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We are Community-Builders

We are…Community-Builders

The Torah commands that Jews see themselves less as individuals than as members of a community with responsibility for the welfare of others. This ethos has encouraged Jews to help their neighbors by serving in politics and contributing as philanthropists.

“My greatest desire for my children is that the world will be better for their having lived. Not great but good is what I wish them to do.”

Mina Rosenthal Weil, Wilson

Community-Builders Gallery

Click the thumbnails below to view a slideshow of Jewish Community-Builders in North Carolina.

Sol Lipinsky, Asheville, c. 1915, Courtesy D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville

Lionel Weil, n.d., Courtesy Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Leslie Weil, n.d., Courtesy Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Emil Rosenthal, n.d., Courtesy Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mina Rosenthal Weil, n.d., Courtesy Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

From left to right, Madolyn Blumenthal, Rabbi Solomon Grayzel, Maurice Weinstein, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, and I. D. Blumenthal at Wildacres, n.d., Courtesy Marcia Simon

“The Man who Lived on Main Street: Stories by and about Sol Schulam,” Book Cover, c. 2003

Rabbi Fred and Ruth Rypins, n.d., Courtesy Temple Emmanuel, Greensboro

Dr. Abraham Holtzman, n.d.

Karl Robbins (third from left) and Research Triangle Park Planners, n.d., Courtesy North Carolina State Archives

SAllard Lowenstein on Franklin Street, n.d., Courtesy Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Abraham and Barbara Weill, n.d., Courtesy Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sandra and Leon Levine and Levine Children Hospital, n.d., Courlesy Levine Foundation

Brody Building and the Brody family, n.d., Courtesy East Carolina University

Sol Lipinsky, Asheville, c. 1915, Courtesy D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville