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presented by<br />

6 events to choose from<br />

in <strong>January</strong>, featuring >><br />

See section B for complete details<br />

Celebrating Jewish Life in Collier County, Israel and the World<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

Published by the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County<br />

serving Naples, Marco Island and the surrounding communities<br />

www.JewishNaples.org <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> - Tevet/Shevat 5777 Vol. 26 #5<br />

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:<br />

6A Men’s Cultural Alliance<br />

10A Women’s Cultural Alliance<br />

12A Community Focus<br />

16A Donor Appreciation List<br />

19A Tributes<br />

20A Jewish Interest<br />

25A Israel & the Jewish World<br />

26A Commentary<br />

27A Focus on Youth<br />

28A Synagogues<br />

29A Organizations<br />

30A Community Calendar<br />

31A Community Directory<br />

1B Arts & Culture<br />

7B Jewish Book Festival<br />

Tovah Feldshuh is an American<br />

actress, singer, and playwright.<br />

She has become best known for<br />

her role as Deanna Monroe on<br />

AMC’s television adaptation of<br />

The Walking Dead. A Broadway<br />

star for more than four decades,<br />

she has earned four Tony Award<br />

nominations. Her Broadway credits<br />

include Sarava, Yentl, Lend<br />

Me a Tenor, and Golda’s Balcony.<br />

She has also received two Emmy<br />

Award nominations for her performance<br />

as Helena Slonova in the mini-series Holocaust and<br />

for her recurring role as defense attorney Danielle Melnick on<br />

Law & Order. In addition, she has appeared in such films as A<br />

Walk on the Moon, She’s Funny That Way, and Kissing Jessica<br />

Stein. Currently she portrays Naomi Bunch, an overbearing<br />

Jewish mother, on CW’s television series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.<br />

4A<br />

BBYO Naples celebrates<br />

5 th anniversary<br />

5A<br />

<strong>Federation</strong>’s Super Sunday<br />

Phone-a-Thon<br />

10A<br />

WCA’s Annual<br />

Welcome Back Luncheon<br />

19A<br />

Naples welcomes<br />

IDF Musical Ensemble<br />

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2A <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

Renee’s community<br />

program & events corner<br />

Renee’<br />

Bialek<br />

Community<br />

Program<br />

Coordinator<br />

Please join us on Sunday, <strong>January</strong><br />

8 for an enlightening movie about<br />

Israel. Mr. Gabriel Baredes, Director<br />

of Hispanic and Interfaith Affairs,<br />

will be speaking at this event. Please see<br />

the advertisement in this issue on how<br />

to make a reservation.<br />

On Monday, <strong>January</strong> 16 we need<br />

walkers for the MLK Jr. parade. Please<br />

join us in this parade starting at 10:00<br />

a.m. and help us out at our booth from<br />

11:00 a.m. to 3:00 pm. If you can’t volunteer,<br />

then please stop by our booth<br />

and say hello. This event is free. Please<br />

email me at rbialek@jewishnaples.org<br />

to let me know you can join us.<br />

Thank you to all <strong>Federation</strong> members<br />

who emailed me reservations to<br />

the Evy Lipp People of the Book Cultural<br />

Event. A waiting list has begun.<br />

Please honor your reservation. If you<br />

are unable to attend, let me know so<br />

that your seat can be given to someone<br />

else. Tickets will be mailed in early<br />

February.<br />

Deadline for Youth Leadership<br />

Award application extended<br />

Application deadline is now Monday, <strong>January</strong> 9<br />

The Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier<br />

County Youth Leadership<br />

Awards will be given to honor<br />

the achievements of Greater Collier<br />

County high school seniors demonstrating<br />

leadership in their activities at their<br />

respective congregation and/or BBYO<br />

youth group. They will be recognized<br />

for their successful balancing of Jewish<br />

leadership, high school academics, athletics<br />

and clubs, and community service.<br />

A one-time award of $2,000 each<br />

will be given to two deserving seniors.<br />

This scholarship will be used to further<br />

their education at an accredited college,<br />

university or vocational school.<br />

Applicant qualifications:<br />

Jewish youth in their senior year of<br />

high school<br />

Residents of the Greater Collier<br />

County Area (Naples, Marco Island,<br />

Bonita Springs, Estero)<br />

Actively involved in respective<br />

congregation and/or BBYO youth<br />

group<br />

Strong academic record<br />

Leadership in both high school and<br />

Jewish related activities<br />

Application forms may be picked up<br />

at the <strong>Federation</strong> office or downloaded<br />

at www.jewishnaples.org/scholarships.<br />

All scholarship application data<br />

is strictly confidential and will be reviewed<br />

without any identifying information<br />

using established selection criteria.<br />

All applications are due by Monday,<br />

<strong>January</strong> 9. The award recipients will<br />

be notified by February 1, <strong>2017</strong>. Both<br />

award recipients will be required to be<br />

present at the annual Power of Community<br />

Celebration dinner on Saturday,<br />

February 11 at The Ritz-Carlton Golf<br />

Resort, Naples.<br />

Senior Housing Solutions presents the<br />

Alvin<br />

Becker<br />

<strong>Federation</strong><br />

Board Chair<br />

JEWISH FEDERATION<br />

Here’s a resolution<br />

you can make…and keep<br />

A<br />

number of local organizations<br />

promote Jewish continuity by<br />

providing a Jewish education<br />

and experience for our young people.<br />

Other groups seek to keep Israel safe,<br />

strong and prosperous. Still others support<br />

Jewish practices and perspectives<br />

that enrich our lives and draw us closer<br />

to family, friends and community. Other<br />

organizations seek to support the most<br />

vulnerable people in our community –<br />

children and the aged and those suffering<br />

humanitarian emergencies. Finally,<br />

some promote advocacy to ensure that<br />

our voices are a prominent force in<br />

policy decisions.<br />

But ONLY the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of<br />

Collier County includes ALL of these<br />

priorities in its work as an important<br />

force in our community – creating,<br />

building, supporting and strengthening<br />

much needed groups here and abroad.<br />

On page 15B in this issue is a list<br />

of those organizations and programs<br />

that were supported, in part or in whole,<br />

by <strong>Federation</strong> dollars last year. I am<br />

confident that you will find one or more<br />

groups or programs that strike a responsive<br />

chord in your supportive thoughts.<br />

Note that the list is long, but so are<br />

the needs – and those needs are immediate<br />

and continue to grow. Don’t wait<br />

to make a contribution to the Jewish<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County until later<br />

in <strong>2017</strong>. The beginning of the year is a<br />

wonderful time to be part of a caring<br />

community that gives back.<br />

Donate now. Volunteer now. Resolve<br />

to make a difference now. You’ll<br />

have the whole year to feel good about<br />

what you’ve done.<br />

Happy New Year!<br />

Cardozo Legal Society<br />

The Cardozo Legal Society is off<br />

to a great new start. We had a<br />

great showing at the November<br />

Cardozo Torah Study led by Rabbi<br />

Fishel Zaklos, and the December Meet<br />

and Greet at Paradise Wine.<br />

Cardozo Torah Study<br />

Our second Cardozo Torah Study meeting<br />

will be held on Thursday, <strong>January</strong><br />

19 at noon at Porter Wright offices in<br />

Mercato. Again, we will ask that each<br />

participant bring $10 for lunch. A kosher<br />

dairy lunch will be brought by Rabbi<br />

Fishel. RSVP by <strong>January</strong> 12 to Joshua<br />

Bialek at jbialek@porterwright.com.<br />

Mark your calendar for future Cardozo<br />

Torah Study meetings (all dates<br />

are Thursdays): February 16 (Rabbi<br />

Chorny), March 16 (Rabbi Chorny),<br />

April 20 (Rabbi Perman), May 18<br />

(Rabbi Miller).<br />

Evy Lipp People of the Book<br />

Cultural Event<br />

Author Scott Turow will be speaking<br />

at Temple Shalom on Wednesday, February<br />

15 at 7:30 p.m. This is a Jewish<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County event. The<br />

Cardozo Legal Society will meet for<br />

dinner before going to hear him speak.<br />

Please email jbialek@porterwright.<br />

com to make your dinner reservations.<br />

Tickets to the event are sold out. Please<br />

email rbialek@jewishnaples.org to be<br />

added to the wait list.<br />

The Cardozo Society is an affinity<br />

group composed of Jewish members of<br />

the legal community. Cardozo Society<br />

events are open to active and retired<br />

attorneys and judges. For more information,<br />

contact Joshua Bialek at jbialek@<br />

porterwright.com.<br />

Rabbi Fishel Zaklos leads the November Cardozo Torah Study<br />

SENIOR HOUSING<br />

BUS TOUR<br />

February 8, <strong>2017</strong><br />

8:00am – 4:30pm<br />

Join us for a fun-filled, educational, ‘no-obligation’ day of<br />

guided senior community visits, chef-prepared meals,<br />

and a senior-related showcase event hosted by<br />

senior housing expert Bruce Rosenblatt<br />

Featured communities will be:<br />

Inspired Living<br />

Sandalwood Village<br />

Arbor Trace<br />

Pickup/dropoff at Riverchase Publix, 11200 Tamiami Trail N<br />

Advance registration is required<br />

Only<br />

$25.00<br />

per person!<br />

Call 239-595-0207<br />

to reserve your seat<br />

Mail check to: Senior Housing Solutions<br />

28518 Azzilli Way, Bonita Springs, FL 34135<br />

or register online at “events”<br />

www.seniorhousingsolutions.net<br />

Seating<br />

is limited.<br />

Reserve<br />

today!<br />

PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS<br />

THEY HELP MAKE THE<br />

FEDERATION STAR POSSIBLE<br />

This month’s advertisers<br />

This publication is brought to you each month thanks to the support<br />

of our advertisers. Please be sure to use their products and services,<br />

and mention that you saw their ad in the <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong>.<br />

Alpha Epsilon Phi Alumnae..4B<br />

Barsky Team, Realtors ® .......15A<br />

Bradford Square....................1B<br />

CallSaul-YourPersonalDriver.23A<br />

Center for the Arts Bonita......5B<br />

City Mattress.......................24A<br />

Chellie Doepke, Realtor ® ....13A<br />

Delta Home Cleaning..........18A<br />

Entertainment Direct...........25A<br />

Margot Escott, LCSW.........15A<br />

Rena Essrog, MSS, LCSW....9A<br />

Estero Fine Art Show............3A<br />

FGCU..................................4B<br />

Helayne Frankel, Realtor ® .....2B<br />

Fuller Funeral Home...........14A<br />

GlenCare.............................15A<br />

Gulfshore Playhouse.............3B<br />

Stacy Hersha, CPA..............23A<br />

Hilton Naples......................21A<br />

Hodges Funeral Home........18A<br />

Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Sarasota.2B<br />

Jewish Museum of FL-FIU...3B<br />

JNF.....................................11A<br />

A. Stephen Kotler, Attorney.23A<br />

Dr. Gary Layton, DDS...........9A<br />

LTCi Marketplace...............23A<br />

Mattis Inc............................23A<br />

Miromar Outlets....................4A<br />

Naples Envelope & Printing.23A<br />

Naples Jewish Cong............13A<br />

Naples Jewish Film Festival..6B<br />

Palm Royale Cemetery..........6A<br />

Parkinson Association.........12A<br />

Preferred Travel....................7A<br />

Senior Housing Solutions.2A,14A<br />

Temple Shalom......20A,4B,16B<br />

Truly Nolen.........................13A<br />

U.S. Bank............................32A<br />

ZOA...................................22A<br />

Debbie Zvibleman, Realtor ® .25A


JEWISH FEDERATION<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

An up-close and personal interview with Tovah Feldshuh<br />

Six-time Tony & Emmy-nominated Tovah Feldshuh will be performing her concert, Tovah: Out of Her Mind!,<br />

at the Power of Community Celebration on Saturday, February 11 at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples.<br />

By Evelyn Hecht<br />

Evelyn: The Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> little sister Laurie was my best friend at What is your belief system?<br />

of Collier County is fortunate NMC. I would visit her in Washington, I am a naturalist by belief, which<br />

to have you coming to Naples D.C., and her older brother was “always Judaism allows. In the last third of my<br />

to be the guest entertainer for its <strong>2017</strong><br />

Power of Community Celebration.<br />

What’s the connection?<br />

Tovah: Malcolm Thomson, who<br />

was my Hebrew School teacher at<br />

Temple Israel Center when I was a child,<br />

has remained one of my greatest friends.<br />

It was he who suggested to Jeffrey Feld<br />

that I come to Naples. I am very much<br />

looking forward to the concert.<br />

I have had the honor of doing<br />

fundraising for Jewish charities here<br />

and abroad for 40 years. I was asked to<br />

become part of the Professional Speakers<br />

Bureau for the UJA<br />

many years ago, and<br />

now I also fundraise<br />

for international charities<br />

such as Seeds of<br />

Peace. The show I<br />

will be performing in<br />

Naples, Tovah: Out of<br />

Her Mind!, was created<br />

for just this kind of<br />

event, where funds are<br />

being raised to support<br />

missing” – at prep school, then Harvard<br />

and then Harvard Law School. But on<br />

February 16, 1976, he came backstage<br />

after he saw a matinee of Yentl, and he<br />

took my breath away. One year later, we<br />

were married, and that’s 40 years ago.<br />

Visiting his family totally felt like<br />

a warm bath. He was a young man with<br />

whom I had “cellular coincidence.”<br />

His mother was a pianist, my mother<br />

was a pianist and I was a pianist – so<br />

Andy and I happened to be brought up<br />

with the same music. How effortlessly<br />

wonderful. My father went to Harvard,<br />

Andrew’s father went to<br />

Harvard and so did Andy,<br />

and all three were lawyers.<br />

We were blessed with a lot<br />

of common ground, which<br />

has made our long-lasting<br />

relationship flow.<br />

Has there been someone<br />

in theatre that you<br />

admire as a role model?<br />

Uta Hagen, my superb<br />

first professional acting<br />

life, I believe I have the knowledge and<br />

wisdom to be very respectful of nature.<br />

I am very alert, and I listen to what the<br />

ocean in which I swim or the hills on<br />

which I ski are telling me. I am very<br />

respectful of nature. I am not a literal<br />

believer in G-d, but I love nature and<br />

feel the presence of forces stronger than<br />

myself.<br />

I know you are very proud of your<br />

children.<br />

Yes, I am a very satisfied mother. I<br />

have a married daughter and a son.<br />

How will you be as a grandmother?<br />

I will be the grandmother who will<br />

be able to take her grandchildren to the<br />

soccer field, train them to ride a horse,<br />

teach them to fully participate in their<br />

beautiful lives and show them the value<br />

of DEAR time: Drop Everything And<br />

Read!<br />

I imagine I will not be baking<br />

cookies for my grandchildren. I do not<br />

believe in sugar. When I have sugar, my<br />

the community.<br />

Given that you<br />

Tovah Feldshuh<br />

are riding your bike on your way to<br />

the swimming pool in Manhattan<br />

as we speak, are you always so high<br />

energy? You have been described as<br />

“indefatigable.” Does this apply to<br />

every aspect of your life?<br />

Well, I believe in LWL – “live while<br />

living.” The truth is, we never know<br />

when this journey is going to end, so I<br />

say live every day to its fullest.<br />

You have had some exciting<br />

adventures over and above your theatrical<br />

career. Recently, you climbed<br />

Mount Kilimanjaro, the Ice Glaciers<br />

in Iceland, and Wayna Picchu to look<br />

down upon the spectacular ruins of<br />

Machu Picchu in Peru, among others.<br />

What’s next?<br />

I want to see as much of the world<br />

as I can before I leave this earth, and I<br />

want to see it while I still have my athletic<br />

faculties and mental acuity. I hope<br />

to live to 104. My mother lived until<br />

over 103, and walked until the end – no<br />

wheelchair. I want to take advantage of<br />

my time on this earth, so my current<br />

bucket list is Mongolia and Siberia in<br />

one trip, and then Borneo and New<br />

Guinea in another.<br />

Can you describe yourself in one<br />

sentence?<br />

I continue to follow the advice of<br />

my grandmother Ada. To reach for the<br />

stars, for if you reach for the stars, you<br />

may land on the roof. Reach for the roof,<br />

you never get off the ground.<br />

What or who have been the strongest<br />

influences in your life choices?<br />

I would say my parents. My father<br />

Sidney taught me the value of courage<br />

and fortitude. Dad was an avid horseman<br />

and trained me to ride. One summer<br />

as we were leaving the stable, my horse<br />

bucked me (and my white summer hacking<br />

jacket) into a pile of horse manure.<br />

My father yelled to me, “Terri Sue, Terri<br />

Sue (my birth name), are you alright?”<br />

I said “Yes, Daddy but I’m covered<br />

in horse $&!#.”<br />

Dad replied, “Everybody is, get<br />

back on your horse.”<br />

That wise answer has stayed with<br />

me all my life.<br />

My mother was an incredibly wise<br />

and practical woman. She showed me<br />

through her example what it means to<br />

have good common sense. She used to<br />

say, “If you are serious about a man,<br />

run, don’t walk to his house to meet his<br />

parents. If it doesn’t feel like a warm<br />

bath, it’s a red flag.” Fortunately, I knew<br />

my husband’s family since I was 13 and<br />

a classical pianist at the National Music<br />

Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. Andy’s<br />

teacher was a beacon in my<br />

life. I never saw her tear<br />

apart or even criticize a student. Rather,<br />

she would redirect them. Uta taught me<br />

not only how to act, but how to teach.<br />

I coached soccer for five years as my<br />

father and brother did before me. I try<br />

never to criticize the player but rather to<br />

redirect them. To me, blame is the lowest<br />

form of consciousness. I sometimes<br />

teach “The Actor’s Approach to a Song”<br />

at Yale and I always redirect and refocus<br />

my students when needed. If something<br />

goes awry, I say, “That’s an interesting<br />

choice. Can we also try this now?”<br />

You have played so many women.<br />

Is there one character that is your<br />

favorite?<br />

Each role is like a different child.<br />

I love them all, and playing them affords<br />

me the opportunity to do what I<br />

was meant to do in this life. Like any<br />

artist, some roles I have played have<br />

been more successful than others, but<br />

each was an enriching experience. I<br />

have been fortunate to continue to work<br />

in film, television and on stage. I have<br />

played roles from Juliet, to Golda Meir<br />

to three Queens of Henry VIII. I have<br />

several one-woman shows which I<br />

continue to develop and perform. These<br />

shows give me great artistic freedom.<br />

I am currently working on a new act<br />

called Aging is Optional: ’cause God<br />

I Hope it is!. I do believe that aging is<br />

optional and there are ways to remain<br />

young long past your prime.<br />

I still want to stay in the artistic<br />

arena, and explore male as well as female<br />

parts in this age of gender bending.<br />

My brother, Dr. David Feldshuh, has<br />

written a new play in which I would play<br />

a man, a boxing manager of the great<br />

German prize fighter, Max Schmeling.<br />

Collaborating with my brother to make<br />

this part sing would be a joy.<br />

Your character on The Walking<br />

Dead, Deanna Monroe, has died. How<br />

did you react?<br />

Everyone comes on The Walking<br />

Dead to die. That is the nature of the<br />

show from your first day on the set. For<br />

me, finishing this part was difficult. No<br />

one wants to lose a great job. My death<br />

on screen compelled me to explore what<br />

it really means to die, what it feels like<br />

to be dying, and how the body knows<br />

when it’s time. The Walking Dead was<br />

a joy to be part of.<br />

Are you still filming Crazy Ex-<br />

Girlfriend?<br />

Yes. I am doing the season finale<br />

this week. It is a joyous, crazy role and<br />

I get to sing and dance, which is lots of<br />

fun. I love doing it and it’s a wonderful<br />

piece.<br />

3A<br />

joints hurt. I feel the United States is a<br />

pre-diabetic population and suffers from<br />

an obsession with food. I am definitely<br />

a foodie, addicted to the pleasure of<br />

eating, which is why it’s so important<br />

that I keep exercising…not just to stay<br />

trim but to stay healthy. They say “a lean<br />

horse runs a long race.”<br />

You have traveled to so many<br />

Jewish communities to perform<br />

throughout the world. Have you noticed<br />

any similarities?<br />

Yes. They are very generous, and<br />

the more isolated they are, the more their<br />

pocketbooks are open.<br />

I love everybody. I hope for Middle<br />

East peace. It’s a difficult situation now,<br />

but I try my best, one hug at a time, and<br />

I won’t give up.<br />

Evelyn Hecht has been involved in the<br />

Jewish community of Winnipeg, Canada,<br />

as a professional and as a volunteer<br />

for over 50 years. She was delighted to<br />

fi nd such a vibrant Jewish community<br />

in Naples, where she and her husband<br />

Larry have been happily wintering for<br />

more than 10 years.<br />

19th Bi-Annual HotWorks.org<br />

Estero Fine Art Show <br />

<strong>January</strong> 7 & 8, <strong>2017</strong><br />

At Miromar Design Center<br />

HotWorks.org<br />

Ronnie Phillips, Mixed Media<br />

Voted top 100 Art Shows in America<br />

Up to 175 Juried Artists<br />

Miromar Design Center ~ I-75 & Exit #123/Corkscrew Road<br />

Saturday & Sunday, 10am-5pm ~ $5 donation<br />

Kids! Enter your original art for a chance to win a prize<br />

with the Youth Art Competition, grades K-8<br />

See Art, Love Art, Buy Art!


4A <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

BBYO Naples celebrates 5 th anniversary<br />

By Marc Saperstein, Co-chair BBYO Naples<br />

It’s hard to believe that it’s been five<br />

years since our Negev AZA (boys)<br />

and Sababa BBG (girls) chapters<br />

were officially sanctioned by BBYO<br />

International. On Sunday, December<br />

11, over 75 teens, parents, alumni and<br />

community leaders participated in our<br />

special 5 Year Anniversary Celebration<br />

event at Temple Shalom.<br />

Attendees heard the “State of their<br />

Chapter” from Samantha Front and Eli<br />

Melnick, the current BBG and AZA<br />

presidents, and watched the installation<br />

of the new teen boards. They got<br />

an update on BBYO globally from<br />

Gary Levin, BBYO VP of Community<br />

Engagement. Most importantly, they<br />

saw the induction into the newly announced<br />

BBYO Naples Leadership<br />

Hall of Fame of Ben Klausner, Taylor<br />

Bollt and Zoe Van Slyke. These three<br />

exceptional leaders were instrumental in<br />

building their AZA or BBG chapter and<br />

the North Florida Region (NFR) before<br />

they graduated high school and headed<br />

off to college.<br />

BBYO Naples is supported by our<br />

partners, the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier<br />

County, Temple Shalom, Chabad<br />

of Naples, and Beth Tikvah. We have<br />

grown from 24 high school teen members<br />

that first year, to almost 50 last year.<br />

While that is tremendous growth, it only<br />

tells part of this incredible success story.<br />

That first year, our teens did not<br />

know anything about BBYO Jewish<br />

programing, community service initiatives<br />

like J-serve, following AZA/BBG<br />

traditions, or feel a strong connection to<br />

Israel. But they do now!<br />

Our teens have regular Thursday<br />

night programming which includes<br />

Jewish heritage and/or holiday celebrations,<br />

social advocacy programs, chapter<br />

business or a coed social evening. On<br />

weekends, you’ll find our teens doing<br />

community service like cleaning up<br />

Naples beaches or helping collect food<br />

for those in need; leading a special<br />

BBYO Naples Shabbat; attending a city<br />

or regional convention; or going bowling<br />

while watching the recent elections.<br />

We have had numerous Naples teen<br />

leaders elected to the NFR board, reflecting<br />

the strength of our program and our<br />

teens’ leadership capabilities. In fact, the<br />

current AZA Godol or President of the<br />

North Florida Region is Jason Randall,<br />

a Naples senior. Naples AZA and BBG<br />

teens have increasingly attended NFR<br />

and international conventions or gone<br />

to BBYO summer programs to learn<br />

how to effectively lead their chapter, do<br />

community service or take a course in<br />

Jewish studies.<br />

Our BBYO high school teens work<br />

with Jewish students in grades 6-8 so<br />

they know there is an exciting next step<br />

on their Jewish journey after their Bar<br />

or Bat Mitzvah. Over these five years,<br />

we have reached more than 80 middle<br />

school teens in an effort to keep them<br />

engaged in Judaism and socializing<br />

with their peers. We’ve also had more<br />

than 100 high school teen members during<br />

our first five years serving Collier<br />

County Jewish teens.<br />

I mentioned in closing our celebration<br />

event that…<br />

“In a world where anti-Semitism<br />

is raising its ugly head in many places<br />

including right here in Naples; where<br />

the realities of intermarriage and simple<br />

demographics are impacting our numbers;<br />

and where many teens and their<br />

parents see their Bar or Bat Mitzvah (if<br />

JEWISH FEDERATION<br />

Marc Saperstein and Bobbie Katz address the audience at the celebration (photos courtesy Ted Epstein)<br />

they even have one), as the end of their<br />

Jewish experience, BBYO provides a<br />

meaningful, values-based, safe, accepting<br />

and fun opportunity.“<br />

For those who care about Jewish<br />

continuity, BBYO is a positive bridge to<br />

help our Collier County teens continue<br />

to appreciate their Judaism, help them<br />

make the world a better place through<br />

community service and social advocacy,<br />

and teach invaluable leadership skills<br />

because we are teen-led.<br />

If you would like to donate to<br />

BBYO Naples, please send a check to<br />

BBYO Naples, c/o Skylar Haas, 2500<br />

Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 2201, Naples,<br />

FL 34109 or go to BBYO.org and<br />

designate your gift to BBYO Naples.<br />

Naples BBYO members at the celebration surround the special cake marking the 5-year anniversary<br />

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Gary Levin, Whitney Levy, Bobbie Katz, Skylar Haas, Marc Saperstein, Arnold Klinsky<br />

Jewish Historical Society of Southwest Florida<br />

invites you to celebrate Florida Jewish History Month<br />

Monday, <strong>January</strong> 16 at 5:00 p.m.<br />

Paragon Pavilion Theaters<br />

Pavilion Shopping Center ~ Vanderbilt Beach Road & US41<br />

Stuart Kaye:<br />

A Mensch For All Reasons<br />

Stuart Kaye is a notable Collier County<br />

developer and one of the contemporary visionaries<br />

of the Collier County Jewish community<br />

who has made Naples his home since 1981.<br />

He has quite a story to share.<br />

To purchase tickets, please email office@jhsswf.org<br />

Israel Advocacy Committee<br />

or leave Israel a message Advocacy at 239.566.1771.<br />

of the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier<br />

Committee<br />

County<br />

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239-263-4205 or email Renee’ at rbialek@jewishnaples.org.<br />

Please thank our co-sponsors:


JEWISH FEDERATION<br />

Published by<br />

2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road,<br />

Suite 2201<br />

Naples, Florida 34109-0613<br />

Phone: (239) 263-4205<br />

Fax: (239) 263-3813<br />

www.jewishnaples.org<br />

Email: info@jewishnaples.org<br />

Officers<br />

Board Chair: Alvin Becker<br />

Vice Chair: Kevin Aizenshtat<br />

Vice Chair: Jane Schiff<br />

Vice Chair: Phyllis Seaman<br />

Secretary: Wallie Lenchner<br />

Treasurer: Jerry Sobelman<br />

Immed. Past Chair:<br />

Judge Norman Krivosha<br />

Board of Directors<br />

Joshua Bialek<br />

Rosalee Bogo<br />

David Braverman<br />

Harvey Brenner<br />

Dan Carp<br />

Stephen Coleman<br />

Karen Deutsch<br />

Dr. Ed Ezrine<br />

Michael Feldman<br />

Alan Gordon<br />

Neil Heuer<br />

James Knafo<br />

Joel Pittelman<br />

Marc Saperstein<br />

Betty Schwartz<br />

Arlene Sobol<br />

Michael Sobol<br />

Steve Strome<br />

Dr. Daniel Wasserman<br />

Beth Wolff<br />

Edward Wollman<br />

Past Presidents<br />

Gerald Flagel, Dr. William Ettinger,<br />

Ann Jacobson, Sheldon <strong>Star</strong>man,<br />

Bobbie Katz, Rosalee Bogo<br />

Board Members Emeritus<br />

Hans Levy<br />

Shirley Levy<br />

Synagogue Representatives<br />

Cantor Donna Azu<br />

Sue Baum<br />

Rabbi Ammos Chorny<br />

Rabbi Mark Gross<br />

Phil Jason<br />

Rabbi Adam Miller<br />

Suzanne Paley<br />

Rabbi James Perman<br />

Dr. Arthur Seigel<br />

Rabbi Sylvin Wolf<br />

Rabbi Fishel Zaklos<br />

Debbie Zvibleman<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> President/CEO<br />

Jeffrey Feld<br />

Staff<br />

Renee’ Bialek, Community Prog. Coord.<br />

Julie Hartline, Donor Relations Coord.<br />

Stacy Hersha, Business Oper. Mgr.<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> is the central Jewish<br />

community-building organization for<br />

Collier County, providing a social<br />

service network that helps Jewish<br />

people in Collier County, in Israel<br />

and around the world. As the central<br />

fundraising organization for Jewish<br />

communal life in our area, strength<br />

is drawn from organized committees<br />

of dedicated volunteers.<br />

Programs include:<br />

• Annual Campaign &<br />

Endowment fund<br />

• Educational & cultural programs<br />

• Israel Advocacy Committee<br />

• Israel Scouts<br />

• Jewish Book Festival<br />

• Jewish Community Relations<br />

Council<br />

• Jewish Russian-American Cultural<br />

Alliance<br />

• Men’s Cultural Alliance<br />

• Publication of the <strong>Federation</strong><br />

<strong>Star</strong>, Connections and<br />

Community Directory<br />

• Strategic Planning<br />

• Women’s Cultural Alliance<br />

• Women’s Division<br />

• Youth Activities Committee –<br />

sponsoring youth education and<br />

scholarships for Jewish Summer<br />

Camp and the Israel Experience<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

Super Sunday Phone-a-Thon<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> held a Super Sunday<br />

Phone-a-Thon on December 4.<br />

This event was supported by<br />

Hotwire Communications through the<br />

efforts of Carl Lender, Adam Lender<br />

and Scott Roberts. The telephones<br />

used were courtesy of our friends at the<br />

South Palm Beach County Jewish <strong>Federation</strong>.<br />

About 20 volunteers from the community<br />

spent four hours making calls<br />

to our constituency to help increase the<br />

Volunteers call community members on Super Sunday<br />

total that we have successfully raised<br />

thus far in this campaign year. There<br />

were also a dozen volunteers working<br />

remotely.<br />

Super Sunday was a success that we<br />

hope to continue to build on. We were<br />

able to meet an anonymous $10,000<br />

CATHOLIC-JEWISH DIALOGUE<br />

OF COLLIER COUNTY<br />

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR<br />

THE 2016-<strong>2017</strong> SEASON<br />

Theme: Building Bridges<br />

5A<br />

matching challenge grant from one of<br />

our major donor couples in less than<br />

one week due to this event.<br />

WE THANK EVERYONE FOR<br />

THEIR SUPPORT IN HELPING TO<br />

ACHIEVE OUR $1.1MILLION GOAL<br />

FOR 2016.<br />

– Harvey Brenner,<br />

Annual Campaign Chairman<br />

2016 <strong>Federation</strong><br />

Annual Campaign<br />

$1,100,000<br />

$1,108,190*<br />

$1,000,000<br />

$800,000<br />

$600,000<br />

$400,000<br />

Sunday, November 13 (2:30 P.M.)<br />

78th Anniversary of Kristallnacht Commemorative Service.<br />

Kristallnacht is recognized by most historians as “The Night<br />

$200,000<br />

The Holocaust Began”.<br />

Temple Shalom, 4630 Pine Ridge Rd., Naples, FL 34119<br />

Sunday, December 4 (2:00 P.M.)<br />

Walking God’s Paths Part 3, “Common Texts, Different<br />

Scriptures” film and discussion.<br />

Part three of a series of six short videos designed to discuss the<br />

differences and commonalities of Christian and Jewish<br />

Harvey Brenner (at left) and Jeffrey Feld (at right) with Hotwire Communications representatives religions. Commentary by a rabbi and priest following the<br />

film, dialogue discussion and refreshments.<br />

Beth Tikvah, 1459 Pine Ridge Rd, Naples, FL 34105<br />

CATHOLIC-JEWISH DIALOGUE<br />

Sunday, December 4 (6:00 P.M.)<br />

Catholic and OF Jewish COLLIER Teen Program. COUNTY<br />

Catholic SCHEDULE and Jewish teens will OF meet EVENTS and greet one FOR another in an<br />

interfaith THE program. 2016-<strong>2017</strong> SEASON<br />

St. Agnes<br />

Theme:<br />

Catholic Church,<br />

Building<br />

Ministry<br />

Bridges<br />

Hall, 7775 Vanderbilt<br />

Beach Rd, Naples, FL 34120<br />

These events will sell out soon as only a limited number<br />

of seats are currently available. Order your tickets today!<br />

See the 4-page insert on pages 7-10B for more<br />

information and a ticket order form. Or call Renee’ Bialek<br />

at the <strong>Federation</strong> office at 239.263.4205.<br />

Monday, <strong>January</strong> 23:<br />

Authors Josh Aronson & Robert P. Watson<br />

Wednesday, February 8:<br />

Authors Judy Batalion & Noa Baum<br />

Monday, February 27: Author Ina Pinkney<br />

Thursday, March 2:<br />

Authors Jennifer Brown, Martha Hall Kelly & Victoria Kelly<br />

Monday, March 13: Authors Eric Golub & William Novak<br />

Jewish Professionals Group<br />

Tuesday, <strong>January</strong> 24 at 5:00 p.m.<br />

Dinner Meet and Greet at Bokamper’s<br />

The Jewish Professionals will get together and have dinner,<br />

Dutch treat, at Bokamper’s Sports Bar & Grill, 8990 Fontana<br />

Del Sol Way, Naples. There is a private room which is limited<br />

to 40 people. We will meet and greet each other and discuss<br />

future ideas and potential speakers.<br />

RSVP by <strong>January</strong> 17 to Renee’<br />

at rbialek@jewishnaples.org<br />

For more information on how to get involved with the Jewish<br />

Professionals of JFCC, please contact Andy Singer, Chair, at<br />

andy.singer@singerexecutivedevelopment.com.<br />

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday,<br />

<strong>January</strong> 16, <strong>2017</strong>.<br />

Please come participate in the MLK<br />

parade at 10:00 a.m. with the Jewish<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County. Hold<br />

our banner and walk with us in the<br />

parade. It’s fun and great exercise!<br />

The parade starts at 11:00 a.m. at Broad Avenue S. & 3 rd<br />

St. S.,<br />

but for those walking in the parade, we need to meet at 10:00 a.m.<br />

The celebration at Cambier Park will continue until 3:00 p.m.<br />

with food, music and entertainment. Free admission for all.<br />

The Jewish Community Relations Council is looking for volunteers<br />

to sit at the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County’s booth<br />

during this event.<br />

If you would like to walk in the parade and/or sit at our booth,<br />

please contact Renee’ at rbialek@jewishnaples.org.<br />

*as of 12/16<br />

Sunday, Friday, <strong>January</strong> November 6 (8:00 13 (2:30 pm) P.M.)<br />

78th Interfaith Anniversary Weekend, of Kristallnacht an opportunity Commemorative to witness the Service. worship<br />

Kristallnacht services of both is recognized religions. by most historians as “The Night<br />

The Rabbi Holocaust Mark Gross Began”. invites Catholics to the Friday evening<br />

Temple Shabbat Shalom, service. 4630 Pine Ridge Rd., Naples, FL 34119<br />

Jewish Congregation of Marco Island, 991 Winterberry Dr.,<br />

Sunday, December 4 (2:00 P.M.)<br />

Marco Island, FL 34145<br />

Walking God’s Paths Part 3, “Common Texts, Different<br />

Scriptures” Friday, <strong>January</strong> film 6 and (7:30 discussion. pm)<br />

Part Rabbi three Adam of a Miller series of invites six short Catholics videos designed to the Friday to discuss evening the<br />

differences Shabbat service. and commonalities of Christian and Jewish<br />

religions. Temple Shalom, Commentary 4630 Pine by Ridge a rabbi Rd., and Naples, priest FL following 34119 the<br />

film,<br />

Sunday,<br />

dialogue<br />

<strong>January</strong><br />

discussion<br />

8 (5:00<br />

and<br />

pm)<br />

refreshments.<br />

Beth<br />

Fr. Tim<br />

Tikvah,<br />

Navin<br />

1459<br />

invites<br />

Pine<br />

Jews<br />

Ridge<br />

to<br />

Rd,<br />

the<br />

Naples,<br />

Sunday<br />

FL<br />

evening<br />

34105<br />

Mass.<br />

Sunday, San Marco December Catholic 4 (6:00 Church, P.M.) 851 San Marco Rd, Marco<br />

Catholic Island, FL and 34145 Jewish Teen Program.<br />

Catholic and Jewish teens will meet and greet<br />

Please<br />

one<br />

see<br />

another<br />

other side<br />

Sunday, <strong>January</strong> 8 (5:00 pm)<br />

in an<br />

interfaith Fr. Bob Kantor program. invites Jews to the Sunday evening Mass.<br />

St. St. Agnes Agnes Catholic Catholic Church, Church, Ministry 7775 Vanderbilt Hall, 7775 Beach Vanderbilt Rd,<br />

Beach Naples, Rd, FL Naples, 34120 FL 34120<br />

Friday, Sunday, <strong>January</strong> February 6 (8:00 12 (4:00 pm) P.M.)<br />

Interfaith Joe’s Violin; Weekend, film and an discussion opportunity to witness the worship<br />

services This short of both documentary religions. tells the story of a blossoming friendship<br />

between Mark Gross a 93-year-old invites Catholics Holocaust to survivor the Friday and evening a Bronx<br />

Rabbi<br />

Shabbat 14-year-old service. schoolgirl, brought together by a violin that he<br />

Jewish acquired Congregation a displaced of person’s Marco camp Island, in 991 postwar Winterberry Germany. Dr.,<br />

Marco St. John Island, the Evangelist FL 34145Catholic Church, Ballroom, 625 111th<br />

Friday, Ave. N. <strong>January</strong> Naples, 6 FL (7:30 34108 pm)<br />

Rabbi Sunday, Adam March Miller 5 (1:30 invites P.M.) Catholics to the Friday evening<br />

Shabbat Dr. William service. Madges – Presentation and discussion.<br />

Temple Dr. Madges Shalom, has 4630 been Pine a co-director Ridge Rd., of Naples, a multimedia FL 34119 traveling<br />

Sunday, exhibit, <strong>January</strong> A Blessing 8 (5:00 to One pm) Another: Pope John Paul II and the<br />

Fr. Jewish Tim People. Navin invites Jews to the Sunday evening Mass.<br />

San St. Ann Marco Jubilee Catholic Center, Church, 525 9th 851 Avenue San Marco South, Rd, Naples, Marco FL<br />

Island, 34102FL 34145<br />

Please see other side<br />

Sunday, April 30 (2:00 P.M.)<br />

Walking God’s Paths Part 4, “Season of Freedom, Season of<br />

Rebirth” film and discussion.<br />

Part four of a series of six short videos designed to discuss the<br />

differences and commonalities of Christian and Jewish<br />

religions. Commentary by a rabbi and priest following the film,<br />

dialogue discussion and refreshments.<br />

St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Claussen Center, 625<br />

111th Ave. N. Naples, FL, 34108<br />

For all events, please RSVP to: cjdialogue@naples.net or<br />

call (239) 263-4205. • jewishnaples.org/get-involved/cjd<br />

Free admission to all events. Donations payable to JFCC are<br />

always welcomed.<br />

The purpose of the Catholic-Jewish Dialogue is to engage<br />

Jews and Catholics in understanding their past history and<br />

advancing the cause of mutual understanding and<br />

appreciation of their differences, as well as their<br />

commonalities.


6A <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

MCA speaker to address issues of aging<br />

By Jeff Margolis<br />

Have you ever thought about<br />

the aging process and how it<br />

affects us? You will not want<br />

to miss our <strong>January</strong> MCA luncheon.<br />

Noted psychiatrist Dr. Marc Agronin<br />

will be our featured speaker. Dr. Agronin<br />

is a Board Certified adult and geriatric<br />

psychiatrist, and is currently the Vice<br />

President for Behavioral Health and<br />

Clinical Research at the Miami Jewish<br />

Health Systems. He is the author<br />

of the book How We Age – A Doctor’s<br />

Journey into the Heart of Growing Old.<br />

His presentation is entitled “The End of<br />

Old Age: Discovering How Old is the<br />

Problem and Age is the Solution.” Dr.<br />

Agronin is the son of MCA member<br />

Ron Agronin.<br />

The luncheon will take place at the<br />

Longshore Lake Country Club (11399<br />

Phoenix Way, Naples) on Thursday,<br />

<strong>January</strong> 12 at 11:30 a.m. The cost is $28.<br />

Please make checks payable to JFCC/<br />

MCA and remit to Meir Kehila, 4751<br />

West Bay Blvd. #804 Estero, FL 33928.<br />

Upcoming events<br />

MCA President Les Nizin cordially<br />

invites all new members to the annual<br />

MCA New Members Breakfast on<br />

Sunday, <strong>January</strong> 15 at 9:00 a.m. in the<br />

David G. Willens Community Room<br />

of the <strong>Federation</strong>. Come and schmooze<br />

with fellow newcomers and members of<br />

the MCA board. RSVP to mcanaples@<br />

aol.com.<br />

The MCA Documentary Film<br />

program continues in <strong>January</strong> with<br />

the showing of the film Rosenwald on<br />

Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 5 at 2:30 p.m. in<br />

the Community Room of the Naples<br />

Daily News. Documentary filmmaker<br />

Aviva Kempner takes a look at the life<br />

of a little-known Jewish businessman/<br />

philanthropist who was the head of<br />

Sears Roebuck to use his wealth to build<br />

over 5,000 schools in the rural South to<br />

educate African Americans during the<br />

Jim Crow Era. Reservations are a must<br />

at docfilmsnaples@gmail.com. (Please<br />

note that the time of this event has been<br />

moved back to accommodate those<br />

who will be attending the Jewish Book<br />

Festival event with author/speaker Jesse<br />

Itzler at the Hilton Naples from 11:30<br />

a.m. to 2:00 p.m.)<br />

Hockey season is here. Join your<br />

fellow MCA members at the Third<br />

Annual MCA Night at the Florida Everblades<br />

on Wednesday, <strong>January</strong> 25 at<br />

7:30 p.m. at Germain Arena. The Blades<br />

will be taking on the Allen (Texas)<br />

Americans for the first time. Tickets<br />

are $25. For reservations, please send<br />

JEWISH FEDERATION<br />

checks payable to JFCC/MCA to Jeff<br />

Margolis, 5588 Hammock Isles Drive<br />

Naples, FL 34119.<br />

Don’t be left out! The Second Annual<br />

MCA Sweetheart’s Day Dinner Dance<br />

will take place on Saturday, February 18<br />

at 6:00 p.m. at the Vineyards Country<br />

Club. Join fellow MCA members and<br />

their spouses for this great evening of<br />

dinner, dancing and surprises. The cost<br />

is $140 per couple and reservations are<br />

required. Remit checks to Meir Kehila,<br />

4751 West Bay Blvd. #804 Estero, FL<br />

33928. Last year’s event was sold out!<br />

Get your reservations in ASAP and join<br />

in the fun.<br />

To become an MCA member or to<br />

renew your membership, please use the<br />

form on page 14B.<br />

Three Jewish Book Festival events the men in our community will appreciate:<br />

(And you don’t have to read the books. But you may want to after you hear these amazing authors!)<br />

Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 5<br />

11:30am - 2:30pm Luncheon<br />

Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 19<br />

2:00 - 4:00pm Mini-Concert<br />

Monday, <strong>January</strong> 30<br />

7:00 - 9:15pm • “Sports”<br />

Gary Belsky • On the Origins of Sports<br />

Jesse Itzler<br />

Steve Katz<br />

Jeff Margolis • Violence in Sports<br />

For more information and a ticket order form, see pages 7B-10B in this issue.<br />

Community commemorates “Night of Broken Glass”<br />

By Jeff Margolis<br />

It is called Kristallnacht, “The Night<br />

of Broken Glass. On the night of<br />

November 9, 1938, the Nazi leadership<br />

in Germany orchestrated pogroms<br />

in Germany and Austria that led to the<br />

destruction of over 1,000 synagogues<br />

and 7,000 Jewish-owned businesses.<br />

Over 25,000 Jewish men and youths<br />

were arrested and sent to concentration<br />

camps. By most accounts, this event<br />

signaled the beginning of the Holocaust<br />

and the eventual systematic murder of<br />

six million Jews and millions of others<br />

in Europe.<br />

On Sunday, November 13, the<br />

Naples community gathered at Temple<br />

Shalom to commemorate the 78 th Anniversary<br />

of this tragic and horrific<br />

event. The Catholic-Jewish Dialogue of<br />

Collier County, the Diocese of Venice<br />

in Florida, the Holocaust Museum &<br />

Education Center of Southwest Florida,<br />

and the Jewish Community Relations<br />

Council of the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of<br />

Shalom Gardens<br />

at Palm<br />

Royale<br />

Cemetery<br />

Collier County, jointly sponsored the<br />

program.<br />

Holocaust survivors and children<br />

of survivors lit memorial candles, and<br />

prayers were recited for the victims.<br />

The program featured a multi-media<br />

presentation entitled “Shattered and<br />

Broken,” which was prepared by Amy<br />

Snyder, Executive Director of the Holocaust<br />

Museum, and was read by area<br />

school students. Speakers included<br />

Rabbi Adam Miller of Temple Shalom<br />

and the Very Reverend Robert Kantor<br />

of St. Agnes Catholic Church.<br />

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8A <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

Campaign Chairs and Directors Mission<br />

to Paris and Israel, July 2016 – Part 5<br />

Phyllis<br />

Seaman<br />

<strong>Federation</strong><br />

Vice Chair<br />

Israel’s challenges<br />

Our first morning in Israel, we<br />

were briefed on challenges facing<br />

Israel, with Alon Ben-David, an Israeli<br />

news journalist covering major events<br />

in Israel for over 30 years. Ben-David<br />

is a senior defense correspondent and<br />

anchors a television news magazine.<br />

He feels postponing Iran’s nuclear deal<br />

would have helped Israel since Iran has<br />

an eye on the entire Middle East area.<br />

Iran, Syria, Libya and Yemen are so<br />

divided that they are not recognizable<br />

as the countries they were.<br />

He feels there are future opportunities<br />

with our “frenemies.”<br />

Is there a new intifada? 310 terrorists<br />

in 10 months, 90 caught alive. Who<br />

are they? They all have disappointments<br />

Alon Ben-David<br />

with Israel. Most of the content of the<br />

terrorist information comes from Syria/<br />

ISIS. Isis is appealing to educated Muslims,<br />

not only in Israel, but around the<br />

world.<br />

Parents of young boys say they<br />

would like to lock them up. They have<br />

lost control. The mothers’ voices are<br />

small and they try to work quietly behind<br />

the scene.<br />

In the prisons, the terrorists are divided<br />

up with their own organizations,<br />

since they all hate each other. They don’t<br />

want a Palestinian state – they want their<br />

own rights and rules. Families in the<br />

West Bank are divided between Fatah<br />

and Hamas. The West Bank population<br />

is 2.6 million people.<br />

Egypt, says terrorists are digging<br />

tunnels at their borders and entering<br />

Egypt.<br />

Gaza has 1.8 million people. They<br />

are starving. Young boys sneak into<br />

Israel to get caught and then fed in<br />

prison. Some will sneak into Israel with<br />

a grenade to ensure being sent to prison,<br />

and not to kill anyone.<br />

Israel’s reconciliation with Turkey<br />

is a great move. Turkey will always hate<br />

Israel, but they could work together in<br />

the common goal to rid the world of<br />

ISIS. They hate Israel, but hate ISIS<br />

more. Another frenemy!<br />

Israeli hospitals have treated 2,900<br />

Syrians injured during their war and will<br />

likely treat many more.<br />

There is a shared interest and goal<br />

with all the Mediterranean Arab countries<br />

to get rid of the extremists. Together<br />

they can heal the wounds of this<br />

region that is home to all of them. Israel<br />

is a home worth fighting for. It wishes<br />

the West would wake up to these facts.<br />

Our afternoon was going to be<br />

spent visiting some programs of our<br />

overseas partner agencies. Our 112-person<br />

mission was broken up into many<br />

smaller groups. My group was off to<br />

Bat Yam, outside of Tel Aviv, to visit<br />

a Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)<br />

program. JDC was established in 1914<br />

to provide assistance to the elderly,<br />

families and youth for social problems<br />

in partnership with governments around<br />

the world. Bat Yam has a large Russian<br />

immigrant population. We were visiting<br />

with recipients, program<br />

directors and social workers<br />

in the “Families First<br />

Program.” Our meeting was<br />

with Sheila and Ivetta, participants<br />

and single mothers<br />

in this year-old program.<br />

Ivetta, 39, has a 6-yearold<br />

and 18-month-old. She<br />

made aliyah 20 years ago<br />

from Russia. Her dream has<br />

been to start her own business.<br />

She is an artist, and last year she<br />

started hand crafting, knitting and crocheting<br />

baby things. She is in a course<br />

that teaches her how to run and market<br />

a business and price products. She also<br />

receives parenting program support and<br />

psychological support for her 6-year-old<br />

son. Ivetta proudly shared that she has<br />

also become an assistant, teaching an<br />

art course.<br />

Sheila, 38, a single mom of children<br />

ages 6 and 8, works in customer service.<br />

She had to go to the Welfare Department<br />

for services and is now taking<br />

a course to work in social service for<br />

special-needs students. Sheila became<br />

so emotional as she told her story and<br />

how grateful she is for what she has<br />

received, we all wanted to jump up and<br />

hug her. She was finishing her studies<br />

and had sent resumes to schools for<br />

early childhood development. Sheila has<br />

gained so much from this program that<br />

she is now earning more in her training<br />

job than at her customer service job.<br />

We also got to hear from the mentors<br />

who are volunteers and so selfless<br />

and caring. Eliahu, worked in education<br />

and is working in this program providing<br />

guidance and computer training. He<br />

is a special liaison with the Ethiopian<br />

community since he speaks their language.<br />

Tal was a high-end party planner<br />

who wanted to give back and help<br />

There are now 70 families in this<br />

JEWISH FEDERATION<br />

Phyllis, Ivetta, Sheila<br />

program in Bat Yam. Family mentors<br />

train in teaching how to handle family<br />

debt and coping with personal issues.<br />

The mentors are volunteers and the<br />

programs are in groups or one on one.<br />

JDC’s expertise and reputation bring in<br />

other partners.<br />

The best and most spontaneous<br />

part of the program was after we were<br />

shown Ivetta’s hand-crocheted “nursing<br />

necklace,” a few of us asked if we could<br />

buy one. I encouraged more people to<br />

do so and she made over $300.<br />

As you see, our <strong>Federation</strong> Mission<br />

days are quite long, exceptionally full<br />

and very educational. We had dinner<br />

and an evening program with Birthright,<br />

Masa and Onward Israel participants<br />

at Eretz Israel Museum ahead of us.<br />

Being with all these young energetic<br />

people would certainly get our batteries<br />

charged. It definitely makes you feel<br />

great about our next generation and the<br />

Jewish future.<br />

As Jews we have a covenant to take<br />

care and save our people around the<br />

world. I have witnessed and shared how<br />

our dollars nurture and support people.<br />

These are some of the many programs<br />

your dollars provide around the world.<br />

THANK YOU!<br />

HAPPY NEW YEAR!<br />

We Are the Strength of a People<br />

– The Power of Community<br />

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Saturday evening, February 11, <strong>2017</strong><br />

The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples<br />

Featuring Tovah Feldshuh<br />

Tovah Feldshuh is an American actress, singer and playwright. She has become<br />

best known for her role as Deanna Monroe on AMC’s television adaptation of<br />

The Walking Dead.<br />

A Broadway star for more than four decades, she has earned four Tony Award<br />

nominations. Her Broadway credits include Sarava, Yentl, Lend Me a Tenor<br />

and<br />

Golda’s Balcony.<br />

She has also received two Emmy Award nominations for her performance as<br />

Helena Slonova in the mini-series Holocaust<br />

and for her recurring role as defense<br />

attorney Danielle Melnick on Law & Order.<br />

In addition, she has appeared in such films as A Walk on the Moon, She’s Funny<br />

Th a t W a yand<br />

Kissing Jessica Stein.<br />

Currently, she portrays Naomi Bunch, an overbearing Jewish mother, on The<br />

CW television series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.<br />

Invitations will be mailed to all members of the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County.<br />

For more information, please call the <strong>Federation</strong> ofice ofice at 239.263.4205.


JEWISH FEDERATION<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

Documentary film chronicles Israel’s successes<br />

By Jeff Margolis<br />

Would you like to hear some<br />

good news about Israel? The<br />

Israel Advocacy Committee<br />

of Collier County cordially invites the<br />

community to a screening of the film Inside<br />

Israel: How a Small Nation Makes<br />

a Big Difference on Sunday, <strong>January</strong> 8<br />

at 7:00 p.m. at Beth Tikvah, 1459 Pine<br />

Ridge Road.<br />

The award-wining documentary,<br />

narrated by Harvard University professor<br />

Tal Ben Shahar, will look at the<br />

inner strength of the 68-year-old nation<br />

that has enabled it to overcome many<br />

challenges and develop into an agricultural<br />

and technological success. Mr.<br />

Gabriel Baredes, Director of Hispanic<br />

and Interfaith Affairs from the Israel<br />

Consul General’s Office in Miami, has<br />

been invited to attend and facilitate the<br />

post-film discussion. Tickets for this<br />

event are $10 in advance and $15 at the<br />

door. Please make checks payable to<br />

JFCC and remit to Jewish <strong>Federation</strong><br />

of Collier County, Attn: Renee’, 2500<br />

SAVE THE DATE<br />

Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 2201,<br />

Naples, FL 34109.<br />

In an effort to promote Muslim-<br />

Jewish dialogue and offer divergent<br />

views and opinions, the IAC is pleased<br />

to announce a program featuring Dr.<br />

M. Zuhdi Jasser on Wednesday, February<br />

22 at 7:00 p.m. at Temple Shalom,<br />

4630 Pine Ridge Road. Dr. Jasser is the<br />

president and founder of the American<br />

Islamic Forum for Democracy. He also<br />

currently serves as a member of the<br />

U.S. Commission on International Religious<br />

Freedom. In this role, he briefs<br />

members of Congress on Homeland<br />

Security issues. Dr. Jasser is the author<br />

of A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An<br />

American Patriot’s Fight to Save His<br />

Faith. Tickets for this event are $15 in<br />

advance and $20 at the door. There is<br />

also $25 reserved seating. The Israel<br />

Advocacy Committee is also sponsoring<br />

a luncheon reception for Dr. Jasser at<br />

the Club at Olde Cypress at 11:30 a.m.<br />

on the day of the event. Tickets for the<br />

For the 2 nd Annual Multicultural Celebration of Israel<br />

Sunday, April 2, <strong>2017</strong> at Fleischmann Park in Naples<br />

12 to 3 PM<br />

Israel: A start-up nation, a nation that leads in stem cell research,<br />

a democratic nation, a nation of inclusion, a high-tech nation,<br />

a nation of resilience, a nation of innovation, and a nation that<br />

protects freedom of worship for all religious communities.<br />

luncheon are $100. For more information<br />

please contact Dr. Ed Ezrine, IAC<br />

Chair, at docfinance2004@yahoo.<br />

com. Additional sponsors for this event<br />

include Temple Shalom, Beth Tikvah,<br />

St. John the Evangelist Catholic<br />

Church, Saint Katherine Greek Orthodox<br />

Church, Christian Rights and<br />

Freedom Institute, and Patricia Adkins.<br />

Plans are well under way for Israel<br />

Fest <strong>2017</strong>. The IAC committee invites<br />

the entire community to join in the<br />

9A<br />

celebration on Sunday, April 2 from<br />

noon until 3:00 p.m. at Fleischmann<br />

Park in Naples. There will be food<br />

vendors, games and entertainment for<br />

the entire family, as well as information<br />

booths with representatives from Israel<br />

organizations and travel companies.<br />

Admission is free. Look for updates for<br />

this fantastic event in future issues of the<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong>. For more information,<br />

contact Jeffrey Randall, program chair,<br />

at jeffreymrandall@gmail.com.<br />

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For Jewish people in the medical field<br />

sponsored by the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County<br />

The Wonders of Weizmann:<br />

Innovations from the Weizmann Institute of Science<br />

Tuesday, <strong>January</strong> 17, 6:00 - 7:30 pm<br />

David G. Willens Community Room<br />

Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> Office<br />

2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 2201, Naples<br />

The Weizmann Institute of Science advances knowledge and innovation<br />

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10A <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

JEWISH FEDERATION<br />

WCA members share friendship and laughter<br />

at the Annual Welcome Back Luncheon<br />

By Linda Simon, WCA Special Events Director, and Elaine Soffer, WCA President<br />

The WCA Annual Welcome Back Cory Kahaney, an award-winning<br />

Luncheon, held at the Naples comedian, provided the entertainment.<br />

Grande Beach Resort this past Her skill in making our members laugh<br />

November, brought together over 300 uproariously just after the presidential<br />

members who enjoyed the company election was worthy of the standing<br />

of old friends and new. The committee ovation she received.<br />

was chaired by Special Events Director Our membership relies on volunteerism,<br />

and over 30 of our members<br />

Linda Simon, and included President<br />

Elaine Soffer, Communications Director<br />

Nancy Kahn, and outstanding WCA event the beginning of a year filled with<br />

also assisted in making this annual<br />

volunteers Toby Kosloff and Robin friendship, activities and fun.<br />

Mintz. They created an afternoon that Thank you to Master Photographer<br />

was warm and welcoming.<br />

Gwen Greenglass for these photos.<br />

WCA Board of Directors: (top row) Dina Shein, Lea Bendes, Mary O’Haver, Barbara Karp,<br />

Linda Simon, Elaine Soffer, Maureen Schaab, Michelle Levine-Troupp, Nancy Kahn,<br />

Arlene Sobol, Barbara Suden, Patti Boochever, (bottom row) Sue Dean, Hope Abels,<br />

Phyllis Strome, Lenore Greenstein, Susan Pittelman, Harriett Kleinman<br />

WCA President Elaine Soffer with Jeffrey Feld,<br />

President/CEO of the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong><br />

of Collier County<br />

Ellen Weisberg purchases 50/50 tickets from<br />

WCA Membership Director Hope Abels to<br />

support JFCC’s Youth Scholarship Program<br />

Toby Kosloff and WCA Communications Director Nancy Kahn (top row) give final instructions<br />

to registration volunteers Rolly Jacobs, Judy Fant and WCA Board Member Arlene Sobol<br />

WCA South Director Lenore Greenstein<br />

leads luncheon guests in Hamotzi<br />

Jaclynn Faffer, CEO/President of JFCS of<br />

SWFL, thanks WCA for it continued support<br />

After a long summer, WCA members were happy to catch up with each other and enjoy the fantastic<br />

entertainment. (Top row) Madeline Foster, Nancy Brother, Sue Dean, Debbie Kohler, Sue Wichard,<br />

Norma Carl, Susan Kalish, (bottom row) Lea Bendes, Hope Abels, Phyllis Strome<br />

Comedian Cory Kahaney (on right)<br />

with WCA Board Member Barbara Karp,<br />

a longtime friend of Cory’s mother<br />

Jane Shaw and WCA Board Member Michelle<br />

Levine-Troupp are delighted to see each other<br />

WCA Welcome Back Luncheon Committee: WCA Communications Director Nancy Kahn,<br />

Toby Kosloff, WCA Special Events Director Linda Simon, Robin Mintz, WCA President Elaine Soffer<br />

Ferne Walpert, Jane Perman, Jane Schiff<br />

50/50 Co-Chair Robin Mintz with JFCC<br />

Community Program Coordinator Renee’ Bialek<br />

as Renee’ reads a winning ticket number<br />

Jaclynn Faffer, CEO/President of JFCS<br />

of SWFL, is delighted with the donations<br />

that luncheon guests brought for the JFCS<br />

Food Pantry<br />

Comedian Cory Kahaney entertains with jokes and stories about Weight Watchers, spin class,<br />

texts from her husband, baseball games and more<br />

Women’s Cultural Alliance: 1,300 members strong and growing!<br />

Join us today! See the membership form on page 14B.


JEWISH FEDERATION<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

Jewish Community Relations Council update<br />

By Betty Schwartz, Chair<br />

The Jewish Community Relations<br />

Council was formed in<br />

order to further our mission of<br />

strengthening ties to our community.<br />

Our Black Community Outreach Committee<br />

is dedicated to increasing our<br />

efforts this year. The chair of this subcommittee<br />

is Goldye Meyer, and she is<br />

perfect for this leadership role. She is<br />

an experienced mediator who is enthusiastic<br />

about helping us make progress<br />

with our cooperative activities with the<br />

Black community. Meetings with Collier<br />

County NAACP representatives<br />

have been very positive, and we look<br />

forward to a rewarding relationship.<br />

This year, we will again participate<br />

in the annual Martin Luther King, Jr.<br />

Day Parade on Monday, <strong>January</strong> 16.<br />

The parade starts at 11:00 a.m. and will<br />

begin on Broad Avenue, proceed north<br />

on 3 rd Street South, then right on 5 th Avenue<br />

South, and end on 8 th Street South.<br />

The Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of<br />

Collier County has a terrific<br />

banner which we will<br />

carry, and we hope to have<br />

a larger contingent than last<br />

year. We invite you to join us<br />

for fresh air, fun and a show<br />

of support. The parade will<br />

last about an hour, followed<br />

by a celebration. We will also<br />

Jewish Community<br />

Tikkun<br />

Olam<br />

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Relations Council<br />

of the<br />

Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County<br />

have a table with literature to distribute.<br />

Please call the <strong>Federation</strong> office at<br />

239.263.4205 for more information. We<br />

will be meeting at 10:00 a.m. on Broad<br />

Avenue.<br />

On Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 19 at 7:00<br />

p.m., a Criminal Justice Reform Forum<br />

will be held at the Universalist<br />

Unitarian Congregation, 6340 Napa<br />

Woods Way. The JCRC will be a cosponsor<br />

of this non-partisan<br />

panel discussion. The panelists<br />

include Deborrah Brodsky of<br />

Florida State University; Adam<br />

Bates, J.D. of the Cato Institute’s<br />

Project on Criminal Justice;<br />

Raymer Maguire, Director<br />

of Criminal Justice Reform of<br />

the Florida ACLU; and moderator<br />

Reverend Allison DeFoor.<br />

Reverend DeFoor is the former Sheriff<br />

of Madison County, attorney, former<br />

judge, former candidate for Lt. Governor<br />

of Florida, an official in the Episcopal<br />

Church of Florida, and mentor to<br />

prisoners in Florida prisons. This forum<br />

can be the beginning of efforts to fix the<br />

JCRC is concerned for our young people<br />

By Judi Palay, JCRC committee member<br />

Dear Parents, Grandparents, youth whose Jewish education ended<br />

Aunts, Uncles and caring with their Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Bullying is<br />

friends of a high-schooler: reaching alarming rates on campuses.<br />

As you get your son, daughter, BDS is being discussed at many universities.<br />

Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism<br />

relative or nice person ready for college,<br />

have you opened the checking are being confused. One university was<br />

account, packed the medicines for the even going to offer a class, taught by a<br />

terrible cold/flu he will get somewhere Palestinian, on how to get rid of Israel<br />

between the 4 th and 6 th week of school, and the Jews. The class was canceled<br />

remembered to show him how to do only because the instructor wasn’t qualified<br />

to teach it.<br />

laundry, etc.?<br />

I am betting that along with the talk Remember when you were going to<br />

about watching your drinking and the discuss the facts of life with this child?<br />

non-use of drugs, about getting good Where should you start? How much information<br />

was enough or too much? Did<br />

grades by using good study habits,<br />

and about remembering why you are you feel awkward trying to answer the<br />

in college (good grades!), the talk you questions? Had their friends provided<br />

haven’t had is the one about Judaism, information or misinformation?<br />

its principles and values.<br />

So how would like to begin this<br />

JCRC, the Jewish Community discussion regarding the college experience,<br />

the positives and negatives?<br />

Relations Council, has deemed this<br />

an important issue, especially for our Knowing that many campuses are<br />

experiencing an increase in bullying,<br />

what techniques are successful? What<br />

resources are available to this student?<br />

Has she had this type of experience in<br />

Naples and not even discussed it with<br />

you?<br />

Fact: Bullying doesn’t end in high<br />

school. Fact: Cyberbullying is on the<br />

rise. Fact: College bullying presents<br />

some unique challenges. Fact: Bullied<br />

college students often feel alone and<br />

isolated. And: Bullied college students<br />

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broken criminal justice system.<br />

This forum is very timely for us<br />

because the umbrella organization of<br />

Community Relations Councils, the<br />

Jewish Council of Public Affairs, is<br />

starting a racial equality and criminal<br />

justice reform initiative. Mass incarceration<br />

and other issues related to<br />

racial equality need to be addressed<br />

on local, state and federal levels. The<br />

Jewish community has a history dating<br />

back to the early 1930s of fighting for<br />

racial equality and civil rights. More<br />

than 50 years later, there is still work to<br />

be done. The statistics of imprisonment<br />

are alarming, and the whole community<br />

needs to find a solution.<br />

For more information about the<br />

JCRC, email me at bettyofnaples@<br />

gmail.com.<br />

often keep silent about the torment<br />

they are experiencing.<br />

Next article: Who will help you<br />

broach this subject? What resources<br />

are available to you and your student?<br />

How can I have my college-bound<br />

friend, child, relative take advantage of<br />

programming to support them?<br />

For more information about the<br />

JCRC, contact Betty at bettyofnaples@<br />

gmail.com.<br />

Wednesday, <strong>January</strong> 11, 1:00 - 3:30 p.m. at Temple Shalom<br />

Bestselling Fiction Authors • Sponsored by WCA<br />

Alyson Richman • The Velvet Hours<br />

Ronald H. Balson • Karolina’s Twins<br />

www.JewishBookFestival.org • 239.263.4205<br />

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Thursday, February 23, <strong>2017</strong><br />

6pm Cocktails - 6:45pm Dinner & Program<br />

TwinEagles Country Club<br />

11725 Twineagles Blvd., Naples, FL 34120<br />

Dinner Reservations: $250 per person<br />

RSVP at jnf.org/naplestol or 727.536.5263<br />

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COMMUNITY FOCUS<br />

HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & ED CTR OF SWFL www.holocaustmuseumswfl.org / 239-263-9200<br />

<strong>January</strong> exhibits and programs at the Museum<br />

Amy Snyder<br />

Executive<br />

Director<br />

We are pleased to announce the<br />

opening this month of The<br />

World Knew: Jan Karski’s<br />

Mission for Humanity. It will be on<br />

display from <strong>January</strong> 3 through May<br />

14, <strong>2017</strong>.<br />

The new exhibit profiles the life<br />

of the extraordinary Jan Karski, whose<br />

personal experience in World War II<br />

spanned the gamut from reserve officer<br />

and junior diplomat to Polish Underground<br />

courier to the Polish government<br />

in exile in London. In 1942 and 1943,<br />

he personally alerted Prime Minister<br />

Churchill, President Roosevelt and U.S.<br />

Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter<br />

to the presence of Jewish Ghettos,<br />

transit camps and the atrocities being<br />

committed against Jews in Poland and<br />

Eastern Europe. However, his reports<br />

were met with disbelief and, as a result,<br />

no help was provided by the Allies to<br />

relieve the plight of the Jews.<br />

Karski didn’t give up trying, however,<br />

because he knew firsthand the<br />

dangers Jews were in during the war.<br />

He was an eyewitness to the cruelty of<br />

the Nazis. In 1940, as a member of the<br />

Polish Underground, he was betrayed.<br />

Arrested and tortured by the Gestapo,<br />

he tried to commit suicide to prevent<br />

providing information on his group’s<br />

activities. Miraculously, he was able<br />

to escape with the help of the Polish<br />

Resistance. In 1942, Karski personally<br />

investigated conditions in the Warsaw<br />

Ghetto, where he was smuggled in using<br />

a disguise. He also went undercover<br />

in a transit camp, where he saw Nazi<br />

mistreatment and killing of Jews. His<br />

courage, knowledge of four languages,<br />

photographic memory and diplomatic<br />

skills made him a key underground<br />

operative.<br />

In 1944, Karski wrote Courier<br />

from Poland: Story of a Secret State,<br />

documenting his work in the Polish Underground,<br />

providing further evidence<br />

to convince the Allied powers of the<br />

need to act against the Nazi atrocities<br />

that went far beyond the normal acts of<br />

war. After the war, he settled in the U.S.,<br />

becoming a citizen, and a professor at<br />

Georgetown University for 40 years.<br />

He married Pola Nirenska, a dancer<br />

who was a Holocaust survivor. After the<br />

war, he didn’t want to speak about his<br />

experiences. Eventually though, he felt<br />

Parkinson Association of Southwest Florida<br />

presents<br />

A Step Forward:<br />

A Conversation with<br />

Rasheda Ali<br />

Please join us as we<br />

welcome our keynote<br />

speaker, Rasheda Ali,<br />

to our Annual Luncheon.<br />

Ali is an internationally<br />

known author, speaker<br />

and PD advocate. Her<br />

book, I’ll Hold Your Hand<br />

So You Won’t Fall, was<br />

inspired by her children<br />

and her late father,<br />

Muhammad Ali.<br />

Tuesday, <strong>January</strong> 24, <strong>2017</strong><br />

Luncheon 11:00am<br />

LaPlaya Beach And Golf Resort<br />

9891 Gulf Shore Drive, Naples<br />

$125 per person<br />

Includes complimentary valet parking<br />

Intimate VIP Reception 5:30–7:30pm<br />

Olde Cypress Country Club<br />

7165 Treeline Drive, Naples<br />

$250 per person<br />

Includes luncheon<br />

To register call (239) 417-3465 or visit www.pasfi.org<br />

compelled to, saying, “I have no other<br />

proofs, no photographs.”<br />

He was known as an incredibly<br />

humble person. Despite all his courageous<br />

acts and diplomatic efforts, he<br />

once told colleagues during a talk that<br />

he felt he “didn’t do enough” to help the<br />

Jews and occupied Poland. He died in<br />

2000, and was posthumously awarded<br />

the Presidential Medal of Freedom in<br />

2012. Yad Vashem also recognized<br />

Karski in 1962 as “Righteous Among<br />

The Nations.”<br />

The tour of The World Knew: Jan<br />

Karski’s Mission for Humanity traveling<br />

exhibition is organized by the Jan Karski<br />

Educational Foundation. The exhibit<br />

was created by the Polish History Museum<br />

with major support from the Polish<br />

Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Additional<br />

funding was provided by the National<br />

Endowment for the Humanities. Any<br />

views, findings, conclusions or recommendations<br />

expressed in this exhibition<br />

publication do not necessarily reflect<br />

those of the National Endowment for<br />

the Humanities.<br />

Other <strong>January</strong> Museum-related<br />

activities:<br />

Wednesday, <strong>January</strong> 4 at 10:00<br />

a.m. at the Museum: Shelley Lieb<br />

will lead a discussion of the book<br />

The Nazi Titanic by Robert P.<br />

Watson. The event is free and open<br />

to the public. Reservations are required.<br />

Please call the Museum at<br />

239.263.9200 to RSVP.<br />

Monday, <strong>January</strong> 16 from 10:00<br />

a.m. to noon at the Museum: third<br />

of four Genealogy Workshops led<br />

by David Nelson; the topic will be<br />

“Jewish Genealogy Internet Resources.”<br />

The workshop is free and<br />

open to the public; reservations are<br />

required. To RSVP, email David@<br />

HolocaustMuseumSWFL.org or<br />

call 239.263.9200.<br />

Monday, <strong>January</strong> 23 from 1:00 to<br />

3:30 p.m. at Beth Tikvah, 1459 Pine<br />

Ridge Road, Naples: The Museum<br />

is sponsoring a Collier County Jewish<br />

Book Festival event with Josh<br />

Aronson, author of Orchestra of<br />

Exiles, and Robert P. Watson, author<br />

of The Nazi Titanic. For more<br />

information on tickets, visit www.<br />

jewishbookfestival.org or call Renee’<br />

at the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> office<br />

at 239.263.4205.<br />

There will be a special commemoration<br />

of International Holocaust Remembrance<br />

Day at Temple Shalom on Friday,<br />

<strong>January</strong> 27 at 7:30 p.m. The guest<br />

speaker is Dr. Stephen M. Berk, the<br />

Henry and Sally Schaffer Professor of<br />

Holocaust and Jewish studies at Union<br />

College in Schenectady, New York. The<br />

event is free and open to the public.<br />

Finally, the Museum will officially<br />

open its new Memorial Garden Art Installation<br />

on Sunday, <strong>January</strong> 22. This<br />

unique artwork was designed by artist<br />

Juan Diaz, who recently made his debut<br />

at Art Basel Miami. The work was created<br />

to honor those Holocaust survivors<br />

and camp liberators who were part of<br />

our Museum family and Education<br />

programs. For more information, visit<br />

www.HolocaustMuseumSWFL.org.<br />

The Museum is located at 4760<br />

Tamiami Trail North, Suite 7, in Naples.<br />

It is open year-round Tuesday through<br />

Sunday; closed Monday and major Jewish<br />

and U.S. holidays.<br />

Holocaust Musuem & Education Center of SWFL-sponsored event:<br />

Monday, <strong>January</strong> 23, 1-3:30 p.m. at Beth Tikvah ~ Topic: Holocaust<br />

Josh Aronson • Orchestra of Exiles<br />

Robert P. Watson • The Nazi Titanic<br />

www.JewishBookFestival.org • 239.263.4205<br />

A champion of women’s<br />

rights visits ZOA of SWFL<br />

By Jerrold L. Sobel, President, ZOA Southwest Florida Chapter<br />

As Americans we often take for issues related to media, diversity, gender<br />

granted the right to protest and and immigration. Her outspoken stand<br />

stand for or against positions on such issues as female genital mutilation,<br />

forced marriages, male dominance,<br />

unpopular to others. In other parts of the<br />

world it could be downright dangerous. and other denials of equal rights for<br />

Yet no matter the danger of ostracism, Muslim women has made her anathema<br />

there are people willing to defy conventional<br />

wisdom to fight for what they In <strong>January</strong> 2014, Raheel and eight<br />

to advocates of Sharia law.<br />

believe in. Such a woman will be honoring<br />

our community with a presentation in a Clarion Project film, Honor Diaries.<br />

other women’s rights activists partook<br />

on Wednesday, <strong>January</strong> 25 at 7:30 p.m. The women discuss the aforementioned<br />

at The Chabad Jewish Center of Naples. gender inequality, honor-based violence,<br />

forced marriage and FGM. They<br />

Raheel Raza is a Muslim woman<br />

author and activist born in Pakistan and come with awareness and understanding<br />

living in Toronto with her husband and of the complex cultural issues at play,<br />

two daughters. Brought up in a culture and are therefore able to attack political<br />

where women were supposed to “be correctness taboos that restrict dialogue<br />

seen and not heard,” she has kicked up and prevent true acknowledgement of<br />

quite a hornets’ nest.<br />

the abuses perpetuated not only against<br />

An outspoken advocate for gender Muslim women abroad but here in the<br />

equality and an activist for women’s United States and Canada as well.<br />

rights internationally, she has appeared For ticket information, visit http://<br />

many times in print, radio and television zoaswfl.org.<br />

media to reveal and debate Canadian<br />

Read the current and previous<br />

editions of the <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

online at www.jewishnaples.org.<br />

T


COMMUNITY FOCUS<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

The generosity of our friends and neighbors<br />

Dr. Jaclynn<br />

Faffer<br />

JFCS<br />

President/<br />

CEO<br />

Mix & Mingle – Jewish senior singles update<br />

Happy <strong>2017</strong>! Have you sent in<br />

your $10 dues to Renee’ at the<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> office? We want you<br />

to join us for a fun-filled year!<br />

Please remember that all checks are<br />

payable to JFCC and sent to <strong>Federation</strong>,<br />

2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd., Suite 2201,<br />

Naples, FL 34109.<br />

Space is limited, but<br />

there is still time to sign up<br />

for our private tour of Palm<br />

Cottage and the Norris Garden<br />

on Thursday, <strong>January</strong><br />

26. We will meet promptly at 10:45 a.m.<br />

A Dutch treat lunch will follow at the<br />

Ridgway Bar & Grill. To take advantage<br />

of this special event, please send your<br />

check for $12 (payable to JFCC) to<br />

Renee’ by <strong>January</strong> 16. Palm Cottage is<br />

such a part of old Naples history.<br />

Sunday, February 5 marks a return<br />

to the Baker Museum for a docent-guided<br />

tour of new exhibits including The<br />

Olga Hirshhorn Collection, Origami in<br />

Chellie Doepke<br />

239-877-1722<br />

seachell2@hotmail.com<br />

www.sells-naples.com<br />

www.facebook.com/chelliedoepkerealtor<br />

As we begin the new year of <strong>2017</strong><br />

we only have to look around us<br />

and feel grateful that we live<br />

in such beautiful surroundings, often<br />

referred to as “paradise.” However,<br />

at JFCS of Southwest Florida and the<br />

Naples Senior Center we are mindful<br />

that not everyone lives as we do. In fact,<br />

utilization of the JFCS Food Pantry has<br />

increased to 450 visits per month.<br />

The end of the year holidays of<br />

Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas<br />

gave us the opportunity to witness,<br />

firsthand, the generosity of our friends<br />

and neighbors who help us support<br />

those who turn to us during their most<br />

vulnerable times. JFCS helped 102 individuals<br />

celebrate Thanksgiving with<br />

fully-cooked Publix turkey dinners and<br />

food support. For Hanukkah and Christmas,<br />

Tracey Albert and her Temple Shalom<br />

“holiday helpers” purchased and<br />

beautifully gift wrapped a wonderful<br />

assortment of presents for financiallystruggling<br />

families with children, single<br />

senior women, and Holocaust survivors.<br />

In fact, if you dropped by our offices in<br />

mid-December you would think you<br />

were looking in Macy’s windows!<br />

Our JFCS Food Pantry also benefited<br />

from the creative generosity of<br />

Jewish Book Festival co-chairs Robin<br />

the Garden (sculpture created by Jennifer<br />

and Kevin Box) and the American<br />

Impressionists. Let’s meet in the<br />

courtyard at noon. Those who attended<br />

our prior tours found this a perfect way<br />

to spend a Sunday afternoon. The cost<br />

is $10 for Mix & Mingle members and<br />

$15 for nonmembers. Please send your<br />

check to Renee’ by February 1.<br />

Wednesday, March 8: Mark your<br />

calendars and sign up early. Comedy<br />

historian Lenny Dave delivers a fun,<br />

highly interactive “Main Event” that<br />

spotlights all our favorite laugh makers<br />

of the past 100 years. From Vaudeville,<br />

Broadway and motion pictures, to nightclubs,<br />

record albums and TV, Lenny<br />

takes the audience on a nostalgic trip<br />

New Featured Listing: Verona Walk<br />

8805 Zurigo Lane, Naples<br />

4BR/3+BA Pool Home<br />

Views of Lake, Park & Preserve<br />

Poured Concreate &<br />

Steel Construction<br />

Electric Storm Shutters<br />

Crown Molding & Wainscot Throughout<br />

Custom Cabinets<br />

Granite Counters<br />

Bosch Appliances<br />

MLS#216066520<br />

Sold: TwinEagles<br />

Sold: Village Walk Bonita<br />

Making real estate<br />

dreams reality<br />

Mintz and Susan Pittelman. They repurposed<br />

the beautiful centerpieces used<br />

for a Festival luncheon event for our<br />

18 centerpiece “birthday kits” used for<br />

a Jewish Book Festival luncheon<br />

were donated to the JFCS Food Pantry<br />

pantry recipients who could use a little<br />

help making their children’s birthdays<br />

festive. The picture of the “birthday kit”<br />

clearly shows how much time and good<br />

down comedy’s memory lane to a time<br />

when comedy was funny and clean. Join<br />

us at 5:00 p.m. at the <strong>Federation</strong> office<br />

for a light supper. Lenny will perform<br />

at 5:30 p.m. The cost is $10 for M&M<br />

members and $15 for nonmembers. The<br />

deadline for reservations is March 1. As<br />

space is limited, we ask you to please<br />

honor your reservation and let us know<br />

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feeling went into creating this project.<br />

We are so grateful to our friends in<br />

the community for helping us make the<br />

holidays very special for those who turn<br />

to us for assistance.<br />

Please save the date of February 10<br />

for an educational community forum on<br />

Positive Approaches to Aging, Isolation<br />

and Loneliness, keynoted by Jane Brody,<br />

New York Times health columnist.<br />

Following Ms. Brody’s keynote address<br />

I am honored to be joining Ms. Brody<br />

and Dr. Marc Agronin on a panel further<br />

discussing isolation and loneliness in<br />

older adults. Tickets for the full-morning<br />

event are available for $50 per person.<br />

Please go to www.jfcsswfl.org or call us<br />

at 239.325.4444 for more details.<br />

Looking forward to a wonderful<br />

<strong>2017</strong> and seeing you soon!<br />

if you are unable to attend. We expect a<br />

waiting list for this event.<br />

Watch for eblasts and flyers for updates<br />

and new activities. There are many<br />

events in the planning stages, as well as<br />

opportunities to volunteer.<br />

For more information or to make a<br />

reservation, contact Renee’ at rbialek@<br />

jewishnaples.org.<br />

Jewish Genealogy Group Meeting<br />

The next meeting of the Jewish Genealogy SIG (Shared Interest<br />

Group) at the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County offices<br />

(2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 2201, Naples)<br />

is on Tuesday, <strong>January</strong> 10 at 10:00 a.m.<br />

Seating is limited. RSVP to genresearch13@yahoo.com.<br />

You will receive an acknowledgement that<br />

you have a reservation. Bring a notebook and pen<br />

with you to the meeting.<br />

JEWS &<br />

BROADWAY<br />

Thursday, February 9 at 7:30pm<br />

Opera Naples<br />

2408 Linwood Avenue, Naples<br />

Rabbi Kanter presents We Jews On Broadway, a sing-along history<br />

of the American musical from the Gay ’90s operetta of Romberg &<br />

Friml… through Berlin, Kern, the Gershwins and Rodgers & Hart… to<br />

Sondheim, Mel Brooks and Kander & Ebb – the Broadway of today.<br />

$50.00 General seating • $75.00 Benefactor Preferred seating<br />

Event concludes with an elegant wine and dessert reception<br />

Tickets are available at naplesjewishcongregation.org or mail<br />

your check made out to Naples Jewish Congregation, along with<br />

your name, address and phone number, to: NJC, PO Box 111994,<br />

Naples FL 34108, Attn Tickets<br />

BROADWAY &<br />

SOCIAL CHANGE<br />

Friday, February 10 at 7:30pm<br />

Unitarian Universalist Congregation<br />

6340 Napa Woods Way, Naples • Free admission!<br />

Rabbi Kanter will be our guest at Shabbat services, and will trace<br />

the dominant role played by Jewish composers in Tin Pan Alley.<br />

From Irving Berlin and George Gershwin to Jerome Kern and Billy<br />

Rose, these songs are musical companions to American history.<br />

RABBI KENNETH KANTER<br />

Rabbi Kenneth Kanter is a nationally known author<br />

and entertainer focusing on the Jewish influence<br />

on American popular music. Viewers have called<br />

his unique sing-along concert/ lecture events<br />

“high-energy,” “inspiring,” “exhilirating,”<br />

“an absolutely superb night of entertainment<br />

and joy” and “the kind of event we will long remember.”<br />

Events<br />

sponsored<br />

in part by<br />

Jewish <strong>Federation</strong><br />

NAPLES JEWISH CONGREGATION<br />

Shabbat services are held every Friday night at the<br />

Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 6340 Napa Woods Way, Naples<br />

More information at 239-431-3858 or www.naplesjewishcongregation.org<br />

WARM • REFORM • AFFORDABLE • ADULT


14A <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

Astonishing stories now being told<br />

Ida<br />

Margolis<br />

GenShoah<br />

President<br />

After many sold-out events and<br />

programs last season, GenShoah<br />

SWFL formed focus groups<br />

to do an evaluation and to plan future<br />

programs. It was determined that the<br />

most popular and significant programs<br />

were those that were inspirational or<br />

told stories that were unfamiliar. The<br />

audiences for GenShoah programs are<br />

generally knowledgeable about the history<br />

of the Holocaust, are aware of the<br />

importance of continuing to tell stories<br />

about this unique event, and that there<br />

are many stories that are recently coming<br />

to light.<br />

Screening and presentation<br />

“Just when you thought you’d heard<br />

every vital story about the Holocaust,<br />

along comes the stirring documentary<br />

No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne<br />

Frank’s Story to shine further light on<br />

one of history’s darkest periods,” wrote<br />

Gary Goldstein of the LA Times.<br />

This award-winning film will be<br />

presented at Temple Shalom on Tuesday,<br />

<strong>January</strong> 31 at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Jonathan<br />

Brent, the executive director of<br />

New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish<br />

Research, will join us and explain about<br />

YIVO and how the cache of letters written<br />

in 1941 by Anne Frank’s father, Otto,<br />

was recently found there. Brent will also<br />

be available for a Q&A.<br />

Jewish Book Festival event<br />

Two little-known Holocaust stories are<br />

told in the books The Nazi Titanic: The<br />

Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed<br />

Ship in WWII by Robert Watson, and<br />

C’est La Vie: An Afternoon<br />

in France<br />

By Arlene Yedid<br />

What would lead a family of six<br />

children to flee their home<br />

and remain in hiding for four<br />

years? The members of the Catholic<br />

Gaillet family were forced to leave their<br />

comfortable home located<br />

in the path of the German<br />

invasion of France. They<br />

were part of a mass exodus<br />

of the French fleeing<br />

barbarous Nazi troops<br />

grabbing France as their<br />

dominion.<br />

In 2014, Hélène Gaillet<br />

de Neergard wrote a<br />

childhood memoir called<br />

I Was a War Child. She<br />

was only four at the outbreak<br />

of the war. Fortunately,<br />

her father had kept<br />

a diary of their harrowing war years.<br />

Her childhood molded her determined<br />

personality. She sought and led<br />

a golden life with the rich and famous.<br />

She was a noted photographer of celebrities<br />

Muhammad Ali and David Frost.<br />

Hélène captured nighttime New York<br />

Hélène Gaillet de Neergard<br />

Sam and Rene Geist at Beth Tikvah –<br />

Sam facilitated the GenShoah fi lm presentation<br />

of The People vs. Fritz Bauer<br />

in photographs of Harlem jazz greats.<br />

Interestingly, Hélène’s friendship with<br />

Jackie and Aristotle Onassis is revealed<br />

in their biographies.<br />

Hélène, a fascinating speaker, will<br />

recount memories of her<br />

exciting life at a special<br />

event, C’est La Vie: An<br />

Afternoon in France, a<br />

Temple Shalom Sisterhood<br />

benefit. It will be<br />

held at the Hilton Naples<br />

on Tuesday, February 21<br />

at 11:00 a.m. The luncheon<br />

features signature<br />

French cuisine. Harpist<br />

Laura Lou Roth will<br />

enhance the afternoon<br />

with delicate French music.<br />

Evelyn and Arthur’s<br />

Promenade store will give an informal<br />

look at chic new fashions. The cost is<br />

$75 per person, $150 for patrons, and<br />

$300 for sponsors.<br />

For more information, please email<br />

templesisterhoodevents@gmail.com or<br />

call 239.455.2423.<br />

Orchestra of Exiles: The Story of<br />

Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic,<br />

and the One Thousand Jews<br />

He Saved from Nazi Horrors by Josh<br />

Aronson.<br />

Shelley Lieb will lead a discussion<br />

of The Nazi Titanic on Wednesday,<br />

<strong>January</strong> 4 at 10:00 a.m. at the Holocaust<br />

Museum & Education Center of Southwest<br />

Florida.<br />

Authors Watson and Aronson, who<br />

are part of the Collier County Jewish<br />

Book Festival, will be speaking on<br />

Monday, <strong>January</strong> 23 at 1:00 p.m. at Beth<br />

Tikvah, 1459 Pine Ridge Road, Naples.<br />

These two stories are more than interesting<br />

– they are astonishing. Information<br />

about purchasing tickets to Jewish Book<br />

Festival events can be<br />

found in the four-page<br />

pullout section in this<br />

issue of the <strong>Federation</strong><br />

<strong>Star</strong>.<br />

Two guest speakers<br />

On Sunday, February<br />

19 at 5:00 p.m. at the<br />

Holocaust Museum,<br />

there will be an opportunity<br />

to hear two<br />

extraordinary stories<br />

from two outstanding<br />

COMMUNITY FOCUS<br />

speakers. Holocaust survivor Steen<br />

Metz will relate his personal story of<br />

being transported to TheresienstadtF<br />

Concentration Camp. Filmmaker and<br />

author Marina Berkovich will tell her<br />

story about interviewing a well-known<br />

Holocaust denier.<br />

Information about additional programs<br />

will be in future issues of the<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> and in the GenShoah<br />

e-newsletter.<br />

Reservations are required due to<br />

space limitations. Tax-deductible donations<br />

for GenShoah programs are<br />

I<br />

requested at events and are greatly<br />

appreciated. To RSVP for programs or<br />

to receive the GenShoah e-newsletter,<br />

email genshoahswfl@icloud.com.<br />

Ron Agronin, facilitator of the fi lm Defi ant Requiem with Rob Nossen,<br />

who told his story of being a child in the Theresienstadt concentration,<br />

camp; and lecturer Elliot Katz, at Holocaust Museum<br />

“Serving the Jewish Community for Over 14 Years”<br />

Traditional Jewish Services<br />

GenShoah of SWFL <strong>2017</strong> Schedule of Events<br />

Sunday, <strong>January</strong> 15<br />

Trip to Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg followed by lunch with<br />

Generations After Tampa Bay<br />

Tuesday, <strong>January</strong> 31, 7:00 p.m.<br />

Film - No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story - with speaker<br />

Jonathan Brent, Executive director of YIVO, the archives where letters written by<br />

Otto Frank were recently uncovered<br />

Temple Shalom, 4630 Pine Ridge Road, Naples<br />

Sunday, February 19, 5:00 p.m.<br />

Speakers Steen Metz, presenting his survivor story, and Marina Berkovich discussing<br />

her interview with a Holocaust Denier<br />

Holocaust Museum, 4760 Tamiami Trail N, Naples<br />

Sunday, April 16<br />

Program TBD<br />

Beth Tikvah, 1459 Pine Ridge Road, Naples<br />

RSVPs are required for all GenShoah events. For reservations,<br />

information and to receive the GenShoah enewsletter,<br />

contact Ida at genshoahswfl@icloud.com or 239.963.9347.<br />

Additional Community Programs of Holocaust Relevance:<br />

Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 19, 7:00 p.m.<br />

Jewish Book Festival, author Amy Kurzweil, Flying Couch, at Jewish <strong>Federation</strong><br />

Monday, <strong>January</strong> 23, 1:00 p.m.<br />

Jewish Book Festival, authors Robert Watson, The Nazi Titanic, and Josh Aronson,<br />

Orchestra of Exiles, at Beth Tikvah<br />

Friday, <strong>January</strong> 27, 7:30 p.m.<br />

UN Holocaust Day, Speaker Dr. Stephen Berk, at Temple Shalom<br />

Sunday, March 5, 1:30 p.m.<br />

“Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People” presented by Dr. William Madges,<br />

at St. Ann Jubilee Center, 479 9 th Ave. S., Naples<br />

Sunday, March 19, 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.<br />

Jewish Community Festival of Learning, scheduled presentations include “Bearing<br />

Witness” by Goldie Bertone, and “Nazi Olympics” by Dr. Bartrop, at Temple Shalom<br />

Sunday, April 23, 10:00 a.m.<br />

Yom HaShoah program, at Temple Shalom<br />

For a continuously updated community calendar,<br />

visit the <strong>Federation</strong>’s website at www.jewishnaples.org.


COMMUNITY FOCUS<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

15A<br />

JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SWFL www.jhsswf.org / 239-566-1771<br />

Florida Jewish History Month <strong>2017</strong><br />

Marina<br />

Berkovich<br />

JHSSWF<br />

President<br />

I<br />

marvel at the fortuitous designation<br />

of <strong>January</strong> as Florida Jewish History<br />

Month. What a great way to start<br />

each year for us all, isn’t it?!<br />

The Society will begin the year<br />

with its Annual Fundraising Event, the<br />

premier of a new film in its Southwest<br />

Florida Jewish Pioneers Series – “Stuart<br />

Kaye, a Mensch for All Reasons.”<br />

Stuart is a notable Collier County<br />

developer and one of the contemporary<br />

leaders of the Collier County Jewish<br />

community, who has made Naples his<br />

home since 1981. His story is loaded<br />

with Collier County historical tidbits<br />

and is a treasure trove for local history<br />

buffs and sleuths.<br />

Stuart’s journey from his arrival<br />

here just after college is unique for those<br />

who understand that in those long-ago<br />

days of Naples history (1980s!), there<br />

were only a few single young Jewish<br />

men and no single young Jewish women<br />

living in Collier County. To Stuart, who<br />

was raised on Florida’s east coast and<br />

experienced the thriving Jewish life<br />

and culture it offered,<br />

partaking in the creation<br />

and shaping of the<br />

Collier County Jewish<br />

community was a given.<br />

And his accomplishments<br />

are many.<br />

The Jewish Historical<br />

Society of Southwest<br />

Florida strives to<br />

boost the current flow<br />

of information about our<br />

community’s founders and contemporaries.<br />

We hope you will come to enjoy<br />

the film, meet the Kaye family, and<br />

experience the festive surprises the Society<br />

has prepared. The event will take<br />

place on Monday, <strong>January</strong> 16 at 5:00<br />

p.m. at the Paragon Pavilion Theaters,<br />

833 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Naples.<br />

Tickets include the movie, a wine &<br />

cheese reception, and optional new<br />

Stuart Kaye<br />

membership or renewal. Donations are<br />

most welcomed and very much appreciated<br />

to enable the Society to further its<br />

mission of Jewish history preservation<br />

in the region. To purchase tickets, please<br />

email office@jhsswf.org or leave a message<br />

at 239.566.1771.<br />

The Virtual Museum<br />

of Southwest Jewish History<br />

is now active. You<br />

may explore our discoveries<br />

and collections at any<br />

time convenient to you,<br />

and send links to your family<br />

members and anyone<br />

else. You can access it at<br />

www.jewishhistorysouth<br />

westflorida.org.<br />

Many interesting and important<br />

Jews relocated or became seasonal<br />

residents of Southwest Florida. Some<br />

of them influenced their contemporaries<br />

through their deeds, legacy, accomplishments,<br />

stories, conversations or just<br />

their very presence in same circles. Jews<br />

of Southwest Florida used to be few, and<br />

everyone knew everyone else even as<br />

recently as just two decades ago.<br />

Request for nominations for 21 st Annual<br />

Breaking the Glass Ceiling Awards<br />

The Jewish Museum of Florida-<br />

FIU is seeking nominations for<br />

the 21 st Annual Breaking the<br />

Glass Ceiling Awards to be presented<br />

on Sunday, March 26 in Miami Beach.<br />

From the submissions, the Breaking<br />

the Glass Ceiling Committee will select<br />

four women from around the state<br />

to receive the annual award.<br />

The award was established in 1995<br />

by the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU<br />

(JMOF-FIU) to honor Florida Jewish<br />

professional women who have become<br />

successful pioneers in fields generally<br />

dominated by men. While this is<br />

not an award for community service,<br />

the honorees must have demonstrated<br />

activities in the Jewish and civic community,<br />

and served as role models or<br />

mentors. More than 85 women have<br />

received this prestigious award to date,<br />

including women in medicine, banking,<br />

accounting, academia, politics,<br />

law, aviation, sports, journalism, arts,<br />

entertainment and more.<br />

If you know a woman who qualifies<br />

for this award, please log onto<br />

www.jewishmuseum.com, or contact<br />

Nancy Cohen at 786.972.3164 or nan<br />

cohen@fiu.edu to obtain a nomination<br />

form. Nominations need to submitted<br />

to JMOF-FIU by Friday, <strong>January</strong> 20 at<br />

5:00 p.m. You may submit<br />

more than one nominee.<br />

Nomination is an honor,<br />

but not a guarantee of final<br />

selection. In order to<br />

receive the award, recipients<br />

must be able to take<br />

part in the Glass Ceiling<br />

Ceremony at JMOF-FIU<br />

on March 26.<br />

To enter a candidate for the Virtual<br />

Museum, please send a one-page summary,<br />

(handwritten is okay) by <strong>January</strong><br />

7. Include your contact information.<br />

Winners will be announced on <strong>January</strong><br />

16.<br />

The following volunteer opportunities<br />

are still available for the <strong>2017</strong><br />

season: researcher, data entry and correspondence<br />

assistant.<br />

Our Mission<br />

Collecting, protecting and preserving<br />

Jewish histories to celebrate the contribution<br />

by Jews in Southwest Florida<br />

every day of every year is part of our<br />

mission.<br />

Become a member of JHSSWF, a<br />

sponsor, business associate, volunteer<br />

and/or donor. Contact us at:<br />

The Jewish Historical Society<br />

of Southwest Florida<br />

899 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 116,<br />

Naples FL 34108<br />

239-566-1771<br />

www.jhsswf.org<br />

The Jewish Historical Society of<br />

Southwest Florida is a section 501(c)(3)<br />

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Wendy Mann Resnick, Karen Asher Cohen<br />

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16A <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

DONOR APPRECIATION LIST<br />

Campaign 2016 Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County Donor Appreciation List<br />

Below is an alphabetical listing of the people who have made commitments to Campaign 2016 through December 12.<br />

Thanks to each of you, we are able to enhance and enrich the quality of Jewish life by recognizing and supporting the<br />

charitable, educational, humanitarian and social service needs of the Jewish community locally, nationally, overseas<br />

and in the State of Israel. Thank you for your generous commitment to our community!<br />

Sally Aaron<br />

Phyllis Aaron<br />

Bonnie and Peter Abeles<br />

Faye and Larry Abels<br />

Cheryl and Murray Abrams<br />

Linda and Dan Abrams<br />

Phyllis and Hy Ackerman<br />

Harriet Adelstein<br />

Tricia Adkins<br />

Judith and Fred Adler<br />

Susan Adler<br />

Doris Adler<br />

Doris and Alan Adlestein<br />

Sheryl and Melton Affrime<br />

Sheila and Howard Agranat<br />

Carolyn Agress<br />

Belle and Ronald Agronin<br />

Jacqui and Kevin Aizenshtat<br />

Barbara and Hymie Akst<br />

Martha and Ben Alalouf<br />

Carol and Ronald Alderman<br />

Hiram Allman<br />

Bella and Burton Altura<br />

Hella Amelkin<br />

Judith and Edward Anchel<br />

Felicia and Kenneth Anchor<br />

Sheryl and George Annes<br />

Marlene and Nate Apkon<br />

Carol and Les Appel<br />

Nancy and Robert Armocida<br />

Debra Antzis and Chad Atkins<br />

Hedy and Albert Aurecchia<br />

Sigrid Axelrad<br />

Axelrod Family Fund at the<br />

Jewish Community Foundation<br />

of Greater Mercer<br />

Mimi and Richard Azreal<br />

Cantor Donna Mashadi and Zadok Azu<br />

Beverly and Leonard Baker<br />

Barbara and Ronald Balser<br />

Barbara and Ronald Balser<br />

Arlene and Joel Banow<br />

Ruth and Martin Barber<br />

Barry Barber<br />

Linda and Don Barger<br />

Judy Liff and Jo Barker<br />

Barbara and John Barlas<br />

Julie Barocas<br />

Phyllis Barolsky<br />

Jane and Arnold Baron<br />

Melanie and Chuck Barry<br />

Sue Baum<br />

Gersha Bayer<br />

Bernice and Edward Bayer<br />

Gail and Jack Baylin<br />

Joan and Harv Becker<br />

Sheila and Alvin Becker<br />

Claire and Robert Beckler<br />

Helen W. Bell Charitable Foundation<br />

Nancy and Lawrence Bell<br />

Elaine and Alan Bello<br />

Susan Bellows<br />

Judith and Don Belmont<br />

Judy and Bruce Bendoff<br />

Myra and William Benedikt<br />

Judith Bergen<br />

Carol F. Berger<br />

Jane Berger<br />

Mardelle and Bennett Berman<br />

Patti and Sanford Berman<br />

Minda and Michael Bernberg<br />

Harriet and Louis Berneman<br />

Robin and Joseph Bernstein<br />

Nancy Bernstein<br />

Robin Bernstein<br />

Stephanie and David Bernstein<br />

Karen and Brad Bersh<br />

Joan and Joseph Berstein<br />

Goldie and Louis Bertone<br />

Irving Berzon<br />

Shirley and Marshall Besikof<br />

Paula and Stuart Biegel<br />

Ruth and Bruce Bier<br />

Marcy Aizenshtat and Jon Bigel<br />

Janice and Gary Bilchik<br />

Eleanor Bittman<br />

Paula and Michael Blachman<br />

Helen and Arthur Blatt<br />

Joanne and Roger Blau<br />

Beverly and Andrew Blazar<br />

Diane and Gilbert Block<br />

Janet W. Bloom<br />

Pat and Barry Bloomgarden<br />

Margery and Michael Bluestein<br />

Bea Bluestein<br />

Barbara Blumenfeld<br />

Joyce and Robert Blumenthal<br />

Shussie and Allen Blumenthal<br />

Arlene and Burt Blustein<br />

Bonnie Bodin<br />

Rosalee and Jerry Bogo<br />

Maria Bollt<br />

Laurie and Roberto Bollt<br />

Jill and Edward Bolner<br />

Eleanor Bonder<br />

Bette Bonne’<br />

Sonia Boodman<br />

Susan and Arthur Bookbinder<br />

Betsy Borden<br />

Caren and Nat Bosk<br />

Nancy and Edward Boyer<br />

Valerie Braun<br />

Jeanne and Neil Braverman<br />

Maxine and Harvey Brenner<br />

Elizabeth and Richard Brenner<br />

Susan and Eugene Briskman<br />

Enid and Eugene Bronstein<br />

Pearl Brostoff<br />

Elaine and Bob Brotman<br />

Lori and Frederick Brown<br />

Diane Solomon and Stuart Brown<br />

Joyce and Barry Brown<br />

Peggy and Kenneth Brown<br />

Sybil Brown<br />

Jean and Abe Brown<br />

Melvin Bubrick<br />

Erica and James Buchweitz<br />

Diane and Pete Burke<br />

Joanne Burton<br />

Robert Cahners<br />

Norma Carl<br />

Linda and Dan Carp<br />

Judith and Jerome Carr<br />

Brian Cassell<br />

Doralu and Frank Chanen<br />

Elaine Chase<br />

Linda and Paul Chase<br />

Flo Chelm<br />

Ellen and Larry Chernikoff<br />

Linda and Harold Chizewer<br />

Aviva and Rabbi Ammos Chorny<br />

Rosemary Christie<br />

Roslyn and David Citrin<br />

Carol and Michael Clarke<br />

Janet and Stephen Cohen<br />

Barbara and Edward Cohen<br />

Lois and Lawrence Cohen<br />

Katie and Harvey Cohen<br />

Diane and Martin Cohen<br />

Adele and Mark Cohen<br />

Lois and Philip Cohen<br />

Georgette and Raphael Cohen<br />

Nancy and Ronald Cohen<br />

Marilyn and Larry Cohen<br />

Miriam and Burton Cohn<br />

Karen and Martin Cohn<br />

Mark Cohn<br />

Mark Coleman<br />

Stephen D. Coleman<br />

Jane and Peter Coleman<br />

Nancy and Ed Colodny<br />

Lynn and Ellis Cook<br />

Alan Cooper<br />

Janet and Saul Cooperman<br />

Jeanne Copeland<br />

Becky Cornacchia<br />

Marcy and Ira Cotton<br />

Paula and Ronald Creed<br />

Myra and Peter Cristall<br />

Barbara Ann and Leonard Cutler<br />

Marilyn and Philip Dano<br />

Marcia and David Danoff<br />

Susan and Alan Daroff<br />

Terri and Michael David<br />

Shellie Specter and Robert Davidson<br />

Fern Davis<br />

Susan and Phil Dean<br />

Celia Deifik<br />

David Dembo<br />

Linda Denning<br />

Johnna Dettis<br />

Karen and Stanley Deutsch<br />

Laraine and Laurence Deutsch<br />

Cissy and Harvey Dezen<br />

Sandy and Sid Diamond<br />

Corinne Ditkof<br />

Marilyn Dolid<br />

Meredith Dondero<br />

Barbara Druckman<br />

Steve Earl<br />

Bobbi Ehrlich<br />

Mary Ann Ellis<br />

Kathy and Ron Emanuel<br />

Richard Endlar<br />

Marian and Joel Engel<br />

Geraldine Feldman and David Epstein<br />

Ted Epstein<br />

Eileen and Bill Ertag<br />

Joan and Azariah Eshkenazi<br />

Kella and Bill Ettinger<br />

Jane and Gerald Evans<br />

Sandra and Gary Faber<br />

Reesa and Michael Faeder<br />

Jaclynn Faffer<br />

Judy and Ray Fant<br />

Mignon and Stanley Farb<br />

Elaine Feffe<br />

Cheryl and Mark Feinberg<br />

Florence Feinson<br />

Kathy and Eric Feinstein<br />

Susan and Jeffrey Feld<br />

Sue and Rich Feldman<br />

Leslie and Ed Feldman<br />

Michael Feldman<br />

Audrey Fenton<br />

Marilyn and Stuart Fenton<br />

Carolyn and Sidney Ferder<br />

Genine and Josh Fidler<br />

Marcia and Michael Filiurin<br />

Paula and Ronald Filler<br />

Eileen and Samuel Finkelstein<br />

Marlene and Arnan Finkelstein<br />

Jan and Steve Fischer<br />

Liz and Harry Fischman<br />

Dr. Nancy Feldman and Dr. Keith Fishbein<br />

Eloyse and David Fisher<br />

Cheryl and Barry Fisher<br />

Rischa and Harry Fishman<br />

Linda and Michael Fiterman<br />

Barbara and Gerald Flagel<br />

Carole and Jason Flegel<br />

Jennifer and Marc Fleischer<br />

Patricia Fleischman<br />

Sandy and Arnold Fleischman<br />

Nancy and Harold Fogelson<br />

Madeline and Norman Foster<br />

Christine Frank<br />

Linda and Bruce Frank<br />

Helayne and Craig Frankel<br />

Kenneth and Harriet Franklin<br />

Judy and Barry Freedman<br />

Anita and Phil Freeman<br />

Diane and Louis Freeman<br />

Susan and Yale Freeman<br />

Lisa and Sid Freund<br />

Jane and Lester Friedberg<br />

Judith and Samuel Friedland<br />

Carol and Cliff Friedman<br />

Mary Ann and Mel Friedman<br />

Myra and Mort Friedman<br />

Carol and Stephen Friedman<br />

Marilyn and Bruce Friedman<br />

Carol and Sherman Friedman<br />

Olga and Boruch Frusztajer<br />

Ellen and Richard Gabriel<br />

Susan and Bob Garelick<br />

Ilene and David Garfield<br />

Nancy and Darryl Garfinkel<br />

Phyllis and Philip Garon<br />

Peggy and John Garson<br />

Jean Gelbort<br />

Donna and Emory Geller<br />

Peg and Marvin Geller<br />

Jan and Marc Gerber<br />

Richard Gerstein<br />

Heidi and Howard Gilbert<br />

Nancy and Stuart Gitis<br />

Janet Gladstein<br />

Eta Gluzband<br />

Dennis Gold<br />

Jeri Hall and Ted Goldberg<br />

Barbara and Marc Goldberg<br />

Donna and Richard Goldblatt<br />

Marilyn and Barry Goldenberg<br />

Barbara and Gene Goldenziel<br />

Cindi and Harold Goldfine<br />

Marsha and Melvin Goldfine<br />

Carol and Bill Goldman<br />

Frances and Allan Goldman<br />

Hilliard Goldman<br />

Phil Goldman<br />

Susie and Ron Goldsmith<br />

Lenora and Bernie Goldstein<br />

Marsha and Michael Goldstein<br />

Diana and Ken Goldstein<br />

Melissa Chalfin and Ramon Gonzalez<br />

Jill Goode<br />

Cary and David Goodman<br />

Jo Goodman<br />

Suzanne and Jonathan Gopman<br />

Helene and Alan Gordon<br />

Ellen and Michael Gordon<br />

Sharon and Burton Gordon<br />

Carole and Marcus Gottlieb<br />

Stephanie and Sandy Gradinger<br />

Leah Graham<br />

Jane Schiff and Lon Gratz<br />

Betsy and Michael Green<br />

Eileen Green<br />

Debi and Michael Greenberg<br />

Marcia and Paul Greenberg<br />

Nancy and Hank Greenberg<br />

Rita and Ben Greenberg<br />

Carole Greene<br />

Diane and Neil Greene<br />

Heather and Jonathan Greenfield<br />

Jane Greenfield<br />

Freya Greenspahn<br />

Sheila Greenspan<br />

Lenore Greenstein<br />

Sondra and Thomas Greer<br />

Carol and Rabbi Mark Gross<br />

Ellen and Ronnie Gross<br />

Carol and Mark Gross<br />

Margaret and Lawrence Grossgold<br />

Ellen and Robert Gurnitz<br />

Debbie and Scott Gutterson<br />

Diane and Owen Hahn<br />

Susan and Joe Hammerman<br />

Sheila and Lester Handler<br />

Sharyn and Lawrence Harris<br />

Paula Brody and Merrill Hassenfeld<br />

Karen and Lawrence Hausman<br />

Sandra and Stephen Hechler<br />

Evelyn and Larry Hecht<br />

Gene Helfand<br />

Suzanne and Herbert Herman<br />

Janet and Martin Herring<br />

Marie Hersh<br />

Judith and Robert Hershenhorn<br />

Rosalind and Morris Herstein<br />

Stephanie and Neil Heuer<br />

Sylvia and Ralph Heyman<br />

Paula and Mike Himowitz<br />

Carol and Burton Hirsch<br />

Harriet and Myron Hirsch<br />

Amy and Robert Hirsch<br />

Evelyn Hochberg<br />

Jeanne and James Hochman<br />

Harriet and Ted Hollander<br />

Joan and Martin Holzinger<br />

Susan and Michael Horovitz<br />

Susan and Michael Horowitz<br />

Sheldra and Lawrence Horwitz<br />

Ruth Hubing<br />

Judith and Charles Huizenga<br />

Muriel Hurwich<br />

Dana and Lonnie Hurwitz<br />

Linda and Larry Hyde<br />

Rosie and Chuck Hyman<br />

Debra Hymovich<br />

Lynda and Donald Insul<br />

Jo Isaacson<br />

Fredda and David Isaacson<br />

Alice and Art Isenberg<br />

Nina and Stephen Iser<br />

Heidi and Donald Ivener<br />

Anne and Lawrence Jacobs<br />

Hari and Jack Jacobsen<br />

Rosalyn and Howard Jacobson<br />

Liz and Alan Jaffe<br />

Lois and Richard Janger<br />

Ruth and Philip Jason<br />

Rona Javitch<br />

Ginny and Herbert Jermanok<br />

Rabbi Earl Jordan<br />

Gladys and Irwin Kabler<br />

Miriam Kaemen<br />

Nancy and Jeffrey Kahn<br />

Florette Kahn<br />

Barbara and Steve Kahn<br />

Nancy Kalishman<br />

Jill Kamin<br />

Elaine and Fred Kamin<br />

Raleigh and Randy Kaminsky<br />

Merrylee and Joseph Kandel<br />

Ruth Kanter<br />

Janet and Stanley Kantor<br />

Eloyse and Elliot Kaplan<br />

Susan and Hyman Kaplan<br />

Nancy Kaplan<br />

Nancy and Burt Kaplan<br />

Patricia and Joshua Kaplan<br />

Ileen Morris and Norman Kaplan<br />

Chris and Paul Kardon<br />

Judith and Wayne Kargher<br />

Esie and George Karpman<br />

Helaine and Harvey Kasoff<br />

Nancy and Gary Kass<br />

Roslyn and Albert Katz<br />

Barbara and Morris Katz<br />

Bobbie and Gene Katz<br />

Gloria Katz<br />

Lisa and Dale Katz<br />

Susan and Elliott Katz<br />

Elsa and Fred Katz<br />

Karen and Larry Katz<br />

Bobbie Kauffman<br />

Judith and Jack Kaufman<br />

Vivian and Rabbi Foster Kawaler


DONOR APPRECIATION LIST<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

17A<br />

Campaign 2016 Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County Donor Appreciation List<br />

Shelley and Sheldon Kaye<br />

Jay and Stuart Kaye<br />

William G. Kaye<br />

Lee Kaye<br />

Melissa and Harry Keel<br />

Brian Kelly<br />

Dr. Herbert and Hanita Kern Family<br />

Philanthropic Fund<br />

Rita and Bob Kessel<br />

Joan and Joel Kessler<br />

Laureen and Jerry Kinast<br />

Natalie and Marvin Klein<br />

Anne and Peter Klein<br />

Lin and Ron Klein<br />

Linda and Louis Klein Jr.<br />

Terri and Stuart Kline<br />

Arnold Klinsky<br />

Sue and Allan Kluger<br />

Frances and Judson Knox<br />

Adrea and Charles Kofman<br />

Sally and Leonard Koor<br />

Beverly and Steven Koren<br />

Rebecca and Tyler Korn<br />

Lori Kleiman and Andy Korn<br />

Simonne and Alexander Kott<br />

Shirley and Henry Kraus<br />

Sheila and Richard Krentz<br />

Helene and Judge Norman Krivosha<br />

Ruthi and Irwin Kroskin<br />

Connie Krotick<br />

June and Steve Kruger<br />

Jodi and Ryan Kuhl<br />

Gracia Kuller<br />

Marilyn and Bernard Kunitz<br />

Carol and Larry Kurlander<br />

Barbara and Ira Kushnir<br />

Bob Kutner<br />

Diane La Penna<br />

Trudy and Malcolm Labell<br />

Carol and Marvin Lader<br />

Elaine and Richard Landau<br />

Gail and Howard Lanznar<br />

Heidi Thorner and Gary Layton<br />

Fran and Gary Lazaroff<br />

Phyllis Lazear<br />

Bonnie and Richard Lechtner<br />

Dana and Paul Lefkowitz<br />

Ruth and Burton Leibert<br />

Bettye and Jerry Leibowitz<br />

Rhoda and Ted Lempert<br />

Wallie and Gary Lenchner<br />

Helaine and Marvin Lender<br />

Elaine D Lerner<br />

Heather Lerner<br />

Larry Levey<br />

Arlene and Sander Levin<br />

Myrna and Stephen Levin<br />

Anna and Yale Levin<br />

Linda and Larry Levin<br />

Delores and Sheldon Levin<br />

Norma Rosen and Samuel Levin<br />

Judi and Richard Levin<br />

David H. Levin<br />

Linda and David Levine<br />

Barbara and Robert Levine<br />

Hilda and Marty Levine<br />

Judy and Mayer Levitt<br />

Pat and Abe Levy<br />

Godfrey Levy<br />

Diane and Robert Levy<br />

Irv Lewis<br />

Harriet and Merlin Lickhalter<br />

Phyllis and Larry Liebman<br />

Janette and Leonard Linkon<br />

Flo and Roger Lipitz<br />

Suzanne and David Lipman<br />

Teri Kampmeyer and Stan Lipp<br />

Dorothy Lipschultz<br />

Beverly Lipson<br />

Evelyn Lissauer<br />

Melanie and Anthony Listrom<br />

Jack Lite<br />

Arlene and Mark Litow<br />

Ilana and Bernard Loewenthal<br />

Ileen Malitz and Michael Long<br />

Leda and Robert Lubin<br />

Bobbie and Bernie Lublin<br />

Kat Luchene<br />

Beverly Ludwig Fisher<br />

Marlene and Edwin Lyons<br />

Gail and Steve Machov<br />

Dottie Magen<br />

Phyllis and Stanley Magrill<br />

Paula and Robert Maisel<br />

Frances Kline and Mark Malone<br />

Nancy Brown and William Maltby<br />

Phyllis Marco<br />

Bea Margolis<br />

Harriet and Sheldon Margolis<br />

Ida and Jeff Margolis<br />

Marci and Howard Margolis<br />

Lorel Martens<br />

Max Kagan Family Foundation<br />

Toby and Robert Maxmen<br />

Lorie Mayer<br />

Eileen and Bob McNeill<br />

Gloria and Ed Meer<br />

Gloria and Ed Meer<br />

Judy and Art Mehlman<br />

Ann and Burton Meisner<br />

Helene and Gerald Melnick<br />

Jacqueline and Michael Mendelsohn<br />

Nancy and Terry Meyer<br />

Paula and Ron Meyer<br />

Ronald Michelin<br />

Martin Millender<br />

Jennifer Siegal and Rabbi Adam Miller<br />

Linda and Stuart Miller<br />

Lynn and Robert Miller<br />

Marilyn and Malcolm Miller<br />

Joel Miller<br />

Rhoda Miller<br />

Rochelle and Sam Miller<br />

Jack Millstein<br />

Deborah Minnick<br />

Eli Montague<br />

Elaine and Jay Moorin<br />

Jean E. Morrison<br />

Judy and Jeffrey Morton<br />

Ellen Katz and Milton Moses<br />

Karen and Neil Moss<br />

Neil Moss<br />

Kathy Schneiderman and Martin Moss<br />

Bobbie and Jack Myers<br />

Micki and Mort Naiman<br />

Gail and Alexander Nash<br />

Cynthia and Stuart Nayer<br />

Bobbie and Richard Nemerson<br />

Jerry Nepon<br />

Marciadee and Herb Newman<br />

Martin Nicolau<br />

Gail and Les Nizin<br />

Vickie and Truly Nolen<br />

Jack Nortman<br />

Frances and Robert Nossen<br />

Jack Nothmann<br />

Ellie Shepard and Daniel O’Brien<br />

Patricia and David Okeon<br />

Arlene Tannenbaum and Jim O’Leary<br />

Nancy and Charles Olender<br />

Harvey Oriel<br />

Cheryl and Arthur Orlick<br />

Rita and Stanley Orons<br />

Samuel Oshry<br />

Barbara and Steve Ostrolenk<br />

Marjorie and Charles Ostrov<br />

Judi Palay<br />

June R. Paley<br />

Sara Pantel<br />

Jackie and Franklin Paulson<br />

Susan and Richard Payne<br />

Nanda and Joel Pearlman<br />

Hedy and Ronald Pearlman<br />

Jeanne and Melvin Pelletz<br />

Freddie and Alan Peltz<br />

Bonnie and Richard Perlman<br />

Jane and Rabbi James Perman<br />

Glenn Perrin<br />

Helaine and Walter Perry<br />

Helice and Steven Picheny<br />

Judith and Charles Picus<br />

Aileen and Michael Pierce<br />

Stanton Pikus<br />

Susan and Joel Pittelman<br />

Grace and Richard Plager<br />

Steven Podolsky<br />

Carol and Dick Polinsky<br />

Rochelle Pollens<br />

Irene and Donald Pomerantz<br />

Henny Porter<br />

Stephanie and David Portman<br />

Karen and Curt Posner<br />

Debbie Laites and Ben Post<br />

Beth-Ellen and Irv Povlow<br />

Estelle and Stuart Price<br />

Judit and Richard Price<br />

Isabel B Price<br />

Kate and Ilya Prizel<br />

Lynn and Richard Prosten<br />

Joseph Pugach<br />

Susan and Jack Rabin<br />

Cecille Raichlen<br />

Sandra and Maury Raizes<br />

Sandy and Jeffrey Randall<br />

Elaine and David Rapoport<br />

Lourene Rapport<br />

John Reisman<br />

Marcelle Reiss<br />

Alice and Jerry Richter<br />

Sandy Rick<br />

Mae and Judge Mort Riefberg<br />

Susan and Nathaniel Ritter<br />

Donna J. Robbins<br />

Dena and Gerald Robbins<br />

Lorraine and Norman Rocklin<br />

Naida and Michael Rodman<br />

Tova and Basil Roman<br />

Wilma and Sidney Rosen<br />

Selma Rosen<br />

Toni and Michael Rosen<br />

Linda and Kim Rosenberg<br />

Gail and David Rosenblatt<br />

Harvey Rosenthal<br />

Florence Rosenthal<br />

Helen and Edward Rosenthal<br />

Gloria and Lyle Rosenzweig<br />

Cathy Reiman and Jay Rosman<br />

Paul Rosofsky<br />

Carolyn and Tracey Roth<br />

Sandra and Fredric Roth<br />

Natalie and Burton Roth<br />

Sandra and Ronald Roth<br />

Geri and Dick Rothwell<br />

Luba and Alberto Rotsztain<br />

Nan and Dimitri Roytberg<br />

Midge and Stephen Rozen<br />

Ellen Field and Gus Rubbo<br />

JoEllen and Leonard Rubenstein<br />

Barbara and Lionel Rubin<br />

Anne and Mark Rubin<br />

Norma and Martin Rubin<br />

Cynthia and George Rubin<br />

Sugar Rubin<br />

Michael Rubner<br />

Joan Rudick<br />

Judy and Stanley Ruskin<br />

Adrienne and Miles Russ<br />

Rena and David Rutstein<br />

Mary Sabel<br />

Myrna and Harold Sadowsky<br />

Karen and Edward Saeks<br />

Holli Salls<br />

Denise and Jack Samuel<br />

Eva and Barry Sands<br />

Sandra and Charles Sanfilippo<br />

Joan and Marc Saperstein<br />

Rita Bernstein and Mort Sapkin<br />

Bette and Arnold Saslavsky<br />

Jamie and Stephen Satz<br />

Nancy and Steven Schachtman<br />

Judy and Mark Schaengold<br />

Lorraine and Mark Schapiro<br />

Eleanor and Neil Scheffler<br />

Linda and Shepard Scheinberg<br />

Janet Scher<br />

Sedra and Alan Schiffman<br />

Vicki and Ed Schifman<br />

Lois and Jay Schiller<br />

Robin and Stephen Schiller<br />

Roslyn Schneider<br />

Kathy Schneiderman<br />

Diane and Harvey Scholnick<br />

Elaine and Rudy Schott<br />

Susan Schreiberg<br />

Deborah and Stephen Schreier<br />

Stephanie and Robert Schriber<br />

Anne and Larry Schuchman<br />

Sandy and Leonard Schuman<br />

Jane Schwartz<br />

Arlene and Elliot Schwartz<br />

Elaine and Ira Schwartz<br />

Betty and Les Schwartz<br />

Diane and Hank Schwartz<br />

Denise and Robert Schwartzman<br />

Harriet and Stuart Schweitzer<br />

Jan Finander Scott<br />

Phyllis and Michael Seaman<br />

Rosaline and Ralph Segall<br />

Bernie Seidman<br />

Ellen and Arthur Seigel<br />

Ivan Seligman<br />

Millie and James Sernovitz<br />

June and Arthur Shafer<br />

Nancy and Sam Shafer<br />

Estelle and Jacob Shammask<br />

Arlene and Donald Shapiro<br />

Anita and Richard Shapiro<br />

Sandra and Norman Shapiro<br />

Linda and David Shapiro<br />

Joel Shapiro<br />

Caroline and Jonathan Shaw<br />

Diane and Jeff Shein<br />

Sorley Sheinberg<br />

Sylvia and Elliott Sherman<br />

Debbie and Howard Sherman<br />

Harrilee and Kenneth Shevin<br />

Fay and Alfred Shubinsky<br />

Iris Shur<br />

Tobyanne and Arnold Sidman<br />

Anita and Michael Siegal<br />

Delores and Gene Siegel<br />

Gay and David Silberg<br />

Winnie and Marvin Silberman<br />

Debra and Michael Silow<br />

Cathy and Scott Silver<br />

Barbara Silver<br />

Carol and Eugene Simon<br />

Linda and Marc Simon<br />

Andy Singer<br />

Robin and Dan Singer<br />

Elizabeth and Mark Singer<br />

Bonnie and Richard Singer<br />

Sandy Sirkus<br />

Daryl and David Sissman<br />

Barbara and Jerry Sitner<br />

Arleen and David Sivakoff<br />

Abbie and Paul Sladick<br />

Nancy and Paul Slater<br />

Miriam Slavich<br />

Karen Sloane<br />

Deborah and Peter Smith<br />

Linda and Stephen Smith<br />

Irene Smith<br />

Annette Smith<br />

Marcy and Jerry Sobelman<br />

Arlene and Michael Sobol<br />

Elaine Soffer<br />

Joann and Eugene Sohn<br />

Susie and Richard Sokolik<br />

Susan and Richard Sokolov<br />

Zelda and Howard Solomon<br />

Janet and Howard Solot<br />

Philecia Soltz<br />

Martin Sonkin<br />

Elaine and Howard Specter<br />

Suzie Muchnick and Michael Spencer<br />

Sheryl and Lee Spielman<br />

Judi and Dan Spintman<br />

Harriet Spirer<br />

Barbara and Robert Spiro<br />

Benita and Charles Staadecker<br />

Elizabeth and Stanley <strong>Star</strong><br />

Esther and Howard <strong>Star</strong>kman<br />

Elizabeth and Sheldon <strong>Star</strong>man<br />

Debbie and Robert Statfeld<br />

Loretta and Robert Stein<br />

Marion and Kenneth Stein<br />

Diana and Carl Steinhouse<br />

Sandra Stone<br />

Blanche and Robert Stone<br />

Jerome Strauss<br />

June Streisand<br />

Phyllis and Stephen Strome<br />

Sue Ann and Harvey Sturm<br />

Barbara and Stephen Suden<br />

Nan and Michael Suffian<br />

Pearl Sugarman<br />

Donna and Harry Sulzer<br />

Linda and Ken Sumner<br />

Patricia and Marshall Sutker<br />

Ann and Michael Swartz<br />

Sondra Sweet<br />

Roberta and Donald Tannenbaum<br />

Sylvia and Michael Taub<br />

Elisabeth and William Teller<br />

Sarah and Donald Temple<br />

Pearl and Stanley Thall<br />

Joan and Bert Thompson<br />

Fritzi Thorner<br />

Joan and Richard Toder<br />

Maureen and Lawrence Tomchin<br />

Diane and Joel Treewater<br />

Andrew Tretter<br />

Margot and Marshall Tutun<br />

Gail and Melvin Ufberg<br />

Roberta and Robert Ury<br />

Wendy Wald<br />

Joel Waltzer<br />

Debby and Jeff Waranch<br />

Louise and William Warshauer<br />

Stuart Warshauer<br />

Tikva and Louis Wasserman<br />

Julie and Daniel Wasserman<br />

Leslie and Mark Wasserman<br />

Lilo Waxman<br />

Ruth Halperin and David Weil<br />

Frada and Frank Weinberg<br />

Helene and Ira Weinberg<br />

Carole and Erwin Weinberg<br />

Hedy and David Weinberger<br />

Ann and David Weiner<br />

Helen Weinfeld<br />

Elinore Weinhaus<br />

Marilyn Weinstein<br />

Sue and Jay Weintraub<br />

Trudy and Stephen Weisberg<br />

Helene and Major General Bernard Weiss<br />

Susan and Jay Weiss<br />

Deborah and Stephen Weiss<br />

Debbie and Paul Weissman<br />

Iris and Barry Weissman<br />

Sydell and Leo Wertheim<br />

Albert Wertheimer<br />

Sandra and Alan Weseley<br />

Goldie and Kenneth Wetcher<br />

Harriet Israel and Eugene White<br />

Evelyn White<br />

Janet Whitebook<br />

Sylvia and Judge Lewis Whitman<br />

Nancy and Jack Wiadro<br />

Susan and Alvin Wichard<br />

Michal and Mordechai Wiesler<br />

Shereen Willens Lion of Judah<br />

Endowment Fund<br />

Armilda Williams<br />

Mo and Mayer Winograd<br />

Bernalee Winter<br />

Barbara Winthrop<br />

Solomon Wise<br />

Sylvia Wohlman<br />

Sandra and Rabbi Sylvin Wolf<br />

Patsy-Ann and Bernard Wolfe<br />

Gary Wolfelt<br />

Beth and Brian Wolff<br />

Ellen and Edward Wollman<br />

Carol and Stanley Woolf<br />

Leona and Herbert Wreschner<br />

Susan and Bruce Yankow<br />

Diana and Stanley Yarkin<br />

Reesa and Larry Yarkin<br />

Carole and Wilbur Yellin<br />

Audrey and Harris Yett<br />

Louise and Arnold Yorra<br />

Harriet and Donald Young<br />

Sandra Yuil<br />

Suzann and Steven Yussen<br />

Cathy and Philip Zacks<br />

Joanne and Stuart Zager<br />

Ettie and Rabbi Fishel Zaklos<br />

Joni and Jeff Zalasky<br />

Leda and Jack Zbar<br />

Tony Zeiger<br />

Shelly and Alan Zelbow<br />

Beverly and Martin Zeldes<br />

Joyce and Stan Zeldin<br />

Ted Zelman<br />

Shirley and Sid Zetzer<br />

Kathy and Marty Zigler<br />

Bonnie and Alan Ziskin<br />

Elaine and Murray Zucker<br />

Sue and Don Zulanch<br />

Amy and Alex Zusmanovich<br />

Debbie and Barry Zvibleman


18A <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

Temple Shalom events<br />

open to the community<br />

For more information on these events, call 239.455.3030.<br />

Torah Talk<br />

Join the volunteer-led discussion of the<br />

week’s Torah portion on the first Saturday<br />

of each month. On <strong>January</strong> 7, the<br />

portion is Vayigash. There will be a light<br />

breakfast at 8:15 a.m. with a discussion<br />

to follow at 8:30 a.m. There is no charge<br />

and all are welcome.<br />

Health Care Forum<br />

What are Jewish values concerning<br />

health care? Are we meeting those values<br />

as a community? A panel of health<br />

care experts, including Dr. Allen Weiss,<br />

President and CEO of NCH Healthcare<br />

System, William Ertag, MD, and Ms.<br />

Leslie Lascheid from the Neighborhood<br />

Clinic in Naples will explore these topics<br />

as well as common sense solutions<br />

for access to health care on Wednesday,<br />

<strong>January</strong> 18 at 4:30 p.m. The forum<br />

will be moderated by Dr. Jaclynn Faffer,<br />

CEO/President of JFCS of SWFL.<br />

Refreshments to follow. RSVP to Ken<br />

Goldstein at kencoldstein@mac.com.<br />

Sisterhood Book Bag<br />

On Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 19 at 1:30 p.m., a<br />

discussion of My Name is Lucy Barton<br />

by Elizabeth Strout will be facilitated<br />

by Lynn Prosten. Lucy Barton is recovering<br />

slowly from what should have<br />

been a simple operation. Her mother,<br />

to whom she hasn’t spoken for many<br />

years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip<br />

about people from Lucy’s childhood in<br />

Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect<br />

them, but just below the surface lie the<br />

tension and longing that have informed<br />

every aspect of Lucy’s life: her escape<br />

from her troubled family, her desire to<br />

become a writer, her marriage, her love<br />

for her two daughters. RSVP to helen<br />

weinfeld@aol.com.<br />

Family Shabbat Experience<br />

Join us on Friday, <strong>January</strong> 20 at 5:30<br />

p.m. for a different kind of Shabbat<br />

experience for families with young(ish)<br />

children. Activities, music, dinner and<br />

service. There is no charge to attend.<br />

RSVP to the Temple Shalom Education<br />

office 239.455.2233.<br />

Scholar-in-Residence<br />

Our Scholar-in-Residence weekend is<br />

<strong>January</strong> 27-29 with Professor Stephen<br />

M. Berk, the Henry and Sally Schaffer<br />

Professor of Holocaust and Jewish studies<br />

at Union College in Schenectady,<br />

New York. He is widely known for his<br />

expertise on the Holocaust, Russia, the<br />

Middle East and a variety of Jewish<br />

subjects.<br />

Professor Berk will present a series<br />

of lectures over the course of the weekend;<br />

The Holocaust Revisted: 71 Years<br />

after the Liberation of Auschwitz, Zion<br />

& America: The American Jewish Experience,<br />

Our People Are Your People:<br />

American Jewry and the Struggle for<br />

Civil Rights and Middle East in Crisis.<br />

For more information, please visit www.<br />

naplestemple.org.<br />

Melton Adult Education<br />

The Holocaust as Reflected in Diaries<br />

and Memoirs. Journey into the world<br />

of Jewish individuals and communities<br />

as the events of the Holocaust unfold<br />

around them. Explore the profound<br />

record of the first-person accounts in<br />

diaries and memoirs uncovered in the<br />

years since the Holocaust. Ten weeks<br />

beginning February 1, Wednesdays from<br />

noon to 1:30 p.m. Instructor: Dr. Anna<br />

Salomon. To register for this class, visit<br />

www.events.org/MeltonNaples.<br />

COMMUNITY FOCUS<br />

Naples Jewish Cong. events<br />

open to the community<br />

Artist/Scholar-in-Residence<br />

Broadway – here we come! On Thursday,<br />

February 9, Naples Jewish Congregation<br />

will present this season’s<br />

Artist and Scholar-in-Residence, Rabbi<br />

Kenneth Kanter. Plan to join us at the<br />

Wang Auditorium of Opera Naples for<br />

an evening of wonderful music – to sing<br />

along if you choose – and learn about<br />

the many Jewish composers and lyricists<br />

who produced those lasting memories.<br />

Complete the evening with a delightful<br />

champagne and dessert reception. You<br />

will be entertained and we guarantee<br />

you will go home happy and exhilarated,<br />

singing your favorite songs! Tickets<br />

are $50 for general seating and $75 for<br />

benefactor status and preferred seating.<br />

On Friday night, February 10, during<br />

our Shabbat service, Rabbi Kanter<br />

will give a more scholarly presentation<br />

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ADVERTISE WITH WITHTHE<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

demonstrating how Jewish backgrounds<br />

and values are reflected in the music<br />

they produced for Broadway and Tin<br />

Pan Alley. Friday night Shabbat services<br />

begin at 7:30 p.m. and we gather at the<br />

Unitarian Universalist Congregation<br />

of Greater Naples, 6340 Napa Woods<br />

Way. For more information, please<br />

call 239.431.3858 or visit www.naples<br />

jewishcongregation.org.<br />

Sisterhood Game Day<br />

Monday, March 6 is a date to save!<br />

Sisterhood’s annual Game Day will<br />

be held at the Cypress Woods Country<br />

Club. This is an event you won’t want to<br />

miss, so watch our website for information<br />

about registration. As soon as this<br />

information is posted, don’t hesitate, as<br />

the room fills up quickly and we always<br />

have a full house. <strong>Star</strong>t gathering your<br />

playing partners now!<br />

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<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

Naples welcomes the IDF Musical Ensemble<br />

On Tuesday, December 13, the<br />

Friends of the Israel Defense<br />

Forces (FIDF) Greater Miami<br />

Chapter held “A Day to Salute Our<br />

Soldiers,” an event honoring the soldiers<br />

of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)<br />

featuring the IDF Musical Ensemble.<br />

The event was held at Temple Shalom<br />

in Naples and co-chaired by Rick and<br />

Ellaine Rosen.<br />

The IDF Musical Ensemble, a fiveperson<br />

singing group composed of active-duty<br />

soldiers in the IDF, performed<br />

at the event. The ensemble performs in<br />

any and all locations where IDF forces<br />

are stationed. Additionally, the ensemble<br />

puts on shows on a voluntary basis<br />

for civilian populations. They sang and<br />

danced to a wide variety of traditional<br />

Israeli and Jewish songs.<br />

Also in attendance was<br />

Lieutenant Noam Litt of<br />

the IDF, who gave a stirring<br />

and inspirational speech<br />

about his experience as<br />

a tank commander in the<br />

Israeli Army.<br />

Rick and Ellaine Rosen<br />

spoke about the FIDF’s<br />

IMPACT Scholarship Program<br />

for combat soldiers<br />

and their experience on the<br />

FIDF’s Poland and Israel mission. They<br />

invited guests to join the FIDF’s upcoming<br />

mission, which will occur from<br />

April 24 - May 3, <strong>2017</strong>.<br />

The event was sponsored by Beth<br />

Tikvah, the Holocaust Museum &<br />

Education Center of Southwest Florida,<br />

the Jewish Congregation of Marco Island,<br />

the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier<br />

County, the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Lee<br />

and Charlotte Counties, Naples Jewish<br />

Congregation, Temple Shalom, the<br />

Women’s Cultural Alliance, and the<br />

Zionist Organization of America.<br />

For more information about the<br />

FIDF’s programs for soldiers, please<br />

call the FIDF Greater Miami office at<br />

305.354.8233, email miami@fidf.org<br />

or visit www.fidf.org.<br />

Rabbi Sylvin Wolf and Rabbi Adam Miller<br />

say a prayer for the State of Israel<br />

Lieutenant Noam Litt of the IDF<br />

An IDF Musical Ensemble member<br />

19A<br />

Dina Ben-Ari, FIDF Florida Regional Director (center), with event co-chairs Ellaine and Rick Rosen<br />

Photos courtesy Ted Epstein<br />

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20A <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

<strong>Star</strong>s of David<br />

By Nate Bloom, Contributing Columnist<br />

Editor’s note: Persons in BOLD CAPS are deemed by Nate Bloom to be Jewish<br />

for the purpose of the column. Persons identified as Jewish have at least one Jewish<br />

parent and were not raised in a faith other than Judaism – and don’t identify<br />

with a faith other than Judaism as an adult. Converts to Judaism, of course, are<br />

also identified as Jewish.<br />

December Oscar Contenders<br />

Many films thought to be Oscar contenders<br />

open in December so they are<br />

fresh in the minds of Oscar voters<br />

when they start voting in <strong>January</strong>. Here<br />

are three such “Oscar-worthy” releases<br />

that may still be playing near you and<br />

have big Jewish connections.<br />

Jackie stars NATALIE PORT-<br />

MAN, 35, as Jackie Kennedy. It centers<br />

on the most dramatic period of<br />

Jackie’s life – the time just after the<br />

JFK assassination. It’s almost a sure<br />

bet that Portman and others connected<br />

with the film will be Oscar-nominated.<br />

Portman has mastered Jackie’s<br />

distinctive voice: a mixture of a New<br />

York accent, finishing school diction,<br />

and a breathiness that reminds one of<br />

Marilyn Monroe. But her performance<br />

is far more than the voice. Top critic<br />

DAVID EDELSTEIN, 57, says Portman<br />

just nails “Jackie’s mix of slyness<br />

and shyness.” MAX CASSELLA, 49,<br />

co-stars as Jack Valenti, the LBJ aide<br />

who clashed with Jackie when she insisted<br />

that she would walk in the open<br />

streets with JFK’s casket as it was taken<br />

to his funeral.<br />

The screenplay, by NOAH OP-<br />

PENHEIM, 38, has already won<br />

awards. Oppenheim has a foot in<br />

screenwriting and politics and that’s<br />

perfect for this film. A Harvard grad,<br />

where he sometimes wrote on Jewish<br />

issues for the Harvard Crimson, he<br />

went on to produce political talk shows<br />

like The Chris Matthews Show and<br />

Scarborough Country. Currently, he<br />

is senior producer of The Today Show<br />

(he’s the guy who fired Billy Bush).<br />

Jackie is his first solo screenplay, but<br />

he has contributed to the scripts of two<br />

recent action films.<br />

The romantic musical La La Land<br />

has received major kudos from critics.<br />

The co-stars, Ryan Gosling and Emma<br />

Stone, were well-cast. They had real<br />

romantic chemistry in Crazy, Stupid,<br />

Love (2011). When their La La characters<br />

meet, he’s a jazz musician working<br />

in dives and she’s an aspiring actress/<br />

barista trying to survive. They fall in<br />

love, but as they become successful,<br />

that success starts tearing them apart.<br />

JASON FUCHS, 30, whose father<br />

was raised Hasidic, has a smallish supporting<br />

role.<br />

The film was written and directed<br />

by Damian Chazelle, whose best<br />

known for his 2014 film Whiplash,<br />

which won three Oscars. The main<br />

Whiplash character was a young Jewish<br />

jazz student. In 2015, Chazelle<br />

told the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles<br />

that his Catholic parents were dissatisfied<br />

with his Christian Sunday school<br />

and they sent him, instead, to Hebrew<br />

school for four years. About those four<br />

years, Chazelle said: “…I was very,<br />

very into Hebrew…and then I went<br />

with my class to Israel when we were<br />

in the sixth grade. I don’t think they<br />

even knew I wasn’t Jewish. I was, like,<br />

‘passing.’”<br />

Chazelle met JUSTIN HUR-<br />

WITZ, 31, the La La Land film composer,<br />

at Harvard, and there they<br />

formed a nationally successful rock<br />

band. Hurwitz wrote 15 songs for La<br />

La and some are full production numbers.<br />

The lyrics for these songs were<br />

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written by the team of Justin Paul and<br />

BENJ PASEK, 31. Pasek and Paul met<br />

at orientation at college and quickly hit<br />

it off, despite different backgrounds.<br />

Paul’s father is a Protestant minister<br />

and Pasek comes from a religious<br />

Jewish home. They’ve written several<br />

shows together, including the Broadway<br />

hit musical version of A Christmas<br />

Story.<br />

Oscar talk is in the air for the lead<br />

actors of Manchester By the Sea and<br />

for KENNETH LONERGAN, 55, the<br />

film’s director and screenwriter. Joe<br />

Chandler and his 16-year-old son, Patrick<br />

(Lucas Hedges), live just north of<br />

Boston. Joe suddenly dies and his will<br />

names his younger brother, Lee (Casey<br />

Affleck), as Patrick’s legal guardian.<br />

The modest monetary benefits that<br />

come with the guardianship persuade<br />

Lee to give up his dead-end job and<br />

come back home – even though it forces<br />

him to deal with a tragic past involving<br />

his ex-wife (Michelle Williams),<br />

who lives in Manchester.<br />

Lonergan, whose mother was Jewish,<br />

has plowed this ground before.<br />

Most of his works begin with an unexpected<br />

event that forces a confrontation<br />

between close friends or family<br />

members. The confrontation always<br />

features dialogue that is smart, sharp<br />

and surprisingly funny. Lonergan’s first<br />

Broadway success, This is Our Youth<br />

(1996), was about three young adult<br />

Jewish friends who face a real crisis involving<br />

embezzled money, a possible<br />

mob hit on one, and the need to quickly<br />

raise cash through selling drugs. Still,<br />

there’s humor in the play. Likewise,<br />

his film You Can Count on Me (2000)<br />

was a critical hit about a “half Jewish”<br />

brother and sister who work to sort out<br />

their relationship after a crisis.<br />

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22A <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

The Wannsee Conference at 75<br />

By Paul R. Bartrop, PhD<br />

One of the most frequently discussed<br />

– and misunderstood<br />

– events of the Holocaust took<br />

place exactly 75 years ago this month.<br />

On <strong>January</strong> 20, 1942, in a home at<br />

56-58 Am Grossen Wannsee, Berlin,<br />

formerly owned by a Jewish family, a<br />

group of high-ranking<br />

Nazi officials<br />

held a short conference<br />

in which they<br />

discussed the coordination<br />

and implementation<br />

of the<br />

Dr. Paul Bartrop<br />

“Final Solution of<br />

the Jewish Problem”<br />

– the coded phrase for the extermination<br />

of all of Europe’s 11 million Jews.<br />

The meeting was convened by<br />

Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich<br />

Security Main Office, or RSHA. Those<br />

attending were Heydrich (presiding),<br />

Adolf Eichmann (RSHA, Unit IV B4),<br />

Alfred Mayer and Georg Leibbrandt<br />

(Ministry for the Occupied Eastern<br />

Territories), Wilhelm Stuckart (Interior),<br />

Erich Neumann (Office of the Four<br />

Year Plan), Roland Freisler (Justice),<br />

Josef Bühler (Director General of the<br />

Generalgouvernement), Martin Luther<br />

(Foreign Office), Gerhard Klopfer and<br />

Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (Reich<br />

Chancellery), Otto Hofmann (Race<br />

and Settlement Main Office), Heinrich<br />

Müller (RSHA), Karl Eberhard Schöngarth<br />

(Commander SD/SiPO Kraków)<br />

and Rudolf Lange (Commander SD<br />

Latvia).<br />

Within this group of 15 men were<br />

numbered nine lawyers; eight of those<br />

attending had earned doctoral degrees.<br />

The German invasion and occupation<br />

of Eastern Europe presented a<br />

demographic challenge for the Nazis<br />

because of the large Jewish populations<br />

in those areas. By the end of 1941, the<br />

head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, recognized<br />

that deportation and emigration<br />

were no longer adequate for the<br />

task of eliminating the Jews; he thus<br />

authorized Heydrich to create the bureaucracy<br />

and arrangements for the<br />

Final Solution, and it was the conference<br />

at Wannsee that dealt with these<br />

matters.<br />

Henceforth, Jews from across<br />

Europe were to be “evacuated to the<br />

East.” Those to be murdered included<br />

the Jews of Britain, Ireland, Sweden,<br />

Switzerland, Turkey and other places,<br />

both neutral and yet-to-be-occupied.<br />

The decision to annihilate all of<br />

Europe’s Jews had already been made<br />

during the late spring or early summer<br />

of 1941. No one can determine this<br />

with precision, but it is clear that the<br />

decision had nothing to do with Wannsee<br />

several months later. The purpose<br />

of the meeting was to further discuss<br />

and resolve questions regarding the execution<br />

of directives already made.<br />

Therefore, the conference was intended<br />

to move the process of death<br />

forward, beyond the work already being<br />

accomplished in Russia by the Einsatzgruppen<br />

(mobile killing squads).<br />

Accordingly, the delegates discussed<br />

whether or not there was a more “efficient”<br />

way to accomplish the core<br />

end of mass murder, meeting the organizational<br />

challenges of identifying,<br />

transporting, housing and eventually<br />

eliminating the European Jews.<br />

Among the discussion items stemming<br />

from this was the use of mobile gas<br />

killing vans and large-scale stationary<br />

gas chambers.<br />

The conference also established<br />

policies for the treatment of Jews who<br />

were of “mixed blood” (so-called Mischlinge),<br />

or in mixed marriages, using<br />

the Nazi racial laws set down at<br />

Nuremberg. Criteria were established<br />

for dealing with the Mischlinge, who<br />

were divided into a complex classification<br />

system based on “degrees” of<br />

“mixed blood.”<br />

Heydrich closed the meeting with<br />

a call for cooperation among all ministries<br />

present, after which food and<br />

drink were provided. Several of the<br />

participants remained after the meeting<br />

broke up to socialize and enjoy good<br />

fellowship. Eichmann later related that<br />

the attendees were quite jovial, the liquor<br />

flowed freely and that the cakes<br />

were delicious. Heydrich toasted the<br />

successful outcome of the meeting<br />

with a glass of cognac.<br />

Eichmann was tasked with drawing<br />

up the protocols resulting from the<br />

meeting, and Heydrich ordered that<br />

they were to be carefully drafted using<br />

coded language and euphemisms. The<br />

result was a short summary document<br />

in which the purposes of the meeting<br />

were outlined, together with conclusions<br />

as to next steps. The resultant<br />

document was then edited by Heydrich<br />

himself.<br />

Thirty copies were made, and those<br />

who had been present were ordered to<br />

read over their copy and then destroy<br />

it. One, however, remained. In 1947,<br />

Martin Luther’s copy was located, enabling<br />

the story of the conference at<br />

Wannsee to be reconstructed. Then, at<br />

the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem<br />

in 1961, many of the tentative conclusions<br />

reached by earlier researchers<br />

were confirmed by Eichmann’s testimony.<br />

Soon after the conference, plans<br />

for what would eventually become the<br />

system of death camps went forward in<br />

earnest, and the deadliest phase of the<br />

Holocaust began.<br />

Today, the villa at Wannsee is a<br />

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Holocaust memorial and museum, visited<br />

by hundreds of people every day.<br />

It was opened on <strong>January</strong> 20, 1992, the<br />

fiftieth anniversary of the conference.<br />

In view of this history, why is the<br />

meeting, as I said at the outset, so frequently<br />

misunderstood? It must be noted<br />

that the purpose of the meeting was<br />

not to discuss whether or not to implement<br />

the Final Solution, but, rather, to<br />

discuss the various and best ways of<br />

achieving the objectives of a Europe<br />

to be Judenrein (“Jew-free”). All too<br />

many people, beholding the horror of<br />

the meeting in which the fate of 11<br />

million Jews was discussed, conclude<br />

automatically that it was here that the<br />

decision was taken for the Final Solution.<br />

It is, perhaps, a natural conclusion<br />

to draw, but it belies the fact that by<br />

the time the meeting took place up to<br />

half-a-million Jews had already been<br />

murdered.<br />

All the Wannsee Conference did<br />

was to confirm and coordinate – in reality,<br />

to make more efficient – a situation<br />

of mass annihilation that was<br />

already well in train by <strong>January</strong> 1942.<br />

The bureaucracy of death, thus activated,<br />

became an unstoppable force that<br />

only the defeat of the Nazis in 1945<br />

could defeat.<br />

Dr. Paul Bartrop is Professor of History<br />

and the Director of the Center for<br />

Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies<br />

at Florida Gulf Coast University.<br />

He can be reached at pbartrop@fgcu.<br />

edu.<br />

Send your letters<br />

and comments to<br />

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JEWISH INTEREST<br />

My first minyan<br />

By Michael Moskowitz, #183986, Charlotte Correctional Institution<br />

We had just moved to Broward<br />

County, Florida, from York. He was left-handed (a “no-no”<br />

ly 1920s, and lived in Brooklyn, New<br />

Long Island, New York. back then), had polio as a youth, and<br />

Just me and my mother. It was one of grew up with the Dead End Kids, who<br />

the many nights I had to stay next door were later known as the Bowery Boys.<br />

until my mom got off work. My parents He also served in Europe during World<br />

had split up twice by this time. I think War II and was stationed in France.<br />

I was about six or seven then, and am As a teen, I came to prison and soon<br />

now forty-six. There was a program on after was sent to my first adult facility.<br />

TV called Holocaust. So I was watching<br />

it not knowing what it was about stitution and has since closed down.<br />

It was called Hendry Correctional In-<br />

or that it had anything to do with me Within days of entering Hendry, some<br />

and my ethnicity. I do recall the fear it Jewish prisoners approached me with<br />

invoked in me. To this day, whenever I the information that some Jews would<br />

see a photograph of prisoners in concentration<br />

camps, I search the haunting world and they wanted to meet me…<br />

be coming into the prison from the free<br />

faces to wonder if, by chance, maybe AND there would also be good Jewish<br />

we are related in some way.<br />

food to nosh! Having been a troubled<br />

My Jewish experience at home youth, no one previously ever wanted<br />

was limited to food only. Bagels and to meet me, so this instance of people<br />

lox; beef tongue thinly cut on rye with wanting to meet me (and the situation<br />

a swipe of mustard and kosher coleslaw<br />

smeared on it; pickled herring; needless to say, piqued my interest.<br />

being laced with good Jewish food!),<br />

sesame seed candy; matzo and many So there I was in the midst of a<br />

other Jewish treats. However, what group of Jewish prisoners, a youngish<br />

was missing was Hashem, His Torah Rabbi Seth and the most kind, humble<br />

and a sense of belonging spiritually. and warm little old guy, pumping my<br />

Jacob Lewis Moskowitz was my hand and shaloming me vigorously as<br />

father’s name. His family came from he directed me to the great spread of<br />

Russia when he was a child in the ear-<br />

Jewish food. My first minyan!<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

23A<br />

The extraordinary friendship of The Pope and a Rabbi<br />

By Jeff Margolis<br />

Rabbi Abraham Skorka is not<br />

your typical pulpit clergyman.<br />

Trained in rabbinical school in<br />

Argentina, he is the rector of the Seminario<br />

Rabinico Latinoamericano (Latin<br />

American Jewish Seminary) in Buenos<br />

Aires. He also serves as the spiritual<br />

leader of Benei Tikva, a conservative<br />

synagogue in Buenos Aires, as well<br />

as a professor of biblical and rabbinic<br />

literature. And, by the way, he is also a<br />

biophysicist.<br />

Another thing that makes Rabbi<br />

Skorka unique is his friendship with<br />

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who<br />

now happens to be Pope Francis. They<br />

consider each other as brothers and keep<br />

in touch by email. The two have worked<br />

together for years improving Catholic-<br />

Jewish relations and appeared on many<br />

occasions on Buenos Aires television.<br />

In 2010, the Rabbi and the Cardinal<br />

collaborated on the book On Heaven<br />

and Earth, which examines faith and<br />

family in the context of both Judaism<br />

and Catholicism. The English version<br />

made the New York Times bestseller list.<br />

Recently, Rabbi Skorka was invited<br />

to Saint Leo University in St. Leo, Florida,<br />

as part of a symposium on Catholic-<br />

Jewish dialogue. Saint Leo University’s<br />

Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies has<br />

been at the forefront in interreligious<br />

dialogue. Established in 1998 by Saint<br />

Leo University President Emeritus Arthur<br />

Kirk and distinguished area Rabbi<br />

James Rudin, the Center is dedicated to<br />

the study of Catholic-Jewish relations<br />

and to build bridges that lead to justice<br />

and peace. Saint Leo is the oldest Catholic<br />

college in Florida and the fourth largest<br />

such institution in the United States.<br />

Rabbi Skorka was also honored with<br />

the Center’s Eternal Light Award, presented<br />

to those who have contributed to<br />

the cause of Catholic-Jewish relations.<br />

Past recipients have included Professor<br />

Deborah Lipstadt, Most Reverend John<br />

J. Nevins, Bishop of Diocese of Venice,<br />

and Rabbi James Rudin.<br />

In his remarks, Rabbi Skorka spoke<br />

about the importance of the Second<br />

Vatican Council and the Nostre Aetate<br />

(In Our Time) document that led to an<br />

BUSINESS DIRECTORY<br />

unprecedented improvement in Catholic-<br />

Jewish relations worldwide. He noted<br />

that Pope Francis has been extraordinary<br />

in his actions when they traveled to Israel<br />

together. He was the first Pope to visit<br />

the tomb of Theodore Herzl and believes<br />

in Israel’s right to exist. Rabbi Skorka<br />

believes that “religion is an important<br />

element in our lives. Interfaith dialogue<br />

must matter to us,” he asserts.<br />

Dr. Matthew Tapie, Director of the<br />

Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies at<br />

Saint Leo University and organizer of the<br />

event, said, “I hope our dialogue on these<br />

topics will help us see clearly the significance<br />

of Catholic-Jewish friendships in<br />

Florida and how our relationships might<br />

be deepened as we work together.”<br />

This article was first published in the September 2016 edition of L’CHAYIM, the monthly<br />

newspaper of the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Lee and Charlotte Counties. Sid Kleiner is the<br />

president of Beth Tikvah Jewish Prisoner Outreach, Serving Jewish Inmates & Their<br />

Loved Ones. He can be reached at: 10188 Winterview Drive, Naples, FL 34109-1520<br />

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That was nearly 30 years ago, but<br />

I walked away with two very permanent<br />

impressions. The first was when<br />

Rabbi Seth cut an apple sideways in<br />

order to show us a nice star-shaped design<br />

inside of the apple, and his lesson<br />

of how everything in life is very much<br />

the result of how you approach it, so<br />

to speak. Even the seemingly worst of<br />

situations will be no more nor less than<br />

what we make of them. The other impression<br />

was made by the little old guy<br />

who accompanied Rabbi Seth that day<br />

so long ago. Why? Because from that<br />

day forward to right now, that guy actively<br />

infused Rabbi Seth’s lesson into<br />

my life by being my spiritual adviser,<br />

father figure, advocate, brother and<br />

friend. Over the span of the past three<br />

decades, no single person reached into<br />

my life and made such an impact. For<br />

me, he has been the face of Judaism.<br />

For me, he has been the face of the<br />

Jewish people. For me, he has been<br />

the face, which by far, most reflects<br />

Hashem and His promise.<br />

Today, this little old guy is much<br />

more advanced in years, and contending<br />

with the challenges to health which<br />

those years carry with them. Having no<br />

other family left, I am now faced with<br />

the reality that our bond will move<br />

from the physical into the spiritual<br />

one day, sooner than I’d like. I’m not<br />

too ashamed to say that I’m afraid and<br />

wrought with worry. Not just for myself,<br />

but for the countless lives he has<br />

touched, the men in prison he’s helped,<br />

and indeed, saved from the adversities<br />

often faced in prison. And, too, I’d be<br />

remiss if I failed to think of his dear<br />

wife and family, who so selflessly<br />

share this wonderful man with all of us.<br />

So, more than any written word,<br />

study, congregation, tradition, food or<br />

countless other facets of Jewry, my<br />

greatest experience of being Jewish<br />

comes from one little old Jewish guy<br />

grabbing hold of me and refusing to<br />

let go, no matter what. Is this not what<br />

Hashem would have us all do? Chaver<br />

Sid Kleiner has not missed nor skirted<br />

even the smallest task from Hashem. I<br />

wish to thank him for showing me my<br />

identity within the Chosen People and<br />

his love.<br />

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Book review by Philip K. Jason, Special to the <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

Phil Jason<br />

JEWISH INTEREST<br />

Ambition, loyalty and obsession darken<br />

dazzling bio-fiction treatment of Marc Chagall<br />

The Bridal Chair, by Gloria<br />

Goldreich. Sourcebooks Landmark.<br />

496 pages. Trade Paperback $14.99.<br />

Who was Marc Chagall? Of<br />

course he was an immensely<br />

talented and prolific artist in<br />

many styles and various media whose<br />

works brought him a towering reputation<br />

and towering<br />

sales figures over<br />

several decades.<br />

He was a Russian<br />

Jew raised in a religious<br />

household<br />

whose life, until<br />

after the end of<br />

World War II, was<br />

a series of relocations<br />

brought on<br />

first by the need to escape Russian/Soviet<br />

anti-Semitism and later the Nazi’s<br />

brutal takeover of France. Though he<br />

spoke Yiddish and employed Jewish<br />

imagery and themes in some of his<br />

most renowned works, he was not otherwise<br />

attached to Jewish culture, theology<br />

or ritual.<br />

While these elements of Chagall’s<br />

identity are well dramatized in Gloria<br />

Goldreich’s book, her main concerns<br />

are his personality and his relationships.<br />

The central strategy in revealing<br />

these aspects of the historical Chagall is<br />

Goldreich’s brilliant decision to make<br />

Chagall’s daughter, rather than the man<br />

himself, the book’s central character. It<br />

is through tracing (and perhaps imagining)<br />

Ida Chagall’s journey from the<br />

age of seven into early middle age as<br />

the adoring daughter, business manager,<br />

and enabler of Chagall’s best and<br />

worst qualities that the author paints<br />

her astounding word picture of the man<br />

in his time and in his places.<br />

The teenage Ida is a ravishing<br />

young woman, a real head-turner who<br />

enjoys the smiles on men’s faces. She<br />

is confident, intelligent, fashionably attired<br />

and articulate. Living in a world<br />

of art and artists, she is already quite<br />

knowledgeable about that world. She<br />

is pleased to be her father’s daughter.<br />

In time, she will want to be more than<br />

that – but Marc’s approval will always<br />

be important.<br />

In fact, Marc’s estimate of people<br />

is directly proportional to how well<br />

they serve his needs. Vain in matters<br />

of appearance and status in the world<br />

of art, he is insecure and dependent in<br />

other ways. In some ways a rebel, he<br />

is also a slave to propriety. When Ida<br />

becomes pregnant, he is horrified. He<br />

and Ida’s mother, Bella, insist on an<br />

abortion. This is not Ida’s preference,<br />

but she agrees to it. Somewhat less<br />

threatening to Marc is Ida’s marriage to<br />

a non-Jew, but he accommodates himself<br />

to it as long as Ida puts her father’s<br />

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needs above all else.<br />

And, sometimes reluctantly,<br />

she does. Her place<br />

in the world is not as someone’s<br />

wife, or an independent<br />

identity (which she<br />

often longs for), but as<br />

the great Marc Chagalls’<br />

daughter.<br />

Ida becomes the<br />

manager of the Chagall<br />

domestic situation and<br />

the Chagall industry. She selects their<br />

various residences, arranges for the<br />

smooth running of these households,<br />

and becomes the principal agent for the<br />

display and marketing of her father’s<br />

artworks. Thus, she is in constant contact<br />

with prominent collectors, dealers,<br />

gallery owners and museum curators.<br />

These overlapping responsibilities,<br />

which she handles with determination<br />

and skill, define her place in the world.<br />

They also limit it. She couldn’t<br />

be doing this for Picasso, or for herself.<br />

Indeed, her personal artistic ambitions<br />

are sacrificed to serving her<br />

father, whose appreciation is rarely<br />

shown. She even arranges for his mistresses<br />

(officially housekeepers), one<br />

of which, non-Jewish, brings a Chagall<br />

son into the world.<br />

Marc is a grand manipulator,<br />

whose practiced ineptness in many areas<br />

leaves others to pick up the pieces.<br />

He is not lazy. Indeed, his dedication<br />

to his art consumes him, but he shuns<br />

everyday responsibilities and insists<br />

that his work demands ideal environments<br />

without distractions.<br />

Generally, he gets what he wants.<br />

Eventually, Ida also gets what she<br />

wants: a fine, devoted husband; three<br />

children; respect; and much-needed<br />

peace of mind.<br />

Goldreich’s narrative<br />

has many strengths<br />

beyond those of characterization<br />

and the<br />

exploration of relationships<br />

(though the large<br />

cast of vividly depicted<br />

characters is a powerful<br />

achievement). Readers<br />

will learn a great deal<br />

about the history of modern<br />

art, artistic technique<br />

and the business of art. The author’s<br />

descriptions of particular artworks are<br />

spectacular.<br />

Her handling of setting is also superb.<br />

Readers are invited to visit many<br />

places exquisitely described, places<br />

that have not only dimensions, materials<br />

and colors, but atmosphere. We explore<br />

homes in Paris and its environs,<br />

other communities in France, New<br />

York City, upstate New York, Zurich,<br />

and many more. Goldreich’s descriptions<br />

are lavish backdrops for her characters’<br />

actions. Almost too lavish.<br />

The pace is leisurely, and on occasion<br />

seems too slow. The detailed<br />

descriptions slow it down. Some readers<br />

will feel that less would have been<br />

more. Others will enjoy every morsel<br />

of information.<br />

All in all, The Bridal Chair is a towering<br />

achievement: emotionally powerful,<br />

psychologically deft, and a feast<br />

of sensory images.<br />

Philip K. Jason is Professor Emeritus<br />

of English from the United States Naval<br />

Academy. He reviews regularly for<br />

Florida Weekly, Jewish Book World,<br />

Southern Literary Review, and other<br />

publications. Please visit Phil’s website<br />

at www.philjason.wordpress.com.<br />

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JEWISH, ARAB FERTILITY<br />

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The fertility rates of Jewish and Arab<br />

women were identical for the first time<br />

in Israeli history in 2015 with an average<br />

of 3.13 children per woman, the<br />

Israel Central Bureau of Statistics said<br />

recently. In 2000, Arab fertility was 4.3,<br />

while Jewish fertility was 2.6. Since<br />

then, the Arab rate has dropped while the<br />

Jewish rate increased. (Times of Israel)<br />

UK PLEDGES $17 MILLION<br />

TO PROTECT JEWISH<br />

INSTITUTIONS<br />

Home Secretary Amber Rudd has<br />

pledged to spend 13.4 million pounds<br />

($17 million) to provide guards for all<br />

Jewish schools, colleges, nurseries and<br />

synagogues.<br />

Rudd said, “Last year, the Community<br />

Security Trust received 924 reports<br />

of anti-Semitic incidents, including 86<br />

violent assaults. Let me be clear, any attack<br />

of that kind is one attack too many.”<br />

(Christopher Hope, Telegraph - UK)<br />

ISRAEL A LEADER<br />

IN ENVIRONMENTAL<br />

INNOVATION<br />

Israel has been named as the world’s top<br />

innovator in the field of clean technologies<br />

by the Global Cleantech 100 Index.<br />

It was out of a necessity to solve<br />

problems like drinking water shortages<br />

or agricultural solutions in the Negev<br />

desert that led Israel to the forefront of<br />

environmental sustainability.<br />

In addition, there is passion. I recall<br />

watching a field manager during a visit<br />

to Mekorot, the national water company.<br />

You could see in his eyes this deep<br />

sense of value and purpose to what he<br />

was doing. You don’t usually find this<br />

type of attitude at government-owned<br />

companies.<br />

There’s an inherent passion within<br />

Israelis to create and participate in<br />

something that will affect the greater<br />

good around the world. (Momo Mahadav,<br />

Huffington Post)<br />

ISRAEL’S F-35S TO<br />

HAVE UNIQUE SECRET<br />

COMPONENTS<br />

Lockheed Martin Israel CE Brig.-Gen.<br />

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will have two F-35 squadrons of 25<br />

planes each by 2022.<br />

The money for them is included in<br />

the new U.S. military aid to Israel over<br />

the coming decade.<br />

Israel insisted on replacing some<br />

of the original systems on the F-35<br />

with systems made by Israeli defense<br />

companies in order to adapt the planes’<br />

performance to the IDF’s needs.<br />

“They realized that Israel...wants<br />

its own special systems that no one else<br />

knows about.”<br />

“All the Israeli requests have been<br />

accepted: all the electronic warfare,<br />

command and control, and communications<br />

systems installed in the plane are<br />

Israeli-made.” (Yuval Azulai, Globes)<br />

ISRAEL PROVIDES<br />

$100 WHEELCHAIRS<br />

FOR CHILDREN<br />

Millions of disabled people in the third<br />

world lack minimal mobility.<br />

Pablo Kaplan of Israel’s Keter<br />

Plastics set up the Wheelchairs of Hope<br />

project to produce wheelchairs for disabled<br />

children in Third World countries.<br />

Together with engineer Dr. Amir<br />

Ziv Av, he developed a lightweight<br />

chair that can handle off-road conditions,<br />

requires zero maintenance, and<br />

is robust and simple to assemble. More<br />

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26A <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

Shabbat of Solidarity<br />

Rabbi<br />

Adam F.<br />

Miller<br />

First they came for the Socialists,<br />

and I did not speak out –<br />

Because I was not a Socialist.<br />

Then they came for the Trade<br />

Unionists, and I did not speak out –<br />

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.<br />

Then they came for the Jews,<br />

and I did not speak out –<br />

Because I was not a Jew.<br />

Then they came for me – and there<br />

was no one left to speak for me.<br />

– Pastor Martin Neimoller<br />

(1892-1984), Protestant Minister<br />

Those famous words from Pastor<br />

Neimoller derive from a series of<br />

lectures given in the years after<br />

the Holocaust. Reflecting back on the<br />

horrors that had taken place, Neimoller<br />

believed that too many remained silent<br />

during the Nazi reign of terror. Individuals<br />

failed to speak up when the Nazis<br />

persecuted, imprisoned and murdered<br />

millions. Their silence served as a<br />

complicit acceptance of these inhumane<br />

actions. In order to demonstrate that<br />

we cannot tolerate hatred toward any<br />

group, Neimoller would vary the list,<br />

extemporaneously adding to the groups<br />

he mentioned.<br />

Living in Naples, we often feel removed<br />

from national trends, including<br />

the dramatic surge of anti-Semitism<br />

witnessed across the country. Sadly,<br />

our community is not immune to these<br />

events. In early December, vandals used<br />

a shotgun to damage the Temple Shalom<br />

sign. This incident added to a growing<br />

list of experiences that included the<br />

painting of a swastika at a local school,<br />

an increase in anti-Semitic comments<br />

heard by children from their peers, and<br />

the verbal assault of a woman as she<br />

drove out of the temple parking lot.<br />

In contrast to the experience from<br />

Pastor Neimoller’s time, when individuals<br />

stood idly by the blood of their<br />

neighbors, the community rallied in<br />

response to the events in Naples. As<br />

news of the sign quickly spread, Temple<br />

Shalom experienced an outpouring of<br />

support and love from across Southwest<br />

Florida. Phone calls and emails poured<br />

in from those who wanted to express<br />

their solidarity with Temple Shalom<br />

and the Jewish community as a whole.<br />

One gentleman from the community<br />

even called to offer an anonymous gift<br />

to cover any costs for repairing the sign.<br />

In his words, “If hate mongrels can<br />

destroy [the sign], lovers of all people<br />

can keep on fixing it.” We quickly realized<br />

that this about more than the act of<br />

vandalism. The damage to the sign was<br />

superficial – of greater concern to us<br />

was the need to repair our community.<br />

On Friday, December 9 we hosted<br />

the Shabbat of Solidarity. Reaching out<br />

to faith leaders and community leaders<br />

from across Southwest Florida, we<br />

invited everyone for a night of solidarity.<br />

This service united our community,<br />

allowing us all to say with one voice<br />

that we will not tolerate bigotry, racism,<br />

hatred or violence here. This community<br />

will be one in which love triumphs over<br />

hate, and where all can live peacefully<br />

together.<br />

Thank you to all who attended –<br />

demonstrating your commitment to<br />

remain vigilant against hatred. Our gathering<br />

strengthened the spirits of all those<br />

who have experienced bigotry, racism<br />

or hateful acts. Standing together we<br />

choose a community of love and respect.<br />

Twentieth-century theologian Rabbi<br />

Abraham Joshua Heschel cautioned,<br />

“Indifference to evil is worse than evil<br />

itself.” We are not indifferent to hatred<br />

and injustice. Rather, we remain hopeful<br />

that it is possible to create a community<br />

in which hatred itself can find no purchase,<br />

and a society in which the seeds<br />

of injustice cannot flourish and bloom.<br />

I pray that the Shabbat of Solidarity<br />

was not a singular event, but the<br />

beginning of a new era for all of us. A<br />

time when we will find the strength and<br />

courage necessary to continue standing<br />

up to hate and injustice. That we will<br />

learn to build bridges that connect us,<br />

and tear down the walls that divide us.<br />

As our Chanukah candles brightened<br />

the world at a time of great darkness,<br />

may the warmth and positive<br />

energy generated by the Shabbat of<br />

Solidarity continue to brighten our<br />

community in the months and years<br />

ahead.<br />

Rabbi Adam Miller serves at Temple<br />

Shalom in Naples.<br />

Father Bob Kantor, Pastor of St. Agnes Catholic Church, and<br />

Rabbi Adam Miller, Rabbi of Temple Shalom, will participate in<br />

a dialogue based on a book co-written by Pope Francis and Rabbi<br />

Abraham Skorka: “On Heaven and Earth; Pope Francis on Faith,<br />

Family, and the Church in the 21 Century.” The book brings<br />

together a series of conversations between the authors - both<br />

tenacious promoters of interreligious dialogues on faith and reason<br />

- about God, fundamentalism, atheism, abortion, homosexuality,<br />

euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and globalization. Father Bob and<br />

Rabbi Miller, as members of the Catholic-Jewish Dialogue of Collier<br />

County, will re-create this fascinating dialogue, making it relevant<br />

to our lives and providing us with a better understanding of these<br />

religions and their responses to the issues we face today.<br />

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Dessert: Cheesecake Bites<br />

Go to www.FaithandWine.com to learn more!<br />

Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 19, <strong>2017</strong><br />

6:30-8:30 PM (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)<br />

featuring<br />

Father Bob Kantor & Rabbi Adam Miller<br />

Cost: $25 prepay • NO WALK-INS!<br />

Please prepay for this event no later than noon on <strong>January</strong> 17,<br />

<strong>2017</strong> by going to www.faithandwine.com (using Paypal) or dropping off<br />

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office. Or you can mail (postmarked before Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 12,<br />

<strong>2017</strong>) your check to Kathleen Millard at 2134 Morning Sun Lane, Naples,<br />

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Event held at: St. John the Evangelist PLC Ballroom<br />

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COMMENTARY<br />

The shared nature<br />

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Rabbi<br />

Mark<br />

Gross<br />

I<br />

last had the privilege of addressing<br />

the local Jewish community in these<br />

pages in October, as we prepared<br />

to welcome a New Year with sweet<br />

taigelach and the blowing of the shofar.<br />

And now it is a new year again – this<br />

time, though, with the apple dropping<br />

on Times Square instead of dipping in<br />

honey.<br />

To a very great degree, of course,<br />

this <strong>January</strong> New Year represents as<br />

much of a fresh beginning as did our<br />

Jewish New Year a few months ago.<br />

That is because of the energy and excitement<br />

generated by our local population<br />

of year-round residents as they accord<br />

a warm welcome to their seasonal<br />

residents now pouring back into Collier<br />

County from higher latitudes.<br />

This month marks the beginning of<br />

only my second year on Marco Island,<br />

and as such I still have enough of a<br />

fresh outside perspective to point out<br />

something that long-time locals may<br />

take completely for granted. And that<br />

is this: there are far too few sun-belt<br />

communities across the country that<br />

enjoy the level of interest, involvement<br />

and support from seasonal visitors as<br />

we do in our greater Naples Jewish<br />

community.<br />

Maybe that’s because they’re simply<br />

grateful for the opportunity to defrost.<br />

Or maybe it’s because they heard<br />

our declaration of Southern hospitality<br />

(“make yourself part of the family”) and<br />

chose to take it seriously. Or perhaps, at<br />

the most fundamental level, it’s simply<br />

because we are all family in the first<br />

place. We Jews are the only religion in<br />

the world that is also (and perhaps first<br />

and foremost) a national ethnic group,<br />

with a shared legacy and a common<br />

destiny.<br />

The foundation of that legacy is laid<br />

in our Torah-reading cycle this month,<br />

which will see us concluding the Book<br />

of b’Reisheet (Genesis) and beginning<br />

Sh’mot (Exodus). Genesis ends with the<br />

twelve sons of Jacob journeying down<br />

to Egypt, while Exodus describes how<br />

their descendants, the twelve Tribes of<br />

Israel, came back up out of Egypt 400<br />

years later; but the Torah text is explicit<br />

that, moving in or out, up or down, the<br />

family of Jacob always shared their<br />

journey as a single unified entity.<br />

We still do. The benchmark of that<br />

is the suffix “-nu” you will see in all our<br />

prayers (“avinu malkeinu,” “eloheinu<br />

v’eilohei avoteinu,” “asher kid’shanu<br />

b’mitvotav”), and in the Israeli national<br />

anthem: “od lo avdah tikvateinu.” That<br />

little grammatical particle is the all-important<br />

first-person plural, which serves<br />

to anchor each and every one of us as<br />

a component of a larger whole. Jewish<br />

life is inherently corporate, collective<br />

and communal.<br />

This is so much the case, that<br />

you simply can’t be Jewish alone. It’s<br />

impossible to learn Talmud without a<br />

study-partner to help put the content<br />

in context; a couple marrying needs at<br />

least two others to witness and sign the<br />

k’tuvah; a parent presenting a child for<br />

circumcision needs nine others to make<br />

a minyan to witness the fulfillment of the<br />

Covenant; a mourner grieving similarly<br />

requires a quorum to recite Qaddish, the<br />

benignly manipulative of our Tradition<br />

to make sure that no one deals with their<br />

loss alone. The shared nature of Jewish<br />

existence is summarized and captured<br />

in the title that Mark Zborowski chose,<br />

more than a generation ago, for his richly<br />

evocative study of the long-vanished<br />

shtetl world: Life is With People.<br />

Here in our not-so-little shtetl of<br />

Naples and environs, we rejoice in those<br />

who are here all year; we rejoice in those<br />

who come to join us at this season; and<br />

we rejoice most of all in the commitment<br />

that all alike share in living Jewish<br />

life together, bringing light and warmth<br />

to us all.<br />

Rabbi Mark Gross serves at the Jewish<br />

Congregation of Marco Island.<br />

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FOCUS ON YOUTH<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

BBYO Naples celebrates its 5 th anniversary<br />

By Skylar Haas, Assoc. Regional Dir. of BBYO’s North Florida Region<br />

BBYO Naples celebrated a ponents to the success of BBYO Naples.<br />

huge milestone recently in Taylor Bollt, Zoe Van Slyke and Ben<br />

celebrating its 5 th anniversary. Klausner were teens who attended summer<br />

programs, led community events,<br />

On Sunday, December 11, teens, parents,<br />

friends, family and alumni came and were instrumental to the establishment<br />

of both Negev AZA and Sababa<br />

together at Temple Shalom for an afternoon<br />

of commemorating, reminiscing BBG. During the celebration we heard<br />

and good food.<br />

such powerful words from the young<br />

While the 8 th Chapter boards of adults who have gone off to college<br />

Sababa BBG and Negev AZA were destalled<br />

and the new teens were installed, community involvement.<br />

and pursued their path in leadership and<br />

a sense of excitement filled the room. Thank you to everyone who came<br />

This same ceremony that was done out to celebrate with us!<br />

term after term felt unique because of For more information about service,<br />

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Samantha Front and Eli Melnick, the current BBG and AZA presidents<br />

BBYO is launching in the Fort Myers community with the goal of connecting local teens with<br />

a larger network of Jewish teens throughout the State of Florida. If you know of a teen in the<br />

Fort Myers area who may be interested, have them contact Skylar Haas at shaas@bbyo.org.<br />

Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County<br />

announces its<br />

First Annual Youth Leadership Award<br />

The Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County Youth Leadership Award will<br />

be given to honor the achievements of Greater Collier County high school<br />

seniors demonstrating leadership in their activities at their respective congregation<br />

and/or BBYO youth group. They will be recognized for their successful<br />

balancing of Jewish leadership, high school academics, athletics and clubs,<br />

and community service.<br />

A one-time award of $2,000 each will be given to two deserving seniors.<br />

This scholarship will be used to further their education at an accredited college,<br />

university or vocational school.<br />

Scholarship Applications can be found online at www.jewishnaples.org.<br />

The deadline for submissions of the Youth Leadership Award application,<br />

essay, resume, transcript and references is <strong>January</strong> 9.<br />

Temple Shalom Preschool update<br />

By Seyla Cohen, Preschool Director<br />

A<br />

brand new year! With the holidays<br />

behind us, it’s that time of<br />

the year when the children at<br />

Temple Shalom Preschool begin to<br />

settle into their familiar surroundings.<br />

Here at TSP, their home-away-fromhome,<br />

students enjoy returning to their<br />

classrooms, their comfort zone. Parents,<br />

as well as students, seem to sigh with<br />

relief when the hustle and bustle of the<br />

end-of-year activities are behind them.<br />

It feels good to calm down and revert<br />

back to a more routine lifestyle with<br />

more defined schedules. Children strive<br />

on structure, so returning to a more predictable<br />

routine does them well.<br />

In <strong>January</strong>, we welcome our newest<br />

students, our Lil’ Cubs. Those little<br />

ones who missed the cut-off, will begin<br />

their first school experience. Through<br />

the help and tender loving care of Miss<br />

Jane, our new Lil’ Cubs class will thrive,<br />

and kids will begin to learn all about<br />

independence. It’s hard at first to leave<br />

Mommy and Daddy, but once they catch<br />

on to the routine, they become our newest<br />

endearing family members.<br />

Health-Safety Day/Open House<br />

Once again Temple Shalom Preschool<br />

is hosting its annual Health-Safety Day/<br />

Open House on Sunday, <strong>January</strong> 15<br />

from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. This is a<br />

very special activity-packed day-long<br />

program educating our young citizens<br />

about health and safety within our community.<br />

Various community helpers<br />

come to present awareness about their<br />

individual departments. The children<br />

enjoy seeing fire trucks up close and<br />

personal. They are able to climb on<br />

board and view fire fighters’ gear and<br />

equipment. EMTs show up in their ambulances<br />

for the children to have a clear<br />

view of what is inside its vehicles, and<br />

the police department brings its mascot,<br />

McGruff the Crime Dog, teaching the<br />

children about combating crime in the<br />

area.<br />

Water safety, a major concern for<br />

parents in the area, is reinforced. Domestic<br />

animal services is another presenter<br />

along with Smokey the Bear from<br />

the Department of Forestry. And the<br />

Seyla Cohen with preschoolers dressed for<br />

a Thanksgiving celebration<br />

rock climbing wall and bounce house<br />

bring a lot of fun and excitement to the<br />

children, as do riding the ponies around<br />

our campus. Our Health-Safety Day is<br />

an event open to the general public, and<br />

is a welcome and well-received program<br />

for the community each year.<br />

Parents will also have a chance to<br />

tour our beautiful Preschool and meet<br />

our teachers. Children will have fun<br />

listening to a story in our famous Storyland<br />

Children’s Library, singing with<br />

our music teacher, checking out our<br />

brand new and futuristic Technology<br />

Lab, doing experiments in our Professor<br />

Einstein’s Laboratorium, having their<br />

face painted, jumping in the bounce<br />

house, riding on a pony or climbing on<br />

the rock wall!<br />

Save the date!<br />

We are very excited to announce that on<br />

Friday, February 3 we will have awardwinning<br />

recording Artist Ellen Allard<br />

performing for all the children of our<br />

community. This concert will be free of<br />

charge and open to the whole community.<br />

Ellen Allard is a much-loved performer<br />

for children and young families.<br />

Her concerts are high energy, interactive,<br />

and get kids and grownups singing,<br />

moving and dancing! This concert was<br />

made possible with the generous grant<br />

we received from the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong><br />

of Collier County. Thank you JFCC<br />

for your dedication to help educate our<br />

children. More information will follow<br />

concerning the concert.<br />

Wishing all a very Happy, Healthy<br />

and Peaceful New Year.<br />

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28A <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

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Beth Tikvah update<br />

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you’re wondering what to do. I’ll<br />

begin with an overview of what’s<br />

coming later in the winter and then detail<br />

the <strong>January</strong> menu. Aside from more<br />

presentations by June Sochen with<br />

Joyce Schrager and by Neil Adelman,<br />

we will have a two-part series by Gerald<br />

Ziedenberg and a solo appearance<br />

by Sam Geist. Our concert by the local<br />

Night Train band comes in February.<br />

SIR weekend with Dr. Joel Hoffman<br />

in March. Dr. Joel M. Hoffman<br />

focuses on bringing the Bible to life<br />

and is known for his “fresh insights and<br />

interpretations about religious life in<br />

the 21 st century.” A popular speaker, he<br />

presents to churches, synagogues, community<br />

groups and university audiences<br />

across the world. He holds a Ph.D. in<br />

linguistics and has served on the faculties<br />

of Brandeis University and Hebrew<br />

Union College. More about him and his<br />

most recent book, The Bible Doesn’t Say<br />

That: 40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions,<br />

and Other Misunderstandings,<br />

will appear in future columns.<br />

Special Film and Speaker<br />

<strong>January</strong> 8 at 7:00 p.m.: Beth Tikvah<br />

hosts <strong>Federation</strong>’s Israel Advocacy<br />

Committee’s presentation “Israel Inside:<br />

How a Small Nation Makes a Big<br />

Difference.” Also, Gabriel Baredes,<br />

representative of the Consulate General<br />

of Israel, will speak. Please send $10 per<br />

person to Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier<br />

County, Attn: Renee’, 2500 Vanderbilt<br />

Beach Rd., Ste. 2201, Naples, FL 34109.<br />

Payments must be received by <strong>January</strong><br />

3 or pay $15 at the door. For more information,<br />

please call 239.263.4205 or<br />

email rbialek@jewishnaples.org.<br />

Lecture Series Begins (7:30 p.m.)<br />

<strong>January</strong> 12: Neil Adelman on “Three<br />

Musical Subjects: Hatikvah, Jewish<br />

Themes in Opera, and Wagner in Israel.”<br />

<strong>January</strong> 17: Dr. June Sochen and<br />

Joyce Schrager explore “Where Are<br />

We Now? – Reviewing the Election and<br />

the Results.”<br />

Jewish Book Festival at Beth Tikvah<br />

Beth Tikvah is honored to be hosting<br />

four of the twelve sessions of the <strong>2017</strong><br />

Collier County Jewish Book Festival.<br />

Below are the first two:<br />

<strong>January</strong> 23 from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m.:<br />

Robert P. Watson (The Nazi Titanic)<br />

and Josh Aronson (Orchestra of Exiles)<br />

<strong>January</strong> 30 from 7:00 to 9:15 p.m.:<br />

Gary Belsky (On the Origins of Sports)<br />

and Jeffrey A. Margolis (Violence in<br />

Sports: Victory at What Price?)<br />

Because we are so busy with books,<br />

we will not hold our usual end-of-month<br />

Book Group meeting in <strong>January</strong>.<br />

To order your tickets and to see the<br />

full schedule, go to www.jewishbookfestival.org<br />

or see the center spread in<br />

section B of this issue.<br />

Eat & Learn Shabbat<br />

We will have another blend of praying,<br />

eating and learning on <strong>January</strong> 27. The<br />

service begins at 6:15 p.m., followed by<br />

dinner ($30 per person in advance) and<br />

then the learning session. The session<br />

theme is Blue Zone. Why do the populations<br />

of certain areas live healthier<br />

and longer lives? What’s happening in<br />

Naples? These Friday evenings provide<br />

T<br />

B<br />

a great opportunity for getting to know<br />

one another. RSVP to Shelley at shelleygoodman@rogers.com.<br />

Rosh Hodesh Group Meets Twice<br />

(10:00 a.m.)<br />

<strong>January</strong> 1: Facilitator Fran Alpert will<br />

lead an exploration of Jewish history in<br />

the time of the First Temple and what<br />

happened after the Fall of Jerusalem in<br />

the 6 th century BCE.<br />

<strong>January</strong> 29: Cippora Taylor is the facilitator.<br />

Topic to be announced.<br />

Religious services schedule<br />

Friday services begin at 6:15 p.m.; Saturday<br />

services begin at 9:30 a.m. and<br />

conclude with a Kiddush luncheon. Sunday<br />

9:00 a.m. minyan has resumed. We<br />

regularly convene Yahrzeit minyanim<br />

upon request. Please join us at any service.<br />

Our participatory worship services<br />

and most other events are held at 1459<br />

Pine Ridge Road, just west of Mission<br />

Square Plaza. For more information,<br />

call 239.434.1818, email bethtikvah<br />

naples@aol.com or visit www.bethtik<br />

vahnaples.org. You can reach Rabbi<br />

Chorny directly at 239.537.5257.<br />

CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF NAPLES www.chabadnaples.com / 239-262-4474<br />

Chabad Jewish Center of Naples update<br />

Shabbat Community Dinners<br />

Mark your calendars and book<br />

early for our very popular Shabbat<br />

community dinners: Friday, <strong>January</strong><br />

20, and Friday, March 3 with special<br />

guest speaker and comedian David<br />

Nesenoff.<br />

The Women’s Circle!<br />

You asked, and in response to popular<br />

demand, here are some dates for you to<br />

mark on your calendars. More to follow!<br />

Wednesday, February 1: Susie Fishbein,<br />

author of many outstanding kosher<br />

cookbooks, will share some of her secrets<br />

about cooking kosher and making<br />

special treats to add excitement to your<br />

year-round and holiday cooking.<br />

Thursday, March 9: Special Women’s<br />

Purim celebration and reception<br />

Thursday, April 27: Women’s Mega<br />

Challah Bake<br />

NAPLES JEWISH CONGREGATION www.naplesjewishcongregation.org / 239-234-6366<br />

Naples Jewish Congregation update<br />

By Suzanne L. Paley, President<br />

Check out our website<br />

Our new Web Maven has been<br />

working to update our website,<br />

making it more interesting, including<br />

more information, and making it easier<br />

to navigate. You will be surprised with<br />

all that Naples Jewish Congregation has<br />

to offer. We are a small, Reform, friendly<br />

and affordable adult congregation that<br />

seeks to address the needs and interests<br />

of our unique congregation. If you go<br />

to www.naplesjewishcongregation.org<br />

you will see not only basic information<br />

about NJC, but also copies of our<br />

monthly newsletters, a calendar, and flyers<br />

featuring special events. Along with<br />

the flyers, we have now made it possible<br />

to purchase tickets online – you will no<br />

longer need to copy the flyer, tear off a<br />

return section and write a check. With<br />

the click of a mouse you can accomplish<br />

all of this at once!<br />

As a reminder, here are some of the<br />

events we are looking forward to in the<br />

next couple of months. We hope you<br />

will decide to join our temple family<br />

An Evening with Rena Finder<br />

We are honored to welcome back, by<br />

popular demand, guest speaker Rena<br />

Finder for an evening of inspiration<br />

and courage, on Tuesday, <strong>January</strong> 17.<br />

Last year we regret we were unable to<br />

accommodate everyone who expressed<br />

an interest in hearing her speak of her<br />

experiences as the youngest survivor<br />

on Schindler’s List.<br />

Hebrew School 2016-<strong>2017</strong><br />

Chabad Hebrew School is currently<br />

in full swing for our 2016-17 Hebrew<br />

School year. Our curriculum includes<br />

Hebrew reading (using the Aleph<br />

Champ reading program), Jewish history,<br />

mitzvot and Jewish practice (the<br />

hows and whys of Jewish living) and<br />

tefillah (prayer). Lessons are engaging<br />

and exciting with lots of projects,<br />

activities and discussions that provide<br />

as guests.<br />

Special <strong>January</strong> Services<br />

Men’s Club Shabbat: Our first Shabbat<br />

service in <strong>January</strong> will be held on Saturday,<br />

<strong>January</strong> 7 at 10:00 a.m. instead<br />

of Friday night, <strong>January</strong> 6. Men’s Club<br />

members will conduct the majority of<br />

the service, which will be followed by<br />

a delicious Kiddush luncheon.<br />

Sisterhood Shabbat: Sisterhood<br />

members will conduct an original<br />

service focusing on women on Friday,<br />

<strong>January</strong> 27, followed by a special Oneg.<br />

Artist/Scholar-in-Residence<br />

Broadway – here we come! On Thursday,<br />

February 9, Naples Jewish Congregation<br />

will present this season’s<br />

Artist and Scholar-in-Residence, Rabbi<br />

Kenneth Kanter. Plan to join us at the<br />

Wang Auditorium of Opera Naples for<br />

an evening of wonderful music – to sing<br />

along if you choose – and learn about<br />

the many Jewish composers and lyricists<br />

who produced those lasting memories.<br />

Complete the evening with a delightful<br />

champagne and dessert reception. You<br />

meaningful insight into contemporary<br />

Jewish life. Hebrew School is held on<br />

Wednesdays from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.<br />

Openings still available. To enroll your<br />

child, please call 239.262.4474 or visit<br />

www.chabadnaples.com.<br />

Men’s Club Classes<br />

Join the Men’s Club every Wednesday<br />

from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. for insightful<br />

and inspiring classes and discussions<br />

with Rabbi Fishel Zaklos. For more<br />

information, email Marv Bomberg at<br />

mbomberg@aol.com.<br />

Shabbat Services<br />

Our warm and welcoming Shabbat services<br />

are held every Saturday morning.<br />

The Torah Service begins at 11:00 a.m.<br />

and includes the rabbi’s insights during<br />

the Torah reading. The message is always<br />

topical, contemporary, meaningful<br />

and relevant. Services are followed by<br />

will be entertained and we guarantee<br />

you will go home happy and exhilarated,<br />

singing your favorite songs! Tickets<br />

are $50 for general seating and $75 for<br />

benefactor status and preferred seating.<br />

On Friday night, February 10, during<br />

our Shabbat service, Rabbi Kanter<br />

will give a more scholarly presentation<br />

demonstrating how Jewish backgrounds<br />

and values are reflected in the music<br />

they produced for Broadway and Tin<br />

Pan Alley.<br />

Sisterhood Game Day<br />

Monday, March 6 is a date to save!<br />

Sisterhood’s annual Game Day will<br />

be held at the Cypress Woods Country<br />

Club. This is an event you won’t want to<br />

miss, so watch our website for information<br />

about registration. As soon as this<br />

information is posted, don’t hesitate, as<br />

the room fills up quickly and we always<br />

have a full house. <strong>Star</strong>t gathering your<br />

playing partners now!<br />

Jewish Book Festival<br />

On Monday, March 13 at 1:00 p.m., NJC<br />

will sponsor and host the last event of<br />

I<br />

a delicious Kiddush buffet lunch. Bring<br />

your children and grandchildren along<br />

with you! Our Junior Shabbat Minyan,<br />

a children’s service for ages 3 to 11, gets<br />

the kids up and moving as our teachers<br />

follow the parsha of the week through<br />

games, songs, stories, activities and a<br />

snack (and some fun on the outdoor<br />

playground, too). It is a wonderful opportunity<br />

for your child to learn in a<br />

friendly and sociable environment.<br />

Flying Challah<br />

Each week, we distribute freshly-baked<br />

challahs to families in our community.<br />

Would you like to welcome a new family<br />

to town? Perhaps you know someone<br />

who is not feeling well? Or maybe you<br />

want to let someone know you are thinking<br />

about them. A Flying Challah needs<br />

only your suggestion and a call to Ettie<br />

Zaklos at 239.262.4474.<br />

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this year’s Jewish Book Festival. Taking<br />

place where we gather to worship,<br />

the Unitarian Universalist Congregation,<br />

we will have two authors who<br />

W<br />

will present their books and share their<br />

humor that has made them famous. A<br />

dessert reception will follow. For more<br />

information and to purchase tickets, visit<br />

www.jewishbookfestival.org or see the<br />

center spread in section B of this issue.<br />

Let’s end the Festival on a happy and<br />

humorous note!<br />

Shabbat Services<br />

Our regular Friday night Shabbat services<br />

begin at 7:30 p.m. For all of our<br />

services, we gather at the Unitarian<br />

Universalist Congregation of Greater<br />

Naples, located at 6340 Napa Woods<br />

Way in Naples. Please join us for a<br />

Shabbat service and find out why “NJC<br />

is a place for you to belong!” An Oneg<br />

follows our evening services, which<br />

gives everyone a chance to greet, meet<br />

and chat. For more information, please<br />

call 239.431.3858 or visit www.naples<br />

jewishcongregation.org.


SYNAGOGUES / ORGANIZATIONS<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

29A<br />

JEWISH CONGREGATION OF MARCO ISLAND www.marcojcmi.com / 239-642-0800<br />

The Saul I. Stern Cultural Series<br />

By Sue R. Baum, President<br />

This series is one of the calling<br />

cards of our synagogue. Established<br />

23 years ago, the series<br />

has made a contribution to the cultural<br />

life of the greater Marco Island community<br />

and beyond. This year, the program<br />

is both informative and musical.<br />

On Saturday, <strong>January</strong> 21, we will<br />

revisit Fiddler on the Roof, in an interesting<br />

and informative manner by<br />

Ellen Katz, of Baltimore, Maryland, a<br />

presenter of super musicals. A graduate<br />

of the University of Maryland, she is<br />

COLLIER/LEE CHAPTER OF HADASSAH www.hadassah.org / 239-370-6220<br />

Hadassah update<br />

Karen<br />

Cohn<br />

Collier/Lee<br />

Hadassah<br />

Co-President<br />

I<br />

just read a letter that National<br />

President Ellen Hershkin sent to<br />

the women of Hadassah. She states<br />

“that now more than ever we need<br />

to take stock and replenish our inner<br />

strengths, because Hadassah needs you<br />

in the days, weeks and months ahead to<br />

work together for women’s health, gender<br />

equity and, most definitely, Israel.”<br />

Since our founding, Hadassah<br />

members have joined together in communities<br />

around the country to achieve<br />

our mission. We do this across lines<br />

of geography, across political aisles,<br />

and across generations – l’dor v’dor.<br />

Together we will build on this legacy.<br />

President-elect Donald Trump<br />

chose to focus on uniting the American<br />

people. Hadassah is looking forward<br />

to working with him and his staff to<br />

strengthen the U.S.-Israel relationship,<br />

promote gender equity, and address the<br />

issues important to us as Zionists and<br />

women.<br />

We definitely are not ready to compromise<br />

our rights. Hopefully, he and<br />

leaders around the world will work to<br />

achieve these goals.<br />

We are the Power of Women Who<br />

Do.<br />

If you are interested in helping with<br />

any of our upcoming events, please<br />

contact me and I will give your name<br />

to the appropriate person.<br />

IMPORTANT NOTICE! Two<br />

Board Positions Available: Records<br />

Administrator and Co-Treasurer.<br />

HUMANISTIC JEWISH HAVURAH www.hjhswfl.org / 248-417-2514<br />

Religious freedom in changing times<br />

Paula<br />

Creed<br />

HJH<br />

President<br />

On Sunday, <strong>January</strong> 15, Rev.<br />

Tony Fisher will discuss the<br />

ramifications of the 1993 Religious<br />

Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)<br />

in the light of recent U.S. Supreme<br />

Court decisions and the prospect of the<br />

newly-elected Trump Administration<br />

a teacher and performer. With videos,<br />

a live performance and colorful costumes,<br />

she tells the story of Fiddler’s<br />

creation, the fascinating history of the<br />

unforgettable music. She has received<br />

rave reviews at Chautauqua, Peabody<br />

Institute, FGCU and more.<br />

On Saturday, March 4, we will have<br />

a Chocolate Fantasy. Retired Rabbi<br />

Deborah R. Prinz has spent the last<br />

decade studying the link between Jewish<br />

history and the history of chocolate.<br />

Her book On the Chocolate Trail is in<br />

ORGANIZATIONS<br />

appointment to the bench. There is much<br />

to contemplate. At 1:30 p.m. we will enjoy<br />

a short “coffee and chat” prior to the<br />

beginning of the program at 2:00 p.m.<br />

The public is invited to attend<br />

this timely program. Reservations are<br />

being accepted by Dena Sklaroff at<br />

239.591.0101 or denas27@aol.com.<br />

After a successful 35-year career in<br />

educational publishing, where he served<br />

most recently as CEO for a successful<br />

Boston area development house, Tony<br />

changed course and went back to school<br />

to earn his Masters of Divinity at Andover<br />

Newton Theological School and was<br />

its third printing and will be available<br />

for purchase. She will weave the story<br />

of Jews and chocolate. The recipes in<br />

the book will be offered following the<br />

presentation.<br />

On Saturday, March 18, for the 11 th<br />

season performing at the Cultural Series,<br />

the Naples Philharmonic Brass Quintet<br />

returns with outstanding musicians for<br />

classic and modern music and commentary.<br />

A Viennese table and tasting from<br />

<strong>Star</strong>bucks follows the program.<br />

ordained into the Unitarian Universalist<br />

ministry in 2014. A lifelong Unitarian<br />

Universalist, Rev Fisher sees his faith<br />

tradition as living on the boundary<br />

between the sacred and the secular, the<br />

faithful and the skeptic, the believer and<br />

the doubter. Religious freedom is thus<br />

both at the core of this tradition and essential<br />

for its existence.<br />

We cannot assume that the buttresses<br />

of law and precedent will hold<br />

firm. Acts of intolerance have risen since<br />

the election and we can only expect<br />

that well-supported attacks on religious<br />

freedom will continue as well. Issues<br />

BROWNSTEIN JUDAICA<br />

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Upcoming events<br />

Tuesday, <strong>January</strong> 10 at 11:00 a.m.:<br />

Being inspired by All Things Hadassah<br />

with Roz Rosen speaking to<br />

our members.<br />

Tuesday, <strong>January</strong> 17 at 11:30 a.m.:<br />

Luncheon at Vineyards Country<br />

Club<br />

Thursday, February 2 at 7:30 p.m.:<br />

“Kosher Comedy Tour” at Temple<br />

Shalom<br />

of governmental entanglement with<br />

religion have undergone a considerable<br />

shift over the last few decades. The religious<br />

right has created a new definition<br />

of religious liberty that now includes<br />

the rights of corporations to withhold<br />

birth control in insurance plans and<br />

threatens to discriminate against samesex<br />

couples. And this is just the tip of<br />

an iceberg of demands that also includes<br />

the degradation of science education, the<br />

“war” on Christmas, prayer in school<br />

and much more.<br />

JEWISH WAR VETERANS 239-261-3270<br />

Jewish War Veterans update<br />

By Harve Sturm, Commander Post #202<br />

Wow! November 2016 was an<br />

exciting month packed with<br />

patriotism and politics. On<br />

the political side, the presidential election<br />

was an extraordinary event. We take<br />

no sides, but finally we have a presidentelect<br />

to bring the country together.<br />

On November 11, Veterans Day,<br />

JWV members attended and participated<br />

in several veteran celebrations in Naples<br />

beginning with the Collier County Veterans<br />

Council celebration at Cambier<br />

Park with a presentation of the flags.<br />

The JWV Post 202 flag was presented<br />

with the Naples High School JROTC<br />

Honor Guard.<br />

The Pine Ridge Middle School<br />

Band honored the veterans with patriotic<br />

music throughout the event attended by<br />

veterans, residents and visitors.<br />

Temple Shalom Veterans Shabbat:<br />

JWV members participated in the<br />

service in dress uniform in a Shabbat<br />

service honoring all veterans.<br />

The Palmetto Ridge<br />

High School JROTC presented<br />

the colors, with the<br />

Pledge of Allegiance from<br />

the congregation. During<br />

the service, the chorus sang<br />

patriotic songs beginning<br />

with “America the Beautiful” and the<br />

congregation joined in. The service<br />

concluded with everyone singing “God<br />

Bless America.”<br />

JWV Special Event: Our annual<br />

fundraiser at the Vineyards Country<br />

Club included a buffet breakfast. Guest<br />

speaker Max Rabinovits presented<br />

“The Story of My Life and Music.” He<br />

has spent his life as an internationallyrenowned<br />

violinist, concert master of<br />

the St. Louis and Cincinnati Orchestras,<br />

and the Naples Orchestra and Chorus.<br />

Max’s early studies of the violin began<br />

while he and his family were in hiding<br />

from the Nazis in Belgium.<br />

Max, an amazing storyteller,<br />

shared memories of<br />

his childhood and lifetime<br />

experiences in Europe and<br />

America. He concluded his<br />

visit by honoring us with a<br />

violin concert. The entire<br />

audience sang “God Bless America.”<br />

The day concluded with an outstanding<br />

concert at the Cambier Park band shell<br />

featuring the Naples Concert Band.<br />

Wishing everyone a Happy Chanukah<br />

and a Happy and Healthy New Year.<br />

We stand for Jewish pride, identity<br />

and American military service to our<br />

nation.


30A <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

COMMUNITY CALENDAR<br />

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY<br />

1 New Year’s Day 2 JFCC CLOSED 3<br />

4<br />

9:00am BT Religious School 5:30pm JCMI Bingo<br />

10:00am BT Women’s Rosh<br />

Hodesh Group<br />

8<br />

9:00am BT Religious School<br />

9:00am TS Sunday School &<br />

Hebrew School<br />

9:30am JCMI Rabbi’s Program<br />

10:30am NJC Rabbi’s Class<br />

5:00pm CJD Program<br />

7:00pm IAC Film<br />

15<br />

9:00am BT Religious School<br />

9:00am JWV Meeting<br />

11:00am GS trip to St. Pete<br />

12:30pm BBYO Tea PArty<br />

1:00pm HJH Program<br />

2:00pm JCMI Film Festival<br />

22 23<br />

9:00am BT Religious School<br />

9:00am TS Sunday School &<br />

Hebrew School<br />

10:30am NJC Rabbi’s Class<br />

12:30pm HM Art Event<br />

9<br />

11:00am HDH Board Meeting<br />

5:30pm JCMI Bingo<br />

16<br />

10:00am JFCC MLK Jr Parade<br />

12:00pm NJC-S Book Club<br />

1:00pm HDH Study Group<br />

5:00pm JHSSWF Fundraiser<br />

5:30pm JCMI Bingo<br />

11:30am JCRC Meeting<br />

1:00pm Jewish Book Festival<br />

5:30pm JCMI Bingo<br />

7:00pm AIPAC Briefing<br />

7:30pm BT Book Group<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> – 5777 Get the Service you Deserve<br />

10:00am BBYO Board Meeting<br />

10:00am TS-S Board Meeting<br />

12:15pm BT Adult Ed<br />

1:00pm JCMI Duplicate Bridge<br />

1:30pm CJD Meeting<br />

4:00pm JFCC Exec Board Mtg<br />

6:00pm TS Confirmation Class<br />

7:00pm BT Adult Ed<br />

10<br />

10:00am Jewish Genealogy<br />

12:15pm BT Adult Ed<br />

1:00pm JCMI Duplicate Bridge<br />

6:00pm JFCC Major Gifts<br />

7:00pm BT Adult Ed<br />

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY<br />

5<br />

6<br />

7<br />

1:00pm JCMI Bridge<br />

11:00am JCMI Mah Jongg 5:30pm HJH Pot Luck Shabbat 8:30am TS Torah Talk<br />

4:30pm BT Hebrew School 11:00am TS Senior For’em 6:15pm BT Services<br />

9:30am BT Services<br />

4:30pm CHA Hebrew School 11:30am Jewish Book Festival 7:30pm TS Services<br />

9:30am JCMI Services<br />

7:30pm BT Adult Ed<br />

7:00pm BBYO Youth Program 8:00pm JCMI Services<br />

10:00am CHA Services<br />

10:00am TS Services<br />

10:30am NJC Services<br />

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1:00pm Jewish Book Festival<br />

1:00pm JCMI Bridge<br />

4:30pm BT Hebrew School<br />

4:30pm CHA Hebrew School<br />

4:45pm TS Hebrew School<br />

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9:00am IAC Meeting<br />

11:00am JCMI Mah Jongg<br />

11:00am MCA Luncheon<br />

2:00pm NJC Board Meeting<br />

6:30pm HDH Evening Group<br />

7:00pm BBYO Youth Program<br />

7:30pm BT Lecture<br />

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11:00am JCMI Book Club 9:30am HJH Board Meeting 11:00am JCMI Mah Jongg<br />

11:30am HDH Luncheon 1:00pm JCMI Bridge<br />

2:00pm Jewish Book Festival<br />

12:15pm BT Adult Ed<br />

4:30pm BT Hebrew School 4:00pm BT Board Meeting<br />

1:00pm JCMI Duplicate Bridge 4:30pm CHA Hebrew School 7:00pm Jewish Book Festival<br />

6:00pm JFCC Maimonides Soc<br />

4:45pm TS Hebrew School<br />

7:00pm BT Adult Ed<br />

6:30pm Klezmer Band Concert<br />

7:00pm TS Exec Comm Mtg<br />

7:30pm BT Lecture<br />

7:30pm BT Adult Ed<br />

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12:15pm BT Adult Ed<br />

1:00pm JCMI Bridge<br />

10:30am Mix & Mingle Event<br />

1:00pm JCMI Duplicate Bridge 4:30pm BT Hebrew School 11:00am JCMI Mah Jongg<br />

1:00pm WCA Salon<br />

4:30pm CHA Hebrew School 5:30pm NJFF Patron Event<br />

7:00pm BT Adult Ed<br />

7:30pm ZOA Speaker<br />

7:00pm BBYO Youth Program<br />

7:00pm TS Board Meeting<br />

7:00pm JCMI Board Meeting<br />

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6:15pm BT Services<br />

7:30pm NJC Services<br />

7:30pm TS Services<br />

8:00pm JCMI Services<br />

5:30pm CHA Shabbat Dinner<br />

6:15pm BT Services<br />

7:30pm NJC Services<br />

7:30pm TS Services<br />

8:00pm JCMI Services<br />

9:00am WCA Board Meeting<br />

6:15pm BT Services<br />

7:30pm NJC Services<br />

7:30pm TS S-i-R Weekend<br />

8:00pm JCMI Services<br />

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9:30am BT Services<br />

9:30am JCMI Services<br />

10:00am CHA Services<br />

10:00am TS Services<br />

6:00pm JFCS Annual Gala<br />

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9:30am BT Services<br />

9:30am JCMI Services<br />

10:00am CHA Services<br />

10:00am TS Services<br />

7:30pm JCMI Cultural Series<br />

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9:00am TS S-i-R Weekend<br />

9:30am BT Services<br />

10:00am CHA Services<br />

10:00am TS Services<br />

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9:00am BT Religious School 5:30pm JCMI Bingo<br />

9:00pm TS S-i-R Weekend 7:00pm Jewish Book Festival<br />

9:00am TS Sunday School & 7:00pm Covenant With Israel<br />

Hebrew School<br />

Celebration<br />

10:00am BT Women’s Rosh<br />

Hodesh Group<br />

11:00am JCMI Jewish Deli Fest<br />

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12:15pm BT Adult Ed<br />

1:00pm JCMI Duplicate Bridge<br />

7:00pm BT Adult Ed<br />

7:00pm GS Film<br />

Candle lighting times:<br />

<strong>January</strong> 6: 5:33<br />

<strong>January</strong> 13: 5:38<br />

<strong>January</strong> 20: 5:44<br />

<strong>January</strong> 27: 5:50<br />

Throughout the year, some holidays fall within the normal work week. The <strong>Federation</strong> office will be closed<br />

in observance of those holidays which are listed in all CAPITAL LETTERS.<br />

Key:<br />

• AJC: American Jewish Committee<br />

• ATS: American Technion Society<br />

• BT: Beth Tikvah<br />

• CHA: Chabad Jewish Center of Naples<br />

• CHA-M: Chabad Men’s Club<br />

• CJD: Catholic-Jewish Dialogue<br />

• GS: GenShoah of SWFL<br />

• HDH: Hadassah<br />

• HJH: Humanistic Jewish Havurah<br />

• HM: Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida<br />

• IAC: Israel Advocacy Committee<br />

• JCMI: Jewish Congregation of Marco Island<br />

• JCMI-M: JCMI Men’s Club<br />

• JCMI-S: JCMI Sisterhood<br />

• JCRC: Jewish Community Relations Council<br />

• JFCC: Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County<br />

• JFCS: Jewish Family & Community Services<br />

• JHSSWF: Jewish Historical Society of SWFL<br />

• JNF: Jewish National Fund<br />

• JRCA: Jewish Russian-American Cultural Alliance<br />

• JWV: Jewish War Veterans<br />

• MCA: Men’s Cultural Alliance<br />

• NJC: Naples Jewish Congregation<br />

• NJC-M: Naples Jewish Congregation Men’s Club<br />

• NJC-S: Naples Jewish Congregation Sisterhood<br />

• TS: Temple Shalom<br />

• TS-M: Temple Shalom Men’s Club<br />

• TS-S: Temple Shalom Sisterhood<br />

• WCA: Women’s Cultural Alliance<br />

• ZOA: Zionist Organization of America<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Publication Policy<br />

The <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> is a subsidized arm of<br />

the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County (JFCC).<br />

Its purpose and function is to publicize the activities and<br />

programs of the <strong>Federation</strong>, and to publicize the ongoing<br />

activities of the established and recognized Jewish<br />

organizations within Collier County.<br />

The goal of the JFCC is to reach out and unite all<br />

Jews of the greater Collier County area. While offering<br />

opinions and points of view do, and will continue<br />

to, exist about many issues of importance to Jews, the<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> will confine itself to publishing ONLY<br />

items that report the facts of actual events of concern<br />

to Jews and will only offer commentary that clearly intends<br />

to unite all Jews in a common purpose or purposes.<br />

Critical or derogatory comments directed at individuals<br />

or organizations will NOT be published.<br />

(Adopted by the Offi cers and Board of Trustees<br />

of the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County 1/98)<br />

To avoid misunderstandings, controversies and destructive<br />

divisions among our people, the Officers and<br />

Board of Trustees of the “<strong>Federation</strong>” have adopted the<br />

following publication policy:<br />

Advertisements: All advertisements, regardless of their<br />

sponsor, shall be paid for in full, at the established rates,<br />

prior to publication. The contents of all advertisements<br />

shall be subject to review and approval of the <strong>Federation</strong><br />

Board or its designee. Commercial advertisers may make<br />

credit arrangements with the advertising manager, subject<br />

to the approval of the <strong>Federation</strong> Board.<br />

Regular Columns: Regular columns shall be accepted<br />

only from leaders (Rabbis, Presidents, Chairpersons) of<br />

established and recognized Jewish organizations within Collier<br />

County and the designated Chairpersons of the regular<br />

committees of the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County.<br />

Special Announcements: Special announcements<br />

shall be accepted from established Jewish organizations<br />

within Collier County and may, at the discretion of the<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> Board, be subject to the conditions applicable<br />

to paid advertisements, as set forth above.<br />

News Items: Only those news items pertaining to matters<br />

of general interest to the broadest cross-section of<br />

the Jewish Community will be accepted for publication.<br />

Note: Items of controversial opinions and points of<br />

view, about political issues, will not be accepted for<br />

publication without prior approval of a majority of<br />

the <strong>Federation</strong> Officers and Trustees.<br />

All persons and organizations objecting to the actions<br />

and rulings of the Editor or Publications Committee<br />

Chairman shall have the right to appeal those rulings<br />

to the Officers and Board of Trustees of the JFCC.<br />

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COMMUNITY DIRECTORY<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

31A<br />

TEMPLE SHALOM<br />

OF NAPLES (Reform)<br />

4630 Pine Ridge Road, Naples, FL 34119<br />

Phone: 455-3030 • Fax: 455-4361<br />

Email: info@naplestemple.org<br />

www.naplestemple.org<br />

Rabbi Adam Miller<br />

Cantor Donna Azu<br />

James H. Perman, D.D.,<br />

Rabbi Emeritus<br />

Debbie Zvibleman, President<br />

Eli Montague, Executive Director<br />

Dr. Anna Salomon, Dir. of Cong. Ed.<br />

Seyla Cohen, Preschool Director<br />

Peter Lewis, Organist/Choir Director<br />

Shabbat Services:<br />

Shabbat Eve - Friday 7:30 p.m.<br />

Shabbat - Saturday 10:00 a.m.<br />

JEWISH CONGREGATION<br />

OF MARCO ISLAND<br />

991 Winterberry Drive<br />

Marco Island, FL 34145<br />

Phone: 642-0800 • Fax: 642-1031<br />

Email: mgr.jcmioffice@embarqmail.com<br />

Website: www.marcojcmi.com<br />

Rabbi Mark Gross<br />

Hari Jacobsen, Cantorial Soloist<br />

Sue Baum, President<br />

Shabbat Services<br />

Friday 8:00 p.m.<br />

Saturday Talmud-Torah at 9:30 a.m.<br />

and Shachrit at 10:30 a.m.<br />

Sisterhood • Men’s Club<br />

Brownstein Judaica Gift Shop<br />

NAPLES JEWISH CONGREGATION<br />

(Reform)<br />

Services are held at:<br />

The Unitarian Congregation<br />

6340 Napa Woods Way<br />

Rabbi Sylvin Wolf Ph.D, DD<br />

431-3858<br />

Email: rabbi@naplesjewishcongregation.org<br />

www.naplesjewishcongregation.org<br />

Suzanne Paley, President<br />

Jane Galler, Cantorial Soloist<br />

Shabbat Services<br />

Friday evenings at 7:30 p.m.<br />

May - August: services once a month<br />

Sisterhood • Men’s Club<br />

Adult Education • Adult Choir<br />

Social Action • Community Events<br />

BETH TIKVAH<br />

(Conservative)<br />

1459 Pine Ridge Road<br />

Naples, FL 34109<br />

(just west of Mission Square Plaza)<br />

Phone: 434-1818<br />

Email: bethtikvahnaples@aol.com<br />

Website: www.bethtikvahnaples.org<br />

Rabbi Ammos Chorny<br />

Phil Jason, President<br />

Sue Hammerman, Secretary<br />

Shabbat Services<br />

Friday evenings at 6:15 p.m.<br />

Saturday mornings at 9:30 a.m.<br />

Youth Education<br />

Adult Education<br />

Community Events<br />

Sisterhood • Men’s Club • Adult Education<br />

Havurot • Youth Groups • Religious School<br />

Judaic Library • Hebrew School • Pre-School<br />

Adult Choir • Social Action • Outreach<br />

Naples’ only Judaica Shop<br />

CHABAD NAPLES JEWISH<br />

COMMUNITY CENTER<br />

serving Naples and Marco Island<br />

1789 Mandarin Road, Naples, FL 34102<br />

Phone: 262-4474<br />

Email: info@chabadnaples.com<br />

Website: www.chabadnaples.com<br />

Rabbi Fishel Zaklos<br />

Dr. Arthur Seigel, President<br />

Ettie Zaklos, Education Director<br />

Shabbat Services<br />

Shabbat - Saturday 10am<br />

• Camp Gan Israel • Hebrew School<br />

• Preschool of the Arts<br />

• Jewish Women’s Circle<br />

• Adult Education • Bat Mitzvah Club<br />

• Friendship Circle • Smile on Seniors<br />

• Flying Challah • Kosher food delivery<br />

The <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> is published<br />

monthly, September through July,<br />

by the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong><br />

of Collier County.<br />

2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road<br />

Suite 2201<br />

Naples, FL 34109-0613<br />

Phone: 239-263-4205<br />

Fax: 239-263-3813<br />

E-mail: info@jewishnaples.org<br />

Website: www.jewishnaples.org<br />

Volume 26, No. 5<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

48 pages<br />

USPS Permit No. 419<br />

Publisher:<br />

Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County<br />

Editor:<br />

Ted Epstein, 239-249-0699<br />

fedstar18@gmail.com<br />

Design:<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> Media Group, Inc.<br />

Advertising:<br />

Ted Epstein<br />

239-249-0699<br />

February Issue Deadlines:<br />

Editorial: <strong>January</strong> 3<br />

Advertising: <strong>January</strong> 6<br />

Send news stories to:<br />

fedstar18@gmail.com<br />

Sneezy, Grumpy,<br />

Dopey, Doc,<br />

Sleepy and Happy<br />

And you thought there were seven?<br />

Well there are. We’ve been called a lot of<br />

the above, but number seven we’re not.<br />

Bashful.<br />

We’d like you to make a lifetime gift<br />

or bequest to the Endowment Fund of the<br />

Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County<br />

that will benefit the Jewish community.<br />

Happy? It will dwarf anything else you do.<br />

Snow joke.<br />

For more information on gift planning,<br />

call Jeffrey Feld at the <strong>Federation</strong><br />

at 239.263.4205.<br />

Please note our email addresses:<br />

Jeffrey Feld, <strong>Federation</strong> President/CEO – jfeld@jewishnaples.org<br />

Renee’ Bialek, Community Program Coordinator – rbialek@jewishnaples.org<br />

Julie Hartline, Donor Relations Coordinator – jhartline@jewishnaples.org<br />

Stacy Hersha, Business Operations Manager – shersha@jewishnaples.org<br />

General information requests – info@jewishnaples.org<br />

Ted Epstein, Editor, <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> – fedstar18@gmail.com<br />

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Jewish Organizations<br />

to Serve You<br />

in Collier County<br />

(All area codes are 239 unless otherwise noted.)<br />

Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County<br />

Phone: 263-4205 • Fax: 263-3813<br />

Website: www.jewishnaples.org<br />

Email: info@jewishnaples.org<br />

• <strong>Federation</strong> Board Chair: Alvin Becker<br />

• <strong>Federation</strong> President/CEO: Jeffrey Feld<br />

American Jewish Committee<br />

• Regional Dir: Brian Lipton, 941-365-4955<br />

American Technion Society<br />

• Chapter Dir: Kelley Whiter, 561-395-7206<br />

Collier-Lee Chapter of Hadassah<br />

• Co-President: Karen Cohn, 370-6220<br />

• Co-President: Gayle Dorio, 530-8992<br />

Friends of the IDF<br />

• Exec. Dir.: Dina Ben Ari, 305-354-8233<br />

GenShoah SWFL<br />

• President: Ida Margolis, 963-9347<br />

Holocaust Museum & Education<br />

Center of Southwest Florida<br />

• President: Herb Berkeley, 263-9200<br />

Humanistic Jewish Havurah<br />

• Paula Creed, 495-8484<br />

Israel Bonds<br />

• Reva Pearlstein, 800-622-8017<br />

JFCS of Southwest Florida<br />

Phone: 325-4444<br />

• Chairperson: David Rutstein<br />

• President/CEO: Dr. Jaclynn Faffer<br />

Jewish Historical Society<br />

of Southwest Florida<br />

• President: Marina Berkovich, 566-1771<br />

Jewish National Fund<br />

• West/Central FL Office, 800-211-1502<br />

Uri ext 8910, Beth ext 8911<br />

Jewish War Veterans Post 202<br />

• Commander, Harvey Sturm, 261-3270<br />

• Senior Vice Commander,<br />

M/Gen. Bernard L. Weiss, USAF Ret. 594-7772<br />

Men’s Cultural Alliance<br />

• President: Les Nizin, 653-9259<br />

Naples BBYO<br />

• Skylar Haas, 263-4205<br />

Naples Friends of American Magen<br />

David Adom (MDA)<br />

• SE Reg Dir: Joel Silberman, 954-457-9766<br />

Women’s Cultural Alliance<br />

• President: Elaine Soffer, 431-7905<br />

Zionist Organization of America<br />

• President: Jerry Sobel, 914-329-1024<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> membership<br />

According to the bylaws of the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of<br />

Collier County, members are those individuals who make<br />

an annual gift of $36 or more to the Annual <strong>Federation</strong><br />

Campaign in our community. For more information,<br />

call the <strong>Federation</strong> office at 239.263.4205.


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Celebrating Jewish Life in Collier County, Israel and the World<br />

<strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

Published by the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County<br />

serving Naples, Marco Island and the surrounding communities<br />

www.JewishNaples.org <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> - Tevet/Shevat 5777 Vol. 26 #5<br />

Arts & Culture<br />

Jewish Book Festival kicks off with six <strong>January</strong> events<br />

By Ted Epstein, Jewish Book Festival Coordinator<br />

The second annual Collier County cial event featuring author Steve Katz,<br />

Jewish Book Festival heads into a major contributor to the rock scene in<br />

a six-event month after author the 1960s and ’70s. His Blood, Sweat,<br />

Kate Siegel and her mom, Kim Friedman,<br />

and My Rock ’n’ Roll Years takes read-<br />

entertained an audience of 162 at ers to the Greenwich Village folk/rock<br />

the preview event on December 13 at scene, the ’60s most celebrated venues<br />

the Hilton Naples.<br />

and concerts, and behind closed doors<br />

Jesse Itzler headlines the opening on international tours and grueling studio<br />

event on Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 5 at 11:30<br />

sessions. It’s the unlikely story of a<br />

a.m. at the Hilton, sponsored by U.S. rock star as nerd, nerd as rock star, and<br />

Bank. Jesse was the #1-rated author – a nice Jewish boy who got to sit at the<br />

out of 200! – at the Jewish Book Council cool kids’ table and score the hot chicks.<br />

network conference in New York City Meet the fabled founding member of<br />

last May, attended by Jewish Book Festival<br />

The Blues Project and Blood, Sweat &<br />

co-chairs Robin Mintz and Susan Tears. All this and a mini-concert by the<br />

Pittelman and me. See the sidebar for author/musician as well. This event is<br />

more about Jesse.<br />

also sponsored by WCA.<br />

On Wednesday, <strong>January</strong> 11 at 1:00 The event later that evening, with<br />

p.m., two novelists will speak at Temple author Amy Kurzweil, is sold out.<br />

Shalom. Alyson Richman, author of Holocaust narratives are featured on<br />

The Velvet Hours, tells a tale of Paris Monday, <strong>January</strong> 23 at 1:00 p.m. when<br />

on the edge of the German Occupation. Beth Tikvah hosts Robert P. Watson,<br />

A young French woman closes the door author of The Nazi Titanic, and Josh<br />

to her late grandmother’s treasure-filled Aronson, author of Orchestra of Exiles.<br />

apartment. This leads to the unveiling This event – which will probably sell<br />

of an unlikely relationship in dangerous<br />

out by mid-<strong>January</strong> – is sponsored by<br />

times. Novelist-lawyer Ronald H. the Holocaust Museum & Education<br />

Balson will discuss Karolina’s Twins, Center of Southwest Florida.<br />

an unusual and suspenseful Holocaust Sports interest ties together the two<br />

narrative tied to a present-day legal case books introduced on Monday, <strong>January</strong><br />

and a promise made long ago. This event 30 at 7:00 p.m. Come to Beth Tikvah to<br />

is sponsored by WCA.<br />

hear presentations by Gary Belsky and<br />

On Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 19 at 2:00 Jeffrey A. Margolis. Belsky’s On the<br />

p.m., come to the Hilton for a very spe-<br />

Origins of Sports sets out to understand<br />

why and how sports have become so<br />

important to us. It gathers the original<br />

rules, history and miscellany of the<br />

world’s 21 most popular sports. Margolis<br />

takes a close look at Violence in<br />

Sports. He discusses the issues related<br />

to manifestations of violent behavior in<br />

sports at all levels of competition and<br />

the effect of this violence on society in<br />

general.<br />

Phil Jason, Jewish Book Festival cochair,<br />

contributed the descriptions of<br />

several of the events in this article.<br />

These events will sell out soon<br />

as only a limited number of<br />

seats are currently available.<br />

Order your tickets today!<br />

Monday, <strong>January</strong> 23:<br />

Authors Josh Aronson & Robert P. Watson<br />

Wednesday, February 8:<br />

Authors Judy Batalion & Noa Baum<br />

Monday, February 27: Author Ina Pinkney<br />

Thursday, March 2: Authors Victoria<br />

Kelly, Jennifer Brown & Martha Hall Kelly<br />

Monday, March 13:<br />

Authors Eric Golub & William Novak<br />

Opening Event:<br />

Jesse Itzler<br />

Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 5 Luncheon<br />

at the Hilton Naples<br />

Order tickets by December 30<br />

Cofounded Marquis Jet, the world’s<br />

largest prepaid private jet flight card<br />

Helped pioneer the coconut water<br />

craze with Zico, acquired by The<br />

Coca-Cola Company<br />

Former rapper and music producer<br />

Owner of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks<br />

Married to Spanx founder Sara Blakely<br />

Hired a Navy Seal to live with him<br />

for a year<br />

Order your tickets today!<br />

See the 4-page pullout<br />

on pages 7B-10B.<br />

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2B <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

of<br />

VIOLINS HOPE<br />

S A R A S O T A<br />

FEBRUARY 1–16, <strong>2017</strong><br />

OPENING NIGHT*<br />

Violins of Hope – The Len Mazur Memorial Concert<br />

Featuring soloist Shlomo Mintz, and live music provided<br />

by members of the Sarasota Orchestra<br />

Wednesday, February 1, <strong>2017</strong> • 8:00pm<br />

Ritz-CaRlton, SaRaSota<br />

$54.00 | $36.00<br />

A Conversation with Amnon Weinstein and James Grymes<br />

Opening by Perlman Music Program/Suncoast Alumni<br />

Monday, February 6, <strong>2017</strong> • 7:00pm<br />

RiveRview PeRfoRming aRtS CenteR<br />

Sponsored by Jewish National Fund<br />

$12.50 in advance or $15.00 day of event<br />

Tuesday, February 7, <strong>2017</strong> • 10:30am<br />

temPle Beth iSRael<br />

Sponsored by Bob and Judy Vigder<br />

$12.50 in advance or $15.00 day of event<br />

Community Outreach Performance<br />

Featuring State College of Florida’s Presidential String Quartet<br />

Thursday, February 9, <strong>2017</strong> • 7:30pm<br />

neel PeRfoRming aRtS CenteR<br />

Sponsored by Bradenton Herald<br />

$10.00 in advance or $15.00 day of event<br />

Community Outreach Performance<br />

Featuring Perlman Music Program/Suncoast Alumni<br />

Monday, February 13, <strong>2017</strong> • 7:00pm<br />

fiRSt United methodiSt ChURCh<br />

Sponsored by Robert and Esther Heller Israel Advocacy Initiative<br />

$12.50 in advance or $15.00 day of event<br />

CLOSING NIGHT<br />

Community Outreach Performance<br />

Featuring Perlman Music Program/Suncoast Alumni<br />

Thursday, February 16, <strong>2017</strong> • 7:00pm<br />

temPle Beth Sholom<br />

Sponsored by The Mazur Family Fund<br />

$12.50 in advance or $15.00 day of event<br />

For tickets go to<br />

JFEDSRQ.ORG/violins-of-hope<br />

or call 1.866.465.3995<br />

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ARTS & CULTURE<br />

No Asylum: The Untold Chapter<br />

of Anne Frank’s Story<br />

A<br />

new award-winning documentary<br />

is bringing to light a<br />

vital story about one of history’s<br />

darkest times. No Asylum: The Untold<br />

Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story explains<br />

how, in 2005, an archivist at New York’s<br />

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research<br />

discovered a number of letters written<br />

in 1941 by diarist Anne Frank’s father,<br />

Otto. Sent to relatives, friends and<br />

various government officials, these<br />

urgent communiqués describe Otto<br />

Frank’s desperate efforts to save his<br />

wife and daughters, and escape Nazioccupied<br />

Holland They also<br />

show the failure of the world to<br />

respond to the plight of Jewish<br />

refugees.<br />

Dr. Jonathan Brent,<br />

Executive Director of YIVO,<br />

will be coming from New York<br />

to give additional information<br />

regarding the letters and<br />

YIVO. In addition to his role<br />

at YIVO, Brent is an author,<br />

editor, media commentator<br />

and internationally-known<br />

lecturer. YIVO is dedicated to fostering<br />

knowledge of the ongoing story of<br />

Jewish life, with a focus on the history<br />

and culture of East European Jewry.<br />

This event, which is sponsored by<br />

the Holocaust Museum & Education<br />

Center of Southwest Florida and<br />

GenShoah SWFL, will take place on<br />

Tuesday, <strong>January</strong> 31 at 7:00 p.m. at<br />

Temple Shalom, 4630 Pine Ridge<br />

Road, Naples. For reservations and<br />

information, email genshoahswfl@<br />

icloud.com. Donations are requested<br />

and appreciated.<br />

Dr. Jonathan Brent<br />

21st Annual Jewish Film<br />

Festival of SWFL<br />

The 21 st annual Jewish Film Festival<br />

of Southwest Florida, produced<br />

by the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong><br />

of Lee and Charlotte Counties, will<br />

begin <strong>January</strong> 12 and run through February<br />

7. The local festival captures the<br />

flavor of the larger Jewish film festivals<br />

that are held each year in cities like New<br />

York, Boston, Atlanta and Los Angeles.<br />

This year’s films<br />

include a wide variety<br />

of international<br />

and domestic productions<br />

that run the<br />

gamut of moving<br />

you to tears to setting<br />

you on the edge of your seats.<br />

Ticket prices for this year’s event,<br />

which includes nine films, are $96 for<br />

the series or $12 for individual films. For<br />

more details, call the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong><br />

office at 239.481.4449 x3 or visit www.<br />

jewishfederationlcc.org.<br />

Schedule of films:<br />

All films are shown at the Regal Cinema<br />

Bell Tower in Fort Myers at 7:15 p.m.<br />

except for the 3:00 p.m. matinee on<br />

<strong>January</strong> 22. The theater does not sell<br />

Jewish Film Festival tickets.<br />

<strong>January</strong> 12: Sabena Hijacking<br />

<strong>January</strong> 17: In Search of Israeli<br />

Cuisine<br />

<strong>January</strong> 19: Fanny’s Journey<br />

<strong>January</strong> 22: Mr. Predictable<br />

<strong>January</strong> 24: Keep Quiet<br />

<strong>January</strong> 26: The Women’s Balcony<br />

<strong>January</strong> 31: The Pickle Recipe<br />

February 2: Just Another Version<br />

of You<br />

February 7: Harmonia<br />

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Special thanks to:<br />

Principal Sponsor: Advanced Pain<br />

Management & Spine Specialists<br />

Producer Sponsors: Radiology<br />

Regional Center, Dr. Brian & Sara<br />

Krivisky; Martha & John Wolf and Miromar<br />

Outlets; FineMark National Bank<br />

and Trust; Northern Trust<br />

Director Sponsor: Kushner and Kushner,<br />

Attorneys<br />

Screenwriter Sponsors:<br />

Gulf Coast Orthodontics,<br />

Dr. Michele Laboda; Lin<br />

& Ron Klein; Barbara &<br />

Barry Epstein; Sylvia &<br />

Paul Simko, Investors Security<br />

Trust, Linda & Charles Idelson;<br />

PCC Tile, Helene & Jorge Glocer;<br />

Zelda Dubin Memorial Philanthropic<br />

Foundation; Law Firm of Henderson,<br />

Franklin, <strong>Star</strong>nes and Holt, P.A., Guy<br />

Whitesman<br />

Film <strong>Star</strong> Sponsors: Ear, Nose &<br />

Throat Specialist of Florida, Dr. Howard<br />

N. Barrow; Judi & Richard Davis; Shirley<br />

& Byron Frank; Cheryl & Michael<br />

Goldstein; Harriet & Alan Josephson;<br />

Marsha & Michael Kistler; Anna & Yale<br />

Levin; Lynda & Michael Rubenstein<br />

Festival Friend: Signarama<br />

Thank you to Regal Cinema for hosting<br />

the festival each year.<br />

A big thank you to the Film Festival<br />

Committee: Chair Sara Krivisky, Susie<br />

Ferkel, Helene Glocer, Claire Goldhagen,<br />

Carolyn Gora, Irwin Kash, Dan<br />

Sharff, Lynn Talone and Sid Wilker.<br />

To order tickets, download an order<br />

form at www.Jewish<strong>Federation</strong>LCC.org<br />

or call Leni Sack at 239.481.4449 x3.<br />

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ARTS & CULTURE<br />

Jewish Community Day of Learning<br />

By Betty Schwartz, Co-chair<br />

I<br />

hope that you have read the previous<br />

monthly articles in the <strong>Federation</strong><br />

<strong>Star</strong>, each of which highlighted<br />

some of the presentations which will<br />

be available at the Jewish Community<br />

Day of Learning on Sunday, March 19<br />

at Temple Shalom.<br />

JEWISH COMMUNITY<br />

DAY OF LEARNING<br />

Jewish Community Relations Council event<br />

sponsored by the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County<br />

Sunday, March 19<br />

at Temple Shalom<br />

Schedule:<br />

9:30 a.m. Check-in<br />

10:00 - 10:40 Keynote Address by David Bernstein:<br />

Combatting BDS through Community Relations<br />

10:50 - 11:35 Break-out Session I<br />

11:45 - 12:30 Break –out Session II<br />

12:30 - 1:00 Lunch<br />

1:00 - 2:00 Special Presentation by Ezra Glinter, editor of<br />

Have I Got a Story For You, More Than a Century<br />

of Fiction From The Forward<br />

Questions? Contact Betty Schwartz at<br />

bettyofnaples@gmail.com<br />

Jewish Community<br />

Tikkun<br />

Olam<br />

J C<br />

R C<br />

Relations Council<br />

of the<br />

Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County<br />

Some of the presentations that have<br />

been introduced in the articles are “The<br />

Munich Games of 1972: In the Shadow<br />

of Berlin,” “From Tenement to Tinsel<br />

Town,” “Persian History and Jewish<br />

Music Through Recordings and Film,”<br />

and “Stories of The Forward.”<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

As you will see in the Registration<br />

Form below, there is much more to be<br />

offered, and you really can’t go wrong.<br />

The time to register is now! There<br />

are seven breakout presentations in two<br />

consecutive sessions. Space will be<br />

limited for each presentation and will<br />

JCDL REGISTRATION FORM<br />

3B<br />

be on a first-come basis. The sooner<br />

that you register, the better your chances<br />

are of having a seat for you preferred<br />

presentation.<br />

Sign up soon! You’ll be glad you<br />

did.<br />

Please select your first and second choice presentation for Session I (10:50 - 11:35am):<br />

___ Persian History & Jewish Music through Recordings & Film Cantor Donna Azu<br />

___ The Munich Games of 1972: In the Shadow of Berlin<br />

Dr. Paul Bartrop<br />

___ Minorities in Baseball<br />

Dr. Stanley Rothman<br />

___ Writing an Ethical Will: An Enduring Gift for Your Family David Rutstein<br />

___ A Look at Jewish Feminism Today<br />

Dr. June Sochen<br />

___ The Influence of Talmudic Law on Secular Law<br />

Judge Norman Krivosha<br />

___ The Future of Judaism<br />

Rabbi Panel Discussion<br />

Please select your first and second choice presentation for Session II (11:45am - 12:30pm):<br />

___ From Tenement to Tinsel Town<br />

Cantorial Soloist Lawrence Dermer<br />

___ Holocaust Remembrances<br />

Goldie Bertone<br />

___ A Yiddish Vinkl<br />

Ron Levin<br />

___ Minorities in Baseball<br />

Dr. Stanley Rothman<br />

___ Writing an Ethical Will: An Enduring Gift for Your Family David Rutstein<br />

___ 50 Years After the Six-Day War<br />

David Bernstein<br />

___ The Munich Games of 1972: In the Shadow of Berlin<br />

Dr. Paul Bartrop<br />

Lunch is from 12:30 - 1:00pm and is prepared by St. Matthews House.<br />

You can bring your own lunch or purchase a pareve lunch by advance order for $12.<br />

Please select from the following boxed lunch choices:<br />

___ Egg Salad ___ Tuna Salad ___ Salad/gluten-free option ___ Garden Salad with pecans<br />

All boxed lunches from St. Matthews House include cookie, bag of chips, pasta salad, bottled water.<br />

Due to the number of presentations and lunch choices, please use a separate Registration Form for each person<br />

attending the event. Lunch orders and registration forms are due by Friday, March 10 to the <strong>Federation</strong> office.<br />

YES! I’d love to attend the Jewish Community Day of Learning!<br />

Registration @ $18 Lunch @ $12 Total: $______<br />

Check enclosed (payable to Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County)<br />

Please charge my: MasterCard Visa American Express<br />

Card #__________________________________ Exp. ____/____ cvv#_______<br />

Name: __________________________________________________________<br />

Address:_________________________________________________________<br />

City: ________________________________ ST: ______ Zip: ____________<br />

Phone: ____________________ Email: ________________________________<br />

3 ways to RSVP:<br />

(Pick up tickets at the event.)<br />

Mail this order form to:<br />

Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County<br />

2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd., Ste. 2201<br />

Naples, FL 34109<br />

In person at the <strong>Federation</strong> office.<br />

Please fill out form in advance.<br />

Charge by phone:<br />

239.263.4205<br />

Please fill out form prior to calling.<br />

KRISTEN COURY, Producing Artistic Director<br />

Sometimes life takes<br />

you off track...<br />

Tony Award-Nominee Carmen Cusack in<br />

THE WORLD PREMIERE OF<br />

Do This<br />

by Karen Siff Exkorn<br />

JAN 7-28, <strong>2017</strong><br />

DIRECTED BY Tony Award-Nominee Sheryl Kaller<br />

PRESENTED BY Special Arrangement with Tony Award-Winning Producer Ken Davenport<br />

Follow one woman's journey through marriage, motherhood and a maze of obstacles as<br />

she navigates her way through an unexpected life-changing experience. Written by the<br />

bestselling author of The Autism Sourcebook, Do This is a solo tour-de-force that celebrates<br />

the trials and triumphs of the human spirit and the resilience of the human soul. Filled with<br />

humor and heartbreak, Do This is the universal story of a woman who finds hope in the face<br />

of hopelessness and faith where she least expects it.<br />

www.gulfshoreplayhouse.org<br />

Call for Tickets: (866) 811-4111<br />

ALL TICKETS $30 TWO HOURS BEFORE EVERY SHOW.<br />

SEASON BENEFACTORS: PATTY & JAY BAKER<br />

CORPORATE PARTNER:<br />

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:<br />

JANE AND STEVE AKIN, CHRISTINE AND TERRANCE FLYNN, MOSEY AND DON GUNTHER, LINDA AND BOB HARDEN, CHRISTINE PADDOCK<br />

SPONSOR-AN-ARTIST: KAREN ORMAN & DAVID LEWIS


4B <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

Jewish mother navigates<br />

obstacles in Do This<br />

In Karen Siff Exkorn’s play Do This,<br />

premiering at Gulfshore Playhouse<br />

this <strong>January</strong>, a Jewish mother is<br />

forced to navigate a maze of obstacles<br />

after her son is diagnosed with autism.<br />

As she encounters each new challenge,<br />

she continues to search for answers by<br />

revisiting her upbringing in a Jewish<br />

family, and consulting with a rabbi.<br />

Karen Siff Exkorn<br />

Calling all<br />

Alpha Epsilon Phi<br />

Alumnae of SW Florida<br />

Let’s get together for brunch/lunch on<br />

Sunday, February 12 at 11:30 a.m.<br />

at Brio, Waterside Shops, Naples,<br />

to meet and schmooze.<br />

RSVP to Lynn Prosten,<br />

Past AEPhi Foundation Vice President,<br />

at abbymont20@aol.com or 301-641-6432.<br />

Should be a blast!<br />

Throughout her journey, her deeply ingrained<br />

Jewish faith generates feelings<br />

of resentment, frustration and confusion,<br />

alongside feelings of comfort and<br />

strength.<br />

Penned by Jewish playwright, Karen<br />

Siff Exkorn, this auto-biographical play<br />

by the author of The Autism Sourcebook<br />

is a thought-provoking piece that rouses<br />

an examination of our own<br />

complex relationship with our<br />

faith, how it can be lost along<br />

the way, and rediscovered when<br />

we least expect it.<br />

Do This opens on <strong>January</strong><br />

7 and runs through <strong>January</strong><br />

28 with performances at the<br />

Norris Center, 755 8 th Ave. S.,<br />

Naples. For more information<br />

or to purchase tickets, please<br />

call 239.261.7529.<br />

ARTS & CULTURE<br />

The “Jewish Deli Fest”<br />

of Marco Island<br />

The Jewish Congregation of Marco<br />

Island (JCMI) will hold its<br />

fourth annual “Jewish Deli Fest”<br />

for the entire Marco Island and Collier<br />

County community. It is returning by<br />

popular demand and we have improved<br />

it year over year to make it the best most<br />

enjoyable happening for a wonderful<br />

Sunday afternoon. It will<br />

take place on <strong>January</strong> 29<br />

from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30<br />

p.m. The grand event will<br />

be held at the Jewish Congregation<br />

of Marco Island,<br />

991 Winterberry Drive,<br />

Marco Island.<br />

The “Jewish Deli<br />

Fest” will feature:<br />

BERNIE’S DELI: New York-style<br />

Hebrew National deli sandwiches of<br />

corned beef, pastrami or salami with<br />

homemade coleslaw, chips and pickles.<br />

Enjoy a beverage of your choice or perhaps<br />

a nice bowl of homemade chicken<br />

soup with matzo balls or a favorite beef<br />

barley soup. Visit our website at marcojcmi.com<br />

for a $1 off coupon on any deli<br />

sandwich purchased at Bernie’s Deli.<br />

Everyone needs a little sweet to<br />

finish the perfect lunch or dinner, so we<br />

will feature:<br />

BUBBIE’S BAKERY: Enjoy<br />

mouth-watering pastries “made with<br />

love” by our Sisterhood members.<br />

Best of all, you can either eat in or<br />

take out your deli delights. Our wonderful<br />

Sponsors for the “Jewish Deli Fest”<br />

are Winn-Dixie and Publix of Marco<br />

Island.<br />

We look forward to greeting you<br />

at our table. For more information, call<br />

the JCMI office at 239.642.0800 or visit<br />

marcojcmi.com.<br />

Evy Lipp People of the Book Cultural Event Update<br />

As space is limited, we ask you to please<br />

honor your reservation. A waiting list<br />

has begun. If you are unable to attend,<br />

please email rbialek@jewishnaples.org<br />

so that your seat can be given to<br />

someone else.<br />

Tickets to the event will be mailed<br />

in early February.<br />

Books will be available for purchase<br />

at the event. Get your book personally<br />

signed by Scott Turow!<br />

A Lovely French Themed Afternoon<br />

C’est La Vie<br />

February 21, <strong>2017</strong> at 11:00AM<br />

Hilton Towers<br />

5111 Tamiami Trail North<br />

featuring<br />

Hélène Gaillet de Neergaard<br />

with a presentation of her amazing life story<br />

and discussion of her book I Was a War Child<br />

Harpist Laura Lou Roth<br />

Informal modeling of chic fashions<br />

from Evelyn Arthur<br />

French cuisine!<br />

Cost $75 ticket; $150 patron; $300 sponsor<br />

For tickets, please make checks payable to<br />

Temple Shalom Sisterhood<br />

4630 Pine Ridge Rd.<br />

Naples,FL 34119<br />

Be sure to include your name and contact information<br />

Questions? Call Debbe Schertzer (239) 455-2423<br />

or email TempleSisterhoodEvent@gmail.com<br />

Jewish Senior Singles 55+<br />

sponsored by the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County<br />

Palm Cottage, Norris Garden and Lunch<br />

Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 26 at 10:45 am<br />

Join Mix & Mingle for a private tour of Historical Palm Cottage<br />

and the Norris Garden.<br />

Address for Historical Palm Cottage: 137 12th Ave. S, Naples<br />

A Dutch treat lunch will follow at the Ridgway Bar & Grill<br />

(1300 3rd St. S., #101, Naples)<br />

Space is limited so please send your check for $12<br />

by <strong>January</strong> 12, payable to Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County,<br />

to JFCC, Attn: Renee’, 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 2201,<br />

Naples, FL 34109.<br />

For more information on how to get involved with Mix & Mingle,<br />

email Judi Palay at judipalay@aol.com.<br />

Center for Judaic, Holocaust,<br />

and Genocide Studies<br />

Dedicated to educating all sectors of society about<br />

Jewish civilization, the Holocaust, and genocide through:<br />

• scholarship<br />

• outreach<br />

• inquiry<br />

• sharing knowledge<br />

• preserving the record<br />

• helping teachers<br />

• encouraging students<br />

Visit www.fgcu.edu/hc/<br />

Dr. Paul Bartrop, Director


ARTS & CULTURE<br />

Estero Fine Arts Show<br />

featured artist<br />

Mixed-media artist Robert Bery<br />

is one of the participating<br />

juried artists with the 19 th<br />

bi-annual Estero Fine Art Show,<br />

Saturday and Sunday, <strong>January</strong> 7 and 8<br />

at Miromar Design Center.<br />

Bery’s work aims to promote positivity<br />

in-the-midst-of the ever-dueling<br />

opposing forces of love and hate.<br />

Toward that end, he employs pop iconography<br />

designed to advance peaceful<br />

Mixed-media artist Robert Bery<br />

globalization, discourage egotistical<br />

hubris, and celebrate life. For example,<br />

in a recent series titled Thou Art My<br />

Subject, Bery re-imagines flags in order<br />

to invoke new concepts about the meaning<br />

of national identity. Through this<br />

body of work, he openly questions the<br />

boundaries these symbols have come to<br />

represent over time, and by overlapping<br />

and entwining traditionally independent<br />

characters, he invokes the concepts of<br />

interdependence and cosmopolitanism<br />

that define contemporary post-nationalistic<br />

culture.<br />

Numerals play an important role in<br />

many of Bery’s mixed media and sculptural<br />

work. When used, they signify the<br />

importance of numbers both as a human<br />

universal and as a representation of<br />

monetary value. Through the use of fiber,<br />

many of his pieces reflect the erotic<br />

underpinnings of everyday male-female<br />

interactions. The pleasure Bery takes in<br />

life’s gift of sensation virtually bursts<br />

from his colorful works, radiating the<br />

energetic essence that the sense of touch<br />

embodies. “My intention is to reflect,<br />

challenge and inspire the viewer through<br />

color and image,” Bery summarizes.<br />

The artist’s vision and underlying<br />

creative philosophy have clearly been<br />

shaped and informed by his experiences<br />

as a post-World War II Hungarian-born<br />

Jew. In the wake of the war, Bery’s family<br />

immigrated to Israel. Robert was six<br />

at the time. When he became an adult,<br />

he served in the military as an electric<br />

technician, applying his accomplished<br />

and highly-refined engineering and technical<br />

skills to aviation communication<br />

systems and the production of Phantom<br />

jets. But it was during an archaeological<br />

excavation in Israel that Bery discovered<br />

his passion for art.<br />

After a period of reflection, Robert<br />

decided to utilize his considerable talents<br />

to foster communication and unity<br />

among diverse peoples. Art would be his<br />

vehicle. “Like a massive jigsaw puzzle,”<br />

Bery concludes, “we fit together to make<br />

a single perfect whole.”<br />

Following the Yom Kippur War,<br />

Bery devoted himself fully to his artistic<br />

pursuits, studying at the Ecole Des<br />

Beaux Arts in Paris and in the studios<br />

of Henry Moore and Jacques Lipshitz<br />

in Italy.<br />

His art has been shown at the<br />

Miami Museum of Art, Soho West in<br />

Santa Monica, Brooklyn Children’s<br />

Museum, Artopia in New York, Gallery<br />

Function Art, Blum Helman Warehouse<br />

and several other notable galleries. His<br />

work can be found in the private collections<br />

of Bill and Hillary Clinton, David<br />

Bowie, Willem Dafoe, Alec Baldwin,<br />

Benjamin Bratt, the Smithsonian Institute<br />

and the Federal Reserve Bank. But<br />

in addition to his artistic legacy, Bery<br />

has advanced the rights of all American<br />

artists to artistic freedom. His<br />

legal challenge of a restrictive<br />

New York City statute in 1993<br />

resulted in a landmark case that<br />

now recognizes artistic expression<br />

as protected speech under<br />

the First Amendment.<br />

Robert Bery is a shining<br />

example of the type of artists<br />

Hot Works brings to Estero<br />

twice a year in its ongoing efforts<br />

to produce a quality art<br />

show that not only intrigues<br />

and entices collectors, but<br />

advances art appreciation and<br />

education in all viewers. Hot<br />

Works Estero Fine Art Show TM<br />

was recently voted one of the<br />

top 100 art fairs in the country<br />

among more than 2,000 surveyed<br />

by Sunshine Artist magazine,<br />

America’s most trusted<br />

publication for independent artists.<br />

Hot Works has gained a national<br />

reputation for quality art. At <strong>January</strong>’s<br />

show, more than 150 juried artists will<br />

be personally selling original, handmade<br />

art in multiple media. Event hours are<br />

10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. both days. Admission<br />

is free (although a $5 donation<br />

supporting Hot Works’ non-profit arm,<br />

Institute for the Arts & Education, is<br />

suggested). There is ample free parking.<br />

For more information, visit www.<br />

hotworks.org.<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

ART CLASSES<br />

WORKSHOPS<br />

& EXIBITIONS<br />

FOREIGN FILMS<br />

MONDAY NIGHTS 7PM<br />

LIVE<br />

MUSIC<br />

THEATER<br />

DANCE<br />

COMEDY<br />

PAINTING<br />

WORKSHOPS<br />

FUSED GLASS<br />

STAINED GLASS<br />

PRINTMAKING<br />

ONE NIGHT EVENTS<br />

DANCE<br />

THEATER<br />

DRAWING<br />

MOSAICS<br />

JEWELRY<br />

CLAY<br />

LECTURES<br />

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An accident during a bar mitzvah leads<br />

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Irene Pomerantz<br />

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Gail Buckland, author of Who Shot Sports, was scheduled<br />

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An audience of 162 people attended the preview event at the Hilton Naples<br />

with author Kate Siegel and her mom, Kim Friedman. Pictured above are<br />

Kate and Kim with the youngest members of the audience – huge fans of<br />

the author. At right are representatives of U.S. Bank, sponsor of the event.<br />

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Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 19, 2:00 - 4:00 pm at Hilton Naples • Autobiography<br />

$18 in advance / $25 at the door & mini-concert<br />

Steve Katz – Blood, Sweat, and My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years<br />

By a founding member of the legendary Blues Project and Blood,<br />

Sweat & Tears – a man who played the Monterey Pop Festival<br />

and Woodstock, and jammed with everyone from Mose Allison<br />

to Jimi Hendrix – comes a blues-folk-rock memoir of resigned<br />

existentialism and decidedly New York Jewish humor. It is an<br />

honest and personal account of a life at the edge of the spotlight<br />

– a privileged vantage point that earned Steve Katz a bit more<br />

objectivity and earnest outrage than many of his colleagues, who<br />

were too far into the scene to lay any honest witness to it. Set<br />

during the Greenwich Village folk/rock scene, the Sixties’ most celebrated<br />

venues and concerts, and behind closed doors on international<br />

tours and grueling studio sessions, this is the unlikely story of a rock<br />

star as nerd, nerd as rock star, a nice Jewish boy who got to sit at the<br />

cool kids’ table and score the hot chicks.<br />

Steve Katz was a founding member of The Blues Project and Blood,<br />

Sweat & Tears. He became a record producer, working with rock<br />

renegade Lou Reed, among others. These days, Katz and his wife,<br />

Alison Palmer, run a ceramics shop in South Kent, Connecticut.<br />

Preview Event<br />

Tuesday, December 13, 11:30 am - 2:00 pm at Hilton Naples • Topic: Relationships<br />

Author Kate Siegel with her mom, Kim Friedman – Mother, Can You Not?


Special Events<br />

Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 5, 11:30 am - 2:00 pm at Hilton Naples • Topic: Memoir<br />

$36 / No tickets sold after December 30 – Lunch included<br />

Jesse Itzler – Living with a SEAL<br />

In 2011, former rapper and millionaire businessman Jesse Itzler<br />

approached an accomplished Navy SEAL with this proposition: to<br />

move into Jesse’s family’s Manhattan apartment and train him for<br />

31 days. The SEAL, widely considered “the toughest man on the<br />

planet,” agreed, but on one condition: Jesse would do everything he<br />

told him – and nothing was off the table. What ensued was a physical<br />

training regimen that included sleeping in a wooden chair, jumping<br />

into a frozen lake, and running miles wearing a 50-pound weighted<br />

vest, with training occurring at all hours of the day and night. At turns<br />

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Wednesday, <strong>January</strong> 11, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Temple Shalom • Topic: Fiction<br />

Alyson Richman – The Velvet Hours<br />

As Paris teeters on the edge of the German Occupation, a young<br />

French woman closes the door to her late grandmother’s treasure-filled<br />

apartment, unsure if she’ll ever return. Inspired by the true account of<br />

an abandoned Parisian apartment, Alyson Richman brings to life the<br />

stories of courtesan Marthe de Florian, her granddaughter Solange<br />

Beaugiron, and the unlikely relationship between two women who<br />

pursue freedom and independence during uncertain times. Solange<br />

and Marthe’s stories unfold like velvet itself, each stitched with their<br />

own shadow and light.<br />

Alyson Richman is the international bestselling author of The Mask<br />

Carver’s Son, The Rhythm of Memory, The Last Van Gogh, The Lost<br />

Wife and The Garden of Letters. Her novels have been published in<br />

eighteen languages and have been bestsellers in several countries.<br />

The Lost Wife is currently in development to become a major film.<br />

hilarious (think The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air goes to boot camp) and<br />

insightful, Living with a SEAL tells the story of a fitness routine like<br />

no other – and the unlikely friendship it produced.<br />

Jesse Itzler cofounded Marquis Jet, the world’s largest prepaid private<br />

jet flight card, before helping to pioneer the coconut water craze with<br />

Zico, acquired by The Coca-Cola Company. He is a former rapper<br />

and music producer. Jesse often can be found at the NBA’s Atlanta<br />

Hawks games, where he is an owner of the team. He is married to<br />

Spanx founder Sara Blakely; they have four children.<br />

Monday, February 27, 9:00 - 11:30 am at Hilton Naples • Topic: Food<br />

$36 / No tickets sold after February 23 – Breakfast buffet included<br />

Ina Pinkney– Ina’s Kitchen<br />

Ina Pinkney, the beloved Chicago restaurateur known affectionately as<br />

the Breakfast Queen, has been feeding people for over 30 years. When<br />

she closed her restaurant’s doors in 2013, it headlined news across the<br />

country. Now, the favorite dishes that thousands came to love at Ina’s<br />

are showcased in her new book. Ina’s Kitchen is part cookbook and<br />

part memoir, combining 39 of Ina’s favorite recipes with stories from<br />

her life, including her Jewish upbringing in Brooklyn, overcoming<br />

paralytic polio as a child, the intermarriage her parents disapproved<br />

of, and her mid-life choice to change careers and follow her dream.<br />

From milestone moments and warm memories to the true trials of<br />

owning a restaurant, readers will gain a deeper understanding of<br />

Jewish cooking and hospitality. Ina’s Kitchen is a love letter to the<br />

diners Ina has fed over the years. In it, she shares her wisdom with<br />

the same generosity – both of food and of spirit – that kept people<br />

coming back to her restaurant for decades.<br />

Ina Pinkney was the chef and owner of INA’s and The Dessert<br />

Kitchen Ltd. catering. She has appeared on the Food Network’s Sweet<br />

Dreams and The Best Of, and on CNN’s The Turnaround. She has<br />

been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue,<br />

Details, Chicago Tribune, Gourmet, Midwest Living, and trade and<br />

in-flight magazines.<br />

Breakfast includes Ina’s Heavenly Hots – small, thin, sour cream pancakes<br />

that melt in your mouth. These were a mega hit for 22 years!<br />

Ronald H. Balson – Karolina’s Twins<br />

From the author of Once We Were Brothers comes a saga inspired by<br />

the true events of a Holocaust survivor’s quest to fulfill a promise to<br />

return to Poland and find two sisters lost during the war. Karolina’s<br />

Twins is a tale of survival, love and resilience in more ways than<br />

one. As Lena recounts her story, Catherine herself also recognizes<br />

the unwavering importance of family as she prepares herself for the<br />

arrival of her unborn child. Through this association and many more,<br />

both Lena and Catherine begin to cherish the dogged ties that bind not<br />

only families and children, but the entirety of mankind.<br />

Ronald H. Balson is a Chicago trial attorney, educator and writer.<br />

His practice has taken him to several international venues. He is also<br />

the author of Saving Sophie and the international bestseller Once We<br />

Were Brothers.<br />

Monday, <strong>January</strong> 23, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Beth Tikvah • Topic: Holocaust<br />

Josh Aronson – Orchestra of Exiles<br />

As a teenager, violinist Bronislaw Huberman toured Europe and<br />

received invitations to play for royalty. But as an adult, witnessing<br />

the rising threat of Nazism, Huberman conceived of an ingenious<br />

crusade that would become his greatest legacy: forming the Palestine<br />

Symphony Orchestra, which would become the lauded Israel Philharmonic<br />

Orchestra, Huberman arranged the safe passage of hundreds of<br />

Jewish musicians and their families out of Nazi-controlled territories.<br />

His tireless campaigning for the project saved nearly one thousand<br />

Jews from the approaching Holocaust. Arranging for the great Arturo<br />

Toscanini to conduct the orchestra’s first concert, Huberman’s triumph<br />

of art over cruelty was heard around the world.<br />

Josh Aronson is an Academy Award-nominated documentary and film<br />

writer, producer and director. He has worked with Showtime, PBS and<br />

others. His films have won awards at festivals all over the world. He<br />

is also a concert pianist and regularly plays chamber music in New<br />

York and at the Telluride Musicfest, the chamber music festival he<br />

founded in 2002 with his wife, violinist Maria Bachmann.<br />

Robert P. Watson – The Nazi Titanic<br />

Built in 1927, the German ocean liner Cap Arcona was the greatest<br />

ship since the Titanic. When the Nazis seized control of the vessel,<br />

she was stripped down for use as a floating barracks and troop transport.<br />

Hitler’s minister, Joseph Goebbels, later cast her as a “star” in<br />

the epic propaganda film about the sinking of the legendary Titanic.<br />

In the Third Reich’s final desperate days, the SS Cap Arcona was<br />

mistakenly bombed by the British Air Force, killing the concentration<br />

camp prisoners packed aboard. Although the British government<br />

sealed many documents pertaining to the ship’s sinking, Robert P.<br />

Watson has unearthed forgotten records and conducted many interviews.<br />

The Nazi Titanic is a riveting and astonishing story about an<br />

enigmatic ship that played a devastating role in World War II.<br />

Robert P. Watson is a historian and political commentator with<br />

36 books to his name, including America’s First Crisis, which received<br />

a 2014 IPPY Gold Medal for history. He lives in Boca Raton,<br />

Florida.<br />

Monday, <strong>January</strong> 30, 7:00 - 9:15 pm at Beth Tikvah • Topic: Sports/Sports Photography<br />

Gary Belsky – On the Origins of Sports<br />

Our passion for sports has started wars, emptied treasuries, ended<br />

marriages and set cities aflame. Sports fans regularly spend hundreds<br />

of dollars on tickets, devote entire weekends to watching games, and<br />

argue with colleagues over the greatest game and athlete of all time.<br />

In On the Origins of Sports, award-winning editors Gary Belsky and<br />

Neil Fine set out to understand why and how sports have become so<br />

important to us. They gather the original rules, history and miscellany<br />

of the world’s 21 most popular sports. By taking readers back<br />

in history to learn the lore behind these sports, they give fans a new<br />

context for watching and competing in games.<br />

Gary Belsky is a former editor-in-chief of ESPN The Magazine and<br />

current president of Elland Road Partners, a consulting firm specializing<br />

in editorial and content strategy. Belsky lectures and writes<br />

extensively on sports, decision-making and consumer behavior. A<br />

graduate of the University of Missouri in his native St. Louis, Belsky<br />

is an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University and a<br />

columnist for Money.com.<br />

Jeff Margolis – Violence in Sports<br />

Jeff Margolis was never an athlete much beyond playing some softball,<br />

and starting and refereeing a street hockey tournament. However, he<br />

has always had an interest in many sports and sportsmanship. He has<br />

given lectures on “Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Examples from the<br />

Olympic Games.” Jeff will discuss how he meshed the book with a<br />

school National Sportsmanship Day Program – “Dare to Play Fair.”<br />

He will provide updates as to what has happened since the book was<br />

published in 1999, including the NFL Concussion Protocol as well<br />

as an increase in fan hostility.<br />

Jeff Margolis is an educator, author and lecturer who has spent much<br />

of his academic career working with future teachers. He is the author<br />

of Violence in Sports and Teen Crime Wave, and was a contributor to<br />

the Encyclopedia of New Jersey. He has presented papers at academic<br />

conferences around the country and served as a textbook consultant.<br />

Jeff has lectured for the Holocaust Museum & Education Center of<br />

Southwest Florida, Collier County Library, Renaissance Academy<br />

and numerous civic groups.


Wednesday, February 8, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Beth Tikvah • Topic: Memoir<br />

Judy Batalion– White Walls<br />

Judy Batalion grew up in a house filled with piles of junk obsessively<br />

gathered by her hoarder mother. At the first chance, she escaped the<br />

clutter to create a new identity – made of order, regimen and clean<br />

white walls – until she found herself enmeshed in life’s biggest<br />

chaos: motherhood. Confronted with the daunting task of raising a<br />

daughter after her own dysfunctional childhood, Judy reflected on her<br />

upbringing and the lives of her mother and grandmother, both Holocaust<br />

survivors. What she discovered astonished her. The women in<br />

her family were more closely connected than she knew, and it was<br />

Judy’s bond with her mother that healed her old wounds. Judy explores<br />

navigating the messiness of motherhood and the indelible marks that<br />

mothers and daughters make on each other’s lives.<br />

Judy Batalion was born in Montreal, studied at Harvard, and worked<br />

as a curator and comedian in London before settling in New York<br />

City. Her essays about parenting, relationships, religion and health<br />

have appeared in Vogue, The Washington Post, The Jerusalem Post,<br />

The Forward, Tablet, Cosmopolitan, Salon and other publications.<br />

Monday, March 13, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at UUCGN • Topic: Humor<br />

Eric Golub – Jewish Lunacy<br />

Jewish Lunacy is a lighthearted slice of Jewish life meant to bring<br />

all Jews together. It is a humorous spiritual journey that weaves love<br />

of Judaism with love of family in a story of trying to obey religious<br />

laws amid the secular temptations of the world around us. Whether<br />

liberal or conservative, secular or religious, Jewish Lunacy can unite<br />

all readers in laughter and purpose.<br />

Eric Golub is a national author, speaker and comedian who has spoken<br />

in all 50 states. He speaks about politics, religion and everything else<br />

that should not be discussed. He is a former stockbrokerage and oil<br />

professional living in Los Angeles. He is single, to the chagrin of his<br />

loving parents, and proud of his Jewish heritage.<br />

Noa Baum – A Land Twice Promised<br />

Israeli storyteller Noa Baum grew up in Jerusalem in the shadow of<br />

ancestral traumas of the Holocaust and ongoing wars. Stories of the<br />

past and fear of annihilation in the wars of the 1960s through the ’80s<br />

shaped her perceptions and identity. In America, she met a Palestinian<br />

woman who had grown up under Israeli Occupation, and as they<br />

shared memories of war years in Jerusalem an unlikely friendship<br />

blossomed. A Land Twice Promised delves into the heart of one of<br />

the world’s most enduring and complex conflicts. Baum’s deeply<br />

personal memoir recounts her journey from girlhood in Israel to<br />

her adult encounter with “the other” with honesty, compassion and<br />

humor, capturing the drama of a nation at war and her discovery of<br />

humanity in the enemy.<br />

Noa Baum is an award-winning storyteller who performs internationally.<br />

She acted with Jerusalem Khan Theater and studied theater<br />

at NYU and with Uta Hagen. Voted by the Washington Jewish Week<br />

as one of ten most interesting local Jews, she has lived in America<br />

since 1990.<br />

Monday, February 20, 7:00 - 9:15 pm at <strong>Federation</strong> • Topic: Memoir - LGBTQ<br />

Julie Tarney – My Son Wears Heels<br />

When Julie Tarney’s only child Harry was two years old, he told her,<br />

“Inside my head I’m a girl.” It was 1992. The Internet was no help<br />

because there was no Internet, and bookstores had no literature for a<br />

mom scrambling to raise such an unconventional child. There were,<br />

however, mainstream experts whose theories mirrored a negative<br />

stereotype of Jewish mothers: a “sissy” boy would be gay because his<br />

mother was domineering. Lacking a positive role model of her own<br />

and fearful of being judged as a Jewish mother potentially messing<br />

up her kid, Julie embarked on an unexpected parenting journey that<br />

spanned 20 years before eventually drawing Julie to the realization<br />

that her son had known who he was all along. Her job was simply to<br />

get out of the way and let him be.<br />

Julie Tarney is a former PR agency president from the Midwest<br />

who worked extensively with leading brands like McDonald’s and<br />

Coca-Cola. She is now a writer, resource for parents raising gendercreative<br />

kids, and an advocate for LGBTQ youth. She is a blogger for<br />

The Huffington Post and board member for the It Gets Better Project.<br />

Thursday, March 2, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Beth Tikvah • Debut Fiction Panel<br />

Victoria Kelly – Mrs. Houdini<br />

Before escape artist Harry Houdini died, he vowed he would find a way to<br />

speak to his beloved wife, Bess, from beyond the grave, using a coded message<br />

known only to the two of them. When his widow begins seeing this code in<br />

seemingly impossible places, it becomes clear that Harry has an urgent message<br />

to convey. Unlocking the puzzle will set Bess on a course back through<br />

the pair’s extraordinary interfaith romance, which swept the illusionist and<br />

his bride from the beaches of Coney Island to the palaces of Budapest to the<br />

back lots of Hollywood. In surprising turns that weave through the dawn of<br />

the 20 th century and into the dazzling 1920s, Mrs. Houdini is a thrilling tale<br />

that goes to the heart of one of history’s greatest love stories.<br />

Jennifer Brown – Modern Girls<br />

In 1935, Dottie Krasinsky is the epitome of the modern girl. A bookkeeper<br />

in Midtown Manhattan, Dottie has a steady beau, close girlfriends and an<br />

eye for fashion. Yet at heart, she is a dutiful Jewish daughter, living with her<br />

Yiddish-speaking parents on the Lower East Side. So when after a single<br />

careless night she is “in a family way” by a charismatic but unsuitable man,<br />

she is desperate – unwed, unsure and running out of options. After 20 years<br />

as a housewife and mother of five children, Dottie’s immigrant mother,<br />

Steven Gaines – One of These Things First<br />

One of These Things First is a wry and poignant reminiscence of a<br />

15-year-old gay Jewish boy in Brooklyn in the early ’60s and his<br />

unexpected trajectory from a life behind a rack of dresses in his grandmother’s<br />

bra and girdle store to the halls of Payne Whitney among<br />

a captivating group of wealthy neurotics and Ivy League alcoholics<br />

who subtly begin to change him in unexpected ways. This rich cast<br />

of characters includes a famous Broadway producer who becomes his<br />

unlikely mentor, an elegant woman who claimed to be the ex-mistress<br />

of newly-elected president John F. Kennedy, a snooty, suicidal Harvard<br />

architect, and a seductive young Contessa. At the center of the story<br />

is a brilliant young psychiatrist who promises to cure a young boy of<br />

his homosexuality and give him the normalcy he so longs for.<br />

Steven Gaines is the author of Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion<br />

and Property in the Hamptons, The Sky’s the Limit: Passion<br />

and Property in Manhattan, and Simply Halston, a biography of the<br />

fashion designer, among other books. He is a former NPR radio host.<br />

Rose, is itching to return to the social activism of her youth. With strikes<br />

and breadlines at home, National Socialism rising in Europe, and a brother<br />

unable to escape Poland, she knows there is more important work to be done<br />

than cooking and cleaning. Yet when she realizes that she, too, is pregnant,<br />

she struggles to reconcile her longings with her faith. Mother and daughter<br />

must confront their beliefs, the changing world, and the fact that their lives<br />

will never again be the same.<br />

Martha Hall Kelly – Lilac Girls<br />

New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at<br />

the French consulate, but her world is forever changed when Hitler’s army<br />

invades Poland in September 1939 with its sights set on France. An ocean<br />

away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree<br />

youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the<br />

underground resistance movement. For the ambitious young German doctor<br />

Herta Oberheuser, an advertisement for a government medical position seems<br />

her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired, though, she finds herself trapped in<br />

a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. The lives of these women<br />

are set on a collision course when Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious<br />

Nazi concentration camp for women. Their stories cross continents as<br />

Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten.<br />

William Novak – Die Laughing<br />

From the co-creator of The Big Book of Jewish Humor comes a<br />

laugh-out-loud collection of jokes and cartoons about growing older<br />

that deals with memory loss, long marriages, medicine, changes in<br />

sexuality, the afterlife and much more. Growing older can be unsettling<br />

and surprising, so what better way to deal with this new stage<br />

of life than to laugh about it? Die Laughing includes more than<br />

enough jokes (and a nice sprinkling of New Yorker cartoons) to let<br />

that laughter burst out.<br />

William Novak is best known to Jewish audiences as the co-editor<br />

of The Big Book of Jewish Humor, a beloved collection of jokes,<br />

cartoons and stories that is still in print 35 years after its 1981 release.<br />

Novak is also a successful ghostwriter who has served as the coauthor<br />

of the best-selling memoirs of Lee Iacocca, Tip O’Neill,<br />

Nancy Reagan, Oliver North, Magic Johnson, Tim Russert and Natan<br />

Sharansky.<br />

Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 19, 7:00 - 8:30 pm at <strong>Federation</strong> • Topic: Holocaust<br />

Amy Kurzweil – Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir<br />

Flying Couch tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy’s<br />

coming of age as a young Jewish artist weaves into the narrative of<br />

her mother, a therapist, and her Bubbe, a World War II survivor who<br />

escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto by disguising herself as a gentile.<br />

Captivated by Bubbe’s story, Amy turns to her sketchbooks to preserve<br />

and record the past, teaching herself to draw as a way to cope with<br />

what she discovers. Entwining the voices and histories of these three<br />

women, Amy creates a portrait not only of what it means to be part of a<br />

Free event with any ticket purchase (limited to the first 50 reservations).<br />

family, but also of how each generation bears the imprint of the past.<br />

Flying Couch uses Bubbe’s real testimony to investigate the legacy<br />

of trauma, the magic of family stories, and the meaning of home.<br />

Amy Kurzweil’s comics have appeared in The Huffington Post and<br />

The New Yorker. In 2013, she was the recipient of a Norman Mailer<br />

Fellowship. She teaches writing and comics at Parsons, The New<br />

School for Design and at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She<br />

lives in Brooklyn, New York.<br />

For the events with more than one author, the order in which they present<br />

will be decided a few days prior to their event. If you’d like to know the order,<br />

please email fedstar18@gmail.com or call the <strong>Federation</strong> office at 239.263.4205.


Venues<br />

All locations are in Naples (area code 239):<br />

Beth Tikvah: 1459 Pine Ridge Road (434-1818)<br />

Hilton Naples: 5111 Tamiami Trail N. (430-4900)<br />

Jewish <strong>Federation</strong>: 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road (263-4205)<br />

Temple Shalom: 4630 Pine Ridge Road (455-3030)<br />

Unitarian Universalist Cong. of Greater Naples: 6340 Napa Woods Way (455-6553)<br />

Book Sales<br />

All of the Festival’s books are on display on the first floor (near the cafe) in the Barnes<br />

& Noble store at the Waterside Shops. Be sure to pick up a free Festival bookmark while<br />

you’re there. Books will also be available for purchase and signing at each author’s event.<br />

Books make great gifts for friends and family.<br />

Festival Website & Email<br />

Visit the official Festival website at www.jewishbookfestival.org for more information on<br />

the authors and their books, event updates and a printable order form. Have questions that<br />

have not been answered in this 4-page pullout? Send an email to fedstar18@gmail.com.<br />

Patron Receptions with Authors<br />

Purchasers of the Patron Festival Package (see order form below) will be invited to at least<br />

two private author receptions. Currently, the following authors and dates are confirmed.<br />

Additional dates and authors may be added. (Authors and dates are subject to change.)<br />

¡ Alyson Richman and Ronald H. Balson: Wednesday, <strong>January</strong> 11, catered buffet<br />

lunch from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (prior to their event) at Temple Shalom<br />

¡ Steve Katz: An event on <strong>January</strong> 19 or 20 (depending on Steve’s travel itinerary).<br />

Tickets are transferable<br />

Consider purchasing a Patron Festival Package or Series Pass. Even if you can’t make it to<br />

all 12 events, you can gift your tickets to friends, colleagues and family members. Tickets<br />

make the perfect Chanukah gift.<br />

Authors appearing<br />

at the Collier County<br />

Jewish Book Festival<br />

are part of the Jewish<br />

Book Council Network.<br />

Jewish Book Festival Committee<br />

Carole Greene<br />

Dina Shein<br />

Elaine Soffer<br />

Coordinator: Ted Epstein<br />

Co-Chairs: Phil Jason, Robin Mintz, Susan Pittelman<br />

Ida Margolis Lee Henson<br />

Irene Pomerantz Lenore Greenstein<br />

Iris Shur Linda Smith<br />

Special thanks to<br />

these organizations for<br />

providing space for the<br />

Festival events.<br />

Patti Boochever<br />

Steve Brazina<br />

Sue Bookbinder<br />

Festival Sponsors<br />

We are grateful to the following businesses and organizations<br />

for their support of the Collier County Jewish Book Festival.<br />

Women’s<br />

Cultural<br />

Alliance<br />

R<br />

Jewish Book Festival Ticket Order Form<br />

Patron Festival Package: Tickets to all 12 events<br />

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two private author receptions (with food), and recognition in the <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong>.<br />

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Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 19 @ 2:00pm Steve Katz (Book talk & mini-concert) $18 x ___ = $_____ ($25 at the door)<br />

Luncheons and Breakfast at the Hilton Naples:<br />

Tuesday, December 13 @ 11:30am Luncheon w/ Kate Siegel & Kim Friedman $36 x ___ = $_____<br />

Please indicate choice of meal: chicken salmon vegetarian<br />

Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 5 @ 11:30am Luncheon with Jesse Itzler $36 x ___ = $_____<br />

Please indicate choice of meal: chicken salmon vegetarian<br />

Monday, February 27 @ 9:00am Breakfast with Ina Pinkney $36 x ___ = $_____<br />

Events with more than one author (choose the Package or individual events):<br />

7-Event Package: Tickets to all 7 events below (an $84 value) $56 x ___ = $_____<br />

Wednesday, <strong>January</strong> 11 @ 1:00pm Alyson Richman & Ronald H. Balson $12 x ___ = $_____ ($15 at the door)<br />

Monday, <strong>January</strong> 23 @ 1:00pm Josh Aronson & Robert P. Watson $12 x ___ = $_____ “<br />

Monday, <strong>January</strong> 30 @ 7:00pm Gary Belsky & Jeff Margolis $12 x ___ = $_____ “<br />

Wednesday, February 8 @ 1:00pm Judy Batalion & Noa Baum $12 x ___ = $_____ “<br />

Monday, February 20 @ 7:00pm Julie Tarney & Steven Gaines $12 x ___ = $_____ “<br />

Thursday, March 2 @ 1:00pm J. Brown, V. Kelly, M. Hall Kelly $12 x ___ = $_____ “<br />

Monday, March 13 @ 1:00pm Eric Golub & William Novak $12 x ___ = $_____ “<br />

Free event with any ticket purchase (limited to the first 50 reservations):<br />

Thursday, <strong>January</strong> 19 @ 7:00pm Amy Kurzweil # of tickets ___ (1 ticket per person)<br />

• Tickets will be mailed beginning in early December, or can be picked up at the events.<br />

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• Open seating at all events. Front rows/tables will be reserved for Patrons and Sponsors.<br />

• If an author cancels (weather, illness, etc.) we will attempt to reschedule the author<br />

in late March or April. Your original ticket will be good for the rescheduled event.<br />

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and not rescheduled. For ticket packages, refund will be prorated.<br />

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Calendar of Events<br />

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13 • 11:30am - 2:00pm<br />

Relationships<br />

Kate Siegel, Mother, Can You Not?<br />

with Kate’s mom, Kim Friedman<br />

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5 • 11:30am - 2:00pm<br />

Memoir<br />

Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL<br />

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11 • 1:00 - 3:30pm<br />

Fiction<br />

Alyson Richman, The Velvet Hours<br />

Ronald H. Balson, Karolina’s Twins<br />

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 • 2:00 - 4:00pm<br />

Autobiography & mini-concert<br />

Steve Katz,<br />

Blood, Sweat, and My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years<br />

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 • 7:00 - 8:30pm<br />

Jewish Identity<br />

Amy Kurzweil, Flying Couch - A Graphic Memoir<br />

MONDAY, JANUARY 23 • 1:00 - 3:30pm<br />

Holocaust<br />

Josh Aronson, Orchestra of Exiles<br />

Robert P. Watson, The Nazi Titanic<br />

MONDAY, JANUARY 30 • 7:00 - 9:15pm<br />

Sports<br />

Gary Belsky, On the Origins of Sports<br />

Jeff Margolis, Violence in Sports<br />

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 • 1:00 - 3:30pm<br />

Memoir<br />

Judy Batalion, White Walls<br />

Noa Baum, A Land Twice Promised<br />

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 • 7:00 - 9:15pm<br />

Memoir - LGBTQ<br />

Julie Tarney, My Son Wears Heels<br />

Steven Gaines, One of These Things First<br />

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27 • 9:00 - 11:30am<br />

Cooking/Food<br />

Ina Pinkney, Ina’s Kitchen<br />

THURSDAY, MARCH 2 • 1:00 - 3:30pm<br />

Debut Fiction Panel<br />

Victoria Kelly, Mrs. Houdini<br />

Jennifer Brown, Modern Girls<br />

Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls<br />

MONDAY, MARCH 13 • 1:00 - 3:30pm<br />

Humor<br />

Eric Golub, Jewish Lunacy<br />

William Novak, Die Laughing<br />

www.JewishBookFestival.org


JEWISH BOOK FESTIVAL<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

11B<br />

Book reviews and<br />

author information<br />

4 th in a series of 4<br />

See the October - December 2016 issues of the <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> for parts 1-3.<br />

Ina’s Kitchen by Ina Pinkney<br />

Review by Susan Pittelman, Jewish Book Festival Co-Chair<br />

Chicagoans already know about of stories from Ina’s life, the lessons<br />

Ina Pinkney and Chicago’s she’s learned, and the food she loves to<br />

premier restaurant Ina’s, and cook.<br />

might even have tasted her famous If you are like me, you will sit down<br />

Heavenly Hots or her Gingerbread in a comfortable armchair and read<br />

Pancakes. But if you aren’t yet familiar through it page by page before taking it<br />

with the woman affectionately referred to your kitchen.<br />

to as the “Breakfast Queen,” her book Ina views her life as a recipe, and<br />

will provide you with the opportunity to the titles of the book’s chapters reflect<br />

learn the story behind one of Chicago’s that notion. As you read “Ingredients”<br />

best-known culinary icons – as well as to “Preparation” to “Cooking” to “Serve<br />

her favorite recipes.<br />

and Enjoy” to “Clean Up,” you will begin<br />

to understand what drove Ina and her<br />

Ina’s Kitchen is a beautiful book<br />

with heavy glossy pages that contain love of food. She often links a memory<br />

mouth-watering visuals of Ina’s dishes to a special food. Ina writes about walking<br />

the streets of New York with her<br />

by talented food photographer Stephen<br />

Hamilton. The book is a mixture father as a young girl, often stopping at<br />

Monday, February 27, 9:00 - 11:30 am at Hilton Naples<br />

dairy restaurants for potato latkes, his<br />

second favorite food – and that reflection<br />

leads into her recipe for that delicious<br />

dish.<br />

Additional recipes are presented in<br />

the last two chapters: “Ina’s Recipes”<br />

and “The Dessert Kitchen Recipes.”<br />

Recipes include everything from her<br />

Heavenly Hots to her famous Granola to<br />

Foolproof Pancakes and Baked French<br />

Toast.<br />

In addition to breakfast favorites,<br />

there are savory dishes like Chicken<br />

Pot Pie and Moroccan Sweet Potato<br />

Stew with Raisins, as well as some<br />

delicious desserts. Ina explains that she<br />

was always willing to share her recipes<br />

Ina Pinkney was the chef and owner of INA’s and The Dessert<br />

Kitchen Ltd. catering. She has appeared on the Food Network’s<br />

Sweet Dreams and The Best Of, and on CNN’s The Turnaround.<br />

She has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street<br />

Journal, Vogue, Details, Chicago Tribune, Gourmet, Midwest<br />

Living, and trade and in-flight magazines.<br />

This program is being generously sponsored by<br />

U.S. Bank and JFCS of Southwest Florida.<br />

with customers who requested them,<br />

with one exception: the recipe for her<br />

signature chocolate Blobb. Fortunately,<br />

this coveted recipe is in the book.<br />

Sprinkled throughout the book,<br />

each on a beautifully designed page, are<br />

what Ina calls “recipes for life.” Some<br />

of these are poignant, while others are<br />

more tongue-in-cheek, while still being<br />

meaningful: “Practice being an expert<br />

in ‘Plan B.’”<br />

James Beard Award-winning chef<br />

Gale Gand summarized it well when she<br />

described Ina’s Kitchen as “...a diary, a<br />

confession, a legacy, a love letter, and<br />

a cookbook all in one.”<br />

Meet Ina at the Jewish Book Festival’s<br />

special breakfast (featuring Ina’s<br />

Heavenly Hots!) at the Hilton Naples<br />

on Monday, February 27. You won’t<br />

want to miss this event sponsored by<br />

U.S. Bank and JFCS of Southwest<br />

Florida.<br />

After reading Ina’s Kitchen, JFCS<br />

President/CEO Dr. Jaclynn Faffer commented,<br />

“I absolutely love the book<br />

and can’t wait to buy an autographed<br />

copy. Ina is such a delight and I am so<br />

glad we are part of this event. I feel like<br />

she’s an old friend!”<br />

Join us for “Breakfast with the<br />

Breakfast Queen,” and I guarantee that<br />

you will feel that way too!<br />

More book reviews can be found on the following pages.<br />

The Jewish Congregation of Marco Island in conjunction<br />

with the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County presents<br />

The <strong>2017</strong> Saul I. Stern Cultural Series – now in its 23 nd year!<br />

Saturday,<br />

<strong>January</strong> 21, <strong>2017</strong>, 7:30 p.m.<br />

Saturday,<br />

March 4, <strong>2017</strong>, 7:30 p.m.<br />

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF – ITS HISTORY AND MUSIC: Ellen Katz of Baltimore, Maryland, is a presenter<br />

of super musicals-Broadway shows you love. A graduate of the University of Maryland with a degree in<br />

music, one of her presentations is Fiddler on the Roof. With videos, live performance and colorful costumes,<br />

she tells the story of Fiddler’s creation, the fascinating history of the unforgettable music, with a performance<br />

by Ellen Katz. She has received rave reviews at Chautauqua, Peabody Institute, FGCU and more.<br />

THE CHOCOLATE TRAIL: Retired Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz has spent the last decade studying the link<br />

between Jewish history and the history of chocolate. Her book, On The Chocolate Trail is in its third printing<br />

and will be available for purchase. She will weave the story of Jews and chocolate. The recipes in the book<br />

will be offered following the presentation. The evening will be a fantasy of chocolate.<br />

<br />

Sunday,<br />

March 18, <strong>2017</strong>, 7:30 p.m.<br />

THE NAPLES PHILHARMONIC BRASS QUINTET: For the 11 th season performing at the Cultural Series,<br />

the Phil returns its outstanding musicians with a delightful variety of music and accompanying commentary.<br />

A Viennese table and <strong>Star</strong>bucks tasting follow the program.<br />

THE <strong>2017</strong> SAUL I. STERN CULTURAL SERIES<br />

For more information, call the Synagogue Office at 239.642.0800. Please send this form and payment<br />

to the Jewish Congregation of Marco Island, 991 Winterberry Dr., Marco Island, FL 34145.<br />

Please send me tickets for the following Cultural Series programs:<br />

____ $75 Patron, series<br />

____ $50 Series for members<br />

____ $60 Series for non-members<br />

____ $20 Single tickets for members<br />

____ $25 Single tickets for non-members<br />

____ Enclosed is my check payable to JCMI<br />

Please mail my tickets to the address below:<br />

For those wishing single event tickets:<br />

# of tickets:____ Fiddler on the Roof<br />

# of tickets:____ The Chocolate Trail<br />

# of tickets:____ The Naples Philharmonic<br />

All events take place at<br />

the Jewish Congregation of Marco Island,<br />

991 Winterberry Dr., Marco Island.<br />

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12B <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly<br />

Review by Sue Bookbinder, Jewish Book Festival committee member<br />

This book is based on three reallife<br />

characters whose lives fasciers<br />

of the only all-female work camp<br />

look at some of the doctors and prisonnated<br />

Martha Hall Kelly. From in Germany, one that was performing<br />

her extensive research she produced an horrific operations on its prisoners.<br />

amazing historical novel.<br />

Caroline Ferriday, a woman from a<br />

The author provides insights into very wealthy family in New York City,<br />

a horrible time through the eyes of works at the French consulate. Dedicated<br />

to helping charitable causes, she<br />

these women, their families and their<br />

loved ones. She describes the events, sends food and clothing to orphanages<br />

countries and people with clarity and overseas. When Caroline hears about the<br />

finesse. Though we are shaken by the horrors of Ravensbruck, she becomes<br />

horrors she describes, we are so caught driven. This caring, intelligent and ethical<br />

woman, caught up in her charitable<br />

up with the characters themselves that<br />

we can’t look away and we can’t stop passions, has missed having love in her<br />

reading more.<br />

life. She falls for a handsome, though<br />

The WWII story provides an intimate married, French actor who’s performing<br />

Thursday, March 2, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Beth Tikvah<br />

Mrs. Houdini by Victoria Kelly<br />

Review by Lee Henson, Jewish Book Festival committee member<br />

Harry Houdini is a man whose a person well worth getting to know a<br />

name stayed at the forefront of bit better. She is portrayed as a strong<br />

his field – magic and illusions – willed, independent person, and the<br />

since his heyday in the early 1900s. Yet times as turbulent as one imagines the<br />

not too much is known about his wife “Twenties” might have been. Victoria<br />

and partner in his act, Bess.<br />

builds a portrait while she writes about<br />

Victoria Kelly takes this historical what might have been, and twists it. She<br />

figure and builds a novel around her that takes us beyond the moment in 1943<br />

entertains in a multitude of ways. She when the real wife of this famous illusionist<br />

declared that he had been unable<br />

has written a love story that resonates<br />

with many who have found equal partners<br />

in their spouses; a historical novel; and gives us a glimpse of hope.<br />

to communicate from beyond the grave<br />

and a bit of science fiction for spice. The This 320-page book reads very<br />

Bess Houdini as written by Victoria is quickly. I found myself spending more<br />

Thursday, March 2, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Beth Tikvah<br />

Modern Girls by Jennifer Brown<br />

Review by Linda Smith, Jewish Book Festival committee member<br />

On the lower east side of New wishes for her to go to college. Dottie<br />

York City, the changing times is a dutiful daughter and sister to the<br />

of the 1930s are the backdrop family she loves dearly. She loves new<br />

for the relationship between a Jewish fashions, her time with her girlfriends,<br />

mother and her daughter. Yiddish and and having a steady boyfriend. It is assumed<br />

that this “beau” will be her future<br />

English are spoken by both generations<br />

while they individually struggle to husband when he has achieved financial<br />

honor the sanctity of the family. security.<br />

Dottie Krasinsky is a “modern girl” Her mother Rose, a Jewish immigrant<br />

from Russia with a devoted<br />

who aspires to better herself in her job.<br />

She has been made head bookkeeper husband, is the mother of five children.<br />

at her company although her mother One, a twin, succumbed to polio. The<br />

Thursday, March 2, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Beth Tikvah<br />

in NYC, and their love affair is beautiful<br />

and touching. Caroline somehow<br />

manages to do it all. Her and impact<br />

on the “rabbits” (the name given the<br />

Ravensbruck women who are victims<br />

of horrific surgeries) turns out to be<br />

enormous.<br />

Kasia is a teenager living in Poland<br />

who, along with her best friend<br />

and wished-for boyfriend, joins the<br />

underground resistance. Kasia is bold<br />

and feisty – the one to watch. Their<br />

decision leads Kasia to be imprisoned<br />

at Ravensbruck, where she becomes one<br />

of the “experiments.” While undergoing<br />

horrific pain and the fear of death,<br />

Martha Hall Kelly is a native New Englander now living in<br />

Atlanta, where she is writing her next book. Lilac Girls is her<br />

first novel, a book she wrote for five years, having researched the<br />

story for over ten years. She is excited beyond belief to finally<br />

share it with the world.<br />

Appearing with Martha Hall Kelly will be Victoria Kelly,<br />

author of Mrs. Houdini, and Jennifer Brown, author of<br />

Modern Girls.<br />

time reading than I’d planned in my<br />

eagerness to follow Bess in her journey<br />

of discovery. I liked the glimpses into<br />

the Houdini’s life, so different from<br />

that of the twenty-first century. Victoria<br />

explains in her author’s note that she<br />

had done extensive research, including<br />

interviews with her own father for depictions<br />

of Atlantic City. In her search<br />

for insight into Bess, Victoria purchased<br />

a battered secondhand copy of Harold<br />

Kellock’s biography, Houdini: His Life<br />

Story (first published in 1928) “for ten<br />

dollars, only to find, opening the book<br />

Victoria Kelly is a graduate of Harvard University, Trinity<br />

College in Dublin, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the<br />

author of the poetry collection When the Men Go Off to War,<br />

the first original poetry publication in the history of the Naval<br />

Institute Press.<br />

Appearing with Victoria Kelly will be Martha Hall Kelly,<br />

author of Lilac Girls, and Jennifer Brown, author of<br />

Modern Girls.<br />

family members are concerned about the<br />

movements in Europe, especially since<br />

Rose’s brother is unable to find a way<br />

to emigrate to the United States during<br />

Hitler’s rise to power.<br />

As a young woman, Rose was active<br />

in the Socialist movement. During<br />

a demonstration, she was run down by<br />

a Russian policeman on a horse, leaving<br />

her with a permanent limp. Her family<br />

sent her to the United States to keep her<br />

safe. On New York’s lower east side, all<br />

Jennifer Brown has published fiction and creative nonfiction<br />

in Fiction Southeast, The Best Women’s Travel Writing, The<br />

Southeast Review and Bellevue Literary Review, among others.<br />

Her essay “The Codeine of Jordan” was selected as a notable<br />

essay in The Best American Travel Writing in 2012. She holds<br />

an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington.<br />

Appearing with Jennifer Brown will be Martha Hall Kelly,<br />

author of Lilac Girls, and Victoria Kelly, author of<br />

Mrs. Houdini.<br />

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Kasia still remains focused on finding<br />

out what has happened to her two best<br />

friends.<br />

The third protagonist is Herta Oberheuser,<br />

a German dermatologist who<br />

desperately wants to be a surgeon. She<br />

answers an ad to work with the German<br />

government and ends up working in the<br />

Camp performing experiments on the<br />

prisoners. The fact that the author does<br />

not present this character as the “devil<br />

incarnate” is admirable. While a reader<br />

might not end up liking her, it is instructive<br />

to understand Herta’s motivations<br />

and perverse sense of right.<br />

Though bringing these three protagonists<br />

together might seem farfetched,<br />

the author ingeniously intertwines them.<br />

That the characters and events are based<br />

on fact makes it easier to accept the<br />

improbable. All the characters, both<br />

major and not so major, are wonderfully<br />

presented so that you feel like you’ve<br />

met them face to face. Kelly’s skill at<br />

following these characters from New<br />

York City to Poland to Germany and to<br />

France provides an accurate reflection<br />

of the times and places.<br />

This is a must read for all who appreciate<br />

well-written and illuminating<br />

historical fiction. I am looking forward<br />

to Martha Hall Kelly’s next book!<br />

days later, Bess Houdini’s signature<br />

inside the cover.” Maybe this book was<br />

meant to be!<br />

Material previously published by<br />

Victoria Kelly is primarily poetry. She<br />

received her M.F.A. from the Iowa<br />

Writers’ Workshop, a B.A. summa cum<br />

laude from Harvard University, and<br />

an M. Phil. in creative writing from<br />

Trinity College Dublin, where she<br />

was a U.S. Mitchell Scholar. Her poetry<br />

has appeared in anthologies and<br />

several respected reviews. Her gift in<br />

writing poetry has given her a fluid<br />

style that makes her novel captivating<br />

reading.<br />

There seems to me to be another<br />

link between this book and her poetry, a<br />

similar theme. Her anthology When the<br />

Men Go Off to War tells of desire, love<br />

and loss as the wife of a soldier. This<br />

story resonates with that same feeling<br />

– the determination of a wife to not be<br />

separated from her husband even by the<br />

most solid of all separations. I am eager<br />

to have the chance to hear her speak<br />

about her writing, her research, and her<br />

desire to meet Bess Houdini within the<br />

pages of this book.<br />

J<br />

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Jo<br />

her friends are pressuring her to become s<br />

active again in supporting the Jewish i<br />

cause in the U.S.<br />

In Modern Girls, mother and daugh-ter<br />

both discover that they are pregnant. I<br />

Dottie submits to a boy who arouses her l<br />

sexuality. Her mother discovers that shes<br />

is not past the time for getting preg-nant<br />

at age 42. Dottie shares her newsw<br />

with Rose, while Rose withholds herp<br />

news from her daughter. Herein lie the<br />

challenges of individually held beliefsl<br />

between two generations, mother and<br />

daughter, in 1935.<br />

The result is a thought-provoking<br />

story of a mother and a daughter and the<br />

sacrifices they make for one another. The<br />

story has an unpredictable ending which<br />

mirrors the unpredictability of life.<br />

This book gets under your skin<br />

and keeps you wanting to follow the<br />

characters’ lives. You may find yourself<br />

missing them. For readers with<br />

immigrant grandparents, it is a nostalgic<br />

journey as you recall the details of<br />

their past experiences. This is a heartwarming<br />

tale of the resilience of the<br />

human spirit.


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<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

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OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF COLLIER COUNTY<br />

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ANNUAL NAPLES KLEZMER REVIVAL BAND CONCERT<br />

WITH FEATURED CLARINETIST: MICHAEL WINOGRAD<br />

Michael is an outstanding young musician. He is in great demand,<br />

performing all over the world. He is one third of the transatlantic<br />

klezmer/cabaret collective Yiddish Art Trio, clarinetist of Tarras<br />

Band, a classic 1950’s Jewish American tribute group, and the cofounder<br />

and director of the ground breaking, borderless world fusion<br />

band Sandaraa. Michael also collaborates with Cantor Yaakov<br />

‘Yanky’ Lemmer and Klezmatics trumpeter Frank London in Ahava Raba, a group that explores<br />

the spiritual sides of Ashkanazy Jewish Music. He has played alongside Itzhak Perlman,<br />

The Klezmer Conservatory Band, Socalled, Budowitz, Alicia Svigals and more.<br />

RSVP required ~ starting December 14: South Regional Library - 239.252.7542<br />

Die Laughing: Killer Jokes for Newly Old Folks,<br />

by William Novak<br />

Review by Lee Henson, Jewish Book Festival committee member<br />

Answer these questions: Were I found myself poking my husband and<br />

you born around 1948 or earlier?<br />

Do you have any children? to him from a page or two. We ended<br />

saying “listen to this one!” and reading<br />

Are you finding yourself forgetting up smiling as we ended our day. Rather<br />

things? Do your aches and pains have than reviewing all of the potentially<br />

aches and pains? Well, William Novak unpleasant possibilities of the future,<br />

knows just the cure: laughter!<br />

we found humor where before we saw<br />

Recently, after a day filled with doom and gloom.<br />

Medicare-required physicals, blood William Novak is an established<br />

tests and results, I went to bed with William<br />

Novak’s new book, Die Laughing. written memoirs with Lee Iacocca,<br />

ghostwriter of autobiographies, having<br />

Tip<br />

Jewish Lunacy by Eric Golub<br />

Review by Lenore Greenstein, Jewish Book Festival committee member<br />

Jewish Lunacy is a humorous, his grandfather was an Orthodox rabbi,<br />

sometimes whimsical, periodically but he interjects that before grandpa<br />

serious, and often unorthodox view became a man of the cloth, he was a<br />

of Jewish life. The author has written rum runner, so prohibitions weren’t<br />

several books about ideologies, including<br />

one called Ideological Lunacy. particular rabbi and rebbetzin was fun,<br />

too strict. Being the grandson of this<br />

Golub is a politically conservative and probably started young Eric on a<br />

columnist, blogger and comedian. While comedic path.<br />

I did not agree with many of his political As for his origins, Golub says, “I<br />

leanings and found some incorrect assumptions<br />

about liberal Judaism, he still Brooklyn, New York, is the Holy Land.”<br />

was born in the Holy Land. That’s right,<br />

has many valid points that will resonate On this point I totally agree, since I also<br />

with all Jews, including those who don’t grew up close to Coney Island, just a<br />

practice any rituals at all.<br />

few miles from his birthplace, and felt<br />

Golub describes the trials and tribulations<br />

of growing up in a home where holiest of<br />

that Brooklyn was the world if not the<br />

places.<br />

O’Neill, Nancy Reagan and Tim Russert.<br />

He is also the co-editor of The Big<br />

Book of Jewish Humor. He has taken his<br />

skills and used them to collect stories<br />

that make us laugh at trips to the doctor’s<br />

office, changes in our bodies, most<br />

of which are not positive, and realizing<br />

that we are now that person who other<br />

people point to when they say, “Look at<br />

that old guy!”<br />

William Novak is an experienced<br />

Monday, March 13, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Unitarian Universalist Cong.<br />

William Novak is best known to Jewish audiences as the coeditor<br />

of The Big Book of Jewish Humor, a beloved collection<br />

of jokes, cartoons and stories that is still in print 35 years after<br />

its 1981 release. Novak is also a successful ghostwriter who<br />

has served as the co-author of the best-selling memoirs of Lee<br />

Iacocca, Tip O’Neill, Nancy Reagan, Oliver North, Magic<br />

Johnson, Tim Russert and Natan Sharansky.<br />

Appearing with William Novak will be Eric Golub,<br />

author of Jewish Lunacy.<br />

This program is being generously sponsored by<br />

Naples Jewish Congregation.<br />

Eric says that from the beginning,<br />

his confusion with Judaism was<br />

matched only by Judaism’s confusion<br />

with him. “Since Judaism doesn’t excommunicate<br />

people,” he’s still a tribesman.<br />

“Judaism is like the Mafia. Unless<br />

one has pure bloodlines, getting into the<br />

family is difficult. Those born into the<br />

family have a lifetime connection. Even<br />

those who convert away from Judaism<br />

never truly leave.” Such quotes strike a<br />

familiar chord in this age of intermarriage<br />

and assimilation.<br />

The book’s short chapters reflect<br />

many experiences in Golub’s life. Lunacies<br />

as a youth, during college years,<br />

Monday, March 13, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Unitarian Universalist Cong.<br />

Eric Golub is a national author, speaker and comedian who<br />

has spoken in all 50 states. He speaks about politics, religion<br />

and everything else that should not be discussed. He is a former<br />

stockbrokerage and oil professional living in Los Angeles. He<br />

is single, to the chagrin of his loving parents, and proud of his<br />

Jewish heritage.<br />

Appearing with Eric Golub will be William Novak,<br />

author of Die Laughing.<br />

This program is being generously sponsored by<br />

Naples Jewish Congregation.<br />

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writer who seems to enjoy making sense<br />

of things that are not really that funny<br />

as one is experiencing them. He can<br />

expand an idea into little vignettes that<br />

make one smile or chuckle out loud.<br />

This collection of stories and jokes emphasizes<br />

the universality in what often<br />

seem to be very individual experiences.<br />

Nothing is sacred. William touches on<br />

all the subjects that we encounter in this<br />

stage of our lives, from our recognition<br />

that the changes we have encountered<br />

are just the beginning to the reality of<br />

the end!<br />

I encourage all of you who, like<br />

me, answered “yes” to all of the questions<br />

with which I began this review, to<br />

consider joining me to listen to William<br />

Novak speak. If his talk is as funny as<br />

his stories, it will be an entertaining<br />

event. I look forward to sending his<br />

book to friends “back North” who will<br />

not be lucky enough to be with us at this<br />

Collier County Jewish Book Festival<br />

event, to ensure that they get a laugh<br />

at our predicament – being “newly old<br />

folks.”<br />

with his parents, in sexual encounters,<br />

and even while dancing, reflect Golub’s<br />

struggles growing up. They are amusing,<br />

and while some are funnier than<br />

others, Golub’s views on pacifism and<br />

the (tongue in cheek) “Zionist Crusader<br />

Lunacy” are questionable.<br />

Despite his political leanings, and<br />

his advice that more Jews should become<br />

stockbrokers rather than teachers<br />

and social workers, I found myself<br />

enjoying many of his observations on<br />

contemporary Jewish life. One of my<br />

favorite passages exemplifies his wit<br />

as well as his concern for the future of<br />

Jewish life on the planet.<br />

“There are approximately 12 Jews<br />

in America. Three live in New York and<br />

three more are in Los Angeles. Texas<br />

and Florida have two apiece. One of<br />

them ended up in North Dakota while<br />

the other is roaming around somewhere.”<br />

Golub’s point is well taken. The<br />

number often given is that we are only<br />

1/500 of the world’s population. With<br />

intermarriage and assimilation on the<br />

rise, we are in trouble.<br />

Jewish Lunacy points out problems<br />

that we will face in the next 5,000 years,<br />

but like the proverbial spoonful of sugar,<br />

they go down with a smile.


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ARTS & CULTURE<br />

<strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong> <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

15B<br />

Who is “<strong>Federation</strong>”<br />

and what do we do?<br />

The answer is simple: It’s you – and every member of the Jewish community of Collier County and the surrounding<br />

areas. The <strong>Federation</strong> is your center for Jewish Philanthropy. The Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Collier County is the thread that<br />

runs through the fabric of our Jewish community, its organizations and services, connecting us all.<br />

The <strong>Federation</strong> supports programs for Jewish people in need in Collier County, Israel and throughout the world, providing<br />

food for the hungry and counseling for the troubled, spearheading rescue and relief efforts for isolated Jews in distressed<br />

regions, and funding innovative Jewish educational and unity initiatives.<br />

The <strong>Federation</strong> creates a sense of community for thousands of Jewish residents in Collier County and its surrounding areas<br />

by creating and supporting programs to further Jewish learning, identity, pride and culture. <strong>Federation</strong> meets the challenge<br />

of providing for the needs of our Jewish brethren, wherever they may be, from young children and families to seniors.<br />

Where does the money go?<br />

The local Campaign allocation process involves a committee of volunteers as well as <strong>Federation</strong> staff. They take part in<br />

this important process, which balances available resources against community priorities through a grant process.<br />

Additionally, several national organizations receive support from the domestic allocation. Internationally, your contribution<br />

works to support a broad range of social, educational and vocational needs throughout the Jewish world.<br />

Locally, the <strong>Federation</strong> makes a grant to Jewish Family & Community Services of Southwest Florida, in support of the<br />

social services they provide for our community. And grants are made in support of a variety of educational and cultural programs<br />

conducted by local synagogues, the Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida, and other local Jewish organizations.<br />

Our allocation to The Jewish <strong>Federation</strong>s of North America (JFNA) is distributed to the American Jewish Joint Distribution<br />

Committee (JDC), which brings relief to the needy and works to revitalize Jewish life in 60 countries; the Jewish Agency<br />

for Israel (JAFI), which rescues people from countries and resettles them in Israel; and for supplemental grants in support<br />

of special programs and projects that our community has embraced like Neve Michael Youth & Children’s Village in Pardes<br />

Hana, Israel; the Sapir Community Center in Kfar Saba, Israel; and the Progressive Synagogue Preschool in Kiev, Ukraine.<br />

<strong>Federation</strong>’s<br />

Annual<br />

Campaign<br />

Supports<br />

Donate.<br />

Volunteer.<br />

Get involved.<br />

239.263.4205<br />

www.jewishnaples.org<br />

Jewish Continuity & Identity<br />

Beth Tikvah: Youth Education, Naples Jewish Film Festival<br />

BBYO Naples<br />

Camp Scholarships<br />

Catholic-Jewish Dialogue<br />

Chabad of Naples: Camp Gan Israel, Preschool of the Arts, Hebrew School<br />

Evy Lipp People of the Book Cultural Event<br />

Hillel at Florida Gulf Coast University<br />

Holocaust Museum & Education Center of SWFL<br />

Human Needs Award<br />

Israel Advocacy Committee Programs<br />

Israel Scouts Friendship Caravan<br />

Jewish Book Festival<br />

Jewish Community Relations Council: Chanukah Celebration,<br />

Yom HaShoah Commemoration, Shop With a Sheriff<br />

Jewish Congregation of Marco Island: Jewish Film Festival,<br />

Saul Stern Cultural Series<br />

Jewish War Veterans Post #202<br />

Men’s Cultural Alliance<br />

Mix and Mingle singles group<br />

Naples Jewish Congregation Scholar-in-Residence<br />

Stand Up For Justice Grant<br />

Temple Shalom: Preschool & Religious School Scholarships<br />

Women’s Cultural Alliance<br />

Local Humanitarian & Social Services<br />

Jewish Family & Community Services: Senior Outreach & Support,<br />

Counseling & Mental Health Support<br />

Israel & Overseas Humanitarian & Social Services /<br />

National Organizations<br />

American Jewish World Service<br />

Anti-Defamation League (ADL)<br />

Birthright Israel<br />

The Jewish <strong>Federation</strong>s of North America (JFNA): Jewish Agency for<br />

Israel (JAFI), American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC),<br />

Israel Action Network<br />

Jewish National Fund (JNF): Sderot Indoor Playground,<br />

Red Mountain Therapeutic Riding Center<br />

Neve Michael Children’s Village<br />

Sapir Community Center, Kfar Saba<br />

World ORT<br />

World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) – HaTikvah Preschool<br />

in Ukraine<br />

Yad LaKashish


16B <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

ARTS & CULTURE<br />

Temple Shalom invites you to<br />

A Spectacular Musical Event!<br />

March 5, <strong>2017</strong><br />

from<br />

Bimah<br />

to<br />

7:30PM<br />

BROADWAY<br />

Encore!<br />

Name<br />

Address (where tickets should be mailed)<br />

Phone<br />

For tickets, please return this form with your payment to<br />

Temple Shalom<br />

From Bimah to Broadway<br />

4630 Pine Ridge Road<br />

Naples, FL 34119<br />

My check is enclosed<br />

Please charge my credit card<br />

Credit card #<br />

Exp.<br />

Back by Popular Demand!<br />

A cantorial concert<br />

featuring<br />

Tickets<br />

Understudy ..... $18<br />

Students (with ID)<br />

(Concert only-advance purchase)<br />

Cast ..... $60<br />

1 ticket, advance sale (concert only)<br />

1 ticket, at the door (after 3PM, March 3rd) ..... $75<br />

Conducter ..... $125<br />

1 ticket, includes dessert reception following concert<br />

Director ..... $600<br />

2 tickets for dinner, preferred section seats,<br />

dessert reception and program listing<br />

Producer ..... $1,000<br />

2 tickets for dinner, reserved concert seating, dessert reception,<br />

program listing and drawing for 1 year reserved parking space<br />

Impressario ..... $2,500<br />

2 tickets for dinner, preferred concert seating, dessert<br />

reception, program listing and one drawing chance for<br />

3 nights use of a NYC apartment<br />

Executive Producer ..... $5,000<br />

2 tickets for dinner, select concert seating, dessert reception,<br />

prominent program listing and one drawing chance for up to<br />

7 nights use of a NYC apartment<br />

Angel ..... $10,000<br />

4 tickets for dinner, your choice of concert seating and reserved<br />

dessert reception seating, full page program listing, 2 drawing<br />

chances for up to 7 nights use of a NYC apartment<br />

Email<br />

Security code<br />

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For program listing and best seating,<br />

we must receive ticket payment by February 17<br />

$<br />

Total<br />

Paid tickets will be mailed until February 24th.<br />

Tickets will then be available at<br />

Will Call on the evening of the concert.<br />

Qty.<br />

Cantor<br />

Donna Azu<br />

Cantor<br />

Daniel Mutlu<br />

Cantor<br />

Carrie Barry<br />

Cantor<br />

William Tiep<br />

Cantor<br />

Mary Rebecca<br />

Thomas<br />

Understudy - $18<br />

Cast - $60<br />

Conductor - $125<br />

Director - $600<br />

Producer - $1,000<br />

Impressario - $2,500<br />

Executive Producer - $5,000<br />

Angel - $10,000

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