2016-17 ANNUALImpact REPORT

Serving Jewish Youth and Families Since 1855 WHO WE ARE Over 160 Years of Service & Care

Residents of the Jewish Children’s Home exercise in the courtyard circa 1890.

For 162 years, Jewish Children’s Regional Service (JCRS) has served at-risk, dependent and financially challenged Jewish children and families from seven (7) Mid-South states: Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas by providing college scholarships, grants for Jewish summer camp experiences, special needs assistance, and other vital outreach programs that are pivotal in building one’s Jewish identity. Today, JCRS remains vital, impactful, and more necessary than ever. In 2016-2017, over 1700 children and families were served from more than 200 communities across our region — a new service record!

OUR HISTORY

Jewish Children’s Regional By the end of World War II, Service (JCRS) began in many orphanages were closing 1855 as The Association for their doors around the country. the Relief of Widows and In 1946, The Jewish Children’s Orphans in New Orleans, Home also closed its doors. Louisiana. The institution, With the closing of the Home, created to care for children, the agency now known as The carried several names and Jewish Children’s Regional by the early 20th century, Service began as a program became known as The Jewish for serving both children who Children’s Home. remained with their parents as The Home originally was well as those who still required opened for Jewish children institutional care. orphaned as a result of the Residents gathered for a meal at the 2nd site of the Home at Sanford Weiss, of the 5342 St. Charles Ave. in late 1880s. Today that site holds the yellow fever epidemic. New Orleans Jewish Community Center. Bellefaire/Jewish Children’s At first, only local children Bureau of Cleveland, Ohio, were accepted, but by 1875 it was clear that Jewish became first director of JCRS. He and his wife, Viola Weiss, children in other areas also needed care. In that year, an led the agency for over four decades, creating programs agreement was reached with B’nai B’rith to extend services for camp scholarships and college aid. They also created an to the same area encompassed by what was then their out-of-home care program which has been expanded and District Seven: Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, recently has become our present program for providing Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. scholarships for special needs care. Always pioneering new ways of helping children, in 1902 Jewish Children’s Regional Service has survived major the Board of Trustees of the Home decided to establish a upheavals — the Civil War; at least three yellow fever manual training school to provide vocational education for epidemics; major hurricanes; countless changes in our children of the Home. The Isidore Newman Manual Training society – and has adapted to the times. As the world School was opened with an agreement to serve other changes, we change too. Yet, one thing has always been children but only after, as stated by the resolution, “… our and will always remain a constant… our commitment to own wards are provided for.” care for Jewish children in need!

2 JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report DEAR FRIENDS SUPPORTERS A Letter from our President& & Executive Director

HOW WE ARE DIFFERENT

JCRS is a unique Jewish agency. Nowhere else in the Dear Friends, United States can a family obtain case management in the form of funding for a child with special needs, substantially In the past year, Jewish Children’s Regional Service has funded camp and education scholarship assistance, and proudly impacted the lives of over 1700 Jewish youth Jewish outreach — all from one agency. Whether it is who reside in seven states of the Mid-South. These through a one-time special needs assessment or a lifetime Jewish children, youth and college students received of therapy and care, a subscription to the PJ Library ® services that are highlighted across the pages of this that provides free Jewish themed books to children up Annual Report. through age eleven, a Jewish summer camp grant, or It is impossible to adequately convey in this brief an undergraduate aid package, we are here to help. As report all the effort and tasks performed by the staff, impressive as these services are, the needs of our at-risk board, and additional volunteers, nor can we highlight Jewish community are ongoing and enormous. all the challenges overcome by our clients and the milestones our “success stories” have achieved. In essence, this report comprises a heartfelt “thank you” to all of our supporters. OUR SERVICES If you are not currently a supporter, we hope you become one after you have read the enclosed client & CONSTITUENCY profiles that inspire us to assist those who seek and All scholarship programs are needs-based, except for PJ need our help. Library® and PJ Our Way® which are open to all Jewish To get involved, please call us at 1-800-729-5277, write youth ages 6 months to pre-teen. Nearly 40% of our us at P.O. Box 7368, Metairie, LA 70010-7368, or email us scholarship clients come from single-parent homes and at [email protected]. many are being raised by someone other than their In spite of all we accomplish, there is much work that biological parents – grandparents, other family members, still needs to be done. We are determined never to foster care. The typical family has 5 members within the create a waiting list for those who need our help! household and the combined average gross income is less than $70,000 per year. All the best for a wonderful 2018,

Neil Kohlman, Ned Goldberg, JCRS President Executive Director

JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report 3 OUR IMPACT AOver Look 160 at Where Years Our of Dollars Service Go & Care Service OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS Highlights

in aid provided $204,000 so Jewish children received children could attend Jewish 332 camp scholarships sleep-away camps from and attended coast-to-coast. 35different camps. Jewish 1066 children received monthly books through the PJ Library®.

students from 23 immigrant families received college aid.

Jewish children and special needs adults285 received Hanukkah gift packages. children with 70 special needs or dependency received assistance or case Jewish children management. 117 received college aid.

Our Time in History…

1856 Lazar Schwartz enters the Jewish Orphans’ Home. By the 1890’s, he became The Association for the 1855 president 1875-1886 The Home Relief of Widows and Orphans of Gates extends services to other states is created in New Orleans and of Prayer and moves to its permanent 1890 Residents of the Jewish builds the first Home at Chip- Congregation. location at St. Charles and Children’s Home exercise pewa St. and Jackson Ave. Jefferson Avenues. in the courtyard circa 1890.

4 JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report PROGRAMS SERVICES Sharing& our Success Stories COLLEGE AID

Through generous grants and no-interest loans, JCRS College Aid helps financially challenged students get College Aid one step closer to a cap and gown – and therefore one step closer to financial stability and self-sufficiency. JCRS Michael Finkelstein provides scholarships for college or vocational training is an attorney with the in the form of grants and/or no-interest loans based on New Orleans firm of financial need. Sternberg, Naccari & White, LLC, where he Many of the college students who receive aid from JCRS focuses his practice are from very low-income families. Each academic year on commercial our program funds approximately 120 students with an litigation, catastrophic average award of about $2,500. Typically, freshman and personal injury, sophomores are eligible for grants for the academic year. and internet and Juniors and seniors generally are eligible for a combination cybersecurity laws. Recently, Michael contributed to a of grants and no-interest loans. notable product liability case in which his firm received one of the largest personal injury verdicts ever awarded in the City of New Orleans. A New Orleans native, Michael is a graduate of Louisiana State University and LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where he earned a juris doctor and a diploma in comparative law. He was an active student leader during both college and law school. Michael is a recipient of the Stephen T. Victory Memorial Award from the Louisiana State Bar Association and the New Orleans Jewish Federation’s Cohen-Jacobs Emerging Leader Award. He is active in numerous community organizations, including co- chair of JNOLA in 2017, and is a member of the Young Leadership Council, the New Orleans Bar Association a JCRS College Aid recipient, graduated from Spencer Glaser and Youth Run NOLA. University of Tennessee Magna Cum Laude, and went on to law school at the University of Memphis School of Law in 2014. He is JCRS provided financial aid to Michael during all now an immigration attorney with the Memphis firm of Siskind of his years as an LSU undergraduate. Most recently, Susser PC. Michael became a Governing Member of JCRS’s volunteer leadership. Over117 Jewish youth received college aid at 60 different colleges in the past 12 months.

1891 1904 Edgar Goldberg Philanthropist Isidore Newman leaves Jewish creates a school Orphans’ Home. for home In 1908 he creates residents the first Jewish news- and other paper in Texas, the youth. Herald of Houston. 1903 The Jewish Children’s Home Band.

JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report 5 PROGRAMS SERVICES 2016-2017 Annual Impact& Report

CAMP SCHOLARSHIPS Camp Since the 1950s, JCRS has recognized the value of Jewish Scholarships sleep-away camp as a unique opportunity for fun, personal growth, and Jewish identity-building. Jewish sleep-away camp is a special environment that nurtures Jewish identity Michael and and builds life-long peer relationships. Rachel Paras met at Greene Family Camp in JCRS would like all interested children to have this Texas. Michael Paras opportunity, but we recognize that for many families is a project manager the high cost of overnight camp is prohibitive. Annually, for Bristol Inc., working JCRS provides partial scholarship funding for over 300- with the firm’s software 350 children to attend Jewish camp. The amount of division. these scholarships varies in accordance with the financial The 2012 graduate of Rice University earned a circumstances of the child and family, as well as the specific degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, needs of each camper. while receiving the university’s Dwayne Rivers Academic Scholarship Award. JCRS provided undergraduate college aid to Michael while he studied for his engineering degree. A young man of many talents and passions, Michael also performs comedy in Houston, and is the 2015 Beta Bracket Comedy Contest winner. In 2016, he married fellow Houstonian, Rachel Stevens, at Greene Family Camp, where they both met as campers and later served as counselors and specialists. JCRS provided summer camp scholarships to both Michael and Rachel. children332 received They are the fifth couple, in recent years, who camp scholarships were provided scholarship aid, individually by JCRS, and attended before the couples met, and eventually married. different 32 camps.

Our Time in History…

1906 Ben Weil 1909 Louis Yarrut 1914 leaves Orphans’ leaves the Meyer Koltun, Home for native Orphans’ Home. who was raised Alabama. In 1930, He becomes a in the Jewish he purchases well-respected Children’s Home, Mayer Electric and state judge, a New serves as a Captain creates a burgeoning Orleans civic leader and president in the Infantry electric supply company of what is later called the Jewish in World War I. serving the Southeast. Children’s Home Service.

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Special Needs Assistance

Jillian Notelovitz is a mother whose child was diagnosed with SPECIAL NEEDS ASSISTANCE autistic symptoms at a very early age. Soon The Special Needs Program seeks to address the full after contacting JCRS, array of challenges faced by children under the age the agency began funding of 18. Examples include language therapy for a child Applied Behavioral Analysis with a speech delay, dyslexia remediation for a child (ABA) Therapy for her daughter, Rivka. Over time, struggling to read, an upgraded wheelchair for a physically Rivka’s evolving needs have led to a variety of JCRS handicapped child, behavior training for a child with funded interventions, including: Sensory-Integration/ autism, a special school for a student with a learning Occupational Therapy, Relationship Development difference or a comprehensive assessment for ADHD. Intervention, Speech/Language Therapy and JCRS explores and addresses each client’s situation academic tutoring. individually, with sensitivity, confidentiality, and respect. At age 18, Rivka’s achievements are remarkable, and have vastly exceeded all expectations of a child who once experienced significant developmental children with special needs delays. Talented in art, dance, and videography, or dependency received assistance Rivka is considering a career in commercial design. 70 She attends a private school for girls and competes or case management. with minimal need for academic support. Rivka has video documented her journey in life in video, from her early feelings of discomfort around distractions, to her present ability to beautifully and articulately express her knowledge, “The measure of success is not the thoughts, and feelings. In addition to her communicative works in distance you go, but the obstacles video, Rivka has addressed gatherings of you overcome to get there.” students, faculty and parents at her school.

Rivka Notelovitz

1924 Libbie 1925 Bessie Margolin leaves the 1916 Four Pulitzer (Berkowitz) Jewish Children’s Home and becomes brothers: Jacob, Burke leaves an attorney for the U.S. Labor Dept. Morris, Emanuel the Jewish Children’s She sets a record for the most number and Samuel leave Home to become a of successful cases ever the Orphans’ Home. Touro Infirmary nursing argued before the U.S. They create the supervisor. Eventually, she earns Supreme Court, and Wembly Tie her Ph.D. in psychology and becomes helps to structure the Company. For a psychologist in Colorado. 1946 Nuremberg Trials. several decades it is the largest tie manufacturer in the world.

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OSCAR J. PJ LIBRARY® TOLMAS HANUKKAH PJ Library® PJ LIBRARY® is a nationally acclaimed outreach initiative GIFT PROGRAM that provides free monthly gifts of Jewish books and music for Jewish families of young children. The gifts are For almost 20 years, JCRS has brightened the designed to nurture family life and Jewish identity. Hanukkah celebrations of hundreds of children who face difficult times. Created by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, PJ (for ® “pajama”) LIBRARY provides a treasury of FREE Jewish Each year, we send out boxes of Hanukkah gifts to boys books and music to children aged six months through and girls throughout our seven state region. Some of eight years. The books and CDs are specially selected by these children are recovering from natural disasters, some childhood experts. They are highly engaging, beautifully have special needs, and some are new immigrants. They illustrated, and age-specific. Once enrolled, a free may have parents who are deceased, disabled, in prison, selection arrives in the mail every month for each child. or deployed overseas. All come from families who are struggling to stay afloat in this economy. JCRS is funding the book subscriptions and monthly events to enhance Jewish heritage for young children and JCRS wants these children to know that they are not alone, their families. Each selection includes a parent’s guide to and that they are remembered by the Jewish community at help families use the selection at home. Many parents this joyous time of year. describe the books, music and events as a valuable way to nurture Jewish identity. Children enjoy the selections as The packages we send include eight small Hanukkah gifts— treasured gifts which they love to read and hear again and one for each night. The gifts are specially selected, age- again. appropriate and gender-specific. They are accompanied by hand-made cards (made by volunteers throughout our region) and Hanukkah ritual items. Some of the children look forward to these special gifts year after year!

JCRS also collaborates with chaplains and social workers each year to send boxes of Hanukkah gifts to the Jewish

PJ Library® is made possible in residents of adult care facilities throughout our region. Louisiana, Mississippi, and most of Alabama by a generous grant from the GOLDRING FAMILY FOUNDATION. Since 2015, this program has been generously supported by the OSCAR J. TOLMAS CHARITABLE TRUST. Our Time in History… 1934 Rogers Perlis 1935 Janet (Loeb) Pfeifer 1930 Ralph Beerman leaves the Home to leaves Jewish Children’s returns from the Jewish create Perlis Clothing, Home and embarks Children’s Home to native the signature apparel on a path of Little Rock where she store known throughout entrepreneurship and marries and New Orleans and adventure. In the late leads a life of the nation for its style, 1940’s, he creates Beerman community elegance and trademark Precision Tool, a world famous volunteerism crawfish logo. and service. company, based in New Orleans.

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SPECIAL FRIENDS CLUB

Jewish children with special needs or issues with isolation are often left out of mainstream Jewish communal life. Whether their challenges are physical, emotional, or developmental, these children often have a hard time fitting into conventional schools, camps, or youth groups. JCRS reaches out to these young people on behalf of the Jewish community.

Children who join this club receive birthday cards, holiday cards, and certificates of accomplishment for life milestones. We recognize graduations, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs and other special achievements. Our goal is to value each child as an individual, and to give each child a sense of inclusion in the Jewish community. DISASTER RELIEF

When natural disasters occur, Jewish Children’s Regional Service does its best to find ways to assist any Jewish family with minor children who have been impacted. Based on our experiences with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and multiple floods in Louisiana and Texas, our help has proven most effective weeks, months and years after the disasters occurred. Examples of help we have provided include national retailer gift cards, basic household items, and payment of necessary expenses for children.

JCRS has established a Disaster Relief Program that helps affected families over the long term, and in many cases, “Thank you so so so much for sending after the immediate help has stopped. Hanukkah gifts for our daughter. We had a really rough time this year… It was very nice not to worry about presents.”

—Parent of a child with a disability

Mid-1930’s Hart Family 1943 Sam Levitan The three youngest Hart returns from active military brothers, Ellis, Van and Carol duty to his job at the enter the Home in 1927 and the Whitney Bank. Sam spent last one leaves in 1943. Carol most of his childhood at Hart later becomes President the Jewish Children’s of JCRS. Oldest brother, Julian, Home and worked 46 years (standing to the left of widowed at Whitney Bank, retiring mother, Lillie Hart) is too old to as a vice president. enter the Home.

JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report 9 More Success Stories

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Lynda is a Texas grandmother in her 60’s who has received Over time, various forms of assistance from JCRS. One day, with a number of little notice, her four grandchildren, ages four months to organizations have seven-years-old, were removed from her daughter’s care helped Lynda with by the State of Texas. The grandchildren were all placed tuition scholarships, with Lynda, as opposed to splitting them apart and placing counseling for the them with foster care. children, and help with day-to- Overnight, Lynda’s modest lifestyle was transformed from day living expenses, but JCRS has provided the most being an independent and self-supporting single woman, comprehensive help and financial assistance since the to an adult needing to cope with the demands of caring children came into her care in March 2011. for four young children, while still trying to operate a small, Lynda has great praise for the degree of funding, caring, one-person business. and professional services provided by JCRS. Each of Lynda’s grandchildren has presented special “What I value most about the impact of JCRS services challenges due to the circumstances that led to their is that they have allowed me to keep my family together, placement with her, but she has accepted each of them and for this, I am eternally grateful.” with love and devotion.

In the last 15 years, approximately 65 Jewish families, in which the children are being raised by someone other than their natural or adoptive parents, have received assistance from JCRS.

, of the 1947 Sanford Weiss 1948 Home sold to JCC Bellefaire/Jewish Children’s The Jewish Children’s Home Bureau of Cleveland, Ohio, closes its doors as an orphanage became the first director of and sells its building to the JCRS. He and his wife, Viola Jewish Community Center. Weiss (pictured), led the Today, the New Orleans JCC agency for over four decades, still occupies the corner of creating programs for camp Jefferson and St. Charles Aves. scholarships and college aid.

10 JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report From Homelessness to College Graduate William Solomon is currently a College Success Manager, working out of the Houston From Foster Care to Physician Independent School District’s Office of College and Career Sophia Kostelanetz is in her third Readiness. A 2015 graduate of the C. T. Bauer College of year of medical residency at the Business at the University of Houston, William oversees Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Prior to moving communications within his department. His current title of to Nashville, she completed her bachelor’s degree, her “College Success Manager” comes with real life experience, doctor of medicine degree and her master’s degree in as William, his parents, and his siblings encountered public health at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. homelessness and emergency shelter living while he was a Her medical residency specializes in combined internal high school senior. medicine and pediatrics. William plans to pursue an MBA in the not-too-distant Sophia has particular interest and commitment to global future and has already gained valuable business experience health, and has worked in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, Central as an Area Manager for Amazon.com in Las Vegas. America, and Russia. She most recently spent 2013-2015 JCRS is proud to have assisted William with college grants working with Partners in Health on monitoring, evaluation, throughout his enrollment at the University of Houston. quality improvement, and operation research in Haiti and West Africa. In 2015, Sophia married fellow Tufts graduate Sean Camp & College Aid Recipients Judge and they relocated to Nashville, where Sean is VP of Member Services at 3rd Home. Sophia was born in the and his wife, Eugene Krupitsky Darcy Axelroth former Soviet Union and moved with her family to the of Little Rock, AR, are just one of a number of Krupitsky, United States when she was five years old. couples where JCRS helped each as individuals, before She spent most of her childhood living in Shreveport, they met and eventually married. Louisiana. When JCRS was first introduced to Sophia, she Born in the former Soviet Union and resettled with his was completing her senior year of high school, while living family in Arkansas, Eugene received college financial aid in a foster home in Shreveport. from JCRS while he earned his B.A. degree from Harvard JCRS provided financial aid to University, prior to receiving a joint JD/MBA degree Sophia for all of her years of from the University of Arkansas. undergraduate education at Tufts Currently, Eugene is a Regional Vice President University. of Primerica. Darcy is an engineer, having earned degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Arkansas, and Lawrence Technological University. Darcy is a supervisor for Cameron Inc. She and her siblings were recipients of camp scholarship assistance from JCRS while growing up in Arkansas.

1958 (l-r) Past President Henry Maslansky, presents a tribute to Max Scheinuk, along with Executive Director Sanford Weiss and 1951 The agency name is changed to the 1955 Architect Solis Seiferth Vice President Jewish Children’s Home Service and serves as President of JCRS from Richard provides assistance to vulnerable Jewish 1955-57 as the agency turns 100 Lowenburg. youth across the Mid-South. years old.

JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report 11 Our Sincere Thanks August 1, 2016 through July 31, 2017

$50,000+ Mr. & Mrs. Barry Spizer Dr. & Mrs. Dov Glazer Dr. & Mrs. Michael Schindel Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Fried Goldring Family Foundation Mr. Harvey Stone Mr. & Mrs. Louis Glazer Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Seelig Mr. & Mrs. Richard Friedman Kirschner Trusts Shirley & David Toomim Mr. & Mrs. Max Goldberg Mr. & Mrs. Hal Shepard Dr. & Mrs. Vadim Gelman Oscar J. Tolmas Charitable Trust Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Ned Goldberg Mr. & Mrs. Leopold Sher Mr. & Mrs. David Ginsburg Trust Under the Will of Louis Feil George, Hellen and Harold Mr. & Mrs. Jay Golding Mr. & Mrs. John Simon Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Gold Wainer Foundation Mr. Warren Goldstein Mr. & Mrs. William Sizeler Mr. & Mrs. Myron Goldberg Dr. Harry Gross Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Sklar $10,000 - $49,999 Mrs. Kim Glazer Goldberg Anne and Henry Zarrow $2,500 - $4,999 Dr. & Mrs. Fred Guidry Ms. Rhonda Kost Mrs. Ruth Goldberg Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Marc Beerman Mr. & Mrs. David Gurievsky & Mr. Alfred Spector Mr. & Mrs. Michael Goldman Mrs. Myra Brown Mr. Hilton Chodorow Mrs. Ellis Hart Mr. & Mrs. Robert Steeg Mr. & Mrs. Sanford Goldstein Cahn Family Foundation Herzstein Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John Haspel Mr. Gary Stein Dr. George Greenberg Judge & Mrs. Jacob Karno Mr. & Mrs. Charles Stern Gale Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Cordell Haymon Mr. & Mrs. David Greenberg Dr. Kenneth Klein Dr. & Mrs. Louis Stern Dr. & Mrs. Michael Gelfand Mr. & Mrs. Mark Heller Mr. Martin Haymon Mr. & Mrs. Earl Magdovitz Mrs. Phyllis Stern Mr. Joseph Klein Mr. & Mrs. Fred Herman Hebrew Union Temple Sisterhood Mr. & Mrs. Morris Mintz Mr. & Mrs. Joel Waltzer Mrs. Ira Kohn Hertz Investment Group, LLC Dr. & Mrs. Marc Hendler Mr. Henry Kahn and Mr. Bruce C. & Judge Miriam Mr. & Mrs. Leon Rittenberg III Dr. Boris Ioffe Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Heyman Ms. Marlene Trestman G. Waltzer Mrs. Sara Schwarz Jewish Endowment Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Hochster Dr. Sanford Pailet Foundation of Louisiana Mrs. Jack Wormser Mrs. Sara Stone Mr. & Mrs. Hugo Kahn Mr. & Mrs. Harold Singer Ms. Ann Kahn Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Young Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Stone Mrs. Carlie Kahn Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Steinberg Mr. & Mrs. Philip Kaiser Wal-Dot Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Brian Katz Mr. & Mrs. Harold Steinberg Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Kaston $500 - $999 Woldenberg Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Victor Koock Mr. Myron Steves & Mr. Paul Katz Dr. Harriet Aguiar-Netto M.B. and Edna Zale Foundation Mr. Harry Kovner Mrs. Rowena Young Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Kessler Mr. & Mrs. Jack Alltmont Mr. & Mrs. David Zalik Dr. & Mrs. James Krell Dr. & Mrs. Roy Weiner Mr. & Mrs. Elias Klein Dr. Gayle Baer Maxine and Jack Zarrow Mrs. Mildred Krieger Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Neil Kohlman Mr. Brian Bain Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Lake $1,000 - $2,499 Dr. & Mrs. Robert Koppel Mr. & Mrs. Mark Balkin Lewis, Kullman, Sterbcow & Mr. Clay Aaron Ms. Beth Liebman Mr. & Mrs. Albert Batten $5,000 - $9,999 Abramson - Attorneys at Law Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Berenson Mr. & Mrs. Keith Adler Mr. & Mrs. Adrian Lufschanowski Mr. & Mrs. Jack Benjamin Mr. & Mrs. Joel Loeffelholz B’nai B’rith Disaster Fund Dr. & Mrs. Lesley Appel Ms. Barbara Marks Beth Yeshurun Brotherhood Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Lustig Mr. & Mrs. Marty Davidson Mr. & Mrs. A. Lewis Barnett Mr. & Mrs. George McGovern Mr. & Mrs. David Bird Drs. David and Jeanne Margolin Mr. & Mrs. Michael Dodd Mr. & Mrs. Morris Bart Mr. Bruce & Dr. Jane Miller Mr. & Mrs. Edward Bluth Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Marlin Fore! Kids Foundation Mrs. Clara Berry Mr. & Mrs. Cliff Mintz Mr. & Mrs. Lee Bressler Dr. Preston Marx Leo and Rhea Fay Fruhman Mrs. Roger Bissinger Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Moyse Ms. Ruth Brodsky Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Blotner Mr. & Mrs. Peter Newhouse Mr. & Mrs. Larry Buck Mr. & Mrs. Joel Mendler The Bruce J. Heim Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Bronston Drs. William & Judith Page Mr. Larry Davis Mr. & Mrs. Scott Nason Mr. & Mrs. Joshua Hochschuler Mr. & Mrs. Julian Brook Mr. David Perlis Doctors Imaging Services Mr. & Mrs. Joe Pasternack Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Loeb Mr. & Mrs. Barry Bukstein Dr. & Mrs. Jay Peters Dr. A. Everett and Ruth Mrs. Rochelle Pearl Mr. & Mrs. Michael Loeb Mr. & Mrs. James Cahn Mr. James Pfeifer E. Rosen Foundation Mr. Brett Perroux Mr. Donald Meltzer Mr. & Mrs. Robert Cahn Mr. & Mrs. Steven Pluss Dr. & Mrs. David Dulitz Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Polmer Mr. & Mrs. Gerd Miller Mr. & Mrs. Gary Davis Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Pulitzer Mr. & Mrs. Buster Feldman Mr. & Mrs. Howard Prince Moyse Family Foundation Ferber Family of Reily Foods Company Mr. & Mrs. Terrence Finn Dr. & Mrs. Jay Resh Howard and Leslie Schultz Houma Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Joel Roffman Mr. & Mrs. Joshua Force Drs. Barry and Lori Ripps Philanthropic Fund Mr. & Mrs. Louis Fishman Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Romick Mrs. Betty Freedman Rubensteins Our Time in History… 1970’s JCRS 1973 Mark Plotkin leaves 1957-61 New Orleans conducts home New Orleans and later Civil Court Judge studies and receives JCRS college Louis H. Yarrut helps place scholarship assistance to was raised in the children for pursue a career in biology. Home from age 2 adoption with The son of George Plotkin, to 16. After retiring families that a former resident of the Home, from the bench, he live within our Mark is world famous for his adventures, became President of JCRS. seven state research, and publications in the fields of service region. botany, zoology, and environmental studies.

12 JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report OUR SUPPORTERS Over 160 Years of Service & Care To Our Supporters

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Sands Ms. Jennifer Carstens Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Lawton Mrs. Joseph Samuels Mr. & Mrs. Henry Alpert Mr. & Mrs. Lee Scharff Dr. & Mrs. Charles Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Lesartre Mr. & Mrs. Ian Scharfman Mr. Leonard Alpert Mr. & Mrs. Dan Scharff Dr. Melvin Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lestz Mr. & Mrs. Robert Schlein Mr. & Mrs. James Altman Mr. Matthew Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Martin Damsky Dr. & Mrs. Michael Levitt Mr. & Mrs. Claude Schlesinger Amazon Smile Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Ms. Linda Wisch Davidsohn Mr. & Mrs. Charles Levy III Dr. & Mrs. A. Carl Schmulen Dr. & Mrs. Beryl Ames & Sharon Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Philip Dorsey Dr. & Mrs. Richard Levy Dr. Jonathan Sessler Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Amigo Mr. & Mrs. Gary Silbert Mrs. Joyce Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lipsey Mr. & Mrs. Louis Shepard Mrs. Frances Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Peter Silton Mr. & Mrs. Martin Englander Mr. & Mrs. Charles Loeb Jr. Mrs. Andrew Sigel Mrs. Barbara Angel Dr. & Mrs. Norman Silverman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Epstein Rabbi & Mrs. Robert Loewy Dr. & Mrs. Joel Silverberg Anonymous Dr. & Mrs. Edward Soll Prof. Robert Force Mr. & Mrs. Ira Matsil Mrs. Betty Simmons Mr. & Mrs. Shaoul Antar Mr. Shea & Dr. Michelle Soll Mr. & Mrs. Barry Fox Mr. & Mrs. Neal Morris Ms. Mary Ann Singer Mr. & Mrs. Jay Aronson Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy Soso Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Funk Ms. Margo Moss Mr. & Mrs. Robert Siskin Mr. & Mrs. Ron Arvine Rabbi & Mrs. Samuel Stahl Mr. & Mrs. Robert Garon Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mueller Mr. Alan Smason Dr. Lee Ascherman Mr. Hal Tabb Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Gerson Dr. & Mrs. Ike Muslow Mr. Bruce Spizer Mrs. Revana Augustson Dr. Jeanie Tolmas Judge Robin Giarrusso Mr. & Mrs. Jack Neumann Mr. Michael Stern Mr. & Mrs. Richard Avant UBS Financial Services Inc. Dr. & Mrs. Charles Glaser Dr. & Mrs. Tom Oelsner Mr. & Mrs. Eric Stillman Ms. Susie Avnery Dr. Richard Urbano Mrs. Kitzi Goldman Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Oreck Mr. & Mrs. Charles Teichman Mr. & Mrs. Elliott Bain Mr. & Mrs. Shami Waldman Dr. & Mrs. Sander Gothard Judge & Mrs. J. David Orlansky Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Thompson III Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Baker Mr. Henry Weber Mr. & Mrs. Howard Green Outlet Collection at Riverwalk Mr. Bernard Van der Linden Mrs. Judith Barnes-Cochran Mr. & Mrs. Mike Zazulak Mr. & Mrs. Mark Greenbaum Mr. & Mrs. James Palm Mrs. Eileen Wallen Mrs. Ann Barnett Dr. & Mrs. Jacob Zide Mr. & Mrs. Milton Grishman Ms. Nikki Parton Mr. & Mrs. Adolph Weil III Mrs. Mary Barnett Marc Zimmermann, PhD. Drs. Louis & Marilyn Gross Mr. & Mrs. Leon Pesses Drs. Howard C. & Ellie F. Wetsman Mr. Bruce Baron Mr. & Mrs. Lee Zurik Mrs. Harriet Handelman Mr. & Mrs. Randal Pick Mr. & Mrs.Abe Wilson Dr. & Mrs. John Baron Mr. & Mrs. Macy Hart Mr. & Mrs. Jerrold Pinsker Mrs. Carol Wise Dr. & Mrs. Albert Barrocas $250 - $499 Mr. & Mrs. David Hecht Mr. & Mrs. Gary Polland Mr. & Mrs. RobertWolf Mr. & Mrs. Robert Barron Mr. & Mrs. Steve Aaron Mr. & Mrs. Nadav Herman Mrs. Gerald Posner Drs Aaron Wolfson & Dahlia Bauer Mr. and Mrs. Shalom Abrams Mrs. Hertha Bart Mr. & Mrs. Roger Hirsch Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Alper Mrs. Gretchen Pressburg Mr. & Mrs. Charles Wurtzburger Mr. Joel Batalsky Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Bain Mr. Joseph Jankowsky Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Raden Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Yuspeh Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Bauman Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Barton Dr. & Mrs. Jay Joseph Dr. & Mrs. David Reiss Dr. Jack Zoller Mr. & Mrs. Howard Bazarsky Dr. & Mrs. Scott Baum Mr. & Mrs. Byron Kantrow Jr. Dr. Karen Weissbecker Remer Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Beck Mr. H. Stephan Bernick Dr. & Mrs. Meyer Kaplan Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Richie $249 and less Judge & Mrs. Peter Beer Dr. & Mrs. David Bessman Mr. & Mrs. Morton Katz Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Rittenberg and IN-KIND Donations Ms. Robin Beerman Mr. Andrew Bindursky Mrs. Celia Katz Ms. Regina Rogers A Taste of the World Catering LLC Beerman Precision, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Bishop Ms. Beverly Katz Dr. & Mrs. Irving Rosen Mr. Steven Abramowitz Dr. Marc Behar Mrs. Marilynn Bloom Mr. Harry Katzen Mr. & Mrs. Henry Rosenblat Ms. Gloria Acker Mr. & Mrs. Martin Belasco Mr. Harry Blumenthal Jr. Mrs. Susan Kierr Mr. & Mrs. Paul Rosenblum Dr. Diane Africk Mr. Ron Belz Mr. & Mrs. Michael Botnick Mr. & Mrs. Richard Kirschman Mrs. Beth Rosenthal Mrs. Mary Ainsworth Mr. & Mrs.Marvin Bender Mr. & Mrs. Tad Breaux Mr. & Mrs. Julian Koch Mr. & Mrs. Cary Rossel Mrs. Dorlene Alaynick Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Bendorf Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Bronfin Mr. & Mrs. Herman Kohlmeyer Jr. Mr. Joshua Rubenstein Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Alcus III Mrs. Bernard Bennett Dr. Maury Bronstein Mr. Richard Kohn Mr. & Mrs. Mark Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Stewart Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Philip Bennett Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Cahn Mr. Alan Krilov Mr. & Mrs. Barry Sadicarios Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Algranatti Drs. Murray J. & Roberta S. Berger Mrs. Leonard Carp Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Lassen Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Samuels Allan Berger & Associates Ms. Rachel Bergman

1974 Siblings Marlene and Robert Trestman 1975 were both wards of JCRS. Marlene receives Mrs. Sara Stone, JCRS college aid and leaves New Orleans who served as Chair to pursue a career in law. She becomes of the Education an attorney, and is quickly appointed as a Committee for state assistant attorney general in Maryland. many decades, She forges a distinguished career in public speaking at the service and consumer protection. Robert is a JCRS annual distinguished psychiatrist in Farmington, CT. meeting in 1975.

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Mrs. Arlene Bergner Mr. & Mrs. Barry Brown Congregation Emanu El Mr. & Mrs. Donald Ernest Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Freiden Mr. & Mrs. Lenard Berkowitz Dr. & Mrs. Andy Burka Congregation Gates of Prayer Mrs. Isaac Eskenasy Dr. & Mrs. Blake Frieden Mr. & Mrs. Norman Berlat Mr. & Mrs. Barney Burris Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Cooper Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Essig Dr. Alice Friedman Ms. Jeanne Faye Berman Ms. Sandra Burstein Mrs. Lewis Coveler Mr. & Mrs. Mark Fagan Ms. Deborah Friedman Mr. Lawrence Berman Mr. & Mrs. John Buterbaugh Jr. Mrs. Tina Coverman Mr. & Mrs. Martin Falchook Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Friedman Mr. Stuart Berney Ms. Ana Caddess Mrs. Ella Cox Mr. & Mrs. Michael Fallek Mr. & Mrs. Lowell Friedman Mr. & Mrs. Ira Bernstein Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cahn Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Cox Ms. Shellye Farber Ms. Rebecca Friedman Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Bernstein Mrs. Sandra Cameron Mr. & Mrs. David Curry Mr. Paul Farmer Mr. & Mrs. Richard Friedman Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Bernstein Mr. & Mrs. Allan Cantor Mr. & Mrs. William Dahlberg Ms. Desiree Federico Mrs. Sonia Friedman Mr. & Mrs. Michael Bienenstock Capitol Importing Company, Inc. Mr. Adonis Daigle Mr. Julian Feibelman Jr. Ms. Lynda Friedmann Mr. & Mrs. Allan Bissinger Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Caplan Mr. & Mrs. Joshua Danzig Mr. & Mrs. Robert Feiner Ms. Laurie Friefeld Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Blitz Drs. Richard & Leslie Caplan Mr. Jerome Dattel Mr. Alan Feiveson Mr. & Mrs. Frank Frisch Mr. & Mrs. Ken Bloch Mrs. Harriet Carson Mrs. Salyne Davidson Mrs. Gloria Felsenthal Mr. & Mrs. Ira Fritz Capt. Neil Block Mr. & Mrs. Edward Cassiere Mr. & Mrs. Richard Davis Dr. & Mrs. Robert Fenton Dr. & Mrs. Jan Fuerst Mrs. Joanne Bloom Rabbi & Mrs. Mendel Ceitlin Mrs. Carole Dayan Messrs. Stan and Marco Mr. Pat Gallagher Mr. Gary Blum Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Chafetz Rabbi Jana DeBenedetti Fernandez-Schklar Mr. Greg Gansar Mr. Jerry Blum Mr. & Mrs. Edward Chaika Ms. Ruth Delfiner Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Ferreira Ms. Elena Gaver Ms. Peggy Blum Prof. Dorothy Chansky Ms. Marci Dell Ms. Vicki Ferstel Mrs. Alan Gaylor Dr. & Mrs. Elliott Blumberg Mr. & Mrs. Norman Chapman Mr. and Mrs. Scott Denaburg Ms. Kathy Fine Mr. John Geddie Mrs. Rita Blumenfeld Dr. & Mrs. Richard Chardkoff Mr. & Mrs. Alan Diamond Dr. & Mrs. Israel Finger Mr. & Mrs. Edward Gelber Mr. Alexander Bolkhovsky Mrs. Jennifer Charney Mr. Michael Diamond Drs. Leron & Julie Finger Dr. & Mrs. Errol Genet Ms. Mavis Bonnar Mr. & Mrs. John Clayman Mrs. Florence Dickerson Mr. & Mrs. Steven Finkelman Mrs. Deena Gerber Dr. Gary Born Dr. & Mrs. Paul Clein Mr. Alan Director Dr. & Mrs. Elliott Finkelstein Dr. & Mrs. Juan Gershanik Mr. Brian Bornstein Dr. Marvin Clifford Mrs. Judith Dittman Ms. Kathy Fischman Rabbi & Mrs. Jonathan Gersten & Christine Emler Mr. & Mrs. Paul Clift Mr. Louis J. & Dr. Sheila M. Dobin Mr. & Mrs. David Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Mike Gertler Dr. Barry Boston Coe Plumbing, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Doctoroff Dr. Marc Fisher Mr. Stephen Gilberstadt Mrs. Fay Botnick Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Luis Dorfman Mr. Owen Fisher Dr. & Mrs. Allan Gilbert Ms. Aviva Bowman Mr. Andrew Cohen Dr. Martin Drell Mr. & Mrs. Randy Fisher Mrs. Lillian Mizrahi Gilbert Ms. Susan Bowman Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Dreyfus Mrs. Noah Fishman Mr. John Gilcrease Mr. & Mrs. Sam Brackstone Mr. David Cohen Mr. & Mrs. John Dubberley Mr. & Mrs. Randall Fishman Dr. Elliot Ginchansky Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Brand Dr. Gerald Cohen Dr. & Mrs. Lester Dulitz Mr. & Mrs. Richard Fishman Mrs. Carol Ginsburg Ms. Debra Brandwein Ms. Geraldine Cohen Dr. & Mrs. Evan Dvorin Dr. & Mrs. McMurry Fitzsimmons Mr. Ken Gioffre Mr. & Mrs. Harry Brannan Mrs. Harry Cohen Drs. Kenneth C. Mrs. Dale Fleishmann Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy Glenn Mr. David Braslau Mr. & Mrs. John Cohen and Melanie Ehrlich Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Fleishmann Mrs. Julia Glucksman Mr. & Mrs. Harry Breitbarth Mr. Samuel Cohen Dr. & Mrs. Leon Eidels Mr. Baruch Fogel Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Goedecke Mr. Henry Brenner Mrs. Isidore Cohn Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael Eisenberg Mr. & Mrs. Jack Fox Ms. Ashley Gold Ms. Ilene Kay Brill Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Cohn Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Eisenstatt Mr. & Mrs. Albert Fraenkel II Elizabeth Goldberg Mr. Ivan Brody Mr. Steve Cole Mrs. Joann Eisenstatt Ms. Donna Fraley Mrs. Marvin Goldberg Mr. & Mrs. Sam Brody Mr. & Mrs. Charles Collat Jr. Mrs. Hallie Elliot Father Bernard Francis Ms. Susan Goldberg Dr. & Mrs. Edward Bromberg Mr. & Mrs. Corky Collier Mr. & Mrs. Marc Ellison Mrs. Charles Frank Jr. Ms. Lucille Golden Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Brook Congregation Beth El Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ellison Mrs. Dorothy Frank Mrs. Linda Goldman Mrs. Helen Brounes Congregation Beth Emeth Judge & Mrs. Michael Engelhart Mr. & Mrs. Philip Frank Jr. Mrs. Shirley Goldman Our Time in History… 1981 J.M. Cohn, 1985-89 New Orleanian 1988 Ned Goldberg a graduate of Phyllis Stern serves as President of becomes Executive Tulane University JCRS. She follows Director of JCRS. and a founding her father He succeeds Viola partner of Delta Daniel Scharff, Weiss who retires Container Corp. who served after a forty year serves as JCRS President. for decades career with JCRS. He is also an active volunteer on the Board. Ned, currently in the for many Jewish and civic organizations role, has served throughout Greater New Orleans. for 30 years.

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Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Goldman Mr. & Mrs. Van Hart Jr. Mr. Barry Katz Mr. Alan Kurzer Mr. & Mrs. Jon Lewis Ms. Margaret Anne Goldsmith Mr. & Mrs. David Harwood Ms. Ellen Katz Mr. David Kweller Mr. Paul Lewis Mr. & Mrs. William Goldsmith Mr. & Mrs. Walter Hecht Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Katz Ms. Dawn Laborie The Honorable Ms. Hannah Goldstein Mrs. Edward Heller Mr. Stephen Katz Mr. & Mrs. Allan Laffer & Mrs. David Lichtenstein Mr. Harold Goldstein Miss Madeline Heller Mr. Vadim Katz Ms. Celia Landisman Mr. & Mrs. Michael Lieber Mr. & Mrs. Joe Goldstein Mr. & Mrs. Dan Henderson Mrs. Irving Kauffman Mr. Dan Langerman Ms. Sharan Lieberman Mr. Martin Goldstein Mr. & Mrs. Steven Henigson Mr. & Mrs. Colin Kawalsky Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Lasky Mr. & Mrs. J. David Liebman Rabbi Goldstein Mr. Mark Herman Mr. & Mrs. Mike Kazzie Ms. Martha Lasky Dr. & Mrs. Keith Liederman Mr. & Mrs. Donald Goldwasser Herman, Herman & Katz, LLC Dr. & Mrs. Clifford Kern III Mr. & Mrs. Austin Lavin Dr. & Mrs. RobertLight Mrs. Barbara Golub Mr. & Mrs. Jason Herschkowitz Ms. Marlene Kesner Ms. Sarel Lavy Mrs. Renata Limmer Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Good Mr. Edward Hersh Ms. Mary Kimerling Mr. & Mrs. Fred Lederman Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Lipsey Mr. & Mrs. Len Goode Mr. & Mrs. Neil Herson Mr. & Mrs. Scott Klazmer Mr. & Mrs. Elliot Legow Dr. & Mrs. Jonathan Lissauer Mr. & Mrs. Jack Gorlin Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Herzfeld Mrs. Eric Kleiman Mr. Rene Lehmann Dr. & Mrs. Mark Littmann Ms. Terry Gorosh Mr. & Mrs. William Hess Mr. Jerrold Klein Dr. & Mrs. Samuel Lehrer Dr. Lily Litvak Judge & Mrs. Sol Gothard Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Hiller Drs. Jon B. & Laura R. Klein Dr. & Mrs. Maurice Leibman Mrs. Betty Loeb Mr. & Mrs. William Gottfried Mr. & Mrs. Jack Hillman Mr. Mitchell Klein Mr. George Lennon Mrs. James Loeb Dr. & Mrs. Harold Gottlieb Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Himelstein Mr. & Mrs. Steven Klein & Mrs. Rochelle Hartleb Mr. & Mrs. Milton Loeb Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Gottsegen-Anhalt Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Hirsch Dr. & Mrs. Sam Kleinman Mrs. Thelma Lettman Mrs. Ralph Loeb Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Granger Mr. & Mrs. Fred Hirsh Mrs. Terri Kleinsmith Mr. Albert Leveck Ms. Pauli Loeffler Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Graves Mr. Stanley Hoffberger Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Kline Mr. & Mrs. Sherman Levenson Mr. & Mrs. Craig Lotterman Mrs. Betty Green Ms. Pamela Hoffer Mr. & Mrs. Ivan Knobler Mr. & Mrs. Dan Levin Dr. & Mrs. Benjamin Lowenburg Mr. & Mrs. Harold Green Mr. Eric Holwitt Ms. Tillie Koch Mrs. Dorothy Levin Mr. & Mrs. Todd Lowther Drs. Jeffrey D. & Linda C. Green Jack Hudson D.D.S Mr. & Mrs. Bart Kolber Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell Levin Mr. & Mrs. Tim Lupin Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Greenberg Ms. Marcelle Humphries Dr. & Mrs. Douglas Koltun Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Levin Mrs. Sandra Lusky Mr. & Mrs. Richard Greenberg Dr. Renee’ Hyatt Dr. & Mrs. Rene’ Koppel Mr. & Mrs. Harold Levine Mr. Ruben Madere Mr. & Mrs. Leslie Greenwald Mr. & Mrs. Albert Hyman Dr. & Mrs. Michael Korenman Mrs. Hyman Levine Jr. Mr. Jerome Magdovitz Mr. & Mrs. Justin Grefe Dr. & Mrs. Harris Hyman III Mr. Joseph Kornfeld Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Levine Ms. Rebecca Maisel Mr. Philip Gressel Ms. Geraldine Jacobs Mr. L. Paul Kossman Ms. Leah Levine Mr. & Mrs. Len Maith Mr. & Mrs. Howard Gropper Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Jacobs Ms. Lois Kotin Drs. Robert & Carol Levine Mr. Michael Mandelbaum Mr. Jack Gross Dr. Milton Jacobs Mr. & Mrs. Arkady Kotlyar Mr. & Mrs. Robert Levinson Mrs. May Lynn Mansbach Mr. Lee Gross Mr. Douglas Jaffe Mr. & Mrs. Alan Kottler Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Levitan Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Manshel Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Gubitz Dr. & Mrs. Hal Jayson Ms. Marjorie Kottler Mr. & Mrs. Hal Levkowitz Mr. Barry Marcus Mr. & Mrs. Ben Guefen Mr. & Mrs. Kyle Juneau Mr. & Mrs. Albert Krafcheck Mrs. Arnold Levy Ms. Heather Margolis Mr. & Mrs. Ricardo Guevara Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kalin Mr. Jay Krasoff Mrs. Byron Levy Mr. Barry Marks Mrs. Hilde Gundel Mrs. Frances Kaminitz Dr. & Mrs. Monty Krieger Mr. & Mrs. David Levy Mr. Daniel Markson Ms. Kelli Guss Mr. & Mrs. Frank Kamoroff Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Krinsky Dr. Edward Levy Jr. Mr. Melvin Marmer Mr. Mark Hahn Mr. & Mrs. Mark Kanter Mrs. Sonya Krivcher Rabbi & Mrs. Eugene Levy Mr. Monroe Mars Mr. & Mrs. Edward Halpern Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Kapell Dr. Richard Kugler Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Levy Mr. Michael Marsiglia Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Hanocka Mrs. Karen Kaplan Mr. David Kulakofsky Mr. & Mrs. Irving Levy Mr. & Mrs. Cory Martin Mrs. Sigmund Harpman Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kaplan Mr. & Mrs. Paul Kullman Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Levy Ms. Shirley Masinter Mr. & Mrs. Harold Harris Mr. & Mrs. Mark Kaplinsky Dr. & Mrs. Lary Kupor Mr. Paul Levy Mr. & Mrs. Sanford Maslansky Mr. & Mrs. Joel Harris Mr. & Mrs. David Karesh Mr. & Mrs. Julian Kurtz Mrs. Saundra Levy Mr. Harold Masters

Attorney 1995 2003 Three Past Warren Goldstein, Presidents, left pictured with JCRS to right, Betsy Board Member Christie Mintz, Threefoot Kaston serves as JCRS President. Warren (1999-2001), was an advocate for those in Dr. Jeanie Tolmas need, especially for individuals (2003-2005) and families who suffered from illness, disability and 2001 Attorney Michael and Lee Scharff despair. Warren created three special scholarship Botnick serves as President (1997-1999). funds in memory of his family and friends. of JCRS from 2001-2003.

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Mrs. Michael Masters Mr. & Mrs. Richard Neff Dr. & Mrs. Scott Pollack Mr. Bernard Rosenfeld Dr. & Mrs. David Schneider Mr. & Mrs. Charles Masur Mr. & Mrs. Les Nelson Dr. & Mrs. Harlan Pollock Drs. Harvey & Judith Rosenstock Mr. & Mrs. Steven Schneider Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Masur Mrs. Jeannette Nestvold Mr. David Pollow Mr. & Mrs. David Ross Ms. Emily Schoenbaum Mr. & Mrs. Steven Mayer Network for Good Mrs. Debra Polsky Ms. Charla Roth Mr. Eric Scholl Mr. Kenneth P. & Dr. Paula Neuman Dr. & Mrs. Donald Posner Mr. & Mrs. Phil Roth Mr. Arne Schonberger Dr. Edith G.Mayers Ms. Marilyn Neumann Mr. & Mrs. Gideon Posner Mr. & Mrs. Alan Rothfeder Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Schreiber Mr. & Mrs. Leonid Mazur Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Newcomb Dr. & Mrs. Mark Posner Ms. Courtney Roth-Hernandez Mrs. Carol Schudmak Mr. & Mrs. Scott McDermott Mr. Morton Newman Ms. Marilyn Presser Mr. Robert Rothman Dr. & Mrs. Herman Schultz Mr. & Mrs. Tim McQuinn Mr. & Mrs. Brian Noble Mr. & Mrs. Peter Pressman Mr. George Rothschild Jr. Mr. Stanley Schwam Rabbi Ralph Mecklenburger Mr. & Mrs. Seth Noble Dr. & Mrs. Randall Prince Mrs. Bettie Rubenstein Mr. Donald Schwarcz Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Meer Ms. Laurie Norwick Dr. & Mrs. Donald Pulitzer Mr. Morris Rubin Ms. Sandy Schwarcz Mrs. Michael Mehlman Mrs. Herbert Notowich Mr. Stanley Pulitzer Dr. Samuel Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Louis Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Mrs. Michael Novominsky Mr. & Mrs. Charles Pulman Mrs. Pat Rubins Mr. & Mrs. William Schwartz David Meltzer Mr. & Mrs. Robert Orkin Mrs. Amy Quinn Mr. & Mrs. Bill Rubinsky Ms. Barbara Schwarz Mr. Bradley Meltzer Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Orlansky Ms. Regina Ranish Mr. Ernest & Ms. Katy Wiltz Rudman Mr. Myron Schwitzer Dr. & Mrs. Ervin Mendlovitz Mrs. Nathan Ostrich Mrs. Lynn Rathmell Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Rutkoff Mr. & Mrs. Robert Scott Mr. & Mrs. Gerardo Mercado Mr. Peter Pactor Ms. Emilie Ratner Mrs. Hyman Sackett Mrs. Lee Sear Ms. Violette Metz Mr. & Mrs. Melvyn Padawer Miss Hannah Rau Mr. & Mrs. Michael Sackett Rabbi Jack Segal Rabbi Barbara Metzinger Mr. & Mrs. Harrell Pailet Mr. & Mrs. Jack Rau Ms. Lana Sadler Mrs. Miriam Selig Mr. & Mrs. Harold Meyer Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Pailet Mr. & Mrs. William Rau Mrs. Lester Sewel Mr. Oleg Mikhailov Mr. David Safer Ms. Kristin Palmer Ms. Allison Raynor Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Saikin SF Media Consultants, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. Alfred Miller Mr. & Mrs. Ben Shanker Mr. & Mrs. James Paras Reachout, Inc. Mr. Nathan Salant Ms. Eleanor Miller Mrs. Cecilia Shapiro Mrs. Elena Pariente Mr. & Mrs. Larry Regen Mrs. Nita-Joan Sams Mr. Marc Miller Mrs. Heidi Shapiro Mrs. Jerry Paul Mr. & Mrs. Dave Reinlieb Mr. & Mrs. Larry Samuel III Mrs. Lilyan Milner Mrs. Reva Shapiro Mrs. Reva Pearl Mr. & Mrs. Michael Retan Mrs. Barbara Samuels Mr. & Mrs. William Mimeles Rabbi & Mrs. Robert Sharff Mr. & Mrs. Jack Pearlman Dr. & Mrs. Gregory Rich Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Samuels Mrs. Bracha Minc Mr. & Mrs. Frank Shaw Mr. & Mrs. Fred Pelsinger Mrs. Rose Rich Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Samuels Mr. Meyer Minchen Mr. & Mrs. David Shcolnik Mr. & Mrs. Gary Penzato Dr. & Mrs. Brian Rifkin Mr. & Mrs. William Samuels Mr. & Mrs. Mark Mintz Shell Oil Company Foundation Mrs. Manuel Perelman Mr. & Mrs. Adam Ritter Mr. & Mrs. Irwin Sandberg Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Mishael Mr. Marvin Shemper Mr. Ellis Perlberg Mr. & Mrs. Steven Rittvo Mr. & Mrs. Alan Sandgarten Mr. & Mrs. James Moffa Mrs. Ralph Shepard Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Perlen Dr. & Mrs. Richard Robbins Mr. & Mrs. Dominick Sasser Mrs. Rosa Moore Mr. & Mrs. Bart Sherwood Mr. & Mrs. Richard Perles Mr. & Mrs. Richard Roby Dr. & Mrs. Donald Sawyer Mr. & Mrs. Allan Morris Dr. & Mrs. Benjamin Shieber Mr. & Mrs. Edmund Perwien Mr. & Mrs. D. J. Romano Mr. & Mrs. Milton Schachter Ms. Sharon Morris Shir Chadash Conservative Ms. Barbara Morrison Mrs. Jane Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Lee Ronnel Dr. & Mrs. Donald Schaffer Congregation Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Sarah Mulkey Mrs. Lenore Picard Mr. Michael Roosth Ms. Lonnie Schaffer Ms. Sydney Shivers Mr. & Mrs. Ellis Murov Mr. & Mrs. Joel Picker Ms. Caryn Roseman Mr. & Mrs. Rudolf Schatzmann Mrs. Leona Shlosman Mr. & Mrs. Arnie Nachmann Dr. & Mrs. Mark Picus Mrs. Charles Rosen II Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Scheinberg Mr. Bryan Shockley Mr. & Mrs. Adam Nahmias Mr. & Mrs. Barry Pidgeon Ms. Eileen Rosen Mr. & Mrs. Robert Schenk Ms. Iris Shorin Mr. & Mrs. Donald Nalick Mr. Marc Pinker Mr. & Mrs. George Rosen Mr. & Mrs. Charles Scher The Hon. & Mrs. William Shulman Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Naman Mr. & Mrs. Charles Pinsky Mr. & Mrs. Michael Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Schlosberg Mr. & Mrs. Eric Siegel Mr. & Mrs. Robert Namer Ms. Barbara Polikoff Mr. Sol Rosenberg Drs. Michael & Susan Schmitz Mr. Terry Siegel Mr. Max Nathan Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Philip Pollack Mr. & Mrs. Brad Rosenblat Dr. & Mrs. Coleman Schneider Ms. Zelda Siegel Our Time in History… 2003 Tax 2005 Lawrence Lehmann 2006 JCRS provides more than 500 attorney serves as JCRS President during scholarships for Jewish children to Bruce Miller the devastation from Hurricanes enjoy a unique Jewish experience at becomes Katrina and Rita. JCRS sleep-away camps JCRS Camp immediately opens including Greene Scholarship a second office in Family Camp in Committee Houston. Bruceville, TX, Co-chair. In the 1960’s, Bruce received and Camp Henry camp scholarship aid from JCRS, and later S. Jacobs in became JCRS President. Utica, MS.

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Ms. Barbara Sielaff Dr. & Mrs. Melville Sternberg Mrs. Marcelyn Vener Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Zaslow Mr. & Mrs. Albert Sikora Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Sternfels Mrs. Max Vernon Mrs. Zhanna Zeppelin Mrs. Juanita Silberstein Mr. & Mrs. John Stevenson Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Forrest Villarrubia Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Zeringue Ms. Joyce Silver Mrs. Cecelia Stewart Mrs. Susan Vogel Mr. & Mrs. Prosper Ziri Mr. & Mrs. Carl Silverstein Rabbi & Mrs. Arnold Stiebel Mr. Lee Vorisek & Patricia Joyce Mr. Leon Zoller Dr. Cathy E. Lazarus &Dr. Eric Simon Mrs. Carol Stone Mrs. Judith Wahba Mrs. Rebecca Zwart Ms. Donna Simon Mr. & Mrs. Robert Stone Ms. Lisa Wainer Mrs. Eric Simon Ms. Sandi Stone Dr. & Mrs. Cedric Walker Mr. & Mrs. Robert Simon Ms. Suzanne Stone Ms. Lisa Wall Dr. & Mrs. Charles Simonson Mrs. Mary Stone-Baer Rabbi & Mrs. Roy Walter Ms. Fern Singer Mr. & Mrs. Mark Strauss Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Wax Mr. & Mrs. Randall Singer Dr. & Mrs. Richard Streiffer Mr. & Mrs. Donald Weil Dr. & Mrs. Tod Singer Mr. Gerald Strug Dr. & Mrs. Martin Weil Federation Allocations Mr. & Mrs. Jaikaran Singh Mr. Melvin Sturm Mr. & Mrs. Joel Weinbaum Received: Mr. & Mrs. Ben Sissman Mr. & Mrs. Max Sukiennik Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Weiner Mr. Maxx Sizeler Ms. Joye Swain Ms. Celia Weinstein Birmingham Jewish Federation Mrs. Morris Skalka Mrs. Donald Sweet Dr. & Mrs. L. Steve Weinstein Mrs. Shirley Skalovsky Mr. Jared Swenson Ms. Sandra Weinstein CENLA United Jewish Communities Mr. & Mrs. Michael Slive Mrs. Robert Swerdlow Dr. & Mrs. Scott Weisberg Hattiesburg Jewish Welfare Fund Ms. Sami Slovy Mr. Benjamin Swig Mr. and Mrs. Alan Weissman Jewish Federation of Arkansas Mr. & Mrs. Robert Taffet Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Wender Ms. Annette Smason Jewish Federation of Central Alabama Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Smith Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Tan Dr. & Mrs. Elliot Weser Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Smith Dr. & Mrs. Matthew Tarr Dr. Alvin Wexler Jewish Federation of Greater Austin Mr. & Mrs. Richard Smith Mr. & Mrs. Lamar Tarver Dr. & Mrs. Nathan Wexler Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas Mr. & Mrs. Richard Snyder Rabbi & Mrs. Arnold Task Mr. & Mrs. Jason White Jewish Federation of Greater Houston Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Socol Mr. & Mrs. Brett Tatar Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Widofsky Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans Mr. Allen Organick Mr. & Mrs. Robert Teel Mr. John Williams & Ms. Ellen Soffer Temple Beth Or Mrs. Lorraine Williams Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City Mrs. Ted Solomon Temple B’nai Israel Mrs. Sandra Williams Jewish Federation of Nashville & Middle Tennessee Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sonstein Mr. & Mrs. Michael Tenenbown Rabbi & Mrs. Kalman Winnick Jewish Federation of Tulsa Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Sorin Mr. & Mrs. David Thorpe Mr. & Mrs. Irving Winter Dr. Adam Spanier Drs. Jonathan & Monica Tischler Mr. & Mrs. Brian Wittlin Jewish Federation of Waco Mrs. Sharon Spector Dr. Hilton Title Mr. & Mrs. Joram Wolanow Memphis Jewish Federation Mr. Jordan Staffin Mr. & Mrs. Ben Tobor Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell Wolf Meridian Jewish Welfare Fund Dr. and Mrs. David Stein Mr. & Mrs. Alan Tolmas Dr. Thomas Wolf Mr. Edgar Stein Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Trachtenberg Mr. & Mrs. Michelle & Seth Wolnek Mobile Area Jewish Federation, Inc. Ms. Laurel Steinberg Dr. & Mrs. Louis Trachtman Mr. & Mrs. David Wurtzel North Louisiana Jewish Federation Mr. & Mrs. Marc Steinberg Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Traub Mr. & Mrs. Paul Wurtzel The Jewish Federation of Fort Worth & Tarrant County Mrs. Sonya Stenzler Mrs. Bene Turner Mrs. Jocelyn Wurzburg Mr. & Mrs. Paul Sterbcow Dr. & Mrs. Kurt Tweraser Mr. & Mrs. Greg Yamin Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Stern Mr. & Mrs. Roger Tygier Mr. & Mrs. Marc Yellin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Stern Dr. & Mrs. Barry Uretsky Mrs. Eugenia Yuspeh Mr. & Mrs. Roger Stern Mrs. Seymour Van Os Mrs. Robert Yuspeh

2012 JCRS presents its first 2016-2017 JCRS sets Jewish Roots Annual Gala a new service record by at the Ogden Museum serving or funding more of Southern Art. than 1700 Jewish youth in a 12-month period! 2008 JCRS adds PJ LIBRARY to its outreach programs. JCRS now serves or funds more than 800 Jewish youth across its seven-state region.

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2016 ANNUAL JEWISH ROOTS GALA Jewish Roots: Past, Present & Future

On April 1, 2017, JCRS presented its “Jewish Roots: Past, Orleans community. We are continuing to grow and expand, Present & Future” Gala at the Hyatt Regency. The Gala as JCRS also continues to add new programs and reach highlighted New Orleans’ culinary institutions, past and more and more of the communities in which we live,” Marv present. This was the 6th “Jewish Roots” event in as many Ammari, CCRC CEO, said years and we are proud that it has become one of the largest community-wide Jewish gatherings in New Orleans The JCRS Jewish Roots Gala honored all of its former with over 400 people from New Orleans. Presidents and Scholarship Committee Chairs for their leadership and dedication to bettering the lives of Jewish Creole Cuisine Restaurant Concepts (CCRC) provided the children throughout the South. New Orleans native, Amanda entire menu for the Gala cocktail reception and a three- Abrams, Chief Program & Innovation Officer at the Marcus course dinner from many of its upscale establishments— Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, and a JCRS past Broussard’s, The Bombay Club, Tommy’s Cuisine, Kingfish camp and college aid recipient, shared her personal journey Kitchen and Cocktails, and special event venue, Marché. to JCRS “success story” status during a brief program. Entertainment was provided by the NOCCA Jazz Ensemble. “We are thrilled to partner with such a fantastic organization as JCRS. Our family of restaurants, like JCRS and its Jewish Children’s Home, share in the history and future of the New

18 JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report JCRS EVENTS Highlights & Information

LATKES WITH A TWIST Our community-wide celebration of the Festival of Lights

JCRS hosted its 3rd Annual “Latkes with a Twist,” a with spirits donated by Sazerac Brands, live music by New community-wide Hanukkah celebration on Thursday, Orleans’ own COOT, and a silent auction. December 15, 2016 at the Dryades Public Market. Last year, The Washington Post listed this event as one of the Funds raised through the event support the PJ Library® Top 10 Hanukkah parties in the US! program which provides free monthly gifts of books and music to Jewish children. In addition, proceeds from the The evening featured a complimentary latke bar by Chef event enable JCRS to assist greater numbers of vulnerable David Slater of Emeril’s New Orleans, who served up Jewish youth and families across our seven state region. delicious latkes with toppings such as Louisiana caviar, smoked salmon, beef carpaccio and roasted beets with “This party is amazing!” said Karen (Mrs. Leopold) Sher, horseradish sauce. as she looked around the party premises where more than 175 people gathered for the festivities. French Market Drinks, including a “Vodka Latke” punch and a Buffalo Coffee and Sher Garner Law Firm were the lead sponsors. Trace “Hanukkah Hi-Ball,” were created by Bar 38’s team

JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report 19 WAYS TO SUPPORT JCRS You Can Make a Difference

SUPPORT JEWISH CHILDREN & FAMILIES To say that there are many opportunities to support JCRS is an understatement!

Supporter Donations JCRS supporters come from all income levels. Some contributors donate every month, some contribute yearly or multiple times a year. We are pleased to say that last year, over 1500 households made individual contributions to JCRS programs. The JCRS client base is 100% Jewish. Our organization is not eligible for United Way funding, government grants, or donations from most corporate Sister Success Stories: (top to bottom) Lauren and Ashley Weil foundations, as most have non-discrimination clauses. This from Huntsville, AL; Tamar, Talia and Johanna Bork from El Paso, TX; means that JCRS needs support at all giving levels, from Danielle and Stacy Shapiro from Houston, TX. individuals, families and foundations that are based in the Jewish community. Donate in Honor of a Loved One Levels: JCRS acknowledges all gifts, both to you and to the person $50,000 Annual Program Benefactor or family you honor. We send individual letters to you and $25,000 Gold Program Sponsor honorees. Family gifts are acknowledged to each family $10,000 Permanent Named Fund member. In addition, each donor is provided a separate $1,400 Benefactor (Full Scholarship Provider) certification for each tax-deductible contribution to JCRS. $700 Patron (Half Scholarship Provider) $250 Guardian $100 Century Club Membership $50 Sustaining Donation $36 Friends Donation (Double Chai) Create a JCRS Legacy Funding a Scholarship The preferred method of helping needy Jewish children with Planned Giving and their families, by a growing number of donors, has You can make a lasting difference in the lives of Jewish been to create a scholarship fund at the Jewish Children’s children with a legacy gift to JCRS. Regional Service. Establishing a fund at the JCRS accom- Help secure the future of JCRS and provide a perpetual plishes several goals: financial safety net for special needs assistance, college • Help needy Jewish youths in one or more scholarships and Jewish summer camp experience with scholarship programs on an ongoing basis. a planned gift today. • Donor family can commit to a specific Tzedakah project, such as one of the JCRS Planned Giving Opportunities Include: scholarship programs. • Simple bequest in will or trust • Family to permanently honor or memorialize a • Outright gift using appreciated assets or cash loved one by naming a scholarship for needy • IRA or pension plan youths after that individual. • Life Insurance policy The minimum commitment to establish a named scholar- JCRS is an IRS 501-C-3 non-profit agency and, as such, ship fund is $10,000, which can be paid out over five years. your gift is fully tax deductible.

20 JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report FINANCIAL JCRS 2016-2017 Final Budget

BUDGET INCOME Federation Allocations $111,096 Special Needs $90,159 Oscar J. Tolmas Hanukkah Program $50,800 Education $81,336 PJ Library $18,355 Camp $45,709

General Contributions $116,559 Endowment Income $500,000 Event Income $148,556 Special Contributions $318,679 Other Trusts Income $60,972 Miscellaneous $3,273

TOTAL INCOME $1,545,495

EXPENSE PJ Library $104,217 Oscar J. Tolmas Hanukkah Program $99,633 Special Needs $298,434 Education $292,751 Camp $261,669 Family Life Outreach $115,741 Fundraising $121,850 Events $53,526 General & Administration $220,566 TOTAL EXPENSES $1,568,387

EXCESS or (DEFICIT) -$22,892

JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report 21 ENDOWMENTS The JCRS Endowment

The JCRS endowment consists of approximately 120 individual funds established for a variety of purposes; however, the majority of the funds are for camp, college and special needs for Jewish children. Our endowment includes both donor restricted funds and funds designated by the Governing Members to function as endowments. CAMP SPECIAL NEEDS George Altbach Camp Fund Beerman Family Fund Gerald & Joan Berenson Fund Joan Berenson Special Needs Fund Louis Berkie Fund Morris Eisenstadt Fund Rube Golding & Manuel Berry Fund Elise Yarrut Fishman Fund Libbie Burke Fund Brenda & Fred Friedman Children’s Fund Frances Davidson Scholarship Fund Marvin Goldberg Special Needs Fund Linda & Marty Davidson Camp Fund Ned & Wendy Goldberg Fund Ronia & Louis Davidson Camp Fund Libbey S. Kent & Warren A. Goldstein Fund Ginsburg Camp Scholarship Fund Barry & Charlotte Gomel Family Scholarship Fund Dr. George & Karen “Kitty” Hilda & K. Kennard Gross Fund Greenberg Camp Scholarship Fund Albert & Rea Hendler Children’s Fund Albert & Rea Hendler Children’s Fund Dmitri Kachkov Special Needs Fund Max Itzkowitz Memorial Camp Fund I. Jay Krieger Family Fund E.P. & Roberta L. Kirschner Camp Fund Barbara & Earl Magdovitz Family Special Needs Fund Alexander & Eleanore Kline Fund Barry Jay Mason Memorial Fund Betty & Ira Kohn Camp Scholarship Fund Mayer Electric Special Needs Fund Krasne/Haspel Family Camp Scholarship Fund Rittenberg Family Fund Rubinett, Elsner, Levy Fund Daniel Scharff Scholarship Fund Ray & Henry Maslansky Camp Scholarship Fund Schultz Family Gahm Ani Fund Sam & Sara Niemetz Fund Sara & Saul Stone Special Needs Fund Zoe Wise Oreck Fund TG Special Needs Fund Isabel & Gerald Posner Camp Fund Tolmas Family Scholarship Fund Jack & Lillian Pulitzer Camp Fund Oscar J. Tolmas Special Needs Fund The Rittvo Family Camp Fund Connie C. & Hyman C. Tolmas Fund Vivian B. & Louis Rosen Camp Fund Gerson Z. Tolmas Memorial Fund Shirley Schneider Fund Gina & Alan Tolmas Fund Randal Fellman Singer Campership Fund Wallick Fund for Autistic Children Viola Weiss Fund Michael & Rose Fay Yuspeh Fund for Special Needs Children Zelnicker Fund

22 JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report ENDOWMENTS

EDUCATION Eduardo Bandarovsky Education Fund Herzfeld Family Fund Janet Loeb & James B. Pfeifer Fund Joan Seidenbach Berenson Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy Heymann Fund Gerald Posner Medical Fund Scholarship Fund D. H. Hirsberg Education Fund Lillian & Marion Randazzo Fund Byrde Berenson Haspel Fund Lillian & Many Juskowitz Memorial Fund Larry Reynolds Fund Mollie Kancher & Ida Blitz Fund E.P. & Roberta L. Kirschner Fund No. 1 The Rittvo Family Education Fund Hannah Blum Fund E.P. & Roberta L. Kirschner Fund No. 2 Roffman Family Financial Aid Fund Blumenthal Family Jewish Children’s Fund Hannah & Joseph Klein Education Fund Pearl & Meyer Romick Education Fund Bogalusa Fund Broniatowski/Klein Families Fund Rabbi Hebert Rutman Scholarship Fund Augusta Bourke/D. Loeb Memorial for Refugee Children Tillie M. & Morris J. Samuels Fund Scholarship Fund Sam & Ida Koltun Fund Schwarcz Family Education Fund Lorynne & Robert Cahn Education Fund Levitan/Leichner/Koniarski Fund Shirley & Ralph Seelig Educational Fund Bessie Kantrovich Chodorow Theodore Levi Education Fund Ted & Harriet Seymour Memorial Fund Education Fund Nathan Levine Fund Shanker Family Scholarship Fund Tillie Baker & Louis Cohen Fund Douglas G. Loeb Memorial Millie Singer Scholarship Fund Ronia & Louis Davidson Education Fund Scholarship Fund Helen Lubow Sizeler Fund J.L. Fischman, MD Memorial Medical Fund Ben S. Weil & Fannie Weil Loeb Fund Edith & Herbert Stehberg Edward M. Franco Fund Joseph & Freda Lowenthal Rosalyn G. Snyderman Education Fund Betty & Milton Freedman Scholarship Fund Scholarship Fund Sara & Saul Stone Scholarship Fund Richard & Linda Friedman Dave & Hazel Marcus Fund Tannenbaum Family Scholarship Fund Educational Fund Sara Matile & David Schwarz Oscar J. Tolmas Education Fund Simon & Jane Gelfand Education Fund College Education Fund Lillian Widofsky Memorial Irving Gerson Scholarship Fund Doris & Lee H. Meltzer Fund Educational Fund Anna & Seymour Gitenstein Fund Ellis & Elaine Mintz Fund Kalman & Ida Wolens Fund Jerome Glazer Scholarship Fund Jean & Saul A. Mintz Family Jack C. Wormser Family Scholarship Fund Louis & Lillian Glazer Family Scholarship Fund Zalik Family Scholarship Fund Foundation Education Fund J. George & Willine Mitnick Foundation Jack Zurawel Educational Scholarship Fund Dave & Harry Goldstein Memorial Fund Jewish Children’s Fund Ellis & Reva Hart Educational Henry Newman Educational Fund Scholarship Fund Sarah & Joe Pasternack, Jr. Family Fund DOWRY Carol & Van Eaton Hart, Sr. Fund Rogers & Bessie Perlis Scholarship Fund Simon Gumbel Fund Helen Gold Haymon Educational Fund Louis Peters/Joseph Samuels/Ralph LECTURE Albert & Rea Hendler Children’s Fund Beerman Fund Sanford Weiss Memorial Fund OTHER Gordon & Ann Rosen Fund Lorynne & Robert Cahn PJ Library Fund Oscar J. Tolmas Hanukkah Program Fund

JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report 23 A GIFT TO LAST FOREVER JCRS Hannah & Joseph Klein Education Fund Endowed

Hannah Leah Freeman Klein, of blessed memory, believed that education was the key; the key to a future, to joy, and to success. Through her and her husband’s dedication, so many doors will be unlocked by the creation of the Hannah and Joseph Klein Education Fund of the JCRS.

“My wife’s intelligence, curiosity, and desire for a challenge were just part of what made her so beautiful to me,” Joseph Klein said of his beloved wife.

“This education fund is to honor her life and her memory and I hope that receiving students will study hard, reach their goals, and find their dreams fulfilled. Then, she will always live on.” Joseph and Hannah Leah Klein. Photo submitted by Joseph Klein. The Hannah and Joseph Klein Education Fund will support JCRS’ provision of grants and no-interest loans to students attending colleges and vocational training programs.

JCRS’ students, in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas have received “This education fund is to honor hundreds of thousands of dollars. In 2017, JCRS provided nearly 130 students with an average of $2500 each. her life and her memory, and I

“JCRS is honored to be remembered by Joseph and Hannah with their generous gift and establishment of an hope that receiving students will educational endowment fund. Gifts such as these help new generations of Jewish youth while also fulfilling the donor’s study hard, reach their goals, and intention as a memorial, and truly a legacy to Hannah and her respect of education,” said JCRS Executive Director, find their dreams fulfilled. Then, Ned Goldberg. she will always live on.” “When Hannah and I wrote our wills, JCRS and the children it serves – many who are in the same position she was — said of his late wife Hannah, and the many years ago – was her first bequest,” said Klein. “It was Joseph Klein because she couldn’t finish her education that she always Hannah and Joseph Klein Education Fund of the Jewish wanted to make a difference for someone else and now, Children’s Regional Service, of which the two endowed. together, we can do just that and create our legacy.”

If you would like to honor or memorialize a loved one by establishing a scholarship fund at JCRS, call 800.729.5277, email [email protected], visit www.jcrs.org, or write to PO Box 7368, Metairie, LA, 70010-7368.

24 JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report GOVERNING MEMBERS OFFICERS March& 2016-March 2017 States Served Officers Marc Beerman, President Tracey Dodd, Vice President James “Jim” Pfeifer, Vice President Neil Kohlman, Vice President and President-Elect Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana Alexander “Sandy” Cohen, Treasurer Misissippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas Donald Meltzer, Secretary

P.O. BOX 7368, Metairie, LA 70010-7368 Contact TEL: 800-SAY-JCRS • TEL: 504-828-6334 • EMAIL: [email protected]

MEMBERS GOVERNING Keith Adler Robin Levy Brian Bain Joshua Lowentritt Gerald & Joan Berenson Ellen Lowitz HONORARY Dennis Berger Earl & Barbara Magdovitz Elissa Bluth Gerson & Judy May OFFICERS Ben & Micki Bronston Melinda Mintz Michael Botnick Julian Brook Margo Moss Warren A. Goldstein James Cahn Carrie Pailet George S. Greenberg Charles F. Cohen Sanford Pailet Nancy Guidry Cheryl Rubenstein Drazin Helen Polmer Lisa Heller Jerry & Lynn Eisenstatt Copey Pulitzer Betsy Threefoot Kaston Leah Elenzweig Barry & Lori Ripps Lawrence Lehmann Marilyn Rau Englander Joel & Nancy Roffman Louis Fishman Vicki Samuels Charles E. Loeb, Jr. David & Sandra Ginsburg Mark Sands Bruce A. Miller Bob & Judy Ginsburgh David Schneider Howard S. Prince Dov Glazer Jerry & Linda Shemper Leon Rittenberg, III Sheila Gold Rose Sher Lee W. Scharff Marcie Goldberg Kathy Shepard Phyllis S. Stern Michael & Brenda Goldman Katie Single Sara B. Stone Jackie Gothard Dr. Michelle Genet Soll Jeanie Tolmas Milton Grishman Harold & Judy Steinberg Harry Gross Margie Steinberg Shelia Guidry Jackie Stern David Gurievsky Janice Stern Esther Hendler Myron F. Steves, Jr. Jane Kahn Alan & Gina Tolmas Byron & Susan Kantrow Eileen Wallen Meyer Kaplan Bruce Waltzer Ellen Kessler Henry Weber Kenneth Klein Marjorie Weiner Robert Koppel Aaron Wolfson Janet Krane Paul & Patricia Wurtzel Alan Krilov Rowena M. Young Ethan Linden Ron Zander David & Ellen Levy

JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report 25 OUR STAFF

Ned Goldberg, ACSW/LCSW Lisa Tabb, LCSW Executive Director Director of Programs

Ned has served as JCRS Executive Lisa joined JCRS in the Spring of 2006. Director since 1988. Prior to moving to Before, Lisa worked for eight years as a New Orleans to lead JCRS, he served in school social worker with Orleans Parish professional capacities with three Jewish Public Schools. In this capacity, she Family Service agencies in Florida and Ohio. A native of collaborated with community agencies, Cincinnati, Ned has also served in professional social work facilitated parenting programs, wrote and managed grants, roles with the Child Welfare Division of the Cuyahoga and provided individual and group therapy. Lisa holds a County Welfare Department, Parmadale Children’s Village Masters of Social Work and a Masters of Management and served as a social work consultant in Florida in the in Non-Profit Administration from NYU. Currently, 1980’s. He is graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Lisa manages the agency’s process improvements by the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case developing policies and procedure to increase agency Western Reserve University. efficiency. She also coordinates the Education Program and facilitates agency events. Bonnie Lustig, LCSW Director of Client Services Janice Strug Zazulak Camp Coordinator Bonnie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in LA and NY. She earned her MSW Janice is a New Orleans native. She degree from the University of Chicago, graduated from Washington University holds a Post-Masters Certificate in Child, with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology Couples and Family Therapy from Tulane and a teaching certificate in secondary education. She University, and has served as a social work field instructor at later attended the University of New Orleans, where she Columbia University. In addition to social work, Bonnie has completed the course work required to sit for the CPA been employed in formal and informal Jewish education examination, obtaining this certification in 1983. After throughout her adult life. Bonnie’s primary roles at JCRS working for twenty plus years in the field of medical billing, are Case Manager of the Special Needs Program, and she joined the staff of the JCRS in 2011 as the camp Coordinator of the PJ Library® outreach program for the scholarship coordinator, reviewing all camp applications. Greater New Orleans and Southern States communities. She also reviews tax returns in the determination process of financial needs of special needs applicants. Mark Rubin Development Director Melanie Musser, LCSW Houston Area Services Coordinator Mark joined JCRS in September 2012 as the agency’s first-ever Development Melanie, LCSW joined JCRS in 2002 and Director. Mark is a fundraising presently works in our Houston office as professional with more than 16 years of the Houston Area Service Coordinator. mission driven development experience. Prior to 2006, she served as Education He has worked for national and local organizations such Coordinator for JCRS. She previously as the American Cancer Society, the Arthritis Foundation served as a clinical social worker, serving children and and Tulane University. Mark has a Masters Degree in Arts families for the New Orleans Adolescent Hospital and Administration from the University of New Orleans and Compass Intervention Center of Memphis, TN. She is a a liberal arts degree from New York University where graduate of Tulane University, where she received a Master he graduated with distinction. At JCRS, he manages of Social Work degree, and the University of New Orleans, solicitation strategies. He identifies and cultivates new where she received a Bachelor of Psychology degree. She is donors in the seven state region. a licensed clinical social worker in Louisiana and Texas.

26 JCRS 2016-17 Annual Impact Report Charles Pinsky IT Coordinator

Charles started as a computer programmer in South Africa in 1965 and has worked in the computer field since then. His first job was with a computer bureau that served many of the mines. His life has taken him from South Africa to England to the United States. His longest period of employment was with Digital Equipment Corporation in the US. Professionally he has been a programmer, systems analyst, development manager, consultant, teacher and IT Manager. Since retirement Charles has assisted JCRS in all aspects of hardware and software acquisition, management and customization.

Joan Smiley Office Manager

Joan has been with JCRS for 42 years! She takes tremendous pride in our organization and is thrilled to be part of such an impactful agency.

Colleen Amedio Database Administrator

Colleen has been with JCRS since 2006. She began her career at JCRS as an Administrative Assistant. She also serves as our Hanukkah Gift Program’s Registrar.

Cindy Solomon Top: JCRS Success Story and former Administrative college aid recipient Justin Sackett addresses the Annual Business Meeting. Cindy joined JCRS in December 2014. Middle: The Hersh Family of Pearland, TX; Previously, she was the director of the father Edward, with sons Jonathan, Craig Mother’s Day Out preschool program. and Robbie, who all received camp and She worked for many years with office college aid from JCRS after their mother administration in education and retail suffered a long illness and passed away. Board-nominating chair environmnets. She enjoys traveling Bottom: Bruce with outgoing president and spending time with her family, including her two Miller Marc Beerman and wife Angela. grandchildren.

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