Sholom Begins Vaccinating Residents, Staff
Barb Klick woke up happy on Jan. 3, for the first time in a while – and all because she was getting poked by a needle. Klick, the CEO of […]
January 5, 2021
December 2, 2020
JFS St. Paul’s Essential Programs Funded by Donations
Please help us improve more lives with your gift before the end of the year. Together, we can help more people face the most ordinary and extraordinary circumstances in their lives.
November 11, 2020
Why Lucy Rose Fischer Memorializes Her Brother In Her Latest Book
Lucy Rose Fischer had been sitting on the idea for her latest book, The Journalist: Life and Loss in America’s Secret War, for more than 30 years. But it wasn’t […]
November 10, 2020
June 19, 2020
A Journey Through History With My Zaida
One out of three hundred. When 299 armed soldiers deployed for Korea, my grandfather, whom I lovingly refer to as Zaida, defied the odds. He was chosen to serve as […]
May 22, 2020
Sholom Opts For COVID Transparency, But Situation ‘Wearing’
Sholom had it’s first employee death from coronavirus this week.
May 13, 2020
Friendly Visitors Available to Chat
JFS’s new Friendly Remote Visitor program (FRV), created to combat the isolation and loneliness of the COVID-19 stay at home directive, has recruited and trained a group of volunteers who are eager to help. If you or anyone you know could benefit from a phone call with a friendly volunteer, just to check in, chat a bit, and reassure them that someone cares, please contact Margie Solomon at (651) 690-8907 or by email at [email protected].
April 29, 2020
JCCs Quickly Adapting To Virtual Programming
As the two Twin Cities JCCs closed their doors in mid-March due to the coronavirus, programmers at the two buildings realized that there was no playbook in place for how […]
April 20, 2020
Who The Folk?! Ron Rabinovitz
What’s it like to be friends with Jackie Robinson? In honor of the 73rd anniversary of Robinson breaking baseball’s color barrier, we talk with Ron Rabinovitz, author of the book […]
April 3, 2020
Sholom Creates Wish Lists To Help Residents
As the CEO of a non-profit that can’t shut down, Sholom’s Barb Klick been doing everything from her normal day-to-day work to serving food to residents and taking employees’ temperatures […]