Celebrating Jewish Life Across Jewish Care

Here’s how we celebrated Jewish life across our care homes, Retirement Living apartments and community centres together.

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01. Julian celebrating Rosh Hashanah with apple

and honey at The Zalman and Ruchi Noé Centre for people living with dementia at Sandringham.

02. Pears Court at Sandringham Retirement

Living tenants came together for Tashlich with Rabbi Junik and a talk in preparation for Yom Kippur.

03. Kurt Marx, Holocaust Survivors’ Centre

member, had a L’chaim to celebrate his second Bar Mitzvah with fellow members, staff and volunteers.

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04. Alan, resident at Vi & John Rubens House

care home celebrating Succot.

05. Residents at Anita Dorfman House care

home at Sandringham enjoyed a morning of fun and songs with children from Little Bicks Nursery at Stanmore Shul for Mitzvah Day.

06. Rabbi Junik with members Harry Olmer

BEM and Miriam Freedman at the Holocaust Survivors’ Centre before Rosh Hashanah.

07. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis visited

members, volunteers and staff at the Holocaust Survivors’ Centre.

08. Tenants and volunteers at Shebson Lodge

Retirement Living got creative as part of their Rosh Hashanah celebrations.

09. Enjoying a L’Chaim with members,

volunteers and staff of the Michael Sobell Jewish Community Centre in the Succah.

10. Resident, Laurence Brown puts a new

Mezuzah in his room at Stella & Harry Freedman House with Pastoral & Spiritual Lead, Rabbi Junik and Interim Registered Manager, Lilian Okocha.

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Jewish Care celebrated just a handful of our remarkable 3,000 volunteers. Our work would simply not be possible without all of their dedication. The Betty and Aubrey Lynes Volunteer Awards was kindly hosted by Ivor Baddiel who presented awards with Chair, Jonathan Zenios.

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01. Angela Simmons joint winner of Unsung

Hero Award with Jacey Harris, Jewish Care Volunteer Manager in South Hertfordshire.

02. Michelle Wiener, the daughter of the late

Sonia Douek z”l, presented volunteer Janet Foster with the inaugural Sonia Douek Award for Excellence in Volunteering in memory of Sonia.

03. Molly the PAT dog, joint winner of the Young Volunteer Award, brings joy to members at our community centres.

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04. Jojo Robinson winner of Champion of

Volunteering (centre) for her volunteering at Michael Sobell Community Centre with Sara Linskell, volunteer at The Ronson Family Community Centre at Sandringham and member of the judging panel (right), with Norma Greenburgh.

05. The Friends of Stepney Committee, win the Outstanding Fundraising Team Award.

06. Volunteers, Dorothy Brown-Gordon and

Bryan Gordon. Bryan won the Excellence in Volunteer Management Award for his volunteering at Vi & John Rubens House.

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07. Our Bnei Mitzvah volunteer programme

participants are winners of the Young Volunteer Group Award.

08. Winners of Jewish Care Volunteer Awards 2022.

09. Memory Way Café’s Pam Bertschinger and

Hermione Goodman at The Zalman and Ruchi Noé Centre at Sandringham for people living with dementia are joint winners of the People’s Choice Award.

10. Ruti Roche at Vi & John Rubens House, and Marilyn Albert at Anita Dorfman House care home

are joint winners of the Distinctively Jewish Award.