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Ann Arbor IFS marks 10 years of helping.
director.
JFS has "always been there for people
who need it" regardless of religious affili-
ation, ethnic origin or financial situa-
tion," Levin said. It adds to the quality
of Jewish life in Ann Arbor and
Washtenaw County
"It's a coming-of-age party for JFS,"
Levin said. "This is an agency that has
enjoyed phenomenal growth over the
last 10 years, has expanded the scope
and the scale of its services every single
year, is led by a terrific professional staff
and a devoted core of volunteer leaders,
KAREN SCHWARTZ
Special to the Jewish News
Ann Arbor
hyllis Herzig was there for the
birth of Jewish Family Services
in Ann Arbor and, on March
28, she was one of 400 partic-
ipants who came together for dinner and
dancing at the Crown Plaza in Ann
Arbor to celebrate the organization's
10th anniversary.
For Herzig, who was on the commit-
tee that developed the agency, watching
JFS' growth has been like
watching a child grow up.
The agency officially
became an independent
501(c)3 nonprofit organiza-
tion at the event, with a cer-
emony that moved it from
the auspices of the Jewish
Federation of Washtenaw
County to an organization
with its own board of dire v
tors following the adoptioti
of its articles of incorpora-
tion.
"That this small organiza-
tion has grown to the point
of being independent, it's
First Jewish Family Services director Susan Sefansky,
sort of like it's graduated
current JFS director Anya Abramzon and former
froth high school and now
Jewish Federation of Washtenaw County director
it's on its own and off to
Nancy Margolis at the gala.
college and beyond," Herzig
said.
The celebration was the culmination
and is a source of pride for the entire
of more than six months of events show- Jewish community.
casing the diverse services JFS provides
"I am pro-celebration, I think people
in the community
.
in the community should go celebrate
The events featured everything from a Jewish life whenever they can," he
seek r day of learning to a resettlement
added.
services benefit to a volunteer event with
Ann Arbor Motor Meals.
Expanding Service
"In the beginning, people weren't sure
that we needed a Jewish Family
Under the leadership of Anya
Services," recalled Herzig. "What would
Abramzon, who interned at JFS and
it do and would there be people that
then returned to serve as its director, the
would be able to benefit from the servic- program has basically increased tenfold
es? The organization has grown really
since its creation, said David Cohen, JFS
quite dramatically, and has serviced not
director of development and community
only Jews but gentiles as well in very sig- outreach.
nificant ways."
"When people think of Ann Arbor
JFS was created with a grant of
Jewish Family Services, I think they
$35,000 to meet the needs of immi-
think of resettlement services and
grants from the former Soviet Union
Russian refugees. We want this event to
and because the Federation of
really show that JFS is about more than
Washtenaw County felt the community
that ... that we have nine other pro-
had grown to a point where it needed a
grams," he said.
Jewish source for mental health services,
Those programs include older adult
said Jeff Levin, Federation executive
and vocational services, English as a
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