April 2025
Celebrating Volunteerism: Sam Elbaz’s Inspiring Journey with JFSLA In a city as large and fast-paced as Los Angeles, finding community can be challenging. Those experiencing homelessness face isolation, stigma, and countless other obstacles. While Jewish Family Service LA’s SOVA Community Food & Resource Program operates food pantries across the city, the volunteers and staff at…
March 2025
Partnerships Fueling Hope for LA After Devastating Wildfires Jewish Family Service LA (JFSLA) is deeply grateful to the California Community Foundation (CCF) for their invaluable partnership in supporting those affected by the LA wildfires. Their generosity has been instrumental in driving our relief efforts, assisting displaced families, and helping communities recover from the devastation. Since…
JFSLA Delivers Senior Meals Amidst Price Increases Every weekday, despite the increase of prices, JFSLA prepares and delivers fresh healthy meals to older adults across Los Angeles, helping them stay strong, connected, and supported. From older adult meal sites to home-delivered meals, we’re proud to meet seniors where they are — with compassion on every…
Cafe Europa Celebrates Purim Café Europa, JFSLA’s social program for survivors of the Holocaust, celebrated Purim. The spirit of the holiday came alive with music, laughter, and delicious hamantaschen! The festivities were enriched with students from Gindi Maimonides Academy, who brought energy and joy to our beloved Holocaust survivor community. Thank you to everyone who…
JFSLA Social Workers Transform Communities March is National Social Work Month, a time to recognize the vital contributions of social workers in transforming lives and strengthening communities. Social work has been central to Jewish Family Service LA for over a century. In fact, nearly 100 years ago, JFSLA hired its first social worker, Freda Mohr,…
February 2025
History that Moves Beyond the Classroom Last week at the Gunther-Hirsh Family Center on Fairfax, JFSLA hosted an extraordinary inter-generational program connecting 25 seventh grade students from Sinai-Akiba Academy to Holocaust Survivors participating in JFSLA’s Café Europa program. The annual “Holocaust Survivor’s Project” provides middle school students with a “living history” experience, allowing them to…
10 Tips for Coping with Stressful Times Co-written by Melissa Velasquez, LCSW, Intake Coordinator for Mental Health Services and Sara Marsh, Student Intern As the New Year began, we eagerly anticipated a fresh start, setting new goals and feeling hopeful for the year. However, many of us were soon facing unprecedented challenges and uncertainties, including…
JFSLA’s Public Policy: Advocating at a Critical Time As the nation faces a challenging and constantly evolving political reality, JFSLA’s public policy work is more crucial than ever to help ensure that the communities that we serve, particularly the most vulnerable people in Los Angeles, are not negatively impacted by decisions made at all levels…
L.A. Allocates $3M to Support Domestic Violence Survivors Published by Spectrum News The Los Angeles City Council Friday approved more than $3 million to support survivors of domestic violence in a move prompted by concerns that local organizations would not receive state and federal funding. In a 13-0 vote, council members signed off on seven…
JFSLA Receives Support from FireAid All-Star Concert Benefitting L.A. Wildfire Relief Reported by Billboard Music News See the full list of community-based organizations that each received $100K or more to help Angelenos recovering from January’s devastating fires. The first round of grants targeting wildfire relief efforts in Los Angeles following last month’s all-star FireAid benefit concerts were announced…
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