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JFS Annual Report 2016

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Since early childhood, my<br />

life has been touched by<br />

the steadfast dedication of<br />

an agency like <strong>JFS</strong>.<br />

My mother, whose picture Ethan is holding, was widowed at 34 with two young children,<br />

my 4 yr. old sister and me of 22 months. As we were growing up, I remember my mother<br />

going ‘some place’ and coming home with food and clothing for our family. I am holding my<br />

mother’s treasured, threadbare purse, in which she always kept a nickel, stressing to us<br />

in Yiddish, that having a nickel to her name in that purse symbolized the fact that “God will<br />

never forget us”. These memories of my remarkable, heroic mother and the Jewish agency<br />

that was there for us have stayed with me all these years, enforcing my belief in, and<br />

dedication to, Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles.<br />

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Roz Goldstine<br />

<strong>JFS</strong> Board Member<br />

Pictured here from left to right is the Goldstine family, longtime supporters of <strong>JFS</strong>: Ethan Goldstine, Lirit Leong,<br />

Lirona Kadosh, Roz and Abner Goldstine.

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