News & Impact

J Weekly by Andy Altman-Ohr In their mid-80s and beset by Alzheimer’s disease and two types of cancer, respectively, Jewish Russian immigrants Dina and Isaak Freylikhman of San Francisco consider themselves blessed that the L’Chaim Adult Day Health Center exists. However, the Freylikhmans and thousands of other Californians like them are in danger of losing the ability to live on their own. If the state Legislature approves Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to cut $1.7 billion from Medi-Cal, some $486 million for more than 300 Adult Day Health Care programs in the state would be eliminated. Read More from J Weekly… Read More

Thanks to the help he received from the educational loan and grant program of JFCS’ Financial Aid Center, Ben Botts is launching a career that will touch the lives of countless workers across the country. An alumnus of Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, Ben was one of five recent law-school graduates selected nationwide to serve as an Honors Program attorney at the United States Department of Labor. He says he never would have been able to achieve this success without JFCS’ support. Over the next two years, Ben will tackle a sweeping range of critical issues,… Read More

J Weekly by Amanda Pazornik The Holocaust Center of Northern California started exploring the idea of a partnership with Jewish Family and Children’s Services in 2009 as a way to help close its budget gap. Now that vision has become a reality. Read More from J Weekly… Read More

Marin Independent Journal by Richard Halstead A program that provides social workers and nurses to monitor the care of fragile Marin seniors who want to continue living in their homes would also be eliminated by proposed cuts in the state budget. Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget would eliminate Medi-Cal funding for the Multi-Purpose Senior Services Program, which serves a caseload of 85 seniors in Marin. The nonprofit Jewish Family and Children’s Services has contracted with the Department of Aging to provide the program in Marin County for the past 12 years. Read More from the Marin Independent Journal… Read More

Human rights activist Natan Sharansky, internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter Regina Spektor, KGO radio talk show host John Rothmann, and America’s Got Talent finalist George Komsky headline the 10th Annual Émigré Community Gala, to be held Saturday evening, January 29, at San Francisco’s Westin St. Francis Hotel. The Gala, the premier Northern California event for Russian-speaking Jews and one of the largest annual events for the entire Jewish community of the San Francisco Bay Area, raises funds for life-saving social services for those in need served by Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.… Read More

The nasty text message your 13-year-old received from a classmate saying that she is fat and ugly isn’t just mean. It’s an act of bullying. And the taunts, shoves, kicks, and pushes your 10-year-old son faces everyday at school aren’t just cases of “boys being boys.” They’re also bullying. “Bullying is a dehumanizing act that can take many forms,” says one of this country’s leading authorities on bullying, Barbara Coloroso. “It can be physical, such as beating up a classmate. It can be verbal, such as referring to someone by a racial, religious, or ethnic epithet. And it can be… Read More