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Rabbi Jonathan Katz: Building connections PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT

The rabbi enjoys the give and take
he has with residents. “I enjoy just hav-
ing a nice back and forth with people,”
he shared. “For example, “I introduced
myself to a woman in the rotunda and
asked where she was from. She replied,
‘I am proudly from Manhattan.’ When
I told her I was from Ohio, she sarcas-
tically asked, ‘Where’s that?’ To which
I replied, ‘Oh, I see, a typical New
Yorker. Everything ends at the Hudson
River.’ We had a good laugh.”
“I’m a banterer. I like to make peo-
ple smile and stimulate them,” he em-
phasized. “One day I walked into the
rotunda and just blurted out who can
tell me the nine body parts that have
three letters. It was a fun way to get ac-
quainted.” (By the way, the answer is
arm, leg, hip, ear, eye, toe, lip, rib and
jaw.)
Jay Solomon remembers Rabbi
Katz’s humor and warmth from a time
last year when he was in the hospital
and the rabbi would come up to his
room just to kibbitz. “And when I was
there over Rosh Hashanah, his wife
Marty came too. That is who they are VOTE!
as a couple, and that is who Jonathan
Katz is – one of the warmest, most car- November 3rd
ing people I have ever met,” Solomon
said.
At the heart of everything he does
is cultivating relationships with people
and building communities of people
who care. “These are the things I live TRUSTED SERVICE PROVEN LEADERSHIP
my life for,” Rabbi Katz notes. PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT Melissa Gould has been serving Melissa has taught university PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
F ederation Manatee County as an extremely courses in the following areas:
Rabbi Katz can be reached at
jkatz@jfcs-cares.org.
2020

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