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Enjoy Great Programs And Help The Community

With Your Jewish Federation

We may miss crisp autumn breezes or falling leaves, jewishboca.org/pjlibrary. For tweens 9-12, visit pjourway. and Dan Fishkoff, and to Committee Members: Rhoda
but our exciting new Federation season is clearly upon us. org. For more about the Chanukah festival, PJ Library or PJ Berkow, Allen Brayer, Si Farber, Daniel Fischer, Richard
Every one of our divisions and departments is fully up and Our Way , contact Elana Ostroff at PJLibrary@bocafed. Glazer & Elaine Kaplan, Bea Gold, Harold Katz, Joel
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running with opportunities to engage in our remarkable org or 561.852.6080. Meisner, Arlene Penner, Murray Pitkowsky, Mel Schoen,
Jewish community! Tour the Federation Campus…. Jan. 8 & All Season Mickie Schulman, Doris & Stuart Zeuner, for their continued
No matter if you’re a newcomer or a longtime Federation Long dedication and leadership.
participant or Boca Pointe resident, or whatever your Many Boca Pointe residents have been enjoying Find out about upcoming events, how the Federation
interests or stage of life. With the Jewish Federation of opportunities to discover all the good that happens on the is helping the community and how you can help from our
South Palm Beach County, there’s always something of 100-acre Federation campus in West Boca, so don’t miss Federation professional Shirley Gross at shirleyg@bocafed.
interest for everyone at Boca Pointe who cares about the out! DON’T BE A STRANGER! The next Discovery org or 561.852.3182. Learn more about the Federation and
Jewish community and great times together. Campus Tours will take place on Wednesday, January the many ways to get involved at www.jewishboca.org. 
Here are some of the many opportunities coming up soon: 8 and Tuesday, February
The Sandler Family Major Gifts Event…. Dec. 5 11 from 9:30 to 11:30 am.
Hundreds of prominent Jewish philanthropists will BUT if those dates don’t
gather for the elegant and inspiring Sandler Family fit your calendar, just get
Major Gifts Event at 6:30 pm on December 5 at The in touch for a private tour.
Polo Club of Boca Raton. Celebrating Major Donors with Prepare to be amazed and
household contributions of $10,000+ to this Federation’s inspired – and there is
2020 Annual Campaign, this longstanding premier event no charge. Registration
in local Jewish philanthropy will feature Jewish world is required, so please call
leader Isaac Herzog, Chair of the Jewish Agency for 561.852.6014 or email Join your PJ Library friends and the ENTIRE JEWISH COMMUNITY to
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Israel and legendary former member of Knesset. For more campustours@bocafed.
information, visit jewishboca.org/majorgifts or contact org.
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561-852-3342 or idan@bocafed.org. AND SAVE THE Light Up THE 2 NIGHT OF
Light Up the 2nd Night of Chanukah…. Dec. 23 DATE FOR A VERY
Bring the whole family to enjoy free Chanukah SPECIAL FEDERATION CHANUKAH
crafts, stories, latkes, gelt, a giant menorah and musical DONOR EVENING of
entertainment with PJ Library® at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, dinner & entertainment For more information, please call
December 23, at Boca Center, 5050 Town Center Circle on January 27. Look for Elana Ostro
, PJ Library Director, at DECEMBER 23, 2019 • 5:30 PM
(on Military Trail 1 mile north of Palmetto Park Road). more information soon! 561.852.6080 or email AT BOCA CENTER • 5050 TOWN CENTER CIRCLE
And all families raising Jewish children are invited to sign Deepest thanks to pjlibrary@bocafed.org. ‰ON MILITARY TRAIL 1 MILE NORTH OF PALMETTO PARK ROADŠ
up to receive free books and music right in their homes Boca Pointe Federation
every month. For Children ages 6 months to 8 years, visit Campaign Chairs: Jane
Thanksgiving History

By Arlene Rodman On November 1, 1777, by order of Congress, the first National a day of thanksgiving and praise to our benevolent father who
Thanksgiving Proclamation was proclaimed and signed by Henry dwells in the heavens.
Thanksgiving is a patriotic Laurens, President of Continental Congress. The arrival of the Pilgrims and Puritans brought new
American holiday. The word Then again, on January 1, 1795, our first United States Thanksgiving traditions for the American scene. Today, national
evokes images of football, President George Washington, wrote his first National Thanksgiving celebration is a blend of two traditions, the New
family reunions, turkey, stuffing Thanksgiving Proclamation in which he said that it is proclaimed, England custom of rejoicing after a successful harvest, based
and pumpkin pie. Americans by Act of Congress, “our duty as a people with devout reverence on an English harvest, the Puritans Thanksgiving, a solemn
think of Thanksgiving as a and affection and gratitude to acknowledge our many and great religious observance combining prayer and feasting.
wonderful time to celebrate obligations to Almighty God and to implore him to consider and So on Thanksgiving each year, Americans spend time with
getting off school and work for confirm the blessings we experienced.” family and friends to rejoice dine on turkey and trimmings and
a long weekend and a delicious Thursday, the 19th of February, 1795, was thus set aside by to give thanks to Almighty God for all his blessings.
dinner. Or they think it is the start George Washington as a National Day of Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving
of the Christmas holiday season. But what is the real meaning Many years later, on October 3, 1863, Abraham Lincoln
of Thanksgiving and its origin? proclaimed, by Act of Congress, an annual National Day of Arlene Rodman is a freelance writer in Boca Raton. Email:
We can track the historic American Thanksgiving tradition Thanksgiving, each year on the last Thursday of November, as writerdidi@aol.com. 
to the year 1623. After the harvest crops were gathered in
November, Governor William Bradford of the 1620 Pilgrim Paid Advertisement
Colony “Plymouth Plantation,” in Plymouth, Massachusetts, New Florida Laws For 2019
pronounced: “All you Pilgrims with your wives and little ones,
gather at the Meeting House on the hill … thee to listen to the
pastor and remember Thanksgiving and give thanks to the By Martin Zevin, Attorney a Jewish person, criticizing the collective power of the Jewish
Almighty God for all His blessings.” Several new laws have community or accusing Jewish people or Israel of inventing or
This is the original annual Thanksgiving Day celebration. passed the Florida Legislature exaggerating the Holocaust.
The Congress of the United States has proclaimed national day and have been signed into law On budget issues, the legislature agreed to fund $50 million
of Thanksgiving to Almighty God through the following year. for 2019 by Governor DeSantis. to keep the tourist agency, Visit Florida, in operation until
Texting while driving has now 6/30/2020. $40 million was also budgeted toward the Job
become a primary offense. Growth Grant Fund, which is used to pay for infrastructure and
This means that police can stop job training projects. There will be a $35 million cut in base
a driver just for texting. Florida funding for state universities; however, University of Florida
follows 43 other states that have and Florida State University will get $6.9 million to replenish
laws prohibiting texting while some of those cuts.
driving. The law includes a Governor DeSantis signed a bill that could eventually allow
grace period requiring police to issue warnings only through Floridians to gain access to cheaper Canadian prescription
the end of 2019. Beginning in 2020, a first violation will result drugs. However, although the bill has been signed, it cannot
in a $30.00 fine plus court costs which would bring the total take effect without approval from the federal government,
up to over $100.00. A subsequent violation committed within which has yet to authorize similar laws in any other state.
five years will result in a $60.00 fine plus court costs. The Another health related bill eliminates the regulatory program
legislation also includes a requirement that police track the for hospitals known as “certificate of need.” The certificate
race of people who are stopped for texting while driving. The of need requirement would be eliminated for new general
Senate bill required a stricter law that would have prohibited hospitals and for “tertiary services” on 7/1/19. The bill also
drivers from holding their phone while driving; however, the repeals a certificate of need requirement in 2021 for specialty
House would not pass that version. The compromise bill which hospitals such as children’s hospitals. Tertiary services include
did pass requires that cell phones must be used in hands-free organ transplants and pediatric open-heart surgery and neonatal
mode in school zones and in construction zones where workers intensive-care units. It is hoped that eliminating the certificate
are present. of need requirement will lead to lower costs and greater access
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