Judith feld carr biography examples pdf

There, she met and married Dr Ronald Feld, a Jewish activist like herself. They were both drawn to the plight of Syrian Jewry. In Dr Feld died suddenly. Prior to his death, a first contact had been made with Rabbi Hamra in Damascus. Despite being a working single parent with three young children, Judy continued to exchange coded messages with Rabbi Hamra, and cautiously set in place underground network inside Syria.

For almost 30 years Judy rescued Jews out of Syria.

Judith (Judy) Feld Carr was born in Montreal.

For almost 30 years , Judy Feld Carr dedicated herself to the Syrian Jewish community, plotting the rescue of 3, Syrian Jews. Born in Montreal, Quebec, on December 26, , Judy and her younger brother Alexander — were raised in the mining town of Sudbury in northern Ontario. Brooklyn , d. M from the Faculty of Music.

Starting in , the human rights activist Judy Feld Carr, known only as the mysterious “Mrs.

In , she married Dr. Ronald Rubin Feld , a young physician. A chance reading of a Jerusalem Post article in persuaded Judy and Rubin that something needed to be done for the Jews of Syria. The couple organized a Syrian Jewish support committee to publicize the precarious existence of Syrian Jewry. With Israel's victory over Syria and its allies in the war, Syria's small Jewish community was subjected to arbitrary violence as well as economic and travel and restrictions.

As Syrian Jews had no recourse to the police or courts, confiscation of property, unwarranted arrests, torture, assaults, and looting were not infrequent occurrences. The Canadian committee made efforts to contact a Jewish community representative in Damascus.