{"id":46775,"date":"2018-12-26T21:36:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T03:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=46775"},"modified":"2018-12-26T21:37:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T03:37:30","slug":"the-sterns-and-metairie-park-country-day-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/the-sterns-and-metairie-park-country-day-school\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sterns and Metairie Park Country Day School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I enjoyed the article on Jewish philanthropy (<strong><em>The Best of the Crescent City Jewish News SOURCE 2018-19\/5779<\/em><\/strong>). &nbsp;I would like to add that, in addition to all their other incredible donations, Edith and Edgar Stern founded Metairie Park Country Day School in 1929. &nbsp;Many important New Orleans area Jews studied at this Old Metairie institution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Regards,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Edward Halpern<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">MPCDS Class of 1982<\/p>\n<p><em>(Editor&#8217;s note: The CCJN acknowledged&nbsp;the contributions of the Sterns in the founding of MPCDS in its <strong>SOURCE 2016-17\/5777<\/strong>: &#8220;Women of Valor: New Orleans Ladies.&#8221; Although both Sterns are considered founders, Edith Stern&#8217;s leadership efforts are considered especially critical to the school&#8217;s organization.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"The%20Sterns%20and%20Metairie%20Park%20Country%20Day%20School\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[9800,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46777,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46775\/revisions\/46777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}