Jerusalem on erev shabbos paid its last respects to the woman who was affectionately known as “The Chicken Lady”, Mrs. Clara Hammer o”h, 99, who spent the last decades of her life with the organization she founded, feeding over 250 families a week. She was niftar on Thursday night.
She also provided them with medical assistance and other necessities. Mrs. Hammer earned an honorary doctorate in “Kindness” from Yeshiva University and was selected by Emunah Women, and received the distinction of being named “Yakirat Yerushalayim” by Jerusalem Mayor Lupoliansky.
The chessed institution which she single handedly launched distributed some $10,000 weekly in meat products is now run by a great-granddaughter.
Prior to moving to Eretz Yisrael in 1969, together with her husband Ephraim, they spread yiddishkeit in Los Angeles, spearheading the community’s first mikve. The couple came on aliyah in 1969.
The levaya was held at 1:00pm on erev shabbos in Givat Shaul. Mrs. Hammer is survived by three daughters, 9 grandchildren, over 35 great-grandchildren and 40 great-great-grandchildren.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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You can see a video of her by Aish at http://www.aish.com/v/hoi/52829162.html
BD”E a true tzadekes and model for yiddishkeit.
Baruch Dayan Haemes
Baruch Dayan Emes.
Wow that is incredible.
Mrs. Clara Hammer is someone to emulate and look up to.
She and not celebrities, should be the heros who get the accolades and the ones that children should be taught to want to be like.
She truly was an unbelievable woman. Spry and active in her aged years, collecting for the poorest families of Yerushalayim. Her entire dira was filled with “chicken” objects; chicken light switch covers, chicken chochkas, etc. When she spoke to Bais YAakov girls, she had a large plastic chicken container that she accepted donations in. When we gave her money, she slid out her ledger book from under her dining room table tablecloth, carefully wrote in our names and how much we gave and then carefully slid it back in under the tablecloth and then insisted that we accept netilas yadaim hand towels as a token of thanks. Her story is amazing and worth listening to or reading. Her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren are as precious as the most precious stones of Yerushalayim. She will be missed by many and she truly was one of a kind.
beautiful film on aish.com. what an amazing woman who thought and cared of others. boruch dayan emmes.