The new “Edwin Rosenberg Award” for constructive leadership in Jewish communal service will be formally established at the 24th General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, it was announced today by Julian Freeman of Indianapolis, Council president. The Assembly will take place November 10-13 at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago. The award was set up by the Council, and was made possible by a generous grant from the Ben and Bertha Touster Foundation, Inc. as a continuing testimonial to Edwin Rosenberg’s outstanding Jewish communal leadership.
Mr. Rosenberg, of New York, was chairman of the negotiating committee which brought about the merger of HIAS, the United Service for New Americans and the Migration Department of the Joint Distribution Committee into the new United HIAS Service. He was a past president of USNA and is now chairman of the National Council of United Has Service. He is chairman of the executive committee of the Greater New York United Jewish Appeal and was chairman of the administrative committee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. He is also a member of the board of directors and executive committee of the CJFWF.
The Touster Foundation has provided a $2,500 trust fund to finance the award. The CJFWF, national association of 250 Jewish federations and welfare funds throughout the United States and Canada, will administer the award. In his letter of transmittal, Mr. Touster wrote to the CJFWF board of Mr. Rosenberg, “His leadership has been of the highest type–inspired by a broad and lofty outlook, universal in its scope and in its objectives–leadership which has never been limited to one purpose, one agency or one project.” He called attention to Mr. Rosenberg’s efforts which have always been directed toward improving services and strengthening organizations.
Eligible for the award are both men and women, volunteer and professional, individuals and groups, “who have demonstrated constructive leadership in Jewish communal service, in the achievement of cooperation among Jewish organizations for the greater benefit of the persons directly served by these agencies, and for the greater benefit of the community and humanity generally.” The award will be a scroll, plaque or medal.
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