- Ottawa Jewish Archives
- Ottawa Jewish Community Council = Ottawa Vaad Ha'Ir = The Jewish Federation of Ottawa fonds
- Standing Committees Series
Standing Committees Series
series1934 -2011Standing Committees Series
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- Ottawa Jewish Archives via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- 1934 -2011 (indexed as 1934–2011)
- Level
- series
- Scope & content
- Series consists of minutes, notices of meetings and election, correspondence and financial information on United Jewish Appeal (1934 - 1987); Planning, Priorities and Budget Committee, (1934 - 1984); Religious Affairs Committee, (1934 - 1979); Ottawa Vaad Hayeshivos, (1935 - 1970); Cemetery Committee, (1939 - 1981); Hanoar Study and Breakfast Club Committee, (1939 - 1954); Ottawa Hebrew Sunday School, (1939 - 1950); Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Committee, (1949 - 1983); Youth Committee, (1935, 1941 - 1954); United Zionist Council of Ottawa, (1945 - 1973); David and Rachel Epstein Foundation, (1951, 1968 - 1975); Women's Committee, (1951 - 1977); United Jewish Appeal, Youth Division, (1953 - 1961); Community Relations Committee, (1953 - 1986); Shoah (Holocaust) Committee, (1960 - 1995); Mission to Israel, (1963 - 2006 with gaps); Ottawa Jewish Historical Society; Ottawa Women's Committee for Soviet Jewry, (1974 - 1979); Shalom Ottawa. Production Committee, (1972 - 1977); Leadership Development Group, (1964 - 1981); United Jewish Appeal, Women's Division, (1963 - 1976). The first standing committees of 1934 were Vaad Hakaskruth, Talmud Torah, cemetery, public relations, spiritual enhancement, charities, arbitration and youth organizations. The number of standing committees, names, status and functions have changed to meet new circumstances in the community. Box 21- United Jewish Appeal. - 1934 - 2005 - 9 boxes Purpose is to organize and conduct the annual campaign for Ottawa community services, national, Israeli and other overseas relief. The U.J.A. commenced in Ottawa in 1952. The first Keren Hayesod Campaign, the forerunner of the United Jewish Appeal, goes back to 1922. Before 1952, there were separate campaigns and included the J.D.C. and Overseas Relief, United Synagogues of Ottawa War Services Campaign, United Jewish Community Campaign, Jewish National Fund Campaign, United Palestine (Israel) Campaign, Histadrut Campaign, Mizrachi Campaign. Sub-series contains minutes of campaign meetings, (1936-1982); notices of meetings and agendas, (1941-1982); financial material, (1934-1987); campaign contributions for separate campaigns, (1934- ); correspondence, (1947 - 1983); campaign publicity material, (1946-1976). Included in this sub-series is an audio visual slide presentation called, "Israel: The Way We Are" dated 1975. Box 21 Minutes - 1936-1982 Contains minutes of Campaign Committees, commencing with the Joint Distribution Committee, (1936-1942). Also minutes of United Jewish Appeal of Canada, (1968-1980) and Hy Hochberg reports of some national meetings (1974-1980). Box 21 Notices of meetings, agendas - 1941 - 1969 - 4 folders Contains notices of dinner and business meetings of Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal and Youth Aliyah Campaign, J.D.C. and Overseas Relief Campaign, United Jewish Community Campaign, United Israel Appeal, Combined Israel & J.D.C. Appeal, United Jewish Appeal, Ottawa Jewish Community Fund. Box 21 Financial material. - 1934 - 1987 - Contains financial reports; cancelled cheques, (1947 - 1948), and financial receipts of some recipient organizations. Also analysis of contributions, (1946 - 1980). Box 22 Campaign contributions. - 1934, 1960-1967 - 7 folders Contains lists of campaign contributors with amounts for the following campaigns: United Palestine Appeal, (1934, 1946 - 1947) J.D.C. Joint Distribution Campaign, (1936 - 1942) United Synagogues of Ottawa War Services Campaign, (1941, 1944) Synagogue and Jewish Community Centre of Ottawa, (1943, 1950) United Jewish Community Campaign, (1946 - 1949) Combined Israel & Overseas Appeal, (1950, 1951) United Jewish Appeal, (1952 - Donations, 1960 onwards are restricted. 1968 donations and onwards in v. 19. Boxes 25-27 Correspondence, 1947 - 1990. - Contains correspondence with the national office. Includes a May, 1958 letter from Rabbi Herzog. Contains correspondence with Carleton University. Box 27 Campaign publicity materials. - 1946 - 2009. - Contains advertising material and invitations, both Ottawa and national. Box 28 United Jewish Appeal, Youth Division. - 1953 - 1961. - 1 folder. Contains correspondence, minutes, advertisements of functions, 1961 report of the Youth and Young Adult Committee. Boxes 28, 29 United Jewish Appeal, Women's Division. - 1963 - 1976. - 2 boxes It was initially formed in 1963. In 1972, under the guidance of Bertha Palmer, the Women's Division became an integral service group of the Ottawa United Jewish Appeal. Contains correspondence, (1972 - 1976); history and overview; Ricki Saslove's Israel report; canvassing, (1964, 1973 - 1976); minutes, (1972 - 1976); Mission to Montebello, 1976; contributors and contributions, (1972 - 1975); financial material, National and American material, (1961 - 1975). Box 34-37 Shoah (Holocaust) Memorial Committee. - 1960 - 2011. - Purpose is to plan an annual memorial observance for the Jewish people who perished during the Holocaust. Contains notices, (1965 - 1978); minutes, (1974 - 1977); correspondence, (1960 - 1968, 1972 - 1980); programs (1962 - 1988); press releases and news clippings, (1963 - 1978); Canadian Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their children, April 29, 1985, Ottawa Congress Centre; The voice of survivors, published by the Association of Former Concentration Camp Inmates, Montreal, 1964; National Holocaust Remembrance Committee newsletters; educational material; Polish identity card, Polish currency, 1940. A VHS Tape entitled "Children of the Storm" (2000); Documents for Holocaust Education week (1996, 2001-2011). Until 1974 the anniversary observance was called Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Anniversary. Then called the Holocaust Memorial Committee. In 1994, name changed to Shoah (Holocaust) Memorial Committee. Box 38-40 Planning, Priorities and Budget Committee. - 1934 - 2008. - 3 boxes To examine community needs by reviewing beneficiary agency budgets and recommending allocations to the agencies from community funds. Previous names were UJA Budget and Allocations Committee, Budget and Finance, Finance Committee, Budget Committee, Authorization and Audit Committee. Contains minutes of Authorization and Audit Committee, (1934 - 1949); Finance Committee, (1934 - 1950); Budget Committee, (1946 - 1951); Budget and Finance, (1952 - 1958); Budget and Allocation Committee, (1961 - 1979); Central Planning, Budget and Allocations Committee, (1980 - along with financial submissions by beneficiary agencies of the UJA such as Talmud Torah, Camp B’nai B'rith, Vaad Hakashruth, Tel Aviv Tennis Club, Breakfast Club and Sunday School; Ottawa Jewish Modern School; Canada Israel Foundation for Academic Exchanges, Carleton University Judaic Studies Program, Jewish Students Union, Jewish Community Centre. Also reports of the Central Planning, Budget and Allocations Committee, 1981 - 1984 and National Budgeting Conference of Canadian Jewry, 1973 - 1983. Financial material from beneficiary agencies has many gaps. Related material in United Jewish Appeal. Box 41 Religious Affairs Committee. - 1934 - 1989. - 5 folders. Initial purpose was to assist the rabbis in enhancing the spiritual and cultural life of the Jewish community. Evolved to provide a forum for the exchange of views among the synagogues of Ottawa and to ensure that rabbinical and other services of a religious nature are available in Ottawa. First named the Rabbinical Committee, Changed to Religious Affairs and Rabbinical Committee, then to Religious & Inter-Synagogue Affairs Committee and subsequently to Religious Affairs Committee. Contains minutes, (1934 - 1979); agendas and notices of meetings, (1948 - 1970); financial material, (1947 - 1961), including maintenance of rabbi's residence, 171 Daly Avenue; correspondence, (1947 - 1964); 1961 list of dinner guests for Rabbi Eckstein's departure for a tour of the state of Israel, July 19, 1955; conversion correspondence; Passover guides prepared by the Ottawa Vaad Hakashruth, 1956, 1960; Sugarman's Passover lists, 384 Rideau Street, Ottawa, 1952, 1953; Lists of names and addresses for sale of chometz, 1946?, Rabbi Lifschutz; correspondence a letter from Rabbi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of the Holy Land, April 14, 1947. Programs of Young People's Sabbath Morning Services, (1949 - 1956). Invitations to Oneg Shabbat services sponsored by organizations within the Ottawa community. Ottawa Vaad Hayeshivos -1935 - 1955, 1969 - 1979. To facilitate the ability of educational institutions in Canada, United States and Israel to solicit funds in Ottawa. Contains statements of collections, (1940 - 1946, 1949, 1963); minutes and notices of meetings, (1947 - 1970); some sample receipts. Related material in Correspondence series, Executive correspondence, Hy Hochberg, Fund Raising, 1946 onwards and Rabbinical correspondence. Box 42 Cemetery committee. - 1939 - 2006. - 22 files Purpose was to provide the mechanism for co-ordinated cemetery services on behalf of the synagogues of Ottawa. 1934 chairman was L. S. Greenberg, B. Stearn, secretary, Dr. C. Shapiro, cemetery beautification, Louis Cohen, funeral arrangements committee. Contains land description for first lot in old Jewish cemetery, Metcalfe Highway; minutes, (1939 - 1974); notices of meetings, agendas, (1943 - 1944, 1947 - 1973); burial guidelines, tariffs and perpetual care regulations; three plans of old cemetery and one plan of proposed Jewish Memorial Chapel; correspondence, (1942 - 1944, 1947 - 1951, 1957 - 1974); annual memorial service program, (1946, 1948, 1957 - 1971); financial receipts (1942 - 1973), financial statements (1955 - 1973); Beth Shalom burial lists, (1963 - 1967), Machzikei Adath, (1967); insurance policies, (1947 - 1954, 1976 - 1977); Ottawa Chevra Kadisha (1951-1995); Additional files (2004-2006). Records of the old Jewish cemetery, Metcalfe Highway, Gloucester Township and New Jewish cemetery. Osgoode Township may also be found in Ottawa Jewish Cemeteries fonds. An image of a proposed Holocaust memorial statue to be placed at the Metcalfe Cemetery (see Photograph 4-736). Annual reports, 1934 onwards in Minutes of meetings series - Annual general meeting reports. Box 42 Hanoar Study and Breakfast Club Committee. - 1939 - 1940, 1947 - 1954. - 3 files For boys aged 13 to 16 to meet Sunday mornings to take Jewish cultural and religious training in a Jewish surrounding and to continue the Talmud Torah training. First called the Breakfast Club Committee. Contains minutes of a meeting, 1940, notices of meeting (1947 - 1955); receipts, (1939 - 1948); letters from Hy Bessin, Winchester, 1943, 1944; Old Boys Reunion, February 1945 with list of alumni; program of annual father & son session and oratorical contest, May, 1949; Newsletters and bulletins, (1948 - 1949); financial, (1939 - 1940, 1950 - 1951). Related material in Correspondence series, Hy Hochberg correspondence files for Hanoar Study and Breakfast Club. Box 43 Ottawa Hebrew Sunday School. - 1939 - 1950. - 2 folders. To teach religious values to young Jewish children. Bessie Cardash, Secretary, (1939 - 1946), then assistant superintendent; Rebecca Zivian, Superintendent, (1939 - 1945). Parent Association organized in 1949. Early teachers included Mrs Arnoni, Mrs Bubis, Miss Cohen, Miss A. Bessin, Mr. R. Constam and Miss Helen Zivian. Contains financial statements of teachers pay and rental of Osgoode Street School, (1940 - 1948); Financial statement , (1945 - 1946) contains experience and education of Bessie Cardash, Joyce Glickman, Lillian Cardash, Shelia Kastner, Sybil Goldfield, Freda Davis and Tillie Swedlove; correspondence, (1944 - 1950); application for space, Osgoode School, 1949; report of the Sunday School, 1949; teaching materials. Box 43 Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Committee. - 1940 - 1983. - 2 folders. To produce a bi-weekly publication containing news of local, national and international Jewish concern. Contains minutes of meetings; receipts for printing the Bulletin, (1940 - 1948); correspondence (1943 - 1959); census of periodicals, (1946 - 1948). Box 44 David and Rachel Epstein Foundation Fund. - 1951, 1968 - 1994. - 14 folders. The foundation was established from the estate of David Epstein who died July 16, 1968. The funds, laterally from his real estate investments, became the basis of the Ottawa Jewish Community Endowment and Bequest Foundation. 85% of the income to Ottawa Jewish charitable, religious and educational organizations and the remainder to Carleton University. The first distribution was made on July 16, 1970. It was also the impetus for establishing the Ottawa Jewish Community Endowment and Bequest Foundation. Contains letter from David Epstein, December 1951; correspondence, minutes, news clippings and financial statements of beneficiaries. Related material in Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation fonds. Box 45 United Zionist Council of Ottawa. - 1945 - 1973. - 6 folders. Purpose was to form an umbrella organization for the following Ottawa Zionist groups: Men's Zionist Society, Labour Zionist Council, Labour Zionist Council, Mizrachi Men's Organization, Ottawa Council of Hadassah, Pioneer Women's Council, Mizrachi Women's Council, Israeli Forum, J. N. F. Council, Friends of the Hebrew University. A forerunner of the council was the Zionist Committee. One of the duties was organizing the Israel Independence Day celebrations. Contains notices of meetings, minutes including 39th National Convention, 1968 and 3rd Biennial Convention, Ottawa, 1972) and correspondence, (1952 - 1970); Hy Gould's brief to the Zionist Organization of Canada, 1952; Ottawa Zionist Society programs, late 1940's; Canadian Zionist, May, 1970 when Hy Bessin elected president of the Federated Zionist Organization of Canada; Canadian Zionists. 1956, 1958 when Lawrence Freiman was President of Zionist Organization of Canada; membership lists. Box 45 Women's Committee. - 1951 - 1977. - 8 folders. The Women's Committee began as the Ladies Committee in 1934. The original purpose was to act as the ladies auxiliary of the Vaad Ha'Ir. The purpose changed to become a co-ordinating body representative of organized women's groups in Ottawa. Contains minutes of meetings, (1951 - 1970, 1974 - 1979); agendas and notices of meetings, (1951 - 1976); correspondence, (1952 - 1977); constitution, 1965. Also a history of the Reception Committee, overview of the history and development of the women's committee and membership lists. Conferences and seminars organized by the Women's Committee include: Women's Committee Conference, April 13, 1972 Changing status of women in the community, Nov. 12, 1974 Zionism and Canadianism, January 27, 1975 Ottawa looks at itself, Oct. 21, 1976 Box 45 Nathan Braham Estate. - 1963. - 1 folder. Chronology of administration of estate. Box 45 Leadership Development Group - 1964-1981, 1990-1991 - 3 folders. Contains correspondence, (1964-1965); minutes of meetings, (1964-1965, 1978-1981), and seminars; list of names of young adult division; and a Profile of the Jewish community of Ottawa by Hy Hochberg, 1964; Group Manual (1990-1991). The Young Leadership Development Group formed in 1964 with Gordon Roston as chairman. Initially formed to develop a corps of young men who would have the interest and capacity to be trained as leaders of the Jewish community of Ottawa. By 1978 women were included for communal leadership. Box 45 Shalom Ottawa. Production Committee. - 1972 - 1977. - 4 folders. To plan and produce a series of cable television programs focusing on the Jewish community under the joint sponsorship of the Vaad Ha'Ir and the National Council of Jewish Women. Contains minutes which contain a description and evaluation of programs, and production decisions; correspondence, (1972 - 1977); program outlines. Box 47 Youth Committee. - 1935, 1941 - 1954. - 6 folders. To foster and strengthen the religious, cultural, social and recreational activities among Ottawa Jewish youth. Youth Committee activities gradually transferred to Jewish Community Centre. Contains Young People's League news, Jan. 15, 1930; newsletter of current events of special interest to Jewry, 1935, compiled by Mrs Wilfred Gallay; notices of meetings, (1946 - 1951); minutes (1947 - 1951); statement of income and expenditures, (1948 - 1951); proposed constitution; Young People's League of the Jewish Community of Ottawa invitations and programs, (1946 - 1951). Box 47-55 Community Relations Committee. - 1953 - 2004. - Purpose was to develop a collective voice for the Ottawa Jewish community in all public relations matters affecting Ottawa Jewish life, as well as Israel. Also to integrate the efforts of the Committee with the National Public Relations Committee. First named Public Relations Committee. Contains minutes, agendas, notices of meetings, (1953 - 1986); correspondence, (1957, 1964 - 1978) of the committee, press releases about religious festivals, appointments, commemorative ceremonies and celebrations, (1952 - 1969); and minutes of affiliated Central Region, National Public Relations Committee, (1963, 1971). Boxes dedicated to education, human rights, Sub-committees, interfaith, security, and community. Related material also in Ottawa Committee for Soviet Jewry. Box 56-57 Mission to Israel. - 1963 - 2010- Initially Canadian Study Mission. In 1971 became Mission to Israel. First Ottawa Mission to Israel in 1971. Purpose was to educate United Jewish Appeal campaign workers about Israel by travelling there. Contains correspondence, (1963 - 1968) about individuals travelling to Israel; correspondence, (1971 - 1980) about itineraries for missions; Mission Diaries: Ottawa to Israel, (1972 - 1976); Israel travel information. Box 58 Long Range Planning Committee. - 1971, 1977 - 2006. - Purpose of committee to plan future space requirements. Initially functioned as an ad hoc committee. Gradually evolved to a sub-committee of the Planning, Priorities and Budget Committee. Contains decisions of Synagogue and Jewish Community Centre of Ottawa, 1946; Machzikei Adas location; minutes, memoranda and reports about a new community complex, purchase of Broadview Ave. school property, integration of Hillel Academy and Ecole Maimonides and other future building needs. Box 58 Panel on Jewish Education. - 1981. - 1 file Contains reports to the Planning, Priorities and Budget Committee and terms of reference. Box 58 Panel on Individual and Group Services. - 1981. - 1984. - 1 file Panel was established as part of a new integrated planning and budgeting system designed to examine communal needs, set priorities and disburse UJA funds. Panel reports to the Central Planning, Budget and Allocations Committee. Contains budgeting presentations of various agencies and organizations, minutes of meetings, agendas and reports. Financial year 1982 represents the full budgeting process. Related material in Jewish Community Centre fonds.
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