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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A 2016 file photo shows members of the Jewish Fund for Human Needs committee with Vince Estrada of the Maplewood- Richmond Heights School District in front of Joe’s Place, one of the agencies awarded a JFHN grant that year. 

Jewish Fund For Human Needs awards grants to 6 local nonprofits

Published July 28, 2019

Six small local nonprofit organizations just received a grant from the Rabbi Robert P. Jacobs Jewish Fund for Human Needs (JFHN). A total of $18,000 was awarded.  JFHN awarded an emergency grant of $500 to EnergyCare in response to the prolonged heat...

Human needs allocation committee recruiting at-large members

Published October 20, 2016

The Robert P. Jacobs Jewish Fund for Human Needs (JFHN) allocates grants to non-Jewish grassroots social service organizations in the St. Louis region that respond to the most basic of human needs, such as providing medicine for the uninsured, food for...

JFHN allocates $22,500 in grants to St. Louis agencies

Published June 15, 2016

Eleven area agencies in the greater St. Louis community devoted to helping those in need have received $22,500 in grant funding from the Rabbi Robert P. Jacobs Jewish Fund for Human Needs (JFHN).  The Jewish Fund, a joint program of the Jewish Community...

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