Take Time to Celebrate You
By: Ashley Bundis, Marketing Director & Keith Dvorchik, Executive Director Alicia Keys says: "I recognized how important paying attention to the spirit and the soul is, in order to find yourself in a place that feels good. There has to be this inward dialogue and...
RAISE Is Uniting Our Community, Celebrating Diversity in Our Workplace & Empowering Families
By: Loren London, Founder and Director of RAISE & Rachel Slavkin, Director of Employment and Education Our RAISE (Recognizing Abilities and Inclusion of Special Employees) mission is to build confidence, promote independence, and teach employability skills to...
Love and Laughter
I have found that the best way to navigate parenting in a world of Covid is to approach each day with love and laughter. Laughing makes light of our day to day craziness. In my family, we start our day by waking up my daughter with music as I believe this is a great...
Round One – Passover Madness
In the appetizer face-off, we have the infamous Gefilte Fish against chopped liver. Growing up, I thought there really was a Gefilte Fish swimming in the ocean and never consider that chopped liver was actually chicken livers that were chopped up. The way we trick...
Communities Coming Together
Two weeks ago, my friend Atif Fareed from the American Muslim Community Clinic reached out to let me know that they were approved to give the Pfizer Covid Vaccine and wanted to save spots for their "Jewish brothers and sisters'. I had the honor last week of helping...
Uprooting Prejudice: Faces of Change
Since I started working at the Maitland Campus, I always enjoyed my many opportunities to experience the Holocaust Center’s varied exhibits. Exhibits that focus not just on teaching us about the history and impact of the Holocaust; but also as their mission states “to...
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Congratulations to Employee of the Month – Jessica!
Jessica has been an appreciatedand valuable Employee of both the Jewish Family Services Food Pantry and the Roth Family JCC Fitness Center since October 2018. At JFS, Jessica has the important role of helping to unload boxes of food and preparing bags of food for...
Dell Hiring Program Aims To Create Opportunity For Adults With ASD
https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2019/04/05/dell-hiring-program/26360/
RAISE Thanks Robin Hoffman and Alexis Latimore!
RAISE is thrilled to have been given the opportunity to film a Promotional Video thanks to the generosity of Robin Hoffman and Alexis Latimore. Robin Hofmann of Hoffy's Heart is the producer of Bake With Me, a YouTube video series that gives a voice to individuals...
Getting ready for Shabbat
Friday morning report from Israel by our JWRP MOMentum Orlando delegation.
Visiting the Kotel and other sites
While visiting the Western Wall on Thursday, Michelle Sheplan talks about some of the powerful experiences she has had so far on the MOMentum trip.
Representing Orlando in the desert!
Our delegation traveled to the desert in Israel on Thursday, where we proudly unfurled our Jewish Federation/JOIN banner. (The trip is co-organized and subsidized by the Jewish Federation of Greater Orlando and JOIN Orlando).