By Gale Brewer
Friends,
It's Tuesday, April 7, 2020.
At press time, the Johns Hopkins COVID case tracker currently shows New York City has 72,867 active cases and 4,009 deaths.
The
City's Dept. for the Aging (DFTA) has to do a better job of managing
the senior food program. It's Week Three of the transition from group
meals within senior centers to the free home-delivered meal model (with
an intermediate stop at "Grab and Go"), and still too many Manhattan
senior centers have no list of who DFTA is sending meals to despite
weeks of center staff submitting names and information. (And that's just
in Manhattan!) The contrast between what is said in televised briefings
or by the agency and the reality on the ground is too great to ignore
any longer.
To
be clear, if you are a senior who needs a food delivery, you are
instructed to call your local senior center, or Aging Connect
(212)244-6469, or 311 to sign up for this program. But the staff at many
centers we talk to are finding that both regular clients and those
newly-added are not receiving the food.
This
lack of communication and confirmation compounds the anxiety already
felt by many older adults. And it makes a difficult situation all that
much harder on the senior center staff who are working hard to assist
their clients. Please email me at info@manhattanbp.nyc.gov if you are having difficulty requesting or receiving these meals, and I will try to help.
--- This year’s Passover dinners are being done virtually; here is a roundup of the ones I’ve heard of:
--- This year’s Passover dinners are being done virtually; here is a roundup of the ones I’ve heard of:
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The Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan will be hosting three Seders:
--For families with school-age children on Wednesday, 4/8 from 4:30 - 5:30 pm
--The Annual Queer Seder on Thursday 4/9 from 7 - 9 pm
-- An Israeli-style seder WHAT DAY from 8:30 10 pm -
"Sayder Live", Lab/Shul's (Virtual) 2nd Seder is taking place on Thursday 4/9 from 7 - 9 pm.
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Congregation Beit Simchat Torah on 4/8 at 6:30 pm; more details here.
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Temple Emanuel is livestreaming their free Congregational Seder, at 5 pm on Thursday 4/9 on both their website linked above and on their Facebook page.
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Jewish Women's International is hosting a virtual seder on Thursday, 4/9 from 8 - 11 pm.
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The 92Y hosts a free digital Community Seder on Thursday 4/9 starting at 7:30 pm.
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The Actors Temple, Congregation Ezrath Israel, is streaming their Community Seder on April 9 at 6 pm via Zoom. See their website for more details.
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I
wrote an appreciation of Arlene Stringer Cuevas, Scott Stringer's
mother and a force in her own right in Washington Heights (Council
Member, District Leader, women's rights activist, and cousin to Bella
Abzug) for the Manhattan Times. Arlene died from COVID-19 at the age of
86.
I
first met Arlene in 1974, on the Mary Anne Krupsak for Lt. Governor
campaign, and she was one of the nicest and most upbeat people I've ever
met-- and that kindness masked a keen political mind. We stayed friends
over the decades since. My warmest condolences go to Scott and his
family.
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Click here for other announcements.
Click here for other announcements.
Source: The Office of the Manhattan Borough President
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