o M re
Peace of Mind.

A Holocaust survivor wears a mask she got from the Jewish Relief
Agency that was donated by the Jewish Federation of Greater
Philadelphia. COURTESY OF JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA
time. As recently as October, those who were permitted inside were
tasked with getting nearly 3,900 boxes of food, household goods and
PPE to masked drivers waiting outside the building.

“It’s been very challenging,” said Julie Roat, JRA’s chief of operations
in April 2020. Demand has spiked since then.

At JFCS, staff scrambled to move their work online as they brought
their clients up to digital speed. Now, the team deals with the typical
concerns of their clients — finance, mental health, disability services,
eldercare and more — along with a wide variety of COVID-specific
issues. Webinars have become a key feature of their work.

Many organizations received outside help, whether in the form
of federal Paycheck Protection Program loans or assistance from the
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. Last summer, rabbis were
gifted an undisclosed amount of cash, prorated to the size of their
congregation, to discreetly disburse to their congregants, as needed.

“This is a very different way in which we are releasing funds into
the community,” Abbey Frank, director of program operations at the
Jewish Federation, said in June.

School and Education
The first articles about education during the pandemic focused on
the novelty. Teachers and students alike found that they had adapted
quickly, and social life was re-created, to some extent, through class
get-togethers. Students were sleeping in, spared of a commute; teachers
like Toby Miller of Kellman Brown Academy were discovering what a
mute button could do for a room full of second-graders.

But the novelty wore off and the debate over in-person instruction
got heated.

Over the summer, parents, children, administrators and teachers
dealt with a complex web of priorities and competing narratives about
the safety of returning to in-person education. Some dropped the idea
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