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Faith communities across Northwest Indiana are cordially invited to join together for this inspirational, multi-faith evening of unity.
With the recent uptick of hateful and vitriolic language in this country, Rohina Malik, a Muslim woman and storyteller, wanted to create a project to demonstrate peace and commonalities between us all. She approached Susan Stone (a Jewish woman and storyteller) and Kim Schultz (a Christian woman and storyteller) with an idea: what if we all told stories from our faiths with the goal of bringing people together and showing peace, curiosity and similarities amongst the faiths. And thus KEEPING FAITH: SISTERS OF STORY was born. Each storyteller will tell 3 stories inspired by their personal faith journey. They will be joined by a cultural musical storyteller, Lucia Thomas, on violin, oud and guitar. More about the group: sistersofstory.weebly.com |
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2019-2020 "Food for Thought" Brunch Series, Session 5
Dr. Michael Gideon, "Discovering My Jewish Roots in Germany" Sunday, February 23 10:30am-12:30pm (NOTE NEW TIME) $10 per person includes brunch In the summer of 2019, Michael Gideon and his mother, brother, and two sisters visited Germany with Michael's father, Vern, who was born there and managed to leave from Italy at the age of three. Michael's feelings about Germany heading into the trip were overwhelmingly negative, and he approached the trip with trepidation. What he discovered was a deep and prominent family history, and the people he met could not have been more kind, with an amazing amount of information and interest in a family history he knew very little about.
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Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor is one Israeli’s powerful attempt to reach beyond the wall that separates Israelis and Palestinians. In a series of letters, Yossi Klein Halevi explains what motivated him to leave his native New York in his twenties and move to Israel to participate in the drama of the renewal of a Jewish homeland, which he is committed to see succeed as a morally responsible, democratic state in the Middle East. Please read the book in advance and come prepared for lively discussion facilitated by Carol Culberg. Paperback copies will be available to borrow or purchase for $12 through the Federation office. Call for availability.
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It’s the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau is forced to leave her glittering life of parties and champagne to become a parlor maid in England. She arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay, where servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn. But war is coming, and the world is changing. When the master of Tyneford’s young son, Kit, returns home, he and Elise strike up an unlikely friendship that will transform Tyneford—and Elise—forever Please read the book in advance and come prepared for lively discussion facilitated by Carol Culberg. Paperback copies will be available to borrow or purchase for $5 through the Federation office. Call for availability.
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Partnership2Gether Western Galilee presents:
Learn2Gether Jewish Learning Program A virtual Beit Midrash experience which will introduce you to new friends across the ocean. In this program, we will go through the Jewish calendar and deal with Jewish, Israeli, or Universal texts. The program consists of three group sessions via the Zoom web app, and three Chevruta meetings that may be held by any platform at the participants' convenience.
Group sessions will take place via Zoom, Sundays at 10am Central time. The remaining group session is April 19, 2020. You will receive a link to join the webinar from your home computer or mobile device.To get a feel for the program, you can watch the video of the orientation session (recorded via Zoom).
Ready to sign up? Please register at right for our records, then visit http://bit.ly/learn2g to complete your registration so that you can be paired with a partner for the chevruta study portion of the program.
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If you have more questions regarding The Learn2Gether program, please contact Erica Yakovetz at 219-301-0960 or erica@federationonline.org.
Would you help save up to three lives? Federation would like to host an American Red Cross blood drive in 2019, but we need to make sure we have enough potential donors before we can commit. Giving blood is a simple way to make a difference in someone's life.
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Blood Drive Interest Survey
Would you be interested in donating blood at our Munster location in Winter/Spring 2020? |
