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Despite the extensive efforts the Nazis went through to break and destroy Murray Ebner's life, he has flourished. Although he lived through many concentration camps, saw so many die, and lost his entire family, Mr. Ebner strove to rebuild his life ... read more
Dana Sherfield has a permanent smile. It is big, it is genuine and it is infectious. How could someone who had her entire life turned upside-down be so permanently happy? I'll tell you how - by not recognizing that her life was ever turned upside-down ... read more
CaraCloyd An Act of Kindness Goes a Long Way - Interview of Cara Cloyd ... A husband and wife in Atlantic City had wanted a child for a long time, but they were having trouble. Their local JFS agency answered their prayers and helped them adopt a baby girl ... read more
Nathan Coe's mother worked at Jewish Family Services of Columbus (JFS) before becoming a social worker with the City of Columbus, but Coe said that when he was younger, his encounters with JFS were pretty limited ... read more
Catherine Collins   ... as many have suggested, health care is the greatest crisis facing our economy and our culture. At the forefront of that crisis is the question of how to take care of our aging population. ... Take Catherine Collins ... read more
Edward Mendyuk, an economist in the Ukraine, was in his 50s when he and his wife left the Ukraine, Russia and traveled by train to Poland. The Communist government limited his freedom, and things continued to deteriorate over time  ... read more
Tamara Cash "That's our hallway with two feet of sludge," said Tamara Cash, showing photos that require dialogue, because the viewer can't process them without it.  Everything is exactly where it settled when the Katrina floodwater receded in September 2005 ... read more
Kyle Katz  I was expecting someone much older. Someone who was going to tell me his story of how he immigrated here from Russia to escape persecution ... What I found was someone much different ... Kyle Katz was first exposed to JFS by his mother ... read more
Aynn Titchenal  Aynn Kilburger Titchenal arrived at work on Friday morning. By 9:30, she was fired. "They told me that the position was no longer needed. It wasn't my work that was the reason. And that was that ... " read more
Despite her severe arthritis and limited mobility, Norma Friedman's world is rich with family and full of life. You can tell from the sprightly way she greets you when you visit ... read more
For the past three years, Ben Tyson, senior manager of Community Relations at Easton, and Lynn Aspey, JFS director of Business Relations, have collaborated on the Job Fair at Easton ... read more
In Columbus, Ohio in the 1970s, Paul Callif was larger than life. Everybody knew him. Everybody loved him. Especially his youngest child, fourteen year old Susan (now Susan Eisenman) ... read more
In everything Lynda Howard has done, the common denominator has been helping.
Lynda began her career in Columbus, Ohio as a social worker with Southwestern City Schools. When she decided to leave the school system  ... read more
To Donna Silverman giving back was not only a labor of love, but it was also a religious duty. In Judaism, a Mitzvah is a commandment to perform good deeds. After receiving life-saving services from Jewish Family Services on two different occasions... read more
Vinci Cozart is very grateful for her beautiful, healthy one-year-old baby Dominic - and one-year-old Adraina, and one-year-old Gabriel, and one-year-old ... read more
In 1998, Lisa was looking for help - she just didn't know what kind.
Lisa spends her days getting help and giving help
Lisa finds peace in helping others ... read more
As she prepared to celebrate her triplet boys' first birthday recently, Kathleen Ford of Dublin recalled the vital assistance she and her young family received from Jewish Family Services' Help Me Grow program.
"The triplets were born at 32 weeks - eight weeks premature ... read more
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For the past three years, Ben Tyson, senior manager of Community Relations at Easton, and Lynn Aspey, JFS director of Business Relations, have collaborated on the Easton Job Fair... Read more