A supplement to NJ Jewish News • October 17, 2013
Congratulations to The Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ on 90 Years of Performing Mitzvot!
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The only constant is commitment Dear Friends, How do you mark 90 years of building Jewish community? Of caring for Jews in need at home, in Israel, and in far-flung communities around the world? You start when it all began. In 1923, Newark’s Jews, initially with 13 social service agencies to fund and after great deliberation, decided the time was right to come together to form the Conference of Jewish Charities, or what we know as “Federation.” Its mission was to help Jews in need. Ninety years and several name changes later, our mission remains the same. While the past nine decades have seen dynamic change — perhaps most notably the creation of Israel, the Jewish state — what has remained constant is our commitment to helping the less fortunate, our love of Israel, our support of Jewish education, respecting the elderly, building our Jewish future, and promoting and living the concepts of klal Yisrael, one Jewish people, and tikun olam, repairing the world. Federation is unique in the community. Throughout the years, our infrastructure and expertise have allowed us to effectively support a community-wide and overseas network of partner agencies that do outstanding work in addressing the full range of human needs. Our deepest gratitude goes to the remarkable generosity and involvement of our Jewish community. Together we have accomplished something extraordinary. Thank you for all you have done and continue to do to help Jews in Greater MetroWest, Israel, and around the world. Our world is constantly changing. Who we are — the safety net for Greater MetroWest so that no one falls through the cracks — and what we do — build Jewish community and Jewish identity — will forever remain constant. With warm regards,
Lori Klinghoffer President
Max L. Kleinman
Executive Vice President/CEO
Stanley H. Stone Executive Director
We thank our “FEDERATION@90” Corporate Sponsors for supporting Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ and helping to make the opening reception possible.
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LINDA FORGOSH
hat is 90 among friends? For golfers there is a 90-degree rule, for mathematicians there is a 90-degree angle. The word “nonagenarian” is a fancy way of saying someone is 90 years old. This 90 — the milestone anniversary of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ — just cried out for a celebration. As the keepers of this community’s rich and expansive history, the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey’s contribution would be an exhibit telling its stirring story of decades of service and commitment to people and community. We plumbed the rich resources of the JHS archives and turned to our community agencies to assemble the hundreds of vintage photographs, artifacts, memorabilia, and video clips that make up “Federation@90.” The exhibit tells the story of federation’s 90-year commitment to building a better world, both at home and abroad. Great effort has been taken to gather the historic record of each of the federation’s 19 beneficiary agencies for all to see, learn, and enjoy. A portion of the exhibit, “Do You YouTube? We Do,” is a
Telling the story -
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continuous loop of video clips illustrating how our agencies keep pace with social media. When you visit the exhibit, you’ll see a wall of invitations from the Jewish Historical Society’s Mickey Kaufman Collection. There are artifacts and memorabilia in showcases and a video, “90 for 90,” with a narration telling the story of how and where federation began. What we hope you will take away from the exhibit is an appreciation and understanding of the generosity of the Jewish community, federation’s remarkable resiliency, and its ability to serve as the community safety net through economic downturns, war, civil unrest, and suburban sprawl. Simply put, this is great history — because it is “our” history. “Federation@90” will be on display from Oct. 17 to Nov. 27 at the Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus in Whippany. The exhibit will then travel to venues throughout the area, affording the entire Greater MetroWest community the opportunity to connect to their history. The exhibit is free and open to the community during regular Aidekman campus hours; tours will be conducted every Wednesday at 1 p.m., beginning Oct. 23.
Linda Forgosh is the executive director of the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey.
For more information about “Federation@90,” contact Linda Forgosh at lforgosh@jhsmw.org or 973-929-2994. Learn more about federation’s work by visiting its website, and watch for information about upcoming Federation@90 events.
Ninety highlights , endless connections
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n 2009, British Museum director Neil MacGregor set out to tell A History of the World in 100 Objects. In articles and radio broadcasts, he scoured the museum’s vast collection of highlights — mummies, tools, toys, even a credit card — to find the relative sliver that would capture a history of two million years of humanity. Of course, such a list was bound to start arguments. “When people come to the museum they choose their own objects and make their own journey round the world and through time,” said MacGregor, “but I think what they will find is that their own histories quickly intersect with everybody else’s, and when that happens, you no longer have a history of a particular people or nation, but a story of endless connections.” In celebrating the 90th anniversary of the communities that form the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ, we thought it would be fun and enlightening to mirror the museum’s effort. But even though we had to deal with only 90 years and our corner of the Jewish world, we knew that capturing the depth and breadth of our community in 90 “highlights” would be a daunting task — for every major accomplishment or milestone you pick you run the risk of leaving out something equally momentous or era-defining. But the task was also exciting — as if someone asked us to tell our family story, while standing on one foot. When assembling our list of 90 highlights of the past 90 years (with the help of the Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey), we asked two questions: First, which events capture the impact — on health, on education, on rescuing Jews, and buttressing Israel — of the federation movement and the Jewish communities it served? Second, which events reflected the unique historical place and time in which they took place? Think of this special supplement as a time capsule, providing future readers with a portrait of a unique community and its unique responses to particular events. We were also challenged with presenting an integrated portrait of two communities — the former MetroWest and Central NJ federations — that operated along parallel and only occasionally overlapping tracks before their merger and the formation of Greater MetroWest in 2012. Happily, while the two communities didn’t share the same geography or programs, they shared the very same values, making this list less a dual timeline than a family tree. We imagine some readers will miss things they wished we included. If so, let us know — we’ll be sure to include your suggestions in future issues of NJJN. In the meantime, take the time to read the list and kvell at all that can be done when volunteers and professionals come together day after day, week after week, for 90 years, to make the world a better place. We limited our list to 90 highlights, but they tell a story of “endless connections.” ■
1920s Incorporation papers are signed to establish Conference of Jewish Charities in Newark; incorporators were Louis Bamberger, Felix Fuld, Nathan Bilder, Leo Stein, Martin H. Goldsmith, and Frank I. Liveright. Bamberger and other German Jewish leaders in Newark realized that numerous agencies around the city were competing for the same dollars. Thirteen independent agencies join the Conference of Jewish Charities and Newark’s Community Chest and Welfare Federation for one annual city-wide campaign to raise funds to support social services.
Harry Lebau becomes executive director of a new Y on East Jersey Street in Elizabeth, which would be dedicated in 1929. A local paper would salute the YM-YWHA as “a vital community force in art, literature, drama, music, recreation, and social services.”
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Newark Beth Israel Hospital opens on Lyons Avenue in Newark. The “Beth” would evolve into a state-ofthe-art institution and a symbol of the generosity of Newark’s Jewish community.
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The Elizabeth Y opens on East Jersey Street.
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The Y on High Street in Newark opens. Its programs — including a series of lecturers and performers as varied as folksinger Woody Guthrie and aviatrix Amelia Earhart — made the Y the “Hollywood and Vine” of Newark’s Jewish community.
The term United Jewish Appeal originates in the community in 1926, when the annual fund-raising campaigns of the three major local Jewish communal groups merged into one campaign. This was the first use of the name that was later adopted by the national UJA (founded in 1939), which soon became the best-known Jewish philanthropic organization in the world.
Felix Fuld, left, and Louis Bamberger, founders of the Conference of Jewish Charities of Newark, c. 1923.
We’ve helped resettle Holocaust survivors. We advocated for Soviet Jewry and Ethiopian Jewry and then raised billions to help resettle them in Israel and the United States. We responded to wars and natural disasters. We meet the pressing needs of those affected by economic downturns. We help fund a safety net. We have continual care for the elderly and the developmentally disabled. We provide education for our youth. We build connections with Israel and throughout the world, and so much more.
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Max Kleinman, executive vice president/CEO, Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ
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1930s The Jewish Community Center of Plainfield opens on West Seventh Street.
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The Elizabeth Y establishes the David Blick Post of Jewish War Veterans.
A call for support for the Plainfield Y
Hebrew Youth Academy is founded in Newark. The school would move to South Orange, Hillside, and West Caldwell and evolve into the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy in Livingston, a top-ranked Modern Orthodox yeshiva.
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Women’s Division (now Women’s Philanthropy) founded by the federation. The Jewish Education Association is established by the Jewish community in Newark to offer courses, license teachers, and coordinate efforts among a budding array of all-day and afternoon Jewish schools. The Elizabeth Refugee Coordinating Committee is established to help families fleeing the Nazis. National United Jewish Appeal is formed, and the federation becomes a charter member in support of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Israel.
The Jewish Educational Center establishes Elizabeth Central Talmud Torah, incorporated and renamed Rabbi E.M. Preil Central Talmud Torah; early classes are held at the Elizabeth Y.
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The Jewish News is founded; it merges in 1947 with the Newarkbased Jewish Times, keeping the Jewish News name. The weekly newspaper would later publish editions for four other federated communities, changing its name from MetroWest Jewish News to New Jersey Jewish News.
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The Jewish Educational Center’s first home, Elmora Street, Elizabeth
Establishment of the State of Israel; federation raises millions of dollars, and thousands march in support of the new state.
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Yavneh Yeshiva and Rabbi Preil Central Talmud Torah combine under the name Jewish Educational Center of Elizabeth, which moves to 330 Elmora Ave. Founder Rabbi Pinchas Teitz, who died in 1995 at 87, established a network of Orthodox schools and synagogues in Elizabeth that flourishes to this day.
Jewish Social Service is reorganized as Jewish Family Service of Essex County. Established in 1861, the Hebrew Benevolent Orphan Society served as Greater Newark’s first organized response to widows and orphans, the poor, and the needy. As mergers followed, that society evolved into what is today called Jewish Family Service of MetroWest.
The Community Employment Service — later called Jewish Vocational Service — is established in Newark. Between 1939 and 1954, it would find a total of 5,000 jobs for applicants.
Hebrew Youth Academy school bus
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Camp Deeny Riback opens in Flanders. Affiliated with the Jewish Community Center of MetroWest, the 35-acre day camp promises the “significant impact of learning life-skills, making new friends, and having fun, all in a safe and quality camp environment!”
United Hebrew Charity Organization in Elizabeth changes its name to Jewish Family Service of Central New Jersey.
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The JEC’s Rav Pinchas Teitz broadcasting Talmud study via the radio
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The Y on High Street in Newark closes as Newark’s Jewish community migrates from that area to the less urbanized and more affluent Weequahic section.
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Union Township officials grant variance to construct a new Y on Green Lane in Union, the latest chapter in an agency formed in 1883 and rooted in the port city of Elizabeth.
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Israel Exhibition & Trade Fair — the first in the country — is held at Chancellor Avenue Y in Newark.
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Daughters of Israel residents move from Newark to a new stateof-the-art facility in West Orange via a cavalcade of rescue squads and chartered buses. The center would eventually offer extensive rehabilitation facilities, subacute care, a unit for individuals with Alzheimer’s or dementia, and a resource center for caregivers, as well as Jewish cultural programs, a synagogue, and a full-time rabbi.
Daughters of Israel in Newark becomes a fully licensed nursing home.
JFS of Central NJ begins resettling families fleeing from Hungary during and after the revolution.
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First graduation of Rav Teitz Mesivta High School of JEC in Elizabeth. Joint Chaplaincy Committee founded by Rabbis Zev Segal and Jeshaia Schnitzer, appointing chaplains to offer bedside prayers and religious services for hospital patients, and pastoral counseling.
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Jewish Vocational Service adopts a nonsectarian policy, ushering in decades of grant projects and services dedicated to the needs of individuals with significant barriers to employment.
Solomon Schechter Day School holds classes at Temple Beth Shalom in Cranford.
Dedication ceremonies for the “Green Lane Y,” the YM-YWHA of Union County in Union.
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Programs to aid in resettlement of Soviet Jews undertaken by JFS of Central NJ, JFS of MetroWest, and agencies throughout the region.
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Dedicating the cornerstone for the Northfield Avenue Y in West Orange
With the outbreak of the Six-Day War on June 6, the federation galvanizes the Jewish community, mobilizing an army of volunteers, raising some $10 million, sponsoring missions of support to Israel, and strengthening the community’s commitment to Zionism. YM-YWHA of Essex County opens on Northfield Avenue in West Orange. Now the Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC, Ross Family Campus, the agency’s relocation represents the culmination of the Jewish community’s move from city to suburbs, after Newark’s three largest synagogues, Oheb Shalom Congregation, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, and Temple B’nai Abraham, leave the city.
Opening of the Chancellor Avenue Y serving the Weequahic section of Newark plus Irvington and Hillside. An enormous success when it opened, the Y remained at the location only until 1968, reflecting the fast pace of suburbanization in the 1960s.
Daughters of Israel residents are moved from Newark to their new home in West Orange, 1962
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1970s Jewish Vocational Service establishes the first support services program in New Jersey dedicated to older adults with disabilities in its Work Center on Aging program.
The JEC’s Bruriah High School for Girls is dedicated in Elizabeth. Over the next four decades, the school population would grow to some 400 students, drawn from throughout New Jersey as well as Brooklyn, Staten Island, Manhattan, and even abroad.
In June, Jewish councils representing eastern Union County and the Plainfield and Westfield areas merge to create the Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey.
Hebrew Free Loan Association is reorganized with proceeds from the sale of the Hebrew Sheltering Home in Newark. The current society is heir to one that was founded in Newark in 1870, closed in 1955, and then reopened in 1996 to serve the MetroWest community, Essex and Morris counties, and eventually Jews in need around the state.
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The federation community rallies to support Israel following the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, raising $15 million.
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JESPY House opens a 24-hour supervised residential program in South Orange, with four residents, enabling adults with learning and developmental disabilities to lead independent lives in the community. The agency would grow to include 35 people living in its residential facilities and more than 100 out-clients living in apartments in South Orange.
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Original home of JEC’s Bruriah High School in Elizabeth
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Jewish Vocational Service creates joint Emigre Resettlement Center in coordination with MetroWest member agencies.
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Ground breaking for Jewish Federation Plaza in West Orange, Dec. 10.
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Solomon Schechter Day School opens in Cranford.
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1980s When the Jewish Federation Plaza opens, the idea of independent senior living is still in its infancy, and it becomes one of the first facilities in northern New Jersey to offer the concept. It is the first of the Jewish Community Housing Corporation’s four residences, which eventually include Village Apartments of Jewish Federation in South Orange, South Orange B’nai B’rith Federation House, and Lester Senior Housing Community on the Aidekman campus in Whippany. JFS of Central NJ purchases its first building on Westfield Avenue in Elizabeth.
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Purchase of the 38-acre tract in Whippany for construction of Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus.
Leaders of the Plainfield Jewish Community Center (founded in 1914) and its branch, the YM-YWHA of Greater Westfield, come together to form the JCC of Central NJ, formally incorporated five years later. Camp Noam is sold and Shackamaxon Elementary School in Scotch Plains is purchased as a permanent home for JCC of Central NJ. The JCC would grow into a center for Jewish life on Martine Avenue in Scotch Plains.
The Jewish Community Federation of Metropolitan New Jersey and United Jewish Federation of Morris and Sussex merge to form United Jewish Federation of MetroWest. The merger combines the traditions of the former Newark community with communities in such places as Lake Hopatcong, White Meadow Lake, and Lake Hiawatha — onetime summer residences that eventually drew commuters who stayed year-round and founded more than 19 synagogues.
The Union Y celebrates its 100th anniversary.
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JVS class teaching English to new immigrants
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Jewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled establishes its first kosher group home, in Millburn
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Soviet Jewry rally in Washington, DC, draws 250,000 people, including busloads of local Jews organized by the greater MetroWest Council on Soviet Jewry, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Central NJ, and the National Mobilization Committee for the Washington Rally, headed by Jackie Levine. They are joined by dozens of synagogues, community organizations, the MetroWest Community Relations Committee, and defense organizations. Later, to aid in the resettlement of the Jews of the Soviet Union, the federation was a major supporter of the 1990-97 Operation Exodus campaign, raising more than $25 million.
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1990s The upper school of Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union, the first high school affiliated with the Solomon Schechter Day School Association, moves from Cranford into Eric F. Ross Upper School Building in West Orange.
The inauguration of the Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus in Whippany, which combines offices, meeting space, and a central address for an array of agencies, including the MetroWest federation, Jewish Education Association, Jewish Community Foundation, Waldor Memorial Library, NJ Jewish News, Lautenberg JCC of Greater Morris, Brody Childhood Center, Harry Wilf Holocaust Memorial, and MetroWest Conference Center.
The Lester Society is established under the Jewish Community Foundation of MetroWest to secure the future of the community; today, it is approaching $100 million in commitments.
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Jewish Historical Society of MetroWest opens on the Aidekman campus in Whippany. Its archives include records of administrative, legal, fiscal, and historical value; historical artifacts and books, and oral history and manuscript collections.
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JFS of Central NJ receives a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims to assist Holocaust survivors applying for social services.
The Rachel Coalition is founded as a division of JFS of MetroWest to provide services and support for domestic abuse victims. It has nine partner agencies in the Jewish community, and receives key funding from the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey.
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MOR: MetroWest High School is founded in Ra’anana, the first step toward a “Kiryat Ha’hinuch” (Education Village) that is to include a sports hall, the AMIT Renanim school, and an arts center. The school exemplifies the local community’s commitment to education and pluralism in Israel, two focuses of MetroWest’s partnerships throughout the country. The federation’s religious pluralism projects in schools, institutions, and congregations become models for the rest of the country.
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The $125 million sale of the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center to the Saint Barnabas Health Care System leads to the founding of the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey, a a tax-exempt institution that has put its largesse to improving health care in and outside the Jewish community by offering millions of dollars in grants. In addition to its partnership with agencies, hospitals, education institutions, churches, and synagogues, the foundation has become a driving force in providing health services in underserved communities and inner-city public schools and promoting compassion and kindness among health-care workers.
A corps of CareLink community volunteers
Celebrating more than $100 Million in Granting Congratulates
The Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ For 90 Years of Building Jewish Community We are proud to have partnered to seed and support projects including: Accessibility Project – Golda Och Academy Wilf Campus Alzheimer’s Special Care Unit – DOI Alzheimer’s & Dementia Support Program – JFS Central Autism Career Center – JVS Café Europa Caregiving Companions – JVS Children & Domestic Violence – JFS Electronic Medical Records – DOI Electronic Records System – JSDD Emergency Medical Fund – JFS Emergency Response System – JSDD (5 buildings) Holocaust Survivors’ Assistance – JFS House Calls – JFS
Metro Transport MetroWest ABLE MetroWest CARES MetroWest Synagogue Caring Coalition - JFS Project SHIN (Spiritual Healing Integrating Nursing) The Rachel Coalition - JFS Reinfeld Holtz Pavilion Renovation – DOI Special Needs Dept. – JCC Metro NJ Sub-Acute Care Suite - DOI Synagogue Health/Accessibility Initiative The WAE Center - JSDD Wellness Works - JVS
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Wilf Jewish Community Campus is dedicated in Scotch Plains, creating a home for the JCC of Central NJ and Jewish Federation of Central NJ, along with related agencies.
MetroWest Jewish News acquires The Jewish Horizon of Union and Somerset counties and, under its new name, New Jersey Jewish News, begins publishing separate editions for the MetroWest and Central NJ communities.
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Ground breaking for Lester Senior Housing Community on the Aidekman campus in Whippany, which opened in 2001. The complex accommodates some 250 seniors at the Judy and Josh Weston Assisted Living Residence and the Margaret and Martin Heller Independent Living Apartments, the first senior housing complex in Morris County to serve glatt kosher food.
2000s Federation raises $10 million in emergency funds in response to the Second Intifada.
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JFS of MetroWest starts Café Europa, a social and cultural club for Holocaust survivors endowed through 2017 by a bequest from Lore Ross.
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First Gaelen Juried Art Show held on the Aidekman campus in Whippany. The annual event offers talented artists from the local area a prestigious venue for their work. United Jewish Federation of MetroWest is renamed United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ. Its goal is expressed by its new logo, showing individuals forming a community, and its tag line, “Touching lives every day. Every way.”
Dedication of the Mack Ness Science Library in Hadera. 2009
Mazel Tov!
The Friendship Circle becomes a beneficiary agency of the MetroWest federation. Friendship Circle, which recruits teen volunteers to spend time with and support special-needs children and their families, was organized in a collaboration of federation and the Rabbinical College of America, the Chabad-Lubavitch seminary in Morristown.
The WAE (Wellness, Art & Enrichment) Center opens at B’nai Shalom in West Orange with a grant from the Healthcare Foundation of NJ. An alternative learning environment for people with disabilities, the center would eventually move to 270 Pleasant Valley Way, where it shares administrative offices, classrooms, and public spaces with its parent organization, Jewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled of MetroWest. Farmer Mack Ness names Jewish Federation of Central NJ as the sole beneficiary of his estate, with the fund established in his name forming the keystone of the organization’s commitment to supporting economic development in the Negev region, with an emphasis on jobs and recreation for young adults.
JFS of Central NJ and JFS of MetroWest offer counseling to families of victims of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Rachel Coalition holds its first “Run for Rachel” 5K race and walk, aiming to raise awareness of domestic abuse.
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An art class at the JSDD’s WAE (Wellness, Art & Enrichment) Center in West Orange
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The Jewish federations of MetroWest and Central NJ join the state’s 11 other Jewish federations in helping Rutgers Hillel combat a challenge from campus pro-Palestinian groups. Hillel’s response, “Israel Inspires,” includes workshops and draws a crowd of 7,000 to the university campus for a rally in support of Israel. The MetroWest community re-envisions Jewish education, leading to the creation of the Partnership for Jewish Learning and Life. With its new organizational structure, the Partnership is designed to focus on education from early childhood through the teen years and for children with special needs, and offer training and mentoring for teachers.
VISIT THE “Federation@90” exhibit at the Aidekman campus in Whippany through Nov. 27
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Reflecting nine decades of dynamic change and renewed commitment
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Co-Chair, JCC MetroWest Board of Trustees
Chief Executive Officer JCC MetroWest
Stephanie Sherman & Jean Mandell 575 Route 10 East Suite 2, Whippany, NJ 07981 Phone: 973.386.9699 • Fax: 973.386.1349 JCC MetroWest is a beneficiary agency of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ.
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ROTHSTEIN KASS CONGRATULATES THE Jewish Federation oF Greater Metrowest nJ ON CeLeBratinG 90 Years OF HELPING THE COMMUNITY AND THOSE IN NEED. steve Kass Co-Ceo and Co-Managing Principal 4 Becker Farm Road Roseland, NJ 07068 973.994.6666 www.rkco.com
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Phase one of the renovation and expansion of the Cooperman JCC in West Orange is completed with the opening of a 4.5-story, 300-car parking garage. Phase two begins with 45,000 square feet of new construction, including a Fitness Center, Early Childhood Center, atrium, kosher cafe, Teen Center, Health & Healing Center, Art Gallery, conference center, new program space, and improved accessibility. During the Lebanon War, the federation raises $11 million in emergency funds for Israel.
Special Needs Advisory Council established (evolving into MetroWest ABLE) to coordinate services and support for people with special needs and their families, as well as individuals aging in the community. Along with federation, its affiliated agencies include Coordinated Care of MetroWest, Daughters of Israel, The Friendship Circle, Jewish Community Center, Jewish Community Housing Corporation, Jewish Family Service, Jewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled, Jewish Vocational Service, and JESPY House.
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JVS of MetroWest establishes the Ronald I. Coun Center for Creative Maturity and holds its first annual JVS Creative Maturity Expo. Eleven local families commit $13.5 million toward a $50 million community-wide campaign that is already being hailed as an unprecedented collaborative effort in support of Jewish day school education. The MetroWest Day School Campaign aims to make day schools more affordable and offer a standard of academic excellence equal to any private school in the area. United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ is tapped to receive a federal grant to expand the boundaries of a Naturally Occurring Retirement Community demonstration project begun in 2004. The program, dubbed Parsippany LIVE — Lifelong Involvement for Vital Elders — helps seniors to age in place with a variety of supportive services and activities. Jewish Federation of Central NJ receives $300,000 in NORC grants, the largest in the state.
Bohrer-Kaufman Hebrew Academy of Morris County in Randolph is awarded Blue Ribbon School status for high-performing schools conferred by the U.S Department of Education. Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy would earn the honor in 2010.
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The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey and Jewish Family Service of MetroWest launch a pilot project with six local synagogues to integrate mental health support and social services into the synagogue culture. The JFS goes on to place staff at an array of partner agencies and synagogues. “Having a congregational nurse made us aware of how wonderful it is to have practitioners to knock on doors and get involved, as opposed to waiting for people to come to them,” says a participating rabbi.
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2010s The Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union takes on a new name, Golda Och Academy, in honor of the Maplewood woman who was one of the founders of the school 45 years earlier and, until her death just months before, was one of its most stalwart supporters. The name change recognizes a $15 million challenge gift from her son, an alumnus, and his wife.
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The Community Relations Committee of MetroWest launches Step Up For Israel, an initiative to empower community members to counter assaults on Israel’s legitimacy. A film and discussion series and an advocacy summit are part of efforts to educate people on how to respond “when Israel is accused of committing atrocities or of being a racist state.”
MetroWest and Central merge to create the Greater MetroWest federation, July 2012
Congratulations to The Jewish Federation of MetroWest for 90 years of service to our Essex County Community
Mazal Tov to
Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest
Rabbi Matthew D. Gewirtz Cantor Howard M. Stahl Rabbi Karen R. Perolman Rabbi Joshua M. Z. Stanton Maureen A. Spivack, President Alice Lutwak, Executive Director 1025 South Orange Avenue Short Hills 973-379-1555 www.tbj.org
A community day school serving students pre-school through eighth grade.
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Mazel Tov! To the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, NJ on 90 years of success! Best Personal Wishes, Congressman Leonard Lance
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Mazel Tov to the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, NJ on 90 years of success!
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Mazel Tov to the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, NJ on 90 years of success!
Wishing further success to the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, NJ!
Helping People Help Themselves Since 1939
JVS Board of Trustees, Staff and Clients
Nancy L. Eskow, President Reuben D. Rotman, Executive Director
111 Prospect Street, East Orange, NJ 07017 973-674-6330 • www.jvsnj.org
Golda Och Academy is proud to be a beneficiary agency of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ
Mazal Tov to Federation on your 90th Birthday. Chazak Chazak V’Nitchazek – Let’s Grow From Strength to Strength
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Mazal Tov and continued success!
BRING JEWISH LEARNING TO LIFE www.ThePartnershipNJ.org www.GoldaOchAcademy.org Growing Minds. Nurturing Hearts. Strengthening Tradition.
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The Jewish Community Foundation of MetroWest launches “MetroWest Tomorrow,” a major effort to recognize and encourage donors who endow the Jewish causes they are most passionate about. Already, donors have contributed more than $100 million in current or future commitments to such programs as Birthright Israel, PJ Library, MetroTransport (a transportation program for seniors), Jewish camping, day schools, and Israel and Overseas projects.
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In response to Superstorm Greater MetroWest Sandy, the fedvolunteers join in the eration allocated $280,000 raised in the post-Superstorm Sandy community and provided clean-up in Union by Jewish Federations of Beach. North America to both Jewish Family Service of Central NJ and Jewish Family Service of MetroWest. The agencies provide clients with counseling, emergency kits, food, blankets, and flashlights. More than 500 members of the Greater MetroWest community volunteer to assist in clean-up and rebuilding in hard-hit Union Beach on the Jersey shore. Federation and community members also provided financial support and donated building materials, furniture, appliances, toys, toiletries, and school supplies.
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Culminating the work of over two years, Jewish Federation of Central NJ and United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ seal their merger, creating the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ. The merger combines UJC MetroWest, a federation with a $20 million-plus annual campaign with roots in Newark and supporters in Essex, Morris, Sussex, and northern Union counties, with the Central federation, which has a $5 million annual campaign, is headquartered in Scotch Plains, and covers Union County and parts of Somerset County.
Completion of the decade-long Journey for Ethiopians campaign aiding in the aliya and absorption of the new olim from Africa, for which the federation provided major support.
Oct. 17, 2013: Opening of “Federation@90” exhibit celebrating 90 years of Jewish life in Greater MetroWest NJ.
Mazel Tov to the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, NJ on 90 years of success! The Law Office Of eugene gOrrin, LLc 225 Millburn avenue, suite 207 Millburn, new jersey 07041 (973) 376-3500 Fax: (973) 376-3510 eMail: egorrin@gorrinlaw.coM www.gorrinlaw.coM
Photos courtesy Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey and New Jersey Jewish News archives
Mazel Tov to the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ
Bob & Ellen Rose Congratulate the Jewish Historical Society and the Federation on its 90th Anniversary
We are proud of our long association with this fine organization. Congratulations on 90 years of strengthening our community.
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Jewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled of MetroWest 270 Pleasant Valley Way • West Orange, NJ 07052 (973) 272-7148
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Mazel Tov
to the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, NJ on 90 years of success!
Mazel Tov
Wishing further success to the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, NJ!
Congregation Beth Israel
to the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, NJ
on 90 years of success!
Rabbi George Nudell Cantor Matthew Axelrod Davida Berkowitz, Executive Director Elly Bauman, Education Director 18 Shalom Way • Scotch Plains (908) 889-1830 • www.cbinj.org
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Mazel Tov
to the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, NJ on 90 years of success!
Temple Emanu-El 756 East Broad Street Westfield, NJ 07090 908-232-6770, ext. 114 www.tewnj.org
Mazel Tov
to the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, NJ on 90 years of success!
to the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, NJ and continued success!
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to Federation on their 90th to the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, NJ
to the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, NJ and continued success!
and continued success! Essex County Freeholder Vice President
Patricia Meltzer Sebold
Eleanor S. Rubin
Best wishes for a bright future! As the YM-YWHA of Union County celebrates its 130th, we wish a Mazel Tov to The Jewish Federation on it’s 90th.
Mazel Tov to The Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ FOR NINE DECADES OF EXCELLENCE
May we, as Partner Agencies, continue to serve the Jewish Community for many years to come
Temple Sholom Clifford M. Kulwin, Rabbi Julie A. Silbermann, President Temple B’nai Abraham Livingston NJ
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Congratulations to the
Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ for 90 years of rich history supporting the community, families, seniors and individuals in need.
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