IYYAR, 5777 – SIVAN 5777 MAY 2017 DOCUMENTARY CHRONICLES JEWISH MILITARY HEROES OF WWII, PAGE 3 The Jewish Journalof san antonio SH’VAT - ADAR I, 5779 Published by The Jewish Federation of San Antonio FEBRUARY 2019 LIFE & LEGACY™ initiative launched February 1 WHAT’S HAPPENING? There’s so much to do LIFE & LEGACY is a four- and experience in your year partnership with the Harold San Antonio Jewish Com- Grinspoon Foundation that munity. Find out what’s been happening. JEWISH COMMUNITY UNITES FOR MLK DAY assists communities across North America through partnerships PAGES 14-17 More than 150 members of the Jewish community from all with Jewish Federations and congregations across the city joined together to honor the legacy of Foundations, to promote after- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. See more photos page 25. lifetime giving to benefit Jewish social service organizations, synagogues and other Jewish entities. Through training, Israel: A place for everyone support and monetary incentives, LIFE & LEGACY motivates Ready to create your Last month I traveled Letter from I genuinely love all of Jewish organizations to secure own legacy? Find out across Israel, from the our CEO Israel. I am in awe of the legacy gifts, steward donors and how. very northern tip of Rosh view from the Golan Heights integrate legacy giivng into the PAGE 3 RONIT Hanikrah to the very SHERWIN and I appreciate the serenity philanthropic culture of the Jewish southern tip of Eilat, with and magnitude of the desert. community. many locales in between. But what I cherish most Jewish Federation of San Antonio, As with previous trips, about my time in Israel is the lead partner with the Harold this one was special. I professional (several times) the people. I love seeing Grinspoon Foundation, is one of shared this time in Israel and now as a mother and the large religious families 5 community partners accepted with my husband and my guide to my children. hurrying in the streets of to participate in the 7th LIFE & younger children. I began Watching my children Jerusalem before Shabbat LEGACY co-hort. There are 57 traveling to Israel in 1978 experience Israel has and I also love listening to North America Jewish communities as a young child, and I been extraordinary, and I the secular Jews chatting in participating with 565 partner continued as a teenager, am grateful to have been a young adult, a Jewish fortunate to do so. See CEO, page 6 See LEGACY, page 3 HONORING Vandals toss Torah scrolls on floor of Jerusalem synagogue JEWISH VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II JERUSALEM (JTA) Worshippers arrived on the them. Israel’s chief rabbis and other The Holocaust Memo- — Vandals broke into a next morning and found the The synagogue, called Siah religious leaders, the president rial Museum will offer Jerusalem synagogue and Torah scrolls, prayer books Yisrael and populated mainly and prime minister and a free screening of the tossed four Torah scrolls on and other Jewish artifacts by immigrants from France, lawmakers. documentary Bagels Over Berlin on March 4. the floor. strewn all over the floor. does not have any security The vandalism comes The break-in took A hole was cut in the side of cameras. days after attacks on two PAGE 3 place in the Kiryat Yovel the ark that housed the Torah The attack was neighborhood on January 28. scrolls in order to remove condemned by both of See SCROLLS, page 24 CANDLE LIGHTING The Jewish Journalof san antonio FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 FRIDAY, MARCH 1 SHEVAT 26, 5779 ADAR I 10, 5779 ADAR I 24, 5779 PUBLISHED BY SUPPORTED BY Light Candles at 5:54 PM Light Candles at 6:05 PM Light Candles at 6:15 PM The Jewish Federation of San Antonio Grants from the Helen Arronge 12500 N. 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IN LOVING MEMORY Gerald “Jerry” Carduner Evelyn Koenig Donald Eisner 2 FEBRUARY 2019 A publication of the Jewish Federation of San Antonio THE JEWISH JOURNAL YOUR FEDERATION DOLLARS AT WORK San Antonio LIFE & LEGACY partners are: Janet Irwine named Chief Financial Officer Barshop Jewish Community Center Chabad Center for Jewish Life & Learning for Jewish Federation of San Antonio Congregation Agudas Achim The Jewish Federation of Federation her passion for community Congregation Rodfei-Sholom Hebrew Free Loan Association of San Antonio San Antonio has named Janet where I can support. Irwine then provided Jewish Family Service of San Antonio Irwine as Chief Financial support and business development for Hillel San Antonio – audit partner Officer. Janet has more than help advance professional services with Jewish Federation of San Antonio thirty years of experience the important consulting firm Accretive San Antonio Jewish Senior Services in accounting, finance, and work in the Solutions. Temple Beth-El IRWINE business development, and community.” In 2012, she served in Temple Chai twenty years of experience She started her career in various leadership roles for The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Campus of the working with senior executive public accounting with Ernst Marathon Petroleum (formerly San Antonio Jewish Community leaders of corporations, & Young before serving as Tesoro), including Controller, entrepreneurial and non-profit Assistant Vice President of Information Technology and LEGACY, continued from page 1 companies, and non-profit Internal Audit for Luby’s Human Resources. Irwine agencies. Throughout the country there has been a boards. Cafeterias. She progressed to retired from Marathon in tremendous response from individuals and families Irwine says, “I am excited CFO of the San Antonio Area December 2018 and joined the to ensure that their Jewish community thrive! As of to be a part of the Jewish Foundation where she acquired Federation in January 2019. September 30, 2018, 52 LIFE & LEGACY partner communities nationwide have secured 21,684 legacy commitments with an estimated value of $798 million. They flew, they fought, they gave their lives In San Antonio, eleven Jewish organizations and synagogues have embraced the LIFE & LEGACY initiative; this represents a shared commitment to Documentary screening March 4 work together collectively to secure endowment On Monday, March 4 at 7 p.m., the Holocaust gifts. Team members from each partner agency and Memorial Museum of San Antonio, the synagogue participate in community workshops to Community Relations Council, B’nai B’rith Men learn how to help their donors create legacy gifts for and a number of generous community members the causes they care about. This initiative enables will present, Bagels Over Berlin, a documentary donors to fulfill their philanthropic wishes by film about the Army Air Corp in WWII. supporting specific needs in the Jewish community, The screening will be held in the Holzman and provide critical resources for local agencies, Auditorium at the Jewish Campus. synagogues and work to create a united and strong Director Alan Feinberg, who will be at this Jewish community for future generations. free screening, “was attracted to the story of Through LIFE & LEGACY, a donor can indicate Jewish American war heroes who played a major their intention of a legacy gift to benefit one role in winning the war.’ Feinberg explains or more organizations. The donor can make a that “Jews comprised a larger percentage of the commitment either through a current or future armed forces in WWII than their share of gift to one of the Jewish organization’s endowment the population. Despite a history of exclusion “Please join us along with area veterans, fund or by declaring his/her intent to remember the and discrimination in the 1920’s and 1930’s families, and community youth in this organization in his/her will or estate plan.