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Page 6, The Jewish Voice

Local Happenings from page 5 and other financial resources; job group meetings for those retirement; and 12,000 households rely on a social service
unemployed; the future use of a pop-up career closet to benefit, such as food stamps or Medicaid.
“Healing, refuah, is at the heart and core of our hopes obtain professional attire; and mentorship matching with “The search for a new job can be challenging and
and prayers for the year. The root of the word means to professionals in the community. Services for participating complicated, particularly as there have been considerable
repair, restore, and bring wholeness or peace physically and businesses include: personalized staffing support; access to changes for many due to COVID-19, so our work each day
spiritually. Our world needs healing, wholeness, and love. a pre-screened job seeker pool, and retention services. has focused on solutions for the most urgent needs in our
It was a natural choice for a theme to carry through all that The timely new initiative community,” shared Michael Hoffman, president and CEO
we do here at Temple Beth David,” said Bensimhon. will be led by Whitney Cherner, of Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County. “We are proud
Rabbi Eisenman’s role as scholar in residence marks a who most recently served as to support this employment program provided by JFS, and
more formal title added to her years of teaching and engaging senior director of the Mandel grateful for the incredible support of generous people in our
students at Temple Beth David. Representing the 17th Institute for Leadership community who contributed to our J-Help campaign.”
generation of rabbis in her family, she graduated from the Development at the Jewish
Joint Program of Columbia University and List College at Federation of Palm Beach Matching Initiative
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, County. Cherner previously Multiplies Emergency
then entered rabbinical school at JTS, earning both a master’s served as vice president of
degree and rabbinical ordination. career & employment services Services for Survivors
After holding pulpits in Illinois and New York, Rabbi at Ruth & Norman Rales
Eisenman and her family moved to Boca Raton, where she Jewish Family Services in Recent studies indicate that up to 80,000 Holocaust
became the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Tikvah. She Boca Raton, where she created survivors are living today in the United States — and more
transitioned to becoming the head chaplain at Boca Raton and implemented a similar program. She oversaw all aspects than 30,000 are living at or near the federal poverty level.
Care Center, providing spiritual care to terminally ill patients. of the program, including working with clients, business The support these survivors receive does not allow them to
Rabbi Eisenman has been a Florence Melton Instructor development, managing the operating budget, and marketing. afford what they need in order to live a dignified life. Many
for nearly 10 years and was honored to receive the title of Cherner, who is a licensed clinical social worker and has are choosing between heat or food, medicine or rent. Others
master instructor. She is committed to bringing innovative, a master’s degree in social work from Florida Atlantic have dire living conditions because they do not have the
interactive, pluralistic, and spiritual learning to the adult University, has assisted nearly 500 candidates with new funds needed to repair their homes.
Jewish community of Palm Beach County. positions ranging from entry-level to upper management. In March 2019, Seed the Dream Foundation in
“We are happy to have Rabbi Eisenman join us as teacher and “With such immense and immediate need for employment partnership with KAVOD-Ensuring Dignity for Holocaust
scholar,” said Rabbi Arberman. The rabbi, Cantor Bensimhon, services, we are extremely pleased that we are able to launch Survivors launched a national initiative to support
and Rabbi Eisenman are developing additional programming this important program, particularly with Whitney Cherner’s thousands of Holocaust survivors across the United States.
to explore the theme of Healing Through Judaism. expertise. This program will provide the growing number Recognizing the importance of reaching any survivor
Rabbi Eisenman begins her role as scholar-in-residence of community members who are unemployed, many whose regardless of where they live, Seed the Dream Foundation
with a series of classes titled, “Is Loving and Healing Speech job losses were due to the pandemic, with the knowledge, partnered with KAVOD to establish the KAVOD Survivors
Possible in our Age: The Jewish View of Civility In the Public coaching, and support to help them as they re-enter the of the Holocaust Emergency Fund (SHEF).
Square?” which begins on Oct. 19 at 10:30 a.m. workforce,” said Marc Hopin, CEO of Ferd & Gladys Alpert Seed the Dream Foundation has committed the
“Rabbi Eisenman has developed a steady following Jewish Family Service of Palm Beach County. “We remain substantial amount of funding necessary to launch this
at Temple Beth David, engaging temple members and true to our mission of meeting the human service needs of effort — and more than 20 philanthropists and foundations
community students who have come for Melton classes and our community members during challenging times in their quickly joined a coalition of national partners to set SHEF
then stayed at the temple to learn with her through other lives — especially in times of emergency and crisis.” in motion for the second half of 2019.
offerings,” said Ann Katz, adult education chair and temple Results from an expansive 2018 Community Study led All KAVOD SHEF funds will be directed toward
board member. by Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County demonstrated emergency services as a secondary resource, specifically
“After teaching here for many years, I am proud to serve a critical need for services, even before the onset of the to address the following urgent and critical needs: dental,
as Temple Beth David’s scholar-in-residence,” said Rabbi pandemic. Results showed 20 percent of the Jewish vision, medical, emergency home services (emergency
Eisenman. community described themselves as just getting along, utilities, home repairs, rent support), and food. In addition,
Program Helps Job Seekers, nearly poor or poor; 38 percent of Jewish households are Local Happenings on page 8
not confident in their ability to live comfortably during
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