Page 8 - The Jewish Voice - April '23

Page 8, The Jewish Voice

Local Happenings from page 6 JFS Delivers Passover Baskets

Loni Schnitzer is a group and private fitness instructor. for Those in Need
A Cleveland native, she is active at Temple Beth Am in
Jupiter, and currently lives in Jupiter with her husband and Ferd & Gladys
two children. Alpert Jewish Family
Ilan Sinelnikov is the founder and president of Students Service assembled
Supporting Israel, a national organization that focuses on a nd di st ri but e d
campus advocacy and grassroots activism. He serves on baskets filled with
the executive board of the National Coalition Supporting matzah, gefilte fish,
Eurasian Jewry. Ilan is also a National Licensed Soccer matzah ball soup,
Coach from the United States Soccer Federation and currently candy, egg noodles,
coaches 17-year-old girls in Palm Beach Gardens. He lives canned vegetables,
in Lake Worth with his wife and child. and applesauce to local households in need in advance of
Lauren Steinberg is an Associate Periodontist at the Passover holiday.
Periodontal Associates. She is originally from Wellington, After traditional Friday Baskets were provided to 160 households, which
and a graduate of the Meyer Preparatory School. Lauren lives night services, Saper represents more than 300 individuals. Recipients include
in Palm Beach County with her husband and two sons. spoke on the topic of From Alpert JFS kosher food pantry clients, counseling clients,
Devorah Weiner is a Nurse Practitioner for the Medical Miniskirt to Hijab: A Memoir homebound seniors, single-parent families, Holocaust
Specialists of Palm Beaches. She lives in Boca Raton and of a Jewish Girl in Pre- and survivors, families that recently lost a job, households that
enjoys live music, traveling, and being an active member of Post-Revolutionary Iran. Her have trouble making ends meet, ALICE households (Asset
her community. compelling story described Limited, Income Constrained, Employed), households
the reality of coming home with three generations, clients experiencing health
Escape from Iran one day to find her idyllic complications, and others.
lifestyle transformed forever According to the United Way of Palm Beach County’s
Chabad of Palm Beach due to the Iranian revolution. 2020 ALICE Report, 46 percent of county households
Gardens held its monthly She also explained the history struggle to make ends meet. Alpert JFS estimates there are
Friday Night Live event with of the Jews of Iran from 15,000 Jewish ALICE households from Boynton Beach to
guest speaker Jacqueline antiquity to the present, Jupiter.
Saper of Chicago. Her speech treading the thin line between
about Jewish life in Iran was Judaism and Zionism. She
timed in the weeks leading up told how the danger of the
to Purim, when we celebrate Jews in Iran was removed
the miraculous salvation of when the Jews gave the
the Jewish people from Persia Ayatollah a $10 million gift;
(Iran), over 2,000 years ago. the Ayatollah declared that
Rabbi Dovid Vigler opened Judaism and Zionism are not
the evening by highlighting the same and the calls for
the link between the miracles their expulsion immediately
of ancient times and the miracle of Jewish survival in hostile ceased. Life was still not easy,
countries today. as she described the “morality
Saper was born and raised in Tehran in an unusual family police” and hardship of being
with a Mizrachi Persian father and an Ashkenazi British a woman in Iran today.
mother. Since birth, she has been a bridge between the Jewish Saper is a frequent guest
Eastern and Western cultures and customs. Her comfortable on television and radio shows, and her opinion columns
life ended at eighteen with the 1979 Iranian revolution, when appear in national and international publications. Local Happenings on page 9
she witnessed the departure of the ancient Jewish community
of her homeland. For the following eight years, she lived
under the Sharia laws of the Islamic Republic as a Jewish
woman until 1987, when she escaped Iran with her husband
and two young children.

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