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HOD BEZALEL
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Lodge Bezalel News
Registration is Open for the 2025 Lodge Bezalel Retreat
Thanks to some great research and fierce price negotiations, we are able to repeat the amazing pricing for our 2025 Lodge Bezalel Retreat, May 30-June 1, at the Apple Mountain Resort near Clarksville.
It's a great place. Check it out! Registration is open NOW.
We have reserved nine 3-room villas at the resort. All prices include food.
- Three people to a villa - cash, check or Zelle: $205
- Three people to a villa - credit card: $215
- Two people to a villa - cash, check or Zelle: $265
- Two people to a villa - credit card: $275
Quick Hits:
The Road to the Final Four Goes Through Lola's
Sign up for our next Lodge Bezalel Watch Party.This one is for The Final Four of the NCAA 2025 Men's Basketball Championship.
The semifinals and finals will be played in San Antonio, but the action will be at Lola's Burger & Tequila Bar, 944 Canton St, Roswell for the semis on Saturday, April 5.
We'll plan on watching the first game from 6 to 9 p.m., but you're more than welcome to hang out for the second game, too. Your cost is your food and drink bill.
Sign up by emailing Bro Marc Gault (mgg135711@gmail.com) or Bro Marty Cohen (dmj143@comcast.net).
Lodge Bezalel Hears Hibby Margol's Dachau Liberation Story
World War II Vet Hibby Margol, a spry storyteller at the age of 101, gave the spellbound brethren of Lodge Bezalel and their guests a detailed account of how he and his twin brother discovered the bodies of Holocaust victims in rail cars outside Dachau and how their discovery led to the liberation of more than 30,000 people. Before his presentation, he received a Certificate of Special Achievement from the Jewish War Veterans Post 112, presented by Worthy Brother Henry Levine, Past President of Lodge Bezalel and Commander of Post 112.
You can learn more about his experiences from these links:
Hilbert Margol – WWII veteran and Dachau liberator
How a Jewish WWII veteran is using his voice to fight antisemitism
Sign Up for Biennial 2025 in Atlanta; Get a Weekend Pass for $36
Join your brethren from around the world at HOD's Biennial 2025. Celebrate 120 years of The Order and the installation of Atlanta's own WB David Joss as President of Grand Lodge.
Festivities start on May 15 and culminate on May 18 with the installation of new officers and a gala banquet.
HOD is offering a "weekend pass" for everything - all meetings and events - which include food, of course - for $36. You just need to register by April 11. The price goes up after that.
Early registration is now open until Friday, April 11, and final registration is May 2.
Don't wait. Click here and register now.
NAGL Newsletter Online 
The February HOD NAGL newsletter is now online on our website. Learn all about the upcoming Biennial 2025 here in Atlanta and other goings on in HOD. Click here to read it.
Lodges Present $200,000 Check to IDF Widows & Orphans Fund
The Hebrew Order of David Foundation, comprised of the 23 HOD Lodges worldwide, presented a check for $200,000 to the IDF Widows & Orphans Fund, Sunday, Nov. 3, during the installation ceremonies for Atlanta’s four Lodges. The check represents the latest results in an ongoing campaign to fund an endowment for educations for widows and orphans of fallen servicemen of the IDF, police officers, and other security personnel.
Since Oct 7, 2023, the number of widows and children who have lost one or both parents has increased by more than 750. Among IDFWO’s numerous programs and support initiatives, annual scholarships are a crucial component to foster the academic and personal growth of widows and adult orphans within the organization.
HOD leaders in North America began working with a network of benefactors this past summer to set up a program to match HOD donations to IDFWO dollar for dollar. In the process, they established the HOD Foundation to better manage donations for this and other causes.
You can donate now to the Hebrew Order of David International Endowment Fund, administered by the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization in Israel.
Click here to:
The Atlanta Jewish Times published this article about the check presentation in Atlanta.
The Jewish Voice of Houston published this article about the HOD initiative.
Through campaigns to support IDFWO, Birthright Israel and United Hatzalah, HOD Lodges have raised more than $800,000 over the past year.
Monthly Planning Meetings!
Our monthly planning meetings are returning to the Publix in Woodlawn Commons on Johnson Ferry Road, Marietta. Meetings are scheduled for 7 p.m. on the first
Monday of the month - but subject to change for holidays. Our next meeting is Monday, April 7, 2025
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Lodge Bezalel and HOD in the community
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Lodge
Bezalel of The Hebrew Order of David International (HOD), a Jewish fraternal
organization, recently presented a check to support the K-9 Unit of the Cobb
County Police Department. The money was raised through Lodge Bezalel’s
participation in the annual Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival, held in the fall at
Brook Run Park, Dunwoody. [
Zichron Menachem Project
Hebrew
Order of David is partnering with Zichron Menachem to fund the
construction of a Hair Salon at the Zichron Menachem campus in
Jerusalem.HOD Lodges from around the world are supporting this needed and valuable project.
Your donation is strongly encouraged. An anonymous donor will match 100% of your donation, so please give all you can. [Read More] about this wonderful project.