Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island

Courier Life May 15, 2008
Leona Goldberg remembered
JCCGCI celebrates coordinator's life and career

May 2008
ATTENTION JOB SEEKERS
Have you lost your job due to no fault of your own? Are you collecting, or have you recently collected unemployment benefits?

The Jewish Press April 18, 2008
Holiday Packages Distributed To Over 1000 in Brighton Beach

The Jewish Press April 4, 2008
City Council Honors Nonprofit Helpdesk
Government officials and community leaders from across the five boroughs paid tribute at City Hall to the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney island's Nonprofit Helpdesk (NPHD) which provides computer technology and fiscal

Jewish Voice February 21, 2008
Major Grants Help Start Jewish Specialty Camps

New York Nonprofit Press February 2008
AGENCY OF THE MONTH
Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island
A Community Based Organization with a Citywide Mission

New York Monthly Herald
RABBI MOSHE WIENER, MAN FOR ALL
SEASONS. AMERICA'S GREATEST AND
MOST BELOVED RABBI!

STARS ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE
A RABBI ELECTED AS MAN OF THE YEAR

NEWSMAKERS THIS WEEK by Nigel Huntington
REVERED AS HUMANITARIAN AND MAN
OF THE YEAR Coney Island's rabbi Moshe Wiener.

Jewish Press Februay 8, 2008
JCCGCI'S Connect2 Program Brings Hope to Survivors

Courier Life
New Director of Connect 2

Our Time Press July 2007
Wired for Success

5/03/2007 Office of the President
Office of the President - Borough of Brooklyn - City of New York - Citation

03/15/2007 Courier-Life Publications
Connections break elderly out of isolation - Help for Holocaust survivors
The scriptures state that God’s first act, after creation, was bringing light into a distinctly dark and chaotic world.

January 2007
Jay-Harama Senior Center Outreaches to Russian Speaking Elderly (Russian)

January 2007
Assembleywoman Helen Weinstein Visits Senior Center

January 2007
Assemblywoman Weinstein provides crucial local funding

Bay News November 2006
Jay Harama Seniors Get a Crash Course In Wellness

Bay News November 2006
Helping Seniors Wade Through Medicate Part D

The Sea Gate Beacon November 2006
A ribbon cutting ceremony for its medicare part D Help center, Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island presented a award to State Senator Carl Kruger

Astella Action News October 2006
Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island Offers Fiscal Management Training Program

Daily News August 3rd, 2006
Every month, a group of Brooklynites in their 70s and 80s gather at a Sheepshead Bay center to sing, dance, visit with each other and share a meal.

Bay News July 24, 2006
Harama And Jay Senior Centers: Perfect Together

Bay News July 2006
Holocaust Survivors find a life line in Coney Island

New York Monthly Herald May 2006
RABBI MOSHE WIENER, MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. AMERICA'S GREATEST AND MOST BELOVED RABBI!

March 2006
PEOPLE AND PLACES OF THE YEAR
New York's most honored and appreciated Rabbi for his humanitarian contributions: Rabbi Moshe Wiener.
New York's best Jewish charitable and educational organization in service of the general public: Jewish Community Council
of Greater Coney Island, Inc.,
http://www.internationalnewsagency.org/best_and_worst_of_2005.htm

March 24, 2006
GRAND OPENING MEDICARE PART D HELP CENTER
JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CONEY ISLAND Invites You To Join A Ribbon Cutting Ceremony For The Grand Opening Of Our MEDICARE PART D HELP CENTER

Bay News March 20, 2004
Jay Senior Center Applaudes International Women's Day
The "other half" was delivered a glowing tribute during and International Women's Day celebration at the Jay Senior Center.

Bay News February 27, 2006
Free Financial Management Training
No-cost financial management training is now available to NYC nonprofit organizations.

February 16, 2006
Valentine's Celebration at Haber House Senior Center
(honoring Senator Diane J. Savino)

Bay News January 16, 2006
Meals On Wheels Angel Discovers Late Grandpa's Pal
When a meal-on-wheels coordinator found that one of her clients was a Holocaust survivor, she also got to know the grandfather she never met.

Jewish Press January 13, 2006
I'd like to share an incredible story, one of a personal regrad....
It began over a month ago. Dvora Lakein (a staff member of our "Connect2" homeboudn visitation program for Holocaust Survivors, funded by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany)

Hamodia December 25, 2005
The Gift of Giving Comes Full Circle
The following story was related by Kari Bornstein, the coordinator of the Friend sly Visiting Program for home bound Meals-on-Wheels recipients.

Daily News December 25, 2005
Card leads to miracle meeting
In the season of miracles, two Brooklynites have had a special one this year.

Through a holiday greeting card that hardly seemed like it could achieve miraculous things, Kari Bornstein discovered an elderly man who was a friend of her grandfather's right after World War II - whom she'd only heard about because he died before she was born.

Jewish Week May 25, 2005
A Hand For The Helpers
The City Council recently paid tribute to the Nonprofit Helpdesk, a program of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island.

Bay News May 23, 2005
Coney Island's Russian Community Marks 'Victory Day'
World War 2 veterans were extended tall honors for their supreme sacrifices during a Victory Day commemoration in Coney Island,

Jewish Press May 6, 2005
Connect2 Reaches Out To The Homebound
Connect2, New York City's friendly visiting program for homebound Holocaust Survivors, hosted an appreciation dinner for their volunteer visitors

Bay News May 2, 2005
Connect 2: Lifeline For Homebound Holocaust Survivors
Connect2, New York City's friendly visiting program for homebound Holocaust survivors, hosted an appreciation dinner for its volunteer visitors and survivors on the Upper West Side

January 25, 2005
A personal letter from Ms. Ester R. Fuchs - Special Advisor For Governance and Strategic Planning
Dear Rabbi Wiener, Thank you very much for sending the materials about your Website Design Program.

Grant to Aid Coney Island's Homebound Elderly
In its capacity as trustee for the John H. & Ethel G. Noble Charitable Trust, Deutsch Bank Trust Company New York has awarded a generous grant to the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island's

Deutsche Bank, Noble Trust Provide Large Home Care Grant To Coney Island Seniors
In its capacity as trustee for the John H. & Ethel G. Noble Charitable Trust, Deutsche Bank Trust Company New York has awarded a generous grant to the Jewish community Council of Greater Coney Island's

Passover Food Program offers aid to Neighborhood Residents
Thousands of Russian refugees residing in Brighton Beach, Coney Island and the surrounding neighborhoods look toward the upcoming Passover holiday with a mixture of joy and trepidation.

Passover Outreach Program
In order to assure indigent seniors and destitute immigrants who want to celebrate Passover in a proper manner,

Nonprofit Helpdesk Uses United Way Grant to Create Indispensable Website of Social Service Resources
A generous grant from the United Way of New York City has allowed the Nonprofit Helpdesk to create a visually compelling and valuable information-packed website entitled ChesedNet.org

Surfing Seniors Ride the Net
Grab the life vests! Check the tide! Last Monday, the scene at the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island's Jay Senior Citizen Center was packed as Senior Citizens Center was packed

The CARE (CUNY) WEP program is directed by Elise Wunder.
The NYC Human Resources Administration has given the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island's CARE (CUNY) WEP program the relatively rare overall performance rating of "EXCELLENT" on the HRA's 2004 "Vendex" performance evaluation.

CARE (CUNY) WEP was rated "Excellent" in "Overall Timeliness of Performance", "Overall Program Quality and Performance" and "Contractor's Overall Performance". It was rated "Very Good" in "Overall Quality of Fiscal Administration and Accountability".

Grant fuels transport program for elderly
THOUSANDS OF seniors in southern Brooklyn will be able to get to much-needed doctor’s appointments thanks to a grant from the New York Community Trust.

DOE Hails Stellar Class of Senior Citizens
Not only did they learn English but they're also putting their newfound skills to use by volunteering as translators across the community.

Youngsters Help Spread Joys of the Season With Seniors
The gap between young and old was bridged as a Connect2 Hanukkah party united Holocaust survivors and their devoted volunteers.

Haber House Senior Center Sings Countr's Praises
A festive spirit of independence and joy was in abundant evidence as a large group of local senior citizens celebrated America's birthday at Coney Island's Haber House Senior Center.

A personal letter from the Mayor of NYC, Mr. Michael Bloomberg
Thank you for writing and sharing the terrific news about the CARE program

A personal letter from Mr. Steven Feldman [DYCD]
I want you to know how impressed we were with our visit to the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island.on November 20th, 2000.

A personal letter from the Mayor of NYC, Mr. Michael Bloomberg
It is a great pleasure to welcome everyone to the Brooklyn Day 2004 Job Fair of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island and Public School 170.

Major Grant To Improve lives of Brooklyn Seniors
A generous grant from America's Second Harvest Fund for the New York City has enabled the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island to provide Brooklyn seniors with much-needed nutrition and supportive services at two of its area senior centers.

Department of Aging - Letter of Support
The Department for the Aging is pleased to announce that, effective September 1, 2003, the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, Inc. has assumed responsibility for the Senior Citizen Center and home delivered meals program formerly administered by the Ocean Parkway (Ahi Ezer) Senior Citizens Center.

Holocaust survivors, vols connect & share
It’s been 63 years since Zaster Gennadiy was separated from his mother and sister as they were leaving Kharkov, Ukraine.

Weinberg Foundation Extends Large Grant To JCCGCI's
In recognition of the need to ensure that New York City's nonprofit organizations are functioning with maximum effectiveness,

Connect 2 Matches Volunteers
Volunteers from Connect 2's, a Homebound Holocaust Survivors visitation program, got together in the Midwood section of Flatbush on the Sunday evening just before Chanukah.

Boost For_Local_JCC Senior Centers
A generous grant from America's Second Harvest Fund for New York City has enabled the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island to provide Brooklyn seniors with much-needed nutrition and supportive services at two of its area senior centers.

Angel In A Black Hat
On an average day, the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island doles out about 1,000 meals to frail elderly clients at four senior centers. The agency provides some 75 seniors with transportation services to medical appointments or shopping. Another 45 seniors receive home-care assistance with laundry and housekeeping, while 25 others receive friendly visiting or telephone reassurance services.

Dr. King Poster
Join Us In Celebrating The Man & His Dream Martin Luther King Day

Helping Kids deal With 9/11
Just two nights before it was time to go back to school, Regina Coleman's daughter, Zekiiyah, 5, had an unusual bedtime request.

Holocaust survivors, vols connect & share
It's been 63 years since Zaster Gennadiy was separated from his mother and sister as they were leaving Kharkov, Ukraine. But his memory of the event is vivid. Some things you never forget, he said.

New Holocaust Survivors Club Form
The Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island (JCCGCI) and Shorefront Jewish Community Council (SJCC) have issued an exclusive invitation to Holocaust survivors to join the new Club 2600.

New Connections for Brooklyn Holocaust Survivors
A friendship grows in Brooklyn. Holocaust survivors and community members re forging new relationships through the Connect 2 visitation program.

Tuneful immigrants get down with Moses
Years ago, when cellist Alla Dashevskaya played a selection of Negro spirituals during her graduation concert at the Kurdistan Institute of Music, she never imagined the songs one day would help her learn English.

Home is where the heart is.
In another time and another place, Anna was the toast of Budapest.

Refugees Reengineer Refugees reengineer job skills
The computer classroom at the American Training Center in Forest Hills, Queens, was crammed Tuesday afternoon with eager students, many of them engineers from the former Soviet Union.

Seniors get to meet, eat and study English
Sixty-five years after they said "I do," Yakov Fridman and Sonya Fuksman are still going on weekend dates.

Comfort for Jewish Seniors Volunteers befriend Holocaust survivors
"It won't be the same as when I was growing up," said Sprung,
who was born in Poland before World War II. "This will be a
lunchtime Seder. They cannot do it in the evening because the
seniors cannot travel then. These are crazy times with crazy
people."

Where Everybody Knows Their Names
After the bad times come the good times. Beginning this week, some of those good times are coming to Holocaust survivors living in the Brooklyn shorefront community that includes Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach.

Jewish Council Gets WTC Grant
he Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island has received a $300,000 emergency grant to help people who lost their jobs as a result of the attack on the World Trade Center.

Helping Kids Helping kids deal with 9/11
Just two nights before it was time to go back to school, Regina Coleman's daughter, Zekiiyah, 5, had an unusual bedtime request.