ROSLYN WIENER

Roslyn Wiener, born January 7, 1939, is granddaughter of the founder of Joyva, the chocolate and confectionery manufacturer started in 1907 when her grandfather Nathan Radutzky began producing sesame-based halvah and selling it on pushcarts on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. In the late 1920s, he built a factory in Brooklyn and expanded to include a variety of sesame, marshmallow and jelly-based kosher parve candies. Initially called Independent Halvah & Candies, in the 1950s the company was renamed Joyva—merging the patriarch’s granddaughter’s name, Roslyn Joy, with halvah. The company is still family owned and is operated by cousins and descendants of the founders, Richard Radutzky and Roz’s son, Sandy Wiener. She joined the temple in the early 1970s and was very involved for more than four decades, serving as cochair of The Black-Jewish Dialogue between Mt. Olive Baptist Church and Temple Beth-El for 20 years. Her memorial service was held at TBE on July 28, 2014.