Jewish Center Group Seeks $150,000 for Building
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 23, 1957, Page 1
The Executive Committee of the Jewish Community Center reported the need for an additional $150,000 in cash in order to be completely ready for the opening of the new Jewish Community Center building on April 1, 1958, according to William B. Schwartz, Center President.
Though part of the necessary money is available in pledges which were made three years ago and partially paid, Schwartz stated that the money is planned to be raised in a “Center completion campaign,” which it is hoped will be held immediately after the United Success Drive of the Community Chest.
The announcement made by Schwartz marks the culmination of more than five years of painstaking work by the committee which has been climaxed by the actual construction of the building and the swimming pool. The $150,000 to be asked for from the Jewish community of San Diego will cover costs of the swimming pool, which is now under construction, furnishings and equipment for the building and playground, landscaping, and payment of contractor’s fees, architect’s fee, and consultation fee to the Jewish Welfare Board’s architectural service The balance of the money needed is caused by a 20% increase in costs of building since the plans for the new Community Center were begun.
Already in process is the formation of the Campaign Committee, which will be announced shortly, and the campaign procedure.
Total estimate cost of this phase of the Center is $600,000, Maury Novak and Sidney Rose of the Building Committee, reported.
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Temple Sisterhood Pays Tribute To ‘Women of Valor’ Sept. 11
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 23, 1957, Page 1
“A woman of valour, who can find? For her price is far above rubies.” Thus does the holy scriptures describe the woman to whom the Sisterhood of Temple Beth Israel will pay tribute at a luncheon fashion show, Wednesday, Sept. 11th at 11:30 a.m. The affair will be held in the El Cortez Hotel, according to Mrs. Herbert Eber, Sisterhood President.
A distinguished committee of civic leaders: George A. Scott, Harry Calloway, A.M. Sutherland, Ewart Goodwin, Carl Esenoff and Mrs. Irving Hertz (immediate past president of the sisterhood), have selected eighteen of San Diego’s outstanding women from all creeds and walks of life, who have distinguished themselves in countless areas of voluntary community services.
The selected women, who will model Fall fashions are: Mmes Edward Longstreth, cultural; Michael Ibs Gonzalez, community service; Pauline des Granges, public service; Kenton C. Lint, Protestant faith; Daniel J. Redmond, Catholic faith; Morton J. Cohn, Jewish faith; Harry J. Ragen (Helen Abel; publicity and communications, newspapers; J. Richard Wolf (Molly Morse) publicity and communications, radio; William Goetze, publicity and communications, television; Anderson Borthwick and Edgar A. Luce, Fiesta de Pacifico; Gabriel Berg, emergency refugee rescue program; E.P. Alcaraz, labor; Cdr. Margaret Combs, USN., military service; Harley Knox, business; Dr. Amorita Treganza, professional; M.D. Goodrich, interfaith; and Miss Louise Weller, education.
Mrs. Valia Dennis is general chairman. Assisting her is Mrs. Joseph A. Kwint, publicity; Mrs. George Katz, Hospitality; Mrs. Nathan Schiller, seating; Mrs. M. Leichtag and Mrs. Arthur Bloom, co-chairmen of decorations; Mrs. Louis Karp assisting Mrs. Louise Feldman, models; Mrs. Norman Mann, reservations.
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Hebrew Home Elects New Leaders at Annual Dinner
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 23, 1957, Pages 1, 6
Maxwell Kaufman was re-elected for a second term as President of the San Diego Hebrew Home for the Aged at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting held last night in the dining room of the Home.
Other officers re-elected are: Louis Karp, Vice-President; Leonard Drogin, Vice-President; Carl M. Esenoff, Treasurer; Mrs. Paul Nestor, Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. Sydney Goldstein, Financial Secretary; MRs. Saul Chenkin, Recording Secretary; and Max Maisel, Honorary Vice-President.
Kaufman brings to the Presidency of the Home a background in the publishing business, as well as the field of Social Service. For many years a director of Surprise Lake Camp for underprivileged chjildren and a staff member of the 92nd Street Y.M.H.A. in New York, he came to San Diego during World War II to serve as Director of the USO-JWB installation.
After serving in this capacity for five years, he then went to Germany and Austria as a Field Worker for the Joint Distribution Committee, working in Displaced Persons Camps. Besides being the Publisher of the Southwestern Jewish Press, Mr. Kaufman is a Director of the Jewish Community Center; a member of the Jewish Community Relations Council and is active in the cultural life of San Diego.
Climax of the meeting was the honoring of Sam Addleson, who has been active in the work of the Home since its founding. Mr. Addleson, who has served as President of the Guardians, a men’s organization working on behalf of the Home for the past two years, was presented a scroll plaque for his devotion to the Hebrew Home and to its residents. Mr. David Kahn, Concert Pianist and teacher, played several selections for the guests.
Speakers were: Mr. Kaufman, who presented the President’s report, in which he pointed out that the Home accepts any aged person of the Jewish Faith 60 or older, no matter what their means. The home operated at a deficit of over $4,000 for the past six months which was made up by the United Jewish Fund, the Guardians and the Auxiliary.
Albert A. Hutler, Executive Director, spoke of plans for the future development of the Hebrew HOme. An expanded Religious and recreational program; establishment of an infirmary to serve the medical needs of the guests and an intensive study of the problem of the chronically ill were called for by Mr. Hutler.
Directors elected at the meeting were: Sylvan Baranov, Dr. viola Erlanger, Mrs. Joseph Gibson, Ben Harris, Louis Karp, Mrs. William Moss, Simon Rich, John Ruskin, and Abraham Sklar.
Other Directors are: Harry Snyder, Sam Addleson, M.S. Berlin, Arthur Glickman, Harold Lehrer, Jerome Neiderman, Maury Novak, Henry Price, Victor Schulman, Robert Shapiro, and Mrs. Jack Stern.
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Religious Groups to Aid Calif. Western
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 23, 1957, Page 1
The four synagogues of San Diego, the three Rabbis and a number of San Diego Jewish lay leaders have formed the Joint Synagogue Committee for California Western University with the purpose of aiding the University’s current Development program.
The group voted to undertake the raising of $100,000 which will construct and furnish the International Relations School Building on the California Western Point Loma campus. This structure will be a gift of the San Diego Jewish community to the Protestant University which emphasizes a hman relations philosophy based on Judeo-Christian principles.
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Home Hospitality Sought for Servicemen-Holy Days
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 23, 1957, Page 1
Jewish servicemen in the San Diego area are eager to spend a great deal of their free time in getting acquainted with Jewish families in the city, according to Joseph Feldman, Chairman of the Home Hospitality Committee for the Jewish Welfare Board-Armed Services Committee of San Diego
Mr. Feldman will lead a committee whose main function will be to establish a program of home hospitality for the servicemen. “This will include an opportunity to meet San Diego Jewish families, have dinner in their homes and become better acquainted with our community,” Feldman said.
Notices and forms have been forwarded to all organizations that this program can be discussed at meetings and members may volunteer to participate in this service of making a home away from home. Feldman urges all Jewish families to make it a practice to open their homes to practice to open their homes to servicemen, especially on Friday nights and over the weekends.
Great emphasis will be laid on home hospitality during the High Holy Days, which begin September 25th. Many homes will be needed for boy who will be given leave for the purpose of attending their synagogues on these days.
Feldman urges any such family to immediately call BE-2-5172 and ask for Miss Sherman, who will gladly take your order to deliver servicemen to your home.
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Named to Head Drive
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 23, 1957, Page 1
Rabbi Morton J. Cohn has been named chairman of the San Diego County’s first United Fund campaign, it was announced yesterday by VADM Wilder D. Baker, president of the new countywide federation of givers and workers for health, welfare and recreation causes.
Active in community affairs, Rabbi Cohn is a board member of the Community Welfare Council, United Jewish Fund, Fiesta del Pacifico and the County chapter of the American National Red Cross. He has been Rabbi of Temple Beth Israel, San Diego, for the past 11 years. The United Fund chairman served as a U.S. Navy chaplain in World War II.
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