Jewish Family Service of MetroWest NJ hosted its Annual Meeting on Monday, June 17, 2024 at 7:00 pm in Whippany, NJ. The installation of officers took place including honoring Andrea G. Bier as Outgoing President and Steven J. Glass as Incoming President. In accordance with the By-Laws of JFS MetroWest, the following individuals have been elected […]
Events
Volunteer Event 2024
JFS held its annual Volunteer Appreciation Event on June 4, 2024, at Richfield Regency in Verona. This year, the event was named and supported by Merle Glass, in honor of her husband Kenneth Glass z”l. This past year, 254 volunteers have served through the JFSMW Maxine Myers Volunteer Services department helping thousands of people. The […]
Holocaust Survivor Day 2024
On June 4, 2024 JFS MetroWest & JFS Central honored our community’s survivors with music, food, and celebration for Holocaust Survivor Day. Over eighty survivors, second generation children and caregivers from JFSMW joined together at Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange. They enjoyed “Lyricism Then & Now” with Carolyn Enger, International Concert Pianist & Steinway […]
An Evening of Appreciation – May 29
JFS Conference
Attachment Based Family Therapy, ABFT, is a manualized, empirically informed family therapy model specifically designed to target family and individual processes associated with adolescent suicide and depression. ABFT emerges from interpersonal theories that suggest adolescent depression and suicide can be precipitated, exacerbated or buffered against by the quality of interpersonal relationships in families. It is [...]
Rachel Coalition Community Event Recap
In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Rachel Coalition hosted its annual community education event to raise awareness of domestic violence. Thank you to our Rachel Coalition Luncheon corporate partners, event chairs, planning committee, benefactors, attendees, and donors. Over 180 people were in attendance and we raised over $2100 in gift cards for domestic violence [...]
