Stories like Brenda’s are why we help older New Yorkers visit their family’s burial places
Many older adults in New York are unable to travel to cemeteries in order to visit their loved ones’ final resting places. To address this issue Riverdale Y organized visits to Jewish cemeteries throughout the New York area for the High Holidays. Brenda, a member of the Y’s older adult center, registered for the cemetery […]
What’s your “personal tagline” for the new year?
As we approach the Jewish high holidays, it is both an exciting time of new beginnings and a period of reflection. The Hebrew word that comes to mind, as it has strong connections to both the prayers and the reading from the Torah (Five Books of Moses) on Rosh Hashana, is “hineni,” “here I am.” […]