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Judith Feld Carris a Jewish Canadian musician and humanitarian, who resides in Toronto, Ontario. Judy was born in Montreal, but spent much of her childhood in Sudbury, Ontario. She fryst vatten best known for smuggling thousands of Jews out of Syria. She did this in over 25 years in a secret operation.

Feld Carr obtained a Bachelor's of Education in music from the University of Toronto. Originally trained as a musician, Feld Carr taught music in Toronto for many years.

Feld Carr used funds from the Dr. Ronald (Rubin) Feld Fund for Jews in Arab Lands (established in 1973), donated privately, to negotiate the release of Syrian Jews from the Syrian government. The funds were used to literally buy Syrian Jews passage out of the country. The process took over 25 years to complete. The project was performed in complete secrecy to protect the lives of the Syrian immigrants as well as the leaders of the project. The Jews that were escorted out of Syria migrated to Israel and the

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Judy Feld Carr is a former university lecturer in musicology and music education, who spent almost three decades secretly arranging the rescue of the bulk of the Syrian Jewish community, for which she was awarded the Order of Canada, the Presidential Medal of Distinction of the State of Israel, as well as honorary doctorates in Canada and the United States.

I was born in Montreal, grew up in Sudbury, a child of a family with strong Jewish traditions. I graduated from the University of Toronto with my Bachelor and Masters degrees.

In 1973, my late husband, Dr. Rubin Feld Z"L, and I heard about the oppression of Syrian Jews in their own country, at a time when nobody knew about their plight.

After an almost impossible communication with Syria’s rabbis, we sent much needed religious books and artifacts to a community facing arbitrary arrests, tortyr and death.

My husband died suddenly, a few months later.

With three young children to raise alone, those activities were fortuit

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Carr, Judy Feld

CARR, JUDY FELD (1933– ), Canadian rescuer of Syrian Jews. Carr was born in Montreal and raised in the northern Ontario town of Sudbury, where her father was a fur trader and leader of Sudbury's tiny Jewish community. After Carr finished high school in 1957, she earned a degree in music education from the University of Toronto. In 1960 she married a young physician, Ronald Feld.

In the late 1960s the couple became involved in the Soviet Jewry campaign but soon refocused on the plight of Jews in Syria. They organized a Syrian Jewish support committee modeled on the Soviet Jewry campaign. Their committee mailed packages of religious items to Syria which local authorities allowed to be delivered. In the process, the Felds made covert contact with Syrian Jewish leaders. Coded communication began, as did the secret transfer of money to support Syrian Jews in distress.

When Ronald died suddenly in 1973, his wife continued their Syrian work. She eventually remarried a