NEWS

  As a center of community life in Brooklyn for over 90 years, the Marks JCH has been a pillar and stabilizer for people who often needed help to take the next step towards the path of self-sufficiency.  We connect and empower our clients at every stage of life through vital social services [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

What is JREW?   JREW is a women’s empowerment group. It a group of 10 ambitious and like-minded Russian-speaking Jewish (RSJ) women between the ages of 22 and 25. JREW is a giving circle. A giving circle is a group of individuals coming together to maximize their gifting impact and enriching [...]