JFS Staff, Author at Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas

Kristin Chenoweth Announced as Keynote Speaker for Woman to Woman Luncheon 2022

January 18, 2022 / 2 minutes of reading

Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas will present our 10th Woman to Woman Luncheon on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at noon at the Renaissance Dallas Addison Hotel. We will celebrate the power, influence, and impact of women. We are thrilled to announce that award-winning actress and singer, KRISTIN CHENOWETH,will join us as our keynote speaker. […]

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JFS Dallas joins National Partnership to Deliver Career and Financial Services

January 14, 2022 / 2 minutes of reading

JFS Dallas is excited to announce our participation in Project EM: Empowering and Employing our Community, a collaborative program being launched by The Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies (NJHSA) and Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) to connect job seekers with access to an extensive continuum of services via virtual platforms, regardless of the

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PLAN partners with small businesses to employ individuals with mental illness

December 20, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading

PLAN (People Living Active Now), a program of Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas, has developed an employment partnership with The Popcorn Shack on Coit and Campbell in Richardson. Members of the program, which serves individuals with severe and persistent mental illness, now work part-time three days a week in the store under the supervision

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New Website Features

October 25, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading

We have updated our website with several improvements and additions. Below is an overview of new features: Accessibility & Safety Automatic Website Translator – English, Hebrew, Russian, and Spanish (top left) Accessibility Helper* (top right blue box) Enlarge Font Increase Contrast Remove Animations Change or invert colors and more Quick Escape Button – For individuals researching

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JFS Food Pantry Reopening December 2, 2021

October 14, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading

We are pleased to announce that the new JFS Food Pantry will be opening on Thursday, December 2, 2021 Despite construction delays and supply-chain shortages, we are nearing the finish line! The following outlines detailed information including dates, how to sign-up for upcoming volunteer training and shifts, how to get food during our scheduled closure, and

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Joseph’s Success Story: Career and Financial Services

January 22, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading

Joseph is a smart man who needed a break. That’s how Allison Harding, senior director of Career & Financial Services at Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas (JFS), would describe the man with a Master’s Degree in mathematics who also happens to be partially blind and hearing impaired. When his landlady first took him to

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Food Pantry Expansion: Coming Summer 2021

January 22, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading

“We do a lot with very little space” has been the sentiment shared by volunteers and staff who have worked our North Dallas Food Pantry for the past 10 or so years. By “a lot”, this equates to receiving large shipments of food weekly, processing donations from corporate and community food drives, shopping 180 families

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Readingglasses.com supports The Resale Shop customers and JFS clients with their eyewear donation

December 26, 2020 / 2 minutes of reading

Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas recently received a donation that you have to see to believe! The Resale Shop, a charitable project of Jewish Family Service, was generously gifted 500 pairs of reading glasses from Readingglasses.com and Goo Goo Eyes of Dallas, Dallas’ go-to source for sublimely chic sunglasses and luxury prescription eyewear. Proceeds from

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To Understand The Pain of Infertility – A Life In The Void

December 10, 2020 / 8 minutes of reading

Written by Rabbi Yogi Robkin of DATA, Submitted to Texas Jewish Post, December 10, 2020 One can scarcely appreciate the pain and suffering of a couple bound in the grips of infertility without properly appreciating that for which they so long – the one-of-a-kind joy of parenthood. So too is it impossible to reckon with

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When the Shofar Sounded: Holocaust Survivors receiving JFS Rosh Hashanah Bags

September 18, 2020 / 4 minutes of reading

By: Yaffa Podbilewicz-Schuller, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist, Holocaust Survivor Care Their eyes shone with expectation, knowing and remembering as they prepared to hear the sound of the Shofar. Some, who had not spoken much, found their lips moving expertly reciting the ingrained blessing, others retrieving them from the recesses of mind now dimmed by dementia. Tears

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