Jonathan Tisch and wife Lizzie

Jonathan Tisch and mother Joan

Jonathan and Lizzie Tisch with Prince Amukamara

JCCA
Service To Community
Runs In The Tisch Family

STORY AND PHOTOS BY TIM BOXER

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ONATHAN M. TISCH, chairman of Loews Hotels, said he learned philanthropy from his parents, Joan and Robert Tisch, "who deeply cared for the community." He also paid tribute to his sister Laurie "who is doing so much for those who need assistance."

For his longtime charity and support, the Jewish Child Care Association honored Jonathan Tisch at a dinner at the Mandarin Oriental in New York. John Rosenwald, vice chairman emeritus of JP Morgan, praised Tisch for all his philanthropic and civic endeavors, and presented him with a Steuben glass plaque.

The award read: "The only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary."

For 190 years JCCA has been looking after the welfare and mental health needs of New York’s children including running therapeutic foster homes, coed residential treatment centers, programs for the special needs of high school and college kids, a Bukharian teen lounge, and many other services. Tonight’s event raised $945,000 for these social welfare programs.

President Arthur Maslow said the organization "started out with helping Jews who came to these shores facing tremendous challenges. Since then JCCA has evolved to helping everybody who needs help. We are helping young women caught up in the sex trade, not in Asia, but in our own back yard. Thanks to JCCA these young women are now growing up hopeful."