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MarFgired 5KS RAISE THOUSANDS
PenWsaekiss TO HELP JEWISH CARING
Israel. The seminary is not an EEI, NETWORK FAMILIES
Icouldn’t help but think, after taking together, there is no greater honor to “It all started about four years ago,
a peek into the large white VIP tent Hakadosh Baruch Hu than that. It when my son wanted to do something
close to the Men’s 5K finish line in should be a zechus. Chaya Masya bas to volunteer, so we did the snowballs
Druid Hill Park, that it typified the Tova [cofounder of JCN] should have a for the Tikva House,” recalled Jon. “For
way the Jewish Caring Network refuah shleima and continue to inspire a year, my daughter has baked
(JCN) does things. No detail was us!” Shabbos desserts for different people;
spared – everything from pancakes all the proceeds go to JCN. My wife is
to pizza was elegantly set up, wait- Numerous father-son pairs partici- very involved, too. It’s a great local
ing for the men-only run/walk partici- pated in the 5K. Nechemya Jakobovits organization that we are very happy to
pants that Sunday, May 29. It more and his son, not only participated but be a part of.”
closely resembled a beautifully catered dropped off donations, just about every
simcha rather than a 5K repast. day, to the JCN office. “JCN brings the The Tikva House, a project of the
whole community together, b‘achdus,” JCN, is a comfortable home-base for
In the tent, before the race, I had the Nechemya explained. “Especially in Jewish families caring for a loved one
pleasure of meeting Marlene Daniel, these times, it is so important to show who is receiving treatment at the Johns
who came to cheer on her husband the community that we care about Hopkins Hospital. Entire families can
Jack, one of the 210 participants. In her everybody: Kol Yisrael areivim zeh be accommodated there; it is located
role as a JCN volunteer, Marlene would lazeh –we are all responsible for each just down the street from the hospital.
drive a young, ill mother wherever she another. And that is what the Jewish
wanted to go, whether it was to a shiur, Caring Network does. It brings every- Michali Friedman, a married daugh-
shopping, or exercising. one together.” ter of Jordan (Yarden) Wiener, for whom
the Jewish Caring Network, also known
“I have been so touched by how the Ben Ram, a recent first-time grand- as Gevuras Yarden, was named, trav-
JCN looks at the whole family; there is father, and his son, Nesanel, a sixth- eled all the way from New York, where
no end to what it will do,” shared grader at TA, have run in the Men’s JCN she now lives, to volunteer for the
Marlene. “I don’t know any other organ- 5K every year for the past three years. event. She was eight years old, the old-
ization that takes this view of looking at For the Rams, the 5K was a family est of five children, when her father
each person in the family to see what affair. Ben’s father, who was visiting became ill. (The youngest child was
that member needs to bring him or her from Israel, came to cheer on Ben and one.) The 5K was a very emotional
joy in life. Even for those suffering from his son-in-law, Morty Friedman, who experience for her.
a very long-term illness, JCN never also ran.
drops the ball.” “It is an incredible organization,
“It’s a very good cause and not only and this race, especially, sums up what
It was the third JCN Men’s 5K for that: It is competitive with all my Baltimore is all about; it’s so special,”
Rabbi Zvi Teichman, Rav of friends,” says Nesanel. “We love running Michali told me. “The organization
Congregation Ohel Moshe, who offered together, because it is a father-son means so much to me. It’s crazy to
divrei bracha before the start of the bonding experience. We stay together think that from something so painful
race, saying, “When Jews get together the whole run – unless my dad pulls so much good could come out. There
it’s great, but when Jews get together to ahead!” was no formal Jewish Caring Network
celebrate their health and thank organization at the time my father got
Hashem for that, it’s even greater. We For some, like Jon Kaplan, who sick. Chaya Drabkin, Keren Traub, and
have to remember that we are healthy, worked behind the scenes schlepping Becky Caplan, the three original vol-
while other people are not. And when everything from Gatorade to other unteers, helped my family out infor-
Jews get together to celebrate a mitzva needed supplies, volunteering for JCN mally. If it snowed, our sidewalks were
is also a family thing.
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MarFgired 5KS RAISE THOUSANDS
PenWsaekiss TO HELP JEWISH CARING
Israel. The seminary is not an EEI, NETWORK FAMILIES
Icouldn’t help but think, after taking together, there is no greater honor to “It all started about four years ago,
a peek into the large white VIP tent Hakadosh Baruch Hu than that. It when my son wanted to do something
close to the Men’s 5K finish line in should be a zechus. Chaya Masya bas to volunteer, so we did the snowballs
Druid Hill Park, that it typified the Tova [cofounder of JCN] should have a for the Tikva House,” recalled Jon. “For
way the Jewish Caring Network refuah shleima and continue to inspire a year, my daughter has baked
(JCN) does things. No detail was us!” Shabbos desserts for different people;
spared – everything from pancakes all the proceeds go to JCN. My wife is
to pizza was elegantly set up, wait- Numerous father-son pairs partici- very involved, too. It’s a great local
ing for the men-only run/walk partici- pated in the 5K. Nechemya Jakobovits organization that we are very happy to
pants that Sunday, May 29. It more and his son, not only participated but be a part of.”
closely resembled a beautifully catered dropped off donations, just about every
simcha rather than a 5K repast. day, to the JCN office. “JCN brings the The Tikva House, a project of the
whole community together, b‘achdus,” JCN, is a comfortable home-base for
In the tent, before the race, I had the Nechemya explained. “Especially in Jewish families caring for a loved one
pleasure of meeting Marlene Daniel, these times, it is so important to show who is receiving treatment at the Johns
who came to cheer on her husband the community that we care about Hopkins Hospital. Entire families can
Jack, one of the 210 participants. In her everybody: Kol Yisrael areivim zeh be accommodated there; it is located
role as a JCN volunteer, Marlene would lazeh –we are all responsible for each just down the street from the hospital.
drive a young, ill mother wherever she another. And that is what the Jewish
wanted to go, whether it was to a shiur, Caring Network does. It brings every- Michali Friedman, a married daugh-
shopping, or exercising. one together.” ter of Jordan (Yarden) Wiener, for whom
the Jewish Caring Network, also known
“I have been so touched by how the Ben Ram, a recent first-time grand- as Gevuras Yarden, was named, trav-
JCN looks at the whole family; there is father, and his son, Nesanel, a sixth- eled all the way from New York, where
no end to what it will do,” shared grader at TA, have run in the Men’s JCN she now lives, to volunteer for the
Marlene. “I don’t know any other organ- 5K every year for the past three years. event. She was eight years old, the old-
ization that takes this view of looking at For the Rams, the 5K was a family est of five children, when her father
each person in the family to see what affair. Ben’s father, who was visiting became ill. (The youngest child was
that member needs to bring him or her from Israel, came to cheer on Ben and one.) The 5K was a very emotional
joy in life. Even for those suffering from his son-in-law, Morty Friedman, who experience for her.
a very long-term illness, JCN never also ran.
drops the ball.” “It is an incredible organization,
“It’s a very good cause and not only and this race, especially, sums up what
It was the third JCN Men’s 5K for that: It is competitive with all my Baltimore is all about; it’s so special,”
Rabbi Zvi Teichman, Rav of friends,” says Nesanel. “We love running Michali told me. “The organization
Congregation Ohel Moshe, who offered together, because it is a father-son means so much to me. It’s crazy to
divrei bracha before the start of the bonding experience. We stay together think that from something so painful
race, saying, “When Jews get together the whole run – unless my dad pulls so much good could come out. There
it’s great, but when Jews get together to ahead!” was no formal Jewish Caring Network
celebrate their health and thank organization at the time my father got
Hashem for that, it’s even greater. We For some, like Jon Kaplan, who sick. Chaya Drabkin, Keren Traub, and
have to remember that we are healthy, worked behind the scenes schlepping Becky Caplan, the three original vol-
while other people are not. And when everything from Gatorade to other unteers, helped my family out infor-
Jews get together to celebrate a mitzva needed supplies, volunteering for JCN mally. If it snowed, our sidewalks were
is also a family thing.
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