Cooking classes are a member favorite. In January, members made nachos and a Mexican salad. See below for information on our February Cooking & Dinner with Drew session. | |
Please register for programs by clicking on the link below each event.
The same links appear on the calendar listings for those events on the Tikvah Website tikvahajmi.org/calendar/month/2025-02/ If you need assistance registering for a program contact us office@tikvahajmi.org or 215.832.0671.
| |
Bowling @Our Town Alley
Sunday, February 2 | 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Registration Deadline January 30
Please register here
Cooking & Dinner with Drew @JFCS, Brodsky Center
Tuesday, February 4 | 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Registration Deadline January 28
Please register here
Tikvah Volunteers: JRA Packing & Pizza
Friday, February 7 | 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Registration Deadline January 31
Please register here
Desert & Dialogue: Peter Weisner: My Mother Survived the Holocaust with Bipolar @Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel
Sunday, February 9 | 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Registration Deadline February 2
Please register here
KleinLife February Birthday Lunch & Tu BiShvat @KlineLife
Wednesday, February 13 | 11:30 am– 1:30 pm
Registration Deadline February 6
Please register here
| | |
Tu BiShvat @JFCS Brodsky Center
Sunday, February 16 | 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Registration Deadline February 9
Please register here
Learn & Light Bites @Kaiserman JCC
Tuesday, February 18 | 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Registration Deadline February 11
Please register here
Virtual Living in the Moment Meditation
Wednesday, February 19 | 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Registration Deadline February 12
Please register here
Tikvah Trips & Shows: Bye Bye Birdie @Ohev Shalom of Bucks County
Sunday, February. 23 | 1:00 – 3:30 pm
Registration Deadline February 16
Please register here
Tikvah Trips & Shows: Hay Fever @Walnut Street Theatre
Sunday, March 2 | 2:00 – 4:30 pm
Registration Deadline February 23
Please register here
| |
Zoom links for virtual events are sent via email one week prior. | |
Friends & Family: Coffee with Rabbi Sandi Berliner, MSW @KleinLife
Wednesday, February 26 | 2:00 –3:00pm
Registration Deadline February 20
Please register here
| |
|
Model Seder
Sunday, April 6 @KleinLife
Create the Connection Awards Event
Sunday, May 18 @Temple Ambler
| |
COMMUNITY EVENTS IN THE AREA | |
|
Presidents’ Day 2025 & JDAIM Celebration (Family Day)
Monday, February 17 | 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Celebrate Presidents' Day at Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History. Fun activities for all ages. This year, they are spotlighting Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month (JDAIM) alongside exciting programs, workshops, crafts, a resource fair, scavenger hunts, and more. Additional information available at theweitzman.org/events/presidents-day-2025-family-day/
Registration is appreciated. Please register here.
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History: 101 S. Independence Mall East, Philadelphia, PA 19106 (Corner of 5th & Market)
| |
|
HaMotzi Dinner
Sunday, February 23 | 5:00 – 6:00pm
Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel invites you to a free community dinner. Home cooked meals, fresh fruit, produce and groceries. In Person Dinner begins at 5 p.m. Seating is limited to those who reserve by calling 215.887.8700 by Wednesday, February 19.
Keneseth Israel: 8339 Old York Road, Elkins Park, PA 19027
Using SEPTA? Bus Line 55 or 7, Regional Rail, Jenkintown Stop.
| |
|
Wellness Wednesday
Wednesday, February 26 | 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Join us every 4th Wednesday of the month at the NAMI MONTCO Office for a time for people to connect and have fun!
We will have light snacks and refreshments along with a planned activity and free time to socialize. Please register on your own here
NAMI MONTCO office: 100 W Main St UNIT 204, Lansdale, PA 19446
| | | |
|
NAMI Smarts for Advocacy Program Sessions (Virtual)
Wednesday, January 29 | 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Monday, February 3 | 10:00 AM - 1:00 pm
NAMI Smarts for Advocacy is a hands-on advocacy training program that helps people living with mental illness, friends and family transform their passion and lived experience into skillful grassroots advocacy.
Sponsored by NAMI Philadelphia.
Register here for the 1/29 Medication Zoom Session
Register here for the 2/3 Budgets Zoom Session
Contact ltaylor@namiphilly.org for more information.
All sessions held via ZOOM.
| |
Mental Health First Aid
Sunday, March 30 | 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) teaches you how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges among adults. Course requires registration and online pre-work to be completed prior to the course. Pre-work takes about 2 hours.
Additional information and registration available here.
Presented by the SE Regional Mental Health Services Coordination office.
Sponsored by Tikvah, NAMI Main Line, JFCS Philadelphia, and Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services
JFCS Brodsky Center: 345 Montgomery Ave, Bala Cynwd, PA 19004
| |
SPONSORS
Please click their logos to learn more
| |
Warren Klein Memorial Fund
| |
Edward and Marjorie
Goldberger Foundation
| |
Nadine Hoch
Memorial Fund
| |
The Tzedakah
Foundation
| |
LARRY A. REAL COMMUNITY PARTNERS | |
THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS
Please click HERE to make a donation
| |
In Memory of Mia Marcovici
Robert Wenger
In Memory of Mel Zelcman
Abby Gilbert
In honor of Abby Gilbert and Barbara Ponczek
Ellen Levin
| |
BECOME A MEMBER TODAY
Please click HERE to become a member
| |
Tikvah welcomes our new members:
Gabrielle W - Member
Robert W - Supporter
Sharon D - Supporter
| |
We appreciate your support which helps us provide
programming and events for our members and their loved ones.
| |
Individual Member: $20 per year
Our Individual Membership entitles you to:
- Community Dinners
- Cultural Events and Trips
- Diverse Enrichment Programs
- Holiday Celebrations
- Periodic Newsletters
- Phone Squad Communication
- Wellness Programs
- Volunteer Opportunities
| | |
Supporter Member: $50 per year
This membership is offered to those who wish to support our organization and help make hope happen for those we serve.
Your supporter membership entitles you to receive our Tikvah Talk newsletter. You also receive updates and invitations to Tikvah programming throughout the year.
| |
TIKVAH MISSION STATEMENT
Tikvah supports and empowers adults living with mental illness so that they may feel accomplished, independent, and fulfilled. We strive to reduce isolation through social and educational programming.
| |
Our Staff and Office Information:
Abby Gilbert, Executive Director abby@tikvahajmi.org
Barbara Ponczek, Program Director barbara@tikvahajmi.org
Brenda Kinnear, Membership Associate brenda@tikvahajmi.org
Ellen Levin, Bookkeeper/Registrar: ellen@tikvahajmi.org
Marina Zaitceva, Social Work Intern: marina@tikvahajmi.org
Office Support: Irvin Apt, Sandra Frank, Mindy Freeman, Ellen Gorberg, Halie Hershman, Ileene Jaffe, Joyce Oxfeld, Rob Singer
Phone Squad: Chuck Allen, Irwin Bernstein, Michelle Bernstein, Matt Corchnoy, Jeff Gansheroff, Staci Hershman, Shari Simons, Mike Stape, Brandy Wasilewski
Program Facilitators: Rabbi Sandi Berliner, Rhonda Cohen, Rycki Joy Freedman, Drew Gold, David Karasow, Rabbi Ephraim Levin
General questions office@tikvahajmi.org or call 215-832-0671 Calls are answered and messages returned Tuesday - Thursday 9 AM to 4:30 PM, also three hours prior to and during programs.
Business Office: Tikvah @KleinLife, Suite 122, 10100 Jamison Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19116
| | | | |