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. Congregations Bnai Israel, Etz Chayim, Temple Shomer Emunim, snd Chabad House of Toledo Northwest Ohio Jewish Page 13 PJ goes to the farm Book Festival 2019 November 5 - 21 See all the details HERE------> GOES <------LABEL about the 15th annual Northwest Ohio Jewish Book Festival on page 2 Toledo Jewish Community Foundation Page 2 • October 2019 • Toledo Jewish News presents Northwest Ohio Jewish Book Festival Northwest Ohio Jewish REGISTRATION Registration is requested for all book festival events by Friday, Oct. 25. 1. Pick the event or events YOU want to To learn more about an author or an event, attend. call René Rusgo at 2. Register by the registration deadline 419-531-2119 #1 or email listed. [email protected] 3. 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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. D-Day Girls focuses all does not go according to entirely ready for a family island in Maine. But when in I Wanted Fries with That on the inspiring, dramatic Annette’s plan. Over the course like theirs. At turns heart- the youngest generation of reveal real-world situations and story of three of the women of the cruise, troublesome wrenching and heartwarming, Miltons must consider selling show the myriad ways that you who were recruited to lay the family secrets emerge, sibling Marra B. Gad has written an the island, they stumble across can speak up in your daily life groundwork for the D-Day rivalries resurface, and old inspirational, moving memoir family secrets that force them and ask for what you want so invasion. and new resentments are felt, proving that when all else is to ask, at whose expense are that you can get exactly what culminating in an all-out brawl stripped away, love is where we they living their dream? you need. on the last night of the trip. return, and love is our greatest inheritance. The Northwest Ohio Jewish Book Festival would like to acknowledge the following for their generous support and partnership: Long Term Needs Fund James Fox Moment Magazine Fund fbo UJC Toledo Jewish News • October 2019 • Page 3 Toledo Jewish News Northwest Ohio Jewish Sign up for your Book Festival events Volume 68 No. 1 • 20 pages with the new Jewish Toledo app. View the most up-to-date events. 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