Jewish Hall of Fame at the JCC: 2013 Induction Ceremony Brochure.

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Publication Date 2013-06-12

Keywords honors; Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore; Civin, Curt I.

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"Do not be wise in words, be wise in deeds." - Jewish Proverb

The David and Barbara B. Hirschhorn Foundation • •

Will Minkin, Chairman of the Board

In my new role as Chairman, I am honored to help usher in the Baltimore Jewish Hall of Fame's Class of 2013. It is a thrill to celebrate the collective legacies of these individuals from various backgrounds and vocations whose talents and achievements have touched lives in Baltimore and the world.

By documenting the outstanding accomplishments of each honoree and the group comprising the Baltimore Jewish Legion, we now have the opportunity to share these remarkable individuals with our children. What a source of inspiration and motivation to pass down to future generations. After all, who knows what will spark a child's imagination or influence a key life decision.

The Baltimore Jewish Hall of Fame also gives the JCC a chance to raise money for need-based scholarships for children and teens to participate in programs such as Early Childhood, Special Needs, Camp Milldale, the JCC Maccabi Experience, and Kids Center-the JCC's after-school care program.

We are extremely grateful to our sponsors, advertisers, donors, and event attendees who have helped contribute to this evening's success. I also want to thank our amazing event co-chairs, Abe Adler and Maury Garten, who for the second year have presided over the selection process and the planning of this enjoyable evening. Thanks also to the selection commit- tee for your dedication and hard work.

Finally, I want to acknowledge the JCC staff for surpassing our expecta- tions for the 2013 Baltimore Jewish Hall of Fame. We appreciate what you do everyday.

Enjoy the evening I

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OUR SPONSORS

LEAD SPONSOR

David and Barbara B. Hirschhorn Foundation

HONORARY SPONSORS

Enterprise

Richard Lansburgh

Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler and Shapiro Negotiations Institute

University of School of Medicine o THE ASSOCIATED

MEDIA SPONSORS

Baltimore Jewish Times

WYPR

WMAR/ABC2

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DONORS

Dody and Tommy Brager

Ruthie and David Carliner

Nancy and Curt Civin

Karen and Arthur Cohen

Miriam L Cohen

Helen Glushakow

Joyce and George Goodman

Trudy Greenberg

Margot W. Heller

Essie and Gil Herman

Randi and Marc Hertzberg

Gina and Daniel Hirschhorn

Nancy and Lloyd Mailman

Alexis Mulava

Peggy Otenasek

Laura Rubenstein

Amy Helsel & Jeremy Swerling

Susan and Gary Talles

Juliet A. Eurich and Louis B. Thalheimer

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Our inaugural class of inductees included:

Jacob Blaustein z"l

Shoshana S. Cardin

Jacob Epstein z"l

Dr. Louis L. Kaplan z"!

Zanvyl Krieger z"l

Joseph Meyerhoff z"l

Daniel Nathans, MD z"!

Solomon H. Snyder, MD

Walter Sondheim, Jr. z"l

Bert Vogelstein, MD

Dr. Abel Wolman ,"I

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Isadore S. Jachman ,"I

Morris W. Offit

Arnall Patz, MD. ,"I

Leon Sachs ,"1

Gilbert Sandler

Judge Simon E. Sobeloff ,"1

Henrietta Szold ,"1

Jeanette Rosner Wolman ,"1

Caiman J. Zamoiski Jr.

Rosalie Silber Abrams ,"I

Harry Greenstein ,"1

Bernard Manekin ,"1

Brenda Brown Rever

Lainy LeBow-Sachs

Carole Sibel

Leon Uris ,"1

Hy Zolet ,"1

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Rabbi Jacob B. Agus z"! Rabbi Agus was a leading rabbi, scholar and educator, as well as the long-time Rabbi of Beth EI Congregation for 30 years. He was born in 1911 and emigrated with his family to the United States in 1927 from Poland. He attended the Talmudic Academy, NY; graduating in 1929, and received his bachelor's degree from Yeshiva University in 1933 and was ordained by YU in 1935. In 1940 he received a PhD in Religious Thought from Harvard University and married Miriam 5hore the same year. Together they had four children, two boys and two girls. Rabbi Agus' rabbinic career took him to Norfolk, VA; Cambridge, MA; Chicago, IL; and Dayton, OH. In 1945, Rabbi Agus formally affiliated with the Conservative movement by joining the Rabbinical Assembly and in 1950 he became the rabbi of Beth EI Congregation in Baltimore where he remained for thirty years, retiring in 1980. As an inffuential member of the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly, Rabbi Agus was active on the Committee on Jewish law and Standards, chaired the Prayer Book Committee (1952-1956) and worked to define Conservative Jewish ideology through a series of conferences, committees and other gatherings, incfuding the Continuing Conference on Conservative Ideology (1956-1963). With Morris Adler and Theodore Friedman, he co-authored the "Responsum on the Sabbath" in 1950 which allowed Conservative Jews to use electricity and drive on the Sabbath. Rabbi Agus produced several books on Jewish philosophy and many articles on this and other themes and served as an advisor on Jewish topics for encycfopedias, incfuding the Encycfopedia Britannica and scholarly journals. He taught at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, St. Mary's Seminary and Ecumenical Institute, Temple University and Dropsie College. Along with his rabbinical and scholarly work, Rabbi Agus adopted the cause of interfaith and interracial relations, dubbing his forays into Jewish/Christian and Jewish/Christian/Muslim relations "dialogue" and "trieioque." He also served on the boards of the Baltimore National Council on Christian and Jews and the predominantly African-American Morgan State University. He died on September 26, 1986.

~ ~ Baltimore Jewish Hall ofFame 6 u[ the lee Leo Bretholz Leo Bretholz is a Holocaust survivor who has been speaking out to Jews and non-Jews in schools and universities for more than 50 years to give a voice to those who were silenced. Born in , on March 5, 1921 to Dora and Max Bretholz, Leo had two younger sisters, Henny and Ditta. His father died of natural causes when Leo was nine years old. On October 25, 1938, Leo's widowed mother sent Leo away to in the hope that he would survive. He never saw his mother and two sisters again. Between 1938 and 1945 Leo hid in attics, outran police, escaped from prison, and joined the Compagnons De under the false name of Max Henri Lefevre. On November 6, 1942 he did something amazing-he jumped from a train heading to Auschwitz. He is listed as a non-survivor in a book published in 1978 that chronicles the names of Jews who boarded a train in Draney, France headed to Auschwitz. In 1947 Leo arrived in Baltimore thanks to an aunt and uncle who were able to arrange affidavits of support. He met and married his dear wife Flo (a blessed memory) in 1952 and they went on to have three children. After fifteen years of living in Baltimore, Leo finally learned the tragic fate of his mother and sisters. Flo encouraged him to speak out about his experiences and make sure the world heard his story. With journalist , Leo wrote his life story titled "." A film called "See You Soon Again," about Leo's incredible experience was written and produced by Bernadette Wegenstein and featured in the 2012 Maryland Film Festival. To this day he receives hundreds of letters from both Jewish and non-Jewish students who have been touched by his message of hope and survival.

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Curt I. Civin, MD Dr.Curt Civin is the founding Director of the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine and the School of Medicine's Associate Dean for Research. He is internationally renowned for his pioneering cancer research at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions where in 1984 he made groundbreaking scientific discoveries that enabled the identification and isolation of blood- forming stem cells from other blood and bone marrow cells. Hailed for that breakthrough by honors such as 1999 National Inventor of the Year Award, Dr.Civin's discoveries have led to a much deeper understanding of stem cells and their development as well as to methods for both clinical bone marrow stem cell transplantation and leukemia diagnosis. Educated at Amherst College and Harvard Medical School, and trained at Boston's Children's Hospital and the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Civin began his thirty-year stint at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1979, leaving there with $21.5 million in ongoing extramural research funding to join the faculty and leadership of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr.Civin holds nine U.S. patents for biomedical inventions related to his stem cell research, has served on the board of several medical journals, and has published more than 230 articles. He also has been a tireless advocate for the increasing government funding of cancer research and stem cell research, and reducing restrictions on stem cel/ research. Dr.Civin is married to Nancy Banks Civin, a Holocaust educator who taught at the Gilman School. Their son, Joshua Ian Civin, Counsel to the Director of Litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., and their daughter-in-law, Katherine Tang Newberger, an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the U.S. District of Maryland, have a fIve year old son and a one year old daughter. Their son, Marcus Vaughan Civin, is an artist who teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art. And they all live in Baltimore!

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