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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“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
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
The Talmud (Tractate Shabbat, 21a) poses the query: “What is Hanukkah?” The Talmud then tells us the basic outline of the holiday story- the miraculous victory of the Maccabees over the Greek-Syrians, which culminated in the public lighting of the seven-branched Menorah of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Says the Talmud: Na’aseh Bo Nays – a miracle happened, and
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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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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By Kristin Lobenstein, MBA, CPC, JFS Financial Coach Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Did you start hearing this phrase as a little kid, like I did? “I’m not good at math, Mom.” Where there’s a will, there’s a way. “I will never have enough money to buy the house.” Where there’s a will,
Written by Mitch Jacobs, M.Ed., LPC Published on Sept. 18, 2018 You want to land your dream job or make your next career move. Have you been applying to and interviewing for a variety of job opportunities? Maybe, after reading a couple of articles about about how to interview, you’ve still not obtained a job
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Written by Janelle Gibson, LCSW-S, Director of Family Violence Intervention Services S- START EACH DAY WITH SELF-CARE. Begin every day doing something for yourself before you think of work, job hunting, taking care of children, etc. Make your care a priority before anything else. It may be you enjoy your morning coffee or tea while relaxing in your
