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Please note that all currently scheduled events are subject to change based on evolving public health recommendations. This page will be updated as we have more information. When in doubt, call to confirm.
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Home Meal Delivery
$8 per meal (pay what you can) Our kosher meal home delivery on Mondays and Wednesdays is now available to all Northwest Indiana Jewish community members who would like to participate.
This includes all Jewish residents of Lake, Porter, or LaPorte Counties, as well as current members of our 6 member congregations or of Federation's Adult Friendship Club. Please submit your order using this form or call 219-301-0960 no later than 10am that day. You may also leave voicemail outside of regular office hours. Deliveries will be made between 12-2pm each day. Cost is $8 per meal ($18 for Seder-to-Go on April 7). In case of financial hardship, pay what you can. No money is collected at time of delivery; we will track orders and send an invoice. LUNCH MENUS
No service during Passover, April 9-16 Mon 4/20: Mushroom barley soup, rolls, dessert Wed 4/22: Veggie lasagna, garlic bread, fruit Mon 4/27: Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green vegetable, dessert Wed 4/29: Chicken Vesuvio, roasted potatoes, peas, dessert Seder-To-Go!
ORDERS ARE NOW CLOSED. Home delivery or pickup: Tuesday, April 7 $18 per meal Pay what you can OR sponsor a neighbor A delicious Passover-style meal* of matzah ball soup, apricot chicken, green beans almondine, roasted potatoes, dessert, and grape juice... PLUS charoset, parsley, horseradish, and a box of Passover matzah (one box per household). Place your order at right or contact the Jewish Federation at (219) 301-0960 for more information. *Menu subject to change. While meals will be prepared Passover-style, Federation’s kosher kitchen is not a Kosher-for-Passover facility. *Subject to change pending further public health mandates. As an essential human service agency, we will continue meal service as long as we are able to remain open.
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POSTPONED by one day to accommodate a shiva in the community (also being held online via Zoom). We apologize for any inconvenience.
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 tune in online for lively discussion facilitated by Carol Culberg. Paperback copies are now available to borrow or purchase for $5 (used) through the Federation office. Call for availability.
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Click below at 7pm on April 2 to join the videoconference:
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Community Garden Callout Meeting
Monday, April 27, 2020 4:00pm (VIA ZOOM) The garden must go on! Lily’s Community Garden at the Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana is entering its second season. Come help us assess our 2019 season, plan our 2020 crops for providing fresh produce to our Food Pantry, and discuss educational opportunities for JCY campers and K’Ton Ton students. Contact the office at 219-301-0960 for more information
Join Zoom Meeting: zoom.us/j/428086144
Join Audio via Telephone: +1-312-626-6799 Meeting ID: 428 086 144 Password (REQUIRED): 440994 |
Click below at 4pm on April 27 to join the videoconference:
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A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book... Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of extraordinary depth and beauty. On the morning of May 3, sixteen communities in the USA, Budapest, Akko, and Matte Asher will virtually meet to discuss the book. This book group is open to all community members via the Zoom web app.
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Check back here for the Zoom meeting link!
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Questions? Contact Erica Yakovetz at 219-301-0960 or erica@federationonline.org.
In Portuguese with English subtitles. A sweeping historical epic about hope, faith and humanity. In 19th century Portugal, where Judaism has been prohibited for centuries, a military officer converted to the faith embarks on a selfless mission to bring the Jewish community back to life.
This sumptuous and absorbing historical drama recounts the story of the Jews in Portugal since 1496, when King D. Manuel prohibited Judaism. Officially the Jewish community disappears, although in many villages Crypto-Judaism is kept alive. It is not until the end of the Inquisition in the nineteenth century that the Jews slowly begin to return to Portugal. A small community of Ashkenazi Jews settles in Oporto, and these are joined by a Portuguese military officer converted to Judaism, who soon begins to travel, sometimes on horseback, seeking to bring back to official Judaism those who practice crypto-Judaism. This project, although heroic, does not have the desired outcome. But five centuries after D. Manuel's edict led to the mass exodus of the Jewish community, a new law promoted their return to the land they had been forced to forsake. With a sweeping look, Sepharad is a timely film that will make you reflect on the true worth of faith, love, and selfless valor. Join us at 5:30 to watch the movie over a light dinner ($5 donation requested). Discussion will follow around 7:15pm, facilitated by Carol Culberg. RSVP by Friday, May 1.
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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 Spring 2020? |
