The first contribution to a campaign to raise $150,000 to complete the Jewish Community Center on Ocean Parkway at Neptune Avenue, Brooklyn, was made by the Rev. Francis Patrick Duffy, who is a member of the campaign committee.
“I take pleasure in enclosing my check for $100,” Father Duffy wrote. This offering is made partially because the Jewish body of the Ocean Parkway neighborhood is anxious to complete a community center for the entire community to be emblazoned by an eternal light of tolerance. It gives me great satisfaction to do something to show my appreciation of a people who are the most generous and broad-minded in the world. My lack of means makes my contribution a small one. I hope it will be taken as a gesture of friendliness and appreciation.”
The campaign committee is as follows: Judge Algernon I. Nova, chairman; the Rev. Francis Patrick Duffy, the Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, Rabbi Nathan Krass, George V. McLaughlin, Meier Steinbrink, John B. Creighton, Louis H. Pink, Herman Bernstein, former Assemblyman Phelps Phelps, Edward J. Whalen, William J. Ward, Ephraim Byk, William F. Mangels, Charles H. Armstrong, Frank J. Murphy, Adolph Balsam and Rabbi Lewis B. Michaelson; vice-chairmen, Leon S. Kaiser, treasurer, and Leslie C. Stratton, secretary.
An eternal light of tolerance will be erected on the building.
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