IYYAR, 5777 – SIVAN 5777 MAY 2017 GO GREEN WITH US! LET US KNOW YOUR PREFERENCE. PAGE 23 The Jewish Journalof san antonio ADAR – NISAN 5778 Published by The Jewish Federation of San Antonio MARCH 2018 PARTNERSHIP CORNER For Hope for Humanity March is a month of hope. Letter from Hardberger and Rene and It is the month in which we our CEO Marty Wender representing welcome in spring and the what we know will be a RONIT rebirth of life in the natural SHERWIN powerful and important world. We also begin our event. celebration of Passover on We have a subtle theme the very last day of March benefitting the Holocaust inserted in our program this year. Additionally, Memorial Museum of this year which is a yellow WHAT’S HAPPENING Jewish San Antonio on March butterfly. The butterfly is SAN ANTONIO? in San Antonio we will Keep up with what’s community commemorate hope this 7th. We are thrilled to a simple, graceful creature, happening in your month with the 2018 For have our honorary co- San Antonio Jewish Hope For Humanity event chairs Linda & Phil See CEO LETTER, page 12 Community. to host SA PAGES 14 - 17 Tricentennial BROADENING event April 15 WORLD VIEWS High school sopho- As San Antonio turns 300 mores and juniors years old, the San Antonio from across city take part in innova- Jewish community will tive Holocaust Study celebrate with a special official program. Tricentennial event, the Shindig!, J-Serve 2017 participants DETAILS PAGE 4 a street fair on Sunday, April 15. J-Serve 2018 coming in April The Hebrew Close to 100 Jewish teens in grades 7 letter through 12 will come together Sunday, “Shin” corr- April 8 to volunteer at local non-profits to esponds help make a difference in San Antonio as to the number 300 in Hebrew part of the J-Serve initiative. J-Serve is a national initiative where PRESERVING Gematria (number to letter to hang out with old friends, make new Jewish teens from all over the U.S. JUDAISM’S PAST correspondence). The street friends, and receive community service come together, no matter affiliation, to New interactive map lets fair will take place from 12 hours. you discover thousands collaborate on various community service p.m. - 6 p.m. in the Monte Vista Teens will arrive at the Barshop JEwish of European synagogues. projects. PAGE 25 See PARTNERSHIP, page 6 This is an opportunity for Jewish teens See J-SERVE, page 12 12500 N. W. 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Stoessinger 2 MARCH 2018 A publication of the Jewish Federation of San Antonio THE JEWISH JOURNAL YOUR FEDERATION DOLLARS AT WORK MLK COMMUNITY UNITY MARCH Members of the Jewish community (above) gather for the commUNITY March for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in January. Kindertransport 80th Anniversary Wednesday, April 11 at 7:30 pm Congregation Rodfei Sholom | 3003 Sholom Dr. Guest of Honor: Henri Roanne-Rosenblatt Kindertransport Survivor from Belgium You are invited to an evening of history, music, poetry, stories, honor and remembrance. Guest Historian, Dr. Jason Johnson, co-founder and coordinator of Trinity University’s Jewish Studies Program. THE JEWISH JOURNAL A publication of the Jewish Federation of San Antonio MARCH 2018 3 YOUR FEDERATION DOLLARS AT WORK Holocaust Study Seminar enters 2nd year The Holocaust Memorial year with our new students. Madison and Harlandale. We MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., Museum is launching the “This year we have been have had our first 3 sessions INTERFAITH SERVICE second year of the Holocaust privileged enough to expand together and we have already The Martin Luther King Interfaith Service each year Study Seminar. This program the number of students we seen their inquisitive minds acknowledges and honors the teachings of Reverend aims to educate and expose will be educating from eight and their desire to learn about Dr. Martin Luther King. Numerous faith groups attend high school sophomores to twelve,” added Ollervidez. this history. We look forward and offer prayers, songs, stories, dance and music. and juniors to the history “This includes a diverse to the next few months and Each faith group is invited to carry a banner during and atrocities of the group from Reagan, Harlan, how these brilliant students the processional and this year Eleanor Stokes-Liss and Holocaust, with the intent of International School of the will grow and change.” Jacob Cohen serve as representatives of the Jewish broadening their world views Americas, Alamo Heights, community. This year’s service was held on January 14. and empowering them to positively impact the world in which they live. This unique program will extend over six months, culminating in a trip to Europe, where the students will be able to continue what Our 3rd Annual... they learned in the classroom at historical locations across Germany and Poland. As the program enters its second year, the Museum has been able to see how the SPRING BREAK original cohort has grown from this experience. The students from the last cohort are still very involved in our Pasta Playdate! organization and the current programs that we offer. Tuesday, March 13th from 4-7 pm They have all thought about different ways in which they Walker Ranch Park 12603 West Avenue can change the world around them and are volunteering during the sessions with our current cohort. “It is great to see how BRING YOUR these students still believe in our mission and to see SPORTS GEAR! their growth as citizens,” said Holocaust Museum Director Ellen Ollervidez. “We are very excited to begin this second 4 MARCH 2018 A publication of the Jewish Federation of San Antonio THE JEWISH JOURNAL YOUR FEDERATION DOLLARS AT WORK HMMSA IN HIGH SCHOOL FILM FESTIVAL On Sunday, Feb. 4, students from the Media Production Team at Ronald Reagan High School, learned about Holocaust history with Docent Varda Ratner and Survivor Rose Williams. Under the guidance of their teacher, Mark Soppe, these students will prepare a 3-minute video featuring Artist David Kassan the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for the Bexar County High School Film captures local faces Festival. The festival will take place at the Tobin Center on April 23. of the Holocaust Burial of bone fragments from Auschwitz David Kassan, On Sunday, Jan. 28, one day portraiture artist and after International Holocaust Edut Project founder, Remembrance Day, the visited San Antonio to Jewish community came document and draw together to lay to rest bone some of San Antonio’s fragments, once donated local Holocaust to the Holocaust Memorial Survivors. Kassan, in Museum and believed partnership with the to be from Auschwitz Shoah Foundation, Concentration Camp. is creating an exhibit Led by Rabbis Mara Nathan featuring his portraits and Samuel Stahl, and joined of Holocaust survivors.