Connect2 News

Connect2 survivor interviewed in Jewish Press

2021-02-05

 I wanted to share an interesting and entertaining piece about Technology & Zoom with our survivors during the pandemic.

 

One of our Holocaust survivor clients plays the main role in the article.

 

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Article attached,

 

Enjoy,

Our Story Told Through Music and Songs

2020-07-22 Dear Volunteers and Connect2 friends, Connect2, a program of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, and NAHOS, The National Association of Children Holocaust survivors, are grateful to our dedicated friend Dina Leader who has joined forces with us to bring you a workshop on the history of Jewish Music and culture through stories and song. We will touch on some of the Russian Jewish history that may not be well known, as well as Jewish history and music in general until today. We hope you will not only enjoy it, but also that we will be able to come together in spirit, rather than physically during this time by singing and enjoying Jewish culture together! Please see the flyer below for details of the zoom link (on flyer itself), and/ or call- in number for our session! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81214489936?pwd=d2JwQXdhYThqZzhoQnhJM1kyVEVUdz09#success

A Chanukah “Day of Goodness” at RAJE

2019-12-22

 

 

 A Chanukah “Day of Goodness” at RAJE: “Good things come in small packages”

 

We are excited that we just had our “Day of Goodness” on the first night of Chanukah at RAJE in Brighton Beach Brooklyn! We gathered together considerably early for a Sunday at 11am to have some donuts, and learn more about the volunteer work we were going to start off this special day with.

 

However, giving back to others wasn’t the whole purpose of the day. We also wanted to give to our own “neshama” (jewish soul), by learning more about Chanukah and experiencing it together. We were privileged to hear a shiur from Rabbi Shully Boteach, and light our menorahs together at RAJE headquarters as a community, or rather a Jewish family.

 

 

Yom Hashoah 2019 at The Moise Safra Center

2019-02-05 A gathering of Holocaust remembrance, unity, and Anni Maamin (the song of hope) By: Elisheva Lock MPA, LCSW Last night on the eve of Yom Hashoa, May 1 2019, three unrelated diverse Jewish organizations namely the beautiful Safra Center, The Jewish International Connection of New York (JICNY), and the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, JCCGCI, funded by the Conference on Material Claims Against Germany, had the pleasure of joining forces to promote Holocaust Remembrance and Jewish unity within the New York area.

Connect2: Providing Crucial Lifelines to NYC Holocaust Survivors

2017-01-19

PRESS RELEASE JANUARY 2017

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Weekly Visits Provide Socialization, Sense of Community and, Often, Life Saving Services