Community's resilience

Jeffrey Feld, Federation President/ CEO

At the time of writing this article, Southwest Florida was once again facing the threat of another hurricane. This one was called Idalia and it came 11 months after our community experienced and suffered from Hurricane Ian.

Our community is resilient! We continue to find ways to help each other and move forward. Yes, it is difficult. Some individuals/families may have been more impacted than others. But our community, through the efforts of our congregations and agencies, was available to help. Jewish Federation of Greater Naples raised and distributed more than $210,000 for local community Hurricane Ian relief efforts.

We thank all of you who contributed to this effort. We thank you for caring about others in our community. We thank the agencies and congregations that helped individuals and families through all the challenges that had to be faced.

Our community faces lots of storms. Some of them are natural, like hurricanes, and some are man-made, like antisemitism.

Our community is resilient. We bond together to face whatever kind of storm is headed our way. The willingness to find ways to work together is what makes our community resilient and special!

Again, we thank each of you and all our agencies and congregations for making sure that we work together to overcome any and all storms that come our way.