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  • In November 1911, a group of Jewish women convened under the auspices of the New York Jewish Protectory and Aid Society, an organization that had been founded in 1902 to address the problem of Jewish juvenile delinquency.

    Cedar Knolls School for Girls. 2009

  • Other women connected with CK became involved with the Lakeview Home for Unmarried Mothers, a project of the Jewish Protectory and Aid Society with the cooperation of the National Council of Jewish Women.

    Cedar Knolls School for Girls. 2009

  • Jewish Protectory and Aid Society (1919 – 1920); Cohen, Steven M., and Paula E. Hyman, eds.

    Modern Jewish Family in the United States. 2009

  • Cleveland in connection with his veto of the appropriation, which was made in 1883, to the Roman Catholic Protectory of the City of New York.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 4, January, 1885 Various

  • The Protectory, he says, "appears to be local in its purposes and operations."

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 4, January, 1885 Various

  • As the money, appropriated to the Roman Catholic Protectory, was unquestionably money of the State, "being raised by general taxation throughout the State," that appropriation was unquestionably in conflict with the prohibition of the Constitution, which the Governor was sworn to support.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 4, January, 1885 Various

  • Sellers gives girls work in his restaurant who could by no possibility offer proper references, girls from the Protectory, from homes, as they are called; some, even, who have served jail sentences.

    Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod James A. Cooper 1917

  • During that time also the Roman Catholic High School for Boys, which was endowed by Mr. Thomas Cahill, was built, and put in operation; high school centres for girls taught by the different communities were established; a new central high school for girls was partly endowed and begun; St. Francis 'Industrial School for Boys was endowed and successfully operated, the Philadelphia Protectory for

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Protectory to Arlington and established the Sacred Heart Union to aid in its maintenance.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • The sturdy fight that had to be made against the raids on poor and neglected Catholic children in the public institutions was mainly through its members, and out of their efforts, in great measure, also grew the great Catholic Protectory, the Mission of the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

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