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In Our Family
Everyone Matters |
"If I am not for myself
Who will be for me?
If I am only for myself,
What am I?
If not now, when?"
—Rabbi Hillel
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JFS is a constituent agency of the
Jewish Federation of Atlantic & Cape May Counties
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United Way of Atlantic County  |
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Programs & Services |
Support Services
Jewish Family Life Education
The Jewish Family Life Education Program at Jewish Family Service
fosters the agency's commitment to strengthen families through
preventive programs. Each year the agency offers a roster of
programs ranging from parenting classes to support groups focused
on helping individuals to care for aging relatives.
Program presentations are developed at the request and behest of constituent
agencies and others in the community.
Healing Center
Healing Services are open to the community.
Please join us to share the wisdom of our tradition as together
we seek to find healing, comfort, wholeness, peace, and connection.
Healing Services are held the third Monday of the month at Jewish
Family Service at 7:00 pm.
Find out more about the Healing Center...
Jewish Hospice Connections
Jewish tradition has great wisdom to help us preserve dignity
and loving comfort through the end of life. In Atlantic County,
we are blessed with many wonderful hospice programs providing
comfort (palliative) care as well as pain management to those
at the end of life. Feeling that there was a need for an identifiably
Jewish program, JFS has introduced Jewish Hospice Connections
through which Jewish Family Service seeks to bring a local hospice
program with Jewish spiritual support to those in need of such
assistance. This program will help us meet the dying patients'
and their families' needs with the Jewish vision of healing,
r'fuat hanefesh and r'fuat haguf, healing of the
spirit and healing of the body. Hospice care is of the whole
person - body, emotions and spiritual life. When cure is no
longer a possibility, hospice creates the opportunity for patient
and family to use the remaining time meaningfully.
JFS needs volunteers for the Jewish
Hospice Connections program. We are looking for people to help
bring our traditions, wisdom, integrity, sacred text, spiritual
insight to those in need of this local hospice program to provide
the age-old Jewish concept of chesed, kindness.
To learn how to become a volunteer, contact Adria Light
at Jewish Family Service, (609) 822-1108 or email her
at alight@jfsatlantic.org
Interested in a JACS Group?
(Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Addicted Persons and Significant
Others.) JACS was founded in 1979 by a group of less than
two dozen and has grown to serve thousands.
JACS is a voluntary mutual self-help group dedicated to:
- Encouraging and assisting Jewish alcoholics, chemically
dependent persons and their families, friends and associates
to explore and pursue recovery in a nurturing Jewish environment;
- Promoting knowledge and understanding of the disease of
alcoholism and chemical dependency as it involves the Jewish
community; and
- Acting as a resource center and information clearinghouse
on the effects of alcoholism and chemical dependency on
Jewish family life.
JACS has inspired the formation of more than 50 independent,
mutual support and community education groups of Jews in recovery
all over the United States, as well as in Israel and other
countries.
JACS is not in place of a 12 step program. Individuals
who are interested should be in a recovery program and use
JACS as additional support.
If you are interested in forming a group and/or would like
more information, please call Adria Light at (609) 822-1108,
or email her at alight@jfsatlantic.org |
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Inquire about any of the Counseling Programs at JFS by
phone at (609) 822-1108 or e-mail us at counseling@jfsatlantic.org |
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