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Your Chance to Help with Violins of Hope 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 51, No. 8 September 2021 Elul 5781-Tishrei 5782 ShaloThe Journal of the Reading Jewish Communitym published by0 the Jewish9 Federation2 of Reading/Berks1 Your Federation Supports: Jewish Education In-person Literatour programs return Food Pantry By Amanda J. Hornberger Literatour Berks is proud to continue our The Literatour Berks committee is partnerships with the Exeter Community Friendship Circle thrilled to announce the line-up for our Library in our third season. We continue to Chevra third season of Literatour Berks! Please work with independent bookstore, Reads & see page 4 for a complete list of authors Company, for book purchases. Community Shabbat and dates. Our goal remains to bring quality More than a dozen authors will join literature on Jewish topics or by Jewish Reading Jewish Film Series us in-person to discuss a wide variety of authors to Berks County. PJ Library topics from art, to violins rescued from Save the Date for our first Literatour the Holocaust, to magic, the powerful Berks author event on Monday, Sept. 13, Jewish Family Service connection to our pets to historical at 7 p.m. with Jonathan Santolofer, author Patrons and Sponsors from the community fiction. of “The Last Mona Lisa”. Join us for a fun are encouraged to help support this Jewish Cultural Center There is something for everyone in conversation about this novel about a real- amazing new collaborative program! Lakin Holocaust Library this season’s line up and we look forward life art heist as we kick off season three of Contact Laurie Waxler at lauriew@ to building on the success of our first two Literatour Berks. jfreading.org or 610-921-0624 to find out & Resource Center seasons. Interested in supporting Literatour? more. Israel & Overseas Camp Scholarships Israel Trips Your chance to help Jewish Community High School with Violins of Hope Emergency Support By Amanda J. Hornberger Lakin Preschool With just two months to go until the Richard J. Yashek Lecture Violins of Hope collection comes to Berks the excitement is growing! Transportation Our team has been hard at work behind the scenes to create moving exhibits, Maimonides Society engaging educational and community Your Jewish Legacy events and concerts. To achieve our goal of promoting unity 92ND ST Y Programs and understanding through the Violins of Hope, we need YOUR help. Joint Distribution Committee We invite you to join us by serving as Meir Panim a docent or volunteer during the two-week run. Two hours or 20 hours, we just ask Annual Campaign that you give what you can to make this a meaningful event here in Reading and Jewish Agency for Israel Berks County. Yemin Orde Please let us know if you are interested in participating by Sept. 30 by emailing School Education Programs Amanda at [email protected] or calling 610-921-0624. Interfaith Unity Council Docent Description Israel Advocacy • Available Nov. 1-14 • Serve as guides for exhibit Youth Events • Make visits to local schools for Great Decisions Series educational programs • Paired with a staff member or Jewish Community another docent • Ideal skills: Relations Council • Comfortable with public speaking Community Holiday Programs especially to large groups and students Volunteer Description background information, a history of the Women’s Philanthropy • Available Nov. 1-14 violins and their restoration, a sample Violins of Hope • Serve as informational resource at school visit presentation sponsorship opportunities Jewish Federations events Training Date See Page 6 of North America • Staff informational table before and for Docents & Volunteers after events Sunday, Oct, 31, at noon with Avshi and enthusiasm of the community for Counseling Services • Paired with another volunteer Weinstein this project and look forward to working • Ideal skills: • Length — two hours together to bring the Violins of Hope to Leo Camp Lecture • Comfortable speaking to the • Learn — stories of the violins and Berks! Shabbat B’Yachad general public get first look at the exhibit To sign up as a docent or volunteer Training Date for Docents Only There is no minimum time requirement or to learn more, please contact Amanda Sunday, Oct, 10, at 10 a.m. with for docents or volunteers, so if you are able Hornberger at [email protected] or education team to help even for one day or one event, we call 610-921-0624. • Length — two hours welcome your participation. Please let us know of your interest by • Learn — historical context and Our team appreciates the support Sept. 30. Page 2 SHALOM September 2021 My Learning Curve, Part 2 JCC and Federation — What’s the difference? By Laurie Waxler and youth. significant amount of duplication of Development Director Looking for a more modern facility and board members and similar goals Talking to day camp, the board began exploring the between the two organizations. community members new Hampden Boulevard location and The unexpected resignation of t since I began working celebrated a ribbon cutting ceremony in one of the two directors prompted for the Federation September 1965. the conversation and subsequent is truly one of the By the time my family moved to Berks decision to combine them into one, highlights of the job. County in early 2001, they had just with one director, and one board. n I find that many completed a renovation for the preschool Collectively known as the Jewish reminisce about their wing. Federation of Reading/Berks, the JCC days at the JCC, either the original on Unfortunately, within the next few portion remains the “social arm” of the Fifth Street or the center near Hampden years, the JCC found itself with a building Jewish community and the rest of the e Boulevard. that was becoming too costly to maintain Federation is more of the “planning, The JCC was our first introduction and a membership that was decreasing coordinating and fundraising arm.” to a Purim festival, and my kids every year. The JCC building was sold to The benefit of a JCC membership is attended preschool, learned to swim the Reading School District in 2007, and reduced fees for paid events such as and always loved the summer camps. the organization has been in Wyomissing speakers and bus trips (which we can’t One summer we were lucky enough to ever since. wait to get back to) and continuing to m host two Israeli camp counselors for The history of the Federation also support a tradition that goes back almost two weeks…so fun! goes back to the 1920s, when local and 100 years! As a young, interfaith family, we national Jewish communities realized The benefit of supporting the p found the JCC to be a great place to the need to centralize their fundraising Federation goes much deeper. Federation introduce my kids to the cultural side efforts. donations support our food banks, our of Judaism. The Reading branch was then known senior programs, our outreach and work After the sale of the JCC building as the Jewish Community Council, with other minority groups in Reading o in 2007 and the move to Berkshire and following World War II, our Jewish and Berks County and our support to Boulevard, things were a little different, but community was instrumental in sending anyone in need. A small percentage of l as a family, we continued to support our funding to Europe to help the European our Annual Campaign supports Israel Jewish community by paying the yearly Jews fund their immigration to America. Now, but that is a personal choice of membership dues. In 1971, under the leadership of Leo the donor. e As Development Director, I have found Camp, the transformation to the Jewish All in all, both the JCC and the that while some families in our community Federation began, and it was finalized Federation do a lot of good work to support the JCC, others support the by 1977. support our Jewish Community and v Federation, and some support both. I never Over the years, our Federation no matter which one you choose to understood the difference! has supported such things as families support, your donation is used to Thinking I’m not the only one who emigrating from the Soviet Union, an continue our mission of maintaining a might get confused, I decided to do a little Israel Work-Study-Travel experience for vibrant and Jewish community here in e research. college students, the Lakin Holocaust Berks County, socially, culturally, and The history of the JCC goes back to Library & Resource Center at Albright educationally. February 1923, when Max Skaist wrote a College, and so much more! * * * proposal for a Jewish Community Center Today our Federation continues Many thanks to my historians out D in Reading. By March, a group of 10 men to support both our Jewish and non- there (you know who you are!) and to the had raised $100,000 toward the project Jewish community at-large, as well as Penn State Berks students who wrote the and after a few years and some additional philanthropic organizations in Israel. book “A History of the Jewish Community Annual Campaign fundraising, a building was purchased at In the early 2000s, prior to the move in Reading and Berks County” where I 134 N. Fifth St. to Wyomissing, each organization found much of this information. If you Women’s Philanthropy They finally received their “Certificate still had its own managing board want to learn more, you can find it Maimonides Society of Charter” in 1944, and by 1954, the and director/president.
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