Solomon Schechter Day School

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2007 clipping: named to serve on the National United Jewish Communities (UJC) Women's Philanthropy Board. Chosen due to her leadership in the Jewish Community after serving for two years as the Women's Philanthropy Campaign Chairman for the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford

2010 clipping: received the 2010 Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Award from the National Women's Philanthropy of the Jewish Federations of North America for her excellence in philanthropy and volunteerism

Interview [Possibly a handwritten abstract but handwriting is messy and often difficult to read]Activism on behalf of Soviet Jews in Maryland and Hartford, helped get Hartford into this activism and interested in helping resettle Soviet refugees in Hartford. Tricky dynamics between some activists and the early immigrants-some activists only wanted them to go to Israel/didn’t like that they would not demonstrate, but they were afraid for their families. Trip to USR to meet refuseniks....

Interview [Written abstract in the folder but handwriting is messy and often difficult to read.]Activism on behalf of Soviet Jews in Maryland and Hartford, helped get Hartford into this activism and interested in helping resettle Soviet refugees in Hartford. Tricky dynamics between some activists and the early immigrants-some activists only wanted them to go to Israel/didn’t like that they would not demonstrate, but they were afraid for their families. Trip to USR to meet refuseniks....

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File contains information on Theodore Kaplan's election as President of the Mandell Jewish Community Center in 2011.

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Articles about Blanche's time as board chair for the board of directors of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

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There are two transcripts in this file. First, there is an interview of Arnold Greenberg from 2006 as noted in biographical/historical note. Second, there is a transcript of a program at the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford featuring Arnold and Leonard Greenberg discussing their father Maurice Greenberg as well as their life growing up and their experience with Coleco/Connecticut Leather Company in 1981.