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…
In Times of Uncertainty We Need More Humanity
By Rabbi Will Berkovitz, Schocken Family CEO Our world has transformed, and it feels like our humanity has been hijacked by extremists. Everything is off its axis. People are not thinking clearly. These are very painful and difficult days with no easy answers or simple solutions. It is a time of uncertainty. Many in our…
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…
Food for Thought: Reflecting on the JFS Food Sort
By Rabbi Laura Rumpf, Director of Project Kavod Each year, JFS hosts a large Community-Wide Food Drive & Sort to collect and organize food and hygiene items for our Polack Food Bank. Not only does this community-minded, all-ages event help supply our food bank with vital supplies to feed our neighbors—it has also become a…
JFS Food Sort: The Joy of Filling our Neighbors’ Plates
By Rabbi Laura Rumpf, Director of Project Kavod There’s an old Yiddish parable that depicts heaven and the underworld as two great big banquets. Both feature people sitting around a table with a gorgeous spread of food, but elbows that won’t bend, and incredibly long forks. The difference is, in the underworld each person only…
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