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2A <strong>Federation</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>January</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Renee’s community<br />
program & events corner<br />
Renee’<br />
Bialek<br />
Community<br />
Program<br />
Coordinator<br />
What a fantastic Community<br />
Chanukah Celebration the<br />
Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> of Greater<br />
Naples hosted on the lawn at Mercato<br />
on Wednesday evening, December 13!<br />
A huge thank you goes to the Naples<br />
Klezmer Revival Band for its fabulous<br />
job entertaining us at the event. For the<br />
15 th year, the Naples Klezmer Revival<br />
Band has supported the Jewish <strong>Federation</strong><br />
by playing in our annual Chanukah<br />
celebration. The band has been blessed<br />
by the stability of its members. Some<br />
band members have been in it from the<br />
very beginning: Jane Galler, vocalist<br />
and guitar; Arnold Saslavsky, drums;<br />
and Stu Warshauer, leader and fiddle<br />
player. Martin Cohn on clarinet and<br />
Perry Switzen on bass have played with<br />
the band for 10 years! Newer member<br />
Stewart Ross on trombone is playing for<br />
his second year, and accordionist Gerry<br />
Pyser and fiddle player Ari Schneider<br />
are the band’s newest members.<br />
Additional appreciation goes to:<br />
Mayor Bill Barnett<br />
Sheriff Kevin Rambosk and the<br />
entire Sheriff’s Department who<br />
made sure we were all safe during<br />
the outdoor event<br />
Kevin Aizenshtat, emcee<br />
Jane Schiff, Board Chair of Jewish<br />
<strong>Federation</strong> of Greater Naples<br />
Temple Shalom Preschool and<br />
Temple Shalom Religious School<br />
students who sang their hearts out!<br />
Thank you to Jane Galler, Dr. Anna<br />
Salomon and Seyla Cohen.<br />
Shalom Dancers from the Jewish<br />
<strong>Federation</strong> of Lee & Charlotte<br />
Counties<br />
Rabbi Chorny, Rabbi Miller and<br />
Rabbi Zaklos<br />
Cantor Donna Azu, Cantorial Soloist<br />
Jane Galler and Cantorial Soloist<br />
Hari Jacobsen<br />
Our wonderful volunteers<br />
Men’s Cultural Alliance<br />
Women’s Cultural Alliance<br />
Arlene Levin<br />
Gili from her Judaica Shop<br />
BBYO, IAC, Jewish War Veterans<br />
and PJ Library<br />
Mercato<br />
We hope you enjoyed the Naples<br />
Klezmer Revival Band, the performers,<br />
face painting by Melody the Clown, and<br />
the hot latkes from The Sizzle Truck.<br />
To become a sponsor for the next<br />
Chanukah Celebration at Mercato on<br />
Monday, December 3, <strong>2018</strong>, email me<br />
at rbialek@jewishnaples.org.<br />
Mayor Bill Barnett, Jane Schiff, Sheriff Kevin Rambosk and Jeffrey Feld at the Community Chanukah Celebration<br />
Look for more photos<br />
from this event on<br />
pages 14B & 15B<br />
Jane Galler leads Temple Shalom students in song at the Community Chanukah Celebration<br />
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, <strong>January</strong> 15, <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Please come participate in the MLK parade at 10:00 a.m. with the Jewish<br />
<strong>Federation</strong> of Greater Naples. Hold our banner and walk with us in the parade.<br />
It’s<br />
Martin<br />
fun and<br />
Luther<br />
great<br />
King<br />
exercise!<br />
Jr. Day<br />
The parade<br />
is Monday,<br />
starts at<br />
<strong>January</strong><br />
11:00 a.m.<br />
15,<br />
at<br />
<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Broad Avenue S.<br />
& 3<br />
Please rd St. S., but we need to meet at 10:00 a.m. for those walking in the parade.<br />
come participate in the MLK parade at 10:00 a.m. with the<br />
The celebration at Cambier Park will continue until 3:00 p.m. with food, music<br />
Jewish and entertainment. <strong>Federation</strong> Free of Collier admission County. for all. Hold The Jewish our banner Community and Relations walk with<br />
Council us in the is looking parade. for It’s volunteers fun and to great sit the exercise! <strong>Federation</strong> The booth parade during starts the day. at<br />
11:00 If you a.m. want at to Broad walk in Avenue the parade S and/or & 3 rd sit St. at our S., booth, but we please need contact to meet Renee’ at<br />
at<br />
10:00<br />
rbialek@jewishnaples.org.<br />
a.m. for those walking in the parade.<br />
The celebration at Cambier Park will continue until 3:00 p.m. with<br />
JEWISH FEDERATION<br />
Looking forward to<br />
an exciting New Year<br />
Jeffrey<br />
Feld<br />
<strong>Federation</strong><br />
President/<br />
CEO<br />
Once again, we have arrived at a<br />
transitional time of year. Calendar<br />
year 2017 is ending and<br />
the new calendar year of <strong>2018</strong> is about<br />
to begin. This timeframe is generally<br />
met with nostalgia and excitement. And<br />
yes, that is true for all of us at the Jewish<br />
<strong>Federation</strong> of Greater Naples.<br />
We look back at our experiences<br />
over the past year. We were wonderfully<br />
entertained by Tovah Feldshuh at<br />
the Power of Community Celebration.<br />
We enjoyed hearing from author Scott<br />
Turow at the Evy Lipp People of the<br />
Book Cultural Event. The Second Annual<br />
Jewish Book Festival brought us a<br />
multitude of authors over a three-month<br />
period. Through the efforts of the Jewish<br />
Community Relations Council, our <strong>Federation</strong><br />
brought to this community its<br />
first annual “Day of Learning.” To celebrate<br />
Israel’s 69 th birthday, <strong>Federation</strong><br />
hosted Israel Fest at Fleischmann Park.<br />
This represented the largest gathering<br />
we ever had for this type of program.<br />
This was one of the activities of the Israel<br />
Advocacy Committee. In addition,<br />
the IAC presented numerous speakers/<br />
documentaries to our community. And,<br />
once again, the Israel Scouts Friendship<br />
Caravan entertained in our community.<br />
They performed at Temple Shalom,<br />
YMCA day camp, for the residents of<br />
Moorings Park, and at the New Hope<br />
Ministries Church.<br />
Through a variety of <strong>Federation</strong><br />
activities, we were able to engage with<br />
members of the Jewish community and<br />
with members from the Greater Naples<br />
community. Through our JCRC, the<br />
Catholic-Jewish Dialogue once again<br />
provided a Kristallnacht Commemoration,<br />
as well as numerous other programs<br />
where there were opportunities<br />
for the Catholic and Jewish communities<br />
to come together. In addition, our<br />
<strong>Federation</strong> also worked with the Evangelical<br />
Pastors of Southwest Florida for<br />
other engagements.<br />
Chanukah would not be the same<br />
without our menorah lighting at Mercato.<br />
Hundreds of people join us for this<br />
festivity each year.<br />
We recognize how our <strong>Federation</strong><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 />
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Barsky Team, Realtors ® .......21A<br />
Bradford Square..................22A<br />
City Mattress.......................19A<br />
Clive Daniel Home................6B<br />
Coplin Wealth Mgmt Group..3B<br />
Chellie Doepke, Realtor ® ....16A<br />
Entertainment Direct...........15B<br />
Margot Escott, LCSW...........3B<br />
Estero Fine Art Show............3A<br />
FGCU.................................14A<br />
Fuller Funeral Home...........10A<br />
Dr. Barrett Ross Ginsberg.....5B<br />
Gulfshore Opera....................1B<br />
Gulfshore Playhouse.............3B<br />
Stacy Hersha, CPA..............12A<br />
Hilton Naples......................10B<br />
Hodges Funeral Home........15A<br />
Humanistic Jewish Havurah.10A<br />
Jewish Cong. of Marco Island.2B<br />
Jewish Historical Society......7A<br />
JNF.....................................23A<br />
A. Stephen Kotler, Attorney.15A<br />
helps others. Because of you and your<br />
commitment to the annual campaign,<br />
we were able to help provide meaningful<br />
experiences for Jewish youth here,<br />
in Israel and around the world. BBYO<br />
is a perfect example of what our community<br />
has come together to provide.<br />
Our community also provides financial<br />
wherewithal to support programming<br />
for youth-at-risk in Israel and a program<br />
called Neve Michael. We provide<br />
resources for Jewish continuity through<br />
educational opportunities. We provide<br />
funds to keep Judaism alive in Kiev,<br />
Ukraine, by supporting the preschool<br />
at the Tikvah congregation. Here in<br />
Naples, through the allocation process,<br />
monies are provided to Temple Shalom,<br />
Chabad and Beth Tikvah for financial<br />
need-based scholarships for families<br />
who could not otherwise afford to send<br />
their children to religious school. In addition,<br />
monies are provided for financial<br />
need-based scholarships to Temple Shalom<br />
and Chabad for Jewish preschoolers<br />
whose families could not afford to pay<br />
the tuition for their children to go to a<br />
Jewish preschool.<br />
The Jewish <strong>Federation</strong> is here in<br />
times of need. We respond to most<br />
disasters. In 2017, disaster struck our<br />
community. Our <strong>Federation</strong> was able<br />
to accumulate and distribute over<br />
$100,000 to congregations, JFCS and<br />
individuals who were severely affected<br />
by Hurricane Irma. It’s nice to know that<br />
our <strong>Federation</strong> and community come<br />
together to help.<br />
2017 saw our <strong>Federation</strong> go through<br />
a strategic planning process and commission<br />
a Needs Assessment/Demographic<br />
Study. The results of these two<br />
efforts will help our community as we<br />
go forward.<br />
Our community is growing. The<br />
needs of our community are growing.<br />
Our <strong>Federation</strong> is taking the steps necessary<br />
to plan to meet those needs the<br />
best way possible. Without your continued<br />
generous support of the annual<br />
campaign, we cannot meet those needs.<br />
We are committed to providing for<br />
Jewish continuity, supporting our Israel<br />
and Overseas Partners, and especially<br />
committed to the humanitarian services<br />
provided by our JFCS. This is our home<br />
and we need to take care of it properly!<br />
Thank you for all you have done.<br />
I thank you in advance for all you will<br />
do to help us build and grow our community.<br />
Because of you, we can look<br />
forward to an exciting New Year!<br />
PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS<br />
THEY HELP MAKE THE FEDERATION STAR POSSIBLE.<br />
Lorel Martens.............12A,24A<br />
Mattis Inc............................18A<br />
Miromar Outlets..................12B<br />
Naples Envelope & Printing.16A<br />
Naples Jewish Cong.11A,1B,2B<br />
Naples Jewish Film Festival.11B<br />
Naples Orchestra & Chorus..9A<br />
Off the Hook Comedy Club.32A<br />
Jerry Oppenberg, Realtor ® ....3A<br />
Park Creek Apartments.......11A<br />
Philly Pretzels.......................5A<br />
Preferred Travel..................17A<br />
Senior Housing Solutions.....6A<br />
Arthur Shafran, Realtor ® ......7A<br />
Temple Shalom......13A,14A,5B<br />
The Naples Players...............4B<br />
TheatreZone.......................16B<br />
Truly Nolen.........................16A<br />
U.S. Bank............................15B<br />
Women’s Cultural Alliance.12B<br />
ZOA...................................20A<br />
Debbie Zvibleman, Realtor ® ...4B