Elderly

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As winter weather batters populations worldwide, JDC calls for aid efforts
January 30, 2019
Thousands of impoverished Jews overseas remain in need of critically important relief, ranging from coal to coats.
Warm bedding is delivered to Svetlana M. in Babruysk, Belarus, from a representative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Hesed Social Welfare Center. Credit: JDC.
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Bringing warmth to the lives of hundreds of older Israelis during Hanukkah
December 7, 2018
Over the course of this year, the Fellowship is assisting 100,000 elderly people and Holocaust survivors by giving them a monthly food supply, medical assistance, financial aid for heat and other forms of support.
More than 600 volunteers from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews are spreading the joy of Hanukkah to hundreds of elderly people throughout Israel who live alone. Credit: International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
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Hungarian Jews examine long-lost identity, and a JCC is there to help them
Shiryn GhermezianNovember 16, 2018
The JCC Budapest, called the Balint House, was founded in 1994 after the fall of the Iron Curtain. It has so far made connections with 20,000 to 30,000 newly discovered Jews through events and programs.
A Hanukkah celebration at the JCC in Budapest, known as the Balint House. Credit: JDC.
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High Holidays 2018
In Israel, learning Torah comes with no age limit
Maayan Jaffe-HoffmanSeptember 20, 2018
Kollel program offers Jewish study, a warm meal and companionship to Holocaust survivors and other elderly in Jerusalem, Ashdod, Ashkelon and Tzfat.
Many of the kollel participants never learned Torah before. Shown here is one active student pouring over a Bible. Credit: Courtesy.
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Apples, honey and help to go to thousands of elderly Russian Jews
September 4, 2018
For 30 years, the JDC and its network of volunteers has provided aid and traditional Rosh Hashanah treats to impoverished Jews across the former Soviet Union.
A volunteer in Kharkov, Ukraine, helps package High Holiday supplies for elderly Jews in need in the former Soviet Union. September 2018. Credit: JDC Photo.
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Germany to pay additional $88 million to Holocaust survivors
July 11, 2018
The country, which perpetrated mass murder against Jews and other minorities between 1933 and 1945, also agreed to increase pensions to 55,000 Holocaust survivors in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as to expand eligibility for child survivors.
A group of Holocaust survivors known as the “Tehran children” in the Supreme Court of Jerusalem, where they filed an appeal against the state. They argued that they are entitled to their rightful share of reparation money paid to Israel by West Germany under the 1953 Reparations Agreement. Nov. 11, 2013. Photo by Flash 90.
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Medical cannabis can ‘significantly reduce’ chronic pain for elderly, Israeli researchers find
February 13, 2018
Medical cannabis therapy can significantly reduce chronic pain in patients 65 years and older without any adverse effects, according to researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the Cannabis Clinical Research Institute at Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheva.
Pharmacists supply patients with prescribed medical cannabis at the Tikun Olam supplier’s store in Tel Aviv, April 10, 2016. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90.
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