Alpert JFS News

Career Connections Job Fair Is April 28

If you’re looking for a job in the Jewish community, Career Connections may be able to help! Join us on Thu, April 28, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County’s headquarters, the Jack, Joseph & Mort Mandel Building for a job fair. Local Jewish communal organizations will be on campus with job opportunities they are looking to fill on the spot. Registration is required. Please email [email protected] or call 561.615.4949 to secure your spot. Check […] https://www.alpertjfs.org/career-connection-job-fair-is-april-28/

Mental Health Month Kick-Off

Mental Health Month Kick Off! Friday, April 29, 2022 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. This event will kick-off the Get Your Green On Campaign in May! May is Mental Health Awareness and Trauma-Informed Care Month and Palm Beach County is celebrating! Birth to 22: United For Brighter Futures is hosting the 6th annual Get Your Green on campaign countywide. To Kick off the awareness month Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County is hosting a virtual event on April 29th. This […] https://www.alpertjfs.org/mental-health-month-kick-off/

Synagogue, Congregants Raise Money To Support Agency’s Food Program

by Sergio Carmona Jewish Journal, April 8, 2022 Money raised through an ongoing partnership between a synagogue and a Jewish social services agency is providing food to vulnerable individuals and families in Palm Beach County who face food insecurity. Since 2013, Temple Emanu-El of Palm Beach and its congregants have raised more than $81,000 for Ferd & Gladys Alpert Jewish Family Service in West Palm Beach through a program that replaces flowers with food. Rabbi Michael Resnick of Temple Emanu-El […] https://www.alpertjfs.org/synagogue-congregants-raise-money-to-support-agencys-food-program/

Happy Passover!

The war in Ukraine is heartbreaking. The death and destruction is tragic. Millions of Ukrainians are being forced from their homes. Some are Jewish, including Holocaust Survivors who are fleeing from their homes for a second time. All are now refugees in a foreign land. For Jewish people all over the world, it is now Passover. I have read news stories detailing how several organizations have mobilized to make sure that Ukrainian Jews still living in Ukraine as well as […] https://www.alpertjfs.org/happy-passover/

Jewish Journal Previews Passover Food Deliveries

  South Florida Jewish organizations are delivering Passover meals to families in need, Holocaust survivors and other homebound seniors throughout the next few weeks leading up to the holiday, which begins on the evening of April 15. Ferd & Gladys Alpert Jewish Family Service in West Palm Beach is conducting two kinds of meal deliveries for the holiday. On April 6, the agency is delivering Passover baskets to 75 households that are filled with non-perishable Passover foods, like matzo, soup, […] https://www.alpertjfs.org/jewish-journal-previews-passover-food-deliveries/