UJA-Federation of New York
A majority of the money—some $870,000—will be used to provide for the refugees’ basic needs, including food, medicine, personal hygiene, clothing and transportation.
“The benefit of this conference is that we have learned how interconnected we are globally. A problem that begins in one part of the world very quickly becomes a problem in another part of the world,” said Eric Goldstein, CEO of UJA-Federation of New York.
He most recently served as Israel’s Minister of Labor, Welfare and Social Services, and as a Labor Party Knesset member.
Jewish Communal Fund gives $700,000 in grants to Jewish charities in New York
The money will help increase supply to a food pantry for low-income New Yorkers; provide Jewish summer-camp scholarships for children impacted by COVID-19; and create a center for preschoolers who need physical, occupational and speech therapy.
“It’s heartbreaking to see the scenes from India, and we hope our aid will spur others to join the relief effort,” said CEO Eric Goldstein.
UJA granted an additional $300,000 to the Afya Foundation to secure a month’s supply of gloves and masks for its nonprofit partner agencies.
The shipments include full dinners and traditional seder-plate items, including parsley, egg, charoset, shank bone and horseradish.
“This first round of grants is a critical part of UJA’s broad effort to support the most vulnerable New Yorkers during this crisis,” said UJA CEO Eric Goldstein.
Drawing on his experience in intelligence and counter-terrorism, Mitchell D. Silber aims to better safeguard Jewish institutions, hardening targets and raising awareness of threats to the community in the Greater New York region.
Mitchell D. Silber was director of intelligence analysis at the NYPD from 2007 to 2012, and managed and developed the Intelligence Analysis Unit, Cyber Intelligence Unit and Telephonic Analysis Unit.
Title I services, which include tutoring, pull-out programs, counseling and other resources, are mandated by the federal government.
Through “Give a Mitzvah-Do a Mitzvah,” they were able to design projects that reflected their passions and were personally meaningful.
