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What My Volunteer Means to Me

What My Volunteer Means to Me

Two hundred volunteers, families and Cottage Schools residents recently attended the heartwarming annual Volunteer Dinner at JCCA’s Westchester Campus. According to Phina Geiger, Director of Volunteers, "This is always a great event. The children really appreciate...

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Zion

Zion

Zion, 20, has been going to JCCA's Kesher, an after-school program for at-risk Orthodox teens in Queens, almost every day for the past five years. I was kind of a trouble maker when I was younger. I was having problems because my parents broke up, although they got...

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Lisa Kolker Brocato, Volunteer

Lisa Kolker Brocato, Volunteer

Five years ago, Lisa Kolker Brocato moved from London to Westchester County with her family. After a very busy career in international business consulting, she was ready to devote time to volunteering. She met JCCA volunteer Stephanie Spiegel who introduced her to the...

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Lisa Golomb

Lisa Golomb

Lisa Golomb first got involved on the Campus through her son’s Mitzvah project six years ago. After a wonderful experience that “definitely left its mark on all of us,” she came back as a Lunch Bunch volunteer at Pleasantville Cottage School’s Cottage 21. An avid...

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Saul’s Story

Saul’s Story

“I don’t really remember my mother at all. I know she left us when I was 4 and my brother Michael was 2. I guess she couldn’t help it she was doing a lot of drugs. That’s when I started in foster care, and I’ve been there ever since. I don’t know how many foster homes...

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Ray Taylor

Ray Taylor

Ray Taylor came to Pleasantville Cottage School in 1936, when he was only six years old because his mother was unable to take care of her five children. For the next nine years, Ray lived at Pleasantville Cottage School and in 1945 went to live in JCCA foster homes in...

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GATEWAYS: Taz

GATEWAYS: Taz

At 16, Taz (not her real name) looks like the likeable, bright teenager she is—a little shy, but smart and well-spoken. It’s hard to reconcile the Taz of today with the 14-year-old who spent two years on the streets in New York, the property of a violent pimp who...

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Running the Marathon Freed My Life

Running the Marathon Freed My Life

Valerie Rosen, Compass coordinator, has been running marathons for many years and has helped Achilles program runners, who are athletes with special needs. “Training for and ultimately competing in and finishing a marathon is undeniably an extraordinary achievement....

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