A new Jewish Community Center has been inaugurated in the old Paris Mont-martre area. The Center consists of some 40 double rooms to serve as an old people’s home and a nursery which can take in 75 children on a day-care basis. It will also serve some 600 kosher meals a day.
Some two-thirds of the center’s budget was provided by the City of Paris social services agency and part of the rest by an association comprising some of the veteran Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe or their descendants.
The president of the association, advertising tycoon Marcel Blaustein-Blanchet, said that many of the early postwar Jewish immigrants landed in Montmartre where the Center was originally opened in 1932 in two small rooms. Blaustein-Blanchet said that the Center will also cater to the needs of many of the area’s non-Jewish old or needy.
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