Federation Star - June 2019

The Israel Scouts 

are coming to Naples! 

Multiple venues and 

performances! 

June 11-12 

See page 4 

for more details. 

Celebrating Jewish Life in Greater Naples, Israel and the World 

Federation Star 

Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples 

serving Naples, Marco Island and the surrounding communities 

www.JewishNaples.org June 2019 – Iyar/Sivan 5779 Vol. 28 #10 

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 

5 Men’s Cultural Alliance 

6 Women’s Cultural Alliance 

10 Community Focus 

12 Tributes 

13 Jewish Interest 

20 Israel & the Jewish World 

23 Commentary 

27 Focus on Youth 

28 Synagogues 

29 Organizations 

30 Community Calendar 

31 Community Directory 

Israeli cheesecake enshrouded 

by knafeh – recipe by Chef Dalia 

20 

ISRAEL21c’s 14 must-read 

books about Israel 

27 

Preschool of the Arts’ Teacher 

and Staff Appreciation Day 

Jewish War Veterans 

Post 202 update 

18 

29 

Jewish Federation of Greater Naples 

2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd., Ste. 2201 

Naples, FL 34109 

State of the Federation 

Jane 

Schiff 

Federation 

Board Chair 

Editor’s note: Below are Jane Schiff’s 

remarks at the Federation’s Annual 

Meeting on Tuesday, April 16. 

At the Annual Meeting of the 

Jewish Federation of Greater 

Naples, it is traditional that 

the Board Chair give an update as to 

what has happened this past year. I can 

sum up the year in one word – WOW! 

And to add emphasis to that one word, 

I’m getting tired and am glad season is 

slowing down. 

Which brings me to the staff. While 

I truly take time off during the summer, 

they keep on trucking. So, I am starting 

my speech tonight with a HUGE thank 

you to the best staff this Federation has 

ever seen. Our success, our future, our 

ability to have everything look and seem 

easy and seamless is due in large part to 

their efforts. Thus, everything I mention 

after this opening is due in small or large 

part (mostly large) to them! 

Jeffrey Feld is our president and 

CEO. He is a quiet driving force that 

keeps it all together. He is the most 

diplomatic and effective CEO I can 

imagine. He produces large-city results 

with small-city resources. His staff 

adores him and we all deeply appreciate 

his tenacity, his vision, his results and 

his warm inclusive personality. I thank 

the committee that chose him to be our 

CEO, and I personally want to thank him 

for his dedication to our community. 

In Financial Resource Development 

we are lucky to have Julie Hartline 

Prsrt Std 

US Postage 

Paid 

Permit #419 

Ft Myers FL 

as our Federation Annual Campaign 

Associate, and Marcy Friedland as our 

Capital Campaign Director and Planned 

Giving Director. These two ladies bring 

in the bacon to a kosher organization. 

Thank you both. Our Community Program 

Coordinator is Renee’ Bialek. She 

is ball of energy and is the grease for all 

the wheels of every 

program. Without 

her we would screech 

to a halt. Teresa Zimmerman 

is our Finance and Operations 

Manager. She has changed our financial 

reporting and never fails to oversee, fix 

or manage the day-to-day operations 

necessary in any organization. The 

2019 world is ruled by technology and 

Nathan Ricklefs, as our Database Manager, 

keeps it all running smoothly for 

us. He is the answer man whenever the 

question is technology. And our newest 

addition is Janine Hudack. She greets 

us, opens the door for us and does many 

Rick Recht kicked off the Celebrate Israel event in April 2019 with an inspiring concert 

of the administrative jobs that keep 

tabs on each member. Thank you to the 

entire staff. 

And I hope that you in the audience 

who do not interact on a daily basis with 

these amazing people will understand 

that it is important to know how we 

do everything we do and who makes 

it all happen. 

We have two more non-staff, staff 

people, Ted Epstein and Ellen Weiss. Ted 

is the brains behind the very successful 

and well-read Fed Star. He volunteers 

as the chair of our Jewish Book Festival. 

He is the ultimate of professional 

and volunteer all 

in one. Ellen Weiss 

is the Executive 

Director of TOP, 

the Tampa Orlando Pinellas Foundation. 

TOP is our Endowment Department and 

works with us and our donors to achieve 

each person’s philanthropic goals. She 

is available whenever we need her to 

Phyllis Seaman, Julie Hartline, Karen Deutsch, Jeffrey Feld, Rosalee Bogo and Jane Schiff 

at the Major Gifts and Lion of Judah event in January 2019 

answer a question or speak to a donor. 

The staff is joined by the volunteers. 

The Board of Directors, all of us volunteers, 

have been a very special group this 

past year. So many of our leaders have 

been leaders in other walks of life and 

bring a plethora of skills and loads of 

energy. The many committee members, 

chairs and volunteers for each event 

make me marvel at the level of commitment 

I see daily. Hours of volunteer 

time that are expended on behalf of our 

Jewish community is the reason, along 

with our exceptional staff, that we are 

growing, thriving and successful. 

I will strive to briefly touch on 

most (because I am sure I will miss 

something or a few somethings) of the 

activities we have had in the past year. 

And our activities do not include all the 

work some unseen committees do. So, 

a quick, but deeply grateful shout out to 

the Allocations Committee, the Governance 

and Nominating Committee, the 

Finance and Audit Committee and the 

continued on page 3 

Like us on Facebook! 

ConneCt 

with your Jewish Community 

www.facebook.com/ 

JewishFederationofGreaterNaples 

facebook.com/jfedsrq

2 Federation Star June 2019 

LIVE! AT THE CENTERS 

Exciting performances across all genres of dance, comedy, 

theater, classical, jazz, and pop music, the “Live!” 

Performance Series showcases a year round selection 

of professional US & International artists who fill our 

performance spaces and inspire enthusiastic applause. 

Refreshments available at all Live! Performances. 

ELLIOT LURIE 

OF LOOKING GLASS 

Singer and songwriter of “Brandy 

(You’re A Fine Girl)” and much more! 

Saturday, June 8 

Center for Performing Arts 

Hinman Auditorium 

239-495-8989 WWW.ARTCENTERBONITA.ORG 

CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS 

26100 OLD 41 Rd Bonita Springs, FL 

8:00pm 

Elliot Lurie is an American singer/musician who was the lead guitarist 

and songwriter for the band Looking Glass. He wrote and sang lead on 

their 1972 #1 hit single “Brandy” and their 1973 top-forty single “Jimmy 

Loves Mary-Anne.” 

His hit song ‘Brandy’ was recently brought back to life in a huge way on the 

big screen, featured in the opening to Guardians of the Galaxy 2. 

Musical Moments Series 

CLASSICAL JAZZ 

GERHARD SAMIDE, PAT BRACY, RICK 

COSTA & BRANDON ROBERTSON 

FUNNY SHORTS LIVE! 

SERIES OF COMEDIC 

SHORT PLAYS 

Sunday, June 2 3PM June 14 & 15 

Saturday, June 22 8:00pm 

Center for Performing Arts 

Hinman Auditorium 

“All About Soul” performs incredible rendition’s of some of Billy Joel’s 

finest and most popular hits. This truly amazing Tribute pays homage 

to one of the industry’s most decorated and talented artists. 

MONDAY NIGHT IS MOVIE NIGHT! 

Join us Monday nights in our Moe Auditorium 

& Film Center, furnished with a large movie 

screen and comfortable chairs to watch the best 

foreign and independent films. Wine, beer, 

non-alcoholic beverages, snacks and popcorn 

are available. 

Doors open at 6:30pm and films begin at 7:00pm 

Center for Performing Arts - Moe Auditorium 

General admission - $10 per person 

Money-saving ticket packages are available: 

20 Films for $150 | 10 Films for $80 

FOR TICKETS & INFORMATION 

CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS 

10150 Bonita Beach Rd Bonita Springs, FL 

Graciously Sponsored by 

JEWISH FEDERATION 

Renee’s community 

program & events corner 

Reneé 

Bialek 

Community 

Program 

Coordinator 

Summer is here and we have a 

treat for you. The Israel Scouts 

are coming to Naples! The Israel 

Scout Friendship Caravan consists of 

five teen boys and five teen girls plus 

two leaders. They arrive in South 

Florida in June. They will be singing 

and dancing in Hebrew and in English. 

The performances are at 7:00 p.m. on 

This month’s advertisers 

This publication is brought to you each month thanks to the support 

of our advertisers. Please be sure to use their products and services, 

and mention that you saw their ad in the Federation Star. 

Center for the Arts Bonita........2 

Chellie Doepke, Realtor ® .......10 

Margot Escott, LCSW............14 

FGCU.....................................9 

Fuller Funeral Home.............18 

Dr. Barrett Ross Ginsberg......21 

Hilton Naples.........................25 

Hodges Funeral Home...........12 

Kaye Lifestyle Homes...........19 

Keystone Place......................13 

James Knafo, Architect.........14 

A. Stephen Kotler, Attorney.....9 

Lorel Martens...................14,27 

Mattis Inc...............................17 

Memory Care of Naples.........17 

MCA....................................20 

Tuesday, June 11 at Temple Shalom, 

and 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 12 at 

New Hope Ministries. These events are 

free for the entire community. Everyone 

is welcome to attend one or both of these 

events. Bring your friends, family and 

neighbors. For more information, see 

the full-page advertisement on page 4, 

visit www.jewishnaples.org or see our 

Monday eblasts. 

After the performances, there will 

be photo opportunities and a chance for 

you to talk to the performers. You will 

also be able to purchase their CDs, T- 

shirts and other items at this time. I hope 

to see you at these fun and exciting free 

community events. 

Almost to the finish line! 

Karen 

Deutsch 

Campaign 

Chair 

GIVE GIVE YOUR YOUR BUSINESS 

GROWTH POTENTIAL. 

ADVERTISE WITH THE 


Yes, IT ALL STARTED WITH 

EACH OF YOU at our wonderful 

Kick-off event on November 

15, 2018, for our 2019 Community Annual 

Campaign, and continued through 

our Majors event in January, to our 

end-of-campaign Power of Community 

Celebration in March. YOU MADE 

EVERYTHING WE DO POSSIBLE 

and gave us our most successful Annual 

Campaign we have ever had! Your 

amazing response to our needs locally, 

nationally, worldwide and in Israel to 

date is $1,256,310. 

Your generous donations will provide 

scholarships and programming for 

our youth attending preschool, religious 

school and summer camp; provide outreach, 

counseling and daily life staples 

to our Holocaust survivors and seniors at 

the Naples Senior Center at JFCS; provide 

school-age children with programming 

that inspires education and action 

against bigotry and hatred through The 

Holocaust Museum & Janet G. and 

Harvey D. Cohen Education Center; 

provide greatly needed food, bedding 

and clothing, transportation and mental 

health services to children, separated 

families, Ethiopian immigrants and 

seniors living here at home, abroad and 

in Israel in order to live, learn, thrive 

and maintain their dignity. 

Your generous donations also 

support our wonderful community 

programming, including WCA, MCA, 

Israel Advocacy Committee and JCRC 

events; Evy Lipp People of the Book 

Event; Jewish Book Festival; Shop with 

a Sheriff; Celebrate Israel; Israel Scouts 

and more. 

You are reading this article at the 

beginning of June, and our 2019 Annual 

Campaign does not officially close until 

June 30, 2019. Please make a donation 

NOW to help us complete our 2019 

Annual Campaign and reach our goal 

of $1,300,000.! 

IT ALL STARTS WITH YOU... 

You make everything possible that we 

do for today, tomorrow and the future 

of our community. 

Contact Robin Leonardi Joy • 941.552.6307 Walker at • rleonardi@jfedsrq.org 

941.284.0520 

www.TheJewishNews.org 

or walkerjoy62@yahoo.com. 

PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS 

THEY HELP MAKE THE FEDERATION STAR POSSIBLE. 

Miromar Outlets....................13 

Moorings Park Grande Lake....7 

Moving Star...........................21 

Naples Envelope & Printing...12 

NaplesPhotography.net........18 

Preferred Travel.....................15 

Senior Housing Solutions........6 

Sinatra Schwartz Group........22 

Temple Shalom Rel. School.....5 

The Carlisle Naples...............11 

The Naples Players................16 

The Samuel Team....................3 

Truly Nolen............................21 

WCA......................................6 

Wynn’s.................................10 

Debbie Zvibleman, Realtor ® ...14 

S


June 2019 Federation Star 

3 

community. It is talked about and anticipated. 

The Evy Lipp People of the Book 

Event drew over 500 people and, as in 

years past, is a highlight for the entire 

community. 

Our yearly Chanukah Celebration 

at Mercato is always well attended. It is 

fun to see old and new friends. Everyone 

is at ease and proud to be Jewish! 

The Israel Advocacy Committee 

presented many events. We had the Is- 

State of the Federation...continued from page 1 

evelopment Committee. 

rael Scouts in June, there were speakers 

WCA and MCA have programs on various topics concerning Israel and 

24/6. There is no way to mention all from various points of view throughout 

their offerings. They currently have a the year, and we had the wonderful Rick 

combined membership of close to 2,300 Recht/Celebrate Israel celebration. 

members. The growth and vibrancy of The Jewish Community Relations 

both organizations produce pride and a Council also was in full gear. The 

specialness to our Jewish Naples community 

Catholic-Jewish Dialogue had many 

that is the envy of many, many small group discussions on various top- 

Federations. We are so lucky to have ics and also sponsored community-wide 

these wonderful affiliates. 

Kristallnacht and Yom HaShoah commemorations. 

Other groups that hold meetings 

The Anti-Semitism Re- 

to study, play and share their Jewish port made by another sub-committee of 

Naples connections include the Maimonides 

the JCRC pointed out the known issues 

Society for doctors, the Car- 

that occurred in our community. The 

dozo Society for lawyers, the Jewish JCRC facilitated Federation’s participation 

Russian Cultural Alliance, Jewish War 

in the Annual MLK Parade. The 

Veterans, Mix and Mingle for single Jewish Day of Learning was a special 

seniors, Young Jewish Professionals, event that brought enlightenment and 

and Young Jewish Families. Each group energy to the 200 who attended. The 

has programming that meets its needs. highlight of our Power of Community 

The Book Festival continues to Celebration this year was the awarding, 

grow with 16 events and 25 authors, and by the JCRC, of the Stand Up for Justice 

about 4,000 tushies in seats this season. Awards and the Human Needs Awards. 

It engages, informs and enlightens our Those awards were a perfect example 

Author Jamie Bernstein regaled a sold-out audience of 415 people with stories about her father, 

Leonard Bernstein, at a Jewish Book Festival event at the Hilton Naples in December 2018 

of Federation being a part of our larger 

community with the monies collected 

in our Annual Campaign. 

This year was the first year of a 

November through March Campaign. 

It was very successful with us reaching 

a new high number in fundraising. And 

close to 200 new donors! We changed up 

all of our events. They included: Campaign 

Kick-off featuring a speaker and 

a shuk for our local agencies to show 

off their programs; Major Gifts dinner 

as a thank you with dancing and fun; 

a Pomegranate/Lion of Judah event at 

Clive Daniel Home with Beverly Gray 

speaking after a book festival program; 

and our sold-out Power of Community 

Celebration at the end of March, a thank 

you that showcased award recipients 

and their programs, and featured a jazz 

band. 

The Annual Campaign allows us 

to function. Not only does it give us 

the funds to make allocations to local 

and overseas agencies, it allows us to 

do the programming which occupies 

more and more of our Federation life. 

Jewish Federations were founded for 

the express purpose of raising money to 

take care of the needs of Jewish people 

locally and overseas. This has been the 

traditional model that Federations have 

operated under for well over 100 years 

in the US. However, times change. The 

needs of communities are different 

in different locations. There is a term 

that Jeffrey Feld uses, a “Functional 

Federation.” It is what we are. It means 

that we do the traditional fundraising to 

serve the needs of the community, but 

in addition we provide some services 

that were traditionally done by Jewish 

Community Centers. 

We do not have the population 

to have a traditional JCC. Most of us 

have swimming pools, tennis courts, 

pickleball courts, etc., in our living 

communities and do not need the Jewish 

community to provide those amenities. 

We are no longer excluded from country 

clubs because we are Jewish. However, 

a traditional JCC also provides learning 

and living to create Jewish relationships 

with classes, games, book festivals, 

non-religious, yet Jewish holiday celebrations, 

etc. We do all those things, 

some directly, others through our wholly 

owned subsidiaries, WCA and MCA. 

Doing those programmatic things and 

fundraising to allocate funds – this is 

what we do here in Greater Naples and 

that is what makes us a “Functional Federation.” 

It creates community. It builds 

a sense of belonging. It is a thread that 

hold us all together. It is, in a sense, a hybrid 

of the original Federation concept. 

It is because we are a functional 

Hundreds attended the Chanukah Celebration 

at Mercato in December 2018 

Federation and our programming has 

become so important to our identity that 

we have embarked on our biggest project 

yet – the new building which Marc 

Saperstein and James Knafo explained 

to us earlier. 

Once we break ground, we fully 

expect to build as quickly as possible 

and hope sincerely to be in the new 

building in the fall of 2021. This is 

the true future of our community. We 

know everyone will want to play a part 

in creating a special building. Like our 

Annual Campaign this year, the Capital 

Campaign all STARTS WITH YOU. 

I realize that this is way too long. I 

knew it would be, because this is such 

an exciting time in our Federation’s history. 

Thank you for hanging in and thank 

you most importantly for working with 

the staff and volunteers to create our 

vibrant, welcoming and inclusive Jewish 

community. Now we need to BUILD 

FOR OUR COMMUNITY. 

BUYING OR SELLING YOUR SOUTHWEST FLORIDA HOME? 

Karyn and Rowan Samuel are a husband and wife real estate team. 

We specialize in beachfront, waterfront and luxury property in Southwest Florida. 

Let us put our background, contacts and expertise to work for you! 

www.lovingnaples.com 

The Samuel Team 

Karyn Samuel 

239.537.3732 

Rowan Samuel 

239.298.3555



The Israel Scouts 

are coming to Naples! 

Tuesday, June 11 at 7:00 p.m. 

Temple Shalom 

4630 Pine Ridge Road 

Wednesday, June 12 at 7:00 p.m. 

New Hope Ministries 

7675 Davis Blvd. 

The Israel Scouts performances are sponsored by 

No RSVP required for these free events! 

Schedule of events at both venues: 

7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Main performance: The Scouts are bright and dynamic performers. Their singing, dancing 

and storytelling are high-energy and upbeat. They have an intense love for the land and the 

people of Israel, and a strong desire to share that passion with you. They will have you 

singing and dancing in your seat and, if you are lucky, dancing with them. 

8:00 - 8:30 p.m. Meet, greet and photo ops with the Scouts and an opportunity to purchase CDs and T-shirts 

For more information about each of the Caravan Bashan Scouts who 

will be coming to Naples, visit www.jewishnaples.org/israel-scouts 

Join us at one or both Naples 

performances! 

Experience the excitement and energy 

of Israel like never before! 

We hope to see you at 

Temple Shalom on June 11 

or New Hope Ministries on June 12.


Celebrating Jewish Life in Collier County, Israel and the World 


Published by the Jewish Federation of Collier County 

serving Naples, Marco Island and the surrounding communities 

Published by 

2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road, 

Suite 2201 

Naples, Florida 34109-0613 

Phone: (239) 263-4205 

Fax: (239) 263-3813 

www.jewishnaples.org 

Email: info@jewishnaples.org 

Officers 

Board Chair: Jane Schiff 

Vice Chairs: Karen Deutsch, 

Marc Saperstein, Phyllis Seaman 

Secretary: Rosalee Bogo 

Treasurer: Elliot Lerner 

Immediate Past Chair: Alvin Becker 

Board of Directors 

Joshua Bialek 

Harvey Cohen 

Amanda Dorio 

Paula Filler 

Merlin Lickhalter 

Robin Mintz 

Les Nizin 

William Petasnick 

Jamie Satz 

Betty Schwartz 

Arlene Sobol 

Michael Sobol 

Elaine Soffer 

Steve Strome 

Jay Weiss 

Beth Wolff 

Edward Wollman 

Jeff Zalasky 

Past Presidents 

Gerald Flagel, Dr. William Ettinger, 

Ann Jacobson, Sheldon Starman, 

Bobbie Katz, Rosalee Bogo, 

Judge Norman Krivosha 

Synagogue Representatives 

Debra Antzis 

Cantor Donna Azu 

Ted Bunten 

Rabbi Ammos Chorny 

Shelley Goodman 

Rabbi Mark Gross 

Sue Hammerman 

Rabbi Howard Herman 

Stephen P. McCloskey 

Rabbi Adam Miller 

Rabbi James Perman 

Dr. Arthur Seigel 

Rabbi Fishel Zaklos 

Federation President/CEO 

Jeffrey Feld 

Staff 

Renee’ Bialek: Community Program 

Coordinator 

Marcy Friedland: Capital Campaign 

Development Director 

Julie Hartline: Campaign Associate 

Janine Hudak, Receptionist 

Nathan Ricklefs: Database Manager 

Teresa Zimmerman: Finance and 

Operations Manager 

Federation is the central Jewish 

community-building organization for 

Greater Naples, providing a social 

service network that helps Jewish 

people locally, in Israel and around 

the world. As the central fundraising 

organization for Jewish communal 

life in our area, strength is drawn 

from organized committees of dedicated 

volunteers. 

Programs include: 

• Annual Campaign & 

Endowment Fund 

• Educational & Cultural Programs 

• Israel Advocacy Committee 

• Israel Fest 

• Israel Scouts 

• Jewish Book Festival 

• Jewish Community Relations 

Council 

• Jewish Professionals 

• Jewish Russian Cultural Alliance 

• Men’s Cultural Alliance 

• Publication of the Federation 

Star, Connections and 

Community Directory 

• Women’s Cultural Alliance 

• Women’s Division 

• Youth Activities Committee – 

sponsoring youth education and 

scholarships for Jewish Summer 

Camp and the Israel Experience 


MCA’s new season set to blast off 

By Jeff Margolis 

While the summer season is 

just beginning for many 

members, the Men’s Cultural 

Alliance has been busy planning for next 

season. Due to popular demand, MCA is 

returning to the Kennedy Space Center 

on November 11-12. The tour will include 

roundtrip bus transportation, a picnic 

lunch en route, dinner at the famous 

Dixie Crossroads Restaurant, overnight 

accommodations, a special behind-thescenes 

tour of the Space Center and a 

visit to the nearby Warbird Museum. 

Thirty spaces are available, and partners 

are welcome. For reservations and information, 

email MCA president Les Nizin 

at mcanaplespresident@gmail.com. 

There are a growing number of activities 

that will be continuing through 

the summer months. They include birding, 

biking, bocce, breakfasts, bridge 

dinners, genealogy and kayaking. Please 

check the MCA eblasts for updated 

locations and times for these activities. 

Documentary Films Chair Steve 

Brazina is excited to announce a change 

in venue for next season. Films will be 

shown at Temple Shalom. Look for additional 

information in future issues of 

the Federation Star. 

The new MCA 2019-20 Program 

Guide will be available to all members 

on September 1. There will be several 

new groups and activities as well as 

those that members have come to enjoy. 

If you have not renewed your 

membership, please do so now. MCA 

membership is $80 a year and includes 

membership in the Jewish Federation 

of Greater Naples. You can enroll three 

ways. See the block below. If you are 

new to the community, we welcome you 

to become a part of the 700-memberstrong 

MCA. 

5 

MCA is saddened to report the 

recent passing of two of our members, 

Mel Taub and Jack Gold. May their 

memories be for a blessing. 

Israel Advocacy Committee update: 

Rick Recht rocks the house 


Agathering of approximately 

200 enthusiastic community 

members joined Jewish Pop 

Rock singer Rick Recht to kick off 

the Celebrate Israel event at Temple 

Shalom on Sunday, April 14. Recht, 

the founder of Jewish Rock Radio and 

a spokesperson for PJ Library, brought 

his own brand of spirituality to the stage 

and invited many of the children present 

to join in the festivities. Following 

the concert, attendees were treated to 

Israeli dancing, hot dogs by the Temple 

Shalom Men’s Club, Israeli foods, and 

booths with information from numerous 

Jewish organizations, including Arava 

Institute, Israel Tennis Centers, FIDF, 

CAMERA, AIPAC, Hand in Hand and 

the Alexander Muss High School. Local 

organizations participating and offering 

free goodies were Collier/Lee Hadassah, 

WCA and MCA. The Israel Advocacy 

Committee of Greater Naples and the 


jointly sponsored the event. 

Upcoming events 

The entire community is invited to a free 

concert performed by the Israel Scouts. 

This is their annual visit to Naples. The 

Scouts will perform on Tuesday, June 11 

at 7:00 p.m. at Temple Shalom. Then, 

on Wednesday, June 12 at 7:00 p.m., 

the Scouts will perform at New Hope 

Ministries, 7675 Davis Blvd., Naples. 

No RSVP is necessary. Please join us 

for an enjoyable evening and to support 

the Israel Scouts program. 

The Israel Advocacy Committee is 

already planning events for next season. 

The committee is pleased to announce 

that our kickoff program will feature Jerusalem 

Post columnist Herb Keinon on 

Thursday, November 7. Born in Denver, 

Keinon holds a BA in political science 

from the University of Colorado, and an 

MA in journalism from the University of 

Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He is the 

author of two books: Lone Soldiers: Israel’s 

Defenders from Around the World 

and French Fries in Pita. This will be 

Mr. Keinon’s second visit to Greater 

Naples as he was enthusiastically received 

during his last visit in 2015. 

On Wednesday, December 11, the 

IAC program will feature David Lehrer, 

director of the ARAVA Institute for Environmental 

Studies. More information 

about these and other IAC events will 

There are 3 Ways to 

Join the MCA! 

1. Go to our website – WWW.MCANaples.org. 

Click on MCA Membership Form and complete the 

form (you can pay by credit card or check). 

2. Send an email with your name, email address and 

phone number to JoinMCA@MCANaples.org. 

3. Mail your name, email address and phone number 

to Larry Israelite, 8820 Savona Court, Naples, FL. 

34119. 

Have any questions? 

Call our President – Les Nizin – at 516-356-2897 

Rick Recht with local children on the Temple Shalom bimah during his concert at the Celebrate Israel event 

Religious School 

TEACHERS WANTED 

be featured in upcoming issues of the 

Federation Star. 

For more information about the 

Israel Advocacy Committee and its 

schedule of events, please contact IAC 

chair Harvey Cohen at hwcohen@ 

gmail.com. 

Our dynamic and vibrant Religious School at 

Temple Shalom is seeking to hire teachers for 

elementary/middle school age classes for our 

Sunday morning program. We strive to empower 

our students to develop the knowledge, skills, 

and dispositions to lead successful and engaged 

Jewish lives. The ideal candidate is enthusiastic, 

collaborative, committed to Jewish values, and 

has experience working with Jewish children 

and families. Knowledge of Hebrew is a plus. 

To apply, please contact Susan Feld 

sfeld@naplestemple.org. 

4630 Pine Ridge Rd. • Naples, FL 34119 • 239-455-2233 • naplestemple.org



WOMEN’S CULTURAL ALLIANCE www.WomensCulturalAlliance.com / 215-820-6697 

How I turned things I love to do into assets for WCA 

By Sue Dean, WCA Secretary 

I’m a WCA “old timer.” I transitioned 

from the board of Brandeis Women’s 

Club to the board of Women’s Cultural 

Alliance over 10 years ago, where 

I now hold the position of secretary. The 

concept of using the knowledge and 

expertise of our members to form study 

groups and activity groups is so appealing 

that our membership continues to 

grow to now more than 1,500 members. 

As our membership grows, so does the 

need for new activities. 

My husband and I came to Naples 

to EAT and PLAY! I’ve always loved 

Mah Jongg. I’ve been playing for over 

50 years, so organizing a WCA Mah 

Jongg group seemed perfectly logical. 

Honest, caring and 

knowledgable advice 

about assisted 

living options… 

at no cost to you! 

Personal and professional 

advice for you or a loved one 

when you need it the most 

In the beginning, a group of WCA Mahj 

players met at a local clubhouse every 

Monday, the day it was closed to the 

public, for an afternoon of lunch and 

Mah Jongg. There were routinely five 

or six tables of four, and because we 

rotated among the tables, we got to meet 

so many people from so many places. 

Mondays were as much about building 

friendships as playing Mahj. 

Eating my way through Naples was 

a hobby, so turning that hobby into an 

opportunity for others to share my love 

for food made me a natural to take over 

Ladies Who Lunch (LWL). Each month, 

a luncheon chairperson planned lunch 

at an area restaurant or club. As LWL 

Bruce B. Rosenblatt, Owner 

Senior Housing Expert 

239.595.0207 

www.SeniorHousingSolutions.net 

enters its second decade, it isn’t unusual 

for 50-plus women to attend. Everyone 

is seated by lottery – that way there’s an 

opportunity to share a meal with other 

Sue and Phil Dean enjoy a Jazz Junkie event 

at the Roadhouse Cafe 

ladies whom you may or may not know. 

At one LWL, all the tables had vegetable 

centerpieces. I drew a tomato from the 

lottery basket and sat at the “Tomato 

Table.” Six of us enjoyed each other’s 

company so much that we arranged to 

meet again for lunch, and then again, 

and then again for dinner with our 

husbands. Today these women are my 

longtime best friends. Another WCA 

perk! Ladies agree that the best part of 

Ladies Who Lunch isn’t the food, but the 

rich friendships that develop while sharing 

a meal with other WCA members. 

My husband and I love jazz – 1950s 

Mainstream, American Songbook Jazz! 

Several years ago, I started WCA Jazz 

Junkies as a way to connect with others 

who felt the same. Finding jazz venues 

in a community of our size was a challenge, 

but I connected with one musician 

and then another and another until I 

was on several jazz email lists. So many 

music greats from all over the country 

have chosen to retire in Naples and play 

their music in local venues. Jazz Junkies 

has a mailing list of more than 150 WCA 

members. About six times a season, 

small groups of us attend jazz events 

throughout the Greater Naples area. 

Our WCA membership is vital and 

exciting. We’re current and share a thirst 

for knowledge and new experiences. 

We seek enlightenment, friendship 

and community. There’s an old saying, 

“When you’re green you’re growing, 

when you stop growing, you become 

rotten.” WCA members are truly in the 

“Green Zone” as we continue to grow 

and evolve. If you are not already a 

member of WCA, I hope that you will 

consider joining us. 

Sue Dean is from St. Louis. Thirteen 

years ago, Sue and her husband Phil 

began spending their winters in Naples. 

They have enjoyed being in Naples 

so much that this year they sold their 

home in St. Louis and became full-time 

residents. Sue confessed that when they 

fi rst starting spending time in Naples, 

she was homesick and actually cried at 

night – until she joined Brandeis (which 

has since become WCA). Sue said, 

“Through Brandeis, and now through 

WCA, I have met hundreds of talented 

women and found a creative outlet for 

my talents and energy.” 

Time is 

Running 

Out 

Renew Your 

WCA Membership 

before Thursday, 

✔ Receive an invitation to WCA’s fabulous 

Welcome Back Luncheon (Friday, November 22) 

✔ Be included in the WCA Membership Directory 

✔ Receive the 2019-2020 WCA Program Guide 

Don’t Miss Out! 

Send your $90 dues today. 

Complete the Membership Renewal form on this page or go to 

www.womensculturalalliance.com and download the form. 

Make your check payable to WCA/JFGN and mail to 


2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 2201 


You will be glad you did! 

Ellen Seigel, Anne Girod, Nancy Kahn, Barbara Levine and Diane Levy at Ladies Who Lunch 

I would like to VOLUNTEER my services/expertise and would be willing to chair or co-chair an activity on the 

following topic or topics: 

EVENT PARTICIPATION WAIVER. By signing below, I accept the terms of this waiver. 

As a participant in a WCA event,* I, acting for myself, my heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns agree as 

follows: That I waive all rights, claims and/or causes of action of any kind whatsoever that I or my heirs, executors, administrators, 

successors and assigns may claim to have against either the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples, and/or the Women’s Cultural 

Alliance, their members, agents, servants, and/or employees, for any loss, injury, or damage sustained by me while participating 

in a WCA event. This waiver and release shall be construed broadly under the Laws of the State of Florida. 

Signature ___________________________________________ Date ________________ 

*Note: Certain higher risk events such as athletic activities or trips require an enhanced waiver to be signed. Contact your activity’s director for more information. 

2/25/2019 

MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL 

The Women’s Cultural Alliance membership year is from September 1 until August 31 

of the next year. Dues received after March 1 will be applied to the next season. 

Is there a change in your information from last year? NO YES 

If you checked NO, just print your name and email, fill in payment info, 

sign Event Waiver below, and mail to JFGN/WCA. 

If you checked YES, just complete the NEW information, fill in payment info, sign Event Waiver below, and mail to 

JFGN/WCA. If there is information you want deleted from the WCA Directory, please write delete or N/A on that line. 

Print Name___________________________ Spouse/Partner Name ____________________ 

Email (very important) _________________________________________________________ 

Local Street Address _______________________________ FL Community ____________________________ 

City __________________________________________ State ___________ Zip _______________________ 

FL Home Phone ____________________________ Cell Phone ______________________________________ 

Northern Address __________________________________________ No. Phone _______________________ 

City ________________________________________________State ________________ Zip _____________ 

In Southwest Florida Full-time Part-time from 

______________________ to _____________________ 

NAME BADGES–RENEWING Members: If you need a replacement name badge, 

please increase your fee by $ 8. 

Print your name as you want it to appear on the badge: 

MEMBERSHIP DUES: $ 90 (US Funds only, Minimum for the year; includes membership to the JFGN):____$ 

I am also including a voluntary donation to the Federation in the amount of: __ $ 

I am including $8 for a replacement Name Badge: ___ $ 

Total enclosed or authorized: __$ 

I will be paying by check. Please make your check payable to JFGN/WCA. 

I will be paying by credit card. Card Number 

Expiration Date Name on Card CVV 

Mail this SIGNED form (with your check or credit card number) to: 

WCA/Jewish Federation of Greater Naples 

2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd., Ste. 2201, Naples, FL 34109 

90.00 

For more information contact Membership Director, Hope Abels at hopeabels@yahoo.com



7 

INFORMATIONAL 

LUNCHEON 

Friday | June 28 th | 11:30 AM 

In our Sales Gallery located at 7330 Premier Drive 

RSVP by June 26 th by calling 239-842-2558 

BecausePeace of mind is more than a state of mind 

Peace of mind at Moorings Park Grande Lake comes from living a life where your future is secure. 

Secure, because you live in a community where concierge healthcare is included and entrance fees 

are refundable. Secure, because each and every day is filled with endless opportunities to live a longer, 

healthier, happier life. That’s peace of mind. Discover it and more at Moorings Park Grande Lake. 

Entrance Fees from $1.5 million and 70% refundable 

Sales Gallery open daily | 7330 Premier Drive, Naples 

Call 239-842-2558 | Visit mooringsparkgl.org 

#88033 

Moorings Park® is a nationally accredited, non-profit, Medicare-certified community and one of the only Life Plan communities with A or A+ 

ratings by Fitch and S&P. All dimensions are approximate. Actual gross square footage may vary. All images are conceptual renderings and 

developer reserves the right to make modifications, including amenities, without prior notice.



JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES 

MISSION TO 

ROME & ISRAEL 

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13 – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2019 

4 nights at the Hotel Bernini Bristol, Rome 

Visit the Jewish Quarter, Jewish Museum, St. Angelo’s 

Church and the Portico d’Ottavia 

Experience a Sukkot candle lighting at the Great 

Synagogue of Rome and a Sukkot dinner with the 

local Jewish community 

Explore the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel 

Walk the Piazza Navona, Campo dei Fiori and Pantheon 

Tour ancient Rome including the Colisseum, Forum, 

Senate Steps and the Arch of Titus 

Visit to the Jewish Catacombs and Fosse Ardeatline 

View Michelango’s Moses and the Borghese Gardens 

ROME 

U 

t 

3 nights at the Carlton Hotel, Tel Aviv 

Visit Tel Aviv’s Old Port and shop the markets at Carmel 

and Nachlat Binyamin 

Walk the brand-new Independence Trail, which passes 

10 heritage sites in just under a mile 

Enjoy a festive Shabbat dinner with Lone Soldiers 

Descend into Givat HaKibbutzim, the reconstructed 

underground munitions factory 

Tour the port city of Jaffa, and the old-meets-new town 

of Neve Tzedek, the Byzantine seaside ruins of Herod’s 

Caesarea, and the medieval site of Akko 

Marvel at Rosh Hanikra, stunning chalk white cliffs at 

Israel’s northernmost coastal border 

2 nights at Hagosshrim Kibbutz, Galilee 

Journey to the Golan Heights, and learn about its 

strategic importance from atop Mount Bentall 

Wander the Agamon Hahula Nature Reserve 

Tour the Naot shoe factory at Kibbutz Neot Mordechai 

Visit the city of Safed (Tzfat), a major Kabbalah center 

5 nights at the Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem 

Explore the archaeological excavation in the City of David 

Enjoy a historical, cultural and archaeological tour of the 

Old City’s Jewish Quarter, including the Western Wall 

Stop at Hadassah Ein Karem Medical Center, and its 

famed Chagall stained-glass windows 

Visit Yad LaKashish, a nonprofit organization that 

empowers and supports nearly 300 elderly Jerusalem 

residents (and which is partially funded by Jewish 

Federation of Greater Naples) 

INFORMATIONAL For more information, 

MEETING 

Monday, 

please contact 

April 29 

Jeffrey 

at 

Feld 

1:00PM 

at the at the Jewish Federation Federation 

office 

of Greater Naples: 

239.263.4205 

at the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples 

JFeld@jewishnaples.org 

2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road, #2201, Naples 

For more information, please contact JEFFREY FELD 

OFFICE (239) 263-4205 

EMAIL JFeld@jewishnaples.org 

Borghese Gardens 

Caesaria 

Jaffa 

TEL AVIV 

JERUSALEM 

Jewish Federation 

OF GREATER NAPLES 

jewishnaples.org 

Ein Karem



Jewish Community Relations Council update 

By Betty Schwartz, JCRC Chair 

Last month’s column reviewed 

some of the notable activities of 

the Jewish Community Relations 

Council of the past season. However, 

the JCRC does more than sponsor 

events. On behalf of the Jewish Federation 

of Greater Naples, the JCRC 

monitors legislation that deals with 

matters that are of particular interest 

to the Jewish community and relate to 

Jewish values. 

Preserving the separation of church 

and state is an ongoing area of concern, 

and every year, legislation is introduced 

in the Florida Legislature that threatens 

the integrity of this separation, such 

as requiring creationism to be taught 

in public schools as an alternative to 

evolution. 

This year, a bill (HB195) was introduced 

that would require that classes in 

Bible (the Christian Bible) be offered 

as an elective because of the Bible’s 

importance as history. Luckily, this bill 

Unto every person 

there is a name 


This year marks the 74 th anniversary 

of the liberation of the 

camps. Each year, the Greater 

Naples community gathers together to 

pay tribute to the survivors of the Holocaust 

and to remember the six million 

brothers and sisters who were needlessly 

slaughtered by the Nazis. 

On Sunday, April 28, the community 

gathered together for its annual 

Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration 

held at Temple Shalom. 

Rabbis Adam Miller and Ammos 

Holocaust survivor Judit Price 

with students Sophia Baer and Leo Dorn 

Chorny invited their blessings for the 

deceased and reminded the audience to 

never forget those who perished. Their 

words were even more poignant as the 

event took place one day after a horrific 

shooting at a synagogue in California. 

Students from the Temple Shalom 

Religious School interviewed local 

Holocaust survivors Rob Nossen, Judit 

Price and Michael Eisenstadt, and 

shared their stories and photos with the 

attendees. 

The survivors, second and third 

generation descendants, and Jewish 

stalled in the Appropriations Committee 

and will not pass this year. We will probably 

see this bill, or something similar, 

next year. 

Diverting public funds to be used 

for school vouchers benefiting charter 

schools is another continuing threat to 

public schools. Good public schools 

are vital for giving all children an equal 

opportunity to reach their potential. It 

is everyone’s responsibility to ensure 

that our future generations are given 

the very best education in a climate that 

respects diversity. 

On April 29, lawmakers passed a 

bill (HB 741) prohibiting anti-Semitism 

in Florida public schools. This bill adds 

“religion” as an area of discrimination 

forbidden by law. This bill also defines 

anti-Semitism as “a certain perception 

of the Jewish people, which may be expressed 

as hatred toward Jewish people, 

rhetorical and physical manifestations 

of anti-Semitism directed toward a 

War Veterans Post 202 members lit six 

candles, representing the six million 

murdered. 

Cantor Donna Azu of Temple Shalom 

and Cantorial Soloist Jane Galler of 

Naples Jewish Congregation performed 

musical selections and prayers. Jewish 

War Veterans Post 202 members provided 

the honor guard for the program. 

Ida Margolis, chair of GenShoah of 

Southwest Florida, was the emcee and 

coordinator of the event. 

The following students participated 

in this year’s event: Gabriela Sissman, 

Dylan Baer, Sophia Baer, Leo Dorn, 

Hannah Carcamo, Addison Corbellini, 

Camden Karen, Sidney Kamerman, 

Noah Kohn, Adam Dorio, Julia Reilly, 

Hanna Corbellini, Nathan Goebel, Karl 

Grossman, David Heuer and Jason Saks. 

The Yom HaShoah program was 

brought to you by: Jewish Federation 

of Greater Naples, The Holocaust Museum 

& Education Center of Southwest 

Florida, Temple Shalom, Beth Tikvah, 

GenShoah, Naples Jewish Congregation, 

Jewish War Veterans Post 202, 

Chabad of Naples, and Jewish Congregation 

of Marco Island. 

We thank our additional co-sponsors: 

Avow and GoldenCare. 

Join us for the annual Kristallnacht 

Commemoration on Sunday, November 

17, 2019, and future events commemorating 

the 75 th anniversary of the liberation 

of the Nazi concentration camps 

and the end of WWII. For more information, 

contact Reneé at the Jewish Federation 

of Greater Naples at rbialek@ 

jewishnaples.org or 239.263.4205. 

Center for Judaic, Holocaust, 

and Genocide Studies 

Dedicated to educating all sectors of society about 

Jewish civilization, the Holocaust, and genocide through: 

• scholarship 

• outreach 

• inquiry 

• sharing knowledge 

• preserving the record 

• helping teachers 

• encouraging students 

person, his or her property, or toward 

Jewish community institutions or religious 

facilities.” This definition is the 

same one used by the American Jewish 

Committee and other groups. 

Recently, the JCRC joined the Florida 

Hate Crime Coalition formed by the 

Anti-Defamation League to advocate for 

an expanded hate crimes law in Florida. 

This coalition has grown to almost 200 

participants, including nearly all of the 

JCRCs throughout Florida, members of 

A. STEPHEN KOTLER 

Board Certified Wills, 

Trusts and Estate Lawyer 

Comprehensive Wealth Transfer Planning 

Asset Preservation • Federal Transfer Tax 

Probate and Trust Administration 

Elder Law and Special Needs 

9 

law enforcement and public officials. 

Please save the date of Sunday, 

January 19, 2020, to attend the Jewish 

Community Day of Learning, which 

will be held at Temple Shalom. You 

will have the opportunity to learn about 

laws and policies that help counteract 

anti-Semitism. Experts will help us 

explore aspects of anti-Semitism in 

depth and learn methods to respond to 

the growing threat Jews everywhere 

are experiencing. 

KOTLER LAW FIRM P.L. 

999 Vanderbilt Beach Road 

Suite 200 

Naples, Florida 34108 

Jewish Families with Children Group 

The Jewish Families with Children Group is looking for 

parents and their children to join us in making new friends 

and enjoying social activities together. 

Activities planned will include Beach Outings, Play at the Park, 

Movies, Bowling, Mini-Golf and a lot more! 

Join us on Tuesday, June 11 at 7:00 p.m. at Temple Shalom 

for the Israel Scouts Friendship Caravan. The Israeli teens 

will perform for our community through song and dance. 

This is a FREE event and all ages are welcome! 

We would love to hear from you. If there are children in your home 

and you’d like to be added to our roster so we can keep you informed 

of our upcoming events, contact Renee’ at rbialek@jewishnaples.org or 

239.263.4205. 

Save these summer dates for our upcoming events: 

Sunday, July 14 and Sunday, August 18 

Sponsored by 

Phone 239.325.2333 

skotler@kotlerpl.com 

Visit www.fgcu.edu/hc/ 

Dr. Paul Bartrop, Director


COMMUNITY FOCUS 

HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & COHEN EDUCATION CENTER www.holocaustmuseumswfl.org / 239-263-9200 

Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center update 

Susan 

Suarez 

President 

& CEO 

Greetings from the Holocaust 

Museum & Cohen Education 

Center! Hard to believe, but 

moving day is almost here! In just one 

month’s time, our new Museum will 

open at its new location – 975 Imperial 

Golf Course Blvd., Naples, FL 34110. 

Please note that our phone number 

(239.263.9200), email address (info@ 

HolocaustMuseumSWFL.org) and website 

(www.HolocaustMuseumSWFL. 

org) will remain the same. 

We anticipate closing our current 

location (4760 Tamiami Trail North, 

Suite 7, Naples) to the public around 

the second week in June in order to get 

everything ready for the big move. If 

you are planning a Museum visit, please 

check our website for an update on our 

opening schedule. 

The official Dedication Ceremony 

will take place on Sunday afternoon, 

November 10. The public is invited, 

and several local dignitaries will be 

there for the special occasion. And most 

importantly, we would like to invite all 

those who have supported our mission 

over the years with their time, talent 

and financial support. We could not 

have gotten to this point without your 

help, so this will be your celebration, 

too. We will also remember those no 

longer with us who were an important 

part of the Museum’s founding and 

hope their family members will be able 

to attend. 

More exciting news of a big honor 

for the Museum! The readers of Gulfshore 

Life magazine voted our Museum 

“Best Museum – Collier County” in its 

2019 Readers’ Choice Annual Awards! 

It is the second time in three years that 

the Museum has been honored with this 

designation, and we thank all who voted 

for us. This award is proof of the continuing 

growth of public recognition and 

awareness of the value of our education 

programs and our contribution to the 

quality of life in our SWFL community. 

Pick up a copy of the May “Best of the 

Gulfshore” issue to see the winners and 

finalists for a large variety of categories. 

Triumph 2019 speaker Christian 

Picciolini recently visited the Museum. 

He was here to participate in the filming 

of a documentary about his work as a 

peace advocate, set to air in June or July 

2019. Our current exhibit, “Marching in 

America,” will be included in the film. 

The exhibit traces the early 20 th century 

rise in the U.S. of fascist and Nazi 

movements, and contains personal items 

loaned by Christian from his years as a 

member and leader of a Chicago skinhead 

group. In addition to his speaking 

engagements around the world, Christian 

assists people in rebuilding their 

lives as they escape white supremacist 

environments. 

Part of the documentary will include 

his work with a young man who is bearing 

a very heavy burden. He grew up in 

a white supremacist family led by the 

man who killed a guard 10 years ago at 

the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. 

This young man accompanied Christian 

to our Museum, where he toured the exhibits 

prior to their addressing a student 

group here on a field trip. This was to 

be the first time this young man would 

speak in public about his life, and it 

very clearly weighed on him. The men 

spoke plainly of the mistakes they made 

and the hurt caused by their living lives 

of hate and violence. They urged the 

students to carefully consider the decisions 

on who their role models should 

be and to always realize the impact that 

words and actions can have on others. 

After they spoke, there was a Q&A session 

with students and several survivors 

Time to say thank you for the season 

and to plan for next year 

Ida 

Margolis 

GenShoah 

Chair 

Last year, I wrote about one of 

my favorite books, Words That 

Hurt, Words That Heal by Joseph 

Telushkin. The 1996 edition with the 

subtitle How to Choose Words Wisely 

and Well, through examples and anecdotes, 

explained the harm in spreading 

gossip, rumors or others’ secrets; and 

how unfair anger, excessive criticism or 

lying undermine true communication. 

And while the book was written over 

20 years ago, it is certainly relevant and 

important, but contained nothing about 

gossip and hurtful language spread 

through social media. When speaking 

with Rabbi Telushkin last year, he told 

me he knew the book should be updated 

but did not know when he would have 

the time. Interestingly enough, I just 

discovered that an updated edition has 

just been published, with the new subtitle, 

How the Words You Choose Shape 

Jewish Genealogy Group Meeting 

The next meeting of the Jewish Genealogy SIG 

(Shared Interest Group) at the Jewish Federation 

of Greater Naples offices (2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road, 

Suite 2201, Naples) is on Tuesday, June 11 

at 10:00 a.m. Seating is limited. RSVP to 

genresearch13@yahoo.com. You will receive an 

acknowledgement that you have a reservation. 

Bring a notebook and pen with you to the meeting. 

Considering buying or selling 

your home? Get ready for 

“Season”. CALL ME! I can help! 

Chellie Doepke 

Premiere Plus Realty, Co. 

239-877-1722 

seachell2@hotmail.com 

www.sells-naples.com 

www.facebook.com/chelliedoepkerealtor 

Your Destiny. I am looking forward to 

reading the new edition, and am certain 

Rabbi Telushkin still 

includes the importance 

of saying “Thank You.” 

And as the 2018-19 

programming season 

ends, I certainly have 

many people to thank. 

Thank you to those who 

worked to help make 

programs happen, including 

Susan Suarez, 

President & CEO of 

the Holocaust Museum; 

Steve Brazina, the program 

chair and “movie 

maven” for GenShoah; 

Joan Hogan of the Holocaust Museum 

for designing and sending the newsletters; 

Shelley Lieb, Rene and Sam Geist, 

Alex and Linda Wertheim, Shirley and 

Marshall Besikof, Stuart Mest, Jeff 

Margolis, Sam Versano, Monica Goodwin, 

Renee’ Bialek, Hank Bitterman 

and so many others for attending and 

helping with programs and events including 

Movies that Matter, film screenings 

and speaker programs and Yom 

HaShoah; and thanks to Ted Epstein and 

GRANT RECIPIENT 

who were in attendance. This discussion 

brought into sharp focus for the students 

the connection between the hate-driven 

crimes of the Holocaust and the hatefilled 

actions in today’s headlines, most 

recently the synagogue attack only three 

days before their visit to the Museum. 

As we transition to the new Museum, 

we look back on the memories 

made in our current home. It was the 

scene of many firsts – survivors finding 

the courage to step inside and confront 

the past; others who finally opened up 

and decided to share their experiences 

publicly for the first time with total 

strangers. We hosted many interesting 

guest speakers, amazing exhibits, 

events, films, local and international 

dignitaries. We have benefitted from 

countless hours of volunteer time and 

generous financial support of our mission. 

Over 200,000 students and visitors 

from all over the world have been 

impacted by their participation in our 

education programs and visits to the 

Museum. We look forward to the impact 

our new Museum will have upon future 

students and visitors. We hope you will 

join us on the journey. We look forward 

to welcoming you. 

the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples. 

Please forgive me if I omitted your 

name, but please know 

that all help and support 

is greatly appreciated. 

Exciting programs 

are currently being 

planned for next season, 

so watch future articles 

and our newsletter for 

announcements about 

speakers, films and very 

special programs to commemorate 

the 75 th anniversary 

of the Liberation 

of the Nazi Concentration 

Camps. Meanwhile 

please save the date for 

the Grand Opening and Dedication of 

the new Holocaust Museum: Sunday, 

November 10 in the afternoon. 

If you would like information about 

GenShoah SWFL or to receive the 

monthly GenShoah e-newsletter, please 

email me at genshoahswfl@gmail.com. 

If you are not already a member of the 

Museum, please become one now by 

emailing info@HolocaustMuseumswfl. 

org. 

We pride ourselves on bringing you the finest shopping 

experience you’ll find anywhere. We are honored to be your 

neighborhood supermarket and always give you the extra 

personal service and attention we’re famous for! 

Making Real 

Estate Dreams 

REALITY 

Food Purveyors in Naples since 1938. 

141 Tamiami Trail North Naples, Florida 34102 

239.261.7157 • Fax: 239.261.398 • wynns@wynnsonline.com



11 

Early planning key to selecting 

the right retirement community 

By Greg Pascucci 

Selecting the right senior living 

community is an important housing 

decision that involves more 

than simply choosing an apartment. It’s 

also about the community’s ability to 

provide a vibrant, active and engaging 

lifestyle, a key to successful aging. 

While you may not yet be certain 

when a move will be right for you, being 

proactive and beginning the process of 

discovery early will make the transition 

much easier. Inevitably, seniors living at 

a retirement community will often say 

they wish they had moved sooner now 

that they have realized all the benefits. 

Finding the right community can 

open the door to exciting new experiences, 

a reinvigorated social life and a 

healthy lifestyle. Searching for your new 

home doesn’t have to be difficult as long 

as you know what to look for. 

Below are a few tips for choosing a 

retirement community: 

Begin researching in advance – 

before the need arises 

A good place to start is to ask family, 

friends and valued referral sources, such 

as a trust officer or estate attorney, for 

recommendations and their help with 

researching retirement communities. 

The internet, professional resources, 

senior directories, local newspapers and 

social circles may also provide helpful 

information. Word-of-mouth advertising 

– the firsthand advice and feedback 

from people who are already familiar 

with a senior living community – is also 

invaluable. 

Determine which type of community 

will best fit your needs 

It’s important to understand the different 

types of senior living options that 

are available and the types of services 

and care they offer. From continuing 

care retirement communities (CCRCs), 

which require upfront entrance fees, to 

rental communities like The Carlisle 

Naples, which offer the flexibility of an 

all-inclusive monthly fee, there’s a community 

to fit every budget and lifestyle. 

You can begin to narrow the list of 

potential communities to fewer possibilities 

by taking into account the 

location, the services you require and 

activities you enjoy. 

Advertorial 

You should also ask about the community’s 

accreditation. It’s an important 

seal of approval that seniors and their 

families should look for when exploring 

their retirement living options. Moving 

into a community that is accredited affords 

greater peace of mind that care 

and services have undergone intense 

scrutiny by an outside, third-party. 

Working from a checklist – matching 

your preferences and needs to what 

is being offered – can be very helpful in 

the selection process. 

Visit the community 

If you’re hesitant about where to start, 

don’t worry. There are numerous lowkey 

opportunities to visit the communities 

and get a feel for their culture 

and lifestyle. Most communities often 

host a variety of events which provide 

fun-filled, no-pressure invitations to 

mingle with current residents and tour 

the community. 

If possible, ask to stay for lunch 

or dinner. Since dining is typically included 

in your monthly fee, you’ll want 

to be sure the quality of food and overall 

dining experience meets your tastes. Is 

it more formal when you prefer a more 

relaxed, causal lifestyle? Does the community 

offer flexible dining hours to 

accommodate your schedule? Is there 

assigned seating or can you choose your 

tablemates? Be sure to get answers to all 

your dining questions. It’s an important 

part of your day. 

Take your time 

It will most likely take more than one 

visit to make a decision as to whether 

or not a community is right for you. 

Ask to experience dining and attend 

resident events. Make an appointment 

with a sales representative to go over 

any additional questions you may 

have. Remember, they have a wealth 

of knowledge and are there to help you 

to determine the perfect mix of services 

and amenities to meet your needs. Bring 

family members and friends to the community 

and solicit their opinions as well. 

Choosing a retirement community 

will not be a decision that is made 

overnight. However, it is important to 

have a plan in place should your needs 

suddenly change. It’s never too early to 

start planning for your future housing 

needs. Then, when you decide to move, 

you’ll be glad you took the time to find 

the community that is just right for you. 

Located at 6945 Carlisle Court in 

Naples, The Carlisle offers spacious 

one-and two-bedroom residences, 

weekly housekeeping and flat linen services, 

basic cable TV, all utilities except 

telephone, and a complimentary full 

breakfast plus choice of lunch or dinner 

in the community’s gourmet-style restaurant. 

For more information about the 

community, please call 239.221.0017 

or visit www.TheCarlisleNaples.com. 

The Carlisle, a luxury, resort-style 

senior living community in North 

Naples, offers both Independent and 

Assisted Living lifestyles. Available on 

a monthly fee basis, the ECC-licensed 

and CARF-accredited community boasts 

a full range of services and amenities 

including 12-hour restaurant dining, 

housekeeping, transportation and activities. 

Located on Airport-Pulling Road, 

between Pine Ridge and Immokalee 

Roads, the award-winning community’s 

lush tropical environment is highlighted 

with meandering walking paths around 

three lakes and tranquility gardens. For 

more information or to schedule a tour, 

please call Director of Marketing Greg 

Pascucci at 239.221.0017. 

Discover The Carlisle. 

Exceptional Service, Style, & Peace of Mind 

Discover the confidence of CARF® accredited senior living services at the premier retirement address in Naples. 

From a beautiful & vibrant setting and spectacular restaurant-style dining to engaging activities and 

supportive care, imagine all the comforts, services and amenities of a luxury residence 

combined with attentive support when the need arises. 

Lunch & Learn | Tuesday, June 18 th • 11:30am 

Join us for a complimentary lunch and learn about the engaging lifestyle 

and our newly renovated residences offered at The Carlisle. 

Please call 239.444.6891 to RSVP. 

Independent & Assisted Living Residences • ECC Licensed 

6945 Carlisle Court • Naples, FL • TheCarlisleNaples.com • 239.444.6891 

ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY #9408 

Located just south of Orange Blossom Drive on the west side of Airport-Pulling Road

For a continuously updated community calendar, visit the Federation’s website at www.jewishnaples.org. 


Naples Senior Center update 

Dr. Jaclynn 

Faffer 

JFCS 

President/ 

CEO 

s I write this article for the 

June edition of the Federation 

Star, I am aware that “season” 

s winding down. Board members are 

topping in to say “so long” as they 

egin to go up north for the summer, 

nd traffic is almost manageable. But 

s we all know, the majority of the 

olks we serve at Naples Senior Center 

at JFCS are here year round. The work 

of our organization continues on our 

twelve-month cycle with programs and 

services provided at the same level to 

our constituents. In fact, each week 

more and more full-time residents sign 

up for senior center services. 

At our Annual Meeting in March 

we installed Alan Jaffe as Chair of our 

Board of Trustees, and Prentiss Higgins 

in the dual role of Vice-Chair and 

Treasurer. Both have long histories of 

service and support of NSC. 

It is not too early to ask you to 

“save the date” for An Evening for 

Better Tomorrows, our annual signature 

fundraising event. Mark your calendars 



A 

for January 11, 2020. The event will be 

held at the Royal Poinciana Golf Club. 

Shadows of the ’60s will be back for an 

encore performance, but this year we are 

going to “mix it up” a bit, as the Shadows 

perform not only their Motown hits, 

but the rock and roll music we all love. 

We are grateful to the Naples Daily 

News, the Community Foundation of 

Collier County, United Way of Collier 

County and the Richard M. Schulze 

Family Foundation for including Naples 

Senior Center at JFCS in their fourth 

annual “Satisfy the Hunger” campaign. 

Food and dollars collected will help 

food pantries like ours fill the shelves 

during the summer months when donations 

are down and the need increases. 

We continue to work on our plans 

for our new home, and our new era 

S 

for seniors. Many of our members and 

volunteers have expressed delight at the 

location – 13.5 acres of land at 2380 

Oakes Blvd. in Naples. 

If you are in town this summer, 

please stop by and see all that is happening 

at our current home, 5025 

Castello Drive. Consider dropping off 

some food for our pantry. Our most 

needed items are listed on our website 

at www.naplesseniorcenter.org. And as 

always, thank you for helping us do all 

that we do! 

Tributes 

Tributes require a minimum donation of $18. 

Tributes to the 

Federation Campaign 

To: 

From: 

To: 

From: 

To: 

From: 

Corky Levin 

In honor of your special birthday 

Nancy Kaplan 

Arlene & Bob Subin 

Gail & Mel Ufberg 

Phyllis & Michael Seaman 

Amanda Dorio 

In memory of your father, 

Michael David Kirsh 

Jane Schiff & Lon Gratz 

Arlene & Michael Sobol 

In gratitude of your gracious hospitality 

Helene & Alan Gordon 

To: 

From: 

To: 

From: 

To: 

From: 

Men’s Cultural Alliance 

Thank you for honoring the memory 

of my father, Richard Janger 

Lee Janger 

Judy Belmont 

In honor of everything you do for WCA 

The WCA Walking Group 

Susan & Jeffrey Feld 

In honor of Jesse & Anna’s wedding 

Phyllis & Michael Seaman 

Betty & Les Schwartz 

To: 

From: 

To: 

From: 

Maude Laurence & Family 

In memory of Elaine Laurence 

Susan & Michael Horowitz 

Judi Spintman 

Mona Brodsky 

Andrea Cohen 

Joyce Toub & Family 

In memory of Mel Toub 

Barbara & Albert Glucksman 

Susan & Michael Horowitz 

Judi Spintman 

To place a Tribute in the Federation Star in honor or memory of someone, please contact 

Nathan Ricklefs at the Federation office at 239.263.4205 or nricklefs@jewishnaples.org. 

Tributes require a minimum donation of $18. A note will be sent to the person you are 

honoring. Tributes help further the work of the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples. 

Temple Shalom events 

open to the community 

For more information on these events, call 239.455.3030. 

Torah Talk 

Join the volunteer-led discussion of 

the week’s Torah portion on the first 

Saturday of each month. On June 1 the 

portion is Bechukotai. There will be a 

light breakfast at 8:15 a.m. with discussion 

to follow at 8:30 a.m. There is no 

charge and all are welcome. 

Soulful Shabbat 

Join us on Friday, June 28 at 6:00 p.m. 

for a Friday evening Shabbat service 

conducted entirely in song. (“Pre-neg” 

at 5:30 p.m.) Featuring Cantor Donna 

Azu accompanied by a professional 

band. No reservation required, just come 

ready to sing! 

Israel Scouts 

Temple Shalom welcomes back the 

Israel Scouts on Tuesday, June 11 at 

7:00 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Jewish 

Federation of Greater Naples, these 

talented teens present a high-energy, 

upbeat performance with singing, dancing 

and storytelling. There is no charge 

and no RSVP required. There will be 

an opportunity to meet the Scouts and 

purchase CDs and T-shirts following 

the show. 

Summer service hours 

During the months of June and July, 

Temple Shalom will observe our summer 

service hours for Friday evening 

Shabbat services. Please join us at 5:30 

p.m. for a “pre-neg” of wine and cheese 

followed by the service at 6:00 p.m. 

Great for those who do not like to drive 

after dark! Saturday morning Shabbat 

services will be at the usual time of 

10:00 a.m. 

FULL SERVICE 

PRINTING & 

GRAPHIC 

DESIGN 

239.592.9377 

naplesenvelope1@aol.com 

2052 J AND C BLVD. • NAPLES, FL 34109

JEWISH INTEREST 


Aging Jewishly – What our traditions teach us about growing old 

As Holocaust survivors age – what we all need to know 

By Rabbi Barbara Aiello 

Sergio Della Pergola, child of the 

Holocaust, was born in Trieste, 

Italy, in 1942. He survived to 

become the leading demographic authority 

in the study of the Jewish population 

worldwide. An international 

award-winning scholar, Della Pergola 

studied the effects 

of the factory 

killing of Jews 

under the Nazis 

and applied those 

statistics to modern-day 

Jewish 

numbers. 

Given that 

we know that 

Rabbi Barbara Aiello 

there are approximately 

15 million Jews worldwide and 

given that somewhere close to six million 

Jews were murdered by the Nazis, 

Della Pergola asked, “Where would we 

be today if the Shoah hadn’t happened?” 

Through his extensive research 

and demographic knowledge, Della 

Pergola extrapolated a number that is 

both magnificent in its remembrance 

and horrifying in its grief. Had the Holocaust 

not happened, there would be 

32 million Jews in the world today. 

In an article that appeared in The 

Times of Israel (September 2018), 

Della Pergola was again lauded for his 

detailed permutations when he said 

that the world’s Jewish population has 

been rising by about 100,000 per year, 

yet the 0.7 percent Jewish growth rate 

is significantly lower than the overall 

global population growth rate of 1.1 

percent. 

What does it mean to you when 

you hear statistics like these? I am reminded 

of what my father (z”l) said 

to me when I was just a little girl. 

“Remember,” he said, “we adults lost 

our families and friends, but you children 

lost that and so much more. You 

lost the promise of meeting, knowing 

and learning from Jewish children who 

would have grown up to be your colleagues 

and your contemporaries. Our 

loss was great. Your loss is immeasurable.” 

My father was a trumpet player, 

not a scientist, but apparently he was 

right, because professionals confirm 

that today we feel the loss as never 

before. Couple scientific study with 

information on individual Holocaust 

survivors and the picture is even more 

troubling. 

A recent article on Ynetnews describes 

the harsh reality. They write 

that as of January 2019, Israeli Holocaust 

survivors number just 212,000. 

Additional statistics emphasize 

that the number of living survivors is 

dwindling and by 2025, just 102,000 

will still be alive. Then, according to 

a report published by Holocaust Survivors’ 

Rights Authority, when the year 

2030 arrives, only a quarter of the current 

number of Holocaust survivors 

– some 53,000 – will still be with us, 

but many will be immobile and possibly 

very ill, especially since all of them 

will be over 90 years old. 

In these days when anti-Semitic 

activity is on the rise, the Jewish population 

is behind the growth curve and 

Holocaust survivors are becoming too 

fragile for public speaking, what can 

Jewish seniors do to promote Holocaust 

understanding? Here are several 

considerations: 

Do you have friends who have 

Holocaust experiences yet to be 

told? If they feel uncomfortable 

13 

discussing what happened to them, 

emphasize that time is of the essence 

and that the more that eyewitnesses 

are willing to share their 

stories, the greater the opportunity 

to combat anti-Semitism and foster 

tolerance and understanding. 

Are you a child of Holocaust survivors? 

Do you have friends whose 

parents are survivors? Psychologists 

report that there are specific 

behaviors, emotions and reactions 

experienced by children whose 

parents survived the Shoah. These 

children, who are now adults, have 

a unique story to tell, and through 

them the long-term effects of the 

Holocaust on Jewish families will 

not be denied. 

Are you a child survivor of the Holocaust? 

Did you and your parents 

escape Nazi persecution? Were you 

hidden? Did your parents make the 

ultimate sacrifice by sending you 

to safety via the Kindertransport 

or did they hide you with compassionate 

Christians? If so, you have 

a valuable experience to share. In 

recent years, psychologists have 

written about the credibility of 

childhood impressions and have 

come to understand that even children 

as young as seven years have 

memories that should be acknowledged. 

If you were a child during the Holocaust 

and experienced family 

upheaval or loss, do not minimize 

your story. One child victim, Clara, 

who is now 89, recalls, “Our family 

was forced to abandon our home 

and business and leave Germany 

in a matter of hours.” When asked 

why she was reluctant to share her 

story, Clara said, “I wasn’t in a 

camp. I’m not a real survivor.” 

Survivors like Clara will soon be 

the voice of Holocaust remembrance. It 

is important that they have the chance 

to tell their stories in an atmosphere 

that is welcoming and respectful. 

Survivor Magda Rosenberg, 

whose entire family was murdered in 

Auschwitz, puts it well when she cautions, 

“We’re dying out. It feels like in 

another 10 years there won’t be a Holocaust 

survivor left.” 

If indeed our numbers are diminishing 

and survivor status is changing, 

it is imperative that we broaden our 

definition of “Holocaust survivor,” and 

as we age, welcome those who have 

childhood stories to tell. 

For ten years Rabbi Barbara Aiello 

served the Aviva Campus for Senior 

Life as resident rabbi. Currently as 

Rabbi Emerita she shares her experiences 

on Aging Jewishly. She is also 

program host of the 17-year Radio 

Rabbi program, AM 930 The Answer. 

Contact her at Rabbi@RabbiBarbara. 

com. 

Read the current and previous 

editions of the Federation Star 

and Connections online 

at www.jewishnaples.org. 

Hot Brands Cool Prices 

INDEPENDENT LIVING • ASSISTED LIVING • MEMORY CARE 

NOW 

OPEN! 

C O M P A N Y S T O R E 

UNIQUE 

RETIREMENT CONCIERGE 

LIVING AT ITS FINEST 

NOW OPEN, STOP IN FOR EXCLUSIVE BENEFITS 

MIROMAR OUTLETS 

Over 

140 

Top Designer and Brand Name Outlet Stores and Restaurants 

® 

NAPLES NEWEST RETIREMENT RENTALS 

• Five-star concierge services with dining, activities and more 

• Beautifully designed one- and two-bedroom apartment rentals 

• Pet friendly, companion animals welcome 

CALL CRAIG AT 239-354-7081 

TO SCHEDULE A PERSONAL TOUR TODAY! 

* Ask about our move-in specials! 

Voted the Best Factory Outlet Mall, Best Shopping Experience and Best Place to Buy Shoes in Southwest Florida 

Play at our attractions: WINK Playland, Rock Climbing FunWalls 

and Amazing Things 5-D Motion Theater. Party Packages available at MiromarOutlets.com/play. 

GIFT CARDS MAKE THE 

Perfect Gift 

MiromarOutlets.com • I-75, Exit 123 • (239) 948-3766 • 

UP TO 70% OFF 

RETAIL PRICES 

Visit the Mall Office or the Information Kiosk to receive your FREE VIP Savings Brochure 

*Subject to monthly maintenance fee. Terms and Conditions of the Card Agreement are set forth at MiromarOutlets.com. 

Copyright © 2019, Miromar Development Corporation. Miromar Outlets is a registered service mark of Miromar Development Corporation. 

0619-1221 

at Naples Preserve 

3490 Thrive Drive 

Naples, FL 34105 • 239-354-7081 

www.keystoneplaceatnaples.com 

Assisted Living License # 13285 

AIRPORT-PULLING ROAD 

PINE RIDGE ROAD 

KENSINGTON GOLF 

& COUNTRY CLUB 

LIVINGSTON ROAD 

THRIVE DRIVE 

KEYSTONE 

PLACE 

WHIPPOORWILL LANE


Phil Jason 


The traumas of our individual and collective pasts 

do not simply vanish 

Book review by Philip K. Jason, Special to the Federation Star 

Wounds into Wisdom: 

Healing Intergenerational Trauma, 

by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Ph.D. 

Monkfish Book Publishing / 

Adam Kadmon Books. 

240 pages. Hardcover $26.95. 

Here is one of the most valuable 

new books for 2019. Though it 

seems at first that it is aimed 

at health professionals and religious 

leaders, particularly of the Jewish 

faith, it has a much wider application. 

Someone in your family needs this 

book to help come 

to terms with the 

residual effects of 

complex trauma 

– trauma that is 

transmitted, sometimes 

within a 

particular ethnic 

group from generation 

to generation. 

Others need this book to understand 

the seemingly strange and often 

self-destructive behavior of loved 

ones, close friends, 

co-workers and other 

victims of psychological 

trauma who 

suffer without even 

knowing why. 

Rabbi Firestone’s 

book is intellectually 

challenging, spiritually 

rich, infinitely 

patient and filled with 

healing optimism. It 

offers understanding, 

strategies for overcoming trauma, and 

accessible case histories of a varied 

group of trauma survivors whose paths 

and personalities will encourage all 

Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Ph.D. 

who seek a recovery and renewal. 

The peculiar history of Jewish 

populations – a history weighted with 

pogroms, genocide, exclusion and endless 

epochs of plain old anti-Semitism 

– receives startling, illuminating attention. 

Rabbi Firestone knows of what 

she speaks. Her discussions include 

slices of her own family history. 

Significant here, beyond but yet 

entangled with the family dynamics, 

is the author’s withdrawal from Jewish 

life and identity and – some time later 

– her reconnection. Her discovery of 

the wisdom in Judaism’s fundamental 

texts opened channels of learning that 

eventually led to her studies and work 

as a psychotherapist and her emergence 

as an influential rabbi in the Jewish 

Renewal Movement. 

However, the value of this study is 

not limited to Jewish sufferers or Jewish 

families and communities. 

One theme of the book is that we 

have, or can develop, the insights and 

tools to make our lives whole again 

if they were fractured by trauma. Another 

theme is that “intergenerational 

trauma” is a genuine, verifiable 

medical condition, 

and that it even has a significant 

physical dimension. 

Yet another theme is 

that such a condition must 

be attended to – it will not 

cure itself. 

Rabbi Firestone’s exploration 

of this condition 

includes the introduction 

of recognizable behaviors 

(warning signs) and the 

professional vocabulary that assists in 

the understanding of trauma-induced 

or trauma-prolonged behaviors. 

Other provocative explorations in 

Improv4 

Wellness 

this book include a 

productive revisioning 

of the stigmatizing 

label that the Jews 

are a “chosen people.” 

Similarly refreshing 

is Rabbi Firestone’s 

perspective on the 

troublesome biblical 

pronouncement 

about the sins of the fathers being visited 

upon the children for generations. 

The understandings she suggests are a 

fine capstone to her tonic presentation 

exploring “intergenerational trauma.” 

Of immense practical value is her 

construction of the seven “principles 

of Jewish cultural healing.” 

A lively mind, a caring heart and a 

love of Judaism’s profound soul make 

this a must-have contribution to the literature 

of healing. 

About the author 

Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Ph.D., is an 

author, Jungian psychotherapist and 

founding rabbi of Congregation Nevei 

Kodesh in Boulder, Colorado. 

Ordained by Rabbi Zalman 

Schachter-Shalomi in 1992, she 

is a leader in the international 

Jewish Renewal Movement and 

has served as co-chair of Rabbis 

for Human Rights, North 

America, which is now known 

as T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for 

Human Rights. She holds a doctorate 

in depth psychology from the 

Pacific Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, 

California. She has written several 

other books, including With Roots 

in Heaven: One Woman’s Passionate 

Journey into the Heart of Her Faith. 

Philip K. Jason is Professor Emeritus 

of English from the United States Naval 

Academy. He reviews regularly for 

Florida Weekly, Washington Independent 

Review of Books, Southern Literary 

Review, other publications and 

the Jewish Book Council. Please visit 

Phil’s website at www.philjason.word 

press.com. 

See pages 20-21 for ISRAEL21c’s 

14 must-read books about Israel 

SUMMER 

GAME NIGHT 

IMPROV FOR WELLNESS 

Join Margot Escott, LCSW to learn 

improvisational theatre exercises that 

benefit emotional, physical and 

spiritual wellbeing. 

Classes June 19-July 31 (no class July 3) 

at The Sugden Community Theatre 

Register at naplesplayers.org • 434-7340 

Improv for Wellness is about playing games 

and having fun. It’s not about being funny or 

memorizing scripts. The improv games and 

laughter we share in this multi-week class, 

have tremendous therapeutic benefits. A 

great way for all ages and abilities to let go, 

laugh and meet fun friends. 

Margot Escott, LCSW Improv for Wellness Classes 

improv4wellness.com • (239) 434-6558 • margotescott@mac.com 

Margot Escott_1/8_Page_June_2019_FEDSTAR.indd 1 

BUYING • SELLING 

RELOCATING 

Call Debbie Z for all 

your Real Estate needs 

(239) 272-8878 

DZvibleman@JohnRWood.com 

www.debbiesellsyourhome4you.com 

Proudly assisting customers with 

their real estate needs in Naples, 

Bonita Springs and Estero since 2005. 

Mention this ad and I will donate 10% of my commission 

to the Jewish Federation of Collier County. 

Improv 

4 Wellness 

4/30/19 3:16 PM



15 

EARLY 

BOOKING 

BONUS 

SAVE 10% IF YOU BOOK AND PAY IN 

FULL BY JUNE 28, 2019 

SILVERSEA’S 

ALL-INCLUSIVE LIFESTYLE 

• Intimate ultra-luxury ships for no more 

than 608 guests 

• Unlimited WiFi for every guest 

• Onboard gratuities always included 

• Spacious suites with butler service 

• Open seating and specialty restaurants 

• Wines and spirits served throughout 

the ship 

• In-suite bar with your preferred beverages 

(239) 261-1177 

(800) 523-3716 

www.preferrednaples.com 

SunTrust Building at Pelican Bay 

801 Laurel Oak Drive • Suite 300 

Wilma Boyd - CEO 

*Offer valid on new, individual bookings made by June 28, 2019 on select voyages departing from 1 November 2019 onwards. Guests will receive 10% savings on the Silver Privilege fare for select 

voyages if full payment is received no later than June 28, 2019; full payment includes the cruise fare and any outstanding balances on the booking (air, hotels, transfers and land programs). 

Subject to change and availability. Other restrictions apply.


PRESENTS 

The ABBA Broadway Hit Musical 

THE ABBA 

JUNE 26-JULY 28 

2019-2020 SEASON 

SEASON TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW! 

THE GREAT GATSBY 

OCT 02 - OCT 27 

ESCANABA IN DA MOONLIGHT 

OCT 23 - NOV 17 

SHE LOVES ME 

NOV 27 - DEC 22 

MAKING GOD LAUGH 

JAN 15 - FEB 09 

SILENT SKY 

FEB 05 - MAR 01 

BYE BYE BIRDIE 

MAR 04 - APR 05 

BECKY’S NEW CAR 

APR 01 - APR 26 

CALENDAR GIRLS 

APR 29 - MAY 24 

FOR TICKETS & MORE INFO: 

239.263.7990 NAPLESPLAYERS.ORG 


The Night of 

the Long Knives 

By Paul R. Bartrop, PhD 

Eighty-five years ago this month, 

on June 30, 1934, an event that 

became known as the Night of 

the Long Knives took place throughout 

Germany. The 

event saw a series 

of extrajudicial executions 

carried out 

that were intended to 

consolidate the hold 

on power of Adolf 

Hitler and the Nazi 

Party. 

Hitler, together with Hermann 

Dr. Paul Bartrop 

Göring and Heinrich Himmler, sought 

to bring the head of the Sturmabteilung, 

Ernst Röhm, to heel, as it was 

feared that this huge paramilitary organization 

numbering nearly four million 

might be about to launch a coup of its 

own against Hitler. 

Ernst Röhm was one of the first 

members of the Nazi Party, and was 

perhaps Hitler’s oldest and closest 

friend. The son of a railway official, 

he was born on November 28, 1887, 

in Munich. Joining the Army, he 

was commissioned in 1908 and was 

wounded three times during World War 

I, including a serious wound to his face 

that left him permanently disfigured. 

He was awarded the Iron Cross First 

Class in 1916, and by 1918 had been 

promoted to the rank of captain. 

After the war he remained in the 

military but soon revealed an interest 

in politics. Among other things, he 

helped to put down left-wing movements 

in April and May of 1919 that 

sought to replace the newly installed 

Weimar Republic with a communist 

government in Munich. 

Of greater importance, it was 

shortly after the war that Röhm first 

met Hitler. In 1919 he joined the German 

Workers’ Party, a tiny right-wing 

fringe party that would soon change 

its name to the National Socialist German 

Workers’ Party – the Nazi Party. 

Röhm recognized Hitler’s oratorical 

and leadership skills, and they became 

fast friends. Even after Hitler rose to 

power in Germany, Röhm was one of 

the very few people who called him by 

his first name. 

It was Röhm who protected Hitler 

in his Beer Hall Putsch in November 

1923 that rebelled against the Weimar 

Republic. It was a stunning failure, 

with Hitler and Röhm (among others) 

arrested and convicted of treason. Although 

Röhm did not actually serve 

time (instead, he resigned from the 

military), he nonetheless had earned 

his place in Hitler’s inner circle as 

an “Old Fighter” who had shown his 

unquestioning loyalty to the future 

Führer. 

During the 1920s and 1930s, street 

brawls took place between competing 

German political parties, making 

it necessary to have groups of men on 

hand to protect speakers and officials 

and intimidate the opposition. For the 

Nazis, this task fell to a paramilitary 

unit founded by Hitler in 1921, the 

Sturmabteilung (SA, also known as the 

Stormtroopers or Brownshirts). 

Röhm became the leader of the SA 

in early 1930. By late 1933, due in part 

to his popularity, the organization had 

become a force of awe-inspiring size, 

dwarfing the German military. 

The SA’s growth eventually became 

a problem for Hitler, the Nazi 

Party and the Army. Röhm, who saw 

himself gaining steadily in both power 

and importance, had high expectations 

for the SA, and made demands of Hitler 

that ultimately caused an irreparable 

rift between the two old friends. Röhm 

and many of the SA members expected 

that Hitler would lead a political revolution 

that would lean more heavily 

on socialism than on capitalism. This 

was of great concern to Germany’s 

business leaders, including – much to 

Hitler’s disquiet – the major financial 

contributors to the Nazi Party. 

Even as Hitler was shifting some 

of the Stormtroopers’ former responsibilities 

– such as protecting party leaders 

– to Heinrich Himmler and his SS, 

Röhm continued to insist that he and 

the SA should play a larger role in the 

Party. Perhaps of greater concern was 

Röhm’s demand, made in early 1934, 

that the SA would form the core of a 

new Germany military. This was anathema 

to the professional officer corps 

that viewed the SA as a group of undisciplined 

thugs. Hitler, recognizing 

his need for the Army’s support, was 

unwilling to agree to Röhm’s demands. 

In addition to rejecting his play for 

power, the Army’s officer corps also rejected 

Röhm’s personal habits, finding 

them to be offensive to the standards of 

the professional military. Specifically, 

Röhm was homosexual and made no 

efforts to hide the fact. When combined 

with the image of the SA as little other 

than thugs and drunks, the military’s 

opposition to Röhm and the SA was 

complete. 

Hitler increasingly saw Röhm and 

the SA as a threat, and became concerned 

about the possibility of a coup 

attempt. Tasking Göring and Himmler 

to draw up a list of SA leaders who 

should be killed in order to dismantle 

the SA and integrate it into the German 

military, Hitler contacted Röhm and 

ordered him to call all senior SA leaders 

to a conference that would be held 

on June 30, 1934. Hitler personally supervised 

his arrest and imprisonment, 

as many SA men were killed outright. 

Reluctant to kill his old friend, Hitler 

nonetheless bowed to pressure from 

Göring and Himmler, and on July 1, 

1934, had Röhm shot. 

The purge, codenamed Operation 

Hummingbird, solidified the Army’s 

support of Hitler, and greatly increased 

Himmler’s power within the regime. 

At least 85 people (and perhaps many 

more) died during the purge, including 

former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher 

and leading Nazi Gregor Strasser. More 

than a thousand others were arrested. 

The purge also provided a legal 

grounding for Hitler’s regime, as German 

judges hastened to demonstrate 

their loyalty to Hitler. The Night of the 

Long Knives was a turning point for 

the German government, establishing 

Hitler as the supreme authority in Germany. 

Hitler then had his actions retroactively 

legalized with the passage of 

the Law Regarding Measures of State 

Self-Defense, explaining his actions by 

reference to the need to protect the state 

against treason. With this, the Nazi dictatorship 

was almost complete. 

Dr. Paul Bartrop is Professor of History 

and the Dir. of the Center for Judaic, 

Holocaust, and Genocide Studies 

at Florida Gulf Coast University. He 

can be reached at pbartrop@fgcu.edu. 

ConneCt 




facebook.com/jfedsrq 

S


Arlene Stolnitz 


Symphony of the Heart and World Doctors Orchestra 

By Arlene Stolnitz 

Recently, I had an appointment 

with my physician, Dr. Robert 

Felman, a gastroenterologist 

who practices in Venice. 

I knew that Bob is a musician 

who plays clarinet 

around town 

in various local 

groups including 

The Venice Concert 

Band and 

Klezmania on the 

Gulf. What I did 

not know was 

that he is a member 

of the World 

Doctors Orchestra, whose program I 

picked up as I was checking out. 

So what is this orchestra I had never 

known anything about? I was surprised 

to find out that over 1,200 physicians 

from about 50 nations “trade their 

white coats for evening attire and perform 

benefit concerts for those in need 

of health care.” 

On February 6, 2019, the orchestra, 

under the direction of Prof. Dr. 

Stefan Willich, presented a concert 

entitled Symphony of the Heart in the 

Jerusalem Theater, Jerusalem. On the 

following night they played in the 

Charles Bronfman Auditorium, Tel 

Aviv. Both concerts were in support of 

Save a Child’s Heart, an international 

pediatric cardiac center at the W olfson 

Medical Center in Israel, which 

serves as a children’s hospital for the 

local Israeli population. To date, Save 

a Child’s Heart has provided care for 

5,000 children from nearly 58 developing 

countries and trained more than 

120 medical team members from these 

countries. 

The World Doctors Orchestra is a 

registered nonprofit organization that 

combines the pleasure of music with 

charity. It made its debut in Berlin Philharmonic 

Hall in May 2008. Its U.S. 

premiere took place in Cleveland, with 

concerts following in countries around 

the world. The founder and conductor 

of the orchestra is Prof. Dr. Stefan Willich, 

a highly regarded cardiologist and 

researcher with an extensive musical 

background in violin, chamber music 

and conducting. As artistic director, 

his experience has taken him to places 

such as Stuttgart, Berlin, Paris, and 

Tanglewood in the U.S. 

Looking through the program, 

names from nearly every country in 

the world appear. Violinists from Germany, 

Spain, Australia, Switzerland, 

South Africa; violists from the UK, 

U.S., Italy, Israel; double bass players 

from Germany, Italy… the list goes 

on and on as each instrument in the 

orchestra is represented by musicians 

from around the world. 

The World Doctors Orchestra is 

Society for Humanistic 

Judaism: SHJ@50 

By Paula Creed 

Ijoined the Birmingham Temple 

Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, 

the founding congregation of 

the Humanistic Jewish movement, when 

I was 26 years old. Shortly thereafter, 

the Society for Humanistic Judaism 

(SHJ) was formed with only two congregations. 

Founded by Rabbi Sherwin 

Wine, the Society for Humanistic Judaism 

(www.shj.org) is the central body 

for the Humanistic Jewish movement 

in North America. 

Today there are 28 communities 

from Florida to Toronto, from 

east coast to west coast of the United 

States including many communities 

in-between. Thus, it was inspiring to 

attend an impressive 50-year celebration 

of the Society, held in Michigan at the 

Birmingham Temple. 

Paul Golin, Executive Director, Society for 

Humanistic Judaism, and Paula Creed, past 

President of the Humanistic Jewish Havurah of 

SW Florida, at the 50 th anniversary celebration of 

the Society for Humanistic Judaism, April 27, 2019 

To mark 50 years of the Society, 

current, past and future leaders from Humanistic 

Jewish communities throughout 

the U.S. and Canada gathered the 

last weekend of April for joyous festivities, 

dynamic speakers, and meaningful 

sharing and learning while rekindling 

old friendships, making new ones and 

generating big new ideas. The event 

featured Humanistic rabbis and talented 

leaders from across the membership 

who led sessions on topics from the 

history of the movement, to organizing 

communities, social justice, diversity in 

the movement, sexual ethics and other 

issues. 

Two national speakers gave major 

addresses. Rachel Laser, the first non- 

Christian President and CEO of Americans 

United for Separation of Church 

and State, and former deputy director 

of the Reform Judaism’s Religious 

Actions Center, spoke on “Why Maintaining 

the Wall Between Government 

and Religion is a Jewish and American 

Imperative.” She also was given the first 

annual Constitutional Defender award 

by the SHJ project “Jews for Secular 

Democracy” for her work defending 

freedom of belief. 

The keynote address was given by 

Greg Epstein, Humanistic Rabbi, current 

Humanist Chaplain at Harvard and 

MIT, frequent guest on NPR and author 

of the bestselling book Good Without 

God: What a Billion Nonreligious 

People Do Believe, who spoke about 

“Advancing the Cause of Humanistic 

Judaism for a 21 st Century Audience: 

Challenging Opportunities for an Optimistic 

Secularism.” 

Humanistic Judaism, one of the five 

branches of Judaism, combines the Jewish 

values of loving-kindness (Gemilut 

Chassadim), charity (Tzedakah) and 

making the world a better place (Tikkun 

Olam), with the recognition that the responsibility 

for putting them in practice 

lies in human hands. It is a nontheistic 

movement in which cultural Jews and 

their families can affirm, celebrate 

and enrich their Jewish identity and 

values. 

As previously announced, the Humanistic 

Jewish Havurah of SW Florida 

is currently inactive. However, you can 

join SHJ as an independent member and 

be connected to a worldwide movement 

that gives voice to the ideas and values 

of Humanistic Judaism. If you believe 

that cultural Judaism is important to the 

survival of the Jewish people, and that 

secular and Humanistic Jews need an organized 

voice, join SHJ. New members 

receive the Guide to Humanistic Judaism, 

a subscription to the Humanistic 

Judaism magazine, Member Exclusive 

e-newsletters, invitations to conferences 

and seminars, and opportunities to 

connect online with other independent 

members. 

Be part of the “Second 50!” 

driven by the spirit of its players. The 

participants cover their own travel expenses, 

and local costs are kept low. 

All participants are medical professionals 

and, at the same time, enthusiastic 

and active musicians, many of 

them with professional musical backgrounds. 

A great variety of medical 

specialties are represented. Specialists 

in internal medicine, general medicine, 

and child and youth medicine take the 

lead. There is a wide variety of specialization 

in diagnostic and therapeutic 

areas, as well as in pharmacology. 

About 100 musicians participate in 

each concert, depending on the instruments 

needed. The Board of Trustees 

includes such well known musicians 

as Martin Hoffman, General Manager 

Berliner Philharmoniker, and Honorary 

Member Maestro Zubin Mehta. 

The recent February concerts in 

Israel featured a program of music 

17 

that included Antonin Dvorak’s “Symphony 

No. 8,” George Gershwin’s 

“Rhapsody in Blue,” and a selection 

of popular works with Ester Rada, an 

Ethiopian-Israeli jazz singer. (Check 

out her innovative video, Life Happens, 

on YouTube.) 

Dr. Felman told me his next gig 

with the group will be in Houston in 

August in conjunction with the Texas 

Medical Center Orchestra. 

Arlene Stolnitz, founder of the Sarasota 

Jewish Chorale, has sung in choral 

groups for over 25 years. A retired 

educator, she is a graduate of the Gulf 

Coast Community Leadership Foundation. 

A member of the Jewish Congregation 

of Venice, the Venice Chorale 

and the Sarasota Jewish Chorale, her 

interest in choral music has led to this 

series of articles on Jewish Folk Music 

in the Diaspora. 

PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS – 

THEY HELP MAKE THE FEDERATION STAR POSSIBLE. 

Caring for your loved ones 

LIKE FAMILY 

Memory Care of Naples 

understands Alzheimer’s 

disease and dementia. 

We have collaborated 

with the nation’s best 

physicians and providers 

to ensure that all of our 

programs and services 

are appropriate for 

those experiencing 

cognitive decline. 

Our Adult Day Care and 

Respite Care offer three 

meals and a full day of life 

enrichment activities to 

help keep your loved one 

engaged and active. 

Memory Care 

24-hour 

LICENSED 

Nursing 

ADULT DAY CARE: $85 DAILY • RESPITE CARE $185 DAILY 

Call us for more information or to schedule an appointment 

Memory Care of Naples 

2626 Goodlette Frank Road 


239-403-0826 

memorycarenaples.com 

ALF License #8972 

of NAPLES 

E y E t o E y E . H E a r t t o H E a r t. M E M o r y t o M E M o r y.


A traditional Israeli cheesecake 

enshrouded by knafeh – recipe by Chef Dalia 

All Jewish holidays have unique 

customs for food. For instance, 

on Shavuot we eat mostly dairy 

treats. Cheesecake is the iconic Shavuot 

dessert, and is super popular in Israel, 

not just for Shavuot but all year around. 

You’ll find it on dairy dessert menus, at 

hotel breakfasts and served on Shabbat 

mornings in Israeli homes. It’s one of 

the two to three cakes that most every 

homemaker knows by heart and has in 

regular rotation. 

This ubiquitous dessert is the subject 

of many a Jewish argument as to 

its origins, about which there are lots 

of different opinions and very little 

consensus. 

That cheesecake was one of the first 

foods that Jews assimilated from their 

Central European neighbors. The famous 

New York-style baked cheesecake 

may be popular among many cheesecake 

fans, but the lesser-known Israeli 

version is something quite spectacular. 

Some of you may think you know 

cheesecake. Well, my friends, I’m here 

to tell you that if you don’t know the 

Israeli cheesecake, you sure don’t know 

what a real cheesecake is. 

The first time I tasted cheesecake 

in the United States, 20 years ago on 

my trip across the ocean, I thought they 

had it wrong. There was no way that the 

heavy syrup-drizzled baked monstrosity 

was the local version of my favorite 

confectionary creation. I felt sorry for 

others, for not knowing what a joy 

eating a cold piece of chilled Israeli 

cheesecake could be. 

The big difference between Israeli 

and American cheesecakes is the cheese. 

American cheesecakes are made mostly 

with cream cheese. The famous New 

York cheesecake features 

mounds of that goodness, 

resulting in a dense, heavy 

cake. 

The Israeli cheesecake 

culture was born from the 

European bakery culture, 

in addition to being reliant 

upon the products that are 

readily available in Israel, 

mostly soft white cheese, 

Gvina Levana, which is 5%- 

9% fat. 

The most loved and 

common cheesecakes in Israel 

are variations of a baked 

cheesecake, using cheese, 

sugar, cornstarch or instant 

pudding, eggs and vanilla 

extract. Sometimes with a 

crust, sometimes topped 

with sour cream, you will 

find it in most every home. 

The other all-time favorite Israeli 

cheesecake is a crumb cheesecake, 

Gvina Perurim. It has a crust (either 

baked or crushed Petit Beurre mixed 

For All Your Photography Needs 

Portraits: 

Family 

Event 

Head Shots 

Children 

Events: 

Corporate 

Parties 

Sports 

Ted Epstein 

239.249.0699 

tedepstein18@gmail.com 

www.naplesphotography.net 

with melted butter) topped with a very 

thick layer of cake (an unbaked mixture 

of soft white cheese, whipped cream, 

sugar) and topped with crispy crumbs. 

My husband is literally obsessed 

with Israeli cheesecake. It was the first 

thing I made him when he came to 

visit me in Israel before we got married. 

When I moved to the U.S., I experimented 

with every incarnation of white 

cheese and whipped topping available in 

the U.S., trying to come up with the taste 

and texture he remembered. Long after, 

he told me that the cheesecake was the 

reason he decided to marry me! 

In this fusion incarnation of the 

classic Israeli treat, I created my favorite 

Israeli cheesecake – a traditional Israeli 

cheesecake enshrouded by knafeh 

(ka-nee-fah) syrup-soaked strands of 

dough which form the base and topping 

for this soft, white Shavuot treat. 

I’ve replaced the crumb base and 

topping with a baklava-inspired knafeh. 

Sweet and incredibly delicious, our 

cheese knafeh is a family favorite from 

Jerusalem that features shredded phyllo 

dough and cheese filling to create a 

fascinating dessert swimming in orangeblossom/lemon 

syrup and crushed 

pistachios. I use Gvina Levana, an 

exceptionally soft and creamy cheese, 

which ensures a delicate cake. For those 

unable to find this Israeli treasure, Quark 

cheese is similar in texture and is readily 

available in most stores. 

During preparation, the frozen 

dough is shredded and doused in butter, 

slowly cooked in the oven, and 

then drenched with spiced, sugar-based 

syrup. The flavor combination and 

texture produce an absolutely divine 

dessert, a perfect finish to any dairy 

meal. Knafeh is a popular Israeli dairy 

dessert that is a rich, filling golden-pie 

indulgence that will put other Shavuot 

desserts to shame. 

Knafeh ingredients: 

• 1 package frozen shredded phyllo 

dough 

• 1 cup melted, unsalted butter 

Sugar syrup ingredients: 

• 2 cups white sugar 

• 1 cup water 

• Juice of half a lemon or quarter of 

an orange 

• ½ tsp ground cinnamon 

• ¼ tsp ground cardamom 

• 2 tablespoons shelled pistachios 

and/or hazelnuts 

Cheesecake ingredients: 

• 3 large egg whites 

• ½ cup sugar 

• 1 container whipping cream 

• 3 tbsp vanilla pudding powder 

• 500 gram container soft white 

cheese, 5% or 9% 

XX 

XX 

Preheat oven to 325°. Line a cookie 

sheet with parchment paper. Grease 

spring-form pan with butter or oil. 

In a small saucepan, combine all 

the ingredients for the sugar syrup. 


XX 

XX 

XX 

XX 

XX 

XX 

XX 

XX 

XX 

Serving the 

Jewish community 

since 1996 

Personal Chef Dalia Hemed 

can be reached at 

daliahemed@msn.com. 

Bring to a boil, and then lower to 

a simmer, cooking for around 10 

minutes until thickened to syrup. 

Remove from heat and set aside. 

Meanwhile, combine the shredded 

dough with the melted butter. Toss 

well to coat. 

Spread the shredded dough on the 

cookie sheet and bake in the preheated 

oven for about 20 minutes, 

stirring every five minutes or so to 

ensure the dough turns uniformly 

S 

B 

E 

f 

i 

w 

a 

b 

brown. 

p 

Remove from oven and pour the g 

syrup over the shredded dough; toss n 

to coat completely. Then remove theb 

shredded dough from the baking i 

sheet and place in a fine mesh sievew 

over a bowl or directly over the sink. i 

Let all the excess liquid drain off. M 

Press one-third of the knafeh intoi 

the bottom of the greased spring-form 

pan, then set the rest aside. u 

Now prepare the cheese: In a standp 

mixer using the whisk attachment, 

beat egg whites until soft peaksC 

form. Slowly add sugar and con-tinue 

beating until stiff. Remove o 

from bowl and set aside. o 

Wash bowl and dry, then place inC 

freezer for 10 minutes. Add whip-ping 

cream to the bowl and whip 

until thick. Add pudding powder, D 

mix until combined. Fold whitea 

cheese into whipped cream. GentlyO 

fold egg whites into the mixture 

and pour into the prepared knafeh 

base. 

Refrigerate for one hour until the 

cheesecake feels firm to the touch. 

Take the remaining knafeh and 

crumble it on top of the cheesecake, 

piling it high in the middle. Return 

to refrigerator and chill overnight. 

Before serving, sprinkle crushed 

nuts on the top of the cake. 

T 

2 

T 

B 

o 

H 

n 

T 

i 

b 

Fuller Funeral Home ~ East 

4735 Tamiami Trail East 


239.417.5000 

wecare@fullereast.com 

www.FullerNaples.com 

Fuller Funeral Home ~ North 



239.592.1611 

wecare@fullernaples.com


Stars of David 

By Nate Bloom, Contributing Columnist 

Editor’s note: Persons in BOLD CAPS are deemed by Nate Bloom to be Jewish 

for the purpose of the column. Persons identified as Jewish have at least one Jewish 

parent and were not raised in a faith other than Judaism – and don’t identify 

with a faith other than Judaism as an adult. Converts to Judaism, of course, are 

also identified as Jewish. 

The Tribe Goes to the Tonys: 

2019 Edition 

The Tony Awards, for excellence in the 

Broadway theater, will be presented 

on Sunday, June 9 at 8:00 p.m. (CBS). 

Here are the confirmed Jewish nominees 

in all but the technical categories. 

This is an atypical year in that no Jewish 

playwrights were nominated for 

best (new) play. 

Acting: ELAINE MAY, 87, leading 

actress in a play. She co-stars in a 

revival of the 2001 play The Waverly 

Gallery by Oscar-winner KENNETH 

LONERGAN, 56 (whose mother was 

Jewish). May plays the Jewish owner of 

a Manhattan art gallery who is gradually 

declining due to Alzheimer’s. May 

became famous in the late ’50s as the 

partner of the late MIKE NICHOLS 

in the brilliant comedy team of Nichols 

and May. Later, she wrote and directed 

the hit film The New Leaf and directed 

The Heartbreak Kid. Her life partner of 

20 years, the great director/choreographer 

STANLEY DONEN (Singin’ in the 

Rain; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) 

died in February at age 94. May outlived 

two Jewish husbands and maybe 

that’s why she declined Donen’s many 

marriage proposals. 

BRANDON URANOWITZ, 32, 

best featured (supporting) actor in a 

play (Burn This, a 1987 play with many 

gay themes). This is the third Tony 

nomination for Uranowitz, who had a 

bar mitzvah. Also in the same category 

is nominee GIDEON GLICK, 30, 

who plays the child character “Dill” 

in the new stage version of To Kill a 

Mockingbird. All the child characters 

in Mockingbird are played by adults 

because the logistics and legalities of 

using “real” children in large stage 

parts were daunting. 

Best director, musical: RACHEL 

CHAVKIN, 37, Hadestown. This show 

grabbed the most Tony nominations 

of any show this year. It’s a re-telling 

of a Greek myth, re-set in the 1930s. 

Chavkin won best director of a musical 

Tony in 2015. 

Best director, play: SAM MEN- 

DES, 53, Ferryman. Mendes is British 

and his mother is Jewish. He won an 

Oscar for directing American Beauty, 

and he directed the James Bond films 

Skyfall and Spectre. 

Composers: DAVID YAZBEK, 

57, is nominated for writing the score 

for the stage musical version of the hit 

film Tootsie. Last year, the musical The 

Band’s Visit, about the interaction of 

Egyptians and Israelis, swept the musical 

categories, and Yazbek won the 

Tony for his score (music & lyrics). 

Yazbek’s mother is Jewish. 

He competes in this category with 

his old friend ADAM GUETTEL, 

54, who wrote the score for To Kill a 

Mockingbird. Years ago, Guettel and 

Yazbek played in a band together. In 

2000, Guettel declined an offer to write 

the score for The Full Monty and gave 

Yazbek his big career break when Yazbek 

got the job because Guettel recommended 

him. Guettel is the grandson 

of the late great composer RICHARD 

RODGERS. His mother, the late 

MARY RODGERS, also composed 

(Once upon a Mattress) and wrote (the 

original Freaky Friday movie). Guettel 

won the best score Tony in 2005 for 

The Light in the Piazza. A musical 

co-written by his grandfather in 1943, 

Oklahoma!, is Tony-nominated this 

year in the best musical (revival) category. 

Oklahoma! vies with just one 

other revival for the Tony, Kiss Me, 

Kate. 

LARRY HOCHMAN, 65, is 

nominated for his orchestration for 

Kiss Me, Kate. He’s won four Emmys 

for his compositions and a Tony for 

orchestration (The Book of Mormon). 

His works include the orchestration of 

a Chanukah album and composing the 

song poem “In Memoriam” in commemoration 

of the Holocaust. 

Catching Up with Netflix Options 

Wine Country is an original Netflix 

film that premiered on May 10. It is a 

comedy/drama about six very different 

female friends who set out to sample 

new wines in Napa Valley, but end 

up re-examining and re-discovering 

their decades-long friendships. The 

actresses playing the friends include 

SNL veterans MAYA RUDOLPH, 46, 

RACHEL DRATCH, 53, Tina Fey 

and Amy Poehler (who also directed). 

Poehler says the film is loosely based 

on an actual trip that she and some 

other women took to Napa to celebrate 

Dratch’s birthday. 

Last March, a 50 th anniversary 

Laugh-In special was filmed live at 

Los Angeles’ Dolby Theater. The 

tape of the special premiered on Netflix 

on May 14. It’s hosted by original 

Laugh-In cast member Lily Tomlin, 

who appears as two of her famous 

Laugh-In characters. Jewish stars appearing 

include BILLY CRYSTAL, 

71, TIFFANY HADDISH, 39, BRAD 

GARRETT, 59, JON LOVITZ, 61, 

JEFF ROSS, 53, NATASHA LEG- 

GERO, 45, and MICHAEL DOUG- 

LAS, 74. Also appearing on stage was 

GEORGE SCHLATTER, 88, the 

creator of Laugh-In and a co-producer 

of the 50 th anniversary show. 

stay connected at 


Interested in Your 

Family’s History? 

Nate Bloom (see column above) has become a family history expert in 10 

years of doing his celebrity column, and he has expert friends who can help 

when called on. Most family history experts charge $1,000 or more to do a 

full family-tree search. However, Bloom knows that most people want to start 

with a limited search of one family line. 

So here’s the deal: 

Write Bloom at nteibloom@aol.com and enclose a phone number. 

Nate will then contact you about starting a limited search. If that 

goes well, additional and more extensive searches are possible. 

The first search fee is no more than $100. No upfront cost. Also, 

several of this newspaper’s readers have asked Bloom to locate 

friends and family members from their past, and that’s worked out 

great for them. So contact him about this as well. 


Your Vision. 

Our Expertise. 

With over three decades of 

construction excellence, Kaye 

Lifestyle Homes is the premier 

homebuilder and renovations 

expert in the Naples area. Voted 

Builder of the Year for Collier 

County by the Florida Home 

Builders Association. 

Olde Naples Charm 

The Bermuda 

Seagate Charm 

19 

239.434.KAYE 

www.kayelifestylehomes.com 

910 39 th Street SW 

Naples, Florida 34117


Thinking about joining the 

Men’s Cultural Alliance? 

Here’s what our current members say… 

“MCA creates a vital and 

active association of Jewish 

men who keep one another 

busy learning, playing, 

exploring the community 

and supporting one 

another.” 

Steve Yussen 

Member Since 2014 

“MCA takes the random out 

of retirement. It’s 

a consistent group of friends 

sharing good times together!” 

Gene Goldenziel 


”When we moved to Naples I 

was really worried that my 

husband would have a hard 

time meeting people. 

Because of MCA, he has more 

friends than I ever could have 

imagined." 

Zelda Rosenkrantz 

Wife of MCA Member 

“MCA, through its members 

and wonderful program 

offerings, contributes greatly to 

making Naples a special place 

to live. ” 

Marc Saperstein 


"Coming from a Midwest 

community with a small Jewish 

population, I am pleased that 

MCA offers me so many 

different opportunities to get 

to know fellow Jews from 

around the country." 

Bruce Sherman 


Want to meet other Jewish men in Naples? 

Want to enjoy life in a way you 

didn’t know was possible? 

Then go to www.mcanaples.org 

and join the MCA! 

ISRAEL & THE JEWISH WORLD 

14 must-read books 

about Israel 

To help you get to grips with this fascinating country, we’ve 

put together a reading list of the 14 best books to help you 

understand Israel’s history, culture and technology. 

By Jessica Halfin, ISRAEL21c.org 

In this advanced digital age sometimes 

it’s still nice to receive a good 

book that can be held in your hands, 

flipped through and used as a learning 

tool in your household. 

The following 14 English-language 

books, all from the last decade, are 

excellent representations of Israel in 

food, culture, history, technology and 

children’s literature, written by leading 

authors, illustrators and photographers 

from Israel and the English-speaking 

world. 

Each one would make a stellar gift 

for family or friends with a broad range 

of interests, or would do as just a little 

something for yourself to learn about 

one of the most fascinating countries 

in the world. 

Nonfiction 

Israel: A Concise History of a Nation 

Reborn by Daniel Gordis 

This refresher course on Israel’s short 

yet complex history, written by an author 

and columnist 

for the Jerusalem 

Post and Bloomberg 

View, is a 

good book to read 

before passing it 

on to your friends 

and family. 

From his 

home base in Jerusalem, 

Daniel Gordis delves into more 

than just what’s written in the history 

books, writing about Israel’s political, 

social and economic developments and 

other cultural achievements, while asking 

questions like: “Why does such a 

small country speak to so many global 

concerns?” and “Why does Israel make 

the decisions it does?” It’s a reminder 

of the facts and triumphs we all need to 

brush up on now and again. 

No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, 

Imagination and the Making of Modern 

Israel by Shimon Peres 

A personal account from the man who 

had a front-row seat for it all, this inspirational 

autobiography by Israel’s late 

ninth prime minister is filled with all the 

wisdom Peres soaked up during his 70- 

year stint in Israeli politics. Readers get 

a deeper look into what went on behind 

the scenes during Israel’s greatest trying 

moments and moral dilemmas. 

History/Coffee-Table Books 

Israel Rising: Ancient Prophecy/Modern 

Lens by Doug Hershey 

Drawing upon biblical prophecy regarding 

the future blossoming of the land of 

Israel, this coffee-table book compares 

pictures from the 1880s to 1940s with 

modern views of Israel, to show how 

far the country has come: sandy deserts 

turned into booming metropolises, fertile 

agriculture, and a society that has 

grown to become one of the world’s 

leaders in technology. 

Israel Rising is a fascinating reminder 

that Israel’s achievements of the 

modern era were built up from scratch 

on the backs of pioneers. 

A History of Israel: From the Bronze 

Age through the Jewish Wars by Walter 

C. Kaiser Jr. and Paul D. Wegner 

Reviewers have called this a “personal 

library” going back thousands of years 

to explain the history of Israel from the 

very beginning. An encyclopedia of 

history from a biblical, historical and 

archaeological perspective, this large 

volume contains over 600 photographs, 

maps and other sources that will turn 

your coffee table into an informative 

museum-like experience. 

The Story of the Holy Land: A Visual 

History by Peter Walker 

The story of Israel through modern 

photographs, 

drawings and 

explanations 

by a professor 

of biblical 

studies at 

Trinity School 

for Ministry in 

Pennsylvania, 

this book examines 

Israel and the many conquests 

of its land from biblical to modern 

times. Filled with history explained in 

Walker’s compelling style of factual 

storytelling, it should have a spot in your 

library or on your coffee table. 

Food 

Israeli Soul by Michael Solomonov 

This new bible of Israeli food by the 

unofficial ambassador of Israeli cuisine, 

American chef Michael Solomonov, is 

the culmination of his personal travels 

and experiences in Israel and in running 

his Jewish- and Israeli-themed American 

restaurants. 

You’ll be delighted to find Israeli 

flavors infused into paletta popsicles; 

recipes that are lesser known outside 

of Israel, such as mafroum; and Solomonov’s 

famous hummus and quick 

tahini sauce. 

Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and 

Sami Tamimi 

More than just a cookbook, Jerusalem – 

by Israeli-Jewish culinary legend Yotam 

Ottolenghi and his former restaurant 

partner Sami Tamimi, an Israeli-Arab 

who grew up on 

the other side of 

the city from Ottolenghi 

– is a 

book of cultural 

evaluation, insight 

and food. 

Including 

traditional Jewish 

and Arab 

recipes, a plethora of information and 

stories about the city, and beautiful photographs, 

this is one book that should be 

on the shelf of every Israel supporter and 

culinary enthusiast. 

Innovation 

Thou Shalt Innovate: How Israeli 

Ingenuity Repairs the World by Avi 

Jorisch 

An updated guide to Israel’s innovative 

spirit and global goodwill that piggybacks 

off the famous Start-Up Nation 

(2009) but with a different angle, Thou 

Shalt Innovate not only discusses stateof-the-art 

Israeli medicine, agriculture, 

water and defense technologies and 

the developers behind them, but also 

takes a look at why Israeli culture is so 

compatible with the spirit of innovation, 

and how the contributions in each field 

can continue to change the world for the 

better in the future. 

Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution 

for a Water-Starved World by Seth M. 

Siegel 

Leading the field in water processing 

and conservation, Israelis are known 

continued on next page 

For daily news stories related 

to Israel & the Jewish world, 

visit www.jewishnaples.org.



21 

14 must-read books about Israel...continued from previous page 

around the world trator Rachel Mintz – for the modern 

for creating agriculture 

and life on pictures of yesteryear are replaced with 

Jewish child or teen. Inside, the stuffy 

the very little water 

that they have. leaders, Jewish holy sites, and of course 

70 modern scenes of Tel Aviv, Israel’s 

In Let There the beach, waiting to be brought to life 

Be Water, Siegel with the colors of your choice. 

breaks down the A Year in the Garden (Shana BaGina) 

science behind Gardening Calendar by Ilana Stein 

Israel’s greatest A calendar that is a beautiful and invaluable 

resource for beginning home- 

water technology discoveries, and the 

impact this knowledge can and will steaders or gardeners in Israel, this 

have around the world as water shortages 

and crises are steadily becoming a forager, master gardener and illustrator 

calendar – written and illustrated by 

daily reality. 

Ilana Stein – is a must-have for anyone 

Children’s Books 

who aspires to grow their own fresh 

Fast Asleep in a Little Village in Israel fruits, vegetables and herbs according 

by Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod 

to the Israeli seasons. It’s filled with 

Ever wonder what sound a rooster information pertaining to each month 

makes in Hebrew? You’ll find out in such as what to plant, when and how, 

this touching children’s book that takes as well as fun facts, bonus recipes 

place in a small village in Israel. and markers for Jewish holidays and 

With an infusion of Hebrew words moon-phases. 

and Israeli cultural nuances, and with DIY Tel Aviv – Your Alternative City 

soft watercolor illustrations by Tiphanie Guide by Shimrit Elisar 

Beeke, this book will help you hear the An underground city guide that gets 

sounds of rural Israel and help your updated once a year, this DIY guide to 

youngster get a peek at everyday life Tel Aviv is one way to gain inside info 

here – noisy as it can be. 

on the city’s alternative non-touristy 

The Colors of Israel by Rachel Raz 

scene, including 

all the “se- 

Encourage your children to learn their 

colors through the vibrant scenes 

cret” clubs, 

of Israeli 

cafés, clothing 

cities and 

boutiques and 

sites in this 

more. 

beautiful 

Get this 

children’s 

book for your 

book. From 

family member 

planning 

the striking 

orange of 

the big move 

the fruit bundles at a Tel Aviv juice to Israel, or just to brush up for your 

stand to the red of the Israeli mail van, next visit to the Holy Land’s modern 

this book is a fun gift of Israeli culture cultural center. 

and learning for all. 

Jessica Halfi n is an American immigrant 

who arrived in Israel in 2006. 

Coloring books, calendars and guides 

Israel 70 Year Independence Coloring She is an Israeli-trained baker, gourmet 

Book by Rachel Mintz 

cook, food and culture writer, and gives 

Buy this – or any of the many other foodie tours to tourists in Haifa City. 

Israel-themed coloring books of illus- 

EDUCATION & TRAINING 

Fellowship Trained 

Cornea / Cataract Surgery / Refractive Surgery / Uveitis 

University of California at Davis 

Residency in Ophthalmology 

University of Florida 

Internship in Internal Medicine 

Stanford Teaching Hospital 

Doctor of Medicine 

University of South Florida 

Bachelor of Science 

University of South Florida 

Bachelor of Arts 

University of Virginia 

NATIONAL AFFILIATIONS 

American Board of Ophthalmology, Diplomate 

American College of Surgeons, Fellow 

American Academy of Ophthalmology 

American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery 

LOCAL AFFILIATIONS 

Lee Health 

Lee County Medical Society 

Naples Community Hospitals 

Collier County Medical Society 

Lighthouse of Collier, Board Member 

Ginsberg Eye is proud to be the only 

Blue Zones Project recognized Ophthalmology 

practice in Southwest Florida. 

PRACTICE FOCUS 

Advanced Cataract Surgery 

Clear Lens Exchange Surgery 

Consultative Ophthalmology 

Diseases and Surgery of the Cornea 

Dry Eye Disease 

Dysport ® /Botox ® Cosmetic & Facial Fillers 

Glaucoma Care and Surgery 

Implantable Contact Lens Surgery 

LASIK 

Uveitis 

239.325.2015 

77 8th Street South, Suite B, Naples, FL 34102 

ginsbergeye.com 

No pest issues means... 

No pest issues means... 

More time & places to relax! 

Call Now! 

Receive a FREE inspection and 

save $50 off your new Pest 

Control service agreement. 

*Applicable to new annual service agreement 

& does not apply to Value Packages. 

239•494•3544 

PEST•TERMITE•RODENT•LAWNTERMITE•RODENT•LAWN 

TM 

IAM 

International Association of Movers



FIDF supporters heading to Poland and Israel S 

with Holocaust survivors and Israeli military officersJ 

NEW YORK, April 15 – More 

than 40 Friends of the Israel 

Defense Forces (FIDF) supporters 

from across the country will embark 

on a mission to Poland and Israel, 

May 2-10, with Holocaust survivors 

and alongside 45 soldiers and officers 

representing all branches of the Israel 

Defense Forces (IDF). 

Joining the delegation will be Holocaust 

survivor Sophie Tajch Klisman, 

89, of Detroit. Klisman, along with her 

sister Felicia survived the Auschwitz, 

Bergen-Belsen and Salzwedel concentration 

camps. The youngest of four 

children, she was only 10 years old 

when Nazi Germany occupied Lodz, 

forcing the family into the Lodz ghetto 

of 68,000 Jews. Both sisters were liberated 

from Salzwedel in April 1945, and 

immigrated to the U.S. in 1949, settling 

in the Detroit area. The 

remainder of their family 

perished. 

“If I look at the 

rest of the family, they 

were already adults and 

grown-ups and here was 

this child; that was just a 

miracle that I survived; 

it was meant for me to 

survive,” Klisman said. 

“I just hope in conclusion, 

that nobody, nobody 

should have to live 

through such terrors, 

such horrible conditions 

at such a young age, or at any age. It was 

a horrible experience, but I’m glad that 

I finally was able to tell it.” 

Also joining the mission will be 

Holocaust survivor Gizella “Gita” 

Mann, 89, of Israel. Mann’s community 

in Hungary was forced into a ghetto 

and later brought to Auschwitz, where 

Sophie Tajch Klisman, a Holocaust 

survivor from Detroit, in 2012 

Oceanfront Gated Estate with 

4 Residences 

Four homes on approximately six acres: two main homes of 4,450 

and 4,250 square feet, and two guest homes of 1,800 square 

feet each, all abutting a 40-acre mangrove preserve on Key Largo. 

Each home features a private elevator, gourmet kitchen, custom 

staircase, and captivating 180° ocean views. The private channel 

with nine-slip marina comes with submerged land rights. Two 

saltwater pools, a clubhouse, workshop and video security system 

complete this private waterfront paradise. Asking $10,900,000. 

SINATRA SCHWARTZ 

GROUP 

she and her sister were separated from 

their family. Gita was later separated 

from her sister and sent 

to Germany, where she 

worked for most of the 

war. After narrowly escaping 

death, she was taken to 

Sweden and stayed there 

until 1946. She returned 

to Hungary after the war 

and reunited with her sister 

and three brothers. In 

1948, she moved with 

her then-fiancé to Israel, 

where she stayed until 

emigrating to the U.S. in 

1964, and finally returning 

to Israel five years ago. Mann has two 

children who live in New Jersey, and she 

currently lives in Jerusalem. 

Led by FIDF National President 

Bobby Cohen and FIDF 

National Director and 

CEO Maj. Gen. (Res.) 

Meir Klifi-Amir, the 

nine-day “From Holocaust 

to Independence” 

mission will span Jewish 

history, from its 

darkest moments to its 

most triumphant. Israeli 

soldiers and Holocaust 

survivors will 

accompany the FIDF 

supporters on a trip 

across Poland, starting 

in Krakow, once home 

to more than 60,000 Jews, and tracing 

the community’s steps from the city’s 

ghetto to the Buczyna forest, where the 

Nazis executed more than 800 children, 

and then to the Auschwitz-Birkenau 

concentration and extermination camps. 

The entire delegation will then fly 

to Israel on an Israeli Air Force (IAF) 

The location, the style, the feeling you get when you walk through 

the door – every aspect of your home should be a refl ection of 

who you are, where you’ve been and the life you aspire to live. 

Your best lifestyle begins with a home that inspires you. 

airplane, after the IDF Chief of the 

General Staff granted the FIDF delegation 

exclusive access, 

and land at an IAF 

base. The group will 

visit IDF bases and 

meet soldiers serving 

on Israel’s front 

lines, commemorate 

Yom HaZikaron – Israel’s 

Memorial Day 

for fallen soldiers and 

victims of terror – and 

celebrate Israel’s 71 st 

Independence Day. 

“This historic 

mission will survey 

Jewish modern history through the eyes 

of those who survived the horrors of the 

Holocaust and those who risk their lives 

to defend the Jewish homeland,” said 

Klifi-Amir. “We’ll celebrate our story 

of heroism – from near annihilation, to 

the triumph of establishing the State of 

Israel. When we march tall and proud 

through the gates of the Auschwitz- 

Birkenau camps, together with Holocaust 

survivors, FIDF supporters and 

45 Israeli officers in uniform, gratefully 

flying the Israeli flag, we will send a 

clear message: that we are here, we will 

never forget, and we will do whatever 

we must do to protect our country and 

Gizella “Gita” Mann 

ISRAEL’S POPULATION 

REACHES 9 MILLION 

The Central Bureau of Statistics on 

Thursday, May 2, reported that the 

number of residents in Israel stood at 

9,009,000 in March. The number of 

Jews is 6,738,500, or 74.8%. (Zeev 

Klein, Israel Hayom) 

539 MULTINATIONALS 

OPERATE IN ISRAEL 

There are 539 multinational corporations 

(MNC) from 35 countries operating 

in Israel’s tech ecosystem, according 

to a report by Start-Up Nation Central 

(SNC) and PwC Israel. 

55% of these MNCs are headquartered 

in the U.S., 27% in Europe 

and 15% in the Asia-Pacific, including 

China. 

There are more than 6,600 startups 

in Israel, 14 times the concentration of 

startups per capita in Europe. 

While Israel has just 1% of the 

BRIEFS 

our people to guarantee – Never Again.” 

“This mission serves as one of the 

last opportunities for survivors to return 

to Auschwitz and share its dreadful 

stories,” said Cohen. “We will walk 

through the gates of hell, where countless 

Jews suffered and perished at the 

hands of the Nazis. We will ensure the 

stories of survivors live on, safeguarded 

by those brave soldiers who defend and 

protect the State of Israel, and Jewish 

people around the world.” 

About Friends of the Israel Defense 

Forces (FIDF): 

FIDF was established in 1981 by a 

group of Holocaust survivors as a 501(c) 

(3) not-for-profit organization with 

the mission of offering educational, 

cultural, recreational and social programs 

and facilities that provide hope, 

purpose and life-changing support for 

the soldiers who protect Israel and Jews 

worldwide. Today, FIDF has more than 

150,000 loyal supporters and 20 chapters 

throughout the United States and 

Panama. FIDF proudly supports IDF 

soldiers, families of fallen soldiers, and 

wounded veterans through a variety of 

innovative programs that reinforce the 

vital bond between the communities in 

the United States, the soldiers of the 

IDF and the State of Israel. For more 

information, visit www.fidf.org. 

world’s population, it attracts 19% of 

global investment in cybersecurity, 

ranks number one in R&D expenditures 

per GDP, and attracts the highest rate 

of venture capital funding per capita in 

the world. (Shoshanna Solomon, Times 

of Israel) 

NIKKI HALEY: “MOST 

COUNTRIES ENVY ISRAEL” 

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, 

speaking at the Shaar Hashamayim 

synagogue in Montreal on Wednesday, 

April 10, called her veto vote that paved 

the way for the U.S. Embassy in Israel to 

move to Jerusalem “one of my proudest 

moments.” 

“I felt like I was fighting for the 

truth and for what was right. And I was 

mad. Every country has the sovereign 

right to put their embassy wherever 

they choose.” 

“The U.S. always chooses to have 

its embassy in the capital. Jerusalem 

continued on next page 

Heading North? 

If you’re heading north at the end of 

the season, we’ll miss you! So let’s stay 

in touch. Please help us update our files 

by providing us with your northern 

address. 

Please choose one of the following methods 

to provide us with the information below: 

• call us at 239.263.4205 

• email your information to info@jewishnaples.org 

• complete this form and fax it to 239.263.3813 

• complete and mail this form to: 


2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd., Ste. 2201, Naples, FL 34109 

Thank you! 

Name: ____________________________________________________ 

Northern Address: _________________________________________ 

DEBBIE 

SCHWARTZ 

c 239.887.5245 o 239.434.2424 

Debbie.Schwartz@PremierSIR.com 

DebbieSchwartz.PremierSothebysRealty.com 

REBECCA 

SINATRA 

c 239.227.8556 o 239.434.2424 

Rebecca.Sinatra@PremierSIR.com 

RebeccaSinatra.PremierSothebysRealty.com 

_________________________________________________________ 

Northern Phone: __________________________________________ 

Email: ____________________________________________________ 

Leaving SW Florida: _______________________________________ 

PremierSothebysRealty.com 

Each office is independently owned and operated. Equal Housing Opportunity. 

Returning to SW Florida: ____________________________________

COMMENTARY 

Suggestion: A Museum of 

Jewish Accomplishment 

riefs...continued from previous page 

s the capital of Israel. The rest of the 

orld can’t hide what we know as fact.” 

She noted, “If you actually go into 

the quiet corners of the UN, most countries 

don’t hate Israel, most envy Israel.” 

She said of UN resolutions, “I don’t 

think they matter.” Member states are 

not actually required to abide by UN 

resolutions. (Charles Duncan, Kansas 

City Star) 

ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACKS 

SPIKE, KILLING MOST 

JEWS IN DECADES 

Israeli researchers reported Wednesday, 

May 1, that violent attacks against Jews 

spiked significantly last year, with the 

largest reported number of Jews killed 

in anti-Semitic acts in decades, leading 

to an “increasing sense of emergency” 

By Paul H. Rubin 

There are about 70 Holocaust 

museums and memorials in 

the United States, located in 

26 states and the District of Columbia. 

There are six in Florida. While the 

Holocaust was the major event in recent 

Jewish history, it is also the low 

point of Jewish history. It is important 

to remember the Holocaust, but there 

are enough museums documenting this 

disaster. 

I propose that someone build a museum 

showing the accomplishments of 

the Jewish people, a “Museum of Jewish 

Accomplishments.” 

Such a museum would provide a 

view of Jews as something other than 

victims. It could also serve as a source 

of pride for young Jews who may not 

understand what the Jewish people 

have accomplished. It might lead some 

non-Jews and perhaps even anti-Semites 

to understand the extent to which 

modern life depends on Jewish contributions. 

The elements of such a museum 

are not hard to visualize. I would suggest 

five major parts to the Museum, 

each with separate galleries. 

First would be intellectual accomplishments 

based on Nobel Prizes. 

Twenty-three percent of Nobel Prizes 

have been awarded to Jews – 203 Jews 

of 902 total prizes. Each Prize area 

could have its own gallery. The gallery 

would list all the winners, with pictures 

and biographies. Then in each gallery 

there could be a special exhibit of those 

whose work is most understandable 

and most closely related to modern life 

or most famous. For example, Einstein 

in physics and Friedman in economics. 

The next division could deal with 

entertainment. Obvious candidates are 

movies, TV, music and theater. The 

very foundations of the movie industry 

came from Jews: Warner Brothers 

and MGM, for example. William Paley 

was an important developer of radio 

and TV. Of course, winners of Oscars 

(actors, directors, producers) and other 

awards have been heavily Jewish. Jews 

have been important in the theater; 

most of the hit musicals had Jewish 

authors. (Recall the song in Spamalot 

which says, “You Gotta Have Jews.”) 

In these galleries, pictures of stars and 

perhaps clips of songs or movies would 

be included. 

Another set of galleries could deal 

with business. In retailing, Gimbels, 

Macy’s, Filene’s, I Magnin, Neiman- 

Marcus, Bloomingdales, Bergdorf 

Goodman, Rich’s of Atlanta, Kauffman’s 

of Pittsburgh, Lazarus of Columbus, 

Levi Strauss and, more recently, 

Home Depot were all established by 

Jews, often beginning as small pack 

peddlers. Sears Roebuck was largely 

run by Julius Rosenwald, who was also 

a great philanthropist. 

In technology, Sergey Brin and 

Larry Page, founders of Google; Steve 

Balmer of Microsoft; Mark Zuckerberg 

of Facebook; Lawrence Ellison 

of Oracle; Andrew Grove of Intel; and 

Michael Dell of Dell, among others, 

are all Jewish. 

Jews in finance (Rothschilds, 

Goldman-Sachs, Lehman Brothers, 

Janet Yellen, Larry Summers, Alan 

Greenspan) are also important. 

A major gallery could deal with 

philanthropy, including the Jewish role 

in the NAACP and other civil rights 

organizations. This could focus both 

on major donors such as Rosenwald 

and on the role of philanthropy among 

everyday Jews, including the famous 

“little blue box” that many Jews grew 

up with. 

The final gallery could deal with 

Israel. It could show, for example, the 

state of the land before 1948 and what 

it is like now. 

Three important points: First, the 

museum would have to be very careful 

not to stress or imply that Jews 

are in any sense better or more productive 

than other groups; rather, it 

would stress the absolute contributions 

of Jews toward our civilization. Second, 

in many cases, biographies could 

stress that many successful and famous 

American Jews were first- or secondgeneration 

descendants of refugees, 

so that no one could claim that Jewish 

success is due to “privilege.” Third, the 

museum should be positive, and should 

avoid any discussion of anti-Semitism. 

I am not rich enough to fund such 

a museum, and I am not an expert on 

museums, so this sketch is just a suggestion. 

But I feel strongly that we 

Jews have spent enough money documenting 

our failure, and it is now time 

to celebrate our achievements. 

Paul H. Rubin is Dobbs Professor of 

Economics Emeritus at Emory University 

in Atlanta, now living in Sarasota. 

He had several senior positions during 

the Reagan Administration and has 

written several books and academic 

articles, as well as numerous op-eds in 

The Wall Street Journal and other leading 

publications. He was president of 

the Southern Economic Association in 

2013. 

among Jewish communities worldwide. 

Assaults targeting Jews rose 13% in 

2018, according to Tel Aviv University 

researchers. They recorded nearly 400 

cases worldwide, with more than a 

quarter of the major violent cases taking 

place in the U.S. 

In Germany, there was a 70% increase 

in anti-Semitic violence. “There 

is an increasing sense of emergency 

among Jews in many countries around 

the world,” said Moshe Kantor, president 

of the European Jewish Congress. 

“It is now clear that anti-Semitism is no 

longer limited to the far-left, far-right 

and radical Islamist’s triangle. It has become 

mainstream and often accepted by 

civil society.” (Aron Heller, AP-Miami 

Herald) 

SIGN UP FOR THE FEDERATION’S 

WEEKLY COMMUNITY eNEWSLETTER! 

Get the latest information on upcoming community events 

and cultural activities, news from Israel and lots more. 

Send an email to info@jewishnaples.org 


ATTENTION 

23 

BUSINESS OWNERS, 

MANAGERS AND 

MARKETING 

PROFESSIONALS 

The 2020 edition 

of Connections 

A Guide to Jewish Living 

in Greater Naples 

is coming 

in December! 

Connections 

Evy Lipp 

People of 

the Book 

Celebrate 

Israel 

Israel Scouts 

2019 Guide to Jewish Living in Greater Naples 

Power of 

Community 

Celebration 

Jewish 

Book 

Festival 


Advertise your products or services 

in Connections and reach 8,000 

local Jewish readers. 

Connections will be mailed to 3,000 Jewish households 

in the Greater Naples area. An additional 2,000 

copies will be available at over 50 locations including 

the Naples Chamber of Commerce Visitors Center, the 

Jewish Federation office, synagogues, select hotels 

and retail outlets as well as at numerous events. 

You can also choose to advertise 

in the Federation’s annual 

Community Directory, which 

will be mailed to 3,000 Jewish 

households with Connections. 

COMMUNITY 

DIRECTORY 

2020 

The Jewish Federation of Greater Naples 

serves 3,000 Jewish households in Naples, Marco Island 

and the surrounding communities by recognizing 

and addressing the charitable, educational, cultural, 

humanitarian, and social service needs of the Jews 

in our community and around the world. 


2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 2201 


239.263.4205 www.jewishnaples.org 

Reserve your spot today. Premium 

positions are going fast in both 

publications! For more information 

and ad rates, contact Joy Walker at 

941.284.0520 or 

walkerjoy62@yahoo.com.


The pogroms: prelude to the Holocaust 

By Jerrold L. Sobel, ZOA of SWFL President 

Most people have no idea of the 

run-up to the Holocaust or the 

antecedent cultural, religious 

and socio-economic circumstances 

which the Jewish people have suffered 

for centuries. Most have heard of anti- 

Semitism but few, if any, even amongst 

Jews themselves, recognize that the 

Holocaust did not occur in a vacuum 

or that European anti-Semitism wasn’t 

invented in Germany. 

Over the centuries, for Jews living 

in Europe, during good times they 

were tolerated and, in some cases, even 

allowed to rise to positions of power. 

But rarely if ever were they accepted as 

equal citizens in a host country. 

Amid times of woe, which were 

more often than not, they became victims 

of persecution and, in many cases, 

mass murder. Stateless people from time 

immemorial, Jews have been quarry 

for xenophobic populations throughout 

Europe. Often these riots or pogroms, as 

they became known, were precipitated 

for a myriad of reasons: 

X 

X 

X 

X 

X 

Economic: Christians forbidden 

to take part in lending industries 

early in the Middle Ages turned to 

Jews for such practices. Often there 

was resentment when settlement of 

loans came due. 

Religious: Accusations of deicide. 

Blood Libel: Jews used Christian 

blood for ceremonial practices. 

Scapegoating: Monarchs and nobility 

blamed Jews during times of 

national and local deprivation. 

Natural Disasters: The plague 

which broke out in 1348 (The Black 

Death). 

The Month of April, when Easter 

and Passover are typically celebrated, 

have been a particularly vexing time 

for Jews. Religious passions ran particularly 

high during this time of year. 

But despite the massacres, looting 

and general deprivation Jews have suffered 

throughout the centuries, none had 

matched the hatred and ferocity wreaked 

upon them particularly in Russia and 

Ukraine. Between 1881 and 1922, more 

Jews were slaughtered and brought low 

during this four-decade period of time 

than all the prior centuries combined. 

The pogroms of this period set the stage 

for the Holocaust two decades later by 

convincing rulers and subjects alike, 

that there were no consequences for 

spilling Jewish blood. Voltaire summed 

it best: “It is forbidden to kill; therefore, 

all murderers are punished unless they 

kill in large numbers and to the sound 

of trumpets.” 

Within the aforementioned periods 

of incessant anti-Jewish rioting in 

Ukraine and Russia, none exceeded the 

savagery and intensity of the year 1919. 

In his seminal work “The Slaughter 

of the Jews in the Ukraine in 1919, Elias 

Heifetz states, “The terrible massacres 

in the Ukraine in the year 1919 set the 

whole land aflame and cannot compare 

with the pogroms in the eighties or during 

the first decade of the 20 th century.” 

Whereas the earlier epoch of anti- 

Jewish violence and debauchery were 

limited to robberies, destruction of 

property and assault, 1919 ushered in 

mass violence hereto unheard of. By 

1919, full-fledged massacres of Jews 

embraced not only the cities but spiraled 

from one village to another. Robbery 

and property destruction gave way to 

A country in shock – 

a local organization in mourning 

The tragic shooting at the Chabad of 

Poway County in San Diego shocked 

not only Jewish people but Americans 

across the country. 

Those of us who are members of 

Collier/Lee Hadassah mourn the loss of 

Hadassah member Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 

who was a member of Hadassah San 

Diego. 

Our Hadassah sister, one of 330,000 

across the country, was fatally shot 

while saving the rabbi at Sabbath morning 

services. Others were wounded, 

including Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein. 

We express our condolences to the 

Gilbert and Kaye families, and we offer 

prayers for a speedy recovery to the 

Opinions and letters printed in the Federation Star do not 

necessarily reflect those of the Jewish Federation of Greater 

Naples, its Board of Directors or staff, or its advertisers. 

Anti-Semitism: the hatred without end 

By Steve McCloskey, Naples Jewish Congregation President 

Over the last weekend in April, often monstrous lies and stereotypes. 

three events converged as the Anti-Semitism is, in fact, a type of terrorism. 

It has led to the branding of Jews 

catalyst for this article. First, 

I finished A Convenient Hatred: The as scapegoats, responsible for all of the 

History of Antisemitism, a history endorsed 

by the Anti-Defamation League. Hatred is not baked into our DNA. 

world’s ills for all time. 

Second, another murderous shooting Instead, it is an abhorrent learned behavior. 

Anti-Semitism is the ultimate 

happened, this time at a Chabad synagogue 

outside San Diego, six months to evil expression of the maxim that words 

the day after the horrific rampage at Tree really do matter. Words have tremendous 

power for evil or for good. The 

of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Third, 

I attended the Yom HaShoah service link between extremist language and 

in Naples, commemorating Holocaust actual violence is often indelible and 

Remembrance Day. 

inexorable. The arc from hate speech to 

Anti-Semitism is a visceral loathing, 

a malignant hatred so vile and has too often bent not toward tolerance, 

violence is short, and the arc of history 

pernicious as to be unprecedented in but rather annihilation. 

the annals of human experience. The What is perhaps most astounding 

basis for anti-Semitism is rooted and about the virulence that is anti-Semitism 

mired in ignorance and irrationality: is the fact that in an overwhelming 

fear of the other (the stranger), the blood number of incidents, the perpetrator or 

libel, deicide, conspiracy theories and perpetrators do not even know any Jews 

envy, among others. It is a persistent and have had no personal experience 

pestilence perpetuated by insidious and with them to account for such hatred 

Temple Shalom 

Sisterhood 

Judaica Shop 

The ONLY Judaica shop 

in the Greater Naples area 

We are closed for the summer. 

Open by appointment only. 

Please contact the Temple Shalom 

office for information on 

scheduling an appointment. 

Have a great summer! 

Temple Shalom 

4630 Pine Ridge Rd • Naples, FL 34119 

239-455-3030 

without parallel. As explained in A 

Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism, 

even though anti-Semitism 

is the longest hatred, it is almost always 

a current event – one that is triggered by 

the fears and anxieties of the day. 

These are turbulent and tumultuous 

times for Jews. There is a resurgence 

of and convergence of anti-Semitism 

against Jews from both the right and 

the left. From the right, its rise is tethered 

to the rise in white nationalism 

and populism, coupled with the political 

“mainstreaming” of hate speech. 

From the left, its rise is often linked 

to anti-Zionism and scapegoating of 

Jews in the international arena, tied 

to the BDS movement and other pro- 

Palestinian causes. One of the most 

common stereotypes today is that Jews 

are engaged in a worldwide conspiracy 

with the aim of world domination. This 

is in part precipitated by those who 

are flummoxed by and distraught over 

Letter to the Editor 

COMMENTARY 

wanton killings for killing sake alone. 

Large cities such as Odessa and Kiev 

were overwhelmed by Jews being indiscriminately 

murdered. Reportedly, 

over 1,326 pogroms took place during 

this year across Ukraine alone with an 

estimated 30,000 to 70,000 Jews being 

butchered. On February 15 this year, the 

Jewish people memorialized the 100- 

year anniversary of possibly the most 

macabre massacre in Jewish history 

precedent the Holocaust, the Proskurov 

Pogrom. 

According to Stanislav Tunis, in 

his book Pogroms in Ukraine 1919, the 

Proskurov Pogrom set a new phase in 

the way these anti-Semitic riots were 

conducted. Whereas Jews had become 

accustomed to limited violence and 

destruction of property, Proskurov was 

new. Its intended goal was the entire 

destruction of the Jewish population in 

that town; genocide, a word the world 

would become all too familiar with two 

decades hence. The pogrom itself began 

in January 1919 and waxed and waned 

until August of that year. 

As background, following the fall 

of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, a dual 

set of revolutions took place both 

there and in Ukraine. A nationalist, 

Provisional government took the reins 

of state power and wished to continue 

fighting the Germans prior to the end of 

World War I. They were opposed by a 

compendium of Soviet Socialists known 

as Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin, 

whose main support came mainly from 

the village peasants and workers. Adding 

to the tumult, within each side there 

were revolutionary gangs of marauding 

armies vying for control of state and local 

power as well. Seemingly, the only 

thing each side had in common was their 

hatred for the defenseless Jewish population 

that was scapegoated for every 

respective setback either had. So it was 

on the eve of the Proskurov Pogrom. On 

February 15, 1919, a nationalist group 

of Cossacks led by General Ataman 

Semosenko got word that Bolsheviks 

were planning a coup against the local 

government in Proskurov. Describing 

Jews as the “eternal enemies” of the 

Ukrainian people, Semosenko ordered 

his troops to exterminate as many Jews 

as possible but forbade them to touch 

property belonging to them. This was 

no doubt a message of hate to surviving 

Jews: the massacre wasn’t about property 

and pillage. Within a few hours, 

Semosenko’s troops murdered some 

1,500 Jews. 

From there, they went on to a nearby 

town, Filshtein, where they killed another 

600 of the town’s 1,900 Jews, this 

time without any restrictions on robbery, 

rape or looting. 

This entire period of pogroms, 

between 1917-1922 and particularly 

Proskurov in 1919, was a wakeup call 

to many Jews in Eastern Europe. It 

was time to leave. Those who saw the 

handwriting on the wall heeded the 

Zionist calls of Theodore Herzl and 

later Ze’ev Jabotinsky and headed for 

Palestine. Others found their way to the 

United States where anti-Semitism was 

likewise widespread but personal safety 

was protected by law and they were free 

from fear of genocide. Unfortunately, 

for the vast majority who didn’t leave 

Europe, their fate would be sealed 20 

years thereafter. 

the resilience of the Jewish people. 

These anti-Semitic tropes fill the 

malevolent recesses of the internet and 

are front and center on the “dark web.” 

Hate groups are no longer geographically 

constrained. They can meet in 

chat rooms on social media to spew 

their venomous ideas about Jews and 

other often marginalized peoples. The 

lies and stereotypes that are the essence 

of anti-Semitism rely on confirmation 

bias and get repeated so much that they 

assume the status of facts, even though 

they are clearly “fake news.” 

We Jews have no room for complacency 

or apathy. The rising tide of 

anti-Semitism is for us to refute and to 

combat. We ignore it at our peril. As is 

the case with other threats, when you see 

or hear anti-Semitism, you have to say 

something. You need to call it out for 

what it is, a blatant and vicious hatred 

that has no place in a civilized society. 

To do anything else is not enough. 

wounded victims. 

We express our grief to others of 

different faiths around the country and 

around the world who are victims of 

violence and hate. 

Sadly, the shooting in San Diego 

follows six months to the day after 11 

people were killed in the shooting at the 

Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. 

Collier/Lee Hadassah stands against 

the virulent anti-Semitism gripping so 

many areas of our country. According 

to the ACLU, anti-Semitic incidents 

and attacks have increased by 60% in 

the United States in the last year alone. 

This shocking escalation in hate, 

both at home and abroad, requires swift 

and broad action by our local, state and 

national leaders. 

A part of Hadassah’s policy priorities 

includes our efforts to combat hate, 

the awful actions and acts that follow, 

and focuses on supporting and encouraging 

all of us, including our legislators, 

to support and pass the Never Again 

Education Act. This bill would expand 

Holocaust education and anti-hate curricula 

in schools across America. As 

members of Hadassah, we reaffirm our 

commitment to fighting anti-Semitism 

and hate wherever they are present. 

All lives are affected when one 

is taken, and persecution or violence 

based on religious beliefs has no place 

in America. 

Now joined in common grief, we 

believe that education is the answer to 

religious bias, hate and racism. Join us 

in supporting the Never Again Education 

Act. Encourage your Congressional 

representatives and senators to support 

it as well. 

If not now, when? 

– Diane Schwartz, President, 

Collier/Lee Hadassah

COMMENTARY 


25 

At Your Service! 

Hilton Naples proudly supports the 

Greater Naples Jewish Book Festival. 

Collier County Jewish Book Festival. 

5111 Tamiami Trail North I Naples, FL 34103 

239.430.4900 I HiltonNaples.com I ShulasNaples.com


“Are we THERE yet?” 

Rabbi 

Mark Wm. 

Gross 

This summer season hearkens 

back to the innocent days of 

childhood, when everyone piled 

in the family car for family vacation. 

The way along the highway was marked 

not so much with mile-markers, as with 

the repeated inquiry from the back seat: 

“Are we THERE yet?” 

To which, your friendly neighborhood 

rabbi offers the world’s greatest 

parental intervention. Cock your head 

thoughtfully and, with a carefully 

modulated demeanor, share with your 

youngsters this profound philosophical 

observation: “As it happens, kids, we 

are never ‘there;’ we’re always HERE.” 

That’s more than a spatial truism, 

and more than a linguistic quip to keep 

the children thinking. It is ultimately a 

metaphor for the meaningfulness of life, 

as taught in the Torah. 

Consider that, when we first meet 

our forebear Abraham, he is migrating 

with his father Terach across the width 

of the known world. Genesis 11 tells us 

that Terach, who departed Ur to go to 

Canaan, got only as far as Haran and 

settled there. The next chapter depicts 

Abraham departing Haran and following 

God to The Promised Land – which is 

Canaan. The father began the journey, 

but the son completed it. 

Centuries later, with the birth of 

the Israelite nation through the Exodus 

experience, our liberated slave forebears 

left Egypt for The Promised Land. The 

next 40 years were spent in the Wilderness, 

training a new generation of 

Israelites free of a slave mentality, who 

would be capable of nation-building in 

the Land to which we were bound. The 

parents began the journey, but their 

children completed it. 

The Second Book of Samuel describes 

how King David, ashamed of his 

own arrogance, seeks to make amends 

with God (and to ameliorate his own 

presumptuous soul) by purchasing the 

threshing-floor of Aravnah to build a 

shrine to God. But the First Book of 

Kings makes it clear that the privilege of 

building God’s Own House in Jerusalem 

went not to David, the man of blood and 

warfare, but rather to his heir Solomon, 

a scholar and philosopher and man of 

peace. The father planned the project, 

but his son brought it into fruition. 

This is myth in the truest sense: a 

great truth, encapsulated in accessible 

and readily understandable terms. All 

three biblical narratives point to the 

reality that none of us is constitutionally 

capable of attaining our life’s goals. 

We’re not talking here about having 

a seasonal home on the Gulf coast of 

Florida, or a Gulfstream jet. Rather, it’s 

a matter of the bigger and more comprehensive 

goals that feel not just elusive 

but unattainable: achieving world peace; 

bringing about the redemption of the human 

family; ushering in the messianic 

era of orderliness and kindness. 

What matters is not that we don’t 

(and possibly can’t) accomplish these 

great ends. What matters is that it is in 

such worthy directions that we choose to 

reach. We may in fact always be “here,” 

and never “there”… but the fact that 

the “there” in question is so ennobling 

lends meaning to all the “heres” along 

the way. 

May your way be blessed by the 

worthiness of the destination you aim 

toward along the road of life. 

Rabbi Mark Gross serves at the Jewish 

Congregation of Marco Island. 

What do you think? 

The Federation Star wants to know! 

Send your letters and comments to 

fedstar18@gmail.com 

Letters Policy 

Include your name, full address and daytime phone. Letters should 

be no longer than 300 words. We reserve the right to edit for length 

and/or accuracy. Letters do not necessarily reflect the viewpoint of 

the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples, the Federation Star or its 

advertisers. We cannot acknowledge or publish every letter received. 

Presents The Israel Scouts 

Tuesday, June 11 at 7:00 p.m. 

4630 Pine Ridge Road, Naples 

No RSVP required for this free event! 

7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Main performance: The Scouts are bright and dynamic performers. Their singing, dancing 

and storytelling are high-energy and upbeat. They have an intense love for the land and the 

people of Israel, and a strong desire to share that passion with you. They will have you 

singing and dancing in your seat and, if you are lucky, dancing with them. 

8:00 - 8:30 p.m. Meet, greet and photo ops with the Scouts and an opportunity to purchase CDs and T-shirts 

Experience the excitement 

and energy of Israel like 

never before! We hope to 

see you on June 11. 

This Israel Scouts performance 

is co-sponsored by 

& 

The Israel Scouts Friendship Caravan is made up of five 

girls, five boys and two Caravan leaders from all over 

Israel. In order to be in the Caravan, these teenagers 

(16 and 17 years old) went through a highly competitive 

selection process and were chosen based on their 

maturity, fluency in English, and performance skills. 

Scouting is big in Israel, with over 60,000 members. 

Those chosen to participate here are selected for 

their ability to best represent the State of Israel. As 

Israeli delegates, these teens have a love for Israel and 

a desire to share that with North Americans. 

The Scouts spend the 10 weeks of summer performing 

in synagogues and churches, schools and 

summer camps, even nursing homes – wherever people 

want to share their love for Israel. 

Just Jewish 

Rabbi 

Adam F. 

Miller 

Walking into a grocery store 

to shop these days requires 

not only a shopping list, but 

also a significant dedication of time and 

brain power. Pick up any item from the 

shelf, and one finds a label with more 

information than ever before. The list 

of ingredients painstakingly documents 

every single item that went into the preparation 

of the food. Beneath that, one 

usually finds a separate list indicating 

commonly known allergens – milk, soy, 

wheat, nuts, etc. Following that is often 

an additional note indicating whether 

the food was packaged in a plant that 

may result in cross-contamination. All 

that, and you have yet to read the nutritional 

guide or even price comparison 

across brands. 

Although we may sarcastically 

mock the growth of these labels, the labels 

serve an important purpose – warning 

us against products that may contain 

elements dangerous to our health or that 

we simply desire to avoid. Indeed, we 

live in a society full of labels. Informed 

consumers rely on labels when purchasing 

everything from food and clothing 

to appliances and vehicles in order to 

make educated decisions. Being able to 

separate what we want, from what we 

don’t want, empowers us. 

We use labels not only for our benefit 

as consumers, but in almost every 

aspect of our lives. Individuals often 

identify by gender, religion, political 

interests or passions. These labels alone 

do not create disharmony. However, 

using labels of identity like consumers 

can exacerbate divisions within society. 

As a consumer, when we see one item 

on a label that we either don’t like, or 

cannot consume, we correctly reject 

the whole product. Human beings, 

however, are far more nuanced than a 

simple ingredient on a label. Learning 

that someone identifies by a label does 

nothing more than tell us a term that 

person feels is descriptive for them. 

Unlike ingredients, these labels are not 

concrete and objective. Each person interprets 

the label in a subjective manner. 

Which means that one cannot assume 

a complete understanding for what the 

person means when they apply the label. 

In other words, two different people 

could use the same term to describe 

themselves, yet not agree exactly on 

what that means. In addition, the use of 

a label does not indicate how significant 

that element is to the person’s overall 

COMMENTARY 

identity. A person may feel the term 

applies to some degree, but that other 

parts of their identity are more important 

when it comes to making decisions. 

As a result of all this uncertainty, 

one should not reject a person only for 

having a label with which you do not 

agree. Rather, we should search for 

shared labels, ways that we can connect 

to others. Nowhere is this search for 

common labels and unity more important 

than within our own Jewish community, 

where many labels are prevalent. 

We have Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist 

and Orthodox Jews, as well 

as Zionist, kosher, progressive, traditional, 

observant, cultural, culinary and 

“not-so-religious” Jews. To the extent 

that these labels serve to describe how 

we express our Jewish identity, they are 

indeed positive. Affiliation with a movement, 

for example, can indicate whether 

a person prefers egalitarian or single 

gender worship services. Kashrut will 

indicate a person’s dietary needs, and 

Zionism a strong connection to Israel. 

At the same time, we must be careful 

not to let these labels, which serve 

as information, be the reason that we 

create rifts and divisions among our own 

people. For as we have learned from the 

events in Poway, Pittsburgh, Kansas 

City, Seattle, France and more places 

than we can possibly list, those labels 

carry little meaning beyond the walls 

of our community. To individuals filled 

with hatred toward the Jewish people, 

those twisted by anti-Semitism or anti- 

Jewish tropes, we are all just Jewish. 

If those who hate us and seek our 

destruction only see us as one people, 

why divide ourselves? Instead, we 

should be seeking ways after this latest 

act of violence to partner together. Not 

to remove our labels, but rather to find as 

many labels as we can that overlap and 

allow for creating a stronger community. 

To our credit, we already partner across 

synagogue boundaries with a community 

youth group, Chanukah celebration 

and Yom HaShoah observance. We need 

to seek other ways that we can respond 

to hate with unity inside our community. 

Last month we mourned the death 

of Lori Kaye as one people. Let our 

actions going forward reflect that sense 

of larger community, encouraging us to 

embrace new opportunities for partnership 

and unity. May we learn to look 

not only for the labels that divide us, 

but those that unite us. May this tragedy 

inspire us to be champions for repairing 

the world around us. And may we 

remember that beneath the surface, we 

are all just Jewish. 

May your summer be one of blessing, 

laughter and joy in the sun. 

Rabbi Adam Miller serves at Temple 

Shalom in Naples. 

Jewish Families with Children Group 

The Jewish Families with Children Group is looking for 

parents and their children to join us in making new friends 

and enjoying social activities together. 

Activities planned will include Beach Outings, Play at the Park, 

Movies, Bowling, Mini-Golf and a lot more! 

Join us on Tuesday, June 11 at 7:00 p.m. at Temple Shalom 

for the Israel Scouts Friendship Caravan. The Israeli teens 

will perform for our community through song and dance. 

This is a FREE event and all ages are welcome! 

We would love to hear from you. If there are children in your home 

and you’d like to be added to our roster so we can keep you informed 

of our upcoming events, contact Renee’ at rbialek@jewishnaples.org or 

239.263.4205. 

Save these summer dates for our upcoming events: 

Sunday, July 14 and Sunday, August 18 

Sponsored by 

P 

For more information about the Scouts who will be coming to Naples, 

visit www.jewishnaples.org/israel-scouts

FOCUS ON YOUTH 

Naples BBYO happenings 

By Jessica Zimmerman, Associate Regional Dir., North Florida Region 

In April, Naples BBYO hosted a 

bowling event at HeadPinz on Radio 

Road. Teens from Fort Myers joined 

us for an event complete with bowling, 

food and fun. 

This summer, 

while BBYO teens 

are away at leadership 

summer camps 

or traveling the 

world with BBYO 

Jessica Zimmerman 

Passport, we will be 

on a hiatus in terms 

of local programming until early August 

when school is back in session. 

If you are interested in being added 


to our email list to receive information 

about middle and high school programs, 

please email me at jesszimmerman@ 

bbyo.org. 

Your friends at Naples BBYO wish 

you a wonderful summer. 

We are searching for two advisors 

for our girls’ and boys’ chapters. Advising 

is a volunteer position and asks 

anywhere from six to 10 hours of your 

time a month. For more information, 

please email me. 

Temple Shalom Preschool update 

By Seyla Cohen, Preschool Director 

With a record number of students 

attending Temple Shalom 

Preschool this year, we 

were able to showcase nearly 300 pieces 

of amazing artwork created by our little 

artists at the Temple Shalom Preschool 

Art Show on May 4. With classroom 

baskets, silent auctions, Gifts of the 

Heart from our teachers, and delicious 

food and entertainment, all of our guests 

had such an incredible time. 

For the second year in a row, some 

of our Pre-K students’ artwork was accepted 

into the Annual Student Exhibition 

at Artis–Naples. What a great honor 

to be acknowledged as a true artist at 

such a young age. 

Preschool of the Arts update 

By Ettie Zaklos, Preschool Director 

At Preschool of the Arts, our 

“attitude of gratitude” is part 

of our everyday philosophy. 

In the last month of the school year, as 

we completed our 8 th successful year of 

Preschool of the Arts, we had the opportunity 

to take that to the next level with 

various events that showcased the sincere 

appreciation we have for so many 

incredible members of our community. 

Many of our end-of-year celebrations 

and performances highlighted the children’s 

achievements and thanked those 

who guided the students to reach their 

full potential. 

On May 2 we celebrated Teacher 

and Staff Appreciation Day. Our Preschool 

of the Arts teachers and staff are 

passionate, dedicated and committed to 

making our children the best they can 

possibly be. Our team of loving professionals 

are carefully selected for their 

warmth and passion for early childhood 

education. Every day they expertly 

model the values of friendship, kindness 

and gratitude that make up the ethos of 

our school. Throughout the year, they 

toil to not only educate but love our 

students, guiding them to reach their 

full potential. 

Our annual Teacher Appreciation 

Day is a chance for our entire POTA 

family to come together and express 

heartfelt thanks for everything our 

educators do. This year, Rabbi Fishel 

and I hosted an appreciation breakfast 

for our staff and teachers, while parent 

volunteers covered early care responsibilities 

in the classroom. Parents also 

gave generous gifts to our teachers 

and staff in appreciation of everything 

they do. Our staff enjoyed the delicious 

Our Lions (3-year-olds) serenaded 

their mothers at the annual Lions Mother’s 

Day Brunch. This beautiful program, 

organized by the Lions teaching 

team brought tears to everyone’s eyes. 

It was a moment the mothers will never 

forget. These little ones were so excited 

and emotional, showing their love to 

Temple Shalom Preschool’s Passover Seder in the temple sanctuary 

their mommies through songs, poems 

and the gorgeous gifts they created. 

At graduation, we said goodbye 

to 55 of our 4-year-old graduates with 

great pride and a bit of sadness as so 

many of them have been with us for 

four years. We are pleased that the 

children are so well prepared to move 

on to kindergarten. They have been 

breakfast and loving gestures, and our 

parents gained a renewed appreciation 

for our incredible teachers who make 

their jobs look so easy. 

The theme of appreciation continued 

with another event that celebrated 

our incredible parents, who are a vital 

element of our school’s success. On 

May10 we highlighted one of THE most 

important ingredients in the recipe for 

our children’s success in a very special 


Sign up for The PJ Library and you’ll receive 

a FREE, high-quality children’s book or CD 

each month. The PJ Library will enrich your 

family’s life with Jewish stories and songs 

– and it’s absolutely FREE for families with 

children from six months up to eight years of 

age in Collier County. 

The PJ Library is brought to the Greater 

Naples community by the Naples Senior 

Center at JFCS. For more information, 

call 239.325.4444. 

Preschool of the Arts celebrated Teacher and Staff Appreciation Day 

taught phonics and sight word basics, 

preparing them for a solid reading 

foundation. Writing journals have been 

used as a tool to expand the creative 

process using imaginative thinking and 

phonetic sound-out words. A basis for 

math, simple addition and subtraction 

skills have been taught through the use 

of manipulative and sorting instruments. 

In science, these children have learned 

measuring, sink and float concepts, 

and participated in experiments using 

basic chemistry. Art, cultural studies, 

STEAM, geography, current events and 

other higher order level teaching have 

provided our students with knowledge 

of the world around them. They have 

learned about how vegetables are grown 

in our flourishing garden, they have 

learned about composting and even the 

benefits of worm castings. We are proud 

to say that a majority of our Pre-K students 

are reading or surpassing beginning 

reading, writing and math skills. 

Our little ones have grown so big 

and are capable of so many more things 

from when they began their preschool 

journey. This reminds us that time 

moves very quickly. Each stage of our 

child’s growth brings wonderful new 

“sunshine”-themed Mother’s Day event. 

The event allowed our young students to 

express their appreciation for the most 

important woman in their lives: their 

mom! At POTA we know that the mothers 

in our parent body give their all to 

our children every single day, long after 

pick-up time, and deserve all the recognition 

in the world. Based on the theme 

of “Mom, You Are My Sunshine,” our 

children and staff hosted a wonderful, 

loving morning, where they got to 

“sun”-shower our wonderful moms with 

thanks for everything they do. 

Broadening our thanks to the greater 

POTA community, we celebrated 

our Circle of Hearts and Partners of 

Chabad members, who are a vital element 

of our school’s success. These 

special communities of supporters allow 

us to continue enhancing and improving 

the school, enabling us to create the 

perfect environment for our children to 

thrive. 

POTA hosted a fun appreciation 

evening with a lavish spread of delicious 

food, and even better company, 

celebrating the friendship and partnership 

of these committed benefactors and 

acknowledging the tremendous impact 

of their generosity. 

Gratitude has and will continue to 

be the foundation of the success of our 

27 

Photo courtesy of The PJ Library 


changes, but we should try to slow down 

and appreciate what is happening now. 

Our Temple Shalom Preschool family is 

so blessed to have had the children and 

appreciate every moment we are able to 

be a part of their lives. 

So don’t wish away those sleepless 

nights. Be amazed at the stages your 

child goes through and enjoy them all. 

Sit on the floor and play with them, and 

read them a book at night. Know that 

before long they will be able to read to 

you. Listen to your child tell you about 

their first day in school. All too soon 

you will hear about their first day in 

high school or college. Cherish and love 

every minute that you have with these 

little angels. 

As we end our 2018-2019 school 

year, we begin our amazing 2019 Camp 

Shalom and Camp Einstein. Plans have 

been made to make this the most exciting 

summer ever. The fun starts soon, so 

don’t miss out! To sign up your children 

for a great summer experience, please 

call me at 239.455.3227. 


school, as well as a core value we impart 

to our precious children. We want to take 

this opportunity to show gratitude to our 

entire community, which has supported 

us every step of the way. For seven years 

in a row, Preschool of the Arts has won 

the Naples News Champion Choice 

Awards in the categories of Preschool, 

Educational Services and 

Childcare. This year we are proud 

to announce that we have been 

voted #1 Preschool in Collier 

County by the Best of Gulfshore 

Life, Readers Choice Annual 

Rewards. It is an honor to serve 

our community and humbling to 

be recognized for what we have 

created together. Thank you! 

Preschool of the Arts 2019- 

2020 enrollment is filling up 

quickly and we are at capacity for many 

of our classes. For more information, 

to register or get on our wait list, call 

239.263.2620.


SYNAGOGUES 

Beth Tikvah update 

Beth Tikvah Co-Presidents 

Shelley Goodman and Sue Hammerman 

he first month of our co-presidency 

has been amazingly 

busy. We began by expressing 

ratitude to our past presidents and our 

ormer Board of Trustees, and by weloming 

our new board with a Kiddush 

unch in their honor on March 30. We 

ontinued with a full series of planning 

eetings, setting the stage for the seaon 

ahead. The first meeting of our new 

oard was held on April 11. Beth Tikvah 

as honored to host the Annual Meetng 

of the Jewish Federation of Greater 

aples on April 16. Our vibrant Kosher 

assover Seder on April 19 was well 

BETH TIKVAH www.bethtikvahnaples.org / 239-434-1818 

attended. The service and singing led 

by Rabbi Ammos Chorny included the 

full Chorny family: four grandchildren, 

one bar mitzvah boy, three rabbis and 

two cantors! Our thanks go to Sue 

Brown for orchestrating this event with 

support from her committee and our 

administrator, Gillian Packwood. 

Plans for the 2019-2020 program 

season have begun as we worked with 

Paulette Margulies, our new vice president 

in charge of programing, to determine 

which programs to repeat and to 

explore some exciting new ideas. Beth 

Tikvah programing is all-encompassing, 

seeking a balance between study/learning 

programs with other programs that 

have Jewish and/or non-Jewish content. 

Planning has already begun for our 2020 

Naples Jewish Film Festival, set for four 

Sunday evenings in March at the Sugden 

Theatre in downtown Naples. 

We have reactivated the Beth Tikvah 

Long Range Planning Committee under 

the leadership of Trustee Dr. Stuart Mest 

and including all of our past presidents 

and Board Secretary Roberta Miller. 

Our Personnel and Compensation Committee 

is chaired by Past President Phil 

Jason and includes Vice President Justin 

Land and Michael Silow as members. 

Beth Tikvah will move forward to update 

our Strategic Plan. We will examine 

plans to alleviate crowding in our Social 

Hall and to improve our kitchen facility. 

We are hoping for a modernized kosher 

kitchen and expanded seating space for 

our plentiful eating, dining and mingling 

social events. 

We have begun to increase our 

representation within Federation committees. 

New Trustee Alex Wertheim 

will represent Beth Tikvah on the Jewish 

Community Relations Council, while 

we join as non-voting members on the 

Federation board. 

Rabbi Chorny will be away this 

summer on sabbatical for six weeks. 

During that time, Cantor Frani Goodman 

will conduct our services and religious 

classes. Cantor Frani enriched our 

High Holiday services last fall. We eagerly 

welcome her back for the summer. 

We look forward to our forthcoming 

season of new activities as we catch our 

breath during the summer. May all who 

travel or visit their other homes do so 

safely and return to us in good health, 

ready for another wonderful season. 

June Happenings 

June 8 at 7:00 p.m.: Saturday Erev 

Shavuot services will be held 

June 9 at 9:00 a.m.: Sunday Shavuot 

Yom Tov with Yizkor service will 

be held 

June 20 at 7:30 p.m.: We will 

hold our final film of the spring 

series: Shtetl is a 3-hour quest to 

uncover the story of Jewish life in 

Bransk, Poland, before and after 

WWII. It is filmmaker Marian 

Marzynski’s search for answers to 

questions about the Jews and their 

neighbors – some saviors, some 

betrayers. RSVP via the calendar 

website at www.bethtikvahnaples. 

org, email office@bethtikvah.us or 

call 239.434.1818. 

Religious Services 

Friday services begin at 6:15 p.m. Saturday 

services begin at 9:30 a.m. and 

conclude with a Kiddush luncheon. We 

convene Yahrzeit minyanim upon request. 

We are located at 1459 Pine Ridge 

Road, just west of Mission Square Plaza. 

You may reach Rabbi Chorny directly 

at 239.537.5257. 

T 

JEWISH CONGREGATION OF MARCO ISLAND www.marcojcmi.com / 239-642-0800 

JCMI update 

By Ted Bunten, President 

As the Jewish Congregation 

of Marco Island moves into 

the summer months, we look 

forward to a quiet time with our yearrounders 

attending Friday services. We 

are fortunate to have Roger Blau as our 

summer rabbi, and our Oneg committee 

continues to provide delicious treats 

after services. Saturday Torah Study and 

services have concluded. 

Subscribe 

Board meetings are suspended for 

June and July, though constant communications 

continue between members 

and the president. Bingo ended May 6 

and so ends another season at JCMI. 

Display 

Have a happy spring and a glorious 

summer. 

Tt 

w 

t 

O 

o 

Want to receive the Federation Star 

in your mail box every month? 

Email: 

nricklefs@jewishnaples.org 

Call: 

239.263.4205 

Subscriptions are free, thanks to 

generous readers, committed 

advertisers and the Jewish Federation 

of Greater Naples. 

WANT TO DISPLAY THE 


IN YOUR OFFICE 

OR BUSINESS? 

CONTACT EDITOR TED EPSTEIN 

AT FEDSTAR18@GMAIL.COM 

OR 239.249.0699. 

w 

t 

w 

p 

b 

a 

p 

s 

o 

r 

w 

a 

The Federation Star 

delivers! 

Introduce your business to a 

POWERFUL demographic and reach 

over 5,000 Jewish residents in the 

Greater Naples area! 

For ad rates and deadlines, 

contact Joy Walker at 

941.284.0520 

or walkerjoy62@yahoo.com. 

Advertise 

What do you think? 

The Federation Star 

wants to know! 

Want to comment on something 

you read in the newspaper? 

Send your letters to the editor 

(up to 300 words) to 

fedstar18@gmail.com. 

Have a story idea or want to 

see something featured in the 

Federation Star? Call 

editor Ted Epstein at 239.249.0699. 

Contribute 

Et 

p 

e 

t 

t 

a 

a 

fi 

a

ORGANIZATIONS 


29 

COLLIER/LEE CHAPTER OF HADASSAH www.hadassah.org / 732-539-4011 

What do you do for others? 

Diane 

Schwartz 

Collier/Lee 

Hadassah 

President 

As individuals we are limited 

in what we can do to make an 

impact on the world, but as a 

visionary organization, Hadassah does 

just that! 

Individually, we can’t cure cancer 

or study neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s, 

MS and more as we research 

the depths and heights of medicine and 

healing. All of which impacts us in 

America as well as patients in Israel. 

No, I can’t do that and neither can 

you, but we can support those who do! 

Collier/Lee Hadassah is more than 

friends and fun, though we have both. 

As volunteers in an organization that 

JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SWFL www.jhsswf.org / 239-566-1771 

The tolerant intolerance 

Marina 

Berkovich 

JHSSWF 

President 

The early Jewish visitors and 

settlers of Southwest Florida 

experienced a variety of oddities 

they would have, no doubt, shared 

with their successor generations, had 

the society they lived in tolerated Jews. 

Or tolerated us better. As it was, most 

of them stopped being Jews. 

Tolerance is such an odd concept 

with many gradations and stages. On 

the surface, it defines the ability or 

willingness to tolerate something, in 

particular the existence of opinions or 

behavior that one does not necessarily 

agree with. On the deeper side, it is that 

physical capacity to endure continued 

subjection to something, like drugs or 

other potential irritants, without adverse 

reaction. Because tolerance gets all the 

way under one’s skin, it occupies body 

and mind. Intolerance, henceforth, is the 

inspires a passion through our Vision, 

Mission and focus, we can build the 

world with Jewish values, save lives and 

bring greater meaning to our own lives. 

Our Vision leads our aspirations 

for a world where our Jewish Values in 

Action create strong community and an 

enduring Israel. 

Our Mission inspires a passion for 

and commitment to the land, the people 

and the future of Israel. Through education, 

advocacy and youth development, 

and its support of medical care and 

research at Hadassah Medical Organization, 

we enhance the health and lives of 

people in Israel, the U.S. and worldwide. 

Our Promise is the promise we 

make good on every day, by connecting 

and empowering Jewish women to 

effect change. 

Our Action Areas are the ways we 

deliver on our promise to empower 

women to ADVOCATE; BUILD COM- 

MUNITY in the U.S. and Israel; and 

unwillingness to accept views, beliefs or 

behaviors that differ from one’s own. It 

too, gets under one’s skin, and mixes 

there with anger and fear. 

Gargantuan divides led from intolerance 

to hatred, and ultimately ignited 

unfathomable destructions, previously 

unknown to history. Thus, the early 

Jewish settlers in SWFL were tolerated 

during the times of the Seminole Wars. 

“Tolerate” is a word not too pleasant to 

our intellectual digestion, since “tolerated” 

accentuates that acceptance as 

equal members of the community is not 

present. Known Jews in SWFL were 

“barely tolerated” in the 1970s, then 

gradually moved to being “tolerated” 

and “accepted,” and are now embraced 

as equals by the predominantly Christian 

Midwestern population of the region. 

There are anecdotal stories of scary, 

funny and ridiculous incidents, perseverance 

and determination of the SWFL 

Jewish Pioneers who made their homes 

amid a community quite different from 

their own. Most importantly, tolerance 

that includes the willingness to accept 

the very existence of opinions and behaviors 

different from those one agrees 

with, over time made for the wonderful 

progress that the Jewish communities 

on the West Coast of Florida now enjoy. 

Isolated instances of intolerance 

toward Jews happen at various historic 

junctions. We address that in the 

Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers Film 

Series and in Timeline of SWFL Jewish 

History presentations. 

* * * 

The Women’s Cultural Alliance has 

once again invited us to present some of 

our documentaries during the summer: 

Thursday, June 13 at 10:00 a.m.: 

Helen Weinfeld, the first Jewish 

historian of Collier County 

Thursday, August 8 at 10:00 a.m.: 

Bill and Gloria Lipman of the Six 

L’s and Lipman Produce, and Richard 

Segalman, A Man and His Art 

will be showcased 

Thursday, October 10 at 10:00 a.m.: 

Elena Rosner and Lenore Greenstein 

are featured in the program 

about Marco Island 

Learning local Jewish history is 

essential for modern-day enjoyment 

of your SWFL lifestyle. We hope you 

attend all three of these presentations. 

ADVANCE HEALTH AND WELL- 

BEING. 

We say, Hadassah is the power of 

women who DO. 

Surely, there is some part of what 

we do that has meaning for you; a connection 

to a higher purpose. 

It’s an aspirational call to reach 

higher, farther and wider than where we 

stand or where we sit. 

Volunteer your time, your energy 

and your intellect to create programs and 

projects that fulfill both you personally 

and the needs we address. 

Work with our membership committee 

to reach out to others and encourage 

them to join and become active with 

our close to 900 members. 

Gather with our program and education 

committee to plan interesting and 

meaningful activities and events. We 

can learn, enjoy and support Hadassah’s 

work all at the same time. 

Meet with our fundraising committee 

to help raise the vital monies needed 

to carry on Hadassah’s work here and 

in Israel. 

Volunteer to assist on a program, 

project or fundraiser. A brief period of 

time can bring rewards for you: friendships, 

a sense of accomplishment for a 

larger purpose, and the satisfaction of 

knowing you are making a difference. 

Hadassah welcomes you with open 

arms to join a group of women and men 

(Thank you Hadassah Associates!) who 

support the Mission, Vision, Programs 

and Values of this fine organization. 

For those who live in Southwest 

Florida year-round, the events don’t stop 

with the end of season. If you would 

like to meet new friends or celebrate the 

summer with friends, family and guests, 

save Sunday, August 18 for Hadassah’s 

Summer Fun, a Pot Luck Dinner at Autumn 

Woods. For information, contact 

Susan Falkenstein at sweetsusan62@ 

gmail.com or 203.257.8598. 

* * * 

Chief Richard Plager, the star of 

Film 10 of the Southwest Florida Jewish 

Pioneers series that debuted on April 

14, delivered an impactful speech after 

this presentation, demonstrating his 

profound knowledge and respect of 

Florida’s history and Jewish legacy of 

its Confederate officers. 

At the Jewish Historical Society of 

Southwest Florida, we strive to preserve 

the eyewitness accounts. The Eyewitness 

Stories are featured at the Virtual 

Museum of Southwest Florida Jewish 

History. 

Membership in The Jewish Historical 

Society of Southwest Florida is open 

to anyone who is interested in our mission 

of historical preservation. 

The Jewish Historical Society 

of Southwest Florida 

8805 Tamiami Trail North, 

Suite # 255, Naples FL 34108 

833.547.7935 (833.JHS.SWFL) 

www.jhsswf.org 

office@jhsswf.org 

Virtual Museum of SWFL 

Jewish History http:// 

jewishhistorysouthwestflorida.org/ 

JEWISH WAR VETERANS https://jwvpost202.wordpress.com/ 239-261-3270 

JWV Post 202 update 

Harve Sturm 

Commander 

JWV 

Post #202 

Educating our youth in the importance 

of patriotism is a great way 

to get involved and unite within 

the community. We need to invest in the 

preservation of America’s history and 

education for our future generations – 

the leaders, innovators and teachers of 

tomorrow. 

As veterans, it is our duty to instill 

a sense of pride into future generations, 

and make certain they know what sacrifices 

were made by the millions of men 

and women before them who fought 

for the freedoms and liberties that we 

enjoy today. 

Jewish War Veterans 

Post 202 is currently 

in the process 

of presenting awards 

to 14 JROTC Cadets 

from seven local high 

schools in Collier 

County. The awards 

are presented on behalf 

of the Jewish War 

Veterans, the Jewish 

Federation of Greater 

Naples, and Temple 

Shalom Men’s Club. 

In celebration of 

veteran festivities in 

May, June and July, 

we have many events 

coming up: 

Saturday, May 11: Veterans Park 

Fire Station BBQ, entertainment 

Commander Harvey Sturm and Vice Commander Marty Cohn 

participated in the candle lighting ceremony 

at the Yom HaShoah Memorial Service at Temple Shalom 

and special Bagpipers Marching 

Band 

Friday, May 17 (Armed Forces 

Day): Avow Hospice Breakfast 

Monday, May 27: Memorial Day 

Program (Hodges Memorial Park) 

Thursday, June 6: 75 th anniversary 

D-Day Normandy Landings 

Saturday, June 15 at 9:00 a.m. (Flag 

Day): Veterans Memorial Park 

For more information, please visit 

jwvpost202.wordpress.com, call 

239.261.3270 or email jwvpost202@ 

gmail.com. 

The Federation Star is a monthly nonprofit newspaper supported by generous 

readers, committed advertisers and the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples.


COMMUNITY CALENDAR 

Candle SUNDAYlighting MONDAY times: 

June 7: 8:00 




June 2019 – 5779Get the Service you Deserve 

TUESDAY 

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 

1 

8:30am TS Torah Talk 

9:30am BT Services 

10:00am CHA Services 

10:00am TS Services 

2 

3 

4:00pm HM Exec Comm Mtg 

4 

5 

6 

7 

6:00pm TS Soulful Shabbat 

6:15pm BT Services 

7:30pm JCMI Services 

8 




9 SHAVUOT 

10 SHAVUOT 

11 

12 

10:00am Jewish Genealogy 4:00pm NJC Board Meeting 

7:00pm Israel Scouts perform 7:00pm Israel Scouts perform 

at Temple Shalom 

at New Hope Ministries 

7:00pm JFGN Board Meeting 

13 14 

15 

9:00am IAC Meeting 

6:00pm TS Services 






16 17 

1:00pm HDH Study Group 

18 19 20 

12:00pm JWV Brunch 

4:00pm BT Board Meeting 

21 

6:00pm TS Services 


7:00pm NJC Services 

22 





23 24 

30 

25 

7:00pm TS Board Meeting 

26 27 28 

7:00pm JCMI Board Meeting 6:00pm TS Services 



29 




The programs listed on the calendar in the Federation Star and on the Federation website (www.jewishnaples.org) 

are sometimes prepared months in advance, so please verify the date, time and venue before you attend an event. 

Key: 

• AJC: American Jewish Committee 

• BT: Beth Tikvah 

• CHA: Chabad Jewish Center of Naples 

• CHA-M: Chabad Men’s Club 

• CJD: Catholic-Jewish Dialogue 

• GS: GenShoah of SWFL 

• HDH: Collier/Lee Chapter of Hadassah 

• HM: Holocaust Museum & Educ. Ctr. of SWFL 

Throughout the year, some holidays fall within the normal work week. 

The Federation office will be closed in observance of those holidays listed in all CAPITAL LETTERS. 

• IAC: Israel Advocacy Committee 

• JCMI: Jewish Congregation of Marco Island 

• JCMI-M: JCMI Men’s Club 

• JCMI-S: JCMI Sisterhood 

• JCRC: Jewish Community Relations Council 

• JFCS: Naples Senior Center at JFCS 

• JFGN: Jewish Federation of Greater Naples 

• JHSSWF: Jewish Historical Society of SWFL 

• JNF: Jewish National Fund 

• JRCA: Jewish Russian Cultural Alliance 

• JWV: Jewish War Veterans 

• MCA: Men’s Cultural Alliance 

• NJC: Naples Jewish Congregation 

• NJC-M: Naples Jewish Congregation Men’s Club 

• NJC-S: Naples Jewish Congregation Sisterhood 

• TS: Temple Shalom 

• TS-M: Temple Shalom Men’s Club 

• TS-S: Temple Shalom Sisterhood 

• WCA: Women’s Cultural Alliance 

• YJP: Young Jewish Professionals 

• ZOA: Zionist Organization of America 

Federation Star Publication Policy 

The Federation Star is a subsidized arm of the 

Jewish Federation of Greater Naples (JFGN). Its purpose 

and function is to publicize the activities and programs 

of the Federation, and to publicize the ongoing activities 

of the established and recognized Jewish organizations 

in Greater Naples. 

The goal of the JFGN is to reach out and unite 

all Jews of the Greater Naples area. While differing 

opinions and points of view do, and will continue to, 

exist about many issues of importance to Jews, the 

Federation Star will confine itself to publishing ONLY 

items that report the facts of actual events of concern 

to Jews and will only offer commentary that clearly intends 

to unite all Jews in a common purpose or purposes. 

Critical or derogatory comments directed at individuals 

or organizations will NOT be published. 

(Adopted by the Offi cers and Board of Trustees 

of the Jewish Federation of Collier County 1/98) 

To avoid misunderstandings, controversies and destructive 

divisions among our people, the Officers and 

Board of Trustees of the “Federation” have adopted the 

following publication policy: 

Advertisements: All advertisements, regardless of their 

sponsor, shall be paid for in full, at the established rates, 

prior to publication. The contents of all advertisements 

shall be subject to review and approval of the Federation 

Board or its designee. Commercial advertisers may make 

credit arrangements with the advertising manager, subject 

to the approval of the Federation Board. 

Regular Columns: Regular columns shall be accepted only 

from leaders (Rabbis, Presidents, Chairs) of established and 

recognized Jewish organizations in Greater Naples and the 

designated Chairs of the regular committees of the Jewish 

Federation of Greater Naples. 

Special Announcements: Special announcements 

shall be accepted from established Jewish organizations 

in Greater Naples and may, at the discretion of 

the Federation Board, be subject to the conditions 

applicable to paid advertisements, as set forth above. 

News Items: Only those news items pertaining to matters 

of general interest to the broadest cross-section of 

the Jewish Community will be accepted for publication. 

Note: Items of controversial opinions and points of 

view, about political issues, will not be accepted for 

publication without prior approval of a majority of 

the Federation Officers and Trustees. 

All persons and organizations objecting to the 

actions and rulings of the Editor or Publications Committee 

Chair shall have the right to appeal those rulings 

to the Officers and Board of Trustees of the JFGN. 

The mission of the Jewish 

Federation of Greater 

Naples is to enhance 

and enrich the quality of 

Jewish life by recognizing 

and supporting the 

charitable, educational, 

humanitarian and 

social service needs of 

the Jewish community 

locally, nationally, 

overseas and in the 

State of Israel. 

Create a Jewish Legacy 

I give, devise and bequeath… 

Create a legacy to benefit the 


and our overall Jewish community 

in your will or trust. 

Call 239.263.4205. 

"I did not find the world desolate when I entered it. 

And as my parents planted for me before I was born, 

so do I plant for those who will come after me." 

-The Talmud

COMMUNITY DIRECTORY 


31 

TEMPLE SHALOM 

OF NAPLES (Reform) 

4630 Pine Ridge Road, Naples, FL 34119 

Phone: 455-3030 • Fax: 455-4361 

Email: info@naplestemple.org 

www.naplestemple.org 

Rabbi Adam Miller 

Cantor Donna Azu 

James H. Perman, D.D., 

Rabbi Emeritus 

Debra Antzis, President 

Deborah Rosen Fidel, Executive Dir. 

Susan Feld, Interim Rel. School Dir. 

Seyla Cohen, Preschool Director 

Jim Cochran, Music Director 

Shabbat Services: 

Shabbat Eve - Friday 7:30 p.m. 

Shabbat - Saturday 10:00 a.m. 

JEWISH CONGREGATION 

OF MARCO ISLAND (Reform) 

991 Winterberry Drive 

Marco Island, FL 34145 

Phone: 642-0800 • Fax: 642-1031 

Email: tboxma@marcojcmi.com 

Website: www.marcojcmi.com 

Rabbi Mark Gross 

Hari Jacobsen, Cantorial Soloist 

Ted Bunten, President 

Shabbat Services 

Friday 7:30 p.m. 

Seasonal: Saturday Talmud-Torah at 

9:30 a.m. and Shachrit at 10:30 a.m. 

Rabbi’s Life Long Learning Series 

Sidney R. Hoffman Jewish Film Festival 

Saul I. Stern Cultural Series 

JCMI Book Club 

NAPLES JEWISH CONGREGATION 

(Reform) 

Services are held at: 

The Unitarian Congregation 

6340 Napa Woods Way 

Rabbi Howard Herman 

431-3858 

Email: rabbi@naplesjewishcongregation.org 

www.naplesjewishcongregation.org 

Stephen P. McCloskey, President 

Jane Galler, Cantorial Soloist 


Friday evenings at 7:00 p.m. 

May - August: services once a month 

Sisterhood • Men’s Club 

Adult Education • Adult Choir 

Social Action • Community Events 

BETH TIKVAH 

(Conservative) 



(just west of Mission Square Plaza) 

Phone: 434-1818 

Email: bethtikvahnaples@aol.com 

Website: www.bethtikvahnaples.org 

Rabbi Ammos Chorny 

Shelley Goodman, Co-President 

Sue Hammerman, Co-President 

Roberta Miller, Secretary 


Friday evenings at 6:15 p.m. 

Saturday mornings at 9:30 a.m. 

Youth Education 

Adult Education 

Community Events 

Sisterhood • Men’s Club • Adult Education 

Havurot • Youth Groups • Religious School 

Judaic Library • Hebrew School • Pre-School 

Adult Choir • Social Action • Outreach 

Naples’ only Judaica Shop 

CHABAD NAPLES JEWISH 

COMMUNITY CENTER 

serving Naples and Marco Island 

1789 Mandarin Road, Naples, FL 34102 

Phone: 262-4474 

Email: info@chabadnaples.com 

Website: www.chabadnaples.com 

Rabbi Fishel Zaklos 

Dr. Arthur Seigel, President 

Ettie Zaklos, Education Director 


Shabbat - Saturday 10am 

• Camp Gan Israel • Hebrew School 

• Preschool of the Arts 

• Jewish Women’s Circle 

• Adult Education • Bat Mitzvah Club 

• Friendship Circle • Smile on Seniors 

• Flying Challah • Kosher food delivery 

The Federation Star is published 

monthly, September through July, 

by the Jewish Federation 

of Greater Naples. 

2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road 

Suite 2201 

Naples, FL 34109-0613 

Phone: 239-263-4205 

Fax: 239-263-3813 

E-mail: info@jewishnaples.org 

Website: www.jewishnaples.org 

Volume 28, No. 10 

June 2019 

32 pages 

USPS Permit No. 419 

Publisher: 


Editor: 

Ted Epstein, 239-249-0699 


Design: 

Federation Media Group, Inc. 

Advertising: 

Joy Walker 

941-284-0520 

July/August 2019 Issue Deadlines: 

Editorial: June 3 

Advertising: June 7 

Send news stories to: 


Weather 

or Not ... 

If you’ve flown the coop for the summer months, it’s 

still great weather here for planning charitable gifts with 

the Endowment Fund of the Jewish Federation of Greater 

Naples. 

With the stock market in a whirlwind, the climate is 

perfect for gifting appreciated stock. Don’t be smog 

about it – you could be lightening the taxes on your 

capital gain. The forecast for a sunny future is a gift 

that will provide increased income for you and build a 

slush fund for the Jewish community. 

No high pressure. The benefits are clear. We’re hoping 

for a blizzard of activity and a heat wave of smart 

people planning gifts. 

Stop saving for that rainy day! Get cirrus about making 

a gift. 

Do it monsoon! 

For more information on charitable gift planning, 

call Jeffrey Feld, President/CEO, 

at 239.263.4205. 

Please note our email addresses: 

Jeffrey Feld, Federation President/CEO – jfeld@jewishnaples.org 

Renee’ Bialek, Community Program Coordinator – rbialek@jewishnaples.org 

Marcy Friedland, Capital Campaign Dev. Dir. – mfriedland@jewishnaples.org 

Julie Hartline, Campaign Associate – jhartline@jewishnaples.org 

Janine Hudak, Receptionist – admin@jewishnaples.org 

Nathan Ricklefs, Database Manager – nricklefs@jewishnaples.org 

Teresa Zimmerman, Finance and Oper. Mgr. – tzimmerman@jewishnaples.org 

General information requests – info@jewishnaples.org 

Ellen Weiss, Exec. Dir. of TOP, ellen@topjewishfoundation.org 

Joy Walker, Director of Sales – walkerjoy62@yahoo.com 

Ted Epstein, Editor, Federation Star – fedstar18@gmail.com 

Like us on Facebook! 

ConneCt 




facebook.com/jfedsrq 

Jewish 

Organizations 

to Serve You 

in Greater Naples 

(All area codes are 239 unless otherwise noted.) 


Phone: 263-4205 • Fax: 263-3813 

Website: www.jewishnaples.org 

Email: info@jewishnaples.org 

• Federation Board Chair: Jane Schiff 

• Federation President/CEO: Jeffrey Feld 

American Jewish Committee 

• Regional Dir: Brian Lipton, 941-365-4955 

American Technion Society 

• Chapter Dir: Kelley Whiter, 561-395-7206 

Friends of the IDF 

• Exec. Dir.: Dina Ben Ari, 305-354-8233 

GenShoah SWFL 

• President: Ida Margolis, 963-9347 

Collier/Lee Chapter of Hadassah 

• President: Diane Schwartz, 732-539-4011 

Holocaust Museum & 

Cohen Education Center 

• President: Herb Berkeley, 263-9200 

Israel Bonds 

• Monica DiGiovanni, 727-282-1124 

Jewish Historical Society 

of Southwest Florida 

• President: Marina Berkovich, 566-1771 

Jewish National Fund 

• Uri Smajovits, 727-239-6290 

Jewish War Veterans Post 202 

• Commander, Harvey Sturm, 261-3270 

• Senior Vice Commander, 

Marty Rubin, 716-863-5778 

Men’s Cultural Alliance 

• President: Les Nizin, 653-9259 

Naples BBYO 

• Jessica Zimmerman, 263-4205 

Naples Friends of American Magen 

David Adom (MDA) 

• SE Reg Dir: Joel Silberman, 954-457-9766 

Naples Senior Center at JFCS 

Phone: 325-4444 

• Chairperson: Edward Anchel 

• President/CEO: Dr. Jaclynn Faffer 

Women’s Cultural Alliance 

• President: Elaine Soffer, 431-7905 

Zionist Organization of America 

• President: Jerry Sobel, 914-329-1024 

Federation Membership 

According to the bylaws of the Jewish Federation of Greater 

Naples, members are those individuals who make an annual 

gift of $36 or more to the Annual Federation Campaign in 

our community. For more information, call Julie Hartline, 

Campaign Associate, at the Federation office at 239.263.4205.


IT ALL STARTS WITH YOU 

You make everything we do — possible. 

You make everything we do — possible. 

You open a child’s eyes to the beauty of our heritage. Revive the 

Jewish spirit in places where it’s been all but crushed. Arrive with 

You whatever open a is child’s needed, eyes in the to the wake beauty of natural of our or financial heritage. disaster. Revive the 

Jewish spirit in places where it’s been all but crushed. Arrive with 

whatever You — together is needed, with in Federation the wake of — natural are the or heart financial of all disaster. of 

these, and countless other efforts that invigorate and sustain our 

community. You have the power to do it. Give today. 

You — together with Federation — are at the heart of all of 

these, and countless other efforts that invigorate and sustain our 

Donate • Volunteer • Get involved 

community. You have the power to do it. Give today. 

239.263.4205 • jewishnaples.org 

YOU MAKE IT POSSIBLE! 

I hereby pledge and promise to pay my Federation for the JFGN Annual Campaign a contribution of: 

$36 $72 $180 $540 other $_________ 

Contribution enclosed (Check #__________) 

Please bill me 

Please charge my: MasterCard Visa Discover American Express 

Everything Federation does is made possible 

through the generous donations from members of 

the community. Please consider making a gift today! 

Account #___________________________________________________ Exp. Date____________ CVV#__________ 

Name: ____________________________________________________ Signature:__________________________________________ 

Billing Address:______________________________________________________________________________________________ 

City: _____________________________________ ST: ______ Zip: _______________ Phone: __________________________________ 

Please send to: Jewish Federation of Greater Naples, Attn: Julie Hartline, Campaign Associate 

2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd., Suite 2201, Naples, FL 34109-0613 

FS0619

Federation Star - June 2019

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?