MARGATE — The Jewish Community Center formerly known as the Milton & Betty Katz JCC is being rededicated in honor of Lewis Katz, a philanthropist and former co-owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The center will now be known as the Marjorie & Lewis Katz Jewish Community Center.
To celebrate the rededication, the center will hold an event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at the center at 501 N. Jerome Ave. The celebration will feature games and activities, live music, Kosher-style carnival food and a tribute book commemorating the day.
“We deeply appreciate the steadfast support and significant contributions of the Katz family to our community,” said Marg Rosenblatt, CEO of the Jewish Community Center. “This rededication event honors their legacy and celebrates the promising future of our JCC.”
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Katz, a native of Camden, established several different programs to help children there and has donated generously to Jewish organizations, such as the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey, Congregation Beth El in Voorhees, and the National Museum of American Jewish History.
He also directed the Katz Foundation, which established an annual prize and endowed a visiting professorship in cardiovascular research at Columbia University in New York, and gave $15 million to the Dickinson School of Law at Penn State University, resulting in buildings bearing his name. Temple University's Lewis Katz School of Medicine also was dedicated to him.
Katz died in 2014.
For more information on the event and to participate in the tribute book, contact Brian Adler at [email protected] or 609-822-1167, ext. 159.