Frances & Floyd Horowitz
The Horowitz Fund for B’nei Mitzvah Tutoring & Music
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Frances & Floyd Horowitz
Floyd R. Horowitz (1930-2014) and Frances Degen Horowitz (1932-2021) played major roles in the Jewish community, at KU, and in Lawrence. Both, but especially Frances, were a national and international presence. They had met as youths in Long Beach, L.I., NY.
Floyd received a BA from Adelphi University and earned an MFA at Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop and a PhD in English at Iowa. He came to KU in 1961, taught in the English Department and chaired both the English Department and the Computer science Department. He served as president of the LJCC and headed the Lawrence and state ACLU. In 1991 he joined Hunter University, where he retired in 1996.
Frances Degen Horowitz graduated from Antioch College, then taught elementary school before earning her PhD from Iowa in 1959. When the Horowitzes moved to Lawrence in 1961, Frances joined the Domestic Science Department. Her research on early child development established her as a world renowned scholar and she transformed her department into the Department of Human Development and Family Life. From chair of Human Development she became an associate dean and then served as Vice Chancellor of Research and Graduate studies from 1978 to 1991, leaving KU to become President of the CUNY Graduate Center until 2005.
For 30 years, the Horowitz home at 505 Ohio hosted spirited Friday night sabbath dinners before the family attended services. Their table included a circle of regulars enhanced weekly by newcomers, Jewish visitors to Lawrence, Israelis, Horowitz students, and anyone who could use a good meal, engaging company and more Jewish knowledge. Floyd was the chef, and led the repartee and puns. And more puns, exchanged with sons Jason and Benjamin. The Horowitzes invited the entire Jewish community and others to their home on the second day of Rosh Hashanah and hosted Jewish visitors to KU. For decades Frances led a Saturday afternoon study group at 505 Ohio. Frances also initiated the adult women b’nai miztvot class and ceremony, which both resulted in her own bat mitzvah and produced a new generation of Torah readers at the Center. At the university and LJCC, she empowered women.
Frances, as a pioneering women academic and as a world-class scholar and administrator stood out as a model for integrating Judaism with other aspects of her life. She was engaged in life around her, both Jewish and the larger world. In addressing annually the graduate hooding ceremony in the spring, Frances would always provide a precept from Perkei Avot—the book of ethics—bringing Jewish learning and ethics to the occasion.
Sat, October 25 2025
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Saturday ,
OctOctober 25 , 2025Saturday Morning Services and Lubliner Bar Mitzvah (Hybrid)
Shabbat, Oct 25th 10:30a to 1:00p
Join us for Saturday Morning Services and add to the simcha of Duncan's becoming a Bar Mitzvah! -
Sunday ,
OctOctober 26 , 2025Community Mural Project: design meeting
Sunday, Oct 26th 4:00p to 6:00p
All LJCC members are invited to be a part of creating our community mural with local artist Dave Loewenstein! We'll be reviewing a design concept at this meeting. -
Sunday ,
NovNovember 2 , 202562nd Annual Blintz Brunch & Bake Sale
Sunday, Nov 2nd 10:00a to 2:00p
Join us for the 62nd Annual Blintz Brunch & Bake Sale! Back by popular demand: member-made savory blintzes and fresh-made traditional bagels...and the Silent Auction! Visit BlintzBrunch.org to place your advance orders. Bagels and bake sale goods are only available to purchase the day-of. -
Friday ,
NovNovember 7 , 2025Friday Night Services with Lara Giordano & Ari Linden (Hybrid)
Friday, Nov 7th 7:00p to 9:00p
Join us for Friday Night services. Services will be followed by a potluck oneg. Let us know in the notes section what you might bring. -
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NovNovember 15 , 2025Saturday Services with Alyssa Appelman & Jack Winerock (Hybrid)
Shabbat, Nov 15th 10:30a to 1:00p
Join us for Saturday Morning services led by Alyssa Appelman & Jack Winerock. This event will be followed by a potluck Kiddush lunch. -
Sunday ,
NovNovember 16 , 2025Board Meeting (Hybrid)
Sunday, Nov 16th 9:30a to 11:30a
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Sunday ,
NovNovember 16 , 2025
The Magic Eye: Healing, Spirit, and Community: A reading and discussion with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (Hybrid)
Sunday, Nov 16th 4:00p to 5:30p
The Magic Eye: A Story of Saving a Life & a Place in the Age of Anxiety focuses on the healing power of place and community in unfolding Caryn’s journey through a rare and dangerous eye cancer intertwined with Ken and Caryn finding a way to save the family land where they live after 35 years of effort. This memoir speaks to being part of an eco-community, human community, and especially the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation, which Caryn will read and speak about, highlighting how her story, like many of ours, is also a spiritual excursion into finding new ways to see the world and belong to a community. -
Friday ,
NovNovember 21 , 2025Nosh and Shabbat & Kiddish Limmud
Friday, Nov 21st 5:30p to 7:00p
Join us for an early family-friendly nosh and Shabbat & Kiddish Limmud ceremony to welcome the newest students to our Religious School. The LJCC will provide a main. Potluck contributions are encouraged. If possible, let us know in the notes section what you will bring. -
Friday ,
NovNovember 28 , 2025Virtual Candlelighting with Anna
Friday, Nov 28th 7:00p to 8:30p
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Friday, Dec 5th 7:00p to 9:00p
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