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Guide to the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America Records,
1911-1915, 1925-1997 (bulk 1933-1992)

I-66

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Descriptive Summary

Creator: Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
Title: Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America Records
Dates: 1911-1915, 1925-1997 (bulk 1933-1992)
Abstract: The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America Records document the activities and missions of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (UOJCA) primarily during the presidencies of William Weiss (1933-1942), Samuel Nirenstein (1942-1948) and Moses Feuerstein (1954-1965), and Rabbi Pinchas Stolper’s tenure as Executive Vice President (1976-1994). Founded in 1898, the UOJCA, also known as the Orthodox Union, serves as the leader, organizer and voice of affiliated Orthodox Jewish congregations in North America. Divisions of the UOJCA reflected most prominently in the collection include the National Conference of Synagogue Youth, the Women’s Branch, the Kashruth Division, the Department of Synagogue Services, the Israel Center, as well as regional branches. Subjects addressed include Sabbath and high holiday observance, dietary laws, Baal Teshuva, slaughterhouse legislation, funeral standards, education, synagogue management and outreach. Materials include correspondence, minutes, clippings, speeches, UOJCA publications, financial documents and a few photographs.
Languages: The collection is in English, with a few items in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian.
Quantity: 46 manuscript boxes, 1 half manuscript box, 2 microfilm reels.
Quantity: 23.25 linear feet.
Accession number: I-66
Repository: American Jewish Historical Society
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Historical Note

In 1898 Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes of Shearith Israel and representatives of fifty Orthodox congregations founded the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (UOJCA), also widely known as the Orthodox Union (OU). The organization’s founding mission was to perpetuate and preserve Modern Orthodox Judaism and to unify Jewish immigrant populations by connecting and strengthening Orthodox synagogue congregations across the United States, as well as Canada. The UOJCA steadily grew in scope and influence, especially following World War II.

From its inception, the UOJCA has worked to integrate Orthodox traditions more seamlessly and in pace with changing American lifestyles. Their success is due to the breadth of their efforts and approaches. They have standardized and enabled easy access to trustworthy information – in lending their easy-to-spot kosher insignia to food labels and in the regular publication (and now web presence) of a kosher products directory and mikvah directory. Starting in 1956 they commissioned designs for prefabricated synagogues, which could then be quickly erected by new congregations, especially in suburban communities. At that same time regional branches were developed to encourage cooperation between synagogues in shared locales in order to better solidify communities outside of major metropolitan areas and strengthen the presence of the Orthodox community in suburban America. In response to rising rates of intermarriage, the UOJCA began organizing singles events. The UOJCA has also actively supported Jewish education with scholarships (particularly for American college students studying abroad in Israel), lectures and educational programs.

A major function of the Union is to speak out on a public and national level on behalf of Orthodox Jews, responding to such wide-ranging topics as Sabbath and slaughterhouse legislation, U.S. policy in the Middle East, Soviet Jewry, funeral standards and the role of women in Orthodox Judaism. In addition to advocacy, another cornerstone of UOJCA’s strength and influence has been its outreach to youth and the disabled.

Over the years the UOJCA created a number of auxiliary branches. The histories of five major branches reflected in the present collection are summarized below.

In 1923, during Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein’s tenure as UOJCA President, the Women’s Branch was founded, with the primary goal of networking synagogue sisterhoods in North America, as well as increasing the understanding and practice of Orthodox traditions and rituals among Jewish women and youth. The Women’s Branch works towards these goals by sponsoring educational and social activities, leadership events and scholarships for women. Rabbi Goldstein’s wife, Rebecca Fischel Goldstein, was the Women’s Branch’s first President.

The UOJCA’s well-known role in the kosher food industry and certification process began with a Kashruth Committee formed by the Women’s Branch between 1923 and 1925. The committee approached food manufacturers, analyzed the Kashruth of their products and also worked to persuade manufacturers to replace non-kosher with kosher ingredients. Building on the Committee’s exploratory efforts, in 1925 the UOJCA officially started their non-profit supervision service and certification process under the auspices of the Kashruth Division. Heinz ketchup was the first product to sport UOJCA’s certified kosher symbol.

The UOJCA formed the National Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY) in 1954 with the intent to nationally organize Orthodox synagogue adolescent youth groups and formally affiliate those youth groups with the UOJCA. With time NCSY broadened its target community to adolescents of all Jewish affiliations, especially those coming from nonobservant families, and introduced them to Orthodox Judaism through social, educational, cultural and religious communal activities. NCSY developed regional branches within the U.S. and international programs as well in Israel and the Ukraine. The group contributed to the development of outreach programs, Our Way and Yachad, for disabled youth and the deaf in particular. NCSY played a significant role in the Teshuva movement and resurgence of Orthodoxy in the 1960s and after.

Rabbi Pinchas Stolper was a founder of NCSY in 1954, and Stolper became NCSY’s first National Director in 1959, a position he would carry until 1976 when he became the Executive Vice President of UOJCA until 1994. He returned to the position of NCSY National Director between 1994 and 1998. Rabbi Stolper (1931- ) graduated from Brooklyn College in 1952 and was ordained at Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in 1956. Later Stolper was Adjunct Professor of Jewish Studies at Touro College, and he authored and edited books and manuals for Jewish youth.

The Israel Center, also known as the OU/NCSY Israel Center, opened in Jerusalem in 1978 originally as a community center for NCSY college students studying abroad in Israel for a year. Though youth remains at its core, the Center has also expanded beyond that original mission and target group to reach out also to Russian immigrants and senior citizens. The Center offers social, educational, cultural and religious programming intended to aid foreigners (whether students, travelers or immigrants) in integrating into life in Israel and strengthening their Jewish identities.

The Department of Synagogue Services liaises with UOJCA’s constituent congregations, providing synagogue administration advice and programming. The Department of Synagogue Services had been formerly known as the Division of Synagogue Services, the Synagogue Services Commission, and perhaps also the Synagogue Service Bureau and the Synagogue Relations Division. Around 1980 Rabbi Stolper proposed the UOJCA revamp the department, and in 1983 Rabbi Bertram Leff was hired to lead the department in that revitalization.

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Scope and Content Note

The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America Records document the activities and missions of the UOJCA, as well as its auxiliary branches. Materials include correspondence, press releases, educational pamphlets, manuals, directories, minutes, newsletters, notes, speeches, reports, a few photographs and product packaging.

The collection is divided into two subgroups. The date range of materials in Subgroup I: General Administrative Records begins in 1911 and ends in 1995, but the bulk of materials cover the period between 1933 and 1968, during the presidencies of William Weiss (1933-1942), Samuel Nirenstein (1942-1949) and Moses Feuerstein (1954-1966). This subgroup is particularly strong in materials related to annual and regional conventions, Women’s Branch and Jewish Life.

Subgroup II: Rabbi Pinchas Stolper’s Records range in date from 1961 to 1997, with materials markedly increasing when Rabbi Pinchas Stolper became UOJCA’s Executive Vice President in 1976 and trickling off after 1992. This subgroup reflects the aspects and branches of the UOJCA in which Rabbi Pinchas Stolper was administratively or tangentially active across three and a half decades, including NCSY, the Israel Center, the Department of Synagogue Services and the Kashruth Division.

Documentation cutting across both subgroups includes general administrative, regional, Kashruth and youth materials.

Eight-inch floppy diskettes from 1979-1981 were discarded. For a partial list of files included on these diskettes see “Diskettes, 1979-1981” [Box 17, Folder 6].

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Arrangement

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The collection is open to all researchers by permission of the Director of Library and Archives of the American Jewish Historical Society, except items that are restricted due to their fragility.

Use Restrictions

Information concerning the literary rights may be obtained from the Director of Library and Archives of the American Jewish Historical Society. Users must apply in writing for permission to quote, reproduce or otherwise publish manuscript materials found in this collection. For more information contact:

American Jewish Historical Society, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

E-mail: info@ajhs.org

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Related Material

Synagogue Council of America Records; I-68; American Jewish Historical Society, Newton Centre, MA and New York, NY.

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Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America Records; I-66; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.

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Acquisition Information

The first subgroup may have been donated in installments in the late 1980s and early 1990s by UOJCA Administrator Saul Bernstein, and this subgroup was arranged by AJHS as a box and folder list between 1994 and 1997. Rabbi Pinchas Stolper donated the second subgroup, accretion # 2002.035, on June 4, 2002.

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Access Points

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Container List

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

 

Subgroup I: General Administrative Records, 1911-1915, 1923-1995 (bulk 1933-1968).
7.75 linear feet. Boxes 1-16 and 2 reels of microfilm.
Arrangement:

Arranged into eight series: Series 1: Administrative; Series 2: Conventions; Series 3: Women’s Branch; Series 4: Jewish Life; Series 5: Publications; Series 6: Financials; Series 7: Microfilmed Materials; Series 8: Photographs.
Scope and Content:

This subgroup most comprehensively reflects the activities of the UOJCA between 1933 and 1968. Represented UOJCA departments include the Executive Committee, Administrative Committee, Women’s Branch, Armed Forces Commission, Education Commission, Funeral Standards Committee, Synagogue Service Department, Kashruth Committee, Jewish Life and the regions.

Meeting minutes are the primary records of the UOJCA in the 1930s and 1940s. In the 1950s and 1960s the documentation of organizational activity picks up in another form with extensive administrative correspondence and convention materials. The Women’s Branch is documented with manuals and mailings and Jewish Life with editorial correspondence and rejected article submissions.

Materials also include press releases, educational pamphlets, directories, newsletters, notes, speeches, reports, a few photographs and product packaging.

Series 1: Administrative, undated, 1911, 1913, 1926-1988.
1.75 linear feet. Boxes 1-4.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical by format or topic.
Scope and Content:

This series includes correspondence, minutes, reports and press releases created by or for the Executive Committee or miscellaneous branches of the UOJCA. UOJCA branches with larger quantities of materials are represented later in their own series. Most correspondence was written between 1960 and 1966, with a scattering of letters from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and the bulk of correspondence is between UOJCA Administrator Saul Bernstein and President Moses I. Feuerstein. Minutes cover the period between 1933 and 1948, primarily reflecting William Weiss’s and Dr. Samuel Nirenstein’s roles and actions while President.

Topics touched on in the series include Jewish funeral laws and practices, UOJCA’s Passover effort to deliver matzoh to Jews in the former USSR, UOJCA’s exhibit at the World’s Fair in 1964 and 1965, their prefabricated synagogue program and Shechitah.

Correspondence
Box Folder Title Date
1 1 Armed Forces Commission 1963-1965
1 2 Chief Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman’s Visit 1966
1 3 Ecumenical Movement 1964, 1967
1 4 Education Commission undated, 1958-1963
1 5 Executive Committee 1940-1947
1 6 Fair Sabbath Law 1952-1954, 1958, 1963
1 7 Feuerstein, Moses 1960-1966
1 8 Funeral Standards Committee 1960-1968
1 9 Funeral Standards Committee 1960-1968
1 10 General 1926, 1933-1967
Box Folder Title Date
2 1 Humane Slaughter Legislation undated, 1958-1967
2 2 Israel 1960-1966
2 3 Jaffe, Maurice undated, 1961-1964
2 4 Mendes, Rabbi H. Pereira [general mailings] 1911, 1913
2 5 National Community Relations Advisory Council (NCRAC) 1957-1966
2 6 Religious Reconstruction Committee – Penitence Seals 1934
2 7 Soviet Jewry undated, 1962-1966
2 8 Synagogue Bombings 1958, 1960
2 9 Synagogue Council of America 1963-1964
2 10 Synagogue Design 1956-1964
2 11 Synagogue Service Department 1960-1963
2 12 Synagogues undated, 1959-1962
Box Folder Title Date
3 1 Weiss, Samson 1959-1965
3 2 World’s Fair 1962-1966
3 3 Yavneh 1962-1965
3 4 Yeshiva University 1954, 1958, 1962-1964
3 5 Young Israel 1958-1959, 1964
3 6 Zim Lines 1963-1964

Minutes
Box Folder Title Date
3 7 Administrative Committee 1933-1939
3 8 Administrative Committee 1940-1948
3 9 Administrative Committee 1957-1959
3 10 Board of Directors 1956
3 11 Executive Committee 1933-1934
3 12 Executive Committee 1935-1939
3 13 Executive Committee 1940-1945
3 14 Executive Committee 1946-1948, 1962
3 15 Funeral Standards Commission 1960, 1963
Box Folder Title Date
4 1 Kashruth Committee 1933, 1940-1948
4 2 Miscellaneous Committees 1934-1942, 1947

Activities and Press Releases
Box Folder Title Date
4 3 Dinners and Conferences undated, 1928, 1946, 1961-1968, 1983-1987
4 4 Press Releases undated, 1950-1988
4 5 Reports of Activities 1939, 1950-1956
4 6 Trips undated, 1952-1975

Series 2: Conventions, 1915, 1925, 1951-1978.
3 linear feet. Boxes 5-10.
Arrangement:

Arranged by date of convention or UOJCA regional branch.
Scope and Content:

This series includes materials from UOJCA’s biennial national conventions and annual regional conventions. Most conventions represented here occurred between 1954 and 1962, during Moses Feuerstein’s presidency. A large portion of the correspondence was received or generated by Saul Bernstein, the UOJCA Administrator. Materials include programs, resolutions, proceedings, correspondence, speeches and press releases.

Subseries A: Biennial National Conventions, 1915, 1925, 1951-1978.
2 linear feet. Boxes 5-8.
Arrangement:

Arranged by year of convention.
Scope and Content:

At their biennial national conventions, the UOJCA set resolutions, installed new leadership, gave awards, held workshops and lectures and presented exhibits. Convention handbooks and proceedings are rich in information on UOJCA’s shifts in self-definition and project and auxiliary branch development.

There is correspondence to and a telegram from President Dwight D. Eisenhower in “Convention 1958 – Correspondence, 1958.”

See Series 7 for convention reports from 1913, 1914 and 1915 on microfilm.
Box Folder Title Date
5 1 Convention 1915 – Convention Handbook 1915
5 2 Convention 1925 – Convention Program and Invitation 1925
5 3 Convention 1951 – Convention Handbook and Proceedings 1951
5 4 Convention 1954 – Correspondence 1954-1955
5 5 Convention 1954 – Correspondence 1954-1955
5 6 Convention 1954 – Program and Speeches 1954
5 7 Convention 1956 – Convention Handbook 1956
5 8 Convention 1956 – Correspondence and Proceedings 1956
5 9 Convention 1958 – Charter of Honor Award 1958
5 10 Convention 1958 – Convention Handbook and Program 1958
5 11 Convention 1958 – Correspondence 1958
Box Folder Title Date
6 1 Convention 1958 – Participants’ Biographical Sketches 1958
6 2 Convention 1958 – Resolutions 1958
6 3 Convention 1958 – Speeches and Minutes 1958
6 4 Convention 1960 – Awards 1960
6 5 Convention 1960 – Budget 1956-1960
6 6 Convention 1960 – Charter of Honor 1960
6 7 Convention 1960 – Convention Handbook and Program 1960
6 8 Convention 1960 – Correspondence 1960
6 9 Convention 1960 – General Mailing 1960
6 10 Convention 1960 – National Convention Committee 1960
Box Folder Title Date
7 1 Convention 1960 – Proceedings 1960
7 2 Convention 1960 – Proceedings, B-J 1960-1961
7 3 Convention 1960 – Proceedings, K-P 1960-1961
7 4 Convention 1960 – Proceedings, R-W 1960-1961
7 5 Convention 1960 – Resolutions 1960
7 6 Convention 1960 – Synagogue Delegation Forms 1960
7 7 Convention 1962 – Awards 1962
7 8 Convention 1962 – Budget and Pledges 1962
Box Folder Title Date
8 1 Convention 1962 – Convention Handbook and Program 1962
8 2 Convention 1962 – General Mailing 1962
8 3 Convention 1962 – National Convention Committee 1962
8 4 Convention 1962 – Nominations Committee 1962
8 5 Convention 1962 – Program Drafts 1962
8 6 Convention 1962 – Regional Branch Personalities 1957-1962
8 7 Convention 1962 – Resolutions 1962
8 8 Convention 1962 – Synagogue Delegations Forms 1962
8 9 Conventions 1966, 1970, 1974, 1976, 1978 – Programs 1966-1978

Subseries B: Regional Conventions, 1958-1969.
1 linear foot. Boxes 9-10.
Arrangement:

Alphabetized by regional branch of UOJCA.
Scope and Content:

At the 1951 Biennial National Convention, the UOJCA formed the Commission on Regions, with the intent to develop regional branches in order to make UOJCA a more tightly-knit, locally-relevant organization. The Commission on Regions also aimed to foster the creation of new congregations and aid in the development of existent congregations within each region. The bulk of the records in this subseries are the product of UOJCA’s national headquarters, which coordinated and executed the initial, annual regional conventions. Materials include programs, resolutions, correspondence and press releases.
Box Folder Title Date
9 1 Atlantic Seaboard Regional Convention 1962 1959-1963
9 2 Atlantic Seaboard Regional Convention 1962 1959-1963
9 3 Atlantic Seaboard Regional Convention 1962 1959-1963
9 4 Eastern Pennsylvania District Conference 1962 1961-1962
9 5 Midcontinent Conclave and National Leadership Conference 1969 1969
9 6 Midwest Regional and Great Lakes Regional Joint Convention 1959 1959
9 7 Midwest Regional Convention 1960 1959-1960
9 8 Midwest Regional Convention 1961 1960-1961
Box Folder Title Date
10 1 Midwest Regional Convention 1962 1961-1962
10 2 Pacific Coast Regional Conventions 1958 and 1959 1958-1960, 1966
10 3 Rocky Mountains Regional Convention 1960 1959-1960
10 4 Southeast Regional Convention 1958 1958
10 5 Southeast Regional Convention 1959 1959-1960
10 6 Southeast Regional Convention 1960 1960
10 7 Southeast Regional Convention 1961 1961
10 8 Southeast Regional Convention 1962 1959-1963
10 9 Southwest Regional Convention 1959 1959-1960

Series 3: Women’s Branch , undated, 1925-1985.
0.5 linear feet. Box 11.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical by format, title or branch.
Scope and Content:

This series represents material generated by the Women’s Branch of UOJCA, as well as documents related to or created by youth organizations. Much can be gleaned regarding Orthodox views on the roles of women. Homemaking and religious education are emphasized. Materials include manuals, yearbooks, newsletters, poems, prayers, speeches, pamphlets, scripts, reports, and information sheets on Sabbath and holiday observance. The correspondence present is not extensive. The bulk of the items are either educational or the product of various events and conventions. One regional office of the Women’s Branch, the New England Region, founded in 1946, is represented.

Items of potential note include a “Record of Periods” form intended to encourage observance of family purity, or the laws of niddah, and a 15-page pamphlet, Women’s Branch UOJCA: Its Background and History and a Glimpse into the Future, which gives a helpful historical overview of the Women’s Branch, its projects, structure and goals up until the 1960s. Especially interesting is Rabbi Philip Goodman’s 131-page Habanoth Manual: A Guide for Jewish Girls' Clubs (published circa 1937), which suggests programs, activities, songs, games and resources for youth groups. Goodman had been director of the boys youth group, Habonim. Habanoth was the Women's Branch’s national organization of clubs for high school girls between 1937 and 1945. Issues of The Orthodox Union follow the start and development of both youth groups in Series 7.

Box Folder Title Date
11 1 Correspondence 1960-1961
11 2 Habanoth and Habonim undated, 1932, 1938
11 3 Habanoth Manual: A Guide for Jewish Girls’ Clubs, Rabbi Philip Goodman [1937]
11 4 Mailings, Forms, Pamphlets, and Programs undated, 1925, 1940, 1959-1970
11 5 Manual for Junior Groups and Orthodox Leagues undated
11 6 National Conference of Synagogue Youth undated, 1959, 1972, 1985
11 7 New England Region undated, 1946-1980
11 8 New England Region undated, 1946-1980
11 9 Newsletters undated, 1962-1969, 1979
11 10 Women’s Branch UOJCA: Its Background and History and a Glimpse into the Future 1962, 1966
11 11 Yearbooks and Sisterhood Prayers for All Occasions [photocopy] 1957-1964

Series 4: Jewish Life, undated, 1951-1964.
1 linear foot. Boxes 12-13.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical by format or topic.

Scope and Content:

The UOJCA published Jewish Life between 1946 and 1983. Issues of Jewish Life featured literature, nonfiction, book reviews, opinion pieces, reports on meetings, poems, recipes and a Kashruth Directory. The items in this series consist primarily of editorial correspondence and mostly unpublished short story, poetry and nonfiction manuscripts. Much of the correspondence is to and from Saul Bernstein who was the editor starting in 1947. There is especially extensive material – both correspondence and manuscripts – in historian Cecil Roth’s file. There are no issues of Jewish Life in this series or collection.

General Administration
Box Folder Title Date
12 1 Anthology 1960-1962
12 2 Copyright 1959-1961
12 3 Editorial Committee 1955-1958
12 4 General undated
12 5 Letters to the Editor undated, 1956-1963

Correspondence and Manuscripts
Box Folder Title Date
12 6 A 1960-1961
12 7 B 1955-1962
12 8 Bernstein, Saul 1960-1964
12 9 C 1956-1959
12 10 Cohen, Jules 1957-1959
12 11 Cohen, Sam I. 1958-1960
12 12 D 1956-1962
12 13 Diskind, Zalman 1962
12 14 Dluznowsky, Moshe 1960
12 15 Dushinsky, Eugene 1956
12 16 E 1959-1960
12 17 Eisenmayer, Louis 1951-1953
12 18 F 1955-1962
12 19 Fox, Marvin 1957-1958
12 20 G 1958-1963
Box Folder Title Date
13 1 H-K 1951-1963
13 2 Hausdorff, David undated
13 3 Kaufman, Michael undated
13 4 Kranzler, Gershon 1952-1962
13 5 L-M 1955-1961
13 6 O-S 1955-1963
13 7 Rackman, Rabbi Emmanuel 1957
13 8 Robin, Max undated
13 9 Rosenstock, Michael 1962
13 10 Roth, Cecil 1951-1960
13 11 S 1957-1960
13 12 Stone, Morris 1958-1959
13 13 T 1956-1961
13 14 Taslitt, Israel I. 1958-1959
13 15 U 1958-1962
13 16 W 1953-1960

Series 5: Publications, undated, 1923-1995.
1 linear foot. Boxes 14-15.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical by title or format.
Scope and Content:

Educational publications, Kosher product and service directories and a small sampling of newsletters put out by different branches of the UOJCA represent the bulk of this series. The educational publications, primarily pamphlets and brochures, address such topics as holidays, prayers, guidelines for Sabbath, funerals and Shechitah. Titles include “Jewish Family Life: The Duty of the Woman,” “Prayer for Government and Country,” “Circumcision: Brith or Surgery?,” “The Jewish Concept of Marriage,” “Mixed Pews,” “Modernity and Mitzvot,” “I Send My Child to Hebrew School,” “On Being a Torah-True Jew,” “Housing in Israel,” David de Sola Pool’s “The Faith of a Jew” and Rabbi Leo Jung’s “Essentials of Judaism.” The Division of Community Activities published Prakim: A Monthly Program for Synagogue Activity, which offered suggestions for services, prayers, and activities, as well as organization announcements – as a reference for rabbis and congregations for community events for Jewish holidays. The Golden Jubilee Yearbook contains registries for different divisions of the UOJCA, for example the synagogue sisterhoods registered with the Women’s Branch. “Universal Jewish Encyclopedia – UOJCA Entry, undated, 1957” contains drafted historical summaries of UOJCA, its affiliates and the Staten Island Orthodox community.

For more publications see Series 7 for The Orthodox Union from 1933 to 1946 and in Subgroup II, Series 8.
Box Folder Title Date
14 1 Catalogues of Publications undated, 1968
14 2 Educational Bulletin 1932
14 3 General Educational Publications undated, 1929-1983
14 4 General Educational Publications -- Holidays undated, 1942-1981
14 5 General Publications about UOJCA undated, 1923-1981
14 6 Golden Jubilee Year Book 1948
14 7 Hachayil: The Jewish Serviceman’s Newspaper 1935
14 8 Institute for Public Affairs 1990
14 9 Kosher Directories undated, 1952-1961
14 10 Kosher Directories 1967-1971
14 11 Kosher Directories 1974-1982
Box Folder Title Date
15 1 Kosher Directories 1983-1988
15 2 Kosher Directories 1990-1995
15 3 Kosher Handbooks and Guides undated, 1951-1991
15 4 OU News Reporter [Kosher newsletter] 1956, 1958, 1965, 1974, 1976, 1995
15 5 NCSY Publications
15 6 Pocket Diaries and Stuhmer’s Almanacs 1950-1960
15 7 Prakim: A Monthly Program for Synagogue Activity 1951-1957
15 8 Universal Jewish Encyclopedia – UOJCA Entry undated, 1957

Series 6: Financials, 1941-1961.
0.5 linear feet. Box 16.
Arrangement:

Chronological.
Scope and Content:

The series consists of budgets, financial statements and a few pieces of correspondence. Income, expenditure and budgets for the Kashruth Committee, the Women’s Branch, Jewish Life and other branches are included in the breakdowns.
Box Folder Title Date
16 1 Financial Records 1941, 1945-1948
16 2 Financial Records 1950-1951
16 3 Financial Records 1952-1953
16 4 Financial Records 1954
16 5 Financial Records 1958-1961

Series 7: Microfilmed Materials, 1913-1915, 1933-1946.
2 reels. Located in the microfilm drawers near the Reading Room.
Scope and Content:

Reel 1 consists of UOJCA’s newsletter, The Orthodox Union, which UOJCA began publishing at the start of William Weiss’s presidency in 1933. Between 1933 and 1946, the newsletter shifted from monthly to bimonthly, issues grew from 8 to 33 pages and featured special Women’s, Youth and Kashruth columns or pages. The newsletter documents UOJCA’s response to the growing Nazi persecution of the Jews better than any other materials in the collection. In addition to meeting reports, reprinted letters from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and other political figures, and various advice pieces, the newsletter features articles on a wide array of topics: bar mitzvahs, Communism and Jews, President Lincoln’s Jewish contacts, Jewish student populations at American universities, Jews in India, the status of Orthodox Judaism in America, and so on. In 1946, the UOJCA’s magazine became Jewish Life.

Reel 2 consists of information-rich reports from early UOJCA conventions.
Box   Title Date
Reel 1   The Orthodox Union, Vol. 1, no. 1-11 August 1933-July 1934
Reel 1   The Orthodox Union, Vol. 2, no. 1-11 August 1934-August 1935
Reel 1   The Orthodox Union, Vol. 3, no. 1-12 September 1935-September 1936
Reel 1   The Orthodox Union, Vol. 4, no. 1-10 October 1936-July/August 1937
Reel 1   The Orthodox Union, Vol. 5, no. 1-9 September 1937-July/August 1938
Reel 1   The Orthodox Union, Vol. 6, no. 1-8 September 1938-June/July 1939
Reel 1   The Orthodox Union, Vol. 7, no. 1-7 August/September 1939-July/August 1940
Reel 1   The Orthodox Union, Vol. 8, no. 1-6 September/October 1940-July/August 1941
Reel 1   The Orthodox Union, Vol. 9, no. 1-6 September/October 1941-August 1942
Reel 1   The Orthodox Union, Vol. 10, no. 1-5 October 1942-June 1943
Reel 1   The Orthodox Union, Vol. 11, no. 1-5 October 1943-June 1944
Reel 1   The Orthodox Union, Vol. 12, no. 1-5 October 1944-June 1945
Reel 1   The Orthodox Union, Vol. 13, no. 1-5 October 1945-June 1946
Box   Title Date
Reel 2   Report of the 6th Convention June 29, 1913
Reel 2   Report of the 8th Convention May 30-31, 1915
Reel 2   Report of the 7th Convention June 20-21, 1914

Series 8: Photographs, 1959-1960.
1 folder. AJHS Photography Collection: “Prints from I and P Collections.” Box 1 of 1.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical.
Scope and Content:

Photographs of synagogue design and an UOJCA awards ceremony in 1960.
Box Folder Title Date
1 I-66 Convention 1960 – Awards 1960
1 I-66 Stained Glass Synagogue Windows 1959
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Subgroup II: Rabbi Pinchas Stolper’s Records, 1961-1997 (bulk 1976-1992).
15.5 linear feet. Boxes 17-47.
Arrangement:

The arrangement scheme for this subgroup begins with series that reflect the organizational structure of UOJCA: Series 1: Administrative; Series 2: National Conference of Synagogue Youth; Series 3: Israel Center; Series 4: Department of Synagogue Services; Series 5: Kashruth Division; Series 6: Correspondence; Series 7: Subjects and Events; Series 8: Publications; Series 9: Financials; Series 10: Photographs.
Scope and Content:

Rabbi Pinchas Stolper generated or collected the documents in this subgroup solely in connection with his professional activities as NCSY National Director and UOJCA Executive Vice President. Although the majority of these records were authored by Stolper, auxiliary creators include Rabbi Bertram Leff and Yitzok Rosenberg of the Department of Synagogue Services, Rabbis Mordechai Grunberg and Menacham Genack of the Kashruth Division, and UOJCA Presidents Sidney Kwestel, Harold Jacobs and Julius Berman.

In Subgroup I there are a few items by Stolper among the later convention and NCSY materials, and in Box 1, Folder 10.

Series 1: Administrative, undated, 1963-1996.
1.5 linear feet. Boxes 17-19.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical by branch or format.
Scope and Content:

This series includes documents created by or for the Executive Committee, National Officers or miscellaneous branches of the UOJCA. UOJCA branches with larger quantities of materials are represented later in their own series.

Box Folder Title Date
17 1 Aliyah Department 1979-1981
17 2 Aliyah Department 1982-1984
17 3 Constitution 1969, 1989
17 4 Convention Programs 1974-1996
17 5 Directories undated, 1978
17 6 Diskettes 1979-1981
17 7 Executive Committee and National Officers 1974-1982
17 8 Executive Committee and National Officers 1983-1992
Box Folder Title Date
18 1 Executive Committee and National Officers – Minutes 1975-1984
18 2 Funeral Standards Commission 1963-1991
18 3 Joint Scholarship Committee 1987-1988
18 4 Ketubah Marriage Commission undated, 1983-1994
18 5 Miscellaneous Committees 1977-1978
18 6 Nominations Committee 1976-1980
Box Folder Title Date
19 1 Regional Directors – Memoranda 1976-1979
19 2 Regions – New York 1982-1993
19 3 Reports 1974, 1980, 1988, 1990
19 4 Resolutions 1976-1993
19 5 Soviet Jewry Commission 1990-1995
19 6 Soviet Jewry Commission 1990-1995
19 7 Women’s Branch 1990

Series 2: National Conference of Synagogue Youth, undated, 1961-1997.
1.5 linear feet. Boxes 20-22.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical by topic, format or event.
Scope and Content:

As an NCSY founder, an NCSY National Director (1959-1976; 1994-1998) and also as UOJCA Executive Vice President (1976-1994), Rabbi Stolper oversaw NCSY through periods of substantial change and momentum. Given his role as NCSY National Director for 22 years in total, one would expect extensive files from this period, but Stolper’s materials in this series document NCSY unevenly. However, this series also includes materials generated by Rabbi Raphael Butler, who also served as National Director of NCSY.

This series includes correspondence, reports, grant applications, member feedback, newspaper clippings and pamphlets. Summarized histories of the deaf outreach program, Our Way, and the outreach program for the developmentally disabled, Yachad, can be found in “Our Way and Yachad, undated, 1975, 1983, 1991-1993.”

In Subgroup II see also Series 3 and Stolper’s correspondence in Series 6 and 7 for more on NCSY. In Subgroup I see “Education Commission, undated, 1958-1963” [Box 1, Folder 4], “National Conference of Synagogue Youth, undated, 1959, 1972, 1985” [Box 11, Folder 6] and convention materials regarding the development of NCSY in Series 2.

During the processing of this collection the archivist watched for and came across nothing directly related to the victims of and charges of abuse against NCSY’s Director of Regions, Rabbi Baruch Lanner, who was sentenced to prison in 2002 for the sexual abuse of minors following decades of complaints. There are a few pieces of correspondence by or addressed to Lanner throughout the collection, but not relevant to the case. However, every document was not read, and therefore it's not outside the realm of possibility that a Lanner-related item was overlooked.
Box Folder Title Date
20 1 Annual Reports 1976, 1988, 1990
20 2 Book Cover undated
20 3 Collegiate Commission, 1980-1989
20 4 Collegiate Commission, 1980-1989
20 5 Constitutions 1968
20 6 Correspondence 1961-1995
20 7 Correspondence – Weiss, Samson 1964-1971
20 8 Covenant Grants 1991-1994
20 9 Department of Youth Services Grants 1992
20 10 Fundraising 1971-1974
20 11 Hungarian Teenage Girls Passover Visit 1991
Box Folder Title Date
21 1 Israel Study Abroad Participants 1975
21 2 Israel Tour 1976
21 3 Jerusalem Experience 1986-1988
21 4 Member Biographies and Interviews 1969, 1974-1975
21 5 National Directory 1997
21 6 Neve Yerushalayim College for Women 1976-1979
21 7 Our Way and Yachad undated, 1975, 1983, 1991-1993
21 8 Pamphlets and Programs 1963-1989
21 9 Programs and Projects in Need of Support undated, 1971-1973
21 10 Project Catch Drop-In Center undated
21 11 Prospectus – Testimonials undated, 1969-1972
21 12 Public Relations undated, 1970-1971
Box Folder Title Date
22 1 Regions 1966-1980
22 2 Regions – Chicago 1980-1986
22 3 Regions – Chicago 1980-1986
22 4 Regions – Events Calendar 1980-1981
22 5 Report undated, 1975-1976
22 6 Science and Torah 1968-1981
22 7 Shabbaton for the Disabled – Scrapbook [photocopies] 1976
22 8 Teen Torah Center 1980, 1987-1993
22 9 World Conference on Soviet Jewry 1976
22 10 Yarchei Kallah – Scholars Program 1991-1992
22 11 Youth Commission 1983, 1992

Series 3: Israel Center, undated, 1977-1991.
1 linear foot. Boxes 23-24.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical by format or topic.
Scope and Content:

Much of the material in the series was generated for three grant applications submitted in 1987, 1988 and 1990 to the Jewish Agency for Israel. During this time, Shai Solomon was the director of the Israel Center, and Rabbi Stolper as Executive Director of UOJCA was involved in the three grant applications. The series includes extensive materials related to NCSY programs in Israel. See also Box 22, Folder 1 for 1978 materials on the early development of the Israel Center.
Box Folder Title Date
23 1 Correspondence 1977-1988
23 2 Interim Reports 1988
23 3 Interim Reports 1989
23 4 Jewish Agency for Israel 1988-1989 Proposal 1986-1987
23 5 Jewish Agency for Israel 1988-1989 Proposal 1986-1987
23 6 Jewish Agency for Israel 1988-1989 Proposal 1986-1987
Box Folder Title Date
24 1 Jewish Agency for Israel 1988-1989 Proposal 1986-1987
24 2 Jewish Agency for Israel 1989-1990 Proposal 1988-1989
24 3 Jewish Agency for Israel 1989-1990 Proposal 1988-1989
24 4 Jewish Agency for Israel 1991-1992 Proposal 1990-1991
24 5 Nitzotz Program 1988
24 6 Program Portfolio 1984
24 7 Program Portfolio 1984
24 8 Program Portfolio undated
24 9 Proposal 1986
24 10 Reports 1979, 1984

Series 4: Department of Synagogue Services, undated, 1948, 1957-1964, 1977-1994.
0.5 linear feet. Box 25.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical by topic.
Scope and Content:

The Department of Synagogue Services provides synagogue administration advice and programming to constituent congregations. Advice covers such how-to topics as building the relationship between rabbis and congregations, designing synagogue interiors (such as mechitzahs), writing a synagogue bulletin, creating publicity, observing holidays creatively and insuring synagogues. Programming consists of shabbatons, leadership conferences, regional retreats and lectures.

Rabbi Bertram Leff was hired in 1983 as the National Director of Synagogue Services and continued in that post until at least May 1994. Though Stolper generated some of the material, Leff created the bulk of the material in this series.

Projects in which Synagogue Services had a hand are also represented in Series I. See also the Department’s newsletter, Synagogue Spotlight, in Series 8.
Box Folder Title Date
25 1 Congregational-Rabbinical Relationships and Contracts undated, 1992-1993
25 2 General undated, 1980-1984
25 3 General 1991-1993
25 4 Leff, Bertram – Speeches undated, 1984
25 5 Miscellaneous Reference Materials – Manuals and Guides undated, 1960-1964, 1977
25 6 National Leadership Conference of Synagogues of Smaller Jewish Communities 1991-1994
25 7 Projects 1992
25 8 Purim – Manuals and Programs undated, 1948, 1957, 1980
25 9 Reports 1983-1989
25 10 Round Robin Lectures 1988-1989
25 11 Shabbaton 1989

Series 5: Kashruth Division, undated, 1974-1990.
0.5 linear feet. Box 26.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical by topic or format.
Scope and Content:

This series is comprised of files kept and created not only by Rabbi Stolper, but also by leaders of the Kashruth Division, Rabbis Mordechai Grunberg and Menacham Genack. Includes correspondence, applications for kosher certification, clippings about kosher product issues, and product packaging from applicants.

See Subgroup I: Series 5 for older materials of the Kashruth Division, such as their kosher food directories. See also “Kashruth Committee, 1933, 1940-1948” [Box 4, Folder 1].
Box Folder Title Date
26 1 Applicants – American Bakeries Company 1982
26 2 Applicants – Erco 1987
26 3 Applicants – Fink Baking and S.B. Thomas 1987
26 4 Applicants – Francesco Caterers 1986-1987
26 5 Applicants – Marzipan Specialties 1985-1987
26 6 Applicants – Medley Distilling 1985-1986
26 7 Applicants – Sturgis Pretzel House 1986-1987
26 8 Applicants – Tohar 1987
26 9 Applicants – Van Camp Seafood and Deltown Chemurgic 1987
26 10 BAF Summaries 1986
26 11 Clippings undated, 1974-1987
26 12 Correspondence 1980-1984
26 13 Correspondence 1985-1990
26 14 List of Foreign Companies undated
26 15 Unauthorized Use of U Symbol 1986

Series 6: Correspondence, 1976-1995.
7.5 linear feet. Boxes 27-39.
Arrangement:

Chronological.
Scope and Content:

The largest series in the collection, the materials here cover the full breadth and depth of Rabbi Stolper’s Executive Vice-Presidential duties, which included day-to-day management and responses to issues in the press and politics important to the UOJCA’s agenda. The series is primarily made up of outgoing UOJCA correspondence written by Stolper or copied to Stolper. Addressees include prominent politicians and UOJCA leaders such as Harold Jacobs, Sidney Kwestel and Julius Berman. Among the outgoing correspondence, scattered meeting agendas, press releases and incoming correspondence can also be found.

Topics covered include observance of Jewish law, abortion, kosher certification, and emergency aid to areas hit by natural disasters. UOJCA leaders often responded to key issues of the times, such as Apartheid and events in Israel and Palestine. Much of the correspondence pertains to UOJCA’s Jewish Action and the Israel Center.

There are some gaps in materials, especially for the years 1980 and 1985. Stolper stopped maintaining chronological files after December 1989, even though his positions at the UOJCA and NCSY continued until 1998. The few pieces of correspondence following 1989 were added by the archivist from otherwise unfiled materials. See Series 7 for other correspondence broken down by topic and event.
Box Folder Title Date
27 1 Correspondence September 1976-December 1976
27 2 Correspondence January-June 1977
27 3 Correspondence July-October 1977
27 4 Correspondence June-October 1978
27 5 Correspondence February-December 1979
27 6 Correspondence February-December 1980
27 7 Correspondence March 1981
27 8 Correspondence April 1981
Box Folder Title Date
28 1 Correspondence May 1981
28 2 Correspondence June 1981
28 3 Correspondence July-August 1981
28 4 Correspondence September 1981
28 5 Correspondence October 1981
28 6 Correspondence November-December 1981
Box Folder Title Date
29 1 Correspondence January-February 1982
29 2 Correspondence March-April 1982
29 3 Correspondence May-June 1982
29 4 Correspondence July-August 1982
29 5 Correspondence September 1982
Box Folder Title Date
30 1 Correspondence October 1982
30 2 Correspondence November 1982
30 3 Correspondence December 1982
30 4 Correspondence January 1983
30 5 Correspondence February 1983
30 6 Correspondence March 1983
Box Folder Title Date
31 1 Correspondence April 1983
31 2 Correspondence May 1983
31 3 Correspondence June 1983
31 4 Correspondence July 1983
31 5 Correspondence August 1983
31 6 Correspondence September 1983
31 7 Correspondence October 1983
Box Folder Title Date
32 1 Correspondence November 1983
32 2 Correspondence December 1983
32 3 Correspondence January 1984
32 4 Correspondence February 1984
32 5 Correspondence March-July 1984
32 6 Correspondence May-November 1985
32 7 Correspondence February-March 1986
32 8 Correspondence April 1986
Box Folder Title Date
33 1 Correspondence May 1986
33 2 Correspondence June 1986
33 3 Correspondence July-August 1986
33 4 Correspondence September 1986
33 5 Correspondence October 1986
33 6 Correspondence November-December 1986
33 7 Correspondence January 1987
Box Folder Title Date
34 1 Correspondence February 1987
34 2 Correspondence March 1987
34 3 Correspondence April 1987
34 4 Correspondence May 1987
34 5 Correspondence June 1987
34 6 Correspondence July 1987
Box Folder Title Date
35 1 Correspondence August 1987
35 2 Correspondence September 1987
35 3 Correspondence October 1987
35 4 Correspondence November 1987
35 5 Correspondence December 1987
35 6 Correspondence January 1988
35 7 Correspondence February 1988
Box Folder Title Date
36 1 Correspondence March 1988
36 2 Correspondence April 1988
36 3 Correspondence May 1988
36 4 Correspondence June 1988
36 5 Correspondence July 1988
36 6 Correspondence August 1988
Box Folder Title Date
37 1 Correspondence September 1988
37 2 Correspondence October 1988
37 3 Correspondence November 1988
37 4 Correspondence December 1988
37 5 Correspondence January 1989
37 6 Correspondence February 1989
Box Folder Title Date
38 1 Correspondence March 1989
38 2 Correspondence April 1989
38 3 Correspondence May 1989
38 4 Correspondence June 1989
Box Folder Title Date
39 1 Correspondence July 1989
39 2 Correspondence August 1989
39 3 Correspondence September 1989
39 4 Correspondence October 1989
39 5 Correspondence December 1989
39 6 Correspondence November 1990-June 1995

Series 7: Subjects and Events, undated, 1959-1995.
3 linear feet. Boxes 40-45.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical by topic or event.
Scope and Content:

This series encompasses a wide range of topics addressed and events organized by the UOJCA, especially during the 1970s and 1980s. Subjects on which Rabbi Stolper and/or the UOJCA speak out include creationism, women’s participation on synagogue boards, mechitzah and homosexuality. The series consists of both incoming and outgoing correspondence, as well as programs, press releases, clippings, notes and manuals.

U.S. and Israeli government correspondence and press releases may be of special interest to the researcher. “U.S. Government – Correspondence, 1978-1995” includes correspondence to Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton, as well as Vice President Al Gore, Secretary of State James Baker and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The only incoming direct presidential correspondence (i.e. not from presidential assistants) comes from Clinton and does not address any specifically Jewish issues, but instead discusses U.S. relations with Vietnam. Other subjects addressed in presidential correspondence include the Gulf War, Israeli settlements in Palestine, Reagan’s visit to the Bitburg cemetery in Germany and a request for the pardon of Jonathan Pollard. There is a photocopy of a photo of UOJCA leaders with President George H.W. Bush. “Israeli Government – Correspondence, 1977, 1989, 1993” includes correspondence to Benjamin Netanyahu and Misha Arens. Some of the above materials, as well as “Mission to Washington, 1979,” were products of UOJCA’s Institute of Public Affairs, earlier known as the Political Coalition, and headed by Dr. Mandell Ganchrow. More government correspondence can be found throughout Series 6.

Rabbi Stolper created the “Sexual Harassment” folder, but it only contains a 1993 New York Times article and nothing related specifically to Rabbi Baruch Lanner.
Box Folder Title Date
40 1 24-Hour Torah Study Vigil 1991
40 2 24-Hour Torah Study Vigil 1991
40 3 24-Hour Torah Study Vigil – Newspaper Clippings 1991
40 4 Accredited Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools 1982-1985
40 5 Adoption 1983, 1990, 1995
40 6 Adult Education Guides undated, 1961, 1978-1979
40 7 Adult Torah Retreat Manuals undated
40 8 Baal Teshuva undated, 1978, 1986
40 9 Berman, Julius undated, 1975-1982
40 10 Calendar Diaries 1977-1986
40 11 Chofetz Chaim Memorial Convocation 1984
Box Folder Title Date
41 1 Clippings undated, 1978-1991
41 2 Condolences and Obituaries 1965-1989
41 3 Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty 1978-1979
41 4 Creationism vs. Evolution 1979-1986
41 5 Crown Heights 1991
41 6 Death and Organ Transplants 1991
41 7 Emunah Symposium 1992
41 8 Eruv Construction 1993
41 9 Gays 1991-1993
41 10 Hospitals 1986-1994
Box Folder Title Date
42 1 Hurricane Andrew Response 1992
42 2 Israeli Government – Correspondence 1977, 1989, 1993
42 3 Jerusalem Post Ad – Conference on Jewish Solidarity 1989
42 4 Jewish Action 1985-1986
42 5 Jewish Action 1987
42 6 Jewish Action 1988-1991
42 7 Jewish Community Relations Council 1975-1988
42 8 Jewish Community Relations Council 1975-1988
Box Folder Title Date
43 1 Joseph K. Miller Memorial Lectures 1991-1994
43 2 Luach Limud Torah Diary 1980-1990
43 3 Max Stern Division of Communal Services – Reports 1986-1988
43 4 Mechitzah undated, 1982-1994
43 5 Mechitzah – Beth Medrosh Hagodol Congregation (Denver, CO) 1987-1988
43 6 Meeting with President Jimmy Carter 1977
43 7 Membership undated, 1989-1990
43 8 Mikvahs undated, 1965-1992
Box Folder Title Date
44 1 Mission to Washington 1988-1989
44 2 Mitzvah Projects 1979-1989
44 3 Model Constitution for Synagogues 1979-1983
44 4 National Dinners 1967-1980
44 5 New York Times Responses 1979
44 6 Non-UOJCA Pamphlets and Programs undated, 1959, 1976-1988
44 7 Notes undated, 1980-1984
44 8 Orthodox Presidents’ Club 1977
44 9 Outreach 1981-1986, 1991-1992
Box Folder Title Date
45 1 Presidents of Orthodox Organizations Meeting – On Violence in Israel 1986
45 2 Senior Citizens 1972-1975, 1983-1987
45 3 Sexual Harassment 1993
45 4 Shabbos Event 1984
45 5 Singles 1984-1991
45 6 Taste of Torah Recordings 1989-1993
45 7 Tzedakah 1977-1990
45 8 U.S. Government – Correspondence 1978-1995
45 9 Weddings 1978-1979, 1984, 1995
45 10 Women and Judaism undated, 1983, 1991
45 11 Women on Synagogue Boards 1979-1989
45 12 World Zionist Organization 1978-1990
45 13 Writings undated, 1979-1992

Series 8: Publications, undated, 1974-1997.
0.5 linear feet. Box 46.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical by title.
Scope and Content:

This series consists of a variety of UOJCA publications, primarily newsletters. However, there are no full runs of publications, but intermittent issues. Synagogue Spotlight, a Department of Synagogue Services newsletter, featuring information and programming ideas for synagogues, is the most complete. Correspondence related to Jewish Action can be found in Series 7. For earlier publications in Subgroup I see Series 5 and 7.
Box Folder Title Date
46 1 Keeping Posted with NCSY 1994
46 2 Leadership Briefing 1992-1996
46 3 Miscellaneous Booklets and Pamphlets undated, 1977-1997
46 4 Our Way undated, 1974-1975
46 5 Synagogue Leadership Series undated
46 6 Synagogue Spotlight 1981-1993

Series 9: Financials, 1966-1991.
0.5 linear feet. Box 47.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical by format or branch.
Scope and Content:

Contains correspondence, spreadsheets, reports and budgets generated by members of the Financial Committee and various branches of the UOJCA.
Box Folder Title Date
47 1 Budgets and Reports 1966-1980
47 2 Budgets and Reports 1978-1982
47 3 Financial Committee 1976-1980
47 4 Financial Committee 1983-1984
47 5 Kashruth Division 1978
47 6 Wills and Bequests 1984-1991

Series 10: Scrapbook and Photographs, 1976, 1991-1992.
1 folder. AJHS Photography Collection: “Prints from I and P Collections.” Box 1 of 1.
Arrangement:

Arranged according to the series from which the photographs originated.
Scope and Content:

Black and white and color photographs of UOJCA and NCSY events.
Box Folder Title Date
1 I-66 National Conference of Synagogue Youth -- Subar, Rebecca 1976
1 I-66 National Conference of Synagogue Youth -- Hungarian Teenage Girls Passover Visit 1991
1 I-66 National Conference of Synagogue Youth -- Shabbaton for the Disabled Scrapbook [photos removed from notebook paper] 1976
1 I-66 Subjects and Events -- 24-Hour Torah Study Vigil 1991
1 I-66 Subjects and Events -- Hurricane Andrew Response 1992
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