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CELEBRATING JEWISH LIFE IN GREATER NAPLES, ISRAEL AND THE WORLD
FEDERATI N STAR
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SERVING NAPLES, MARCO ISLAND AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES
www.JewishNaples.org Y July/August 2023 – Tamuz/Av/Elul 5783 Y Vol. 32 #11 er Your High Holiday Greetings by Aug. 2! Yoursay campaign dollars at work INSIDE THISHoliday ISSUE: season, This High “L’Shana Tova”
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Locally, JFGN supports religious institutions; scholarships to summer camps 14 Men’s Cultural Alliance for children; Baker Senior Center Naples, 15 Community Focus which assists Jews in need in our commuFederation 15 Tributes nity as well as local Holocaust survivors; Board Jewish War Veterans; the Jewish Histori18 Jewish Interest Chair cal Society of Southwest Florida; and the 20 Israel & The Jewish World Jewish Education Loan Fund (JELF), s I write this in May, 2023, the among others. And let’s not forget the 25 Organizations closing of our 2022-2023 Jewish beautiful Nina Iser Jewish Cultural Center 26 Commentary Federation of Greater Naples that our community has the opportunity 27 Synagogue News (JFGN) Annual Campaign approaches. to use and enjoy. Other local non-Jewish The Allocations Committee, chaired by agencies and programs are also sup28 Focus on Youth Jay Weiss, will consider the allocations to ported such as JCRC, Catholic-Jewish 31 Community Directory be made with our dollars raised. I cannot Dialogue CHOOSE FROM THESE SAMPLE GREETING S : and Shop with the Sheriff, help being proud of what our commuamong others. nity has been able to support … locally, Nationally and internationally, our nationally and internationally. dollars are shared with agencies that: This particular year has been dif1.) assist seniors with work programs ficult for distributing allocations. We 2.) provide children (deemed by a have needed to take into consideration judge who determines the child cannot that our community has had emergency be returned home or stay with family campaigns for the Ukrainian Jews, the HAPPY Turkey-Syrian Jewish earthquake surviRosh Hashanah 5 ame Here Your Name Here Your Name Here vors and a massive hurricane named Ian. Your Name Here Save the dates for six Elliott Given these campaigns, distributing well : $18 Katz lectures that challenge #2: $18 #3:the$18 #4: $18 over $200,000 (with help of Jewish the conventional view of Federations of North America) over the many 20th-century events. past campaign year, I would say we should be uplifted by what we have done and continue to do. When our Allocations CommitteeYour sits Name down to allocate the dollars our campaignHere Happy raised, they need to consider that Jewish Rosh Hashanah Federations of North America (which supYour Name Happy RoshworldHashanah ports Israeli social service agencies, Here wide Jewry and JewryYour in the United States Name Here 10 … remember the relief JFGN received as #5: $36 #6:a$54 This High Holiday season, say Hurricane Ian support!) requires signifi“L’Shana Tova” to friends and cant donation. The remaining campaign family. Order your High Holiday dollars are then distributed among local, by Aug. 2.Greeting order using a credit card by calling Janine Hudak, e your greetings High Holiday national and international agencies.
members) a home in which to stay under supervised living arrangements, get an education and be mainstreamed 3.) Support abused women and their families with a facility to live in until they can reassemble their lives 4.) Help resettle people all over the world who are displaced or homeless 5.) Support other agencies, worldwide, that provide social services needed to fulfill life’s necessities and a few joys. Amazing … our dollars do this and more! When you consider your pledge to our 2023-2024 Annual Jewish Federation of Greater Naples Campaign, remember we are helping ourselves and people worldwide. We do make a difference. Thank you for all that you do! May 5784 be a new year in which we continue to grow and prosper … from strength to strength. L’Shanah Tovah
Nat Ritter
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