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JCC Manhattan Renamed for Marlene Meyerson After $20M Donation in Her Name

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The J.C.C. Manhattan is located on Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. (Photo Credit: jccmanhattan.org)

The Meyerson Family Foundation has made one of the largest donations ever made in the United States to a Jewish Community Center. In the name of the philanthropist Marlene Meyerson who died earlier this year, the foundation donated $20 million to J.C.C. Manhattan on the Upper West as well as commissioned Jenny Holzer to create a site-specific artwork for the J.C.C. In honor of these generous gifts, the center on Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street will be renamed the Marlene Meyerson J.C.C.

Over the next few months, the J.C.C. will ask its members to participate in the creation of the installation by sharing quotes by others or something in their own words that deals with the question: “What does community mean?” Several of the quotations will be chosen by Holzer to be chiseled onto stone plaques and marble benches throughout the building.

According to The New York Times, “Ms. Holzer will also incorporate hundreds of other such word contributions into a virtual piece of art that will map the building’s interior and exterior, as well as an augmented-reality smartphone app that will allow users to ‘see’ the words as if they, too, were actually engraved. The artwork will be unveiled at a naming ceremony in the spring. The naming rights will revert to the J.C.C. in 30 years. Ms. Meyerson’s daughter, Marti, has supported the J.C.C. for more than 20 years as a founder, board chairwoman and as an active member. The building opened in 2002.”

Executive director of the J.C.C. Joy Levitt said, “This gift enables us to secure our foundation. We’re going to begin now to talk with our community about what their dreams are for the next 15 years.”

By Rachel Shapiro

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