News and Updates

Alpha Omega Cleveland Alumni Chapter news and updates.

Welcome Case School of Dental Medicine
Student Chapter Members

• Initiation Brunch held at Executive Caterers at Landerhaven on January 15, 2010.
  
  Photographed:  (L-R; T-B)  Rayna Karoll, Leah Blitz,
  Lyle Herman, Chaim Jakob, Jacob Elizerov, Tom Gutberg,
  Jackie Danoff, Margart Richards, and Robert Greene.
  Also pictured are:  Drs. Jeffrey Young and Bernard Stone.

Jewish Family Services
Holocaust Surviors Dental Care

• Dear Alpha Omega Members

  Our Cleveland Jewish community is home to nearly 2,000 survivors of the Holocaust.   Many of these survivors are currently experiencing difficulty in providing for much of their life needs.  This includes both medical and dental health care.  As you are aware, dental coverage for the indigent elderly is very minimal.  As a member of the professional Jewish dental community, it is our hope that you will join this effort to offer to bring desperately needed dental health care to many of our Holocaust survivors. 

  Jewish Family Services is embarking on a special project to identify dentists who will volunteer in-kind dental care and services to our most needy survivors.  We are not asking you to make a monetary donation for this program. We are asking that you donate your expertise as skilled dentists and oral health care professionals. We are asking that you volunteer to treat one client every half year pro bono.  There are funds available to defer your out of pocket lab fees.

   We sincerely hope that you will be generous with your time.  Through your contribution, you will enhance the lives of this very important and special community. 

  Thank you for your kind and warm consideration and offer to help. I look forward to hearing from you.  Please contact me at 216-378-3476 or at eshoag@jfsa-cleveland.org.

  Sincerely,

  Ellie Shoag, LSW

  Holocaust Survivor Program Coordinator

 

AO Moments

• In 1972, we eliminated the word male from our qualifications for membership.
• Over the last 20 years there has been an increase in diversity in the student membership.  Students from all ethnicity's, race and religion are welcome to be members of Alpha Omega.
• When members of our chapters were in need from national disasters, we have given them grants in their time of need.  An example was in Israel, because of the suicide bombers, Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake in Los Angeles.