NEWS

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 [...]

Supporting young women with role models and helping them to find their own paths to success is key to the work of the Marks JCH, providing networks beyond Bensonhurst to allow these young women to continue to grow and thrive as they reach adulthood and begin to give back to the community that [...]

Victoria is a single parent who immigrated to the United States with her 8-year old daughter in April of 2016. This was their second immigration: Victoria was born in Ukraine and made aliyah to Israel in 1992, where she married, had her daughter, and soon after, divorced. Like many immigrants, [...]

Now entering its third year, the Marks JCH Teen Philanthropy Board is a successful outgrowth of the Marks JCH’s B’yachad teen resident camp and year-round leadership development program for Russian-speaking Jewish youth. Supported by a generous grant from the Genesis Philanthropy Group, the [...]

Each year, more than 600 Russian-speaking Holocaust survivors receive services through our agency, ranging from case management to access public benefits and entitlements to in-home support, including handyman and housecleaning visits, holiday food package delivery from teen volunteers, and [...]

Launching this month, Ilona’s Room, an innovative new teen program at the J, is supported by a generous grant from the Ilona Memory Fund. Ilona Melyokhin was a talented young professional in the Russian-speaking Jewish community in New York, whose life was cut short by the ravaging effects of an [...]