January 2012 Federation Star

Celebrating Jewish Life in Collier County

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

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

3A Community Relations Comm.

6A Women’s Cultural Alliance 8A Jewish Family Services 9A Community Focus 16A Tributes 20A Focus on Youth 21A Israel & the Jewish World 22A Rabbinical Reflections 23A Synagogues 25A Organizations 28A Business Directory 30A Community Calendar 1B Jewish Happenings 8B Jewish Interest

7A Israel Affairs Forum Series report

18A Temple Shalom Mitzvah Day 2011

20A Chanukah artwork from preschool students

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Welcome 2012 Rosalee Bogo President

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e have just completed a most successful year at our Federation. We now move forward to 2012 with another incredible year planned for you. The upcoming events have been featured in the Federation Star, but I want to highlight them in this article.

We begin the year on Sunday, January 8 at our Federation at The Phil with the Royal Philharmonic

Orchestra featuring Pinchas Zukerman. It will be followed by a fabulous dessert and social.

Something new – we are having a special event for our Lions of Judah and Major Donors on Thursday, January 12. In prior years we held this event before our Community Event, but this year we have an exciting evening planned especially for this group of donors.

A beautiful brunch is planned for the newcomers to our community on Sunday, January 22. Each year, we welcome those who have moved here in the past year and give them an introduction to the many events we offer and educate them about what our Federation does in this community

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and around the world.

Our Annual Community Celebration Event on Saturday, February 11 will truly be an evening to remember. The setting this year will be the beautiful Ritz-Carlton on the beach. We have a big-name entertainer that so many of the Federations are bringing to their communities this year. He is mentalist Sidney Friedman, who will be blending his mind-power entertainment with his musical skills. We are also having a band which will entertain with dinner music and there will be dancing after the program. Delicious and beautiful food that The Ritz is known for will be offered throughout the evening.

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A Special Event at the Federation’s 2012 Community Celebration

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ave we got something enticing to add to our Federation’s 2012 Community Celebration Event? You bet we do! It’s a Live Auction of three fabulous items that have been donated to the Federation to help us increase our annual campaign – and reach the $1million goal we have set for this year.

A good friend of the Federation, Ronald Klein, will serve as our auctioneer and is learning all the details about the following special items that he will auction off at our event: MegaYacht “Susanna Bella” The successful bidder and a party of six are welcome to come aboard the magnificent 107-foot private luxury yacht “Susanna Bella” for a 3 to 4-hour Sunset Cruise. The cruise package includes cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. This auction gift is graciously donated to the Federation by Mrs. Fredrick H. Gohl Sr. & Chicago

Blower Corporation. The minimum bid for this item starts at $2,500 – so talk it up with a group of friends or splurge and invite them aboard.

Black Onyx and Diamond Ring This magnificent ring – 18K white gold black Onyx cabochon Cocktail ring with diamond accents (.72 cts total weight) – is a fabulous designer piece from the Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry Collection. It is donated to the Federation for our auction compliments of Yamron Jewelers and Bruce Yamron.

Yamron Jewelers will custom fit this ring to the successful bidder. Minimum bid of $2,850.

Chateau Charly This elegant country French manor is the next of our special items up for auction. Chateau Charly is located in the Cher Valley and the Berry Region

in France. The item includes a oneweek stay for two people, including bed and breakfast, in a luxury suite at this exclusive chateau (subject to availability – transportation not included). The chateau is operated for charitable good and we are most fortunate to have been given this vacation destination gift for our auction event.

If you are planning a summer trip to Europe, you will want to include Chateau Charly in your itinerary.

Minimum bidding starts at $1,000.

Visit www.chateaucharly.com for more information.

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In Section B:

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

Jewish Happenings & Jewish Interest

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jewish Happenings January 8: January 9: January 15: January 15: January 18: January 19: January 22: January 24: January 27: January 29: January 29:

Catholic/Jewish Dialogue session, page 3A AFMDA event with Frida Ghitis, page 14A Jewish Film Festival, JCMI, page 7B Grand Opening of Chabad Jewish Community Center, page 23A Naples Klezmer Revival Band concert, page 15A ORT luncheon, page 27A Saul I. Stern Cultural Series, JCMI, page 6B ZOA meeting with National President Morton Klein, page 12A Scholar-in-Residence, Temple Shalom, page 4B “Broadway Inside Out,” Beth Tikvah, page 1B “Voices of the Holocaust,” page 3B

INDEX Columns Rosalee Bogo...........................1A David Willens...........................3A Jewish Federation....................1-8A Community Relations Comm....3A Jewish Family Services.............8A Women’s Cultural Alliance.......6A Features Book/Film Reviews...............8-9B Calendar, Candle Lighting......30A Commentary........................22A Community Focus..............9-19A Focus on Youth......................20A Tributes.................................16A

Organizations Hadassah................................25A Holocaust Museum.................11A Humanistic Jewish Havurah.....26A Jewish Women International....26A Naples Jewish Social Club.......25A NCJW.....................................26A ORT America...........................27A Synagogue News Beth Tikvah.............................23A Chabad..................................23A Jewish Cong. of Marco Island..24A Temple Shalom........................24A Business Directory................28-29A Community Directory...............31A

This month’s advertisers This publication is brought to you each month thanks to the support of our advertisers. Please be sure to use their products and services, and mention that you found them in the Federation Star.

Abbie Joan...........................18A Jewish National Fund...........10A Beth Adelman, Realtor®.......29A Rickie Klein, Realtor®.........29A AFMDA................................5B Tyler B. Korn, Attorney........28A ® Kevin Aizenshtat, Realtor ..29A A. Stephen Kotler, Attorney.28A ArtsNaples World Festival.....6B LTCi Marketplace...............29A Bland, Erdsneker, Levin......29A Dr. Gary Layton, DDS............2A Brookdale Senior Living.......9B LifeBridge Solutions...........29A Chabad Naples....................17A Dr. Morris Lipnik................16A Classic Transportation.........29A Yochi Melnick, Realtor®........9B Clean Naples LLC................18A Mind Matters Hypnosis Ctr..24A Clive Daniel Home................3A Naples Coin & Bullion...........8B Coni Mar Designs................29A Naples Diamond Service.....28A Dr. William Ertag, FAAN.....29A Naples Envelope & Printing.29A Estero Fine Art Show.............3B Naples Luxury Travel Adv...29A FGCU...................................6A Naples Players.......................2B Fuller Funeral Home......29A,8B Naples Rug Gallery.............21A Ellen A. Goldman, Esq........28A Needles & Thread................29A RuthGordon,Psychotherapist.29A Palm Royale Cemetery..9A,28A Dr. David Greene.................10B Pita Palace.............................9B Gulf Coast Foot & Ankle......2A Preferred Travel..........14A,15A Gulfshore Playhouse......1B,10B Sheldon Starman, CPA........28A Hadassah.......................7A,12A Elli Taylor, Broker Assoc.....29A Happy Hounds with Heather.29A Dr. Robert Teitelbaum.........29A Hodges Funeral Home.........12A Temple Shalom.....................4A Inside Out Furniture............13A TheatreZone......................11B Israel Bonds.........................19A Yamron...............................12B Jewish Museum of Florida.....6B Debbie Zvibleman, Realtor®..7A

JEWISH FEDERATION Rosalee Bogo...continued from page 1A Jacqui Aizenshtat and Beth Grossman head up an outstanding committee which is working hard to make this the place to be this season.

We have already sold out the Evy Lipp People of the Book Cultural Event on Tuesday, February 21. Ted Koppel, world acclaimed correspondent and columnist, has enlightened us for over 45 years. The evening begins with a Patron’s Dinner with Mr. Koppel as our guest. Temple Shalom is our venue for the program which will be a full house of 800 attendees.

Our Community Relations Committee, which offers many programs under its auspices and through the Catholic/Jewish Dialogue and Israel Affairs Forum, is bringing to this community Father Patrick Desbois on Thursday, March 22, at St. John The Evangelist Catholic Church. The Holocaust Museum and Education Center of Southwest Florida is cosponsoring this event, as are many other organizations and individuals.

Father Desbois is well known for his work in locating thousands of mass graves of Holocaust victims in the Ukraine. This program is not to be missed! (See the ad on page 5A and

the article on page 10B for more information).

Other important programs in our Collier County community will be offered this season through the Jewish Business Connection, the Saul Stern Cultural Series, and the Jewish Film Festival.

The “star” of providing programs is our Women’s Cultural Alliance.

The varied and quality programs absolutely offer something for everyone. Programs and activities are educational, cultural and social. It is a wonderful way to meet new friends who share your interests. Many of the meetings are held at our Federation office and we “kvell” at so many using our meeting space.

As we go forth and begin this New Year, let us remember the members of our community whom we lost this past year. Many of them made an impact on this community.

As I wish each of you a Happy New Year, I pray for your good health, long life, happiness and prosperity. Thank you for your support of our Federation, and we look forward to seeing you at the events we have planned for you.

The work of the Jewish Federation of Collier County represents both our community and our community’s most generous tradition – to give to others even in the most difficult times.

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JFCC Executive Director

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e have just completed the most successful campaign that our Jewish Federation has ever conducted in the community.

For a predominantly retirement/resort community – kol hakavod – give yourselves a pat on the back. We thank each and every one who gave generously in 2011 and ask you to please keep us in your philanthropic plans for the year ahead.

As a Federation, we are part of an amazing continental enterprise of The Jewish Federations of North America, which collectively raises nearly $3 billion annually from annual campaigns, endowment efforts and special fundraising initiatives. Our enterprise is doing amazing things in our community, nationally, in Israel and in 70 countries around the world. And if that wasn’t enough – the funds that we raise go to help support hundreds of thousands of Jews everywhere.

Your gifts to the Jewish Federation campaign provides the financial re-

sources to our agencies and partners that restore dignity and hope for those who are in harm’s way and who suffer from despair. Your gifts provide a platform upon which we advocate for Jews in our state, nation and global community.

Your contributions also help us build our own community and allow us to offer you programs and activities that enrich your life. From the grants that we offer to our synagogues and organizations, to the scholarships we offer our youth and teens for meaningful Jewish summer experiences in camp and in Israel, to the emerging Hillel and the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Human Rights studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, to the Women’s Cultural Alliance which is nearing 700 in membership – far exceeding everyone’s expectations – to the Human Needs and Educator Awards offered by our Community Relations Committee. All of these programs and so much more help build a strong, vibrant Jewish community – one that we can all be proud of and enjoy.

At the New Year and all year long, please know that this Jewish Federation is working around the clock to make this Jewish community a place you can call “home.”

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Community Relations Committee update Ann Jacobson Community Relations Committee Chair Catholic/Jewish Dialogue sessions in 2012 The theme for the Dialogue sessions will be “Differences in Religious Practices.” The first session will take place on Sunday, January 8 at 2:00 p.m. at the Jewish Congregation of Marco Island, 991 Winterberry Drive, Marco Island. The topic for this program is “Living With Two Faiths.”

The speakers are Rabbi Edward Maline of the Jewish Congregation of Marco Island, Fr. George Ratzmann, Pastor, St William Catholic Church, and a panel of interfaith couples.

The second session will be held Sunday, February 5 at 2:00 p.m. at St. Williams Church Ministry Center. The topic will be “Finding One’s Faith.”

Readers & Thinkers Group of the Catholic/Jewish Dialogue The discussion group is holding its next event on Tuesday, January 10 at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room at the Calistoga Bakery, 7941 Airport Pulling Road. The book to be discussed is Turbulent Souls by Stephen Dubner, reprinted under the

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title Choosing My Religion. RSVP to Ida Margolis at 239.963.9347 or ReadThinkCollier@gmail.com.

Klezmer Concert to celebrate Florida Jewish History Month January is Florida Jewish History Month and the Klezmer Concert will be held in its honor on Wednesday, January 18 at 6:00 p.m. at the Collier County South Regional Public Library. This year’s soloist will be the world’s leading virtuoso of Klezmer violin music, Jake Shulman-Ment.

The event is sponsored by the Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation and the Friends of the Library. For reservations, please call the library at 239.252.7542.

For more information, see the article on page 15A and the block on page 1B. We welcome new members to our committees Beth Wolff has joined the Community Relations Committee and Pauline Hendel has joined the Catholic/Jewish Dialogue steering committee.

If you are interested in joining any of the Community Relations Committees, please contact Ann Jacobson at annrj5@aol.com or 239.262.4880.

The committees include: Catholic/ Jewish Dialogue steering committee, Israel Affairs, and Community Relations events committee.

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Federation Star January 2012

JEWISH FEDERATION

Friedman, Fun, Federation campaign kick-off

By Carole J Greene

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ing presentation for our event will nvitations for this year’s Cominvolve audience participation, when munity Event are scheduled to he employs his unique “Music Mind go out in early January. Perhaps Reading.” That’s when people in the as you are reading this article, your audience THINK of song melodies mailbox already holds yours. If you and Friedman telepathically sensmay still be undecided about attendes each tune then plays it ing this campaign kick-off dinner at The Ritz-Carlton on the piano. How can Beach Resort on Saturday, you possibly miss out February 11, maybe these on that?! testimonials about entertainer In addition to the Sidney Friedman will help mental shenanigans duryou decide to send back that ing the entertainment R.S.V.P. with a bold YES. segment, the program’s Today Show host Hoda focus for the evening will Kotb stated, “A few people be “Israel: A Place Worth are better at seeing the future the Struggle.” Cocktails, Sidney Friedman than others, like mentalist dinner and dancing round Sidney Friedman. We love Sidney.” out the not-to-be-missed event.

The Chicago Tribune wrote, “MenCommittee Chair Jacqui Aizentalist to the stars, Sidney Friedman is shtat and her committee – Kevin Aithe master of all things psychic.” Time zenshtat, Beth Grossman, Sheila Out magazine exclaimed, “Friedman Becker, Sandy Roth, Ellen and Gary will blow your mind!”

Gersh, Bobbie Myers, Estelle Price, An official from a Federation Nancy Kahn and Nancy Greenberg – in North Carolina had this to say: are applying the finishing touches to “We brought Sidney in for a 2012 this community-wide event. Jacqui recampaign kick-off…to motivate and marked, “Anyone reading this article inspire our campaign team, federation who does not receive an invitation and community leadership. Sidney but wants to experience this fabulous blew us away and we can’t wait to evening is invited to call the Federabring him back for a large event! tion office at 239.263.4205.”

‘Amazing’ does not even come close Couvert for the evening’s event to describing his performance!” is $125. Attendance demonstrates a Now it’s our Collier County commitment to the 2012 campaign Federation’s turn to be amazed. Part at a minimum pledge of $150 per of Sidney’s entertaining and mystifyperson.

In past years we have prepared food baskets as centerpieces for our Annual Community Celebration Event. For the 2012 event we will not be doing this. However, we ask you to kindly consider continuing the mitzvah of feeding the hungry served by our Jewish Family Services, and bring food staples directly to JFS for immediate use in their Food Pantry. We hope that you will consider doing this now and throughout the year. We thank you.

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ou’ve seen it in your mail box. Hopefully, you’ll be viewing it throughout the year as you use Connections as your guide to all things Jewish in Collier County. And you’ll see it staring out at you as you enter and exit your local Publix supermarket (12 locations) for the next three months.

We were very fortunate to have a Southwest Florida artist take an interest in helping to design the cover of the 2012 edition of Connections.

Here’s a little about her.

Lynn Teichman has been an artist and educator for over three decades.

During her years in Pennsylvania, she was awarded the Arts in Education grant through the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts in State College.

Lynn has been a featured Artist-inResidence many times throughout her career. She works in many different media. Her works combine fine arts, digital media, writing and photography.

Now, she is honored to have her cover design chosen for the 2012 edition of Connections.

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Lynn is a creative, gifted woman who readily shares her talents with friends, colleagues and the community. Currently, as a new resident of Sarasota, Lynn volunteers at Jewish Family & Children’s Service, mentoring or tutoring middle school students.

Locally, she is best known for her unique home-baked breads and creatively traditional Shabbat dinners.

Lynn can be reached at nfn06127@ gmail.com. To view her work, please visit www.naples.net/~nfn06127.

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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 President: Rosalee Bogo Vice President: Dr. Karen Ezrine Vice President: Dr. Morton Friedman Vice President: Phyllis Seaman Recording Secretary: Kevin Aizenshtat Treasurer: Kenneth Shevin Assistant Treasurer: Jerry Bogo Immed. Past President: Bobbie Katz

Board of Trustees Alvin Becker Stephen Coleman Ted Epstein Eric Feinstein Beth Grossman Neil Heuer Linda Hyde Nancy Kahn Wallie Lenchner Susan Millstone Michael Pollack Dr. Ronald Roth Sandra Roth Millie Sernovitz Michael Sobol Berton Thompson Dr. Joel Waltzer Beth Wolff

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Happy New Year!

Phyllis Seaman Federation VP & Campaign Chair

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he season is upon us and it’s really looking like it’s going to be a very busy and exciting one.

Officially, our 2011 Campaign is over – one of our most successful. As of mid-December, when this issue goes to press, we raised $845,721.

Thank you all for contributing to help our Federation fulfill its mission.

Now we are on to the 2012 Campaign. Remember, our goal is $1 million. With your support, we can make a world of difference.

As this year’s campaign begins, please pledge your support to the values of the Federation, Where…

We’re one Jewish community worldwide.

Where…

Outstanding local programs enrich Jewish life.

Where…

Our lives are shaped by the choices we make.

Where…

Every Jew in the world knows he or she is not alone.

Where….

We are doing more with less.

Where…

We tell the stories for those who can’t.

Where…

We take responsibility for each

other.

Where…

Caring for people in need is at the core of who we are.

Where…

We nurture and sustain Jewish identity for future generations.

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Giving generously does a world of good.

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Everyone, including you, can make a world of difference.

Right now! Please help provide for those who long for a Jewish connection by contributing to the 2012 Campaign, Where...

Your gift is greatly needed and deeply appreciated.

With gratitude, Phyllis

Past Presidents Gerald Flagel, Dr. William Ettinger, Ann Jacobson, Sheldon Starman

Board Members Emeritus Ann Jacobson Hans Levy Shirley Levy

Synagogue Representatives Cantor Donna Azu Stuart Kaye Rabbi Edward Maline Rabbi Adam Miller Rabbi James Perman Dr. Donald Pomerantz Bernie Seidman Dr. Arthur Seigel Donald Shapiro Rabbi Sylvin Wolf Rabbi Fishel Zaklos

Executive Director David Willens

Staff Melissa Keel, Community Prog. Coord.

Iris Doenias, Office Assistant Dr. Jaclynn Faffer, JFS Executive Dir. Carrie Neville, JFS Intake Coord.

Margaret Passeri, Counselor Leslie Weinreb, Case Manager 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 • Community Relations Committee • Educational & cultural programs • Publication of the Federation Star, our monthly newspaper • Jewish Family Services, the social service arm of the Federation providing financial assistance, information/referral, outreach to the elderly & volunteer opportunities • Long Range Planning for expected community growth • Women’s Division • YAD – Young Adult Division • Youth Activities Committee – sponsoring youth education and scholarships for Jewish Summer Camp and the Israel Experience.

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Federation Star January 2012 WOMEN’S CULTURAL ALLIANCE

JEWISH FEDERATION www.WomensCulturalAlliance.com / 239-948-0003

WCA loves books

By Elaine Soffer, WCA Publicity Chair

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he Women’s Cultural Alliance is composed of nearly 700 clever, interesting women who continue to expose themselves to enlightening experiences. This is the first in a series of articles to bring awareness of the variety of activities offered. Many women have a lifelong love of books and derive great pleasure from reading. The four WCA book groups focus on different genres of book study. WCA members may join by contacting the group facilitator indicated in the description of each group. Please see the WCA program guide for email addresses.

The NON-FICTION BOOK CLUB is the newest WCA book group. Members are those who will always look first at the non-fiction list of the bestsellers list each week.

When reading the titles on the list, those partial to this genre may read the new titles, often with true excitement, but at the same time wonder how they can read all of them. They also wonder if there will be someone with whom they can discuss these ideas. If you are one who already knows that there are numerous engaging non-fiction books

available on topics that not only lend themselves to a lively discussion, but make the reader long for a group with whom to discuss them, then the NEW Non-Fiction Book Club is for you.

The December selection was The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim Defede. The remaining selections are: • January: One Child by Tory Hayden – the story of a teacher’s journey to reach an abused child while showing the power of love and the resiliency of life • February: In Defense of Food

by Michael Polan – an “eater’s manifesto” in which Polan says the more American’s worry about food, the less healthy they become • March: The Necklace by Cheryl Jarvis – the story of 13 women and the experiment that transformed their lives • April – Selection to be determined by members If you have been in a non-fiction book club before or if this is new to you, both your presence and input are welcome. The Non-Fiction Book Club

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meets from December through April, on the second Monday of the month at 10:00 a.m. in members’ homes.

In addition to participating in the discussion, there will be an opportunity to allow members who desire to facilitate a discussion to do so. To join the Non-Fiction Book Club, contact group liaison Ida Margolis.

The LITERATURE BOOK GROUP selections are considered literature by the group members. The discussion of each month’s selection is approached from several standpoints, i.e., story, character development, and overall quality of the writing.

By application of this approach, the group is able to extend its knowledge of what makes for great writing. The group meets on the second Monday of the month.

The season began in November with David Grossman’s To the End of the Land, which is based loosely on the loss of his son, who had completed his Israeli military service when he was called up in an emergency and died on his first day of returning to duty. The December selection was Stacy Schiff’s acclaimed Cleopatra – a Life.

The remaining selections are as follows: January – Great House by Nicole Kraus; February – The Cellist of Sarajevo by Sandy Raizes; March – Freedom by Jonathan Franzen; April – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell. To join this group, contact Estelle H. Rauch.

The JEWISH EXPERIENCE BOOK GROUP meets to discuss books based upon a Jewish theme or written by a Jewish author. This group of intelligent women has read some terrific books as well as some that were not as well received over the years. However, members can be sure that there will be a very lively discussion regarding each book at the meeting.

This year’s selections are: January – In my Brother’s Image by Eu-

gene Pogany; February – The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson; March – City of Thieves by David Benioff.

The group meets at the centrally located Beth Tikvah on Pine Ridge Road the second Tuesday of the month from December through March at 10:15 a.m. If you are interested in joining this lively group, contact Arlene Sobol.

The CONTEMPORARY FICTION GROUP probably owes its success to a little miracle and a little magic. This fun and effective discussion group is composed of over a hundred talkative, opinionated, sharp women. Sue Bookbinder leads the two separate monthly sessions of 50 women on the 3rd and 4th Wednesdays of the month. She attributes the success of the group to the preparedness and quality of the members, the respect each one has for another’s opinion, and the eagerness to listen to a different point of view.

Sue always tells the group at each session that they should expect to leave the discussion with a much better understanding of the book than they had when they entered. She believes the reason the members have joined the group is to expand their thinking and strengthen their appreciation of what is being read. She truly loves facilitating the groups.

In 2011, the group continued through the summer with a new successful program (Summer Reading on the Gulf), tackling fiction, non-fiction and short stories. The selections for the winter season are: December – Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese; January – In the Image by Dara Horn; February – The Paris Wife by Paula McLain; March – The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields; April – Room by Emma Donoghue; May – A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Eagan. If you are interested in joining this stimulating group, contact Sue Bookbinder.

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Women’s Cultural Alliance Membership Form Please check one: r New r Renewal

Membership chair: Lea Bendes, 596-1532, sedneb@aol.com

Please make your check payable to: Jewish Federation of Collier County and mail with this form to: WCA Jewish Federation of Collier County 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd, Ste. 2201 Naples, FL 34109

Membership: $60 for the year includes all study groups. r My information below contains new items.

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Israel Affairs Forum Series report – Michael Singh event

By Melissa Keel, Community Program Coordinator

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n December 1, Michel Singh, Managing Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, gave a very informative and up-to-date presentation on where the U.S./Israel relationship stands today, why it is important, and where are we going with it. Our host for the evening was Beth Tikvah.

Here are some talking points from the presentation: The U.S/Israel relationship is important because of shared values, moral responsibility and shared national interests. Shared values include: both are democratic countries, they know the importance of human rights and believe in Judeo-Christian values.

Shared national interests include: seeing orderly democratization in the Middle East, realizing the threat of Iran, focusing on a free flow of energy, securing a prosperous economy, resolving regional conflicts, and protecting good strategic interactions.

There are more joint military activities taking place today between the U.S. and Israel; The U.S. is utilizing more Israeli technology in its military; there is a great mutual interest in security issues such as cyber warfare and defense.

Where do we go from here?

The U.S. and Israel need to get their relationship to a better place than the current strained relationship that exists today.

A major issue that concerns world powers is the threat of a nuclear Iran.

The latest IAEA report shows that Iran has reached 95% of its uranium

enrichment. They also have created a long-range missile and are working on a ballistic missile program. They are spending resources on weapons research.

Another area being watched is the emergence of new Islamist governments in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.

Muslim governments may be formed in these countries.

Strategic challenges remain with Israel and Egypt now that Mubarak is gone. In Egypt, the Sinai is currently akin to the “wild west,” where weapons are being carried across borders easily. The U.S. needs to develop a better relationship with Egypt.

A challenge with the Israel/Palestinian problem is that President Abbas is currently concerned with his own popularity. At least the current status quo needs to keep from degenerating.

Israel has higher security concerns with Iran, Syria and Egypt. In Egypt, as with the Palestinian leadership, there have only been a few individuals who the U.S. has dealt with in these areas, a longer-term concern.

Israel has promoted greater increase in trade with Europe and Asia, and not in the Middle East.

The Washington Institute is one of several think tanks. Its focus is on the Executive Branch of government, providing policy recommendations to the Administration to make better policy choices in the Middle East.

There is a large cadre of experts in Washington who work diligently with small groups or meet one-to-one with government officials.

Steve Brazina, Pearl Thall, Jeff Margolis, Guest Speaker Michael Singh, Melissa Keel - Community Program Coordinator, Phil Jason - VP Beth Tikvah, Richard Nemerson - Israel Affairs Committee Chair

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Collier County Hadassah presents

A Simcha in Song A Musical Journey from Israel to Broadway A Cantorial Concert to Benefit

HADASSAH on its 100th Anniversary

Sunday, February 12 at 7:00pm Temple Shalom 4630 Pine Ridge Road, Naples

Featuring ♫

Cantor Donna Azu, Naples Cantorial Soloist Lori Cohen, Naples Cantorial Soloist Lawrence Dermer, Fort Myers Cantorial Soloist Jane Galler, Naples Cantor Donna Goldstein, Naples Cantorial Soloist Hari Jacobsen, Marco Island Cantor Aaron Kaplan, Boynton Beach Cantorial Soloist Anne Newman, Naples Cantorial Soloist Douglas Renfroe, Sanibel Cantor Faith Steinsnyder, NYC Stuart Warshauer and The Naples Klezmer Revival Band Accompanist Peter Lewis, Naples

♫

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It sounds like a Fabulous Evening and I want to be there!

Please send me the following tickets: ___ Tenor* $500 (2 tickets) = $____

___ Soprano* $180 (1 ticket) = $____ ___ Baritone* $100 (1 ticket) = $____

___ Bass $50 (1 ticket) = $____ ___ 25 & under $18 (1 ticket) = $____ ___ # of tickets Total = $____ *Tenors, Sopranos and Baritones will be listed in the Program and invited to a Dessert Reception following the Concert Please list my name as follows__________________________ I prefer not be listed I am unable to attend but want to help support the work of HADASSAH. Enclosed is $____.

Yamron Jewelers has generously donated a $1,000 Gift Certificate.

Drawing tickets are 1 for $10 or 3 for $25 I would like ___ tickets. Enclosed is $____.

You can enter even if you are unable to attend.

Name______________________________________________ Address____________________________________________ City/ST/Zip_________________________________________ Phone_______________ email__________________________

Please include this form with your check for Concert tickets and drawing tickets, made payable to HADASSAH and mail by January 27 to: Fran Nossen, 2039 Teagarden Lane, Naples, Florida 34110 The couvert of $36 is not tax deductible.

Questions? Call: Lauren Becker 239-592-5304 or Lynn Weiner 239-598-1009

I give permission to use my photo in newspapers and HADASSAH publications.

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JEWISH FEDERATION

Federation Star January 2012 jewiSh FAMILY SERVICES

239-325-4444

Jewish Family Services update Dr. Jaclynn Faffer JFS Executive Director

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he secular New Year has begun and “season” is in full swing.

The Board members and the staff at Jewish Family Services are busier than ever! Here is an update: • The PJ Library has over 100 children between the ages of 6 months to 8 years participating in this wonderful book and media program of Jewish content. It is truly a “portal” to the Jewish community. As I write this article, we are planning a JFS/ PJ Library Hanukkah Party on De-

cember 18, in Fleischmann Park.

The children will enjoy arts and crafts, holiday music and Hanukkah refreshments. Thank you to Jennifer Siegal-Miller, Donna Goldblatt, Susie Golubock and Kathy Feinstein for planning this event. A special “thank you” to Jane Galler for leading us all in song! Look for more PJ events in the coming months.

• JFS Community Needs Assessment: We are so impressed with the survey returns, both online and in the mail. Look for a full report on our findings in the March issue of the Federation Star.

• Kesher, Jewish Young Professionals of Southwest Florida: JFS has been privileged to facilitate a group of Jewish professionals, between the ages of 21-30, as they prepare to

Therapy/Support Group A therapy/support group has formed at Jewish Family Services.

This group provides an opportunity to work on personal issues and concerns with the input and support of others. It is facilitated by professional staff, and is confidential and ongoing. If you would like to discuss how a therapy group differs from individual therapy, please call Margaret Passeri at 239.325.4444. The charge for this service is $5.00 per session. This is a committed group that meets weekly on Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m. at the Jewish Family Services offices.

launch some exciting social events for the coming year. The first event is planned for Thursday, January 26.

For more information, please email outreach@kesherswfl.org.

• “Just Lunch” Senior Lunch Program: Our monthly lunch for seniors continues to be a success. Thirty seniors joined us in December for a special Hanukkah luncheon, generously sponsored by Beth Tikvah of Naples.

• Jewish Family Services is officially a training site for the Florida Gulf Coast University Division of Social

Work. This year we have interns from both the BSW and MSW programs.

And, of course, JFS core services of counseling, case management and financial assistance are busier than ever as we respond to the needs of our community.

Jewish Family Services could not provide any of these important services without the support of our Federation and our very generous donors.

On behalf of all of us at JFS, thank you for helping us help so many!

Donations of Household Goods/Furniture/Clothing at the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store Helps Jewish Family Services Clients If you are moving, remodeling or cleaning out your home, please consider donating unwanted household goods, appliances, furniture, and clothing in good condition to the St. Vincent de Paul Society Thrift Store. Free pick-up is available by appointment by calling 239.775.2907 in Naples or 239.992.1899 in Bonita Springs. Please write “On Behalf of Jewish Family Services” on the form for the description of the item(s) you are donating. If you do so, our clients are able to receive vouchers toward clothing and/or furniture at the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store. Thank you.

Need Help? We’re just a phone call away.

Jewish Family Services Intake & Resource Connection offers experienced professionals who: XX Listen to your concerns XX Identify resources that can help XX Discuss a plan to meet your needs From financial assistance to emotional support and counseling, we can help.

Your Gift to Jewish Family Services:

Jewish Family Services Contribution Form

I/We would like to make a contribution to the:  JFS Mitzvah Fund  JFS Special Projects Fund  JFS Children’s Fund  Dorismae and Harvey Friedman Elder Fund Name _______________________________________________________

Call Us! (239) 325-4444 Jewish Family Services A Division of the Jewish Federation of Collier County

Jewish Family Services A Division of the Jewish Federation of Collier County

A Caring Connection to the Community

Address _____________________________________________________

2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 2201, Naples, FL 34109 Phone: (239) 325-4444  Fax: (239) 325-3007 Office Hours: Monday –Thursday 9am-5pm & Friday 9am-3pm JFS@jewishnaples.org

City/ST/Zip___________________________________________________

Dr. Jaclynn I. Faffer, Executive Director

Phone _________________________ Amount ______________________ Mail to: Jewish Family Services 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd. #2201, Naples, FL 34109 Name of Honoree ______________________________________________ Occasion ____________________________________________________ Person to be notified ____________________________________________ Address of recipient _____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

JFS Board Officers Millie Sernovitz, Chair Dr. Edwin Ezrine, Vice President Joel Miller, CPA, Treasurer Ellen Wollman, Secretary

JFS Mission Statement The Mission of Jewish Family Services (JFS), a Division of the Jewish Federation of Collier County (JFCC), is to provide for the social service needs of the Jewish community, in keeping with our Jewish tradition, which teaches the infinite value of every individual. Our commitment is to strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals and families without regard to age, income or lifestyle.

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Are you looking for delicious kosher food?

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habad of Naples has partnered with the well-known Aroma Kosher Market and Catering of Cooper City, Florida, to bring kosher food to you. Aroma Marketing and Catering was established with the idea of creating an upscale kosher market for the community. Through the years, Aroma has expanded their goals and they now have a wide variety of products that include everything you need for your home and your catering needs.

Aroma Market and Catering is dedicated to providing superior quality meats, poultry and fish. Their wide assortment of freshly-made salads, groceries, bakery, and cooked foods

are all prepared by their chefs inhouse. Aroma bakes their own breads, cakes, cookies and pastries on-site in their newly expanded bakery. They use the highest quality ingredients to bring you the freshest and tastiest kosher food available. If wine is on your list, remember that Aroma carries the largest selection of kosher wines in South Florida, all for your convenience for a one-stop shopping experience.

Please call Chabad of Naples at 239.262.4474 for an order form and instructions. Aroma Market delivers orders to the Chabad of Naples at 1789 Mandarin Road once a week.

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Elder Helpline The Department of Elder Affairs’ ELDER HELPLINE is an information and referral service. The HELPLINE exists to help you find answers to your questions about aging issues, services, and opportunities in the community. The role of the HELPLINE is to discuss your needs, find a program or service to meet those needs, and give you the information on how to get connected.

ELDER HELPLINE: 1-800-96 ELDER What should you call the Elder Helpline for?

• In-home services for frail elders • Nutrition and meal programs • Adult day care • Housing • Legal assistance providers • Recreation • Education opportunities

• Volunteer opportunities • Consumer protection • Health care • Transportation providers • Retirement • Medicare & Medigap • Employment

Do you know about “Ethical Wills”?

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hat is an “Ethical Will” and why is it important?

And, how does it relate to Jewish Family Services?

An “Ethical Will” is a centuriesold tradition that communicates your beliefs; what you have learned in your lifetime, and expressions of love and gratitude to your family. While a Last Will and Testament passes on your valuables, an Ethical Will passes on your values. It is a beautiful and enduring gift that will link the past and

future generations of your family. So, what does this have to do with JFS? Jewish Family Services is all about values, families and sharing what is important.

We encourage you to hear David Rutstein discuss Ethical Wills at Temple Shalom on Sunday, January 8 at 10:00 a.m. Learning about this most rewarding and enduring family gift would be a wonderful way to begin 2012!

House sitting/pet sitting services available Open 7 days a week Sunday business hours

Paul Haiman Family Service Counselor

Jewish Caregivers Support Group The Jewish Caregivers Support Group is a cohesive, understanding and caring group of women and men who are caring for loved ones suffering from many different diseases.

Copyright 2009, Stephen Shames/UJC. All other rights reserved.

Non-smoker / non-drinker available for house sitting and/or pet sitting (long or short term). Excellent references.

Reasonable rates. For more information, call 239.285.4722.

Meetings are held the second and fourth Mondays of each month at 10:30 a.m. Temple Shalom has kindly given the group the use of its Chapel. This is a free service to the entire Jewish community.

Caregiving can be a job without clearly defined goals. This can lead to physical exhaustion, frustration, guilt and depression. At group meetings, participants can safely and privately talk about these concerns as well as share tips about community resources, major life decisions, and dealing with daily problems. Discussions include strategies to help participants cope with stress and enhance their ability to stay in control of their shrinking world.

Florette Kahn, LCSW, is the group leader. She is a licensed retired psychotherapist who is also a caregiver for her husband Jack, who suffers from Parkinson’s Disease. Phyllis Lazear helps organize the group. She can be reached at 352-2907.

Next meetings: January 9 & 23

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

Connecting to family and community

By Amy Snyder, Executive Director

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any people begin each new year with promises and resolutions, which are often forgotten or left behind before the year is in full swing. However, as Anne Frank stated in her diary, we can begin anew each day: How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway...And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

So where do we begin to change the world? Where do we learn the attributes of honesty, respect and kindness? Ultimately, this begins in the home with our relationships within our family. An understanding of our personal history and worth translates into stability of character that can transform the world.

On Monday, January 16, the

Holocaust Museum will partner with the Naples Town Hall Distinguished Speaker Series to present Rita Cosby, who will share her journey of getting to know her father, as detailed in the book, Quiet Hero. Ms. Cosby’s father fought in the Polish Resistance during WWII and was imprisoned in a Nazi POW camp. Yet, she never knew the details of his experience until her adulthood.

Finding the Universal in the Unique The story that Rita Cosby tells is unique, yet universal in its connection to family. Many children have no understanding of the experiences and historical context of their parents and grandparents. While Ms. Cosby’s relationship with her father was difficult, in part because of her parents’ divorce, she had no understanding as a teenager of the horrors he had experienced. Having this knowledge earlier may have allowed for greater

understanding between father and daughter.

Context is the Foundation of Understanding The same can be said of the relationship of today’s young people to history, such as World War II and the Holocaust. Without understanding the context of that time, it is difficult to make meaningful connections to events in our world today. We often don’t find meaning in history until we can make a personal connection.

Ms. Cosby’s understanding of her father’s role as a resistance fighter and prisoner in WWII enabled a personal connection that was not there for her before.

Bridging the Gap to Foster Respect This event is two-fold in its significance to the Holocaust Museum.

Firstly, it is a story of a courageous Polish partisan during WWII and his subsequent emigration to the United

States. This connects directly to our focal point in history. Secondly, it is a story that bridges the gap from father to daughter, past to present, and personal to universal.

It is the Museum’s mission is to bridge the gap between past and present to foster respect and understanding. The story of Rita Cosby and her father is a wonderful example of the importance of those connections in our families and communities today.

This event is just the first installment of a new series of programming that will offer the current generation of students the opportunity to connect to the WWII generation in a way that brings history into reality and provides them with the historical tools necessary to make a difference in their world today.

For more details of the event with Rita Cosby, visit www.NaplesTown Hall.org or www.holocaustmuseum swfl.org.

From classroom project to Holocaust Museum – a step back in time

Editor’s note: This is a reprint of an article, originally titled “How did this all get started?,” that appeared in the October 2004 edition of the Federation Star.

By Ann Jacobson

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ften I get asked how the Holocaust Museum in Naples evolved. Much of the credit for its existence goes to the Jewish Federation of Collier County, the Jewish community, and my vision that the “Out of the Ashes” exhibit not linger in a storage room but become the core of a Holocaust Museum.

In 1997, the Education Foundation of Collier County referred David Bell, a teacher at the Golden Gate Middle School, to the Jewish Federation of Collier County to help underwrite his class project “Out of the Ashes.” The Federation agreed to

underwrite the project and continued to provide funds for the purchase of materials and the storing of the exhibit between showings until the year 2000.

“Out of the Ashes” was exhibited at the Golden Gate Middle School, Collier County Historical Museum, and Florida Gulf Coast University during those years.

During this period, Homer Helter, an antiquities dealer and collector of World War II memorabilia, loaned his collection on a permanent basis to the exhibit. Much appreciation is due to both Diana and Homer Helter for this generous gesture. This collection aug-

ments the artwork and models created by the students and other donated photos, documents and posters. Michelle Lee, Golden Gate Middle School art teacher, worked with the students on the exhibit.

If the exhibit was to survive it needed a permanent home. Irving Berzon, a Federation Board member, was able to secure a storefront at Tanglewood Shopping Center for a 50% reduction in rent, which was paid for by the Federation through 2003 when the Museum moved to its present location at Sandalwood Square. The Federation still underwrites a major portion of the Museum’s rent.

In the Fall of 2000, I served as Community Relations Chair of the Federation and convinced the Federation Board to allow me to form a steering committee of community leaders to establish a Holocaust Museum as a non- profit entity with a Board representative of different faiths and diverse aspects of the community.

The steering committee, which also became the Founding Museum Board, included me, as founder president; Godfrey Levy, vice president; Joan Dunham, secretary; Charles Dauray, treasurer; and Board members, Michael Feldman, Homer Helter, Kim Long, Lorie Mayer, Mollie Ottina and Cynthia Sherman.

In December 2001, the Museum

received its 501c3 tax exempt status.

The Jewish Federation of Collier County received a grant from the Community Foundation of Collier County to develop Travel Trunks of resource materials for teaching Holocaust history in middle and high schools. The grant also underwrote the publication of the memoirs of Abe Price, a Holocaust survivor living in Naples. This publication was distributed to students.

As a member of the Superintendents Accountability Taskforce and Diversity Taskforce of the Collier County Public Schools, I was able to establish a collaborative relationship with the School District. I worked with Dr. Jack Bovee on travel trunks and Museum field trips for students.

The School District allocated $2,000 on an annual basis for field trips and a one-time $2,000 for the development of a curriculum guide.

A volunteer program for docents and greeters was developed. Lorie Mayer, a victim of Nazism and very knowledgeable about the history of Nazism and the Holocaust, trained the docents and helped to develop a docent guide. In November 2000, a part-time museum coordinator, Hadassah Schulman, was employed to oversee the daily operation of the museum and the scheduling of docent tours and student field trips.

For a continuously updated community calendar, visit www.jewishnaples.org.

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GenShoah SWFL update ZOA update

By Gene Sipe, Naples Chapter VP

By Ida Margolis

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enerations of the Shoah of SW Florida (GenShoah SWFL) will be holding its monthly meeting on Sunday, January 15 at 4:15 p.m. at the Holocaust Museum. The agenda for this meeting will include introductions, a discussion of additional activities to support our mission of education, and related special projects. We will also discuss support of the Museum, including the 10th Anniversary celebration of the Museum and plans for future meetings and activities. This season, meetings have included speakers on topics of interest to members.

The speaker scheduled for the January 15 meeting is our own member, Jacob Tuchman. Mr. Tuchman will speak about the experiences of his parents who left Europe to live in Cuba. Having lived in Cuba himself, this talk should prove of great interest.

The meeting on January 15 is open not only to past participants, but also to all children of Holocaust survivors (2gs), visitors, as well as any

others interested in preserving memories of the Holocaust and promoting Holocaust education. Anyone with an interest in this group is welcome and encouraged to attend. If you are a child of survivors, please try to attend the meeting and share your ideas for future activities and meetings.

At the November meeting, Marina Berkovich (pictured) shared her experience growing up in Kiev in the Ukraine and her family’s escape prior to the massacre at Babi Yar. Her heartfelt remarks were well received and appreciated by the GenShoah members in attendance.

If you have any questions, suggestions for future speakers, or if you are not on the email list for this group and would like to be, please email Ida Margolis at mrsmarg@comcast.net.

Also, if you are planning to attend the meeting on January 15, please send an email to the above address.

Read the current and previous editions of the Federation Star online at:

www.jewishnaples.org Hadassah Associates of Greater Collier County Cordially Invites You to

Hadassah Associates of Greater Collier County

Hadassah Associates of Greater Collier County Cordially Invites You to Naples” “The Great Debate in “The Great Invites Debate in Naples” Cordially You to “The Great Debate inof the Naples” The Honorable Norman Krivosha, retired Chief Justice Nebraska Supreme Court, and Robert Levy, Ph.D., J.D., director of the CATO Institute and board member of the Federalist

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A the donation $18 per person isrequested. requested. nyone concerned with future ofof health care America will want to attend. A wide A donation of $18 perin person is ssortment of desserts and beverages will be served. Spouses Welcome and Invited.

Sunday, January 15 at 7:00pm person is requested.

For information and reservations, please contact: Fred Kamin, 239-593-6821, fkamin@aol.com or A donation of $18 per Jack Wiadro, 239-269-6200, jwiadro@comcast.net

Beth Tikvah Synagogue 1459 Pine Ridge Road, Naples

or information and reservations, please contact: Sunday, January 15 at 7:00pm ed Kamin, 239-593-6821, fkamin@aol.com or Beth Tikvah Synagogue ck Wiadro, 239-269-6200, jwiadro@comcast.net

1459 Pine Ridge Road, Naples

Sunday, January 15 at 7:00pm For information and reservations, RSVP

by January 7 please contact: Beth Tikvah Synagogue Fred Kamin, 239-593-6821, fkamin@aol.com or 1459239-269-6200, Pine Ridge Road, Naples Jack Wiadro, jwiadro@comcast.net Name(s) of attendee(s):___________________________________________________ RSVP by January 7 Telephone Number:______________________________________________________

Email Address:_________________________________________________________

Please RSVP by January 7, 2012 Name(s) of attendee(s):___________________________________________________ Please return this coupon with your check made payable to Hadassah to:

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Please return this coupon with your check made payable to Hadassah to: Your check is your reservation and permission to use any photos in newspaper and Wiadro Hadassah publications. IRS requires us to advise that a couvert is not tax deductible.

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he Naples chapter of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) continues to bring to the community top-caliber speakers with firsthand knowledge and experience of world politics as it affects the very existence of the State of Israel.

These presentations provide us with a personal opportunity to interact directly with these speakers and stay abreast of the issues that affect the security of Israel.

November’s presentation was made by Dr. Andrew Bostom, an Internal Medicine practitioner from Providence, Rhode Island, and the foremost authority on the current state of anti-Semitism in the Islamic world. Dr. Bostom is the author of two extremely well-researched and highly-acclaimed texts – The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims (2005/2008) and The Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History (2008).

Dr. Bostom explained that he initially started his research for these books as a personal quest to try to understand the mentality of the motivation behind the attacks on the U.S. on 9/11. His study has brought him to the premise that there is a significant difference between the general discrimination practiced against nonMuslims and specific anti-Semitism, which dates back a millennia to the period known as the High Middle Ages (c. 950-1250 CE).

He documents how the historical foundation of Islamic principles influence modern-day practice and beliefs throughout all of the Muslim sects.

In addition to these texts, his writings can be found in the Washington Guest speaker Chaim Silberstein and ZOA chapter president Jerry Sobel at the ZOA meeting at Beth Tikvah on Sunday, December 11. Chaim is the founder and president of Im Eshkachech-Keep Jerusalem, a public diplomacy initiative dedicated to keeping Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty.

Times, National Review Online, Revue Politique, FrontPageMagazine.com, American Thinker and PJ Media.

Much activity has occurred in recent months in the relationship between the PA and Hamas, and with the political manipulations at the UN. U.S. policy was critical in preventing declaration of unilateral Palestinian statehood without negotiations, and U.S. funding is unquestionably a key factor in both of these issues. As the U.S. presidential campaign builds into high gear, the ZOA government relations lobby is actively attending political think-tank conferences as well as meeting with the public and the media to garner support for Israel.

January brings another opportunity to meet with and hear Morton Klein, National President of the ZOA. On Tuesday, January 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Beth Tikvah, 1459 Pine Ridge Road, Naples, Mr. Klein will share his insights into the Morton Klein Middle East turmoil and how it affects the State of Israel. He will also update us on the Iranian nuclear armament issue and other factors affecting Israeli security.

This free presentation is open to the public. RSVP to chapter president Jerry Sobel, at jerrysobel@aol.com, or to me at mrnsrvr@gmail.com, no later than Monday, January 23.

We also ask that you visit the ZOA website at www.zoa.org to learn more about the ZOA.

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Furniture at a great price – inside and out

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ris Sissler and her husband, Bruce, have just one goal in mind: “Anyone in business who offers a good price and good customer service can possibly survive this economy,” said Sissler. “Without those two, that’s not going to happen.”

At the couple’s 10,000-square-foot Inside Out Furniture store on Trade Center Way, it’s obvious the mantra works.

“Our customers will find what they want and sometimes even go shopping, but they come back and buy it here, because the prices are so good. We’ve been told by enough people that whatever we sell, we sell for the best price in town. If we have it, you can’t buy it any cheaper.”

Thanks to Bruce Sissler’s efforts in quality control during the couple’s twice yearly buying trips to China, his wife says their inventory meets or beats the expectations of their customers. He’s also very instrumental in scoping out opportunities to purchase liquidations, close-outs and factory seconds.

What started five years ago as a wholesale-only business, selling outdoor furniture, bath vanities and accessories, was opened to the public in January 2009. Sissler says the change has been a popular one.

“We opened to the public because of the economy,” she said. “It was a successful decision. We’ve had a lot of wonderful, interesting customers.”

She explained that the diversity of customers in Naples, with people coming from all parts of the country, makes it impossible to isolate a particular style preference.

“They have different tastes, different habits and different ways of doing things,” said Sissler. “We had to get used to dealing with lots of different people that are not the New York personality. They’re very laid back.”

She says there’s a misconception that people in Florida want everything to be tropical looking. “They don’t,” she explains. “There’s plenty of demand for everything from contemporary styles to antique reproductions.

We keep a tremendous assortment of outdoor furniture from resin wicker to aluminum. It’s all very troublefree.”

Those antique reproductions include hand-carved Victorian-style vanities with porcelain sinks and granite or marble tops that pique a lot of interest, but it is the store specials that attracts the lion’s share of attention.

“We have people who come here not intending to buy a whole set. But it’s just such a great deal for investors, or for people renovating foreclosures or those who are here on vacation,” Sissler says.

The Sisslers began their retail career with a thrift store on Long Island and later devoted a decade operating a successful wholesale furniture business, but their vacation

home in Naples was such a draw for Bruce that the couple closed up shop and moved here permanently in 2002.

“Of course, we didn’t know the economy was going to tank, but it is what is,” says Sissler.

“It wasn’t too much of a culture shock; I’d been here many times and knew what to expect, but still, it was difficult to transition to Naples. I miss the hustle and bustle of New York, but not the traffic.”

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Israeli-born artist at Estero Fine Art Show

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madar Livne, an award-winning Israeli-born artist, creates unique and exciting works at her studio in Owings Mills, Maryland. Educated at Haifa University in Israel, Smadar has degrees in fine art, literature and architecture. She has continued her education of philosophy through Baltimore Hebrew University.

Portraying scenes from her life and learning is what gives Smadar’s work an edge.

The work contains short stories, poems and philosophical observations.

Her works are vibrant and exciting, expressing the joy that Smadar sees in life.

Bold, bright colors in a multi-level composition with fabric, paper and embedded photographs, create a pentimento effect that is both a visual and tactile experience. Smadar’s work incorporates historic images in a vibrant contemporary style.

Smadar will be exhibiting her art at the Estero Fine Art Show on January 7-8 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Frida Ghitis featured speaker at AFMDA event Sarasota-Manatee Friends of American Friends of Magen David Adom Invites you to

merican Friends of Magen not so peaceful places, including the A Discussion with Frida Ghitis David Adom, Israel’s 911, Middle East. In addition to the Miami World Affairs Columnist and Consultant, will host an evening with Miami Herald, work hasReview, appeared in the Herald,her World Politics and others world affairs columnist Frida Ghitis Washington Post, the Los Angeles Israel’sTimes, Looming Changes at the Chabad Naples Jewish ComChicago Global Tribune, Jerusalem Risk and Opportunity munity Center on Monday, January 9.

Post, CNN.com and many others.

The evening will begin at 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, Leadership the6:30 event Januaryfor 10 at pm are with Israeli light fare of appetizers, co-chairs Yochi Melnick and Kim Michaels On East, 1212 South East Avenue, Sara wine and desserts.

Gerson, Diane & Gil Block, Dr. Ron Frida Ghitis is a world affairs colu “Guests will have the Gerson, Ruth & Phil Jason, whose articles appear in dozen opportunity to learn about Ava & Dr. Dan publications across theKaplan, globe. She s her career at CNN, Jennifer where she w the lifesaving work of MaBarry Lebowitz, producer and correspondent co gen David Adom and be & Rabbi Miller, Jane some of theAdam most important events time.

She has worked in more th updated on the situation in & Rabbi James Perman, countries and travels frequently to pe the Middle East,” said coMichael Pollack, Robin and not so peaceful places.

In the l chair Yochi Melnick. “As & Stephen Schiller, Nir & Ko months alone she reported from Macedonia, Sri Lanka Israel, a an Israeli, I know firsthand Wendy Sharon, andandRabbi others. She has worked in Iraq, that Magen David Adom Fishel Egypt, & EttieJordan, Zaklos.

Arabia, Kuwait an course,American Israel. She has Friends interviewed M is the common thread that guerrillas in the Amazon jungle, h touches the lives of evof Magen David Adom down with Fidel Castro, and met Frida Ghitis ery Israeli at one point or (AFMDA) POWs supports newly-released in the the Iraqi She covered wars in Bosnia, Somalia, and Kuwait.

In addit another, responding to accidents, lifesaving efforts Iraq of Magen David the Miami Herald, where she writes a column distributed to hun illnesses, pregnancies, heart ofattacks, (MDA), providing pre-hospital newspapers Adom throughout the world, her work has appeared Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago strokes, and war and terror incidents emergency medical needs 24/7Tribune, includ-Jeru Post, CNN.com, and many others. with a unique blend of speed, skill and ing disaster, ambulance and blood compassion.” services.For information contact Chair Gila Goldner Meriwether Frida Ghitis’s articles appear inCommittee A minimum donation of $50 at 941-320-9297 or gilam@comcast.net dozens of publications across the per person is required to attend. globe. She started her career as a proFor more information or to make a ducer and correspondent for CNN and reservation, contact Yochi Melnick has worked in more than 60 countries, at 239.269.6527 or yochi.melnick@ traveling frequently to peaceful and comcast.net.

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Naples Klezmer Revival Band brings world-class talent to South Regional Library

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he Naples Klezmer Revival Band will be in concert on Wednesday, January 18 at 6:00 p.m. at the South Regional Library, 8065 Lely Cultural Parkway. Tickets are free but reservations are required.

Call the library at 239.252.7542.

Reserve early because these concerts have been sold out for several years in a row. The concert is sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Collier County.

Two years ago, the Naples Klezmer Revival (NKR) Band brought worldleading Klezmer flutist Adrianne Greenbaum to Naples. Last year, the band brought brilliant Sergiu Popa, Gypsy/Klezmer accordionist from Slovakia via Montreal.

This year, the band is happy to announce that Jake Shulman-Ment, outstanding violinist and a leader in the new generation of Klezmer and Eastern European folk music performers, will be its guest soloist.

Stu Warshauer, NKR band leader and fiddle player, when asked “Why is this the first time the band has brought in a guest violinist,” answered, “I never wanted people to make comparisons, but Jake Shulman-Ment is so terrific, that there is no comparison!”

Jake’s versatility as a violinist , composer, improviser, teacher and folk music researcher has established him as one of the world’s leading practitioners of the Klezmer violin.

Growing up in New York, Jake became immersed in Yiddish culture and the Klezmer revival movement as well as rock, jazz and classical music. Last year, Jake received a Fulbright research grant to collect, study, perform and document traditional folk music in Hungary, Romania and Greece.

From these multiple influences he has become an eclectic musician with an original sound, sometimes departing quite far into the realm of experimentation, but always remaining true to his deep roots in traditional Jewish music.

He will be showcasing his talent during a 45-minute segment of the 1½-hour program.

The Naples Klezmer Revival Band is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2012. Founded and led by Stu Warshauer, the band is fortunate to have a talented core of musicians, including the ever-popular Jane Galler, singer and guitar; Art Isenberg on keyboard; Marty Cohn, clarinet; Perry Switzen, Bass; Arnold Saslavsky,

percussion; and Richard Johnson, accordion.

Each summer, members of the band travel to Montreal to learn the latest and best in Klezmer music at the annual KlezKanada Workshop.

From this experience, the repertoire of the group is constantly expanding and being refined. Each of the band’s individual performers will be featured

during this segment, while the band brings to Naples, once more, Jewish music both old and new.

The band will play a special tribute to composer Solomon Small (Shmulewitz), whose grandchildren live in the Naples area, and who wrote a popular Yiddish song, A Breevele Der Mamme (A Letter to My Mother) in 1933.

Jewish War Veterans update

By Gil Block, Commander Post # 202

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ur season is rolling along. On November 20, we had average attendance, and a nice program, with Lee Levin discussing the history of Codes.

We also had our first Vietnam attendees. Hopefully, they will consider joining for the continuity of our post.

The December program we have planned, as I write this article, should be quite interesting. We have Morris Herstein, an expert photographer, doing a presentation called, “Iceland and More.” Morris flew to Iceland in 2010 to take pictures of the volcanic eruptions there.

We are continuing our program

of packages to the troops, now only to Afghanistan. Hopefully, they will arrive in time for Chanukah.

We hope to have someone from the Israel Defense Forces to speak to us in January.

As always guests are welcome at our meetings, held in the Federation offices on the third Sunday of each month. We next meet at 9:30 a.m. on January 15. We hope that we can enlist some new members.

Thanks to the Federation Star for enabling us to bring our message to the community.

For more information, please call me at 239.304.5953.

Sign up for the Jewish Federation’s weekly community eNewsletter. Send an email to info@jewishnaples.org or sign up at www.jewishnaples.org.

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Tributes to the UJA Federation Campaign

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Rona Steingart To: Mr. & Mrs. Martin Schwartz In memory of beloved daughter-in-law, In memory of Vivian Solomon Madeline Steingart From: Elaine Cioffi Judith & Marc Baron

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Marcy Aizenshtat & Family In memory of your beloved niece, Vicki Hamersmith Phyllis & Michael Seaman

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Susie & Bruce Golubock In honor of new grandson, Nathan Thomas Millie & Jim Sernovitz

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To: Mrs. Theodore Tabachnick In loving memory of Dr. Ted Tabachnick From: Bob & Barbara Spiro

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To: Millie Sernovitz In honor of your special birthday From: Bobbie & Gene Katz

Toby & Herb Kosloff In honor of new granddaughter, Julie Eve Kosloff Debby & Jeff Waranch

Tributes to the JFS Mitzvah Fund

To: Marsha Poster In memory of Vivian Poster From: Nancy & Ronald Angerman

To: Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Olsen & Family In memory of Selma Cooper From: Donna Unterman To: George Ribet & Family In memory of Philip Ribet From: Donna Wasser To:

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Pam Kragel & Family In memory of beloved father, Dr. Herman Wohl Debby & Jeff Waranch

To: Mrs. Stanley Spiro In loving memory of Dr. Stanley Spiro From: Bob & Barbara Spiro To:

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Millie Sernovitz In Honor of special birthday Sybil Mitchell Hedy & David Weinberger

To: The Eisenberg Family In loving memory of William Eisenberg From: Karen & Ed Ezrine

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JCMI hosts Thanksgiving Interfaith Service

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he Marco Island Interfaith Thanksgiving Service was held on Thanksgiving Day morning at the Jewish Congregation of Marco Island (JCMI), the first time this service has been hosted by JCMI. More than 250 congregants from Marco Island’s houses of worship were in attendance at this most beautiful and inspiring service. Americans of various backgrounds and religions joined as one to give thanks to God for all the blessings we enjoy in our wonderful country.

Rabbi Edward Maline of JCMI, who is also President of the Marco Island Clergy Association, was joined in the service by Rev. Thomas

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Temple Shalom Mitzvah Day 2011

McCulley of the New Life Community Church, Pastor Richard Adair of the United Church of Marco Island, Rev. Kirk Dreiser of the Wesley United Methodist Church, and Rev. Kevin A. Koenig of the Marco Lutheran Church. Cantorial Soloist Hari Jacobsen of JCMI, Craig Greusel, Choir Director of Marco Lutheran Church, and Dr. Ron Doiron of JCMI provided the inspirational music and songs for the service.

Dr. Ron Doiron, Rev. Kirk Dreiser, Cantorial Soloist Hari Jacobsen, Craig Gruesel, Rev. Thomas McCulley, Rev. Richard Adair, Rabbi Edward Maline, Rev. Kevin Koenig

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NCJW Luncheon for the Collier Association for the Visually Impaired

By Carol Emerson

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he annual luncheon for the Collier Association for the Visually Impaired was held on Monday December 5, 2011 at Temple Shalom. The Naples Section of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) has been preparing and hosting this luncheon for 32 years.

Many people have asked how this all started.

NCJW member Tillie Skier brought this community-service project to Naples in carrying out the tradition that her mother-in-law had started in Kansas City. It is a team effort and I am so grateful for everyone’s help.

Thank you so much to the following NCJW members: Evelyn Cole,

Sandy Stone, Judy Kaufman, Helen Weinfeld, Marcelle Reiss, Moine Zeillinger, Carolyn Greenberg, Marilyn Dano, Muriel Hurwich, Gayle Dorio, Dottie Magen, Lil Silverberg, Pearl Thall and Bobbie Katz. A special thank you to Linda and Jerry Wainick for being our “angels” and underwriting the cost of the luncheon. All of your help was so much appreciated.

Again, without this team effort, this project would not be so successful and rewarding to all of us. We all went home that afternoon feeling the sense of joy we brought to the members of Collier Assoc. for the Visually Impaired and Lighthouse Organization.

Another “thank you” to Jeff Gerry Sugarman presented Melissa Keel, Federation Community Program Coordinator, with his Federation Star nameplate creation made out of cork, paper and other materials.

The editor appreciates the sentiment.

Silverman, owner of Naples Envelope & Printing Co., for being so generous in supplying and printing the invitations; and to Sid Kleiner, for providing us with wonderful entertainment. Sid has been our entertainer for the past 32 years and we look forward to many more years as it’s always a joy to listen to him.

Being involved in the community and doing for others is what NCJW is all about.

Sandy Stone, Helen Weinfeld, Judy Kauffman, Evelyn Cole

Carolyn Greenberg, Sid Kleiner, Pauline Sullivan

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Preschool of the Arts

By Ettie Zaklos, Preschool Director

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ur children performed beautifully at our Thanksgiving performance and at the Chanukah show! We may even see some of our preschoolers on American Idol in a few years! Since Preschool of the Arts has a special focus on the arts, the children created their own masterpiece costumes and participated in extra music and movement sessions with our music specialist, Sharon True. We look forward to many more amazing performances by the Preschool children!

Preschool of the Arts children have been busy with lots of exciting activities, including a fire-safety puppet show by the Naples Fire Department, a walk to Publix for a behind-the-scenes look at a supermarket, planting in our new Preschool of the Arts garden, and a magic show.

We have many wonderful activities planned for the future.

We encourage parent involvement at Preschool of the Arts and we have enjoyed spending time with our

Preschool families at Family Shabbat Time, Parents Night, Thanksgiving lunch and the Chanukah Pajama Party.

It gives me great pleasure to see how Preschool of the Arts isn’t just an Early Learning Center where children are nurtured by professional and loving staff in a beautiful modern facility equipped with the most educationallysound resources. Preschool of the Arts has evolved and become a family! The camaraderie, warmth and sense of community are amazing! The relationships and interactions with teachers, children and parents are heartwarming and uplifting.

Friendship Circle of Naples

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he Friendship Circle of Naples is based on the idea that within each person is a soul, regardless of any limitations or challenges that may surround it – and that soul is sacred and worthy of boundless love.

Friendship Circle is a non-profit organization that provides programs and support to the families of individuals with special needs, and enables volunteers to reap the rewards of selfless giving.

This unique program pairs special-needs children with caring, dedicated teenage volunteers, providing friendship, support, encouragement and practical help in dealing with

challenges. The volunteers also provide support and respite care to the families. An added bonus of the wellknown, national program is helping the teenage volunteers increase sensitivity, competence and commitment to community service.

As part of Friendship Circle of Naples, the teenage volunteers make weekly visits to the homes of specialneeds children, as well participating in other programs and activities.

If you know a child with special needs or a teenager who would like to volunteer, please call Chabad of Naples Jewish Community Center at 239.262.4474.

Sign up for The PJ Library and you’ll receive a FREE, high-quality children’s book or CD each month. The PJ Library will enrich your family’s life with Jewish stories and songs – and it’s absolutely FREE for families with children from six months up to eight years of age in Collier County.

The PJ Library is brought to the Collier County community by Jewish Family Services. For more information, call 239.325.4444.

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Shabbat at Temple Shalom Preschool

By Seyla Cohen, Preschool Director

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t’s Friday. Come take a glimpse at what’s happening at Temple Shalom Preschool. Miss Jane readies her classroom for the Shabbat festivities. Rabbi Miller and Cantor Azu arrive. The children wander in, excitement written all over their faces. They are anticipating another fun-filled learning experience infused with the enthusiasm of Rabbi Miller, Cantor Azu, and Miss Jane – the master of song, dance, and storytelling!

Miss Jane strums her guitar and the children simmer down and join in her traditional song, “What do you like about Shabbat?”

As Miss Jane raises the candle sticks, the students chime in, “We like the candles on Shabbat.” Next, the children hold up their imaginary grape juice glasses, and when again asked “What do you like about Shabbat?”, they recite through song, “We like the grape juice on Shabbat.”

And lastly, there is the challah. There is no question that these little ones like the challah on Shabbat. Numerous loaves are delivered to the classrooms each week so the children can indulge in the soft, warm snack

Chanukah artwork from Temple Shalom Preschool students: Clockwise from left: David Heuer, age 4 Adam Dorio, age 4 Nathan Goebel, age 5 Karl Grossman, age 4 Dylan Press, age 4

that fills their tummies.

Aside from all the singing and dancing going on, a delightful story is told, complete with puppets and stage props, focusing on various Jewish

morals and values so important for little ones to realize and absorb.

The celebration ends with the children holding hands in a circle of joy and merriment. Another week, another lesson learned, another heartfelt Shabbat at Temple Shalom Preschool.

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Bus-stop books – Israel’s newest public library

People of the Book Part 1

By Karin Kloosterman, ISRAEL21c, www.israel21c.org

Next stop for the people of the book? A freewheeling public library to peruse as they wait for a bus. No fines, no rules, no shushing.

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magine a library where there are no due dates and no librarians telling you to be quiet. Israeli artists have developed a new model for the urban library: a free bus-stop library for commuters and travelers of all ages.

Daniel Shoshan, an installation artist and lecturer at the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology, along with Technion graduate Amit Matalon, started this new public library concept figuring that people sometimes have long wait times for buses.

Their motto: You may take, you may return, you may add.

The duo built a series of bookshelves at bus stops throughout Israeli cities. The idea is that anyone may take a book from the shelf, read it at the station or take it on the bus and return it when done.

No due dates, no late fees, no rules.

At first they did an experiment to see if the dynamics would work.

Would the shelves refill? Would people participate?

“It started as an artistic project, and all of a sudden it was so successful I knew ... it fits a new model for a public library,” Shoshan tells ISRAEL21c. “Municipal libraries in Israel have asked me to start it here and I believe it will be a commercial

project one day.”

Shoshan believes the bus-stop libraries could be a place to recycle reading material taking up space on people’s shelves and in public library basements.

“I know that people have a lot of books at home and they do not know what to do with them,” he says.

How the “novel” idea came about Last year’s six-week pilot started in Haifa’s Ziv neighborhood, Shoshan tells ISRAEL21c. Bookshelves were built into six bus stops along the route from the Technion campus to Ziv Square.

Commuters are free to take books on their ride and return them – or not.

“The system found its own equilibrium after some time, and the phenomenon of gathering books by residents began to appear, creating subject-centered bookshelves following local needs,” the two artists report.

At the bus stop closest to the university, students exchanged science reference books, their dissertations and science fiction. At an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood, the residents switched in copies of religious texts and CDs, and Russian-speaking residents at the Ziv-Hankin bus stop created a Russian-language library.

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The artists were thrilled to see this self-organization take place.

The pilot was deemed a success as a self-sustaining public library, and now cities throughout Israel are copying the model. Shoshan, who says he has intellectual and “spiritual” creative rights to the idea, has been invited to implement the idea in some neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., and New York.

Community-building tool Wait in line at the bus stop, shuffle through a few books, and take one with you on the commute? The idea could not only increase literacy rates in communities, but also serve as a new way of connecting people.

“Citizens in the city are now creating new ways of sharing,” says Shoshan. “In Kfar Saba, Hadar Yossef, Haifa, people started to exchange books among themselves without any rules in place. You can put your books on the shelf, and others will add or take from it. It’s just the citizens and neighborhood monitoring it by themselves.”

This could also be a creative marketing platform for unknown authors to spread their works. Israel already has professors giving scholarly lectures on trains. Maybe thanks to this new project, new authors will give public reading at bus stops.

Shoshan thinks such a project could work as a community-builder in disadvantaged areas as well. With little outlay in costs, what’s to lose?

“I am sure it will work in poorer neighborhoods,” he says. “When you trust the people, they will pay you back with their time. Especially when they know it’s not a project run by the [government].”

People of the Book Part 2 The People of the Book may soon have a “Paperback Writer” to count among its tribe. Former Beatle Paul McCartney has been studying Judaism and has promised his new wife, Nancy Shevell, that he’ll convert, say several sources. McCartney first considered converting to Judaism during his 29-year marriage to Linda Eastman. He has told friends he would complete his studies and convert in 2012.

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Gender segregation in Israel Rabbi Adam F. Miller

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hank you God for making me a woman.”

Dr. Lydia Bond shared those words at her recent adult bat mitzvah service. A colorful play on the traditional blessing, “Thank you God for making me a man,” the phrase captured the essence of her personal spiritual journey. Having grown up in an Orthodox community where women did not have the opportunity to become bat mitzvah, she was grateful to now participate as a woman in a fully egalitarian Jewish community.

When I heard Dr. Bond’s comment, I thought back to the sense of pride I felt in my formative years when I learned that Israel had been among the first nations in the modern world led by a woman. Golda Meir’s election as Prime Minister stood as the gold standard for equality between

the sexes. Even in the years since her leadership, Israel has been the exemplar of women’s rights in the Middle East. Israeli women serve alongside men in the military, and receive rights that far outstrip those of women in neighboring Arab nations.

Against this backdrop, it is disheartening to watch the recent regression of women’s rights in Israel with increasing gender segregation in public places. The separation of women and men in Orthodox synagogues now extends in some communities to buses where women sit in the back, single-gender sidewalks, and even the ban of women appearing on billboards in Jerusalem. These limitations are in addition to the continued denigration and humiliation of women who seek to pray at the Western Wall. Praying on the women’s side of the wall, women who want to wear a tallit or read from Torah have been pelted with trash, verbally assaulted, and even arrested.

The gender segregation of Israel has not gone without protest. After being personally threatened for not moving to the back of a bus, noted Modern

Orthodox novelist Naomi Ragen participated in a lawsuit against the operators of segregated bus lines. The Israeli Supreme Court subsequently ruled that forced segregation was illegal. Yet the separation continues as a “voluntary” practice.

In an article from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Ragen explained her concerns. “The changes in Orthodoxy since the time I accepted it as my way of life [fifty years ago] have been unbelievable. It’s day and night from what I see today.” She says the clashes have more to do with internal power struggles and an attempt to sideline women than piety. “It is just unfortunate that a great majority of people… are being bullied and battled by a vocal minority that has nothing do with Judaism, holiness or the Torah.”

In a report on the impact of gender segregation, the Israeli Religious Action Center (IRAC) expressed concern that gender segregation is being used to suppress women. “The term ‘gender segregation’ does not refer to a system that divides public space into two equal halves, maintaining equal access for both sexes. Almost

invariably it entails the displacement of women and their removal from the public realm.” To emphasize this point, Anat Hoffman, Director of IRAC and co-founder of Women at the Wall, noted that Israeli women still receive less pay than male counterparts and cannot even file for civil divorce.

While physically far removed from the events in Israel, we are inextricably linked to what takes place in our homeland. At a time when support for Israel is at a premium, we want and even need Israel to fulfill the ideals of freedom, equality and democracy that were the hallmarks of its formation.

Certainly as a people who have known oppression, we can appreciate the importance of these values. When our ancestors crossed the Red Sea, I doubt Miriam and the women were forced to lead the people in joyous celebration from the other side of the camp.

Indeed, we must lend our voices and support to those who stand up for the rights of women – in Israel and everywhere – so that all men and women alike may say, “Thank you God for making me who I am.”

“It is always the right time…”

Rabbi Fishel Zaklos

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read these simple words in a book recently and was immediately reminded of the saying in the Ethics of Our Fathers: “If not now when?” Is there any better time to start a project and improve ourselves than right now?

What struck me was how often we do the exact opposite: procrastinating and postponing our desires and dreams, saying, “It’ll be the right time when I’m older, when my kids are older, when I have more money, when I change jobs, and when I have more free time.” But the truth is, right now is the perfect moment – the only moment – to begin.

I recently attended Chabad’s annual convention in New York where I was joined by nearly 6,000 people – thousands of Chabad rabbis from hundreds of countries, Keynote Speaker

Chief Rabbi of Great Britain Jonathan Sacks, business leaders, Federation representatives, and many Jewish and non-Jewish guests. Regardless of our backgrounds, we all came together to re-energize, recharge, and strengthen our efforts in reaching out to people in our own communities and around the world.

One of the most compelling statements in Chief Rabbi Sacks’ speech was that a good leader creates followers but a great leader creates other leaders. This does not only refer to people in leadership positions. Everyone has the potential to become a leader in his or her own environment.

Everyone is born into this world to grow and make this world a better place in whatever situation or location they find themselves.

In this week’s Torah portion, Shemot, we learn that Yaakov spent 17 years in Egypt. Living in Egypt was challenging for him, but as our sages tell us, they were the best and happiest years of Yaakov’s life. The same is true for each one of us. Despite the challenges that accompany our journeys in life, there is no greater

If each of us can discover (or rejoy than fulfilling our G-d given mission to bring light into our area of the discover) the truly incredible things we possess within, we can share this world. with others and become leaders ourEttie and I came to Naples from selves. Imagine the impact this would New York nearly eight years ago. have on a global scale! If we pool our Naples is home for us and our children and we feel truly blessed to be strengths and resources, we can reach out and help those around us in an part of this community. This month, unprecedented way. on Sunday, January 15, we will be Be a light unto all of Naples, a celebrating the grand opening and light unto others. As we approach our dedication of the new Chabad Naples Jewish Community Center. Not only building dedication and mark an imis it the dedication of our new buildportant milestone in the Naples community, it is a reminder that we can all ing, it’s also a re-dedication of our dedicate a part of our own lives, a part commitment to continued growth here of ourselves, to the greater good of the in Naples, G-d willing and with your continued help. community and world at large. It’s always the right time. We look forward Every one of us has the ability to to greeting the entire community at affect others in a positive way, anythe celebration on January 15. time, anyplace, on our own level. As the saying goes: if you have learned about the letter alef, teach alef. If you know about happiness, share happiness. Can you sew? Are you a good storyteller? An entrepreGrand opening, Sunday, January 15 at 4:00 p.m. neur or manager?

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BETH TIKVAH

Beth Tikvah update Stuart Kaye Beth Tikvah President

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eth Tikvah’s Rabbi Search has shifted into high gear. We have filed our job announcement with the Rabbincal Assembly of the Conservative movement. Our search committee has begun its work, and we are looking forward to a productive process culminating in the spring. Norman Krivosha serves as chair, with Phil Jason as vice chair and secretary. Other committee members are Evelyn Hecht, Susie Goldsmith, Lee Javitch, Richard Janger, Dr. Neil Randall, Michael Schleider, Robert Goodman, Jill Weil, Arlene Brown and Dr. David Danoff. We thank them for agreeing to serve.

Those of you who did not have pleasure of meeting Rabbi Jeffrey Wohlberg and his wife, Judy, can have that opportunity during their winter visits. They are scheduled to be with us for two visits encompassing four

Shabbats. The dates of their visits to Naples are January 5-18 and February 2-15.

We also are planning additional visits from Rabbi Bernard Eisenman, and we wish to thank him for leading us in worship on many occasions in 2011. Especially moving was his leadership of Lillian Weisman’s Bat Mitzvah on November 18-19. Mazel Tov to the Weisman/Ward family and especially to Lillian, our first Bat Mitzvah.

Upcoming winter events On Saturday, January 7 at 7:30 p.m. it’s “Mix and Mingle” at Heritage Bay – an adult show and tell! Desserts and beverages. $15. RSVP to the synagogue at 239.434.1818.

On Sunday, January 15 at 7:00 p.m. we host the Hadassah Associates debate between Judge Norman Krivosha and Bob Levy. Contact Fred Kamin at 239.593.6821 to reserve for this event.

Sunday, January 22 brings the next meeting of our Book Discussion Group at 7:30 p.m. We will discuss Mitchell Bard’s astounding book, The Arab Lobby. “The author enumerates many acronym-heavy groups, includ-

ing those he ascertains support Islamic terrorism. He also lists political campaigns and universities that have received heavy Arab (read: Saudi) funding, and he argues for an end to the heretofore ineffectual “policy of appeasement and indulgence of the Saudis and other Arabs.” (See Phil Jason’s review on page 8B.) On Sunday, January 29 at 3:00 p.m. it’s “Take Four Plus / Broadway Concert” at Beth Tikvah. Don’t miss this special event. $20 ($25 priority seating). Kosher wine and cheese.

Contact Edythe at 239.331.2845.

Adult education programming Torah Study is a friendly weekly activity. It meets Tuesdays at 12:15 p.m. at the synagogue and features a lively discussion of the Torah portion for the upcoming Shabbat. No charge.

If you wish, bring a dairy lunch.

We began an Adult Hebrew class in November that continues through January on Wednesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. Yehudit Negri leads the class. We plan a second class in January. Call Phil at 239.598.2880 if you’d like to join.

Gerald Ziedenberg’s three-part “Heroes of the Holocaust” lecture

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series begins on Thursday, January 5.

Raoul Wallenberg is the hero. Future sessions – on Thursday, February 2 and Monday, March 5 – will focus on Hannah Senesh and Anne Frank.

All sessions begin at 7:30 p.m. Also, on Monday, January 16 at 7:30 p.m., Dr. June Sochen and Joyce Schrager speak on “Jews and Politics: Then and Now.” On Monday, February13 at 7:30 p.m., Dr. June Sochen will speak on “Jewish American Concerns in the 21st Century.”

Religious services schedule Friday services begin at 7:30 p.m., while Saturday services begin at 9:30 a.m. and conclude with a Kiddush Luncheon. Sunday morning minyan runs from December through May at 9:00 a.m. We strive to 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 on the north side of the street, just west of Mission Square Plaza and east of the firehouse. For more information, call 239.254.1486 or 239.434.1818, email bethtik vahnaples@aol.com or visit www. bethtikvahnaples.org.

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Chabad Jewish Center of Naples update

By Ettie Zaklos

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ave the date: Dedication of our New Building, Sunday, January 15 at 4:00 p.m.

Friends and supporters of Chabad of Naples throughout Southwest Florida will join together in the celebration of the most momentous event in the organization’s eight-year history: The Grand Opening of the new Jewish Community Center in Naples, Florida.

The opening represents the culmination of a long-awaited dream for the Naples Jewish community.

By offering additional classrooms, meeting rooms, a library and office space, this new center accommodates the sorely-needed growth of Chabad’s educational, outreach and social service programs, as well as the launching of many new programs.

Some of the programs offered at this center are: Preschool of the Arts, Hebrew schools, teen groups, youth programs, synagogue services, Flying Challahs, holiday outreach projects, adult education classes, Friendship Circle, crisis counseling and hospital visitations. For more information, please call Chabad at 239.262.4474.

We look forward to greeting you at the building dedication at 1789 Mandarin Road.

Community Shabbat Dinner Please join us for our second Shabbat Community Dinner of the new season on Friday, January 27. We will wel-

come Shabbat with song, joy and inspiration, and a delicious five-course Shabbat dinner. A Kabbalat Shabbat service begins at 5:45 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. The cost for dinner is $30/adult and $15/children under 12. We look forward to sharing a joyous evening with you.

Annual Partner Project The Chabad Naples Annual Partner Project is a way to show your appreciation to the Chabad Jewish Community Center with an annual contribution.

We ask that you consider partnering with us to bring the joy of Judaism to many more people throughout Collier County. This project has grown rapidly since we launched it in August.

For more information, please call us at 239.262.4474, email office@ chabadnaples.com or visit www.cha badnaples.com.

Women’s Circle Rebbetzin Ettie Zaklos is leading a lunchtime program dedicated to inspiring and empowering crossgenerational Jewish women through cultural learning experiences. In this course we uncover the soul, spirit and mystical dynamism of being a woman, discovering a pragmatic approach to implement these feminine strengths in practice. Guided by classical Jewish and Kabbalistic texts, we examine issues such as beauty, love, relationships, career, family, education and spirituality – tying together

the various facets of womanhood in synchronized harmony.

The group meets monthly at the Chabad Naples Jewish Community Center. Learning begins at 11:00 a.m. followed by a delicious lunch. All women of the community, regardless of affiliation, are welcome. If you would like more information or to RSVP, please call Ettie Zaklos at 239.263.2620 or email chabad naples@gmail.com.

Regular Shabbat services Our warm and welcoming Shabbat services are held every Saturday morning beginning at 10:00 a.m. The Torah service usually begins at approximately 11:00 a.m. and includes the Rabbi’s insights during the Torah reading, which always have contemporary relevance to our day and age.

Flying Challahs Each week, we randomly and lovingly distribute freshly baked challahs to

individuals, couples and families in our community. If you would like to suggest someone to receive a “Flying Challah,” please call Ettie at 239.262.4474 or email chabad naples@gmail.com.

Weekly email & mailing list If you would like to be added to our weekly updates or mailing list, contact the Center at 239.262.4474 or email rabbi@chabadnaples.com.

Chabad of Naples brings all these programs to the entire community.

We depend on the generosity of our sponsors and participants because Chabad of Naples is supported only through contributions from the local community. Please contact Rabbi Fishel Zaklos at 239.262.4474 or rabbi@chabadnaples.com for any additional information about any of our programs. We thank all those who support and partner with our Center. It means so much for so many.

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TEMPLE SHALOM

The pioneers of Judaism in Naples

By Susan Shechter Daugherty, Executive Director

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t is easy to walk into an existing organization. The foundation has been laid, the doors have been opened, and someone smiles at you as you enter. Someone shows you where to go or where to sit and leads the way from here to there. They introduce you to people who embrace you. You know that you are not alone.

That was not the case for the Jewish men and women who moved to Naples in the 1950s. There were only a handful of them. They were not allowed to own beachfront property.

They were not encouraged to open businesses. They were not welcomed into the community at large. There was no Temple Shalom. There was no temple at all.

In 1962, a small but determined group of people started the Jewish

Community Center of Collier County.

Our wonderful historian, Helen Weinfeld, has chronicled the rise of the Jewish community in two brochures, The Jewish Presence in Naples and Temple Shalom: A Brief History, both of which are available in the Temple Shalom lobby. I urge you to read them.

It is through our history that we can begin to understand where we are now. And there are so many people to thank.

There are people who stood up to intolerance and made their home in a place that actively discouraged Jews.

One would be hard pressed to name the first Jewish child in New York’s schools or the first Jewish teacher in Philadelphia or the first Jewish realtor in Chicago, but we know that Susan Freschel was the first Jewish child to

attend school in Collier County, Freda Luff was the first Jewish teacher, and her husband, Gabe, was the first Jewish real estate broker. We know that people like the Freschels, Luffs and Dinaburgs were the exception, not the rule. We know that without them, we would not now be preparing to celebrate our Golden Anniversary.

The Jewish Community Center of Collier County met in offices and community rooms, moving into its own building in 1973, and officially changed its name to Temple Shalom in 1980. We were strong and diverse and growing in number, and in 1991 we moved into this building. What a journey this has been, and what a very long way we have come.

Thank you to the pioneers of Judaism in Naples. It is because of your

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choices and your actions that the rest of us can live openly and comfortably as Jews in this community. Thank you to the men and women who first served as Officers and Trustees. Thank you to those who hammered out the by-laws and started Sisterhood and Men’s Club, and encouraged the opening of a Preschool, and fought to have a Religious School. You are our heroes.

We are preparing to celebrate our 50th year because of everything you have done. Now it is our turn.

May we be as committed to Temple Shalom as you have been. May we be as dedicated to its future as we are proud of its past. May we continue to sustain Temple Shalom so that our children and our children’s children can celebrate its 100th birthday!

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President’s message Bernie Seidman JCMI President e at JCMI are finding our calendars filling up with wonderful events for the season, but we have a special event that we know most of you will not want to miss. Estie Karpman has called upon a dear friend to come to Marco Island for a very special evening and presentation.

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torical Society(MIHS) are holding a President’s Day Event – Life and Legacy of Abraham Lincoln.

Historian Thomas F. Schwartz, Ph.D., one of the key figures in the development of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and for 26 years the official caretaker of Lincoln’s legacy in Illinois, will speak on facts that you never knew about Abraham Lincoln.

Save the date – Saturday, February 25. The evening begins at JCMI with a light dinner reception to meet and greet Dr. Schwartz from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m., with the lecture at the MIHS Rose History Auditorium at 7:15 p.m.

This outstanding community event is being sponsored by the Naples Daily News, Affordable Landscaping Service & Design, Konrad’s Restaurant, Winn-Dixie, Rookies Bar

JCMI gets ready to celebrate its 30th anniversary

On Saturday evening, February 18, we will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish Congregation of Marco Island with a gala affair at the Marco Island Marriott Resort. We will be recognizing the founders and founding members who had the foresight and perseverance to establish a Jewish presence with a synagogue on Marco Island.

Much has happened during the last 30 years, but JCMI has endured and prospered. This special evening will be celebrated with a beautiful dinner and dancing.

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Hadassah update Lynn Weiner President

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adassah’s National Zionist Youth Movement, Young Judaea, has been in the news lately! Young Judaea has just named Simon Klarfeld as its Inaugural Executive Director. Young Judaea has been in existence for 102 years and Hadassah has supported the youth movement for 72 years. Now Young Judaea will be branching out from Hadassah and will gradually become independent over the next three years.

Young Judaea provides local youth groups, five camps nationwide, Israel programs for children and young adults, and a successful gapyear program called Year Course in Israel. Young Judaea reaches more than 5,000 youth each year from grade school through post-college.

Do you know a child or young adult who would be interested in a Young Judaea program? Right now registration is open for Young Judaea Israel trips. Participants have a full schedule of touring, exploring, volunteering, learning, hiking, making new friends and more. This summer there are three YJ Summer options: YJ Discovery, YJ Machon, and I Speak Israel.

An Early Action Discount will be awarded to the first 100 applicants.

For every friend that is referred to one of the above YJ Summer Programs, you will get $50 off of your summer tuition. Qualifying participants can earn college credits and community service hours on YJ Summer pro-

grams. Scholarships are available to those who qualify.

Check out the Young Judaea website at www.yjsummer.org. For more information contact Diana Diner at 212.303.4577 or ddiner@youngjudaea.org or summerprograms@ youngjudaea.org.

Now that the season is in full swing, we have a lot going on for you!

On Sunday, January 15 at 7:00 p.m. at Beth Tikvah Synagogue, 1459 Pine Ridge Road, Naples, the Hadassah Associates of Greater Collier County (male affiliates of Hadassah) invite you to a stimulating debate on the new “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” The Honorable Norman Krivosha, retired Chief Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, and Robert Levy, director of the Cato Institute, will discuss and debate the constitutionality of the new health care law.

Dessert and beverages will be served.

Spouses and prospective members are encouraged to attend. A donation of $18 is requested.

To RSVP, contact Fred Kamin at 239.593.6821 or fkamin@aol.com, or Jeff Margolis at 239.963.9347 or jamcounsel@comcast.net, or Jack Wiadro at 239.269.6200 or jwiadro@ comcast.net.

On Monday, January 23 at 10:30 a.m. in the Federation Community Room we will hear from a Hadassah doctor coming to us directly from Hadassah Hospital in Israel. This should be an informative and stimulating program with a cutting-edge physician. We will have more details as the date gets closer. For more information, contact me at 239.598.1009 or lynninaples@yahoo.com.

Get out your Mahj sets, cards and domino trains for Hadassah’s Annual Mah Jongg and Card Party

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SAVE THE DATE January 15: Associates Evening Event January 21: Countdown to the Centennial and Dedication Event in Boca Raton January 23: Hadassah Doctor Program January 25: Mahj and Card Party February 3: Hadassah Shabbat at Beth Tikvah February 12: Benefit Concert “A Simcha in Song” for Hadassah’s Centennial 100th Anniversary February 29: Membership Luncheon March 11: Hadassah New, Prospective, Transfer Member Brunch March 25: Evening Group Progressive Dinner March 29: Installation Luncheon April 20-22: Florida Central Region Conference April 22: Associates End-of-Season Brunch on Wednesday, January 25 from 11:30 - 4:00 at Cypress Woods Golf and Country Club at 3525 Northbrooke Drive, Naples. Come by yourself or with your group to play Mahj, bridge, pinochle, canasta, dominoes, poker, board games and more. There will be fun, drawings for prizes, and a delicious buffet luncheon. Couples and men are invited to join in the fun! To RSVP and more information, contact Elaine Soffer at 239.431.7905.

Friday, February 3 is the date for the Hadassah Shabbat in honor of Hadassah’s Centennial year. It will be held at Beth Tikvah at 7:30 p.m.

Plan to join us to celebrate Hadassah and enjoy a lovely Shabbat service with friends.

It’s almost here! Hadassah will be having a spectacular CommunityWide 100th Anniversary Benefit Concert – “A Simcha in Song: A Musical Journey From Israel to Broadway” – on Sunday, February 12 at 7:00 p.m. at Temple Shalom, 4630 Pine Ridge Road, Naples. Coordinated

by Cantor Donna Azu, you will be entertained by nine fabulous Cantors

and Cantorial Soloists from near and far, as well as Stuart Warshauer and the Naples Klezmer Revival Band and accompanist Peter Lewis. Yamron Jewelers has generously donated a $1,000 gift certificate for our grand prize drawing. General Admission is $50. (There is a special price of $18 for ages 25 and under.) Higher levels of giving include $100, $180 and $500, which include an invitation to the dessert reception after the concert and your name listed prominently in the program. We are also looking for more corporate sponsors. Invite your friends and neighbors to attend this unforgettable once-in-a-lifetime event! Proceeds will benefit Hadassah Medical Organization and other Hadassah projects. For more information and an order form, see the ad on page 7A. For more information, please call Lauren Becker at 239.592.5304 or call me at 239.598.1009. Plan to celebrate 100 years of Hadassah with us!

I hope to see all of you at some of Hadassah’s Centennial Year activities and celebrations!

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Naples Jewish Social Club update

By Illeen Mittleman, President “Big M Casino Cruise” Join us on Sunday, January 8 for a funfilled adventure aboard the “Big M Casino” boat featuring a great breakfast buffet, Las Vegas-style gambling and a cruise on the Gulf of Mexico.

The gambling and the buffet (all you can eat) are included with your boarding fee. The boat leaves at 10:30 a.m. and returns at 4:30 p.m. The buffet runs from 9:45 to 11:30 a.m. A lunch buffet can also be ordered for $9.95 or there is an a la carte menu. Bingo can be played as we cruise in international waters. Slot machines start at a nickel.

For those who do not want to gamble, relax on the open deck and enjoy the companionship of your friends, the water, air and sunshine.

We start boarding at 9:15 a.m.;

please be prompt. Reservations and a boarding fee of $10 per person must be received by January 1.

Send your reservations to Illeen Mittleman, 26320 Raleigh Dr., Bonita Springs, FL 34135. For questions, call 440.221.6468. Bring a photo ID and your “Big M” players card if you previously received one.

Directions to “Big M”: Take Bonita Beach road west onto Fort Myers Beach, turn right on Crescent St. and left on Third St. A free parking lot is at the end of Third St. Bridge and Mahjongg In addition to our regular monthly events, we offer bridge and Mahjongg. Our special interest groups of bridge and maj remain an active, social part of our group. Our terrific

bridge games, which include social and duplicate, are played respectively on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month at Sterling Oaks Clubhouse in Naples.

Games begin at 6:00 p.m. Coffee and cookies are served. Cost is $8 per couple. Reservations are a must by the preceding Thursday. Contact Tilda Ellis at 239.949.9913.

Our Mahjongg game is a spirited one played every Thursday at Long Shore Lake Clubhouse in Naples.

Lunch is available at the Clubhouse followed by a fast-paced game for experienced players. Be there for lunch at 11:30 a.m. and continue with play ending at 4:00 p.m. Contact Pauline Taxman at 239.592.7760 or Sondra Greer at 239.353.4468.

We are always open to sugges-

tions for special interest groups as we do in bridge and mahjongg.

The Naples Jewish Social Club is a friendly group from Southern Lee, Collier and Marco, representing the entire Jewish spectrum. We encourage members to jump on board and let your ideas take shape.

For Sunshine matters, please contact Judy Lansat for updates on members’ health and life events at 239.352.0287. For Membership matters, call Sondra Greer 239.353.4468.

For any general questions or suggestions, contact Sheila Marks at 239.514.8289. To contact the Naples Jewish Social Club, contact Illeen Mittleman, President, at 440.221.6468 or imtwirl@sbcglobal.net.

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National Council of Jewish Women update

By Linda Wainick, co-President

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lease join us on Tuesday, January 17 at 11:30 a.m. for a very special luncheon at the Vineyards. Our topic is “Israel, A Woman’s Perspective.” Our guest will be Yochi Melnick, a Naples resident who was born in Israel, served in the Israeli army, and visits Israel regularly. A reservation with your check for $22 (members), $25 (nonmembers), should be sent to Marlene Oshry, 793 Regency Reserve Circle, #4501, Naples, FL 34119.

Justice for Children was the focus of our November meeting. Our guest speakers were Judi Palay, David B. Goldstein and Donna C. Kordek.

Judi is a member of the Foster Care Review Board, the Foster Care Needs Committee, and has established the Mentoring Children & Parents in the Home program.

Judi presented startling facts about children in foster care: 50% do not finish high school, only 3% go on to college, and are 15% less likely to finish college.

75% who go to prison are there because of drugs, 25% are home-

less, 75% need mental health or drug treatment, and upon emancipation, more than 80% are unable to support themselves.

They are 3 times more likely to be living in poverty and 33% more likely to suffer abuse by their foster parent or another adult in the home, and suffer double the rate of mental illness.

In Florida, 36% of youth who have aged out of foster care have not yet obtained a high school diploma or GED by age 20; 11% of foster youth over 18 have spent at least one night homeless in the past year. Foster children scored significantly lower on the FCAT, were twice as likely to be held back a grade, and have school disciplinary problems.

There are 1,655 children in the foster care system in Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Hendry and Glades Counties. Budget cuts have limited the funds available to support better education for young children, teaching of parenting skills, proper nutrition and medical care. The children in the dependency system have little voice.

How can we help a failing foster care system? Judi suggests the following:

HUMANISTIC JEWISH HAVURAH

XX Advocate - keep in touch with your legislators XX Participate - become a foster parent, a mentor, a member of a group helping children XX Donate - help keep children in their home with the necessary support for success David B. Goldstein is the chair of the steering committee of the Citizen’s Foster Care Review Board. He has been a panelist for over five years.

He explained that the Review Board, comprised of volunteers, provides regular monitoring of the 500 children in Collier County and make recommendations to the Court.

Foster Care is a complex system which the Florida Department of Children & Families manages (services are contracted out). The basic goal is to provide what is in the best interest of the child. This is the only agenda of the Review Board, whether it be returning to the parents, adoption or permanent guardianship.

Friends of Foster Children is a non-profit organization which provides abused, neglected and abandoned children in Florida’s foster care

system with the social, educational and financial support the state does not.

Donna C. Kordek is a volunteer recruiter for the Guardian ad Litem Program. A Guardian ad Litem is appointed by the Court to be the voice for a child in Dependency Court. The Court has determined that intervention is required for these children who have been abused, abandoned or neglected. Guardians ad Litem interact with caseworkers, parents, teachers, health professionals and others who can provide insight about the child’s needs so that recommendations can be requested and the best interest of the child is provided to the Court.

Voices for Kids of Southwest Florida is a non-profit agency supporting Florida’s Guardian ad Litem Program in Lee, Collier, Charlotte, Hendry and Glades Counties.

NCJW is committed to improving the quality of life for women, children and families. Our thanks to Judi, David and Donna for a very insightful and thought-provoking program.

Please contact our speakers to learn more, and volunteer.

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“Jews and the Muslim World: Solving the Puzzle” Paula Creed President

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he Humanistic Jewish Havurah of Southwest Florida will host “Lunch with Rabbi Adam Chalom” on Friday, January 20 at noon, at Longshore Lake Country Club, 11465 Longshore Way W., Naples.

The club is east of I-75 on the north side of Immokalee Road. The cost for nonmembers is $20.

Make your reservation by mailing a check payable to “HJH” to Cynthia Cook, 25051 Banbridge Court, #202, Bonita Springs, FL 34134 by January 16.

Rabbi Chalom holds a PhD. in Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies, is Dean for North America of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, and also serves as rabbi of Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation in suburban Chicago, Illinois.

The topic of the rabbi’s presenta-

tion will be “Jews and the Muslim Jews left these Arab countries, World: Solving the Puzzle.” “This their home for centuries, to move to issue has never been more pressing,” Israel, leaving their former homelands observes Rabbi Chalom. “Antibereft of Jews.

Semitism in the Muslim world, the The relationship of Jews to Musreal history of Jewish-Muslim interlims goes back to stories that appear in actions, the importance the Hebrew Bible and of challenging religious in the Qur’an as well. fundamentalism to proIn the Hebrew Bible, mote tolerance and cothe story goes that beexistence – we must cause Abraham’s wife face many challenges at Sarah was barren, she the same time.” advised her husband During the Middle to take their younger Ages, life for Jews in Egyptian maid serthe Arab world was vant Hagar. The child one of stability. They born of this union was were allowed to work at called Ishmael, “El” Rabbi Adam Chalom many professions, even the word for God. The rising, as Maimonides, to court phystory continues that sometime later, sicians. However, Jews who lived in Sarah, then some 90 years of age, bore the Muslim world were given what is Abraham a son named Isaac, meaning known as “dhimmi” status, the status “laughter.” th of a subordinate minority. In the 20 This is the same Abraham to whom God had made a pact promiscentury, after the establishment of the ing Abraham that his people would State of Israel, dhimmi status became be the “Chosen People” who would more and more oppressive, especially multiply, be protected and given unbearable in an age of science and certain lands on which to do so. In enlightenment, and especially with return, Abraham and his people must the opportunity to settle in a Jewish state. continuously keep the covenant (bris)

and observe the Shabbat (a day devoted to Yaveh).

The story continues that one day, as the half-brothers were playing, Sarah became disenchanted and ordered Hagar to take her son and leave.

The two outcasts departed through the desert towards Mecca. Young Ishmael became thirsty and cried for water. His mother settled him under a palm tree and ran from hill to hill searching for water to satisfy her child. This running back and forth has now become part of the ritual of the Islamic Hajj.

Thousands of years later these myths have become ingrained and are the basis for the continuing strife between Muslims and Jews. Muslims feeling they were the outcasts, Jews believing they are the “Chosen People” with a right to the land given them by God in return for keeping the covenant and observing the Shabbat.

Can these ancient stories ever be reconciled? Can we get beyond medieval concepts to truly understand each other in the modern world? Rabbi Chalom will present some interesting views on the possibilities.

For daily news stories related to Israel & the Jewish world, visit www.jewishnaples.org.

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Chapter to honor Dottie Magen at luncheon, art talk

By Helene D. Fuchs

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ulf Beaches ORT co-founder for the luncheon. Her other daughter, and first president Dottie a retired nursing home administrator, Magen has two hobbies – also lives in Florida. make that passions – ORT and art. On When Dottie came to Naples in Thursday, January 19 the chapter will 1992, she was astounded to discover hold a luncheon honoring her for outthere was no ORT chapter. She had standing service over the past dozen been a member for more than 50 years. Appropriately, the speaker will years and president of her suburban be William Meek, owner of HarmonPhiladelphia chapter. In Naples she Meek Gallery, Naples’ oldest gallery met Jill Goode, another ORT loyalist, of American art. and the two women joined forces to Meek will speak on attract members, plan “The Development of Art in informative and enterNaples since the 1950s. “ Or, taining programs, and he joked, “How to Impress raise funds for ORT Your Friends and Neighbors schools in this counwith Your Knowledge of the try and abroad. By Naples Art Scene Then and 2003, they and other Now.” The luncheon will dedicated ORTists Dottie Magen be held at 11:30 a.m. at the had strengthened the Naples Sailing and Yacht Club, 896 chapter enough for it to receive “charRiver Point Dr. The cost is $50, with ter” status. proceeds going to benefit ORT schools The Harmon Gallery opened in and programs here and abroad.

1964. Meek started working there in Dottie received degrees in educa1972 and bought it six years later, but tion and counseling from Temple and didn’t add his name until 1983, waitAdelphi universities. She later completed the art appreciation program at the Barnes Foundation in her native Philadelphia, where she was a docent at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Currently she lectures at the Renaissance Academy, Florida Gulf Coast University and Shell Point. Her slide lectures encompass a vast repertoire: Renaissance artists, 17th century Dutch artists, Spanish, African-American, Jewish and women artists. She has been a docent for the galleries at the Philharmonic and, since its inception, at the Naples Museum of Art. Dottie’s daughter and son-in-law, Will Barnet (now 100) with William Tracy and Richard Rosen, are both Meek, under the painting Barnet painted artists based in Naples. Richard, a in 1998 titled “The Artist and His Dealer” clay artist, is providing centerpieces

ing, he says, “five years to become egotistical.” The gallery specializes in American masters from 1920 to the present, including Aaron Bohrod, Jimmy Ernst (son of the noted artist Max Ernst), Herman Maril, Milton Hebald, Richard Florsheim, Robert Natkin and the 100-year-old Will Barnet.

Meek received his undergraduate degree in economics at Florida Southern College and his master’s in museum studies from Johns Hopkins University last May. His lifelong interest in art began when his parents lived in Europe for six years and took him to “every museum they could think of.” Today he is an enthusiastic supporter of the art program at the Children’s Museum of Naples.

To honor the incomparable Dottie Magen, and to hear the knowledgeable

Bill Meek, join Gulf Beaches ORT at this special occasion. For reservations, please send checks to Sandee Weseley, 4021 Gulf Shore Blvd. N., Apt. #1605, Naples, FL 34103.

Mark your calendar for these upcoming Gulf Beaches events: ¡¡ February 22, 6:00 p.m.: Annual Benefit Dinner at Quail Creek Country Club. A star-studded musical evening with Naples’ own Billy Dean and Dawn. Proceeds will benefit the Zarem-Golde ORT School in Chicago. ¡¡ March 15, 1:30 p.m.: Coffee, dessert and discussion by graphologist Alan Levine of Sanibel, who will spotlight Louis Armstrong through an analysis of his handwriting. At the Federation offices, 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd.

ORT America awarded “Exceptional” Three-star rating by Charity Navigator

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ovember 14, 2011 (New York, NY) – Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent charity evaluator, has awarded ORT America a 3-star level rating (out of four stars). This increase is due in part to the launch of Charity Navigator’s new, two-dimensional rating system – measuring each charity’s Financial Health and Accountability & Transparency. ORT America’s ascension to its current 3-star level advances its ranking based on the watchdog’s high-standard categories of efficiency, capacity and overall performance.

The new rating tool serves as an effective method of helping donors identify the charities’ investment risk

factors, and revealed ORT America to have a low ratio of administrative expenses (under 10%). Additionally, ORT America’s parent organization, World ORT, was recently granted a 4-star rating, a strong increase by both organizations.

Charity Navigator is known as the gold standard for donors seeking information about the fiscal responsibility and financial health of nonprofits, and is America’s largest, most used evaluator of charitable organizations. Its unbiased, objective ratings for more than 5,000 of the country’s best-known charities indicates how responsibly they function day-to-day and how well positioned they are to sustain their programs over time.

ISRAEL & THE JEWISH WORLD...continued from page 21A

Joseph is alive: Israel helps Africa store food

By Rivka Borochov

A simple, inexpensive Israeli solution for storing staples is helping Africans, South Americans and Asians survive food shortages

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hen the Biblical Joseph predicted that Egypt would suffer a major famine thousands of years ago, he told the Pharaoh to store grain for seven years.

His foresight kept the people in the region from starvation. Prof. Shlomo Navarro, an Israeli environmental food specialist, is taking the same approach today.

Intuitively, Navarro suspects that the Biblical Joseph kept the grain underground, which today would be a costly and unwieldy solution. Since the Bible provides few details on how Joseph stored the grain, Navarro can only imagine he applied the same basic scientific principles: hermetically seal the grain so oxygen, water, sunlight and pests can’t get in or out.

Once the grain is inside this

cocoon – along with the insects and insect eggs naturally found in it – if air can’t enter or leave, the carbon dioxide level will eventually rise and kill off the bugs. Sounds simple, but in practice this is harder to accomplish than one might think.

Navarro’s modern-day product, now owned and sold by the American company GrainPro as GrainPro Cocoon, is helping Africans, South Americans and Asians survive famines and save grain in a cost-effective and simple way.

The core technology is in the cocoon material, which is designed for open desert conditions, like in Africa and South America where storage facilities are poor or unavailable.

The cocoons can be used multiple times for many years under harsh

climatic conditions.

Wrapped in a cocoon The GrainPro Cocoon is essentially a large plastic bag, durable against tears and damage from sunlight. The unit is hermetically sealed so nothing can get in or out.

“Why don’t farmers buy plastic bags and use them? To store grain properly, you need special features,” Navarro explains. “Not all plastic bags have the same flexibility or durability under the sun. You need something that is elastic and doesn’t tear easily.

You need something that gives you a high level of probability that oxygen won’t enter the bag, or cocoon. These are important points.”

The idea came to Navarro when he was working as an agricultural researcher. “I thought the existing

solutions, all the chemicals, are really harmful to the environment and to people. I thought we had to develop alternative, environmentally-friendly solutions, like biological methods.”

This is what brought him to think of the ancient Joseph. “If you keep the commodity under hermetic conditions, the result is you get a healthy product without the damage that might be caused by the organisms,” he says.

Navarro estimates that millions of units of this very practical, inexpensive and effective grain storage technique have been sold since going commercial in the late 1990s. Developed through the U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation back in

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Joseph is alive...continued from previous page the 1980s, the cocoon was previously marketed by a kibbutz specializing in plastics.

Navarro, a serial entrepreneur, got his start as a principal scientist in the Department of Food Science of the Volcani Center-Israel Agricultural Research Organization in Beit Dagan.

His innovations for safe storage of pulses, grains, seeds, dried fruits and other stable bulk products were all, like the GrainPro Cocoon, developed to be user-friendly in order to protect food without toxic pesticides. Today he is a worldwide authority on durable commodities storage with a strong emphasis on insect control in a safe environmental way.

Recently, 4.3 million metric tons of rice were put into storage in a new facility in Colombo, Sri Lanka using the GrainPro Cocoon. In the past, because of poor storage capabilities, some 15 to 20 percent of that amount of rice would be lost.

GrainPro is also on display at a demonstration site in Rwanda, where Africans from far and wide come to

see how this product can help them save grain, money, the environment and even people’s lives.

Source: United With Israel, www. unitedwithisrael.org

BRIEFS 2,000-YEAR-OLD DEAD SEA SCROLLS GO ONLINE Thanks to a partnership between the Israel Museum and Google, five of the most complete Dead Sea Scrolls were photographed at extremely high resolutions and are now available online.

Second Temple period scribes wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls on parchment 2,000 years ago. (Jerusalem Post) View the Dead Sea Scrolls online at http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/.

ISRAEL SEES RISE IN SECURITY EXPORTS Israel’s security exports have risen since 9/11 from $2 billion a year to

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ISRAEL NO. 1 FOR ADVENTURE TOURISM Israel was ranked the top country for adventure tourism in 2010, according to a joint study recently published by George Washington University, the Adventure Travel Trade Association, and Vital Wave Consulting.

The Slovak Republic and Chile were runners-up to Israel in the study

that graded places with the Adventure Travel Development Index (ATDI).

The ATDI ranks countries in two categories: developed and developing, based on the countries’ UN designation. Israel features in the ‘developing’ grouping. It also rates countries based on principles of sustainable adventure tourism. They use a combination of expert survey and quantitative data collected from international indexes that rank whether a country is safe and welcoming, adventurous and its culture’s infrastructure, image and readiness.

The Top 10 developed countries for adventure tourism, according to the survey, are Switzerland, Iceland, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Ireland, Norway, Finland and Austria. The Top 10 developing countries are Israel, Slovak Republic, Chile, Estonia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Jordan, Romania and Latvia. (Viva Sarah Press, ISRAEL21c)

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Regular Columns: Regular columns shall be accepted only from leaders (Rabbis, Presidents, Chairpersons) of established and recognized Jewish organizations within Collier County and the designated Chairpersons of the regular committees of the Jewish Federation of Collier County.

• NJC-M: Naples Jewish Congregation Men’s Club • NJC-S: Naples Jewish Congregation Sisterhood • NJSC: Naples Jewish Social Club • ORT: Organization for Rehabilitation/Training • TS: Temple Shalom • TS-M: Temple Shalom Men’s Club • TS-S: Temple Shalom Sisterhood • WCA: Women’s Cultural Alliance • ZOA: Zionist Organization of America

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For more information, please contact the Federation at (239) 263-4205.

January 2012 COMMUNITY DIRECTORY 31A Federation Star TEMPLE SHALOM OF NAPLES (Reform) 4630 Pine Ridge Road, Naples, FL 34119 Phone: 455-3030  Fax: 455-4361 Email: info@naplestemple.org www.naplestemple.org Rabbi Adam Miller Cantor Donna Azu James H. Perman, D.D., Rabbi Emeritus Donald L. Shapiro, President Susan Shechter Daugherty, Exec. Dir. Caren Plotkin, Religious School Dir. Seyla Cohen, Preschool Director Peter Lewis, Organist/Choir Director Shabbat Services: Shabbat Eve - Friday 7:30 p.m.

Shabbat - Saturday 10:00 a.m.

• Sisterhood • Men’s Club • Adult Education • Havurot • Youth Groups • Religious School • Judaic Library • Hebrew School • Pre-School • Adult Choir • Social Action • Outreach

Naples’ only Judaica Shop

CHABAD NAPLES JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER serving Naples and Marco Island 1789 Mandarin Road, Naples, FL 34102 Phone: 262-4474 Email: info@chabadnaples.com Website: www.chabadnaples.com Rabbi Fishel Zaklos Dr. Arthur Seigel, President Ettie Zaklos, Educational Director Shabbat Services Shabbat - Saturday 10am • Camp Gan Israel • Hebrew School • Preschool of the Arts • Jewish Women’s Circle • Adult Education • Bat Mitzvah Club • Friendship Circle • Smile on Seniors • Flying Challah • Kosher food delivery The Federation Star is published monthly, September through July, by the Jewish Federation of Collier County.

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JEWISH CONGREGATION OF MARCO ISLAND

NAPLES JEWISH CONGREGATION

BETH TIKVAH

(Reform)

(Conservative)

991 Winterberry Drive Marco Island, FL 34145 Phone: 642-0800  Fax: 642-1031 Email: mgr.jcmioffice@embarqmail.com Website: MarcoJCMI.tripod.com

Services are held at: The Unitarian Congregation 6340 Napa Woods Way Rabbi Sylvin Wolf Ph.D, DD 234-6366 Email: sylvinwolf@comcast.net www.naplesjewishcongregation.org

1459 Pine Ridge Road Naples, FL 34109

Rabbi Edward M. Maline, DD Hari Jacobsen, Cantorial Soloist Bernie Seidman, President

Don Pomerantz, President Jane Galler, Cantorial Soloist

Shabbat Services Friday 8:00 p.m.

Shabbat Services

Torah Study and Saturday Services

Friday evenings at 7:30 p.m.

May - August: services once a month

• Sisterhood • Men’s Club • Brownstein Judaica Gift Shop

Sisterhood • Men’s Club

Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc, Sleepy and Happy

(just west of Mission Square Plaza)

Phone: (239) 434-1818 Email: bethtikvahnaples@aol.com Website: www.bethtikvahnaples.org President: Stuart Kaye Vice President: Phil Jason Secretary: Sue Hammerman Shabbat Services Friday evenings at 7:30pm Saturday mornings at 9:30am Youth Education - Adult Education Community Events

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

Jewish Federation of Collier County

And you thought there were seven?

Well there are. We’ve been called a lot of the above, but number seven we’re not.

Bashful.

We’d like you to make a lifetime gift or bequest to the Endowment Fund of the Jewish Federation of Collier County that will benefit the Jewish community.

Happy? It will dwarf anything else you do.

Snow joke.

For more information on gift planning, contact David Willens, Executive Director, at 239.263.4205.

Phone: 263-4205  Fax: 263-3813 Website: www.jewishnaples.org Email: info@jewishnaples.org • Federation President: Rosalee Bogo • Executive Director: David Willens

Jewish Family Services Phone: 325-4444 • Chairperson: Millie Sernovitz • Executive Director: Dr. Jaclynn Faffer

American Technion Society • Chapter Dir: Jennifer Singer, 941-378-1500 • Naples Chairman: L.C. Goldman, 592-5884

Hadassah, Collier Co. Chapter • President: Lynn Weiner, 598-1009

Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida • President: Joshua Bialek, 263-9200

Humanistic Jewish Havurah of Southwest Florida • Paula Creed, 495-8484

Israel Bonds • Reva Pearlstein, 800-622-8017 • Tyler Korn, 254-0400

Jewish National Fund • Clearwater office, 888-563-0099

Please note our email addresses:

Jewish War Veterans Post 202, Collier Co. Chapter

David Willens, Executive Director – david@jewishnaples.org

• Commander, Gil Block, 304-5953 • Senior Vice Commander, M/Gen. Bernard L. Weiss, USAF Ret. 594-7772

Melissa Keel, Community Prog. Coord. – melissa@jewishnaples.org Dr. Jaclynn Faffer, Exec. Dir. JFS – jfaffer@jewishnaples.org Jewish Family Services – JFS@jewishnaples.org Margaret Passeri, Counselor – counselor@jewishnaples.org

Naples Friends of American Magen David Adom (MDA) • Exec Dir: Robert Schwartz, 954-457-9766

Naples Jewish Social Club

General information requests – info@jewishnaples.org

• President: Illeen Mittleman, 440-221-6468

Federation Star advertising – jacqui1818@gmail.com

National Council of Jewish Women

Ted Epstein, Editor, Federation Star – federationstar@comcast.net

• Co-President: Bobbie Katz, 353-5963 • Co-President: Linda Wainick, 354-9117

ORT - Gulf Beaches Chapter

Read the current and previous editions of the Federation Star in a unique online format at

www.jewishnaples.org

• Co-President: Hella Amelkin, 649-4000 • Co-President: Midge Rauch, 353-3065

Women’s Cultural Alliance • President: Jane Hersch, 948-0003

Zionist Organization of America • President Southwest Florida Chapter: Jerry Sobel, 597-0855

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Jewish Happenings “A Simcha in Song”

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he Collier County chapter of Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, is pleased to announce a benefit concert celebration in honor of its 100th anniversary, with the presentation of “A Simcha in Song” – a showcase of popular Israeli and Yiddish melodies as well as Broadway show tunes. This landmark concert will feature many cantors and cantorial soloists as well as Stuart Warshauer and The Naples Klezmer Revival Band.

Featured in this cavalcade are Cantor Donna Azu of Temple Shalom of Naples; Hari Jacobsen, Cantorial Soloist of the Jewish Congregation of Marco Island; Cantor Faith Steinsnyder of The Village Temple in New York City, who also teaches at Hebrew Union College; Cantor Aaron Kaplan

of Temple Shaarei Shalom of Boynton Beach; Cantor Donna Goldstein, formerly of New York and Connecticut; Douglas Renfroe, Cantorial Soloist of Temple Bat Yam of Sanibel Island; Cantorial Soloist Jane Galler of the Naples Jewish Congregation; Lawrence Dermer, Cantorial Soloist from Temple Beth El of Fort Myers; and Anne Newman, previous Cantorial Soloist from Temple Shalom of Naples.

“A Simcha in Song” will be held on Sunday, February 12 at 7:00 p.m. at Temple Shalom, 4630 Pine Ridge Road, Naples. Tickets for this event start at $50. (There is a special ticket price of $18 for ages 25 and under.)

The entire community is welcome.

For tickets and information, please call 239.592.5304 or 239.598.1009 or see the ad on page 7A.

“Broadway Inside Out”

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ne of the high points of Beth Tikvah’s coming season is the “Broadway Inside Out” concert to be performed by the popular “Take Four ” group. Expect to enjoy a great sampling of your Broadway favorites.

The “Take Four” group includes lead guitarist and vocalist Jane Galler, vocalist Joy Spivak, Art Isenberg on piano and Arnold Saslavsky on drums.

The performance is on Sunday, January 29. The afternoon begins with a kosher wine and cheese reception at 3:00 p.m., and the concert follows at 4:00 p.m.

Prices are $20 per person, with reserved seating at $25. Checks pay-

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NAPLES KLEZMER REVIVAL PRESENT THE ANNUAL BAND CONCERT

able to Beth Tikvah should be mailed to Edythe Winters, sponsor of the event, at 1520 Imperial Golf Course Blvd., #213, Naples, FL 34110. Call Edythe at 239.331.2845 for details.

Reservations close on January 20.

Seating is limited and you won’t want to miss this lively musical event.

Bubbles, Baubles & Broadway

“Sweet Charity” A Gala Concert Event FEBRUARY 4, 2012 | 6 PM GET READY FOR AN AMAZING, FUNDRAISING EVENT of sensational songs, dazzling delights and fabulous Fosse as Gulfshore Playhouse and its all-star alums perform a concert version of the beloved musical Sweet Charity replete with that fabulous Fosse-style dancing, incredible voices and fantastic food.

STARRING

FEATURING REVIVAL APLES KLEZMER JAKE SHULMAN‐MENT, VIOLINIST BAND CONCERT

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 18 6:00PM FEATURING

COLLIER COUNTY SOUTH REGIONAL LIBRARY

KE SHULMAN‐MENT, VIOLINIST 8065 Lely Cultural Parkway Call the Library for Reservations at 239.252.7542 WEDNESDAY JANUARY 18

Born in New York, violinist Jake Shulman‐Ment is among the leaders of a new generation of 6:00PM Klezmer and Eastern European folk music performers. His versatility as a violinist, composer,

improviser, teacher and folk music researcher has established him as one of the world’s LIER COUNTY SOUTH REGIONAL LIBRARY leading practitioners of the Klezmer violin. Jake has performed and recorded extensively in 8065 Lely Cultural Parkway North America and Europe since the age of 14 with groups including MetroFolk, Daniel Kahn

and the Painted Bird, and the Village Klezmer Quintet, as well as with luminaries such as l the Library for Reservations at 239.252.7542 David Krakauer, Frank London, Duncan Sheik, Kalman Balog and Deborah Strauss. An

internationally in‐demand teacher, Jake has been a faculty member of New York’s Henry Street Settlement, KlezKamp, KlezKanada and Klezmer Paris. in New York, violinist Jake Shulman‐Ment is among the leaders of a new generation of Jake has recently released a debut solo CD, “A Redele (A Wheel),” to much acclaim.

mer and Eastern European folk music performers. His versatility as a violinist, composer,

Lauren Kennedy as “Charity”

(Broadway’s Spamalot, Les Miserables, Sunset Boulevard, Sideshow)

Alan Campbell as “Oscar” (Broadway’s Sunset Boulevard)

Franc D’Ambrosio as “Vittorio”

(One of the world’s longest-running Phantoms of the Opera)

We promise it will be an evening you won’t forget.

All proceeds benefit Gulfshore Playhouse.

For More Info, Call the Gulfshore Playhouse Administrative Office at

239.261.PLAY

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Terrorism expert Brigitte Gabriel to speak in Naples

By Sylvia Simko

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ou have seen her as a regular guest analyst on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ABC News and CBS News, and heard her on various radio stations daily across America. Brigitte Gabriel is one of the leading terrorism experts in the world, providing information and analysis on the rise of global Islamic terrorism.

She will be making her only appearance in Southwest Florida on Sunday, February 26, from 7:00 9:00 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Naples, 3000 Orange Blossom Drive. Her topic will be “Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It.” She will present the latest threats radical Islam poses to our safety and security. For directions to the church or more information, call 239.597.6057. There is no charge for the event.

Brigitte Gabriel lectures nationally and internationally about terrorism and current affairs. Her expertise is sought by world and business leaders. She has addressed the Australian Prime Minister, members of the British Parliament/House of Commons, members of the United States Congress, the Pentagon, the Joint Forces Staff College, the U.S. Special Operations Command, and the FBI. She is the founder, president and CEO of ACT for America, the largest grassroots citizen action network

dedicated to preserving national security and combating radical Islam. She is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, including Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America. The book was put on the reading list at the FBI Academy and was assigned as mandatory reading for Navy SEALS heading

a small kerosene heater, no sanitary systems, no electricity, no running water and little food.

In 1978, Gabriel’s family was warned of an impending attack on Christians in Marjayoun by Muslim militias. She told her parents that she was too young to die, but if that was to happen she wanted to die in her Easter

see that they were providing medical treatment to Palestinians and Muslim gunmen who were sworn enemies of Israel. In that moment she understood that the Israelis did not see religion, political affiliation or nationality, they only saw people in need. Her mother was taken care of before an IDF soldier right next to her.

She stayed in Israel for three weeks until her mother was well enough to go back to Lebanon. In that time she realized that she had been lied to by her government about Israel and the Jews. As she crossed the border back into Lebanon, she knew that not only had the Israelis saved her mother’s life but had changed hers.

Years later, she buried her beloved parents in Israel, a place she had come to love. They are buried on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. If you have ever visited Oskar Schindler’s grave, you have walked right by theirs. They are the only couple buried with the word “LEBANON” on their gravestone.

Brigitte Gabriel is a courageous woman with an enormous amount of information to impart. The evening is not to be missed.

“I lost Lebanon, my country of birth to radical Islam.

I do not want to lose my adopted country America.”

– Brigitte Gabriel to the Middle East. Her other book is They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It. Ms. Gabriel is named one of the top 50 prominent speakers in America. She speaks Arabic, French, English and Hebrew.

She is an only child born to Maronite Christian parents in the Marjayoun District of South Lebanon. Her life was happy and she was devoted to her parents. Her life changed when the Lebanese civil war broke out in the 1970s. Muslims bombed her home and she and her parents were forced to live in an 8’x 10’ bomb shelter underground for seven years with only

Exciting New Season

dress. Her life was saved that night when the Israelis invaded Lebanon in Operation Litani. It was a two-fold mission – to get rid of Arab terrorists who were firing into Israel and to help the beleaguered Christians.

Brigitte’s mother was badly injured from bomb shrapnel and was taken by two Lebanese soldiers to the Israeli border where she was taken to an Israeli hospital for treatment. When Brigitte arrived, she was amazed to 

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Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photos of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman A COMEDY

BY RON HUTCHINSON

January 3-30, 2012

One screenplay.

Three men. Five days.

A bushel of bananas.

JANUARY 11 - FEBRUARY 4, 2012 PERFORMANCES: Wed.-Sat. 8 pm • Sunday 2 pm

“I want people to know that there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer.

I have pictures. I have proof.” Faye Schulman Pulitzer drama coming Feb. 1-25

Sponsored by M&I Wealth Management

Join us for “High Tea” Refreshments

tickets $35 adults • $10 students

Kindly Underwritten by Ann Jacobson

January 3, 2012 4-6 PM January 13, 2012 4-6 PM Followed by Shabbat Service

Free and Open to the Public 9 times “Best Live Theatre”

Tickets:

239-263-7990 239-263-7990

or online

Performances: WEDS.-SAT. 8 PM • SUNDAYS 2 PM The Naples players at Sugden Community Theatre 701 5th Ave. South, Naples, FL 34102 • www.naplesplayers.org

FGCU ARTLAB For information contact Dr. Myra Mendible, Interim Director, JHHR Center, mendible@fgcu.edu 239-590-7182

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“Voices of the Holocaust” – an interfaith program

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he Russian Cultural Center of Naples proudly presents “Voices of the Holocaust,” an interfaith program commemorating UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, January 29 at 5:00 p.m. at Beverly Hall, United Church of Christ, 5200 Crayton Road, Naples.

Unfolding history, expressed through music and spoken words becomes a living memorial to both the victims and the survivors of the Holocaust. This program is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of complete destruction. Through the language of music and the spoken word, we can reach the highest level of human spirit – consciousness – thus uniting people with understanding the past and striving to prevent the Shoah from ever happening again.

This year’s commemoration is graciously sponsored by the Consulate General of the Federal

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HotWorks.org Presents the 9th Bi-Annual

Estero Fine Art Show

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Republic of Germany, located in Miami, and will feature the following musicians and narrators, known in the community for their Holocaust commemoration presentations in previous years: • Bella Gutshtein (artistic director/pianist) • Adam Satinsky (cello) • Boris Sandler (violin) • Narration: Natasha Gutshtein and Cary Vhugen The Russian Cultural Center of Naples is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to encourage, develop and support displays of Russian visual and performing arts for the benefit of the residents and visitors to Southwest Florida.

We believe that our community is enriched by diverse cultural contributions. For more information, please contact Bella Gutshtein at 347.601.8913 or bella@rccnaples. org.

January 7 & 8, 2012 At Miromar Outlets

Steven Potts, Wood

Free Admission & Free Parking – Sat, Jan 7 & Sun, Jan 8, 10am-5pm daily Youth Art Competition for grades K-8!

Located At Miromar Outlets www.Miromar.com I-75 & Exit 123 Corkscrew Road/Miromar Outlets Blvd.

www.HotWorks.org proud sponsor of the Institute for the Arts & Education, Inc.

For a continuously updated community calendar, visit www.jewishnaples.org.

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Have you ever watched folk dancing or line dancing and thought: “I could do that!”

Do you yearn for those camp days, dressed in blue and white, when Israeli dancing was a regular part of Kabbalat Shabbat – or any evening after dinner?

Do you watch those hora lines at weddings and bar mitzvahs and say to yourself: “I know there’s more to Israeli dancing than this!”

Well, now’s your chance to experience the fun, camaraderie, and exercise Israeli style here in Lee County at the Federation building. We will be teaching, learning, and doing Israeli folk dances. All levels of experience – from never having danced before to very experienced ‐ are welcomed and encouraged to come.

We ask that you RSVP as space is limited for most events.

For more information and reservations, contact Ida or Pete (contact info above).

Visit ReadersThinkersCollier.blogspot.com and subscribe to the email list for updates.

Every Sunday at 4 P.M. (Beginners at 3:40)

Jewish Federation of Lee & Charlotte Counties 9701 Commerce Center Court, Fort Myers Please let us know of your interest and level of experience by emailing Marsha Kistler at mkiss417@aol.com or calling 239.481.4449

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Community programs at Temple Shalom

ZOA of Southwest Florida presents Morton Klein, ZOA National President Tuesday, January 24 at 7:30 p.m.

Beth Tikvah, 1459 Pine Ridge Road, Naples

For more information on the events below, please contact Temple Shalom at 239.455.3030.

There is no cost and all are welcome.

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at 5:30 p.m. Facilitators Cantor Donna Azu and Jane Perman lead a wide variety of activities and discussions that center around issues of importance to Jewish women. This diverse and welcoming group is comprised of women who gather on a monthly basis to celebrate the new month and their lives as Jewish women; to learn and to share as a community. *** Temple Shalom proudly welcomes Dr. David Ellenson, President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), as our 2012 Scholar-in-Residence, as we celebrate our 50th Anniversary.

Dr. Ellenson is a distinguished rabbi, scholar, and leader of the Reform Movement, internationally recognized for his work in the areas of Jewish religious thought, ethics and modern Jewish history. Join us on Friday, January 27 at 8:00 p.m. as Dr. Ellenson discusses “Two Types of Reform: Rabbis Isaac Mayer Wise and David Einhorn and their Meaning Today;” and on Saturday, January 28 for “Reform in the 20th Century: From the UPB to Gates of Prayer and Mishkan Tefilah” at 10:00 a.m., and for “Reform and the Future of American Judaism: The Meaning of Denominations in the 21st Century” at 7:30 p.m. *** Temple Shalom’s Brown Bag Lunch series welcomes Sheriff Kevin Rambosk on Tuesday, January 31 at noon, as he presents the “State of the Community” and answers your questions. Bring your lunch.

ow do you want to be remembered? What will be your legacy? Temple Shalom’s Sundays at Shalom series offers “Writing an Ethical Will: The Most Rewarding and Enduring Gift You Can Give to Your Family,” presented

by David Rutstein. Join us on Sunday, January 8 at 10:00 a.m. as David discusses this centuries-old tradition.

He will help you create a timeless, permanent and enduring gift which will link the past and future generation of your family. *** Dr. Michael Rubner presents Yitzhak Rabin – The Reluctant Peacemaker for Temple Shalom’s Wednesday Institute for Jewish Learning (WIJL) on January 11 at 7:00 p.m. *** Temple Shalom’s Brown Bag Lunch series kicks off with “Living a Longer and Healthier Life,” featuring a very special panel of our community’s most respected doctors, representing a wide range of specialties. Join us on Tuesday, January 17 at noon. Bring your lunch and your curiosity! *** On Wednesday, January 18 at 7:00 p.m. join Temple Shalom as Dr. Paula Brody, Director of The Outreach Training Institute, Union for Reform Judaism, Reform Jewish Outreach Boston, presents Creation and Creativity. *** T h e Temple Shalom Rosh Chodesh Group, a Women’s Gathering, meets on Thursday, January 26

Mr. Klein will share his insights into the Middle East turmoil and how it affects the State of Israel. He will also update us on the Iranian nuclear armament issue and other factors affecting Israeli security.

RSVP to Jerry Sobel at jerrysobel@aol.com or Gene Sipe at mrnsrvr@gmail.com.

JEWISH CONGREGATION OF MARCO ISLAND OPEN HOUSE The Jewish Congregation of Marco Island (JCMI) warmly invites you to our Open House on Sunday, January 22, 2012, from 10:00AM to 1:00PM. This is your opportunity to meet and chat with Rabbi Edward Maline, D.D., Cantorial Soloist Hari Jacobsen, and other members who are involved in the leadership of our temple. JCMI plays a central role for every generation of our Jewish community. From our Friday night Shabbat services, festival and holiday services, adult education, Saul I. Stern Cultural Series, and the Jewish Film Festival, JCMI is at the center of Jewish life on Marco Island and surrounding area. JCMI is here to carry on the traditions that prior Jewish generations fought and died to preserve for us.

The open house is free and reservations are requested. Refreshments will be served.

For further information, please contact the JCMI office at 239-642-0800 or Harvey Brenner at 239-304-0737.

Jewish Congregation of Marco Island 991 Winterberry Drive Marco Island, Florida 34145

Catholic/Jewish Dialogue of Collier County

ISRAEL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

2012 PROGRAM SERIES

“Differences in Religious Practices”

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE

HILLEL CHAPTER FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY

First Session: Sunday, January 8 Jewish Congregation of Marco Island

PRESENTS THE

991 Winterberry Drive Marco Island

FOURTH ANNUAL ISRAEL AFFAIRS FORUM SERIES

2:00 PM

Part II – ISRAEL TODAY “THE U.S. AND ISRAEL – THE VIEW FROM WASHINGTON”

“Living With Two Faiths” When Jews and Catholics Marry

Rabbi Edward Maline, Jewish Congregation of Marco Island Fr. George Ratzmann, Pastor, St William Catholic Church

GUEST SPEAKER:

Including a Panel of Interfaith Couples

DR. RALPH NURNBERGER PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PARTNER – NURNBERGER & ASSOCIATES, WASHINGTON, DC A GOVERNMENT RELATIONS FIRM

Second Session: Sunday, February 5 St. Williams Catholic Church Ministry Center 750 Seagate Drive Naples

2:00 PM

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 10:00AM – 12:00PM

“Finding One’s Faith”

Inspired by the Book, Turbulent Souls reprinted as Choosing My Religion, by Stephen J. Dubner, New York Times Editor and Writer

FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY – STUDENT UNION ROOM 25 PLEASE PARK IN PARKING GARAGE TWO 10501 FGCU BOULEVARD, ESTERO, FL

Discussion led by the Catholic Jewish Dialogue Readers and Thinkers

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED Contact the Jewish Federation at 239.263.4205

Take this opportunity to come and learn more about your own faith as well as your neighbor’s.

The more we have in common, the more we are like one another.

RSVP to Jewish Federation at 239.263.4205

JEWISH HAPPENINGS Federation Star January 2012 5B

January 2012 Federation Star

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“He who saves a single life is said to have saved the world” —Talmud

Naples Friends of American Friends of Magen David Adom Invites you to an evening with

FEATURED SPEAKER FRIDA GHITIS Israeli light fare of appetizers, wine and desserts Couvert $50 Monday, January 9 at 6:30 pm Chabad Naples Jewish Community Center 1789 Mandarin Road, Naples COMMITTEE

Co-chairs Yochi Melnik and Kim Gerson Diane & Gil Block Dr. Ron Gerson Ruth & Phil Jason Ava & Dr. Dan Kaplan

Barry Lebowitz Jennifer & Rabbi Adam Miller Jane & Rabbi James Perman Michael Pollack

Robin & Stephen Schiller Wendy & Nir Sharon Rabbi Fishel & Ettie Zaklos

Frida Ghitis is a world affairs columnist whose articles appear in dozens of publications across the globe. She started her career at CNN, where she was a producer and correspondent. She has worked in more than 60 countries and travels frequently to peaceful and not so peaceful places, including the Middle East. In addition to the Miami Herald, where she writes a column distributed to hundreds of newspapers throughout the world, her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Jerusalem Post, CNN.com, and many others.

American Friends of Magen David Adom supports the life-saving efforts of MDA in Israel • MDA operates from 123 • Magen David Adom is Israel’s • The MDA National Blood Services Center provides 100% Emergency Medical Stations only government-mandated ambulance service and of the blood requirements of and 11 dispatch stations emergency medical responders, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) throughout Israel. serving as Israel’s second line and 95% of the blood needs • MDA trains over 55,000 of defense. of Israel’s hospitals and the people a year in first aid general population. basics and more sophisticated • A team of trained professionals paramedical skills. and volunteers respond to • MDA travels nearly 10 million accidents, illnesses, pregnancies, miles a year operating a fleet heart attacks,strokes, war and of 800 ambulances. terror incidents.

For more information or to receive an invitation, contact Bob Schwartz at 800-626-0046 or rschwartz@afmda.org

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JEWISH HAPPENINGS

18th season of Saul I. Stern Cultural Series begins

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he Jewish Congregation of Marco Island opens the 18th consecutive season of the Saul I. Stern Cultural Series, on Sunday, January 22 at 7:30 p.m. The series has been named by the congregation’s Board of Directors for one of its congregants, Saul Stern, the man who brought outstanding events to the series, for the benefit of the entire community of Collier County. Saul passed away in March 2010. The series continues to honor his work.

The opening speaker, Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger, relates his amazing story. Born the son of a high official of the Nazi regime, he speaks of his revulsion to the treatment of German Jews and his inability to tolerate the anti-Semitism practiced by his father. Dr. Wollschlaeger graduated from Friederich-Alexander University Medical School in Erlangen, Nurenberg, severed relations with his family, and immigrated to Israel. He enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces as a Medical Officer and continued his medical training. He converted to

Judaism. He and his family are devout in their practice of Judaism.

Dr. Wollschlaeger has described his journey, in a book, A German Life: Against All Odds Change is Possible, in which he tells of his struggle growing up in Germany. Autographed copies of Dr. Wollschlaeger’s book will be available for purchase at the event. He will release another book in the spring of 2012, Stauffenberg: My Life In the Shadow of a Hero.

Dr. Wollschlaeger completed his residency training at Jackson Memorial Hospital, in Miami, and received additional training in addiction medicine. Dr. Wollschlaeger also serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine, the Florida International and the Florida State University. He maintains offices in North Miami.

For the full Cultural Series schedule and a ticket order form, please see page 11B.

JCMI Sisterhood & Men’s Club wine tasting and gourmet Italian dinner

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n Sunday, January 29, eat, drink and be merry with hors d’oeuvres from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., with a selection of wines and a multi-course dinner to follow.

Experience a paired wine with each course, with an explanation of wine servings by noted wine expert Ron Kapon.

Ron is a graduate of The Gross-

man Beverage Program and The German Wine Academy. He is a member of The Society for Wine Educators, a lecturer at The Wine Workshop, and co-founder of The Wine Media Guild.

There will also be music for dancing and listening. For more information, call the JCMI office at 239.642.0800 by January 15.

Marco Island Clergy Association 2012 Interfaith Community Educational Series ”Embracing with Love and Understanding – An Interfaith, Community Adult Education Series”

This is an opportunity to learn about one another’s faith at a weekly lecturediscussion, hosted by many of the congregations on Marco Island beginning January 2012 and concluding March 2012

Date and Time

Place

Subject

Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 7PM Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 7PM Wednesday, February 1, 2012 7PM Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 7PM Thursday, February 16, 2012 7PM Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 7PM Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 7PM Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 7PM Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 7PM Thursday, March 22, 2012, 7PM

Jewish Congregation Of Marco Island 991 Winterberry Dr. New Life Community Church of God 590 W. Elkham Circle The United Church of Marco Island 320 N. Barfield Drive Jewish Congregation Of Marco Island 991 Winterberry Dr. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church 1101 N. Collier Blvd.

Wesley United Methodist Church 320 S. Barfield Drive The Family Church of Marco Island 1450 Winterberry Dr. San Marco Catholic Church 851 San Marco Road Marco Presbyterian Church 875 W. Elkcam Circle Marco Lutheran Church 525 N. Collier Blvd.

Rabbi Maline of JCMI will discuss the major movements within the Jewish Community – Orthodoxy, Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist Judaism Rev. Thomas McCulley of the New Life Community Church of God will discuss Pentecostal Christianity Rev. Richard Adair of The United Church of Marco Island will discuss Congregational Christianity Rev. Rita Partin of the Cupbearer Ministry will discuss her denomination Rev. Kyle Bennett of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church will discuss his denomination Rev. Kirk Dreiser of the Wesley United Methodist Church will discuss Methodist Christianity Rev. Tim Neptune of The Family Church of Marco Island will discuss the Baptist Movement Father Tim Navin of San Marco Catholic Church will discuss Catholic Beliefs and Practices Pastor Bill Lyle of the Marco Presbyterian Church will discuss Presbyterian Christianity Rev. Kevin Koenig of the Marco Lutheran Church will discuss Lutheran Beliefs and Practices

For daily news stories related to Israel & the Jewish world, visit the Federation’s website at www.jewishnaples.org.

WOODEN S Y NAGOGUES OF POLAND & THE FLORIDA CONNECTION T hru March 18, 2012

Since the 10th century, Jews lived in Poland.

As their numbers increased, they lived in shtetls and built wooden synagogues that represent Jewish folk art.

During World War II, the Nazis destroyed these early wooden synagogues in Poland.

With support from

Englishman Peter Maurice studied these and made 10 models that he donated to the Jewish Museum of Florida.

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Rabbi Irving Lehrman HIS LIFE & ART

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Prime Minister Golda Meir, with Rabbi Irving Lehrman and Mrs. Belle Lehrman, 1974.

Thru January 15, 2012

This exhibit is primarily sponsored by Temple Emanu-El.

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JEWISH INTEREST

Book Review The Arab lobby: not a myth but a menace

By Philip K. Jason, Special to the Federation Star The Arab Lobby, by Mitchell Bard.

Harper. 432 pages. $27.99 hardback, $14.99 paperback.

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his book fills an important need. Though it may at first seem that it was needed to counter outlandish claims about the power that Israeli and Jewish interests have over U.S. policy decisions, the real necessity goes far beyond such a rationale. American citizens are for the most part totally ignorant about the manyheaded Arab lobby, its enormity, and its essentially subversive agenda. Dr. Bard’s 70year history sets the Phil Jason record straight.

One long-lived component of the Arab lobby is the partisan mindset of our own Department of State.

Arabists in high government positions have long promoted policies favoring supportive relationships with Arab/ Muslim governments of the Middle East in spite of the sorry human rights records of these governments, none of which is a true democracy. Arabist motives range from an almost romantic attachment to the exotic east, to an ingrained anti-Semitism, to a recognition of America’s high priority need for access to petroleum resources in those lands.

A second component of the Arab lobby is made up of the national and international oil companies. Pressure

tions machine on U.S. policy comes from, and is paid That is, for access to oil, we are allowannounces for by, petroleum corporations needing the countries that support terrorist how Saudis ing to do business with those energyviolence to implant intellectual terrorhave foiled rich countries and ready to do their ism in our classrooms. terrorist plots bidding in the halls of our congress All this is worrisome enough, and paints a and in the offices of our government but Mitchell Bard also presents irpicture of Saudi Arabia as agencies. refutable evidence that materials for an ally in the war on terror, following Of course, the countries themK-12 classroom use in our public (and Saudi money paints a very different selves – through their diplomatic private) schools are prepared by Arab and terrifying picture. missions, gift-giving, and investment lobby organizations with the goal of There is also a very large anti-Zipolicies, form another component of promoting “anti-Israel and propaganonist array of Christian denominations the Arab lobby. Here, none is more dist views.” In short, brainwashing is that comprise a formidable dimension forceful than Saudi Arabia. Writes going on in our grade schools, middle of the Arab lobby. In fact, Bard argues, Bard: “The United States has deschools and high schools as well as in outside of the Evangelicals, most veloped a pathological relationship our universities. Freedom of speech major (and minor) Christian church with Saudi Arabia over the last seven abuses are undermining our country. bodies are anti-Zionist. decades. America’s political leadThat’s the real cost of dependence on After reading Mitchell Bard’s ers have allowed themselves to be Arab oil. book (and checking his sources), one blackmailed by the Saudi Monarchy That same oil money supports can no longer believe that the Arab because of their belief that capitulasupposedly nongovernment organizalobby is a myth. Though it is not a tion to Saudi demands is necessary to tions whose main purpose is to spread unified entity and does not have a lead ensure the continued flow extreme Islamic ideology organization parallel to the American of oil on which the Ameriwherever and however it Israel Public Affairs Committee, it can economy depends.” can. Bard believes that as is – in its totality – an imposing force Unfortunately overmuch as 80% of Ameriwith immense resources. looked, according to Bard, ca’s 1,200 mosques are Bard concludes: “Now that it has is “the Saudi-Funded War run by Wahhabi imams. been exposed, it is time to shake off on America.” Saudi monMany Islamic cultural the influence of the Arab lobby and ey (and that of other Arab centers in the U.S. proto bolster ties with countries that do nations) regularly finds mote intolerance of Judashare our values and interests.” its way to Islamic terrorism and Christianity.

Philip K. Jason is Professor Emeritus ist groups, undermining In these ways, the oil Mitchell Bard of English from the United States American security. That money is busy shaping Naval Academy. He reviews regusame money supports, at U.S. unithe outlook of another “head” in the larly for the Naples edition of Florida versities, programs in Mid-Eastern hydra-headed Arab lobby: the ArabWeekly and for Fort Myers MagaStudies that are obvious vehicles for American community! zine. undermining U.S. values, rewriting Although the Saudi public relathe history of the Middle East, and For more of Phil’s insights and reviews, as demonizing Israel and its supporters.

well as literature/publishing links, visit his website at www.philjason.wordpress.com.

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France under Nazi control from a French perspective

By Don Pomerantz La Rafle (The Round-Up) 2010 115 minutes, not rated French with English subtitles JCMI Film Festival

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ven after seeing Schindler’s List, Sarah’s Key and many other films and documentaries recording the horrors of the Holocaust, Rose Bosch’s La Rafle (The Round Up) succeeds in creating a riveting cinematic experience.

The all too familiar and horrifying experiences of Jewish oppression by the Germans are exacerbated by the complicity and brutality of French countrymen under the leadership of Marshal Petain. On July 16, 1942, at 4 o’clock in the morning, 13,000 Jews were rounded up and brought to the stifling Winter Velodrome (arena) without food ,water, sanitation and medical care. It is the French who are the oppressors, following the orders of the Vichy government and the German high command.

The scene in the Velodrome illustrates the first circle of hell and prefigures the disasters to follow.

Bosch focuses her camera on a tight

shot of the Velodrome floor. As she gradually widens her focus to encompass the gigantic space, the viewer is confronted with a mass of people huddled together with no idea of what lies before them. The physical insignificance becomes a visual metaphor of Jewish eventual eradication.

This scene, which encapsulates tragic inevitability, also demonstrates the power of goodness in the role of David Sheinblum (Jean Reno), a Jewish doctor who sacrifices his own freedom in order to treat the suffering Annette Monod (Melanie Laurent), a young Protestant nurse who dedicates her life to the oppressed. Unfortunately, the powers of evil are greater than those of good.

Although Bosch concentrates her narrative on the Weissman family, she is able to delineate many other characters. Neighbors, townspeople, teachers and children possess specific character traits, which heightens the intensity of their hardships. As viewers, we are forced to confront the individual pain of each character.

The portrayal of character individuality is particularly noteworthy

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as Bosch presents the major children’s roles. She strikes a fine balance between showing them as playful adolescents and as thoughtful captives planning ways to escape their inevitable fate. Their dangerous activism is in contrast to the apparent passivity of the adults. They will be the ones who will bear witness to the atrocities they had to endure.

The arc of the film becomes one of attrition. Bosch dramatically underscores how each displacement results in loss: from the Velodrome, signifying loss of community, to detention camps, signifying loss of spouse and children, and finally loss of life. The pathos of the film is intensified by the knowledge that all of the episodes in this harrowing film are based on historical accounts.

La Rafle is a valuable film because it not only dramatizes the brutal reality of the Holocaust, it also endows its characters with a humanity

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Editor’s note: This article, which will be divided into three parts and published in the January, February and March issues of the Federation Star, is reprinted with permission from Moment magazine, www.momentmag.com.

Father Patrick Desbois is on a mission to uncover the mass graves of nearly two million Jews. Sixty years after the Holocaust, time is running out.

sold poultry in neighboring villages.

Claudius freely told his grandson about his life, except for one chapter – his experiences during World War II. Captured by Germans in 1942, he was interned at a prisoner of war camp in Rawa-Ruska in western Ukraine.

When pressed about his experiences there, Claudius would only say, “In the camp we had nothing to eat, no food, no drink, but outside the camp was worse,” Desbois recalls. “As a child I was wondering what could be worse than a camp of deportee prisoners.” It was only years later as a teenager that he realized his grandfather was talking about the Jews.

As a mathematics student at Dijon University in eastern France, Desbois found himself attracted to theology and religious studies. After graduation he taught math in West Africa and later worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta. But, partly because of his grandfather’s story, he was drawn to Jews, and after being ordained a priest at the age of 31, he requested to work with them in France. He was appointed secretary to the French Conference of Bishops for Relations

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ather Patrick Desbois seldom smiles. Sitting across from me in the deserted dining room of a Foggy Bottom hotel in Washington, DC, the austere French Catholic priest unflinchingly chronicles the mass execution of Jews during World War II. “The shootings took place in public, it was like a show,” says Desbois.

Our waiter looks uncomfortable as he places a Sprite on the table – most likely he is unaccustomed to hearing his customers discuss genocide over drinks.

The diminutive 56-year-old has spent the last eight years on what some have called a “holy mission,” traveling across Eastern Europe – mostly in Ukraine – to identify the unmarked and sometimes previously unknown graves of the more than 1.5 million Jews murdered there during World War II. In village after village, Desbois, using his clerical collar as his means of entrée, convinces local witnesses – children or teenagers during the war – to tell him stories that have been left untold for more than 60 years. “It is like opening a box,” Desbois says in his thick French accent.

“They have been waiting to speak.”

His work is bringing to light an often-neglected chapter of Holocaust history – that of entire Jewish com-

munities massacred where they lived.

“This project has focused attention on the need for greater understanding of the Holocaust in the East,” says Paul Shapiro, Director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). It balances our perception of the Holocaust, he adds, which has been of “trains taking people to death camps” with events that “in large part took place before the trains even started.” Over a third of the murdered six million were killed by bullets in Eastern Europe: Desbois’ work – recording testimony, documenting mass graves and even collecting the actual bullets – not only provides irrefutable evidence of this but is changing the way we understand the Holocaust itself.

Desbois was born in a farmhouse in peaceful Burgundy, France in 1955, after the war. As a child he was very close to his grandfather, Claudius, with whom he did farm work and

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In 2002, while traveling in Ukraine, he visited the site of his grandfather’s imprisonment, RawaRuska. Desbois knew that before World War II more than 15,000 Jews had lived in the town, but when he asked to see where they had been murdered, the mayor brushed him off and said no one knew anything about it. “How could more than 10,000 Jews be killed in the village and nobody knows?” he says. “I knew I needed to find out what happened. So I came back two times, three times, four times to Rawa-Ruska. And then the mayor lost the election and a new mayor was elected, much less Soviet.”

The new mayor led Desbois to the forest where, Desbois says, approximately 50 elderly men and women of the village were gathered in a semicircle. “You are standing on the graves of the last 1,500 Jews of Rawa-Ruska,” the mayor said. One by one the villagers stepped forward and told of their experiences during World War II. They told of how the Jews were marched out to this clearing, forced to dig steep pits and hand over their valuables before being shot.

They recounted stories of how the Germans had forced them – children or teenagers at the time – to guard the Jews to prevent them from escaping,

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to cover the corpse-filled pits, to serve the German soldiers food and even bring them a gramophone so they could listen to music.

Desbois recalls one woman – “an old lady with a blue scarf” – who tearfully told him, “I was at my farm, I was 14, and they told me, ‘Come, come,’ and I had to climb in the trees and pick up pieces of corpses and hide them with branches in the grave so that the next Jews will not see them. And, after, arrived trucks and trucks and trucks of Jews from Rawa-Ruska.”

Following these revelations, the villagers told Desbois they had never before publicly spoken of what had happened. Many asked the priest before he left, “Why are you coming so late? We have been waiting for you.”

As Jews were pushed out of Western and Central Europe in the late Middle Ages, they moved east at the invitation of Polish nobles who valued their business acumen. Restricted from owning land, Jews managed estates for absentee landowners and collected taxes for them, making the Jews an object of hatred for Ukrainian peasants. Although Jewish life would in many ways flourish – Hasidism, much of modern Zionism and various literary movements developed in Ukraine—anti-Jewish sentiments became embedded in Ukrainian culture, leading to repeated violence.

One hundred thousand Jews were slaughtered in pogroms led by Bogdan Khmelnitsky in 1648 and 1649; thousands more died at the hands of the

Haidamaks – paramilitary Ukrainian bands – in the 18th century; more lost their lives in pogroms in 1881 and 1882. Despite the persecution, almost two million Jews lived in Ukraine by the beginning of the 20th century. But they were helpless in the face of political, nationalist and ethnic tensions among Russians, Poles and Ukrainians: Between 1918 and 1921, enormous numbers of Jews were caught in the crossfire as the Bolsheviks and their opponents struggled for power during the reign of nationalist leader Simon Petlura.

Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 sealed the fate of Ukrainian Jewry. As Hitler’s troops marched through Eastern Europe in an ultimately futile attempt to reach Moscow, roving death squads called Einsatzgruppen followed in their wake with a license to kill those who might “endanger the security” of Hitler’s regime – which translated into Jews, as well as some political dissidents.

Every mass shooting was different, but some identifiable patterns existed. The most infamous shooting took place in September 1941 in a ravine called Babi Yar northwest of the city of Kiev. Posters were put up around the city ordering the Jews to gather in order to be resettled; more

January 2012 Federation Star than 30,000 Jews arrived at the Jewish cemetery near the ravine, some early, hoping to get good seats on the train.

By the time people realized what was happening, it was too late. Soldiers forced them into groups of ten and shot them, one group falling on top of the other, and walked over the bodies after each round to pack them in tighter. In one “action,” 33,771 Jews were killed, the single largest mass killing under the Nazis. There were only a handful of known survivors.

This brutal sequence of events was repeated many times elsewhere.

For the shooters, efficiency and order were paramount. The rule became one Jew, one bullet. If the bullet failed to kill someone, he was pushed into the pits and buried alive. Friedrich Jeckeln, a commanding SS General of the Einsatzgruppen who is credited with developing many of these techniques, also devised the horrific “sardine packing” method of positioning victims face down on top of those who had just been murdered, in order to maximize space.

As this continued, word of the ethnic genocide began to leak into the West, leading Berlin to initiate a secret large-scale campaign called Sonderaktion 1005 to destroy evidence of the shootings. German and local officers ordered prisoners (usually Jewish) to

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exhume and burn the bodies buried in mass graves. The prisoners – sometimes called “corpse units” – would be killed afterwards and the officers sworn to secrecy. According to Desbois, many graves and bodies were lost or destroyed in that way, and the absence of proof would later provide fuel for Holocaust revisionists.

The killings were further obscured from public view by the Soviets, who controlled Eastern Europe at the end of the war. They conducted interviews, took photos and wrote reports of what occurred in many of the towns and villages, but in the anti-Semitic atmosphere of Stalin’s Soviet Union, the official policy was to present the Holocaust as an atrocity committed against Soviet citizens, rather than against Jews. Those who sought to publicize the Jewish nature of the genocide were suppressed. In 1944, journalist Vassily Grossman, a Ukrainian-born Jew, published “The Hell of Treblinka,” one of the first articles to describe a Nazi death camp; it was used as testimony in the Nuremberg trials. But his attempt, with fellow journalist Ilya Ehrenburg, to publish a collection of accounts of Nazi atrocities against Jews in the Soviet Union was stymied by the Soviet authorities.

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