Federation Star - January 2017

JEWISH FEDERATION
January 2017 Federation Star
Jewish Community Relations Council update
By Betty Schwartz, Chair
The Jewish Community Relations
Council was formed in
order to further our mission of
strengthening ties to our community.
Our Black Community Outreach Committee
is dedicated to increasing our
efforts this year. The chair of this subcommittee
is Goldye Meyer, and she is
perfect for this leadership role. She is
an experienced mediator who is enthusiastic
about helping us make progress
with our cooperative activities with the
Black community. Meetings with Collier
County NAACP representatives
have been very positive, and we look
forward to a rewarding relationship.
This year, we will again participate
in the annual Martin Luther King, Jr.
Day Parade on Monday, January 16.
The parade starts at 11:00 a.m. and will
begin on Broad Avenue, proceed north
on 3 rd Street South, then right on 5 th Avenue
South, and end on 8 th Street South.
The Jewish Federation of
Collier County has a terrific
banner which we will
carry, and we hope to have
a larger contingent than last
year. We invite you to join us
for fresh air, fun and a show
of support. The parade will
last about an hour, followed
by a celebration. We will also
Jewish Community
Tikkun
Olam
J C
R C
Relations Council
of the
Jewish Federation of Collier County
have a table with literature to distribute.
Please call the Federation office at
239.263.4205 for more information. We
will be meeting at 10:00 a.m. on Broad
Avenue.
On Thursday, January 19 at 7:00
p.m., a Criminal Justice Reform Forum
will be held at the Universalist
Unitarian Congregation, 6340 Napa
Woods Way. The JCRC will be a cosponsor
of this non-partisan
panel discussion. The panelists
include Deborrah Brodsky of
Florida State University; Adam
Bates, J.D. of the Cato Institute’s
Project on Criminal Justice;
Raymer Maguire, Director
of Criminal Justice Reform of
the Florida ACLU; and moderator
Reverend Allison DeFoor.
Reverend DeFoor is the former Sheriff
of Madison County, attorney, former
judge, former candidate for Lt. Governor
of Florida, an official in the Episcopal
Church of Florida, and mentor to
prisoners in Florida prisons. This forum
can be the beginning of efforts to fix the
JCRC is concerned for our young people
By Judi Palay, JCRC committee member
Dear Parents, Grandparents, youth whose Jewish education ended
Aunts, Uncles and caring with their Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Bullying is
friends of a high-schooler: reaching alarming rates on campuses.
As you get your son, daughter, BDS is being discussed at many universities.
Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
relative or nice person ready for college,
have you opened the checking are being confused. One university was
account, packed the medicines for the even going to offer a class, taught by a
terrible cold/flu he will get somewhere Palestinian, on how to get rid of Israel
between the 4 th and 6 th week of school, and the Jews. The class was canceled
remembered to show him how to do only because the instructor wasn’t qualified
to teach it.
laundry, etc.?
I am betting that along with the talk Remember when you were going to
about watching your drinking and the discuss the facts of life with this child?
non-use of drugs, about getting good Where should you start? How much information
was enough or too much? Did
grades by using good study habits,
and about remembering why you are you feel awkward trying to answer the
in college (good grades!), the talk you questions? Had their friends provided
haven’t had is the one about Judaism, information or misinformation?
its principles and values.
So how would like to begin this
JCRC, the Jewish Community discussion regarding the college experience,
the positives and negatives?
Relations Council, has deemed this
an important issue, especially for our Knowing that many campuses are
experiencing an increase in bullying,
what techniques are successful? What
resources are available to this student?
Has she had this type of experience in
Naples and not even discussed it with
you?
Fact: Bullying doesn’t end in high
school. Fact: Cyberbullying is on the
rise. Fact: College bullying presents
some unique challenges. Fact: Bullied
college students often feel alone and
isolated. And: Bullied college students
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broken criminal justice system.
This forum is very timely for us
because the umbrella organization of
Community Relations Councils, the
Jewish Council of Public Affairs, is
starting a racial equality and criminal
justice reform initiative. Mass incarceration
and other issues related to
racial equality need to be addressed
on local, state and federal levels. The
Jewish community has a history dating
back to the early 1930s of fighting for
racial equality and civil rights. More
than 50 years later, there is still work to
be done. The statistics of imprisonment
are alarming, and the whole community
needs to find a solution.
For more information about the
JCRC, email me at bettyofnaples@
gmail.com.
often keep silent about the torment
they are experiencing.
Next article: Who will help you
broach this subject? What resources
are available to you and your student?
How can I have my college-bound
friend, child, relative take advantage of
programming to support them?
For more information about the
JCRC, contact Betty at bettyofnaples@
gmail.com.
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