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{weblog_name} - A Year Later…Despair
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A year ago, I wrote an article about how difficult it was for many Jewish families to survive the economic recession we were facing. He is a father with 11 children, at the time unemployed, with prospects of at best becoming underemployed. Here’s what I received on my email me this week: “I wanted to share with you about how things with my family have progressed since that article was written. In the article I mentioned that finacnial assistane from JCS and Ahavas Yisroel were instrumental in keeping our family financially afloat. A month or two after the article appeared, we were told by our financial counselor at JCS that as I was not making sufficient efforts to find a job, in their opinion, our financial assistance was going to be curtailed shortly. I find this hard to understand… read more