The Charlotte Jewish News - November, 1998 - Page 7
Jewish Family Services
Jewish Family Services celebrates its many sponsors and friends
By Penny Wagner-Schuster,
MSW, ACSW, CCSW. Executive
Director
As members of the community,
we are all neighbors in one sense
or another. The strength of a com
munity rests upon strong families
and their relationships with each
other. To the extent that we can
rely on each other for support and
engage in activities of common
cause is the extent to which we
will continue to have a vibrant,
humane, and loving community.
As your neighbor in the com
munity, I have the privilege of
serving you as the Executive
Director of JFS. As the director of
a social service agency that has a
mission based on Tz^akah and
Chesed, I witness first hand the
love and caring nature of our com
munity. November brings to a
close the end of another fiscal
year. As we reflect upon the
agency’s successes throughout the
year, we cannot do so without
thoughts of the many people who
gave of their time, talent and
fmancial support. I feel very fortu
nate to be part of such a giving and
caring community that reaches out
to those in need, often without
even being asked. A community
that touches the liv'es of others in
so many ways, without needing
recognition or praise. It is the
anonymity of this caring, and love
that makes the giving that much
more special.
It is this sense of community
that enabled JFS to provide food
from our pantry to an average of
two persons or families every day.
It is this sense of community
that enabled JFS to provide friend
ly visits, telephone reassurance
calls, and rides to over 25 individ
uals each month.
It is this sense of community
that enabled a child to receive a
bicycle donated by another family,
a new mother to receive diapers,
formula and a handmade receiving
blanket.
It is this sense of community
that enabled a senior citizen to
afford medication for the month,
without having to decide on
whether she should eat or have her
pills.
It is this sense of community
that allowed JFS to provide emer
gency financial requests to over
thirty individuals in need of
money for rent or utilities. Many
were facing eviction or cut off of
utility service.
It is this sense of community
that enabled JFS to help strength
en the family system through
counseling, case management, and
supportive services to individuals
of all ages facing problems coping
or needing reassurance that some
one cared.
It is this sense of community
that allows JFS to exist. It is
through the support of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Charlotte
funding, the annual JFS Friends
Campaign, your finsinclal support
that enables the agency to work.
JFS is here to serve our communi
ty. JFS is here because you care.
As JFS readies for its eighteenth
year of service to our community,
THANK YOU to all who continue
to support the work we do!
Staff Update:
Linda Ziefert, a recent arrival
from New York, has replaced
Nellie Page as Correspondence
Administrative Assistant with
JFS. Linda will work with Edna
Binford, Financial Administrative
Assistant, to respond to calls for
information, assistance, tribute
card donations, food pantry and
fundraising functions of the
agency. Please call on either of
them when you need assistance or
wish to make a contribution. O
JFS Celebrates Its Donors
The following persons made donations for tribute cards during September.
IN MEMORY OF:
Rose Cohen
Donor: Carolyn & Herbert Sosnik
Heddy Friedman
Donor: Evelyn & Leonard Berger
Ruth and Alan Goldberg
Marilyn Shapiro
Evelyn & Joseph
Spielman
Miriam Greenberg
Donor: Ruth & Alan Goldberg
Estelle Newhause Miran
Donor: Ruth &. Alan Goldberg
Jack Robins
Donor: Ruth & Alan Goldberg
Jack Sosnik
Donor: Points of View Group
Temple Beth El & Temple
Israel
Stan Wasserman
Donor: Florence & Ben Jaffa
In Honor of:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Don Bernstein
Donor: Judie & Mike Van Glish
Bussie Goldberg
Donor: Heidi & Michael Rotberg
Edith & Sidney Cojac
Julius Goldstein
Donor: Evelyn & Leonard Berger
Ruth & Alan Goldberg
Emily Lemer
Donor: Julie Lerner
Selma Melasky
Donor: Ena, Eve, Elizabeth,
Jessie, Margot, Sally,
Ruth, Renee & Trudy
Mrs. Jerry Qgan
Donon Ruth & Alan Goldberg
Hugo Rosenberger
Donor: Selma Melasky
Evelyn & Joseph
Spielman
Milton Tager
Donor: Clarice & Harold
Breitman
Ethel & Allen Gordon
Florence & Ben Jaffa
Betty & John Levin
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Beverly & Arthur Tirsun
Donor: Blanche & Henry
Hirschman
Treif
(CotUiiiued fnm page 2)
major Jewish organizations), not
on an issue, but on an individual:
Jonathan Pollard.
Shortly after Shavuos I started
working for the National Council
of Young Israel where I became
aware Mr. Jonathan Pollard called
our office several times a week.
For years I, like many of you read
ers, signed petitions demanding
his release and heard his words
only in the prepared notes and
statements read by his wife or a
spokesperson. This created a curi
ous, one-sided relationship of
some 13 years. I had hop^ to
someday speak with him, but real
ized the oAis were small because
Rabbi Lcmer would automatically
put everything else an hold to take
his calls. Given the chance, I know
what I wairted to tell him. I want
ed to tell him of my frustration
working with the ADL and its
shrinking posture on the 'Pollard
Affair.” I wanted to tell him the
outrage no only I, but countless
SPEEDY RECOVERY!
Use Bergen
Donor: Dorothy Schulman
Sol Jaffa
Donor: Evelyn & Leonard Berger
Steve Kaufmann
Donor: Ruth & Alan Goldberg
Frank Rosen
Donor; Evelyn & Leonard Berger
SPECIAL OCCASION
Mr. & Mrs. Louis Coleman
Donor: Janice & Bernard Patlock
Linda Karacova
Donor: Ida Berman
Shaina & Laura Rabinovich
(B’not Mitzvah)
Donor: Ruth & Alan Goldberg
Jodie Schewitz (Bat Mitzvah)
Donor; Ruth & Alan Goldberg
Jessie & Howard Simon
Donor: Ena Stem
A Special Thanks to Chavurat
Tikvah for the monetary donation
for a special project of Jewish
Family Services.
others, felt at the vulgar and
deceit^l treatment he suffered at
the hands of our govenunent, epit
omized by former Secretary of
Defense Caspar Weinberger. I
wanted to tell him that despite the
self-serving claims of the many
Jewish organizations that treated
him like treif they were not in fact
the “voice” of American Jewry. I
wanted to tell him to remain
strong.
One day. Rabbi Lcmer was out
of town and I answered his
phones, perfunctorily, simply tak
ing messages from strangers. The
phone rang, I answered it. My
“second” call. It was Jonathan
Pollard. We spoke at lengb!. It was
an honor. As far as my plan to give
him support, let’s set the record
straight; after speaking with him I
was the one who was strengthened
and inspired. I now understand
and appreciate Rabbi Leraer's,
directive, ‘*That’s Jonathan ? Put
him right through!” *
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Contained within an attractive,
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matches, silver-plated Kiddusti
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challah cover, salt shaker,
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The lightweight kit contains
items so attractive, they can be
used at home all year long, as well
as away from home. The Shabbat
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