Page 4 - The Jewish Voice - January '22

Page 4, The Jewish Voice

Local Happenings from page 3 • More than 600 Hanukkah cards were sent to residents Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County. “We are equally
Community Impact at MorseLife and placed in Hanukkah meal bags from honored to work with a growing number of local partners
Kind Kitchen to homebound seniors as well as community
who help us provide opportunities for individuals of all ages
Continues to Grow with members suffering from illness or crisis, to add holiday joy to simply help their neighbors.”
For more information on upcoming volunteer

and happiness
Jewish Volunteer Center’s and Kind Kitchen, nearly 200 volunteers assembled and opportunities, visit jewishvolunteer.org or call 561.242.6653.
• In partnership with Alpert Jewish Family Service
The next community-wide event is January 17, when
Annual Initiative delivered more than 1,200 Hanukkah packages to our Federation and partners throughout the Palm Beaches
community’s homebound seniors and anyone suffering from join hundreds of people of all faiths and perspectives for
Nearly 1,000 community members this holiday season illness and crisis the annual MLK Day of Service. This powerful event
helped address some of the area’s most urgent needs during • 520 hygiene kits assembled for the Human Trafficking commemorates Dr. King’s legacy and honors his desire to
Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County’s Jewish Volunteer Coalition of The Palm Beaches to distribute to local build “beloved communities.” Volunteer throughout the
Center fifth annual 8 Days 8 Ways community acts of service nonprofits that serve women in need; the vital effort was Palm Beaches during the day to make a lasting impact on
campaign. Volunteers ensured homebound seniors and a partnership between JVC and Federation’s Women’s the lives of many people in need; the day wraps up with
families had critical food and resources and felt supported Philanthropy a virtual program starting at 5 p.m. to commemorate Dr.
King’s vision of diversity and equality.

Chabad PBG Hires Directors
of Youth Programming!

Chabad of Palm
Beach G ardens
welcomes Rabbi
Yisroel and Raizy
Uzvolk, who will
serve as Directors of
Youth Programming.
T hi s dyna m i c
young couple
will lead all youth
activities at the shul,
including Hebrew
throughout Hanukkah • Thousands of diapers and wipes, as well as boxes school, b’nei mitzvah
and the holiday season. of baby food and formula for infants and toddlers, were training, teenage
Now in its fifth donated to Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of programming, as
year, volunteer efforts Palm Beach County well as young Jewish
through 8 Days 8 Ways • In partnership with the Anne & Sam Klein Literacy professionals.
resulted in: Program, volunteers spent a morning reading to kindergarten Last year’s Jewish community demographic study
• 200 turkeys and children at a Boynton Beach elementary school — the first showed that there are 22,000 Jewish children in our area,
hundreds of pounds time since the pandemic began; more than 600 new books only 8 percent of whom are receiving any form of a Jewish
of nonpe ri shabl e were provided to students to enjoy at home education! The need could not be greater to bring in young,
foods, plus baking • Hundreds of volunteers assembled and dropped off dedicated leadership to engage and inspire our youth to a
supplies and gift cards more than 1,400 Lunches of Love, brown bag lunches proud Jewish identity and a stronger Jewish future.
donated to help ensure with messages of kindness, to be distributed by St. Ann Rabbi Yisroel Uzvolk was raised in South Africa in
local families and Place, St. George’s Center, and The Soup Kitchen of a family of community leaders and educated in some of
individuals in need had Boynton Beach. Our partners at the Mandel JCC of the Israel and America’s leading yeshivas. His family runs the
a hearty, healthy, festive Palm Beaches graciously hosted our lunch drop off, and Victory Park Hebrew congregation in Johannesburg. He
Thanksgiving also contributed 300 lunches packed by students in their is knowledgeable, principled, and sensitive yet creative,
afterschool programs; 150 middle school students at Meyer energetic, and exciting.
Preparatory also packed and donated Lunches of Love. With his extensive background as an educator around
• More than 130 volunteers of all ages spent hours the world, Rabbi Uzvolk aims to guide Jewish youngsters
cleaning up more than 150 pounds of garbage from our on an individual and communal scale, helping them to reach
local beaches their spiritual potential and to shine as happy, productive,
“It’s truly incredible to see the collective impact of and principled people.
our community to help others, to fill bellies, bring smiles, Rebbetzin Raizy Uzvolk was educated in the finest
compassion, and support to those who need it most,” said
Melissa Hudson, director of the Jewish Volunteer Center at Local Happenings on page 5

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