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From Generation to Generation

Temple Israel Honors

Jolanda Kintzer

Shabbat, May 5, 1939, was the first time my mother Fany, father Armin, sister Magda and I
stepped into Temple Israel to give thanks to HaShem. He saved us from a terrible fate and
brought us to Long Beach from Czechoslovakia.

At the Temple we found welcome, and Magda and I were enrolled in Hebrew School. We became
friends with the Wurmans, Ratnofskys and Hirschs. We enjoyed Junior Congregation led by Gus
Wurman, Roy Abrams and Iring Eisekowitz. The Ladies Benevolent Society of the Temple helped
us, and when my father died, found us an apartment.

When I was Leader of Junior Hadassah, the principal of the Hebrew School, Rabbi Marcus
Klausner asked me to teach Sunday School and to attend the Jewish Theological Seminary, and I
did. I taught for 20 years. My star pupils are still around – Debbie and Howard Griboff, Ellen
Berger and Laurie Goldstein.

David and I were married in the Temple. We had three children, Elise, Aimee and Jason. I went
back to work as secretary to the City Manager of Long Beach. I was elected at different times, as
president of the BZB’s, B’nai B’rith Women and Hadassah. I also sang at the Memorial Day
Parade.

Our daughter Elise married Moshe Kranc in Temple Israel, have six children, one married, and
live in Jerusalem. Aimee married Moshe Levental in Temple Israel, and have ten children, eight
married. Jason married Dr. Jane Becker in the Sephardic Temple in Cedarhurst. They have six
children, with two married. Among them there are sixteen great-grandchildren.

We thank the clergy and members of Temple Israel for giving us meaningful, comforting services,
and years of pleasure.