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CTI Honors Four of North Shore's Most Prominent Residents

April 30 Dinner-Dance Pays Tribute to Frances & Mayer Udell and Augusta & Jerry Wolkowitz

Congregation Tifereth Israel (CTI), the oldest continuously operating Jewish congregation on Long Island, honors four of its longest-time members at an elegant dinner-dance on Saturday, April 30. The honorees are Glen Cove residents Frances & Mayer Udell who became CTI members in 1947, the year of their marriage; and Augusta & Jerry Wolkowitz, also of Glen Cove, members since 1956, the year they moved to Glen Cove. Mayer Udell and Jerry Wolkowitz have both served as presidents of the CTI board of trustees.

The current president of the CTI board, Michael Swernoff, said that every congregation depends on a core group of members who are always there when they’re needed: “The Udells and the Wolkowitzes have always been at the very heart of that core for CTI. We are privileged to honor them.”

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Frances Udell, who came to Glen Cove as a child, is the daughter of Charles London who in 1926 established London Jewelers on School Street in Glen Cove. Now in its fourth generation of family leadership, the company has retained its original School Street location while expanding to such luxurious shopping destinations as Wheatley Plaza, Americana Manhasset, Southampton, and East Hampton. The company has always maintained its founder’s core values of honesty, integrity and service. An active member of CTI’s Sisterhood, Frances Udell served as treasurer and supported Hadassah.

An activist from his earliest days in the city, Jerry Wolkowitz is a civil engineer who was on the mayor’s advisory board for the purchase of the Glen Cove Water Company. The president of his family’s business, Wolkow Braker Roofing, Wolkowitz was a member of the Glen Cove School Board for ten years, some of those years as president. He is a founding member of CTI’s Wolpert Scholarship Committee which has awarded scholarships to the children of CTI members. Joining the synagogue choir, Augusta Wolkowitz brought her love of music to CTI. She also was Sisterhood president and an active Hadassah member.

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For information on purchasing tickets for the April 30 dinner-dance honoring Frances & Mayer Udell and Augusta & Jerry Wolkowitz, please call the synagogue office, (516) 676-5080.

CTI has provided Jewish programming and education to the Long Island community since 1897. The synagogue is located at 40 Hill Street, at the intersection with Landing Road. For further information, call (516) 676-5080 or log onto www.ctionline.org.

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