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Kristallnacht Sponsored by Jewish Community Relations Council of Jewish Federation Tishri/Cheshvan 5780 • October 2019 Remembering all three Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass Tree of Life, Pittsburgh Chabad, Poway November 3, 2019 Congregation B’nai Israel Page 4 and 5 Maccabeats! Sunday, November 3, 2019 | 4 p.m. | Congregation B’nai Israel Page 8-10 Remembering All Three Active Learners Day and Jewish Remembering the 11 victims murdered at Tree of Life Synagogue, Pittsburgh Living Center Remembering the victim at Chabad Congregation Ponway, California Remembering 91 victims murdered during Kristallnacht Candle lighting ceremony and remarks by David Weinberg Sponsored by Jewish Community Relations Council of Jewish Federation. 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The Miltons, it seems, are It’s a simple equation: You Thirty-nine women of Special Annette Feldman is turning In 1970, three-day-old Marra the American Dream. For can’t get what you want unless Operations Executive went 70 and she’s determined to B. Gad was adopted by a white three generations, they’ve run you ask for it. But this is to war, and fourteen of them use this milestone birthday as Jewish family in Chicago. a successful family banking often easier said than done, never came home. They broke an opportunity to bring her For her parents, it was love at business, enjoyed New York especially if you are afraid barriers, smashed taboos, family together on a cruise— first sight—but they quickly City’s cultural life, and passed of confrontation or hurting and altered the course of whether they like it or not. But realized the world wasn’t summers on their private someone’s feelings. The stories history. 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