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50 Years April 2021 - Nisan/Iyar 5781
INSIDE THIS
ISSUE:
17A Community Focus
24A Jewish Interest
30A Israel & the Jewish World
35A Commentary
40A Focus on Youth
43A Life Cycle
1B Jewish Happenings
3A
The new Jules and Carol B.
Green FIBA (Florida Israel
Business Accelerator) Center
18A
Rabbi Jonathan R. Katz
shared the story of Esther
using lots of candy
22A
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Sarasota, Monday to Thursday,
11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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Next year…NOT on Zoom!
By Kim Adler, Federation COO, and Howard Tevlowitz, Federation CEO
t Passover each year, we say vulnerable among us have suffered and nected, engaged and entertained. We
offered these programs throughout the
“next year in Jerusalem” as a
struggled.
As we mark this anniversary, we
Areminder of the suffering of feel it is important to reflect on what season, including over the summer, a
time traditionally dedicated to plan-
the past as well as our hopes for our
future. At our Seder tables last year, we we’ve learned. In a year full of disap- ning for the coming year. The pro-
are sure many of us also expressed the pointment, we realized we have much grams were well attended and attracted
desire to celebrate “next year in per- to be grateful for. audiences from around the country –
Our staff and volunteer leader-
son!” For many of us, this year we may
over 3,000 individual participants. We
still be marking this important (and ship made quick decisions to provide continue to receive positive messages
delicious) holiday with our family and high-quality virtual programming in from participants who have been so
an effort to keep our community con-
friends in a virtual environment.
grateful for these opportunities to learn
This has been a year like no other. and connect with other
We had to abandon our offices and Jews.
turn our condos and houses into home We hired a talented
offices. We learned to rely heavily on new Jewish Commu-
Zoom and FaceTime to connect with nity Security Director,
relatives. We have been unable to Jeff Solomon, who was
celebrate family graduations, births, able to get right to work
on assessing the securi-
weddings, b’nai mitzvah and holidays,
and we have watched our children and ty landscape of our ar-
grandchildren miss out on too many ea’s Jewish institutions.
major milestones. Many have lost He has spent the last six
loved ones, and others longed to just months finalizing those
hug or kiss those we cherish in our Randon Carvel with Mary and Larry Greenspon assessments, providing
lives. And we have watched as the most at Federation’s JFED PROUD & STRONG groundbreaking continued on page 2A
Over $20 million raised
for our community’s future
By Gisele Pintchuck, LIFE & LEGACY Director
®
ixing vision, persistence and program is to build a culture of philan- opportunity came our way, it was too
a touch of out-of-the-box thropy within Jewish organizations to good to pass up,” said Patti Wertheimer,
Mthinking, The Jewish Fed- help secure the future of Jewish com- Federation President during the launch
eration of Sarasota-Manatee knows munities for generations to come. This of the program in Sarasota-Manatee
the recipe for sustaining a successful struck a chord with Howard Tevlowitz, in late 2016. “Competition for lega-
community: the LIFE & LEGACY Federation CEO, and led him to make cy gifts was a major concern at first.
®
program. the investment to establish and perpetu- But, truthfully, not one of the organiza-
LIFE & LEGACY was the vision ate a culture of philanthropy in our area. tions we approached had a successful
of Massachusetts philanthropist Har- “For years, our Federation has endowment team in progress. Thanks
old Grinspoon, who has dedicated his tried to encourage sustainability and to the persistence and team efforts of
life to creating opportunities to provide continuity for our local Jewish orga- Howard, Steve Seidensticker (of bless-
strength and continuity of Jewish life nizations. We were looking for a game ed memory) and Al Ernst, we were
across the U.S. and Canada. In a nut- changer, and when the Harold Grin- able to get enough synagogues and
shell, the goal of the LIFE & LEGACY spoon Foundation’s LIFE & LEGACY continued on page 3A
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