Golda Meir/Kent Jewish Center
About Us
The
Golda Meir/Kent Jewish Center is a part of your extended
family, your home away from home – providing a full range of
programs and services for all ages and stages in life. We
offer an inspiring camp experience, exceptional senior
programs, intellectually stimulating arts and cultural
events, an exhilarating aquatic and athletic fitness line
up, and quality family and youth programming. The Center is
where individuals gather together to meet, play, learn,
celebrate, and be part of the Community.
While the
Center is designed primarily to fulfill the needs of the
Jewish community and to preserve and enhance the culture,
traditions, ethics, and philosophy of Judaism, membership
and participation in activities of the Center and Camp are
open to all regardless of religious affiliation; we
serve people of all ages, faiths and cultural backgrounds,
race, color or creed. The Center welcomes all.
Membership dues and fees,
individual and corporate and donations, planned giving and the
Pinellas & Pasco Counties Jewish Federation, support the Center programs and
services.
Jewish Community
Center's Purpose Statement
We embrace, promote and provide for
enrichment of Jewish Community life.
Jewish Community
Center's Vision Statement
We are
the recognized community leader in providing outstanding,
affordable and creative programs. Through excellence in
leadership and organizational structure, we guarantee life
enrichment and participant satisfaction.
Jewish Community
Center's Mission Statement
We will develop and
implement a comprehensive and strategic, operational,
financial and structural plan to include:
The cultivation and training of lay leadership to ensure
positive implementation of the strategic operating plan.
The development and empowerment of our professional staff to
make the decisions necessary to deliver on the strategic
plan.
The continued development of affordable and creative
programming and services.
Our History & Future
It began as a vision, the
concept of a Senior Center where “When You’re Here, You’re Never
Old.” The original Golda Meir Center located on Jupiter Street in
central Clearwater was fashioned by the vision of Charles Rutenberg
and his family and other prominent families in Pinellas &
Pasco Counties.
Through the generosity of a
donation of land to the Jewish Federation of Pinellas & Pasco Counties by Mr.
Marshall and Mrs. Reva Kent, the site for a Jewish Community Center
was established.
The Marshall and Reva Kent Jewish
Community Center was conceived from the idea of having a
North County presence similar to that which existed in South
County to provide social and cultural family activities and
a summer camp. The Center
became a beneficiary agency of the Jewish Federation of Pinellas & Pasco Counties.
In 1995, to further
strengthen the presence of the Jewish people of Pinellas & Pasco Counties, the
Gold Meir Center and the The Marshall and Reva Kent Jewish Community
Center merged and became the Golda Meir/Kent Jewish Center. Today,
the Golda Meir/Kent Jewish Center is an intergenerational Jewish
Center where people of all ages and stages of life can come
together.
So many people have helped to keep the
Golda Meir/Kent Jewish Center thriving financially.
In 2008 as we plan to move on to the next
stage of our development in cooperation with Menorah Manor,
each
generation must continue to undertake the responsibility for the next generation
to provide a Center where future generations can come together to celebrate their Judaism.
