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Federation Star Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples Serving Naples, Marco Island and the surrounding communities

www.JewishNaples.org Y October 2020 – Elul 5780 / Tishrei 5781 Y Vol. 30 #2

Building our new home

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 10 Men’s Cultural Alliance 12 Women’s Cultural Alliance

Jane Schiff

13 Tributes 14 Community Focus

Federation Board Chair

21 Jewish Interest 26 Israel & the Jewish World 27 Commentary

or the past two years, we have planned and worked tirelessly to make our dream of a new home for Federation a reality. To house and benefit all of our affiliates, including Women’s Cultural Alliance (WCA), Men’s Cultural Alliance (MCA), Jewish Book Festival, Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), Israel Advocacy Committee (IAC), Catholic-Jewish Dialogue, Young Families with Children, Jewish Russian Cultural Alliance (JRCA), Jewish War Veterans, Mix & Mingle

28 Organizations 31 Synagogues 32 Focus on Youth 35 Community Directory

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and Young Jewish Professionals as well as BBYO. Getting to this point has not been easy. The trajectory of this task has been accomplished by a small group of dedicated lay and professional people. Marc Saperstein, JFGN Vice Chair, has been the Chair of Project 2021, this Herculean effort, with Merlin Lickhalter, a JFGN Board Member, as his cochair, and James Knafo as our architect. With full disclosure, James was a Federation Board member before he was hired to be our architect, going through a process of bidding against three other firms before being awarded our nod. However, I promise you, dear reader, that he has gone above and beyond, more than any other architect would have done. These three men have spent countless hours working on this project. They meet

with our construction and engineering companies, as well as advisors on our Building Committee, who have generously donated their time and expertise on every detail and facet, from security to rezoning to decorating to HVAC to plumbing supplies to furniture, etc. They do this to ensure that we will have the best, most efficient, beautiful, costeffective and practical building possible. Where are we in the process? In October and November, we will have our final rezoning hearings with the Collier County government. October 1 is the date for the Collier County Planning Commission hearing, followed by our final hearing with the Board of Collier County Commissioners on November 10. The project has been overwhelmingly welcomed by the surrounding continued on page 2

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community, with whom we have met. We will continue to be transparent in moving forward. While we are awaiting the final nod from the county, we have begun asking for, and receiving, some of the numerous building permits needed to start the project. If all proceeds as planned, we will break ground in either January or February 2021, with occupancy, hopefully, in January or February 2022. The new building, a rendering of which is pictured on the cover, will be a welcoming place for all Jews in the Greater Naples area. The floor plans are on pages 18 and 19 in this Federation Star. Our building will welcome you to be dropped off and picked up in our covered portico area. Once you meander down the loggia, through the vestibule to our secure entrance, the inviting and dramatic lobby area, with a stained-glass wall, player piano and receptionist desk area, will greet you. The program wing will have three rooms of various sizes, to be used for meetings, classes, games, activities (yoga, tai chi, meditation, etc.), study groups and youth activities. There will be a large hall that can be divided and set up in various configurations, accommodating up to 400 people theater style or 250 people in a roundtable event. Three usable outdoor spaces as well as covered and large, uncovered patio areas will be surrounded by 12 palm trees in the back of the building. A plaza and sculpture gardens in the front of the building will be lined with 12 royal palm trees. There will be a caterer’s kitchen, which can also be used for cooking demonstrations. The second floor will house the executive suite of offices, including offices for MCA and WCA. There will be a lounge area to sit and schmooze with friends while noshing on some food in our café. By building from the ground up, we will incorporate into the design many

upscale amenities and beautifications that will make this a welcoming and visually exciting building. Walls with Judaica and artwork will be visible throughout the building. We want everyone to feel safe and secure in our building, so we have taken the steps necessary to create the most up-to-date security. Some will be noticeable—gating, fencing, cameras and badge/buzz-in entry will be what you will notice first and foremost— and some will be unseen. There is, of course, the issue of raising the funds needed for the building. As of this writing, we have raised $7 million. The cost will be in excess of $8 million. In order to not use Annual Campaign donations, that are needed as grants to beneficiaries we support and for programming, we need to raise at least $14 million. That will also allow us to create an endowment to help cover the yearly maintenance costs for now and the future. This is where you can help us. In your mailboxes, soon or possibly already, you will be receiving our Capital Campaign brochure, which will provide you with more detailed information and a plea for you to join us in creating a new home for us all! You can make our dream to create a warm and welcoming place for our Jewish community become a reality, now and for future generations. It will be the central location for meetings, classes, being with friends, enjoying games and just to hang out. Entertainment will be plentiful. We can only create this with your help! Please join us. Make a donation or pledge, today! Call Marcy Friedland, Capital Campaign Director at 239263-4205 or email her at mfriedland@ Jewishnaples.org for details. We are looking forward to seeing you in our new building in a mere 16 months!

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By Susan Pittelman and Robin Mintz, Jewish Book Festival Co-Chairs

registered for all the events. Once again, there will be three Patron levels— Platinum ($500), Silver ($225) and Bronze ($118). The less expensive Bronze level was added in recognition of the unusual situation resulting from COVID-19. (An article about the benefits of being a Jewish Book Festival Patron is on page 5.)

At the Preview Event, scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14, you’ll hear more about each of the featured Book Festival authors and their books. To register for this special event (and reserve your Zoom seat), respond to the announcement in the Federation’s Monday e-blasts or go to the Jewish Book Festival website at www.jewishbookfestival.org. Of course, due to social distancing guidelines, all of the Book Festival events will be held virtually through Zoom. While this does offer some challenges, we are finding that going virtual also provides opportunities. Zoom enables us to invite authors from other countries to participate in our book festival—we don’t have to worry about the high cost of plane tickets or delayed flights. We do, however, have to be sensitive to time zones. While we are unable to serve our renowned evening dessert buffets, including the popular ice cream treats, you will be only steps away from your freezer, should you want a snack. Because of Zoom’s capacity to handle “large crowds,” we don’t anticipate anyone will be turned away due to a lack of seating. In fact, you will each enjoy a “frontrow seat” from the comfort of your couch. Events will generally run for an hour— and you don’t even have to plan for travel time. Attending a festival event will still leave you plenty of time for other things. And one more huge benefit of our meeting through Zoom—no parking worries! If time and technology allow, we will make an effort to open some events with a “meet and greet,” so you can enjoy friends you might not have seen for months. Please “Zoom along with us” as we celebrate authors and their significant contributions to cultural and Jewish life. We look forward to “seeing you” at the 2020-21 Jewish Book Festival.

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Zoom along with us! or the last five years, the Jewish Book Festival (JBF) has brought our community together to be educated, inspired and entertained. The festival often has been referred to as the “highlight” of our community’s cultural life. This year, the Book Festival not only will present a vast array of literary offerings, it will also provide us an opportunity to be together at a time when we are required to be physically apart. Remaining separated as we have been isn’t easy, but the Book Festival will help us connect with each other and with our Jewish community. The connection will just need to be virtual. This year, we can “Zoom along together.” As you participate in these events, we hope you will feel a strong sense of connection to each other as well as to our Jewish community. Beginning in early December, with the kickoff event announced on page 4, and concluding at the end of March, our sixth annual Jewish Book Festival will offer a Zoom-tastic array of author events. The Book Festival, a project of the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples, in cooperation with the Jewish Book Council, is truly a community event. It would not be possible to offer our festival without the support of our generous Patrons and Sponsors, our dedicated JBF committee members, and you—the members of our Jewish community, who attend festival events. This year, more than ever, we need to support our sponsors, who do so much for our community and have so generously supported us in the past. We trust that you will help us to help them. The 2020-21 Jewish Book Festival will offer a wide variety of events, scheduled for various times and days of the week—and will certainly help to fill your calendar. You will have the opportunity to hear 21 authors talk about their books, which reflect a variety of genres. From fact to fiction, history to mystery, and so much more, there will be something for everyone to enjoy. We know you will be as excited as we are when you look at the list of authors! You will have the opportunity to Zoom into 19 events. Depending on the event, tickets will be either $10 or $18 (per household), with one special event being free. Of course, by becoming a Book Festival Patron, you will automatically be

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Lori Gottlieb to kick off the 2020-21 Jewish Book Festival By Carole J Greene

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ll things come to those who Festival, kicking it off December 3 at 7:30 wait,” goes the 19th-century p.m. Her virtual presentation will allow adage. Your patience is about to all of us a front-row seat. Lori’s private pracbe rewarded. Psychotherapist, advice columnist and author tice in Los Angeles Lori Gottlieb was scheduled provides her with opportunities to counsel as our People of the Book presenter last February. At the last patients in crisis. When a crisis in her own life minute, she had to cancel. We hosted someone else, of course, crashes around her, but we always had the hope we she looks for the same could manage to get Lori here kind of answers her patients seek. In her book, sometime, somehow. We’ve done it! Lori Gottlieb Maybe You Should Talk will be our inaugural author to Someone, we get a peek Lori Gottlieb behind the curtains for the 2020-21 Jewish Book

to discover the world of both clinician and patient. What results is the chance to examine the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and each other. Her funny and thought-provoking book becomes a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, an illuminating account of our own mysterious lives, and our power to transform them. In addition to penning best-selling nonfiction books, Lori writes a national advice column published weekly in The Atlantic. She also writes for The New York Times and appears frequently as a relationship expert on The Today Show; CBS

This Morning; Good Morning, America, and on CNN and NPR. To purchase tickets for the opening JBF event, featuring Lori Gottlieb, just visit www. jewishbookfestival.org. The cost for this event is $18 a ticket, per household. Platinum and Silver Patrons will receive a complimentary copy of Lori’s book as one of the benefits. Look elsewhere in this issue of the Federation Star for a listing of authors and book titles for the entire festival, along with information on purchasing tickets and on becoming a Platinum, Silver or Bronze Patron.

Fill your calendar with these Zoom-tastic Events! 2020-2021 Jewish Book Festival Author Lineup Thursday, Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Wednesday, Dec. 9 at 7:30 p.m. The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the Gang, and the Meaning of Life by Andrew Michael Blauner Friday, Dec. 11 at 10:30 a.m. Love is a Rebellious Bird by Elayne Klasson. Evening by Nessa Rapoport Thursday, Dec. 17 at 1 p.m. In the Cauldron by Lew Paper

Tuesday, Dec. 22 at 1 p.m. A Rabbi at Sea by Rabbi Corinne Copnick Wednesday, Jan. 6 at 3 p.m. Citizen 865: Hunt for Hitler's Soldiers by Debbie Cenziper Monday, Jan. 11 at 4 p.m. Donna Has Left the Building by Susan Jane Gilman

The Watergate Girl by Jill Wine-Banks Monday, Jan. 25 at 1 p.m. The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 10:30 a.m. Red Sea Spies by Raffi Berg Monday, Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. Laugh Lines by Alan Zweibel

Thursday, Jan. 14 at 7:30 p.m. White Hot Grief Parade by Alexandra Silber

Wednesday, Feb. 10 at 1 p.m. Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Steven E. Zipperstein

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By Susan Pittelman and Robin Mintz, Jewish Book Festival Co-Chairs 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 2201 Naples, Florida 34109-0613 Phone: 239.263.4205 Fax: 239.263.3813 www.jewishnaples.org Email: info@jewishnaples.org Officers Board Chair: Jane Schiff Vice Chairs: Karen Deutsch, Marc Saperstein, Phyllis Seaman Secretary: Rosalee Bogo Treasurer: Elliot Lerner Immediate Past Chair: Alvin Becker

Board of Directors Patti Boochever, Harvey Cohen, Amanda Dorio, Paula Filler, Merlin Lickhalter, Robin Mintz, Les Nizin, William Petasnick, Joel Pittelman, Stuart Price, Nat Ritter, Michael Rubenstein, Jamie Satz, Betty Schwartz, Arlene Sobol, Michael Sobol, Steve Strome, Jay Weiss, Beth Wolff, Jeff Zalasky Past Presidents Gerald Flagel, Dr. William Ettinger, Ann Jacobson, Sheldon Starman, Bobbie Katz, Rosalee Bogo, Judge Norman Krivosha Synagogue Representatives Cantor Donna Azu, Sue Baum, Rabbi Ariel Boxman, Rabbi Ammos Chorny, Shelley Goodman, Rabbi Mark Gross, Sue Hammerman, Rabbi Howard Herman, Stephen P. McCloskey, Rabbi Adam Miller, Rabbi James Perman, Dr. Arthur Seigel, Daryl Sissman, Rabbi Fishel Zaklos Staff Federation President/CEO Jeffrey Feld Renee’ Bialek: Program Director Marcy Friedland: Capital Campaign & Planned Giving Director Janine Hudak: Admin. Coordinator Nathan Ricklefs: Database Manager Teresa Zimmerman: Finance & Operations Manager Federation is the central Jewish community-building organization for Greater Naples, providing a social service network that helps Jewish people locally, in Israel and around the world. As the central fundraising organization for Jewish communal life in our area, strength is drawn from organized committees of dedicated volunteers. Programs include: • Annual Campaign & Endowment Fund • Celebrate Israel • Educational & Cultural Programs • Israel Advocacy Committee • Israel Scouts • Jewish Book Festival • Jewish Community Relations Council • Jewish Young Professionals • Jewish Russian Cultural Alliance • Men’s Cultural Alliance • Publication of the Federation Star, Connections and Community Directory • Women’s Cultural Alliance • Women’s Division • Youth Activities Committee – sponsoring youth education and scholarships for Jewish Summer Camp and the Israel Experience

eing a Patron of the Greater Naples Jewish Book Festival is certainly a win-win situation! The financial contributions from Patrons ensure that both community support and funding are available, so that we can continue to bring you an outstanding array of authors. (We sponsored appearances by 108 authors through the first five festivals!) At the same time, Patrons gain the personal satisfaction of knowing that their dollars and attendance at JBF programs are instrumental in our ability to offer these quality cultural events. Last year, 232 community members were Patrons of the Jewish Book Festival—a strong affirmation that our community considers the festival a highly valued component of our Federation’s cultural programming. Planning the 2020-21 Book Festival has been a challenge. But rather than view challenges as problems, we, instead, view them as opportunities! Holding our events through Zoom means we can’t offer Patrons the chance to meet authors in person. However, it gives everyone a frontrow seat and enables us to invite authors from across the continent, and even from other continents. Although it means we can’t greet you at each event, we hope to offer Patrons a chance to chat with each other following a few of the events. At a time when the members of our Jewish community need it most, your support of the Jewish Book Festival enables our Federation to bring our community together and keep us all engaged, with exemplary literary programming that celebrates authors and their significant contributions to cultural and Jewish life. This year, in response to this unprecedented pandemic, we are modifying our Patron levels. While we are continuing the Platinum Level at $500 and the Silver Patron Level at $225, we decided not to offer a Gold Patron level and, instead, offer a less expensive Bronze Patron level at $118. (The Bronze level offers a significant discount on ticket prices; if purchased separately, the tickets would cost a total of $212.)

Benefits of being a Bronze Patron of the Jewish Book Festival • Knowing that you support the Book Festival • Patrons will be preregistered for each event; you simply sign up once and you will be registered for ALL Festival events. (You won’t have to individually register for each event, as non-Patrons will.) • Patrons will have an opportunity to greet each other in an informal chat following the conclusion of one or two of the presentations. • Patrons will be acknowledged in the Federation Star as well as on the Jewish Book Festival web page. • Patrons receive advance notification (prior to the announcement in the

Federation Star) of the authors who will participate in the upcoming Festival.

Additional benefits for Platinum and Silver Patrons • The heartwarming feeling that you are helping to financially support the Jewish Book Festival above and beyond the cost of your tickets to the events. • Invitations to two exclusive (virtual) Patron gatherings with Book Festival authors following their presentations.

• A copy of author Lori Gottlieb’s bestselling book, Maybe You S h o u l d Ta l k t o Someone. If you have been a Festival Patron in the past, we thank you! Please become a Patron again this year. If you have not yet been a Patron, we hope you will join this wonderful and generous group of JBF supporters.

How do you become a Patron? Simply check the appropriate box on the JBF Registration form on the Jewish Book Festival page of the Federation website at www.jewishbookfestival.org. A link to the JBF registration form will also be in the Federation’s Monday e-blast. Looking forward to a Zoom-tastic season!

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Reneé’s community program & events corner By Reneé Bialek, Program Director

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e have been Zooming along these past few months, and I will continue to offer a wide variety of programming via Zoom. If you have any questions or need help with the use of Zoom, please do not hesitate to ask me.

Some important October programs • Learn about Religious Traditions of the World on Oct. 13, 20 and 27. Each lecture begins at 3 p.m. • Movies That Matter - Watch the specified movie in advance and join us Oct. 14, 21 and 28 for discussions from 7 to 8 p.m.

Save the upcoming program dates •

Sunday, Nov. 8 is the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass.” The Catholic Jewish Dialogue of Collier County invites the entire community to the annual

commemoration service at 2:30 p.m. • Thursday, Dec. 10 is the community wide Chanukah Celebration. Let’s light our menorahs together. The program begins at 5 p.m. • The Greater Naples Jewish Book Festival begins on Thursday, Dec. 3. You can find more information on the Jewish Book Festival throughout this Federation Star issue. All of these virtual programs will take place on Zoom. Some programs are free, while others have a fee. More information on all of the above can be found throughout this Federation Star and in our Monday weekly e-blast. Please make sure to register via the link that is provided in the weekly e-blasts. If you need help registering, please ask me. A confirmation email will be sent to you, immediately after you register. The Zoom link is emailed to you about 1 to 2 hours prior to the start of each program. If you are not receiving the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples e-blast every Monday, please let me know. It is important that you read the updated news on a weekly basis. Please like us on Facebook! I look forward to Zooming with you at the next program. Please contact me, Reneé, Program Director, at rbialek@ jewishnaples.org with any questions.

Meet the editor By Sharon Hood, Federation Star editor

ost of you are likely not familiar with me because I have not had the pleasure of working with the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples on Sharon Hood Federation Star since mid-2007. So, please allow me to share a bit of my background. Originally from Wyoming, and with an MBA from the University of Wyoming, I spent the first several years of my career handling marketing and advertising for a variety of companies in Omaha, Nebraska. Upon relocating to Naples in 1992, I served as Deputy Director for the Naples Area Board of Realtors until 2000, when I answered the entrepreneurial call and started MarketCrank, Inc., which publishes the community newspapers Pelican Bay Post and The Pelican Marsh Brief,

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2021 Annual Community Campaign news Karen Deutsch Campaign Chair

ur 2021 Annual Community Campaign, Tomorrow Begins Today, officially started on July 1, 2020. Your generous gifts to the Annual Community Campaign support beneficiaries and programs in our local community, nationally, around the world and in Israel. The COVID-19 pandemic has not stopped the need to help the most vulnerable of our society navigate through this crisis safely. It has not stopped hunger or food insecurity, isolation or loneliness, lack of personal protective equipment, or a desire to seek continued access to Jewish activities and programming. There is no better time than today to be part of something larger than yourself, stay connected to your Federation and your community, even if you cannot leave your home, and continue to provide essential services and programs for a better tomorrow.

Tomorrow begins today You can stay connected, assist and transform lives during this pandemic

to help others have a better tomorrow. Paula Filler, a Federation Board member enlisted family, friends and neighbors to donate funds to purchase mask-making materials. Filler was able to identify some of the neediest in the Greater Naples community—their target was to serve those who could not afford to purchase washable face masks. Filler and her team of “Mask Mavens on a Mission,” including many wonderful women from the WCA of Greater Naples, donated time, materials and skills, delivering close to 100 face masks for Holocaust survivors and other foodinsecure and frail elderly supported by the Naples Senior Center at JFCS; 150 masks to The Shelter for Abused Women & Children; and 500 masks to the local beneficiary and nonprofit organization, SURGE, which delivers food on a weekly basis to the needy.

Tomorrow begins today You can make an impact on the future of children and adults in Israel through Leket Israel. The largest food bank in Israel, this organization feeds over 200,000 people weekly by “rescuing” fresh or slightly bruised fresh produce and prepared meals from farmers, packing houses, restaurants and caterers to alleviate food insecurity throughout Israel.

Get your program here! Jeffrey Feld Federation President/ CEO

“G

et your program here” is a phrase I used to hear when I would go into various sporting events. As you enter a ballpark, football stadium or hockey or basketball arena, you would be met by somebody willing to provide you a program, so you could know all of the players and other pertinent information. When you go to a cultural event, you are provided with a program—again, to give you all the pertinent information regarding your upcoming experience. When I say, get your program here, I mean it a little bit differently. The Jewish Federation of Greater Naples, and all of its program arms, have been providing a multitude of programs for you. Every Thursday, I see the e-blasts from the MCA and the WCA. Each provides its members with a variety of programs to keep them occupied. In addition, each Monday, the JFGN e-blast also lists programs to keep you engaged. It is certainly a challenge, under the present COVID-19 pandemic circumstance, to be fully engaged. After all, there are no in-person meetings or programs— we’re doing everything in a “virtual” setting. Even so, there are informal educational lectures, book discussion groups,

art classes, cooking classes, virtual tours of cities and countries, tastings and more. These past six months have been difficult, no doubt. But we have learned something about our community. Members of our community have participated in greater numbers over these past several months, than ever before. Some of our community members are currently, physically not actually in the Greater Naples area, but they are participating in the programs being provided from here. We are providing a way to keep everyone connected—in a virtual way. Please note, there are more programs coming your way. In this issue of the Federation Star, you will see information about our upcoming Jewish Book Festival, which has become an iconic program/ event for our community. We look forward to you enjoying this program and all the other programs. What I am telling you is that because of MCA, WCA, Israel Advocacy Committee (IAC), Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), Young Jewish Professionals, Mix & Mingle, Jewish Book Festival, Campaign Programs, etc., you can get your programs here! We thank everyone involved in bringing you these programs. And we thank you for choosing to participate in them. We look forward to the time when we can once again be in person to enjoy each other’s company and the programs—together. Remember, you can get your program here at the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples!

Tomorrow begins today

You can make a difference when you donate to our 2021 Annual Community Campaign. We offer grants to our community synagogues as well as provide scholarships for Sunday school, summer camps and the Israel experience for teens. We support our local BBYO program for engaging teens in Jewish immersive experiences, and Hillel on our college campuses. We support The Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center to educate and eradicate hate and bigotry. And, we support mental health services, social services and Holocaust survivor services provided by the Naples Senior Center at JFCS. Your donations support funding for the Jewish Congregation of Marco Island Jewish Film Festival and Cultural Series, Naples Film Festival and Celebrate Israel. We continue to support our fabulous Jewish Book Festival, JCRC, the IAC committee, Jewish-Catholic Dialogue series and so much more!

You need to join us for our 2021 Annual Community Campaign virtual kickoff event, open to the entire community on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. See our the Save the Date and watch for your special evite coming soon to your email in-box! Our guest speaker will be Mark Leven, former CEO of the Georgia Aquarium, who will share his involvement in Birthright and his pledge to sustain Jewish values for future generations by making a better tomorrow today for all Jewish people, wherever they may be, through the ultimate gift of giving. We will also be inspired by the music of Rick Recht and hear from beneficiaries and members of our community. We are here, built for this moment to be together and collectively take care of those in need in this community, around the world and in Israel… please, donate today to the 2021 Annual Community Campaign.

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2021 Annual Community Campaign Virtual Kickoff Event

Open to the entire Jewish Community. Invite your friends and family and learn how your gift touches so many lives.

Guest Speaker

Mike Leven

co-founder Jewish Future Pledge musical entertainment by

Rick Recht

Your donations to the Annual Community Campaign are vital to the success of our mission; to enhance and enrich the quality of Jewish life by recognizing and supporting the charitable, educational, humanitarian and social service needs of the Jewish community locally, nationally, overseas and in the State of Israel.

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NO GIFT TOUCHES MORE LIVES For more information contact Jeffrey Feld, Federation President/CEO: jfeld@jewishnaples.org

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RELIGIONS WORLD of the

Dr. Steven Derfler An interna�onal educa�onal consultant, archaeologist, historian, researcher, teacher and writer, Dr. Derfler has been uncovering the histories of ancient civiliza�ons for over 45 years. Tracing the development of western religions from their roots in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean countries, Dr. Derfler brings insight to current poli�cal and social events, bridging the past with the future to promote greater understanding between people from different faiths and walks of life. Join Dr. Steven Derfler in this three-part series Tuesday, October 13 3:00-4:30 pm

Introduc�on: History of Developing Religious Tradi�on, Ways of Being Religious

Tuesday, October 20 3:00-4:30 pm

Hinduism

Tuesday, October 27 3:00-4:30 pm

Buddhism

To register, go to www.jewishnaples.org $18 per household for this three-part series via Zoom

Explore religious traditions of the world in a three-part series By Ida Margolis

o you know that the Hindu festival symbolizes the spiritual “victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance?” What do Buddhists believe? How can bridging the past with the future promote greater understanding between people from different faiths?” Historian, teacher, author, researcher, archeologist and international educational consultant Dr. Steven L. Derfler will answer these questions and many more in a three-part series, “Introduction to Religious Traditions of the World,”

brought to you by the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples. This opportunity to become more religiously literate requires only that you Zoom in on three Tuesdays in October— Oct. 13, 20 and 27 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. In order to join Dr. Derfler via Zoom, please register at www.jewishnaples.org. The cost for this three-part series is $18 per household. This exploration of religions can help you on your path to religious literacy, which is now more important than ever.

Israel Advocacy Committee Explores Fall Programming By Jeff Margolis

he Israel Advocacy Committee of Greater Naples (IAC) is working to engage Ambassador Dennis Ross and David Makovsky for a Zoom program with the community this fall to discuss current issues in Israel. Both men are part of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The Institute, founded in 1985, is an academic think tank whose mission is to strive to advance a “balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East and to promote the policies that secure them.” The committee is also working on arranging other “Live from Israel” programs. Those who tuned in for the recent Graffiti art tour truly enjoyed the experience. Other programs currently under discussion are author presentations of recently published books about Israel and the Middle East.

Most IAC programs are free to the community. Contributions are encouraged to help defray costs of future programs. Click on the IAC donation button found on the homepage of our website: www.jewishnaples.org. Suggestions for future IAC programs are welcome. Check the Federation e-blast for information about upcoming programs. Please email Harvey Cohen, chair of the Israel Advocacy Committee, with your ideas at hwcohen@gmail.com. Members of the Israel Advocacy Committee are: Chair Harvey Cohen, Program Director Renee Bialek, Diane Hahn, Fran Goldman, Goldie Wetcher, Ilya Prizel, Jeff Margolis, Jerry Kumin, Mark Schloss, Monica Goodwin, Myra Benedikt, Ron Agronin and Michael Rubinstein.

ilies m a F h s i Jew p u o r G n e r d with Chil We’re looking for parents and their children to join us in making new friends and enjoy social activities together!

We would love to hear from you! Please email or call Renee’ to be added to the roster. rbialek@jewishnaples.org 239-263-4205 Please read our weekly eblasts for upcoming programs!

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“The Mask Crusaders” Your local heroes and heroines By Paula Filler

s the coronavirus pandemic started, Sherry and Autumn Mowatt, the TwinEagles’ mother and daughter duo, immediately jumped into action by sewing washable, cotton face masks, which were desperately needed, but hard to find. Initially, the masks were delivered to family, friends, neighbors and, most importantly, front-line medical personnel. TwinEagles neighbors offered to cut and prep materials for the project, while family, friends and neighbors donated funds to purchase the maskmaking materials. Others donated fabric and supplies to the cause as materials for masks have been scarce at times. Sal and Donna Pontillo, Mary and Jim Mower and I donated time and energies to making curbside pickups for fabric and supplies. To speed production,

Mary Mower joined in the sewing venture by cutting and preparing the materials for more than 1,000 masks. With generous donations, the Mowatts set their sights on sewing masks for as long as there was a need. Paula Filler was enlisted to identify some of the neediest in the Greater Naples community. The target was to serve those who could not afford to purchase washable face masks. The team produced and delivered close to 100 face masks for Holocaust survivors and other food-insecure and frail elderly, who are supported by the Naples Senior Center. Another 150 washable face masks were donated to The Shelter for Abused Women & Children, for both its Naples and Immokalee locations. Another local not-for-profit organization, which distributes food to families

on a weekly basis, requested masks to include in deliveries. The families served live in very crowded conditions and were extremely grateful to receive their families’ portion of 500 face masks crafted to fit each family member. In early July, Collier County Public Schools (CCPS) had not yet announced a provision to distribute face masks for schoolchildren, who, at that time, were expected to return to class in early August. An estimated 500 of the 48,000 children in CCPS are at high risk for the coronavirus, due to existing health conditions. These children are also part of the county’s food support program at school. To meet the urgent need to provide a very high-quality, triple-layer face mask for children at risk, the mask must fit snuggly on different-sized elementary,

middle and high school students. This requires crafting 1,000 washable face masks in various sizes. Each child needs at least two masks, so that one mask can be washed every night and a dry, clean mask is ready for school the next day. With such a big task at hand, additional volunteers stepped in to help with their skills, energies and donated materials. These heroines are from the Naples Quilt Guild, the Women’s Cultural Alliance of Jewish Federation of Greater Naples and TwinEagles residents. They are still hard at work, making great progress in producing the 1,000 triple-layer washable face masks for the schoolchildren at risk. This team of seamstresses and volunteers has been dubbed “The Mask Crusaders” and they are on a COVID-19 mission!

Commemorating the 82nd Anniversary of Kristallnacht By Ginny Segaloff

he Catholic-Jewish Dialogue of Collier County invites the community to the annual commemoration of Kristallnacht 2020. This year is the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, an event that is considered by most historians as, “The Night the Holocaust Began.” This year’s commemoration will take place on Sunday, November 8 at 2:30

p.m. The service will be conducted via a Zoom presentation. Guest speaker Rev. John Pawlikowski is a leading figure in the ChristianJewish Dialogue and president of the International Council of Christians and Jews. He authored “Christ in the Light of the Christian Jewish Dialogue” and was co-editor of “Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust.”

Admission is free to attend and RSVP is required. Register at www.jewishnaples.org. A confirmation email will be sent to you immediately after you register, and the Zoom link will be emailed about 2 hours before the program is to start. The event is co-sponsored by Catholic-Jewish Dialogue

of Collier County, Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples, Diocese of Venice, FL, GenShoah of SWFL and Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center. Rev. John Pawlikowski

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MCA helps you find… Men to Study With!

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Bocce, pickleball, kayak and biking groups offer MCA members a chance to exercise their bodies in the company of like-minded men. Bocce, pickleball, kayak and biking groups offer MCA members a chance to exercise their bodies Bocce, pickleball, kayak and biking groups offer in the company of like-minded men. MCA members a chance to exercise their bodies in pickleball, the company of and like-minded men. offer Bocce, kayak biking groups Bocce, pickleball, kayak and biking groups offer MCA members a chance to exercise their bodies MCA members a chance to exercise their in the company of like-minded men.bodies in the company of like-minded men.

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Men’s Cultural Alliance offers full fall lineup By Jeff Margolis

he Men’s Cultural Alliance of Greater Naples continues to provide informative and thoughtprovoking programs for its members throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The month of October is filled with activities that cater to the diverse tastes of our members. Below is a sample of the myriad of new MCA programs for the month. Monday, Oct. 5 at 10:30 a.m. “A Holocaust Survivor’s Story,” presented by Rob Nossen Tuesday Oct. 6 at 2:30 p.m. Jim Sernovitz continues his travelogue series with a visit to Ethiopia. Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 10 a.m. A look at current issues in senior housing, presented by Bruce Rosenblatt Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 10 a.m. Estate planning presentation of information relating to IRAs, the new CARES Act and estate documents, presented by Howard Sosnick Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 10 a.m. “Is it Real or Fake? — News, advertising and photos,” presented by Marc Rosenweig

Recurring programs A number of recurring MCA programs are continuing this month. The MCA book group will have its monthly Zoom meeting on Thursday, Oct. 8. If interested, please contact program

chair Stan Farb at stan4mignon@ eathhlink.net. The book selection for October is, “Not Just a Game,” written by MCA member Doug Zipes. The popular medical lecture series has announced its schedule for the upcoming season. The first event of the series will take place Nov. 18. MCA member Dr. Doug Zipes will discuss COVID-19 medications and effects on the heart. Dr. Peter Boyd will be providing attendees with a COVID-19 update. The second installment of the program, “The Presidents: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” will be presented on Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 10:30 a.m. Members can register for all of the above programs by going to the MCA website mcanaples.wildapricot.org. Please remember that it is time to renew your membership for the upcoming season. Memberships can be renewed by going to the same website. Of course, new members are always welcome. Only MCA members are eligible to participate in these programs. It is necessary to register for each selected program. Many groups and activities are limited with regard to the number of participants in order to allow each member the best possible experience. If you have an idea for a program or would like additional information about MCA, please contact Les Nizin, MCA president, at mcanaplespresident@gmail.com. Stay safe, and if you are returning to the Greater Naples area for the season, travel safety. We look forward to the time when we all can be together in person.

There are 3 Ways to Join the MCA!

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1. Go to our website – WWW.MCANaples.org. Click on MCA Membership Form and complete the form (you can pay by credit card or check).

Breakfasts, lunches, happy hours and dinners give you the opportunity to shmooze with other MCA members while enjoying your favorite foods. Breakfasts, lunches, happy hours and dinners give you the opportunity to shmooze with other Breakfasts, happy hours and dinners MCA memberslunches, while enjoying your favorite foods. give you the opportunity to shmooze with other Breakfasts, happy hours and dinners MCA memberslunches, while enjoying your favorite foods. give you the lunches, opportunity to shmooze with other Breakfasts, happy hours and dinners MCA members while enjoying your favorite give you the opportunity to shmooze with foods. other MCA members while enjoying your favorite foods.

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2. Send an email with your name, email address and phone number to JoinMCA@MCANaples.org. 3. Mail your name, email address and phone number to Larry Israelite, 8820 Savona Court, Naples, FL 34119. Have any questions? Call our President – Les Nizin – at 516-356-2897

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To Zoom or not to Zoom? For WCA, there was no question!

By Susan Pittelman, WCA Publicity Coordinator

ix months ago, if you heard the term "Zoom," would you have known what it meant? Was it a verb? An adjective? Perhaps a simple noun? We can Zoom; we can attend a Zoom meeting; and we can watch a presentation through Zoom. The term might have been unfamiliar to us six months ago, yet today Zoom is an integral part of our everyday lives. Jamibeth Margolis talking about the In mid-March, due to COVIDstatus of Broadway 19, all events and programs suddenly ground to a halt. Yet not even this The WCA Speakers Series unprecedented pandemic could deter One of WCA’s signature programs, WCA from meeting its goal of bringing the WCA Speakers Series has continulike-minded women together through ally offered our membership educational programming that offers something for and entertaining programs across a everyone. WCA’s leadership understood broad spectrum of topics, including the necessity for change. (Change with a the arts, health, current events and capital C!) We jumped in full force and the environment. quickly took advantage of this new comSusan Koeppel, Speaker Series Coordimunication technology called “Zoom.” nator, commented, “This spring, we faced By April, several WCA programs were a significant challenge as we considered being offered virtually. With Federathe impact the pandemic would have on tion’s help, WCA secured three Zoom this hallmark program. How might we accounts, so three virtual programs could adapt? We made lemonade from lemons. occur simultaneously. . . the program became virtual!” The learning curve was quick—well, Susan explained that now that WCA is more so for some than for others—but using Zoom, she can invite speakers from soon, many of us became full-fledged throughout the country—they no longer Zoomers! And what are some of the benhave to be in Southwest Florida. And she efits of using this newly honed skill? From can accommodate a larger audience as it is the comfort of any room in your home, no longer necessary to limit the number of you can listen to fascinating speakers participants to available chairs: no more and discuss plays, books and even New waiting lists! Yorker articles. You can show off your WCA snowbirds are now able to creative stitchery projects and share your “Zoom into” the Speaker Series from memoirs. We can even enjoy a cup of throughout the country and Canada. coffee or a meal together from anywhere In addition, Zoom has provided us the in the world! opportunity to share and join programs In extolling the virtues of holding of interest offered by MCA (Men’s her book discussions through Zoom, Cultural Alliance). Sue Bookbinder, liaison for WCA’s Con“Our membership has enthusiastitemporary Fiction group, commented, cally embraced the virtual format with “Most women really seem to like meeting record participation and commitment," through Zoom. They don’t have to travel Susan added. to the session, they can call in from their With the technical assistance of Elaine northern homes and they don’t even have Soffer, Robin Mintz and Ann Cowen, to wear shoes!” and through the “magic of Zoom,” our (I, for one, have been known to throw virtual speaker series debuted in May. a pretty top over my comfy old sweats.) To ensure an auspicious kickoff, Susan Simply run a comb through your hair, tapped into the wealth of WCA "family" maybe slap on some lipstick, and voila, talent. Tony award-winning producer Eva everyone is ready to Zoom! Price, daughter of Judith Price, brought Thanks to Zoom, many of our most us up to date with “What’s Happening popular interest groups—including sevon Broadway.” eral book groups, Let’s Knit and Stitch, Impressive follow-up speakers included Ted Talks, the New Yorker, Modern PlayHollywood producer/writer Allison wrights and Single Girlfriends, to name a Intrieri, daughter of Marcia Malone; few—are meeting regularly and fulfilling award-winning casting director Jamibeth an important need in our lives. Barbara Margolis, daughter of Ida Margolis; Karp, a WCA Board Member and longand higher education specialist Carolyn time co-facilitator of Let’s Knit and Stitch, Sorkin, PhD, daughter of Nancy Kahn. commented, “Since COVID-19 began, WCA Member Ellen Katz regaled us WCA has been a lifeline. I am really busy.” with “Mamma Mia” and Board Member In future articles, you will have a Dina Shein educated us about the Jews chance to read about the impact that of Bukhara. Zoom is having on WCA North and Local political guru Sandy Parker WCA South as well as on many of WCA’s helped us understand Florida government interest groups. Read on to catch up on and the August primaries. Therapist and what is happening with our Speaker Series educator Dianne Durante showed us how and some of the advantages resulting from to choose joy in challenging times. And, using Zoom. journalist Todd Franko spoke on Report

Pamela Mitchell sharing the history of women’s suffrage for America, an organization supporting local journalism. Andrew Douglas, PhD, Senior Director of the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, discussed “What Happened to Hollywood,” and author Helene Berger shared her family’s journey in “Choosing Joy: Alzheimer’s: A Book of Hope.” Pam Mitchell celebrated women’s suffrage through her presentation, “Failure is Impossible.” We enjoyed many more outstanding speakers throughout the summer. The 2020-2021 season began in September, with presentations by local news anchor Rachel Pierce and financial advisor Adria Starkey. October highlights will include Middle East expert Steven Derfler and author Karna Bodman,

who parlayed her White House experience into a literary career. And this is just a sampling of our speakers! Check the weekly e-blast to see who has been added to our lineup. Susan Koeppel is always looking for engaging speakers, so please share your suggestions with her. (Many of our speakers are recommended by WCA members.) In addition to our own WCA programs, our weekly eblast lists a host of other offerings available through Zoom. To Zoom or not to Zoom? There should be no question! Definitely Zoom, as WCA continues to educate and entertain us while further strengthening your connection to our WCA “Community of Friendship.”

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Women’s Cultural Alliance

2020-2021 MEMBERSHIP FORM

The membership year is from September 1 until August 31 of the next year. Dues received after March 1 will be applied to the next season. Please check one:  NEW  RENEWAL (PLEASE fill out the form completely and PRINT CLEARLY!) Is there a change in your information from last year?  YES  NO

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If you checked NO, just LEGIBLY print your name, fill in payment info, sign Event Waiver below, and mail to WCA/JFGN.

Print Name Spouse/Partner Name Email (very important) Local Street Address FL Community City State Florida Phone Cell Phone Northern Address No. Phone City State Zip In Southwest Florida  Full-time  Part-time from to

Zip

NAME BADGES: New Members receive a one-time name badge as a welcome gift from WCA/JFGN. Returning Members: If you need a new or replacement name badge, please increase your fee by $8.

Print your name as you want it to appear on the badge MEMBERSHIP DUES: $90 (US Funds only, Minimum for the year; includes membership to the JFGN):____ $ I am also including a voluntary donation to the Federation in the amount of: _ $ I am including $8 for a replacement Name Badge: __ $ Total enclosed or authorized: __ $  I will be paying by check. Please make your check payable to JFGN/WCA.

90.00

 I will be paying by credit card. Card Number Expiration Date

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Mail this SIGNED form (with your check or credit card number) to: WCA/Jewish Federation of Greater Naples 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd., Ste. 2201, Naples, FL 34109 I would like to VOLUNTEER my services/expertise and would be willing to chair or co-chair an activity on the following topic or topics.

EVENT PARTICIPATION WAIVER.

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

As a participant in a WCA event,* I, acting for myself, my heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns agree as follows: That I waive all rights, claims and/or causes of action of any kind whatsoever that I or my heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns may claim to have against either the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples, and/or the Women’s Cultural Alliance, their members, agents, servants, and/or employees, for any loss, injury, or damage sustained by me while participating in a WCA event. This waiver and release shall be construed broadly under the Laws of the State of Florida.

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

For more information contact Membership Director Harriett Kleinman at hmkleinman@gmail.com 2020-21

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Make your voice heard

The JCRC attempts to represent all elements of our Jewish community. Our membership is drawn from a broad range of Jewish organizations and at-large members, all of whom wish to have their viewpoints represented as we identify our Jewish community position on emerging issues. Just as we encourage open discussion, we encourage open membership to expand our thinking in consideration of these important and often very timely issues. If you want your perspective heard, consider joining the discussion. I suspect that some people feel that certain perspectives are underrepresented in our deliberations. For the JCRC to claim that we set forth broadly accepted Jewish positions, we must include the broad perspective of our community. If you are concerned that your views are not being heard, I urge you to take part in our effort. If you are interested, and you are a member in good standing of the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples, you qualify. Please email Reneé, Program Director at rbialek@jewishnaples.org

Catholic-Jewish Dialogue of Collier County invites the community 82nd Anniversary of Kristallnacht Commemorative Service Kristallnacht is recognized by most historians as “The Night the Holocaust Began” Sunday, November 8 at 2:30 p.m. Zoom Presentation Guest Speaker: Rev. John Pawlikowski A leading figure in the Christian-Jewish Dialogue, he is the president of the International Council of Christians and Jews and author of Christ in the Light of the Christian Jewish Dialogue and co-editor of Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Everyone is invited. Free admission. Register at jewishnaples.org A zoom link will be emailed to those who make a reservation

Sponsored By: Catholic-Jewish Dialogue of Collier County Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples Diocese of Venice in Florida GenShoah of SWFL Holocaust Museum & Janet G. and Harvey D. Cohen Education Center

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

A friendly reminder from your JCRC Committee

By Joel Pittelman, Jewish Community Relations Council Chair he Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) is charged by the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples with maintaining and advancing relations between the Jewish community and the Greater Naples community. It is an ongoing effort, as we attempt to reach out to gain the broad community’s support, respect and understanding of our needs. We strive to build coalitions so that we may more readily gain support when needed. In turn, we offer support and assistance to groups and individuals, who can benefit from our experience and our resources. Gaining broad community support for our concerns requires that we can identify broadly accepted Jewish positions on specific matters. This is not an easy task. The often-heard phrase: “Two Jews, three opinions,” says much. However, simple phrases aside, our community does hold longstanding, broadly accepted beliefs that need to be protected and clearly expressed. Should the general community misunderstand what we believe, it would be difficult to win their support.

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The deadline to register online to vote is Monday, October 5, 2020. Please - “YOUR VOTE IS YOUR VOICE.” https://www.colliervotes.com/ And, don’t forget to complete your census form. Each person represents $1400 for schools, roads etc. https://my2020census.gov/

Tributes

Tributes to the Jewish Federation Campaign To: Ellen & Aaron Edelstein In memory of Ruth Edelstein From: Diane & Jeff Shein To: From:

Dr. Karen Ezrine In memory of your mother, Miriam (Mickey) Moss Jane Schiff

To: Susan & Jeffrey Feld Mazel Tov on Jennifer’s Engagement From: Phyllis Seaman To: From:

Steve Iser In memory of Nina Iser Karen & Stan Deutsch Phyllis & Chuck Padolsky Joan & Marc Saperstein Jane Schiff Phyllis Seaman Diane & Jeff Shein

To: From:

Nancy Kaplan In honor of the birth of your grandson, Henry Kaplan Arlene & Bob Subin

To: The Matz Family In memory of Stuart Matz From: Harriet Matz

To: From:

Carol Simon Wishing you a speedy recovery! Eileen Breem

To: From:

Stacy Sokol In memory of your husband, Mike Sokol Phyllis & Chuck Padolsky

To: From:

Pinky & Margo Stein In memory of Ken Stein Barbara Glucksman Susan Horowitz Pearl Fishman-Thall Nancy Kahn Bunny Levere Louise Novis Judy & Chuck Picus Miriam Sandweiss Susan & Arthur Sissman Judi & Dan Spintman

To: From:

Robert Subin & Family In memory of Frances & Jerry Newberg Rosalee & Jerry Bogo Gail & Mel Ufberg

In memory of Mariette Ostrovsky From: Phyllis & Larry Liebman

Tributes require a minimum donation of $18. To place a Tribute in the Federation Star in honor or memory of someone, please contact Nathan Ricklefs at the Federation office at 239.263.4205 or nricklefs@jewishnaples.org. Tributes require a minimum donation of $18. A note will be sent to the person you are honoring. Tributes help further the work of the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples.

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October 2020

Important programs for discussion and action set virtually By Ida Margolis, GenShoah Chair

Ida Margolis GenShoah Chair

ven now, when we cannot gather for face-to-face programs and discussion, important programs and the opportunity for discussion can be brought to you. GenShoah SWFL, with the help of the Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center, will present programs consistent with its mission that includes promotion of Holocaust education and human rights.

Movies That Matter In October, GenShoah is one of the sponsors of Movies That Matter, a series of human rights films. All of the issues presented in the films are extremely important and relevant, and the local relationship of these issues will be discussed by a panel of experts following the films. You will find more information

about Movies That Matter, including how to view the films and zoom discussions on page 16 of this issue. After viewing these films and listening to the discussions, hopefully many people will be motivated to act to help make a difference. Indeed, that is the mission of Movies That Matter: “We can make a difference.” And since these films and panels are virtual this year, you can help by informing your friends about Movies That Matter, wherever they live.

Kristallnacht The annual Kristallnacht Commemoration will be presented on Sunday, November 8 at 2:30 p.m. Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” is often said to be the night the Holocaust began. To get the Zoom link for this program register at jewishnaples.org. For more information about this program, see page 13 .

Heroes, Heroines and Helpers On Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11, a very special program will be presented, featuring Pastor Chris Edmonds,

son of Master Sergeant Roddy Edmonds, who, during WWII, saved over 200 Jewish servicemen. You will not want to miss the inspirational story of a true hero, who is one of only five Americans awarded the title, “Righteous among the Nations,” Israel’s highest honor for non-Jews who risked their own lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. The program about Roddy Edmonds is among those related to this year’s special theme of “Heroes, Heroines and Helpers.” Future important and inspirational programs about heroes will be announced in upcoming issues of the Federation Star and in the GenShoah e-newsletter. A variety of upcoming programs include those that will feature local survivors and their rescuers, and 2gs will have an opportunity to tell a story about a hero in their life. If you would like more information about programs or joining GenShoah, or if you would like to receive the GenShoah newsletter, contact Ida at genshoahswfl@gmail. Some of the Zoom presentations are being recorded and are available on the

Museum’s YouTube channel. To access them, search for Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center in YouTube.

Telling your story GenShoah has asked for children of Holocaust survivors to help accept the responsibility of telling their parent’s story. We have asked that the stories be written in the format below: • 500-700 words • Include appropriate geographical background • Be certain that historical facts contained are accurate • Include a personal highlight • Include a photograph The stories, which may be edited, will be available to the public and used for instructional purposes in print and/or digital format at the Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center of Southwest Florida. They may also be printed in a book that can be a valuable keepsake. For more information, contact Rochelle at liebro@gmail.com.

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Heroes, Heroines and Helpers series features Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds By Ida Margolis, GenShoah Chair

ast month, the theme of “Heroes, Heroines and Helpers” was introduced as the program theme for the Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center and GenShoah SWFL. In addition to many films, lectures and programs centered around the theme, each month, the GenShoah e-newsletter and the Federation Star will be highlighting an historic hero and asking for nominations of both famous and unsung heroes. We will include stories about people who defend a moral cause, help someone in need, and have performed heroic acts with recognition of possible risks and without the anticipation of external gain. This month, we are featuring Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds. Edmonds served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He participated in the landing of the American forces in Europe and was taken prisoner by the Germans. Together,

with other American POWs, including Jews, he was taken to Stalag IXA, a camp near Ziegenhain, Germany. There, the Germans singled out Jewish POWs, and many of them on the Eastern Front were sent to extermination camps or killed. In some cases, in the west, Jewish POWs were also separated from the others. Sometime in January 1945, the Germans announced that all Jewish POWs in Stalag IXA were to report the following morning. Master Sergeant Edmonds, who was in charge of the prisoners, ordered all POWs—Jews and non-Jews alike—to stand together. When the German officer in charge saw that all the camp’s inmates were standing in front of their barracks, he turned to Edmonds and said, “They cannot all be Jews.” To this, Edmonds replied, “We are all Jews.”

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Roddy Edmonds The German took out his pistol and threatened Edmonds, but the Master Sergeant did not waver. Rather, he responded, “According to the Geneva Convention, we have to give only our name, rank and serial number. If you shoot me, you will have to shoot all of us, and after the war, you will be tried for war crimes.” The German gave up, turned around, and left the scene. Thanks to Edmonds’s courage, Jewish POWs were saved from this attempt to single them out. When Edmonds returned home, he never spoke about his wartime experiences

or how he had saved the Jewish GIs. Like many of the “Greatest Generation,” he was humble about his war experiences. He told his own family little about his time as a POW. He was never given any recognition by the Army for his courage. He never received a medal or a commendation. After Edmonds died in 1985, his son, Chris Edmonds, pastor of the Piney Grove Baptist Church in Marysville, Tennessee, began to piece together his father’s story. In 2015, Yad VaShem recognized Roddie Edmonds as a Righteous Among the Nations. Edmonds, clearly, at the risk of his own life, saved Jewish lives and the lives of generations to come. Edmonds was only the fifth American recognized for the special Yad VaShem honor. On Jan. 27, 2016, a ceremony was held at the Israeli embassy in Washington DC, where Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer and Yad Vashem Council Chairman Rabbi Lau presented the Righteous medal and certificate of honor to Edmund’s son. The ceremony was attended by the President of the United States, Barack Obama. In November, we hope to announce a special program about hero Master Sgt. Roddy Edmonds. To submit your nomination for the “Heroes, Heroines and Helpers,” please email genshoahSwfl@gmail.com.

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hope that you and your families are safe and well. October has been designated as Bullying Prevention Month. Through our education programs, we show students that they have the power to help others by taking a stand against bullying behavior. We use the stories of courageous people, whose small actions had a positive impact on others in need. COVID-19 has affected the new school year for everyone, and we’ve adapted our programs to work in a variety of learning environments. Our Florida standards-based core education, grades 5-12 programs are now available on our website. We also offer Survivor Talks and other lessons via Zoom (or other platforms). Our PopUp Museum program has expanded, allowing us to “bring the Museum” to additional schools. The teacher workshops have also transitioned to online availability for the teacher’s convenience. Funded by the Merrill Kuller Teacher Education Series legacy gift, a new lesson on one of the genocides of the 20th century is released

each month, complete with downloadable classroom materials. Teachers can access the series under the education tab on our website, by selecting, View the 20202021 Teacher's Workshop Catalog, and on our YouTube channel under the heading, HMCEC Genocide Session. We continue to offer school field trips for groups up to a total of 30 people, which includes students, teachers and chaperones. These visits, and private group tours for up to 30 people, are conducted when the Museum is closed to the public. All COVID-19 precautions are observed. For more information on education programs and field trip calendar openings, please contact Sam Parish, Director of Operations/ Education Specialist at Sam@HMCEC.org or call 239-263-9200.

Movies that Matter Join us this month for Movies that Matter in a new virtual format with Zoom expert panel discussions. The documentaries will highlight the issues surrounding the availability of clean water (“Sustainable Nation”), the societal impact of mental illness (“Bedlam”), and domestic violence (“Telling Amy’s Story”). The Zoom discussions will take place on: • October 14: “Sustainable Nation,” with guest panelists Dr. Abe Levy, Retired Internal Medicine Physician executive and Southwest Florida Environmental and Social Justice Activist, and Dr.

William Mitsch, Director, Everglades Wetland Research Park, Eminent Scholar, College of Art and Sciences, Sproul Chair for SWFL Habitat Restoration, FGCU • October 21: “Bedlam,” with guest panelists Dr. Ken Rosenberg, filmmaker, Nancy Dauphinais, David Lawrence Center Chief Clinical officer, and Pam Baker, NAMI Collier County CEO • October 28: “Telling Amy’s Story,” with guest panelists Eileen Wesley, Executive Director, Project HELP, and Joe Myers, Producer/Director of Telling Amy's Story You can RSVP for the films on our website at www.HMCEC.org. You will be sent film links a few days before the Zoom discussion and Zoom links will be sent out shortly before the discussion panels. Sponsorships are available for all three films and panels—Platinum Level for $500; Gold Level for $250; Silver Level for $100. Sponsors are recognized on all promotional emails, on the Museum’s website and during each Zoom expert panel. For more information, please contact me at Susan@HMCEC.org or call 239-263-9200. We thank our sponsors to date: Platinum Sponsors - Sherry and Stephen Pino, Gold Sponsors - The Tikkun Olam Council of Temple Shalom, and Silver Sponsors - Ida and Jeff Margolis and Elaine and Fred Kamin. The Movies that Matters series is presented by Temple Shalom, Jewish

Federation of Greater Naples, GenShoah, Naples United Church of Christ, Jewish Community Relations Council and the Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center. It is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.

Virtual luncheon update Please join us Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 for our annual winter fundraising event. The inspirational program "The Courage of Castellanos," will have a unique local connection. More information will be available shortly on our website. Sponsorships are available. Please contact me for more information at Susan@HMCEC.org. Teachers may visit the Museum for free through the end of October. Please call for reservations. Please note: our new fall hours are in effect at the Museum. We are open Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, 1–4 p.m., with last guest entry at 3 p.m. Timed-entry admission tickets may be pre-purchased on our website, at www.HMCEC.org, or upon your arrival with a credit card at our reception desk. For everyone’s safety, we are not accepting cash transactions. As always, if you have any questions or would like to support our mission, please contact me at Susan@HMCEC.org or call 239-263-9200. Stay safe and hope to see you soon!

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We have a “Zoomtastic” author lineup, representing a wide variety of genres running from December 3 to March 30. Zoom in to hear about each of the authors, books, dates, ticket prices and more! You will also find out how to reserve your Zoom seat for Book Festival events. This PREVIEW EVENT is free. Sign up today! Go to www.jewishbookfestival.org, or use the registration link in the weekly Monday eblast, and register to reserve your front row seat!

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Experts discuss human rights issues after ‘Movies That Matter’ By Carole J Greene

Water Daily, we are reminded of our duty to perform public health safety actions during the Coronavirus pandemic. Uppermost is to wash our hands with soap and water, frequently, and for 20 seconds or more each time. What if we did not have running water in our home? What if our next-door neighbor didn’t either? How about the entire village? We take plentiful running water for granted. We turn the spigot and it pours out. The time has come to raise our awareness of water scarcity in parts of the world. Could it happen here, where we get an average of 56 inches of rain every year? Quick answer: Yes. “Sustainable Nation,” our first documentary in this season’s Movies That Matter series, follows three individuals working to bring water resources to an increasingly thirsty planet. After you view this one-hour film, you will want to hear about our situation from local experts. Discussion panelists are: Dr. William Mitsch, Director, Everglades Wetland Research Park Eminent Scholar, College of Art and Sciences, and Sproul Chair for SWFL Habitat Restoration, FGCU; and Dr. Abe Levy, retired Internal Medicine Physician executive and

Southwest Florida environmental and social justice activist. Discussion regarding this inaugural film of the series is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 14 via Zoom. You will view each of the films in your home prior to the panel presentation, via the internet. Details will be provided upon registration.

Mental Health Have you ever hurried past a homeless person huddled for sleep on a sidewalk and wondered what brought that person to this extreme deprivation? Even here in genteel, wealthy Greater Naples, hundreds of people have no home, but live in cars, tents and shelters or sofa-surf in the homes of family or friends. How does this happen? Would it surprise you to learn that many, if not most, homeless persons suffer from mental illness? Or that the local jail houses more people with mental illness than medical centers do? Our second film, the feature-length documentary Bedlam, takes us into the national crisis surrounding care of the severely mentally ill through intimate stories of patients, families and medical providers. A discussion of the film will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 21. Panelists

include filmmaker Dr. Ken Rosenberg, a Peabody Award-winning producer and director with six films for HBO and three films for PBS on mental health issues; Nancy Dauphinais, Chief Clinical Officer of the David Lawrence Center; and Pam Baker, CEO of NAMI Collier County. Not all the victims of the current pandemic have caught the virus. Some have suffered from domestic violence stemming from frustrations, anger and isolation caused by the lockdown. Such violence, so often hidden in the shadows, has escalated because of these uncommon restrictions.

Domestic Violence Analysis of our final documentary, Telling Amy’s Story, will be presented at 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 28. Hosted by actress and activist Mariska Hargitay, and told by detective Deirdri Fishel, the film, which you will view in advance, follows the timeline of a domestic violence homicide that occurred on November 8, 2001. You will learn how to “see” the

signs before it’s too late. Discussion panelists are filmmaker Joe Myers and Eileen Wesley, Executive Director, Project HELP. Reservations are required for the films and the panel discussions are free. To RSVP and obtain details for viewing the films and discussions, go to hmcec.org and click on “Event Tickets.” After registration, you will receive links to view the films and join the discussions you would like to attend. You can submit questions via the “chat” box on your screen. We will gladly accept your donation of any amount. Send to Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center, 975 Imperial Golf Course Blvd., Naples FL 34110. Consider becoming a sponsor at $100 for Silver, $250 for Gold or $500 for Platinum. Our gratitude goes to those who, at press time, have already become sponsors: • Platinum: Steve and Sherry Pino • Gold: Tikkun Olam Council of Temple Shalom • Silver: Jeff and Ida Margolis; Fred and Elaine Kamin

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Jewish Community Directory Our Jewish community continues to grow. To help everyone keep in touch with one another, your Jewish Federation of Greater Naples will be publishing the 2021 Community Directory. Free copies will be made available to all. But first...

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s I sit here in my office, on Sept. 1, 2020, writing my article for the October issue of the Federation Star, I, like many of us, simply cannot believe that our doors still remained closed to on-site programming. I recall when we closed our doors in March, saying with great naiveté, that we would re-evaluate in two weeks. I would like to share with you what has been happening at Naples Senior Center since we pivoted to operate in the world of COVID-19.

Naples Senior Center is fully operational in the virtual world. We offer a virtual dementia group every day, with many of the same activities that were offered on-site. Brain fitness, reminiscence and music therapy enable participants to connect with one another during our theme-based programs. Caregivers meet weekly with a clinician, and broader caregiver support programs are in the works. The Senior Center adds virtual group activities each week. We offer wellness and fitness programs, travelogues, art and music, discussion groups, and believe it or not, line dancing! Because our programs do not require physical presence, we now have seniors participating throughout the United States, and even in Canada. So, in a sense we have become “international!”

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This past week, we offered eight different programs, with an attendance of 70 seniors. Solid relationships have been formed as our geriatric case managers call their clients weekly and volunteers make calls to members every day. Since food insecurity is a real issue, we continue to deliver food pantry staples as well as a hot meal to approximately 50 seniors each week. After working from home for many months, staff is now back in the office on a full-time schedule. We operate with an abundance of safety features in place, following, and at times exceeding, CDC guidelines.

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Mitzi Shore (1930-2018) co-founded The Comedy Store, a Los Angeles nightclub, in 1968. She had a truly great eye for young talent and is credited with giving many great comics their start or big break (a partial list: Robin Williams, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Jay Leno and Garry Shandling). A 5-part Showtime documentary about the club will premiere on October 4. The director is sometime actor Mike Binder, 62. Mitzi was the real talent in the family. She effectively ran the club from its inception because her husband and club co-founder, “so/so” comedian Sammy Shore, was usually on the road. Mitzi became the club’s sole owner after she and Sammy split in 1974. Their son, “so/ so” comedian Pauly Shore, now 52, had a mini-burst of fame in the ’90s, but has really faded.

New series “Monsterland” is an original Hulu series that begins streaming on Oct. 2. It is an 8-episode anthology series (each episode stands alone) about “broken” people who have encounters with mermaids, fallen angels, and other strange beasts. Jonathan Tucker, 38, who has many film and TV credits, co-stars in the first episode. Tucker will also co-star in the NBC sci-fi series, “Debris,” which will premiere sometime early next year. The seventh episode of “Monsterland” co-stars Michael Hsu Rosen, 30ish. He is just breaking into TV/film work, following years as a ballet dancer and stage actor. His father is Jewish. His mother is Chinese. The original “Showtime” series, “The Good Lord Bird,” was set to premiere months ago. The premiere was moved to Oct. 4. As I wrote before, a lead character is the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who escaped from slavery. Daveed Diggs, 38, (“Hamilton”) plays Douglass. “Cobra Kai,” a sort of reboot of “The Karate Kid” movies, got little attention when the first two seasons streamed only on the little-watched YouTube Red

channel. However, it got huge viewing numbers when Netflix started streaming the first two seasons on Aug. 28. (A third season will appear “sometime” on Netflix). The original film was about the conflict between sweet teen Daniel (Ralph Macchio) and the teen bullies who study karate at Cobra Kai, an “evil” karate school run by the nasty John Kreese (Martin Kove, 74). Daniel meets a Japanese/ American karate expert who turns him into a black belt. In the film’s climatic scene, Daniel defeats Johnny, Cobra Kai’s top student. The re-boot is set in the present. Johnny re-founds Cobra Kai, but he runs it more humanely than Kreese did, and Daniel re-founds the school that his mentor ran. Reprising their film roles are Maachio, Kove and Randee Heller, 73 (she played/ plays Daniel’s mother). Kove is not like Kreese: he goes around the country giving anti-bullying lectures. In 2017, he told a Chabad-affiliated, South Florida-based rabbi, that he tries to be as observant as he can and that his two children were b’nai mitzvah.

More fun Here’s a Jewish-related entertainment anecdote to make you smile in these difficult times. On YouTube, I recently came across a 1970 Dick Cavett interview with star actor William Holden. Cavett asked him about on-set difficulties. Holden said that getting into makeup and costume can take hours. He then told a story about Charlton Heston, who played Moses in “The Ten Commandments” (1956). Heston, he said, was dressed up as the elderly Moses when he met Bob Hope on a studio street. Heston told Hope that it took hours to put on and take off his heavy makeup, which included a full white beard. Plus, he said, he was dying from the heat in his heavy robe and he was drenched in sweat. Hope replied, “Well, as I have always said, it’s hard to be a Jew.”

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France Introduces its Own “Nuremberg Laws” By Paul R. Bartrop, PhD

n old joke is told about two Jews, Shlomo and Yakov, in Warsaw, sitting on a park bench in 1900. Shlomo said to Yakov, “You look awful; are you alright?” Yakov Dr. Paul Bartrop answered that he’d had a horrible nightmare, “I dreamed that in 40 years the city will be destroyed. There will be war, and all the Jews will be murdered.” “Don’t worry,” said Shlomo. “It will never happen. The French aren’t that bad.” For many pundits at the turn of the century, it was more likely that a major explosion of anti-Semitic persecution would have come from France rather than its eventual focus, Germany. This month, it will be 80 years since some of the currents leading to Yakov’s nightmare came to the fore, when France introduced legislation that was at least on par with the Nazis’ Nuremberg Laws of 1935. Following the defeat of France by Germany on June 22, 1940, the country was divided into two zones: a northern zone occupied by the German army, and an unoccupied “free zone” in the south. The unoccupied zone retained its nominal independence (although in many respects it was a puppet of Germany), with its capital in the resort town of Vichy, southeast of Paris. Its president was the World War I hero, Marshal Philippe Pétain, who was granted extraordinary powers

by the National Assembly to enact a new constitution, giving him full authority in the new French government. Pétain, then aged 84, turned the Vichy regime into a nondemocratic collaborationist government, operating enthusiastically with Nazi Germany while remaining officially neutral. On October 3, 1940, the government passed its first widespread anti-Jewish legislation, the Statut des Juifs (Jewish Law). This included a definition of who was a Jew that was even stricter than what the Nazis had instituted in Germany. Under Vichy, someone was Jewish if he or she had three Jewish grandparents, or two Jewish grandparents if his or her spouse was also Jewish. The Statut des Juifs also entrenched a drastic cutback of Jewish involvement in French society. Jews were, from this point onward, excluded from the army officer corps and noncommissioned officer posts, top government administration positions, and any other job that influenced public opinion. They were only allowed to hold low-level public service jobs if they had fought in World War I or distinguished themselves in battle in 1939-1940. Further, Jews were denied French citizenship and were ultimately banned from professions such as show business, teaching, the civil service and journalism. In occupied France (though not in Vichy), Jews were forced to wear yellow badges. Police confiscated their telephones and radios, and a curfew was enforced,

beginning in January 1942. Jews were also required to travel in the last car of the Parisian metro and were limited to certain public areas. The Statut des Juifs was followed by a second Statut, issued on June 2, 1941. It made the definition of a Jew even more rigid and called for the complete removal of Jews from industry, business and the liberal professions. Only a few Jews were exempted from these cutbacks. The impact of the anti-Jewish laws was profound. They enabled the French police in the northern zone to conduct raids, roundups and deportation of Jews. In doing so, they went further than the orders demanded by the German occupiers. The laws were created purely on the initiative of the French government and not by the Germans themselves. They were not mandated by Germany and were to apply throughout metropolitan France as well as its overseas territories. The speed with which the new measures took hold was head-spinning. Denaturalization of Jews in France took one month; in Germany, it took six. Whereas in Germany, it took over three years for Jews to be excluded from the military, in France the process took only three months. And so on. As a result, the Vichy regime managed to maintain public order for the first two years after the armistice, with Germany providing little in the way of interference—other than demanding that the French police round up immigrant Jews,

communists, political refugees and any individual labeled as “undesirable.” The Vichy government was ahead of the curve, however; it voluntarily enacted its own measures against these “undesirable” individuals. A special commission was set up in July 1940 to review naturalizations granted since the 1927 reform of the nationality law. As a result, Vichy denaturalized approximately 15,000 individuals, mostly Jews, between June 1940 and August 1944. Vichy tightened its anti-Semitic legislation, applicable in both zones, during 1941. The first mass arrests of Jews took place in May 1941, with most of them held in the winter sports stadium known as the Vel’d’Hiv. They were held in horrifying conditions for days, prior to being sent to the transit camp at Drancy before being moved on to the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Overall, by the time deportations ended, the Vichy government had aided directly in the deportation of approximately 76,000 Jews to German extermination camps. The course of anti-Jewish legislation in France provided fertile ground for the collaborationist Vichy government to exercise its racist agenda during the war. It is worth bearing this in mind when we contemplate the horrible darkness that was the Holocaust, and to reflect on the fact that one did not have to be a German Nazi in order to adopt murderous anti-Semitic policies.

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Sukkot sweet treat Recipe by Chef Dalia

t is that time of year again—the leaves have fallen, marking the change of weather, as October brings us into autumn. As the festivities begin and people start decorating, it can mean only one thing—the Jewish holiday of Sukkot arrives and it’s time to build a sukkah. This is one of the many Jewish holidays that Jewish people understand and enjoy, while the rest of the world has no clue. In Israel, Sukkot is a time to party with your family. Its eight days of intense happiness and joy after 10 intense days of praying for forgiveness during the high holidays. When Sukkot comes, you just want to party; you are so happy you lived through those 10 days. You build a sukkah and move in, like it’s your house for eight days, staying inside it most of the time; even sleeping in it. In Israel, on the last day of Sukkot, called Simchat Torah, Israelis express the joy of having the Torah. In synagogues, men sing and dance with the Torah for hours. They’re drunk with happiness, with the privilege of having the Torah. “What do you do in the sukkah?” I once ask my husband, as the holiday of Sukkot approached. He said, “We eat, and we eat and then we eat again!”

On Sukkot, eating in the sukkah is itself the very essence of the holiday. Thanks to Sukkot’s status as a harvest holiday, there’s a tradition to serve stuffed foods to celebrate the seasonal gift. For many, the custom extends through Simchat Torah, since pairs of tube-shaped foods resemble Torah scrolls. Of course, there’s no need to save these recipes for the holidays— they’re wonderful all year round! I am a sweets lover (I am sure everybody knows that by now) so, for me, stuffed food is stuffed dessert. Here is my top one—kataïfi, which is shredded phyllo with nuts, halva and honey syrup. Golden, crispy and amazingly moist, kataïfi is a delicious dessert, which, like baklava, is very popular in Israel. It’s an amazing dessert, made with roughly chopped almonds (and sometimes other nuts and dried fruit), scented with cinnamon, wrapped into buttered crispy kataïfi dough (shredded filo dough) and bathed in honey syrup. This not only adds a sweet finish, but also acts as a preservative, allowing the pastry to last longer. Simply amazing! This great sukkot dessert symbolizes the plentiful harvest by stuffing your delicious pastry with additional flavorful

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fruits and nuts. One of my favorite desserts, kataïfi is a specialty that we reserve for special occasions. If not Yom Tov, then when? It is a bit time-consuming, but well worth the effort. You simply cannot go wrong with this dessert. It’s great to serve when entertaining, because it can be made a few days ahead. Kataïfi is almost identical in flavor to baklava except, instead of phyllo pastry, shredded phyllo is used. Use your favorite ground nut combination to create this delicate dessert. I used almonds, walnuts and halva. Don’t give up on the halva— tahini-based, halva is an Israeli sweet that is good for you. It adds creaminess and tang to anything it touches, whether fresh or baked. It is so delicious. Enjoy kataïfi in your sukkah (while doing that mitzvah)!

Preparing the Syrup 1. Heat the water in a saucepan over low heat. Add the sugar and stir to dissolve. 2. Add the lemon juice and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. 3. Stir in the honey. Remove from the heat. Set aside to cool. Making the Filling In a mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients for the filling and blend well. Preparing the Dough 1. Lay the long strip of dough out on a clean work surface and divide it into 18

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Big-headed Ants Causing Big Headaches For Naples Residents by Joe Jayne, Truly Nolen A recent survey conducted by the National Pest Management Association (NPMA) showed that ants are the most common nuisance pest in the United States. One ant in particular is causing big headaches throughout our area right now: the big-headed ant. Did you know these ants can cover almost five acres in one colony, which is essentially the equivalent of two football fields? Big-headed ants get their name from the appearance of the major workers - they have very large heads in relation to their bodies. The front half of the major's head is sculptured, while the back half is smooth and shiny. Every colony of this reddish brown species has two distinct types of workers: major workers and minor workers. Major workers are about 1/8 inch and minor workers are 1/16 inch. Most indoor problems with big-headed ants begin outdoors. They often are observed when foraging for food both inside and outside. Although they do not usually nest inside of homes, they often enter to forage through cracks in the foundation. In fact, they are often mistaken for termites because of the debris they bring into a home.

Outdoors, these ants eat sweet liquids such as honeydew, dead insects, and soil invertebrates. Indoors, they prefer foods that are high in protein. Big-headed ants readily make trails between their nest and their food source. Colonies typically consist of multiple queens. As with most ants, the most common sign of a big-headed ant infestation is the worker ants. The big-headed ant can be found nesting in disturbed soils, lawns, flowerbeds, under objects, such as bricks, cement slabs, rocks, logs, or flower pots, around trees or water pipes, along the base of structures, and walkways, where displaced soil is usually observed from the action of ants digging below the surface. Well-cared-for lawns may have big-headed ant infestations that are less noticeable, except along the edges where lawns meet walkways where piles of soil are often deposited. Big-headed ant populations expand into neighboring areas by following along these lawn-walkway edges or roadways. Big-headed ants can quickly move into new areas to establish nests and kick out other ant populations. Control of the big-headed ant is difficult because the ant colonies are numerous and populations usually extend across property lines.

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riends of the Israel CEO, along with an IDF general Defense Forces (FIDF) to strengthen fundraising efforts. announced the apWeil will develop FIDF in pointment of Steven Weil the long term and build upon its as its new National Director vital position within the American and CEO to head the chariphilanthropic community. He table organization beginning will oversee the 501(c)(3) notSeptember 16, 2020. He will for-profit, as it continues to grow Steven Weil succeed Maj. Gen. (Res.) its infrastructure, both nationally Meir Klifi-Amir, who has led FIDF for and locally around the U.S. and Panama, six years of unprecedented organizasolidifying the strong foundation it has tional expansion. developed over the past 39 years, with Under Maj. Gen. (Res.) Klifi-Amir’s the mission of supporting education leadership, FIDF has experienced expoand well-being programs for the soldiers nential growth. It expanded its fundraisof the IDF. ing capabilities, opened new chapters Particularly suited for this position, around the U.S., and raised more than Weil comes to FIDF following an 11-year $570 million between 2015-2019. True to tenure at the Orthodox Union (OU). He its mission, FIDF was able to increase its attended Yeshiva University, concurrently well-being support for the Israel Defense completing his ordination at the Rabbi Forces (IDF) soldiers, helping 114% more Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary soldiers than in years prior. (REITS) and receiving a master’s degree In light of this, FIDF’s lay leaders idenin Business Administration from NYU’s tified the need to modify the structure Stern School of Business. of the organization’s executive office and He began his career in education extend the scope of both management and before moving on to pulpit work, first fundraising operations. To further deepen in Oak Park, Michigan and then in FIDF’s philanthropic roots within the local Beverly Hills, California. In both locacommunity and allow for a prolonged tions, he significantly built and expanded tenure of the CEO, FIDF’s Board has his congregations and instituted prodecided to appoint an American-based grams to unify and impact the broader

community. He subsequently assumed the position of senior managing director of the OU, where he spearheaded its institutional advancement and community engagement efforts. Weil is a sought-after speaker and educator, and has given invocations for presidents, governors and other senior elected officials. He is deeply passionate about the State of Israel, Jewish continuity and the vital role Israel’s soldiers play in guaranteeing its future. Weil resides in New Jersey with his wife and is a proud father and grandfather. “I’d like to thank Maj. Gen. (Res.) Klifi-Amir for his tremendous leadership over the last six years. His efforts have brought this organization to new levels, and inspired thousands to contribute to FIDF’s essential mission,” said Rabbi Peter Weintraub, FIDF’s National Chairman. “We are thrilled to welcome Steven Weil to the FIDF family as National Director and CEO, where he will channel his skills in institutional advancement as well as his vast experience in the Jewish community to support Israel and its heroic guardians, the men and women of the IDF.” “It is the greatest honor to join the FIDF family of lay leaders and

professionals who have committed their lives to looking after the IDF soldiers,” said Weil. “FIDF, through educational and well-being initiatives, enables these courageous young men and women, who invest years of their lives to protect Israel, to serve proudly and guarantee the future of Israel and the Jewish people.”

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Jewish National Fund-USA goes virtual for 2020 National Conference

ewish National Fund-USA’s (JNFUSA) 2020 National Conference will, for the first time, be held virtually, announced the organization’s National President, Dr. Sol Lizerbram. Slated for October 18–23, 2020, JNFUSA’s Virtual National Conference will continue to serve as the organization’s premier planning and celebratory event. This year’s conference will again feature a substantive program, with a focus on how JNF-USA is impacting Israel’s present and future, all available from the comfort of participants’ own homes. “As it does so ably and efficiently, Jewish National Fund-USA is making the best of the current situation and following through on its promises to Israel, its people and our partners,” said Lizerbram. “This will be a great opportunity to review our tremendous accomplishments

and shift our focus on successfully achieving the goals of 2021.” Featured topics and discussions will focus on how JNF-USA is helping Israel shape itself as the food and culinary capital of the world; the tremendous strides JNF-USA is making to support Israel’s role as a leader in global food, energy and water security; a behind-the-scenes look at the worldwide impact of the training international students receive at the Arava International Center for Agriculture Training; and much more. “The Virtual National Conference will be an opportunity to reflect on the past year, share how we pivoted with the times and continued to deliver on our promises to the land and people of Israel, and lay out the foundation for our vision for the upcoming year,” said David Braverman, Co-President of the JNF-USA Naples Board of Directors.

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“Next year, we hope to see everyone in Israel for JNF-USA’s 2021 National Conference!” Sponsorship opportunities are available for the 2020 Virtual National Conference at levels from $500–$25,000. “This is a significant time and a wonderful opportunity to show your support for Israel,” said Anthony Solomon, CoPresident of the JNF-USA Naples Board of Directors. “Those who sponsor the 2020 Virtual National Conference will get a two-forone deal and receive recognition at the 2021 Conference in Israel as well. Our vital work in Israel continues despite the challenging times, and our vision for the future is bigger than ever.”

Registration for Jewish National Fund-USA’s 2020 Virtual National Conference is now open at jnf.org/virtualnc. Jewish National Fund-USA is offering a complimentary registration Zoom spot to members of its World Chairman’s Council, King Solomon Society, Negev Society, and those who have registered for the 2021 National Conference in Israel. For more information about the National Conference, contact Amy Fass, Director of National Events, at afass@ jnf.org or 212.879.9305 x804. For sponsorship opportunities, contact Glen Schwartz, Executive Director, National Major Donor Relations, at gschwartz@ jnf.org or 212-879-9305 x880.

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The greatest legacy one can leave Rabbi Ammos Chorny

ost of us have given thought to estate planning, but what about legacy planning? We all want to leave a legacy. Much of the reason for our strong desire to accumulate wealth—and our sorrow at losing it—comes from our deep-seated need to be remembered once we depart this world. For some, a legacy is of utmost importance. Having died in 2005, billionaire Edward Reichman left his family two envelopes; one to be opened immediately after his death and one to be opened after shloshim. The first envelope contained a letter to his children. “Children, I have one simple request before I am buried. Please bury me in my socks.” The children told this to the Chevra

Kadisha, who refused to honor his request. The children were disappointed they couldn’t fulfill their father’s last request. After the shloshim, they opened the second envelope and there was the following letter. “My dear children, by now you must have buried me without my socks. I wanted you to truly understand that you can have $1 billion, but in the end, you can’t even bring your socks with you when you pass on. You only get to bring your good deeds.” In a Forbes article, Daniel Scott noted that, “Estate planning is dead,” pointing out that instead of worrying about where one’s assets go after death, there is a new focus on “legacy planning.” He writes, “Legacy planning recognizes that you are more than what you own; it recognizes that you are the sum total of your life experiences. It measures your wealth, not just in terms of financial capital, but in terms of your human capital— who you are in terms of your knowledge, values, relationships and spiritual beliefs, as

well as your contributions to society. More importantly, legacy planning is about life, not death... Legacy planning empowers you to choose the life you want to ultimately leave behind and write the story you want others to tell when you are gone.” On Sukkot, we read Kohelet, King Solomon’s legacy of wisdom. “Thus, I hated all my achievements laboring under the sun, for I must leave it to the one who succeeds me.” He wasn’t all that enthusiastic about his son, Rechovam. The famous commentator, Rav Saadiah Gaon, explains, “When a person leaves his fortune to righteous children, he does it with joy. But if his children are wicked, he weeps.” Your legacy are the children and grandchildren who speak at your funeral and cry for you as they remember you. Therefore, ask yourself, what would you rather leave to your children—Kodak stock or Kodak moments? Money is good, but memories live on and serve as reminders of our existence. As important

as the money you may want to leave your children is, how they see what you do with your money teaches them in the most profound way what is really important. You see, memories are created every moment. Some of the most important ones are even made when we’re totally unaware. And these, very often, are really the most valuable legacies we can leave to our children. Thus, here’s my suggestion about our legacy; save the menorahs your children make in Religious School and use them on Chanukah. Maybe they will save your Seder plates and use them after you are gone. In your lifetime, let them see that you appreciate what’s truly valuable. In your passing, let them see the institutions you made bequests to, so that they will treasure them as well. As Rav Saadiah teaches, what could be a greater legacy than having descendants who use their money to express our values? May we all be so fortunate! Rabbi Ammos Chorny serves at Beth Tikvah in Naples.

booth that sways gently with every passing breeze, beckoning us to enter. The sukkah whispers to us that life is fleeting, but sweet. “Come into me and rejoice,” it murmurs. “Take delight in the world and its pleasures, which are all the richer when they are shared.”

Make the most of your sukkah at this sacred season. And be sure, as you sit basking in the peace and the fragrance and the silvery moonlight, to rejoice as well in the music of the crickets chirping. Rabbi Mark Wm. Gross serves at Jewish Congregation of Marco Island.

A matter of timing Rabbi Mark Wm. Gross

hat if they gave a party, and nobody came? That’s the question rabbis ask this time of year. Our kinfolk of the Household of Israel converge on our synagogues to hear the shofar blown on Rosh haShanah, and 10 days later, to hear its final plaintive blast to mark the conclusion of the Yom Kippur fast. But, after the sound and the drama, five days later, when Sukkot comes, it’s pretty much crickets chirping, which is too bad. For our long-ago forebearers in the land of Israel, the jubilant Autumn harvest, Feast of Booths, was part Oktoberfest, part Mardi Gras—an occasion so joyous that, in the Bible, it is never called by name but simply referred to as ‫ החג‬heChag, “The Feast,” with a capital “F.” It was the occasion for Jews from all over Israel to gather for parties, feasting and catching up with friends. The Talmud describes this pilgrimage festival as a time when acrobats and musicians roamed the streets, turning all of Jerusalem into a carnival, and the torchlight made night as bright as day. Even if we, as what Mel Brooks would call “dazzling urbanites,” may not be able to relate to a harvest festival, Sukkot is still

an occasion that reconnects us with the Earth, its bounties, and above all, its fragility. In modernity, the Jewish community has made Sukkot into a contemporary festival of environmental awareness. Spending time away from conditioned air; basking in the quietude of the outdoors; smelling the fragrance of grass, trees, the fresh foliage forming the roof the sukkah and the fresh produce with which it is decorated; and watching the movement of the stars and the full harvest moon twinkling through the branches overhead—these all reconnect us to the peaceful orderliness of Creation, and to a renewed awe for the One who formed it. They also speak to us of our own frailty. During the eight days of the festival, we watch the green thatching of the sukkah roof turn sere and yellow, as the fruits and vegetables hanging overhead shrivel and fade. At this poignant turning point of the year, when the days grow pointedly shorter and summer has faded into winter, it is a metaphor for our own transience— a fitting theme, hard on the heels of the introspective Ten Days of Repentance. It is no accident that the m’gillah (festival scroll) assigned to Sukkot is Ecclesiastes, the thoughtful and very grown-up book of the Bible that confronts the ultimate question, “What’s it all about, anyway?” Look how far we have come in just a couple of paragraphs together: from “party hearty” to “nothing lasts forever.” What unifies those diametrical opposites is a fragile, but beautiful, little harvest

Federation Membership

According to the bylaws of the Jewish Federation of Collier County, members are those individuals who make an annual gift of $36 or more to the Annual Federation Campaign in our community. For more information, please call the Federation office at 239.263.4205.

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How we choose to live our lives Diane Schwartz Collier/Lee Hadassah President

ere we are, going on so many months of dealing with our newly ordered lives and, of course, trying to make the most of staying healthy, protecting our families, facing economic challenges and getting along with each other! Yes, these are difficult times, but we do have choice about how we spend our time and apply our thoughts. Some of us have done this through our wonderful Jewish community organizations and houses of worship. In Hadassah, we think of others during difficult times, which, as you know, is called Tzedakah and Tikkum Olam. Now is the time, once again, to look outward; to look out for others; to lift our eyes

and focus on how we can help or heal our neighbors, friends and loved ones in whatever ways we can. Reaching out, volunteering and helping others is all part of living our best Jewish life. Hadassah gives its members the opportunity to explore, to develop, and to grow and expand that Jewish Life. For Hadassah members, Associates and supporters, that means thinking about, and acting on behalf of, Israel and our many commitments to improve life and health for those in need, in Israel, the Region and around the globe. There are two wonderful world-class hospitals to support and oversee at-risk children to focus on in our three Youth Aliyah Villages, and programs for our own children interested in Jewish life and Israeli life through Young Judea. Also, there is Tzedakah right at home in our communities. There are many ways through which you can share in activities with Hadassah: • Creating interesting and fun programs • Collecting needed items for the Naples

JEWISH SUMMER SCHOLARSHIP The Jewish Federation of Greater Naples Temple Shalom & Temple Shalom Men’s Club, together offer PARTIAL scholarships for Jewish Summer Camps & the Israel Experience for teens. There are scholarship opportunities for all Jewish children in the community regardless of congregation affiliation. For information and a scholarship application, contact your local synagogue or call the Jewish Federation at 239-263-4205.

Scholarship request deadlines: Summer Camps: December 18, 2020 Israel Programs: February 5, 2021 OF GREATER NAPLES

The mission of the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples is to enhance and enrich the quality of Jewish life by recognizing and supporting the charitable, educational, humanitarian and social service needs of the Jewish community locally, nationally, overseas and in the State of Israel.

Shelter for Abused Women & Children • Helping to plan our Symposium on Women’s Health and Wellness • Working on advocacy and legislative issues Difficult though it may be, this is a time to look outward. It’s a wonderful feeling to spend time thinking of others and doing something about whatever is helpful. That’s the key to volunteering, and that is a Jewish value as well. Sometimes it’s making a donation; sometimes it’s about “doing.” The important part, is reaching out in whatever way we can, moving outside ourselves.

We can elevate ourselves through service and caring. What we choose to do with our time can make a difference. We just have to do it in a different way for now. Studies have shown that volunteering/ doing good deeds does produce endorphins, so, we can feel well by doing good. The National Holocaust Museum says, “What you do matters.” This is true in times of strife, suffering and horrors. It is also true in normal and our “new normal” times. Let’s choose doing well by doing good.

Honoring our past

ecently, the Hadassah NonFiction Book Club and More joined the July/August issue of Hadassah magazine, celebrating the 100year anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment and Jewish women’s role in the Suffragette movement.

Honoring women’s right to vote in their lovely hats are (top row, L-R) Shelley Goodman, Rene Geist, Jo Burka; (second row L-R) Ida Margolis, Lynn Wilner, Linda Wertheim; (third row L-R) Rhonda Brazina, Belle Agronin, Lee Henson; and (fourth row) Joyce Toub.

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on’t forget to purchase the Hadassah cookbook, “Taste the Best of Life… Hadassah Family Recipes & More,” available starting September 2020. Contact Patti Bloom at bloom1210@aol.com.

Monday, Oct. 26: Expanding Horizons Series – The Orchid Whisperer with award-winning orchid grower Gayle Dorio, a Zoom presentation. Contact Elyse Morande at amorande@aol.com or 239-498-0623

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November

Thursday, Oct. 1: Expanding Horizon Series – League of Women Voters joint program with Temple Shalom Sisterhood, a Zoom presentation. Contact Elyse Morande at amorande@aol.com or 239-498-0623

Monday, Nov. 2: Expanding Horizon Series – Dessert Anyone? Baking demonstration by Bakery Chef Stephani Schwartz. Drawing winner receives the delivered dessert. Contact Elyse Morande

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at amorande@aol.com or 239-498-0623. Monday, Nov. 16: Expanding Horizon Series – Fall meeting, a Zoom meeting and presentation, “The Mental Edge: Resilience,” by Kathy Feinstein, MS, LMHC, CSPC. Contact Elyse Morande at amorande@aol.com or 239-498-0623.

December Tuesday, Dec. 1: The Hadassah Symposium on Women’s Health & Wellness. Please note, this program is rescheduled to December 1, 2021.

Sunday, Dec. 13: Keepers of the Gate Brunch – Additional information to follow. Contact Ellen Harris at ehjh@ comcast.net or 508-395-3600.

January 2021 Wednesday, Jan. 20: Installation of Officers and Welcome Back Ellen Katz. Presenting the musical hit “Chicago” for the first time in Southwest Florida. Contact Elyse Morande at amorande@aol.com or 239-498-0623.

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Harve Sturm Commander JWV Post #202

he Jewish War Veterans of the United States (JWV) is the voice of the Jewish service person and friend to all veterans. It was founded in New York in 1896, after the American Civil War, for two main reasons — one,

Martin Cohn Vice Commander JWV Post #202 the Union fought anti-Semitism, both in the armed forces and in the general public, and two, the need to prove that Jews proudly served and fought in the U.S. armed forces. With over 120 years of service, the JWV is the oldest

continuously operating veteran’s organization in the United States. What does the JWV mean to us, the Jewish community, as well as the community at large? To us, we are proud as Jewish veterans for the service we perform for our country. We are proud that we brought honor and recognition to our people. We are the visible face of Jews as veterans, when in uniform in public. We stand for Jewish pride, identity and the American military to our nation. The Jewish War Veterans Post 202 of Naples hopes to resume its participation

in upcoming Veterans holidays as the COVID-19 pandemic permits. We invite those who have served in the U.S. military (combat not required) to join us at our monthly meetings. Potential new members are always welcome. If you are not a veteran, but are grateful for their dedicated military service to our country, you, too, are invited to support and uphold our values as a Patron Member. Contact information is available on our website at jwvpost202.wordpress. com or call 239-261-3270, or email us at jwvpost202@gmail.com.

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Ted Epstein Zooming through Southwest Florida Jewish History We will begin the 2021 Florida Jewish • The pride of preserving it for those community is growing, servicesCo-Chairs: expandHistory Month with our 10th Anniverwho will come after us ing; cultural and religious life offers an Marina sary Celebration with Bill Barnett at We are an all-volunteer local organizaincredible range of options to old-timers Berkovich the Hilton Naples, on January 7, 2021, tion, supported mostly by the generosity and newcomers alike. None of that existed starting at 5 p.m. Tickets are available of people like you and grants from JFGN just one lifespan back. Committee Members: JHSSWF online at Eventbrite and at The Society’s and CFCC. Please continue to invest in For our fall Zoom series, leading into PattiPresident Boochever the longSusie Goldsmith Carol Hirsch Irene Pomerantz website jhsswf.org. us, so that everything that was postponed anticipated, COVID19-delayed Steve Brazina CaroleCelebration Greenewith fourBobbie There are threeKatz things we’d like you, andDina delayedShein by our common fight with 10th Anniversary the Southwest Florida Jewish Floridian, COVID-19, can go on as originally time Naples Mayor Bill Barnett, we will hope your 5781 startedDorio well and will Gayle Lenore Greenstein Ellen Katz Iris Shur to experience in the 2020-2021 season— planned, or better. be Zooming JHSSWF’s original produccontinually bring you mazel, great Judith Finer Lee Henson documen- as far Ida Margolis Elaine as it relates to our mission: You haveSoffer given us 10 years of your tion, the Telly Award-winning health, plentitude and,Freedman of course, • The joy of learning from those who unwavering support. tary film series “Southwest Florida Jewish love from your loved ones. We all need Federation Staff: Bialek, Program Director The 117 Volunteers came before us Thank you and L’Chaim to the Pioneers” to our members and supporters. it always and, excepting harsher timesRenee’ • The fun of sharing with those who next 10! In the span of 10 years, we interviewed in Jewish history, perhaps never more live amongJewish us quiteJCMI, a numberNaples of fascinating individuals, urgently thanVenues: now. Hilton Naples, Conf. Ctr., Naples Congregation, Temple Shalom whose efforts, skills and determination Over the past several months, you, us glued this community together by conand the community around us, did our Patrons: necting transplants from points north, very best to stay together and combat the BECOME A JHSSWF MEMBER TODAY dreaming big, putting their mouths where challenges life brought to our doors. We their money is and turning the tide from thank you for being a fighter, a pioneer Membership $54; IndividualArlene Membership $36. Phyllis Barolsky Anna Levin Susan & MichaelFamily Horowitz Sobol Stacey & Frank Baum the virtual pre-1972 banBecker of Jewish resi- Wendy Israelite in these unchartered times of human sufJoan Arlene Litow Susan Sokolov Please mail checks to: Susan dency in Collier County into a thriving Goldie Bertone Dorothy LittSociety of Joan Jacobs Marilyn & Jim Storch fering. It is with small stepsBookbinder of individual The Jewish Historical Southwest Florida Chizzikcomplete Susan & Michael London Nancy Kaplan Sabet Stroman and bustling JewishGayle community, courage that history Melissa records areChalfin written. 8805 Tamiami Trail North, Suite # 255, Naples Terri David like The Ileen Morris Norm Kaplan Phyllis StromeFL 34108 with important Jewish agencies, We are glad you take Karen them every day. Deutsch Kathy & Ron Emanuel Iris & Steven Podolsky Carol Kimmel Ferne Walpert Jewish Federation Michele of Greater Naples and Deborah Kohler During the summer, JewishEinhorn Historical Farrell Susan Rabin (833-JHS-SWFL) Deborah Waranch Shelley 833-547-7935 five—five!—JewishJan congregations, each Society Southwest Florida (JHSSWF) Goldman Mae Riefberg Toby Kosloff Leslie Wasserman Madeline & Norman Foster www.jhsswf.org • email: office@jhsswf.org Susie Goldsmith Judi Rotskoff Gracia Kuller Joan Werhane serving their specific group. 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s October arrives and we begin to prepare for another season, we all hoped that the COVID-19 viral pandemic would be over. Unfortunately, that is not to be. The future continues to be unknown and we are living in a “new normal.” We still are very cautious and, when we go out, most of us wear masks. Many of us have experienced only limited social gatherings, always 6 feet apart. Virtual Zoom meetings have replaced social lunches and we all long for the hugs and kisses of the past. Despite the many changes in the “now normal,” we have been able to create some routines that make our days complete. Thanks to Rabbi Chorny, you can join a regular Zoom minyan on Thursday and Sunday mornings as well as streamed services Friday night and Saturday morning. Tuesday classes continue to be held at 12:15 p.m. weekly, by Zoom, on topical issues of the day. It is our hope to be able to congregate once again for these events when we are able to gather safely. Our programs for the year ahead are scheduled, including our lecture series, educational programs, Scholar in Residence

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and Naples Jewish Film Festival. Everything that we do now in Beth Tikvah is remote and virtual, until such time as we are able to reopen our sanctuary and resume normal activity. Information regarding all programs and Zoom and streaming links are available on the Beth Tikvah website at www.bethtikvah naples.org. You may also check the portal to “All T hi n gs Be th Ti kvah” at http://BethTikvahNaples.org. Everyone is invited to join Rabbi and Aviva Chorny for a special Shabbat Sukkot dinner celebration Friday, Oct. 2, immediately after services at

6:15 p.m. Services will be streamed and the celebration will be by Zoom. Prepare your dinner and join us virtually in the Sukkah. Sunday, Oct. 4 at 4:30 p.m., Neil Adelman will be doing a Zoom lecture about the Book of Ecclesiastes, which is associated with Sukkot. Neil will talk about religious and philosophical aspects as well as literature and art. Our ladies Rosh Chodesh group will meet on Sunday, Oct. 18, when Terri Kline will be discussing the book “Copperhead” by Alexi Zentner. All are welcome to join by Zoom at 11 a.m. There will be a streamed service for Shemini Atseret/Simchat Torah on October 10 at 9 a.m., followed by Yiskor service at 10:45 a.m. Though none of us would like to think this time of virtual and remote connection is permanent, for now, as we work together, we are managing to find the best in every day. Thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to keep us moving forward.

Beth Tikvah happenings October • Friday, Oct. 2 - Erev Sukkot Eat

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and Learn at 6:15 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25 Morning minyan at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27 Study with the Rabbi at 12:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3 - Sukkot services at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 4 - Neil Adelman lecture at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8 - Chol Hamoed Minyan at 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 9 - Hoshana Raba Erev Yom Tov at 6:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10 - Shemini Atseret/ Simchat Torah Yiskor at 9 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 18 - Rosh Chodesh Ladies Group at 11 a.m.

Religious services schedule • • • • •

Friday services begin at 6:15 p.m. Saturday services begin at 9:30 a.m. Sunday minyan begins at 9 a.m. Thursday minyan begins at 9 a.m. We convene Yahrzeit minyanim upon request, with a two-week notice.

You may reach Rabbi Chorny directly at 239-537-5257.

www.naplestemple.org / 239.455.3030

TEMPLE SHALOM

Temple Shalom events open to the community

emple Shalom offers many virtual opportunities to stay connected during this time of social distancing. In addition to the events listed below, please visit our YouTube channel, Temple Shalom Naples, for beautiful music from Cantor Donna Azu and previously recorded programs from Rabbi Adam Miller and Rabbi Ariel Boxman,

including interviews with guests doing their part to make the world more whole and holy, and book discussions with guest authors. Follow us on Facebook, TempleShalom NaplesFL, for informational links and live content. For Zoom links to our other programs and events, please send a request to info@naplestemple.org.

For information on our High Holy Days services, please see our ad in this issue or visit our website at www.naplestemple.org. Shabbat services, via our livestream, can be found on our website, under the media tab, and Facebook Live on the Temple Shalom Facebook page: • Friday evening at 7:30 p.m.

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Saturday morning at 10 a.m. Havdalah service - Saturday evening at 8 p.m. live on our Facebook page; interactive on Zoom. Please email info@naplestemple.org for the link. Saturday Morning Torah Study Saturdays at 9 a.m. via Zoom. Please email info@naplestemple.org for the link.

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Look how far we’ve come By Sue Baum, President

he history of the Jewish Congregation of Marco Island begins in 1982, when Elena Rosner and Marjorie Seltzer invited a few people to a meeting for the purpose of discussing the possible formation of a Jewish house of worship. From there, we moved to the Marco Island Art League, where we met for worship while our building was

finally underway. For these many years, we have opened our doors to all who wish to worship with us in our small, but beautiful, sanctuary. This season, we have moved again— right into your home! While this is new territory for all of us, we strive to continue our worship in a safe and meaningful way for all. We, like our ancestors, are

resourceful. We will use live streaming, not just for the interim, but going forward as well. In the near future, this technology will allow those unable to join us physically to be part of our worship at a distance. Maybe your ride to temple fell through or you are away on vacation— our worship services will still be available to you.

This October, we look forward to the Festival of Sukkot and celebrating Simchat Torah. The Lulav and Etrog are en route. It is exciting to worship together with our new technology. Members and nonmembers are welcome. For further information, contact our office staff at 239-642-0800.

In view of ongoing pandemic precautions, worship at JCMI is being live streamed by Zoom. Friends and well-wishers in the community interested in “distance-davvening” to honor

Danny Benarroch can obtain login protocols by contacting the Jewish Congregation of Marco Island office at 239642-0800 or at the synagogue website marcojcmi.com.

Mazal Tov, Danny Benarroch

ar-Mitzvah candidate Danny Benarroch will have two scoops of celebration on the first day of Sukkot, Saturday, Oct. 3, as he conducts both Shabbat and Festival morning worship at

Jewish Congregation of Marco Island. Danny is the son of long-time JCMI members Al and Yvette Benarroch, and a student at the Marco Island Charter Middle School.

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Voting during the crucible of COVID-19 An awesome responsibility Steve McCloskey President

oday, our nation is being tested as it has not been for at least a couple of generations. Any one of the momentous challenges — the growing movement for meaningful societal change, severe economic dislocation and climate change — would be a severe test of our collective will. However, these multiple roiling forces are conflated with the pervasive and cataclysmic crisis of the global pandemic, an ongoing event that will demand much from all of us in the days ahead. On November 3, we must vote, not only for a slew of candidates, from presidential down to local, but to engage in a searing inquiry of what we

might want a post-pandemic America to look like. Will we embrace a foreboding vision of an America rooted in the past, sowing seeds of division, exclusion and fear, or an uplifting vision of an America looking forward, extolling unity, inclusion and societal justice, buoyed by optimism and hope? There has not been a starker choice in my lifetime. Blind devotion and unquestioned loyalty to any elected leader is not an American virtue, but an American failure. Bipartisanship and compromise should be viewed as signs of strength, not weakness. While we at NJC believe that the right to vote is sacrosanct, that right comes with a solemn duty to exercise it. That is why NJC has joined the URJ’s Every Voice, Every Vote Campaign, a drive to have all our members pledge to, and vote, in the November 3 general election. Our Social Justice Committee has been contacting all members to ensure that they are registered

to vote — and will be doing so, either using a mail-in ballot, early voting or voting on election day. We have stressed the urgency of mailing in their ballots early, if they choose to vote by mail in the midst of the pandemic. This election will, no doubt, have profound intergenerational implications. It is most certainly about l’dor v’dor, what we cherish as bedrock principles and values to be passed from generation to generation. Some of them seem rather obvious — safeguarding liberty, democratic institutions, a vigorous free press, robust but civil discourse, promoting the general welfare, fostering the common good, fighting for societal justice, advocating for equal opportunity for all, speaking truth to power and pledging to treat others with understanding, grace, dignity and respect. We must learn to forsake the shortterm view for the long-term outlook, for the future of our children and grandchildren. Can we not only envision, but

really commit to and work toward, a better world for them? In order for that to happen, we must insist on more from ourselves and more importantly, from our elected officials. Why are we satisfied with mediocrity when we should be insisting on excellence? As long as our focus is on us as individuals, rather than as a nation that looks both inward and outward, our legacy will be found wanting. At NJC, we are learning as we go how best to adapt to the inability to gather for services and other events. Zoom and YouTube Live are enabling us to connect with our members for not only Shabbat and High Holy Days services, but to provide programming for our members through our well-received NJC Connects events, held a couple of times a month. Everyone is craving connection with others in these isolating times. These virtual meeting platforms have helped to make a real difference and we are always looking for ways to enhance offerings to our members.

Naples BBYO is back By Jessica Zimmerman, Associate Regional Dir., North Florida Region

you to join BBYO and become halom Naples families. a part of the Brother and SisWe hope you had a safe terhood that changes lives and and wonderful summer adds Jewish meaning to life in and that the holidays were meaningful and reformative. high school and beyond. You can join BBYO Naples by In the land of Naples BBYO, going to bit.ly/memberbbyo. we are back up and running. We promise, you will not BBYO is slowly beginning regret it! in-person programming. In Jessica September, the Mishpacha Brand new this year, BBYO Zimmerman is offering Israel vouchers that BBG Board gathered for its first in-person board meeting at Lowdermilk will reduce the price, by $3,000, to all Israel-related BBYO travel for 2021! Beach Park. We had a blast reminiscing and planning for the year ahead, while That’s right, $3,000 to use towards any wearing masks and remaining six feet Israel-related travel program. Offered to teenagers in grades 9-12, this opportuapart. If you would like additional infornity is available by application only to mation about future in-person and virtual BBYO members. To learn more, visit events, please connect directly with Jess Zimmerman, our staff in Naples. bbyopassport.org. To contact Jess Zimmerman, Associate In the interim, if you are a Jewish 8thRegional Director, North Florida Region, to 12th-grader in the Naples area, we want

email jesszimmerman@bbyo.org or call or text 941-677-3018. We hope to see you soon! From your friends at Naples BBYO—stay safe. P.S. We are actively searching for volunteer chapter advisors in Naples. The position requires about 8 to 10 hours a month and the benefits are far too many to list. If interested, visit https://bbyo.org/get-involved/becomean-advisor.

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

The PJ Library is brought to the Greater Naples community by the Naples Senior Center at JFCS. For more information, please call 239.325.4444.

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Preschool of the Arts welcomes children back to school By Ettie Zaklos, Preschool of The Arts Founder & Director

n August, we welcomed new and returning families for our milestone 10th year at Preschool of the Arts. We set out to embark on a year like no other, taking on the many challenges needed to open our doors safely for our children and community during the current pandemic. During the summer, we pushed through the challenges to open for our children, who had been at home for months. The successful program gave our staff and families a taste of what inperson education could look like during COVID-19, allowing us to practice new guidelines, tweaking and updating as necessary. The overwhelmingly positive experience allowed us to open this year with confidence, with dozens of new enhancements that will keep our community safe and healthy during this time, while still offering the full scope of our top-notch program. Our motto this year is to Maximize Learning and Minimize Risk. We are so grateful to our families, who have supported

us and are trusting us with the core responsibility to keep their precious children safe. We are committed to giving our students the very best. While many aspects of our program have been modified for safety, our staff ’s nurturing care and love has not changed at all. If there is one thing we have learned in the past six months, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that none of our regular routines can be taken for granted. Our school community has been through so much, and we have never been more delighted to greet our children on that first day of school. It is thrilling to be surrounded by a full campus once more. Every day, as I walk around the campus and hear the happy sounds of children playing, learning and laughing—swinging and climbing in the playground, shopping in our Preschool Marketplace, cooking up muddy messes and building forts in the Outdoor Nature Classroom, singing in Spanish, experimenting and creating in art—I have never felt more

blessed. This is what our preschool is all about. The sweet smiles and eagerness on the children’s faces, as they begin to explore their new classrooms and make new friends, never fails to tug at my heartstrings. I give thanks every day that we are able to give this gift to our children right now. Thank you to our amazing teachers and staff for their support and dedication. We could not ask for a more loving team. I am so grateful to our devoted educators for all of their extra hard work and commitment during these challenging times. They are true heroes for our children! We are so proud of how far we have come in these past 10 years—how we have grown from a fledgling preschool to the top-quality program that has welcomed hundreds of children through our doors and thousands in our summer camps. This past month, we were deeply honored to learn that we won Gold in the 2020 Naples’ Choice Awards in child care and education services. This is the ninth year in a row that our growing

preschool has won this prestigious award. We are humbled and grateful for the support and trust of our incredible community for so many years, but especially this year! Even during COVID-19, we are proud to continue to offer our extensive Specials programming, which includes music and performing arts, visual arts, sports, dance, gardening, STEAM, Spanish and Shabbat Celebrations. Our one-of-a-kind curriculum is specially designed to maximize our school’s wonderful facilities and resources, such as the Outdoor Nature Discovery Classroom, state-of-the-art playground, Marketplace, Garden of the Arts and indoor and outdoor art studios. Our innovative programs and incredible staff are an open Naples secret, and our award-winning preschool is growing exponentially every year. We are excited for the school year ahead and look forward to sharing our highlights along the way. For more information or to schedule a tour, please call 239-263-2620.

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Temple Shalom Preschool By Rabbi Ariel Boxman, Rabbi Educator

fter many months of being closed during this pandemic, our preschool doors finally opened in August. Children once again entered the building with big smiles and wide eyes. Laughter could be heard in the hallways and teachers, parents and students beamed with excitement. Now, while our curriculum, unique enrichments offered and the warm feeling are all still present, because of COVID-19, there are some additions and adjustments to our program. In order to keep our students, staff and families as healthy as possible, our COVID-19 protocol includes: • Curbside drop-off and pickup In order to limit the number of adults in the building, students are being dropped off at the curb and escorted into their classroom by teachers. • Temperature checks/health questionnaire Prior to dropping off at school, a staff member checks all students for fever, and parents are required to virtually answer questions about the status of their child’s health. • Pods In order to limit the potential spread of COVID-19, during the school day, students only interact with their two teachers and students in their assigned classroom. • PPE All adults are required to wear masks while inside the building. Students are not required to wear masks, but many choose to do so. Teachers are also required to wear smocks over their clothes in order to limit the spread of germs when they are in close contact with students. • Increased use of outdoor spaces In addition to students utilizing our wonderful playground and trike track, we have built an outdoor classroom, with brand new picnic benches and

•

Ezra Feldman posing for his first day of school

Students and their teacher, Miss Hope, on their way to our new outdoor classroom

Bobby Parsons coloring in nature

Students enjoying our new outdoor classroom picnic benches

umbrellas. Teachers are able to utilize the classroom and other outdoor spaces multiple times per day. • Virtual enrichments Because we are limiting the daily inter action to two teachers and their assigned student group, we have added virtual enrichments to the day instead of physically bringing additional teach ers into the classrooms. Enrichment teachers have been asked to record their lessons and upload them to YouTube. Smart TVs have been installed in all

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enrichment classrooms, and teachers are able to simply play the lesson of the day for their students. It has been wonderful for students to still see the faces and hear the voices of the teachers they miss seeing in person. Increased sanitation We h a v e i n c l u d e d additional sanitation practices to our daily routine, including a hospital-grade fogging system to keep the classrooms extra clean and sanitary.

While it has taken some time to adapt to these updates and changes, we are all grateful for the opportunity to open our doors and resume the program we know and love. Many families have chosen to enroll their children this year, and we even have a waitlist for future enrollment. I feel very blessed to have the opportunity to serve as director this year and work with such a talented and dedicated team. As we enter into 5781, I pray that this year is one of blessing, peace and above all, health!

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COMMUNITY DIRECTORY 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, MAHL Cantor Donna Azu, MSM Rabbi Ariel Boxman, MAHL, MARE, Rabbi Educator Rabbi James H. Perman, D.D., Rabbi Emeritus Deborah Rosen Fidel, J.D., MAJPS, Executive Director Daryl Sissman, President Jim Cochran, Music Director Shabbat Services: Shabbat Eve - Friday 7:30 p.m. Shabbat - Saturday 10:00 a.m.

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Articles inside

Temple Shalom Preschool

Preschool of the Arts welcomes children back to school

Naples BBYO is back

Voting during the crucible of COVID-19

Mazal Tov, Danny Benarroch

Look how far we’ve come

Temple Shalom events open to the community

Beth Tikvah update

Zooming through Southwest Florida Jewish History

Who we are

Save the date for Hadassah programs

Honoring our past

A matter of timing

Jewish National Fund-USA goes virtual for 2020 National Conference

FIDF announces appointment of new CEO

Sukkot sweet treat

France Introduces its Own “Nuremberg Laws”

Local guy in good flick

Naples Senior Center continues to serve

Experts discuss human rights issues after ‘Movies That Matter’

Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center update

“We Are All Jews”

Important programs for discussion and action set virtually

Make your voice heard

Commemorating the 82nd Anniversary of Kristallnacht

“The Mask Crusaders”

Israel Advocacy Committee Explores Fall Programming

Explore religious traditions of the world in a three-part series

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2021 Annual Community Campaign news

Meet the editor

Reneé’s community program & events corner

Why you should become a Patron of the Jewish Book Festival!

Fill your calendar with these Zoom-tastic Events!

Lori Gottlieb to kick off the 2020-21 Jewish Book Festival

Building our new home

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Jewish Interest

How we choose to live our lives

The greatest legacy one can leave

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Men’s Cultural Alliance offers full fall lineup