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JEWISH FEDERATION
March 2021
Selling Dreams...
Freedom
One Address at a Time!
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s we approach the upcoming Passover holiday, we are reminded that it is indeed a holiday of freedom. In that spirit, we want to point out that because of your generous commitments to the Annual Community Campaign, we were able to provide “freedoms” to our beneficiaries. Your campaign dollars are used to help frail and needy Holocaust survivors in our Greater Naples community. The freedom you help to provide is in several areas. First, you help provide them freedom from food insecurity. Second, these Holocaust survivors need assistance in areas such as home care, counseling, etc. You help provide for these needs, allowing these individuals to live with dignity. Your campaign dollars provide financial scholarship assistance to families who cannot afford to send their children to
Jewish Sunday/Religious School, Jewish day camp or Jewish sleep-away camp. This is about Jewish continuity. Your dollars allow these families the freedom of choosing to provide these kinds of experiences for their children. With your campaign dollars, we hope to bring Jews to Israel, allowing these individuals the freedom to be Jews. There are still people coming from Ethiopia. The Aliyah and Klitah (immigration and acculturation) provide these Israeli immigrants freedom from persecution. Your campaign dollars provide freedom for Jews in Kiev, Ukraine, to continue to practice being Jewish. The support for the Ha-Tikvah preschool helps provide for Jewish continuity and the Jewish lifeline. At the conclusion of the Seder, we say, “Bah Shanah HaBah, B’Yerushalaiyim” – next year, in Jerusalem. We would like to add that, in the coming year, we should be able to be together, in person. It all begins with you. Thank you for your commitment to the Annual Community Campaign. Thank you for providing so many people with so much help and freedom. Thank you for caring! We wish you a Zissen Pesach!
A Message from your Book Festival Co-Chairs
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ow the months have flown by! It doesn’t seem possible that it will soon be March and there are only four more events before our Book Festival concludes. Comments received have indicated that the 2020-21 Book Festival is the best one to date. We are delighted that you are enjoying the wide array of authors participating in this year’s Festival. Although originally we were very concerned about going virtual, there turned out to be numerous advantages to “Zooming” our Book Festival. Many of you have told us that you enjoy being able to watch the authors from the comfort of your couch, and not having to be concerned about such things as finding a parking space or getting a front-row seat. We discovered many other benefits to this year’s virtual Festival. One of the most exciting was the opportunity to invite speakers from near and far — and not have to worry about plane fares and travel delays due to weather. Lew Paper spoke to us from Pelican Marsh, whereas Susan Jane Gilman logged in from Switzerland. Raffi Berg greeted us from England, while Danny Limor provided fascinating information from Israel. And how wonderful it is that the members of our Greater Naples Jewish community are able to log in from throughout North America. This year, Platinum and Silver Patrons were invited to select two Meet the Author (Zoom) events to attend. These programs, which immediately followed a Book Festival event, gave Patrons an opportunity to talk to and ask questions of the author from the comfort of their own homes. The sessions were so interesting and enjoyable, for both the Patrons and the authors, that most continued past the allotted time.
Meet the Author events were held with authors Debbie Cenziper, Alexandra Silber, Meg Waite Clayton and Alan Zweibel. In March, the last two Meet the Author events will be held with author Ariana Neumann, and author and historian, Pamela Nadell, the final presenter in the 2020-21 Jewish Book Festival. Patrons Meet Patrons was another new program offered to all Patrons — Platinum, Silver and Bronze. These events provided community members a chance to meet informally with each other in small (virtual) groups. At a time when meeting new people is difficult, this gave Patrons an opportunity to chat with others, many of whom they didn’t know. Another new initiative is the opportunity for you to submit suggestions of songs that reflect a specific Festival event. The first contest winner was Molly Getnick, who suggested both the “Theme to Mission Impossible” for Red Sea Spies and “Make ‘Em Laugh” for the event featuring the author of Laugh Lines, comedian Alan Zweibel. Congratulations, Molly! We look forward to bringing you the four fabulous authors who will be speaking in March. We are confident that they will conclude the 2020-21 Jewish Book Festival in style — engaging, entertaining and enlightening you, the members of our Greater Naples Jewish Community. We are Virtually Yours,
Susan & Robin Susan Pittelman and Robin Mintz Volunteer Co-Chairs, Greater Naples Jewish Book Festival
