New York, NY – Mayor Bloomberg’s Mother in Her 90’s Still Active In Her Shul.

New York, NY – Medford’s Temple Shalom became the right place for Charlotte Bloomberg. If Temple Shalom can be said to belong to anyone besides its congregation, it belongs to Charlotte Bloomberg. One wing even bears her name, the William and Charlotte Bloomberg Jewish Community Center, named for her and her late husband, who died when he was in his 50s.

A diminutive woman with a formidable constitution, Charlotte Bloomberg still sits on the synagogue’s board and attends its monthly meetings. In her early 90s, she shared the presidency with two other women, and “they were amazing,” recalls Charlotte Potak, the current president.

“They kept this place going for two years, when we were kind of in a transition,” she said, from hiring a new rabbi to contending with Medford’s declining Jewish population.

I just take it for granted; this is what I am,” she says of Judaism. “I don’t think of it every day.”

Faith comforted her when her husband died, she said, and it largely defined the boundaries of her social world. “Most of my friends, my close friends, are Jewish, because I met them through the temple.”

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