Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley

Embrace-A-Family 2020 is here through December 18th! Your generosity will help ease holiday pressures and stress for families and seniors who would otherwise go without gifts. To maintain the safety of our staff, volunteers, and clients during COVID 19, this year our program is online. To learn more and take part in this opportunity, please visit: https://www.jfssv.org/embrace-a-family-2020.html

We join HIAS and fellow refugee resettlement agencies throughout the land in celebrating our President's swift and just actions.

So proud to be part of the Sharks Community!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Wisdom and Inspiration in Challenging Times event last night! We will work hard to continue to live up to the words that you used to describe what Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley means to you. To watch our event, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMDBf-5TJM8&feature=youtu.be

We're thrilled to report that JFS SV is a 2020-21 beneficiary of the San Jose Sharks Foundation Goals for Kids program. Go Sharks! https://www.nhl.com/sharks/sharksfoundation/goals-for-kids

We all really miss our "Hanukkah Harry's Hideaway" full to the brim of Embrace-A-Family gifts in our JFS office. But we got treated to this beautiful sight: our good friends at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints setting out to deliver this year's Embrace-A-Family gifts to some of our recently arrived refugee families. There's still time for you to contribute toward gifts for appreciative kids, adults and seniors. We're so grateful for your help! Please join us: https://www.jfssv.org/embrace-a-family-2020.html

To register: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_UQV6erRXQliomb9llxTPxQ

You are invited to celebrate the last night of Hanukkah with us! Joel Nelson's musical event will uplift you and give you a chance to bring more light into our community by supporting our imperative work. We hope to see you there! All proceeds will support our COVID-19 relief work. For more information, please contact our Development Manager, Allison Zur: [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/donate/209810340706052/

While Mindy and Susan were attending the GA, the JFS SV staff sent a friendly greeting from their weekly staff meeting: the friendliest faces in town!

From our JFS SV family to yours, we wish you a Shabbat shalom and a lovely weekend. May you be inscribed for a good 5781!

We are so very grateful to ChallahFresh and Pars Kosher Market & Deli for supporting our amazing Knitzvah of Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley volunteers with their generous and delicious donation for knitzvah's Happy Birthday event. Thank for all that you are doing for our clients during this challenging time!

We are so grateful for the more than 20 volunteer heroes who packed and delivered 220 High Holiday food packages. They fought the smoke and the virus, with smiles evident beneath their masks. Shana tova from the JFS family to yours - we wish you all that is good in the year to come! https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Jewish-Family-Services-

Color us proud today! Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley earned its 2020 Platinum Seal of Transparency from GuideStar... and we helped more people than ever in the past year. Read all about it: https://www.jfssv.org/accomplishments.html

Truth! We're working harder than we ever have. So many people need our help these days in so many more ways. We're grateful for our community's support, knowing that we'll still need it in the months to come. Shabbat shalom, everyone!

As wildfires rage once again in our beautiful state, we're here to help. Whether you are in need of help, or can provide help, our community has united to answer the call. JFS SV is partnering with our Jewish Federation to offer assistance to people in financial need who have been evacuated due to the California wild fires. If you are in need of assistance or would like to support our Emergency Fire Relief Fund, please visit this link: https://www.jfssv.org/california-fire-relief.html

We are proud and privileged to be part of this amazing network!

Please join us and our colleagues as we reiterate that we need to ensure the lives of refugees because we were refugees too!

The future of refugee resettlement and the asylum system in the U.S. hinges on the attitudes of the leaders we elect in November. Please join us oand our partners - HIAS, JFS San Diego, and JFCS-East Bay - on Aug. 19 to learn how you can ensure that candidates in races across California state their affirmative support for welcoming refugees and asylum seekers.

YA-LIVE members helped spread the word about Census2020. Complete Census 2020 today! It's not too late. https://2020census.gov/

Yasher koach to Pia and JFCS of Greater Philadelphia! We at JFS SV are proud to be part of a network that innovates and collaborates. We move through these challenging times with empathy and purpose. Shabbat shalom everyone.