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TILES
JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA - FIU
NEWSLETTER FOR MEMBERS OF THE
Volume XXV • Number 4
www.jewishmuseum.com
March 2013
JMOF - FIU INITIATES THE
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE OF
BAT MITZVAH COMES OF AGE JONATHAN SYMONS B’NAI
Members Opening Monday, April 8 at 6:00 p.m.
MITZVAH PROJECT
On Saturday morning, March 18, 1922 – two years after
American women received the right to vote – Judith Kaplan,
daughter of Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, became the first
American girl believed to mark her bat mitzvah during a
public worship service. With this revolutionary act, she and
her father initiated what would become the widespread
American Jewish practice of bat mitzvah. Seventy years later,
Judith Kaplan had an adult bat mitzvah at the age of 82.
To mark the 90th anniversary of Judith Kaplan’s bat mitzvah, the
National Museum of American Jewish History and Moving
Traditions have collaborated to organize a traveling exhibition,
Bat Mitzvah Comes of Age, featuring the remarkable story of
how, in less than a century, individual girls, their parents and
their rabbis challenged and changed communal values and
practice to institute this now widely observed Jewish ritual.
Judith Kaplan Eisenstein at
the 70th anniversary of her bat
mitzvah, 1992.
The stories of nearly 100
b’not mitzvah in this
exhibit include many
“firsts,” ranging from
secular to ultra-Orthodox
and small town to urban
center. It includes everyday
trendsetters to prominent
women, such as Supreme
Court Justice Elena Kagan,
community leader Ruth
Messinger and Facebook
Chief Operating Officer
Sheryl Sandberg, a Floridian,
to illustrate the substantial
impact of bat mitzvah on
Jewish life and on each of
the featured women.
This exhibition explores how the tradition of bat mitzvah has
evolved and how the related changes it sparked in Jewish
education, practice and leadership developed, highlighting
the critical role girls played in bringing equality to a
patriarchal religion. The exhibit also serves as a catalyst to
explore how rites of passage are celebrated in various cultures
and religions.
Continued
page 4
The Museum is very excited to
announce that Jonathan Symons
has made a commitment to
sponsor a new program at the
Museum. The Jonathan Symons
B’nai Mitzvah Project will provide
a
one-year
Family
Gift
Membership to the Jewish
Museum of Florida-FIU for
upcoming Florida bar and bat
mitzvah celebrants. The bar or bat mitzvah ceremony is a rite of passage,
signifying a child reaching the age of moral and ethical
responsibility. This is a critical time to enhance traditional
learning. The goal of this project is to provide a vehicle for
these young adults and their families to share in the
meaningful experiences offered through our Museum’s
exhibits and educational programs, which link Florida Jewish
history and the cultural traditions of our heritage to our shared
multicultural, national and global history. For the youth and
future leaders of our community, our Museum’s themes,
including history, family, cultural heritage and immigration,
serve as catalysts to promote important values such as
tolerance and respect for one another, determination, integrity,
citizenship, justice and moral and communal obligations.
Inside TILES...
Continued
page 4
From the President, Board & Advisory Council ......................2
Glass Ceiling Awards................................................................3
Bat Mitzvah Exhibit, B’nai Mitzvah project (from pg 1).........4
Jewish American Heritage Month, Fryd on Fire exhibit..........5
Major Gifts Wall, Supporting Gifts, Naming Opps...........6 & 7
Museum Events Photos .....................................................8 & 9
Program Guide ..............................................................10 & 11
Purim Celebration Photos..............................................12 & 13
Membership...................................................................14 & 15
Collections & Exhibitions ......................................................16
Judaica Competition, Fryd on Fire exhibit (from pg 5) .........17
Heritage Society, Volunteers, Memorials & Tributes .............18
Exhibition Schedule................................................................18
Orovitz Museum Store, Bessie’s Bistro, Staff Directory........19
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FROM THE PRESIDENT
Elliot N. Stone
The last few months have been a hotbed of activity at the
Museum, with hundreds of people participating in a myriad
of programs, classes and events (see pages 8, 9, 12 & 13).
I am still basking in the afterglow of our beautiful “Night
at the Museum.” Our small staff, wonderful volunteers and
vendors gave us one perfect evening. The celebration,
always held near the festival of Purim, reminds us that the
efforts of ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.
This is also the theme of our Museum -- telling the stories
of ordinary people, most of whom came here with nothing,
and have achieved extraordinary results to benefit their
Florida communities. This group of immigrants, connected by a shared history and
culture, has built great institutions, hospitals, roads and so much more and continues to
have an impact on all areas of development of the Sunshine State.
It is remarkable how our Museum, approaching its 18th birthday, has also achieved
extraordinary results in such a short time, including receiving accreditation and reaccreditation from the American Alliance of Museums and the establishment of statewide
legislations for Florida Jewish History Month, celebrated each January, and the national
Jewish American Heritage Month, celebrated each May.
It is clear we play a critical role in the education of the broader community in Florida
and beyond. With your continued support, and with our new relationship as a part of
Florida International University, we can continue to help achieve greater understanding,
tolerance and respect for the one thing every immigrant group and individual shares with
every other -- our differences.
SO WHAT IS THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA-FIU?
The JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA opened in 1995 in a former historic synagogue that
housed the first congregation on Miami Beach. Built in 1936, the Henry Hohauser designed
building that underwent a two-year restoration, boasts Art Deco features, a copper dome
and 80 stained glass windows. In 2007, the Museum expanded into the original 1929
synagogue next door after a one-year restoration. Both buildings are on the National Register
of Historic Places. In 2008, the two buildings were connected with a skylighted bistro.
The Museum is much more than beautiful buildings. It is a place that presents its own and
traveling exhibits; sponsors cultural and educational programs; houses a Collections &
Research Center reflecting 250 years of Florida Jewish history; and communicates Jewish
history, art, culture and values to Jews and non-Jews alike in an informal mode. The
Museum is also a place where Jews of all ages and stripes discover and reaffirm their rich
heritage – thus helping to strengthen Jewish identity and ensure Jewish continuity.
This all started with the traveling exhibit MOSAIC: Jewish Life in Florida (1990-1994),
depicting Florida Jewish history from 1763 to the present, when Jews were first allowed
to live in the Sunshine State. Thousands of photographs, artifacts and oral histories were
gathered from families throughtout Florida and this collection continues now in the
Museum, created as a result of the interest and support of the original MOSAIC project.
Where the traveling exhibit was the launch, the JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA further
delves into the state’s rich Jewish history of yesterday and today – for the future.
Historic Partnership with Florida International University (FIU)
In December 2012, following the approval of the Museum’s Board of Directors, Florida
International University’s Board of Trustees and the Florida Board of Governors, the
Museum became part of the FIU family. This historic partnership leverages the resources
of the Museum and FIU, igniting a new era of interdisciplinary education and research
focused on the history of the Jewish experience in Florida, the ways in which Florida Jews
influence and are influenced by the cultural dynamics of Florida, the nation and the world,
and issues of discrimination against all peoples in Florida throughout history. Through this
partnership, we will expand the education of FIU students, faculty and the greater Florida
community about the challenges of the immigrant experiences shared by all ethnicities in
the State.
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Whether your family has lived in Florida for eight generations, as some have, or just arrived
– YOUR story is an important tile the MOSAIC. Join us!
OFFICERS
President of the Board
Elliot N. Stone, Miami
Vice-presidents
Isabel Bernfeld Anderson, Miami Beach
Kenneth M. Bloom, Pinecrest
Paul Drucker, Boca Raton
Murray H. Dubbin, Miami
Leslie Jay Gross, Miami
Alan J. Levy, Fort Lauderdale
Louis Schneider, Miami
Treasurer
David Adler, Miami Beach
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ellie Aibel, Coral Gables
Elaine Bloom, Miami Beach
Helene S. Dubbin, Miami
Mel Frumkes, Miami
Frances Gaynor, Pinecrest
Judy Gilbert-Gould, Miami
Ira D. Giller, Miami Beach
Norman Levine, N. Miami Beach
Gwen Margolis, Coconut Groves
Michael D. Orovitz, Bay Harbor Islands
MariLyn Potash, North Miami Beach
Gerald K. Schwartz, Miami Beach
Leonard A. Wien, Miami Beach
Linda B. Zilber, Bay Harbor Island
W. James Orovitz, (deceased)
MOSAIC Founding President
Maynard Abrams, (deceased)
Helene Herskowitz, Delray Beach
Sandra Angel Malamud, Sarasota
Norman M. Giller, (deceased)
Museum Founding President
Norman Levine, N. Miami Beach
Helene S. Dubbin, Miami
Ira D. Giller, Miami Beach
Leonard A. Wien, Miami Beach
Linda B. Zilber, Bay Harbor Islands
PAST PRESIDENTS
Harold Aibel, Coral Gables
Sheldon Anderson, Miami
Jerry Blank, Sun Valley, Idaho
Elinor R. Catsman, Coconut Grove
Betty Cooper, Miami Beach
Michael Dribin, Miami Beach
Samuel J. Dubbin, Miami
Harvey J. Feld, Tampa
George Feldenkreis, Miami
Mikki & Morris Futernick, Coconut Grove
Jeffrey Gilbert, Miami Beach
Jane & Jerrold Goodman, Miami Beach
Sonya Rabin Greenfield, Miami
Nicki Englander Grossman, Hollywood
Daniel F. Herz, Plantation
Lewis M. Kanner, Coral Gables
Betsy Kaplan, Miami
Judge Gerald Kogan, Miami
Gabriela Landau, Asheville, North Carolina
Jack H. Levine, Miami
Morris D. Levitt, Coconut Grove
Norman Lipoff, Coconut Grove
Hannah Lipton, Aventura
Hazel M. Mack, Jacksonville
Julian Meitin, Orlando
Bess Myerson, Santa Monica, California
Avis Lee Neiman, Miami
Jonathan Nelson, North Miami
Norma Jean Ober, Coral Gables
Joseph W. Pallot, Miami
Saundra Dubbin Parker, Aventura
Leonard Robbins, Hollywood
Doris C. Rosenblatt, Tampa
Lloyd L. Ruskin, Miami Beach
Lina Zargar Samimy, Coral Gables
Gloria G. Scharlin, Coral Gables
Shirlee Segall Schiller, Miami Beach
Norman Schwartz, North Miami Beach
Teddi B. Segal, Hendersonville, NC
Tamra Sheffman, Miami Beach
Gary P. Simon, Miami
Marilyn K. Solomon, Coconut Grove
Jean Soman, Miami
Stanley G. Tate, Bay Harbor Islands
Jackie & Robert Traurig, Coconut Grove
Linda Widrich Weitz, Miami Beach
Pauline Winick, Miami Beach
Sharyn Wittner, St. Petersburg
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Jo Ann Arnowitz
FOUNDING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Marcia Jo Zerivitz
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
MUSEUM EVENTS
HONORING FIVE INSPIRING
WOMEN AT THE ANNUAL
“BREAKING THE GLASS
CEILING” AWARDS
After graduating, she became the first woman police officer in
the St. Petersburg Beach Police Department. She went on to
become Deputy Sheriff for Hillsborough County, one of the first
women in the department. She walked the beat of Tampa for
several years until she was promoted to the Civil Division. Her
approach to her work reflects her humanitarian and Jewish
The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU announces the winners communal values. She has donated time, energy and her own
of the 17th annual “Breaking the Glass Ceiling” Awards for resources to those in need at the worst times of their lives.
five women who have been successful in fields generally
In 1965, Sonia Pressman Fuentes of
dominated by men. The Award Reception and Ceremony
Sarasota joined the General
features presentations made by the honorees describing the
Counsel’s office of the Equal
obstacles and inspirations they encountered on their
Employment
Opportunity
individual journeys to success. The event will take place at
Commission (EEOC) as its first
the Museum on Sunday, April 21 at 3:00 p.m., beginning
woman attorney. She drafted one of
with light refreshments. Event Sponsors include
the EEOC’s earliest Digests of Legal
Commissioner Sally Heyman, a 2008 Glass Ceiling Honoree,
Interpretations, its first Guidelines on
Isabel Bernfeld Anderson and Kenneth & Barbara Bloom,
Pregnancy and Childbirth and the
PhD. The cost for Museum Members is $15; non-Members
decision protecting employment
$20 and students $5. For reservations, contact 786-972-3175
rights of stewardesses. In 1966, she
or [email protected].
became one of 49 founders of the National Organization of
2013 GLASS CEILING HONOREES
Judge Jeri Beth Cohen, a
dependency court judge in the State
of Florida 11th Judicial Circuit,
began her service on the bench in
the criminal division at a time when
few women held judiciary positions
in Miami-Dade County. Early on
she was able to break the glass
ceiling in many areas, including
being the first to develop a pilot program for rehabilitating DUI
offenders, which won her national awards, and the first to
establish a Dependency Drug Court in Miami - one of the first
in the nation. She has worked with the Department of Justice to
develop curricula and train dependency drug courts across the
country, and her drug court was an original mentor court for The
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. Judge Cohen is past
chair of the Statewide Court Improvement Project responsible
for bringing state dependency courts into compliance with
federal child welfare requirements. She uses her considerable
leadership skills to foster collaboration across systems,
enhancing both the understanding of community needs and the
effectiveness of services. She has consistently served as an
exceptional role model and mentor for women in her field and
she devotes countless hours of extensive service in local,
national and international roles for the Jewish community.
Sherryl Susan Evans served as
Deputy Sheriff for Hillsborough
County for more than 32 years.
During a stay in Israel, she
admired the Israeli women who
were prominent members of the
local police force. When she
returned to Tampa she enrolled in
the Criminal Justice program at
Florida State University.
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Women. She was co-founder of both Federally Employed
Women and the Women’s Equity Action League, a charter
member of the Veteran Feminists of America, and a longtime
board member of the National Woman’s Party. In addition to
more than 20 years as an attorney with the federal
government, she was the highest paid woman at the
headquarters of multinational corporations GTE and TRW.
A woman of great energy and zest, she began a second career
after retirement, lecturing on women’s rights here and abroad,
and writing a lively autobiography, Eat First – You Don’t
Know What They’ll Give You: The Adventures of an
Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter.
Marilyn Hoder-Salmon is the
founding director of the Women’s
Studies Center at Florida International
University. After earning a bachelor’s
degree as a widow with two young
children, she worked with the Urban
League of Greater Miami. She was a
founding member of the Dade County
chapter of the National Organization
for Women and the Florida Women’s
Political Caucus. In 1982, as she was completing her
doctorate in American Studies, she was recruited to direct
FIU’s new Women’s Studies Center, which at first granted
only undergraduate certificates. She created a welcoming and
secure space with an extensive library of materials in the
emerging discipline. She initiated a Women’s History Month
Conference that became a South Florida institution, involving
Miamians in the national and international feminist
community. By the time she stepped down in 1999, the center
offered a bachelor’s degree in women’s studies and plans for
a graduate-level certificate were underway. She continued at
FIU as lecturer and faculty fellow in the Honors College until
2012. Hoder-Salmon brought transformative skills honed by
feminist and civil rights activism to promoting women’s
studies, and fostered understanding and advancement for
women faculty and students.
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MUSEUM NEWS
GLASS CEILING... From page 3
Betsy Kaplan is the mother of
public arts education in Miami Dade
County. As early as college, when
she chose to add a BFA to her BA,
she made a commitment to arts
education for all public school
students. That is the goal she worked
for as a teacher, a volunteer and a
politician in Miami-Dade County,
forging her way with tenacity and
resourcefulness. Beginning in 1961,
as a PTA activist for 25 years, she
knew every district arts teacher, and used her knowledge of
their work to lobby local and state government.
Committed to under-served students, she was active with the
first arts magnet school in Liberty City in 1973. When school
districts began cutting electives in the 1980s, she ran for
School Board. For years she had explained clearly to parents
and legislators why the arts matter. Now she tirelessly
extended that message to voters. She won with strong
grassroots support, and went on to win three more four-year
terms. She was a powerful Board presence, never losing sight
of her mission. She insisted that the arts were academic
subjects, not extras. She supported arts magnet schools and
guarded resources for the arts programs of every school and
every grade. It is a tribute to her that the Miami-Dade County
school district is nationally recognized as an outstanding
model of public arts education.
J
JONATHAN SYMONS... From page 1
onathan Symons lives in
London and spends part of each
year here on Miami Beach.
Jonathan was raised in a traditional
Jewish home. His involvement in the
Jewish community in England and
his value of Jewish education is what
originally led him to our doors more
than 10 years ago. Now, he is our
London
ambassador,
telling
everyone he meets that they must
visit “the best show in town.”
Susan Wides at
her Bat Mitzvah
celebration,
St. Petersburg,
January 1960.
BAT MITZVAH... From page 1
Surely, the young Judith Kaplan could never have dreamed
that, by the time she celebrated her second bat mitzvah in
1992 at the age of 82, the ceremony would be a nearly
universal Jewish expectation. Historically, bat mitzvah, the
change in status that occurs automatically for girls at 12
years and a day according to Jewish law, had no standard
ceremony to accompany it until the 20th century. By contrast,
the bar mitzvah ceremony was developed at least as early
as the 16th century. Although few b’not mitzvah took place in
the 1930s and 40s, rabbis were already actively debating the
merits of what one termed a “bar mitzvah of girls.” If such
ceremonies took hold, would girls be allowed to participate in
public Jewish ritual on a regular basis or would the rights
associated with bat mitzvah be considered a one-time privilege?
These theoretical questions became reality as the number of
bat mitzvah ceremonies climbed in the 1950s, with more than
half of all Conservative and more than one-third of Reform
congregations implementing the ritual. In 1955, the
Committee on Law and Standards of the Conservative
movement accepted calling women to the Torah (aliyah) on
a regular basis, as a legal minority view. However, it became
the collective responsibility of girls, along with supportive
parents and rabbis, to speak up and out towards making the
practice commonplace. Following her bat mitzvah in St.
Louis in 1950, Dee Radman Hermann said, “I can do
anything I want if I pursue it.”
By the time the women’s rights movement of the 1970s
emerged, the practice of bat mitzvah had become all but
normalized. Like all Americans, Jews began to redress the
imbalance that resulted in large numbers of women being undereducated. With expanding opportunities, women broadened
their Jewish knowledge and skills, culminating for
some in adult bat mitzvah. During the last quarter
century, the bat mitzvah has come to look identical to
the bar mitzvah in all but traditional congregations and
even many ultra-Orthodox Jews recognize a girl’s
coming-of-age in various ways.
As the Florida connection of the exhibit will explain,
the trends in Florida mirror those around the nation,
starting with a handful of brave girls in the 1950s and
increasing as the ritual grew in popularity over time.
Today, bat mitzvah celebrations are as common as bar
mitzvahs in our state, except in the Orthodox
communities. Though many Orthodox girls have some
We are so proud to initiate this project in the name of Jonathan form of bat mitzvah ritual, the ceremonies are often held in
Symons. It is also fitting that the inauguration coincides with alternative locations. Three such b’not mitzvah were held in our
the opening of the exhibit “Bat Mitzvah Comes of Age,” Museum, which is often rented for events in our community.
which will be on display from April 8 – September 15, 2013.
The exhibit will be on display through September 15, 2013, with the
This b’nai mitzvah project will begin with South Florida festive Members’ Only Opening Event held on Monday, April 8,
congregations, with the intent of expanding it throughout the at 6:00 p.m. Opening Event sponsors are Congregation Beth
state. Thus far, Temple Beth Sholom on Miami Beach and Jacob and the Robert Arthur Segall Foundation.
Temple Judea in Coral Gables have agreed to participate.
The Museum will present a full array of public education
If your congregation is interested in becoming a part of this programs to complement the themes of the exhibit, from
dynamic opportunity, please contact Executive Director panel discussions to performances, with multicultural
Jo Ann Arnowitz at 786-972-3180.
components to attract diverse segments of the community.
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MUSEUM NEWS
JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE FRYD ON FIRE
MONTH MAY 5 OBSERVANCE by CAROL FRYD
SURVEYS AMERICAN JEWS IN Members Opening Monday, May 20, 2013 at 6:00 p.m.
ENTERTAINMENT
The tropical mystique animates the fertile imagination of
May is Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM), a national
commemoration of the contributions that American Jews have
made to the fabric of our nation’s history, culture and society.
The 2013 observance will be held at the Museum on Sunday,
May 5 at 2:00 p.m.
JAHM was initiated by the Jewish Museum of Florida
(JMOF) and enacted by the 109th Congress. This year’s
national theme focuses on American Jews in Entertainment.
Enlightening presentations by Professor Stephen Whitfield of
Brandeis University and Marcia Jo Zerivitz, Founding
Executive Director of the Jewish Museum of Florida, will
explore how two percent of the population has had such a
huge impact upon the nation’s popular culture.
Immigrant Jewish entrepreneurs or their sons (like Sam
Goldwyn, Jack and Harry Warner, Louis B. Mayer) were
integral to the creation of Hollywood. Jews were once the
heads simultaneously of the three major American television
networks: William Paley at CBS, David Sarnoff at NBC and
Leonard Goldenson at ABC. Talented Jews have been writers,
directors, producers, composers and performers, even clowns.
Carol Fryd, whose captivating artworks of Miami and its
cultural intersections meld the human figure with fabulous
flora and fruit. Her varied techniques combine digital art,
collage, drawings, photography, objects and paint to produce
ground breaking work, ranging from realism to abstract
expressionism to portraiture. But it is the combination of
bright, fiery colors that dominant the works in this show. A native Floridian who
moved to Miami Beach at
age two, Fryd is inspired by
her hometown and its
colorful palette of people and
panorama. The excitement
and hot juicy hues of Fryd’s
works are matched only by
the intensity and heat of the
Miami sun.
“The bright hot yellow light
of the Miami Beach sun
transforms every color to an
intensity no Northerner ever
experiences,” says Fryd.
The Eyes Have It, 2012.
“The cerulean blue tropical
sky intoxicates me. Nothing here is muted. The people come
from everywhere and there is a cacophony of Cuban,
Spanglish, Haitian, French and southern drawl and chivalry,
with an imported New York sophistication, that creates
Miami’s unique culture. Passions run high in this city and yet
somehow we all live together and grow and learn to tolerate
and be appreciative of one another. Our city is ‘on fire’ with
an intensity found nowhere else. This is the inspiration for
my work.”
“The arrival of over two million Jews from Eastern Europe a
century ago coincided with the emergence of mass
entertainment in the United States. This was not entirely a
coincidence, as the energies and dynamism of the newcomers
and their children were unleashed in the popular arts because
so few barriers to entry existed, and because a novel path of
upward mobility became available,” said Dr. Whitfield. He
continues, “The result was a fresh way of forging the national
identity and a vehicle for making a diverse society more
unified.” Whitfield’s lecture will describe how this combination
played itself out in the birth of the Hollywood studios and in
the contribution of Jews to the treasury of American humor. Diane Camber, former director of the Bass Museum of Art
calls Fryd’s work “a transcendent feast for the mind, the eye
Dr. Whitfield holds the Max Richter Chair in American and the heart.” Miami art critic and journalist Elisa Turner
Civilization at Brandeis University, where he has taught since says pagan grace and power prevail in Fryd’s work. “From a
1972. A native of Houston who grew up in Jacksonville, he distance, her art appears painted with juicy colors; the digital
earned a B. A. from Tulane, a master’s degree from Yale and ‘truth’ of these ‘virtual paintings’ is astounding.”
a doctorate in American history from Brandeis. He has served
as visiting professor of many prominent universities and is Fryd majored in Fine Arts at the University of Miami. She
the author of eight books, including, most recently, In Search has contributed to the artistic growth of Miami for more than
of American Jewish Culture, and numerous scholarly articles. 50 years She was a co-founder of Miami’s first women’s art
co-op, The Continuum Gallery, created to foster an
The free program is co-sponsored by intellectual and artistic dialogue between like-minded women
the JMOF-FIU, Jewish Community artists. Women’s issues remain a lead motif of Fryd’s work.
Relations Council of the Greater
Miami Jewish Federation and Jewish A hugely prolific artist, Fryd has had numerous one-person
Federation of Broward County, shows. Her work is represented in the permanent collections
of the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach and numerous
Community Relations Committee.
galleries and museums in Santo Domingo in the Dominican
For information on JAHM and the Republic and in private collections worldwide.
national 2013 observance, please go to
the website: www.jahm.us.
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SPECIAL MUSEUM RECOGNITION ON
MAJOR GIFTS WALL
The JEWISH MUSEUM of FLORIDA opened in 1995, through the generosity of individuals, foundations,
corporations and the public sector. Names of Contributors of $5,000 and more are engraved on a stone
commensurate with the gift on the unique Major Gifts Wall in the Museum lobby. The names that follow are
as of February 25, 2013.
(NOTE: ITALICS DENOTE NEW OR INCREASED COMMITMENT SINCE LAST ISSUE OF TILES)
$2,000,000 and above PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE
Miami-Dade County
Building Better Communities Bond Program & Cultural Affairs Council
City of Miami Beach
Mayor, Commissioners & Cultural Arts Council
$1,000,000 - $1,999,999 DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE
State of Florida
Dr. Harold Posner - IMO Ilse Falk Posner
Bernice Samkoff
$500,000 - $999,999 MUSEUM CIRCLE
Jonathan Symons
• Deborah Regal Feterson Estate • Mrs. Arnold (Muriel) Rosen • Giller - Grossman Families
• Paul Drucker • Leonard Wien Family • Leonard & Sally Robbins
$100,000 - $499,999 LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
• Applebaum Foundation, Inc. • Blank Family Foundation • Harvey R. & Roberta Chaplin • Dr. Edward & Joanne
Dauer & Family & Reva Dauer • Gladys Fineberg • Mikki & Morris Futernick • Russell & Ronalee Galbut
• Herbert & Fran Gaynor • Barton S. Goldberg • Marcia & Lewis Kanner • Marcia Simon Kaplan & Family
• Marshall Landy • Norman & Sylvia Levine • Isabel May - IMO Samuel May • Bess Myerson • Orovitz Family
• MariLyn & Herbert Potash • Clarice Reiss Charitable Trust-Mal Englander & Ewald Ziffer, trustees
• Robert Russell Foundation-Norman H. Lipoff, Chair • Gloria & Howard R. Scharlin Family
• Louis Schneider & Rosalie Ehrenberg • Robert Arthur Segall Foundation • Jean & William Soman
$50,000 - $99,999 PACESETTERS
• Leonard Abess, Sr. - IMO Bertha • American Express Charitable Fund • Isabel Bernfeld Anderson - IMO Bernfeld &
Anderson families • JoAnn & Dr. Robert Bass • Braman Family Foundation • Colonial Bank (formerly Jefferson:
Arthur Courshon, Norman M. Giller, Bart Goldberg) • Isabel & Joseph Davidson Foundation • Evelyn & Irving Denmark &
Family • Helene & Murray Dubbin • Lynn Girsh • Greater Miami Jewish Federation • Nathan & Sophia Gumenick
Philanthropic Fund • HUD Block Grant Program • Deborah & Bruce Kaye • Ida Lee Koenigsberg - IHO Marcia Jo Zerivitz
• Harry Kramer Memorial Fund - Les August & Tom Dean, trustees • Thomas Kramer • Marc Levin • Boris Malina
• Sue & Leonard Miller • Stephen & Sandy Muss • Selma Oritt Foundation-Neil Rollnick, Trustee • Schoenbaum Family
Foundation • Teddi & Norton Segal Family Foundation • Jackie & Robert Traurig • Marcia Jo Zerivitz
$25,000 - $49,999 FOUNDERS
• Harold & Ellie Aibel • Shirley & Jules Arkin • Diane & Harvey Birdman • Stephen H. Bittel• The Shepard Broad Foundation, Inc.
• CCR Companies (Leslie Jay Gross) • Jack Chester Foundation • Eddie Cole• Mike & Betty Cooper • Sidney & Lorraine Cooperman
• Hazel & Judge Irving Cypen• Dade Community Foundation • Esformes & Mason Families • George Feldenkreis
• Lawrence & Suzanne Fishman • Florida Humanities Council • Jefferson L. Ford Memorial Foundation, Elinor Catsman, Trustee
• Dr. Phillip & Patricia Frost • Niety & Gary Gerson • Carl & Cynthia Goldman • Jane & Jerrold Goodman • Greenberg Traurig Attorneys
• Flagler Greyhound Track - Florence Hecht, Isabelle Amdur, Barbara & Fred Havenick • Renee & Howard Gross - Gross Family Foundation
• Ruth Frank Gross Unitrust • IMO Olga & Eugene Guttman • Heller Brothers Packing Corp. • The Hirsch Family
• Lillian Horowitz • David & Francie Horvitz Family Foundation • Elmer A. & Roslyn Hurwitz • Estate of Bernard Janis • Jay W. Jensen
• Arthur M. Kahn• John & Darla Karlton • Knight Foundation • Gabriela Landau - IMO Rabbi Sol Landau • Donald & Judy Lefton
• Esta & David Levinson• Morris & Rhoda Levitt • Alan & Diane Lieberman • Natalie Lyons • Jim & Amy Multack
• Abraham & Avis Neiman• Dr. Sidney Olson • Shaun & Michele Orcinolo • Rita & David Perlman • Brenda B. & Lewis B. Pollak, Sr.
• TUW Posnack Foundation of Hollywood - Marsha & Alan Levy • Quittner Family • Resnick Family • Ruth Robbins
• Dora & Leonard Rosenzweig• Candace & Lloyd Ruskin • Noreen Gordon Sablotsky • The Schaefer Family
• Raquel & Michael Scheck• Family of Sidney Z. Schwartz • Sam Seitlin• Sandy & Charles Simon • George Simon - Susan Helfman
• The Spalding Financial Group, Inc. - Sherry & Ken Fardie• Elliot Stone & Bonnie Sockel-Stone • Sun-Sentinel/Jewish Journal
• Stanley & Joni Tate • Temple Emanu-El• Temple Zion Israelite Center • Leon Tenenbaum• The Miami Herald
• Helen Uchitel Estate• Cecile Weiss• Linda Widrich Weitz - The Jack Widrich Foundation • Linda Brown Zilber
$10,000 - $24,999 TRUSTEES
• Anonymous - IHO Burnett Roth • Beach Bank • Belfer-Ferenczi Families • The David Berg Foundation • Nikki Bergstein • Citigroup Foundation
• Mark Cohn • Congregation Beth Jacob • Arthur and Carol Courshon • Reba Engler Daner • Gordon Deckelbaum • Felicia O. Deutch
• Ruby Diamond Foundation • Helen Salomon Eggnatz • Nancy & Martin Engels • Expressweb • David & Jerome Fleeman • Toby Friedland
• Funding Arts Network • Evelyn, Ben & Harold Gaines • Marsha & Jeffrey Gilbert • Marci & Ross Goodman
• Phyllis B. Goldman, IMO Norman Goldman • Mario & Teresa Kreutzberger • Neil & Sandra Angel Malamud• Miami-Dade Cty Commissioner
Sally A. Heyman, District 4 • Bruce Kaplan • Kathy & Robert Klausner • Elliot Kleiman - IMO Judith• Adele Lassar • Lehman Brothers
• Alan & Hannah Lipton • IMO Ben Lubitz: Bea, Alan & Jon • Senator Gwen Margolis • J. P. Morgan• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Lisa S. Newman • Isaac and Nieves Olemberg • Premier Developers • Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc. • Estate of Eva Rabin
• RFLP Group IHO - Doris & Frank Rosenblatt • Stephen & Laurie Riemer • Martin & Doris Rosen • Steve Rosenberg
• Rosenzweig-Coopersmith Foundation • Helen & Burnett Roth • Rubin-Prager-Hymowech Families • Ruden McClosky • Norman & Ruth Russ
• Debra & Gerald K. Schwartz • Melvin Shifke - IMO Lorraine • Jack F. Shorstein • Norman Shulevitz Foundation • Martin & Sara Solomon
• Samuel M. & Helene Soref Foundation • Ted & Rosalind Spak • Gale Goldstein Tucker • Bill Ussery Motors, Inc. & Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC
• Senator Sherman Winn•Isidore & Patricia Wollowick Foundation•Women’s American ORT•Phyllis & Robert Yawitt & Family•Manuel & Hilda Zaiac
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$5,000 - $9,999 FELLOWS
• Rebecca Ackerson • Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity • Richard Ashenoff • Wendy Belkin• Bank of Boston Florida • Esther K. & William Belfer
• Estate of Bernie Bercuson• Marshall Berkson • Peter L. Bermont - IMO Ronni • Robert L. Beskind • Walter & Adi Blum Foundation, Inc.
• Bronstein-Rose-Unger Families• Brown Charity Foundation • Burdines • Carol Gross Clarkson • Lawrence & Yuki Denmark • Yaffa Dermer - IMO Jay Dermer
• Melvin & Lois Douglas • Clifford & Janice Dubbin • Phil Emmer • Dr. Harvey & Karen Feld • David & Norma Fenton • Fine & Greenwald Foundation, Inc
• Pat & Martin Fine • Albert H. Friedman & Rose Kanner • IMO Isaac Fryd - by Business Associates & Wife • Carol & Lee Futernick • Marisa Anne Galbut &
Jenna Beth Galbut • Edgar (Buddy) Galvin - IMO Reuben & Barbara Goldman • Ganz Family Foundation • Rosemary and Leo Gelvan Fund • Gibralter Bank
• Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Miami • Fleischmann’s Yeast • Gerson Preston & Company, P.A. • Robert Goldberg
• IMO George Goldbloom • Goldstrom-Goudiss Families • Herb & Beth Gopman • Lauren R. Gould, LeRoy Goldstein, Taffy Gould • Sonya Rabin Greenfield
• Dolly & Ernie Harris • Daniel Herz • Brenda & Alan Himelfarb• Debbie & Dr. Andrew Hirschl • HSBC Republic • Jewish Chautauqua Society • Federal IMLS
• Jewish Community Foundation of the United Jewish Community of Broward County • Karen, Ronni & Mortimer Kass • Raananah Swirsky Katz & Family
• Roslyn & Jerome Kaufman • Elliot Kleiman - IMO Lenore Kleiman • Judy & Franklin D. Kreutzer • Sarah Bramson Kupchik • Landstar Development
• The Levine Family • Levine Realty, Inc. • Mr. & Mrs. Philip Levitz • Jan & Dan Lewis • Sarah Luddle Estate • Tamar Mayer for her Family • Sheryl & Julian Meitin
• Mellon Private Asset Management• Gordon R. Miller, MD • Howard R. Miller • Robert & Robin L. Moel - IHO Herbert & Jeanne Kay • Malka Mordujovich
• Martin & Cindy Nash • Ruth Neinken • Northern Trust Bank • Orange Bowl Foundation • Pasadena Homes • Marlene & Michael Perlmutter
• Dorothy & Aaron Podhurst • Gabriel Powell • Rabin-Newman Families • Rachlin Cohen & Holtz LLP • Abe and Sarita Resnick • Vinson & Randa Richter
• Craig Robins • Stephen & Sharon Silver Rose • Herman & Evelyn Rubin • IMO Muriel Rusten - Isabel Bernfeld Anderson • Sagamore Hotel • Sydell & Quentin Sandler
• Leroy & Renee Schechter • Beatrice Schwartz Estate • Samantha & Eric Seiden • Daniel J. Shapiro, M.D. • Louella Shapiro • Leon, Josh, Alan Sirkin Family
• Cecily Silberman • Silverman-Hunter Families • Steel Hector Davis • Hana Stein • Special Events Catering • Charlotte Stevens • Senator Richard & Marlene Stone
• Levi Strauss Foundation • SunTrust Banks • SunVest Communities • Targum Shlishi, Inc. • Harold & Carol Unger • Israel Weisman by his son Ezra
• Sam & Dusty Weiss • Marcella Werblow - IMO Bertha Abess • Florence Wise • Sharyn Wittner • Aaron, Mark, Sharon & David Wolfson - IHO Sorrell L. &
Jacqueline Falis Wolfson • Roland Wood - IMO Judy Wood • World Erotic Art Museum - Naomi Wilzig
MUSEUM RECOGNIZES SUPPORTING GIFTS
Two handsome plaques with ceramic headers replicating images of two stained glass windows in the Museum are displayed in the
Museum lobby for contributors in the $2,500 and $1,800 categories. This is a memorable way to pay tribute to loved ones or to
permanently inscribe your own family name for all to view.
$2,500 - CHAVERIM
• Leonard Abess, Jr. • Samuel I. Adler Family • American Jewish Committee • AmTrust Bank/Ohio Savings Bank • Associated Photo & Imaging • Micky & Doris Biss • Carol Gross Clarkson
• Samuel & Judy Cuenca & Meschoulam Family • DuPont SentryGlas • Dr. Lawrence & Suzanne Fishman • Bruce Fitell • Cipora & Guido Fraiman • Gerson Preston & Company, P.A.
• Taffy Gould • Dr. Tiberius Grun • Jay & Clayre Haft • Avi Hoffman • Indian Creek Hotel • Israel Discount Bank • Patricia Johns & Michael Rudd • Marshall Karasik
• Eleanor M. & Herbert Katz Family • Marcos, Fanny & Dennis Kerbel • IMO Ida Lee Koenigsberg from her family & friends • Rafael & Rebeca Kravec • Sarah Bramson Kupchik
• IHO Rabbi Sol Landau from his family & friends • Tania & Israel Lapciuc • Mr. & Mrs. Emanuel Lassar • Richard Levine • Mellon Private Asset Management • Monroe & Judith Milstein
• Norwegian Cruise Line • Linda & Joseph Pallot • Milton & Anita Katz Paris • Peacock Foundation • Melvin & Janet Richard • Harry Rosenzweig • Harry & Ruth Rott
• IMO Mason & Delores “Sis” Schwartz • Sheldon Ribotsky & Levine, CPAs • Rick Silverman & Family • Sirkin Family • IMO Beatrice (Bea) Small from her loving family
• William & Jean Soman - IHO birth of Gabriel Erik Reiter, - IHO birth of Joseph Bernard Reiter, - IHO birth of Noah Marcus Reiter • Manuel Stern - In Memoriam
• Stiller, Zucker, & Trupkin Families • Jonathan Symons IMO Cyril & Hazel Symons • Sandra Tavlin • Sooky Lehrman Trattner • Samuel A. & Louise K. Tucker • Ret Turner
• Madeleine & Bernard Wall • Sylvia Ziffer - IMO Ewald Ziffer
$1,800 - CHAI CLUB
• Elinore Aronovitz - IMO Judge Sidney Aronovitz • The Sol & Lillian Ash Foundation • Benjamin P. Baum • Jocelyn Berman • Jeffry, Edna & Jonathan Bernstein - IHO Fannie & Harry Greenberg
• Michael & Linda Bittel • Eileen & Robert Brautman • Peggy & Jacob Brodzki Family • Ann Broad Bussel & Family • Lena Weinkle Chaikin - IMO Leo Chaikin • Helene & Jeffrey Chait
• IMO Alain Albert Chalem • Audrey Rothblatt Chenkin • Elaine Cohen & Karl Mindlin - IHO Helene Dubbin • Dorothy P. Cohn - IMO Fritzie & Nat Cohn • Yaffa Dermer • Betti Dulberger
• Burton Engels - IHO son-in-law Ira Giller • Vivian G. Epstein - IMO Leon Epstein • Sylvia & Robert Feltman • Jefferson Ford Memorial Foundation • Bruce & Susan Frank
• Daniel & Shirlee Cohen Freed • Carol Fryd • Donna Feig, Don, Michael & Fred Garvett - IMO Robert & Leta Garvett • Donna & Steve Feig - IHO Helene Dubbin & Teddi Segal
• Lenore Gaynor • June Baumgardner Gelbart Foundation • Helen Geller • Gibbs Family - IHO Nell Gibbs’ 90th Birthday • Jeffrey Gilbert • IMO Felix Glickstein • Ethel Gold • Sally Goldman
• Morton & Gloria Goudiss - IMO Sol & Josie Goldstrom • Annette & Ellis Gordon & Ellen & Marvin Schwartz - IHO Roberta Gordon • Roberta Gordon, Ellen & Marvin Schwartz, Howard
& Rosalie Gordon - IHO Annette & Ellis Gordon • Morton & Gloria Goudiss - IMO Lee & Marie Goudiss • Dale & Charles Gratz - IMO Minnie & Irvin Salsbury
• Dr. Maurice & Sonya Greenfield • Joyce Barsky-Greenstein • Susan Gumbiner - IMO Leo Gumbiner • Malvina Gutschmidt • Sara Halam - IMO Henry Halam • IHO Birthday of Martha Hessel
• Arthur H. Hertz • IMO Fay & Larry Hochen • Elaine Kahn • Beverly & Marvin Kaiman • Samuel & Helene Kantor • Joan Kasner - IMO David Kasner, M.D. • Sue & Stan Katz/Doris & Bob
Trohn - IMO Philip & Beatrice O. Trohn • Erwin I. & Wendy Katz • Howard & Barbara Katzen • Hyman Kirsch Foundation • IHO Judith & Elliot Kleiman’s 40th Anniversary
• Diana & Milton Kramer • IMO Lachman Brothers • Jeanne L. Landers • Edna C. Lavitt • Julian & Betty Lehman • Howard & Judge Joan Lenard & Family • Henry L. & Joan A. Lewis
• Juliet Lieber • IHO - Irving & Beatrice Lippton’s 60th Anniversary • IHO - Gertrude R. Miller's 80th Birthday • Sheryl & Julian Meitin • Miami Beach Chamber - IHO Norman Giller
• Mr. & Mrs. Michael Milberg • Carolyn & Leonard Miller • IMO - Sandra Miriam Mordujovich • Ken Myers - IMO Stanley Myers • Ruth Neinken • June Newbauer • Rhoda & Joseph
Oppenheimer • Rhoda & Joseph Oppenheimer - IHO 50th Anniversary • Maurice, Anna and Maureen Ostro IMO Max Ostro • E. Albert Pallot • Brian C. Perlin - IMO George Goldbloom
• Dorothy & Stanley Pierce • Politano Family - IMO Sofia & Jacob Mishkin • Gabriel Powell • Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Raijman • RBC Wealth Management • Martin & Anita Reingold/Lester Families
• IMO - Henry Reinhard • Vinson & Randa Richter • Norma Fuchs Resnick • Minnie Rosenkranz • Betty W. Rosenstein • Rosenthal Family - IMO Hilda Becker • Ruskin Family
• Jack & Harriet Safian & Ruth Klotzkin • IMO Robert “Ruby” Salstein • Julio & Rela Schniadoski • Shirlee Segall Schiller & Eva Rabin • Rina Scott - IHO Ester & Arie Weinberg
• Yolande L. Selik - IMO 50 years of marriage to Jerome Selik • Yolande L. Selik - IMO Jerome Selik • Murray & Carol Shear • IMO Sylvia Shorstein • James & Debra Siegel
• Isaac & Rebeca Sklar • Joseph M. & Marilyn K. Solomon • IMO Mollie Glass Newman Spier • Norma & Morton Steele • Arthur T. Tenenbaum & Company, CPAs & Friends - IMO Ewald Ziffer
• The Travelers Foundation • K. Peter & Yvonne R. Wagner • Elena & David Weck • Elena & David Weck - IHO Their Friends • A.B. & Helene Weiner • Cecile Weiss - IMO Milton Weiss
• Earl & Sally Wiener • IMO Albert Weitzman • David & Ruth Wilkes • Allan P. & Norma Wilson Phil. Fund • Harvey & Clara Young • Miriam & Milton Zatinsky • Fay Zinn
CUBAN CAMPAIGN: MEMORIAL TO SENDER & JULIA KAPLAN
• Alegre & Alberto Barrocas • Esther & William Belfer • Marc Belfer • Jack Chester • Stacy Belfer Cohen • George Feldenkreis • Lea & Jorge Ferenczi
• Oscar, Edward & Susan Ferenczi • Solomon & Esther Garazi • Fanny & Marcos Kerbel • Rebeca & Rafael Kravec • Lidia & Moises Kriger• Luisa & Dr. Isidoro Lerman
• Moises & Zoila Levin • Jose & Ofelia Lurie • Martin Mayer • Sal & Sarah Mitchel • Isaac & Nieves Olemberg • Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Raijman • Morris & Lke Charge
Brett Ratner for Mario Fatina Presman • Abe & Sarita Resnick • Julio & Rela Schniadoski • Isaac & Rebeca Sklar • Saul & Rita Srebnick
• Lisa & Manny Synalovski • Elena & David Weck • Elena & David Weck - IHO 6 Friends • Reinaldo & Arleen Winer
CONTRIBUTIONS STILL BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE CUBAN PLAQUE IN THE MUSEUM LOBBY
JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA-Capital/Endowment Campaign Naming Opportunities
Naming opportunities (dedications) are commitments that serve through the years as inspirations to succeeding generations. Each
gift is beautifully inscribed on a lasting plaque that is displayed in the Museum’s lobby. When the gift is $5,000 and more, the name is inscribed
on the Major Gifts Wall. These dedications proudly demonstrate the donor’s sense of Jewish heritage and generosity. Payment schedules can be
arranged. Tax-deductible checks, made payable to Jewish Museum of Florida, cash, or credit cards accepted.
Museum Campus .........................................................................$5,000,000
Museum Building ...........................................................................2,000,000
Exterior Plaza .................................................................................1,000,000
Museum Temporary Exhibit Module or Kitchen ....................................50,000
Stained Glass Windows or Art Deco Chandeliers, each ...................... 25,000
MOSAIC Core Exhibit Modules, each ..................................................25,000
MOSAIC Exhibit Panels, Sanctuary Benches, Sconces .......................10,000
* A SAMPLING AVAILABLE AS OF 2/25/13:
Tile on Major Gifts Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5,000
Name Plate on Chaverim Club Plaque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,500
Name Plate on Chai Club Plaque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,800
Historic Shul Front Doors (4), each . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000
Collections & Research Center Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,000,000
CRC Building Lobby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500,000
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MUSEUM EVENTS
Ellie Ganz and Paul Drucker brought
Leonard Lauder (center) to tour the Museum.
Board members, with Executive Director Jo Ann Arnowitz, at the historic signing of the
JMOF-FIU agreement on December 10, 2012.
L-R: Edie Lundy, Joni Tate, Lorraine Tinsky
Mah jongg aficionados L-R: Lois Siegel,
and Myra Sonshine brought their weekly
Sue Helfman and Gloria Scharlin.
“mahj” game to the Museum.
They came from near and far to play in our Super Bowl Sunday mah jongg tournament.
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An inspiring day for teachers who participated
in this workshop “The Educative Value of
Games in the Classroom.”
Florida Jewish History Month
speakers Carl Lindenfeld and
Rabbi Merrill Shapiro of the
St. Augustine Jewish Historical
Society, left, JMOF Founding
Executive Director Marcia Jo
Zerivitz, second from right,
and Dr. Tudor Parfitt and
Dr. Abe Lavendar presented
an intriguing program on the
possibility of conversos in
Florida in the 16th century.
The program was
co-sponsored by the SpainDr. David Russin, JoAnn Bass and Susan
Florida Foundation 500years,
Shane enjoying the FJHM program, which
represented by board member
was topped off with slices of key lime pie, the Dr. Laura Alonso-Gallo,
official state pie, donated by JoAnn and her center, and director Yansi
family-owned Joe’s Stone Crab Restaurant. Valentin, far right.
Chinese Cultural Day at JMOF-FIU.
A packed house for the inaugural JMOF-FIU class,
“Jews of Africa and Asia” taught by Dr. Nathan Katz
and Dr. Tudor Parfitt.
Celebrating a special birthday with tour of the
mah jongg exhibit: L-R: Joan Morrison,
Ann Bussel, Ida Camner, Babs Parker (the
celebrant), Norma Jean Ober Stone,
Arlene Mendelson, Rosalind Spak.
MUSEUM EVENTS
ANNUAL JUDGES & LAWYERS EVENT
L-R: Elliot Stone, Barton Goldberg,
Leslie Gross, Kenneth Bloom.
Holocaust survivors and student actors
participated in the multimedia production
“The Holocaust: A Living Journey-Book”
directed by Phillip M. Church (third from left).
L-R: Melvyn Frumkes, Gerald K. Schwartz, Romel Joseph (second from right) also spoke
Gerald Kogan, Burton Young.
about his survival of the earthquake in Haiti.
Annual Judges & Lawyers Co-Hosts with keynote speaker
H. Scott Fingerhut, pictured first on the left.
FIU law students enjoyed the program and the networking.
INEZ HOLLANDER OPENING & JUDAICA COMPETITON
Front row L-R: Shirley Kahn,
Janet & Albert Greenspoon; Back row L-R:
Janet Wolk, Esther & Peter Whitmore.
Inez & Howard Hollander (center) celebrating
the exhibit opening with their family.
Model Andy, “World Traveler,” admires
his portrait with artist Inez Hollander.
Founding Executive Director Marcia
Jo Zerivitz with Norman Levine.
L-R: Executive Director Jo Ann Arnowitz,
Isabel Anderson & Wendy Belkin.
L-R: Sandi & Charlie Simon with daughter
Shannah, who is an artist and served as a
judge for the Judaica competition.
PROGRAMS FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH
The Museum
hosted three
exceptional
programs
during Black
History Month
thanks to Dr.
Tudor Parfitt: a
book signing of
Tudor’s Black
Jews in Africa and
the Americas; a
documentary on
Jews of Nigeria with the filmmaker Jeff L. Lieberman (L); and a discussion on the Lemba Jews of Zimbabwe
with special guest Lemba leader Modreck Z. Maeresera (R).
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PROGRAMS
All programs take place at the Museum. RSVP to 786-972-3175 or [email protected].
Admission: Members Free, Non-Members $6; $12 Families (unless otherwise indicated)
Not yet a Museum Member? Call 786-972-3164 to join
or sign up on-line at www.jewishmuseum.com.
Art
Family
Music
Play
Film
Lecture
Food
Games
History
Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.
Sephardic Beauty Queens, Lecture with Dr. Adriana Brodsky
An expert on Sephardic life, Dr. Adriana Brodsky, Professor at St. Mary's College in Maryland,
has done extensive research on Sephardic Beauty Queens. Come learn about the “Bess Myersons”
of the world from this Buenos Aires native. Part of the FIU Latin American Jewry Series, a joint
project of the Latin American and Caribbean Center and the Jewish Studies Program.
Cost: Museum Members & FIU Faculty/Students free; Non-Members Free with paid admission.
Thursday, March 28, 2013, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. SPRING BREAK
Kids Art Workshop: Creating Portraits with Artist Inez Hollander
Miami Mosaic exhibit artist Inez Hollander will present her technique and motivation for her work
in a personalized exploration of this exhibit for children ages 7-14. Art concepts such as profile,
portrait, line, contrast and value will be introduced in the demonstration and exhibit tour. Following
the tour, Hollander will lead a workshop for children to create their own works to take home, using
a scratch art technique to mimic the Miami Neon Portraits in the exhibit.
Recommended for ages 7-14 (Grades 3-8). Parents welcome to participate.
Cost including materials: Museum Member Families $2.50 per person;
Non-Members $5.00 per person.
Monday, April 8, 6:00 p.m.
Bat Mitzvah Comes of Age Members Only Exhibit Opening Reception
On Saturday morning, March 18, 1922 – two years after American women received the right to
vote – Judith Kaplan, daughter of Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, became the first American girl to
mark her bat mitzvah during a public worship service. With this revolutionary act, she and her
father initiated what would become the widespread American Jewish practice of bat mitzvah. To
mark the 90th anniversary of Judith Kaplan’s bat mitzvah, the National Museum of American Jewish
History and Moving Traditions collaborated to organize a traveling exhibition, Bat Mitzvah Comes
of Age, featuring the remarkable story of how, in less than a century, individual girls, their parents
and rabbis challenged and changed communal values and practice to institute this now
widely observed Jewish ritual.
Opening Event sponsors: Congregation Beth Jacob and Robert Arthur Segall Foundation.
Cost: Complimentary admission to the exhibit opening for Museum Members at the $125 level
and above. All other Museum Members $18 per person.
Thursday, April 11, 7:00 p.m.
Behind the Canvas with Inez Hollander
Join Miami Mosaic artist Inez Hollander for a special “behind the canvas” look at her unique
drawing technique. Hollander will give a short talk on the inspiration and development of her
personal and colorful work followed by a live drawing demonstration, highlighting the technique
used in many of the portraits in the exhibit.
Cost: Free for Museum Members; Free for non-members with paid admission.
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PROGRAMS
Thursday, April 18, 7:00 p.m.
Conversation & Coffee with PR Guru Charlie Cinnamon
Miami Mosaic brings us the faces of our diverse city, but only a select few have the pleasure of
working one-on-one with the crème de la crème of Miami’s socialites. Come enjoy conversation
and coffee with famed publicist, Charlie Cinnamon. Founder of the Coconut Grove Art Show,
Cinnamon has been in the biz for over 50 years and will share stories and answer questions
about the changing faces of Miami from the 1950s to today.
Cost: Free for Museum Members; Free for non-members with paid admission.
Sunday, April 21, 3:00 p.m.
Breaking the Glass Ceiling Award Ceremony & Reception
The Annual Breaking the Glass Ceiling Award Ceremony will honor five remarkable women
who have been successful in fields generally dominated by men. Each of the winners will make
a presentation describing the obstacles and inspirations they encountered on their individual
journeys to success. The award ceremony will include light refreshments. Event Sponsors include
Commissioner Sally Heyman, a 2008 Glass Ceiling Honoree, Isabel Bernfeld Anderson and
Kenneth & Barbara Bloom, PhD.
Cost: Museum Members $15; Non-Members $20; Students $5.
Sunday, April 28, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Family Day: What Makes a Community?
In partnership with PJ Library, Family Day will feature a story time that accents special people in
our place we call “home,” that create what we call “community.” Join us as we explore these
themes with a variety of art activities.
Geared for ages 2-10; parents welcome.
Cost: Free for Museum Members; Free for Non-Members with paid admission.
Sunday, May 5, 2:00 p.m.
Kick Off for Jewish American Heritage Month
Jews & Entertainment with Professor Stephen Whitfield and Marcia Jo Zerivitz
Initiated by JMOF, this year’s national theme focuses on American Jews in Entertainment.
Enlightening presentations by Professor Stephen Whitfield of Brandeis University and
Marcia Jo Zerivitz, founding executive director of JMOF, will explore how just two percent of the
population has had such a huge impact upon the nation’s popular culture. This program is
co-sponsored by JMOF-FIU, Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater Miami
Jewish Federation and Jewish Federation of Broward County, Community Relations Committee.
Cost: Free
Monday, May 20, 6:00 p.m.
Fryd on Fire by Carol Fryd Members Only Exhibit Opening Reception
The tropical mystique animates the fertile imagination of Carol Fryd, whose captivating artworks
of Miami and its cultural intersections meld the human figure with fabulous flora and fruit. Her
varied techniques combine digital art, collage, drawings, photography, objects and paint to
produce ground breaking work, ranging from realism to abstract expressionism to portraiture.
But it is the combination of bright, fiery colors that dominant the works in this show. The excitement
and hot juicy hues of Fryd’s works are matched only by the intensity and heat of the Miami sun.
Cost: Complimentary admission to the exhibit opening for Museum Members at the $125 level
and above. All other Museum Members $18 per person.
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JEWISH MUSEUM of FLORIDA - 2012 MEMBERSHIP - $125 & GREATER
Those current as of February 25, 2013 - New Members since last issue are in bold type
$1,000 BENEFACTORs
David Scott Adler
Samuel I. Adler Family Foundation
Harold & Ellie Aibel
Irene Baros
Mark & Bonny Blank
Kenneth M. & Barbara Bloom
Richard Brilliant
Madeline & Stanley Brown
Toby & Penny Cohn
Stephen & Arlyn Cypen
Dr. Paul Drucker
Carlos Duarte
Helene & Murray Dubbin
Martin Elias
George Feldenkreis & Marita Srebnick
Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence M. Fishman
Melvyn Frumkes
Mikki & Morris Futernick
Ellie Ganz
Fran & Herb Gaynor
Martin & Gladys Gelb
David Gerstein & Patricia Samuels
Ira & Honey Giller
Dr. Abraham L. Gitlow
Judy Gilbert-Gould & Gerald Gould
Howard & Inez Hollander
Dr. Jeffrey Horsmeyer
Marcia Simon Kaplan
Dr. Matthew & Jennifer Harris Kay
Hal & Roberta Kaye
Robert & Kathy Klausner
Diana Kramer
Marvin H. & Isabel G. Leibowitz
Norman & Sylvia Levine
Alan & Marsha Levy
Ellen & H. Irwin Levy
Alan & Diane Lieberman
Norman & Nancy Lipoff
Gwen Margolis
Isabel May
Toba & Dr. Barry Meiselman
Susan Miller
Michael & Norma Orovitz
Jonathan Perlman
Herbert & MariLyn Potash
Justo Pozo
Leonard & Sally Robbins
Robin & Neil S. Rollnick
Paul Ruthfield
Shirlee Segall Schiller
Louis Schneider & Rosalie Ehrenberg
Debra & Gerald Schwartz
Teddi Segal
Tamra Sheffman & Ron Mayer
Gary & Julie Simon
Marilyn K. Solomon
Elliot & Bonnie Sockel Stone
Stanley & Joanne Tate
Robert & Jackie Traurig
K. Peter & Yvonne R. Wagner
Linda Widrich Weitz
Barbara & Leonard Wien
Henry E. Wolff
Bernard & Jessie Wolfson
Linda Brown Zilber
$1,000 CORPORATE BENEFACTORS
Sol & Lillian Ash Foundation
Walter & Adi Blum Foundation, Inc.
Commanday Foundation
Will & Ann Eisner Family
Foundation, Inc.
Benjamin & Sara Greenspan Fund, Inc.
Morrison Brown Argiz & Farra LLP
Property Tax Adjusters Inc.
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$500 SPONSORS
Jo Ann Bass
Peter & Kerrin Bermont
Sidney & Lorraine Cooperman
Thomas M. Cornish
Sue & Fred Diamond
Linda Ellis
Arthur England
Donna & Steve Feig
Esta Friedman
Lynn Girsh
Jane & Jerrold Goodman
Howard & Renee Gross
Betsy Kaplan & Norman Gladsden
Harriet & Stanley Hyman
Warren D. Klawans
Israel & Tania Lapciuc
G. Andrew Levinson
Hannah & Alan Lipton
Leonard Miller
Jimmy & Dori Morales
Florence Moss
Ken & Sharlene Packar
Myrna & Sheldon Palley
Joseph Pallot
L. B. (Buddy) & Brenda Pollak
Elaine Klein & Leonard Roberts
Joyce & Judge Steven D. Robinson
David Rocker & Marian Rocker
Rosenbloom Family Trust
Lloyd L. & Candace Ruskin
Peter & Andrea Russin
Lina, Jean & Yasmine Samimy
Raquel & Michael Scheck
Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Shane
Delora Shapiro & Victor Raab
Melvin S. Shifke
Sandra & Charles Simon
Sitkin Family Foundation
Jonathan Symons
Michael Tilson Thomas
Lillian Turchin
Judith & Richard Wurtman
Burton Young
Isaac & Loly Zelcer
$500 CORPORATE SPONSORS
Brown Charity Foundation
Greater Miami Convention
& Visitors Bureau
Greater Miami & The Beaches
Hotel Association
KVC Constructors, Inc.
World Erotic Art Museum
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COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS
S.S. ST. LOUIS
SURVIVOR RETURNS
TO MIAMI BEACH
The ship then tried to enter Canada, but was also turned
away by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. It
set sail for Europe on June 6, 1939, landing in Antwerp,
Belgium. Of the original 937 passengers, it is estimated 254
Among the group of 40 touring the Museum did not make it out of the country and died at the hands of
recently as part of the YMHA/YWHA New the Nazis. The others, including Buff and Karliner, were
Jersey Winter Camp trip for seniors was lucky enough to escape.
Fred Buff, who remembered Miami Beach Buff eventually did make it to Ellis Island in 1940, by way
Pocket watch
from the deck of the S.S. St. Louis in 1939. of England, before the Nazi invasion. He spent two weeks
belonging to
George Dzialynski,
Buff was amazed when his wife, Lotte, in Ellis Island, “a prison” as he described it, as he waited
the first Jewish
pointed to a copy of U.S. Senate Resolution for his documents to arrive. Once he was released, he found
boy born in Florida,
in Jacksonville in 1857. 111, 2009 on display in the Museum, his parents, who had been living in the boroughs of
Donated to the
with Buff’s signature. This resolution New York City.
MOSAIC collection by
commemorated the date of June 6, 2009,
Mrs. Rosalie Coleman
Today, Buff is 91 years old and resides in Paramus, New
of Jacksonville.
the 70th anniversary of the tragic fate of the
Jersey with his wife of 67 years, Lotte. In 2009, Buff’s diary
S.S. St. Louis, the ship that was turned away from Florida
from his journey on the S.S. St. Louis was turned into a book
shores as its passengers, fleeing from the Nazis, were denied
titled, The St. Louis Diary of Fritz Buff. Now retired, Buff
entry into the United States. A gathering of the ship’s survivors
regularly speaks to youth and adult groups about his journey
was held in Miami Beach on December 13, 2009, when Buff
aboard the ship and the life lessons he will always remember.
and 32 others added their signatures to the document.
Fred Buff
points to his
signature
on the 2009
resolution
declaring
the 70th
anniversary
of the S.S.
St. Louis.
Buff was 17 years old when he was aboard the infamous
ocean liner under the command of Captain Gustav Schröder
who relentlessly tried to rescue its 937 passengers, most of
whom were German Jewish refugees escaping Nazi
persecution. The ship left Hamburg, Germany on May 13,
1939 originally bound for Havana, Cuba. The passengers had
all acquired legal visas before the journey, however, they were
denied entry when Cuban President Federico Laredo Brú
refused to allow all but 28 non-Jewish passengers into the
country. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s cabinet members
tried to persuade President Brú, but to no avail. The remaining
909 were forced to stay on the S.S. St. Louis, including Buff.
NEW ACQUISITIONS
The museum recently received materials related to Donald S.
Lavigne, a Miami uniform manufacturer. Lavigne came to
Miami in 1922 and opened his tailor shop in 1923. He was
familiar with uniforms, having served with the U.S. Army
Provisional Regiment Signal Corps during the Mexican
Expedition (1916) and with the U.S. Army 112th Field Signal
Battalion in France and Belgium during World War I.
The Donald S. Lavigne Uniform Company made uniforms
for a variety purposes. Police departments, high school bands,
drum and bugle corps, the American Legion, Jewish War
Veterans, Masons and foreign militaries were customers.
Lavigne had a long-standing contract with the Miami Police
Department and later the Miami Beach Police Department.
During World War II, he made uniforms for soldiers and
sailors who came to Miami Beach for training.
Lavigne’s son Walter and son-in-law Myron Cowen took over
the business when Donald retired. Granddaughter Elizabeth
Cowen has worked most of her career with various uniform
manufacturing companies.
The next stop on the journey was Florida, as Captain Schröder
hoped the U.S., well aware of the plight of the refugees on
the ship, would grant political asylum to the Jewish
passengers. It was here that Buff and Museum Member
Herbert Karliner remember the swaying of the palm trees
from the top deck of the ship. “We thought it looked like
paradise,” said Buff, recalling his time on the shores of Miami
Beach. Buff was alone on the trip, traveling separately from
his parents and sister. “I didn’t know if I would see them
again,” he said. His parents traveled through Italy to reach
New York and would enter the United States before their son.
Buff recalls the S.S. St. Louis being turned away from the
Florida shore. “When the Coast Guard boats came to the ship, Donald S. Lavigne with Miami Police Chief Walter Headley at the
we knew it was not good news,” he said. “We didn’t know International Association of Chiefs of Police convention at Bayfront
what was next.”
continued next column Park Auditorium, 1951.
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MUSEUM NEWS
MUSEUM PRESENTS JUDAICA
COMPETITION WINNERS
First place: Chananya Kozlovsky,
Miami Beach
Chananya’s spice box is made of
brass, semi-precious stones: lapis
and onyx.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I believe that today’s designs should
have a blend of the contemporary and
an ancient look, especially Judaic
items. Showing our pride in history:
where we come from and where we
are now! My three-sided spice box
displays the ancient yet modern look
of brass, with semi-precious stones, lapis lazuli and onyx. The
three sides represent the dynamic combination of God, the
Jewish nation and the land of Israel, with their strength
and connection.
have been used for thousands of
years. The results, however,
yielded a somewhat different
outcome.
Although
not
decorative in the traditional
sense, this spice box is neither
“quiet or shy.” It has a “voice”
that calls out to the Havdalah
participants to not only smell its
contents, but to reach out and
experience it through its texture,
the extra element of touch.
Barbara has been working in
clay for over 20 years.
Chananya’s American and Israeli family backgrounds provide
inspiration to his style of design. He creates jewelry and
Judaic items that have symbolic and modern themes. Second place: Faye Samuels
Redlich, Aventura
L-R: Judaica competiton second place winner Faye Redlich, competition
sponsor Avis Lee Neiman, first place winner Chananya Kozlovsky
Faye’s spice box is made of clay, and
Jo Ann Arnowitz, Executive Director.
stoneware and glaze with a
sterling silver chain.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
One Friday night, at services in
the synagogue, I saw a drawing of
a tree on a pamphlet. I sketched
that drawing, and it became my
inspiration for this spice box. I
visualized a spice box adorned
with a tree of life, with leaves and holes to let out the
fragrance of the spices, as a reminder of the sweetness of the
Sabbath. The chain is sterling silver, and on the inside of the
box at the bottom is the word chai, for life. Everything has
been done with loving care for this one-of-a-kind piece.
FRYD... From page 5
She is also honored to be included in the upcoming Zadok
Gallery show, “20 Shades of Grey,” featuring 20 artists who
are 70 or more years young, chosen for their personal visions
and influence on the history of art in Miami well before Art
Basel, Design Miami or Wynwood Walls arrived.
FRYD ON FIRE by Carol Fryd will be on display at the
Museum through October 13, 2013, with a series of
complementary programs throughout its run.
Faye has taught ceramics as art therapy to Parkinson’s
patients at the Michael Ann Russell Jewish Community
Center in North Miami Beach. Third place: Barbara Stern, Palm Beach Gardens
Barbara’s spice box is made of ceramic.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My intention was to create a “humble” spice box for the
Havdalah service. I envisioned a container for aromatic herbs
that would be associated with ancient times and life in the
desert; a time when circumstances prevented the Jewish
people from having expensive raw materials and tools to
create sophisticated ornate ceremonial objects. Both the
material and process I chose to create this box, clay and fire, Rings, 2007.
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Faye Samuels Redlich, spice box display
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Sylvia B. Tendler
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