Larchmont and Mamaroneck Women Visit the Homebound Elderly in Bensonhurst

Women from UJA-Federation of New York’s Larchmont-Mamaroneck Community recently spent the day learning about Brooklyn’s Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst (JCH) and its clients. Supported by funding from UJA-Federation, the JCH primarily serves Russian-speaking Jewish residents of Brooklyn. After learning about the community house’s continuing needs, the women, along with Russian-speaking teens, visited homebound Holocaust survivors and World War II Russian Army veterans, delivering food packages.

Photo captions:

Photo 1: Women from the Larchmont-Mamaroneck community in front of the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn.

Photo 2: Caren Osten Gerszberg of Larchmont (left) and Carol Goldstein of Mamaroneck (right) with a resident of Bensonhurst.

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