302 Silver Avenue | San Francisco, CA 94112 | 415.334.2500 | www.jhsf.org
302 Silver Avenue | San Francisco, CA 94112 | 415.334.2500 | www.jhsf.org
Rabbi Sheldon Marder is recognized for his longtime commitment to mentoring others.
Association of Jewish Aging Services (AJAS)
Rabbi Sheldon Marder, the Jewish Home’s chaplain and director of Jewish Life, received the 2008 Association of Jewish Aging Services (AJAS) Mentor of the Year Award, recognizing his longtime commitment to mentoring others, and paying tribute to his excellence in mentoring. Comprised of over 125 organizations with Jewish-sponsored nursing homes, housing communities, and outreach programs throughout the United States and Canada, AJAS functions to promote the unique role and mission of Jewish-sponsored not-for-profit organizations serving the aging.
The Jewish Home's Kol Haneshama program, which involves training and collaboration with volunteers in order to enhance the Home's end-of-life services to residents and their families, is the recipient of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties’ "Awards of Excellence" Program of the Year award. Through its annual recognition awards, the JCF pays tribute to an exemplary group of individuals and programs that have made outstanding contributions to the Bay Area Jewish Community. This award recognizes an outstanding program that has made a significant impact on the Jewish community within the JCF geographic area, and that "addresses a need of recognized importance and is successful at maximizing community resources through the creative management of financial resources and inter-agency cooperation.”
Run in partnership with the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center and Zen Hospice Project, Kol Haneshama exemplifies collaboration for the common good in our community.
Association of Jewish Aging Services (AJAS)
Kol Haneshama also received a 2008 AJAS Jewish Programming Award that recognizes Jewish programs developed and implemented by an AJAS organization that are innovative, creative, and specifically designed to enhance the spiritual well-being of the older adults they serve.
Associates of Jewish Homes and Services for the Aging
Nina Weil
Jewish Home volunteer and lay leader Nina Weil and the Healing Touch program at the Jewish Home of San Francisco has won the Associates of Jewish Homes and Services for the Aging's Annette W. and Herbert H. Lichterman Outstanding Programming Award 2008. Using gentle, non-invasive hands-on touch and energy techniques to balance and align the human energy field, Healing Touch enhances the lives of residents by providing a therapeutic complement to traditional medical care, and is proving to be a particularly good tool for decreasing agitation in residents with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Healing Touch has been enthusiastically embraced by the Home's culture and the medical community.
1st place best retirement residence in San Francisco in the j.’s (Jewish news weekly of Northern California) Readers’ Choice Awards, which selects the best of the Bay Area. This marks the second time the Jewish Home has achieved first place in this category.
2008 Blair L. Sadler International Healing Arts Awards - first place honors
Songwriting Works at the Jewish Home was recognized for excellence in using the arts to improve the quality of the healing experience. Through original compositions, recordings, publications and community performances, this comprehensive, replicable, engaging, and inclusive music program “breaks isolation, relieves pain, gives elders, their loved ones and the greater community new ways to develop and deepen relationships, and enhances intercultural and interfaith understanding – while creating musical works that transform societal attitudes about aging, health, and creativity.”
In recognition of the scope of services the Home gives to the elderly Jewish population of the Bay Area, ranging from charitable care, short-term rehabilitation, services to Russian émigrés, coordinated care, congregate and home-delivered meals for seniors, to research into improving the care and quality of life of the frail elderly, the Jewish Home received the 2005 Aging Services of California Social Responsibility Award.
1st place Best Retirement Home 2005 in the "Best of the Jewish Bay Area 2005" community-wide survey conducted by j. – the Jewish news weekly of Northern California.
