Cooking VA Peninsula Dogs of War with Award- Jewish Film Pages 15 Winning Chef Festival Page 2 Pages 6 & 7 News JewishNews of the Jewish VA Peninsula Community Community“A Lifetime of Caring” November 2017/5778 Campaign Director’s Message - Sarah Barnett Annual Campaign 2018 Update Campaign 2018 bolted out of the starting blocks at a fantastic event held at the home of Libby and Buddy David. A committed group of donors was treated to the wisdom of guest speaker Rabbi Phil Warmflash, who charged us with envisioning what we want for our Jewish community in 2017. With great commitment and vision the evening raised $343,875, accounting for a $50,435 increase from this group’s commitment last year! The trend for small community Annual Campaigns is often downward, and though we have had our share of recent history challenges with significant losses at the top tier of our campaign, we continue to draw strength from the commitment of we see from our community leadership, who are truly making leadership- level gifts to our community. Yet it is truly all of us who make this community a success, and we have just begun. Please reach out to us when we reach out to you on #GivingTuesday on November 28th and join us at our community Campaign event on Saturday, December 2nd when we welcome entertainer Andra London. Remember that every gift helps, and we are not complete until we reach all of you. If you consider yourself in the Young Adult category, please keep the evening of Sunday, January 28th open for “Campaign at Cozzy’s: A night of community and comedy.” You’ll have an opportunity to hear great local talent while supporting your community at the same time. There are many ways and times to give. Please keep the following dates in mind and help our volunteers complete this important work - November 28: #GivingTuesday: Opportunities to give all day long and an evening calling night to reach out to as many donors as possible. - December 2: Cabaret, Community, and Campaign with vocal sensation Andra London. Come for a night of fun, dessert, and giving. - January 28: Super Sunday: Help us wrap up another successful campaign with this important community building and outreach event. Fund Donations Jewish Family Service - UJC Preschool Fund Edith’s Senior Support Fund Congratulations to Angela Morris on Honoring Edith Spritzer’s 100th birth of Asher Lee birthday Gary Nachman Libby & Buddy David Mikveh Fund Ethel Krinick Janet Rash Honoring Helen Nachman and Family Peter & Stephanie Larson Meryl & Bob Kessler Margo Drucker Dr. Sinclair McCracken Unrestricted Endowment Krystal McRae & Maria Plaza Fund Barbara Gordon Frank & Judith Gibson In honor of Ellyn Soefer for a healthy Helen Nachman new year Betty Levin Ettalea Kanter Samuel & Susan Parrucci Theodore Lieverman, Esq. Marvin & Selma Posner Aaron & Margery Auslender Dr. Mark & Marilyn Nataupsky Dr. Mark & Marilyn Nataupsky Cooking Night at the UJC Developing a Dish: Learn to prepare components of a meal with Award-Winning Chef, Richard Mason. Then enjoy the meal you’ve prepared, with wine pairings. Monday, Nov. 13th - 6:30pm $15 per person $25 per couple RSVP to Sara Traster - [email protected] 2 Jewish Community News | November 2017 Your Body Works: A Family Paint Day – Conversation for Mothers & Daughters with Sunday, Nov. 19th 3pm Dr. Mariel Focseneanu November 2nd at 6pm. Cost $15 per mother/daughter or $10 per person Mothers and tween /teen (age 8-14) Daughters spend an hour together over dinner learning about all the cool things your body does and how to keep it healthy and strong. The more you know about how your body works, the better you can take care of it. Dr. Mariel Focseneanu provides general, as well as specialized, $10 per person gynecologic care to girls and young women in a non-judgmental and personalized way, knowing that going to the gynecologist RSVP to Sara Traster (especially for the first time) can be an intimidating experience. 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American Board of Optometry Diplomat Office: 757-827-0009 | Fax: 757-827-2820 beckereyecare.com Thursday, November 30 7:00pm 2200 EXECUTIVE DRIVE, SUITE A HAMPTON VA 23666 November 2017 | Jewish Community News 5 Jewish Life! - Culture & Education Events Highlights of the Peninsula Jewish Film Festival The 17th Virginia Peninsula Jewish Film Festival, sponsored by Temple Beth El of Williamsburg, will be kicking off the Opening Weekend at Williamsburg Regional Library with two films: The Origin of Violence, on Saturday, November 18th, @7:30 P.M., followed by Children of Chance, on Sunday, November 19th @ 2:30 P.M. Three more films, to be announced, will be shown during the Winter Series. The mission of the Festival is to celebrate Jewish culture with Nazis as he is transported to a long-term treatment facility. an emphasis on bringing individuals and cultures together. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, he fears that he and the other In the process, the films enlighten, entertain, and stimulate boys whom he befriends will be destroyed in the next Nazi dialogue, which itself is central to Jewish life. raid. And, given the dangers, how might the doctors look out for these children, Jew and gentile alike? In The Origin of Violence, French college professor, Nathan, continues to exhibit unexplained outbursts of violent Tickets for he Origin of Violence will be $15.00, and $10.00 for behavior, which begin to unravel his life. And when he students with I.D. It will be followed by an old-fashioned ice takes his college students to Buchenwald, he stumbles on cream social, which is included in admission. The Sunday a wild coincidence that plunges him into the shadows of showing, Children of Chance will be free, as will the movies the family he thought he had known. Who is he, what is he, in the Winter Series. And…those who donate $100.00 to and where does he really belong? Beginning his journey, he the Festival will receive two free tickets for the Opening looks desperately for answers. Weekend, along with the Ice Cream Social! Please send donations to Temple Beth El, Virginia Peninsula Jewish The French film, Children of Chance, finds 11-year-old Maurice Film Festival, 600 Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, VA narrowly escaping a roundup of Jews in Nazi-occupied 23185. France. Breaking his leg, he sees his family taken by the Jewish Book Month is November 12-December 12, 2017! Jewish Book Month is an important annual event in both the American Jewish community and the publishing world. It is sponsored by the Jewish Book Council. It is held annually in the month before the Chanukah gift-giving season (roughly during the month of November). Come for an Adult and Kid Book Swap on November 14th from 6pm-7pm at the UJCVP Bring your books, bring your magazines to trade! Bring them that night or drop them off the before in exchange for a book swap coupon to shop! 6 Jewish Community News | November 2017 November 2017 | Jewish Community News 7 Chanukah Gifts for Local Jewish Children and Teens Now in its 25th year, Jewish Family Services’ annual Chanukah How can you help? Gift Program will begin in November 2017. This program ** Purchase new, unwrapped gifts, both fun and practical provides holiday gifts to local Jewish children and teens for specific children and teens in need... Donors may call in financially struggling families. JFS is asking the local the Peninsula JFS office at (757) 223-5635 for children’s wish community to continue its tradition of helping this year, lists starting November 6th. too. Although JFS knows that Chanukah may or may not be **Look for the newly-created large wooden Menorah inside a time where gifts are exchanged in your family, they hope the UJCVP to pick up a gift tag with a specific child’s wish. that you will want to support this important gift drive and **Go shopping with your family and buy some extra items reach out to those Jewish families in need in our community. for those in need. Many gifts are used by these children during Chanukah and ** Send JFS gift cards from local department stores, throughout the year. New this year, Peninsula families in electronics stores, music stores, and grocery stores, and need will receive gifts from Peninsula donors. families can go shopping themselves. ** Send JFS a tax-deductible cash donation, and JFS will do For donors this is an opportunity to do a mitzvah for children the shopping for you. who have no choice in their families’ financial situation. For young donors, this is a personal way to learn and practice All Chanukah donations must be received by November tzedakah, giving to others, as they shop with parents for 28, 2017. Checks should be made payable to Jewish gifts for other children, knowing that the gifts will make a Family Service and sent to JFS, Attn: Libby Batten, 401 significant impact.