GM/KJC  HISTORY

 
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 Fl.
 
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. The  Golda Meir/Kent Jewish Center became an intergenerational Jewish Center where people of all ages and stages of life could come together.

Many people helped to keep
the Golda Meir/Kent Jewish Center thriving financially.

 
In 2009/2010 as we  move on to the next stage of our development in cooperation with the JCC of Pinellas County in St. Petersburg 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.