Elderly

Associated Celebrates Raising More than $30 Million for 2018 Campaign

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Jun 21, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Education, Elderly, Family, Religion, Schools, Spirituality

Kenneth R. Feinberg says people often ask him what he considers to be the toughest part of his job. A Washington, D.C.-based attorney and mediation specialist, Feinberg, 72, has worked on numerous high-profile compensation cases, including those involving 9/11...

These Dutch Holocaust Survivors Have Been Madly in Love for 70 Years

by Cnaan Liphshiz | Jun 19, 2018 | Community, Elderly, Family, Milestones

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — More than 70 years have passed since Meijer van der Sluis first laid eyes on the love of his life. He was at a home for child survivors of the Holocaust, and he opened the door for her. He still remembers her short haircut and exactly what she...

Embracing and Supporting Our Elders

by Jewish Community Services | May 25, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Elderly

With so many people living longer today, most of us are eventually going to be taking care of an aging relative, whether it’s a parent, spouse or other family member — if we aren’t doing so already. Some people don’t realize that they already are caregivers. ...

The Youngest Schindler’s List Survivor is Still Telling Her Story

by Ben Sales, JTA | Feb 6, 2018 | Community, Education, Elderly

NEW YORK (JTA) — Eva Lavi’s earliest memories are of the Holocaust. She remembers how her mother made her hide outside in below-zero weather, clutching a standing pipe, as Nazis searched her home in Poland. She remembers her father telling her to swallow a...

At this Jewish Camp, a 95-year-old Holocaust Survivor Teaches Kids Yiddish

by Ben Sales, JTA | Feb 5, 2018 | Children, Community, Community Resources, Education, Elderly, Milestones, Spirituality

HOPEWELL JUNCTION, N.Y. (JTA) — The kids at Camp Kinder Ring mostly do what kids do at any Jewish summer camp. They hang out by the lake, play sports, goof off, find discreet places to, um, go on walks. But for an hour each day, groups of Jewish adolescents here...

The Love Issue: Living Testament

by Elizabeth Heubeck | Jan 31, 2018 | Community, Elderly, Family, Milestones, Weddings

At 94, Morty Weiner is slowing down. He’s hard of hearing, suffers from congestive heart failure and walks gingerly with the use of a walker that Esther, his wife of 71 years, gently but insistently reminds him to use. But his memory is as sharp as it was the day he...

Meet the 90-Year-Old Great-Grandmother Who is the New Face of JDate

by Elaine Durbach | Jan 30, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Elderly, Milestones

WHIPPANY, N.J. (New Jersey Jewish News via JTA) — If Bea Slater had ever been a shrinking violet, her sudden celebrity might be uncomfortable. At 90, the great-grandmother has her image plastered on billboards and bus shelters up and down Manhattan and in...

Meet the 99-Year-Old Jewish Man Who has Become Philadelphia’s Super Bowl Mascot

by Ben Sales, JTA | Jan 25, 2018 | Community, Elderly

(JTA) — Throughout the NFL playoffs, the Philadelphia Eagles have been treated as gritty underdogs. So it’s only fitting that the city’s spotlight is now on a 99-year-old Jewish man who endured hardship before coming out on top. For the past few days, as Philly cheers...

Volunteers Come Out on Christmas for Community Mitzvah Day

by Staff Report | Dec 26, 2017 | Children, Community, Community Resources, Education, Elderly, Family, Parenting, Religion, Schools, Spirituality

More than 1,000 local Jewish volunteers came out on Dec. 25 — Christmas Day — for Community Mitzvah Day. This marked the 12th consecutive year that the event was organized by Jewish Volunteer Connection, a program of The Associated: Jewish Community...

A Juggling Act

by Carol Sorgen | Dec 1, 2017 | Community, Community Resources, Elderly, Milestones

Being a better caregiver means taking care of yourself, says aging expert. If you have to provide care for aging parents, you’re not alone. According to a 2015 caregiving report produced by AARP, nearly 40 million Americans care for an aging loved one. And close...