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Israel Solidarity Day 2019

4/17/2019

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Experience the sights, sounds, and tastes of 6 cities around Israel! Join the whole community at Federation for our annual...
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Israel Solidarity Day
Sunday, May 5, 2019
9:30am–1:30pm

Featuring special Partnership guests from the Western Galilee!
  • 9:30am Children’s Activities  (ages 2–10) at CBI: 535 Progress Ave., across the parking lot
  • 9:30am Registration
  • 10:00am Yom HaZikaron Memorial Service
  • 10:45am Yom HaAtzma’ut Family Celebration: NEW—an interactive trip around 6 cities in Israel. Spices! Olive oil and wine tasting! Crafts for kids at every station!
  • 12:00pm Lunch: falafel, Israeli salad, hummus, kosher hot dogs, chips & dessert
  • 12:45pm Israeli Dancing
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$5 per person • $20 max per family
RSVP to (219) 301-0960 or online:
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Yom HaShoah Film Screening Event: Who Will Write Our History

4/17/2019

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​Part of a GLOBAL SCREENING EVENT for Yom HaShoah!
Film Screening & Discussion:  Who Will Write Our History
Thursday, May 2 • 7:00–9:00pm
Click below to watch the trailer...
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In honor of Yom HaShoah, the Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana is pleased to host a special screening of this important documentary about a group of spiritual resisters who risked their lives so that the truth would survive, even if they did not. 
In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper. 
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Now, for the first time, their story is told as a feature documentary. Written, produced and directed by Roberta Grossman and executive produced by Nancy Spielberg, Who Will Write Our History mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters. They defied their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon—the truth—and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did not.
A discussion will follow, facilitated by Federation board member Carol Culberg.

Admission is FREE, but seating is limited. RSVP to (219) 301-0960 or online:
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  • Written, produced and directed by Roberta Grossman
  • Executive produced by Nancy Spielberg
  • Based on the book by Samuel Kassow
  • Featuring the voices of three-time Academy Award® nominee Joan Allen and Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody
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For more about the film, please visit: whowillwriteourhistory.com
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Book Club Session 3: Inheritance

4/9/2019

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The next meeting of the 2019 Federation Book Club will take place at 7pm on Tuesday, May 21, to discuss Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro.
What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us?
In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history–the life she had lived–crumbled beneath her.
Inheritance is a book about secrets–secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that has been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years, years she had spent writing brilliantly, and compulsively, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in–a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover.
​Please read the book in advance and come prepared for lively discussion facilitated by Carol Culberg. For more information, call the Federation office at (219) 301-0960.
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