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Ten Years of Beit Ruth Lost Daughters The Community Newspaper of the Jewish Council of North Central Florida January 2016 Tevet - Sh’vat 5776 Ten Years of Beit Ruth Lost Daughters. Hope Found. Dreams Fulfilled. By Virginia Brissette Hirshik JCNCF Executive Director grabs few headlines and is viewed as In 2006, Susan Ashner had a dream for low-priority for government funding. Israel. She envisioned a place where The result is exhausted state-run facili- abused and neglected girls and young ties and no financial means to expand women, who had nowhere else to go, services for additional girls, and little could find safety, shelter and stability. or no ability to enact creative thera- Fast forward to 2016 and Susan Ash- peutic and educational programs spe- ner’s dream of a haven for Israel’s most cifically targeted to individual needs. vulnerable girls and young women has Without effective early interven- become, not only a reality, but a won- tion, at-risk girls can become trapped derful success story - the Beit Ruth Ed- in a cycle of poverty and abuse well ucational and Therapeutic Village. into their adult lives, and are likely to Beit Ruth was established to fill a perpetuate the cycle with their own distinct gap in the State of Israel’s children. According to Ashner, “The treatment of sexually, physically, and/ truth is every troubled teenage girl or emotionally abused girls. Over denied the opportunity to leave the 30,000 young girls in Israel are current- streets breeds another generation of ly deemed to be “at-risk” by the Minis- battered and abused children. It’s our try of Welfare. Tragically, Israel’s prob- mission to break the cycle of abuse. “ lem of “teenage girls on the streets” Beit Ruth continues on page 8 Tikkun Olam with Stacey Steinberg By Dawn Burgess-Krop JCNCF President and connected with Shands to photo- In our modern world, we use our cam- graph children battling cancer, birth eras to photograph everything from defects, and debilitating illness. In the practical to the inane. Stacey Stacey's words, "It was my honor to be Steinberg uses her camera lens to cap- welcomed into these family's lives and ture moments with gravely ill children to give them these pictures." and their families. In the intimacy of Stacey's photography has been coping with ceaseless medical proce- featured on the popular website The dures comingled with profound hope Huffington Post where she also authors and fear, Stacey is sharing these mo- columns. The Harn Museum is currently ments with families and capturing the in the process of planning an exhibit on ebullience that only children can offer, Health, Healing, and Dying, and has requested to display Stacey's images of even in the most trying of times. Stacey is a proud gator! children and their families and to par- Stacey has volunteered her pho- tography talents for the Shared Hope ticipate in the public discussion of this Tikkun Olam continues on page 10 Project, which she created in 2012, worthy topic. Page 2 - The Chronicle January 2016 JCNCF Receives Israel Advocacy Grant By Virginia Brissette Hirshik and lay leaders in our community to Through a CIP grant, the Jewish JCNCF Executive Director reach out to a Jewish and non-Jewish Council is sponsoring a series of dinners The Jewish Council has received a audience who may be vulnerable to and other activities in partnership with grant from The Israel Action Network messages and campaigns designed to leaders from the African-American com- (IAN), a strategic initiative of The Jew- undermine the democratic Jewish State munity of Gainesville. The first event in ish Federations of North America of Israel. this series was a dinner and discussion in (JFNA), in partnership with the Jewish One such program is known as November hosted by Dr. Harry Krop and Council for Public Affairs (JCPA). The the Community Impact Partnership Dawn Burgess-Krop. The group focused IAN and the grant were created to (CIP), which was launched in 2013 with on the Jewish and African American histo- counter the assault on Israel’s legitima- the goal of increasing the capacity of ries of Gainesville. cy and positively change the discourse small and mid-sized Jewish communi- The next gathering will be a special on Israel. A cornerstone of IAN’s strat- ties to counter delegitimization through Shabbat service at Temple Shir Shalom on egy is to educate, train and strategical- in-depth training and strategic planning Friday, January 15, which is Martin Luther ly mobilize the Jewish professionals over a three to six month period. King Day weekend. All are welcome. JCNCF Mission Statement As set forth in the Articles of Incorporation, the JCNCF has Submissions Policy been formed to operate and engage in philanthropic, cul- News and announcements of events that are of interest and open to tural, and other group activities for charitable and educa- the entire Jewish community will be included as space allows. The tional purposes that shall contribute to the welfare of the times and places of regular and special Jewish religious events, as well Jewish community of North Central Florida and other Jew- as Jewish organizational events, will be placed in the Chronicle’s ish communities around the world. monthly community calendar. Please submit original material of 500 words or less, not published or to be published elsewhere, along with photos of interest to the com- The Chronicle munity. Submissions may be e-mailed in Word document format to is published 10 times per year by the [email protected]; or dropped off at the Jewish Council of North Jewish Council of North Central Florida, Inc. Central Florida office. Please submit photos in high resolution with a PO Box 357936 caption identifying the subject and all people depicted. JCNCF re- serves the right to edit all submissions. Gainesville, FL 32635-7936 office: 352.371.3846 The Chronicle does not publish letters to the editor. www.JCNCF.org - [email protected] For more information, please call 352.371.3846 This issue of the The Chronicle was produced for the or email [email protected] . community by Virginia Brissette Hirshik, Dawn Burgess- The Chronicle and the Jewish Council do not endorse the goods and Krop, and Tamara Segal. services advertised in these pages, and make no representation as to the kashrut of the food, products, and services in such advertising. The entire contents of The Chronicle are All submissions are due on or before copyright © 2015 by the Jewish Council the 10th of the month prior to publication. of North Central Florida. President: Dawn Burgess-Krop Treasurer: Steve Bobroff Vice President: Secretary: Heath Lynn Silberfeld Past President: Sharon Hirshik Campaign Chairs: Howard Rosenblatt and Steve Slutsky Board Members 2014/2016 Executive Director Board Members 2015/2017 Stuart Cohn Stacey Steinberg Virginia Brissette Hirshik Joanne Block Esther Mauffray Richard Howard Ken Wald Community Engagement & Abe Goldman Myrna Neims Helene Johns Dan Wernecke Media Associate Nadav Katz Adam Smith Tevet - Sh’vat 5776 The Chronicle - Page 3 East and West 3 is a Musical Experience Not To Be Missed Wednesday, January 27 at 7 pm By Jack Kugelmass, Director Center for Jewish Studies at UF If the third time is the charm, audiences who come out for the Center for Jewish Studies sponsored cantorial concert, East and West 3, are in for a treat indeed. This year’s con- cert event will feature the same virtuoso musicians as in the past - Yair Dalal and Frank London - are each the most outstand- ing exemplars of Iraqi Jewish and klezmer music respectively, while Dror Sinai and Shai Bachar round out the ensemble through wonderfully animated percussion, vocals and keyboard. From the first East and West concert in 2014, from left to right, Can- tor Yanky Lemmer, Rabbi Hagai Batzri, Yair Dalal, and Dror Sinai This year, the concert shifts from they are each powerhouses of their re- the music of Iraq to that of Jewish Mo- spective traditions. What will the out- rocco and Spain- Andalus. To help us come be? I rely upon the musicians make that transition, Yanky Lemmer who've worked together a number of will be joined by Israeli cantor Lior times to find the linkages and I have a Elmaliah. Like Yanky, Lior is a star can- great deal of faith that when talent tor who sings with the Andalus Orches- meets talent something magical hap- tra of Israel and has performed around pens. That magic is music. the world. He can be seen in concert The concert, hosted by Congrega- Shar Bachar, piano and Frank London, trumpet. on YouTube and to hear how talented tion ’B nai Israel, will take place at 7 pm he is, I recommend a listen to his ver- on Wednesday, January 27. Tickets are Yanky Lemmer is, for good reason, sion of Albinoni’s Adagio which he does $18 and students may attend for free. a favorite among the cantorial aficiona- in Moroccan Arabic (I assume Moroc- For more information, please go to dos within this community and he is can Jewish Arabic). It's very, very beau- web.jst.ufl.edu/events.shtml. living proof of how robust the tradition tiful! East and West 3 is made possible by of Ashkenazi great hazzanut is both in One of the great thrills in creating a generous grant from the Jewish Coun- this country and elsewhere. Since many this musical ensemble is that it is cil, the various endowments of the Cen- people in Gainesville have heard him something entirely new. I don't believe ter for Jewish Studies and support from perform and can attest to how mesmer- that Lior and Yanky have ever per- individuals and families that are part of izing his singing is, I don't need to say formed together before this event and the Gainesville Jewish community.
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