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Understanding your Yearly Dental Benefits

December 13, 2016 No Comment

Most of us are watching our spending habits with more scrutiny these days since 2008. We shop for better gas prices, we look for coupons on the internet, we wait for Black Friday to buy that big screen TV. So why don’t we pay closer attention to understanding our yearly dental benefits? Many of our […]

Carmel Valley Resident’s Pacific Hospitality Group & Randy Jones Invitational Announce Major Joint Charity Efforts to Help Nonprofits

December 6, 2016 No Comment

The Randy Jones Golf Invitational, founded by the former San Diego Padres pitcher to raise money for local charity golf tournaments, and Pacific Hospitality Group, Inc. (PHG), which develops and manages hotel and resort properties throughout San Diego County, announced the beginning of a program of major joint charity efforts that could potentially increase fundraising […]

Jewish Family Service of San Diego Receives Nearly $1 Million to Expand Alzheimer’s Support Services

November 21, 2016 No Comment

Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) has been awarded more than $945,000 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living, as part of the Administration on Aging’s Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative: Specialized Supportive Services (ADI-SSS) program. The funds allow JFS to fill existing service gaps and enhance staff and volunteers’ […]

Shabbat San Diego, Nov. 10-12

November 4, 2016 No Comment

**Largest Shabbat unity gathering in San Diego’s history; Two Mega Challah Bakes take place in North County and East County, Nov. 10** More than 20,000 people in San Diego’s vibrant Jewish community will join more than 2 million Jews from over 1,000 cities in 90 countries around the world to share the experience of a […]

San Diego Run For The Hungry Returns to Downtown Thanksgiving Day

November 3, 2016 No Comment

WHAT: Our hunger problem extends far beyond the homeless. Here in San Diego, one in three children and one in six adults struggle with hunger. To combat food insecurity across our county, thousands of San Diegans lace up their running and walking shoes on Thanksgiving morning and head downtown for the annual San Diego Run for […]

JFS Receives $35,000 from the Hadassah Foundation

October 4, 2016 No Comment

Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) has been awarded a $35,000 grant from the Hadassah Foundation to support the Girls Give Back teen leadership program, which enables Jewish teen girls in San Diego to address the challenges faced by young Jewish women in meaningful, self-directed, and ongoing service learning and leadership development opportunities. During […]

Senior Dental Health Care is Often Overlooked

September 15, 2016 No Comment

Many of us are going to have to face the challenges of taking care of our aging parents. I am currently at the age where my parents can take care of themselves 100%. But I know those years are limited as they approach their eighties. One of our many responsibilities as children is to make […]

Homelessness – What Will Be the Tipping Point?

August 18, 2016 No Comment

Homelessness – a topic that continues to be a major concern in the region as the annual Point-In-Time-Count reveals a nearly 19 percent increase in the number of people living on the streets year-over-year. Additional funding and new city and county initiatives have been introduced to address the problem, including Housing Our Heroes, a landlord-outreach […]

Center for Older Adults w/ Early Stage Dementia & Alzheimer’s Moving to Kearny Mesa

August 11, 2016 No Comment

Jewish Family Service Brings Program for Older Adults with Early Stage Dementia and Alzheimer’s to Kearny Mesa Campus Jewish Family Service of San Diego’s (JFS) popular University City Older Adult Center, formerly housed at Congregation Beth Israel in UTC, will soon find a new home for their Center for Older Adults inside the agency’s headquarters […]

The Influenza Vaccine…What No More Flu Mist?!

August 4, 2016 No Comment

For the past several years, we pediatricians were thrilled to have the option of offering families the Flu Mist. The children loved us for it too! A quick nose spray instead of a shot, which protected them from the influenza. A nasty respiratory illness. But now, the Flu Mist is gone. So what happened???? Luckily, […]

Jewish Family Service of San Diego Honored at First-Ever California Nonprofits Day Celebration

July 14, 2016 No Comment

California State Senator Marty Block has named Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) “Nonprofit of the Year” for the 39th district, and honored the agency at the first inaugural California Nonprofits Day on Wednesday, June 22 in Sacramento at the State Capitol. “Nonprofit organizations are vitally important to the economy and well-being of California. […]

Heat Danger to Pets and Humans – 80 to 132 in Ten Minutes

June 21, 2016 No Comment

Please be aware of the heat danger to pets and humans during this current heat wave. Since I knew we had a hot week ahead, I put a thermometer in my pickup truck this weekend here at your Rancho Coastal Humane Society. We’re about a mile from the beach in Encinitas. It leaped from 80 to […]