The Charlotte Jewish News - April 2009 - Page 19
JFS and Oasis Senior Enrichment Program Team Up for
Seniors and Caregivers
An estimated one in four U.S.
households are involved in caring
for elderly family members. With
the National Jewish Population
Survey finding that 19% of
American Jews are aged 65 or
older an increased number of
American Jews are experiencing
the emotional and financial chal
lenges of care giving. In
Mecklenburg County the senior
population is expected to grow by
more than 1.5 percentage points
from 2005-2010. Oasis Senior
Enrichment Program and Jewish
Family Services are excited about
bringing a quarterly series of edu
cational workshops and a network
of supportive services that offer
caregivers easy access to
resources and information.
The first workshop will be enti
tled “Navigating the System” and
will explore some of the choices
available for senior living includ
ing assisted and independent liv
ing facilities as well as area home
care agencies and the various lev
els of services they offer. The
workshop will be led by Bea
Gibbs, the Senior Outreach
Specialist at Jewish Family
Services.
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 12
noon
Place: Weinberg Senior Center
at Shalom Park in the Levine JCC
A free box lunch will be provid
ed.
RSVP to Linda Bass, Senior
Adult Program Director at
linda.bass@charlottejcc.org or
call 704-944-6735
A Caregivers’ Support Group
will also meet monthly.
The first Caregivers’ Support
Group will meet on April 6 at 6:30
at Jewish Family Services in
Donations to Jewish Family Services
(Continued from previous page)
Our good friend, Selma
Melasky, mother of Jane
Diamond, from Helga and Hugo
Rosenberger, Virginia Holtzman,
Jules Buxbaum, Werner and
Margo Moritz
Randy Sperling’s beloved
mother, Allene, from Audrey
Madans, Marilyn and Mike
Tuckman mother
Ruth and Bernie Eisenberg,
beloved parents of Carl Eisenberg,
Ethel and Allen Gordon
Susie Bruck’s sister-in-law
from Irene and David Share,
Barbie and Steve Weiner, Sonny
and Ralph Besnoy
The beloved mother of Elena
Zilber from Audrey Madans
The brother of Phillip Widis
from Marshall and Barbara
Rosenfeld
The father of Alan Mann from
Jeff and Karen Turk
The father of Jeffrey Saul from
Evelyn Berger
The father of Judith Fain from
Bernice and Nat Roberts
The grandfather of Stacey
Selkin from the Kagan Family
Valerie Rubin from Marissa and
Adam Brooks
The father of Judy Shulman and
family from Helaine Stone
Schools\
The father of Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Smith from Linda and Ira
Bass
The father of Susan Webber
from Linda and Ira Bass
TO THE JFS PARENTING
PLACE
In honor of the Roochvarg
Family Bar and Bat Mitzvah from
Dana and Andrew Kapustin
In memory of Harry Levine,
grandfather of Stacey Selkin from
Dana and Andrew Kapustin
HAPPY CHANUKAH TO
Eugene and Amy Marx from
Walter and Lee Marx ^
CJDS Tu B’Shevat Celebration Becomes a
Community Event
Through the generosity of
Fresh Market and Foster-
Caviness, Charlotte Jewish Day
School became the “Fruit Basket
of Shalom Park” for the holiday of
Tu B’Shevat, the New Year for the
Trees. Since this holiday is often
celebrated by eating fruits that are
in season at this time in Israel,
CJDS middle school students
turned the event into a mitzvah
project by preparing fruit baskets
for distribution to elderly mem
bers of our community.
Frannie Cohen displays baskets to be pre
sented to senior citizens of our community.
Making this project a reality
left the students in a quandary
about the expense of the finiit,
since their goal was to fill twenty
baskets. Vicky Hirschmann,
Program Director for CJDS, con
tacted Deborah Cramer of Fresh
Market and Scott Gorelick of
Foster-Caviness and asked if their
two organizations might be able to
help with this project. Both
agreed, but little did we know the
extent of their generosity until the
boxes of finiit began arriving at our
school: tangerines, apples, grapes,
bananas, and oranges—enough
finiit to fill 20 large baskets with
enough left over to provide a gen
erous supply to Jewish Family
Services.
The middle school students pre
pared beautifully wrapped baskets
and transported them to some of
Charlotte’s lesser well-known
nursing and retirement facili
ties, including the Dorchester
and The Laurels in Pineville.
Many of the residents do not
have families nearby, and
while they were thrilled to
receive the baskets, they were
also deeply moved by the stu
dents’ willingness to spend
time visiting with them.
We are very grateful to
Fresh Market and Foster-
Caviness for their benevolence
and for allowing us to provide
the “gift of giving” to those in
our community who are less
fortunate. ^
Rachael Hall and Yakira Oudmayer
prepare fruit baskets in honor of Tu
B ’Shevat.
Shalom Park.
For more information or to
RSVP, please contact Nicole
Vagnone at nicole.vagnone
@jfscharlotte.org or call 704-364-
6594. ^
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