Jewish Family Service is excited to welcome Rabbi Ronit Tsadok as the new Director of Project Kavod, a JFS initiative that ties the vital work we do to the core Jewish values that inspire and guide our mission. With over 12 years of experience as a rabbi at IKAR in Los Angeles, Rabbi Ronit brings…
Support, Community, and Connection: The Ongoing Impact of Israeli Community Services
“I met Aliza, an Israeli woman living in Seattle, after she had experienced an unimaginable loss when her husband passed away and she became a single mother to three small kids,” shares Sigal Bujman, coordinator for the JFS Israeli Community Services (ICS) program, a pilot program established as a response to the events of October…
Stock Shelves & Spread Hope:
Join the JFS Community-Wide Food Drive & Food Sort
It’s that special time of year again! Help us fill the Polack Food Bank’s shelves during our annual Community-Wide Food Drive & Food Sort! Listen for details about the drive at your synagogue’s Rosh Hashanah services and start gathering food and hygiene items starting Wednesday, October 3. Not a member of a synagogue? You can…
Looking Up: Jewish Values in Action
By Rabbi Will Berkovitz, Schocken Family CEO The text below is edited from remarks given by our CEO, Rabbi Will Berkovitz at our 2024 Community of Caring Luncheon. The full audio of his remarks can be found here. This has been an extraordinarily troubling time, with increasing division and polarization on so many fronts. It can…
This is What a Community of Caring Looks Like
On Friday, May 10, we hosted our annual Community of Caring Luncheon. What a gathering! Nearly 800 of us attended—each table filled with friends, family members, and colleagues. And as our CEO Rabbi Will Berkovitz shared after the event, “As I scanned the crowd, I didn’t just see faces, I saw relationships. The hundreds of…
Repairing the World: Judy and Joe Schockens’ Transformational Gift to Jewish Family Service
We are thrilled to share that Jewish Family Service has received a multimillion-dollar donation from long-time supporters Judy and Joe Schocken. For 132 years, JFS has partnered with our community to improve the well-being, health, and stability of those who need our support. This extraordinary gift, the largest to our endowment fund to date, will…
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