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JEWISH FEDERATION
April 2022
Meet the Karnilow family PJ family spotlight By Alicia Feldman, PJ Library Coordinator
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received her Bat Mitzvah : What are the names date, which we are all of the family memvery excited about. bers? Q: What is your A: Jon, Amy, Sophia (10) f a m i l y’s f a v o r i t e P J and Ethan (8) Library book? Q: What’s it like on the A: Their favorite day PJ Library books arrive? PJ Library book (and A: The kids are always mine) is “Meshka the super excited when we bring Kvetch.” It tells the story in the mail and they see Written by Carol something new from PJ Chapman, Illustrated by of Meshka, the village complainer who literally Library! It’s guaranteed that Arnold Lobel complains about everywe will be reading their new PJ Library books before bed that night. thing in her life, including her children! One day all her complaints come true, Q: What do you like about PJ and she finally realizes to be grateful for Library books? what she already has instead of comA: As parents, we love that PJ Library plaining. I think this is a reminder we all books reference not only Jewish holineed from time to time. days, traditions and customs, but they If you, or someone you know, is interested also teach important life lessons to in becoming a PJ Library Spotlight Family our children. please let us know! Email Alicia Feldman@ Q: Do you belong to a synagogue? A: We belong to Temple Shalom and programs@jewishnaples.org. Follow us on Facebook love it. The kids love going to YeSH (Sun@PJLibraryNaplesFL. day school) each week. And Sophia just
Amy and Jon Karnilow with their children, Ethan and Sophia
Free hearing services offered to adults and seniors in need By Adriana Villalobos, MA, CCC-A, Hears4You Board President
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ears4you was started in January 2021 by the Board of Directors and me, its president and a bilingual audiologist with 30 years of experience in the field, because we realized the need for lower-priced hearing aid services in Collier County. The mission of Hears4you is to provide free, donated hearing aids to people in need. One in every three persons over the age of 65 has some hearing loss. Hearing aids cost $1,000 to $3,000 each and are not covered by
Medicare and many insurance plans. Unfortunately, this means that many people in need of hearing help are not getting it because of the high price of hearing aids. Hears4you has begun receiving donated hearing aids from Jewish Federation of Greater Naples and is now offering free hearing clinics at Neighborhood Health Clinic and the Golden Gate Senior Center. Since October of 2021, it has provided dozens of free hearing tests and free donated hearing aids.
The organization takes used, donated hearing aids, preferably less than 5 years old, and donates time to recycling them. Recipients of the free, donated devices complete applications and document their low-income status and lack of health insurance. With a goal to fit at least 10 free, donated hearing aids last year, Hears4you fit 8 in 2021. As of March this year, it has already fit 10 free, donated hearing aids! It hopes to expand the program to provide new hearing aids through a
manufacturing company but is in need of funding to do so. Hears4you also has been offering free cleaning and checking of hearing aids at local retirement centers. For more information about donating hearing aids or receiving free, donated hearing aids, please contact us Hears4you at 6017 Pine Ridge Rd., Suite 363, Naples, FL 34119; 305-699-3246; www.hears4you.org.
Please join us for the annual Community Remembrance of the victims and Survivors of the Holocaust Annual Community-Wide Commemoration of Yom HaShoah Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 10 a.m. (ET) Via Temple Shalom Livestream PROGRAM SPONSORS ARE TEMPLE SHALOM, GENSHOAH OF SWFL, JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES, AND THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & COHEN EDUCATION CENTER
