Many of the leading Jews of Indianapolis are taking a prominent part in the tenth annual fund-raising campaign of the Indianapolis Community Fund. Edward A. Kahn is co-chairman of the individual gifts division, and Samuel Mueller is team captain of District 3 in this division. Many others are taking part as team workers.
The Community Fund contributes $49,548 annually to the Jewish Federation of Indianapolis, which in turn supports the Jewish Community Center, the Jewish Family Welfare Society, and the Jewish Shelter House and Old Home.
A Jewish Community Credit Union, the first undertaking of its kind in Indianapolis, was recently organized. The purpose of the Credit Union will be twofold; first, to stimulate thrift and savings among its members, and second, to provide loans at a low rate of interest. The movement is entirely cooperative; no officers can receive pay for their services; the earnings which accrue are divided among the stockholders after 20% of net earnings is placed in the reserve fund.
Officers of the Credit Union are: Leo Kaminsky, president; Jacob Soltken, vice-president; Philip Kraft, treasurer, and H. Joseph Hyman, secretary.
Denver, Colo., Nov. 25-Jewish activities in Denver this fall have been philanthropic for the most part. The most recent event of national importance was the opening of the Louis Heineman Building for Tuberculous Children, at the National Jewish Hospital.
Formal dedication ceremonies will be held later. Rabbi William S. Friedman, president and founder of the institution, opened the building with a simple dedicatory prayer, surrounded by the 22 children already being cared for in the building, and by the hospital staff, the children and other patients of the hospital who were able to attend.
The sixteenth building on the hospital grounds, this new building was erected as a cost of $150,000, through the legacy of the late Louis Heineman of Jamestown, N. Y.
It is to be devoted exclusively to the care of children suffering from tuberculosis of the bones, joints, glands, and pulmonary tuberculosis, the only service of its kind for children in any national Jewish tubercular charity institution.
Althouth the total capacity of the building is 44, only one floor will be in operation until increased subscriptions made possible maintenance of the entire building. That would bring the capacity of the hospital to 350.
A prominent Jewish business man of this city, Samuel E. Kohn, this year is
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president of the local Community Chest, including more than 50 charity organizations of all types and for all creeds.
The annual campaign is now on. Another member of the Jewish community. Isadore Samuels, a vice-chairman of the organization, is also one of the leaders.
This year more than seven per cent of the funds collected by this body is scheduled for the several Jewish charities under its support.
The fate of the Beth Israel Hospital and Home for the Aged, a local institution now entering into the seventh year of service, was decided recently when the board of directors determined to continue operation despite the financial deficit which had resulted in a motion for disbanding the work.
One of the most active workers. Adolph Kiesler, was re-elected president. A new wing for the old folks’ home is being planned, and through his generosity in the project one of the rooms will be dedicated to honor the memory of his wife, the late Sarah Kiesler.
The memory of another Colorado woman was perpetuated this week when the dining room in the hospital building of the Denver National Home for Jewish Children was dedicated to the late Ida B. Livermore, wife of Oscar Livermore of Colorado Springs. Mr. Livermore endowed the room in his wife’s name.
Two national Jewish organizations, the Council of Jewish Women and the B’nai B’rith, are responsible for making Denver a gathering place for Jewry of the state this month.
Last week women from Pueblo and Colorado Springs came here to attend a luncheon given by the Denver Council of Jewish Women.
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