Shelters for Israel

REP RTERSince 1948Sep-Oct 2017

Shelters for IsraelC/o Mrs. Handa Stark236 South Highland Ave.Los Angeles, CA 90036

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Co-Presidents:

Myra Gabbay(310) 803-9551myragabbay@gmail.com

Dave Jackson(818) 349-7721djjplus3@aol.com

Treasurer:Karen David(310) 702-9169kidavid18@gmail.com

Membership:Katalin Weinberger(310) 450-87481919 Delaware Ave.,Santa Monica, 90404katibor@yahoo.com

Secretary:Madeleine Rosenberg

CorrespondingSecretaries:Jackie AdelmanHanda Stark

Raffle:Barbara Berman(310) 276-4547

Editor:Beatrice Satmary

Building Projects:

Eddie Markley(310) 276-1103

Marie Mazzone(213) 448-2796Marie.Mazzone@gmail.com

Robert Rosenberg(310) 552-3065hunrab33@gmail.com

Rosie Silverstein(323) 336-3510rosie.silverstein@omnicare.com

Guest Speaker/Coordinator:Yael Swerdlow(310) 980-6539yaelswerdlow@gmail.com

Printing:Discount Printing(818) 702-9939gordon@300dpiwh.com

From the Presidents…

Dear Shelters Family,

Just five days ago, we came together to schmooze, eat, and most importantly, hear about our recent projects and our newest project, The Shelters for Israel Sulamot Music for Social Change Project in Mitzpe Ramon. The hall at Temple Emanuel was full, the Sulamot kids were outstanding, and as you will see in the pictures, we were dancing and singing along to the Israeli and Klezmer songs. It was such a great afternoon that we even had friends of friends complain that they weren’t invited!!! Believe it or not, next year is our 70th Anniversary, as it is also the 70th Anniversary of the State of Israel!!! AMAZING!!! We are already thinking ahead and it will certainly be very special. But meanwhile, we want to thank you so much for your incredible generosity and support for Shelters and for this year’s project, Sulamot. Everybody was so moved by these young kids and their performance. Their lives have been difficult, but they have found hope and meaning through the music that this program has brought to them. We wish you all a Shana Tova...may this New Year be sweet, may you and your families be healthy, and may we all be together again next year as one big Shelters for Israel Family,

Myra Gabbay

Dave Jackson

Co-Presidents

Shelters for Israel

Donations /Advertising Opportunities

To place a message in honor of or in memory of a loved one, to advertise your business, or to include a

congratulatory greeting, please send your donation with ad information to: Karen David, 228 S. Crescent Dr.,

Beverly Hills, CA 90212. You may also donate online at: www.SheltersforIsrael.org. Your ad may be emailed to:

SheltersforIsrael@gmail.com.

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Shelters for Israel is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization.

From Our Families to Yours

We Wish You a

SWEET AND HAPPY NEW YEAR, SHANA TOVA

U METUKAH!!!

Shelters for Israel Myra Gabbay and Dave Jackson,

Co-Presidents

A few pictures from our wonderful luncheon on September 10th

In Memory of

My Dear Mother

Adele Berger

Jerry Berger

In Loving Memory

of my parents

Henry and Renee Last

And my Uncles and Aunts

Bernard and Edith Jelinowicz Jerry Kahan, Aron Kahan, Steve Kahan,

Kitchi and Edith Grumberger Arpi and Irene Lastovecsky

You all will be rememberedwith endless love and admiration.

Marian Last

In honor of and remembering

all the parents of

Shelters For Israel

From the children of

Fred and Shari Farkas,

and in recognition of

all the work Shelters is doing

of which we are so proud!

Heidi and John Farkash 

We wish a Refuah Shlema

to

Ben Mark

Perla Mark and Family

On your next visit to Israel consider visiting:

The Memorial Museum of Hungarian Speaking Jewry

The Memorial Museum of the Hungarian Speaking Jewry was founded in 1986 and opened to the public in 1990, in Safed. The Museum is based on a non-profit Association with thirty founding members. The Museum has been operated since it’s beginnings by two of its founders: Hava and Yosef Lustig, living in Safed.

The Museum depicts the magnificent past of the Jewish communities in Hungary, Transylvania, Slovakia, Carpathian-Russia, Bachka, Banat and Burgenland, and reflects their contribution to the Jewish history and World culture.

The aims of the Museum are the following:to collect, exhibit, and preserve all that testifies to the past, the daily life, the folklore and tradition of the communities; to single out and stress events/personalities/exhibits which are of educational value, and can serve as a platform for discussions and debates on various issues in present-day Israeli society as well; to favor inter-generation encounters.

P.O.B. 1168, Kikar Haazmaut, Safed, 13111, Israel;  Tel: +972-4-6925881, Fax: +972-4-6923880,  Opening hours: Sun-Thurs: 9:00-14:00 Fri: 9:00-13:00 From Steven Koltai, Museum Board Member

In Memory of

Rose Ross

With Love,

her daughter,

Kathleen Bressler

In Honor of

David Jackson

Bonnie and Steve

In Honor of

Karen and David Jackson

Sybil and Michael Garry

Thank you to Our Incredible2017 Luncheon Committee

Cece Gabbay Bateman, Tim Bateman, Debbie David, Karen David,

Mark David, Debbie Ellerin, Klara Firestone, Myra Gabbay,

Margalit Grunberger, Agi Harris, Pini Herman, Nora Holtz,

David Jackson, Miriam Lax, Kathy Mannheim, Marie Mazzone,

Simon Menkes, Edith Reichman, Anne Reisman,

Madeleine Rosenberg, Beatrice Satmary, Agi Schwartz,

Rosie Silverstein, Handa Stark, Yael Swerdlow, Eloise Wender

AND to the WonderfulWeekend Host Families

Ronnie and Mathis Abrams

Miriam Lax

Rachelle and Joe Needle

Karen and Rob Rhodes

Madeleine and Robert Rosenberg

Rosie and Ron Silverstein

Handa Stark

In Memory of

Alex IndichBeloved Husband of Mira Indich

Beloved Father of Hilda (and Dan) Bergher

Beloved Grandfather of Jennifer (and Ryan)

and Lauren (and Dan)

Beloved Great Grandfather

Mira Indich and Family

 In Memory of

Ted Orden

Hedy Orden and Family

In Memory of

Aranka Ferenc

Our Wonderful Aunt

We will miss you, the holidays, and your cooking

The Kunski Family

Argentina Turns Over Tensof Thousands of Holocaust Documents to Israel.BY JTA SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Digital copies of the documents — mainly letters, telegrams, newspaper articles, notes and reports — were delivered Tuesday in a box with five discs totaling 5 terabytes of information.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — President Mauricio Macri of Argentina gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tens of thousands of documents about World War II, some of them related to Nazi war criminals. Argentina’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs produced the 139,544 documents mostly between 1939 and 1950. “I gave to the prime minister an historic Argentinean documentation digitalized about the Holocaust for the use of the State of Israel to investigate and spread the information. This is very important for us,” Macri said at the presidential residence in Buenos Aires at the first-ever formal meeting between the leaders of both countries. The documents will clarify the help that Argentina, which stayed neutral for much of World War II before joining the Allies, provided to Nazi criminals. The country was a postwar refuge for Nazis: Adolf Eichmann was captured in the northern area of Buenos Aires in 1960 and another Nazi war criminal, Erich Priebke, also lived there. Claudio Avruj, Argentina’s secretary of human rights, told JTA that the documents “will help us to know the truth.” He said their delivery to Israel reaffirms the leadership that Argentina has regionally in Holocaust research. Argentina is the only regional member of the United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, formerly the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, or ITF. Among the documents are the communications between Argentina and countries involved in the war — as well as information sent by the Argentine Embassy in Germany. Some documents also contain records related to the blacklist of Jews, among others. Macri at the meeting with Netanyahu said Argentina will work “together with Israel and our allies against terrorism.” He also announced that Vice President Gabriela Michetti will visit Israel. Netanyahu thanked “my friend Mauricio.” “It is not by chance that I start the first-ever visit of an Israeli prime minister to Latin America in Argentina. For sure the next visit will occur before another 70 years,” he said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the House of the Argentinian president in Buenos Aires, September 12, 2017.. (photo credit:AVI OHAYON - GPO)

Hurricane Irma Was No Match ForThis Mikvah on St. Martin.By Gabe Friedman-JTA

It was 5 a.m. Wednesday and Hurricane Irma was pounding the tiny Caribbean island of Saint Mar-tin. Rabbi Moishe Chanowitz and his wife, Chana, the Chabad movement’s emissaries there, gathered their five children and hunkered down in an unlikely place: a mikvah.

According to the Chanowitzes, as told on Chabad.org, the ritual bath helped save their lives. The storm killed at least eight people on St. Martin and a councilman told Reuters that 95 percent of the 34-square-mile island was destroyed. Irma’s winds reached around 180 miles per hour and decimat-ed trees and homes, flinging cars around in its wake.

Even though the Chanowitzes’ Chabad center building was sturdy and built into the side of a moun-tain, the storm had them rightly terrified. By 4 a.m. Wednesday, the front door of the building had flown off.

“You could hear it; you feel the pressure in your ears,” Moishe Chanowitz said. “I thought the windows would explode at any moment.”

With more wallboards flying away, the Chanowitzes fled to the center of the building and into the mikvah. It’s still under construction but crucially has an outer wall and a door. The family pushed a commercial freezer in front of the door.

The door of the Chabad center in Saint Martin blew off when Hurricane Irma passed through.

“We have hurricane-proof doors and windows; it’s not like we weren’t prepared,” Chanowitz said. “But this was off the charts. The mikvah saved us.”

Around 10 a.m., the family and hundreds of neighbors finally ventured out into the disheveled land-scape. Most had similar stories. One friend told the Chanowitzes he survived by hiding in a closet.

For now, the Chanowitzes, along with the rest of Saint Martin, are left without electricity.

“The damage is unimaginable,” Chanowitz said. “But we’re going to rebuild.”

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