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Gisele Pintchuck, recipient of Tour four magnificent synagogues around the world

2021 Gail Littman Leadership Award By Jeremy Lisitza, Director of Innovation & Volunteer Engagement currently spearheads efforts to rebuild an abandoned synagogue, which today

e with us each Thursday in Au-
board members of the Quincentennial
gust as we join Jewish Major- Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews. the main sanctuary of the Fraenkelufer is run as a cultural center named Nidje
Bca Travel on its Hot Air Zoom Next stop on our tour, on August Synagogue, destroyed by the Nazis, as Israel. It is now known as the Histor-
Balloon ride to virtually visit four mag- 12, is St. Petersburg, where Evgenia a community and cultural center. ic Synagogue, which opened in 2010,
nificent synagogues around the world! Kempinski, a Russian Jew born and The final stop on our Hot Air Zoom serving as an open space for all sorts of
The tours will be led by local profes- raised in St. Petersburg by a family Balloon ride, on August 26, has us land Jewish cultural activities and all kinds
sional tour guides in each of the cities whose ancestors originated from the in Mexico City. It is here that we meet of people.
who will tell us firsthand the history Pale of Settlement – Poland, Belorus- Mónica Unikel-Fasja, our tour guide All tours will take place at noon.
and current activities of their commu- sia and Ukraine – takes us on our tour. who found her passion in the streets The cost for the series of four tours
nities. She is a professional tour guide and the of Historic Mexico City, where Jewish is $36 per household. If you are regis-
Our first stop on the tour will be founder/owner of St. Petersburg Jew- immigrants arrived and lived around tered and unable to attend a session, the
Istanbul on August 5 to learn about a ish Tours. As a young girl, she went a century ago. Monica has dedicat- link will be sent to you the following
synagogue that was founded in 1992 in to the first private Jewish school in ed nearly half of her life to walking day.
order to commemorate the 500 years of the USSR, located in the Grand Cho- around those streets, narrating the tes- To register, please go to jfedsrq.
existence of the Sephardim Jews from ral Synagogue of St. Petersburg – the timonies and stories of Jewish immi- org/events. For more information, con-
the Ottoman Period until the Modern second largest in Europe – whose con- grants in the form of guided tours. She tact me at 941.343.2113 or jlisitza@
Republic of Turkey. struction dates back to 1893. The St. has participated in the revitalization of jfedsrq.org.
The Jewish community in Turkey Petersburg Jewish community is rather
has a long and rich history that stretch- young as it was first established in the
es back some 2,000 years to Roman early 19 century.
th
times when Jews left Jerusalem and Our third stop, on August 19, will
dispersed throughout the world. One be Berlin. It is here where we meet De- UROLOGY TREATMENT CENTER
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“Rothschild’s of the East,” and their the past 18 years. Dekel holds a PhD in WINSTON E. BARZELL, MD, FACS, FRCS
journey from Istanbul to Paris. Hear German-Jewish history and has been a Diplomate of the American Board of Urology
from tour guide Mois Gabay, who was top guide in Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden JOSHUA T. GREEN, MD, FACS
born in Istanbul, Turkey. He’s an active and the ShUM cities, the cradle of Ash- Diplomate of the American Board of Urology
professional tour guide and one of the kenazi tradition, for over a decade. He EIHAB AKARY, MD
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