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11 TH ANNUAL
MARCH
PRESENTED BY the MILMAN-KOVER family
11 – 22

2020

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Celebrating Jewish Life in Sarasota and Manatee Counties, Israel and the World
FEDERATION NEWS

PUBLISHED B Y
Celebrating 50 Years The Jewish

Federation

OF SARASOTA-MANATEE

THE LARRY & MARY GREENSPON
FAMILY CAMPUS FOR JEWISH LIFE

March 2020 - Adar/Nissan 5780 www.jfedsrq.org Volume 50, Number 3

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Anti-Semitism: How we are

14A Community Focus addressing it locally
21A Jewish Interest

28A Israel & the Jewish World By Howard Tevlowitz, Chief Executive Oﬃcer will not leave the security of the Jew-
acts of violence, a rise of almost
nti-Semitic incidents are in-
34A Commentary creasing dramatically in the 70% ish community to government alone.
40A Focus on Youth AUnited States and Europe. We 1,652 anti-Semitic incidents in the We know we must organize ourselves

43A Life Cycle are becoming numb to the shocking United Kingdom were recorded, effectively to ensure the safety of our
number of images of Jews being at-
community. To that end, Federation
the highest in a single year
1B Jewish Happenings tacked and murdered where we wor- The Jewish Federation of Sara- has:
ship, where we live and in the places sota-Manatee takes the issue of  Created a Jewish Community Se-
we frequent. security for our Jewish community ex- curity Committee comprised of all
In 2019-20 alone: tremely seriously. Here’s what we are synagogues, temples and Jewish
11 Jews were massacred at Sab- doing: agencies with facilities to work to-
bath morning prayers at the Tree  Organizing community programs, gether on security related issues
of Life building in Pittsburgh, the such as the January
deadliest anti-Semitic attack in Solidarity Rally, to
3A U.S. history bring Jewish, inter-

Daniel E. O utt, III Charitable Five people were brutally attacked faith and minority
Trust: An artfully generous gift with a machete while celebrating communities together
Chanukah at a rabbi’s home in  Speaking out – to our
Monsey, New York local media and to our
1,879 (five per day) anti-Semitic local, state and federal

incidents were reported across representatives
the U.S., the third highest number  Working directly with
since the Anti-Defamation League our state government
began recording in 1979 in Tallahassee and our
141 hate crimes were reported in federal government in No Hate No Fear Rally in January
7A Florida, nearly double from 2015, Washington, D.C., regarding se-  Contracted with the Secure Com-
according to the FBI
Federation’s Newcomers SRQ 58% of religion-based hate crimes curity funding for Jewish institu- munity Network (SCN) to hire a
tions in our two-county area. It is
Security Director for our commu-
event a huge success! were committed against Jews and the government’s responsibility to nity. That Director, who will hope-
Jewish institutions in the U.S., ac- protect its citizens in their houses fully be in place this month, will be
cording to the FBI of worship and at meeting spaces. responsible for our Jewish commu-
1,646 anti-Semitic crimes were re- As much as we can push on gov- nity’s security, coordinating with
ported in Germany, including 62 ernment to meet its responsibilities, we continued on page 2A
Jewish Community Study

8A Summary Report released

Celebrating our Lion of Judah By Kim Mullins, Chief Operating Oﬃcer

and Pomegranate donors ver the last few months, you have been working
have likely read about the re- with our Federation
Olease of our 2019 Jewish Com- to gain a deeper un-
munity Study and have seen some of derstanding what this
the highlights of that study reported data means for our
here in The Jewish News. A few of you growing community
may have even visited our Federation’s as we move forward.
website and read the full study – over We have also made
13A 100 pages of data! We are proud to an- presentations to non-

New York City – more than nounce that a new Jewish Community Jewish partners who
interested
are
in
Study Summary Report has just been
just fun and games for six released. It showcases a variety of data learning more about
STEP high school students points to help you better understand our Jewish commu-
our Jewish community. nity. Our Federation relies on the study full study, both of which are located at
For more than 60 community Our Federation leadership is de- results to assist us with the re-envision- jfedsrq.org/communitystudy.
events in March, see the lighted to see the response that the ing of our Larry & Mary Greenspon If you would like to receive a print-
Jewish Happenings section study results have already generated Family Campus for Jewish Life, as ed copy of the summary report, please
beginning on page 1B. in the community. Jewish organiza- well as future programming. email me at kmullins@jfedsrq.org or
tions are utilizing the data as a basis for We encourage you to visit our web- call me at 941.552.6300. I’ll gladly
strategic planning; a number of which site and read either the summary or the answer any questions about the study.

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