May 2, 2022 | Community Partners, Featured, Immigrant and Resettlement, Jewish Community, JFS of Metrowest, Resettlement, Volunteer Opportunities, We are JFS!
Last month, Jordan, a 13-year-old from Newton, donated thousands of dollars of gift cards to JFS’s resettlement projects. In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah at Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, Jordan organized a gift card drive to support Afghan Evacuees and...
Mar 28, 2022 | Community Partners, Featured, Immigrant and Resettlement, JFS of Metrowest, Resettlement, Volunteer Opportunities, We are JFS!
Families from St. Bridget Parish Faith Formation organized a diaper drive to help our recently arrived Afghan families with newborns. In addition to collecting diapers and wipes, they put together baskets with baby-care items and generous gift bags for new moms. As...
Mar 28, 2022 | Community Partners, Featured, Immigrant and Resettlement, JFS of Metrowest, Resettlement, Volunteer Opportunities, We are JFS!
UCC Congregational of Boxborough and Congregation Beth Elohim of Acton are collaborating to resettle an Afghan family of six. Declaring “Na’aseh v’Nishma,” they said yes to helping the family before hearing all that the family would need. UCC Boxborough published an...
Feb 16, 2022 | Immigrant and Resettlement, JFS of Metrowest, New American Services, Resettlement, We are JFS!
Thank you for your interest in helping to resettle Afghan evacuees! The commandment to care for the stranger is mentioned more times than any other commandment in the Torah. To date, JFS has welcomed 13 Afghan evacuee families (47 individuals) to the Greater Boston...
Feb 11, 2022 | Community Partners, Featured, Immigrant and Resettlement, Jewish Community, JFS of Metrowest, Resettlement, Volunteer Opportunities, We are JFS!
Recently Massachusetts committed to welcoming 2,400 Afghan Evacuees to the Commonwealth. Supported by JFS Senior Director of Programs and Partnerships Lucia Panichella and case managers Nermin Helaly, Fahim Amin, Susan Delahunt, and Maggie Kenney, as well as dozens of...
