Jewish values and the concept of tikkun olam are very important to Jewish Family Services of Ottawa, says Sarah Caspi, the agency’s new executive director.
“I just want to make a difference,” says Charles Schachnow, who will receive the 2019 Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award.
Tom Podolsky is passionate about volunteer work.
Dancers celebrate Yom Ha’Atzmaut, May 9, at the SJCC. (Howard Sandler)
Holocaust survivor Elly Gotz (right) tells journalist Stephanie Levitz about Jewish life in Lithuania before the Second World War at Ottawa’s Yom HaShoah commemoration, May 1, at the SJCC. (Howard Sandler)
