Jewish Family Services of Greater Dayton, Versailles Drive, Centerville, Oh
Updates from across the Miami Valley's Jewish community
By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer
Along with local Jewish organizations and congregations' quick changeover to virtual programming and thorough outreach to their constituents, here is a roundup of how the pandemic is playing out across the customs.
Kosher for Pesach meals from Chabad
Leveraging its Shabbat In A Box program, Chabad of Greater Dayton distributed nearly lxx seder meals and sixty Seder To Go kits April 8 for people to observe Passover amid social distancing.
A heave for Bernstein's
Adam Baumgarten — possessor forth with his wife, Lauren, of Bernstein's Fine Catering — and a pared downwardly staff of four prepared more than one,000 Passover meals for the Dayton and Cincinnati areas, including at-home seders for members of Temple Beth Or and Temple Israel, and Jewish Family Services clients. These orders and Bernstein'southward new takeout/delivery service brought the caterer back from freefall.
"Our business was one of the kickoff to get striking," Adam said. "We accept lost 98 percent of our events through May. Fortunately, we've had more postponements than cancellations."
Bernstein'south has partnered with several local nonprofits including JFS and Kettering Haversack to reach families and people in need.
"This hasn't been easy. But I feel very confident of our survival and eventual continued growth."
JFS delivers for clients
Jewish Family Services, which besides provides commitment of meals from Bernstein's and Chabad, distributed 94 Passover outreach numberless to its clients. The bags included Mixtiles, ornamental tiles, with photos of flowers from State of israel. The photos were taken by Jody Sobol, who provided fiscal support for the projection with her husband, Todd. With community support, JFS as well provided homes with 18 seder meals from Bernstein'due south and 12 Seder to Go kits from Chabad.
If yous demand help from JFS or would like to volunteer to connect with seniors, call JFS Administrative Assistant Theresa Clyburn at 937-401-1551.
SBA loan for Federation brings early babyhood staff dorsum on payroll
The Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton received a loan Apr xx from Key Bank through the Small Business organisation Assistants's Paycheck Protection Program, which was included in the $2 trillion stimulus bundle the U.Due south. Congress passed in March.
"The majority of the loan will be used to pay our staff salaries (most 49 employees) for up to eight weeks," Jewish Federation CEO Cathy Gardner said. "We are not required to pay back this portion of the loan, which is fantastic news, as we have faced some serious fiscal burdens due to Covid-19."
The Federation laid off its 17 JCC early childhood employees April three and now brings them back on the payroll. "The things they are able to practise from home with virtual learning are very meaningful," Gardner said. She lauded Central Banking company'due south customer service for helping the Federation through the process, likewise as guidance from Jewish Federations of North America.
Making, distributing masks
Rachel Estep — who runs a business organisation sewing children's wearable — and her friend, Valerie Reid-Thorn, take launched Brookville Sewing Masks.
So far, they've produced and distributed more than 5,000 masks at no charge for nursing homes, first responders, home health aides, and other essential personnel.
"We're focusing mainly on places that take petty to no personal protective equipment," Rachel told The Observer. "What we are making are 100-percentage double layer cotton mask covers. They are non medical-grade masks, only they can be used over an n95 to extend its lifespan. If no n95 is available, the masks have pockets that you can put any HEPA filter into." Brookville Sewing Masks has almost 60 volunteers cutting, sewing, and distributing the masks.
"I'm from a long family line of showtime responders," Rachel said. "I know what the front lines are like and I can't imagine going into this without proper PPE. I can't requite them that. But I had something I could offer."
Women'southward mikvah open
Chabad of Greater Dayton Co-Director Devorah Mangel, who oversees the Miami Valley Mikvah, tells The Observer the women's ritual bathroom is open, with changes in the prepping room including extra cleaning precautions "based on recommendations from a coming together I was part of with mikvah attendants around the world."
The Miami Valley Mikvah asks women with any possible symptoms of Covid-19 to "be honest about her health on behalf of others" and forgo the mikvah that month.
"Nosotros inquire that women gear up in their homes and simply come to immerse," Devorah said.
On the business scene
Sandy Mendelson, possessor of Mendelson's, is giving away his inventory of personal protective equipment to local constabulary, firefighters, and beginning responders. Sandy, whose iconic warehouse is set to close at the end of the year, told the Dayton Daily News, "Dayton has been great to the Mendelson family unit and I want to give back."
At the end of March, in the face of closures of sit-downwards business at area restaurants, Premier ProduceOne donated its remaining produce in Dayton to Access to Excess, which distributed it to sites that feed those in need, including St. Vincent de Paul and Firm of Bread. Premier ProduceOne, with roots in Dayton through the Pavlofsky family, has too pivoted to successfully focus on selling produce boxes directly to the public with contact-free curbside pickup.
Lion, which articles first responder personal protective equipment, continues to hum along at its Dayton and Kentucky manufacturing facilities, according to Andy Schwartz, Lion'due south secretarial assistant, corporate counsel, and chief procurement officer. Safety steps are in place at Lion every bit outlined past the CDC. The Dayton site was rebuilt after much of the new structure was destroyed in the tornadoes on Memorial Day 2019.
Sara and Gus Stathes, owners of The Butt House, hope their situation will get better.
"When it was ordered that bars and restaurants were to close except for carryout, we decided we would stay open for carryout but accept it a mean solar day at a fourth dimension," Sara said. "After one week of operating on carryout alone and discussing options every mean solar day, when the stay at home order was issued, we made the hard decision to close altogether."
Sara and her full-time employee are both immunocompromised. "Besides the concern of ourselves, our families or our staff potentially getting sick, nosotros couldn't alive with ourselves if we unknowingly got any of our customers sick."
Sara and Gus, known for giving of their bar gain to assist non-profits, applied for a Paycheck Protection Plan loan. They were notified the funding already had been fully allocated. They've started selling gift certificates online to get a chip of coin coming in.
"Nosotros ourselves are at present a household completely without income," she said. "We have to worry that if this goes on long plenty, our small business volition run out of money and exist unable to reopen, ending our dream and losing everything we have. This is definitely an intensely terrifying fourth dimension on then many levels."
The couple decided to reopen The Barrel House beginning May one in a limited capacity, with curbside pickup, one customer permitted in the shop at a fourth dimension, and only staff immune to impact merchandise.
"It's not perfect or ideal, merely we feel it is the safe and responsible way for us to proceed at this time," they posted at The Barrel Firm Facebook page April 23.
To read the consummate May 2020 Dayton Jewish Observer, click here.
Source: https://daytonjewishobserver.org/2020/04/navigating-the-pandemic/
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