Bay Area Jewish Healing Center. They modeled the program after Friends for Life, which provides similar services to housebound HIV patients. That to me is what Judaism is really about. Some clients are extremely isolated and our Roving Reader is their sole contact with the Jewish community. Neither agency could have done this on its own.
People volunteer to satisfy their own spiritual hunger.
Peter Tardos, another volunteer, can vouch for that. He spent a year bringing books to a housebound patient with back trouble and to the client's young daughter. The program is funded by the Friends of the Jewish Community Library and by the Alexander M. and June L. Maisin Foundation of the S.F.-based Jewish Community Endowment Fund. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any form without permission.