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DECEMBER 6,1990
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TEMPLE ISRAEL SISTERHOOD
Celebrating 100 years of service
Temple Israel Sisterhood
will observe its 100th anniversary at the congregation's
Sabbath service on Dec. 7. An
original service written and
officiated by Rabbi Bradley
Bleefeld will be followed by a
special Oneg Shabbat with displays featuring 100 years of
Sisterhood activities.
Named for Rose B.
Lazarus, who served as president for 25 years, the oldest
women's organization in Columbus originated in 1890 with
the specific purpose of earning
money to purchase a pipe
organ. Many times during the
next decade, the organ purchase was delayed by a request for funds to meet other
Temple needs.
However, the women persevered and in the early 1900s
the 73 member congregation
moved to Bryden Road, and
the new organ was dedicated
around 1905.
During the next three
decades (1910 - 1940), the
women of the Temple, while
continuing to be a fund-raising
auxiliary, aided the Red Cross
in its war effort, helped fund a
Hebrew Union College dormitory and established the Temple youth group and the Temple library, named in memory of Meta Marx Lazarus,
The Sisterhood received
plaques and commendations
for its efforts during World
War n, Including War Bonds
sales, blood donor recruitment, Serve-A-Hospital program at the Chillicothe
Veterans' Hospital and its
USO evenings for servicemen.
During this time, the congregation celebrated its 100th
anniversary, and in 1947 Rabbi and Mrs. Jerome Folkman
were welcomed to Columbus
by the 437 Temple members.
Fundraising continued with
the opening of the Sisterhood
Gift Shop in 1951, a very successful 1956 Bazaar and the
annual sales of flower bulbs
and Uniongrams, the beneficiary of which is the YES
Fund. This fund supports high
school and college youth activities, provides financial aid for
education for North American
and overseas rabbinic students and funds development
of new Sisterhood programs.
These monies enabled the congregation to re-carpet the
sanctuary, purchase china
and silverware for 300 people,
equip the kitchen of the new
Temple and earn a Gold
Award for Uniongram sales
with Bessie Folkman serving
as the national chairwoman.
Education became an important part of the Sisterhood
regimen as the members enjoyed Rabbi Fdlkman's Bible
Class and book reviews. A
Temple Guides Committee
was initiated in the early 1960s
as visitors toured the new
Temple. A record 2200 women
attended Temple Israel Sisterhood's Interfaith Tea, a project spearheaded by Eleanor
Resler.
Support for the new
Temple's building fund and
for office equipment and furnishings came from the Gold
Plate Luncheon, for which at-
see SISTERHOOD pg, 9
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