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By Clinical Associate Professor Tim Conley, Ph.D., LCSW Certified Addiction Specialist My brother could use a little mercy now He’s a stranger to freedom, he's shackled to his fear and his doubt The pain that he lives in, it’s almost more than living will allow I love my brother, he could use some…
By Kimberly Moore Director, Care Café On behalf of Care Café, Happy Purim! On Monday, March 14, 2022, Care Café and Nachas Health of Borough Park Brooklyn, welcomed more than 150 Holocaust survivors to Schick’s Manor for a wonderful celebration. Families gathered to celebrate life and love with ...
By Kimberly Moore Director, Care Café On behalf of Care Café, Happy Social Work Month! On Thursday, March 17, 2022, Care Café celebrated Social Work Month with CUNY Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY at their 15th Annual Social Work Conference. The theme of this year’s conference was “The Time Is…
Daniel PerskyYeshiva University ArchivesCall No: 1992.007 How do you say “Purim carnival” in Hebrew? Perhaps Purimta; it rhymes with the names of many of Haman’s sons, such as Parshandata and Vayzata. What about Pur-Rina? Or possibly Pur-Ditsa? Daniel Persky suggested these terms in a 1932 contest…
By Kimberly Moore Director, Care Café We thrive in the spirit of giving! On the crisp morning of March 11, 2022, Wurzweiler’s Care Café and Breaking Ground, a community-based program, partnered to create and deliver “Welcome Home Kits ” for formerly homeless persons. Keona Serrano, assistant vice…
By Kimberly Moore Director, Care Café On Friday, March 11, 2022, Care Café partnered with a wonderful youth social justice organization in Harlem, Brotherhood Sister Sol (Bro Sis), to support their efforts with creating wellness programming at their institution. With their growing concerns around…
Yeshiva University ArchivesStudent Struggle for Soviet JewryBox 9, folder 9 Half a century ago, in 1972, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) organized “From Potma to Purim Vigil and Fast,” a demonstration on behalf of Sylva Zalmanson and other prisoners of conscience in Potma, a notorious…
By Kimberly Moore Director, Care Café Care Café partnered with the faith-based coalition of the National Black Leadership Commission on Health to recognize National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on Feb. 9, 2022. We were honored to have three dynamic guest speakers for this occasion. Dr. Alvin Ponder…
By Kimberly Moore Director, Care Café On Sunday, February 27, 2022, Care Café joined our community partners to lift the voices of domestic violence survivors and to continue to bring awareness to our community about the availability of support and resources to those who seek it. Located at the Juan…
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