- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual General Meetings series
- Level
- Series
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- graphic material (electronic)
- sound recording
- Date
- 1939-2008
- Physical Description
- 27 cm of textual records
- 990 photographs (338 negatives, 489 jpgs)
- 13 cassettes
- Admin History/Bio
- United Jewish Welfare Fund's annual general meeting is the annual gathering of general delegates and members of the UJA Federation Council. In general, the Annual Meeting is adjourned after the introductory speeches, then the Council convenes for its meeting, adjourns and the Annual Meeting is re-convened. The Council is made up of delegates representing synagogues, agencies, schools, communal organizations, societies and landsmenshaften of the Toronto community. It is responsible for electing the Federation President, Governors and directors of UJA Federation, as well as appointing auditors, introducing and approving the by-laws of UJA Federation/UJWF. Until 2005, the AGM included the presentation of the Shem Tov volunteer recognition awards, the Leadership Development Awards, the Ben Sadowski Award of Merit for outstanding volunteer contributions, and beginning in 1997, the Phil Granovsky Award for Campaign Excellence. The AGM was usually followed by a reception.
- Starting in 1975, when the merger of CJC's Central Region and UJWF was initiated, there continued to be multiple annual meetings for the organizations that today are encompassed by the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. In the second half of the 1970s, during the interim period before the adoption of a constitution for the new Toronto Jewish Congress, CJC and UJWF, though they began to have joint meetings and programs, continued to operate separately with separate executives. Once the establishment of TJC was finalized, UJWF "ceas[ed] to exist as a functional community organization" but remained as a "wholly owned subsidiary" of TJC. UJWF remained a legal entity and a partner in the United Jewish Appeal campaign, and was separate insofar as it produced its own financial reports and held its own annual meetings. Similarly, the UJA, as a program of UJWF, held its own annual meetings.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of meeting agendas, minutes, programmes, speeches, delegate and nominee lists, correspondence and audio recordings of annual meetings of the United Jewish Welfare Fund/Toronto Jewish Congress/Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto/UJA Federation from 1939 to 2009, and photographs from annual meetings and awards receptions from 1978 to 2004.
- Related Material
- See Fonds 66, Series 2 for minutes of the annual meetings of the predecessor organization, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.
- See Series 2 for the Annual Reports of UJWF, produced each year in conjunction with the Annual Meeting.
- Accession Number
- 2004-6-9
- 2005-2-10
- 1993-6-3
- 1994-5-1
- 2002-10-63
- 2009-7-10
- 1996-2-1
- 2000-5-5
- 2009-12-10
- 2009-9-9
- 2010-3-3
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual General Meetings series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 1
- File
- 63
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material (electronic)
- Date
- 4 June 2002
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 84 photographs (jpg)
- Admin History/Bio
- The 2002 UJA Federation Annual Meeting was held 4 June, 2002 at the Lipa Green Building. The programme began with breakfast, followed by the election of Council representatives and Board of Governors, a fundraising update, the appointment of auditors, the Chair's report and volunteer recognition awards. The Shem Tov Award recipients were Helen Finder Guttman, Agi Mandel, Alan Mostyn, Stephan Olin Chapman, Bernice Royce, Mark Sarner and Rhona Shulman. The Leadership Development Awards were presented to Richard Diamond and Allen Gales and the Granovsky Award for Campaign Excellence was awarded to Abe Glowinsky.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a programme and digital photographs from UJA Federation's Annual General Meeting of 2002. The images include wide shots of the meeting room set up with tables, the breakfast, attendees at their tables, speakers at the podium and award winners. Individuals pictured include Abe Glowinsky and his family, Shem Tov award winners and Leadership Development Award recipients. Other individuals photographed include Seymour Epstein, Leslie Gales, Ralph Shedletsky, Ronald Appleby, Howard Sokolovsky, Carole Sterling and Shirley Granovsky.
- Accession Number
- 2009-9-9
- 2009-7-10
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual General Meetings series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 1
- File
- 64
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material (electronic)
- Date
- 17 June 2003
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 155 photographs (jpg)
- Admin History/Bio
- The 2003 Annual General Meeting of UJA Federation took place on 17 June, 2003, at Adath Israel Congregation. At the meeting, elections were held for representatives to Federation's Council, to the Board of Directors, Chair and Vice Chair of the Board. The auditors were appointed, reports were delivered by the outgoing and incoming Chair of the Board, and the volunteer recognition awards were given out. The recipients of the Shem Tov Awards for leaders in volunteer service were Henry Icyk, Morris (Mickey) Milner, Alex Serota, Fran Sonshine, Howard Ungerman and Cecile Zaifman. Michael Buckstein and Lynn Kershin received the Leadership Development Awards; Carole Sterling was awarded the Granovsky Award for Campaign Excellence; and the Ben Sadowski Award of Merit went to Sandy Brown.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a programme from UJA Federation's Annual Meeting of 2003, and high resolution digital photographs of award winners honoured at the meeting. The images include winners of the Shem Tov Awards, the Philip Granovsky Award for Campaign Excellence, the Ben Sadowski Award for community leadership, Sandy Brown, with her husband Marvin (Mev) Brown; and Leadership Development Award winner Michael Buckstein. Board members recognized with awards "In Appreciation" include Howard Lichtman, Gordon Wolfe and Judith Finer-Freedman. Other individuals in the photographs include Leslie Gales, Joy Gales, Ruth Gales, Brian Medjuck, Judy Engel, Sarah Gorman, Estrella Benaim, Lesley Binstock Offman and Cynthia Shedletsky.
- In addition to high resolution jpgs, the disc also includes thumbnail files and html index pages.
- Notes
- Photographs by Steven Epstein.
- Accession Number
- 2009-9-9
- 2009-7-10
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual General Meetings series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 1
- File
- 65
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- Date
- 3 June 2004
- Physical Description
- 250 photographs (jpg)
- Admin History/Bio
- UJA Federation's 2004 Annual General Meeting was held on 3 June, 2004 at Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre. At the meeting, the annual report was presented; elections took place for Federation Council, Board of Directors, Chair and Vice Chair of the Board; a keynote address was delivered by Mayor David Miller; guest speaker Carole Solomon, Chair of the Jewish Agency for Israel, gave a speech; and the annual volunteer recognition awards were presented. Recipients of the Shem Tov Awards for volunteer service were Alan Dessau, Nathan Disenhouse, Bernard Fishbein, Susan Friedrich, Marshall Kesten and Charles Novogrodsky. The Leadership Development Awards were presented to Natan Aronshtam and David Spiro; the Granovsky Award for Campaign Excellence was presented to Donald Bennett; and the Jewish Foundaton of Greater Toronto Professional Advisory Committee Award of Excellence, in recognition of long-term professional contributions, was given to Wolfe D. Goodman, Q.C. In addition, for the first time, UJA presented five Visual Arts Awards to support the projects of Jewish artists. These awards were presented to Barbara Astman, Daniel Ehrenworth, Mayer Kirshenblatt, Natalie Schonfeld and Melanie Siegel.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a programme from UJA Federation's Annual General Meeting of 2004, along with high resolution digital photographs from the event. Disc 1 contains photographs of award winners Donald Bennett, Charles Novogrodsky, Nathan Disenhouse, Susan Friedrich, Bernard Fishbein, David Spiro, Natan Aronshtam, Mike Kirshenblatt, Melanie Siegal, Barbara Astman and Daniel Ehrenworth. There are many images of attendees, including Jack Chisvin, Leslie Gales, Alan Winer and Cyrel Troster, as well as images of speakers at the podium and UJA Federation staff at the registration table. The latter include Glenda Gomperts, Ellen Rajzman, Lil Nobel, Howard English, Livana Ohayon and Miriam Daniels. Another shot of UJA staff includes Herschel Perlis, Shimmy Wenner, Jonathan Allan, Jeff Springer and Dena Libman.
- Disc 2 contains images of the award winners listed above onstage, as well as the following individuals at the podium: Ted Sokolsky, Leslie Gales, Seymour Epstein, Ralph Shedletsky, Shirley Granovsky and David Engel. Other attendees photographed include Judy Engel, Mayor David Miller, Jacque Friedland, Mark Fox and many others.
- Notes
- Photographs by Steven Epstein.
- Accession Number
- 2009-9-9
- 2009-7-10
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk with Israel 2003 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-29
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 74 photographs (jpg)
- Scope and Content
- File contains images of the Eitz Chaim Learnathons for girls and for boys, including images of students at work in small groups, speakers, teachers and room overview shots.
- Notes
- Photographs by Stephen Epstein. His discs include hi-resolution jpgs, thumbnail images and html index pages ("web gallery") with the thumbnails.
- Accession Number
- Epstein photographs from accession 2005-12-2.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Jewish Welfare Fund fonds
- Annual Campaign series
- Walk with Israel sub-series
- Walk with Israel 2004 sub-sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 67
- Series
- 17-1-30
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- graphic material (electronic)
- moving images
- Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 334 photographs (jpg)
- 1 optical disc (vob file) : 2 mins. 40 secs.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of 4 CDs containing digital photographs (jpgs). One disc (Black's Photography) contains images at the Walk opening of entertainment, children, the registration table, the crowd, dancing, Israel flags, sponsor banners, a clown and people along the route. The other 3 discs contain 308 photographs. These document the opening at Coronation Park, the crowd along the route and people at the RioCan Festival at Ontario Place. They include images of special guest, Police Chief Julian Fantino, the co-chairs of the Walk, a huge hora, opening speeches by the Walk chairs, one of the checkpoints, facepainting, games and putting on tefillin.
- At the Festival the images are of the marketplace, Ontario Place rides, a CIJA-PAC group and other vendors at tables. Groups represented include Leo Baeck Day School; Congregation BINA (Community of Jews from India); Canadian Jews & Christians (Together for Israel); the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, Canada; and Jews for Jesus. There are also pictures of anti-Israel protesters at the entrance to the checkpoint. UJA notables in the photos include Ted Sokolsky and Michelle Golfman.
- In addition, the file contains a DVD with video footage of the 2004 Walk set to music.
- Notes
- Black's-processed photographs by Eve [Marks]. This disc has Fujifilm Image Viewer software on it which must be used to view the photos.
- Other photographs by Stephen Epstein. Epstein's discs include thumbnails, high-resolution jpgs and html files forming a "web gallery" index to peruse the images. The three CDs each have 1/3 of the images in high-resolution.
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
