A while back I posted about the tendency to ignore or hide problems in the frum community. I've been in conversation with others about setting up a site to provide contact information for organizations and individuals within the various frum communities that deal with some of the problems that exist, even though there is a resistance to admitting that the problems exist.
To expedite matters I have set up a new blog whose sole purpose will be an informational one. On it, through utilizing the labels section as a search tool, will be posted contact information for organizations, both local and national, that deal with a wide variety of problems that people might be facing. Individual practitioners with expertise in these areas will also be listed. Some of this information will be to general organizations and associations that deal with specific problems, and some will be to Jewish organizations dealing with specific problems.
While much of the information will be New York-based, there will also be search labels for communities outside of the New York City area.
I'm asking for your help here. If you know of an organization or individual involved with a particular problem, please send me all the contact information--names, addresses, phone numbers, urls for a direct link to their online sites. Please state what particular problems are dealt with so that I can cross reference items. Please send this information to jewishcommunityservices.live.com or post as a comment under a particular problem posting and I'll import the info to where it needs to be.
In addition, please let me know what specific/general problems you feel should be listed on this new blog.
Right now the new blog has very little contact information posted. Mostly the skeleton is up. The name of the blog will be jewishcommunityservices.blogspot.com. I'm counting on all of you out there to make this blog a successful one as an information source. I'll be doing my share, and I hope that you will contribute as well. The only way this will work is as a collaborative effort. Please help. And please, list the blog under your blog listings. If you don't have a blog yourself, please suggest to other blog masters that they link to the blog.
8 comments:
FanTAStic! I will try to put together some Israeli references in the next few days. For the time I assume everything will be in English, and hopefully someday the listings will branch out to Hebrew as well.
Good luck to you and to all of us!
ALN
An ambitious undertaking. I like the idea of a resource for everything all in one place. Will see what contact info I can get to add. Hatzlacha!
I picked one of the problems you listed and tried to find some information yesterday. I called my Rav in frustration when I couldn't find any information. He basically told me that he didn't know of any Jewish organization that specifically targetted that problem.And he said that that is one of the problems in getting help for frum people. They want a frum service but there isn't one. When I asked him if he would recommend a non frum service to someone he basically waffled around and came up with "it depends" as an answer.
This is a great idea. Have you received any referrals for an organization that helps people with budgeting, debt management, etc?
SL,
Not yet, but I'm adding debt management to the list of problems. If you know of someplace/someone who deals with this please let me know.
Great idea! I've wanted to do something like this for a while already, and I'm glad you got to it first. Thank you.
I'm not an anonymous blob. (lol- just read the header adn found it amusing)
Yasher koach for attempting this project.
ProfK, Mindy - The two of you could co-contribute...
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