The home holds public events three or four times a year - dinners in New York and Mexico City, parlor meetings in the Bay Area, and the seudahs in Jerusalem. Come once and we will know your name the next time.
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The Bay Area parlor meeting is a small evening - sixty seats, hosted in a private home in Palo Alto - built around the question donors most often ask in writing: how does the home actually decide which girls to take? Rabbi Chaim Elazar will walk through three real intake files from the past year, with names and identifying details changed, and answer questions until the last person leaves.
The Annual Dinner is the home's largest gathering of the year - a single evening that brings together donors, alumni, and friends of Bayit Lepleitot for an unhurried meal, a brief program from Rabbi Chaim Elazar, and the announcement of the home's commitments for the year ahead. Last year's dinner seated four hundred and twenty in a converted warehouse in Industry City. This year we are returning to the same room.
Our second annual Mexico City cocktail returns to Polanco on December 1. Last year's inaugural reception brought together one hundred and forty supporters from across the Mexico City Jewish community - many of whom had been giving to the home for decades through their parents and grandparents, and were meeting Rabbi Chaim Elazar for the first time. This year we expect closer to two hundred.
The home holds a handful of public events a year, plus the seudahs in Jerusalem. A short record of recent gatherings.
The home's annual Purim seuda - held at the flagship campus dining hall in Jerusalem - drew three hundred and twenty current residents, staff, alumni, and visiting family members across four hours of food, costumes, and an unscripted dvar Torah from Rabbi Chaim Elazar that the older girls have been quoting since. The kitchen produced 1,400 mishloach manos that week, of which six hundred went to former graduates of the home now living in their own homes.
The home's first formal event in Mexico City - hosted at a private club in Polanco - opened a chapter we have been quietly building for three years. Forty-seven of the one hundred and forty attendees were second- or third-generation supporters whose families had been giving to the home through Israeli intermediaries since the nineteen-sixties. Many were meeting the current director for the first time.
The 2025 Annual Dinner seated four hundred and twenty supporters at Industry City in Brooklyn for what became the home's largest single-evening fundraising event in its history. The room raised $1.84 million across three commitment categories - monthly sponsorship pledges, multi-year program endowments, and the new Beyachad campus expansion fund - and committed to opening a third Bishvilech location in Be'er Sheva, which has since opened.
