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New Happy Shanah Tovah Shanah טובה שנה טובה Published as a Community Service by the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines • Online at jewishdesmoines.org • Volume 36 Number 1 Number 36 Volume • jewishdesmoines.org at Online • Moines Des Greater of Federation Jewish the by Service Community a as Published September, October, November 2019 November October, September, Jewish Community Report Press Engman Camp Shalom Published four times annually by the • Engman Camp Shalom enjoyed 10 weeks of camp at Caspe Jewish Federation of Greater Des Terrace this summer. Field trips, swimming lessons, art and Moines under the auspices of the Jewish Community Relations Committee cooking were just a few of the activities that kept kids busy Mark S. Finkelstein, Editor • Over 75 different children enjoyed ECS this summer Giovanna Zavell, Managing Editor/ • Winter Break Camp is scheduled for December. Contact Production Rachel Wermager, Copy Editor [email protected] for more information •••••••••••• Beit Sefer Shalom JEWISH FEDERATION • Sunday School began September 8 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Michael Wolnerman, Federation President • Global Day of Jewish Learning is November 17 from 9-12 at Hannah Rogers, President Elect Caspe Terrace. All are welcome! David Adelman, Foundation President Elena Greenberg, Treasurer • Teachers and Madrichim volunteered with Meals from the Jill Cantor, Secretary Heartland on August 28 at Hy-Vee Hall MEMBERS-AT-LARGE: Jeff Lipman Gan Shalom Maggie Matijevich Josh Mandelbaum • Gan Shalom Camp offered 11 weeks of camp, with 57 children Steve Schoenbaum participating in the program AGENCY CHAIRS: • Gan Shalom Children’s Garden is registered with the ‘Plant. Beit Sefer Shalom Board Maggie Matijivech, President Grow. Fly’ initiative with Blank Park Zoo. Children planted region-specific flowers and grasses for Midwestern pollinators. Iowa Jewish Senior Life Center Hannah Rogers, President • Gan Shalom Preschool started on Monday, August 26, 2019 Ron Osby, Director Jewish Community Relations Iowa Jewish Historical Society Linda Bremen, President • Federation co-sponsored the ADL’s annual Supreme Court Melanie Sandler, Vice President Review screened at Drake Law School Jeff Kurtz-Lendner, Executive Director of The Jewish Federation of Greater Des • JCRC conducted the third in a series of Antisemitism Forums Moines • JCRC held an Iowa Council for Holocaust Education meeting in •••••••••••• Grinnell • JCRC participated in the Summer Israel Partnership Summit Opinions expressed in The Greater Des Moines Jewish Press are not necessarily via Skype those of the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines, its committees, or its staff. • Federation enabled the Iowa Department of Education’s Echoes Inserts to the Jewish Press may not and Reflections Workshops to be held at Caspe Terrace necessarily bear endorsement of the Jewish Federation. Iowa Jewish Historical Society We are always happy to consider articles and information for publication. We reserve the right to edit submissions. • IJHS Presents Talk by One of the Youngest Prisoners Liberated The Jewish Press will not accept paid from Auschwitz – Join the IJHS on September 15 or 16 to hear advertisements for electoral candidates or Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat talk about their causes. Michael’s experiences during the Holocaust. More details on •••••••••••• page 26 • Interested in Jewish Genealogy? The IJHS is exploring the The Greater Des Moines Jewish Press possibility of forming a Jewish genealogical group in central 33158 Ute Avenue Iowa. If you are interested in participating, please contact Waukee, IA 50263-7538 Sandi Yoder at [email protected] or call 515-987-0899 ext. 216 515-987-0899 [email protected] Volume 36, No. 1 Jewish Family Services and Outreach Fall Edition September, October, November 2019 • On July 11, Bev Ellis came and worked with the seniors to make Elul, Tishrei , Cheshvan, Kislev 5779/5780 tote bags. We had lots of fun embellishing them! 2 Your support of this year's fundraising effort will strengthen the cornerstone that strengthens our community today and well into the future. Education Advocacy Support History Culture To make a donation, visit jewishdesmoines.org or call 515-987-0899 3 Federation’s New President Introduces The Cornerstone Campaign who is getting the funds, but the Education and social network to our receiver does not know who provided children through Gan Shalom, Beit them. The greatest level, above which Sefer Shalom, Engman Camp Shalom there is no greater, is to support a and our Madrichim program. We fellow Jew by endowing him with a gift ensure that the seniors among us are or loan or entering into a partnership supported with meals, transportation with him, or finding employment for and other assistance. We take care him, in order to strengthen his hand so of each other by helping to pay for that he will not need to be dependent utilities, rent, medication and food. upon others. We ensure that children who might It is an honor and challenge to be not otherwise be able to participate in the position to raise money for the with school or camp can be involved Jewish Federation of Greater Des through generous donations and Moines. endowments to our programming. We Our Cornerstone Campaign has combat antisemitism by directly and Michael Wolnerman the goal of $526,500 and we feel it is immediately addressing it when we President an attainable goal, but it is going to see it. I’d like to welcome, our new require some of you to look at your We reach out to our community Executive Director, Jeff Kurtz-Lendner giving plans and perhaps reevaluate with events and experiences like and his wife, Robin, to our community your giving priorities, just as it has Holocaust Education or our wonderful and home at the Jewish Federation mine. As I’ve been told time and time Jewish Historical Museum. of Greater Des Moines. We should be again, Jews have to support Jewish Count on us to expand our grateful to Sharon Goldford for tireless Organizations. exposure through local sources service in her “temporary position” We can’t expect others to support like our newspaper or Business that lasted over three years. us if we don’t do our part. Remember, Publications when there is something We have begun our annual Charity Starts at Home and this is our to report or good news to share with campaign and I am pleased to home. the community at large. announce that we have over $100,000 Everyone will be asked to provide You will continue to see to kick it off in the right way. You support for all of the services we offer improvements in our Federation and May have heard there is a change to the extent they can. And know that its presence. to the campaign. This year we are we will gladly accept what you can You may have noticed an calling it the Cornerstone Campaign. contribute and please do contribute. increase in the technology used We selected Cornerstone specifically Give until it hurts mantra or give so in our classrooms, bringing more because it addresses something that is it feels good is another. Count on me opportunities to engage our kids. foundational. to take it either way. This became available through When we look at the services Over the past several months, I one specific generous donor. All provided by the Jewish Federation of have met with people face to face, this also comes with a price tag that Greater Des Moines, many of them attended special fundraising classes unfortunately, is happening all across are indeed foundational to our Jewish and learned a lot from both historians America and the world today. Community. and transplants to our community. We have to continually upgrade In todays’ climate, our reliance on We can agree on much where we excel our security to the building and the Federation to provide support is and where we see weaknesses. In my grounds for the safety of our children, increasing. discussions, it has become apparent staff, visitors and ourselves. Our new My goal with the campaign is not that some things should be done “old Executive Director has wonderful to “boil the ocean,” but perhaps some school” and we will where appropriate. ideas and a fresh perspective to share rivers and streams. The Federation Know that my family has skin in the and implement in our community. All relies heavily on your contributions. game. Our children have participated this happens with financial support. Your help to really kick start and in the educational programming. My Count on the Federation to listen ultimately succeed in this campaign is father benefits from our terrific social and add to our services where it makes up to all of us. services. sense and is affordable. Things change, Rabbi Berg and I talked about Our youngest son enjoys the needs change, time marches on and the Art of Giving a lot during our friendships he’s creating and we how things once operated are not how conversations. He always spoke hope they last a lifetime. Missy and they necessarily need to operate going of Maimonides. If we look at I continue to make the Federation a forward.