Project Ezra

Coming Up:  Luncheon at WCT for Project Ezra, Sun, Nov 19

Project Ezra is a nonprofit organization that works with the frail Jewish elderly to live with dignity, companionship and community on NYC’s Lower East Side. Founded in 1972, we provide hundreds of elders with a variety of services and activities to reduce their social isolation and to enhance their lives. For much of that organization’s existence, Woodlands has maintained a caring relationship with it, hosting elders at luncheons at fall/winter and providing them with cartons of Passover food in the spring. 

When we could not continue our usual activities due to COVID, we found other ways of providing support – In place of cartons of food at Passover, we raised funds for them to purchase Passover food. 

We resumed our luncheons last year and look forward doing it again this year. We will be looking for volunteers to co-host a table with another temple family – prepare a dairy meal and then serve it to our guests. Sign up HERE to be a co-host for the Nov 19 Luncheon. For more information, please email our program leaders, Harriet and Elise.

Leaders: Harriet Kohn and Elise Wagner Ballan, ProjectEzra@wct.org