FC Delivers Winter Fun for Hundreds of Children
As her car pulled up to a stop at the door at LifeTown. Sharon Stoch rolled down her window and greeted the teen volunteers, who disappeared back into the building. From the backseat, her...
Category: pandemic
Federation Celebrates Friendship With COVID Grant
Since the pandemic began, Friendship Circle has continually offered an array of virtual programs and social-distancing events to ensure that people with special needs and their families feel a communal connection during these unprecedented...
Celebrities Headline Global Shabbat Party for Children with Special Needs
Tens of thousands of people from around the world joined children, teens and adults with special needs for a virtual, star-studded Global Shabbat Party. The event was created to help ease the isolation and...
YOUNG ADULTS LOG INTO CAMP FUN
* Your gift to the Summer CAMPaign makes this and other programs possible! A group of young adults with special needs have been spending their weekday mornings in camp, virtually, where they recite morning...
Carnival Brings Out Families for Summer Fun, Social-Distance Style
Mark Henderson had barely entered the CARnival on Sunday when he proclaimed “this is the most fun we’ve had in a long time.” Sitting beside him, his son Louis, was eager to show his...
Morristown Gets Visit by FC Car Parade
Emergency vehicles, including local police and fire trucks, joined the staff and volunteers of Friendship Circle as they drove through Morristown and Morris Township recently to “visit” children with special needs. It was the...
Cheesecake Bake
Several dozen Friendship Circle families participated in an online cheesecake workshop last week, with all the ingredients supplied by Friendship Circle. The class was held before the holiday of Shavuot, which commemorates the receiving...
Friendship Circle’s Personal Touch Is Subject of News Story
Friendship Circle’s car parades, virtual programming and efforts to maintain connections during the Covid-19 outbreak were the subject of a recent article from Lubavitch news story. The article by Liba Riemer also looks at...
Jewish Link Profiles LifeTown Artist and Kotel
Friendship Circle art instructor and LifeTown’s kotel maker Miriam Sasson was featured in the Jewish Link newspaper. The paper looked at how Mara created the replica of the Western Wall in the synagogue at...
A NONSTOP (CAR) PARADE OF SMILES
As they waited for the car parade from Friendship Circle to arrive, Fran and her grandson, Yitzy, took turns holding a sign they had made for the occasion. It read “We miss and we...