by Stephanie Johnson | Sep 23, 2019 | Blog
A Houston outreach center run by a rabbi who beat cancer twice is the recipient of a $6,000 grant from the Houston Jewish Community Foundation. The HJCF cited The L’Chaim Center’s innovative outreach to the disenfranchised and ill who often need a stepping stone to...
by Stephanie Johnson | Sep 23, 2019 | Blog
The Houston Jewish Community Foundation works to keep Houston’s thriving and vibrant Jewish Community in Houston and Texas alive. As a primary, trusted and expert resource for philanthropy, the HJCF engages, educates, inspires and serves generations of donors,...
by Stephanie Johnson | Sep 23, 2019 | Blog
Christ Church Presbyterian in Bellaire has kindly welcomed The L’Chaim Center for the High Holiday Services. Ours isn’t the only community service project in which they participate. The church also houses an ongoing sack-lunch program for the homeless....
by Stephanie Johnson | Sep 22, 2019 | Blog
Houston Animal Rescuer Alaina Rosenblatt says there’s a reason to celebrate the beloved pet you will mourn at Rabbi Greene’s Yizkor Memorial Healing Service on Yom Kippur: They healed you. “I have my own theory on why animals come and go in our...
by Stephanie Johnson | Sep 5, 2018 | Blog
Right after the sound of the Shofar ended Rabbi Marcy Greene’s Yom Kippur service on Sept. 30, 2017, she found out she had breast cancer again. Only it wasn’t a relapse. Nine years after doctors at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center vanquished her Stage IV...