After seven years of leading the JFSGNH Jewish Wellness and Healing Center, Rabbi Hesch Sommer will be retiring at the end of 2016. Rabbi Sommer, working with community leaders, developed a partnership with agencies throughout the Greater New Haven community to offer pastoral care and counseling to individuals who all too often were left underserved. The JWHC is actually a “center without walls,” in which support through programming and pastoral outreach is offered wherever a need is identified.
The work of the JWHC will continue, with the educational programs to be facilitated by Sydney Perry and the pastoral care and counseling to be offered by Rabbi Fred Hyman. Please check our website link to the Wellness and Healing Center for upcoming programs and support groups. Sydney Perry and Rabbi Hyman will both be joining the JFSGNH staff in January, and they can be reached after January 1st by contacting JFS of Greater New Haven (203-389-5599). Ms. Perry’s extension will be 117 and Rabbi Hyman’s voice mail extension will be 135.