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-1988-
November 10, 1988—"Israel
Bonds Honors Lucy Goldman," San Diego Jewish Times, p
27: San Diego businesswoman Lucy Goldman will be honored at the annual
dinner sponsored by the san Diego Committee for State of Israel Bonds. Goldman
is being honored for her humanitarian efforts and for her dedicated support for
Israel and Jewish causes. The event will be held on Sunday, Nov. 20, at 6 p.m.
at the Hotel del Coronaado. "It will give the community an opportunity to
recognize her dedication and leadership, and at the same time to demonstrate a
partnership with the people of Israel," said Jack Naiman, general chairman
of Israel Bonds. Goldman is vice president of Yardage Town, a locally
based retail fabric chain with 16 locations in san Diego County. She has served
as a board member and past chair of the United Jewish Federation Community
Relations Council and as a member of the United Jewish Federation's Business and
Professional Women's Group. She also serves on the Community Advisor Committee
for the Hebrew Day School and currently chairs the Board of Visitors of the
Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies. Lucy Goldman's activities have involved
her in many phases of the social, communal and academic life in the city of San
Diego. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Ecology Center, is a
board member and treasurer of the San Diego Convention Center Corporation, is a
member of the Museum of Photographic Arts and serves as a board member of the
Peace Through Law Institute. She is a former member of the President's Advisory
Council at San Diego State University and is a founder and former president of
Dimension: The Women's Network Organization. Goldman was a delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in 1972, is a former member of the
Democratic State Central Committee, and is now active with the Business Advisory
Council of Dukakis for President. She was also a nonpartisan candidate for City
Council. Born in Poland, Goldman immigrated with her family to the United States
in 1949. A graduate of Hoover High School and Cal-Western University in
San Diego, she is the mother of three children. Dr. Jacob Goldberg, an authority
on Middle Eastern politics and economics, will be the guest speaker for the
evening. Dr. Goldberg has been a visiting professor at San Diego State
University and was the founding professor of the Lipinsky Institute for Judaic
Studies. M. Larry Lawrence is honorary chairman of the San Diego Committee
for the State of Israel Bonds and Sherry and Gary Naiman are co-chairs of the
executive committee. The Israel Bonds Organization has raised more than $9
billion for Israel's economy since 1951. For information on the dinner
honoring Lucy Goldman on Nov. 20, call the Israel Bonds office at 287-4143, or
write 6363 El Cajon Blvd., Suite 203, San Diego, CA 92115.
-1994-
February 4, 1994—Rubin Recht,
a Holocaust Survivor who founded the 14-store yardage Town chain in San Diego
County 41 years ago, died of heart failure Wednesday night, Jan. 26, at Alvarado
Hospital in the presence of 13 members of his politically and culturally
prominent family. He was 80. Graveside funeral services were Friday
morning, Jan. 28, at the Home of Peace Cemetery for Mr. Recht, whose last public
appearance was in October at an American Jewish Committee dinner honoring his
daughter, Lucy Goldman. Among those attending Mr. Recht in his final hours
were his daughter, Lucy, and a son, Michael, and a niece who was like a second
daughter to him, Pearl Recht. Mr. Recht and his childhood sweetheart and
wife, Fay, and their baby daughter left the Jewish town of Mielec, Poland, for
Uzbekistand together just before the Germans occupied the Galician town in
September of 1939. A buyer and seller of cloth in Samarkind, Uzbekistan,
Mr. Recht and his wife were prevented by the war from reestablishing contact
with their families. They learned later almost the entire population of Mielec
was murdered in the Holocaust, including his nine siblings and her five
siblings. But Pearl Recht, his niece, survived. She and her husband, Joe, were
at Mr. Recht's bedside, along with their son and daughter-in-law, Gary and
Shoshi Recht. Others in attendance included his granddaughter, Leah Ollman, and
her husband, Arthur; grandson Dean Goldman and his wife, Sara; and granddaughter
Lissa Magen and her husband Shlomo. Mr. Recht's daughter-in-law, Marlene,
was also present. He also is survived by his wife, Fay; Larry and Lena
Rech and Helen Recht, children of Pearl and Joe Recht, and a niece, Rima, of
Russia. from Uzbekistan, the Rechts migrated first to the American sector
of Munich, Germany, then to New York, and finally to San Diego, arriving Jan.
20, 1953. The family resided in the Del Cerro area. The family opened
their first fabric store in El Cajon, with Yardage Town eventually growing into
a local chain with more than 100 employees. Mr. Recht loved to show visitors
around his warehouse at the National City headquarters of Yardage Town. He
was proud and grateful for the opportunities the U.S. had given him and his
family. For a while, Mr. Recht was joined by his daughter, Lucy Goldman;
his son, Michael Recht, and grandson dean Goldman at Yardage Town, making it a
three-generation family concern. Mr. Recht enjoyed keeping track of the
lives of eight grandchildren and 12 great0grandchildren, investing in real
estate, "beging dragged' to political fundraising events by daughter Lucy,
playing cards and being a member of Tifereth Israel Synagogue and the New Life
Club of Holocaust Survivors. His family requests that contributions in his
honor be made to the March of the Living program of the Agency for Jewish
Education, the New Life Club, or to Jewish Family Service.
-1999-
July
2, 1999—Donald H. Harrison, "Dr. Peres impresses San Diegans with
his animal magnetism," San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage
-2005-
October 2005—Lawrence Family Jewish Community
Center, Jacobs Family Campus, San Diego Jewish Book Fair, October 27,
November 10, 12-16, 2005, program, "San Diego Jewish Book Fair
Underwriters," Authors (donor category), Lucy Goldman..."Tuesday,
November 15," page 13 Evening Author Lecture, 2nd Annual Murray
Goodman Memorial Lecture, 7:30 p.m., Hirsh Goodman, Let Me Create A Paradise,
God Said to Himself: A Journey of Conscience from Johannesberg to Jerusalem...Underwritten
by anonymous, Arthur Brody, Leslie & Shlomo Caspi, Elaine & Peter
Chortek, Marsi & Eric Gardiner, Lucy Goldman, Zelda Goodman, Bryna Haber,
Stacy & Jonathan Halberg, Jerri-Ann & Gary Jacobs, Sandy & Arthur
Levinson, Julie & Lowell Potiker, Sheila & Hughes Potiker, Gloria &
Rodney Stone, Dr. Andrew & Erna Viterbi, The Friends of the Murray Goodman
Memorial Lecture...
Nov. 11, 2005—"Zanville Microscopes At Work," Kolenu newsletter of Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, page 1: We are so pleased that in conjunction with the first yarzheit of Mr. Leonard Zanville, a group of 11 family donors generously responded to our request to contribute towards the purchase of 8 new microscopes for use in our science program. Mr. Zanville dedicated our Science Lab in memory of his mother, Hattie Zanville, 33 years ago and always took special pride in the program. We thank microscope underwriters, Mrs. Shirley Bloomenthal, Eilene and Arthur Cummins, Lucy Goldman, Audrey and Karl Jacobs, the entire Katz family (Stuart * Carol, Michael & Christina, Marlene & Scott Brody, and Susan & Ben Weinbarten-alumni), Sara & Joseph Reisman, and Elene * Herbert Solomon. Additional support was contributed by Richard & Sue Braun, Mim Lincoff and Marvin & Joan Yelles, Special thansk and good wishes to Ruth Zanville, who is matching these gifts.
December 2005—"Donor Advised Funds," Defining Our Future, Annual Report 2005, (San Diego) Jewish Community Foundation, pages 7-10: A Donor Advised Fund is an individual charitable fund that allows you to make a tax-deductible contribution (minimum to establish is $1,800) and then recommend grants in the name of the fund to qualified organizations in the Jewish and general community.... Lucy Goldman...
December 2005—Agency for Jewish Education, Limmud: A Community Day of Learning (pamphlet for January 22, 2006 all-day event), back page: Partners in Jewish Education—Chai Partners... Lucy Goldman...