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People of the Book Event Numbered, a Post-Film Discussion
With Janice Kaplan With Film Director Dana Doron
Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee
We tell girls that they can be anything, so why do 90% of Americans Auschwitz prisoners, both Jewish and non-Jewish, were tattooed with
believe that geniuses are almost always men? Janice Kaplan explores the serial numbers, first on their chests and then their left arms. An estimated
powerful forces that have rigged the system, and celebrates the women 400,000 numbers were tattooed in Auschwitz and its sub-camps; only
geniuses past and present who have triumphed anyway. In The Genius several thousand of those survivors are still alive today. Numbered
of Women, you’ll learn how these women ignored obstacles and broke (documentary 2012; 55 minutes) is an explosive, highly visual and
down seemingly unshakable barriers. Kaplan has enjoyed wide success as emotionally cinematic journey, guided by testimonies and portraits of these
a magazine editor, television producer, writer and journalist. The former survivors. The film, which will be available May 9, documents the dark
editor-in-chief of Parade magazine, she is the author or coauthor of 14 time during which these tattoos were assigned, as well as the meaning they
books, including New York Times bestsellers The Gratitude Diaries and took on in the years following the war. The film’s protagonist is the number
I’ll See You Again. Tickets to this 2:00 p.m. event on Zoom are $10 per itself, as it evolves and becomes both a personal and collective symbol
household (or $18 for all three May author events). To register for this from 1940 to today. These scars, paradoxically unanimous and anonymous,
and all other People of the Book events, please visit jfedsrq.org/books. reveal themselves to be diverse, enlightening and full of life. This event,
For more information, contact Jeremy Lisitza at jlisitza@jfedsrq.org or at 3:00 p.m. on Zoom, is offered at no cost and is open to the community.
941.343.2113. To register, please visit jfedsrq.org/events. For more information, contact
Jeremy Lisitza at jlisitza@jfedsrq.org or 941.343.2113.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 12 Crash Course: “History of Zionism”
How many Jewish lives have been devoted to the love of our Holy Land?
People of the Book Event Zionism is a passion never exceeded by any other in human history, wheth-
er in Americans yearning to be free in our own sacred space or Holocaust
With Bill Haltom slaves praying for Divine redemption from bottomless inhumanity. A
Sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Zionist exudes love and loyalty for a tiny strip of land disregarded for centu-
Why Can’t Mother Vote? is the story of Joseph Hanover, an unsung hero of ries but now cherished by its inhabitants, protecting it at all costs of life and
the fight for women’s suffrage, 100 years ago. Hanover, an Orthodox Jew, limb. This class, presented by the Al Katz Center, begins at 11:00 a.m. via
had fled Poland in 1895 to escape the Czar of Russia and the pogroms, Zoom. Cost: $10 per day or $50 per month for all May classes. To RSVP
and immigrated to Memphis, Tennessee. After reading the Constitution and receive the Zoom link, please call Beverly Newman at 941.313.9239.
and becoming deeply patriotic about his new homeland, he could not un- “Code of Joy – Jews’ Ongoing Yearning”
derstand why the rights set forth in the Constitution were not extended
to all Americans, prompting the question, “Why can’t mother vote?” He Chanie Bukiet will explore the underlying ideas and beliefs that sustain
went to law school at night, became a lawyer and was elected to the Ten- a truly joyful life. Learn how Judaism itself is supposed to be a joyful
nessee Legislature. There, in August 1920, he led the successful fight for experience – not despite the many duties that come with keeping the Torah,
the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, giving but because of them. A boxed lunch will be served. Join us at noon in
women the right to vote. Bill Haltom is an award-winning newspaper and person outdoors (in the Chabad tent, 5712 Lorraine Road, Bradenton) or
magazine columnist, a past editor of the American Bar Association’s ABA on Zoom. Course fee: $75, textbooks included, or $18 per class. For more
Journal and author of eight books. Tickets to this 7:00 p.m. event on Zoom information, contact Rabbi Mendy Bukiet at 941.752.3030 or rabbi@
are $10 per household (or $18 for all three May author events). To register chabadofbradenton.com.
for this and all other People of the Book events, please visit jfedsrq.org/
books. For more information, contact Jeremy Lisitza at jlisitza@jfedsrq. “The Word Mavens” at Temple Emanu-El
org or 941.343.2113. Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, authors of The Whole Spiel and
Dictionary of Jewish Words, will present an entertaining program about
Jewish traditions, beloved food and the uses and misuses of our favorite
ADULTS Yiddish words. They are “The Word Mavens” who celebrate everything
CULTURE about being Jewish in the 21st century. If you want to learn the difference
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