Four months after October 7 2023, almost 218,000 Israelis remain internally displaced. Mostly from communities nearest the Gaza border, many of them experienced extreme violence and loss, and continue to process individual and communal grief, trauma, uncertainty, and stress.

As our 50th anniversary year comes to an end, we invite you to take a look back at the legacy JVS and our supporters have built in San Francisco and beyond. We partnered with J. The Jewish News of Northern California to create this special issue containing a collection of articles featuring JVS stories since our inception.

IsraAID, Israel’s leading non-governmental humanitarian aid group, is supporting vulnerable and displaced Israeli communities at over a dozen locations across the country.

With their home in Kyiv under bombardment by the Russian military, the Ukrainian family fled for Poland. From there, they booked a flight to San Francisco.

The Jewish Film Institute (JFI), the San Francisco-based nonprofit media arts organization and presenter of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF), announced today the recipients of its fourth cycle of JFI Completion Grants.

Located atop Mount Carmel near Haifa, the Yemin Orde Youth Village is celebrating 70 years of acting as a school and home for immigrant and at-risk Israeli youth.

JVS's work is more important than ever. Their vocational training, counseling, and placement efforts means that single moms like their client who is featured in this CA Department of Industrial Relations story can actually raise a family in the Bay Area, earning a six figure salary. We are so grateful for the leadership of Lisa Countryman-Quiroz and the entire team at JVS; they are transforming lives.