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This summer, more local food insecurity rity — a lack of access to sufficient food, or food of adequate quality, to meet basic needs — With people away on vaca- only boosts the need for donation or at home relaxing, the tions. summer months are difficult The SHOP partners with for facilities that collect and Gourmet Glatt, Costco and local distribute food to those in need. synagogues to help bring in The Marion & donations for the Aaron Gural JCC’s Shkolnik pantry. It SHOP (Sustealso recently nance, Hope, signed a contract Opportunities, with New HoriPlace), in Cedarzons Counseling hurst, which operCenter, a mental ates the Rina health agency Shkolnik Kosher with offices in ValFood Pantry, is one ley Stream and of those facilities across Long that are affected by Island. a drop in dona“The agency tions. sent over a tre“Typically, the mendous amounts SHOP is quieter of referrals to us, over the summer because they have months due to fama huge client popilies going away or ulation that is in working at sumneed of food and mer camps,” gets the bare miniRIvkAh hALpERN Rivkah Halper n, mum for food its program direc- Program director, the stamps,” Halpern tor, said. “T his SHOP said of New Horisummer, clients zons. “For sumcame to us saying they lost their mer, we’ve been really inundatjobs in the Five Towns commu- ed, and this summer we’ve seen nity, creating a new influx of at least a 10 percent increase in people.” what we normally see for the The increase in food insecu-
By MELISSA BERMAN
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Courtesy Sarah Yastrab
ADI Negev, a rehabilitation hospital in southern Israel, has a medical clown who visits patients to help lift their spirits. Occupational therapist Sarah Yastrab, right, volunteered at the hospital for two weeks in May.
Wounded Israeli soldier shares his story of injury rehabilitation By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
Four volunteers from the Five Towns and one from Far Rockaway will be recognized for their work helping injured Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the Negev Desert in southern Israel. Physical therapists Daniel Aryeh, of Woodmere, and Moshe Richmond, of Lawrence, occupational therapists Jesse Vogel, of Far Rockaway, and Sarah Yastrab, of, and physical therapist Robert Weinberg, of Woodmere, will be honored at an event hosted by Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst in collaboration with
ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran on Aug. 14. ADI Negev is a 40-acre, state-of-the-art rehabilitative care for people with disabilities in the Negev. Major Or Maatuk, an IDF soldier who was critically wounded in the war with Hamas, will recount his life story. He will be introduced by Dr. Shilo Kramer, director of orthopedic rehabilitation at ADI Negev’s Kaylie Rehabilitation Medical Center. “Whether you were born into disability (or) touched by disability at some point at life, this 40-acre village has all kinds of resources,” said Elie Klein, the facility’s developmental director. CONtINueD ON pAge 12
e’ve been really inundated, and this summer we’ve seen at least a 10 percent increase in what we normally see for the summer. It’s usually a bit quieter for us.
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