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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020 A PUBLICATION OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS. THE STRENGTH OF A PEOPLE. THE POWER OF COMMUNITY. ANNUAL CAMPAIGN UPDATE PAGE 4 NEXTGEN WELCOMES NEW CO-CHAIRS PAGE 10 ADOPT-A-FAMILY COMMUNITY DAY PAGE 13 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020 We are now in the beginning days of the year 5781. I hope the High Holidays were meaningful for you and your families. I am sure IN THIS ISSUE you all join me in acknowledging how impressive our clergy and synagogues have been Planned Giving & Endowment ...............3 throughout these challenging times; they are our partners in Annual Campaign .........................4 building a strong and vibrant Jewish community here in Indianapolis. We Engagement & Education ..................6 are so lucky to live in a community that works collaboratively across NEXTGen ................................10 our organizations. Thank you to our partners for sharing essential PJ Library ................................11 information about the wonderful DEBRA BARTON GRANT programs, services and events CEO and Executive Vice President Jewish Family Services .....................12 happening throughout our community. It is our joy to be able to share with all of Adopt-A-Family. 13 you this great work through our Connect with Purpose page; check out our one stop destination for ways to get Security .................................14 connected. You can view what’s coming up by visiting www.jewishindianapolis.org/connect-with-purpose. Israel & Overseas .........................15 Freedom Sunday, December 1987 In my last Jewish Federation News article, I spoke about the Retro Federation ..........................16 struggle that many of us are feeling as we move through this pivotal moment in our community. I share with you a personal Jewish Community Relations Council ........17 pivotal moment for me that set me on my professional career trajectory. On Dec. 6, 1987, 33 years ago, I had the incredible Hasten Hebrew Academy of Indianapolis ....18 experience of joining an estimated 250,000 participants who gathered on the National Mall, calling for the General Secretary Jewish Community Center .................20 of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to extend his policy of Glasnost to Soviet Jews by putting an Purdue Hillel/Hooverwood .................21 end to their forced assimilation and allowing their emigration from the Soviet Union. This rally was organized by a broad-based Synagogues/GUCI ........................22 coalition of Jewish organizations including our national Jewish Federation system. At the time, I was a freshman at Indiana Community Chanukah Candle Lighting .....BC University (IU), and I was thrilled by the opportunity to join so Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis many from Indianapolis, Bloomington, and around the State JFGI NEXTGen of Indiana including my father Dr. Doug Barton (see the photo JFGI Israel Connections on p. 27), from South Bend, for this life-changing event. IndyJFS As a Bat-Mitzvah, I wore a bracelet with the name of a @JFGIndy @JFGIndy young 13-year-old Russian girl who was not able to celebrate @JFGINEXTGen @JFGINEXTGen publicly. A few years later as a college student, I marched for @IndyJFS her and her family to be able to celebrate their Judaism as they wished. As fate would have it, a few years later during JewishFederationof GreaterIndianapolis the summer before my Senior year at IU, I applied and was accepted to the Kroot Internship program at our very own Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis. That summer, like these other pivotal moments, I had the unique opportunity to Jewish FederAtion news work for a very young Lori Moss at our Jewish Family Services CEO/EXEC. VICE PRESIDENT EDITOR (then called JFCS) with our newest community members Debra Barton Grant Andrea Hirsch in our Russian resettlement team. Our senior Russians were PRESIDENT DESIGN/LAYOUT at the time living at Park Regency Apartments and my job was to help them navigate this new community. The rally, Beth Klapper Joel Bustamante coupled with my profound internship experience, has led me CONTRIBUTING WRITER on a beautiful Jewish organizational career that I wouldn’t Naomi Farahan change for the world. Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis, Inc. New Global Change 6705 Hoover Road, Indianapolis, IN 46260-4120 Like the late 80s and early 90s marked the end of the Soviet Phone: 317-726-5450 Fax: 317-205-0307 Union and a paradigmatic shift in not only the world but also www.jewishindianapolis.org our own local Jewish community, COVID has now emerged as a new moment of worldwide change, affecting us at every The mission of the Jewish Federation of Greater level – global, national, regional, and local. And just as the Indianapolis is to promote the vision of a vibrant, Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis and our national engaged, inclusive, and sustainable Jewish community partners addressed the needs of our changing community by serving as its central philanthropic, planning, then, we are doing the same now. community engagement, and unifying partner. We are at our final push for our Annual Campaign and we need your help to get us to our goal. There has never been a greater need for the support of our community’s 2020 Annual Campaign that there is right now. CONTINUED ON PAGE 27 PLANNED GIVING & ENDOWMENT WINNIE GOLDBLATT Reflects on Her Life and Legacy Community member Winnie Goldblatt is as that,” she said. “But right now, we are making history by participating in the LIFE living through a time that demonstrates & LEGACY program. Her after-lifetime gift and emphasizes the importance of will help sustain the Jewish Federation of having those resources.” Greater Indianapolis’ (JFGI) endowment Philanthropy is important to Goldblatt for generations to come. -- she comes from a long line of people Goldblatt already had an enduring who did what they could to make the influence on the JFGI and its world a better place. endowment programs, as she served Women’s Philanthropy is especially as the JFGI Endowment Director for 28 meaningful to her. She says Jewish years. Joining a tradition of passionate, influential female leaders in Jewish women have led their communities communities across North America through the ages. Her mother served was Goldblatt’s reason for gifting a in leadership roles at Hadassah and Lion of Judah Endowment. She says the United Jewish Appeal. Just as her she wants her gift to help JFGI and its mother led by example, Goldblatt partner agencies to continue to meet says she is doing the same for her the needs of the community, whatever descendants. they may be. “I wanted my gift to be an example to “When I think of the Lion of Judah, I my children and grandchildren, that I think of the strength of the community, cared to allocate some of my financial and the endurance of the community,” resources for the community, and that Goldblatt said. “For such a long time, the Jewish community is important to “I wanted my gift the Jewish community worldwide has me,” she said. to be an example been able to endure through thick She also said it makes good financial and thin, through good and bad times, sense to leave an after-lifetime gift. to my children and because they have been strong. And grandchildren, that part of that strength is having financial “It’s your money, you work long and resources… when there are crises, there hard for it, why shouldn’t that help I cared to allocate are resources to help out.” shape the future of the community you want for your children and your some of my financial Goldblatt has seen firsthand how grandchildren and those that follow? resources for the important JFGI is to the community, There’s an old saying: ‘you can’t take and she acknowledges that no one it with you.’ That’s true. You can’t take community, and that can predict exactly what challenges it with you. But what you can do is the Jewish community the future will pose. create a philanthropic legacy that “I don’t think that I ever envisioned the will endure long after you’re gone,” is important to me” COVID-19 virus, or anything as dramatic Goldbatt concluded. - Winnie Goldblatt Did you know JFGI administers a donor advised fund (DAF) program comprised of more than 100 individual funds? A DAF is a named fund at JFGI that allows you to recommend grants to qualified charitable organizations of your choice, take advantage of the highest charitable tax deduction available and make your charitable giving simple, effective and satisfying. It’s an easy and satisfying way to better manage and organize your philanthropy. The fund can be established with a minimum gift of $2,500 and the opportunity to make additions at any time. The Federation invests and administers the fund’s assets, processes recommendations, mails checks to recipient organizations and sends out regular reports. Interested in learning more about JFGI’s DAF program? Contact Josh Lodolo, Senior Director of Planned Giving & Endowment at [email protected] or (317) 715-9266. WWW.JEWISHINDIANAPOLIS.ORG 3 ANNUAL CAMPAIGN 2020 Virtual Super Sunday Thank you to the manySUCCESS volunteers, donors, and professionals who helped make the first-ever virtual Super Sunday a success! Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s dedicated SUPER volunteers came together virtually SUNDAY and raised $160,000 from more than 2020 250 donors. $160,000 In addition to the critical funds raised on Super Sunday for the 2020 Annual RAISED Campaign, gifts received for Super Sunday represent a 13 percent increase over what these same donors contributed last year. And 82 new fund at 50 percent. That means the Special thanks to 2020 Super Sunday donors showed their support for the nearly $25,000 in new and increased co-chairs Reva Weiss and Jon Shapiro, community with new gifts for Super gifts will be matched with more than immediate past NEXTGen Director Sunday this year.