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JCRS will
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Funding decisions for special needs
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JCRS Sponsors visit of Dr. Mark Plotkin,
World-Renowned, Scientist, Adventurer and Conservationist |
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Native New-Orleanian,
and world-famous scientist, adventurer and
conservationist,
Dr. Mark J. Plotkin
(click on underlined above
link for bio)
will address
our local community
on
Sunday morning, March 21, at 11 AM
at Temple Sinai.
His talk is
free and open to the public.
After his address there will be a book signing.
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His address is entitled
"Saving the Rainforest, New Jungle Medicines, and Tikkun
Olam"
." Dr Plotkin's scientific career has centered around his
personal voyages into the rainforests of South and Central
America and his studies with individual jungle shamans to
learn the existence of various plants and their curative
powers. He is the recipient of numerous national and
international awards for science and conservation and the
author of 4 books. He has appeared as the subject of
interviews on all major national networks, and many
scientific publications. A former executive with the World
Wildlife Fund, he is now president of the Amazon
Conservation Team.
Dr. Plotkin's address is
the final portion of the Annual Regional Board Meeting of
the Jewish Children's Regional Service. Not only is Mark
Plotkin a former JCRS college aid recipient and "success
story," but his father, the late George Plotkin, was
reared in the former Jewish Children's Home, the agency
from which JCRS has evolved. For more details about his
visit, contact the JCRS at 828-6334 or contact ned.jcrs@yahoo.com
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Four Prominent Greater New Orleanians
Are Now Memorialized Through New Scholarship Funds at JCRS |
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Dr. Gerald Posner |
Dr. Mollie Wallick |
I. Jay Krieger |
Michael Yuspeh |
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In the past eighteen months, four prominent Greater
New Orleanians, have been memorialized at the Jewish Children's
Regional Service through new scholarship funds to help Jewish
youth.
All four individuals, Dr. Gerald Posner, Dr. Mollie
Wallick, Michael Yuspeh and I. Jay Krieger, were active Board
Members, officers or volunteers for the JCRS during their
lifetimes, and funds were created in their memory through the
generosity of their family members or through a bequest.
read more...>>
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Jewish Children’s
Regional Service
Seeks a Donor for
for more information,
please click
on the logo above.
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The
Jewish Children's Regional Service (JCRS) is a social work agency and charitable fund
providing help in the way of scholarships for Jewish summer camp
programs, grants and no-interest loans for college, Jewish family
counseling and referral, and tuition assistance and other aid for
Jewish children with physical, emotional, and/or learning
disabilities. We serve Jewish children and young adults living
in the seven Southern states of
Alabama,
Arkansas,
Louisiana,
Mississippi, Oklahoma,
Tennessee, and Texas. To see how we help and what we have done recently, please
select the About Us option.
The
agency began as an orphanage in 1855 and is currently the oldest,
existing Jewish child welfare organization in the United States. We are also the only regional Jewish child welfare agency in the
US. For more details about the origins of the JCRS, please select History
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Primary
services include the JCRS Programs for scholarships for college
education, overnight camps, and special needs. The agency also
conducts adoptive home studies and consults on developmental problems
and issues related to the development and needs of children.
For an overview of the individual Scholarship Programs, qualification
requirements, and the application procedures, please select Programs. |
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For many
Jewish children, the JCRS is the agency of last resort when it comes to
providing the funds for needed services.
We are able to continue doing so mainly through the kindness and
generosity of individual givers, such as you, and those wonderful,
compassionate people who have remembered the children and the JCRS in
their Wills and Trusts. For
information on how you can help, please select Giving
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What else
can you do to help? Please
select How
To Help to see the ways you can make a difference.
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