders saving lives. We currently have a waiting list of nearly 200 more who have requested them. The Medical bags cost between $250 and $1,500 depending on their capacity.

The other 3 Purim mitzvot include:
• Hearing the Megillah (the story of Esther)
• Sharing a festive meal
• Giving gifts to those in need — called Matanot La’evyonim

While Mishloach Manot traditionally involves food, another core Purim obligation is caring for those in need. In Judaism, saving a life — pikuach nefesh — is among our highest values.

This year, donating paramedic medical bags to those actively saving lives in Israel fulfills that mitzvah in a powerful way. Instead of sending sweets, we are sending tools that protect and preserve life.

That is the spirit of Purim — standing together, protecting one another, and answering danger with action.

If Purim is about strengthening community and protecting life, this is how we do it.

Please join us with a gift donation.
Let your Purim gift help save a life.

Project Aid & Rescue delivers these life-saving medical bags directly into the hands of the paramedics and doctors on the front lines.

👉 Donate here:
https://givebutter.com/MedicalForIsrael

👉 Here is a short video showing how we have helped since October 7, 2023:
https://youtu.be/LbQfmq-SruY?si=GVxhYvC4u9DFRqmK

Below are photos we received earlier this morning thanking us for the gift of life.

Please help us if you can. And one more thing: Please forward, share and post. Thank you.

03/03/2026

Donate Medical Bags and save lives!

12/21/2025

Friends,

I am writing to you from Jerusalem and I am asking if you will join with me and help Israel before the end of the year.

https://aidandrescue.org/israel-emergency-medical-aid/ is sponsoring an important initiative with our partners in Israel that focuses on both medical equipment as well as preparedness and training doctors, medics, and first responders “Kitote Kananote”—to respond effectively during emergency and mass-casualty situations in Israel.

Israel’s medical professionals are among the most highly trained in the world. During wartime, however, the challenge is not skill — it is scale. Large numbers of responders may be called into action simultaneously, often in time-critical situations where decisions made in minutes determine outcomes.

This initiative equips medical professionals with advanced trauma-response skills and portable diagnostic tools, including point-of-care ultrasounds (PoCUS). These tools allow responders to rapidly identify internal bleeding, lung injuries, and other life-threatening conditions when every minute counts.

Over the past 2 years, Project Aid & Rescue has worked directly with Israeli medical professionals to support frontline trauma care. While earlier efforts focused on urgently delivering life-saving equipment, experience has shown that training and preparedness are just as essential — especially at scale. This initiative reflects that hard-earned lesson.

Training saves lives through readiness.
Like protective equipment, its value is often invisible — measured not in headlines, but in lives not lost because the right decision was made at the right moment.

🎯 Campaign Goal: $100,000

This will fund four complete emergency trauma training programs for doctors, medics, and first responders.

Each $25,000 enables one full training.

👉 Donate here:
https://givebutter.com/MedicalForIsrael

Thank you for standing with the people of Israel and supporting those who protect life when every minute matters.

With gratitude,
Project Aid & Rescue

For those who would like additional context on PAR’s work on the ground, here is a short video explaining our approach and impact:
🎥 https://youtu.be/LbQfmq-SruY

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08/06/2025

Please help us

08/06/2025

💙🇮🇱 Leatherman trauma shears for Medics in Israel!

🇮🇱✂️ Special Wholesale price - ONLY $60!!! ✂️

Project Aid & Rescue, Inc., is able to get the actual LEATHERMAN, Raptor Rescue, 6-in-1 Heavy-Duty Emergency/Trauma Shears at an AMAZING PRICE!!!

It has 4.8 stars with 7,240 reviews!
On Amazon, the price is $100 + tax.
We have a wholesale opportunity to order the shears - for only $60 each!!!

🇮🇱✂️ Our Israel Doctors said they have dozens of requests for these Leatherman’s from army medics for trauma shears. The Leatherman brand is necessary.

💙🇮🇱 💵 For tax-deductible donation to cover the cost of any amount of shears:
💙 givebutter.com/MedicalForIsrael

Please in the comments dedicate your donation to “Leatherman trauma shears”.

Thank you!

Let’s see if we can get donations for 30 Leatherman trauma shears ($1,800 total) before we need to place order tomorrow!

⏰ Time is critical—please act now.

🎥 Want to see how we’re saving lives?

Watch this powerful 2-minute video about our mission in Israel:
👉 https://youtu.be/LbQfmq-SruY

Thank you for standing with us.
Jeff Kaminsky
Project Aid & Rescue

08/05/2025

Can you buy something on Amazon for Israeli Medics??

We need about 15 more Leatherman Raptor Trauma Shears. They cost $99.95 on Amazon. Can you buy 1 or 2 and send it to us directly from Amazon? Simply click link, purchase and done! Amazon ships it to us and YOU help to save lives.

🚨 Urgent Medical Aid Needed for Israel - Can you help with $100.00 ? 🚨

Friends, We just sent $30,000 worth of life-saving equipment—including video laryngoscopes, capnographs, and other critical gear—to medics and hospitals in Israel.

👥 Another group of our volunteers is leaving this next week, and we need YOUR help right now.

🎯 Our goal: to send 50 Leatherman Raptor Trauma Shears—a vital tool for field medics.
Each costs $99.95 on Amazon.

✅ You can help in one of two ways:
1. Buy directly from Amazon and have it shipped to us:
🔗 https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2NE82U48EWJXX?ref=cm_sw_em_r_un_un_WQrccZ9b28Nyd

It’s automatic. Just click the link and buy as many as you can. Amazon will ship it directly to us (NOTE: Please be sure to include a Gift Note so we lnow who to thank!, or DM me to let me know you bought some)

2. Make a donation to cover the cost of any amount of shears:
💙 givebutter.com/MedicalForIsrael

⏰ Time is critical—please act now.

🎥 Want to see how we’re saving lives?

Watch this powerful 2-minute video about our mission in Israel:
👉 https://youtu.be/LbQfmq-SruY

Thank you for standing with us.
Jeff Kaminsky
Project Aid & Rescue

06/14/2025

🇮🇱 Israel Needs Our Help — And We’re Delivering.

Since October 7th, Project Aid & Rescue has delivered life-saving trauma equipment directly to medics on the front lines — tourniquets, trauma kits, ventilators, ultrasounds, and more.

Every second counts during the “Golden Hour” — and that’s where your support saves lives.

💙 100% volunteer-run
🩺 98¢ of every $1 goes directly to medical supplies — the rest helps make it possible.
No salaries. Just logistics, shipping, and saving lives.
📦 Next mission is already underway

🎥 Watch how we’re helping: https://youtu.be/LbQfmq-SruY

➡️ Donate now: https://givebutter.com/MedicalForIsrael

Together, we can equip the heroes who are saving lives every day.

👇 Please share & support us. Every donation helps👇

06/13/2025

***URGENT REQUEST: War with Iran***
Friends,

Three years ago I founded Project Aid & Rescue and we have been sending medical equipment to Israel since October 7th, 2023.

I am reaching out to share the vital work we are doing at Project Aid & Rescue, and to ask for your help.

We are a 100% volunteer-run charity dedicated to delivering advanced medical equipment to Israel’s medics on the front lines.

We are a small organization achieving what much larger, well-known organizations often cannot: providing targeted, life-saving medical equipment.
In fact, as an all volunteer charity, .98 cents of every dollar goes to supplies delivered.

Since October 7th, our Golden Hour Project has been supplying critical tools like ventilators, mobile ultrasounds, tourniquets, Capnographs, video laryngoscopes, and more to medics and first responders in Israel.

Currently we are also getting a lot of requests for AAJTs, abdominal aortic junctional tourniquets. It’s the only way to stop bleeds from high amputations or penetrating exsanguinating injuries where the CAT tourniquets can't reach.

Junctional bleeds are the second leading cause of preventable deaths on the battlefield especially with explosives.

These supplies are crucial for saving lives during the critical “Golden Hour” following traumatic events.

Many of the medics are reserve doctors who work in hospitals throughout Israel. They are used to a gold standard level of care. However, the IDF has limited resources and isn’t providing that same level of care we would expect soldiers to receive. So we are working to help these medics get life-saving equipment closer to the front lines and into more units.

As you may know, there have been recent call ups of significant numbers of units by the IDF. Many for the 3rd or 4th time. Units are now in Lebanon, Syria, Samaria, the West Bank and Gaza.
The medical needs are still high and supplies are being spread across many fronts. We are working to raise $200,000 to continue meeting urgent requests from our medical partners in Israel.

Please take two minutes to watch this video showing how your donations are helping. It’s an amazing video.
Watch the Video Here:
https://youtu.be/LbQfmq-SruY

How you can help: If you’re looking for a meaningful way to support Israel, I make this personal request to join us and make an impactful donation. Every dollar donated directly helps save lives.

If these courageous men and women can fight not just to save Israel, but to save humanity, can you help them by simply making a donation?

You can make a difference by donating here: Give Here.
https://givebutter.com/MedicalForIsrael

We also welcome donations from grants and giving funds.

If you have any questions or want more information, feel free to reach out to me. Thank you for your support in this critical time!

If you would like to schedule a one on one call, please reach out.

Am Yisrael Chai!
Jeff Kaminsky
Project Aid & Rescue

Support Israel's Hospitals, Clinics and Medical Centers

03/23/2025

Returning to Gaza—Help Them Save Lives and Win

The war is not over. Israeli soldiers are returning to battle—some for the fourth or fifth time. They’re prepared to fight, but they still urgently need advanced medical equipment to save lives during the “Golden Hour.”

Project Aid & Rescue, a 100% volunteer-run nonprofit, has alreaProject Aid & Rescue, Inc.life-saving supplies to medics on the front lines—but the need is far from over.

Capnographs, mobile ultrasounds, video laryngoscopes— these aren’t luxuries. They’re the difference between life and death.

Bravery alone isn’t enough. Equipment saves lives.

Watch this 2-minute video to see how we’re making a difference:
Watch Here: https://youtu.be/LbQfmq-SruY?si=OMyd0DjxjwACJRMh

Donate now and stand with our soldiers—help them fight and help them win:
Give Here:

https://givebutter.com/MedicalForIsrael

Am Yisrael Chai,
Jeff Kaminsky
Founder, Project Aid & Rescue

12/22/2024

Dear Friends,

As a passionate supporter of Israel, I am reaching out to share the vital work we are doing at Project Aid & Rescue, Inc., a 100% volunteer-run charity dedicated to delivering advanced medical equipment to Israel’s medics on the front lines.

We are a small organization achieving what much larger, well-known organizations often cannot: providing targeted, life-saving medical equipment.

Since October 7th, our Golden Hour Project has been supplying critical tools like ventilators, mobile ultrasounds, tourniquets, Capnographs, video laryngoscopes, and more to medics and first responders in Israel. These supplies are crucial for saving lives during the critical “Golden Hour” following traumatic events.

With IDF units now in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza, the medical needs continue to grow. As we near the end of the year, we’re working to raise $100,000 to continue meeting urgent requests from our medical partners in Israel.

I invite you to take two minutes to watch this video showcasing our efforts: Watch the Video Here

https://youtu.be/LbQfmq-SruY?si=183W8Bc6KsPLpTe7

If you’re looking for a meaningful way to support Israel, I make this personal request to join us and make an impactful donation. Every dollar donated directly helps save lives. You can make a difference by donating here: https://givebutter.com/MedicalForIsrael

We also welcome donations from grants and giving funds.

If you have any questions or want more information, feel free to reach out to me. Thank you for your support in this critical time!

Am Yisrael Chai!
Jeff Kaminsky
Project Aid & Rescue