Jacksonville Jewish News - August 2016

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A BOND BUILT BEYOND THE JEWISH COMMUNITY Pair of co-workers that pace each other out of the office and on the running trails Page 4

MOVING ON UP TO THE SOUTHSIDE

JFCS is set to expand to a new property soon Page 5

BREAKING NEW GROUND

Chabad set to build first Center for Jewish Life on Jacksonville’s Southside Page 21 A publication of

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Society of Healers speaker to share her compassionate message, Aug. 28th BY ERIN COHEN

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Musician Dan Nichols to rock Federation’s Campaign Kickoff, Sept. 18th BY ERIN COHEN

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Last year, at the Jewish Federation of Jacksonville’s Campaign Kickoff, guests were entertained by the mind-bending powers of mentalist, Sidney Friedman. On Sunday, Aug. 28th the Federation’s This year, as we launch the 2017 Annual Society of Healers division will hold its open- Campaign, everyone is invited to come ing event for the 2017 campaign year, with a together to sing, dance and have yet another discussion from guest speaker, Amy Hirshberg extraordinary experience with the Jewish Lederman. Her talk, ‘Compassionate Medicine, community as Dan Nichols will perform a Compassionate concert with his band, Eighteen, on Sunday, Judaism: How JewSept. 18th. ish Values Inspire Congregation Ahavath Chesed will Best Practices and host the concert which will start promptly Enhance Patient at 12:30 p.m., following religious school. Relationships’ will Those with children in religious school no doubt be a very at any of our synagogues are encouraged moving and inforto either pack a lunch to eat at Temple, or mative one. purchase a pizza lunch from JAFTY, The Hirshberg Temple’s youth group. The Federation Lederman’s heartinvites community members of all ages felt talk comes to hear the powerful and influential music from personal Amy Hirshberg Lederman of Dan and Eighteen, while also learning experience and will give her talk on com- about the exceptional and life-changing a desire to see passionate medicine, Aug. work that Federation is funding, with your successful patient/ 28th to the SOH Division help, locally as well as overseas. In lieu caregiver relationof charging a fee to attend the concert, the ships. “When my Federation requests that guests make a gift husband, Ray, was diagnosed with cancer in to the 2017 annual campaign. Dan Nichols November, 2011, we became a team and faced is a singular talent in the world of Jewish everything together,” she explained. “Because music, as he is one of the most dynamic, he was a doctor, we had the additional advantage and often anxiety, of understanding only too well what certain things really meant. The most important aspect of Ray’s care came from the doctors who turned ordinary moments and conversations into extraordinary ones because they were fully present to our concerns, issues and fears. Humanistic medical care can turn best medical practices into best Jewish pracBY MATT FRANZBLAU tices, enhancing the doctor-patient relationship Federation Communications Director and life itself,” she added. mattf@jewishjacksonville.org Hirshberg Lederman will also offer a stronger understanding of humanistic medicine durThis month a new friendly face will be ing her presentation. “Humanistic medical care recognizable in the Jacksonville Jewish is not simply compassionate medical care as it community as Dana (pronounced Donna) combines the best of medicine with the deepest Marmari will be coming to the First Coast power of healing: the power of life-affirming as its first Israel emissary in more than a relationships,” she said. quarter of a century. Marmari, a 26-year old social worker from Kfar Saba, Israel, See SOH TALK, p. 17 is being brought to Jacksonville through a partnership of Federation and the JCA, along with a generous donation from Federation board members Iris and Mark Kraemer, which made this venture financially feasible. Through the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI), Shlichim come to many communities in North America each year,” explained Federation Executive Director Alan Margolies. “As a result of a generous gift from Mark and Iris Kraemer, made in memory of Mark’s father Walter, this has become a reality.” The idea to bring an Israeli intern to Jacksonville was born out of the suggestion of Jewish Community Alliance Executive Director Myron Flager, who planted the seed with Federation at a most opportune time of year. “During the past two years of allocations, Myron came to Federation and urged us that together with the JCA, we should bring a representative of Israel to our Jewish community,” Margolies recalled. “I did that because I thought it was important for the people of our community to understand that as wonderful as we are, there is a piece missing,” Flagler explained of his motivations. That piece of the diverse and vibrant

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influential and beloved Jewish musicians in North America. His melodies have become an integral part of the spiritual and liturgical experience of countless individuals and Jewish communities. Nichols is a product of the Jewish camping movement, as he spent 10 summers at the Goldman Union Camp in Zionsville, Ind. before receiving his degree in vocal performance at the University of North Carolina. In 1995, realizing the potential of music to make a meaningful connection with Jewish youth, he established the Jewish rock band Eighteen. Since that time, Nichols and his band have released eight full-length studio albums. Each one has received critical acclaim and has been celebrated by Jewish adults and youth alike. Nichols’ anthology includes a widerange of sounds and styles, from energetic Jewish rock anthems to moving interpretations of traditional Jewish liturgy. Jewish youth and adults from around the world draw inspiration from his music and its positive message of Jewish values, identity and pride.

Renowned musician Dan Nichols and his band Eighteen, will perform a free concert at the Federation’s annual Campaign Kick off, Sunday, Sept. 18th at the Temple

His bands’ live performances are legendary for their unrestrained energy and infectious spirit. Nichols himself spends more than 180 days each year on the road, where he often serves as artist-in-residence for congregations and camp communities. He has performed live in Israel at the historic fortress of Masada and in the studio for the groundbreaking XM Radio presentation of Radio Chanukah.

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puzzle that makes Jewish Jacksonville will arrive in August in hopes of adding yet another component to the community, which will make Israel more real for people in Northeast Florida. “We had this vision that if we could have a Shlicha build amazing relationships within our community, then Israel could be brought to life and to the masses,” Flagler added. Marmari will be working collaboratively with Jewish organizations, agencies, day schools, and synagogues in the community, in addition to making significant contributions to the JCA and Federation on a daily basis. “While housed in the Federation’s offices, Dana will be supervised by staff at Kfar Saba, Israel native Dana Marmari the JCA, including Myron and Jewish and Family Outreach Coordinator Dave Flawill begin her work within the Jacksonville gler,” Margolies explained. “That partnerJewish community as an Israeli intern or ship is another example of the richness of Shlicha starting in August the relationship between our two organizations,” he added. league’s sentiments. That richness will only go toward benSome of the specialty programming efiting the Jacksonville Jewish community Marmari might have her hand in include as its new Shlicha will no doubt enrich the the JCA’s book and Israeli Film Festivals, many lives touched by Jewish agencies and in addition to Yom Ha’Atzmut and Yom organizations here in Northeast Florida. HaZikaron. “Dana will act as a resource, tremenThe fact that the JCA and Federation are dously impacting those organizations and able to collaborate in such a way around their people, because she will teach them the Shlicha and share this resource with the to take what they are doing and put an Israeli lens on it,” Flagler explained of her See ISRAELI EMISSARY, p. 28 important role in the community she will soon call home. “The menu of opportunities that await her in our Jewish community cover a vast array of possibilities, and we’re confident she’s going to make a difference with the various groups and programs she works with,” Margolies said, backing up his col-

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