Federation Star - December 2016

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2016 Federation Annual Campaign Answer Our Call On Sunday, December 4 The finish line of our Annual Campaign is in sight. We can surpass our goal with your gift if you haven’t made one yet. Please answer our call on Sunday, December 4 between 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Please give from the heart to support the Jewish Federation of Collier County’s beneficiary agencies and ongoing programs in Collier County, Israel and around the world.

Your generous dollars count. If you have already made your gift, we say THANK YOU!

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GIVING IS NOT JUST ABOUT MAKING A DONATION, IT IS ABOUT MAKING A BETTER WORLD.

Celebrating Jewish Life in Collier County, Israel and the World

Federation Star Published by the Jewish Federation of Collier County serving Naples, Marco Island and the surrounding communities

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Capacity Building Grant announced

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he Jewish Federation of Collier County is very excited to announce that it is the recipient of a three-year $150,000 Capacity Building Grant from the Schiff Family Fund of the Herbert H. Schiff Foundation. This grant is designed to allow the Jewish Federation of Collier County to do an infrastructure and systemic investigation that campaign dollars cannot cover.

The first two years of grant money is being used for two initiatives, actually two studies. The first is a business/ strategic plan that is being directed by an outside consultant, Sallie Williams of Williams Consulting Group. There have been interviews with donors and non-donors as well as strong input from the Federation’s Board of Directors. The

results of this study will be used as a blueprint for the Board of Directors in mapping the business plan for increasing our campaign in order to build the community.

The other initiative will have Brandeis University, headed by Assistant Research Professor Dr. Matthew Boxer, conducting a demographic and needs assessment study for our Federation and community. This is an in-depth study which uses the latest techniques for estimating, with a high likelihood of accuracy, how many Jews live in our area, where they live, what services they currently use, and what services they might like or use in the future. Dr. Boxer and The Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies of

the Steinhardt Social Research Institute have done these types of studies for cities such as Boston, Seattle, Nashville and Buffalo to name a few. All information gathered will be reported only in the aggregate. Any information that can identify an individual is destroyed and never released to the Federation or any other entity. These restrictions are Federal law.

Calls will be made in the January to April time frame to individuals and/or families chosen at random by a computer. If you have been selected to receive a call, you will first receive a letter from Brandeis asking you to participate. You may then participate either online at the designated secure website or you will

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20A Naples resident in cycling tour in Israel with FIDF

25A Preschool of the Arts update

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n Monday, December 26, the community will come together at 5:45 p.m. to celebrate Chanukah. Please join us on the lawn at Mercato for entertainment and yummy latkes! After lighting the menorah, Montana Maxwell Hendry, a 2nd grade student at The Community School of Naples, will sing a Chanukah song.

Tracey Lane will sing a few medley songs such as “Yossel Yossel” and “Bei Mir Bist Du Shein.” We will also get to hear Cantor Donna Azu and Cantorial Soloist Hari Jacobsen sing. And let’s not forget the Naples Klezmer Revival Band! Thank you to all these entertainers. We look forward to hearing you all

perform along with our emcee, Kevin Aizenshtat.

If you haven’t entered the Latke Eating Contest, please do so! The winners will receive a gift card from Yoga Loft. And, of course, all the chosen contestants will eat delicious latkes cooked

by Stage Deli Fine Foods.

While you’re at the celebration, please visit the exhibitors: Women’s Cultural Alliance for dreidels, BBYO for arts and crafts projects, Tama Caldarone for an art project, and decorate your own cookie at the Men’s Cultural Alliance table.

Please join us at the end of this event when glow sticks will be handed out and we will all sing “Hatikvah.”

Free admission for all! Donations and sponsors are welcomed.

I’d like to thank the Chanukah committee for all of your hard work: Denise Samuel, Tama Caldarone and Marcy Bigel.

Happy Chanukah!

Alvin Becker Federation Board Chair

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s reported in the Naples Daily News last month, the latest edition of Where to Retire magazine confirmed what we all know: that would-be retirees have long chosen Naples as the ultimate destination to live the good life.

The national publication chose Naples because of its high rankings for its arts, outdoor features and recreational opportunities (translation: 90 golf courses). The magazine referenced the area’s beaches, boating, parks, zoo and botanical garden, and praised the city’s cultural attractions (art and film festivals and its performing arts offerings). Most importantly, Where to Retire also mentioned last year’s Gallup-Healthways Community Well-Being Index survey of the happiest and healthiest places in the country, which ranked Naples first.

We agree with Gallup. In addition to providing abundant sports, cultural and outdoor features for seniors, Naples also offers countless opportunities for volunteerism which, in turn, promotes good physical and mental health as measured by the well-being index. Research shows that volunteering confers mental

and physical health benefits for those doing the helping. Being a volunteer can help keep the brain and body active, which contributes to continuing cognitive health, according to numerous studies.

A 2010 study from United Healthcare found that people who volunteer have less trouble sleeping, less anxiety, less feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, better friendships and social networks, and a sense of control over chronic conditions. Another study revealed that, among seniors, volunteering is likely to reduce the risk of dementia and is associated with reduced symptoms of depression, better self-reported health, fewer functional limitations and lower mortality.

Where to volunteer to derive its many health and happiness benefits?

Look through this issue of the Federation Star. All of the agencies and organizations profiled and referenced here are in need of volunteers in order to carry out their important missions.

Find one of interest and contact them with an offer to volunteer. Of course, the Jewish Federation of Collier County is dependent on volunteers to fulfill its wide-ranging mission and community goals. Call the Federation office atb 239.263.4205 to learn about its manyu volunteer opportunities.

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Federation invests in the future

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Youth Leadership Awards to be given to two high school seniors

e he Jewish Federation of Colr lier County Youth Leadership Awards will be given to honor g the achievements of Greater Collier s County high school seniors demonstrating leadership in their activities at their respective congregation and/or BBYO youth group. They will be recognized , for their successful balancing of Jewish leadership, high school academics, athl letics and clubs, and community service. r A one-time award of $2,000 each will be given to two deserving seniors.

This scholarship will be used to further a their education at an accredited college, university or vocational school. d Applicant qualifications: d  Jewish youth in their senior year of high school  Residents of the Greater Collier County Area (Naples, Marco Island, Bonita Springs, Estero)

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 Actively involved in respective congregation and/or BBYO youth group  Strong academic record  Leadership in both high school and Jewish related activities Application forms may be picked up at the Federation office or downloaded at www.jewishnaples.org/scholarships.

All scholarship application data is strictly confidential and will be reviewed without any identifying information using established selection criteria.

All applications are due by January 1, 2017. The award recipients will be notified by February 1, 2017. Both award recipients will be required to be present at the annual Power of Community Celebration dinner on Saturday, February 11 at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Rabbi Harold Kushner cannot attend the event on January 19. In his place, Steve Katz will entertain us with a presentation about his book Blood, Sweat, and My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years, and a mini-concert.

m , For more information on the y Festival, see pages 7B-10B. l -Capacity Building Grant...continued from page 1A tbe called by a Brandeis researcher. We Schiff and her family for making this urge you participate in order to build a important, invaluable and amazing gift Jewish community for the future, which to our community. ewill be able to provide the services, The Jewish Federation of Collier dspace and personnel needed to service County has other opportunities availand sustain our growth. able to anyone who wants to also come The Jewish Federation of Collier forward and create something unique, County cannot plan for the future withsomething special, and something over out knowing who, what, where and why and above what is currently possible we as a Jewish community currently with the limited resources available. exist. The Capacity Building Grant from For more information, please contact Jeffrey Feld at our Federation at the Schiff Family Fund of the Herbert 239.263.4205 or email Matt Boxer at H. Schiff Foundation allows us to take this snapshot of ourselves in order to Naples@Brandeis.edu. provide for our future. We thank Jane

BBYO NAPLES 5TH ANNIVERSARY

CELEBRATION

Inviting all teens, parents, alumni, and friends of BBYO to join us for food and fun as we celebrate five years of BBYO Naples

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2016 1:30–3:30 PM

TEMPLE SHALOM SOCIAL HALL 4630 Pine Ridge Road Naples, FL 34119

For questions, please contact Skylar Haas at 239-263-4205 or shaas@bbyo.org

RSVP at bbyo.org/naplescelebration

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Saturday evening, February 11, 2017 The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples Featuring Tovah Feldshuh Tovah Feldshuh is an American actress, singer and playwright. She has become best known for her role as Deanna Monroe on AMC’s television adaptation of The Walking Dead.

A Broadway star for more than four decades, she has earned four Tony Award nominations. Her Broadway credits include Sarava, Yentl, Lend Me a Tenor and Golda’s Balcony.

She has also received two Emmy Award nominations for her performance as Helena Slonova in the mini-series Holocaust and for her recurring role as defense attorney Danielle Melnick on Law & Order.

In addition, she has appeared in such films as A Walk on the Moon, She’s Funny That Way and Kissing Jessica Stein.

Currently, she portrays Naomi Bunch, an overbearing Jewish mother, on The CW television series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

Invitations will be mailed to all members of the Jewish Federation of Collier County.

For more information, please call the Federation of�ice at 239.263.4205.

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Federation Star December 2016 WOMEN’S CULTURAL ALLIANCE

JEWISH FEDERATION www.WomensCulturalAlliance.com / 215-820-6697

Volunteering for WCA – a gift that gives back

By Harriett Kleinman, WCA Volunteer Director

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his is the season of giving. All faiths embrace and, in fact, require this act of kindness. It doesn’t have to be about giving money.

It can be as basic as offering someone a ride, cheering up someone who is down, or even sharing your knowledge with others. Doing something for someone else is among the most rewarding experiences we can have. When we give to others, we get to learn more about ourselves and build new relationships.

Volunteering ends up actually being a gift to the volunteer.

Two years ago, I moved to Naples full-time. After having moved many times in my life, I knew that to feel

people, but it also allowed me to repay WCA for what I felt I was getting from this organization. As Volunteer Director, I want to help other members have a similar rewarding experience.

A reason for volunteering, which I often hear from women I speak with, is perhaps best expressed by Peggy Brown, who said, “Connecting with people from different walks of life and different parts of our country makes volunteering an absolute must for me!

WCA has given me this opportunity.”

Shelley, an inveterate WCA volunteer, added, “I like volunteering for WCA because it gives me the opportunity to meet more women than I otherwise would. The time commitments are minimal and the rewards are great! I especially like being a greeter at WCA events. It gives me the opportunity to speak with many women at one event. Taking RSVPs also gave WCA Volunteer Director Harriett Kleinman (seated) welcomes WCA’s wonderful volunteers to the WCA Spring Volunteer Appreciation Brunch me a chance to beat home, I needed to find a group of come familiar with many names, so it women with interests similar to mine. I was fairly easy when I met someone had heard about WCA from a friend and face-to- face.” joined. I attended the WCA New MemBefore landing in Southwest Florber Coffee and met a wonderful group of ida, WCA members had active lives energetic and talented women. I knew – careers, families, friends and helping right away that I wanted to devote my others. Once we retired here, we often energy and time to WCA. Before I knew needed to re-invent ourselves. Many of it, I had joined several interest groups. us found that we could make a new life I even offered to lead one of them! I here through what we could give. We found that simply helping with a mailhad our experiences, talents and time ing was not only an easy way to meet to draw from and to share. We wanted

Senior Housing Solutions

to seek opportunities where we could make a difference, no matter how small.

Our members often suggest new interest groups, lectures and events. Some may initiate an idea and see it through to fruition. Others help by taking RSVPs or check in and greet members as they arrive at an event. A smiling face as you walk into a room can lead the way to a positive feeling! WCA member Denise Samuel commented, “For all the wonderful program offerings that we get from our WCA membership throughout the entire year, there are opportunities for everyone to ‘give back’ in some way.

I derive great personal satisfaction sharing what I know with other members or ‘showing how to.’ It’s fun to organize a program or entertain a group at my home for a morning coffee or cocktail party, or simply act as an email conduit for signups and registrations. Best of all, it is a great way to meet new women and make new friendships!”

WCA exists today because of our members and their ongoing interest and involvement. We are an organization that was formed by and for our members. Nancy Kahn explained to me that when she joined, WCA was the Brandeis University National Women’s Committee. Nancy said, “It is where I made my first friends when we moved to Naples. It was warm and welcoming, inviting and interesting. It is important to me that WCA remains that same way for all our newcomers, and continues to do so for all our longtime members.”

By being involved in WCA, you can help decide the programs and direction for our group. WCA Program Director Patti Boochever is always open to sug-

Volunteers extraordinaire Patti Bloom and Emilia Libers

gestions for programs or lectures. But these events simply do not just happen.

They are successful because of talented and generous members who give of their time to make them a reality.

I personally experience almost as much pleasure knowing that I helped an event succeed as I do from the event itself. Judy Belmont observes, “As in every volunteer organization, I have found that the more you give, the more you get out of it. As the former coordinator of the WCA PA/NJ/DE Northern Branch as well as coordinating the “Women on Wheels” Tuesday Morning Biking Group, I have met such lovely women with whom I have shared so many terrific experiences – and I am so happy to consider many of these wonderful women my friends.”

I thank all the volunteers – past and present – who have volunteered for WCA. If you are a member of WCA, please contact me if you would like to volunteer for WCA in any way. If you are not yet a member and would like to join WCA, please complete the membership application below and mail it in.

And remember, as the saying goes, “Volunteers are not paid, not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.”

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WCA Volunteers Susy Payne, June Kruger, Elaine Malin, Andrea Goodman, Lorie Rapport and Diane Greene were among the women being thanked by WCA at the brunch

Women’s Cultural Alliance Membership Form

SENIOR HOUSING BUS TOUR February 8, 2017

Our Membership year runs from September 1 to August 31.

Dues for members who join after March 1st will cover the next season.

New Member____ Renewal____ Is there a change in your information from last year? YES___ NO___ ___________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________

Name

Spouse/Partner Name

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Email Address (very important)

8:00am – 4:30pm

___________________________________________________________________ FL Street Address, City, Zip

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Join us for a fun-filled, educational, ‘no-obligation’ day of guided senior community visits, chef-prepared meals, and a senior-related showcase event hosted by senior housing expert Bruce Rosenblatt

Community in which you live

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FL Home Phone

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Northern Phone

___________________________________________________________________ Northern Street Address, City, State or Province, Zip In FL: Full Time______ OR Part Time______

From _________________________ to _______________________

Membership Dues are $90.00 (US Funds), which includes a $36.00 donation to Federation

Featured communities will be: Inspired Living Sandalwood Village Arbor Trace

I am also including a voluntary donation to the Federation in the amount of $_________________ Total enclosed or authorized $__________________ ____I will be paying by check. (Please make your check payable to JFCC/WCA.) ____I will be paying by credit card: Card Number_________________________________________________________ Exp. Date_______________ Name on Card________________________________________________________ CVV

Pickup/dropoff at Riverchase Publix, 11200 Tamiami Trail N Advance registration is required Only $25.00 per person!

Call 239-595-0207 to reserve your seat

$90.00

Seating is limited.

Reserve today!

Mail check to: Senior Housing Solutions 28518 Azzilli Way, Bonita Springs, FL 34135

or register online at “events” www.seniorhousingsolutions.net

You must sign the waiver below, and return this completed form with your check or credit card information.

To be included in the WCA Directory, we must have this information by August 1. ____I would like to volunteer for WCA by Chairing or Co-Chairing a program. ____I would like to be a speaker or lead a workshop on these topics: If checked, list topic(s)_______________________ ____I would like to volunteer in some capacity, but I am not yet sure what.

Please sign Event Participation Waiver: As a participant in a WCA event, I, acting for myself, my executors, administrators, heirs, next of kin agree as follows: I waive all rights, claims, courses of action, of any kind whatsoever that I or my heirs or my legal representatives may claim to have against The Jewish Federation of Collier County, The Women’s Cultural Alliance, or their 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. Your membership payment is your permission for Women’s Cultural Alliance to take and use photographs/videos for appropriate purposes in accordance with WCA’s mission

Signature_________________________________________________ Date__________________________ Please mail this form (with the signed waiver) and your check or credit card number to: Jewish Federation of Collier County, 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd. #2201, Naples FL 34109.

If you prefer, you may complete this form online at www.WomensCulturalAlliance.com and then print off the form, sign the waiver, and mail it to the Jewish Federation (at the above address) with your payment.

December 2016 Federation Star

JEWISH FEDERATION

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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: Alvin Becker Vice Chair: Kevin Aizenshtat Vice Chair: Jane Schiff Vice Chair: Phyllis Seaman Secretary: Wallie Lenchner Treasurer: Jerry Sobelman Immed. Past Chair: Judge Norman Krivosha

Board of Directors Joshua Bialek Rosalee Bogo David Braverman Harvey Brenner Dan Carp Stephen Coleman Karen Deutsch Dr. Ed Ezrine Michael Feldman Alan Gordon Neil Heuer James Knafo Joel Pittelman Marc Saperstein Betty Schwartz Arlene Sobol Michael Sobol Steve Strome Dr. Daniel Wasserman Beth Wolff Edward Wollman

Past Presidents

Gerald Flagel, Dr. William Ettinger, Ann Jacobson, Sheldon Starman, Bobbie Katz, Rosalee Bogo

Board Members Emeritus Hans Levy Shirley Levy

Synagogue Representatives Cantor Donna Azu Sue Baum Rabbi Ammos Chorny Rabbi Mark Gross Phil Jason Rabbi Adam Miller Suzanne Paley Rabbi James Perman Dr. Arthur Seigel Rabbi Sylvin Wolf Rabbi Fishel Zaklos Debbie Zvibleman

Federation President/CEO Jeffrey Feld

Staff

Renee’ Bialek, Community Prog. Coord.

Julie Hartline, Donor Relations Coord.

Stacy Hersha, Business Oper. Mgr. Federation is the central Jewish community-building organization for Collier County, providing a social service network that helps Jewish people in Collier County, 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 Scouts • Jewish Book Festival • Jewish Community Relations Council • Jewish Russian-American Cultural Alliance • Men’s Cultural Alliance • Publication of the Federation Star, Connections and Community Directory • Strategic Planning • Women’s Cultural Alliance • Women’s Division • Youth Activities Committee – sponsoring youth education and scholarships for Jewish Summer Camp and the Israel Experience

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Join the Jewish Professionals Group at its December events

By Andy Singer, Chair

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he Jewish Federation of Collier County’s Jewish Professionals Group is a great way to make an important connection. Being involved in a Jewish professionals organization can help you in many areas of your life. Not only can there be excellent networking opportunities, you also may find new business associates, business mentors, friends, spiritual support or even dating opportunities. Below are upcoming events that I hope you can attend. RSVP in a timely manner as there is limited space. I look forward to meeting each of you.

Thursday, December 8 at 5:00 p.m.

The Jewish Professionals will meet at Bokamper’s at 5:00 p.m. for Dutch treat.

We have a private room, which is limited to 40 people. At 6:30 p.m. we will

head over to the Naples Italian American Foundation for the WWII film My Italian Secret, which will screen at 7:00 p.m. The film is free with a suggested donation made to the Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida. Separate reservations are necessary to the two email addresses below.

For dinner, RSVP by December 5 to andy.singer@singerexecutivedevelop ment.com. Bokamper’s address: 8990 Fontana Del Sol Way, Naples.

For the film, RSVP to GenShoah swfl@icloud.com. Naples Italian American Foundation address: 7035 Airport Pulling Rd. N., Naples.

Monday, December 19, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

The Jewish Professionals Group is invited to attend my free seminar on time management. You won’t want to miss this 45-minute version of my “Master of Time” time-management training. How do we learn to be more efficient and productive so we can get everything accomplished? Come to the Jewish Federation of Collier County at 6:00 p.m. Appetizers from Café Luna will be served. Remit payment of $10

by December 14 to Renee’ at the JFCC, 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd., Ste. 2201, Naples, FL 34109.

Stay connected at www.jewishnaples.org

BENEFITING THE COLLIER/LEE CHAPTER OF HADASSAH

KOSHER COMEDY TOUR presents

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2017 • 7:30PM • TEMPLE SHALOM, NAPLES In the tradition of “Catskills on Broadway,” this exciting multimedia comedy show stars three top-notch Jewish comedians: PETER FOGEL • STU MOSS • MARLYN SANCHEZ RSVP by January 20, 2017 DIAMOND $1,000 Finest seating for two, dessert party, 2 CDs PLATINUM $500 Premium seating for two, dessert party, 1 CD GOLD $250 Excellent seating for two, dessert party, 1 CD SILVER $136 Reserved seating for one, dessert party BRONZE $54 General seating for one (At the door, if available, $100) Proceeds to benefit Hadassah Medical Organization and the work of Hadassah. Your attendance at this event gives permission for Hadassah to take and use photographs for appropriate purposes in accordance with its mission.

Make check payable to HADASSAH and mail to:

PLEASE PRINT

Name_______________________________________________ Email _______________________________________________ Phone ______________________________________________ Address _____________________________________________ City/State/Zip ________________________________________ ____________Number of tickets

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All seating levels above Bronze receive a listing in our program and are eligible for a tax deduction to the extent of the law.

o Sorry I am unable to attend. Please accept my tax-deductible contribution.

Total amount enclosed ___________________________

CATHOLIC-JEWISH DIALOGUE Reservations • Collier/Lee Hadassah • 6017 Pine Ridge Road, Suite 319 • Naples, FL 34119 OF COLLIER COUNTY FS For information contact Elissa Goldstein at feb22017@gmail.com or 239-455-2004 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR THE 2016-2017 SEASON Theme: Building Bridges Sunday, January 8 (5:00 pm) CATHOLIC-JEWISH DIALOGUE Fr. Bob Kantor invites Jews to the Sunday evening Mass.

OF COLLIER Sunday, November 13 (2:30 P.M.)COUNTY St. Agnes Catholic Church, 7775 Vanderbilt Beach Rd, 78th Anniversary of Kristallnacht Commemorative Service.

Naples, FL 34120 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR Kristallnacht is recognized by most historians as “The Night THE 2016-2017 SEASON Sunday, February 12 (4:00 P.M.) The Holocaust Began”.

Joe’s Violin; film and discussion Theme: Building Bridges Temple Shalom, 4630 Pine Ridge Rd., Naples, FL 34119 Sunday, Sunday, December November 413(2:00 (2:30P.M.) P.M.) Walking God’s Paths Part 3, “Common Texts, Service.

Different 78th Anniversary of Kristallnacht Commemorative Scriptures” film and discussion.

Kristallnacht is recognized by most historians as “The Night Part three of a series of six short videos designed to discuss the The Holocaust Began”. differences and commonalities of Christian Jewish Temple Shalom, 4630 Pine Ridge Rd., Naples, FLand 34119 religions. Commentary by a rabbi and priest following the Sunday, December 4 (2:00 P.M.) film, dialogue discussion and refreshments.

Walking God’s Paths Part “Common Beth Tikvah, 1459 Pine Ridge3,Rd, Naples, FLTexts, 34105Different Scriptures” film and discussion.

Sunday, (6:00 P.M.)videos designed to discuss the Part threeDecember of a series4of six short Catholic and Jewish Teen Program. differences and commonalities of Christian and Jewish Catholic Jewish teens by willameet greet onefollowing another inthe an religions.and Commentary rabbiand and priest interfaith program. film, dialogue discussion and refreshments.

St. Catholic Church, Hall,FL7775 Vanderbilt BethAgnes Tikvah, 1459 Pine RidgeMinistry Rd, Naples, 34105 Beach Rd, Naples, FL 34120 Sunday, December 4 (6:00 P.M.) Friday, January 6 (8:00 pm)Program.

Catholic and Jewish Teen Interfaith Weekend, an witness the worship Catholic and Jewish teensopportunity will meet andtogreet one another in an services of both religions. interfaith program.

Rabbi Mark Gross Church, invites Catholics the7775 Friday evening St. Agnes Catholic Ministry to Hall, Vanderbilt Shabbat service.

Beach Rd, Naples, FL 34120 Jewish Congregation of Marco Island, 991 Winterberry Dr., Friday, JanuaryFL 6 (8:00 Marco Island, 34145pm) Interfaith Weekend, an opportunity to witness the worship Friday, (7:30 pm) servicesJanuary of both 6religions.

Rabbi Adam Miller invites Catholics Catholics to to the the Friday Friday evening Rabbi Mark Gross invites evening Shabbat service.

Shabbat service.

Temple Shalom, 4630of Pine RidgeIsland, Rd., Naples, FL 34119 Dr., Jewish Congregation Marco 991 Winterberry Marco Island, FL 34145 Sunday, January 8 (5:00 pm) Fr. TimJanuary Navin invites Friday, 6 (7:30Jews pm) to the Sunday evening Mass.

San Marco Catholic Church, 851 San Marco Rd,evening Marco Rabbi Adam Miller invites Catholics to the Friday Island, FLservice.

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San Marco Catholic Church, 851 San Marco Rd, Marco Island, FL 34145 Please see other side

This short documentary tells the story of a blossoming friendship between a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor and a Bronx 14-year-old schoolgirl, brought together by a violin that he acquired at a displaced person’s camp in postwar Germany.

St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Ballroom, 625 111th Ave. N. Naples, FL 34108 Sunday, March 5 (1:30 P.M.) Dr. William Madges – Presentation and discussion.

Dr. Madges has been a co-director of a multimedia traveling exhibit, A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People.

St. Ann Jubilee Center, 525 9th Avenue South, Naples, FL 34102 Sunday, April 30 (2:00 P.M.) Walking God’s Paths Part 4, “Season of Freedom, Season of Rebirth” film and discussion.

Part four of a series of six short videos designed to discuss the differences and commonalities of Christian and Jewish religions. Commentary by a rabbi and priest following the film, dialogue discussion and refreshments.

St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Claussen Center, 625 111th Ave. N. Naples, FL, 34108 For all events, please RSVP to: cjdialogue@naples.net or call (239) 263-4205. • jewishnaples.org/get-involved/cjd Free admission to all events. Donations payable to JFCC are always welcomed.

The purpose of the Catholic-Jewish Dialogue is to engage Jews and Catholics in understanding their past history and advancing the cause of mutual understanding and appreciation of their differences, as well as their commonalities.

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Upcoming events The MCA Documentary Film Group will be presenting Carvalho’s Journey on Thursday December 1 at 2:00 p.m. in the Naples Daily News Community Room. The film presents a portrait of a Sephardic Jew from the south and his groundbreaking photography and artwork. Reservations are required via email to docfilmsnaples@gmail.com.

Space is limited.

The second lecture in the MCA series will take place on Wednesday, December 14 at 10:30 a.m. Judge Louis Whitman will present “Jerusalem - a Long and Varied History.” Judge Whitman will examine Judaism’s most sacred city and provide the audience with a virtual tour of the city’s past and present. The program will take place in the David G. Willens Community Room of the Jewish Federation. For reservations, please email mcalectures@aol.com.

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Everblades on Wednesday, January 25 at 7:30 p.m. at Germain Arena. The Blades will take on the Allen Americans. Tickets are $25. Please send your check, payable to JFCC/MCA, to Jeff Margolis, 5588 Hammock Isles Drive, Naples, FL 34119.

Interested in learning about Collier County’s largest employer? Join MCA members on Tuesday, January 24 for a private tour of the Arthrex facility in Naples. Visitors will view a PowerPoint presentation about the company followed by a tour. The cost is $20 and the program is limited to 25 members. A box lunch from Jason’s Deli is included.

For reservations, please Larry Hecht at lhecht@mymts.net.

It’s not too early to plan for the MCA Second Annual Sweetheart and Presidents Day Dinner and Dance to be held on Saturday, February 18 at 6:00 p.m. at the Vineyards Country Club.

The cost is $140 per couple. Look for more information in future issues of the Federation Star. For reservations, please send checks to Meir Kehila, whose address is listed above.

Are you interested in serving on the MCA Program Committee? If so, please email Jeff Zalasky at jzalasky@ comcast.net.

If you are not yet an MCA member, please complete the membership form below and join a great group of guys!

Happy Hanukkah to everyone at MCA.

a leading priority of our Federation.

At the Jewish Federation of Collier County we are truly BUILDING COMMUNITY TOGETHER. I’d like to thank everyone who has participated in the past and I encourage you to come out again this year. I hope you see you all at FED CUP VII. The cost is $150 per player and includes a boxed breakfast, and lunch during the awards banquet. Please contact me at kevin@gcipnaples.com or 239.777.1451.

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December 2016 Federation Star

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r f Susan Pittelman and Robin Mintz ,and to select the authors they wanted ,to invite to their communities. As two of the three co-chairs for the Jewish nBook Festival of Collier County (Phil ,Jason is the third), we were asked to @join Jewish Book Festival Coordinator Ted Epstein at the conference and help ,select authors for the Collier County mJewish Book Festival.

The presentations were divided tinto four “Meet the Author” sessions of approximately two hours each. As each author spoke, we (Ted, Robin and Susan) independently rated each speaker on a scale of 1 to 10 on two criteria: 1) How engaging was the presenter?

Did the author use notes? Was the presentation interesting to listen to? Did it hold the audience’s attention?

2) How interested will the memr bers of our community (you!) be in the book’s topic? Is it relevant? Educational? Stimulating? Entertaining?

Following each “Meet the Author” d esession, a reception was held that ofsfered us the chance to talk individually uwith the 50 authors who had just preesented. This gave us the perfect oppordtunity to find out more about the authors h -

we thought might be a good fit for our Naples audience. This is how we found out that Amy Kurzweil (The Flying Couch) visits her grandmother in Naples every January and that one of her cartoons had just been selected to appear in The New Yorker; that Ina Pinkey’s (Ina’s Kitchen) fabulous recipes included some that perhaps could be served at a book event; that Gail Buckland (Who Shot Sports) was having an exhibit in New York of photos from her book; and that Ronald Balson (Karolina’s Twins) went to the same elementary school as Susan.

The Jewish Book Council also scheduled several sessions to assist both new and experienced book fair coordinators and committee members on a variety of topics related to planning book fairs. The first one that we attended was an Orientation/Q&A workshop for new and second-year coordinators, led by our own Ted Epstein.

The final breakout session was organized by region, and it gave us a chance to find out which authors other southern Florida coordinators were thinking about inviting.

A top priority for the three of us was to get together as soon as possible after each “Meet the Author” session and share our reactions and our ratings for each of the authors who had presented. The first night, we sat down at a table at the hotel with our ratings in hand, and realized that we were sitting near another Florida community that was doing the same thing! We began to share our impressions of the authors, and it was during one of those conversations that we came up with the idea to have a Debut Fiction Panel, which is going to feature Victoria Kelly (Mrs. Houdini), Jennifer Brown (Modern Girls) and Martha Hall Kelly (Lilac Girls).

Before Ted left New York, he created a spreadsheet of authors who had scored an average of 8 or higher on our 10-point scale and sent the information to our exceptional committee members, asking them to begin to review the books written by those authors.

We returned to Naples exhausted – but also exhilarated – at the available possibilities. We shared this information with co-chair Phil Jason, who in addition to all of his other skills is a renowned book reviewer. After getting ratings on the books from our committee members, we started to put together events that would include the highlyrated authors.

We took our proposals to our dedicated committee members, who were

very enthusiastic about the outstanding selection of authors available to us, and together we finalized the list of authors that Ted would ask the Jewish Book Council to invite to our Festival. It was nearly a three-week wait until the Jewish Book Council confirmed who had accepted our invitations. We were delighted – and you will be too! We are thrilled that entrepreneur and motivational speaker Jessie Itzler (Living With a SEAL) agreed to come to Naples. He is a dynamic speaker! It will be a “blast from the past” when Steve Katz (Blood, Sweat, and My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years), founding member of the legendary Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears, entertains us through talk and music.

We have a fabulous line-up for you! It includes four very special events at the Hilton Naples, starting with a “Book Festival Preview”

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luncheon on Tuesday, December 13. The event will feature Kate Siegel, author of Mother, Can You Not?, along with her mother (!), Kim Friedman. It will be extremely entertaining – but a word of caution – some “mature” language may be used as our presenters share their mother/daughter relationship!

Take a moment to look at the other fantastic programs listed in the four-page pullout in this issue (pages 7B-10B) and reserve your tickets now!

Based on the ticket orders thus far, we expect to sell out several events!

Of course, you can guarantee a front-row seat at all programs – and support the JBF – by becoming a Book Festival Patron for $199.

If you are interested in volunteering, jot a note on your order form or call the Federation office at 239.263.4205.

We look forward to seeing you at the Festival!

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Campaign Chairs and Directors Mission to Paris and Israel, July 2016 – Part 4 Phyllis Seaman Federation Vice Chair

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n arriving in Tel Aviv on my sixth trip, the third in four years, I experienced a totally different feeling than at other times. The excitement was palpable even though most of us had traveled with Federation to Israel before. This time, we were escorting a French family of six. Not only were we sharing their happiness and anxiety, we were entering the arrivals area at Ben Gurion Airport packed with about a thousand enthusiastic teens and young adults from all over the world arriving for Birthright, Masa and BBYO programs.

With all the crazy, terrifying things happening around the world, seeing this enthusiasm and support for Israel was a ray of sunshine and hope.

Our guide, Gabi, said it has been very heartwarming to have everyone coming to Israel and feeling the support and love they share with the Israeli community.

Many people have been surprised that I continue to make trips overseas, especially this one to Paris and Israel. I will never let fear stop me from doing what is important to me. Personally, I’ve felt safer walking alone in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem than in some U.S. and European cities.

After checking into the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv, we were off to a celebratory dinner of music and dancing with IDF soldiers in a beautiful facility at Tel Aviv University. At dinner, a couple of soldiers were seated at each table and we were able to have great conversations and hear about their responsibilities.

Bat El, my dinner companion, is a computer programmer for the Iron Dome and other military equipment.

This 22-year-old woman impressed me so with her maturity and matter-offactness. This is their life and she loves and is excited about her service to her country.

More than 70% of the Israeli military is under 25. We all know it is mandatory that almost every Israeli has to serve in the IDF. These young people are so dedicated and uplifting.

Jerry Silverman, President and CEO of The Jewish Federations of

As of press time, we have about 100 tickets remaining for the Evy Lipp People of the Book Cultural Event featuring Scott Turow on February 15.

To reserve your ticket, email rbialek@jewishnaples.org. You will receive a confirmation email.

Harold Gernsbacher, JFNA National Campaign Chair, and Jerry Silverman, JFNA President/CEO

and support people, and have told their stories.

Our campaign is the keystone of what we do, and we need YOU and your support to achieve our goals.

Our Federation is now in our last

month of the 2016 Campaign. Our goal and a record of $1.1 million is within reach. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! Money is important, but not as important as our Jewish community coming together for a cause. As Jews that is what we are all about and what we do.

Our Jewish community is growing and so are the requests for grants from our synagogues, JFCS, JNF, Birthright, BBYO and so many other organizations here and in Israel that depend on our support. As you read my article, our Allocations Committee is working diligently to try to meet all the requests as best that we are able.

I realize how much “WE” is used in my articles. As a Jewish Community, we are “WE” and help and care for our community together.

If you have already made your gift to the 2016 Campaign, THANK YOU! If you haven’t, please consider your gift and an increase of 10-20% over last year.

I’ve heard over the years that a “No” is a “Yes” waiting to happen. Please say “YES!”

We Are the Strength of a People – The Power of Community

Maimonides Medical Society For Jewish people in the medical field

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The Wonders of Weizmann: Innovations from the Weizmann Institute of Science Tuesday, January 17, 6:00 - 7:30 pm

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North America, spoke about our mission – Campaign Chairs and Directors Mission – being the kick-off for the 2017 Campaign.

He stressed that we “touch the product and investment” and bring it back to our communities. We are the leaders and the fuel to feed the Campaign. We as people make all the difference.

We have a covenant to take care of and save our people around the world.

I have witnessed our dollars nurture

The Weizmann Institute of Science advances knowledge and innovation that position Israel as a global technological and scientific leader. Scientists at the Institute depart on daily journeys following their curiosity toward greater scientific understanding. Come hear about the latest discoveries, from stem cells to solar cells, from new medicines to new machines that are changing your lives. You will come away from this presentation with a deeper understanding of new discoveries in health and medicine, technology, agriculture and the environment, arising from one of the world’s top-ranked centers for scientific research and graduate study.

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Shotgun Start 9:00 a.m.

For more information about the event and hole sponsorships contact Kevin Aizenshtat at kevin@gcipnaples.com.

COMMUNITY CHANUKAH CELEBRATION Sponsored by

THURSDAY,, DECEMBER 29, 2016 TIME: 5:45 PM Jewish Congregation of Marco Island 991 Winterberry Drive Marco Island, FL 34145 (239) 642-0800 www.marcojcmi.com Join us for a Candle Lighting Ceremony and Chanukah Music Lots of holiday spirit for the entire family Chanukah holiday treats will be served!

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SAVE THE DATE For the 2nd Annual Multicultural Celebration of Israel Sunday, April 2, 2017 at Fleischmann Park in Naples 12 to 3 PM

Israel: A start-up nation, a nation that leads in stem cell research, a democratic nation, a nation of inclusion, a high-tech nation, a nation of resilience, a nation of innovation, and a nation that protects freedom of worship for all religious communities.

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Cardozo Legal Society update

Author Scott Turow will be speaking at the Evy Lipp People of the Book Cultural Event on the evening of Wednesday, February 15 at Temple Shalom. The Cardozo Legal Society will meet for dinner before going to hear him speak.

More details to follow. Please register for the event by emailing rbialek@ jewishnaples.org. JFCC members are entitled to one ticket per person but must register in advance.

The Cardozo Legal Society is an affinity group composed of Jewish members of the legal community. Cardozo Legal Society events are open to active and retired attorneys and judges. For more information, please contact Josh Bialek at jbialek@porterwright.com.

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he community is invited to attend the kick-off event for the Israel Advocacy Committee of the Jewish Federation of Collier County.

The featured speaker will be Dr. Mitchell Bard, author, lecturer and one-time editor of the Near East Report, the weekly paper of AIPAC. With graduate degrees in political science, Dr. Bard has been an active policy analyst for Israel issues.

This event, co-sponsored with the Southwest Florida Chapter of ZOA (Zionist Organization of America), will take place on Wednesday, December 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Chabad Jewish Center of Naples, 1789 Mandarin Road. Tickets are $20 in advance and $22 at the door.

Please send your check, payable to ZOA SWFL, to 4003 Upolo Lane, Naples, FL 34119.

Many members of our community have read Dan Senor and Saul Singer’s 2009 book, Start-Up Nation, which chronicles the success of Israel’s hightech industry. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. Israel is more than just a country steeped in religion and wracked by violence. A new film, Israel Inside, How a Small Nation Makes a Difference, will make its Southwest Florida debut on Sunday, January 8 at 7:00 p.m. at Beth Tikvah, 1459 Pine Ridge Road, Naples.

The film, narrated by Dr. Tai Ben Shahar, illustrates how a small nation has overcome adversity to grow into a robust nation burgeoning with new ideas that have served to help people throughout the world.

Gabriel Baredes, Consulate General of Israel representative, will speak at this event. Mr. Baredes has degrees in business administration and management and will be available to answer questions following the film.

Tickets for this award-wining film are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Please send your check, payable to JFCC, to the Jewish Federation of Collier County, 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 2201, Naples, FL 34109, Attn: Renee’. Seats are limited so make your reservations early.

Other upcoming events Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, President and Founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, will be the featured speaker at an IAC event on Wednesday, February 22 at 7:00 p.m. at Temple Shalom, 4630 Pine Ridge Road, Naples. Dr. Jasser, author of A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot’s Fight to Save his Faith, has frequently been asked to brief members of the U.S. Congress about Islamic threats to the United States.

Tickets for this event are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. There will also be a lunch reception with Dr. Jasser at the Club at Olde Cypress at 11:30 a.m. on the date of his program. The cost for the luncheon is $100. Please send your check for either or both events to the Jewish Federation of Collier County.

The reservation deadline for the luncheon is February 15.

Best wishes for a Happy Hanukkah from the Israel Advocacy Committee and Chair Dr. Ed Ezrine.

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Amy Snyder Executive Director t is hard to believe we have come to the end of another year, and 2017 is fast approaching! We look forward to welcoming you in 2017 with a number of very special programs and events. Please visit our website at www.

HolocaustMuseumSWFL.org and look for our January column to provide additional details.

Annual Luncheon The Museum’s Annual Luncheon will be held on Thursday, December 15 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at The RitzCarlton Beach Resort, 280 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Naples. Host Sponsors for the event are Estelle and Stuart Price.

Our guest speaker is author Louise Borden, who will discuss her book, The Journey that Saved Curious George.

The book describes the “story behind the story” of the creation of the muchloved Curious George character. Be prepared to learn a lot of “curious” facts about everyone’s favorite monkey. Did you know that his original name wasn’t George? Or that he wasn’t the main character starring in the books created

by H.A. and Margret Rey? Or that he almost never got to be famous at all? Ms. Borden will fill you in on all the details.

She is also the author of several children’s books dealing with World War II and the Holocaust. Five of her books will be available for purchase at the event as a set for $60. Titles included

the Memorial commission from the Muily members they lost, and others were are The Journey that Saved Curious seum, Mr. Diaz considered options for created by the families of Holocaust surGeorge – 75 th Anniversary Edition, its creation. Contemplating the tragedy vivors and camp liberators we worked The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue of the Holocaust and with in our education programs who at Dunkirk in World “all of the genocides have passed away. The community also War II, Across the Blue which had occurred in participated by creating tribute flowers Pacific, The Greatest history and continue for relatives lost in the Holocaust, as Skating Race and His to occur in the modern well as garden landscape flowers created Name Was Raoul Walworld,” he “decided to by students and the public to fill in the lenberg. The set can create a work of art that garden background scene. be pre-ordered with a would convey serenThe official unveiling of the Memosigned bookplate, at no ity and beauty, always rial Garden will take place in late Januextra charge, and will keeping in mind our ary 2017 as part of the commemoration be ready for pickup at hopes, to live in balof International Holocaust Rememthe event. ance, peace and love brance Day. Luncheon tickets in the world society, The Museum is located at 4760 are $150 per person, and moving away from our Tamiami Trail North, Suite 7, in Naples. sponsorships are availmistaken primitive ways It is open year-round Tuesday through able. Dress is business of thinking and going Sunday; closed Monday and major Jewcasual. Net proceeds forward with the lessons learned.” ish and U.S. holidays benefit the education programs of the Entitled “The Garden, 2016,” the inWe extend our best wishes for Holocaust Museum & Education Cendividually-framed painted backgrounds Happy Holidays to you and your ter of SWFL. For more information on feature an idealized meadow scene. The family. reservations and sponsorships, please memorial “tribute flowers” created durcontact Development Specialist Tim Photo Credit for Curious George image above: ing the November workshops will be Morrison at Tim@HolocaustMuseum The requested images from the cover are used incorporated into the design. Under Mr. SWFL.org or call 239.263.9200. in the book by permission of the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection, The University of Diaz’s direction, some were created by Memorial Garden Art Installation Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS. Holocaust survivors in honor of the famnearing completion The Museum’s Memorial Garden Art Installation in our front c windows is nearing i completion. As mentioned in our October H column, artist Juan t Diaz created the four k beautiful panels in, v and as part of, the 1 LIGHT Performance a Art Style Series for which he is well c known.

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any readers of the Federation Star are now familiar with the type of excellent programming that GenShoah SWFL has been bringing to our community. Consistent e with the mission of GenShoah to promote Holocaust education and human rights, are special programs that will be presented this season. n Co-sponsored by the Naples Italian American Foundation, the film My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust, will be shown on .

Thursday, December 8 at 7:00 p.m. at the Foundation, 7035 Airport Road N., Naples. This film tells the incredible story of forgotten heroes such as r cycling idol Gino Bartali, Dr. Giovanni Borromeo and other courageous Italians who carried out ingenious schemes

to rescue Jews, partisans and refugees from Nazi-occupied Italy. The doors will open at 6:00 p.m. Admission is free but tax-deductible donations to the Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida will be greatly appreciated. Space is limited. Reservations are a must and may be made at genshoahswfl@icloud.com, naif@ niafoundation.org or 239.597.5210.

The film No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story, which will be accompanied by an appearance

by Dr. Jonathan Brent, Executive Director of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, is the major GenShoah event for this season. According to Gary Goldstein of the LA Times, “Just when you thought you’d heard every vital story about the Holocaust, along comes the stirring documentary to shine further light on one of history’s darkest periods.” Brent will be making a presentation about YIVO, where a cache of letters written in 1941 by Anne Frank’s father, Otto, was recently found. He will also be available for a Q&A. The screening and presentation will take place at

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he Jewish Federation of Collier County invites all Holocaust survivors, and all students from our community in grades 6-12 to participate in this important program.

We will pair students up with a Holocaust survivor. Students will have the chance to meet, interview, get to know and learn from Holocaust survivors on Sundays, February 5, February 12 and March 26 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Temple Shalom.

On Sunday, April 23, during the community-wide Yom HaShoah Observance, the students and Holocaust survivors will come together, and the

students will give a summary of their “Meet a Holocaust Survivor” program.

If you are a survivor, or a student in grades 6-12, please respond by Friday, December 16 so we can match you up for this wonderful program. Please make sure you can attend all four of the dates listed above. Parental consent is necessary since we will be videotaping this experience.

For more information, please contact Ida at ida.margolis2@gmail.com or Renee’ at the Jewish Federation of Collier County at rbialek@jewishnaples.org or 239.263.4205.

GenShoah of SWFL Schedule of events for the 2016-17 Season Thursday, December 8, 7:00 p.m.

Film - My Italian Secret- co-sponsored by Italian-American Club - Story of courageous Italians who carried out ingenious schemes to rescue Jews and refugees from Nazi-occupied Italy The Italian American Foundation, 7035 Airport Road, Naples Sunday, December 18, 4:30 p.m.

Pot luck dinner at member’s home with a discussion of the book The Nazi Titanic, led by Shelley Lieb Sunday, January 15 Trip to Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg followed by lunch with Generations After Tampa Bay

Temple Shalom on Tuesday, January 31 at 7:00 p.m.

Anyone with an interest in history will surely want to see the presentations of two authors who are coming to Naples as part of the Jewish Book Festival. The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in WWII by Robert Watson tells the story of a Holocaust tragedy and one of history’s worst maritime disasters. Watson will be at Beth Tikvah at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, January 23, along with author Josh Aronson. Aronson will talk about his book Orchestra of Exiles: The Story of Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic, and the One Thousand Jews He Saved from Nazi Horrors. These are two stories you will definitely want to hear. More information about these and other Festival books, along with a ticket order form, can be found in the four-page pullout in this issue (pages 7B-10B).

History learned from someone’s personal experience often has the ability to make an impact that just reading or viewing cannot. On Sunday, February

19 at 5:00 p.m. at the Holocaust Museum, two extraordinary stories will be told. Holocaust survivor Steen Metz will relate his personal story of being transported to Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. Filmmaker and author Marina Berkovich will tell her story about interviewing a well-known Holocaust denier. On Sunday, March 19, as part of the inaugural Jewish Community Festival of Learning (JCFL) at Temple Shalom, Goldie Bertone will be sharing the story of her mother who escaped from Dachau. (A registration fee will be required for the JCFL.) The “historians” who are reading this article are familiar with quotes such as “A knowledge of the past helps us to understand the present and attempt to meet the challenges of the future,” and know there is always more to learn.

Reservations are required for history buffs and their guests. Space is limited.

Tax deductible donations for GenShoah programs are appreciated. To RSVP, email genshoahswfl@icloud.com.

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Film - No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story - with speaker Jonathan Brent, Executive director of YIVO, the archives where letters written by Otto Frank were recently uncovered Temple Shalom, 4630 Pine Ridge Road, Naples Sunday, February 19, 5:00 p.m.

Speakers Steen Metz, presenting his survivor story, and Marina Berkovich discussing her interview with a Holocaust Denier Holocaust Museum, 4760 Tamiami Trail N, Naples Sunday, April 16 Program TBD Beth Tikvah, 1459 Pine Ridge Road, Naples

RSVPs are required for all GenShoah events. For reservations, information and to receive the GenShoah enewsletter, contact Ida at genshoahswfl@icloud.com or 239.963.9347.

Additional Community Programs of Holocaust Relevance: Thursday, January 19, 7:00 p.m.

Jewish Book Festival, author Amy Kurzweil, Flying Couch, at Jewish Federation Monday, January 23, 1:00 p.m.

Jewish Book Festival, authors Robert Watson, The Nazi Titanic, and Josh Aronson, Orchestra of Exiles, at Beth Tikvah Friday, January 27, 7:30 p.m.

UN Holocaust Day, Speaker Dr. Stephen Berk, at Temple Shalom Sunday, March 5, 1:30 p.m.

“Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People” presented by Dr. William Madges, at St. Ann Jubilee Center, 479 9th Ave. S., Naples Sunday, March 19, 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Jewish Community Festival of Learning, scheduled presentations include “Bearing Witness” by Goldie Bertone, and “Nazi Olympics” by Dr. Bartrop, at Temple Shalom Sunday, April 23, 10:00 a.m.

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Naples Senior Center membership tops 1,000!

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hen we opened our doors on January 22, 2014, we welcomed 80 seniors to our first “Lunch and More” program. Today, we have 1,036 members, and I am sure by the time you read this article we will have at least 20 more! Our members range in age from 60 to 102 and come from as far south as Marco Island and as

far north as southern Fort Myers. They come to enjoy a weekly hot lunch followed by lively entertainment or educational programs. Our members take part in physical fitness activities such as Tai Chi, Chair Yoga and Bone Builders. We even have a walking club, and several of our members have completed 100 miles!

There are many opportunities to be creative, something we know to be very important as one ages. From professionally-taught art classes to selfdirected coloring groups, to members who sit together and knit and crochet blankets for frail seniors, caps for people undergoing chemotherapy or sweater sets for dolls…we seem to have it all.

We have a creative writing group and a comedy club. And if you stop by on a Thursday afternoon you will see our ever-expanding line dancing program.

Need some help with your computer, tablets or smart phones? We have “an app” for that, as well.

Most important, however, is that through all of our structured programs and classes we provide something that is needed and appreciated by all who walk through our doors – the opportunity to socialize and make friends in a warm and welcoming environment. Come by and visit, and you will see why we have been referred to as “the miracle on Castello Drive.”

And while you are checking your calendar to see when you might stop by, please be sure to circle Saturday, January 14. Our 5th annual signature fundraiser, “An Evening for Better Tomorrows: Dancing, Doo Wop and Rock & Roll,” will begin at 6:00 p.m. at Grey Oaks Country Club. Chaired by Judith and Edward Anchel, and featuring legendary singing sensations The Crystals and The Crests, the evening will include cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and a lavish dinner buffet.

Tickets are $300 per person. For more information, please visit www. jfcsswfl.org or call 239.325.4444. We look forward to seeing you there!

Three Jewish Book Festival events people will be talking about for months!

All three events take place at the Hilton Naples (complimentary valet parking).

Tuesday, December 13 11:30am - 2:30pm Luncheon

Thursday, January 5 11:30am - 2:30pm Luncheon

Thursday, January 19 2:00 - 4:00pm Mini-Concert

Kate Siegel & mom Kim Friedman

Jesse Itzler

Steve Katz

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

Mix & Mingle – Jewish senior singles update

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ince our opening get-together at Inca’s Kitchen in November 2015, Mix & Mingle has grown, promoting new friendships. Our activities are as diverse as our membership.

We have attended lectures, museum tours, theater productions, wine tastings and dinners, as well as taken advantage of volunteer opportunities. The good news is that there are so many other ways that we can continue the success of M&M. We are waiting to hear about your interests and suggestions for events. This is your organization!

Reminder: Annual dues of $10 should be mailed to JFCC by December 15. As with event reservations, checks

should be made payable to JFCC and mailed to the attention of Renee’ Bialek at JFCC, 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 2201, Naples, FL 34109.

In recent weeks, we laughed through a performance of Erma Bombeck’s At Wit’s End, visited Shy Wolf Sanctuary, and listened to speaker/writer Helene Gaillet de Neergaard while enjoying a beautiful brunch at Chez Boet.

As we look forward to future events, we hope you will join us.

Monday, December 5 (12:45 to 3:30 p.m.): Join our group for a private visit to the Conservancy of Southwest

Jewish Genealogy Group Meeting The next meeting of the Jewish Genealogy SIG (Shared Interest Group) at the Jewish Federation of Collier County offices (2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 2201, Naples) is on Tuesday, December 13 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.

Florida, which includes an electric boat tour and a stop at the Dalton Discovery Center. Hear about the wildlife program.

There is a limit of 22 people so please send your check to Renee’ soon. The

cost is $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers.

Monday, December 12 (6:00 p.m.): Let’s Mix & Mingle during dinner at Cibao’s in the Neapolitan Shopping Center. This is a Dutch treat event, but please send your check for $5, payable to JFCC, to Attn: Renee’ to hold your reservation. It is imperative that we have an accurate count as space is limited. We will truly be dining as nothing is prepared in advance at this

wonderful restaurant. If you like walleye pike, it’s the best!

Thursday, January 26 (10:45 a.m.): Join M&M for a private tour of Palm Cottage and the Norris Garden.

A Dutch treat lunch will follow at the Ridgway Bar & Grill. As with other activities, space is limited so please send your check for $12, payable to JFCC, to Renee’ by January 16.

Please watch for M&M 2017 events to include a return to the Baker Museum in February, and a performance by comedian Lenny Dave in March.

As a reminder, continue to read your Federation Star and watch for flyers and eblasts. These resources will keep you updated on current activities and any changes or additions to our schedule.

For more information on how to get involved, contact Judi Palay at judipalay@aol.com or call Renee’ at 239.263.4205.

ZOA Southwest Florida Chapter update

By Jerrold L. Sobel, President, ZOA Southwest Florida Chapter

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rom our inaugural meeting and speaker presentation in November until now our goal has been consistent: to enlighten the greater Naples community about the concerns and perils facing Israel and the Jewish people in the United States and throughout the world.

In doing so, we’ve been fortunate to recruit renowned scholars to grace our community and lecture on topics germane to their fields of expertise. To name just a few who have appeared over the years:  Bret Stephens: Pulitzer Prize winner and Wall Street Journal columnist  Jonathan Tobin: editor of Commentary Magazine and syndicated column, View From America  Yoram Ettinger: Former Israeli Ambassador and Publisher of the Ettinger Report Interestingly, we’ve been able to get the perspectives not only of Jewish

scholars such as Daniel Pipes and Dr. Andrew Bostom, but also the viewpoints of Robert Spencer, a Christian, and Nonie Darwish, a Muslim. With Raheel Raza, a pro-Israel Muslim scheduled to speak on Wednesday, January 25, this season portends to be equally as great as the others.

In co-sponsorship with the Jewish Federation of Collier County, we are proud to be hosting Dr. Mitchell Bard on Wednesday, December 7 at the Chabad Jewish Center of Naples. Dr. Bard is the Executive Director of the AmericanIsraeli Cooperative and the Director of the Jewish Virtual Library. Regardless of who wins the election there is certain to be consequences for the State of Israel. What are they? Dr. Bard will help us decipher it all in a talk entitled “The American Election: Its Consequences for Israel.” For further information, email me at jerrysobel@aol.com.

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er destiny became obvious to Joanie Leeds’ parents when, at the tender age of two, Joanie grabbed a band mic and belted out the entire song “Tomorrow” from Annie.

Jaws dropped! No one could remember ever hearing a big voice like that coming from one so tiny.

Joanie Leeds, who will be performing in Fort Myers on Saturday evening, December 10, was a musical theater major at Syracuse University

playing for adults on the club circuit. B The songs that Joanie Leeds beganE turning out reflected this sense that lifef is a joyful adventure. Entertaining ati birthday parties and preschools soonw progressed into concert performancesa nationwide and generated material for seven full-length CDs: City Kid, Challah, I’m a Rock Star, What a Zoo, Bandwagon, Good Egg and Meshugana! Joanie has also released two fulllength DVDs: City Kid Live and Joanie

when she began composing her own songs. After graduation, she supported herself bartending in New York City clubs while looking for every opportunity to perform onstage. While making the rounds as a singer/songwriter, she discovered a passion for singing with and for kids.

As Joanie describes it, life clicked into place when she realized that children transform themselves into amazing creatures of joy, forgetting how to hold back. Seeing the kids get in touch with their true selves gave her a sense of fulfillment that even surpassed

Leeds and the Nightlights – Live from Madison Square Park.

Joanie is currently touring the country performing at concerts and leading songwriter workshops while maintaining a busy teaching schedule.

We are very lucky to have Joanie and her husband, Drummer Dan, performing for us in Southwest Florida.

Her music may be written with children in mind, but listening to it brings out the child in all of us!

For more information on Joanie’s concert in Fort Myers, please see the ad on page 2B.

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Torah Talk Join the volunteer-led discussion of the week’s Torah portion on the first Saturday of each month. On December 3, the portion is Toldot. There will be a light breakfast at 8:15 a.m. with a discussion to follow at 8:30 a.m. There is no charge and all are welcome.

Family Shabbat Experience On Friday, December 2 at 5:30 p.m. join us for a different kind of Shabbat experience for families with young(ish) children, with activities, music, dinner and service. There is no charge to attend.

RSVP to the Temple Shalom Education Office at 239.455.2233.

Sisterhood Book Bag Our next event is Thursday, December 15 at 1:30 p.m., when we will discuss Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow. Facilitator: Arlene Yedid. This novel captures the spirit of America between the turn of the 20th century and World War I. The National Library considers this novel to be one of the top 100 novels ever written. RSVP to HelenWeinfeld@aol. com.

Melton Adult Education “The Holocaust as Reflected in Diaries and Memoirs.” Journey into the world of Jewish individuals and communities as the events of the Holocaust unfold

around them. Explore the profound record of the first-person accounts in diaries and memoirs uncovered in the years since the Holocaust. Ten weeks beginning February 1; Wednesdays from noon to 1:30 p.m.; Instructor: Dr. Anna Salomon. Please visit www. events.org/MeltonNaples to register for this class.

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Interested in Your Family’s History?

By Nate Bloom, Contributing Columnist

Editor’s note: Persons in BOLD CAPS are deemed by Nate Bloom to be Jewish efor the purpose of the column. Persons identified as Jewish have at least one Jewtish 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 salso identified as Jewish. l now 15, who expressed a sincere wish ,Kirk Douglas Turns 100 This item is being penned a few weeks to be Jewish and have a bar mitzvah th before Kirk Douglas’s 100 birthday (which happened in Jerusalem). on Friday, December 9.

God willLast year, on his 99th birthday, Douglas gave $15 million to build a eing, he’ll celebrate it with family and friends and there will be a lot of melarger center for Alzheimer’s patients dia attention. But, you never know – so at the Motion Picture & Television let me relate a few “evergreen” things Home. This is on top of $25 million about Douglas that aren’t likely to be he has already given the Home. This in the standard birthday article or any is his most famous charity, but there type of short coverage. are scores of others. I suspect part of Born Issur Danielovitch, the son of his fortune stems from his foresight a ragman, Douglas had a remarkable in buying up (1962) the rights to One run of quality hit movies from the late Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. He ’40s through the mid ’60s. Less well turned the film rights over to Michael, known is that he was the producer, as and Michael got an Oscar for producwell as the star of two great movies: ing the 1975 film. It cost $3 million to Spartacus and Paths of Glory. He hired make, and made $109 million (almost a virtually unknown STANLEY KU$500 million today). m BRICK to direct those films, and he Catch-Up and Something New hired blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo Man with a Plan is a CBS comedy e to write Spartacus and gave him screen series that started on October 24 and d credit – a mortal blow to the blacklist. new episodes air Mondays at 8:30 He starred in the first Hollywood p.m.. Matt LeBlanc stars as a stay-atfilm made in Israel (The Juggler, home dad whose wife has returned to 1953).

This story of a Holocaust surwork. JESSICA CHAFFIN, 34, has vivor starts dour.

But ultimately the a regular supporting role as Marie, a . fi lm is a hopeful look at the then new neighbor LeBlanc consults about parcountry. enting. Chaffin and her comedy partner, s A near death experience in 1991 JAMIE DENBO, 43, have long had started the intellectual process that led a comedic bi-weekly podcast (“Ronna Kirk to embrace rigorous Jewish pracand Beverly”) on the Earwolf Network. e tice and he had his second bar mitzvah, They play two 50-something Jewish at age 83, in 1999. His wife of 62 years, women who dispense advice and interANNE BUYDENS, now 86, converted view real celeb guests. to Judaism in 2004. It must be gratifyThe CBS series The Great Ining for Kirk that MICHAEL, 72, the doors premiered on October 27 and most famous of his four sons, decided new episodes air Thursdays at 8:30 in the last few years to firmly identify p.m.. Joel McHale stars as a reporter as a Reform Jew. Michael was led to who traveled the globe for an outdoors this largely by his own son, DYLAN, magazine. Then the magazine’s owner

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Nate Bloom (see column at left) 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.

(STEPHEN FRY, 59), decides to turn it into a web-only magazine and McHale finds himself office-bound and supervising a staff of “raw” millennials. The show also co-stars CHRISTOPHER MINTZ-PLASSE, 27, as a tech nerd who knows everything about surviving on Mars, but has never been out of the city.

Both actors are the sons of Jewish mothers and non-Jewish fathers. Fans of Brit TV will know Fry, a UK native, from the Blackadder shows in the ’80s. His film roles include the Master of Lake-town in two Lord of the Rings movies. Mintz-Plasse is most associated with his debut film role in Super Bad (2007) as a teen with a phony ID that hilariously says that his name is “McLovin.”

On Friday, December 2, Netflix will start streaming the Israeli series Fauda, a suspense drama about the soldiers of Mista’arvim, the special defense forces of the Israel Army. This commando unit is specially trained to integrate into the Palestinian community by adopting the language, clothing and mannerisms of the locals. A huge critical and ratings hit in Israel, it is presented in the original Arabic and Hebrew (with subtitles). Its drawn both Jewish and Arab audiences because of its intricate plots, realistic combat scenes, and the way in which it depicts the lives and thoughts of both Israeli and Arab combatants. It has been praised for giving roughly equal time to both sides and not painting either side as wholly evil or good.

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his month sees an important 75th anniversary in the life of the United States that is sure to be marked across the country; indeed, around the world.

The morning of December 7, 1941, saw the Japanese attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor, on what President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to as a “Day of Infamy.” The event itself did not automatically lead to the U.S. Dr. Paul Bartrop entering World War II, and for a few short days this new conflict saw the United States in a war with Japan only. America did, however, have an ally in this conflict, because simultaneously with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor came attacks on British Hong Kong and Malaya, drawing the British Empire into war with Japan.

Then, inexplicably in the eyes of some at the time, German dictator Adolf Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941. In Washington, President Roosevelt asked Congress for a counter declaration of war on Germany and Italy, saying that “Never before has there been a greater challenge to life, liberty and civilization.”

Almost immediately, the President pledged the U.S. to a “beat Hitler first” strategy that saw the United States concentrate on the European theater prior to turning on the Japanese enemy in the Pacific. Eventually, by war’s end, nearly 90 percent of America’s military resources were devoted to defeating Hitler.

While all this was being played out, other “days of infamy” were tak-

ing place with regard to the Holocaust. On December 8, 1941, near the city of Lodz in Nazi-occupied Poland, Chelmno, a new extermination camp designed specifically for murdering Jews, became operational. Jews taken there were placed in mobile gas vans and driven to where they would be buried, while carbon monoxide from the van’s engine exhaust was fed into the sealed rear compartment. All those in the van would be murdered. Early in the New Year, these vans gave way to fixed gassing installations at Chelmno, the first of what became known as the Nazi “extermination camps.”

As if to underscore these new arrangements, on December 16, 1941, the Nazi governor of occupied Poland, Dr. Hans Frank, declared during a cabinet meeting of his senior advisers: “Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feelings of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible in order to maintain there the structure of the Reich as a whole.” With this, the worst phase of the killing during the Holocaust was about to begin. At the start of 1942, 80 percent of all Jews in the Nazi-occupied areas were still alive; one year later, 80 percent of all those to be murdered in the Holocaust were already dead.

Earlier that same week, on December 12, 1941, the Struma, a small ship carrying 769 Jews desperate to leave Europe for safety in Palestine, departed the Romanian port of Constanţa and ventured into the Black Sea. The waters off Constanţa – the biggest port on the Black Sea – were mined for defense, so a Romanian vessel escorted the Struma out to sea. On December 15, the ship arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, but not before its diesel engine failed numerous times while in

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transit. The ship then remained there, at anchor, while British diplomats and Turkish officials discussed the fate of the Jewish passengers on board. The British implored the Turkish government to prevent the Struma from continuing her voyage, while the Turks refused to allow any of the passengers to come ashore. As a consequence, while the diplomats haggled, the Struma ran short of supplies.

After weeks of intense discussion, the British decided to allow a few of the Struma’s passengers to continue their journey to Palestine by land. On February 12, 1942, British officials approved that children on the Struma aged between 11 and 16 would be given visas for Palestine, though the Turks objected to transporting them at Turkish expense. The British, in turn, refused to send another ship to rescue the children, while Turkey denied them permission to travel overland.

On February 23, 1942, with her engine still unworkable and her desperate refugee passengers still aboard, Turkish authorities boarded the Struma, and cast it out to into the Black Sea. The next morning there was an enormous explosion, and the Struma

sank. It was later determined that it had been torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, which classified the ship as an “enemy target.” Some passengers survived briefly by hugging pieces of debris, but for hours no rescue came. The torpedo and subsequent sinking of the Struma killed all 10 crew members and all but one of the 780 Jewish refugees aboard.

Only one young man, 19-year-old David Stoliar, survived, by hanging onto a floating piece of what remained of the ship’s deck.

It is generally recognized today that the neglect and abandonment of the Struma passengers was a major catastrophe that could have been avoided if the will to do so had existed.

December 7, 1941 was, indeed, a “Day of Infamy;” but that awful month, 75 years ago, saw more than just that one day, a fact that we should keep in mind during the commemorations that will surely take place as we recall Pearl Harbor.

Dr. Paul Bartrop is Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University.

He can be reached at pbartrop@fgcu. edu.

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And, the chance to visit the land to focus on the price Israel has paid for its defense was particularly meaningful to the cyclist. He said that meeting the brave men and women who risk everything to keep Israel and Jews worldwide safe, visiting the monuments erected in honor of the victims of terror, and seeing military bases made the experience especially poignant.

Beginning near the Sea of Galilee, the American cyclists covered more than 400 miles and a total vertical climb of about 32,000 feet. Joining at various points of the tour were wounded Israeli combat veterans who have benefited from FIDF rehabilitative programs and prosthetic devices.

Vande Walle described that from the top of Mt. Hermon, overlooking Lebanon and Syria, he could see the smoke rising from ongoing skirmishes below, and that it was surreal being able to observe the fighting and still feel completely safe. “Sort of like being in a movie,” he said.

The FIDF, a non-profit organization, was established in 1981. Today, with 150,000 members, it provides “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.” Soldiers, wounded veterans, and families of fallen soldiers are also given support with the goal of strengthening the “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.

With his wife Nitza, a native Israeli, Vande Walle spends three months in

Guido Vande Walle during the FIDF Cycling Tour

Naples and equally shares the rest of the year between Nice, France, and Andalusia, Spain. We caught up with Vande Walle to find out more.

When and why did you become involved with FIDF and the cycling event?

I became involved with FIDF about

The group of 37 cyclists and FIDF supporters from across the U.S. on Tel Aviv’s coast

two years ago, as I love Israel and wanted to support Israel’s soldiers. I had always wanted to cycle across Israel, but my wife’s Israeli relatives warned me that it could be dangerous to do so on my own. When I saw an email from FIDF about the Cycling Tour of Israel, I jumped at the opportunity to ride across Israel on my bike with a group of likeminded people. My support shows that I care about the soldiers and appreciate what they are doing for their country and for Jews worldwide. I’m proud of them, and I’m proud to support them.

What did the event involve?

The event involved eight days, with six days of cycling. During each of the six cycling days we rode about 110 miles. The group met in Tel Aviv and traveled by bus to the Ramot Resort near the Sea of Galilee.

Using the resort as a base, we cycled the Golan Heights, including Druze areas, Mt. Hermon, the Sea of Galilee rift, the Hula Valley, the Jordan Valley, the Valley of the Sprigs and the Jordan Rift Valley. On the fifth day of cycling, we took a bus to the Dead Sea, and from there we biked through HaMakhtesh HaGadol (the Big Crater) and ended the ride in the town of Yeruham. We then took a bus from there to

Tel Aviv and spent the sixth cycling day riding along the Mediterranean. The tour concluded with Shabbat dinner on the beach with students who benefit from the FIDF IMPACT! Scholarship Program.

Did you make any special stops or speak to the public?

Yes, we stopped at an IDF base on Mt. Hermon, where we met Israeli soldiers, including a few American Lone Soldiers (those who immigrate without immediate family to serve in the IDF).

Another highlight was meeting Avigdor Kahalani in the Golan Heights’ Valley of Tears. Kahalani was one of the greatest

Cyclists riding through the Negev Desert

heroes of all time of Israel’s 1973 Yom Kippur War. Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, he kept Syrian forces at bay long enough for Israeli reinforcements to arrive and drive the attackers back over the border.

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How many Israeli wounded veterans participated?

Different wounded veterans came and went, joining us for different amounts of time, but there were at least

two and up to four riding with us each day. The soldiers as well as those we met along the way were thrilled to meet us.

In what way were you able to show solidarity with the wounded

The group of 37 cyclists and FIDF supporters from across the U.S. at a memorial in the Golan Heights’ Valley of Tears, the site of a major battle during the 1973 Yom Kippur War (Photo Credits: Nadav Ariel)

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Arlene Subin Wishing you a speedy recovery From: Bill & Louise Warshauer Jerry & Rosalee Bogo Michael & Phyllis Seaman To:

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Israeli co-participants?

Cycling over the difficult terrain and just sharing the day together was a real bonding experience. But the wounded veterans were at least as strong as most of the American riders – some even stronger.

What would you tell others about the importance of supporting organizations like FIDF? There would be no State of Israel without the soldiers of the IDF. The FIDF supports IDF soldiers, including Lone Soldiers, wounded veterans, and the families of fallen soldiers through well-being and educational programs that make a huge difference in these heroes’ lives.

Did you know any of the three other Florida cyclists before the trip?

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Not a single one, but we became fast friends. One of the other riders was born in the same hospital in Tiberius as my wife, in the same year as she was born.

Did you stay in Israel after the event?

We stayed another month, and got to spend Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simchat Torah in Israel. It was an amazing experience.

Jean Amodea, a former school principal from New Jersey is a freelance writer for the Naples Daily News and its community publications as well as director of Peter Duchin Music of Naples/Entertainment Direct. She also performs with her husband Ron’s dance band, jazz ensemble and Caribbean quartet.

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Israel rushes aid to the world’s worst earthquakes Israel is often one of the first countries on the ground to offer humanitarian aid after the world’s most devastating earthquakes.

By Nicky Blackburn, ISRAEL21c, www.israel21c.org, September 13, 2016

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hen Krishna Devi Khadka, was pulled out of the rubble of a hotel five days after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal on April 25 2015, the first people she saw were Israeli.

Khadka, a maid at the hotel, had been trapped in an air pocket covered by a corpse. She was rescued after a dramatic 10-hour operation led by IsraAID, an Israeli humanitarian aid organization.

The 24-year-old was taken immediately to the only working hospital in Kathmandu, a large field hospital run by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Khadka was one of thousands of people across Nepal who survived the first quake and the second magnitude 7.3 quake that followed two weeks later, thanks to Israeli aid. The

IsraAID working in the Gongabu district of Kathmandu (Photo: IsraAID/Mickey Noam Alon)

two quakes were a catastrophic double blow for Nepal that left 9,000 people dead, 22,000 injured and hundreds of thousands of homes, offices and temples destroyed or damaged.

Israel was one of the first countries to send humanitarian aid to Nepal, and the range and breadth of that aid from so many sectors of Israeli life – the government, the military and various NGOs – was so significant that the Nepalese today regard Israel as a source of inspiration.

According to figures compiled by CNN, Israel sent more personnel to the disaster scene than any other country.

The IDF arrived in Nepal two days after the first quake, with a team of 260 physicians and search-and-rescue experts. Within 12 hours they had set up a field hospital in Kathmandu, the IDF’s largest ever, which included two operating tents, four intensive-care tents, 60 hospital beds, and specialists in neonatal and adult care.

The team brought 95 tons of humanitarian and medical supplies from Israel, and during their stay they treated 1,600 patients, performed more than 85 surgeries and delivered eight babies.

They also fortified 332 public buildings, and conducted safety and survival workshops for 605 Nepalese citizens.

Israeli civilian NGO IsraAID also arrived two days after the quake, with an emergency relief team of doctors and search-and-rescue specialists. The team quickly established a temporary field clinic in the Sindhupalchowk district of Nepal, one of the worst-hit areas.

The organization brought supplies and medical services, and opened psychologist-staffed safe spaces for children left wandering the streets after the quake.

Community development nonprofit Tevel b’Tzedek (The Earth in Justice), which has been carrying out humanitarian work in Nepal since 2007 and already had a team on the ground, rushed to help, providing connections, training and understanding of the region to other NGOs arriving on the scene.

Magen David Adom (MDA) sent out a trained disaster delegation including 10 paramedics and two physicians, and later distributed building supplies and food to 800 Nepali families.

The Dream Doctors sent medical clowns to bring relief and cheer to survivors.

Other Israeli NGOs – ZAKA, United Hatzalah, Natan International Humanitarian Aid and Israeli Flying Aid – were also involved in rescue, recovery and relief operations in Nepal along with FIRST, a consortium of Israeli government and army rescue services.

Over a year later, Tevel b’Tzedek and IsraAID are still at work in Nepal, offering training and support to help villagers get back on their feet.

Tevel b’Tzedek runs a youth service program modeled after Israel’s Shnat Sherut, year of national service, in earthquake-devastated villages to help rebuild communities. Tevel also runs a variety of recovery programs in agriculture, education, disaster-risk reduction, resilience, crisis intervention and income generation for some 25,000 villagers in six of Nepal’s most impoverished regions.

IsraAID runs a variety of humanitarian projects in Nepal and plans to be there for at least three more years. The organization distributes warm clothing to Nepali children, has brought in

wake of a deadly earthquake. Israeli humanitarian workers have helped out after earthquakes in India, Turkey, Peru, and the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Southeast Asia in 2004.

Here are the main earthquakes where Israel has given aid since 2010:  Jan 2010: Israel gained worldwide praise for the speed and efficiency with which it offered aid to Haiti in the wake of a catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed around 160,000 people and left 280,000 buildings destroyed. Five years later, Israel was still in Haiti helping rebuild the community.  July 2010: An 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile.  Feb 2011: A 6.3 magnitude earthquake in New Zealand, which killed 185.  March 2011: The 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in Tohoku, Japan, which killed some 16,000 people and left 230,000 homeless.

As in Haiti, Israeli aid organizations remain in Japan today long after all other foreign aid organizations have left. Aid workers are helping to build a mental health support network in the country, and recording the testimonies of survivors.  April 2015: A double earthquake

A baby is born at the IDF field hospital in Nepal (Photo courtesy of the IDF)

in Kumamoto City, Japan, which killed 49 and injured 3,000.  Feb 2016: A 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan, which killed 117 people, 115 of them in one residential building in Kaohsiung City.  April 2016: The 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Ecuador, which killed 661 and injured nearly 28,000 people.

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The ages of Hanukkah Rabbi Ammos Chorny

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anukkah has a special hold on American Jews. I believe it is not just because of its proximity to the non-Jewish holiday season. I think there is something for everyone in the holiday and its traditions.

Very young children are fascinated by fire. The story of the miracle of the flame which burned for eight days carries an immediate impact on them. But I think there is something in that story which can appeal to people of all ages.

In the oldest records of the Maccabean victory, there is no mention of this so-called miracle. The initial legends stressed the military prowess of the Maccabees. The legend of the oil burning for eight days came to the fore some 300 years after the recapture of the Temple and the festival of rededication.

The rabbis chose to emphasize the miracle because they were great pacifists. They had seen too many examples of attempts at armed rebellion resulting in great destruction. Instead, they wanted to emphasize dedication (the literal meaning for the word “Hanukkah”), not warfare. In so doing, they sought to stress the difference between our people and all others: Other people might trust in the power of arms, but that would never insure their survival.

Our people would trust in God’s spirit, and in the process of trusting, survive.

Hundreds of years after the initial legend, the medieval rabbis proposed a midrash on a midrash: They asked why Hanukkah should last for eight days; if the oil lasted seven days longer than expected, then there was no miracle on the first day. They then provided the answer that the miracle of the first day was that the Maccabees lit the oil in the first

place. It was an act of hope, performed even when it seemed futile.

Thus, we see a second – even greater – miracle performed within the first more obvious one: the ability to act with hope, even when all hope seems to be gone. Perhaps this message is so subtle that it is hardly even noticed. But the message gets across, with a meaning for many different people:  People with addictions: When they get sick and tired of getting sick and tired, there is a reason to start over, to walk the road to recovery.  Anyone who undergoes serious illness or surgery: It’s not the end of your life, but rather the beginning of a new phase of life. Our capabilities are diminished, but we can still live and function with them.  People in troubled relationships: Love and marriage need tune-ups; communication and understanding do not happen on their own. When we find ourselves in times of crisis, there are ways and means to bring these precious relationships back on track.  People who have lost their youthful idealism: The scars of experience need not rob us of our idealism. Indeed, it can lead to pragmatism that will help us accomplish what, in our youthful naivete, we could not do.

Hanukkah can speak to people in every stage and situation in life. As children, we remember a simple lesson: that of a fantastic miracle. As adults, we can learn of an even greater miracle: the ability to act with hope, even when hope seems to be gone. If we can learn this lesson, we learn new meanings for the second blessing which we recite on this holiday: Praised is God…who performed miracles for our ancestors in days of old, and who continues to perform them for us at all times.

Happy Hanukkah.

Rabbi Ammos Chorny serves at Beth Tikvah in Naples.

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COMMENTARY

Choose light Rabbi Fishel Zaklos

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ur lives have many choices, from deciding on careers and homes to suitable clothing and food. We constantly weigh our options.

However, I think there’s an overriding choice ultimately at the heart of all choices, one that makes an impact on and influences every aspect of our lives, whether we realize it or not. It’s perspective, or how we choose to see things.

We can see our world as a cold, dark place, threatened by terror and violence.

Or, we can see a warm and welcoming home, filled with opportunities. We may feel we have devoted many years to hard work and still remain unrewarded, or we can thank G-d for a source of income to support our families. We can wish our appearance were better, or we can be thankful we are healthy and still breathing. None of these statements is incorrect, it’s just how we choose to interpret what we see. We can either be positive or negative.

I have always found it intriguing that the first of God’s creations was light. When we picture creation we think of hard reality; tangible objects that we can touch and feel.

Light, though, is elusive and vague, it doesn’t take up space like other objects, and cannot be held, although we can measure its speed and intensity.

What exactly is light and what can we learn from its being the beginning of all creation?

The lesson here is most powerful.

True, light itself is not an “object,” but it is only with light that we are able to see all other “objects.” Light is what allows us to put things in place, to give context to our surroundings.

The Torah’s message is clear. We are surrounded by an entire world of creations – tangible objects that we can

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touch and feel. These objects are the experiences we have, the friends we make, and the lot we are given. Before creating any objects, though, God created light. God created the framework within which these objects are to be perceived; the lens with which the rest of creation is to be viewed.

God says, “I created a world, full of physical objects, but it was not for nothing – everything I created exists for a purpose.”

Most importantly, God placed the creation of light within each one of us. “We are workers of light,” says the Talmud. Every person was given the ability – and, as a result, the responsibility – to discover the light in every area of creation.

The creation of light is, in truth, the entire story of Chanukah. The Greeks were the most advanced of civilizations, well ahead of their times in all areas of culture, politics and technology. Their mistake, though, was to deal exclusively with the last five days of creation – the creation of objects. They mastered the sciences and probed the depths of nature, yet they failed to realize that there is a purpose for which all was created.

They chose to ignore the first day, the creation of light, and the meaning it gave to all of creation.

How was the victory of Chanukah celebrated? By lighting candles. By championing the first day of creation – that the physical exists for a purpose, that there exists a context to creation.

This Chanukah we can choose our perspective wisely. We can choose light. Light a menorah in your home and celebrate a positive outlook. Make that conscious choice to see things for the good. We’re not deluding ourselves and ignoring the dark. We’re recognizing that light preceded – and therefore pervades – all of creation, bringing positivity and hope to every circumstance.

Light a menorah. Our world could do with a little more positivity.

Rabbi Fishel Zaklos serves at Chabad Jewish Center of Naples.

Look for commentary from Rabbi Mark Gross and Rabbi Adam Miller in the January issue.

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There are scholarship opportunities for all Jewish children in the community regardless of congregation affiliation.

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Scholarship request deadlines: Summer Camps: December 15, 2016 Israel Programs: February 1, 2017

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BBYO teens gather on Election Night

By Skylar Haas, Assoc. Regional Dir. of BBYO’s North Florida Region

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n Tuesday, November 8, Jewish teens from across Naples gathered together at Bowland Woodside for a unique and fun approach k to celebrating such a special night in tour nation. Through hosting a Stars & Strikes tournament, the teens had the opportunity to talk about the milestone rin our country of electing a new presisdent as well as taking part in a friendly bowling competition. There was a prize for the teen who showed up in their best red, white and blue spirit, as well as a epatriotic cake to top off the night (who edoesn’t love cake?).

This past October, Naples teens traveled to Orlando to spend a weeka

end at Camp Wewa to participate in the North Florida Regional Kallah, a oneof-a-kind weekend that was memorable for all those who attended. The retreat brought together the Alephs and BBGs from across the region to be one community. Values were defined, and lifelong friendships were made. The teens had the opportunity to reflect upon their story and share in others’ stories. The weekend was our launch for an incredible and impactful year in North Florida Region and Naples BBYO. Join us on Sunday, December 11 at Temple Shalom from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. for our five-year celebration. We will be honoring past alumni, hear-

ing from our current chapter leaders, BBYO and Like us on Facebook @ and celebrating the success in Naples Naples BBYO. BBYO! The event is open to the entire community – friends and families are welcome. RSVP by visiting www.bbyo.org/ naplescelebration.

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Temple Shalom Preschool update

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,By Seyla Cohen, Preschool Director

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inding down our autumn celr ebrations, we are reminded y how thankful we are here eat Temple Shalom Preschool. In our eclassrooms, we teach the children to -be thankful for the food they eat, the efriends they have, and the love they .receive from their families, friends and eteachers. The TSP staff is thankful for ethe supportive families, the opportuni-

ties to teacher such wonderful children, hand for the incredible school we get to ycome to every day. n Children love the holidays and our ,Temple Shalom Preschool students

our afterschool Holiday Workshop where children will make gifts to give to their family members for the holidays.

This workshop is fun for the children and it gives them that special joy of giving from the heart.

Beginning Monday, December 12, TSP children will be traveling the globe during our “Chanukah around the World” Week. They will be cruising, flying and traveling across different countries. They will be visiting China on Monday, Eastern Europe on Tuesday,

Italy on Wednesday, and Mexico on Thursday. On Friday, December 16, they will complete their journey in Israel, celebrating Shabbat with Rabbi Adam Miller, Cantor Azu and Miss Jane, and having fun at our Chanukah festival, eating challah and sampling different foods from Israel.

All preschool families are invited to our Annual Chanukah Festival. Parents join their little ones at the festival featuring latkes, sufganiyot, dreidel coloring, candle making, crafts and Chanukah

recently celebrated Thanksgiving with ra delicious feast and sing-along with efamily. And now, with the arrival of eDecember, we celebrate the joyous eholiday of Chanukah, commemorating rthe miracle of our heritage. s As we move into our winter celebra-tions, there is so much going on before ewe break for the holidays and the New -Year. On Wednesday, December 7, in

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gelt. This is a very special event filled with laughter, songs and happiness.

Once again, TSP will be opening its doors for our Winter Camp when the regular preschool is closed for vacation.

Children ages 2-6 can come for the day or week to play with their friends, sing, cook, and enjoy science and arts and crafts. Registration is now open for Winter Camp which will be held December 19-30.

Registration is also open for our Little Cubs class with Miss Jane, which begins Tuesday, January 10. This nurturing class is open to our youngest TSP children who turn 2 after September 1. The class is offered Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

A limited number of spots are still available. Call now to register.

For further information on any of our wonderful programs, please contact me at 239.455.3227.

From our family to yours we wish you a Happy Chanukah and peaceful and healthy New Year.

Preschool of the Arts update

By Ettie Zaklos, Preschool Director

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he last two months of the calendar year always seem to be the busiest! Throughout November and December, schedules are packed to the brim, Naples is buzzing with its peak activity, and there is a wonderful holiday spirit in the air. At Preschool of the Arts, we look at the start of the holiday season as a chance to bring together our entire community for special events and celebrations. We know that the largest educational gains occur when teachers, students and parents work together toward the same goals. Creating a joyous community atmosphere for our students and their families allows our community members to meet and greet one another in more social settings, and fosters stronger and deeper relationships that benefit all.

Our holiday season’s programming starts with a bang with our grand annual Thanksgiving performance in late November. Every year, the Thanksgiving celebration is one of our preschool’s

largest celebrations as family and friends gather to watch their little ones perform a beautiful medley of songs and admire their artistic handiwork. In past years, the grand event also included a large communal sit-down feast, a hallmark of the holiday marked by its iconic foods. This year, our preschool community decided to go a different route and in lieu of a communal meal, we collected hundreds of donations of non-perishable food items and more for the local Harry Chapin Food Bank.

The meaningful Mitzvah initiative inspired the children and their families in the themes of charity and giving that are the true heart of the holiday of gratitude. It was beautiful to see the tremendous response from our generous community and we are thrilled at the success of the food drive, which will bring much sustenance to those in our community who are most in need.

Our talented students will once again be taking their singing voices to

the stage at Preschool of the Arts and Chabad of Naples’ annual communitywide Chanukah extravaganza on Tuesday, December 27. This year’s theme is Chanukah in the Chocolate Factory, and the children are so excited for their “delicious” debut. The children’s performance is always a highlight of the huge event that gets bigger and better each season! While the excitement of chocolate-filled activities and plenty more surprises in store, the event is sure to draw a crowd. We are positive that our students will be the stars of the show,

Children shop and learn at the Market at Preschool of the Arts

shining their inner light brighter than the candles of the Chanukah menorah!

Please join us at Cambier Park at 5:00 p.m. for the grand Chanukah festival.

The fun doesn’t end there, though!

Before our students take their Winter Break at the end of the month, we have one more surprise that they won’t be expecting – a “Snow Day” in Naples, Florida! On Friday, December 16, our preschool will be one of the only places in town where the children will be able to play with real (man-made) snow! This seasonal day of fun will have children delighting in the wonders of cold winter fun – all too rare for a young Neapolitan!

December also opens registration for our currently enrolled families and those on the waitlist. We are proud to have such popular community interest about joining our preschool, and look forward to opening enrollment to all prospective families in January.

For more information, contact me at 239.263.2620 or naplespreschool ofthearts@gmail.com, or visit www. naplespreschoolofthearts.com.

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.

Although the collaborative art project “Jonah & the Whale” is done, we still reinforce the importance of apologizing for our mistakes at Preschool of the Arts

The PJ Library is brought to the Collier County community by Jewish Family & Community Services of Southwest Florida.

For more information, call 239.325.4444.

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Chabad Jewish Center of Naples update Jewish Art Calendar Our beautiful Chabad Naples Jewish Art Calendar featuring an updated design has been delivered! For the last thirteen years, it has been our pleasure to mail this beautiful calendar to the entire Jewish community of Naples and Marco Island at no charge. If you do not receive a calendar and would like one, please call our Center at 239.262.4474 or email office@chabadnaples.com and we will mail one to you at no charge.

Men’s Club Join the Men’s Club every Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at The Alex & Carol Glassman Chabad for insightful and inspiring insights with Rabbi Fishel Zaklos. For more information, email Marv Bomberg at mbomberg@aol.com.

Children’s Chanukah Olive Oil Workshop On Wednesday, December 14 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. we will be presenting an enjoyable and educational hands-on

olive oil workshop. The children will learn about olive oil and discover how it is prepared so that it can be used to kindle the menorah, with particular relevance to Chanukah. The children will also have the opportunity to make their very own olive oil, and then create their own menorah!

Chanukah in the Chocolate Factory Festival Calling all chocoholics! Join us on Tuesday, December 27 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in Cambier Park. What could be sweeter than a silly and chocolatey Willy Wonka-style Chanukah-themed celebration including rides for the whole family, arts and crafts activities, food and entertainment, Willy Wonka-style characters, and kindling of Collier County’s most creative menorah by Mayor Bill Barnett? The event is free to the entire community. Please call 239.262.4474 or visit www.chabad naples.com for more information or to

Are you looking for delicious kosher food?

Chabad of Naples has partnered with the well-known Aroma Kosher Market and Catering of Cooper City, Florida, to bring kosher food to you. Please call the Chabad office at 239.262.4474 for an order form and instructions. Aroma Market delivers orders to the Chabad of Naples, 1789 Mandarin Road, once a week.

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An Evening with Rena Finder We are honored to welcome back by popular demand, guest speaker Rena Finder for an evening of inspiration and courage on Tuesday, January 17th!

Last year we regret we were unable to accommodate everyone who expressed an interest in hearing her speak of her experiences as the youngest survivor on Schindler’s List . We are thrilled to be welcoming her back on Tuesday, January 17! Mark your calendars as this is sure to be another sold-out event!

Hebrew School 2016-17 Chabad Hebrew School is currently in full swing for our 2016-17 Hebrew School year. Our curriculum includes Hebrew reading (using the Aleph Champ reading program); Jewish history; mitzvot and Jewish practice (the hows and whys of Jewish living); and tefillah (prayer). Lessons are engaging and exciting, with lots of projects, activities and discussions that provide meaningful insight into contemporary Jewish life. Hebrew School is held on Wednesdays from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Openings still available. To enroll your

child, please call us.

Shabbat services Our warm and welcoming Shabbat services are held every Saturday morning.

The Torah Service begins at 11:00 a.m. and includes Rabbi Fishel’s insights during the Torah reading. Services are followed by a delicious Kiddush buffet lunch. Bring your children and grandchildren! Our Junior Shabbat Minyan, a children’s service for ages 3 to 11, gets the kids up and moving as our teachers follow the parsha of the week through games, songs, stories, activities and a snack (and some fun on the outdoor playground, too). It is a wonderful opportunity for your child to learn in a friendly and sociable environment.

Flying Challah Each week, we distribute freshly-baked challahs to families in our community.

Would you like to welcome a new family to town? Perhaps you are aware of someone who is not feeling well? Or maybe you want to let someone know you are thinking about them. A Flying Challah needs only your suggestion and a call to Ettie at 239.262.4474.

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ISRAEL BRIEFS TEL AVIV, JERUSALEM AMONG WORLD’S 40 BEST CITIES

Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are on the 40 Best Cities in the World list as compiled by Condé Nast Traveler readers.

The annual Readers’ Choice Awards survey slotted Tel Aviv as 17th best city and Jerusalem as 28th top municipality.

“With influences from Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean, Tel Aviv is one of the world’s most vibrant, diverse cities.

Hummusiyas and falafel aside, what continues to draw travelers? Notably nightlife and beaches, museums (Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art), and the world’s largest concentration of buildings in the International Style – more than 4,000 of them comprise Tel Aviv’s White City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site,” reads the Condé Nast Traveler blurb about why Tel Aviv is included on the list.

Winter or summer, the Tel Aviv beach is always number one on any todo list.

The travel magazine’s readers also chose Jerusalem as a place every true global traveler must visit.

“Long a place of religious pilgrimage for Christians, Jews and Muslims, Jerusalem is now drawing a different sort of pilgrim: the global traveler. In addition to its significant sacred and religious sights, the city draws visitors with its cutting-edge art scene and a growing number of notable restaurants.

Head to the Israel Museum for an exploration of the country’s culture, and stop for a bite at Machneyuda for authentic Mediterranean cuisine,” reads the magazine’s entry on Jerusalem.

Tokyo, Kyoto and Florence took the one, two and three spots on the list. The magazine reported that readers cast more than 100,000 votes when choosing the 40 best cities. (Viva Sarah Press, ISRAEL21c)

AMERICAN AND ISRAELI JEWS: TWIN PORTRAITS

Four out of every five Jews in the world live in Israel or the U.S. The Pew Research Center has surveyed Jewish adults in both places, and has found deep bonds between them. Nevertheless, their experiences and perspectives are very different.

Fewer than half of Israeli Jews

(43%) polled in 2014 and 2015 said they believe “a way can be found for Israel and an independent Palestinian state to coexist peacefully with each other,” compared with a clear majority of American Jews (61%).

About four in ten American Jews have traveled to Israel at least once (many have done so more than once), and a similar share of Israeli Jews have visited the U.S. A solid majority of Jewish Americans say they are either “very” or “somewhat” attached to Israel and that caring about Israel is either “essential” or “important” to what being Jewish means to them. Most Israeli Jews say that a thriving diaspora is vital to the long-term survival of the Jewish people and that Jews in the two countries share a “common destiny.” (Pew Research Center)

ISRAEL’S NEW NATIONAL CAMPUS FOR ARCHAEOLOGY IN JERUSALEM

The Israel Antiquities Authority is constructing a multimedia, multi-floored underground complex designed to show off some of the best finds from the past 1.5 million years.

Uzi Dahari, the authority’s deputy director, said that Israel has more than 2 million ancient artifacts in storage so it is building what he calls an “archaeological campus.”

The center, due to be completed in 2018, will also house one of the largest archaeological libraries in the Middle East, specialized archaeological laboratories for rescuing and restoring ancient relics, and climate-controlled storage rooms. (Ruth Eglash, Washington Post)

SAUDI LOBBYIST CALLS FOR “COLLABORATIVE ALLIANCE” WITH ISRAEL

While having a common enemy in Iran will help accelerate any rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Israel, a more solid foundation for establishing ties could manifest in a mutually beneficial economic partnership. History tells us that Arabs and Jews were some of the strongest partners in trade, culture and mutual security, living in relatively peaceful coexistence for centuries.

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Beth Tikvah update Phil Jason President

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t has been great to see the growing influx of snowbird members and friends through the late fall. I can’t wait to enjoy the “full house” of winter in our community. Beth Tikvah will do its part in providing plenty of activities to keep you busy. We are also hosting events by other organizations. From month to month, we will inform you via this column, email and our website. Our winter lecture series begins next month. Our concert by the local Night Train band comes in February.

SIR weekend with Dr. Joel Hoffman is in March.

Meanwhile...

Thursday, December 8 at 7:30 p.m.: Screening of Wrestling Alligators: The New Seminole Wars (90 minutes).

James Billie is the charismatic, controversial leader of

the Seminole Tribe of Florida. He is an alligator wrestler, a Grammy-nominated record artist, and the father of Indian gaming. He also sits at the head of one of the biggest gaming operations in the world.

The greatest change to happen to Native Americans in the last century is the creation of legalized gaming on Indian reservations, a revolution that has made self-reliance a reality for many tribes.

Controversial both inside and outside his tribe, James Billie has used his charm and wits to beat the white man, time and again, at his own game. Now, faced with new battles, James and his tribe once again find their way of life challenged. $5 donation suggested.

M o n d a y, D e cember 19 at 7:30 p.m.: Our Book Group discusses A Land Twice Promised by Noa Baum.

Israeli storyteller Noa Baum began a heartfelt dialogue with a Palestinian woman

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while living in the United States. She weaves together their memories, and their mothers’ stories, to create a moving testimony that illuminates the complex and contradictory history and emotions surrounding Jerusalem, for Israelis and Palestinians alike.

Tuesday, December 20 at 7:30 p.m.: Step Smart Collier Program. Step Smart Collier (SSC) is an all-volunteer partnership founded to increase seniors’ awareness of the risks of falling and to educate how to mitigate those risks.

Falls by seniors are by far the leading cause of injury and death among seniors in Florida and particularly in Collier County. Did you know that 33% seniors fall each year and 60% of these occur in the home? 20% of seniors who fall are hospitalized with moderate to serious injuries.

This program will demonstrate how to prevent most falls with Smart Steps that include actions in the three major areas of risk: physical environment, medication management and balance improvement. Step Smart Collier will present the appropriate Smart Steps and give attendees the opportunity to test their balance. No charge. We encourage registration in order that we

may have adequate amounts of materials and staffing at this event. RSVP to bethtikvah.naples@gmail.com or call 239.434.1818.

Friday, December 23 at 6:15 p.m.: Our Chanukah-themed Latke Dinner “Eat and Learn” Shabbat begins with a service followed by dinner and a learning session. These events provide a splendid opportunity for social engagement. For the meal, make reservations with Shelley Goodman at shelleygoodman@rogers.com and send your $25 check payable to Beth Tikvah with “December 23 E & L” on the memo line.

Religious services schedule Friday services begin at 6:15 p.m.; Saturday services begin at 9:30 a.m. and conclude with a Kiddush luncheon. Sunday 9:00 a.m. minyan has resumed. We regularly convene Yahrzeit minyanim upon request. Please join us at any service. Our participatory worship services and most other events are held at 1459 Pine Ridge Road, just west of Mission Square Plaza. For more information, call 239.434.1818, email bethtikvah naples@aol.com or visit www.bethtik vahnaples.org. You can reach Rabbi Chorny directly at 239.537.5257.

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Naples Jewish Congregation update

By Suzanne L. Paley, President

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aples Jewish Congregation is pleased to offer the entire Jewish community the opportunity to join us at the following events: Open House Please join us on Friday, December 9 for an Open House Shabbat. We will begin the evening with a Wine and Cheese Reception at 6:30 p.m., followed by our Shabbat service. Come and meet Rabbi Sylvin Wolf, Cantorial Soloist Jane Galler and Music Director Alla Gorelik Stadnik, as well as the friendly members of our congregation.

Annual Chanukah Party Our annual Chanukah party will be held on Wednesday, December 28 at Longshore Lake Clubhouse. Everyone who attends this event walks away with feelings of joy, commitment and family.

We hope you will consider celebrating with us. Tickets for nonmembers at $65 include a complete dinner of brisket or chicken with plenty of potato latkes, entertainment with music, raffles and spinning the dreidel. For reservations

and to purchase your ticket, please visit our website or call Iris Weissman at 239.431.7944.

Artist/Scholar-in-Residence Broadway – here we come! On Thursday, February 9, Naples Jewish Congregation will present this season’s Artist and Scholar-in-Residence, Rabbi Kenneth Kanter. Plan to join us at the Wang Auditorium of Opera Naples for an evening of wonderful music – to sing along if you choose – and learn about the many Jewish composers and lyricists who produced those lasting memories.

Complete the evening with a delightful champagne and dessert reception. You will be entertained and we guarantee that you will go home happy and exhilarated, singing your favorite songs!

Tickets are $50 for general seating and $75 for benefactor status and preferred seating. Please visit our website for complete ticket information.

On Friday night, February 10, during our Shabbat service, Rabbi Kanter will give a more scholarly presentation

regarding the effect of Jewish backgrounds and values on the music produced for Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.

This is, of course, open to everyone.

Jewish Book Festival On Monday, March 13 from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m., Naples Jewish Congregation will sponsor and host the final event of the Second Annual Collier County Jewish Book Festival. Taking place where we gather to worship, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, two authors will present their books and share their humor that has made them famous.

A dessert reception will follow these presentations. Please see the four-page pullout in this issue (pages 7B-10B) and reserve your tickets now. Let’s end the festival on a happy and humorous note!

You’re only one click away!

In an effort to make things as easy as possible for everyone, we are now offering an online service for placing your order for tickets to NJC events. Just visit our website at www.naplesjewish

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Let’s go to the Jewish Film Festival!

By Sue R. Baum, President

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he Sydney Hoffman Jewish Film Festival was organized 18 years ago by Dr. Isabel Price, in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Collier County. It was the first Jewish Film Festival in Southwest Florida. This year we are fortunate to have Stephen B. Goldenberg, Esq. as chairperson.

The opening event is Sunday, December 18 at 2:00 p.m., with the Israeli film Beneath the Helmet. The story follows the journey of five Israeli high school graduates who are drafted into the Army to defend their country. At

the age of 18, away from their families, friends and homes, these young people go through a challenging time, revealing who they are and what they want to be. The story unfolds as the soldiers develop a fervor not only for protecting their families and loved ones, but their beloved country.

Movie schedule (all films begin at 2:00 p.m.):  Sunday, January 15: To Life ~ A Young man on the run arrives in Berlin in time to save the life of an aging German-Jewish cabaret

congregation.org and with one or two clicks you can charge your tickets to a credit card of your choice or to a PayPal account and you’re done! Yes – we’ve finally joined the 21st century!

Shabbat services We hope you will accept our invitation to join us for our Open House Shabbat on December 9.

Our regular Friday night Shabbat services begin at 7:30 p.m.. For all of our services, we gather at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Greater Naples, located at 6340 Napa Woods Way. Please join us for a Shabbat service and find out why “NJC is a place for you to belong!” An Oneg follows our evening services, which gives everyone a chance to greet, meet and chat. NJC is a warm, Reform, affordable and adult congregation. For more information, please call 239. 431.3858 or visit www. naplesjewishcongregation.org.

singer from the Nazis.  Sunday, February 19: Dough ~ What happens when a Jewish baker hires a young Muslim teen whose stash is accidentally dropped into the mixing dough.  Sunday, March 26: About Executing Eichmann ~ Eichmann is sentenced to death for executing the mass destruction of the Jews. Some Jewish leaders opposed the sentence as contrary to the values of Judaism.

The issues are relevant today.

See you at the movies.

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HUMANISTIC JEWISH HAVURAH

Chanukah: Its Humanist value Paula Creed HJH President

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he Humanistic Jewish Havurah celebrates Chanukah on Wednesday, December 28 with fun activities and a traditional holiday meal at Vasari Country Club. Reservations will be secured upon receipt of your check in the amount of $45 per person, made payable to HJH, and mailed to Joan Weinstein, 15191 Cedarwood Lane, Apt. 2505, Naples, FL 34110 prior to December 1. Consider bringing a gift of comfortable clothing to be distributed to seniors in need of assistance or a monetary contribution to be donated to JFCS. For more information, contact Dena Sklaroff at 239.591.0101.

Any objective study of Chanukah reveals two things. First, the origin of

this holiday predates the Maccabean revolution, stemming instead from a seasonal rite marking the winter solstice.

Second, Chanukah was never a major event in the Jewish liturgical year. It became such an event only in response to the persuasive and pervasive aspects of the Christian solstice festival of Christmas.

Chanukah has been bolstered and buttressed in an attempt to keep Jews from the temptations of the Christmas celebrations, but no holiday can long survive simply as a countermeasure to assimilation. If a holiday is to command respect and observance, it must articulate meaningful values and offer one a forum for an authentic encounter with one’s history and reality.

Chanukah does both.

There are three levels to the understanding and the celebration of Chanukah: as a festival of nature, as a reminder of our shared history, and as an affirmation of universal human values.

The pre-Israelite peoples who

marked the winter solstice did so out of fear that the sun, which was at its farthest point from the earth, would not return and that the earth would not yield her bounty. Such a celebration speaks of a people living at the mercy of a wanton nature and the supposed supernatural powers that rule her.

Today we find ourselves in a far more sophisticated relationship with both the planet and the universe. We have uncovered the laws of nature using our human ingenuity, also a natural phenomenon. For us, then, Chanukah cannot simply be a solstice holiday. Yet it can be a recognition of the marvels of the natural universe and our place in it.

The second level of Chanukah is that of historical remembrance and the retelling of the Chanukah story. Our identity as Jews cannot rest solely on present circumstances. Our roots are deep and thousands of years old. If we are to retain and transmit a sense of Jewish identity, we must recall and retell the tales of our people. By sharing

the exciting saga of the Jewish revolt against the Hellenizers, we remind ourselves and each other of the importance of heroes and the grandeur of the Jewish spirit.

Naturalism and storytelling, however, are not enough to ensure the survival of Chanukah among modern Jews. This festival also articulates relevant values.

The story of the Maccabees is a story of human courage, integrity and hope. The success of their revolutiont is rooted in the people’s desire for reli-H gious, political and economic freedom;w their desire to choose their future forH themselves. This they accomplishedl not by pious pleas or tearful entreatiest but by decisive action, expert planningd d and sheer guts.

The modern Jew must also take thet future into his or her own hands. We must choose for ourselves how we shall live, and we must act on that choice courageously without loss of integrity or hope.

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JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SWFL

“Jewish is as Jewish Does” contest Marina Berkovich JHSSWF President

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echel is a Hebrew word, whose meanings had been absorbed into Yiddish long ago. Whether you pronounce it sekhel or seykhel, it means intelligence, smarts, brains, reason, common sense, cleverness or even wisdom. Eben Shoshan Hebrew Dictionary defines it as “the spiritual ability to think, to weigh, the strength to judge, and to come to a resolution.”

That, we believe, was what our early Southwest Jewish Floridians brought with them in abundance, and we find traces or entire stories of their character, struggles, survival, successes and, yes, sometimes failures as well.

The last hundred or so years have brought many interesting and important Jews to Southwest Florida. Some of them influenced their contemporaries through their deeds, legacy, accomplish-

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ments, stories, conversation or just their very presence in some circles. Jews of Southwest Florida used to be few, and mostly everyone knew everyone else even as recently as just two decades ago.

As we are fast approaching the end of 2016, there are about 30 Jewish religious congregations in Southwest Florida (Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Sarasota, Manatee counties), three Jewish Federations, a multitude of Jewish organizations, and the Jewish population explosion is a fact. We may not keep up with one another in the way the previous generations of Southwest Florida Jewish settlers did, but as the old Yiddish proverb goes, better to be a wise person in hell than a fool in paradise. So let’s unite to keep our history before it is lost.

We call on you to join forces to preserve what Jews before us, or among us now, have created and to protect their stories so that they can inspire the next generation of our tribe.

“The truth surfaces like oil on water” asserts another Yiddish proverb.

So seek out the truth and let us know what you hear, learn or already know about the Jews of the area. Let us build

Jewish Historical Society of Southwest Florida Membership Form

Please send your check (payable to JHSSWF) and this form to: Jewish Historical Society of SWFL 899 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 116 Naples, FL 34108 Phone: 239.566.1771 Email: jhsswf@gmail.com Online: www.JHSSWF.org

our Southwest Jewish Florida history together, preserving one story, one picture, one anecdote at a time.

Each temple, synagogue or organization has been doing whatever possible to preserve these trails. There are many hidden stories about the “under the current” Jews. There are many overlooked stories and forgotten people, and many Jews who are very humble. Perhaps you know the stories of those who do not belong anywhere or who do not attend any events. We’d like to hear them.

To enter a candidate for the Virtual Museum, please send me a one-page summary (handwritten is okay) by January 7, 2017. Include your contact information. Winners will be announced on January 11.

The Virtual Museum of Southwest Jewish History can be accessed at www. jewishhistorysouthwestflorida.org. You may explore our discoveries and collections at any time convenient to you, and send links to your family members and others.

The next film in the Southwest Florida Jewish Pioneers Series will premiere in Collier County. It will feature Stuart

Kaye, notable Collier County developer and one of the contemporary leaders of the Collier County Jewish community. The premiere will take place during Florida Jewish History Month on Wednesday, January 11 at 5:00 p.m.

If you have not reserved your seat yet, please email us at office@jhsswf.org.

Our Mission Collecting, protecting and preserving Jewish histories to celebrate the contribution by Jews in Southwest Florida every day of every year is part of our mission.

Become a member of JHSSWF, a sponsor, business associate, volunteer and/or donor. Contact us at: The Jewish Historical Society of Southwest Florida 899 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 116, Naples FL 34108 239-566-1771 www.jhsswf.org The Jewish Historical Society of Southwest Florida is a section 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Contributions are deductible to the extent allowed by law.

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s adassah women do more! In . addition to supporting Israel, a Hadassah Medical Organizad tion, advanced medical research, etc., n Hadassah women advocate for many ;worthy causes. Several chapters of rHadassah have met with community dleaders and legislators for “A Day In the District.” Topics of concern are gdiscussed. Hadassah information is distributed with requests for support for ethese causes.

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Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart welcomed four Hadassah women from our Collier/Lee Chapter into his office. Our “Day In The District” discussing two important matters – support for Israel and support for HR 2010, a resolution calling for Gender Equity in Medicine – was an experience that we will remember as being extremely meaningful.

Luba Rotsztain, Nominating Chair and Chai Society Chair; Fran Nossen, Co-Treasurer; Charlotte Foreman, Incoming Co-Treasurer; and I, Gayle Dorio, Co-President of Collier/Lee Chapter met with not only Congressman Diaz-Balart, but also in attendance were Miguel Otero, Deputy Chief of Staff and District Director, and Enrique Padron, Southwest Florida Director.

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showed a Hadassah video that talked about advocacy. We discussed and asked for condemnation of the recent resolution by UNESCO that seeks to delegitimize the State of Israel. This preliminary resolution, prepared by the Palestinian Authority, denies and seeks to erase 3,000 years of Jewish history and connection to Jerusalem. Twentyfour of 58 countries voted in favor of this resolution, 26 abstained, and five others, including the United States, voted against.

The Congressman explained how he is passionate about Israel. He told us in great detail how important Israel is to him and how he himself is a Zionist. Congressman Diaz-Balart shared information about how the Palestinian government supports prisoners and their families with “pensions,” spending a huge percentage of their annual budget reinforcing terrorism with large financial rewards.

We also discussed G.E.M. - Gender Equity in Medicine. We chose from many articles and Hadassah pamphlets and left the Congressman with those that would reinforce the point. Dr. Marek Glezerman’s article, “Women are dying because most medical research is done on men,” was of particular interest.

Women’s bodies are not studied the same way; their bodies react differently to medication, etc.

One story led to another, and our request for “just a few minutes of his valuable time,” turned into one hour of shared information and concerns. The Congressman was warm and gracious and told us repeatedly that the work

Hadassah does is indeed important. He thanked us for being Hadassah women and working so hard. He was grateful for our information and plans to read it all and make use of it. With “please keep in touch, and let us know what is needed,” we thanked him again for his support and for his time.

As we left, there were smiles all around. We had a feeling that no matter how many difficult issues we may encounter, if we work hard and ask dedicated, well-intentioned representatives to help, we will be successful!

Many thanks to Congressman DiazBalart, Miguel Otero, Enrique Pardon and the entire staff who made our visit so meaningful!

In order to save a huge sum spent on postage, printing, etc., our chapter’s Hadassah Happenings newsletter is now being sent electronically. If you would like to receive a copy, please send your email address to me at gayledorio@ gmail.com.

Upcoming events For more information, email Karen Cohn at kcohnrdh@gmail.com.  Tuesday, December 6: “The Oys and Joys of Yiddish” at Beth Tikvah  Wednesday, December 14: Knowledge and Nosh - Israel 101 at the Federation office  Sunday, December 18: Major Givers and Keepers of the Gate Brunch at Quail West CC  Tuesday, January 17: Luncheon at Vineyards CC  Thursday, February 2: “The Kosher Comedy Tour” at Temple Shalom

239-261-3270

Jewish War Veterans update

By Harve Sturm, Commander Post #202

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e kicked off our season on October 16 at the Vineyards Country Club. Our honored guest speaker was Captain Jerry Yellen, a WWII Fighter Pilot who flew the last combat mission in August 1945 in a P-51 bomber. He spoke at our JWV Post 202 meeting following brunch.

He recalled his final 8-hour flight from Iwo Jima for strafing runs over Japan.

At 93 years old, Yellen was able to recall many of his military experiences. It was a fantastic event and everyone in attendance enjoyed

Joel Treewater, Harve Sturm, Marty Rubin

BRIEFS

continued from page 26A Over the past 70 years, Saudi Arabia and Israel have never sought any provocative or hostile actions against each other. Moreover, there are hundreds of Jews hailing from many corners of the world who are currently working in Saudi Arabia, contributing to its financial, infrastructure and energy projects.

Saudi Arabia is going through its biggest economic transition in its history. Its National Transformation Plan represents a golden opportunity for Israel to participate in and help bolster the Saudi economy. Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the world without any source of flowing water, while Israel is a world leader in water engineering.

(Salman Al-Ansari, founder and president of the Saudi American Public Relation Affairs Committee, The Hill)

THE IDF’S BEDOUIN BATTALION

The IDF Desert Reconnaissance Battalion is made up mostly of Bedouin officers and men. For much of its 30 years of existence it has been based along the border with Gaza, playing a key role in preventing terrorists from infiltrating Israel.

Maj. Nader Eyada, from the Bedouin town of Beit Zarzir near the Jezreel Valley, is a 10-year veteran of the unit. He has a B.A. from the University of Haifa.

Muhammad Shibli, the main medic in the unit, has been in the IDF for seven years. “I was born in Shibli [a Bedouin village in the Galilee]. I wanted to protect Israel from terrorism and threats, wherever they come from. We live with Jews, there is no such thing as difference, we are one nation living together and we want to live in peace.”

He notes that rockets fired from Lebanon, Syria or Gaza don’t distinguish among people and communities.

his presentation.”

As the new Commander of Post 202, I plan to reinvigorate our Post with a new mission and new ideas, and further enhance our presence in the community.

This new command has participated in 12 events in the Naples area from February thru October 2016.

Our status and Post are now recognized throughout the veteran and general communities in Naples.

“We stand for Jewish Pride, Identity and American Military Service to Our Nation.”

We appreciate your support!

Commander: Harve Sturm Vice Commander: Joel Treewater Vice Commander: Marty Rubin

Since 1948, more than 110 Bedouin have died defending Israel. (Seth J. Frantzman, Jerusalem Post)

ments with other nations.”

Then-Foreign Minister Golda Meir created Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV) in 1957 after a trip to Africa.

Since then, MASHAV has trained 270,000 participants from 132 countries, of which 70% involved agriculture. (Sharon Udasin, Jerusalem Post)

ISRAEL SHARES KNOWHOW WITH DEVELOPING WORLD

Surrounded by barren desert and malaria-ridden swampland, the fledgling State of Israel had little food to sustain its inhabitants.

Fast forward six-and-a-half decades, and the Little Country that Could is not only nourishing its own eight million citizens, but is also helping countries around the world do the same.

“We are the only country in the world that has come to such a high development stage in such a short period of time,” said Yakov Poleg, head of the Agriculture Ministry’s Center for International Agricultural Development Cooperation (CINADCO).

“The beauty is that Israel is willing to share all its development achieve-

Harve Sturm and Captain Jerry Yellen

ISRAEL ON CHINA’S NEW SILK ROAD

In 1581, Heinrich Bunting, a German cartographer, portrayed the world as comprised of the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, which converged in Jerusalem. This world is converging with China’s silk road integration project.

With the rise of Salafi-jihadism in the Middle East increasingly threatening China’s overseas citizens and assets, especially their maritime trade via the Suez Canal, Israel is emerging as a

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NAPLES JEWISH CONGREGATION

BETH TIKVAH

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Services are held at: The Unitarian Congregation 6340 Napa Woods Way Rabbi Sylvin Wolf Ph.D, DD 431-3858 Email: rabbi@naplesjewishcongregation.org www.naplesjewishcongregation.org

1459 Pine Ridge Road Naples, FL 34109

Rabbi Mark Gross Hari Jacobsen, Cantorial Soloist Sue Baum, President

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Shabbat Services Friday 8:00 p.m.

Saturday Talmud-Torah at 9:30 a.m. and Shachrit at 10:30 a.m.

Sisterhood • Men’s Club Brownstein Judaica Gift Shop

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(just west of Mission Square Plaza)

Phone: 434-1818 Email: bethtikvahnaples@aol.com Website: www.bethtikvahnaples.org

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Rabbi Ammos Chorny Phil Jason, President Sue Hammerman, Secretary

Shabbat Services Friday evenings at 7:30 p.m.

May - August: services once a month

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Youth Education Adult Education Community Events

Spice of Life Whether you’ve made a mint or not, whatever you’ve salted away may be enough to give you a dilly of a problem with your estate. And you’re no doubt peppered each day with unsavory proposals on how to spend and invest your money.

Jewish Organizations to Serve You in Collier County (All area codes are 239 unless otherwise noted.)

Jewish Federation of Collier County Phone: 263-4205  Fax: 263-3813 Website: www.jewishnaples.org Email: info@jewishnaples.org • Federation Board Chair: Alvin Becker • Federation President/CEO: Jeffrey Feld

American Jewish Committee

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

American Technion Society

Yes, regardless of your estate, the taxman some day will be cumin, but you can mustard up the courage and move gingerly to keep the tax bite at bay with some simple, plain vanilla and some more seasoned techniques of estate planning and charitable giving.

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

Frequently, we try to impart a little sage advice and curry your favor for a lifetime gift or bequest to the Endowment Fund of the Federation. Have you taken the first step to becoming a tarragon of virtue by consulting with us or your financial advisors and deciding how to clove out a piece of your assets and fennel it to Federation’s Endowment Fund?

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

Don’t you think...it’s about thyme?

For more information on gift planning, call Jeffrey Feld at the Federation at 239.263.4205.

Collier-Lee Chapter of Hadassah • Co-President: Karen Cohn, 370-6220 • Co-President: Gayle Dorio, 530-8992

Friends of the IDF GenShoah SWFL • President: Ida Margolis, 963-9347

Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida • President: Herb Berkeley, 263-9200

Humanistic Jewish Havurah • Paula Creed, 495-8484

Israel Bonds

• Reva Pearlstein, 800-622-8017

JFCS of Southwest Florida

Please note our email addresses: Jeffrey Feld, Federation President/CEO – jfeld@jewishnaples.org Renee’ Bialek, Community Program Coordinator – rbialek@jewishnaples.org Julie Hartline, Donor Relations Coordinator – jhartline@jewishnaples.org Stacy Hersha, Business Operations Manager – shersha@jewishnaples.org General information requests – info@jewishnaples.org Ted Epstein, Editor, Federation Star – fedstar18@gmail.com Advertising in the Federation Star – tedepstein18@gmail.com

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Phone: 325-4444 • Chairperson: David Rutstein • President/CEO: Dr. Jaclynn Faffer

Jewish Historical Society of Southwest Florida • President: Marina Berkovich, 566-1771

Jewish National Fund

• West/Central FL Office, 800-211-1502 Uri ext 8910, Beth ext 8911

Jewish War Veterans Post 202

• Commander, Harvey Sturm, 261-3270 • Senior Vice Commander, M/Gen. Bernard L. Weiss, USAF Ret. 594-7772

Men’s Cultural Alliance

• President: Les Nizin, 653-9259

Naples BBYO

• Skylar Haas, 263-4205

Naples Friends of American Magen David Adom (MDA)

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

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 Collier County, 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 the Federation office at 239.263.4205.

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Arts & Culture

The two sides of Scott Turow

By Carole J Greene

W

hen you attend the Evy Lipp People of the Book Cultural Event at Temple Shalom on Wednesday, February 15, you are likely to be enthralled by renowned novelist Scott Turow. As the author of such blockbuster novels as Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Reversible Errors and Presumed Innocent, he has one foot firmly planted in the literary stream.

Guided by his career as an attorney, his other foot wades into the river of The Law. His 1977 book One L, one of his two nonfiction books, shines a spotlight on his experiences as a law student.

When I asked whether, if he had it to do over, he would focus on only one of those, Turow answered: “No. I’ve had a wonderful career with my feet in both streams.”

Author Turow: “My dream was to be a novelist. I had no thoughts of law school when I graduated from Amherst College, finished a two-year fellowship at the Creative Writing Center at Stan-

ford and began teaching there. At that point, I needed to face the fact that my writing career was not catching fire. It exhausted me emotionally. All of my college roommates had become lawyers.

All the friends I made in California, who were writers, were lawyers. I started asking myself if I might want to be a lawyer, too.”

Decision made, he studied at Harvard Law School and entered the legal profession. As an attorney, Turow specializes in criminal litigation. He has tried a large number of both civil and criminal cases, has done extensive pro bono criminal work, including capital cases, and has served on several public bodies. Scott is a former supervisor in the United States Attorney’s Office in Chicago. He has extensive experience with federal criminal prosecutions, including grand jury matters, both as a prosecutor and as defense counsel. He is a member of the Illinois Executive Ethics Commission.

Attorney Turow: fun than being a writer, espe“Nothing is more excially when it’s going well. citing than awaiting I get to play all day with my a jury’s verdict. And imaginary friends.” nothing can give you a In 2003, combining greater sense of restorelements of both careers, ing the world to order Turow received the Robthan seeing an innocent ert F. Kennedy Center for client, once sentenced Justice and Human Rights to death, walk into your award given to an author Scott Turow law office, as happened who “most faithfully and with Alex Hernandez.” Alejandro Herforcefully reflects Robert Kennedy’s nandez was on death row after being purposes: his concern for the poor and convicted of the kidnapping, rape and the powerless, his struggle for honest murder of a ten-year-old girl. Later, and even-handed justice, his conviction DNA evidence pointed to someone else, that a decent society must assure all and Hernandez was exonerated. young people a fair chance, and his faith But Author Turow has the final that a free democracy can act to remedy word: “Day by day, nothing else is more continued on page 2B

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Scott Turow...continued from page 1B disparities of power and opportunity.”

When asked why he felt he was given this honor, Turow said: “I received the award for Ultimate Punishment, my nonfiction book about my experiences as a lawyer dealing with the death penalty.” It describes his slow evolution into an attorney opposed to capital punishment. He expressed gratitude that his work formed a portion of the efforts of hundreds of others and “led to the abolition of the death penalty in Illinois.”

Turow combined both careers during the time he served as president of The Authors Guild. When questioned about what is happening in today’s literary world and his efforts to protect authors’ livelihoods, Turow responded: “Authors’ lunches are being eaten by many hungry mouths. Consolidation in the book industry diminishes the market for new work. Hard-pressed publishers offer less marketing and editorial guidance to midlist authors. Amazon threatens to put everybody out of business but themselves. Self-publishing is not an answer for all but a very few writers. The Internet has fed an expectation that everything should be free. The cadre of independent authors financed through the sale of their works – which the Constitution envisioned and which the founders saw as vital to our democracy – grows smaller and smaller.”

When reminded that he would be speaking to a Jewish audience and might want to elaborate on that element of his life, Turow replied: “I grew up in a neighborhood that was almost exclusively Jewish – so much so that when I was three, I had an argument with a friend (still a friend 64 years later) about

whether African-American day workers I saw waiting for a bus were Jewish. I maintained they were. EVERYONE I knew was Jewish. I was close with my maternal grandparents, both Yiddish speaking – not religious, but deeply culturally Jewish. That is who I am and what I come from.”

Attorney-Author Turow – or is it Author-Attorney Turow? – has a third side: he is part of the rock ‘n’ roll band known as the Rock Bottom Remainders.

Along with literary luminaries Stephen King, Dave Barry, Mitch Album, Amy Tan and more, Turow sits in occasionally. He says he has “learned that every single one of the others, even the least musically gifted, is Beethoven compared to me.” And what have they learned about him? “That I excel in one talent – shamelessness.”

Shameless or not, Scott Turow will reveal more sides of himself at the Evy Lipp People of the Book Cultural Event.

For the thirteenth consecutive year, this program will say “thank you” to supporters of the Jewish Federation of Collier County by making tickets available to Federation members absolutely free.

Clip and return your reservation form located in this issue of the Federation Star. Then show up at Temple Shalom at 7:30 p.m. on February 15.

To become a member of the Jewish Federation of Collier County requires a minimum donation to the Annual Campaign of a mere $36 per person. This event alone is worth the price, but you’ll also receive the benefit of knowing your gift will help Jews everywhere.

For more information, call the Federation office at 239.263.4205.

As of press time, we have about 100 tickets remaining for the Evy Lipp People of the Book Cultural Event on February 15. Federation members (minimum $36 Annual Campaign contribution) can reserve a ticket by emailing rbialek@jewishnaples.org. A waiting list will begin once we hit capacity. You will receive a confirmation email letting you know whether you have a reservation or if you’ve been put on the waiting list.

“The Joys and Oys of Yiddish”

A journey into the Yiddish language and culture (no knowledge of Yiddish is necessary)

By Iris Shur

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ome of you have never heard of Yiddish. Some of you remember when your parents spoke Yiddish so you wouldn’t know what they were talking about. Some of you were brought up with Yiddish as your “mother tongue.”

If you fit into any of these categories you will get a huge kick out of Riva Ginsburg speaking on “The Joys and Oys of Yiddish” at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 6 at Beth Tikvah, 1459 Pine Ridge Road, Naples.

The program, which includes a sweet nosh, is presented by Collier/Lee Hadassah. Tickets are $18. Debby and Jeff Waranch are the generous underwriters. Profits will be donated to the Hadassah Medical Organization.

Riva will share her passion for keeping the Yiddish language alive as she takes us on a journey of Yiddish food, culture, music, humor, wisdom and, as she says “mit a bissel flavor.”

A few Yiddish curse words may be sprinkled in! We will also learn about the origin and history of the Yiddish language.

Riva Ginsburg

Yiddish was Riva’s native language.

She was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany after WWII. Her Yiddish teaching experience includes SUNY Binghamton and Florida Atlantic University as well as many synagogues and organizations.

For reservations, mail your check for $18 per person, payable to Collier/ Lee Hadassah, to Sandy Levine, 14623 Speranza Way, Bonita Springs, FL 34135.

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December 2016 Federation Star

ARTS & CULTURE

Temple Shalom presents “From Bimah to Broadway, Encore!”

By Bill Maltby

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early three years ago, Temple Shalom’s superb Cantor Donna Azu invited four of her talented young colleagues to present an evening of music. The audience was treated to a memorable concert that included cantorial pieces, Israeli folk songs, Broadway show tunes, and operatic arias.

On Sunday, March 5 at Temple Shalom, Cantor Azu will present an encore performance with an exciting new program and two new voices. Cantors Carrie Berry from Coral Springs, Florida, and Daniel Mutlu of Houston, Texas, will return, while William Tiep of Cardiff, California, and Mary Rebecca Thomas of Charlotte, North Carolina, will be making their Naples debut. All five are ordained cantors with outstanding voices and wide experience in many musical genres. With “Encore,” the Five Cantors will provide an unforgettable listening experience.

The concert will be Temple Shalom’s major fundraiser for 2017. The categories of tickets are as follows:  Understudy - $18 (one ticket, advance purchase for students with ID, Temple Shalom religious personnel and preschool teachers)

 Cast - $60 (advance purchase), $75 (at the door)  Conductor - $125 (includes dessert reception)  Director - $600 (program listing, 2 tickets with preferred seating, intimate preconcert dinner party and dessert reception  Producer - $1,000 (2 reserved seats, a chance to win a Reserved Parking space, plus all the above)  Impresario - $2,500 (2 priority seats, drawing for 3 nights in a NYC apartment, plus all the above)  Executive Producer - $5,000 (all the above plus reserved seating at dessert, drawing for up to 7 nights in a NYC apartment)  Angel - $10,000 (all the above plus 4 front row seats and 2 chances for the drawing of 7 nights in a NYC apartment) Doors open at 6:15 p.m.; curtain up at 7:30 p.m. Theater or cocktail attire appreciated. Order tickets via Temple Shalom’s website at www.naplestemple. org, or mail your check to Temple Shalom, 4630 Pine Ridge Rd., Naples, FL 34119.

“Would you risk your life to save a stranger?”

Learn about people who did, in the film My Italian Secret.

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ould you risk your life to save a stranger?” is a difficult question to answer and we all have heard about heroic individuals who did just that. However, there are many stories of heroic individuals and their selfless deeds that many of us are unfamiliar with. The film My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes tells the story a number of individuals who performed acts of extraordinary courage. Included in this inspiring film is cycling idol Gino Bartali, Dr. Giovanni Borromeo and other courageous Italians who carried out ingenious schemes to rescue Jews, partisans and refugees from Nazi-occupied Italy.

Gino Bartali, a Tour de France champion, risked his life to save Italian Jews by smuggling fake identification documents in the frame of his bicycle.

Dr. Giovanni Borromeo invented a fictitious disease to scare away the SS from the hospital where he was hiding Jews. These men and hundreds of other Italians risked their lives to save others

during WWII. Oscar-nominated director Oren Jacoby reveals in My Italian Secret the dramatic stories of a secret underground that has remained largely unknown. The film includes dramatic reenactments in addition to interviews with survivors and relatives of the rescuers. Parts of the film are narrated by Isabella Rossellini with English subtitles.

My Italian Secret will be screened at the Naples Italian American Foundation, 7035 Airport Pulling Road N. on Thursday, December 8. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the film will begin at 7:00 p.m. The film is co-sponsored by GenShoah SWFL and the Naples Italian American Foundation.

Admission is free but tax-deductible donations to the Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida will be greatly appreciated. Space is limited. Reservations are a must and may be made at genshoahswfl@ icloud.com, naif@niafoundation.org or 239.597.5210.

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Federation Star December 2016

ARTS & CULTURE

The Naples Players presents Coney Island Christmas Nostalgia and merriment for all — November 23 - December 18, 2016

By Patrice Shields

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ertain to become a holiday favorite for all faiths, The Naples Players’ Coney Island Christmas is a refreshing reach back in time and across traditions to the centerpiece of holiday celebrations – love and family.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donald Marguiles shares the story of slightly loud Shirley Abramowitz (Kylie Campbell), a young Jewish daughter of strong-minded immigrant parents who is finding her footing in 1939 Brooklyn, New York. You can almost hear the creak and rumble of Coney Island’s famous wooden Cyclone roller coaster in the distance as the older and wiser Shirley (Ann Hoover) tells her great granddaughter about the time she

was asked to play Jesus in her school’s pageant.

Suddenly cast in a foreign spotlight, young Shirley begins to feel that being invisible was not half-bad compared to having to explain playing Jesus in the school play to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abramowitz (Brad Brenner and Christine Mastrangelo). But the school pageant director, Mr. Hilton (James Duggan), is as certain that Shirley is the only student for the part as he is of his feelings for the lovely music teacher, Miss Glace (Jennifer Price). The rest of the story is a gift filled with memorable characters, nostalgia and merriment.

As the ribbon tied into a bright shiny bow on top of this show, Coney Island Christmas is directed by the Naples

Players’ new Artistic Director, Bryce Alexander, most recently of Denver’s Phamaly Theatre Company.

The Naples Players’ Coney Island Christmas is a holiday gift you will want to share with the whole family, because after all, love and family are what the holidays are all about.

Show dates for Coney Island Christmas are November 23 - December 18 at the Sugden Theater, 701 5th Ave. South, Naples (Wednesdays & Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., and Sundays at 2:00 p.m.). Tickets

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are $35 for adults and $10 for students (under 21). For tickets and more information, visit www.naplesplayers.org or call 239.263.7990.

The Naples Players has a season fullf of great shows to keep you entertainedw including Bell, Book & Candle, a com-s edy by John Van Druten about a witcha who casts a love spell on her handsomet neighbor, and then faces losing hert powers when she begins to fall for hisb mortal charms. Show dates are Januaryc 11 - February 5.

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Ann Hoover, Ashley Gurwell, Kylie Campbell and Brad Brenner in The Naples Players’ Coney Island Christmas (Photo Credit: Jessica Walck)

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Rabbi Kanter presents We Jews On Broadway, a sing-along history of the American musical from the Gay ’90s operetta of Romberg & Friml… through Berlin, Kern, the Gershwins and Rodgers & Hart… to Sondheim, Mel Brooks and Kander & Ebb – the Broadway of today. $50.00 General seating • $75.00 Benefactor Preferred seating Event concludes with an elegant wine and dessert reception Tickets are available at naplesjewishcongregation.org or mail your check made out to Naples Jewish Congregation, along with your name, address and phone number, to: NJC, PO Box 111994, Naples FL 34108, Attn Tickets

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Rabbi Kanter will be our guest at Shabbat services, and will trace the dominant role played by Jewish composers in Tin Pan Alley.

From Irving Berlin and George Gershwin to Jerome Kern and Billy Rose, these songs are musical companions to American history.

RABBI KENNETH K ANTER Rabbi Kenneth Kanter is a nationally known author and entertainer focusing on the Jewish influence on American popular music. Viewers have called his unique sing-along concert/ lecture events

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December 2016 Federation Star

ARTS & CULTURE

Jewish Community Festival of Learning (JCFL)

By Ida Margolis Co-Chair

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recent article by Talya Zax in the Forward discussed books that would make good fall reading for when one curls up next to the fire with a warm blanket and a cup of hot soup and a good book. We don’t live in an area noted for fall weather, but fortunately we live in a community where there are a lot of people who love good books even without the fireplace and cup of soup.

Among the books selected by Zax is Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction From the Forward, edited by Ezra Glinter. Since its founding in 1897, the Forward has published some of the most prominent Jewish writers in Yiddish and English, includ-

ing Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sholem Asch and the paper’s famous founding editor, Abraham Cahan. Ezra Glinter, criticat-large for the Forward, examined the Forward’s fiction archives and came out with a number of stories that show the strangeness, the difficulty and the beauty of American Jewish life. Glinter has arranged the newly translated stories by theme, gives biographical information for each of the authors, and gives readers a joyous book to read even without the need for a blanket or cup of hot soup.

Ezra Glinter will be coming to Naples as the closing presenter at the Jewish Community Festival of Learning (JCFL) on Sunday, March 19 at Temple Shalom.

In addition to Glinter, there will be many other presenters at the JCFL with great stories, interesting information and new things to share.

Look for a list of speakers, additional information and a registration form for the JCFL in the next issue of the Federation Star.

For now, reserve the date of March 19 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

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ARTS & CULTURE

Exhibit “Drawing Against Oblivion” has local connection

By Jeff Margolis

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anfred Bockelmann knows how fortunate he is. The son of a well-to-do Austrian member of the Nazi Party, born in the village of Klagenfurt in 1943, Bockelmann escaped the fate of his Jewish countrymen and over 1 million European Jewish children who were murdered during the Holocaust. This fact has had a lasting impression on him and his work. Trained as a freelance artist and photographer, Bockelmann had focused on fresco and landscape painting.

In 2010, Bockelmann had an epiphany. He felt compelled to honor and preserve the legacies of those children who were “born in the wrong cribs” and perished. He decided to do this by creating their portraits. He chose to use charcoal on canvas as his medium. Charcoal is made from ashes, and the artist wanted

to make a symbolic statement about the fate of these children who never had the opportunity to love and grow. Bockelmann wanted to give these murdered children dignity and give them a face for humanity to remember.

When viewing these drawings, the viewers are immediately drawn to the eyes of the children staring back at them.

In many portraits, there is a haunting and bewildered expression as the children are staring at their captors. Some children may have just realized that they have been torn apart from their families and they may never see them again.

Some of the portraits were drawn from family photos of the children before they had any idea of their future fate. It is not always known who rescued the photos.

Recently, in Southern New Jersey, there was the first U.S. exhibit of Bock-

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elmann’s portraits as well as the first American screening of the film Drawing Against Oblivion, which chronicles Bockelmann’s journey in the process of

Ida Margolis with artist Manfred Bockelmann

creating his work. Dr. Marion Hussong is a professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Richard Stockton University in New Jersey. The college was one of the first in the nation to offer a Master’s Degree in Holocaust Studies and has an active and vibrant Holocaust Resource Center, due in part to the large community of Holocaust survivors in the Southern New Jersey area.

Dr. Hussong also happens to be the niece of Manfred Bockelmann. Dr. Hussong invited her uncle to come to New Jersey and sift through the photo archives of relatives of area survivors.

He selected seven. One of the photos was of a 16-year-old boy from Bedzin, Poland, named Sy Zuchter. He was the younger brother of Ventnor, New Jersey, resident Janet Moskowitz. Mrs. Moskowitz was the mother of Naples resident Ida Margolis, and Sy Zuchter was Ida’s uncle, an uncle she would

never get to know. Margolis is chair of GenShoah of Southwest Florida, a group for children of Holocaust survivors and others interested in the Holocaust and human rights. Bockelmann presented family members copies of the portraits of their relative who had been selected from the Stockton archive.

Bockelmann’s portraits have been displayed in the German Parliament in Berlin, in Austria, and now in the U.S. “I just don’t want these children to be forgotten…I don’t know where this journey will take me. But I know for sure that I won’t stop drawing these portraits. I will continue for as long as I can. Thank God, art lives longer than us humans.” Bockelmann added that the portraits are to be a remembrance and a

Portrait of Sy Zuchter at Drawing Against Oblivion exhibit at Stockton University

warning of what can happen and should never happen again. Margolis hopes that, because of its important message, GenShoah SWFL will be able to present the film Drawing Against Oblivion in the near future.

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Thursday, January 19, 2:00 - 4:00 pm at Hilton Naples • Autobiography $18 in advance / $25 at the door & mini-concert Steve Katz – Blood, Sweat, and My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years By a founding member of the legendary Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears – a man who played the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock, and jammed with everyone from Mose Allison to Jimi Hendrix – comes a blues-folk-rock memoir of resigned existentialism and decidedly New York Jewish humor. It is an honest and personal account of a life at the edge of the spotlight – a privileged vantage point that earned Steve Katz a bit more objectivity and earnest outrage than many of his colleagues, who were too far into the scene to lay any honest witness to it. Set

during the Greenwich Village folk/rock scene, the Sixties’ most celebrated venues and concerts, and behind closed doors on international tours and grueling studio sessions, this is the unlikely story of a rock star as nerd, nerd as rock star, a nice Jewish boy who got to sit at the cool kids’ table and score the hot chicks.

Steve Katz was a founding member of The Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears. He became a record producer, working with rock renegade Lou Reed, among others. These days, Katz and his wife, Alison Palmer, run a ceramics shop in South Kent, Connecticut.

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Tuesday, December 13, 11:30 am - 2:00 pm at Hilton Naples • Topic: Relationships $36 / No tickets sold after December 9 – Lunch included Author Kate Siegel with her mom, Kim Friedman – Mother, Can You Not?

Kim Friedman and Kate Siegel

There is nothing more wonderful than a mother’s love.

There is also nothing more annoying. Who else can proudly insist that you’re perfect while simultaneously making you question every career, fashion and relationship decision you have ever made? No one understands the delicate mother-daughter dynamic better than Kate Siegel and her own mother, who drove her so crazy that she decided to broadcast their hilarious conversations on Instagram. Soon, hundreds of thousands of people were following their daily text exchanges, eager to see what outrageous thing Kate’s mom would say next. Now, in Mother, Can You Not?, Kate pays tribute to the woman who invented the concept of drone parenting. From embarrassing moments (like crashing Kate’s gynecological exams) to outrageous stories (like the time she made Kate steal a cat from the pound) to hilarious celebrations (including but not limited to parties for Kate’s menstrual cycles), Mother, Can you Not? lovingly lampoons the lengths to which our mothers will go to better our lives – even when it feels like they’re ruining them in the process.

Kate Siegel is a writer and a social media guru behind the Instagram account @CrazyJewishMom. She has been featured on BuzzFeed, Elite Daily, The Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, Today.com, Vogue.com, in People Magazine, and on Nightline and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She previously served as an associate producer for Condé Nast Entertainment, overseeing digital video for Teen Vogue, Bon Appétit, The New Yorker Festival, Condé Nast Traveler and Self.

Kim Friedman is an Emmy-nominated director of primetime television, including Beverly Hills 90210, Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Square Pegs and Lizzie McGuire. Kim is also a distinguished theater director, having received two Obie nominations in New York and two Los Angeles Drama Critics Awards. More recently, Kim moved back to the East Coast in an effort to more effectively nag her daughter.

Kate and Kim’s presentation includes mature content and language.

This event includes a preview of all Jewish Book Festival events, with drawings for tickets, books and more!

Special Events

Thursday, January 5, 11:30 am - 2:00 pm at Hilton Naples • Topic: Memoir $36 / No tickets sold after January 2 – Lunch included Jesse Itzler – Living with a SEAL

In 2011, former rapper and millionaire businessman Jesse Itzler approached an accomplished Navy SEAL with this proposition: to move into Jesse’s family’s Manhattan apartment and train him for 31 days. The SEAL, widely considered “the toughest man on the planet,” agreed, but on one condition: Jesse would do everything he told him – and nothing was off the table. What ensued was a physical training regimen that included sleeping in a wooden chair, jumping into a frozen lake, and running miles wearing a 50-pound weighted vest, with training occurring at all hours of the day and night. At turns

hilarious (think The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air goes to boot camp) and insightful, Living with a SEAL tells the story of a fitness routine like no other – and the unlikely friendship it produced.

Jesse Itzler cofounded Marquis Jet, the world’s largest prepaid private jet flight card, before helping to pioneer the coconut water craze with Zico, acquired by The Coca-Cola Company. He is a former rapper and music producer. Jesse often can be found at the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks games, where he is an owner of the team. He is married to Spanx founder Sara Blakely; they have four children.

Monday, February 27, 9:00 - 11:30 am at Hilton Naples • Topic: Food $36 / No tickets sold after February 23 – Breakfast buffet included Ina Pinkney– Ina’s Kitchen

Ina Pinkney, the beloved Chicago restaurateur known affectionately as the Breakfast Queen, has been feeding people for over 30 years. When she closed her restaurant’s doors in 2013, it headlined news across the country. Now, the favorite dishes that thousands came to love at Ina’s are showcased in her new book. Ina’s Kitchen is part cookbook and part memoir, combining 39 of Ina’s favorite recipes with stories from her life, including her Jewish upbringing in Brooklyn, overcoming paralytic polio as a child, the intermarriage her parents disapproved of, and her mid-life choice to change careers and follow her dream.

From milestone moments and warm memories to the true trials of owning a restaurant, readers will gain a deeper understanding of Jewish cooking and hospitality. Ina’s Kitchen is a love letter to the

diners Ina has fed over the years. In it, she shares her wisdom with the same generosity – both of food and of spirit – that kept people coming back to her restaurant for decades.

Ina Pinkney was the chef and owner of INA’s and The Dessert Kitchen Ltd. catering. She has appeared on the Food Network’s Sweet Dreams and The Best Of, and on CNN’s The Turnaround. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Details, Chicago Tribune, Gourmet, Midwest Living, and trade and in-flight magazines.

Breakfast includes Ina’s Heavenly Hots – small, thin, sour cream pancakes that melt in your mouth. These were a mega hit for 22 years!

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Wednesday, January 11, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Temple Shalom • Topic: Fiction Alyson Richman – The Velvet Hours

Ronald H. Balson – Karolina’s Twins

As Paris teeters on the edge of the German Occupation, a young French woman closes the door to her late grandmother’s treasure-filled apartment, unsure if she’ll ever return. Inspired by the true account of an abandoned Parisian apartment, Alyson Richman brings to life the stories of courtesan Marthe de Florian, her granddaughter Solange Beaugiron, and the unlikely relationship between two women who pursue freedom and independence during uncertain times. Solange and Marthe’s stories unfold like velvet itself, each stitched with their own shadow and light.

Alyson Richman is the international bestselling author of The Mask Carver’s Son, The Rhythm of Memory, The Last Van Gogh, The Lost Wife and The Garden of Letters. Her novels have been published in eighteen languages and have been bestsellers in several countries.

The Lost Wife is currently in development to become a major film.

From the author of Once We Were Brothers comes a saga inspired by the true events of a Holocaust survivor’s quest to fulfill a promise to return to Poland and find two sisters lost during the war. Karolina’s Twins is a tale of survival, love and resilience in more ways than one. As Lena recounts her story, Catherine herself also recognizes the unwavering importance of family as she prepares herself for the arrival of her unborn child. Through this association and many more, both Lena and Catherine begin to cherish the dogged ties that bind not only families and children, but the entirety of mankind.

Ronald H. Balson is a Chicago trial attorney, educator and writer.

His practice has taken him to several international venues. He is also the author of Saving Sophie and the international bestseller Once We Were Brothers.

Monday, January 23, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Beth Tikvah • Topic: Holocaust Josh Aronson – Orchestra of Exiles

Robert P. Watson – The Nazi Titanic

As a teenager, violinist Bronislaw Huberman toured Europe and received invitations to play for royalty. But as an adult, witnessing the rising threat of Nazism, Huberman conceived of an ingenious crusade that would become his greatest legacy: forming the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, which would become the lauded Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Huberman arranged the safe passage of hundreds of Jewish musicians and their families out of Nazi-controlled territories.

His tireless campaigning for the project saved nearly one thousand Jews from the approaching Holocaust. Arranging for the great Arturo Toscanini to conduct the orchestra’s first concert, Huberman’s triumph of art over cruelty was heard around the world.

Josh Aronson is an Academy Award-nominated documentary and film writer, producer and director. He has worked with Showtime, PBS and others. His films have won awards at festivals all over the world. He is also a concert pianist and regularly plays chamber music in New York and at the Telluride Musicfest, the chamber music festival he founded in 2002 with his wife, violinist Maria Bachmann.

Built in 1927, the German ocean liner Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the Titanic. When the Nazis seized control of the vessel, she was stripped down for use as a floating barracks and troop transport. Hitler’s minister, Joseph Goebbels, later cast her as a “star” in the epic propaganda film about the sinking of the legendary Titanic.

In the Third Reich’s final desperate days, the SS Cap Arcona was mistakenly bombed by the British Air Force, killing the concentration camp prisoners packed aboard. Although the British government sealed many documents pertaining to the ship’s sinking, Robert P. Watson has unearthed forgotten records and conducted many interviews. The Nazi Titanic is a riveting and astonishing story about an enigmatic ship that played a devastating role in World War II. Robert P. Watson is a historian and political commentator with 36 books to his name, including America’s First Crisis, which received a 2014 IPPY Gold Medal for history. He lives in Boca Raton, Florida.

Monday, January 30, 7:00 - 9:15 pm at Beth Tikvah • Topic: Sports/Sports Photography Gary Belsky – On the Origins of Sports

Gail Buckland – Who Shot Sports

Our passion for sports has started wars, emptied treasuries, ended marriages and set cities aflame. Sports fans regularly spend hundreds of dollars on tickets, devote entire weekends to watching games, and argue with colleagues over the greatest game and athlete of all time.

In On the Origins of Sports, award-winning editors Gary Belsky and Neil Fine set out to understand why and how sports have become so important to us. They gather the original rules, history and miscellany of the world’s 21 most popular sports. By taking readers back in history to learn the lore behind these sports, they give fans a new context for watching and competing in games.

Gary Belsky is a former editor-in-chief of ESPN The Magazine and current president of Elland Road Partners, a consulting firm specializing in editorial and content strategy. Belsky lectures and writes extensively on sports, decision-making and consumer behavior. A graduate of the University of Missouri in his native St. Louis, Belsky is an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University and a columnist for Money.com.

From the creator of Who Shot Rock & Roll, Who Shot Sports shows the range, cultural importance and aesthetics of sports photography through the work of 165 extraordinary photographers – some of them heralded, most of their names unknown.

Gail Buckland has written and collaborated on 12 books of photographic history. She is a former curator of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, a Benjamin Menschel Distinguished Professor at the Cooper Union, and a guest curator at many American museums. She lives in New York City and Warwick, New York.

Gail is the guest curator of Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibit, which highlights sport photographers and their place in the history of photography, not merely sports history, runs through January 8, 2017. Gail was also the guest curator of the 2009 exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present.

Wednesday, February 8, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Beth Tikvah • Topic: Memoir Judy Batalion– White Walls

Judy Batalion grew up in a house filled with piles of junk obsessively gathered by her hoarder mother. At the first chance, she escaped the clutter to create a new identity – made of order, regimen and clean white walls – until she found herself enmeshed in life’s biggest chaos: motherhood. Confronted with the daunting task of raising a daughter after her own dysfunctional childhood, Judy reflected on her upbringing and the lives of her mother and grandmother, both Holocaust survivors. What she discovered astonished her. The women in her family were more closely connected than she knew, and it was Judy’s bond with her mother that healed her old wounds. Judy explores navigating the messiness of motherhood and the indelible marks that mothers and daughters make on each other’s lives.

Judy Batalion was born in Montreal, studied at Harvard, and worked as a curator and comedian in London before settling in New York City. Her essays about parenting, relationships, religion and health have appeared in Vogue, The Washington Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Forward, Tablet, Cosmopolitan, Salon and other publications.

Noa Baum – A Land Twice Promised

Israeli storyteller Noa Baum grew up in Jerusalem in the shadow of ancestral traumas of the Holocaust and ongoing wars. Stories of the past and fear of annihilation in the wars of the 1960s through the ’80s shaped her perceptions and identity. In America, she met a Palestinian woman who had grown up under Israeli Occupation, and as they shared memories of war years in Jerusalem an unlikely friendship blossomed. A Land Twice Promised delves into the heart of one of the world’s most enduring and complex conflicts. Baum’s deeply personal memoir recounts her journey from girlhood in Israel to her adult encounter with “the other” with honesty, compassion and humor, capturing the drama of a nation at war and her discovery of humanity in the enemy.

Noa Baum is an award-winning storyteller who performs internationally. She acted with Jerusalem Khan Theater and studied theater at NYU and with Uta Hagen. Voted by the Washington Jewish Week as one of ten most interesting local Jews, she has lived in America since 1990.

Monday, February 20, 7:00 - 9:15 pm at Federation • Topic: Memoir - LGBTQ Julie Tarney – My Son Wears Heels

Steven Gaines – One of These Things First

When Julie Tarney’s only child Harry was two years old, he told her, “Inside my head I’m a girl.” It was 1992. The Internet was no help because there was no Internet, and bookstores had no literature for a mom scrambling to raise such an unconventional child. There were, however, mainstream experts whose theories mirrored a negative stereotype of Jewish mothers: a “sissy” boy would be gay because his mother was domineering. Lacking a positive role model of her own and fearful of being judged as a Jewish mother potentially messing up her kid, Julie embarked on an unexpected parenting journey that spanned 20 years before eventually drawing Julie to the realization that her son had known who he was all along. Her job was simply to get out of the way and let him be.

Julie Tarney is a former PR agency president from the Midwest who worked extensively with leading brands like McDonald’s and Coca-Cola. She is now a writer, resource for parents raising gendercreative kids, and an advocate for LGBTQ youth. She is a blogger for The Huffington Post and board member for the It Gets Better Project.

One of These Things First is a wry and poignant reminiscence of a 15-year-old gay Jewish boy in Brooklyn in the early ’60s and his unexpected trajectory from a life behind a rack of dresses in his grandmother’s bra and girdle store to the halls of Payne Whitney among a captivating group of wealthy neurotics and Ivy League alcoholics who subtly begin to change him in unexpected ways. This rich cast of characters includes a famous Broadway producer who becomes his unlikely mentor, an elegant woman who claimed to be the ex-mistress of newly-elected president John F. Kennedy, a snooty, suicidal Harvard architect, and a seductive young Contessa. At the center of the story is a brilliant young psychiatrist who promises to cure a young boy of his homosexuality and give him the normalcy he so longs for.

Steven Gaines is the author of Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons, The Sky’s the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan, and Simply Halston, a biography of the fashion designer, among other books. He is a former NPR radio host.

Thursday, March 2, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Beth Tikvah • Debut Fiction Panel Victoria Kelly – Mrs. Houdini

Before escape artist Harry Houdini died, he vowed he would find a way to speak to his beloved wife, Bess, from beyond the grave, using a coded message known only to the two of them. When his widow begins seeing this code in seemingly impossible places, it becomes clear that Harry has an urgent message to convey. Unlocking the puzzle will set Bess on a course back through the pair’s extraordinary interfaith romance, which swept the illusionist and his bride from the beaches of Coney Island to the palaces of Budapest to the back lots of Hollywood. In surprising turns that weave through the dawn of the 20th century and into the dazzling 1920s, Mrs. Houdini is a thrilling tale that goes to the heart of one of history’s greatest love stories.

Jennifer Brown – Modern Girls

In 1935, Dottie Krasinsky is the epitome of the modern girl. A bookkeeper in Midtown Manhattan, Dottie has a steady beau, close girlfriends and an eye for fashion. Yet at heart, she is a dutiful Jewish daughter, living with her Yiddish-speaking parents on the Lower East Side. So when after a single careless night she is “in a family way” by a charismatic but unsuitable man, she is desperate – unwed, unsure and running out of options. After 20 years as a housewife and mother of five children, Dottie’s immigrant mother,

Rose, is itching to return to the social activism of her youth. With strikes and breadlines at home, National Socialism rising in Europe, and a brother unable to escape Poland, she knows there is more important work to be done than cooking and cleaning. Yet when she realizes that she, too, is pregnant, she struggles to reconcile her longings with her faith. Mother and daughter must confront their beliefs, the changing world, and the fact that their lives will never again be the same.

Martha Hall Kelly – Lilac Girls

New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate, but her world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939 with its sights set on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. For the ambitious young German doctor Herta Oberheuser, an advertisement for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired, though, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. The lives of these women are set on a collision course when Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Their stories cross continents as Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten.

Monday, March 13, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at UUCGN • Topic: Humor Eric Golub – Jewish Lunacy

William Novak – Die Laughing

Jewish Lunacy is a lighthearted slice of Jewish life meant to bring all Jews together. It is a humorous spiritual journey that weaves love of Judaism with love of family in a story of trying to obey religious laws amid the secular temptations of the world around us. Whether liberal or conservative, secular or religious, Jewish Lunacy can unite all readers in laughter and purpose.

Eric Golub is a national author, speaker and comedian who has spoken in all 50 states. He speaks about politics, religion and everything else that should not be discussed. He is a former stockbrokerage and oil professional living in Los Angeles. He is single, to the chagrin of his loving parents, and proud of his Jewish heritage.

From the co-creator of The Big Book of Jewish Humor comes a laugh-out-loud collection of jokes and cartoons about growing older that deals with memory loss, long marriages, medicine, changes in sexuality, the afterlife and much more. Growing older can be unsettling and surprising, so what better way to deal with this new stage of life than to laugh about it? Die Laughing includes more than enough jokes (and a nice sprinkling of New Yorker cartoons) to let that laughter burst out.

William Novak is best known to Jewish audiences as the co-editor of The Big Book of Jewish Humor, a beloved collection of jokes, cartoons and stories that is still in print 35 years after its 1981 release.

Novak is also a successful ghostwriter who has served as the coauthor of the best-selling memoirs of Lee Iacocca, Tip O’Neill, Nancy Reagan, Oliver North, Magic Johnson, Tim Russert and Natan Sharansky.

Thursday, January 19, 7:00 - 8:30 pm at Federation • Topic: Holocaust Amy Kurzweil – Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir Flying Couch tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy’s coming of age as a young Jewish artist weaves into the narrative of her mother, a therapist, and her Bubbe, a World War II survivor who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto by disguising herself as a gentile.

Captivated by Bubbe’s story, Amy turns to her sketchbooks to preserve and record the past, teaching herself to draw as a way to cope with what she discovers. Entwining the voices and histories of these three women, Amy creates a portrait not only of what it means to be part of a

family, but also of how each generation bears the imprint of the past.

Flying Couch uses Bubbe’s real testimony to investigate the legacy of trauma, the magic of family stories, and the meaning of home.

Amy Kurzweil’s comics have appeared in The Huffington Post and The New Yorker. In 2013, she was the recipient of a Norman Mailer Fellowship. She teaches writing and comics at Parsons, The New School for Design and at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Free event with any ticket purchase (limited to the first 50 reservations).

For the events with more than one author, the order in which they present will be decided a few days prior to their event. If you’d like to know the order, please email fedstar18@gmail.com or call the Federation office at 239.263.4205.

Venues

Festival Sponsors

All locations are in Naples (area code 239): Special thanks to Beth Tikvah: 1459 Pine Ridge Road (434-1818) these organizations for Hilton Naples: 5111 Tamiami Trail N. (430-4900) providing space for the Jewish Federation: 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road (263-4205) Festival events.

Temple Shalom: 4630 Pine Ridge Road (455-3030) Unitarian Universalist Cong. of Greater Naples: 6340 Napa Woods Way (455-6553)

We are grateful to the following businesses and organizations for their support of the Collier County Jewish Book Festival.

Book Sales

All of the Festival’s books are on display on the first floor (near the cafe) in the Barnes & Noble store at the Waterside Shops. Be sure to pick up a free Festival bookmark while you’re there. Books will also be available for purchase and signing at each author’s event.

Books make great gifts for friends and family.

Festival Website & Email

Visit the official Festival website at www.jewishbookfestival.org for more information on the authors and their books, event updates and a printable order form. Have questions that have not been answered in this 4-page pullout? Send an email to fedstar18@gmail.com.

Patron Receptions with Authors

Purchasers of the Patron Festival Package (see order form below) will be invited to at least two private author receptions. Currently, the following authors and dates are confirmed.

Additional dates and authors may be added. (Authors and dates are subject to change.) ¡ Alyson Richman and Ronald H. Balson: Wednesday, January 11, catered buffet lunch from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (prior to their event) at Temple Shalom ¡ Steve Katz: An event on January 19 or 20 (depending on Steve’s travel itinerary).

Tickets are transferable

Consider purchasing a Patron Festival Package or Series Pass. Even if you can’t make it to all 12 events, you can gift your tickets to friends, colleagues and family members. Tickets make the perfect Chanukah gift.

Women’s Cultural Alliance

Authors appearing at the Collier County Jewish Book Festival are part of the Jewish Book Council Network.

Jewish Book Festival Committee

Coordinator: Ted Epstein Co-Chairs: Phil Jason, Robin Mintz, Susan Pittelman Carole Greene Ida Margolis Lee Henson Patti Boochever Dina Shein Irene Pomerantz Lenore Greenstein Steve Brazina Elaine Soffer Iris Shur Linda Smith Sue Bookbinder

Jewish Book Festival Ticket Order Form Patron Festival Package: Tickets to all 12 events $199 x ___ package(s) = total $_____ Bonuses: Includes reserved seat in front rows/tables at each event, invitations to two private author receptions (with food), and recognition in the Federation Star.

Series Pass: Tickets to all 12 events (a $182 value) $149 x ___ pass(es) Does NOT include Patron Festival Package bonuses.

Featured Event: Thursday, January 19 @ 2:00pm

Steve Katz (Book talk & mini-concert)

= total $_____

$18 x ___ = $_____ ($25 at the door)

Luncheons and Breakfast at the Hilton Naples: Tuesday, December 13 @ 11:30am Luncheon w/ Kate Siegel & Kim Friedman $36 x ___ = $_____ Please indicate choice of meal:  chicken  salmon  vegetarian

Thursday, January 5 @ 11:30am Monday, February 27 @ 9:00am

Luncheon with Jesse Itzler

$36 x ___ = $_____

Breakfast with Ina Pinkney

$36 x ___ = $_____

Please indicate choice of meal:  chicken  salmon  vegetarian

Events with more than one author (choose the Package or individual events):

7-Event Package: Tickets to all 7 events below (an $84 value) $56 x ___ = $_____ Wednesday, January 11 @ 1:00pm Monday, January 23 @ 1:00pm Monday, January 30 @ 7:00pm Wednesday, February 8 @ 1:00pm Monday, February 20 @ 7:00pm Thursday, March 2 @ 1:00pm Monday, March 13 @ 1:00pm

Alyson Richman & Ronald H. Balson Josh Aronson & Robert P. Watson Gary Belsky & Gail Buckland Judy Batalion & Noa Baum Julie Tarney & Steven Gaines J. Brown, V. Kelly, M. Hall Kelly Eric Golub & William Novak

$12 x ___ = $_____ ($15 at the door) $12 x ___ = $_____ “ $12 x ___ = $_____ “ $12 x ___ = $_____ “ $12 x ___ = $_____ “ $12 x ___ = $_____ “ $12 x ___ = $_____ “

Free event with any ticket purchase (limited to the first 50 reservations): Thursday, January 19 @ 7:00pm Amy Kurzweil # of tickets ___ (1 ticket per person) • Tickets will be mailed beginning in early December, or can be picked up at the events.

• Tickets ARE transferable and can be given to others.

• Open seating at all events. Front rows/tables will be reserved for Patrons and Sponsors.

• If an author cancels (weather, illness, etc.) we will attempt to reschedule the author in late March or April. Your original ticket will be good for the rescheduled event.

• No refunds unless entire event (both authors for multi-author events) is canceled and not rescheduled. For ticket packages, refund will be prorated.

• Tickets are NOT tax deductible.

• If a venue needs to be changed, ticket buyers will be notified.

• All events will take place in Naples.

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Order your Festival tickets today! There are four easy ways to do so: by mail, phone, fax, or in person at the Federation office.

Pick up your free Festival bookmark at the Federation office or the Naples Barnes & Noble.

Calendar of Events TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13 • 11:30am - 2:00pm Relationships Kate Siegel, Mother, Can You Not? with Kate’s mom, Kim Friedman

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5 • 11:30am - 2:00pm Memoir Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11 • 1:00 - 3:30pm Fiction Alyson Richman, The Velvet Hours Ronald H. Balson, Karolina’s Twins

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 • 2:00 - 4:00pm Book talk & mini-concert Steve Katz, Blood, Sweat, and My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 • 7:00 - 8:30pm

Jewish Identity Amy Kurzweil, Flying Couch - A Graphic Memoir

MONDAY, JANUARY 23 • 1:00 - 3:30pm Holocaust Josh Aronson, Orchestra of Exiles Robert P. Watson, The Nazi Titanic

MONDAY, JANUARY 30 • 7:00 - 9:15pm

presented by

Sports/Sports Photography Gary Belsky, On the Origins of Sports Gail Buckland, Who Shot Sports

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 • 1:00 - 3:30pm Memoir Judy Batalion, White Walls Noa Baum, A Land Twice Promised

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 • 7:00 - 9:15pm Memoir - LGBTQ Julie Tarney, My Son Wears Heels Steven Gaines, One of These Things First

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27 • 9:00 - 11:30am Cooking/Food Ina Pinkney, Ina’s Kitchen

THURSDAY, MARCH 2 • 1:00 - 3:30pm Debut Fiction Panel Victoria Kelly, Mrs. Houdini Jennifer Brown, Modern Girls Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls

MONDAY, MARCH 13 • 1:00 - 3:30pm Humor Eric Golub, Jewish Lunacy William Novak, Die Laughing

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Book reviews and author information 3nd in a series of 4 Blood, Sweat, and my Rock ‘n’ Roll Years by Steve Katz Review by Lee Henson, Jewish Book Festival committee member

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teve Katz may never have liked “Spinning Wheel,” one of his group’s (Blood, Sweat & Tears) greatest hits, but I did! When I heard about his book and got ready to read it, the song immediately began playing in my head.

Blood, Sweat & Tears was part of the soundtrack of my formative years.

From high school through college, I was a folk and rock ‘n’ roll fan of the first order, as were so many of my peers. Today, their songs and the people who sang them resonate for me in many ways.

The opportunity to meet Steve, hear the story of his side of the microphone, and have him perform for us – that will be amazing.

There are few surprises in this book.

I expected the drugs and bed jumping.

But it was interesting to hear how it all happened. There was a backstory that I hadn’t imagined, an almost linear progression that explained why certain songs resonated so completely with their audience. Just like me, Steve and his fellows experienced leaving home, facing Vietnam, and making decisions

about love and marriage...but they did it in front of all of us.

Today it is the norm to have your actions spread across the media; there are no places where one can go for privacy. But, in the ’60s, when Steve began his journey, things were not so exposed unless you were on the stage.

In college, I thought it daring that pot was everywhere. However, the amount and variety of drugs that Steve was exposed to (and partook of) was overwhelming. I am surprised that he survived and became the regular guy he

Thursday, January 19, 2:00 - 4:00 pm at Hilton Naples Steve Katz was a founding member of The Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears. He became a record producer, working with rock renegade Lou Reed, among others. These days, Katz and his wife, Alison Palmer, run a ceramics shop in South Kent, Connecticut.

In addition to his presentation, Steve will perform a mini-concert!

This program is being generously sponsored by the Women’s Cultural Alliance.

is today, whose “neighbors don’t have a clue” that he was once Steve Katz of Blood, Sweat & Tears – the multi-gold album, platinum record, touring rock star.

Steve names names. He tells about the amazing people he loved and hated, who worked and who coasted, who he thinks deserved more, and a few who didn’t.

What resonated for me is that throughout his life, Steve has always kept his Jewish soul. For example, while on tour, his band went to Warsaw and the film producers wanted to film them visiting Auschwitz. Steve says, “I wanted to go, but I was afraid that they might do something stupid in the editing room, like put “Spinning Wheel” into the scene as background music.

You never know. These guys were from Hollywood and not very high-end, so we did the wise thing and decided not to go.” Very cool, indeed.

Today, the Steve who wrote this book is a different man from the boy who lived his life as a rock star. He lives quietly with his wife, whom he joins in her pottery business. Who’d have thought?

More book reviews can be found on the following pages and in the October & November issues of the Federation Star.

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ANNUAL NAPLES KLEZMER REVIVAL BAND CONCERT WITH FEATURED CLARINETIST: MICHAEL WINOGRAD

Michael is an outstanding young musician. He is in great demand, performing all over the world. He is one third of the transatlantic klezmer/cabaret collective Yiddish Art Trio, clarinetist of Tarras Band, a classic 1950’s Jewish American tribute group, and the cofounder and director of the ground breaking, borderless world fusion band Sandaraa. Michael also collaborates with Cantor Yaakov ‘Yanky’ Lemmer and Klezmatics trumpeter Frank London in Ahava Raba, a group that explores the spiritual sides of Ashkanazy Jewish Music. He has played alongside Itzhak Perlman, The Klezmer Conservatory Band, Socalled, Budowitz, Alicia Svigals and more.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 at 6:30pm COLLIER COUNTY SOUTH REGIONAL LIBRARY 8065 Lely Cultural Parkway

RSVP required ~ starting December 14: South Regional Library - 239.252.7542

A Land Twice Promised by Noa Baum Review by Irene Pomerantz, Jewish Book Festival committee member

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o whom does a land belong?

Answering this question is the subject of this provocative memoir, told with depth and emotion by Noa Baum. She was raised in Jerusalem by Holocaust survivors and fed on stories of Nazi hatred toward the Jews, her mother’s stories of her brother who died for Israel, as well as on a popular series of childhood literature stereotyping Israeli soldiers as humble, smart, courageous and full of mercy while Arabs were characterized as full of hatred, arrogant, stupid, cowardly and cruel.

As a young girl, Noa had two recurrent dreams: One was wondering, “What if?” her grandfather had not been able to get out of Germany – she would not be here. The other was of her baking a cake, bringing it to a group of Arabs and establishing peace between the two peoples.

When she was nine years old in 1967 after the liberation of the Old City, she recalls walking in the Suk, holding her grandmother’s hand and seeing Arabs for the first time, dressed in traditional clothing.

At age fifteen, during the Yom Kippur War, trying to comprehend the deaths of young soldiers whom she knew, she questions why so many young boys were being killed and wondering why “Everyone hates us…The entire world.” But it is also during this time when her mother becomes volatile, unpredictable and continually critical of Noa that she began to hate the stories her mother continued to tell.

Noa’s perceptions of Arabs and Jews begin to evolve when she joins the Israel Defense Forces and wonders if it

Wednesday, February 8, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Beth Tikvah Noa Baum is an award-winning storyteller who performs internationally. She acted with Jerusalem Khan Theater and studied theater at NYU and with Uta Hagen. Voted by the Washington Jewish Week as one of ten most interesting local Jews, she has lived in America since 1990.

Appearing with Noa Baum will be Judy Batalion, author of White Walls.

This program is being generously sponsored by the Collier/Lee Chapter of Hadassah.

White Walls by Judy Batalion Review by Irene Pomerantz, Jewish Book Festival committee member

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ow does a child cope with the pain of growing up with a mother who is an obsessive hoarder, whose piles of papers, stacks of records and books, files and clothes clutter every part of the house, even the bed so that her father has to sleep in a cleared area in the basement? In her memoir, Judy Batalion finally decides to escape. Running becomes a major theme of the memoir when Batalion realizes that she has to leave her home to escape the dysfunction of her family just as her Bubbie had to escape from the Nazis.

White Walls is an insightful, search-

ing, honest and emotional portrayal of Batalion’s attempt to discern if she is a genetic product of her maternal side of the family. Mingling her Bubbie’s past Holocaust experience and her mother’s mental illness and obsessive hoarding, Batalion tells of her own dysfunctional and awkward childhood growing up in Canada, her difficulties as a young adult, and with her present life as a wife and mother.

She begins the memoir as an adult on a bus from New York traveling back to Canada to get an injunction against her now paranoid and suicidal mother who has frantically summoned her.

Her story bounces back and forth between frantic calls from her mother or father and her own attempts at finding normalcy in her life. Blaming her own insecurities on her mother’s hoarding which prevented a normal motherdaughter relationship, Batalion is fearful of becoming her mother as she engages with her own daughter.

As a child feeling socially awkward, she has a revelatory moment delivering her Bat Mitzvah speech. She discovers that she has a talent. “Each of my words rang out…as if whole symphonies were braided together in my syllables…I spoke…to a sea of smiles, bobbing

Wednesday, February 8, 1:00 - 3:30 pm at Beth Tikvah Judy Batalion was born in Montreal, studied at Harvard, and worked as a curator and comedian in London before settling in New York City. Her essays about parenting, relationships, religion and health have appeared in Vogue, The Washington Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Forward, Tablet, Cosmopolitan, Salon and other publications.

Appearing with Judy Batalion will be Noa Baum, author of A Land Twice Promised.

This program is being generously sponsored by the Collier/Lee Chapter of Hadassah.

is right to arrest young kids for throwing stones. She is disillusioned by some of the Israeli soldiers who were coarse, aggressive and sexist.

Attending the Theatre Department of Tel Aviv University, her conscience becomes fully awakened and she joins a group that opposes the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

As an adult, Noa befriends and talks to an Arab woman who relates her side of the Palestinian story including the traumatic events of 1948 and how her people were affected in the 1967 war.

Noa transcribed her conversations.

Seeing the need to “reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.”

That became the genesis of creating a performance piece entitled A Land Twice Promised.

In describing the creative process of combining the Palestinian story with her mother’s stories, Noa describes how she makes peace with her mother’s critical assessment of her. In the end, however, her greater achievement is the ability to use storytelling as a way to “break down stereotypes and perceptions” as a means to build a path to peace.

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heads, to kippahs and dye jobs. And, to my shock, I loved it. One-on-one I would have choked, but up there I was the confident center of attention.”

The memoir takes Batalion through her college experiences at Harvard where she tries to remake herself and escape her past only to discover that the study of Victorian interior design is not an escape from her family but more of a suffocation. She decides that she will have to run farther away.

Batalion’s language is rich. Her father’s impatience: “Anger was tucked inside him like toy streamers buried in a box, building pressure. Then the lid would fly open and the strands would spiral out and attack everything, hissing like snakes.”

She is introspective. Researching living rooms: “I wanted to be a slick, smart, visual culture vulture, and find the most home-ish representation of home. But in all of it, really, I wanted to answer the question: what is home anyway? My goal was to solve my life.”

Through it all, Battalion remains loyal and loving toward her mother.

Mothers and daughters. They love. They hurt. Ultimately, they forgive…because they love each other.

December 2016 Federation Star

JEWISH BOOK FESTIVAL

To Life!

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Can’t make up your mind about which Jewish Book Festival events to attend?

Come to our Preview event below and get an overview of the entire Festival along with a 12-page brochure.

We will also have drawings for Festival tickets and books!

Tuesday, December 13 • 11:30am - 2:30pm Luncheon at the Hilton Naples

One of These Things First by Steven Gaines Review by Carole J Greene, Jewish Book Festival committee member

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n his memoir, author and radio personality Steven Gaines describes the challenges a gay, Jewish, teenaged boy faced in 1960s Brooklyn. Back then, most people kept their homosexuality secret – society had not yet accepted people living openly as gays. Some, like Steven, felt the normalcy they longed for hovered too far out of reach. Unable to tolerate the bullying and bigotry, they attempted suicide. Many succeeded.

Steven did not, but the effort to kill himself landed him fortuitously in the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic.

Much of the memoir tells of the rich, privileged eccentrics – alcoholics, neurotics and Thorazine zombies – who inhabited this private asylum.

Gaines intertwines narratives about

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these psychiatric patients and anecdotes describing growing up gay in Brooklyn, struggling with his sexual identity, and trying to understand his unusual family.

Readers learn about Gaines’ attraction to a Broadway producer – another Payne Whitney patient – who becomes his mentor. We also discover the bizarre marriage of his grandfather, who lived for most of his life with both a wife and a mistress in the same home. Grandfather Gog covered the cost of Steven’s voluntary commitment to Payne Whitney so the boy could avoid the horrors of a county clinic.

The grandfather’s wealth materialized from Rose’s Bras Girdles Sportswear, where young Steven often hid in a huge shipping carton, watching the

goings on in his grandparents’ shop. At other times, he frequented the cavernous Culver Theater, an ornate 1920s movie house where he escaped into secondand third-run movies.

Abutting the theater was the Culver Luncheonette. The two men who ran it, Irv and Arnie, made fun of Steven for being “a homo,” to use the lingo of Brooklyn in the early ’60s. Steven avoided walking in front of the diner so he wouldn’t have to see them mincing around inside, curtsying to him like a girl.

Unexplainable behaviors assailed him. At age 10, at summer camp, he experienced an aching desire to kiss another boy. On finding a gooey ice cream stick covered with ants, he understood

Monday, February 20, 7:00 - 9:15 pm at Federation Steven Gaines is the author of Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons, The Sky’s the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan, and Simply Halston, a biography of the fashion designer, among other books. He is a former NPR radio host.

Appearing with Steven Gaines will be Julie Tarney, author of My Son Wears Heels.

This program is being generously sponsored by PFLAG – Naples Chapter.

the stick would be intolerably lonely unless he rescued it. He felt compelled to pilfer things. His footlocker held a whisk broom, another camper’s sock, assorted pebbles, a magazine, his counselor’s toothpaste tube, a toilet paper roll, chewed bubble gum and a prayer book from Saturday morning services.

He also counted. Sip his chocolate milk one time, two times. Roll up sleeves – once, twice on the right; once, twice on the left. Be certain they rest at the same level on both arms. He couldn’t understand his obsessive compulsive behaviors.

One day when he was a pale, pudgy 15-year-old high-school freshman, he rolled his sleeves the required two times, then plunged his arms through a pane of glass, sawing his wrists over the shards.

Thus the psychiatric ward.

Readers might reasonably presume that the traumas of Gaines’ early life – attempting to come to terms with his bizarre family, his homosexuality and the incomprehensible OCD – helped to shape his career. He is now an acclaimed writer, author of the best-seller Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons, The Sky’s the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan and Simply Halston, the biography of the fashion designer.

Writing this book took courage. I admire Steven Gaines for doing so.

My Son Wears Heels by Julie Tarney Review by Patti Boochever, Jewish Book Festival committee member

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omma...how do you know I’m a boy?” When Julie Tarney’s two-year old son Harry asked her this question, it seemed to come out of the blue. She responded with the typical genital variance answer we’ve all used as parents. But Harry’s thoughtful pondering about her response motivated her to ask him, “Why do you ask?” His response changed her life: “Well, inside my head I’m a girl.”

Fortunately for Harry, his mother is a sensitive and enlightened woman. She replied, “Well, it’s a good thing you know that about yourself, Harry.”

A smart professional woman, Tar-

ney immediately tries to research what Harry’s statements might mean. Could he know at this age that he might be gay? This was 1992, when being gay was a stigma and a pandemic; when AIDS became the number one cause of death for U.S men ages 25 to 44; when the words and concepts “transgender” or “transsexual” were not part of our cultural tableau, especially in Milwaukee where they lived. What might this mean for her only child?

In her well-written, easy-to-read, poignant memoir, My Son Wears Heels: One Mom’s Journey from Clueless to Kickass, Tarney shares her journey

learning to parent her extraordinary son.

Tarney discloses painful episodes from her childhood that fuel her compulsion to counter her utmost fear: that she had become her domineering, overbearing and controlling mother and somehow caused Harry’s “differentness.” She researches, reads, advocates and follows her gut, disclosing Harry’s struggles, triumphs and great sense of style; Harry’s greatest joy as a child was dressing up in “girls” clothes (great pictures accompany the text).

For a relatively short book, Tarney covers a lot of ground. Although her husband’s struggles with childhood

Monday, February 20, 7:00 - 9:15 pm at Federation Julie Tarney is a former PR agency president from the Midwest who worked extensively with leading brands like McDonald’s and Coca-Cola. She is now a writer, resource for parents raising gender-creative kids, and an advocate for LGBTQ youth. She is a blogger for The Huffington Post and board member for the It Gets Better Project.

Appearing with Julie Tarney will be Steven Gaines, author of One of These Things First.

This program is being generously sponsored by PFLAG – Naples Chapter.

bullying for not being into sports inform his relationship with his son, he learns to find other activities they can enjoy together. Both parents learn to be sensitive to gender stereotyping, and although they eventually divorce, they are united in supporting their son. They let him see the movie Rocky Horror Picture Show at 13, study abroad in high school, collect and wear extraordinary clothes.

In the 20 years covered in the book, we are exposed to discrimination by institutions and individuals. But we also see Harry’s growth, spirt, determination and confidence. His favorite present as a young child? Colored wigs!

With a foreword by a psychologist and gender specialist, Tarney’s memoir is informative, educational, thoughtprovoking and touching without being preachy. Along her journey, Tarney learns to be her own happy and positive person (with Harry as her own personal style maven), and realizes that by loving Harry enough, and letting Harry be Harry, she has raised a happy and confident young adult. And, oh yes, a successful drag queen.

If you read nothing more than the foreword, your views about gender and parenting will be transformed.

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GAZA BUSINESSMAN CALLS TO RESTORE ECONOMIC COOPERATION WITH ISRAEL

BRIEFS continued from page 29A strategic node on China’s southern corridor on the New Silk Road. Concerned over the presence of ISIS, al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremist groups in Sinai threatening China’s maritime trade, China is building a “steel canal” through Israel to connect the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea that bypasses the Suez.

The emergence of Israel as a Mediterranean energy player, its continued stability, robust military in a neighborhood of unstable and weakening Arab states, and outreach to the Eastern Hemisphere by joining the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization, is slowly creating a new regional and international system of shared interests. (Dr. Christina Lin, Asia Times - Hong Kong)

Gaza businessman Nabil Bouab said in an interview, “I was the first person to open a factory in the Karni industrial zone and in less than a year 50 factories were opened there that employed tens of thousands of workers. I want there to be peace because my interests depend on peace and quiet.”

Bouab recounts that before Hamas came to power in Gaza he owned four textile factories in Karni, which provided 2,000 jobs. The factories were closed down in October 2007.

“Gaza’s people have learned the hard way that nobody is going to help them and so I think looking to their Israeli neighbor is the right direction.”

“Let’s re-operate the Karni industrial zone where I had four Israeli part-

ners whom I worked with from 1999 to 2007.” (Amiram Barkat, Globes)

ISRAEL’S SILICON WADI IS BRINGING IN BILLIONS FROM INVESTORS

At Israel’s annual Autonomous, Unmanned Systems & Robotics (AUS&R) convention, drone models included a tiny, kamikaze-like craft bearing an explosive charge that hovers and surveys its surroundings until its controller directs it to crash into and blow up a target; a drone as large as a tank that can ferry soldiers and cargo in and out of urban combat zones; and a UAV with the wingspan of a business jet that can stay aloft for more than a day

on espionage missions.

Israel has transformed itself into a high-tech industrial nation with a per capita income of $35,300, just behind France. Israel has spawned more high-tech start-ups than all of Europe.

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle and hundreds of European and Asian businesses are investing heavily in their Israeli R&D operations, which account for about half of the nation’s 290,000 high-tech jobs. Some 350 global companies have R&D operations in Israel.

In 2015 a record $9 billion was spent, mainly by foreign companies, to acquire 104 Israeli outfits. (Jonathan Kandell, Institutional Investor)

For daily news stories related to Israel & the Jewish world, visit www.jewishnaples.org.

See You At The Movies JEWISH CONGREGATION OF MARCO ISLAND IN COOPERATION WITH THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF COLLIER COUNTY PRESENTS THE SIDNEY R. HOFFMAN MEMORIAL

JJEWISH S FILM M FESTIVAL S 2016-2017 SHOWCASING THE NEWEST AND BEST AWARD-WINNING FILMS ON THE JEWISH CIRCUIT

Opening Day BENEATH THE HELMET Sunday afternoon, December 18, 2016

Film 2:00 PM

TO LIFE Sunday afternoon, January 15, 2017

Film 2:00 PM

DOUGH Sunday afternoon, February 19, 2017

Film 2:00 PM

Beneath the Helmet: From High School to the Home Front is a coming-of-age story which follows the journey of five Israeli high school graduates who are drafted into the army to defend their country. At the age of 18, away from their homes, families and friends they undergo a demanding, inspiring journey, revealing the core of who they are and who they want to be. Beneath the Helmet illustrates how these young men and women are defending not only their homes, but also the values of peace, equality, opportunity, democracy, religious tolerance and women women’s rights.

80 Minutes English English/Hebrew with subtitles Reception following the Film

Jonas, a young man on the run, arrives in Berlin just in time to save Ruth’s life. Evicted from her apartment, the sarcastic but warm-hearted aging Jewish cabaret singer saw no other way out than suicide. Meanwhile, Jonas, driven by a secret, is also fleeing from his love and his future. As Ruth recovers, she and Jonas form a deep bond informed by her own tragic love for a non-Jewish man in post-WWII Germany – a love burdened by the legacy of the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany. Jonas discovers Ruth’s past and the passionate, lusty Yiddish songs of her youth that help her find the way back to life. In turn, Ruth helps him find the strength to tackle his fears, and to propose “L’Chaim – To Life!”

86 Minutes German with Subtitles Reception following the Film

Curmudgeonly widower Nat Dayan clings to his way of life as a Kosher bakery shop owner in London’s East End. Understaffed, Nat reluctantly enlists the help of teenager Ayyash, who has a secret side gig selling marijuana to help his immigrant mother make ends meet. When Ayyash accidentally drops his stash into the dough, the challah starts flying off the shelves and an unlikely friendship forms between the old Jewish baker and his young Muslim apprentice. Dough is a warm hearted and humorous story about overcoming prejudice and finding redemption in unexpected place warm-hearted places.

94 Minutes English Reception following the Film

ABOUT EXECUTING EICHMANN Sunday afternoon, March 26, 2017 Film 2:00 PM

On December 15, 1961, Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death for crimes against the Jewish people and against humanity. Eichmann played a central role in the mass deportation of Jews to Nazi extermination camps, and the judgement of the court was largely met favorably. But a group of Holocaust survivors and intellectuals, including Hannah Arendt, Hugo Bergmann, Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem called for Eichmann’s sentence to be commuted. By opposing Eichmann’s execution, they were defending the values of Judaism, and raised questions about Jewish morality, and the very nature of a Jewish State. About Executing Eichmann returns to the debate that was central to its era, and makes clear how relevant the issues continue to be today, and why we should revisit them.

60 Minutes English/Hebrew with subtitles Reception following the Film

All films will be shown at the Jewish Congregation, 991 Winterberry Drive ~ Marco Island

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Jewish Treasures of the Caribbean: Documenting the Oldest Jewish Sites of the Western Hemisphere by Wyatt Gallery On View Through December 11, 2016

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Wyatt Gallery, TEBÁH AND SAND COVERED FLOOR, Willemstad, Curaçao - 1732, 33 x 40", Pigment Ink Print, Edition of 5 + 1AP

A documentation by photographer Wyatt Gallery of the oldest Jewish synagogues and cemeteries in the Western Hemisphere. Images from the remaining historic Jewish sites in Aruba, Barbados, Curacao, Jamaica, Nevis, St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. Eustatius and Suriname reveal the significant yet little-known legacy of Judaism in the New World.

Once home to thousands of Sephardic Jews from a melting pot of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and other cultures, these dwindling communities now contain only five historic synagogues.

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Elainedid L. Reed, Executive Director, Naples Historical Society – highly recommended.”

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Sponsored by Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Miami.

Also On View Through December 11, 2016: Calen Bennett: Synagogues in Cuba, 2015

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The Jewish Congregation of Marco Island in conjunction with the Jewish Federation of Collier County presents The 2017 Saul I. Stern Cultural Series – now in its 23nd year!

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Saturday, January 21, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF – ITS HISTORY AND MUSIC: Ellen Katz of Baltimore, Maryland, is a presenter of super musicals-Broadway shows you love. A graduate of the University of Maryland with a degree in music, one of her presentations is Fiddler on the Roof. With videos, live performance and colorful costumes, she tells the story of Fiddler’s creation, the fascinating history of the unforgettable music, with a performance

by Ellen Katz. She has received rave reviews at Chautauqua, Peabody Institute, FGCU and more.

Saturday, March 4, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

THE CHOCOLATE TRAIL: Retired Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz has spent the last decade studying the link between Jewish history and the history of chocolate. Her book, On The Chocolate Trail is in its third printing and will be available for purchase. She will weave the story of Jews and chocolate. The recipes in the book will be offered following the presentation. The evening will be a fantasy of chocolate.

Sunday, March 18, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

THE NAPLES PHILHARMONIC BRASS QUINTET: For the 11th season performing at the Cultural Series, the Phil returns its outstanding musicians with a delightful variety of music and accompanying commentary.

A Viennese table and Starbucks tasting follow the program.

THE 2017 SAUL I. STERN CULTURAL SERIES

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FEB-APRIL 2017 | SUNDAYS AT 7:30PM SUGDEN THEATRE | 701 5th AVE SOUTH FEBRUARY 26

ON THE MAP

This fast-moving and emotional documentary recounts the story of how the 1977 Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team toppled the four-time defending champions to bring the first European Cup to Israel at the height of the Cold War. Interviews and action combine to capture the spirit of a nation victorious against all odds.

Sponsored by Kaye Lifestyle Homes PASTRAMI TO PICKLES PARTY (for Patrons and Subscribers only) Sponsored by Abbie Joan Fine Living

MARCH 12

THE W O M E N ’ S B A L C O N Y

An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gendered rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem. This rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power explores the power of religion to unite us as well as divide us.

Sponsored by Mondo Uomo Fine Menswear

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ON THE MAP

THE WOMEN’S BALCONY

T I M E T O S AY G O O D B Y E

Twelve-year-old Simon is dealing with a lot. Since his parents’ recent divorce, he shuttles between their two homes in Hamburg. The pull between his newly observant father and his liberal-minded mother is compounded when Simon falls in love with the new, female rabbi, and enlists his friends to help win her heart.

Sponsored by Wollman, Gehrke & Solomon, PA

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A once in a lifetime gift leads to a crucial result. A young, contemplative woman carries the load of her family on her shoulders, while her grandmother senses her life coming to an end. Fate intervenes amongst lies and deception to grant one last chance of reprieve with an unexpected twist.

Sponsored by Premier Sotheby’s International Realty

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE

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