Sans their bowling shoes, these members of B'nai B'rith women's bowling league proudly display their hardware. Left to right: Sally Orenstein, Mary Effress, Ethel Frank, Rae Davis, Jessie Swatez, Kathy Sigel.
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B'nai Brith Young Women's Organization is the B'nai Brith Young Women's organization. It was the women's division of B'nai Brith, the oldest continuously operating Jewish service organization in the world. The St. Paul B. B. Y. W. O. chapter had offices at the St. Paul Jewish Community Center.
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The Minneapolis Chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women was founded in 1894 by Nina Morais Cohen. Cohen was a nationally recognized leader: when Susan B. Anthony came to Minneapolis, she stayed at Nina and Emanuel Cohen's home. The N. C. J. W. is a volunteer organization working for social change based upon Jewish values. In its earliest years, volunteers worked in settlement houses, acted as juvenile court advocates, helped provide vocational training for immigrant and poor women and girls, and helped develop free school-based health services. Fanny Brin is second from the right.
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Portrait photograph of a large group of Hadassah members in costume. Founded in 1912, Hadassah is the second-oldest independent Jewish women's organization in the United States. Hadassah draws on both the ideology of Zionism and on women's sense of social responsibility to elicit support for Israel, youth activities and educational services. National programs that were implemented in Minnesota included "linen showers" for medical units, money collection for school lunch programs in Palestine, and providing Jewish-German children foster-homes in Palestine during WWII. Members also made time to play and socialize.
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Members, former members, and families of the Little Ann Mother's Club. Photograph includes: Gladys DeWitt, Frank Thompson Sr., Pete and Francis DeWitt Nelson, Marion and Ruby DeWitt, Mrs. Pearl Thompson, Frank Thompson Jr., Ray and Helen Altman, Ed and Lila Bossen, Don DeWitt, Charlie Nelson, Marion Nelson and "Teach" Marion DeWitt, Carrie Casey, Wayne and Grandma Opal DeWitt, Richard and Vivian DeWitt, Marion and Joan Cooper, Rita and Wilford Frecher, Dolores and Dick Peterson, Ruby and Willis Trupe, Lyle and Phillip Thompson, Glenn and Elaine Thompson and Grandchildren, Thelma DeWitt, Lela and Ruthie Shoumaker, Von Thompson, Junea Thompson, Irene Altonan, Marlys Blum, Glenae Thompson, Charlotte and Duane DeWitt, Delphea DeWitt Cooper, Bruce Cooper, Gary and Denise Cooper, Shari DeWitt.
Group Photograph of Mora Women's Club Members, Io Halgren and her sister, Leona Schultz, Mrs. C.E. Williams, Florence West, Mrs. J.C. King, Mrs. Karon, Elvera Serline, Fern Cadwell, Mrs. Stariha, Mrs. Vick Peterson, Mrs. Frank Hittle, Mrs. Ira Krafft, Edna McClarty, Miss Gladys Check
Group portrait of the members of the Mora Women's Club. The members include: N. Frykman, L. Schultz, M. Ziegler, G. Stariha, L. McClarty, V.W. Peterson, J.C. King, M. Woodbeck, D. Childress, L. Larson, M. Nyquist.
Group of twenty-two men and women and six boys posing for the Ogilvie Ladies Club. Members and friends pictured include: Hannah Lewis, Elizabeth Lewis, Winnie Oldencamp, Mary Gibson, Lela McDougall, Mrs. McNally, Mildred Pringle, Maude Wicklund, Flossie Pringle, Bessie Doeblew, Eva Hainlin, Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Achterkick, Rosetta Olson, Mrs. Pringle, Mr and Mrs. Judd, Mr. Wicklund, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Wilson, Mrs. Conger, Mr. Gibson, Boys: Frank Thompson, Ben Hainlin, Clifford Conger, Walter Achterkick, Forest Thompson, and Newton Conger.
This group of neighbors would meet informally at members' houses over the years. Their connection was geographic (North Side) rather than congregational (synagogue-related).
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Women's organization, the Woodstock Guards of Loyalty, posing in uniform on the steps of the Pipestone County Courthouse. The purpose of the group was to band the ladies together to assist in carrying on the work of the men who were called to the colors, to help the United States in the prosecution of the war and, if need be, to go on the battle line to fight for democracy.