RCCS Staten Island, and the upcoming event. Status Island interview.

Okay, welcome to the Status Island show. We have here Jeremy Goldal. >> Yep. >> And Shia >> Weiss. >> Shia Weiss. We're going to talk about the RCCS event, the RCS yearly event. We'll get to the event highlights later. Let's first hear a little bit. What do you you're involved in a lot of organization volunteer work here in the in Staten Island. Let's hear a little bit more overview. What do you work on throughout the year with which organizations? >> Sure. Sure. You go first. So, uh, Box, we're privileged to be involved with a lot of organizations in Staten Island. Uh, namely, we do annual events for, uh, we help we help arrange annual events along with a committee of a bunch of, uh, families in in the neighborhood for Bonolum, for um, for >> RCCS. >> RCCS for Renewal. Um, >> wow. All the big organizations. >> Yeah. Jeremy's also involved in a lot of local organizations over here. More more local organizations such as Not as much as you uh chabas. >> Chavis. Yeah. >> What do you do in general? What's your what's your occupation, Jeremy? >> I do private equity lending >> on real estate. >> Like hard money. >> Hard money lending on real estate. >> Nice. Okay. What's the name of the company? >> JG Funding. >> And you? >> Uh CFO for uh mental behavioral health company. >> What? ABA industry? uh not ABA, but uh more broad mental and behavioral health like a behavioral health and mental health clinic up in Muny. >> So So you're a CFO, so if it comes in by the charity events like of $10 million, you know, have to make sure it's your mouth to go. >> Okay. So let's hear a little bit about um what's the RCCS event in Staten Island about? What is the what is meant to cover? What how many cases of do they help in Staten Island? So our so we are currently helping 40 Staten Island families and our annual budget is around 165,000 >> just for Staten Island. >> Just for stat just for Staten Island we the event is geared specifically towards helping local families in Staten Island. Uh this is our sixth event that we've done in the last seven years. Obviously co year wasn't an event and uh every year we're slowly raising more funds that's needed by the community for you know these specific cases. Everybody knows what RCCS does. So it's not like it's a a new it's not like it's a new organization out there. Everyone knows what they do and what they provide. And what what they do is they provide miracles for families that need the help. >> Uh it's not always necessarily financial help. It's also, you know, guiding them through the process, pointing them in the right direction, dealing with the insurance companies. All very, very difficult stuff that families go through when they're dealing with cancer. >> Wow. >> Yeah, it's very important. And it's uh it's good that we have in Staten Island such good volunteers. Who else is on your group that helps out with the >> uh Staten Committee? And I'm I'm probably going to leave out a name, so it's a dangerous. >> Please don't shoot me. But uh we have David Gotautle and Shy Litzky. Uh, we have the Silver family, we have Rafie Merl, we have, of course, our significant others, our spouses, and everyone else's spouses as well that are involved. Um, >> yeah, it's not a total list. It's just a few. >> Yeah, it's just a few names. >> Yeah, we're going to get in trouble. >> We're for sure going to get in trouble 100%. >> Do you know of any um uh story of someone that you know that had in Staten Island that the RCS helped or do they only help like in their territory? No, they help they help all over all over the world and there's a huge RCCS faction in in in Arrol. There's all over all over the states as well. I mean, personally, um I benefited somewhat from their services years ago. Um when we were caring for my father Al Shalom um there there came a time where an unexpected situation came up with with his diagnosis and we didn't know where to turn and somebody gave me somebody's contact to contacting RCCS and without knowing me or my family or anybody RCCS kind of jumped in and um I can still I still have all the emails saved. we were able to pull pull up um you know over 50 emails in a matter of two or three days just quick correspondence day and night back and forth back and forth just trying to get us in touch with the right doctors the right treatments and the the right situation so uh >> wow >> yeah there uh Danny Hadar who is our RCCS liaison as we like to call him he will always say his story of that the one of the some of the bigger doctors in Sloan whatever they had their own personal situation s and these are cancer doctors would reach out to RCCS because they knew how to navigate and get through the system on all different levels themselves. Doctors themselves. >> So if you ever speak to Danny, he will tell you that even the outsiders look at RCCS for help because they're so perfect in their professionalism in their professionalism. Correct. and they know they know how to navigate like Jeremy was saying they know how to navigate the system specifically with insuranceances because a lot of times the unfortunate truth is um especially in some communities that a barrier to treatment is becomes financial. So, in addition to straight financial help that RCCS provides, they help the they help the families navigate through different insurance companies and different types of benefits that you wouldn't necessarily think um are are available to to families and different programs and stuff like that to help alleviate the financial stress. >> Okay. So, let's hear about the about the event highlights. What's going to be when is the event first? This coming month, Chabas. >> The event is this Chabas 900 p.m. at the Youngville Staten Island. We're hoping everybody can make it. We're hoping everyone can come down. Obviously, we want you to come make a donation, but we also want you to come out and have a good time. Uh there's going to be Yoel Spielman, who's an amazing mentalist that I actually saw when he was just a kid and now he's grown up, but >> somebody told me he was stuck in Israel. Was that just a rumor or or he's back now? >> Uh he did a video for us yesterday where it looked like he was local. So, yeah, it looked like he's back. Uh we're going to have a personal speaker from uh someone that um navigated with RCCS with their own situation. I don't want to get into the details because I'd rather have that person tell their story, but it's going to be a very personal story as well. Uh we're going to have Aces of Wine providing uh some wine tasting and some scotch tasting. And last but not least, we're having our own local assistant rabbi from the Young Israel, Staten Island, Mendy Katsman. He's going to as well have a um >> words of inspiration. >> Words of inspiration. Oh, he's a great speaker. Yeah, >> he's a great speaker. So, we're looking forward to that. And we're going to have delicious food. We're going to have a delicious buffet pro buffet provided by uh Chikovitz and family from Essen, but it's going to be a mil layout, but it's going to be a really, really nice evening. So, come down, bring your checkbooks, bring yourself. We want you to have a good time. We also want you to donate money. >> Okay. Thank you so much. Now, just before we go, first of all, do you have a link that we could put on if somebody doesn't make it to the event? We do have a link. >> Okay, we'll put that on. And also another question, as long as we're speaking already and you are involved so much in so much so many community aspects of life over here in Staten Island, what do you say the last few years is the community growing quickly? Is are people moving away? What do you see what's going on at Town? >> I'm going to defer to a Young Israel Staten Island board member over here who's been on the board for how many years now? >> 10 11. >> 10. So, I'm going to defer to the uh local board member of the Young Israel to uh >> Okay. >> Uh no, I mean, listen, any growth is great and the community has definitely grown and expanded and a lot of different um a lot of different changes, but but but uh again, any growth is good. Um the dynamics of the neighborhood has shifted a little bit. Um but but again, we we feel that in Staten Island, regardless of where you're diving, up the hill, down the hill, whatever it is, that uh It's not now it's just also well matter used to be right right we'll list all the all the communities but we feel that Staten Island has always been and still is one big community and we are all here for each other whether it's from through organizations through volunteer work through through um food distributions or anything like RCCS we uh we still feel that we are unique in that no matter what uh what uh what community you're coming from. Once you're in Staten Island, you're part of one big family. >> One big happy family. >> Yeah. >> One question since you're involved with another thing since you're involved with so many charity organizations. One of the biggest ways how to get how to have less charity cases is by supporting local businesses. There's a lot of awareness lately about it. What would you say for someone who's thinking that it's not so convenient to buy something from a local uh store or it might be a little bit more expensive or a little bit less convenient? What would you say should someone think? Should someone support local even if it's hard? Why yes, why not? >> Buy local. Um, we both are big believers of buying local. Island kosher tasters by Lightner, Yankee Curts, excellent gentlemen who have excellent grocery stores and provide everything you need. You do not need to run to Brooklyn. You have everything you need here in Staten Island. We have local pizza stores. We have local restaurants. Uh, she has been here his whole life. I've been here 23 year 23 years now and you don't have to run to Brooklyn or Jersey to get things. You have everything you need here. >> Used to be used to be that there was shopping specifically groceries, whatever it is. There was a couple local establishments for a couple running items was was very convenient. But as far as as far as a comprehensive shopping, but nowadays we we have these uh like like Jeremy said, we have these establishments that really cater to the community and is uh there's a lot to be said for it and we should show our appreciation to them because it's I'm sure it's not easy or definitely wasn't easy getting started and we should continue to show our appreciation and uh and uh join join them and shop there as much as we can. >> Okay. So, what's again the date this coming? What shop is? March 14. >> How much? March 14th. >> March 14. What time is it start? p.m. by Young Israel of Staten Island. What's the address for whoever doesn't know where it is? >> 895 Forest Road. >> Okay. So, >> 8:35. >> Yeah. >> 8:35. >> Okay. Are you guys going to be there? >> Are you guys going to be there to welcome everybody who's coming? >> We will be there with open arms. >> Okay. When you see them, tell them you saw the show on Status Island and uh Tis Limits. Thank you so much. Thank you.