Stories.
From JEEP visits in nursing homes, hospital rooms, recovery meetings and homes.
-
“Sometimes the magic will happen.”
A psychiatrist describes the day a patient with schizophrenia opened up after one of Rabbi Karp’s weekly visits.
-
“You’re bringing Judaism here, to me, way out here.”
A man in an assisted-living lobby held a Chumash for the first time in years, and told us what the visit meant.
-
Eighty Seders planned. 127 delivered.
In the spring of 2021, JEEP planned 80 Passover meals for isolated seniors and delivered 127 before Shabbos.
-
“We don’t recover by ourselves.”
Jewish people in recovery meet at Cincinnati Jewish Recovery and at sober Shabbos and holiday meals.
-
The locksmith
Years after a new father put on Rabbi Karp’s tefillin in a Cincinnati hospital, the two met again in Michigan.
-
“That moment made my whole Purim.”
A bedbound man with dementia told a Purim volunteer to leave. Then he heard the gragger.
-
“He never forgets about us!”
In 2021, JEEP brought Purim to people in their cars, in care homes and at home, with a Megillah, gift bags and dinners.
-
The tzedakah cans at Halom House
The residents of Halom House emptied their tzedakah cans, talked it over, and decided where their gift would go.