NEWS

Marks JCH provides adult literacy and education services to 1500 clients annually – setting them on the path to mobility. Students arrive at the Marks JCH from over 26 different countries and receive English language acquisition courses, adult basic education classes, computer literacy, and [...]

Last month, over 250 people joined the annual Marks JCH Kibbutznik shabbaton held in Club Getaway in Kent, Connecticut. Russian-speaking Jewish families with children ranging in age from just a few weeks old through age 14 enjoyed three days of escape from the city, fresh mountain air, and [...]

On June 6th the Marks JCH celebrated the grand opening for our rooftop expansion. The new state of the art space adds 7600 square feet to the historic building of the Marks JCH and will allow us to serve an additional 300 people daily by expanding workforce development and self-sufficiency programs [...]

Through this new critical community initiative, the Marks JCH will address the mental health needs of Russian-speaking Holocaust survivors as well as educate caregivers and disseminate resources through a PCTI approach to mental health supports. Services developed will include: screening survivors [...]

Introducing our newest 2018 Glenn Markman MVP Award winners, Yulia Rakova and Gabriel Rafailov, both of whom were selected for their demonstrated leadership on the court and off. Three years ago, we had the immense privilege of establishing our Annual Glenn Markman MVP Award to honor the memory of [...]

The burgeoning Women’s Center of the Marks JCH has launched a new initiative for expecting and new mothers in the Russian-speaking emigre community of southern Brooklyn. Targeting Russian-speaking women within the first 60 days after giving birth, our set of services, addresses the needs of new [...]

Last week, the New York Times Neediest Cases Fund featured an article highlighting the impact of the work of the Marks JCH on the life of an isolated emigre senior adult living alone in Brooklyn: CLICK HERE As you will see, the story tells of the challenging life of Marks JCH client Galia Sarah [...]

Partnering with the Shorefront Y and the Kings Bay Y, the Higher Level Jobs initiative is making its impact in raising the income for dozens of families throughout south Brooklyn. Following a successful pilot program this year in which enrolled clients received multiple intensive interventions from [...]

Thanks to continued support from the Genesis Philanthropy Group, Marks JCH is able to provide innovative Jewish family programming to the growing constituency of J alumni and Russian-speaking Jewish young families making their homes in Brownstone Brooklyn neighborhoods. In addition to a fully [...]

Thanks to the support of the JE and ZB Butler Foundation through UJA-Federation of New York, the Butler Center offers a series of “College Crawls” as part of its offerings of year-round academic support and educational enrichment. At each college, teens had the opportunity to meet with alumni [...]