Mount Zion Foundation

The Mount Zion Foundation

The Mount Zion Foundation was initially founded in Jerusalem, Israel in 1949 by the Director General of the ministry of Religious Affairs Dr. S. Z. Kahane. The foundation was formed in order to help maintain the overall physical and cultural values, the dignity and glory of Holy Mount Zion. Dr. Kahane suggested in 1971 to Rabbi Gerald Goldstein to register a similar (501-C-3) not for profit organization in the U.S. for the same explicit purpose. This was finally accomplished in 1985 ( Fla. corp. # 12756).

Dr. Kahane recognized it would take a major fund raising effort to bring to fruition his life long dream of a major World Torah Institution on the lofty heights of Mount Zion.

The U.S. foundation has helped underwrite various projects and programs of its Israeli counterpart which are located on Mt. Zion.

1. The Diaspora Yeshiva.

2. The Chamber of the Holocaust, founded together with the state of Israel.

3. Educational Projects and Programs

4. The World Peace Center

5. In Search of Mt. Zion - A film in the making click here for detail

1. The Diaspora Yeshiva

2. World Torah Center

Future World Torah Center

Naming Dedications: The (your Name) World Torah Center $40,000,000. 9-stories- 110,000 sq.ft.

3. World Peace Center

4. Educational Projects

The first Women's Hebrew Institute in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City. The Cohen- Resnick Building.

The Jerome Schottenstein school of Torah Heritage on Mt. Zion, by his son Jay Schottenstein, Columbus Ohio.

The Dr. Alvin and Betty Stern young children's Educational Center on Mount Zion.

The Israel Institute for Scribal Arts

The Mount Zion Foundation

invites your support for the establishment of

The foundation has supported camps Metzad and Tamar in the Gush Et-Zion area, building them a half-Olympic size swimming pool.

As a public service

The Mount Zion Foundation presented in the U.S.A. during Feb. 2000, "The False Witness: The Trial of Adolph Hitler". A play by Robert M. Krakow. It was presented at the Jan McArt's , Royal Palm Theater in Boca Raton, FL. There were six performances. "A huge success: The most compelling trial of the millennium" as reported by several major newspapers.

Ag-Vo-Tech Institute

A very ambitious plan was launched in Southern Florida around the same time as our successful play.

The rapidly changing world in which we live creates a great challenge for our children. None is greater than the need to develop the skills necessary to succeed while continuing to build upon the Jewish life values that we have created for them. We all know the unfortunate reality. For a variety of reasons, too many of our children do not go on to Institutions of higher learning. Therefore, they fail to develop the tools they need to be successful and independent adults. Consequently , they end up lacking self-esteem, and the ability to support themselves and their families.
For this reason the Mount Zion Foundation established a Torah and Melacha Institute (TMI), a one -of-a-kind Ag-Vo- Tech (Agricultural, Vocational and Technical) Institute.
We had hoped to make a difference, when the economy started to cool, then the tragedy of 9/11. We were forced to delay the implementation of this most needed program.

Future Programs and Projects

To establish a TMI Torah and Melacha institute here in Israel.

To launch another needed software program, "Animated Biblical Stories" in the near future.

To expand the exhibits and area of the Chamber of the Holocaust.

To add and develop a Biblical Garden, adjacent to the Chamber of the Holocaust museum.

To Expand the World Peace Center; To include a Museum which would display the world's greatest artists' and sculptors' original works, interpreting their vision of what peace is, and can be.

Publications researched and written by students of the Diaspora Yeshiva

Map of Jerusalem with Campus and Dormitory building highlighted

Photo of Present Building before reconstruction

Architect's Model of Building Site

Map of Mount Zion

Projected Costs

Significance of Mount Zion

Located on Holy Mount Zion in conjunction with the Chamber of the Holocaust - the "People's Memorial" is dedicated to preserving Jewish family ancestry through genealogical records. Utilizing a state- of- the- art computer system, names are entered and stored in the database, so that today's generation and future generations can have an ever-lasting record of a family's lineage.

Naming Dedications

MOUNT ZION FOUNDATION

Naming Dedications

Available on Mount Zion, Jerusalem, Israel

*The (Your Name) World Peace Center and Museum

Area "A" $ 90,000,000

Area "B" $ 72,000,000

Outdoor Display Area "B" $ 26,000,000

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*The (Your Name) World Torah Center $180,000,000

nine stories - 110,000 sq. ft.

*Endowment $ 50,000,000

*Chamber of the Holocaust - the “People’s Memorial” $ 13,000,000

Dedicated in honor of / in memory of______

(Established 1949 on Mount Zion, one year after the declaration of statehood)

*(Your Name) Melechas HaKodesh Institute Building $9,000,000

*(Your Name) Israel Institute For Scribal Arts (with exhibit display) $ 3,600,000

*(Your Name) Milah Institute $ 1,800,000

*(Your Name) Schechita Institute $ 1,800,000

*(Your Name) Jewish Heritage and Genealogy center $ 2,600,000

*(Your Name) Dormitory Building # 3 $ 3,600,000

*Lamed-Vav, The Righteous “36” Builders of Mount Zion $ 1,800,000

Names engraved on the Great Obelisk

*Endowment Fund (Your Name) $ 100,000+

*Woman of Valor $ 18,000

E-Mail: mtzion @ MountZionFoundation.org

The Tomb of King David is one of the most revered Holy Places in the State of Israel. It is located on Holy Mount Zion,

and is Israel's seconded most valuable property. The first being The Temple Mount and its Western retaining wall.

The Mount Zion Foundation was established to help rebuild this Ancient, Biblical upper part of the Old City.

U.S. Tax Exempt 501(c) (3) ID # 59-2659891

*(Your Name) Ashkelon Spiritual Retreat Center $ 7,200,000

5. The Chamber of the Holocaust - please visit https://martefhashoa.org/

...A voice was heard from on high, lamentation and bitter weeping

Rachel weeping for her children;

she refused to be comforted for her children,

because they are not."

Jeremiah LXXX:14

Passage inscribed on The Children's Memorial

The Chamber of the Holocaust was founded together with the State of Israel by former Director-General of the Ministry of Religion and Curator of Mt. Zion, Rabbi Dr. S. Z. Kahana. It is maintained by the Diaspora Yeshiva on Mount Zion.

Entering the Chamber of the Holocaust on Mt. Zion, one immediately senses an identity with the recent past of the Jewish people, a history at once awesome and tragic. Tablets of over 1,000 communities, now bereft of Jews, look down beseechingly upon you. They cry out to be remembered, asking your involvement, calling for your connection to your people's past. The tablets are like eyes, awaiting your reaction. They urge you to open your heart to memory, to explore your roots and find your ancestral community.

The Chamber is a call back from death and a pledge to the future. Each name represents the soul and body of a Jew, of many Jews, who died for the sake of their people, who uttered G-d's name in sanctity and holiness.

Walk among the tablets, some of which represent over 16,000 bereaved families, read their story, say a prayer of Kaddish and above all, find your connection to the living body of the Jewish people today.

This is none other than the House of the L-rd - How full of awe is this place...Genesis 28:17

The Bergen-Belsen Memorial

Built by the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Survivors.

***Exhibitions*

Coordinator Rabbi Gedalya Goldstein

P.O. Box 5102 Ashkelon, Israel 78150

Israel Phone: 077-718-1836 American Phone is Israel: 516-422-9999 rabbigg@gmail.com