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 48, No. 5 May 2018 Iyar-Sivan 5778 ShaloThe Journal of the Reading Jewish Communitym published by0 the Jewish5 Federation1 of Reading/Berks8 Your Federation Supports: Learn realities of today’s antisemitism Jewish Education Food Pantry at rescheduled Yashek Lecture Friendship Circle By Amanda J. Hornberger Holocaust survivors, including many Chevra The rescheduled 14th annual from our area. In addition, his work Richard J. Yashek Memorial Lecture in film has won Emmy Awards and Community Shabbat will take place on Wednesday, May Academy Awards. 2, at 7:30 p.m. at Albright College. Thanks to the generous support of Reading Jewish Film Series Dr. Michael Berenbaum, the project Rosalye Yashek and her daughters PJ Library director who oversaw the creation of in memory of their husband and the United States Holocaust Memorial father, Richard, the Richard J. Jewish Family Service Museum and served as its Research Yashek Memorial Lecture is now in Institute’s first director, will be in its 14th year of bringing distinguished Jewish Cultural Center Reading to deliver the lecture. scholars from across the country to Lakin Holocaust Library Discussing antisemitism in the 21st Albright College to discuss Holocaust century and how it differs from Nazi related topics. & Resource Center antisemitism or traditional antisemitism, The Richard J. Yashek Memorial Dr. Berenbaum will discuss why the Lecture is free and open to the public Israel & Overseas American Jewish community is fighting and begins at 7:30 p.m. on May 2 Camp Scholarships the wrong battles. in the Memorial Chapel at Albright Join us for this important and timely College. Israel Trips talk. For directions or additional Dr. Michael Berenbaum Dr. Berenbaum is director of the information please call the Lakin Jewish Community Sigi Ziering Institute and Professor of president and CEO of the Survivors of Holocaust Library & Resource Center Jewish Studies at the American Jewish at 610-921-7214 or email hrc@albright. High School the Shoah Visual History Foundation, University. He previously served as which took the testimony of 52,000 edu. Emergency Support Lakin Preschool Israeli drumming highlight Richard J. Yashek Lecture of June 3 annual meeting, picnic Transportation By Amanda J. Hornberger Maimonides Society Gather your family and Your Jewish Legacy friends and join us in the park on Sunday, June 3, for the 92ND ST Y Programs Jewish Federation of Reading’s annual meeting and picnic! Joint Distribution Committee A free kosher picnic meal will Meir Panim be served after our brief annual meeting at noon. Afterwards we Annual Campaign will be enjoying Rita’s Italian Ice. Jewish Agency for Israel A special treat this year Yemin Orde will be Israeli drumming led by DaRBuKeF, a drumming group School Education Programs on tour from Israel. Watch these amazing performers and join in Interfaith Unity Council the fun! Guests will also be invited Israel Advocacy to swim, free of charge, at the Youth Events Wyomissing Hills Pool, across the street from the pool. Great Decisions Series The meeting and fun will take place at Wyomissing Hills Park, Jewish Community 53 Valley Road in Wyomissing. Relations Council At noon there will be a very brief annual meeting, then Community Holiday Programs the fun will start at 12:15 and continue until 4 pm. Women’s Philanthropy Free parking is available at the Wyomissing Hills Pool or on Jewish Federations the street by the park. of North America We only ask that you kindly RSVP to Brenda by Friday, May Counseling Services 25, at 610-921-0624 or info@ jfreading.org Leo Camp Lecture We hope community Shabbat B’Yachad members of all ages will join us for this fun afternoon! Plenty of fun at the 2017 Jewish Federation of Reading picnic. Page 2 SHALOM May 2018 How do you pass on your generosity? By Richard Nassau The Institute is highly respected for charitable giving. An influence I am pleased Development Director its research and its work on issues of to report that will be rooted in our core Jewish How do you pass on philanthropy. Not surprisingly, its study found values. I say this because the authors in their your generosity? How do children are more likely to be charitable if their introduction wrote the following: you instill the importance parents were charitable. The parent-child “There is a saying in Jewish tradition, of charity? How does relationship also had a stronger connection “As my parents planted for me, so do I plant t the next generation and mattered more to daughters than sons. for those who will come after me.” Families come to understand Again, not surprising. Women’s philanthropy embody connectivity, transferring values and why it remains so critical has always been an important part of our human capital from generation to generation to support the Jewish community. in many ways, including passing on traditions n community? This year Jewish Federations are of philanthropy.” The answers are rooted in our values. celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Indiana University, the authors, and others Like you, I believe in giving charitably. I value Lion of Judah Endowment program. The understand that our philanthropic traditions e our Jewish community and its vitality. How Lion of Judah is a national symbol of are basic to our core Jewish values. Values we continue to be an important part of Berks women’s philanthropy. Over 17,500 women we learned from parents, aunts, and uncles. County. Our recent and historic contributions have become Lions by making a minimum Values they demonstrated through their gifts can be seen everywhere. Not just with dollars, annual commitment of $5,000 to Federation of time and dollars supporting programs both but through our involvement in so many campaigns. within and outside of the Jewish community. areas. Think about the many members of These women, along with women at The Indiana study reminds us of that. m our Jewish community who have been and all levels of giving, are making a difference How all of us are role models setting continue to be leaders throughout Berks in the lives of Jews here at home in Berks examples for the next generation and for County. County and around the world. These are our communities. We knew this and now we So how do we pass along these Jewish dynamic Jewish women expressing their core have the research to back it up. Research that p values – the importance of community, of values by supporting social justice, aiding the shows it remains our responsibility to continue connecting, and especially of charity? vulnerable, preserving human dignity and passing our traditions of philanthropy along A recent study “Transmitting Generosity building Jewish identity This includes taking to the next generation. o to Daughters and Sons” conducted by the an active part in securing our Jewish future To learn more about the Institute’s Women’s Philanthropy Institute of Indiana by passing their values to the next generation. findings or Federation’s Women Philanthropy l University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy The Institute’s 24-page report, released programs, contact me at RichardN@ addressed the charitable question. just this year, will have a strong influence on JFReading.org or call us 610-921-0624. e YourYour Life Life – – Your Your Legacy Legacy...... v Your Life – YourWhat’sWhat’sYour Legacy in Lifein Your ...Your – Heart YourHeart? ? 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