CATHOLIC-JEWISH DIALOGUE OF COLLIER COUNTY

This group is a subcommittee of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Jewish Federation of Greater Naples

Everyone is welcome to attend a presentation by Dina Kraft:

Anne Frank's Memory Keeper; Documenting the story of Hannah Pick-Goslar

Tuesday, April 8 at 1 PM

Location: St. Agnes Catholic Church

Please register so we can plan accordingly. Click HERE to register

Dina Kraft is a writer and journalist based in Tel Aviv.  She is the Opinion Editor for Haaretz English, and co-author of My Friend Anne Frank. She has written from the region for over two decades for The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times, reporting on Israeli and Palestinian politics, culture and society.

This program is brought to you by the Catholic-Jewish Dialogue of Collier County, of the Jewish Community Relations Council, and the Israel and Overseas Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Catholic and a Jew  

Byline: Larry Hermalyn and Dick Surrusco, CJD Committee Members

Sunday, January 26 at 2:30 PM

Thank you for attending this free program.

Uncomfortable conversations don't only occur around the Thanksgiving table- they occur everyday and everywhere. We live in a time of uncomfortable conversations- conversations that strike at the core of who we are, and who we understand ourselves to be, walking the planet with those who follow different paths.

Our upcoming program- Uncomfortable Conversations with a Catholic and a Jew- will attempt to have a dialogue, a listening conversation, on topics ranging from antisemitism to Zionism, from patriarchal clericalism and pedophilia in the Catholic church. 

Join us as our presenters-Larry Hermalyn, JD and Dick Surrusco, MD- unpack issues in both their faith traditions, connecting the dots between the tropes and hatred of our past to the divisiveness of the current moment. We will attempt to better understand Judaism: is it a religion, a culture, or a race? If you are not a Zionist, does that make you anti-semitic? Is the Catholic tradition inherently anti-feminist; does a vow of celibacy make assaults on minors inevitable? 

Bigotry toward one group is never isolated- if one is at risk, so are we all. It is only through talking and listening with open hearts that we can come to a sense of our shared humanity and dignity.

Join the Catholic-Jewish Dialogue on Sunday, January 26 at 2:30 PM at the Nina Iser Jewish Cultural Center. Please register for this free program. The Catholic-Jewish Dialogue of Collier County is a subcommittee of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples.

Sunday, February 23, 2:30pm

St. Williams Catholic Church

The Assisi Underground is a 1985 American-Italian film made for television, written and directed by Alexander Ramati. It is an adaptation of his 1978 novel,  The Assisi Underground: The Priest who Rescued Jews, which is based on a true-life account by Father Rufino Niccacci of events surrounding the Assisi Network, an effort to hide 300 Jews in the town of Assisi, Italy during World War II. 

Watch the movie together followed by discussion with refreshments

Sunday, March 2, 2:30pm

Nina Iser Jewish Cultural Center 

Jewish Federation of Greater Naples

 Readers & Thinkers Book Review

The Sunflower: On the Possibility and Limits of Forgiveness, by Simon Wiesenthal. 

A Nazi soldier on his deathbed asks forgiveness from a Jew, in this case Wiesenthal, for horrendous atrocities he committed against Jews during The Holocaust This presents a moral and ethical dilemma for Wiesenthal. After walking away from the soldier, he asks “What would you have done?”

The Sunflower presents responses to that question from clergy and spiritual leaders, Holocaust survivors, professors and historians. During the program we will discuss exactly that.

Read the book in advance and come discuss over refreshments.