Terry Drucker
Terry Drucker Presented by The Foundation of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation
For most of my adult life, I have been privileged to be a part of the Miami Jewish community through my volunteer work with the Greater Miami Jewish Federation. When I was born, the State of Israel did not exist. I have always believed that an accident of birth gave me the opportunity to do whatever I could to help guarantee the traditions and continuity of our Jewish people. Needless to say, all the miracles (and I do believe in miracles) that we helped to create would never have happened if we were not united through our Federation.
Terry Drucker, GMJF Women’s Division President
Globally, I have witnessed Operation Flying Carpet which helped to save Iranian and Iraqi Jews and I have witnessed Operations Exodus and Moses, which brought Russian and Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Locally, I had the honor of working with the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center (MARJCC) on the Sanford L. Ziff Campus for more than five years. I helped to bring the JCC out of bankruptcy and create an outstanding
agency, servicing thousands of North Dade Jewish men, women and children on a daily basis. I have been part of a team that has fed, sheltered, consoled and clothed millions of Jews in Miami and throughout the world. I have visited Concentration Camps and walked in the footsteps of women who were not fortunate enough to have been born in Chicago, Illinois. I marched into these camps with a prayer of thankfulness that we survived and with another prayer that this will never happen again.
One experience in particular made me realize that I had to do something to ensure that my gift would continue after I was no longer here. I was a member of the National
Terry Drucker, National UJA Women’s Board March of the Living
UJA Women’s Board and participated with them on a mission to Israel, which included a pre-mission with the March of the Living. We were given an identity card with the name of a woman who perished at Auschwitz and were to walk in her footsteps. The name on my identity card was Teresa Drucker. Our work will never be done and I have received much more from my participation and investment in the Jewish community than I have ever given. That is why I created a legacy to benefit two organizations – the Greater Miami Jewish Federation by endowing my Lion of Judah gift and the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center. These legacy gifts will ensure that
my work will continue for all of our children, grandchildren and future generations, providing security and perpetuating a high quality of Jewish values and traditions.
Temple Beth Am AND Rambam Day School
Presented by The Foundation of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation
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