The Van Cortlandt Jewish Center 3880 Sedgwick Avenue - Bronx, NY 10463
Honors
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Bronx Jewish Community Council, Inc.
Bronx Jewish Community Council Home Attendant Services, Inc.
West Bronx Housing and Neighborhood Resources, Inc.
2930 Wallace Ave, Bronx, NY 10467
718-652-5500 www.bjcconline.org
Congratulates the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center on its June 25, 2017 Annual Event and its Honoree, Brad Silver, Executive Vice President of BJCC in recognition of his service to VCJC and the community.
Howard Bruce Neufeld, President
Howard Jonas, Chairman of the Board
Charles Landsberg, Vice President
Ted Weinstein, Vice President
Phillip Friedman, Treasurer
Arlene Salman, Secretary
Elaine Langer, President WBHNRC
Judith Uman, Director of Social Service
Rodney Marshall, Director of Finances
Sally Barker Dunford, Director, WBHNRC
]] PPRROOGGRRAAMM ]] save Welcome Robert Gillman President
Master of Ceremonies Phillip Friedman Vice-Chair, Journal Gala Committee
Star Spangled Banner
Hatikvah
Invocation Rabbi David Borenstein
Bronx Jewish Community Council
Plaque Presentation Neil Harrow Board Chairman
Remarks
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Committee Welcome Marcy Gillman Harris Chair, Journal Gala Committee
Brad Silver Family Remarks Gavin Silver
Plaque Presentation Neil Harrow Board Chairman
Gift Presentation Ceil Hartstein
Guest of Honor Brad Silver
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BRAD SILVER
Brad Silver is a Bronx native through and through. He was born, raised, and currently lives in the Amalgamated Housing complex.
His father, Louis Silver, also a native Bronxite, was the son of David and Lena Silver. In 1929, when Louis was eight years old, his parents moved the family, including Louis and his older sister Rose, from Washington Avenue in the Bronx, into the just completed building at 80 Van Cortlandt Park South. Louis worked in the garment trade, first as a presser and later as a foreman for the pressers.
Brad’s mother, Clara Schneider, was raised in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. When she was admitted to Hunter College (now Lehman College), the family, Morris and Rose, Clara and her sister Martha, moved from Brooklyn to 80 Van Cortlandt Park South to reduce Clara’s travel to school. Clara worked for many years in the administrative office of the Chemistry Department at City College.
Brad had a younger sister, Ronnie, who is deceased. Ronnie was a highly regarded Bronx educator, teaching kindergarten at the Bronx New School. Her husband, John Ranere, continues to live in the Amalgamated Houses. They have two sons, Nicholas, and Michael who is married to Stacey. Michael and Stacey have a daughter, Remy, making Brad a very proud “Great Uncle”.
Both the Silvers and Schneiders had large extended families, many of whom resided in the Amalgamated. At one point, with several generations on both sides of the family, about 14 apartments were occupied by family members. As a result, Brad had the positive experience of growing up very close to several cousins.
Brad attended the Amalgamated Nursery School, PS 95, JHS 143, and the Bronx High School of Science, from which he graduated in 1966. He continued on to City College of New York, where he earned a BA degree in Architecture. Unfortunately, when he graduated from CCNY, there was a slump in building and construction and Brad was unable to find employment in his field. However, while in college, Brad was very active in the House Plan Association, a more democratic alternative to fraternities, where he got valuable experience in leadership and group work activities.
This experience led to his obtaining his first job as an Outreach Worker for Teens at Bronx House, the Jewish community center located on Pelham Parkway. He then served as the Teen Program Director and finally as the Co-op City Program Director. From 1974 to 1976, he interrupted his time there to attend the Wurzweiler School of Yeshiva University, where he earned a Master of Social Work degree. From 1978 to 1984, he worked at Hawthorne Cedar Knolls School, a residential treatment center for adolescents of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services. While at Hawthorne Cedar Knolls, Brad met Lynn Catterson, who was also working there. They were married in 1980. Lynn served as the Assistant to Judah Goldstein, the Director of Education at Amalgamated Housing. When he retired, she succeeded him as Director of Education. Under his tutelage and encouragement, Lynn became interested in the field of Art and returned to college to earn Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Art History from Columbia University. Following a full-time teaching position, Lynn currently holds a part-time teaching position at Columbia, but spends most of her time in research and writing, specializing in the areas of the Renaissance Sculpture and more recently in the Art Market of the Nineteenth Century.
Brad and Lynn have two children, Gavin and Lauren. Gavin is married to Colleen and they live on the Upper East Side. Gavin currently works for an internet commerce company as the Director of Technology & Operations. Colleen is a Vice President at Franklin Templeton Investments.
Lauren, who lives in Brooklyn, is an Assistant District Attorney in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, currently assigned to the Special Victims Unit (SVU), working on sex crimes and crimes against children.
In 1984, Brad left JBFCS and became the Director of Social Services at Bronx Jewish Community Council. Over the following years Brad held a series of increasingly responsible positions at BJCC culminating in his elevation to Executive Vice President in 1999, the position he currently holds.
During his tenure, Brad has always had a special concern for his home neighborhood, Van Cortlandt Village. He opened a branch office of BJCC, named AmPark, in the middle of the area to give easier access to local residents to their services. A new NORC (Naturally Occurring Retirement Community) was established in the Amalgamated. One of the distribution centers for Project Hope, a joint project with B’nai Brith for the distribution of food packages to the elderly and needy at Passover and Chanukah, was set up at the Amalgamated. The very successful BJCC Home Attendant program, serves dozens of clients in Van Cortlandt. Brad is also working with our Committee on the Future of VCJC, developing plans to attract new Jewish families to Van Cortlandt Village. In his “spare time”, he also serves on the Boards of the Neighborhood Initiatives Development Corporation and of the Herman Liebman Memorial Fund.
For his exemplary work for the Jewish community over the years, Brad has been previously honored by the Metropolitan New York Coordination Council on Jewish Poverty (Met Council), and by the Pelham Parkway Jewish Community Council. We are proud to add the name of Van Cortlandt Jewish Center to this list.
ABOUT US…
Last year, BJCC : Assisted 12,000 food packages through our Food Pantry Delivered 1,600 holiday food packages to home-bound seniors Distributed 470 food vouchers Provided 3,500 transportation trips for seniors Involved 2,900 caring volunteers Helped 800 individuals enroll in food stamps Helped 160 individuals with legal counseling Provided over $55,000 in emergency cash relief
OUR MISSION The mission of Bronx Jewish Community Council is to provide enhanced quality of life to the residents of the Bronx, particularly older adults. This is accomplished by offering programs which encompass services, support and coordination of community resources. Our goal is to make certain that seniors can age safely at home in the least restrictive environments.
OUR HISTORY The Bronx Jewish Community Council (BJCC) was founded in 1972 as an outgrowth of the anti-poverty movement. The agency was developed to assist an underserved population, a group composed largely of isolated Jewish holder adults. As a result, BJCC developed great expertise in addressing the needs of the older adults through providing concrete social services that help individuals and the community obtain and retain the resources they need to live happier, healthier lives. Today, BJCC annually serves thousands of low-income Bronx residents of every creed, race, and religion. Services range from case management, crisis intervention, anti-eviction services, benefits and entitlements counseling, and emergency food assistance, to referrals, advocacy, health promotion, outreach and community cultural events. BJCC is known for our leadership in assessing and responding to clients’ emergency needs and emerging trends in the community. We adapt programs accordingly and target resources where they are needed and develop creative strategies to fill service gaps. With offices throughout the Borough, our availability to serve is far-reaching. We are where people need us to be.
RABBI’S MESSAGE
It is my distinct honor and privilege as Rabbi of the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center to pay tribute to a veritable pillar of our borough, The Bronx Jewish Community Council , and to Brad Silver , its Executive Vice President, this year’s Journal Gala honorees.
Many of you attend our beautiful community Passover Seders year after year. This special celebration and the feeling of connection gained through this event might not be possible without the assistance in form of subsidies we received in recent years through BJCC. Whenever I call upon Brad, he is always cordial, receptive, and extremely helpful in addressing our needs and varied requests.
Recently Brad spent close to two hours with members of our Board’s Committee on the Future of VCJC, discussing a whole host of subjects directly impacting our Synagogue. I found the breadth and depth of knowledge he displayed on a vast array of subjects absolutely astounding - all of this without any notes, evidently based on Brad’s thorough understanding of critical variables from the experience he has culled over decades of tireless service to our Bronx community.
I have personally been well acquainted with the wonderful work of The Bronx Jewish Community Council for quite some time. From 1992 - 2010, I wore a different hat as Certified Social Worker for Graenum Berger Bronx Federation Service Center under the leadership of its director, Mr. Asher Moskowitz. As a community social worker, hardly a day would pass without my director or me working together with the BJCC staff, who were continually extending a helping hand in administering life sustaining programs. We had a joint Bronx Holocaust Survivors Program. Among others, BJCC Social Work Director Judy Uman, who served on our Board of Directors, was always available to offer assistance, especially in crisis situations. David Edelstein, Director of The Jewish Community Council of Pelham Parkway branch of BJCC, was an ongoing resource to whom we would regularly make community referrals, for services such as client advocacy, stipends and their food pantry. Brad himself has been an invaluable resource in ways far too numerous to enumerate.
The many programs and services provided by the BJCC staff under Brad’s dedicated leadership have served, and continues to serve, not only the congregants of our Synagogue and other Bronx institutions, but many tens of thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish Bronx residents over the decades. In Judaism there is a famous credo: “Whoever saves a life is considered as if he saved an entire world.” How many countless worlds has The Bronx Jewish Community Council saved over the years? Their service is unquestionably a “Kiddush Hashem” Public Sanctification of G-d’s Name of the highest order.
To Brad and to all of his Bronx Jewish Community Council associates I wish the Almighty’s continued blessings of good health, energy, prosperity, success, and perhaps most importantly, the deep personal satisfaction that comes from doing His holy work. May you always grow in continually meeting your agency’s mission of providing enhanced quality of life to the Bronx population for many glorious years to come, and may we continually strive to emulate your worthy examples in our day to day life. Mazel Tov & Congratulations!
Rabbi David Borenstein
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This year’s honoree is a little different for the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center. He is not an official member of VCJC. What makes him worthy is all that he has done for us and the neighborhood we serve.
Executive Vice President of the Bronx Jewish Community Council, Brad Silver , works in all of the communities of the Bronx to help preserve synagogues and Jewish neighborhoods. In all of his endeavors he goes above and beyond his job description, and is more than worthy of this honor.
Today, for the first time, we are also honoring an organization, the Bronx Jewish Community Council . They have sponsored the VCJC Community Passover Seder meals. Their Project Hope delivers food packages to Jews in our community who are in need on Passover and Chanukah. They also sponsor the NORC program to aid seniors find the services they require. In addition, they operate the AmPark office, providing counseling and social services.
Brad and BJCC, thanks for all that you do!
Robert Gillman, President
JOURNAL/GALA CHAIR’S MESSAGE
They say “change is good”. I hope so, because this year’s event is seeing many changes. The Chair has changed, with Phil Friedman handing the title back to me after a break of several years. Phil has done an exemplary job as the Chair of this event, and continues to support me in so many ways it feels like we are Co-Chairs. Thank you, Phil – you are invaluable!
Another change is the name of the event. People always asked why call it a dinner when it starts at noon? Yet calling it a lunch didn’t seem to do justice to the array of food served. So this year we are calling it our Annual Journal Gala. We’ll have to see if this sticks.
Yet another change – both our caterer and our venue. As you are reading this I am hoping that you are thinking we made a great decision with our choice of caterer, the Riverdale K Grill House. We also decided to hold the event at the restaurant instead of in the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center ballroom, providing a more elegant setting and making it easier for the caterer to set up, serve and clean up. Many thanks to Ceil Hartstein for helping me work with the caterer to ensure a great menu and afternoon. Thanks as well to Neil Harrison, the manager of the Riverdale K Grill House, also a long-time community resident and friend, who has gone above and beyond to ensure a fantastic event.
More changes: Our honoree, Brad Silver, is not a Board member, Officer or volunteer congregant of the VCJC. He is, however, one of our own in that he has lived in our community for all of his life, and as Executive Vice President of our other honoree, the Bronx Jewish Community Council, has shown his support for our synagogue and our community to no end. Read about it throughout this journal and you’ll agree.
You want more change, you say? Okay, this year we printed both the gala invitations and the journal in our office. We offered color ads. We opted for an elegant gold border instead of gold foil pages, so people opting for pictures or photos with their ads could clearly see them.
One thing that has not changed is the hard work and dedication of the Journal Gala Committee. I would like to thank Marc Friedman, Phil Friedman, Bob Gillman, Stu Harris, Ceil Hartstein, Jack Kleinfeld, and Jack Spiegel for making my job easier and this event successful. Thanks also to Roberta Seidner and Claire Haime, our office staff, and to our spiritual leader Rabbi David Borenstein.
Thank you to all of our supporters who took journal ads, attended the event, or both. And last but certainly not least, thanks to Brad Silver and the Bronx Jewish Community Center for giving us honorees worthy of the title.
Marcy Gillman-Harris, Journal/Gala Chair
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We are very proud that your work in the community and for VCJC is being recognized.
Which night this week will you be home because you DON’T have a meeting?
Love, Lynn, Lauren, Gavin & Colleen
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Our Congratulations To This Year's Honorees Brad Silver and the Bronx Jewish Community Council
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We are proud to join with the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center in saluting such an outstanding designee. We have known of Brad’s outstanding work at BJCC, especially via Project Hope for 40 years.
Thanks Brad, Esther & David Malach
In loving memory of my wonderful parents,
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Hashem, please watch over them in Gan Eden and send Moshiach soon!
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Congratulations to our honorees Brad Silver for his dedication, commitment, and inspired leadership as Executive Vice President of Bronx Jewish Community Council which under Brad’s direction, provides valuable social services to the Jewish Community of Van Cortlandt Village and the entire Bronx.
May Brad and BJCC continue to go from strength to strength in their invaluable work.
Marc Phil Friedman Friedman
Laura and Bob Gillman Extend Congratulations and Best Wishes to BRAD SILVER and his work with the BRONX JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL We appreciate the work he has diligently performed for our shul and neighborhood for the past number of years. We pray for a bright future for us, Brad and the BJCC for many years.
May We All Live and Be Well To 120 Years, and May We Work Together for All of That Time.
CONGRATULATIONS TO BRAD SILVER
and the BRONX JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL
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Not for Profit but for Service THANK YOU BRAD SILVER & THE BRONX JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL
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Congratulations to our Executive Vice President
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For his many years of devoted service and many significant contributions to our organization and the Jewish community of the Bronx.
May he continue to go from strength to strength for many happy and healthy years.
The Officers and Board Members of the Bronx Jewish Community Council
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OUR HEARTFELT THANKS GO OUT TO BRAD SILVER
and the BRONX JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL
Thank you for all your good work!
Stuart and Marcy Harris Jessica and Rebecca Gritz
Dear Brad,
Thank you for years of devoted service and kindnesses to the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center and to Bronx Jewry as a whole
Neil Harrow
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Best wishes, Ceil, Larry & Matthew Hartstein
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the VCJC Gabbai, who agonizes daily over whether there will be a tenth man so that we can daven with a minyan.
During the week Neil deftly juggles davening for the Amud with phoning men in a quest to obtain a Quorum.
Neil, may Hashem grant you Good Health & much Happiness until at least 120 years.
Sincerely and with my Heartfelt Thanks, Ben-Z Panush
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An Enormous Thank You
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and the
Bronx Jewish Community Council
for all your hard work on behalf
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Van Cortlandt Jewish Center
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AND CONGRATULATIONS TO
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and the
BRONX JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL
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The Officers of the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center extend Congratulations and Best Wishes to:
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OFFICERS
Robert Gillman President Phillip Friedman Vice President Howard Leventhal Vice President Marc Friedman Secretary Stuart Harris Treasurer
The Board of Trustees of the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center extends Congratulations and Best Wishes to
BRAD SILVER AND THE BRONX JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Neil Harrow - Chairman Ceil Hartstein - Secretary
Phil Baiser Marvin Kamiel Glenn Fleischman Alan Paul Katz Marc Friedman Jack Kleinfeld Phillip Friedman Stanley Krell Charlotte Ganberg Howard Leventhal Robert Gillman Merrill Penn Marcy Gillman-Harris Jack Spiegel Stuart Harris Renee Stoller Howard Kamiel Samuel Sussman
SISTERHOOD REPRESENTATIVES Marcy Gillman-Harris & Marilyn Newman
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BRAD SILVER AND THE
BRONX JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL
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Bellezza Tempo Salon & Spa Sol Feiner Glenn Fleischman Arnold & Sonja Geismar Neil Harrison Intelligreen Marvin & Harriet Kamiel Marilyn Newman Sam Offman Sheldon & Eleanor Oliff Selma Pockler & Sharon Pockler Bogard Riverdale Judaica Inc. Rolen Bagels Ellin, Amy & Sammy Rossberg Jack & Shelley Spiegel & family Daniel & Michelle Sullivan Ed Yaker We also thank those who made donations
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1995 Leonard Stoller
1997 Rabbi Dr. Jacob Sodden & Mrs. Jean Sodden
1998 Gerald Davidson and Benjamin Davidson
2000 Robert Gillman and David Lieber
2001 Robert Belsky
2003 Phillip Friedman
2004 The Sodden Family – Rabbi Dr. Jacob Sodden & Mrs. Jean Sodden, Rabbi Mayer Sodden
2005 Ben-Zion Panush and Zelda Panush
2006 Robert Gillman
2007 Neil Harrow
2008 Richard Rosenthal
2009 Larry & Ceil Hartstein
2010 Stuart & Marcy Harris
2011 Howard G. Leventhal
2012 Joel & Bonnie Garfinkel
2013 Marc Friedman
2014 Rabbi David Borenstein
2015 Mickey Axelbank and Renee Stoller
2016 Jack Kleinfeld and Jack Spiegel