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

50
PUBLISHED B Y
Celebrating Years The Jewish

Federation

OF SARASOTA-MANATEE

THE LARRY & MARY GREENSPON
FAMILY CAMPUS FOR JEWISH LIFE

July 2020 - Tammuz/Av 5780 www.jfedsrq.org Volume 50, Number 6

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Federation moves quickly in response

13 Community Focus to Coronavirus crisis
21 Jewish Happenings

26 Jewish Interest By Gayle Guynup
32 Israel & the Jewish World s we moved through February demic. We were also still in our event stepped up our regular weekly eblast to
and into March, the Coronavi-
twice a week in an effort to keep our
season, so I also had concerns about
34 Commentary Arus global pandemic reached how we would continue to provide pro- isolated community connected. There
37 Focus on Youth its invisible tentacles across the globe gramming virtually,” she said. is a lot of collaboration between these
“Our programming team took im-
39 Life Cycle – from China, into Europe and the mediate steps to connect with our na- two teams and that has been one of our
keys to success,” Adler said.
United States – and our lives changed.
Words like social distancing became tional organizations, such as The Jewish Program Director Trudi Krames
part of our daily lexicon as we locked Federations of North America, and and the team began pivoting its pro-
our doors and watched the daily num- other Federations and JCCs to share gramming in mid-March, when it was
ber of cases rise.
Locally, it could not have come
at a worse time, at the start of high

8 season on the Gulf Coast. Social
and cultural events were cancelled,
A changing of the guard for our one after another, and the tourists
Federation LIFE & LEGACY™ team that annually flock to our shores
were absent, leaving an economic
mark that we are still feeling today.
The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-
Manatee stepped up in response to
this unprecedented crisis, finding in-
novative and out-of-the-box ways
to pivot toward a “new normal.” Federation staff adapted quickly to working from home and communicating via Zoom
11 As the Coronavirus crisis unfolded, and glean resources and alternatives apparent they were going to have to
for virtual programs. Our communica-
adapt the Jewish Film Festival to the
Federation Chief Operating Officer
Baking challah for a cause Kim Adler said her immediate con- tions team definitely rose to the chal- new reality.
at Gulf Coast Hillel cerns were “keeping our team motivat- lenge, quickly creating a resource page “We didn’t want to just abandon
ed in a work-from-home environment, on our website for Coronavirus news, the whole festival because we weren’t
technology hurdles and the lack of any Jewish programming, links to our local going to be able to see the films in
playbook for operating during a pan- Jewish partners and more. They also continued on page 2

Joint statement from Federation

and Community Day School
13
n September 2018, The Jewish Then the COVID-19 pandemic struck. work together for the enhancement of
Jewish agencies pivot their Federation of Sarasota-Manatee The Federation and Community Jewish life and identity, and to emerge
programming in response Iand Hershorin Schiff Community Day have carefully considered the toll from this difficult period with a re-
to Coronavirus pandemic Day School entered into a lease for a of this pandemic on both of our orga- newed sense of purpose and dedication
new school building on The Larry & nizations, and on our entire commu- to the Jewish community.
Mary Greenspon Family Campus for nity. In the midst of such challenging The need for and importance of a
Jewish Life. Together, we began work- and uncertain times, it is not possible to Jewish day school in Sarasota-Man-
ing on plans for the construction of a proceed with the Campus development atee remain unchanged. Community
state-of-the-art learning facility for project as planned. Accordingly, the Day School will continue to operate
Community Day that would include Federation and Community Day School at its current location on the Temple
38 classrooms, a chapel, art spaces, a kib- will terminate their lease, and the school Beth Sholom Campus for the 2020-21

Temple Emanu-El Religious butz-style garden, athletic fields and will not move onto the Campus. school year while exploring options for
future expansion.
While the Federation and Com-
more. To finance the development of
School ends year with spirit the school buildings and the renovation munity Day School will not share a We know that the community
PAID POLITICAL and expansion of other Campus facili- campus, we remain committed to our will share our mutual disappointment.
ties, the Federation undertook a vig-
However, we also know that our com-
aligned Jewish values, including ex-
ADVERTISEMENT orous Capital Campaign. Our shared panding Jewish educational opportu- munity is resilient and steadfast. We
DISCLAIMER goal: to make the Campus a center for nities for the more than 3,000 Jewish hope that you will support each orga-
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political advertisements. The ads do not were proceeding well, with Communi- forward to collaborating on long-term us in strengthening the Federation and
reflect the views of, or serve as endorsement ty Day School scheduled to move onto options that will enable the Federation Community Day School for genera-
by, the staff or leadership of The Jewish
Federation of Sarasota-Manatee. the Federation Campus in July 2021. and the school to continue to thrive, to tions to come.

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