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75 Annivesay of Libe atio
Celebrating Jewish Life in Sarasota and Manatee Counties, Israel and the World
FEDERATION NEWS
Celebrating
January 2020 - Tevet/Shevat 5780
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
16A Community Focus
26A Jewish Interest
32A Commentary
36A Focus on Youth
39A Life Cycle
1B Jewish Happenings
3A
Sarasota’s Blumenthal family:
Building for a better tomorrow
8A
Save the date for Federation’s
annual Jewish Film Festival
11A
Namesake Israel Center donors
Robert and Esther Heller
honored by Federation
38A
Temple Sinai Religious School
students enjoy Hawaiian Luau
and Scavenger Hunt
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Years The Jewish
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OF SARASOTA-MANATEE
THE LARRY & MARY GREENSPON
FAMILY CAMPUS FOR JEWISH LIFE
www.jfedsrq.org Volume 50, Number 1
2020: Join us as we TRANSFORM
our Jewish Federation
By Randon Carvel, President; Kim Mullins, Chief Operating Officer;
and Howard Tevlowitz, Chief Executive Officer
n 2020, The Larry & Mary Green- Learning and building community communities in an inclusive, wel-
spon Family Campus for Jewish
coming environment
ILife will begin a tremendous trans- ‹ Offering formal K-8 Jewish educa- Cultural arts, food and programming
tion and engagement for our area’s
formation. Our recent Jewish commu- youth, with our partner, Hershorin ‹ Producing innovative, quality pro-
nity study, showing that our Jewish Schiff Community Day School gramming for “babies to bubbies”
population has doubled in the last 18 ‹ Educating our community about ‹ Providing affordable communal
years, presents The Jewish Federa- diversity, the Holocaust and ad- meeting space and catering services
tion of Sarasota-Manatee with huge vocacy against anti-Semitism, in ‹ Bringing the best Jewish thought
opportunities for growth in outreach, the Robert and Esther Heller Israel leaders and entertainment from
cultural arts partnerships, programs Center around the world to the Sarasota-
for families and so much more. Our ‹ Continuing to act as a community Manatee area
community members expressed their convener, building relationships continued on page 2A
desire for greater connections to other with the Jewish and non-Jewish
Jews, more options for engaging with
like-minded individuals, and thought-
provoking, innovative educational pro-
grams. Our centrally located 32-acre
campus on McIntosh Road will serve
as the hub for many of these offerings.
However, in order to meet the demand,
a complete renovation is in order.
Space will be flexible, allowing
Federation to respond quickly to com-
munity needs. No membership is re-
quired. Federation will remain nimble
with a pay-for-service model focused
on the following areas:
Jewish Federation announces
2020 Board of Directors
By Gayle Guynup
he Jewish Federation of Sara- on our incredible re-imagined 32-acre other Jewish organizations valuable in-
sota-Manatee’s Board of Di-
Trectors approved its new slate campus and by bringing Federation to formation about the needs and wants of
our community members.
them throughout our two-
of officers for 2020 at its December county area.” “Our new President,
meeting. Randon Carvel will serve as Past President Michael Randon Carvel, has been
the new president of the board. Ritter noted, “During the very involved with Fed-
“My goals as the new president last two years, through the eration for several years
will include continuing to raise valu- hard work of our talented and understands our orga-
able resources in order to provide for staff and lay leadership, nization and its challenges.
those members of our community who we’ve made great prog- I am very confident that
still have real needs in spite of the eco- ress toward realizing our Randon is up to this chal-
nomic gains most of our community vision of redeveloping our lenge and will do a great
has experienced,” Carvel said. “In light 32-acre campus, as well Randon Carvel job.”
of the amazing growth of our local as successfully launching our capital Other officers will include Michael
Jewish community, now with approxi- campaign required to fund the project. Ritter, Immediate Past President; Ian
mately 35,000 people living in Jewish We also completed our first communi- Black, Vice-President Campus Utili-
households, we hope to engage them ty-wide population study in 18 years, zation; Merrill Wynne, Vice-President
in even more meaningful ways both which will provide the Federation and continued on page 2A
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