SNOW AHEAD?
JANUARY 27, 2022 / 25 SHEVAT 5782
FACING THE
PANDEMIC A new art exhibit puts faces to some of the
victims of the pandemic.

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LOCAL Disability
Inclusion Goes
Year-round February is the focal
point of ongoing
education. Page 4
OBITUARY Holocaust Refugee
Jacques Lipetz
Dies at 89
Psychologist bore
mental scars from
wartime experiences.

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HEALTH See Healthy,
Wealthy & Wise
Section explores
vaccines, taxes.

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Volume 134
Number 42
Published Weekly Since 1887
Jay Spector
Refl ects on
Lengthy JEVS Career
JARRAD SAFFREN | JE STAFF
JAY SPECTOR IS 73. He’s worked for
JEVS Human Services for more than 40
years. He’s led the nonprofi t organiza-
tion as president and CEO for the last
quarter-century. So, when explaining his recent decision
to retire, Spector said, “It’s time.”
“It’s time to turn the reins over to some
new people,” he added. “And it’s time to
move on and do other things with my life.”
Before doing so, though, Spector
refl ected on his legacy with the organi-
zation that, according to its website, helps
people “lead self-determined, connected
and hopeful lives that strengthen
themselves, their families and their
communities.” And it’s a big legacy.

JEVS now serves more than 25,000
people per year, according to Spector.

During his tenure, it has grown from its
original mission of helping people fi nd
employment to one of helping them build
careers and lives.

Th e nonprofi t now has partnerships
See Spector, Page 12
Police presence at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas on Jan. 16
Andy Jacobsohn/AFP via Getty Images via JTA.org
After Colleyville Crisis,
Security Philosophies
Widely Diff er
SASHA ROGELBERG | JE STAFF
IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING the
Colleyville, Texas, synagogue hostage
crisis at Congregation Beth Israel, Lafayette
Hill synagogue Congregation Or Ami’s
Executive Director Scott Allen was in
Zoom meetings about synagogue security
all day.

Synagogue administration took stock
of the security measures they already
had in place — a relationship with the
local police department, cameras, alarm
systems, security lights — and determined
See Security, Page 13