She also shares her feelings, as a lifelong member of BSBI, about the changes that have taken place and what she thinks the future holds for Orthodoxy in Charleston. Considering recent interviews she conducted regarding the acrimony among members of Brith Sholom Beth Israel (BSBI) and the events that led to a split in the congregation and the establishment of the Modern Orthodox synagogue Dor Tikvah, Sandra lends her view of what transpired. In 1996, Sandra began volunteering with the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina, recording interviews with South Carolina Jews for the Jewish Heritage Collection Oral History Archives. Among other topics she touches on: Raymond's family in Anderson, South Carolina Nat Shulman, JCC director from 1945 to 1972 traveling with Raymond vacationing with family on Sullivan's Island and Raymond's bar mitzvah at age seventy. She talks about being a resource teacher at Murray-LaSaine School on James Island and working with disabled children as an itinerant teacher for Charleston County. She majored in early childhood education and special education and earned a degree in six years. When her second child, Fred, was about to enter college, Sandra started taking classes at the College of Charleston. The interviewee explains the reasoning behind the decision to send Rachel to public school, while sending the other three children to Charleston Hebrew Institute (later renamed Addlestone Hebrew Academy). With household help and childcare provided by Lavinia Brown and Albertha Blake, Sandra immersed herself in volunteer work in local Jewish organizations and with the medical wives auxiliary.
Sandra and Raymond's fourth child, Elaine, was born in 1963. Sandra and interviewer Dale Rosengarten discuss how a heavily-packed public events calendar sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston was a factor in the eventual demise of the JCC and its programming. Philip Street was a focal point in her life when she was growing up in Charleston, the new JCC in the suburbs became a central meeting place after she returned with husband and children in 1960. like one big extended family." Just as the Jewish Community Center (JCC) on St. Sandra notes that Charleston's Jewish community was "pretty cohesive. One reason they chose Charleston was they wanted their children to grow up in a city where there was a significant Jewish presence. They decided to settle in Charleston, South Carolina, Sandra's hometown, and Raymond went into private practice. By the time Raymond was discharged from service, the Rosenblums were parents to Rachel, Fred, and Bruce. Navy under the Berry Plan, was in residency, and then in Great Lakes, Illinois. They lived first in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Raymond, an M.D. Date: Description: In the second of two interviews conducted on September 28, 2021, Sandra Lee Kahn Rosenblum describes how she came to marry, in 1955, Raymond Rosenblum, a native of Anderson, South Carolina.
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