Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King didn’t qualify life’s big question by socio-economic group, level of education, gender – or age. At a time when it would be reasonable for them to relax and bask in past mitzvahs, a dedicated group of seniors at the…
Passover at JFS
How can we all educate our children to true freedom? Teach them not to look at reality as defining their acts but to look at their acts as defining reality. – Yaacov Cohen Whether you are looking to volunteer or to prepare for the holiday, JFS has a Passover event for you. Passport to Passover…
Taking Human Resources to a New Level
The service and support that JFS provides really is the extension of our community’s caring, and there’s no better example of this than a recent volunteer effort from PMSI. PMSI provides Human Resources support to JFS. Stephanie Benadof of PMSI is often onsite at JFS, so when the company was looking to plan its annual…
Community. Living Simply & Sustainably. Social Justice.
Bailey Toth is a Lutheran Volunteer Corps member completing her year of service as the Food Bank Specialist in the JFS Food Bank. The three core tenets of the Lutheran Volunteer Corps could not have resonated more perfectly with my own values, so I knew I had to apply to the program. Applicants choose their…
Client Update: Allan
When you last saw Allan, he was telling his moving story in the 2014 JFS Luncheon video. It’s been a year since you’ve heard from him. See what he’s up to now: Now that you’ve been in stable housing for over a year, what has changed for you? JFS helped me navigate the waters to…
Becoming Life Scribes
When JFS hosted a reading by local poet Esther Altshul Helfgott last fall, she closed the event by asking audience members to write something from their own lives. I was inspired by the notion that we can become the scribes of our lives and the lives of our loved ones. This got me thinking about…
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