Aishel House

"One person, one deed can change the world"
- Maimonides
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10/09/2026

✨Featuring: Karen Wolf, Meal Delivery Volunteer ✨
🌏From: DesMoines, Iowa
📑Fav quote: “People forget what you said, forget what you did, but they don’t forget how you made them feel”
🍞Fav food: bread I love sourdough and butter
🩵Fav part about volunteering at Aishel House: I love seeing how much the patients who receive the food I deliver appreciate it!

🧦💦Would you rather always have wet socks or always have hair? Wet socks because they are not really visible and my hair would for sure be!

09/29/2026

Sukkot is HAPPENING!!
Come join us this week at Chabad and around the neighborhood.
Chag sameach and Shabbat shalom! 🍋 🍃

09/02/2026

Summer is over and what an incredible month it has been!🥳
From volunteer shuttle van drivers🚙…

To fun in the kitchen🧑‍🍳…

delivering meals like champs🥯 + fresh challah ( 😉)

Freshly baked 🍪 as a special Shabbos treat

and hang outs in the lobby🛋️! We can’t wait what the next season will bring!
Shoutout to all the volunteers & friends who kept the summer abuzz and exciting! 😎💗

summer

08/14/2026

✨Featuring: Emily Amkie, Aishel House Resident✨
🌏From: Mexico City, Mexico
📑Fav quote: “Kol akava letova” - “every delays for the best” (and makes us stronger!)
🥩Fav food: steak for sure!
🩵Fav part about staging at Aishel House: That I feel myself wrapped up with people who care. I am just surrounded by love the whole time.
🛋️Would you rather only be able to sit on a couch or chair? Couch because I can rest when I am tired, and lean back more comfortably!

Thank you Emily for making us a delicious Shabbos dish and for always sharing your creativity and fun with everyone!

07/17/2026

✨Featuring: Leah Itzhaki & Miyah Mizrachi, Kindness Crew & Meal Delivery Volunteers✨
🌏From: Houston, Texas!
📑Fav quote: “the harder you work, the more you gain” - Miyah. “You are as happy as you are grateful” - Leah
🍱Fave food: Sushi & schnitzel
💓What is your favorite part about volunteering at Aishel House? That ppl really appreciate what we are doing, it makes us feel good about ourselves. We feel so happy when we give and help others and makes us want to do more!
🥩Would you rather only be able to eat meat or dairy? Meat! But it’s easy to say when we can’t have it! Thank you Leah and Miyah for shining your light to everyone here!💡💛⭐️

07/03/2026

💦✨Summer is off to an amazing start! ✨💦
Packing challahs🥖, baking & cooking 👩‍🍳 delivering meals🍴, hanging out with children 🛝and more, Aishel House is so thankful for the incredible volunteer community that keeps coming back to give!🫶
From our hearts to yours, Shabbat Shalom!💛🌼

06/19/2026

✨Featuring: Steven Rosen, meal delivery, shuttle & airport driving & all around incredible volunteer ✨
🌏From: Wichita, Kansas
📑Fav quote: “Helping one person is like helping a thousand”
🍣Fav food: To be sophisticated, I would say Asian food
💙What is your favorite part about volunteering at Aishel House? It makes me feel good in my heart. I think it makes others feel good too. And also, I love the Lazaroff family (he was not paid to say this😊)
🧻Would you rather only be able to use tissues or only be able to use towels? Towel because it seems more natural and because it dries better!
Thank you Steven for always saying yes and for supporting Aishel House in so many ways! We adore you and feel lucky to have you as a volunteer!💛

05/29/2026

✨Featuring: Vina Nicols and Jill Getz, meal delivery & hospital respite volunteers ✨
🌏From: Jill: NY, Vina: originally from Cairo, Egypt
📑Fav quote: ‘With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun’ -Vina
‘The only people that get anywhere interesting are the people that get lost’ - Jill
🍝 🍦Fav food: Jill: Italian, Vina, grilled fish and ice cream
💛What is your favorite part about volunteering at Aishel House? Meeting the patients, and hopefully putting a smile on their faces. Hospitals are not happy places but the people always light up and are always so sweet and grateful. We also really love to be able to give. Giving back is really important. We get so much out of it!
🎨Would you rather only be able to paint or cook? Paint for sure, we hate the kitchen:)

05/13/2026

Mother’s Day @ Aishel House was beyond incredible!🥳Thank you to everyone who came out, packed hospital packages🛍️, decorated meal delivery bags 🖌️and made the morning so special!💗 To many more!🥂

04/24/2026

✨Featuring: Rosa and David Zonana, (former!) Aishel House residents ✨
🌏From: Mexico City Mexico
📑Fav quote: “Gam Zu Letova”
🍝Fav food: spaghetti with alfredo sauce and pizza from Aishel House!
🫶What is your favorite part about staying at Aishel House? Everything, all the people at Aishel House are my family, like the angels on the earth. I stayed here and made friends with Sylvia who is also from Mexico City and I didn’t even know before coming! Hashem plans it perfectly to have everyone I need here.
😋Would you rather only be able to eat pizza or pasta forever? Pasta, we can eat pasta with everything!

Thank you Rosa and David for bringing your cheer and laughter to everyone around you! We are so glad you are able to be home!
goodshabbos kindness

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