Happening this month

Reneé Bialek, Program Director

“Should a Catholic become a Jew? Or a Jew become a Catholic? If so, when, and why? Decisions made under extreme pressure define a person’s character and set in motion consequences that create the heroes and heroines in “Ari’s Spoon,” a novel based on real people and events that took place during the World War II Warsaw ghetto uprising and its aftermath.”

Everyone is invited to attend the Author Book Talk discussion of “Ari’s Spoon” on Wednesday, May 18 at 1 p.m. (ET) via Zoom. Register for this free event, brought to you by Jewish Federation of Greater Naples and Men’s Cultural Alliance, at www.jewishnaples.org.

I will be attending the virtual Book Council Conference at the end of this month with Gayle Dorio (Chair of JBF), Jan Goldman, Carol Hirsch and Emily Berkowitz, where we will vet over 200 authors. We will let you know in the coming months what the Greater Naples Jewish Book Festival schedule will look like.

PJ Library and Jewish Families with Young Children are invited to the park for activities and fun on Sunday, May 15 at 3 p.m. Please make a reservation with Alicia at programs@ jewishnaples.org

If you have an idea for a program or want to be a guest speaker or facilitator, please contact me at rbialek@ jewishnaples.org.

Please read our weekly Monday e-blast for any changes to these programs and, of course, to the additional programs being offered to the community.

We have a variety of groups and committees at Jewish Federation of Greater Naples, such as PJ Library, Jewish Families with Young Children, Cardozo Legal Society, Catholic-Jewish Dialogue, Israel Advocacy Committee and Jewish Community Relations Council. Please join the group and/or committee that best fits your needs. A taste of each one can be found throughout our website, www.jewishnaples.org.