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To visit JFS Ottawa located at 2255 Carling Avenue, you will need the 87 bus that stops in front of the building.
Where is the JFS and what bus stops there?
This program offers a full range of counselling and support services for children, individuals, couples, and families.
What is the Counselling Group?
This program supports Ottawa Jewish Community residents who are vulnerable and low income.
What is The Tikvah Program?
This holiday is the birthday of the universe and is celebrated with festive meals, sweet delicacies, the sounding of the ram’s horn (shofar), and desisting from creative work.
What Is Rosh Hashanah?
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The Seniors Support Services at Jewish Family Services of Ottawa are named for this lady member of the community.
Who is Thelma Steinman?
Jewish Family Services is a beneficiary agency of a number of organizations as well as corporate donations.
Who funds JFS Ottawa?
This program offers skilled and experienced therapists who provide individual and family counselling services to children, youth, and families.
What is The Centre for Children, Youth, and Families?
This service is based on the sentiment that every woman and child should be safe in their own home.
What is Shalom Bayit?
This holiday tells the history of Judah the Maccabee’s military retaking of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and its re-dedication to the service of G‑d. Also known as the Festival of Lights, it is memorable for a single day’s supply of oil lasting eight days.
What is Hanukkah?
This service ensures that diverse seniors receive help with daily living, offers opportunities for socialization and recreation, and provides culturally and linguistically appropriate health information and support to seniors and caregivers.
What does Diverse Seniors Support Services ensure?
She is the new Executive Director
Who is Sarah Caspi?
This program takes the approach that emotionally fulfilling relationships are central to mental and physical health; however, creating and maintaining a healthy relationship can be a challenge with all of today’s life stressors.
What is The Centre for Couples and Relationships?
You can buy kosher food and have it delivered to your home from this service.
What is Kosher Meals on Wheels?
Women and girls light holiday candles to usher in the holiday.
It is customary to stay up all night learning Torah.
All men, women and children should go to the synagogue to hear the reading of the Ten Commandments.
As on other holidays, special meals are eaten, and no “work” may be performed.
It is customary to eat dairy foods on this holiday.
What is Shavuot / Shavuos?
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The Diverse Seniors Support Services offers these
What are
Volunteer coordination
Health and fitness activities
Friendly visiting
Telephone reassurance calls
Case management
Transportation to medical appointments
Social and recreational opportunities?
In the spirit of “Tikkun Olam,” this is accomplished through direct social service, partnership, and advocacy.
What is our mission?
This program offers single-session counselling services in English, French, Arabic, Somali, Cantonese and Mandarin at a variety of different locations.
What is The Walk-In Counselling Clinic?
Most settlers who are clients of JFS Ottawa come from this country.
What is Russia?
This jolly festival is celebrated every year from the 14th to the 16th days of Adar in the Hebrew calendar. It recalls the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia from King Haman’s plot to exterminate the Jews in one day, as can be read in the Megillah (Old Testament book of Esther).
What is Purim?
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The FitMinds® program is more than just a memory program: it’s filled with activities, exercises, and games organized around these five areas of cognition
What are
Language and Music
Visual/Spatial Orientation
Memory
Critical Thinking
Computation?
Through Jewish traditions, values and culture, to build a community where people can learn to care for themselves and each other with dignity, respect and compassion.
What is our vision?
"Networking for Youth" and "Street Smarts" are examples of these.
What are Special Programs?
The Settlement Unit is named for this married couple.
Who are Inez and Joseph Zelikovitz?
Rich in tradition, Passover is celebrated every year in the springtime. It helps us recall the freeing of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. The symbolic Seder meal is a family event that includes a young child reading aloud these four questions.
How is this night different from all other nights?
On all other nights, we eat chametz (leavened foods) and matzah. Why on this night, only matzah?
On all other nights, we eat all vegetables. Why, on this night, maror (bitter herbs)?
On all other nights, we don't dip even once. Why on this night do we dip twice?
This program provides participants with one-on-one opportunities to work with staff on the FitMinds® InterAct Caregiver’s kit, lots of skill development, and social interaction.
What is the Adult Day Program (ADP)?