12:00 PM BYO Dairy Lunch 12:30–1:30 PM Program Elizabeth Cullen, Hadassah’s Director of Government Relations, will offer her insights on Hadassah’s advocacy priorities in a new Congress and under the new Administration. Join us to hear more about this and how Hadassah members can make a difference.

Tobi’s father Mendel Potash was born in a small town called Szczurowice, Poland. He was just 7 years old when the war began, experiencing it at first as a child, thinking it was a game...until it became very real. The Russians arrived, and then the Germans. Aunts and uncles suddenly were put on trains and just gone...forever. Then, Mendel narrowly escaped death on numerous occasions. He survived only because of luck, smarts, and the kindness of a few. Through many dangerous moments, he spent most of the war in hiding. It wasn’t until he was 16, and many family members dead, that he finally left Europe for good, never to return. TOBI BASSIN grew up in Toronto, Canada. She and her husband, Stuart, have been members at B’nai Israel since 2003. As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, she felt it important to devote her teaching career to Jewish Education. Currently, she works as an English Language specialist, supporting the Israeli community at CESJDS to learn English and integrate into the community. In her spare time, Tobi volunteers with the JCRC as a facilitator to help lead the Maggid program which trains second-generation survivors (children of survivors) to share their parents’ stories of survival during the Holocaust.