Linda and Rabbi Roy Walter

Reel Hope … A Night at the Movies, Take 2! will be a casual evening at the movies featuring the presentation of the Joan Alexander Chesed Award to Linda and Rabbi Roy Walter on Sunday evening, February 28, 2010. The program will feature a boxed dinner and the viewing of a major Hollywood motion picture. This fundraiser will support the many programs and services Jewish Family Service offers to over 14,000 individuals annually. Click here to join in the fun!

Celebration Company Opens

With great pride and excitement, the JFS Alexander Institute announces the launch of Celebration Company, a comprehensive 3-day/week program for Jewish adults with special needs. The enterprise includes structured employment, life-skills, social interaction and a wellness component (in partnership with the JCC). Participants, under the caring supervision of Alexander Institute professionals and trained volunteers,  learn and enhance skills enabling them to create marketable giftware and to undertake other entrepreneurial endeavors for which they will be paid.

Celebration Company is located in a specially designed space at 4019 S. Braeswood Blvd. at Stella Link. Transportation within the service area is available. With a blueprint for participants' success, the fee-based program was developed after extensive research of local and national ventures. Richard Kammerman, Project Chair, noted that the goal is to build a supportive, participant-centered, strength-based program guided by Jewish principles.

“Volunteer opportunities are many and varied,” said Joy Kaplan, Celebration Company volunteer chair. “We are actively recruiting individuals seeking a meaningful and rewarding volunteer experience, volunteers who can – and will – make a difference.” Volunteer opportunities include database support, mentoring, special life skills and production aides, marketing and creating giftware.

To begin the intake process, to find out more information or to explore volunteer opportunities, contact the JFS Alexander Institute by phone, 713-667-9336; e-mail: alexanderinstitute@jfshouston.org or through the JFS website: www.jfshouston.org.

Support Passover Assistance Program

Participate in the mitzvah of letting all who are hungry observe Passover by donating funds ot the JFS Passover Assistance Fund. Click here to watch a short video about the program and how much it means to more than 750 members of the Houston Jewish community.  Click here to go directly to the online donation page.