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Giving Challenge...continued from page 1A A gift fit for a gem
Coalition and responds to discrimi- the last 14 years and currently serves
nation complaints that come through as the chief deputy and general coun- By Marty Katz, Sr. Dir. of Communications & Marketing
ADL’s Florida office. sel. Captain Walsh has been a leader
Eric will address strategies and with our local synagogues and Jew-
ways to respond to specific situa- ish agencies in the last year.
tions, such as when a dinner guest There are two schools of thought
says something inappropriate on this topic: hire pro-
or when you encounter a direct fessionals to stand guard
act of harassment. He will also and/or allow congregants
PRESENTED BY the MILMAN-KOVER family talk about recent data collected with “conceal and carry”
by the ADL which shows how permits to be “Temple
anti-Semitism has increased. shomrim” (undercover
“Guns in synagogue?” guards). We will hear
The following morning, on from our panelists on the
April 29 at 10:00 a.m., join us pros and cons to both.
for a panel discussion on al- Colonel Kurt Hoff man To register for the
lowing civilians with guns in syna- events, please visit jfedsrq.org/events.
gogues and/or Jewish organizations. We hope you will participate in
Law enforcement officials will be the Giving Challenge and support your
on the panel, including Colonel Kurt Federation in keeping our Jewish com-
Hoffman and Captain John Walsh of munity safe.
11 TH ANNUAL the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office. For more information, please con-
Colonel Hoffman has worked for the tact Trudi Krames at tkrames@jfedsrq.
Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office for org or 941.706.0037.
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how they succeed. “In researching who
men inside the camp were working as
part of Pilecki’s underground army.
was the very first woman in combat,
“The scale of the operation was mind-
boggling,” he added. I found it was this group of 39 wom-
en,” she said. Realizing she could not
Fairweather calls Pilecki “one of write about all of them, she narrowed it
the greatest, if not down to the first five who
the greatest, hero of were recruited in 1942.
World War II.” His All of the women, she
story, unfortunately, said, had two things in
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Anonymous Barbara Kupferberg Fairweather, who is working on a a part, as Charles de Gaulle wanted
Dr. Louis and Mrs. Milly Chaykin Joan and Bart Levenson young adult version of the story, said France’s wartime legacy to be that of a
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