WHAT WE DO
Laurence Rubin, Attorney
JFS Board Member, Past President

When I think of Jewish Family Service I think of Jewish people coming to Buffalo as far back as the 1850s, and the Jewish community deciding that we needed to take care of our own.

Whether they were widows or orphans, people falling on hard times or the sick or the elderly, we formed an organization to address that. And frankly, that’s very much what we continue to do today.

We expanded our reach as we found that our capabilities were sufficiently there to address more than our own local community needs. We continue to do that and I think that’s a wonderful thing, that members of any community or people within a community can feel that that they can help others who are in need.