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Membership runs from 7/1/14 - 6/30/15
TRAILBLAZER LEADERSHIP GIFTS provide support to the DJHS at the level of $500 and above. Congrats and thanks to our first Trailblazers of the year! Pioneers Andy Jacobs Lori & Trace Ordiway May Sebel |
Ruth Adler
Bernard Maslow
Rose Rolnick
James Burdine, Sr., JCC staff and friend of the Jewish community for many years. We will not only miss James' Doozie sandwiches and chocolate chip cookies, but his smile and care for those who enjoyed his food at the JCC and elsewhere.
May their memories be for a blessing and may the families be comforted among the other mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
In Honor of Harriet Gross' Birthday
- Michelle Meiches
- Roz Benjet
Donation to "One Story at a Time"
In Honor of
Terri Schepps
by Dan Moreland
The Dallas Jewish Historical Society gratefully accepts and acknowledges donations made in honor or in memory of a loved one.
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The Dallas Jewish Historical Society is a beneficiary and Partner Agency of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas and a member of the Texas Jewish Historical Society and the Southern Jewish Historical Society.
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Join the Dallas Jewish Community Mission and show your support for Israel. Click "The Big One" for info.
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Dallas-Fort Worth
Stands with Israel
(click to enlarge flyer)
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July 25, 2014 27 Tammuz 5754
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SAVE THE DATE!
"One Story at a Time . . .
A Mosaic of Our Dallas Jewish Community"
celebrating
NATIVES TO NEWCOMERS
who have shared their family stories*
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014 - 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Communities Foundation of Texas
*as part of the Oral History project of the Dallas Jewish Historical Society
Danna Simon Ann Margolin
Pauline Graivier Elise Power
Dan Moreland Scott H. Cytron
Neil Beckerman
Veronique & Hylton Jonas
Sherry & Ken Goldberg
Robert & Frannie Gardner
Sandy & Susan Schackman
Jeff & Lisa Genecov
Janet & Terry Kafka
Ellen & Josh Ungerman
Jaynie Schultz and Ron Romaner
Harrell & Marilyn Pailet
Natalie & Michael Waldman
Esther & Michael Meyers
Peggy & Dave Millheiser
Sally & Rick Rosenberg
Roz & Merv Benjet
For info or to volunteer CLICK
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Every Person has a Story . . .
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BUNNY RADMAN 
Bunny Radman says she ended up in Dallas "by accident." Due to some flight problems her husband ended up with a layover in Dallas and after speaking to a friend from dental school, he joined a practice here. Bunny speaks most proudly about her time at Jewish Family Service, where she initiated programs such as Kosher Meals on Wheels, transportation services for seniors and others and Lifeline for the Elderly. Throughout her years at JFS, Bunny focused on re-settlement: of Polish Jews, Russian immigrants after the Soviet Union allowed them to leave, and also immigrants from Uganda and other countries that JFS was asked by the U.S. government to help since they had the mechanisms in place to help. Bunny's a example of "standing up" and the ways our community takes care of its own and others in need.
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 PHYLLIS SOMER Phyllis Somer's parents came from Brooklyn to Dallas to go out on their own--as the younger son in a family business, her father wanted to use his talents for his young family, and they had already experienced anti-Semitism. As an adult, Phyllis has been very involved in the Jewish community, starting out in Younger Set, eventually chairing both Younger Set and Women's division of the Federation Campaign. In addition, Phyllis was a speaker for ADL when the Jewish community and Israel was being blamed for the oil shortage and was also active with American Jewish Committee and B'nai B'rith Women. As a Federation leader, Phyllis was very active in getting our local Federation involved in the issues about the freedom of Soviet Jewry. One thing she remembers most was getting to shake hands with Golda Meir who was on a visit to Dallas.
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Berta Goetz
Berta Goetz left Germany in 1934 at 6 years old, but didn't get to Dallas until the day after she was married in 1951. Her parents, alert to the growing anti-Semitism, moved their family first to Yugoslavia for a number of years, then Switzerland on the way to the United States and finally to Philadelphia. It was her husband's business that brought them to Dallas, and Berta and her husband joined Shearith Israel right away and raised their four children there. She marvels at the tremendous growth of both the city of Dallas and the Dallas Jewish community. Berta and her family remain active at the JCC and within the Jewish community, reaching out to those who need the services the community provides.
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Registration is OPEN . . . for the Southern Jewish Historical Society Annual conference
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Crossing Borders: Southern Jews in Global Contexts
October 23-26, 2014 Austin, Texas
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Click book cover to order from Texas A & M University Press
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and speaking of Jews in Texas . . . we're happy to announce that Texas A & M Press has re-issued the wonderful Natalie Ornish book:
"With more than 400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish's Pioneer Jewish Texans
quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.
This new Texas A&M University Press edition presents Ornish's meticulous research and her fascinating historical vignettes for a new generation of readers and historians." Ornish's book is also available from smile.Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com in both print and electronic editions.
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Soviet Jewry, and then working to bring so many to Dallas and helping them become members of the Dallas Jewish community, welcoming survivors of Hurricane Katrina to our town, our homes, our congregations and more. 
