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Jewish and non-Jewish Organizations, Federations and Synagogues United States: - Polish American Congress: representing 10 million Polish Americans (letter expected soon); - Jewish National Fund: representing over one million supporters; - National Council of Jewish Women: 90,000 members, volunteers and supporters; - Board of Rabbis of Southern California, representing 286 rabbis, and more than 550,000 Jews; - Board of Rabbis of Northern California, representing 130 rabbis, and more than 250,000 Jews; - New York Board of Rabbis, population of more than 2 million Jews, in NY, NJ and CT; - Washington Board of Rabbis, representing 125 rabbis, and more than 200,000 Jews; - Simon Wiesenthal Center, representing more than 400,000 supporters; - Jewish Council for Public Affairs, representing a large segment of the US organized Jewish community, including 14 national Jewish organizations, 125 local Jewish federations/community relations councils (a subgroup of UJC's 155) including: American Jewish Committee American Jewish Congress B'nai B'rith Hadassah Jewish Labor Committee Jewish Reconstructionist Federation Jewish War Veterans National Council of Jewish Women ORT America, Inc. Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America Union for Reform Judaism United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Women's League for Conservative Judaism - American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists; - Polish American Congress WNY Division, Buffalo, NY, representing 300,000 Polish Americans; - World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust; - Generations of the Shoah International; - Holocaust Child Survivors of Connecticut, representing 100 families; - Second Generation Holocaust Education Fund; - Poland Jewish Cemeteries Restoration Project (East Amherst, NY); - Stephen S. Wise Temple, Los Angeles: 3000 families; - Jewish Federation of Greater Monmouth County - more than 70,000 Jewish population; - Jewish Federation and United Jewish Foundation of Metropolitan Detroit, 72,000; - Adat Shalom Synagogue, Detroit, representing 1100 families; - Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Federation - representing 17,500 Jewish population; - Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo, NY-representing 17,000 Jewish population; - Temple Beth Zion, Buffalo: 1050 families; - Temple Beth El, Tonawanda, NY: 350 families; - Temple Beth Am, Williamsville, NY; - Greater Buffalo, NY Board of Rabbis, representing 17,000 Jewish population; - AJC-Buffalo, NY Chapter, representing the 17,000 Jews of Greater Buffalo; - Temple Shaarey Zedek, Buffalo (expected soon); - Jewish Discovery Center of Greater Buffalo, representing Chabad Lubavitz members; - Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies (Buffalo) - Temple Beth El, Rochester, NY: 900 families; - Temple Beth Shalom, Sarasota; - Temple Emanu-El, Sarasota: - Temple Sinai, Sarasota; - Congregation Kol HaNeshama, Sarasota: - Sarasota Jewish Genealogical Society; - Anshe Sholom B'nai Israel Congregation-Chicago: 400 families; - Jewish Community Federation of Greater Rochester - 21,000 Jewish population; - Lower Merion Synagogue, Merion, PA; - Temple Beth Shalom, Hamden, CT over 400 families; - National Association of Temple Administrators (letter expected soon): 400 member organizations worldwide; Canada: - Canadian Lawyers and Jurists for World Jewry, Toronto; - UJA Federation of Hamilton, Ontario - representing 5,000 Jews; - Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada, Montreal-thousands of subscribers; - Beth Tzedec Congregation, Toronto-2900 families (letter expected soon); - Jewish Federation of Winnipeg - 16,000 Jewish population; - Rose And Max Rady Jewish Community Centre, Winnipeg; - Jewish Foundation of Manitoba; - Sharey Zedek Synagogue, Winnipeg - 3000 members; - Herzlia-Adas Yeshurun Congregation; - Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Winnipeg; - B'nai Brith Canada - Midwest Region; - Gray Academy of Jewish Education, Winnipeg - 400 families; - Congregation Etz Chayim - Winnipeg - congregation of 600 families; - Chavurat Tefila Synagogue, Winnipeg; - Winnipeg Associates of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; - Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada, Winnipeg; - Holocaust Education Centre, Winnipeg; Israel: - Fuchsberg Center for Conservative Judaism, Jerusalem; - B'nai Brith Israel; - World Council of Jewish Communal Service (WCJCS) (letter expected soon); - Esh Dat Rabbinical Seminary, B'nei Brak; - Frimer Gellman Shilo Advocates, Jerusalem; Brazil: - Jewish Society of Bahia, Brazil; - Friends of the Jewish Memorial of Vassouras, Brazil; - The Sociedade Israelita do Cearį, Fortaleza, Brazil; - Zionist Organization of Sao Paulo - representing 25,000 families; Sweden: - Association of Holocaust Survivors in Sweden; Poland: -City of Lodz, Poland, Mr. Jerzy Kropiwnicki (President)-800,000 Polish population; -Katowice Jewish Community, Katowice; -Town of Losice - 35,300 population; -Town of Zdunska Wola - 46,000 population; -Town of Dobra - 11,000 population; -Foundation Monumentum Judaicum, Lodz, Poland; -Town of Tykocin, Poland (expected soon) - population about 2000; -VOICES Projects (see www.pjcrp.org): - The first of these Book of Voices was completed by Public School Number 1in Zdunska Wola; 250 student signatures on Petition; 2. Newspaper and magazine stories, publications, letters to editor and inserts: - "Renovating the Walls of the Jewish Cemetery of Tykocin," by Dr. Tadeus Kulas, Marcin Adamek and Andrzej Omasta, April 2007; - Polish American Journal, August 2007, by Honorable Michael Pietruszka, Erie County Judge, see http://www.polamjournal.com/; - AmPol Eagle News: "Lodz mayor, WNYer promote restoration of Jewish cemeteries", July 12, 2007; - Buffalo Jewish News: 2 page story Dec. 2006; full page insert of Petition April 13, 2007, "Mayor of Lodz affirmed his support for petition to German Government", July 20, 2007; - Sarasota-Manatee Jewish News - published the story in March 2007 and sent out 7500 Petition fliers, April 2007; - Lower Merion Synagogue, June 15, 2007, http://www.lmsonline.org/weekly.pdf; - TOGETHER Magazine, Print Edition, Vol. 21, March 2007, page 16, letter by Norman Weinberg; - Tracing the Tribe, Sept. 30, 2006, see http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html; - Generations of the Shoah International Newsletter, July 2007 - see http://www.genshoah.org/newsletter2007/gsi0707.html; - "Cemetery rehab project furthers Polish-Jewish relations, "Canadian Jewish News, August 9, 2007, see http://www.cjnews.com/TOPScnCJN/index.html?option=com_content&task=view&id=12918&Itemid=86 - Buffalo Torch Club, November 2007, Newsletter; 3. Individual Signatures: - about 2000 signatures of Jews and non-Jews at http://www.petitiononline.com/1200des/petition.html; - hundreds signed the Petition, Yom Hashoah commemoration at Temple Emanu-El, Sarasota in April 2007. - many individuals are signing at synagogues and other organizations. November 27, 2007 Dr. Norman L. Weinberg Executive Coordinator/PJCRP 95 Chasewood Lane, East Amherst, NY 14051 nweinberg@roadrunner.com www.pjcrp.org |