For over 50 years, Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland has been working toward building its behavioral health programming to meet the mental health needs in Cleveland’s Jewish community.

We hope to see you at our July events! This month, community members can celebrate summer with lots of events for young families, volunteer opportunities, and more.

Dr. David Rosenberg, a member of the executive board at Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland, is known for his persuasive touch—especially when it comes to rallying colleagues to help others. Just ask ophthalmologist Dr. Philip Goldberg, who now volunteers at Alyson’s Place Medical Clinic, a partnership between JFSA and MetroHealth.

In response to the historic rise in hatred targeting Jews, the Jewish Federation of Cleveland hosted its inaugural Education Leaders Summit—a gathering designed to educate and empower school leaders to better support the Jewish students in their schools. Held at the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, the March 2025 summit convened more than 100 participants, including superintendents, principals, heads of school, school board members and diversity professionals from over 50 public, private, and parochial schools across Northeast Ohio.

The Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s Chaplaincy program comforts members of the Jewish community in hospitals, nursing homes, the military and prisons through correspondence and visits from rabbis and volunteers.

Our Young Leadership Division celebrated the Moroccan holiday of Mimouna, which highlights the end of Passover.

Most people are familiar with the common practice of preparing a legal will which plans for distribution of assets after one’s lifetime. But Judaism also has a beautiful custom of creat-ing an end of life ethical will, or tzava’a. A tzava’a is where you can share your moral and spiritual legacy with your loved ones. It provides an opportunity to impart wisdom, life lessons and meaningful experiences to family members.

As we enter week two of Israel’s war with Iran, we wanted to give you an update on the various ways our community is helping the people of Israel in this time of dire need.

We want to provide you with regular updates on what is happening on the ground in Israel.

As Shabbat ends and the new week begins, we find our world has changed dramatically again as Israel is now directly confronting the mounting military threat from Iran.