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J E W I S H F O UND AT I O N O F G R EATER TO R O N T O
REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY
Mission
Report to the community / contents
The Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto is dedicated to creating long-term resources to meet
the challenges and needs of the Jewish community. As the endowment development program of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, the Foundation
works in partnership with individuals, families and private foundations to enhance Jewish and
community life.
A Message from the Jewish Foundation 4
Jewish Foundation Board of Trustees 5
A Message from UJA Federation6
A Unique Philanthropic Partnership 8
Connecting Passion to Community Needs 10
Professional Advisory Committee (PAC)16
Book of Life19
our values
Platinum Legacy Society21
Star of David Society21
DERECH ERETZ Way of the land: transparency, accountability, excellent governance
Lion of Judah Endowment (LOJE)22
Legacy Society23
Family of Funds 24
DOR L’DOR Generation to generation: passing on values, strengthening future generations, the importance of elders B’nai Tzedek Teen Philanthropy 30
and youth
Investment Advisory Committee33
Financial Summary34
KAVOD Respect: listening, responsiveness, acts of loving kindness, inclusiveness, integrity, truthfulness
Grant Distributions36
Our Leadership Team 39
TIKKUN OLAM Repairing the world: mutual respect, social justice, tolerance of others
TZEDAKAH Justice: ethical responsibilities, sacred work
We thank
our strategic partners for their generous financial support of the Jewish
Foundation of Greater Toronto during the 2012-2013 fiscal year.
These individuals, firms and organizations have worked with the Jewish Foundation to help us
achieve our mission to secure the future of our community.
Fred and Mary Litwin
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a message from the Jewish foundation
Fred Waks
Ronit Holtzman
A Strong Foundation for the Future
It is our pleasure to present our 2012-2013 Report to the Community, detailing the initiatives and
achievements of the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto. In this report you will read stories of generosity,
stories of partnership, and stories of commitment.
We recognize the strength of our family of donors who are committed to supporting and securing the longterm growth of our Jewish community. We also recognize the strong relationship and trust between the
Jewish Foundation’s experienced team of professionals, selfless volunteers and committee members, our
donors and visionaries that create the extraordinary impact shown through the organizations benefitting
from our philanthropic dollars.
Your participation has allowed the Jewish Foundation to distribute over $24 million throughout Greater
Toronto, Canada, Israel and around the world, supporting close to 300 worthy organizations. Our B’nai
Tzedek Teen Philanthropy program is engaging the next generation of philanthropic leaders, distributing
important dollars and making a tremendous direct impact in our community as well.
This year has seen the establishment of 46 new funds, allowing our Foundation to strengthen to over
750 funds. Planned gifts are increasing, demonstrating a commitment to the future of our community.
We thank you for being part of the Jewish future, and demonstrating the values of tzedakah and tikkun
olam to our next generations.
Sincerely,
From back to front, left to right: Barry Corbin, Ian Rosmarin, David Posluns, Cecil Brauer, Marc Lipton, Robert Harlang, John Ulmer,
Judy Nathan Bronfman, David Matlow, Keith Ray, Harold Wolkin, Israel Mida, Laurie Sheff, Bonnie Goldstein, Ariella Rohringer,
Fred Waks (Chair), Lisa Draper, Joe Lebovic, Alan Farber / Absent: Morland Brown, Jamie Golombek, Marlene Klewans, Steve Mayer,
Faye Minuk, Morris Perlis, Honey Sherman, Fran Sonshine, Richard Venn, Peter Zaltz
Board of trustees
Fred Waks
Ronit Holtzman
ChairDirector
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JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER TORONTO
Foundation Trustees are responsible for the care, custody and distribution of the charitable
assets and for the promotion and safekeeping of the planned giving program.
REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY 2012-2013
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Richard Venn
Ted Sokolsky
Strengthening our Community
The Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto, UJA Federation’s planned giving and endowment arm, is a
unique and transformative centre that acts as a true catalyst for change. In doing so it helps support and
grow one of the world’s great Diaspora communities.
By mobilizing and educating donors and other community leaders about complex quality of life issues in
Jewish Toronto, Israel and across the Jewish world, and providing them with creative and inspiring ways to
become involved, the Jewish Foundation continues to change the world.
A STRONG
FOUNDATION
An endowment fund at the Jewish Foundation provides donors with all the flexibility, involvement, and
recognition of a private foundation while alleviating the stress that goes with financial stewardship
responsibilities. Foundation donors are better able to focus their energies on creating positive change while
Foundation professionals offer knowledge and support that like our community, is second to none.
Regardless of the vehicle donors choose to reach out to those in need; be it through lifetime gifts or deferred
giving programs, donors are given the unique and rewarding opportunity to write a chapter in the ongoing
and inspiring story that is Jewish Toronto.
On behalf of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, we thank each of you – our generous, compassionate and
visionary donors and partners, for your ongoing commitment to tikkun olam and for helping make Jewish
Toronto a flourishing and vibrant Jewish community for generations to come.
Appreciatively,
Richard Venn
Chair of the Board
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A YEAR IN REVIEW
fiscal year 2012-2013
ACCOUNTABILITY
GENEROSITY
RESPONSIBILITY
10%
rate of return
Distributions of over
$24
GENEROSITY
million
a message from uja federation
GENERATION
TO GENERATION
Ted Sokolsky
President & CEO
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A unique philanthropic By partnering with us, your financial gift is stewarded toward fulfilling your dreams for the
future. With our outstanding team behind you, imagination is the only limit when it comes to
your philanthropic dollars.
partnership
Your commitment to the Jewish community is evident in everything you do. Now you can extend your
commitment into the future. Your legacy gift will keep our Jewish community strong for generations. It’s an
expression of your trust in future community leaders — a way for you to be there whenever help is needed. It’s
your sacred covenant with the Jewish people. Jewish tradition teaches that one of our key duties is to make the
world a better place for future generations. Legacy gifts may be in the form of a charitable fund, a bequest in a
What we offer:
will or a gift of life insurance.
● “One-stop-shop” for all your philanthropic giving
● Experienced investment advisors for your charitable dollars
● A wide range of planned giving options
● Dedicated professional team designed to steward your charitable dollars
● Philanthropic advisory services
Your legacy can reflect everything that is most important
and meaningful to you.
What is a charitable fund?
A charitable fund allows you the flexibility to support one or more charities of your choice. It can be the centre
of your family’s charitable efforts.
advantages of establishing a fund with the Jewish
foundation vs. a private foundation:
● Less burdensome and less expensive
● Turn key operation
● Invested, managed and administered by an experienced team
● Allows you to recommend grants to charities of your choice
Let us do the work for you.
A planned gift is a gift of life insurance or a bequest in a will; thus creating a charitable fund for the future.
how do i create a Jewish legacy?
Your legacy gift of any size can be designed to match your personal circumstances. Some options include:
● Anonymity
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What is a planned gift?
Opening a charitable fund with a gift of cash or assets
A gift of life insurance
A bequest in your will
Gifts of Life Insurance
Charitable Bequest
Life Insurance is an advantageous way to fund a legacy gift at
A Charitable Bequest is a simple and
modest current costs. Purchase a new policy designating the Jewish
thoughtful way to leave a legacy. Whether it
Foundation of Greater Toronto as owner and beneficiary, or transfer
is a set dollar amount or a percentage of your
an existing policy to the Jewish Foundation.
estate, a bequest in your will can allow you to
At-a-glance:
make a difference for generations to come.
• Annual policy premium payments are all treated as charitable tax
At-a-glance:
deductions
• Established through your will
• Offers current tax benefits to you or future tax benefits to
• May be made in any amount
your estate
• Provides a tax deduction for your estate
• Guarantees future financial support for organizations important to you
• A thoughtful way to continue your support of
• A thoughtful way to continue your support of the Jewish community
the Jewish community
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CONNECTING
Passion is a key ingredient in
successful philanthropic giving.
By distributing funds to areas that
are of particular interest to the
donor, the Jewish Foundation makes
charitable giving the personal and
meaningful experience it should be.
passion
COMMUNITY
NEEDS
to
Honouring tradition and family values
inclusion services at the Schwartz/Reisman Centre
“My mom lived and breathed the values of
Elementary School. For many of the students it will be
T he Schwartz/Reisman Centre, part of the Joseph and
ability, offer the opportunity for children to practice in
community, tzedakah and selfless acts of kindness,
their first and possibly only opportunity to have access to
Wolf Lebovic Jewish Community Campus, which opened its
different social settings, learn to engage in non-intimidating
giving back at every opportunity she had,” explains
computers and the internet.
doors nearly a year ago is making an incredible difference
conversations and practice prosocial behaviors. The swim
Vicki Campbell’s
proud daughter, Leanne. She made those
for the Jewish community north of Steeles Avenue.
program is tailored to individual need, and the group music
remarks while visiting the Zipori Elementary School in
During her lifetime, Vicki chose to express her commitment
An amazing initiative funded by the Michael z”l and
therapy allows the participants to connect, communicate
Bat Yam for the launch of their new computer lab which is
to the Jewish community by endowing her annual Lion
Lily Rosenberg Philanthropic Fund is the centre’s
and interact with each other creatively. Individuals on the
dedicated in Vicki’s honour.
of Judah gift to United Jewish Appeal. “My commitment
“Inclusion Services”. These community-based programs
Autism Spectrum benefit from music therapy as a tool to
z”l
to the Lion of Judah Endowment expresses my gratitude
offer amazing opportunities for children on the Autism
increase social skills and enhance their self-expression.
Today Leanne, who works as Assistant Campaign Director
for the blessings I have enjoyed and it ensures the values I
Spectrum and their parents alike. Using an Applied
The Inclusion Services initiative is one of the ways
of United Jewish Appeal’s Annual Campaign, emulates
hold dear will continue as my legacy – dor l’dor” expressed
Behaviour Analysis (ABA) approach, the programs allow
the Schwartz/Reisman Centre is engaging the
those very values herself. Leanne, with her brothers Jon and
Vicki in her Book of Life story. She remained particularly
children to learn at their very best. ABA is known to be the
community.
Elliot and their father Henry, chose to commemorate Vicki’s
invested in UJA’s ongoing, transformative programs and
single most effective way in which to teach new skills to
loyalty to Israel by dedicating the computer lab in her loving
initiatives throughout the Jewish state, including programs
individuals on the Autism Spectrum.
memory. The lab will help the children of Bat Yam get a
that benefit vulnerable communities in Bat Yam, Sderot and
head start with their education and prepare them for today’s
Eilat.
hundred children in grades one through six at the Zipori
through the Jewish Foundation as a way to ensure their
Catering to the diverse needs and abilities of children
continued support of the Jewish community. Every year,
diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders, there are a
the fund supports programs and services that are in need
With this gift, Vicki’s family is ensuring that her legacy will
plethora of programs including: Social Skills Groups, The
around the Greater Toronto Area, and ensure that the
continue to support the things she valued most.
Swim Program and Music Therapy. Social skill groups,
community remains strong and vibrant, inclusive and safe.
modern technological society.
The upgraded computer lab will be used by more than one
Michael z”l and Lily established a Donor Advised Fund
dor l’dor
which are grouped according to individuals’ skills and
Donor Advised Funds
A Donor Advised Fund can be established with a minimum gift of $10,000 and allows you
to support the charitable causes you care most about. A Donor Advised Fund is similar
to establishing a private foundation but without the ongoing legal, accounting and costly
administrative expenses.
Leanne Morra visiting the Zipori Elementary School’s new computer lab in Bat Yam, Israel
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Endowment Achievement Award
Awarded to: Donald Bennett
Don Bennett served a complete term on the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto Board of
Trustees from 2006-2012. During that time the Foundation’s assets and expectancies grew
to more than $500 million. Don was instrumental in securing numerous gifts, served on sub
committees and helped shape the direction of the Foundation.
He is often heard saying that without endowment funds, our community cannot survive.
Endowments are the only way to secure the future. As a community, we can create these
perpetual resources in order to have the means to support social services, health, welfare, and
education throughout the Jewish community here and in Israel. Don leads by example.
In addition to his work with the Jewish Foundation, Don Bennett is a dedicated UJA annual
for the rosenthals, giving is a family affair
campaign volunteer. He solicits many gifts face to face and spends hundreds of volunteer hours
each year on the phone ensuring our community needs are met.
Jeff and Lori Rosenthal are no strangers to the Jewish
strives to prepare the students for an independent and
community and charitable giving. “Working with UJA
fulfilling life within the community. Rachel and Lilah also
over the years has really opened our eyes to the needs of
established a charitable fund that will allow them to make
the community both locally and in Israel. One of the real
annual distributions to aid programs and organizations in
rewards for Lori and I has been to see our children
need in Toronto and Israel.
(Rachel, Lilah and Ben) acknowledge and embrace the
idea of helping those in need and engage in their own
“I have been involved as a volunteer with various charities
projects. The community experience has become a large
and always recognized the responsibility to do and to
part of our lives... We look forward to continuing our
give to the best of my ability, but when I was asked to
family’s involvement and support,” says Jeff, Chair of
chair Women’s Philanthropy at UJA I felt an even greater
UJA Campaign 2011.
sense of responsibility,” explained Lori, Chair of Women’s
TRANSPARENCY
Philanthropy for UJA’s 2014 Annual Campaign. In order
So, when daughters Rachel and Lilah respectively
to show her commitment to the future of the Jewish
celebrated their bat mitzvahs, they decided to exercise their
community, Lori has endowed her Lion of Judah gift to
philanthropic genes. After learning about different needs
UJA’s Annual Campaign. She explains, “The endowment
in the community, the girls decided to fund the naming of a
offered me the ability to make a contribution that will
computer room at the Renanim Special Education School,
continue long after I am gone, continuing to benefit our
which is situated in the Upper Galilee and Golan Heights
community.”
in Israel. Renanim is a regional school that serves 120
CONTINUITY
children aged 6-21 with a wide range of special needs, that
TRUST
Teen Philanthropy Funds
Lion Of Judah Endowment (LOJE)
When young people in our community are approaching the time of
Establishing a Lion of Judah Endowment
their bar or bat mitzvah, they have the opportunity to get involved in a
(LOJE) at the Jewish Foundation of
tzedakah project that is both personally satisfying and of value to the
Greater Toronto allows a woman to secure
community. Creating a charitable fund in their own name introduces
her gift to UJA Federation Women’s
them to a lifelong habit of giving, exposing them to a diverse group of
Philanthropy in perpetuity.
RESPONSIBILITY
Jewish organizations that are working to improve Jewish lives at home,
in Israel and around the world.
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See page 30 for more information.
See page 22 for more information.
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“Any time we receive an appeal, we respond.
No envelope goes unanswered. Any
mishluach is accommodated. We are certain
our children and future generations will do
as we do because it is in our blood. We are
all survivors!”
Societies Have Shown Us So Much
For well over a hundred years, Toronto’s Jewish community has been strengthened by our
Societies. These Mutual Benefit Societies helped, and continue to help make Toronto a place
where Jews can f lourish and prosper – a place that is one of the most vibrant, growing Diaspora
Jewish communities in the world. Societies are part of our history, our present and our future
and are devoted to tzedakah and acts of kindness.
Paula and Joseph z”l Krakowsky both grew up in Chenstochova, Poland, and
Philip Platt of the Kieltzer Sick Benefits Society on the Bridge of Hope at
the Lipa Green Centre
We thank the following societies for
establishing endowment funds. These funds
will allow their names and charitable giving to
continue for generations to come.
AGUDAS HAMISPOCHA
CHENSTOCHOVER AID SOCIETY
CHMIELNICKER CHARITABLE SOCIETY
DRILDZER CONGREGATION AND SOCIETY
FARBAND OF LITHUANIAN JEWS IN TORONTO AND
MASADA CHAPTER
Recognizing
the
charitable
vision of
our beloved
Society
members
KIELTZER SICK BENEFITS SOCIETY
followed their parents’ generous spirits – helping those less fortunate by whatever
means they could. After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust with almost no family,
but a lot of optimism and fond memories of their parents’ kind gestures, they married
and moved to Germany to start a family of their own. With their son Harry, they
moved to Israel and then eventually to Canada where they settled and welcomed a
daughter, Rosalind Reznick. As strangers in a new country, with no extended family or
friends, the Chenstochover Aid Society welcomed the Krakowsky family with open arms.
The Society’s membership, comprised of survivors and children of survivors and their
children, work together to maintain a link with the past, in order to ensure continued
existence of the Society in the future. The Society became a family, and a family affair,
with weddings and bar mitzvahs with all in attendance. Paula and Joseph’s family
quickly grew to include a daughter-in-law, Golda Brown, a son-in-law, Louie Reznick,
and four grandchildren: Anna Rachel, Yonah, Tanya and Steven. Joseph ran the
LAGOVER MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETY
cemetery, and took the job very seriously; ensuring the integrity of the burial process
NEW FRATERNAL JEWISH ASSOCIATION
according to strict Jewish law.
OSTROVTZER INDEPENDENT MUTUAL BENEFIT
SOCIETY
The Chenstochover Aid Society established a Fund with the Jewish Foundation
of Greater Toronto in 2007 to ensure the preservation of Jewish life for future
STOPNITZER YOUNG MEN’S BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION
generations. Paula and Joseph then decided to make their own gift, assuring
their legacy continues with the Jewish traditions and culture they held dear. They
WIERZBNIKER SOCIETY
established a Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment (PACE) Fund through the
ZAGLEMBIER LADIES AUXILIARY
Jewish Foundation which guarantees future support for critical programs and
services in the Jewish community. As Harry recalls, “they were always charitable,
The Jewish Foundation is committed to
perpetuating the charitable vision of our
beloved Societies.
even when they didn’t have much. My parents were fully invested in the whole Jewish
community.” Paula maintains a strong commitment to tzedzakah, helping everyone she
can. Joseph’s memory and his generosity will be honoured through his endowment
fund and the support it will give to those who benefit from it each and every year.
The Bridge of Hope
The Bridge of Hope is an ongoing reminder of where
Societies came from and tells the story of how they helped
build our community to what it is today.
We are proud and honoured to include ten Societies in the
naming of the Bridge of Hope on Sherman Campus. For
everyone who sees it and walks along its path, the Bridge of
Hope is a bridge to our past and a bridge to our future.
PACE Funds
With a Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment (PACE) Fund, you can endow your gift to
United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto’s Annual Campaign and guarantee future support
Paula and Joseph z”l Krakowsky signing
their Book of Life story in 2005
for critical programs and services in the Jewish community. You can establish your PACE
Fund through gifts of cash or assets, a bequest in your will, gifts of life insurance or gifts
of RRSPs or RRIFs, which all provide tax benefits for you or your estate. A PACE Fund is a
great vehicle to establish a legacy to safeguard the values that have been important to you
Our Societies helped build our community 100 years ago…
they are now taking part in building the infrastructure for
the next 100 years.
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during your lifetime.
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Israel Mida
Joel Cuperfain
Chair
Vice Chair
“The key to success in any practice is the
ability to build relationships founded on
mutual trust. Incorporating philanthropy
into our day-to-day practices not only
brings us closer to our clients, but also
connects us to the needs of the Jewish
community. Our affiliation with the
Jewish Foundation adds a dimension of
compassion to our practices, strengthening our client relationships.”
From left to right, top to bottom: Ted Rechtschaffen, Jeffrey Brown, Martin Rochwerg, Jeff Sniderman, Meir Rotenberg,
Israel Mida (Chair), Mark Halpern, Jamie Golombek, Michael Goldberg, Lorne Wolfson, Joel Cuperfain (Vice Chair), Sylvia Azoulay,
Golda Brown / Absent: Stephen Altbaum, Tammy Anklewicz, Larry Berdugo, Charles Berger, Rachel Blumenfeld, Jaymie Bongard,
David Wm. Brown, Jordan Caplan, Brian Cohen, Robert Cohen, Barry Corbin, Jeffrey Feldman, John Fisher, Matthew Getzler,
Zachary Goldman, Jon Hanser, Robyn Latchman, Murray Leiter, Norman Levine, David Malach, Elise Pulver, David Schlesinger, Michael Shain,
Arthur Standil, Trevor Stein, David Steinberg, Ronnie Strauss, Joshua Wise
professional advisory committee (PAC)
The Professional Advisory Committee (PAC) consists of leading law yers, accountants, financial
planners and advisors, insurance and other professionals who are committed to supporting the
Jewish Foundation’s work by promoting philanthropy. We are honoured to be working with the
following members of PAC:
Stephen Altbaum
Lipton LLP Chartered Accountants
RBC Wealth Management
Financial Services Inc.
Israel Mida
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Tammy Anklewicz
Fogler Rubinoff LLP
Jeffrey Feldman
Schwartz Levitsky Feldman LLP
Elise Pulver
Cummings Cooper
Schusheim Berliner LLP
Sylvia Azoulay
Objective Financial Planners Inc.
John Fisher
Bridgeport Asset Management Inc.
Ted Rechtshaffen
TriDelta Financial Partners
Martin Rochwerg
Miller Thomson LLP
Meir Rotenberg TD Wealth
Larry Berdugo
Independent Financial Concepts
Group Ltd.
Charles Berger
Creative Planning Financial
Group
Rachel Blumenfeld Miller Thomson LLP
Jaymie Bongard
Independent Financial Concepts
Group Ltd.
David Wm. Brown Al G. Brown & Associates
Golda Brown
Al G. Brown & Associates
Joel Cuperfain
Matthew Getzler
Minden Gross LLP
Michael Goldberg
Minden Gross LLP
Zachary Goldman
Sterling Park Group Inc.
Jamie Golombek
CIBC Private Wealth
Management
Mark Halpern
illnessPROTECTION.com Inc.
Jon Hanser
Hanser Financial
Robyn Latchman KPMG Canada
Latchman Insurance Brokers Limited
Jordan Caplan
Crowe Soberman LLP
Murray Leiter
Brian Cohen
Dentons Canada LLP
Robert Cohen
Blaney McMurtry LLP
Norman Levine
Portfolio Management Corporation
Barry Corbin
Corbin Estates Law
Jeffrey Brown
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David Malach
Foyston, Gordon & Payne
“Charitable giving is a critical part of the
financial and estate planning process. As
successful advisors and community leaders,
we embrace the opportunity to engage
in philanthropic conversations with our
clients.”
PAC Award of Excellence
PAC Educational Breakfast Seminars
On May 30, 2013, Tammy
Anklewicz received the PAC Award
of Excellence. This award honours
professionals who encourage
their clients to consider charity
as part of their estate planning
process. They are the most ardent
ambassadors and champions of
the Jewish Foundation of Greater
Toronto and set a proud example
for other lawyers, accountants and
estate planners in our community.
Each year, the Jewish Foundation holds two education seminars
with relevant tax or estate planning topics to an audience of
professional advisors, offering Continuing Educational Credits
and a forum for networking.
This past year the seminars were generously sponsored by Miller
Thomson LLP and RBC Wealth Management. Seminars were on
the topics of:
Current Issues in Estate Planning and Life Insurance
November 22, 2012
Investment and Estate Planning in the New Economy
June 5, 2013
Past Awardees
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
Martin Rochwerg
Neil Nisker
Aki Chencinski
Barry Corbin
David Wm. Brown
& Golda Brown
2007
2006
2005
2004
Mac Nisker
Samuel Gotfrid z”l
Al G. Brown
Wolfe Goodman z”l
David Schlesinger Robins Appleby & Taub LLP
Michael Shain
BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc.
Jeff Sniderman
CIBC Wood Gundy Financial Services Inc.
Arthur Standil
Invesmar Financial Planning Inc.
Trevor Stein
CIBC Wood Gundy
David Steinberg
Ernst & Young LLP
Ronnie Strauss RBC Dominion Securities
Benjamin Tal, Managing Director, CIBC World Markets Corp.,
giving an economic overview at the PAC Seminar, Investment and
Joshua Wise
ScotiaMcLeod
Estate Planning in the New Economy on June 5, 2013
Lorne Wolfson
Torkin Manes LLP
Aird & Berlis LLP
PAC Seminar, Current Issues in Estate Planning and Life Insurance
on November 22, 2012
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CREATING A JEWISH LEGACY
Book of Life
Hinda Silber
Chair
“The Book of Life is passing
on the philosophy and
value of philanthropy from
person to person… from
generation to generation.”
The Book of Life is a collection of personal
stories and ref lections from donors who have
left a legacy for the future of our community.
These narratives reveal the unique road to
philanthropy travelled by each storyteller.
All donors, regardless of gift amount, are invited to write their story in the Book of Life.
Legacy gifts that qualify for the Book of Life may be in the form of a charitable fund, a
bequest in a will or a gift of life insurance.
Every Life Has a Story
Tm
Lives and stories that …build a community, …inspire hope, …honour family, …value tzedakah,
and create a future of compassion and caring.
“Helping is both a privilege and an obligation.”
MORRIS ADAMS, HONOUREE 2004
“Giving is far greater than receiving. That is one of the most valuable lessons my
father taught me.” MORRIS FLICHT, HONOUREE 2011
“Yiddish is the language of our being, our roots. It is the sound of our history, our literature,
...our conversations with one another over centuries.”
FRIENDS OF YIDDISH OF TORONTO, HONOUREE 2010
“I believe what’s most significant is passing on from generation to generation the connection and
ANNE HANDELMAN, HONOUREE 2004
responsibility we feel for Jews everywhere in the world.”
“Our lives have taught us that what is most important is continuity, to know who you are and
MICKY AND HENRIETTA KESTENBAUM, HONOUREE 2007
never forget.” “We share a history. Let’s ensure a strong future.”
SARAH & MORRIS PERLIS, HONOUREE 2003
“Our involvement is inspired by the adage, ‘no one remembers what you
did for yourself, but what you did for others.” FELICIA & DAVID POSLUNS, HONOUREE 2007
Andrew Robins reading a story from the Book of Life: A Decade of Stories
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For more information about the Book of Life, or to order a copy of the 10th Anniversary Edition
titled Book of Life: A Decade of Stories, please contact Janice Benatar at 416-631-5847 or
email jbenatar@ujafed.org or visit www.bookoflife.ca.
Excerpts from Book of Life stories
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PLATINUM LEGACY SOCIETY
LEGACY OF LIFE
This prestigious recognition level identifies donors who leave a legacy of $1 million or more in the form of a
permanent endowment fund or a planned gift.
The Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto
honours the following individuals who
had the vision and foresight to leave a legacy
to benef it our community
July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013
George (Joseph) Kostman
z”l
Behind every great community are people. People who
JEAN BORKOWSKY
z”l
work tirelessly to run organizations and social services
that mobilize a community, and people who dedicate
EVA FERENCI
their legacy and philanthropic dollars to ensuring those
z”l
services are upheld.
DAVID GELMAN
Lionel and Carol Schipper
Seymour Schulich
Gerald Schwartz and Heather
Reisman
Isadore and Rosalie Sharp
Barry and Honey Sherman
Allan and Hinda Silber Family
Nathan z”l and Lily z”l Silver Family
Linda and Howard Sokolowski
Edward and Fran Sonshine
David E. Spiro
Larry and Judy Tanenbaum and
Family
Max Tanenbaum z”l
Saul Wagman z”l
Fred Waks
especially to the Jewish community. I would
z”l
like to live to see peace in Israel, and some of
SYDNEY GREENSTEIN z”l
z”l
and involved in the community. His father even served
a term as president of their synagogue. George was
disassociated from his Jewish identity for a while during
z”l
Star of David recognizes donors who establish a permanent endowment fund of $500,000 or
more or by donors who create a Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment (PACE) gift of $200,000 or more.
Gifts may be in the form of an endowment fund or a planned gift.
his adult life. He often suggested that the worsening
situation in Israel is what led him, and wife Rachel z”l, back
ALBERT BERNARD LEVITA
SAMUEL WIGDOR
STAR OF DAVID SOCIETY
George (Joseph) Kostman grew up in an Orthodox Jewish
household in Vancouver. His parents were very charitable
Cr e at ing a Je w ish L eg acy
Paul and Karen Morton
Lynn Nissenbaum
Martin Ossip Family
Gilbert Palter and Elisa Morton
Palter
Morris and Sarah Perlis and
Family
Gary and Alison Polan
Wilfred Posluns z”l
Morris Pulver z”l
Joel Reitman and Jill GoldbergReitman
Nelson and Ruth Reuben
Samuel z”l and Jean z”l Sable
Ben Sauder z”l
aspect of living – giving to everyone; and now,
the fruits of my renewed involvement.”
JACOB HERSH
Shirley and Philip z”l Granovsky
Marilyn Green
Alex z”l and Genia Grossman
Jack and Pat Kay
Kimel Family
Joseph Lebovic and Wolf Lebovic
Stephan z”l and Sophie z”l Lewar
Glennie and Nathan Lindenberg
Leanne and David Matlow
Sam and Micki Mizrahi
Sidney Morris z”l
“I feel that giving is my most important
z”l
HELEN GOODMAN
JOHN HAAS
Anonymous (4)
Herman Berenblum z”l
Edward Bronfman z”l Family
Foundation
Morland Brown
Robert and Maxine J. Fish
Ab and Phyllis Flatt
Mike and Sandi Florence
Sydney G. Frankfort
Zoltan and Yetta Freeman and
Family
Leo and Sala Goldhar
Alan and Renee Gozlan
Roger and Liliane Gozlan
z”l
z”l
May their memories
be for a blessing.
to Jewish life. Reading more about Jewish affairs and
seeing Israel on the news created an awareness in George
that led him to re-establish himself as a committed Jew
and take his place in the community where he belonged.
And so he did.
Part of re-establishing himself included charitable giving.
George worked with his lawyer and together with the
Jewish Foundation turned his philanthropic dreams into
reality. He established the George and Rachel Kostman
Fund to support high priority projects and programs
in Toronto and Israel. His concern for the vulnerable
Anonymous
Elkie Adler z”l
Steve and Rosanne Ain
Judith Alt
Barbara Bank
Brent and Lynn Belzberg
David and Renette Berman
Marsha Bronfman
Helen and David Wm. Brown
Shirley z”l and Al G. Brown
Paula Cohen
Lorne Cohn and Miriam
Blumstock and Family
Camille Dan
David and Judy Engel
Lawrence and Beverley Fein
Faye Firestone
Sharon Flancman Herman
Bradley Fox
Gerda Frieberg
Lillian Vine Glowinsky
Robyn Naiberg Goldberg
David and Bonnie Goldstein
Sheldon and Lindy Goodman
Harry Gorman
Al and Malka Green
Alan and Pearl Greenspan
Philip z”l and Lottie Greenspan
Sydney z”l and Jean Greenstein
Gerry Halbert
Dianne Kardish z”l
William and Carol Kassel
Eunice and Peter Katz
Morris z”l and Rose z”l Kaufman
Marlene Klewans
Julia Koschitzky
Sarena and David Koschitzky
Harry Krakowsky and Golda
Brown
Neil Nisker
Lesley Binstock Offman
Donald and Elaine Rafelman
Rayman Family
Kurt and Edith Rothschild
Paul and Gella Rothstein
Earl Rotman and Ariella
Rohringer
Paul Schnier and Elizabeth Wolfe
Ruth z”l, Sam z”l and Warren z”l
Sobel
Anne Tanenbaum z”l
Evan Wayne and Risa Freeman
Gabi Weisfeld
Sasha Weisz
Frank z”l and Aileen Wolff
population and their ability to live in dignity was of
See page 9 for ways to leave a legacy, or please call
416-631-5703 for more information.
utmost importance.
“The old adage that you get more than you give
is really true. There is very little that feels as
good as being able to help others.”
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Lion of judah endowment (LOJE)
Legacy society
A woman’s Lion of Judah Endowment (LOJE) is created to perpetuate a minimum $5,000
annual donation to United Jewish Appeal’s Annual Campaign. This is accomplished by establishing
an endowment fund or leaving a planned gift with a minimum $100,000 commitment.
LOJE
Laurie Sheff
Chair
“I believe in this community, I am inspired by our compassion, conviction and
values and I am not alone. Every Lion of Judah woman is capable of endowing
their gift. Join me in making a gift that is everlasting.”
Elkie Adler z”l
Rosanne Ain
Heshy Altbaum
Barbara Bank
Tobie Bekhor
Lynn Belzberg
Renette Berman
Vivian Berman
Yetta Bregman
Judy Nathan Bronfman
Marsha Bronfman
Rachelle Bronfman
Golda Brown
Helen Brown
Lion ofShirley
Judah Endowments
Brown z”l
Vicki Campbell z”l
Sherman Campus • 4600 Bathurst Street • Toronto, Ontario • M2R 3V2
Phone 416 • 631 • 5703 • Fax Vivian
416 • 631 • Campbell
5701 • jewishfoundationtoronto.com
Karen Chisvin
Paula Cohen
Clara Cooper
Florence Cooper
Camille Dan
Peggy DeZwirek
Eleanor Dover
Lisa Draper
Beatrice Eisen
Wendy Eisen
Anita Ekstein
Judy Engel
Susan Fenwick
Faye Firestone
Sherry Firestone
Maxine J. Fish
Phyllis Flatt
Sandi Florence
Risa Freeman
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Yetta Freeman
Gerda Frieberg
Phyllis Frieberg
Brenlee Gurvey Gales
Joy Gales
Leslie Gales
Gitta Ganz
Joan Garson
Jill Goldberg-Reitman
Rosemary Goldhar
Bonnie Goldstein
Carol Goldstein
Lindy Goodman
Pearl Goodman
Cindy Freeman Gordon
Judi Gottlieb
Sara Gottlieb
Liliane Gozlan
Renee Gozlan
Marya Grad
Maxine Granovsky-Gluskin
Malka Green
Pearl Greenspan
Helen Gross
Anne Handelman
Carol Handelman
Alison Himel
Maria Elena Hoffstein
Judith Hooper
Susan Jackson
Elise S. Kalles
Carol Kassel
Rose Kaufman z”l
Debbie Kimel
Eva Kimel z”l
Paula Kirsh
Marlene Klewans
Julia Koschitzky
Mira Koschitzky
Sarena Koschitzky
Paula Krakowsky
Elyse Lackie
Lynda Latner
Glennie Lindenberg
Mary Litwin
Aviva Malka
Frances Joy Mandell-Arad
Jeanette Massouda
Leanne Matlow
Ellen Miller
Faye Mintz z”l
Faye Minuk
Micki Mizrahi
Karen Morton
Eleanor Nadler
Judy L. Nyman
Shirley Ogden
Leslie Orbach
Zippy Orland
Judith Osten
Linda Paris
Sarah Paula Perlis
Alison Polan
Felicia Posluns
Nancy Posluns
Sandra Posluns
Esterita Chananie Rajsky
Ruth Richler
Shelley Richler
Leslie Richmond
Ariella Rohringer
Avra Rosen
Lori Rosenthal
Gella Rothstein
Sharon Cookie Sandler
Carol Schipper
Barbara Pearson Schnurbach
Carol Seidman
Rosalie Sharp
Laurie Sheff
Honey Sherman
Rachel Shupak
Hinda Silber
Lily Silver z”l
Raina Silverberg
Helen Silverstein
Randi Silverstein
Micki Moore Simpson
Linda Frum Sokolowski
Renee Solursh
Fran Sonshine
Susan Zacks Steinberg
Carole Dankner Sterling
Martha Sud
Anne Tanenbaum z”l
Judy Tanenbaum
Lori Ulmer
Renee Unger
Linda Waks
Gabi Weisfeld
Sasha Weisz
Elizabeth Wolfe
Liora Yakubowicz
Carole Herman Zucker
The Legacy Society is comprised of generous and concerned individuals who have committed their support of the
Jewish Foundation through a planned gift. We are inspired by the Legacy Society’s vision of a strong, Jewish future for
our community.
Anonymous (10)
Carlos Abreu
Steve and Rosanne Ain
Judith Alt
Stephen and Heshy Altbaum
Family
Harriet and Morris Altman
Donna and Kenneth Atkin
Barbara Bank
Sharon Beaverstone
Tobie Bekhor
Donald Bennett
David and Renette Berman
Vivian Berman
Dr. Jonathan Bishinsky
Yetta Bregman
Fredelle and Harold Brief
Marsha Bronfman
Shirley z”l and Al G. Brown
David Wm. and Helen Brown
Morland Brown
Sandra Brown
Orah Buck
Vicki Campbell z”l
Vivian Campbell
Elsa and Howard Chandler
Karen Chisvin
Lorne Cohn, Miriam Blumstock
and Family
Clara Cooper
Florence Cooper
Camille Dan
Frederick Dick
Lisa Draper
Stuart Dyment
Wendy Eisen
Anita Ekstein
Anita Enchin
David and Judy Engel
Steven z”l and Erika Erdos
Emmanuel Farber
Lawrence and Beverley Fein
David and Cara z”l Feldman
Mike and Susan Feldman
Susan Fenwick
Sarah Finkelborough
Faye Firestone
Sherry Firestone
Robert and Maxine J. Fish
Mike and Sandi Florence
Bradley Fox
Linda Freedman
Joan Garson
Jennie and Bernat Goldberger
Barbara and Ernest z”l Goldberger
Sydney and Karen Goldenberg
Rosemary Goldhar
Sheldon and Fern Goldman
David and Bonnie Goldstein
Sheldon and Lindy Goodman
Harry and Sarah Gorman
Sara Gottlieb
Alan and Renee Gozlan
Roger and Liliane Gozlan
Maxine Granovsky-Gluskin
Al and Malka Green
David C. Green
Alan and Pearl Greenspan
Ruth and Harry Greenspan
Phillip z”l and Lottie Greenspan
Helen Gross
Alex z”l and Genia Grossman
Gwendahlyn Guy
Malka Hahn
Gerry Halbert
Anne Handelman
Carol Handelman
Hartley Hershenhorn
Alison Himel
Maria Elena Hoffstein
Ronit and Joey Holtzman
Judith Hooper
Susan Jackson
Audrey and Gary Joseph
Elise Kalles
William and Carol Kassel
Sherry Kelner
Paula Kirsh
Marlene Klewans
David and Sarena Koschitzky
Julia Koschitzky
Mira Koschitzky
Albert Krakauer
Harry Krakowsky and Golda
Brown
Joseph and Paula Krakowsky
Bookie Kwart
Elyse Lackie
Ruthie Ladovsky
Lynda Latner
Glennie and Nathan Lindenberg
Mary Litwin
Aviva Malka
Frances Joy Mandell-Arad
Esther and Irving Matlow
Leanne Matlow
Israel Mida
Ellen Miller
Faye Minuk
Micki and Sam Mizrahi
Karen and Paul Morton
Agnes Moses
Eleanor Nadler
Neil Nisker
Lynn Nissenbaum
Paula Nussbaum
Judy L. Nyman
Shirley Ogden
Leslie Orbach
Zippy Orland
Judy Osten
Gilbert Palter and Elisa Morton
Palter
Linda Paris
Jack Parlow
Irvin Pitch
Philip Platt
Gary and Alison Polan
Felicia Posluns
Nancy Posluns
Sandra Posluns
Howard Price
Esterita Chananie Rajsky
Cecille Ratney
Rayman Family
Joel Reitman and Jill GoldbergReitman
Nelson and Ruth Reuben
Lionel z”l and Ruth Richler
Shelley Richler
Leslie Richmond
Richard Rodney
Ariella Rohringer and Earl
Rotman
Jack and Judith Rose
Avra Rosen
Riva and Herb Rosenfeld
Lori Rosenthal
Carol Rosenthall
Myrna Ross
Tanya Rossby
Milliard S. Roth
Kurt and Edith Rothschild
Paul and Gella Rothstein
Eve Rubenstein
Lorraine and Alan Sandler
Stephen Sandler and Sharon
Cookie Sandler
Lionel and Carol Schipper
Margaret Schneider and Susan
Rickwood
Paul Schnier and Elizabeth Wolfe
Marcia Schnoor
Barbara Pearson Schnurbach
Seymour Schulich
Fred z”l and Lea Schwarz
Carol Seidman
Barry and Honey Sherman
Harry Sherman
Rachel Shupak
Micki Moore Simpson
Helen Silverstein
Randi Silverstein
Max Sitzer
Eric and Marsha Slavens
Jordan Sobel
Renee Solursh
Linda Somers
Ruth Speyer
Andria Spindel
David E. Spiro
Leslie Lerer and Jeff Springer
Shari and Arthur Standil
Susan Zacks Steinberg
Carole Dankner Sterling
David Sugar
Larry and Judy Tanenbaum and
Family
Lori Ulmer
Wendy Ungar
Renee Unger
Ies Van Messel
Joy Wagner
Fred Waks
Linda Waks
Evan Wayne and Risa Freeman
Sasha Weisz
Judith Winberg
Frank z”l and Aileen Wolff
Alan Wynperle
Liora and Simon Yakubowicz
Carole Herman Zucker
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Family of Funds
Our thanks to all donors who support the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto, including
those who request anonymity.
Highlighted names indicate new funds established over the fiscal year July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013.
Rafi Broer Tzedakah Fund
Alexander Davis Memorial Fund
Raizi & George Fleischmann Family
Endowment Fund
Edward Bronfman Family Foundation UJA
Federation Legacy Fund
Hannah Davis Tzedakah Fund
Morris Flicht Endowment Fund
Lee Davis Tzedakah Fund
Edward Bronfman Memorial Legacy Fund
Noah Davis Tzedakah Fund
Mike & Sandi Florence Family Endowment
Fund
Rachelle Bronfman Endowment Fund
Hymie Day PACE Fund
Rachelle Bronfman LOJE Fund
Ilona Deutsch Memorial Endowment Fund
Shannah Bronfman Endowment Fund
Peggy DeZwirek LOJE Fund
Brown Family Tzedekah Fund
Eleanor Dover Endowment Fund
Mr. K. Memorial Fund
Alex Beder Memorial Fund
Danielle Brown Tzedakah Fund
Noah Aaron Tzedakah Fund
Ed Morrison Scholarship
Tamar Begun Tzedakah Fund
Drildzer Society Endowment Fund
David & Rose Brown Endowment Fund
Abrahami Family Tzedakah Fund
Yitzhak Rabin Endowment Fund
Yakira Begun Tzedakah Fund
Leah Brown Tzedakah Fund
The Honourable Charles & Mrs. Anne Dubin
Memorial Fund
Pola Abramowicz Memorial Fund
Harry/Sarah Romberg Trust Fund
Samara Bell Tzedakah Fund
Melvin & Sandra Brown PACE Fund
The Acorn Fund
Ida Romberg Hertzman Trust Fund
Talia Bell Tzedakah Fund
Morris & Ruth Adams Endowment Fund
Jennie & Phillip Rotman Endowment Fund
Rabbi E. Schild Education Fund
Lynn & Brent Belzberg Family Endowment
Fund
Kurt Schild Family Fund
Lynn Belzberg LOJE Fund
Rita Adams Fund
Frances Skuy Scholarship
Bennett Family Fund
Morris & Jenny Appleby Endowment Fund
Rosalynd Smith Memorial Fund
Jake & Mimi Bass Scholarship Fund
Abby & Dorothy Sone Memorial Fund
Elise & Maurice Benzacar Family Endowment
Fund
Marvin & Sheila Blackstein Scholarship
Daniel Stein Scholarship
A.I. Brotherhood - Scholarships
Motel Sugarfine Scholarship
Harry & Betty Brown Endowment Fund
Aaron Trager Youth Fund
Sydney Colt Memorial Lecture
Robert Trager Youth Scholarship
Hyman & Doris Cooper Endowment Fund
Ricky Vigoda Scholarship
Tom Davis Scholarship
Wainberg-Warren Trust Fund
Louis Pascoe & Shelley Bergman Endowment
Fund
Isadore/Eva Fisher Scholarship
Marshall L. Walters Scholarship
Nicole Friedman Memorial Fund
Myer Gold Scholarship
Joseph Goldberg Scholarship Fund
Sydney G. Frankfort Endowment Fund
Freeman Family Legacy Fund
Gerda Frieberg Endowment Fund
Phyllis Frieberg LOJE Fund
Michael Friedland Tzedakah Fund
Friends of Yiddish Fund
Noah Brown Tzedakah Fund
Shirley & Al G. Brown PACE Fund
Sarah Dubinsky Memorial Fund
Adele Buller Memorial Fund
Judi Duckman Memorial Fund
Fuerstenberg and Lidsky Family Endowment
Fund
Vicki
The Durbin Ormut-Durbin Family Fund
Fund for Excellence in Jewish Education
Canada Israel Endowment Fund for Academic
Exchange
Eisen Fund
Fund for Inclusion
Beatrice Eisen LOJE Fund
Fund for Israel
Canadian Jewish News Fund
Tamar Eisen Tzedakah Fund
Fund for Jewish Arts & Culture
Emma Caplan Tzedakah Fund
Wendy R. Eisen Endowment Fund
Fund for Jewish Camp
Maxwell Charlat Tzedakah Fund
Louis & Helen Eisenstat Education Fund
Fund for Yiddish
Samantha Charlat Tzedakah Fund
Jenny Eisenstein Endowment Fund
Michelle Furman Tzedakah Fund
Chenstochover Aid Society Endowment Fund
Regina Eisenstein Family Endowment Fund
Helen & Aladar Gal Memorial Fund
Rubin Cheskes Memorial Fund
Jack B. Ellis Memorial Fund
Gales Family Fund
Chisvin Family Philanthropic Fund
Jonathan Enchin Community Fund
Gitta Ganz LOJE Fund
Samuel Berl Memorial Fund
Chmielnicker Society Endowment Fund
Esther Gary Memorial Fund
Adolph Wantroff Education Fund
Jason & Judi Berman Endowment Fund
Ari Mark Zeiler Fund
Mary Berman Fund for Yiddish Education
Helen & Gordon Clarfield Endowment
Fund
Dr. Robert & Elizabeth Erlich Endowment
Fund
Israel & Marcelle Esses Endowment Fund
Gasner/Berman Scholarship Fund
David Gelman Memorial Fund
May & Gerald Cohen Fund For Yiddish
Farband of Lithuanian Jews in Toronto and
its Masada Chapter Endowment Fund
Paula Cohen LOJE Fund
Feder Family Foundation Fund
Eliza Glatt Tzedakah Fund
Lillian Vine Glowinsky Endowment Fund
Dr. Irving Zellit Scholarship
Herman Berenblum Community Fund
Herman Berenblum Memorial Fund
Irvin Berger Memorial Fund
Louis & Salome Berger UJA Federation
Philanthropic Fund
Vivian Berman LOJE Fund
z”l
& Henry Campbell Endowment Fund
Ben Clodman Memorial Fund
Pinchas & Leah Frimerman Fund
David Stuart Gasch Tzedakah Fund
Harry Knowles Girling Memorial Fund
Monty Goldstone Scholarship Fund
Elkie Adler LOJE Fund
Martin & Phyllis Bernbaum Endowment
Fund
Herman & Carol Gottesman Endowment
Fund
Jacob & Rose Adler Fund
Bernholtz Family Endowment Fund
Miriam Cohen Memorial Fund
Blanche Feld Memorial Fund
Maxine & Berl Bessin Family Fund
Cohen/Simmons Wedding Fund
Jennie Feld Memorial Fund
Joseph Godfrey Fund
Rose & Sol Cohn Memorial Endowment Fund
Phil & Rochelle Feldberg Special Education
Endowment Fund
Sharon & Louis Goelman Family Fund
Saul & Toby Feldberg Special Education
Endowment Fund
Jack & Fanny Goldbach Memorial Fund
Greenberg Family Memorial Fund
Max Greenspoon Scholarship Fund
Baruch Hoffman Fund
Claire Sara Agranove Memorial Fund
Agudas Hamishpocha Philanthropic Fund
Alberga Family Charitable Fund
Humanitarian Fund
Adam Albright Memorial Camp Scholarship
Fund
Darrell Isenberg Memorial Fund
Miriam Alkin Memorial Fund
Sue Jacobs Memorial Fund
Igor Kaplan Scholarship
Sonny Altman Memorial Scholarship
Fund
Cantor Kirshblum Scholarship
Liebe Angel Memorial Fund
Alfred & Golda Kohl Endowment Fund
Apotex Fund
Benjamin Lampert Scholarship Fund
Jennie Appleby Endowment Fund
Miriam & Isaac Latner Scholarship
Olivia Asper Tzedakah Fund
David Lipson Memorial Endowment Fund
Sarah Asper Tzedakah Fund
Marcus Endowment Fund
Sarah & Jackob Avni Memorial Fund
Judith Markus Endowment Fund
Helen Back Memorial Fund
Dr. Joel & Bina Maser Endowment Fund
Theodore Bager Tzedakah Fund
Bialik Hebrew Day School
Victor & Renee Topper Family Fund for
z”l
Meryl Cole Memorial Fund
Community Fund
Tony & Elizabeth Comper Holocaust
Education and Outreach Fund
Marsha Bielak Special Education Endowment
Fund
Lorraine & Joel Cooper Endowment Fund
Harry & Gladys Binder Fund
Cousins Endowment Fund
Ben Blachowitz Tzedakah Fund
Ida Cowan Memorial Fund
Peter Block Endowment Fund
Senator David A. Croll Memorial Fund
Bloom and Klein Family Tzedakah
Fund
Lindsay Bloom Tzedakah Fund
Yoel Bloomberg Tzedakah Fund
Paul Bookhalter Memorial Fund
Max & Bella Brandriss Memorial Fund
Cooperman Kids Tzedakah Fund
Elizabeth Curtiss Memorial Fund
Sarah Dacks Memorial Fund
Seth Damiani Tzedakah Fund
Madelin Daviau Tzedakah Fund
Nate Daviau Music Endowment Fund
Eli Feldman Tzedakah Fund
Norman Feldman Memorial Fund
Itz Fine Family Endowment Fund
Dr. Stanley & Sondra Fink Endowment Fund
Michael & Ida Finkelstein Music Fund
Faye Finn Memorial Fund
Bernard S. Fishbein Endowment Fund
Frank Fischer Memorial Fund
Albert Fisher Memorial Fund
Alex Fisher Memorial Fund
Dana Flatt Tzedakah Fund
Noah & Sydney Flatt Tzedakah Fund
Phyllis & Ab Flatt Family Endowment Fund
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David & Syma Forberg Scholarship
Fund
The Honourable Charles & Mrs. Anne Dubin
Youth Fund
Goldstein Family Adath Israel Fund
Steven and Sari Davidson Family Endowment
Fund
Anonymous (11)
Adath Israel Congregation
Zoe Flatt Tzedakah Fund
Pearl Brody & William Brody
Endowment Fund
Highlighted names indicate new funds established over the fiscal year
July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013.
Beverly & Irwin Gold Scholarship Fund
Goldberg Family Fund
M. Goldberg Endowment Fund
Shirley Goldberg Trim Memorial Fund
Rebecca Goldberg Tzedakah Fund
Leon Goldenberg Memorial Fund
Morris Goldenberg Memorial Fund
Rose Goldenberg Memorial Fund
Leo & Sala Goldhar Celebration Centre
Fund
Lillian & Marvin Goldman Endowment Fund
Merle Goldman Memorial Fund
Goldstein Family Endowment Fund
Paul & Naomi Goldstein Endowment Fund
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Miriam & Irwin Goldstein Family
Endowment Fund
Harlang Family Endowment Fund
Rita Goldstein Memorial Fund
Hechalutz Endowment Fund
Harzahav Fund
Stephan & Sophie Lewar JIAS
Canada Endowment Fund
Evelyn Gollin Memorial Fund
Ronald & Aviva Heller Endowment Fund
Hannah Goodman Tzedakah Fund
Daniel Hendler Tzedakah Fund
Helen Goodman Memorial Fund
Jeffrey Hendler Tzedakah Fund Millie Goodman Endowment Fund For
Yiddish Studies
Kevin Hendler Tzedakah Fund
Noam & Elana Goodman Endowment
Fund
Gabrielle Herman Tzedakah Fund
Harry Myer Jolley Memorial Fund
Jacob Hersh Memorial Fund
Nina & Danielle Kagan Endowment Fund
David & Rae Hildebrand Fund
Robert Kaplan Fund
Pearl Goodman Endowment Fund
Percy Goodman Memorial Fund
Val Gorbatyuk Special Education Endowment
Fund
Hillel of Greater Toronto
Hillel Endowment Fund
Joseph Gottdenker and Family
Nat & Ethel Gotfrid Memorial Fund
Koschitzky Family
Sarah Gotfrid Tzedakah Fund
Weinbaum Family Foundation
Jill Gotlieb & Carol Silverstein Endowment
Fund
Wolfond Family
Judi Gottlieb LOJE Fund
Marya & Herman Grad Special Education
Endowment Fund
Kellie & Lauren Grammer Tzedakah Fund
Philip & Shirley Granovsky Family Fund
Marilyn Green Scholarship Fund
Michael & Dianne Green Endowment Fund
Sylvia & David Green Philanthropic Fund
Benjamin A. Himel Fund
B. A. Himel Fund - Jewish Education
Victor & Elena Hoffstein Endowment Fund
Joshua Holtzman Tzedakah Fund
Madison-Shira Hossack Tzedakah
Fund
Nathan Hurwich Fund Immergluck Memorial Fund
Israel Cancer Research Fund
Murray Greenbloom Memorial Fund
Israel Cancer Research Endowment Fund
David & Kay Greengarten Endowment Fund
Sydney and Jean Greenstein Family
Charitable Fund
Avraham & Noga Grinberg Special Education
Endowment Fund
Alix Gropper Tzedakah Fund
Ruth & Lony Gropper Endowment Fund
Alex Grossman Family Philanthropic Fund
Nicole Grossman Tzedakah Fund
Samuel Gyter Memorial Fund
JIAS Toronto
JIAS Toronto Endowment Fund
Ralph & Roslyn Halbert Fund for the
Centre for Jewish Studies
Harry Kreitzman Fund
Jack & Pearl Mandel Philanthropic Fund
Leslie Zeev Mozes Memorial Endowment
Fund
Sigmund Kuperstein Educational Fund
Pauline Mandlsohn Memorial Fund
N.L.S. Education Special Fund
Sigmund Kuperstein Memorial Fund
Louis Manpel Memorial Fund
Lagover Mutual Benefit Society Endowment
Fund
Adele & Saul Laskin Family Philanthropic
Fund
March of the Living
Heshy & Stephen Altbaum Fund for the
March of the Living
Joseph & Wolf Lebovic UJA Federation
Philanthropic Fund
Basia & Israel Chaiton March of the Living
Fund
Shirley & Harold Lederman Endowment
Fund
Frank & Anita Ekstein March of the Living
Fund
Carol Kassel Family Endowment Fund
Amanda Leibow Tzedakah Fund
Max & Violet Kassel Legacy Fund
Laura Leibow Tzedakah Fund
Ben & Hilda Katz March of the Living
Endowment Fund
Ben & Hilda Katz Foundation Fund
Murray Leiter and Susan Silverman
Endowment Fund
Kashruth Council of Canada
The Kashruth Council of Canada
Endowment Fund
Eunice & Peter Katz Family Endowment
Fund
Levey Family Fund
Toronto March of the Living
Ira & Shirley Marder Eitz Chaim Endowment
Fund
Barry & Esther Naiberg Family Fund
Sarah & Chaim Neuberger
Holocaust Education Centre
Esther Bem Memorial Fund
Frank & Anita Ekstein Holocaust Resource
Collection Fund
Hana’s Suitcase
Michael Kerbel Fund
Evelyn & Frank Levine Family Endowment
Fund
Elan Keshen Tzedakah Fund
Irving Levine Fund
Benjamin & Jeannette Massouda Endowment
Fund
Henrietta & Michael Kestenbaum Family
Endowment Fund
Lillian Levine Memorial Fund
Jacqueline Masters Tzedakah Fund
Chaim Neuberger z”l Memorial Fund
Susan & Richard Levinsky Endowment Fund
Jean Matlow Charitable Fund
Nathan Peck Memorial Fund
Kieltzer Sick Benefits Society Endowment
Fund
Albert Bernard Levita Memorial Fund
Leanne & David Matlow Family Fund
Second Generation Conference
Sophie & Stephan Lewar Memorial Fund
Naomi Matlow Fund
Ernie Weiss z”l Memorial Fund
Rebecca Lewis Tzedakah Fund
Orli Matlow Fund
Hannah Lidsky Tzedakah Fund
Yael Matlow Fund
Miriam Neveren Memorial Fund
Sam & Mary Lipshitz Fund for Yiddish
Jonathan & Beverley Matthews Family
Philanthropic Fund
New Fraternal Jewish Association Fund for
Yiddish
Gertrude May PACE Fund
Thomas & Grace Newman Special Education
Endowment Fund
Warren & Debbie Kimel Family Fund
Eli Klein & Miriam Erlichman Endowment
Fund
Reuben Klein Endowment Fund
Nancy & Howard Kleinberg & Family
Endowment Fund
Motek & Gregory Konopny Family
Endowment Fund
Poverty Initiative Endowment Fund
Korenzvit Family UJA Federation
Philanthropic Fund
Reta Kolonel Memorial Fund
Sam Lipshitz Memorial Fund
Orly Lipsitz Tzedakah Fund
Judith Laxer & Jeffrey Lipsitz Family UJA
Federation Philanthropic Fund
David Marks Memorial Endowment Fund
David Meltzer PACE Fund
Sherry Simcha Menashy Memorial Fund
David Lipson Fund
Gordon Mendley Memorial Fund
Hushy Lipton Memorial Scholarship Fund
Meyer Family Music Fund
Ernest Litovitz Memorial Fund
Jack & Dora Miller Philanthropic Fund
Sylvia and Lou Lockshin Endowment
Fund
Leon Miller Memorial Fund
Sydney Loftus PACE Fund
Sadie Miller Memorial Fund
Koschitzky Education Endowment Fund
Sabrina Lorie Tzedakah Fund
Faye Mintz Endowment Fund
Harry & Henrietta Kostman Family
Endowment Fund
Tilly Lothe Memorial Fund
Miransky Fund
Ian & Elaine Lurie Family Fund
Mogil Family Endowment Fund
Sasha Weisz
Jonathan Koven Memorial Fund
Earl & Renee Lyons Endowment Fund
Terry J. Moranis Camp Scholarship Fund
Allen Wynperle
Irwin Koziebrocki Memorial Fund
Earl & Renee Lyons PACE Fund
Sidney Morris Israel Scholarship Fund
Aaron Kozinets Tzedakah Fund
Barry & Esther Naiberg Family Endowment
Fund
Joseph & Bertha Kerbel Fund
Sophie & Stephan Lewar Endowment Fund
for JF&C
Jewish Gay and Lesbian Fund
Naiberg Charitable Fund
Dr. Paul Levin Fund Lolly’s Hope Fund
Hamilton UJA Federation Legacy
Endowment Fund
Ezra Nadler Tzedakah Fund
Morris & Rose Kaufman Endowment Fund
Elyse Klerer Tzedakah Fund
Jewish Free Loan Toronto Fund
Samantha Nadal Tzedakah Fund
Canadian March of the Living
Harrowston Fund for Children with
Special Needs
Jewish Free Loan Toronto
Miles Nadal JCC Endowment Fund
Joseph Lebovic Charitable Fund
Latner Library Endowment Fund
Max Korolnek Memorial Fund
Lillian & Marvin Goldblatt Family
Endowment Fund
Miles Nadal JCC
Zoë Nadler Tzedakah Fund
Billi Latchman Tzedakah Fund
Minden Gross Grafstein & Greenstein Special
Education Endowment Fund
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Harry Albert Morton Memorial Fund
Jordan Mamelak Tzedakah Fund
Jean Lea Memorial Fund
Allen & Sharon Karp Endowment Fund
Eva Kimel LOJE Fund
Istvan & Barbara Haas Endowment
Fund
Orly Malka Tzedakah Fund
Alex & Brad Krawczyk Fund Ida & Phillip Bloom March of the Living
Fund
Dianne Kardish Memorial Fund
Aaron & Yetta Kimel Memorial Fund
Jewish Family & Child
The Judy Morton Charitable Fund
Sarah Nadal Tzedakah Fund
Claude S. Jarrett Memorial Fund
Jewish Camp Council/UJA Federation
Endowment Fund
Joshua Maisel Tzedakah Fund
Ernie Bloch March of the Living
Scholarship Fund
Marilyn Jacobs Philanthropic Fund
Jewish Camp Council of Toronto
Paula & Joseph z”l Krakowsky Endowment
Fund
Ruthie Ladovsky Endowment Fund
Rachel Wilder-Karabus Tzedakah Fund
Freda Gotfrid Memorial Fund
Darren, Sara, Koby & Cooper Gottlieb Family
Fund
JIAS Canada
Hidden Children Project
Holocaust Education Endowment Fund
Bronka Krygier Memorial Fund
Mac Nisker Family Endowment Fund
Paula Nussbaum Endowment Fund
Annette & Ronald z”l Oelbaum Fund
Shirley Ogden LOJE Fund
Sanja Ort Memorial Fund
Alyce Orzy Memorial Fund
Isaac Osipovicz Memorial Endowment Fund
Martin Ossip Endowment Fund
Ostrovtzer Independent Mutual Benefit
Society Endowment Fund
Dorothy Panzer Fund
Loretta Pape Memorial Fund
Rachel Parker Tzedakah Fund
Morton Family Endowment Fund
July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013.
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Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day
School
Norbert Rosen Respite Care Endowment
Fund
Robert & Naomi Shapero Family Endowment
Fund
Mark Solomon Memorial Scholarship Fund
Nashman Family Endowment Fund at the
Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School
Lily & Michael Rosenberg Philanthropic Fund
Sharp Foundation UJA Federation
Philanthropic Fund
The Sophie Fund
Stephen J. Roth Endowment Fund to
benefit the Paul Penna Downtown Jewish
Day School
Lilah & Rachel Rosenthal Tzedakah Fund
Tibby & Harry Sheres Family Endowment
Fund
Spiegel Family Fund
Pearl Family Endowment Fund
Zelda Pearl Povering Fund
Penn Family Endowment Fund
Jonah Perel Memorial Fund
Perlis Family Camp & Community Fund
Riva & Herb Rosenfeld Philanthropic Fund
Rosmarin Endowment Fund
Rosmarin VAR Endowment Fund
Ellie Rotenberg z”l Scholarship Fund
Leon Rumm Memorial Fund
Samuel J. & Jean Sable Education Fund
Samuel J. & Jean Sable Family Endowment
Fund
Ralph Zabitsky Memorial Fund
Adelyn Zacks Memorial Fund
Macey Standil Tzedakah Fund
Jack & Celia Ungerman Endowment Fund
Henry Zagdanski Family Endowment Fund
Isador Steinberg Angel Guarantor Fund
Jack & Celia Ungerman PACE Fund
Susan & Wilfred Steinberg Family Fund
Ura/Nisker Family Fund
Zaglembier Ladies Auxiliary Endowment
Fund
Shloima & Yetta Steinhart Memorial Fund for
Yiddishkeit
Izrail & Elena Vainberg Special Education
Endowment Fund
Marcia & Arthur Zalev Family Endowment
Fund
Miriam Stewart Memorial Fund
J.B. Van Der Hout Memorial Fund
Sam Zane Endowment Fund
Stopnitzer Young Men’s Benevolent
Association Endowment Fund
Sylvia Van Der Hout Memorial Fund
Leon & Ida Zelicki Family Endowment Fund
Victor Lloyd Van Der Hout Memorial Fund
Marco Zevy Endowment Fund
Sam Strelshik Tzedakah Fund
Olivia Varkul Tzedakah Fund
Saul Zitney Memorial Fund
Miriam Jacqueline Stren Memorial Fund
Brett Vyner Tzedakah Fund
Esther Shub Memorial Fund
David & Martha Sud Family Endowment
Fund
Saul S. Wagman Educational Fund
Margot & Abe z”l Zukerman Endowment
Fund
Michael & Jackie Shulman Family
Endowment Fund
Eva Walstaff Memorial Fund
Helen Zweig Memorial Fund
Adam Sussman Tzedakah Fund
Harold & Lynda Weinrib Endowment Fund
Angel & Devorah Zylberman Fund
Berny & Belle Weinstein Philanthropic Fund
Moshe Zylberman Memorial Fund
Harry Shilling Israel Fund
Shockett Yiddish Teachers Training Fund
Shomer Endowment Fund
Leah Shopsowitz Fund
J.B. & Dora Salsberg Fund
Dorothy Shore Memorial Fund
Fanny & Leib Pillersdorf Family Endowment
Fund
J.B. Salsberg Fund for Yiddish
Murray & Clara Shore Special Education
Endowment Fund
David & Felicia Posluns Endowment Fund
Leah Posluns Endowment Fund
Jordan Propas Camp Scholarship Fund
Prosserman JCC
Fae & Moe Cracower Memorial Fund
Steve Greenwood Camp Scholarship Fund
Savlov Family Endowment Fund
Jacques Sayegh Endowment Fund
Beatrice Schipper Memorial Fund
Michelle Schneeweiss Tzedakah Fund in
memory of Eva Krausz
Hermant Bursary Fund
Margaret Schneider & Susan T. Rickwood
Endowment Fund
Harvey Kalles Fund
Benjamin & Estelle Schneider Fund
Hertel Leibovici Fund
Jaimie Schnier Tzedakah Fund
Lucie Pivnick Fund
Nicole Schnier Tzedakah Fund
Ryan Schnier Tzedakah Fund
Philip, David & Dr. Abraham Shore Fund
Sarah Shore Memorial Fund
Joshua & Miriam Shuval Endowment Fund
Silber Family UJA Federation Legacy Fund
Henry & Iris Silberman Family Endowment
Fund
Lily Silver LOJE Endowment Fund
Nathan & Lily Silver Family Endowment
Fund
Nathan & Lily Silver Family UJA Federation
Philanthropic Fund
TAG Family Endowment Fund
Louis Talsky Memorial Fund
TanenbaumCHAT
TanenbaumCHAT Legacy Endowment
Fund
Rabbi Marvin B. Pachino Scholarship Fund
Samuel J. & Jean Sable Family Fund
Max J. Singer Memorial Fund
Madeline Tanenbaum Tzedakah Fund
Elaine & Don Rafelman Family Endowment
Fund
Eva Schutz Scholarship Fund
Morris Slivka Memorial Fund
Max Tanenbaum Fund-Project Renewal
Anne Schwartz Memorial Fund
Slodovnick Endowment Fund
Max Tanenbaum Fund-UIA/UJA Projects
Sara Ratney Endowment Fund
Ryan Schwartz Tzedakah Fund
N.B. Smith Memorial Fund
Bailey Tarder-Kadaner Tzedakah Fund
Keith & Leslie Ray Family Fund
Harry & Muriel Sniderman Fund
Walter Tarnopolsky Scholarship Fund
Frank David Reiss Family Endowment Fund
Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman UJA
Federation Legacy Fund
Louis Taube Memorial Fund
Ruth & Sam Reitman Fund
Ariel Segal Tzedakah Fund
Ralph Snow Fund
Ernest Tauber Scholarship Fund
Stanley & Charlotte Reitzes Fund
Shira Segal Tzedakah Fund
Jordan Howard Sobel Memorial PACE Fund
David & Mabel Taylor Memorial Fund
Andrew Richler Tzedakah Fund
Solomon Segal Tzedakah Fund
Samuel & Ruth & Warren Sobel Memorial
Fund
Gerald Richler Family UJA Federation
Philanthropic Fund
Josh Seidman Tzedakah Fund
Soberman Children Endowment Fund
Temple Kol Ami Ian & Heather Ringel Endowment Fund
Shalom Village
Helen & Robert Rosen Endowment
Fund
Irwin Maurice Rosen Memorial Fund
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Edith Werner Memorial Fund
Wierzbniker-Abe Zukerman Endowment
Fund
Wilansky Family Endowment Fund
Schusheim/Ipp Family Fund
Lewis & Ruth Sherman Hospice Care
Program Fund
Aube & Miriam Weisman Fund
Samuel Wigdor Memorial Fund
Morris M. Pulver Scholarship Fund of Israel
Pamela Rolnick Philanthropic Fund
Gabi Weisfeld LOJE Fund
Lawrence & Judith Tanenbaum Family
Endowment Fund
Zachariah Schnier Tzedakah Fund
Murray & Annette Roher Endowment Fund
Mark Weisdorf & Lorraine Bell Family
Endowment Fund
Cheryl Tanenbaum Philanthropic Fund
Rose Pullan Memorial Fund
Praiser Fund
Helen Weisbrod Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Simcha Fund
Simcha and Freda Simchovitch Fund for
Yiddish Education and Culture
Lionel Robins Fund
Yeheskel Family Endowment Fund
Max Ullmann Philanthropic Fund
Minnie & Harry Saffer Endowment Fund
Professor David Savan Memorial
Philanthropic Fund
Norman Yallen Tzedakah Fund
Irving & Cathy Stal Special Education
Endowment Fund
Albert Shifrin Memorial Fund
Mark Perlmutter Memorial Fund
Posluns Family Philanthropic Fund
Noah Springer Tzedakah Fund
Lainie Yallen Tzedakah Fund
Yiddish Club Fund
Kate Perlmutter Memorial Fund
Ben, Shirley, Wendy & Shelly Sauder Trust
Toronto Hebrew Memorial Park
Philanthropic Fund
Gabe Yallen Tzedakah Fund
UJA Medical Training Fund
Shiff Family Foundation Fund
Dr. Abraham Shore Memorial Medical
Scholarship
Russell Sanders Tzedakah Fund
Mark Speyer Endowment Fund
Irving Wunch Memorial Fund
Toronto Hebrew Memorial Park
Yona Tugg Tzedakah Fund
Richard & Honi Sacks Family Endowment
Fund
Lucille Samuels Memorial Fund
Sonshine Family UJA Federation Legacy Fund
Maddie Wolfond Tzedakah Fund
Shira Springer Tzedakah Fund
Perlis Family UJA Federation Legacy Fund
Edwin & Charlotte Pivnick Family
Endowment Fund
John & Etta Sherman Fund
Rita Tobias Memorial Fund
Sobol Fund
Howard Sokolowski & Linda Frum
Sokolowski Endowment Fund
Solel Congregation of
Mississauga
Solel Congregation of Mississauga Kallah
Endowment Fund
Temple Kol Ami Fund
Irv Wilson Memorial Philanthropic Fund
Howard & Donna Winick Philanthropic Fund
Myrna Winkler Ross PACE Fund
Toby Wintraub Memorial Fund
Michael Wohl Endowment Fund
Teddy Wohl Tzedakah Fund
Hannah Wohl Tzedakah Fund
Beatrice Wolfe Memorial Fund
Michael Sebastian Wolfe Tzedakah Fund
Rachel Lara Wolfe Tzedakah Fund
Frank & Aileen Wolff Family Endowment
Fund
Martin Wolfish Memorial Fund
Rubin Tencer Memorial Holocaust Education
Fund
Willy & Roseline Tencer Endowment Fund
Burnett & Chave Langbord Thall Fund
TJRJ Fund
Wolfond Centre for Jewish
Campus Life
Wolfond Centre for Jewish Campus Life
Endowment Fund
Every effort is made to ensure proper name
recognition of each donor in the report.
For corrections or omissions, please contact
the Jewish Foundation at 416.631.5703 or
jewishfoundation@ujafed.org.
July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013.
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B ’n ai Tz ed ek
d o ll ar s@ w o rk
B’NAI TZEDEK
TEEN PHILANTHR PY
Our Mission:
Our Vision:
Engage Jewish teens in a lifelong relationship with tzedakah and
tikkun olam (repairing the world) and help cultivate future leaders
within the Jewish community.
Laurie Davis
PU TT IN G TH E
M IT Z VA H
Chair
IN TO
“Seeing how my children’s participation in B’nai
Tzedek has helped shape each of them into caring,
community-minded young adults – I was inspired to
join the B’nai Tzedek leadership team. This program
is so important because it introduces the next
generation, our children, to the values and rewards
of tzedakah and giving back to the community.”
B A R B AT
AN D
To give teens the power to make a difference through tzedakah and
deepen their commitment to social action.
M IT Z VA H
Through B’nai Tzedek, teenagers are able to establish a charitable fund in their own name with a
minimum donation of $1,000.
Our teen philanthropists learn about projects that need funding and then decide how they want to distribute
their charitable dollars. By exposing teens to this outstanding learning process, they become actively involved
in philanthropy and feel good about their role in improving the world.
B’nai Tzedek is one more gift you can give to your children — it’s the gift of giving.
Nearly 300 youngsters between the ages of 6-13 at the Zipori
Elementary school are benefitting from a recently renovated
basketball court, thanks to Gabe Yallen’s Tzedakah Fund. Kids
are playing basketball throughout the school day and additional
age groups use the court after school hours and on the weekend.
why they got involved...
“I am happy to help people who are less fortunate than I because it is
important to give back to the world. I want to help kids learn with the use
of a computer or tablet.”
Seth Damiani
“I have learned from my parents the importance of being
charitable and always helping those in need, particularly in the Jewish Community in Toronto and in Israel. My
Fund is my commitment to perform tikkun olam each year.”
Hannah Goodman
Kellie and Lauren are at J-SERVE 2013: the Jewish day of youth service as
volunteer participants representing B’nai Tzedek.
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
Kellie and Lauren Grammer
Kellie and Lauren joined the B’nai Tzedek Teen Philanthropy
program in 2007 at the time of their bat mitzvahs, and remained
involved throughout their teen years. They served as teen chairs of
“I’m a huge sports fan. I like to watch lots of different sports, especially
B’nai Tzedek from 2011-2013. As leaders, they encouraged others
give kids in Bat Yam, Israel, a chance to enjoy shooting hoops like me. Bat Yam
to university, we thank Kellie and Lauren for their dedication and
football (Go Steelers!), and I really love playing basketball. I’d like to help
to participate, get involved and make a difference. As they head off
has a large population of underprivileged children, many of them Ethiopian
hard work.
Jews, who gain so much from playing basketball.”
Gabe Yallen
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For more information about the B’nai Tzedek Teen Philanthropy program, please contact
Angela D’Aversa at 416-631-5833, bnaitzedek@ujafed.org or visit www.bnaitzedek.ca.
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DOR L'DOR
KAVOD
CHOICES
From left to right, top to bottom: Peter Fink, Mark Grammer, Leslie Gales, Irwin Michael, David Posluns (Chair), Fred Waks,
Peter Zaltz (Vice Chair) / Absent: Ira Gluskin, Carol Mitchell, Neil Nisker, Janet Rabovsky, Charles Winograd
investment advisory committee
VISION
SOCIAL
SUMMER CAMP
COMMITMENT
PASSING ON VALUES
Reporting to the Board, the Investment Advisory Committee oversees the management
of the Foundation’s assets. We thank them for their commitment to the future of the Jewish
community.
Peter Fink
FLAG Capital Management
Leslie Gales Midland Group
Ira Gluskin
Gluskin Sheff & Associates
Mark Grammer
Mackenzie Investments
Irwin Michael
I.A. Michael Investment Counsel Ltd.
Janet Rabovsky
Towers Watson
Fred Waks
RioCan Real Estate Investment
Trust
Carol Mitchell
C.R. Mitchell Advisors Inc.
Neil Nisker
Fiera Private Wealth
Charles Winograd
David Posluns
Cedarpoint Investments Inc.
Peter Zaltz
Blair Franklin Capital Partners
Inc.
Winograd Capital Inc.
return on investment
Objective
The investment policy is designed to optimize long-term returns at an appropriate level of risk.
The long-term investment objective is to protect the purchasing power of the capital component, establish a reserve for future market
declines and achieve the Jewish Foundation’s long-term distribution objectives.
Investment consultants provide specialized research, due diligence and monitoring.
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Financial Summary
The Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto's most recent fiscal year ended on June 30, 2013. The following provides a summary of the
Jewish Foundation's financial results for the year, as well as the Foundation's financial results for the four fiscal years prior.
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
-8.32%
8.32%
11.10%
-0.28%
10.10%
186,259,214
196,875,409
216,758,088
209,284,173
226,409,410
Non-endowed
8,080,139
12,280,568
7,973,759
6,828,761
7,736,822
Total Assets*
194,339,353
209,155,977
224,731,847
216,112,934
234,146,232
Investment Return
(on endowment
portfolio)
Endowed
Planned Gifts and
Expectancies
160,208,855
178,118,855
185,698,855
290,998,855
296,363,855
Total Assets and
Expectancies*
354,548,208
387,274,832
410,430,702
507,111,789
530,510,087
17,674,004
13,825,463
20,550,486
16,388,586
24,321,576
Grant Distributions
in fiscal year 2012-2013, the Jewish Foundation grants touched lives from
Toronto to Sderot, Haliburton to Eilat, and places in between.
More than $24 million was distributed to approximately 300 organizations
ensuring the stability and enduring success of the Jewish community.
Arts & Culture
3,570,296
14.7%
14,371,412 59.1%
Education
2,062,159 8.5%
Health & Research
2,198,309 9.0%
Israel & Overseas
2,117,200
8.7%
Community*
$24,321,576 100.0%
*Includes $5,275,187 to
United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto’s Annual Campaign
24.3
25
*Market value at fiscal year end June 30. Preliminary unaudited figures.
20.6
A planned gift is a charitable gift of life insurance or a bequest in a will; thus
creating a charitable fund so that the impact of giving lives on forever.
250
291
200
186
160
$MM)
THIS YEAR SAW continued GROWTH IN PLANNED
GIFTS TO THE JEWISH FOUNDATION, BRINGING OUR
TOTAL EXPECTANCIES TO $296 MILLION.
178
296
150
100
TOTAL GRANTS ($MM)
Planned Gifts and Expectancies
300
20
In partnership with
our generous donors,
the Jewish Foundation
distributed over
$92 million to a myriad of
organizations benefitting
the community over the
last 5 years.
17.7
16.4
13.8
15
10
5
COMBINED, THIS BRINGS OUR TOTAL ASSETS AND
EXPECTANCIES TO over $530 MILLION.
50
0
0
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
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2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
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Grant
Distributions
In partnership with
Canadian Association for Aviation and Space
in Israel
Canadian Friends of Yad Sarah
Friends of Lubavitch London Ontario
Adath Israel Congregation
Canadian Friends of Yeshiva University
African Research and Conservation Foundation
Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology
Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Aish Hatorah
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for
Holocaust Studies
distributed over
AIDS Committee of Toronto
Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation
Canadian Institute for Jewish Research
Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival
Kidney Foundation of Canada
$24 million
Aleh Rehabilitation of Canada
Canadian Cancer Society
Canadian Jewish Civil Rights Association
Gates of Mercy
Kids Help Foundation
Alli’s Journey
Canadian Centre for Diversity
Canadian Magen David Adom for Israel
Gerry & Nancy Pencer Brain Trust
Kids Help Phone
to approximately
Alzheimer Society of Ontario
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
Gesher Abraham
Knesseth Israel Synagogue Congregation
300 local, national,
Anne & Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew
Academy of Toronto
Canadian Committee for the Tel Aviv
Foundation
Canadian National Institute for the Blind
Glenn Gould Foundation
Koffler Centre of the Arts
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Greenwood College School
Kupas Hachesed Meoroth
Canadian Peres Center for Peace Foundation
Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada
Leket Canada
Canadian Scholarship Fund of Ohr Hameir
Hamilton Hebrew Academy Zichron Meir
Leo Baeck Day School
Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation
Hamilton Jewish Home for the Aged
Charitable Foundation
Living City Foundation
Harvard University
London Jewish Community Centre
Canadian Society for Yad Vashem
Hashomer HaTzair Young Guard
Maccabi Canada
Canadian Technion Society
Hatzoloh Toronto
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada
Canadian Women’s Foundation
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario
Mazon Canada
Canadian Zionist Cultural Association
Hillel of Greater Toronto
McGill University
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
(CAMH) Foundation
Holy Blossom Temple
McMaster University
Hospital for Sick Children
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Chabad at Flamingo
Hospital for Sick Children Foundation
Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre
Chabad Lubavitch of Southern Ontario
Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies
Mizrachi Organization of Canada
Chabad of Midtown Toronto
Mount Sinai Hospital
Chabad on the Avenue
International Fellowship of Christians and
Jews of Canada
Chai Lifeline
Interval House
Chai Tikvah Foundation
Israel Cancer Research Fund of Toronto
Chasiedai Ger
JACS Toronto
Cheder Chabad
Jerusalem Foundation of Canada
Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada
Jewish Camp Council of Toronto
Circle of Home Care Services (Toronto)
Jewish Family & Child Service of Greater
Toronto
our generous donors,
the Jewish Foundation
Adas Israel Congregation of Hamilton
and international
Antisemitism Must End Now (A.M.E.N.)
organizations
Art Gallery of Ontario
(2012-2013 fiscal year).
Arthritis Society
Ashkenaz Foundation
Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto
Bais Chaya Mushkah School for Girls
Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
Baycrest Centre Foundation
Beautiful World Canada Foundation
Beit Halochem Canada
Bernard Betel Centre for Creative Living
Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Congregation
Beth Haminyan Congregation
Beth Israel Anshei Minsk Congregation
Beth Medrasha Govoha
Beth Oloth Charitable Organization
Beth Sholom Synagogue
Beth Tzedec Congregation
Bikur Cholim
Birthright Israel Foundation of Canada
Canadian Friends of Bar-Ilan University
Canadian Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro
Canadian Friends of Boys Town Jerusalem
Canadian Friends of Cuban Jewry
Canadian Friends of Ezrath Nashim Herzog
Hospital
Canadian Friends of Haifa University
Canadian Friends of Israel Elwyn
Canadian Friends of Laniado Hospital
Canadian Friends of Nishmat
Canadian Friends of Ohr Somayach
Canadian Friends of Rambam Medical Centre
Canadian Friends of Shalva Israel Association
Canadian Friends of Tel Aviv University
Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute
of Science
Bnei Akiva Schools
Breast Cancer Society of Canada
Canadian Friends of the Jerusalem College of
Technology School of Applied Sciences
Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada
Canadian Friends of the Shalom Hartman
Institute
Doctors Without Borders Canada
Canadian Friends of the World Union for
Progressive Judaism
First Russian Congregation of Rodfesolium
Ansekiev
Canada Israel Cultural Foundation
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Canadian Friends of Alyn
Reconstructionist Synagogue of Toronto
Camp Massad of Canada
COMMUNITY
NEEDS
Canadian Friends of A.V. Israel
Canadian Friends of the Israel Museum
Camp Hatikvah Foundation
to
Canadian Foundation for Masorti Judaism
Canadian Friends of the Israel Guide Dog
Center for the Blind
Building a Jewish Tomorrow NCSY
passion
Canadian Foundation for Control of
Neurodegenerative Disease
B’nai Brith Foundation
Bruce Trail Conservancy
CONNECTING
Canadian Eyesight Global
Canada-Israel Children’s Centres
Canada-Israel Education Foundation
Canadian Associates of the Ben Gurion
University of the Negev
14.7%
arts & culture
Canadian Friends of the Zion Orphanage and
Education Centre
Canadian Friends of Tzedakah Meir Baal
Haness of Jerusalem
Canadian Friends of Yad Eliezer
59.1%
community
Congregation Darchei Noam
Dalhousie University
Evergreen
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Foundation for International Community
Assistance-FINCA Canada
Friends of Amani Canada
8.5%
Education
Jewish Free Loan Toronto
Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada
JIAS (Jewish Immigrant Aid Services)
Toronto
Jordana Lokash Foundation
Loft Community Services
Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation
MukiBaum Treatment Centres
MukiBaum Accessibility Foundation
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
N I F Canadian Charitable Trust
Na’amat Canada
National Ballet of Canada
National Council of Jewish Women of
Canada, Toronto Section
Jewish Literacy Foundation of Canada
National Holocaust Monument Development
Council
Jewish National Fund of Canada
Nature Canada
Jewish Russian Speaking Community of
Toronto
Nature Conservancy of Canada
Jewish Theological Society of Canada
Jewish Vocational Service of Metropolitan
Toronto
Jewish Youth Network
Jews for Judaism
Ne’eman Foundation
Ner Israel Rabbinical College
Neshamah Congregation of York Region
Nishma-Societal Endeavor in Understanding
Torah
North York General Hospital
9%
8.7%
health & research
israel & overseas
Working together
granting continued
Our leadership team
North York Harvest Food Bank
Shaarei Shomayim Congregation
Toronto Public Library Foundation
One Family Fund Canada
Shaarei Tefillah Congregation
Toronto Star Children’s Charities
Ontario Headwaters Institute
Shalom Village Nursing Home
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Ontario Jewish Archives Foundation
Smile Train Canada
Toronto Vegetarian Association
ORT Canada
Special Olympics Ontario
True Patriot Love Foundation
Parkinson Society Canada
Speech and Stuttering Institute
Tzivos Hashem Canada
Paths of Torah School
St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation
United Israel Appeal of Canada
Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School
Stephen Leacock Foundation for Children
United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto
Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario
Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada
United Jewish Welfare Fund of Hamilton
Petah Tikva Anshe Castilla Congregation
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
United Jewish Welfare Fund of Toronto
Pine Bay Foundation
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Foundation
United Way of Greater Toronto
T.J.E.E. - The Jewish Educational Experience
(The House)
University of Toronto
Pine River Foundation
Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation of
Canada
Pride of Israel Synagogue
Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation
Project Aseret
Prosserman Jewish Community Centre
Reena
Reena Foundation
Regesh Family & Child Services
Robbins Hebrew Academy
Rouge Valley Health System Foundation
Ruchama Fraidel Relief Organization
Salvation Army
Save a Child’s Heart Foundation
Schwartz Reisman Centre
Second Harvest Food Support Committee
Temple Kol Ami
Tower of Light Children’s Foundation
Three to Be
University of Pennsylvania
University of Waterloo
Vaad Mishmeres Mitzvos-Committee to
Observe the Torah Laws
Tides Canada Foundation
Ve’Ahavta: The Canadian Jewish
Humanitarian & Relief Committee
Torah in Motion
Village Shul & Learning Center of Toronto
Torah Learning Centre
Women’s Brain Health Initiative
Toronto Cheder
Women’s College Hospital Foundation
Toronto Children’s Care
World Wildlife Fund Canada
Toronto Community Foundation
World Wildlife Fund Canada Foundation
Toronto District School Board
Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid
Toronto General & Western Hospital
Foundation
York School
Toronto Jewish Film Foundation
Toronto Jewish Folk Choir
Toronto Jewish Theatre
York University
Zaka Foundation
Zareinu Educational Centre
Together, we are making a difference.
Imagine the possibilities...
Get started today... call 416.631.5703
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Foundation Board of Trustees
Cecil Brauer
Morland Brown
Barry Corbin
Lisa Draper
Alan Farber
Bonnie Goldstein
Jamie Golombek
David C. Green, Honourary Member
Robert Harlang
Marlene Klewans
Joseph Lebovic
Marc Lipton
David Matlow
Steve Mayer
Israel Mida
Faye Minuk
Morris Perlis, Immediate Past Chair
David Posluns
Keith Ray
Ariella Rohringer
Ian Rosmarin
Laurie Sheff
Honey Sherman
Fran Sonshine
John Ulmer
Richard Venn
Fred Waks, Chair
Harold Wolkin
Peter Zaltz
Investment Advisory
Committee
Peter Fink
Leslie Gales
Ira Gluskin
Mark Grammer
Irwin Michael
Carol Mitchell
Neil Nisker
David Posluns, Chair
Janet Rabovsky
Fred Waks
Charles Winograd, Immediate Past Chair
Peter Zaltz, Vice Chair
Professional Advisory
Committee (PAC)
Stephen Altbaum
Tammy Anklewicz
Sylvia Azoulay
Larry Berdugo
Charles Berger
Rachel Blumenfeld
Jaymie Bongard
David Wm. Brown
Golda Brown
Jeffery Brown
Jordan Caplan
Brian Cohen
Robert Cohen
Barry Corbin
Joel Cuperfain, Vice Chair
Jeffrey Feldman
John Fisher
Matthew Getzler
Michael Goldberg
Zachary Goldman
Jamie Golombek
Mark Halpern
Jon Hanser
Robyn Latchman
Murray Leiter
Norman Levine
David Malach
Israel Mida, Chair
Elise Pulver
Ted Rechtshaffen
Martin Rochwerg
Meir Rotenberg
David Schlesinger
Michael Shain
Jeff Sniderman
Arthur Standil
Trevor Stein
David Steinberg
Ronnie Strauss
Joshua Wise
Lorne Wolfson
Administration Fee
Committee
Donald Bennett
Morley Brown
Lisa Draper
David Matlow, Chair
Insurance Policy Committee
Barry Corbin
Joel Cuperfain, Chair
Israel Mida
David Posluns
Ian Rosmarin
Lion of Judah Endowment
Laurie Sheff, Chair
Carol Goldstein, Immediate Past Chair
Lori Ulmer, Immediate Past Chair
Book of Life
Hinda Silber, Chair
Lesley Binstock Offman, Immediate
Past Chair
B’nai Tzedek Teen
Philanthropy
Laurie Davis, Chair
Kellie Grammer, Teen Co-Chair
Lauren Grammer, Teen Co-Chair
Jewish Foundation of Greater
Toronto
Ronit Holtzman, Director
Angela D’Aversa, Assistant Director
Janice Benatar, Senior Development
Officer
Frank Vessio, Director, Financial
Operations
Bessie Spataro, Accounting Analyst
Jody Kamen, Junior Designer
Marina Atias, Foundation Administrator
Dayna Keena, Administrative Assistant
UJA Federation of Greater
Toronto
Richard Venn, Chair of the Board
Elizabeth Wolfe, Immediate Past Chair
Morris Perlis, Senior Vice Chair
Ted Sokolsky, President & CEO
Ronit Holtzman, Vice President, Planned
Giving & Endowments
Distribution Policy
Committee
Robert Harlang, Chair
Marlene Klewans
Ian Rosmarin
John Ulmer
Fred Waks
Charitable Registration #:
10815 5797 RR0002
Designed by: Jody Kamen
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Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto
Sherman Campus
4600 Bathurst Street
Toronto, Ontario M2R 3V2
T.416.631.5703 F. 416.631.5701
jewishfoundation@ujafed.org
jewishfoundationtoronto.com

report to the community - UJA Federation of Greater Toronto

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