YSU Lipscher trust funds speaker for annual Judaism symposium

YOUNGSTOWN -- The Senator Maurice and Florence Lipscher Charitable Trust of Youngstown recently endowed $108,000 to fund the keynote speaker for the annual symposium of the Judaic and Holocaust Studies program at Youngstown State University.
The keynote speech will now be called the Sen. Maurice and Florence Lipscher Memorial Address in honor of the former six-term state senator who represented the Youngstown area in the 1940s. The $108,000 will be given in six, $18,000 annual installments.
"The six-year commitment represents one year for each of the 1 million Jewish lives lost during the Holocaust," said Bruce Sherman of Sherman Creative Productions of Youngstown, a YSU alumnus who serves on the trust's distribution committee. "The number 18 in the $18,000 symbolically represents the Hebrew word Chai, which translates to mean 'life.'"
Author John Loftus, former U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, will deliver the first Maurice Lipscher Memorial Address in April. Loftus has written books about Nazis and anti-Semitism and has investigated CIA cases and Nazi war criminal cases for the U.S. attorney general.
In addition to the $108,000 gift, 10 $1,000 scholarships for YSU students have been funded by the Lipscher Charitable Trust.