JEWISH FEDERATION
October 2020
Federation Star
5
Why you should become a Patron Federation Star of the Jewish Book Festival! Published by Celebrating Jewish Life in Collier County, Israel and the World
Published by the Jewish Federation of Collier County serving Naples, Marco Island and the surrounding communities
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
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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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Thursday, December 10
Free event starts at 5pm
Register at jewishnaples.org A link will be emailed to those who register. Please register one per household. OF GREATER NAPLES
