Families fall into homelessness for many different reasons: loss of a job, huge medical bills, divorce, domestic violence, foreclosure. Any one disaster can mean the loss of a home. When that happens, the first step is to find temporary shelter and other support to keep the family together and stabilize the children. Then comes the…
A Day in the Life Of…
…Sonja Adams, Case Manager for the SAJD Supported Living Program. 8:00 a.m. I start my day by checking for messages and mail. I get a lot of snail mail because most of my clients have their bills and important paperwork forwarded to me. I sort through it all to help them figure out what needs to…
Feeding the Heart & Soul
…Jewish tradition recognizes a meal as a time for intimacy, fellowship, and significant conversation… Because eating creates intimacy amongst people it creates opportunities for encounters of the intellect and the soul… Rabbi Yehiel E. Poupko I was blessed to experience the gift of an intimate table as a child. Then as an adult, my husband…
3 Ways to Ease Your Family Back Into School
Transitions can be stressful, and one of the major transitions families face is when kids head back to school. Families tend to face many of the same difficulties when it comes to keeping a schedule on track. Here are three of them, with some tips that can help return order and efficiency to your family’s…
Journeying Towards Character
Character is one’s only real possession. Rabbi Israel Salanter In my work, there is a lot of conversation about goals in raising children and what people want their family to be like. Most of us want children who are happy, successful, and good people…but what does this mean? Each person and family defines it differently,…
Blessings, Teens and Wendy Mogel’s Advice
These days, ours is a home of deep voices and driver’s licenses, responsible summer jobs, man-cave bedrooms, ear-bleedingly loud electric guitar and scant-on-inquiring-minds-want-to-know-details about socializing that is described only as “hanging out with people.” But even as I’ve seen one son off to college and the other at work on applications for his future destination,…
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