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Shalom%2012%2020%20Web.Pdf Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks Non-Profit Organization Jewish Cultural Center, PO Box 14925 U.S. Postage PAID Reading, PA 19612-4925 Permit No. 2 readingjewishcommunity.org Reading, PA Change Service Requested Enriching Lives Volume 50, No.11 December 2020 Kislev - Tevet 5781 ShaloThe Journal of the Reading Jewish Communitym published by1 the Jewish2 Federation2 of Reading/Berks0 Your Federation Supports: Jewish Education Community strength on display Food Pantry Friendship Circle Chevra Community Shabbat Reading Jewish Film Series PJ Library Jewish Family Service Jewish Cultural Center Lakin Holocaust Library & Resource Center Israel & Overseas Camp Scholarships Israel Trips Jewish Community High School Emergency Support Lakin Preschool Richard J. Yashek Lecture Transportation Maimonides Society Your Jewish Legacy Our sense of community remains strong. Clockwise from left, volunteers at the Reading Hampden Heights SDA Church get ready to open a new JFS Food Pantry on Oct. 28, Carol Perlmutter gets a mask at the October JFS Mask Distribution event, and local kids enjoy an interactive treasure hunt outside Kesher Zion/Oheb Sholom . 92ND ST Y Programs Joint Distribution Committee Meir Panim There’s still time to have Annual Campaign your gift to Federation matched Jewish Agency for Israel By Richard Nassau for programs and services our annual community in cooperation with Reform Yemin Orde As we began 2020, a group of committed campaign needed to grow. The pandemic Congregation Oheb Sholom, Kesher donors established a matching gift pool. accelerated that demand, and our Zion Synagogue and Chabad-Lubavitch School Education Programs They made a commitment to match dollar- community responded. of Berks County. Interfaith Unity Council for-dollar every new or increased gift to Federation is the central organization There is still time before 2020 ends to Federation’s annual community campaign. that connects all of us — especially on have your gift matched. If you haven’t yet Israel Advocacy The result is an additional $50,000 in issues such as helping fellow Jews in need, made a gift, please do so. If you’ve already contributions that will be matched by pool support for Israel, the growing problem of made a gift, consider an increase. Youth Events donors. anti-Semitism, as well as cultural programs You can mail your gift to us or go Great Decisions Series Even before the pandemic, the pool featuring speakers, Jewish Film festival online at ReadingJewishCommunity.org. donors understood that if Federation and more. Help keep us a strong and vibrant Jewish Jewish Community is to continue meeting the demand This is all done as a Jewish community. Relations Council Community Holiday Programs Women’s Philanthropy Light up Chanukah with Lantern Walk Jewish Federations By Amanda J. Hornberger 12 at 5:30 p.m. Rabbi Michelson will of Reading. Kits will be available of North America One of the joys of 2020 has been lead us in a Havdalah service and starting December 4 and will include the greater appreciation and enjoyment light the menorah. Then we will go on all the elements you need to make Counseling Services of the simple things in life. Family. a short walk using lanterns, candles a special, safe, reusable lantern for Nature. Light. The community is and flashlights as our guide. We will our event. Register for the kit on our Leo Camp Lecture invited to a Jewish Federation of carry our lights of hope forward into website (ReadingJewishCommunity. Shabbat B’Yachad Reading/Berks Chanukah event that Chanukah, winter and 2021! Masks org) by email ([email protected]) or will combine these simple things for a and social distancing (and warm call 610-921-0624. memorable evening. clothes) are required at this outdoor May we all take some time this Join us at the arboretum at the event. Chanukah to share our light, enjoy Reading Public Museum (500 Museum Kids are invited to register for a free nature and come together as a Rd. Reading) on Saturday, December DIY lantern kit courtesy of PJ Library community. Page 2 SHALOM December 2020 There’s never been a better time to give By Richard Nassau We held virtual Friendship Circle lunches, family programs ensuring that we kept Development Director including delivering box lunches to everyone engaged, even when moved outside. The This past year, the attending. We thanked 50 households that JCC sponsored 28 Literatour programs need for your annual responded to a special request brought on featuring an array of authors, continued our campaign gift to by the pandemic to Feed the Hungry. annual film series and provided special PJ Federation was never You saw it through our Shlicha’s outdoor Library presentations for our community’s t more evident. and online classes. We got together to cook, children. You saw the need learn Hebrew, play games and get updates You saw it through our diversity with through the increased from Israel. more than 30 My Story videos now recorded demand at our Jewish You saw it through our work against and available on our YouTube channel. n Family Service Food hate and anti-Semitism. When the Your single gift deepens our connections. Pantry. In September 200 families, a LGTBQ Center was targeted, Federation You are a vital resource for Jews throughout record number, received 10,000 pounds convened a virtual Town Hall attended Berks County. of groceries. We’ve opened a second food by over 100 people. The result is a As we approach the end of the year, e pantry site to meet the increased demand. new coalition to develop an Interfaith please make your Annual Campaign gift You saw it through Federation’s many Mentorship program, along with other new today. It enriches so many lives. Go to outreach efforts that kept us connected initiatives and increased collaboration ReadingJewishCommunity.org. or if you as a community. This past year we made among agencies. prefer, mail it to us. hundreds of phone calls to check in with You saw it through the Jewish Cultural Thank you for making a commitment m people, especially our isolated seniors. Center’s expansion of community and to a vibrant and strong Jewish community. p FBI reports alarming rise in hate crimes From online news sources crimes, however, rose to 527 in 2019, in 2016 found that more than 2,700 city The FBI reported in November that U.S. from 485 in 2018. And the total number of police and county sheriff’s departments o hate crimes rose to a level not seen in more hate crimes based on a person’s sexual across the country had not submitted a than a decade. The bureau recorded a orientation stayed relatively stable, with single hate crime report to the FBI during l record 51 killings motivated by hate. one fewer crime reported last year, the previous six years. According the bureau, there were 7,314 compared with the year before, though Greenblatt said America must “remove hate crimes in 2019, an increase of about there were 20 more hate crimes against the barriers that too often prevent people e 200 from the year before. The FBI defines gay men reported. in marginalized communities – the hate crimes as those motivated by bias In response to the report, advocacy individuals most likely to suffer hate crimes based on characteristics such as race, groups such as the Anti-Defamation – from reporting hate-based incidents,” a v religion or sexual orientation. League called on Congress and law sentiment shared by other advocates. The report was based on data, enforcement officials all over America to “The FBI’s report is another reminder submitted by 15,588 law enforcement improve data collection and reporting of that we have much work to do to address agencies. hate crimes. There are concerns that data hate in America,” Southern Poverty Law e The Associated Press reported that may be incomplete, as police agencies Center President Margaret Huang told some of the 2019 increases may be are not required to report the information the AP. the result of better reporting by police to the FBI. Of the 5,512 hate crime offenses departments, but people in law enforcement The AP reported that only 2,172 law classified as crimes against persons in D and advocacy groups are certain that hate enforcement agencies out of about 15,000 2019, 40% were for intimidation, 36.7% crimes are on the rise. The U.S. Justice participating agencies across the country were for simple assault, and 21% were Department has made investigating such reported hate crime data to the FBI. And for aggravated assault. There were 51 Annual Campaign crimes a priority for years. while the number of agencies reporting murders; 30 rapes; and three offenses of There was a nearly 7% increase in hate crimes increased, the number of human trafficking reported as hate crimes. Women’s Philanthropy religion-based hate crimes, with 953 agencies participating in the program There were 2,811 hate crime offenses Maimonides Society reports of crimes targeting Jews and dropped from the year before. A large classified as crimes against property. The Jewish institutions last year, up from 835 number of police agencies appeared not majority of these (76.6%) were acts of Your Jewish Legacy the year before. That’s a 14% increase to submit any hate crime data. destruction/damage/vandalism. Robbery, in criminal anti-Semitic activity and the “The total severity of the impact and burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, Chai Circle highest ithe number has been since 2008. damage caused by hate crimes cannot arson, and other offenses accounted for L’Chaim Society Jews and Jewish institutions also faced be fully measured without complete the remaining 23.4% of crimes against the majority — 63% — of religion-based participation in the FBI’s data collection property.
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