The Hamilton Jewish Federation Baskets That Volunteers Then Delivered to Our Community’S Holocaust Survivors
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PHOTO BY WENDY SCHNEIDER, HAMILTON JEWISH NEWS T. 905-522 6555 F: 905 522 6574 6th Floor, One James Street South, Hamilton ON Hamilton Jewish Federation and Hamilton Jewish Family Services (HJFS) started two new Rosh Hashanah traditions this year. Community support and a generous grant enabled HJFS to donate 2,700 lbs of kosher food to 90 families in need, while Hamilton Jewish Federation staff (pictured above) assembled beautiful Rosh Hashanah gift The Hamilton Jewish Federation baskets that volunteers then delivered to our community’s Holocaust survivors. extends a hearty Mazal Tov to 8 Sandi Seigel NATIONAL NEWS INSIDE: THIS ISSUE Good news for Jewish journalism 2 Editorial for her leadership and community service 9 4 Local News Yashar Koach! 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Celia Rothenberg Lorne Rochwerg Georgina Rosenberg CIRCULATION CONSULTING ART DIRECTOR Peter Smurlick 2,000 John Bullock Jason Waxman Laura Wolfson PUBLISHER Hamilton Jewish Federation OCTOBER 2020 • HAMILTON JEWISH NEWS 3 LOCAL NEWS Jewish Book Festival features impressive roster of authors A showcase of outstanding authors to be presented An opportunity to interact with nine WHEN: Sunday, Nov. 1 at 3 p.m. Bobby, tells the broader story of Jewish im- authors as they expand your awareness AUTHOR: Jonathan Kaufman, migration from Russia in the early 20th cen- The Last Kings of Shanghai of Jewish history and cultural life at the tury, the desire for upward mobility, and MODERATOR: TBA the struggle for Jews to gain acceptance in 2020 Marvin Caplan Jewish Book Festival Jonathan Kaufman, a Pulitzer Prize win- America. ning author, in the Last Kings of Shanghai: Dahvi Waller is an Emmy Award The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped BY winner for her writing on television shows ALLYSON WENZOWSKI Create Modern China, he unfolds an epic, SPECIAL TO THE HJN Mrs. America, Mad Men and Desperate multigenerational story of the Sassoons and Housewives. the Kadoories, who flourished in Shanghai THE MARVIN CAPLAN JEWISH Book Festival has been ex- and Hong Kong as 20th-century China panded this year, featuring nine authors presenting over surged into the modern era. WHEN: Sunday, Nov. 8 at 3 p.m. eight days. This compares to the four authors who pre- AUTHOR: Kathy Kacer, sented last year. WHEN: Sunday, Nov. 1 at 6 p.m. The Brushmaker’s Daughter The second annual event is taking place from Sunday, AUTHOR: Raffi Berg, Red Sea Spies MODERATOR: Dennis Nash Nov. 3 through Thursday, Nov. 12. The major change, of IN CONVERSATION WITH: Dani Limor Kathy Kacer is the author of numerous sto- course, is that the author sessions will be presented live on Raffi Berg is a BBC journalist who re- ries about the Holocaust for young readers, Zoom because of the pandemic. counts the true story of a diving centre on including Shanghai Escape. Inspired by a A committee selected the nine featured books from the Sudanese coast run by Mossad oper- true story and set in Berlin in 1939, 12-year- among hundreds of titles featured in the the Jewish Book atives who used it as a cover to smuggle old Lillian and her father are on the run Councils’s 2019-2020 catalogue. The Marvin Caplan Jewish thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel from from Nazi soldiers because they are Jewish Book Festival was initiated in 2019 to commemorate the behind enemy lines. and are in danger of being arrested and put memory of the late Marvin Caplan, a former Hamilton city Dani Limor served 25 years in the Mossad, in prison. councillor, business operator and realtor. with activities including leading the secret Throughout his life, Caplan was an avid reader, who was operation that evacuated Ethiopian Jews WHEN: Monday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. involved in children’s reading programs and literacy cam- from Sudan to Israel. Before joining the AUTHOR: A.J. Sidransky, The Interpreter paigns aimed at helping both immigrants and those already Mossad, he was an Israeli paratrooper MODERATOR: Anita Bernstein in our community. Building upon the inaugural year’s suc- officer and fought in four of Israel’s wars.