MARCH 25, 2016
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD
About People
Women’s Philanthropy of the
Minneapolis Jewish Federation has
announced the inaugural class of
honorees for its Pearl Society’s Women
of Intention awards, which will be
presented on April 14. The event will
feature actress Marlee Matlin.
The honorees are Amy Langer
(Trailblazer), Chana Shagalow
(World-Saver), Wendy Lovell-Smith
(Flame-Keeper), Rabbi Marcia
Zimmerman (Voice of Inspiration),
Michele Horovitz (Woman of Promise) and Suzie Singer (Community
Champion).
For information, visit: www.jewish
minneapolis.org.
***
Theater Latté Da will stage the world
premiere of C., featuring music by
Robert Elhai, March 30–April 24 at
the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis. The
show also features book and lyrics by
Bradley Greenwald.
C., directed by Peter Rothstein,
is adapted from the play Cyrano de
Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. It
features Greenwald, David Darrow,
Kendall Anne Thompson, Jim Ramlet and Max Wojtonowicz.
For tickets and information, visit:
www.theaterlatteda.com.
***
Broucci, or Fireflies, is a children’s
musical recreated from the original
produced by Jewish artists and children
imprisoned by the Nazis in the Terezin
ghetto/camp outside Prague. It is an
elegy to the Holocaust children and
children displaced by war and persecution today. Broucci is directed and
choreographed by Judith Brin Ingber
with music arranged and performed
Bat Mitzva
by Craig Harris. Two performances
will take place on Sunday, May 15, at
3 and 4:30 p.m., at the Czech Slovak
Center in St. Paul.
Community members can reserve a
free ticket by emailing: 2016fireflies@
gmail.com.
***
The Annual Event of the Jewish
Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC) will
feature Mara Liasson on Sunday, June
5 at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.
Liasson is an NPR political correspondent and FOX News contributor.
She will present “Road to the White
House.”
At the event, the JCRC will honor
state Sen. Terri Bonoff with the 2016
Samuel H. Scheiner Leadership Award,
as well as the participants of its 2016
state legislator trip to Israel led by
Majority Leader Joyce Peppin.
For information, visit: www.minn
dakjcrc.org.
***
Sen. Rudy and Ellen Boschwitz
are serving as dinner chairs for the
Lubavitch Cheder Day School’s Gala
Dinner honoring Rabbi Moshe and
Mindelle Feller on May 22 (3-11-16
AJW). The dinner will also recognize
Pinchos and Klara Fershtman with
the Parents of Distinction award.
For information, visit: lubavitch
cheder.org/dinner.
***
As part of Park Square Theatre’s
2016-2017 season, The Soul of Gershwin: The Journey of an American
Klezmer will be staged Dec. 2-24.
The show was created and written by
Joseph Vass.
The Soul of Gershwin includes
music and lyrics by George Gershwin
and Ira Gershwin, with additional
lyrics from Porgy and Bess by DuBose Heyward. It will be directed by
Peter Moore.
Described in a press release as a
“soulful cabaret,” the show features
George Gershwin, joined by three
singers and a band, revealing the folk
songs, blues, jazz, Yiddish theatre,
cantor chants and opera that fused
into songs such as “I Got Rhythm”
and “Embraceable You.”
For information, visit: www.park
squaretheatre.org.
***
Jerry Seinfeld sold 17 collectible
cars at auction for more than $22 million, JTA reported.
The Jewish comedian’s cars — 15
Porsches and two Volkswagens —
brought in $22,244,500 last weekend,
according to the Los Angeles Times.
A 1955 Porsche 55 Spyder alone went
for more than $5 million.
Seinfeld is known to be a car aficionado. In his Web series “Comedians
in Cars Getting Coffee,” which featured President Barack Obama in
December, he goes out to eat with a
well-known comedian in a vintage car.
Gooding & Co. estimated the auction would actually bring in $10 million
more than it did.
The Seinfeld star and co-creator
showed up at the auction house to
promote the sale.
Seinfeld only failed to sell one car at
the auction, a non-drivable Carrera GT
concept car, one of two in the world,
which didn’t reach its minimum $1.5
million minimum asking price.
Minn. Orchestra to perform music
of Rodgers and Hammerstein
The Minnesota Orchestra will
present ”Rodgers and Hammerstein at
the Movies” 11 a.m. Thursday, April
7; 8 p.m. Friday, April 8; and 2 p.m.
Sunday, April 10 at Orchestra Hall,
1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis.
The event will be conducted by
Federation
plans
‘Super
Sunday:
The
Sequel’
The Minneapolis Jewish
Federation will presents “Super
Sunday: The Sequel,” an opportunity to connect with those
who were missed in December,
on Sunday, April 10. The community is invited to bring a friend
and volunteer.
“Super Sunday: The Sequel”
is Day 19 of “100 Days, 100
Ways,” which marks the last 100
days of the 2016 Community
Campaign.
Since March 23, and through
June 30, Federation’s social
media outlets have been offering
a daily way to encourage participation in the Minneapolis Jewish
community — from free printable holiday items, to contests,
to thought-provoking discussion
questions from rabbis, to easy
tzedaka projects.
For information, visit:
jewishminneapolis.org/100days
and: jewishminneapolis.org/
supersunday.
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Sarah Hicks and hosted by Lynne
Warfel, of Classical Minnesota Public
Radio’s Saturday Cinema and Flicks
in Five.
The orchestra will perform some
of the greatest musical moments of
Rodgers and Hammerstein, while
Held-Plein
Aliya Rose Appelsies, daughter of
Rick Appelsies and Audrey Lensmire
and sister of Noa, will be called to the
Torah as a Bat Mitzva Saturday, April
2 at Shir Tikvah Congregation. She
will also participate in Friday evening
services. Aliya is the granddaughter of
Eadie Appelsies, Munster, Ind., and
the late Larry Appelsies, and Bruce
and Deety Winograd, Wilmette, Ill.,
and the late Bitsy Winograd.
Wedding
highlights from the movies are projected on a large screen. The program
will include selections from South
Pacific, Carousel, The King and I,
State Fair and Oklahoma!
For information, call 612-371-5656
or visit: minnesotaorchestra.org.
NPR’s Ira Glass will broadcast
radio show April 9
Ira Glass, host of NPR’s This American Life, will present “Reinventing
Radio” 8 p.m. Saturday, April 9 at
Hennepin Theatre Trust’s State Theatre, 805 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis.
Live onstage, Glass will combine
his narration with pre-taped quotes
and music, recreating the sound of
the show as the audience watches.
He will recount tales of creating his
radio program and pushing broadcast
journalism to new heights.
For tickets and information, visit:
hennepintheatretrust.org or call 800982-2787.
St. Paul JCC Symphony
to offer family concert
The St. Paul JCC Symphony will
present a family concert 3 p.m. Sunday,
April 10 at the JCC, 1375 St. Paul Ave.
This abbreviated concert is a way to
share the beauty and joy of symphony
music with children of all ages. After
the concert, audience members can
meet the orchestra.
Admission is free. For information,
visit: www.stpauljcc.org.
Engagement
Gabe and Mariya Tarshish were
married June 6, 2015, in Chicago Ill.
Gabe is the son of Cindy and Jon Tarshish. Mariya is the daughter of Roman
and Izabella Leyderman. The couple
resides in Louisville, Ky., where Gabe
is a resident at Kosair Children’s
Hospital and Mariya is pursuing her
doctorate in forensic psychology at
Spalding University. Grandparents are
Jack and Nancy Held, Golden Valley,
the late Roslyn and Sidney Tarshish,
Leonid and Gesya Leyderman, and
Michael and Manya Tisnovsky.
Susie and Howard Held, Plymouth,
and Janet and Hilton Plein, Long
Grove, Ill., announce the engagement
of their children, Stephanie Held and
Marc Plein. Stephanie is the granddaughter of Nancy and Jack Held, and
the late Vicki and Harold Gillman.
Marc is the grandson of Ziona and
Selwin Levy, and Paula Plein and the
late Charlie Plein. Stephanie graduated from Indiana University with a
B.A. in speech and hearing sciences,
and received her M.S. in communication sciences and disorders from the
University of WisconsinMilwaukee.
She is a speech pathologist with the
Cove School in the Chicago area.
Marc graduated from the Kelley
School of Business at Indiana University with a B.S. in accounting and
finance, and an MBA concentrating
in accounting–financial analysis. He
is employed by Ernst and Young as a
senior consultant, M&A Transaction
Advisory Services. A May 29 wedding
is planned in Minneapolis.
Birth
Daniel and Amie Hirsch announce
the birth of their son, Gregory Reuben (Hebrew name Aharon Reuben),
on Nov. 17, 2015, in Los Angeles,
Calif. Maternal grandparents are
Aaron and Mona Crohn, and maternal great-grandparents are Jack and
Nancy Held, and the late Sieg and
Paula Crohn. Paternal grandparents
are Jay and Adrian Goodman, and the
late Dr. Kenneth Hirsch, and paternal
great-grandparents are Irwin and Rose
Myeroff, and the late Mervyn and
Beverly Hirsch. Gregory is named in
memory of Amie’s sister, Gina Rose
Crohn, and in honor of Daniel’s grandmother, Rose Myeroff, and Amie’s
father, Aaron Crohn.
Hadassah Minneapolis luncheon is April 10
Hadassah Minneapolis will host
a white elephant sale and dairy potluck luncheon 11:30 a.m. Sunday,
April 10 at a private home in Richfield.
New members will be welcomed
as guests and honored at this event.
Patty Chodosh will be the featured auctioneer. Proceeds will
support the efforts of the Malinsky
Cancer Research Fund, which fosters
the work being done at Hadassah
Hospital in Jerusalem.
The cost is $10. Contact Miriam
Kieffer at: [email protected]
or the Hadassah office at 952-9244999 for an invitation and location
information.
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AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD
MARCH 25, 2016
What happens in the middle
A new process will assist the
Minneapolis Jewish Federation in
allocating funds to meet current needs
By STU SILBERMAN
At Minneapolis Jewish Federation,
we talk a lot about raising money. We
share stories of the people impacted
by that money: the kids rolling with
laughter at summer camp, the elderly
Holocaust survivors celebrating Shabbat in Minsk, the smiling faces leaving
the Barry Family Campus.
We talk less about what happens in
the middle: how we give that money
away. I’d like to change that.
I’d like to tell you more about how
we are listening to our community,
adjusting to meet current needs and
planning for the future through a
new Community Impact allocation
model.
Because Federation funding is
so important to the organizations
we partner with, we make changes
cautiously. But change over time is
inevitable, as our world changes along
with perspectives of funders, best
practices in organizational development and our priorities themselves.
After several years of development, our team of Federation professionals and volunteer leadership is
rolling out important enhancements
to the system:
Simplified access for organizations
To do a thorough job of evaluating
the unmet needs in our community
and overseas, we have expanded our
committee structure to a steering
committee and, for this year, four
areas of interest committees: Jewish
Education, Caring Community, Jewish Identity and Engagement, and
Overseas Partners.
With this new structure, each of
our partner agencies interacts with
Federation through their specific
committee made up of volunteers
Greater transparency
Donors trust Federation to use
good judgment when making funding
decisions. They expect, and we must
provide, clear rationale for how we
who are knowledgeable and passion- allocate their gifts.
ate about their area of service. The
To that end, we’re increasing our
Community Impact
efforts to be open and
Steering Committee
available during the
pulls together their
process — the focused
recommendations
committees described
to present a comabove, as well as an
prehensive funding
increased online presrecommendation to
ence, will support
the board of directors.
those efforts. We’ve
Over time, these
also streamlined our
interest-focused
request for inforcommittees will gain
mation, now focusricher understanding
ing strictly on the
of their correspondinformation commiting agencies. We may
tee members need
add or change the
to make informed
areas of interest as
decisions. This
the needs of our com- Stu Silberman
ensures that grantees
munity change. This
are clear about what
closer partnership will expand and criteria are used in the selection
deepen beyond the annual allocation process.
cycle to look for additional areas of
We’ve also moved to an online
collaboration with Federation and system for submitting applicabetween agencies.
tions, ensuring that we are collecting the same information in the
More volunteer opportunities
same way from all applicants. As a
The new committee structure means result, we can more easily generate
opportunities for more volunteers to reports on overall needs to better
share their expertise, develop an even inform our donors and our whole
deeper understanding of our commu- community. We can also shorten the
nity and make a noticeable change. process for future grants by storing
The sheer force of communal will, basic information for partner orgatalent and dedication running through nizations.
the allocations process is remarkable
Most importantly, should anyone
to observe. Today, these dedicated ask, we can clearly explain how
volunteers — nearly 100 in all — are: their dollars were allocated, backed
• contributing their time and ex- by a published process, committee
pertise to understand the needs of the meeting minutes and reports to the
schools, synagogues and agencies in community.
our community and overseas;
• connecting those needs to the five More to come, through partnership
priorities our community has named
I’d say, “This is only the beginas our focus for the near future; and
ning,” but in fact we’ve been working
• developing recommendations on towards these developments for some
distribution of Community Campaign time. So, “This is only the middle.”
funds.
In partnership with agencies,
schools and synagogues, we are developing opportunities to bring more
next-generation thinking and action
to our community and much more:
• enhancing the way we currently
invest in education to better drive
towards our goals;
• brainstorming, with agency professionals and community representatives, what our community might
look like when we achieve our goals
in human services;
• researching changing needs and
changing demographics;
• increasing dialogue with donors
about their goals; and
• working with community professionals to best meet their needs.
We are all part of the future we are
building. I invite you to learn more
about this year’s process on our Web
site: jewishminneapolis.org/ci-grantapplication-process.
And bring us your feedback. Times
of change are challenging, but they are
also great opportunities for good ideas
to be raised and acted upon. Please let
me know if you have questions; call
952-417-2363 or email: ssilberman@
jewishminneapolis.org.
Thank you for your support of our
Jewish community.
***
Stu Silberman is chief executive
officer of the Minneapolis Jewish
Federation.
Professor to discuss
‘Hitler’s Furies’
World Without Genocide will
host Wendy Lower, Ph.D., 7
p.m. Thursday, April 14 in the
Kelley Board Room at Mitchell
Hamline School of Law, 875
Summit Ave., St. Paul. Lower will
present “Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing
Fields.”
Lower, a history professor at
Claremont McKenna College
and a consultant for the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is the author of Hitler’s
Furies: German Women in the
Nazi Killing Fields. She will discuss the complicity of more than
500,000 women in Nazi Germany and their role in enacting the
Holocaust against the Jews.
The event is open to the public
and no reservations are necessary.
Admission is $10 for the general
public, $5 students and seniors,
and free for Mitchell Hamline law
students.
For information, call 651-6957621 or visit: www.worldwithout
genocide.org.
Minnesota Hillel to host
‘Maroon and Gold Shabbat’
Minnesota Hillel will host the
second annual “Maroon and Gold
Shabbat” — the largest Shabbat gathering of the year — on Friday, April
15 at TCF Bank Stadium, 420 S.E.
23rd Ave., Minneapolis. It is open to
students, alumni, parents, faculty and
staff, and the community.
Services will begin at 5:45 p.m.,
featuring the U of M Jewish a capella
group Chai Notes, followed by dinner
catered by Kafe 421 at 6:30 p.m. At 7
p.m., the program will feature Michael
Fiterman, UMN Foundation Chair.
For information, call 612-379-4026
or visit: www.hillelumn.org.
Chick Corea to perform
with Béla Fleck April 18
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IN A DECADE!”
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Pianist Chick Corea and banjo
player Béla Fleck will perform
7:30 p.m. Monday, April 18 at the
Guthrie Theatre, 818 S. Second
St., Minneapolis. The show is
presented by the Dakota Jazz Club.
Fleck, whose mother was Jewish, is a multiple Grammy award
winner, and Corea, also a multiple
Grammy winner, is an NEA Jazz
Master. Unlike many duo projects
where each musician takes extended solo excursions, here the
pianist and banjoist play as one.
For tickets, call the Guthrie Box
Office at 612-377-2224.
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Israeli military law.
We can pat ourselves on the
backs from here to tomorrow
(as did a few of the respondents
after my lecture); and note, for
example, that the freedoms that
Muslim homosexuals and Arab
women have in Israel are unheard
of in the Arab world, and we
can even start pulling out those
old maps and argue that Jordan
is the Palestinian state. It’s all
correct, but does not magically
make all those Arab villages in the
territories disappear.
As Mark put it: “Israel can never
stop trying to end its untenable
position of having to administer
another people.”
I conclude this column with
a note from Mark: “As the
news of terror attacks continues
unabated, the hatred between the
two peoples seems never-ending.
But I have a fervent wish that
some peaceful solution — however impossible it seems at the
moment — may be achieved. In
every new killing and maiming I am
reminded of the events of Nov.
19, when Ezra was murdered, and
how with that killing, our family
will never be the same. I pray
that no one else ever endures that
horror.”
***
Teddy Weinberger lives in Givat Ze’ev, near Jerusalem.
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AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD
MARCH 25, 2016
MSPIFF runs April 7-23
The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film
Festival offers films with Jewish, Israeli themes
AJW Staff Report
The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival will run April
7-23 at the St. Anthony Main Theatre,
115 S.E. Main St., Minneapolis (unless otherwise indicated). Among
this year’s offerings are several with
Jewish and Israeli themes:
• Atomic Falafel, 2:10 p.m. Saturday, April 9; and 7:20 p.m. Wednesday,
April 20. In director Dror Shaul’s satire
on volatile Iran-Israel relations, the
Israeli military meets its match in a
determined 15-year-old girl.
• Nina’s Children, 1:45 p.m. Sunday,
April 10; and 5:15 p.m. Friday, April
15. After Anschluss in 1938, a group
of Jewish children, who had gone
to Oslo, Norway, from Vienna for
summer camp, are forced to stay in
an orphanage established by a child
pyschologist named Nina Hasvoll.
Director Nina Grünfeld, whose father
was one of those children, is named
for Hasvoll.
• Fever at Dawn, 6:50 p.m. Sunday,
April 10; and 2:10 p.m. Thursday,
April 14. Miklós, a Hungarian survivor
of Bergen Belsen, arrives in a refugee
camp in Sweden and acquires a list of
117 young Hungarian women who are
also in refugee camps there. He writes
a letter to each of them, sure that one
will become his wife.
• Mountain, 10 p.m. Sunday, April
10; and 5 p.m. Thursday, April 21. An
Orthodox Jewish woman living in the
cemetery on Jerusalem’s Mount of
Olives discovers that it is a nocturnal
marketplace for sex and drugs.
• In Transit, 4:15 p.m. Monday,
April 11; and 3:15 p.m. Friday, April
15. Director Albert Maysles’ final film
takes the audience on a journey into
the hearts and minds of passengers
aboard Amtrak’s Empire Builder, the
busiest long-distance train route in
America — from Chicago to Seattle.
• Presenting Princess Shaw, 7:10
p.m. Monday, April 11; and 7 p.m.
Tuesday, April 12 at the Uptown Theater (afterparty to follow). Samantha
Montgomery, a.k.a. Princess Shaw,
will attend. Documentarian Ido Haar
traces the Internet-assisted, crosscontinental collaboration between two
different musicians: Princess Shaw, a
young black woman in the American
South who posts performances of her
own songs on the web; and Israeli
viral-video artist Kutiman.
• Blush, 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, April
12 at the Uptown Theater, 2906 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis; and 7:10
p.m. Tuesday, April 19. Apathetic
17-year-old Naama does little to feign
interest in school or family, but things
change when a rebellious blond named
Hershko shows up at school.
• Demon, 10 p.m. Saturday, April
16. A wedding party goes strangely
awry when the bridegroom receives
an unwanted spiritual guest. The film
is a contemporary take on the dybbuk
of Jewish folklore.
For tickets and complete film information, visit: mspfilm.org.
Slingshot honors Rimon for fifth year
Rimon: the Minnesota Jewish Arts
Council, an initiative of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, has been
named one of the 50 most inspiring
and innovative organizations, projects
or programs in the North American
Jewish community by Slingshot, a
leading voice advocating for innovation in Jewish life — for the fifth year
Sophie Giraud / Courtesy of A24
REMEMBER OPENS MARCH 25 — The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul will open a one-week run of Remember, a historical
thriller starring Christopher Plummer (above, right) beginning
Friday, March 25 at the St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 S.E. Main
St., Minneapolis. In Canadian director Atom Egoyan’s film, Plummer stars as Zev Guttman, a 90-year-old struggling with memory
loss who is living out his final years in a serene retirement home.
A week following the death of his beloved wife Ruth, he receives
a package from his close friend Max (Martin Landau, above left)
containing a stack of money and a detailed plan. Both Zev and
Max were prisoners in Auschwitz, and Max wants to guide Zev on
a cross-continental road trip to find the sadistic guard who was
responsible for the death of their families. For information, visit:
www.mspfilm.org.
It’s time
to feel
better
about
your
f inancial
future.
In response to the escalating number
of seniors struggling to put food on the
table, Jewish Family and Children’s
Service of Minneapolis (JFCS) has
begun a senior hunger initiative to help
low-income, food-insecure seniors get
nutrition assistance.
Solutions to Senior Hunger, conducted in partnership with MAZON:
A Jewish Response to Hunger and
funded by the Walmart Foundation,
is designed to reduce the barriers that
keep vulnerable seniors from enrolling
in the Supplemental Nutrition Assis-
Meet Your Lakes Financial Team...
Glen
Sundberg
(Owner)
Lisa
Kinney
tance Program (SNAP) provided by
the federal government.
Along with 12 Jewish human service agencies in 13 states, JFCS will
conduct SNAP outreach and education
to senior populations; provide SNAP
application assistance for eligible clients; and identify barriers to accessing
SNAP benefits.
Nationally, one in seven seniors
lives in poverty and more than 5
million seniors struggle with food
insecurity, which is the inability to
afford a nutritionally adequate diet.
Jaye Snyder, food security program
director for JFCS said more than half
of low-income seniors in Minnesota
who are eligible do not participate in
the SNAP program.
For information, visit: www.jfcs
mpls.org.
JFCS offers opportunity
to Adopt a Family
Jewish Family and Children’s
Service of Minneapolis (JFCS) is
offering a mitzva opportunity for
community members to Adopt a
Family for Passover through its
Hag Sameach (Happy Holidays)
Program. Passover begins at sundown on April 22.
Referred individuals and families will receive a gift bag of ritual
Passover foods and other items to
help celebrate the holiday. For a
$36 donation to JFCS, community
members can Adopt a Family to
help cover the cost of a bag.
To make a donation, send a
check (payable to JFCS) to JFCS,
13100 Wayzata Blvd., Suite 400,
Minnetonka, MN 55305; visit:
www.jfcsmpls.org; or call Jonathan Kaeppeler at 952-542-4834.
For information, contact Mindy Teele at 952-542-4870 or:
[email protected].
Idina Menzel to perform
for PACER Center
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Rimon also provides much-needed
financial and marketing resources for
artists and agencies, bringing artists
into the center of the community’s life.
To learn more about Rimon, visit:
rimonmn.org. For information about
the Slingshot Guide, visit: slingshot
fund.org.
New JFCS initiative will respond
to seniors struggling with hunger
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Rimon has been energizing the local
community with the work of Minnesota’s Jewish artists since 1995. But
the organization’s work goes beyond
hosting artist salons, conferences and
festivals for artists and arts lovers.
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The PACER Center will welcome
Tony Award winner Idina Menzel as
the headliner for its annual benefit 8
p.m. Saturday, April 30 in the auditorium at the Minneapolis Convention
Center, 1301 Second Ave S. The evening’s emcees will be Frank Vascellaro
and Amelia Santaniello, of WCCO TV.
A silent auction will begin at 6
p.m. in the Minneapolis Convention
Center’s ballroom, followed by a live
auction led by Vascellaro.
Menzel is a star of stage, film, televi-
sion and music, originating the role of
Elphaba in the Broadway production
of Wicked and voicing Queen Elsa in
Disney’s Frozen. She has been called
“the Streisand of her generation.”
Proceeds from the benefit support
PACER’s programs for children with
disabilities and their families, and its
National Bullying Prevention Center.
For tickets and information, visit: pacer
.org/benefit or call 952-838-9000.
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