VOL. 47 NO. 4, October 2013, Tishrei/Cheshvan 5774
Congregation Beth Shalom
Distinguished Speakers Program Distinguished Speaker
Judy Feld Carr The Secret Rescue of the Syrian Jews: The Untold Story
Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 8 pm Congregation Beth Shalom, 3433 Walters, Northbrook, IL • 847-498-4100 • www.BethShalomNB.org
Over a 28-year period, Judy Feld Carr secretly brought to freedom 3,228 Jews prohibited from emigrating from Syria. By working with smugglers and bribing government officials, she removed most of that community from veritable bondage. In addition, she clandestinely smuggled out of that country priceless ancient articles of Jewish worship. Yet until the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Israeli Intelligence Organizations publicly acclaimed her activities, the world had no inkling of this Canadian Jewish woman’s covert life. Carr is the subject of a best selling Canadian book by historian, Dr. Harold Troper, The Rescuer, now in its second edition. Judy Feld Carr was born in Montreal and raised in Judy Feld Carr Sudbury, a small Northern Ontario town. She received a Bachelor of Music Education degree, and Master’s degrees in Musicology and Music Education from the University of Toronto. She taught both university and high school, and was a visiting lecturer at Yeshiva University, Hebrew University and Youngstown State University in Ohio. Carr received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Laurentian University in Ontario and a Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. In June of 2012, Judy was one of the first six recipients of The Presidential Award of Distinction of the State of Israel. Among many other awards, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada, (the highest award bestowed upon a Canadian citizen), received the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002 and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012; the Humanitarian Award of Merit at Haifa University; the Saul Hayes Human Rights Award of Canadian Jewish Congress; Award of Tolerance, Justice and Human Rights of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and received the Woman of Achievement Award of both Canadian % Hadassah and B'nai Brith Women. In 2011, she was also honored with her husband, Donald Carr, with the Human Rights Award of The Canadian Centre for Diversity. She is the subject of the Israel Broadcasting Authority’s documentary Miss Judy that aired on Israel television in 2011 and was the opening film at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival in 2012. She is a contributor to the books I am Jewish edited by Judea and Ruth Pearl and What Israel Means to Me, edited by Alan Dershowitz. She has also served as the President of the Beth Tzedec Congregation (the largest synagogue in North America) and as Chairman of the National Committee for Jews in Arab Lands of Canadian Jewish Congress. Carr was widowed in 1973, and later married Donald Carr, QC. She is the mother of six children and grandmother of 13 grandchildren, five of whom live with their parents in Jerusalem.
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OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY FREE OF CHARGE David Axelrod Thursday, March 20, 2014
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UPCOMING EVENTS
This program is underwritten with a grant from the Congregation Beth Shalom Eastern European Torah Project
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Rabbi Gershom Sizomu Thursday, May 15, 2014
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