Did You Hear?

Meet ZIDAN & ABDOUL: (Sudanese Asylum Seekers) "When people think about Africans, they usually have the notion that we are all like the Graffiti figures behind us: Spear in one hand and Bone stuck to our head. We hope that one day people will see us the way we really are, and not in a preconceived way."

Together we raised over $285,000, bringing the 2021 Community Campaign total to more than $5.5 million towards our $14 million goal!

There is much more the Federation and the agencies we fund accomplished in this crazy year of 2020.

These funds are a combination of campaign and foundation allocations that were reallocated and supplemental donor gifts.

I must share an unbelievable story from this past week that is more personal than I usually get in my messages.

Yesterday, 316 Jews lifted off from their native country of Ethiopia to arrive in their new home in Israel.

The dollars we raise are here for a purpose – to help.

The key impact areas include health and wellness, emergency funding and food insecurity, physical-space needs for proper social distancing, capacity building and maintaining Jewish identity.

We are trying not only to keep our community safe, but also trying to help everyone to feel safe.

Remote education will probably prevail for the foreseeable future, so teens and young adults are yearning for meaningful alternative learning.