An Evening with Schoke JFS 2022

An Evening with Schoke JFS
Honoring

42nd Annual Mitzvah Award Recipients
Jewish Sportsmen's League
Bruce Blasnik | Gary Bloom | Henry Bubel | David S. Cohen z"l | Marty Donner | Bob Dorf | Paul Gordon | Ed Kweskin | David Lewis | Carl Rosen | Paul Sabbah | David Swerdloff

3rd Annual Volunteer of the Year Award Recipients
Stacy Kamisar | Julia Marx | Sheri Warshaw

JEWISH SPORTSMEN'S LEAGUE

The Jewish Sportsmen's League (JSL) began some 22 years ago following an inspired Rosh Hashanah sermon at Temple Sinai.  The Rabbi implored its members to find our own unique and fun way to do charitable giving.  A small group, including the current and several former presidents of Temple Sinai gathered at the brunch following the service and decided that a poker game would fit the bill.  And so began the JSL.

Over the years two things happened.  First, as members of the group expanded their involvement across many Jewish and non-Jewish organizations in the community, the giving expanded to those organizations as well.  Second, the group decided to forgo their anonymity and began to take JSL ads and tables at many of the annual community fund raisers.

Today's JSL members have been leaders within the organizations they support.  The total JSL giving, separate from their personal giving, has now exceeded $120,000.  They continue to be close friends and still enjoy their regular poker game.

Schoke JFS is honored to award the Jewish Sportsmen's League with the 42nd Annual Mitzvah Award for their philanthropy and continued commitment to the community.

STACY KAMISAR - JULIA MARX - SHERI WARSHAW

Just a few weeks before Passover, in March 2020, COVID-19 sent shockwaves through the world and our communities. When everywhere was shutting down and locking down, Stacy Kamisar, Julia Marx, and Sheri Warshaw pulled together groups of volunteers to make sure that clients and families in need throughout Upper Fairfield County could still get critical kosher food deliveries from the Freedberg Family Kosher Food Pantry at Schoke Jewish Family Service.

This ongoing volunteer initiative pioneered by Stacy, Julia, and Sheri in the parking lot of The Conservative Synagogue (TCS) in Westport continues to operate rain or shine, snow or sleet. By 2021, the operation grew to include partnership with B'Nai Israel in Bridgeport and Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County. This volunteer team pivoted again, including even greater volunteer recruitment, to deliver kosher food every month to clients in 14 towns throughout Upper Fairfield County.

Schoke JFS is honored to award these three women the 3rd Annual Volunteer of the Year Award for spearheading these critical food initiatives with countless other volunteers to combat food insecurity during the pandemic.

To read more about all of our wonderful honorees, click here.

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