Our Chairperson, Stacy Levitan, was featured in the July 6, 2006 Main Line Times in an article entitled "Volunteer of the Week":

"Levitan is an articulate, committed woman of 40 who grew up in St. Louis, moved to the Main Line as a teen-ager, and attended Harriton High School. She graduated from University of Pennsylvania Law School and worked for years in commercial litigation and other areas of law for a Center City law firm."

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JCHAI took part in a symposium held on December 19, 2004, at Har Zion Synagogue in Penn Valley about resources for children with special needs. The symposium was sponsored by Kehillat Lower Merion. The Main Line Times, covering the event on December 30, 2004, listed JCHAI as a resource and opportunity for Jewish children with special needs:

Stacy Levitan represents J-Chai, a group that has three group homes in the Philadelphia area, including one in Wynnewood providing a kosher home environment for adults with special needs.

JCHAI’s gala fundraiser was reported by Pauline Pinard Bogaert in the Philadelphia Inquirer on November 17, 2004:

Jewish Community Homes for Adult Independence held its 18 th annual gala, called the Magic of Independence. Stacy Jarett Levitan chaired the party for 270 guests at Green Valley Country Club in Lafayette Hill.

J/CHAI, for short, has three residential homes and an apartment-living program for people with developmental disabilities. The gala raised $200,000 to support J/CHAI programs.