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Paid Notice: Deaths ROSENBERG, JUDY R; [Paid Death Notice]

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ROSENBERG--Judy R. Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University is profoundly saddened by the loss of our beloved friend and devoted supporter. In 1953, Judy joined a pioneering group of women who helped muster support for Yeshiva's new medical school. This group became the nucleus of the National Women's Division. She served as president of the Division and its New York Chapter, and was instrumental in establishing the Spirit of Achievement Luncheon, serving as its first chairwoman. In 1991, the Division honored her with the Lizette H. Sarnoff Award for Volunteer Service. She served on the Einstein Board of Overseers for 30 years, holding the position of secretary from 1980 to 1999. Benefactors of the College, she and her late husband, Alfred, endowed the Judy R. and Alfred A. Rosenberg Professorial Chair in Diabetes Research. Judy received an honorary degree from Yeshiva University in 1998. We already miss Judy's presence and extend our heartfelt sympathy to the entire family. Yeshiva University Richard M. Joel, President Norman Lamm, Chancellor Morry J. Weiss, Chairman, Board of Trustees Albert Einstein College of Medicine Ruth L. Gottesman, Chairperson, Board of Overseers Allen M. Spiegel, MD, The Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean Bambi Felberbaum, President, National Women's Division Jackie Harris Hochberg, President, New York Chapter

ROSENBERG--Judy R., died peacefully at home in Manhattan on Wednesday night, age 88. Philanthropist, fundraiser and visionary for many New York organizations. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a member of the Sigma Delta Tau sorority. A founder and past president of the Women's Division of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from the college's earliest planning stages in 1953. Einstein, Rockefeller University, University of Pennsylvania and the New York Public Library were among the institutions that benefited from the professorships, scholarships, curatorships and other gifts of Judy and her husband, the late Alfred A. Rosenberg. She received an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University in 1998, and served on numerous boards and councils, including those of Einstein, Rockefeller, National Council of Jewish Women, Jewish Child Care Agency of UJAFederation, Friends of Channel Thirteen and Friends of the New York Public Library. She was also a valued participant in the political campaigns of Senator Jacob K. Javits. Her large and charming collection of dolls, cherished since childhood, now resides at the Maria Fareri Hospital at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, NY. Judy was born in Brooklyn, the daughter of Abraham and Esther Rubinstein, and lived to be the much-loved matriarch of her entire extended family, for whom her passing is the end of an era. Funeral on Sunday, January 27, at 11:30am at the Riverside, 76th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that gifts be made to the Fraxa Research Foundation, 45 Pleasant St., Newburyport, MA 01950, to help their work in Fragile X syndrome in children.

ROSENBERG--Judy. We here on Earth will miss you but those in Heaven will welcome you. I will miss our late night calls. Your loving friend, Emily Fisher Landau