Anniversaries
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Read more: 110th Anniversary Round-Up
What a weekend! 110 years (and a few months) after the Israel Cantor Family Society was founded, 52 members gathered in New York City for a weekend of cousinly camaraderie. It was the largest Society gathering since the 100th anniversary in 2013 and featured cousins from 1 to 101 years old. After several years of meetings on zoom, it was thrilling to gather in person and experience our past, present, and future on a sunny-turned-rainy fall weekend in Manhattan, the (American) ancestral home of our forebears. Said one cousin, “It’s pretty remarkable that after 110 years, the Cantor diaspora still…
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Read more: Announcing the 110th Anniversary
We are pleased to announce that registration for the 110th Anniversary is now OPEN! The Anniversary is Saturday and Sunday, October 28–29, and will take place in various locations around New York City. Already, I’ve heard that cousins will be coming from all over: California, Florida, Massachusetts, Wyoming and, even, New Jersey! Highlights will include a lifetime of memories but also: A kosher family feast at the Wall Street Grill. Explore the new Gilder Center at the American Museum of Natural History. Special kiddush at the only Greek synagogue in the nation. Late-night bowling for those young or young at heart. Tour of Lower East Side to get in…
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Read more: ICFS 105th Anniversary at the Ballpark
DEAR COUSINS, We are going to CitiField to watch the Mets GET CLOBBERED by the Yankees next June 10th. Or, maybe the other way around! You should come with us. This is our ONE and ONLY celebration of the Society’s 105th Anniversary. Here’s the deal. The ICFS is an ABSURDLY long-lived “cousins group.” We were CHARTERED (I’m not kidding) by the State of New York in 1913, and may be the oldest such chartered group still eating pastrami twice a year. YOUNGER COUSINS, LISTEN UP. The guy after whom this Society is named (Israel Cantor) was born in 1831. His…
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Read more: ICFS in the Jewish Daily Forward
The JEWISH DAILY FORWARD website today has a wonderful and heartwarming story about the 100th Anniversary of the Israel Cantor Family Society. The newspaper had sent a reporter who interviewed various members and observed the shenanigans on Saturday. Shouts-out to Florence, Sandy, Mikhail, Dan, Libby, John, and Tess for giving such pithy and cool quotes. http://forward.com/articles/183783/new-york-states-oldest-landsmanschaften-celebrates/?p=all
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Read more: 100th Anniversary is history!
The 100th Anniversary of the Israel Cantor Family Society was held August 23-25, 2013. Read all about it!!! CLICK HERE or on above MENUS.
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Read more: Cantors afloat at the ICFS 95th Anniversary
The 95th Anniversary of the Israel Cantor Family Society was held on the S.S. Cabaret on a spectacularly beautiful fall Sunday. The boat left Pier 81 for a brunch cruise that sailed down the Hudson River around the tip of Manhattan and up the East River to the United Nations providing us with amazing views of the three major bridges, the “Waterfalls” art installation, the Brooklyn waterfront, Governor’s Island, and, of course, close-ups of Ellis Island, where our ancestors landed. The Society thanks Larry Becker, Phil Cantor, Ron Jordan, and Madeline Cantor for their hard work in putting the trip…
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Read more: 90th Anniversary ICFS Reunion!
The 90th Anniversary of the Israel Cantor Family Society was held at Kutsher’s Country Club, in Monticello, New York on June 27 to June 29, 2003. Over eighty family members attended from all over the United States. There were relatives who have newly joined the Society, including Boris, Mikhail, and Sophia, all who have immigrated from Belarussia. Their presence reminds us all of Israel Cantor’s momentous journey almost a century ago. There was a softball game (we won), a volleyball game (we won, again), a living family tree, letters of congratulations from President George W. Bush and Governor George Pataki,…