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JFS provides new financial protection service

For any senior adults who need assistance safeguarding their money, Jewish Family Service now offers a service to help them. The financial protection assistance service can help:

  • Set up a budget to help a person live within his/her means
  • Set up automatic bill payments
  • Review credit card…

Why Akron? The Scherrs

Rachael Azouz
for the Akron Jewish News

There was no question about moving to Akron.

Eric and Lauren Scherr had their first son in 2011. The natives of Northeast Ohio —Lauren grew up in Chagrin Falls and Eric in Akron — wanted their boys to grow up with their grandparents close by. Er…

Osherow takes part-time RCJ role

Rachel Osherow is very involved in Jewish Akron.

She regularly shares her vocal talent by singing at community events. She also works at the Mandel Early Childhood Education center at the Shaw JCC.

Recently, Osherow completed the Jewish Leadership Initiative (JLI) course. Since returning t…

Making a Strong Connection to Judaism

Teen Sam Shkolnik proudly wears his relationship to Judaism.

He dons a kippah every day— a decision, like other choices in his life, which was strongly influenced by attending The Lippman School.

“If I hadn’t gone to Lippman, I don’t think I would wear a yarmulke like I do,” Shko…

Jewish Community Security — What’s the Role of Government?

What keeps Alejandro Mayorkas, formerly the deputy Homeland Security secretary, awake nights is the very “real” possibility of an act of terror or a violent hate crime against the Jewish community. 

We’ve seen such concern globally.

Recently, across the world, governments at the n…