If you need our help or support in any way, PLEASE let us help. Email jcogs@jcogs.org, include your phone number, and someone will call you very soon. Scroll down for upcoming virtual events.
Click here for details about the discounted fuel rates available for JCOGS members only. Sign up deadline is fast approaching this coming Monday, May 18.
Ways to Care for Yourself and Others
All families whose children are eligible for Free and Reduced Lunch can receive $5.70 per child per day of EBT (electronic benefits transfer), retroactive to back when schools closed, through the Family First Corona Response Act. This means it is critical that all families with children who are in need of food assistance fill out the application right away. (For information on eligibility, click here.) ...............................................
Hunger Free Vermont has updated their Covid 19 & Food Access page, a great resource for those experiencing food insecurity and those in need of access to electronic applications for food related supports. ...................................................
Thursday, May 14, 12-5 PM Red Cross Blood Drive at JCOGS We have currently filled all slots for tomorrow's blood drive – thank you! Please make sure to arrive on time for your appointment and observe social distancing as needed. For upcoming days and times to donate, click here. ..................................................
Friday, May 15, Fancy Hat Friday 5:30 PM Schmooze; 6 PM Musical Shabbat services We don't get to wear our finest clothes to Shabbat services at JCOGS, but we can wear our finest hats for virtual services. Join us for Fancy Hat Friday, and come ready to show off your finest (or funniest) hat as we celebrate Shabbat together in style. Invite a fancy friend too. 5:30pm Schmooze it up: BYO wine or tea for a live chat, then stay on the same live stream for our Musical Shabbat service with special guests. Join via zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/98120687974. ................................................
May 24-26: Crescendo Brought to you by this year's virtual Stowe Jewish Film Festival, Crescendo will be available to view from home from May 24-26 at no cost. A world famous conductor takes on the challenge of forming an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra in an attempt to create harmony out of discord. Please register for the film in advance HERE. Preview the film here. ....................................................
Events sponsored by other area organizations
Free Zoom Webinar: Wednesday, May 13, 3-4pm Grow a Home Garden with Children Living Tree Alliance & PJ Library of VT Join us on Zoom here — password GARDEN ....................................................
“Rescuers in the time of COVID-19” Vermont Student 2020 Essay Competition Vermont Holocaust Memorial invites Vermont students to honor an individual or group they may know or have encountered in their community, by sharing a story of modern day “rescue.” This may be a doctor, house of worship, nurse, grocery clerk, shopper, postman, neighbor, friend, organization, parent, delivery person – or others. Ordinary people CAN DO extraordinary things. This is the only way people survived during the Holocaust, and the way people will survive this current crisis.
Yahrzeits
Carol Elaine Ellner Cynthia Levine Bove Domenic Castagna Sophie Brown
