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Jewish Herald-Voice
January 26, 2012
Film presents love story of Nazi criminal’s
son and Holocaust survivor’s daughter
Congregation Beth El
Fort Bend congregation named
Community of Respect
Congregation Beth El in Missouri
City is scheduled to receive its 2011
Community of Respect designation
from the Anti-Defamation League at
Shabbat services, Friday, Feb. 3, at
7 p.m.
Faith institutions, businesses and
community organizations receive a
Community of Respect designation
by signing a Resolution of Respect or
creating one of their own, forming a
committee to oversee implementation
of the initiative, implementing at least
three anti-bias and diversity activities
and submitting documentation of
Gary Kenzer, executive director
of Honest Reporting, will speak at
Congregation Beth El during the 7
p.m. Shabbat service on Friday, Feb.
17. Honest Reporting, a nonprofit
organization that monitors the
media, exposes cases of bias,
promotes balance and effects change
through education and action to
ensure Israel is represented fairly
and accurately.
Prior to his work with Honest Re-
porting, Kenzer was national
director of Magen David Adorn USA.
He also worked with the Jewish
those activities to the ADL.
Beth El earned the designation
by taking part in a congregational
exchange with New Bethlehem
Missionary Baptist Church of Houston,
by helping students at St. Agnes
Academy of Houston learn effective
responses to religious intolerance,
and by teaching members of 1st
Presbyterian Church of Pasadena
about where Jewish and Christian
views of Torah align and differ.
For details, call Rabbi Seth Stander
at 281-499-5066, or Dena Marks at 713-
627-3490, ext. 134, or 832-567-8843. □
Community Centers of Chicago and
B’nai B’rith Youth Organization.
Kenzer has been involved in the
nonprofit world since 1984, when he
graduated from the University of Il-
linois Jane Addams College of Social
Work.
The David Barish family is
responsible for bringing Kenzer to
Beth El, and has arranged for him
to speak Sunday, Feb. 19, as part of
Yom Limmud, the Jewish Federation
of Greater Houston Bureau of Jewish
Education’s annual community Day of
Learning. □
The true story of the love affair
between Adolf Eichmann’s son and
the daughter of a Holocaust survivor
will be presented in a special film
screening of the movie “Eichmann’s
Fate” this February at Holocaust
Museum Houston.
The 90-minute film, with English
subtitles, will be shown Thursday,
Feb. 2, beginning at 6:30 p.m., in the
museum’s Albert and Ethel Herzstein
Theater in the Morgan Family
Center, 5401 Caroline St., in Houston’s
Museum District. Admission is free,
but seating is limited, and advance
registration is requested. Visit hmh.
org/RegisterEvent.aspx to register
online. For information, call 713-942-
8000 or email events@hmh.org.
After escaping from an American
prisoner-of-war camp, Nazi war
criminal Adolf Eichmann made his
way through northern Germany to
Italy, where he obtained an Argentine
visa and humanitarian passport
issued by the International Red Cross.
On July 14, 1950, he boarded a ship
heading for Buenos Aires and virtu-
ally disappeared.
“Eichmann’s Fate” reveals the
incredible true story of the love affair
between Eichmann’s son and Sylvia
Hermann, the daughter of Lothar
Hermann, a Holocaust survivor.
The love affair led to Eichmann’s
eventual capture by the Mossad,
when Hermann recognized Eichmann
and verified his identity for the Israeli
secret agents. “Eichmann’s Fate” is a
docudrama that combines historical
reenactments with interviews and
documentary footage to bring this
unknown story vibrantly to life. Fea-
turing actors with credits including
“Run Lola Run” and “The Lives of
Others,” the film drops the viewer
into 1950s Buenos Aires, where Jew-
ish refugees and unrepentant Nazis
variously harbor dreams of revenge
and vindication.
Simultaneously, it documents the
dogged efforts of Fritz Bauer, the
state public prosecutor in Frankfurt,
to bring Eichmann to justice, even
as elements within the German
government conspired to shield war
criminals from prosecution. In the
face of initial skepticism on the part
of German and Israeli authorities,
Sylvia and her father relentlessly
pursue their suspect. As the tension
mounts, it becomes clear that both
will risk everything to ensure that
Eichmann is caught and made to pay
for his crimes.
Director Raymond Ley will intro-
duce the film and lead a discussion
afterward. □
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Hear director of media watchdog
Gala will celebrate
congregation’s 30th anniversary
In 1982, when Highway 6 was
just a two-lane road and there were
perhaps more cows than people in
Fort Bend County, a small synagogue
opened its doors in a Missouri City
fire station on FM 2234.
By Rosh Hashanah of that year,
Congregation Beth El had more than
100 families and held services at the
Holiday Inn on West Bellfort and Hwy.
59. Rabbi Ross London, who served
the Jewish Federation of Greater
Houston, led the service, assisted
by cantorial soloist Ralph Katz, who
has been a mainstay of this center of
the Jewish community in Fort Bend
County ever since.
To commemorate this milestone,
Congregation Beth El is hosting a
“Pearls of Broadway” 30th Year Anni-
versary Gala and fundraiser on Satur-
day, March 24, at Safari Texas in Rich-
mond from 6:30 to 11 p.m.
The evening will include a silent
auction, dinner, dancing and special
entertainment, featuring the singing
talents of the Gilbert and Sullivan
Society’s Abigail Coy and Katz,
also a standout Gilbert and Sullivan
soloist.
“The man who has led us in
song for all these 30 years will quite
fittingly be honoring us with his
talents on what promises to be a
most wonderful occasion,” said Beth
El’s president Bill Stern. “We look
forward to a very large turnout.”
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Congregation Beth El, with Rabbi
Seth Stander as spiritual leader,
provides a Reform Jewish atmosphere
in a warm, friendly environment
for children and adults alike. The
synagogue offers preschool, religious
school, Bar/ Bat Mitzvah preparation,
adult education, confirmation and
post-confirmation study. Cultural and
spiritual events include Scholars in
Residence; a lively Purim Schpiel; a
special teen group, BEFTY; an active
seniors group; community Passover
Seders; periodic Havdalah programs
and Shabbat dinners.
Tickets will go on sale soon. A
number of underwriting opportuni-
ties will be available for businesses,
groups and individuals.
For information call the temple
office, 281-499-5066. □
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The Lamar/Needville Metro Go
Texan subcommittee will host its 20th
annual Boot Scootin’ Ball, Feb. 4, at
the Fort Bend County Fairgrounds,
Building C, from 6:30 p.m. until mid-
night. All money raised is given back,
in scholarships, to deserving students
of the Lamar and Needville school
districts.
With the support of the community,
in 2011, the Houston Livestock Show
and Rodeo Lamar/Needville Metro
Go Texan subcommittee awarded
$160,000 in scholarships.
Dust off your finest Western
outfits and enjoy a complete chicken
fried steak dinner, refreshments,
silent and live auctions, and dancing.
For more information or to pur-
chase tickets, contact Brian Graeber
at 979-793-7414 or 281-413-0807 or any
other member of the Lamar/Needville
Metro Go Texan subcommittee. The
2012 Houston Livestock Show and
Rodeo, a 501-(3)(c) charity, will run
from Feb. 18 through March 18. □
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