Women in Jewish life from Greater Portland

Candle Lighting

• Two women light menorah at the Cedars date not known

Center Women's Club

• Jewish Community Center Center Woman's Club Paid Up Membership Party date not known (Portland)
• Jewish Community Center Women's Club Bingo Snack Bar Crew date not known (Portland)
• Jewish Community Center Women's Club Lawn Party to Aid Day Camp date not known (Portland)
• Jewish Community Center Women's Club Membership Supper date not known (Portland)
• Jewish Community Center Center Woman's Club Paid Up Membership Party May 1950 (Portland)
• Jewish Community Center Center Woman's Club Annual Luncheon 1951 (Portland)
• Jewish Community Center Women's Club Donors 1/24/1963 (Portland)
• Jewish Community Center Center Woman's Club Donors Program 1964 (Portland)

Donor Dinners

• Jewish Community Center Center Women's Club Donors Show date not known (Portland)

Family Gatherings

• Fineberg and Jacobson family gathering 1950s (Portland)

Girls

• Dinny Cutler and Eva Sacknoff circa 1929

Hadassah

• Junior Hadassah date not known
• Five women in Portland JCC circa 1975

JCC

• Ladies at the Jewish Community Center date not known
• Ladies at the Jewish Community Center 2 date not known

Ladies' Auxiliary

• Members Honored - Ladies Auxilliary - Jewish Home for the Aged date not known

Ladies' Auxiliary - Jewish Home For The Aged

• Members Honored - Ladies Auxilliary - Jewish Home for the Aged date not known (Portland)
• Ladies' Auxiliary, Portland making donation the Jewish Home for the Aged 1932 (Portland)
• Ladies' Auxiliary, Portland making donation the Jewish Home for the Aged 1932 (Portland)

Legal Profession

• Woman Leads Bar Students' Examination date not known (Portland)

Not Yet Classified

• Barney Shur and 3 men date not known (Portland)
• Center Womens Basketball at JCC date not known (Portland)
• Center Womens Club group date not known (Portland)
• Center Womens Club meeting date not known (Portland)
• Center Womens Club Paid Up Membership affair date not known (Portland)
• Seven women looking over papers date not known (Portland)
• 7 women posing for photo circa 1950 (Portland)
• 8 smiling women circa 1950 (Portland)
• Center Womens Club Awards circa 1950 (Portland)
• Center Womens Club Awards 1950 (Portland)
• 6 women with notes circa 1955 (Portland)
• Annual Lawn Party of Center Womens Club 7/19/1956 (Portland)
• 2 women in grass skirts and one other woman circa 1965 (Portland)
• 4 women on a sofa circa 1970 (Portland)
• Center Womens Club Officers at Installation Dinner circa 1972 (Portland)
• Center Womens Club Woman of the Year Award circa 1972 (Portland)
• Center Womens Club Woman of the Year Award circa 1973 (Portland)
• Center Womens Club award January 23, 1974 (Portland)

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Not Yet Classified

• Eight women at the table date not known (Portland)

Not Yet Classified

• Linda and Lucy Lavin, Arnold Potter, Eva and Ed Sacknoff date not known (Portland)
• Louis and Bertha Seavey date not known (Portland)
• Center Women's Club dinner date not known
• Two young women date not known
• Louis Goldberg and family 1915 (Portland )
• Charlotte B. Wernick , The History of Portland Section of the National Council of Jewish Women 1920-1986
• Fanny and Michael Jacobson With Their Twelve Children 1920 circa (portland)
• Group of Portland Kids 1920s - 1930s (Portland)
• I O B B [Independent Order B'nai B'rith] Will Raise $2,000,000 Fund for Extention of Organization's Wrok May 11, 1926
• [National] Council [of Jewish] Women Meet in State and Inter-state Conferences March 15, 1927 (Portland)
• Council Women Meet in State and Inter-state Conferences 15 March 1927 (Portland)
• Jewish Community Center - Center Institute of Jewish Studies Committee Letter 22-Dec-48 (Portland)
• Castaline Family ca 1971 (Portland)
• Shaarey-ing The News 1973 11/1/1973 (Portland)
• Shaarey-ing The News 1973 11/1/1973 (Portland)
• National Council of Jewish Women, Portland Section newsletter Sept 18, 1984 (Portland)
• Allied Jewish Appeal Women to Honor Joyce Baltus Oct-86 (Portland)
• Ayelet Waldman on Writing Jewish Characters and Raising Daughters 8/5/2010 (Portland)
• "In Judaism, it's a Matriarchal Society", transcript of interview with Nancy Davidson 2015 (Portland)

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On Bimah

• Girls on Bimah at Shaarey Tphiloh Newbury St 1938, Portland Public Library - Press Herald photo collection 1938 (Portland)
• Three Girls in Front of Bima at Etz Chaim 1955

Phi Delta Mu

• Phi Delta Mu Alumni Report date not known (Portland)

Religious Activities

• Four Women Standing In Front of Beth El Front Door 1954 (Portland)
• Bas Mitzvah Services for 12 Girls 6/7/1959

Sisterhood

• Maine Intrastate Sisterhood Conference Held date not known (Portland)
• Opening Remarks Maine Sisterhood Conference date not known (Portland)
• Shaarey Tphiloh Sisterhood "Cosmetic Sisterhood" date not known (Portland)
• Shaarey Tphiloh Sisterhood annual report, Portland 1945 (Portland)
• Shaarey Tphiloh Sisterhood tea invitation, Portland 1947 (Portland)
• Shaarey Tphiloh Sisterhood (Portland Press Herald) 1954 1954
• Shaarey Tphiloh Sisterhood 1990 (Portland)

Sisters

• Susan and Dorothy Shelling date not known

Sorority

• Planning [Iota Phi Sorority] 'Black Magic' Formal date not known (Portland)
• Theta Rho Sorority circa 1945
• Iota Phi Group Photo 1946

Wedding

• Janice Berman Castaline - wedding photo 8/6/1953 (Portland)

Women Candidates

• Two More Women for Mondale to Consider, Bill Caldwell on Maine Jul-84 (Portland)

YWHA

• Memorial to Lillian P. Berman Founded at YWHA Group Party date not known (Portland)

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