Alpert JFS News

Local Children Hold Food Drive and Donates to Alpert JFS Food Pantry

Alpert JFS is grateful to be the recipient of the Mitzvah Monday project at Mandel JCC Palm Beach Gardens and Camp Shalom, Mandel JCC Palm Beach Gardens! Dr. Iris Kiner, Child Psychologist at Alpert JFS, visited the camp to explain the project to the children and she got them very excited! The young campers would decorate grocery bags and fill them with food to donate to the Alpert JFS Kosher Food Pantry. The food pantry provides kosher food for those in our […] https://www.alpertjfs.org/local-children-participate-in-food-drive-to-donate-to-alpert-jfs-food-pantry/

AmeriCorps: Creating Unique Bonds While Impacting Seniors in Our Community

There are numerous seniors in our community who are socially isolated and feel alone, due to a myriad of circumstances. They may have lost their ability to drive, lost a spouse or are unable to live without the assistance of a caregiver. Our AmeriCorps Program fills this need by helping seniors with transportation, socialization and living more independently. One of our clients, Anna, is a 97-year-old former 2nd grade school teacher with extreme hearing loss.  She has a live-in caregiver […] https://www.alpertjfs.org/americorps-creating-unique-bonds-while-impacting-seniors-in-the-community/

Alpert JFS featured in NJHSA Member Highlights Newsletter

Alpert JFS is excited to be one of the featured stories published in the NJHSA (Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies) Member Highlights e-newsletter for June 2019. Palm Beach State College President, Ava Parker, presented a donation to the Holocaust Survivors Fund of Alpert JFS in honor of Dr. Irving Berkowitz, himself the son of Holocaust survivors and the 2019 Holocaust Remembrance Day speaker at Palm Beach State College. Partial newsletter shown below with Alpert JFS story. Alpert JFS is […] https://www.alpertjfs.org/alpert-jfs-featured-in-njhsa-member-highlights-newsletter/