Project Ezrah’s annual dinner is this Motzei Shabbat at Englewood’s Congregation Ahavath Torah. If you live in Bergen County and are a member of a shul, you received your invitations, viewed emails about the dinner, heard from your local rabbi about it, and perhaps received calls and emails from friends and neighbors exhorting you to attend and support this unique chesed organization. The Jewish Link is proud to join that chorus and ask you to make your last-minute reservations and go. And if you can’t, please send them a donation…as much as you can afford.

Project Ezrah is the rainy-day helper we wish we didn’t need; but then again, if it didn’t exist, it would have to be invented. Ezrah’s staff, ably led by Robert Hoenig, help our neighbors with financial assistance, job retraining, job searches, household budgeting, counseling and so many other things. We often don’t know who Project Ezrah helps, but their work is designed to be discreet. We look forward to greeting you at this year’s dinner. Visit http://www.ezrah.org/ for donation information.