HEADLINES | 5 SPECIAL SECTION | 14 PALAZZO HOME DESIGN/ The Palazzo freshens REAL ESTATE up with $10 million Picking the right in renovations floral arrangement just got easier JANUARY 24, 2020 | TEVET 27, 5780 | VOLUME 72, NUMBER 9 $1.50 Community honors ‘Holocaust by Bullets’ exhibit Rabbi David and opensELLEN O’BRIEN | STAFF WRITER at Arizona Capitol Odette Rebibo n Thursday, Jan. 16, a new Holocaust in Eastern Europe. ELLEN O’BRIEN | STAFF WRITER OHolocaust exhibit opened The Holocaust by Bullets series with a program at the Arizona focuses on a lesser-known history n Sunday, Jan. 19, congregation members, rabbis, teachers, House of Representatives that of the Holocaust, in which Eastern Oparents and former students crowded into the spacious home brought together students, European Jews were not sent to of Sheila Schwartz to thank Rabbi David and Odette Rebibo for Holocaust survivors and state concentration camps but instead their decades of service. legislators. executed and buried in mass graves. “It’s a nice day, there’s a lot of people here, what more could The opening of the exhibit, The morning program opened we ask for?” said Rabbi Harris Cooperman, head of school for “In Broad Daylight: Holocaust with comments from House the Phoenix Hebrew Academy. by Bullets,” at the Arizona Speaker Rusty Bowers and Rep. The Rebibos arrived in Phoenix in 1965, when there was very Capitol Museum is the first in Robert Meza. little observant Jewish life in Phoenix. The institutions that Rebibo a three-month series of events “All of you, thank you for being founded, the Phoenix Hebrew Academy, Greater Phoenix Vaad and lectures sponsored by the here,” Meza said. “We’re going to HaKashruth and Beth Joseph Congregation, transformed the Phoenix Holocaust Association celebrate, we’re going to educate community and are still vital today. in partnership with Yahad-In and we’re going to remember.” PHA and Beth Joseph organized the open house on Sunday Unum, an organization dedicated Marco Gonzalez, executive George Kalman reads the testimonies of to honor the Rebibos for their leadership and their contributions villagers who witnessed the murder of their to documenting evidence of the SEE BULLETS, PAGE 3 Jewish neighbors. to the community. Throughout the afternoon, guests gathered around the Rebibos in the center of the living room, taking photos and sharing memories, hugs and kisses and well wishes for their retirement. At 2 p.m., Irwin Sheinbein, the president of the Phoenix Jewish Florida Hebrew Academy and Beth Joseph Congregation board of direc- In our monthly travel column, Jeffrey and Virginia Orenstein tors, quieted the room to make an announcement. take readers to Northeast Florida. Whether you’re visiting for the first time or you’re returning, they have tips for getting “There’s something special in one’s name,” Sheinbein said. “It the most out of your visit. Read all about it on Page 16. was obvious to the board that we wanted to honor Odette and the COURTESY OF HAMMOCK BEACH RESORT SEE REBIBO, PAGE 2 KEEP YOUR EYE ON jewishaz.com NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL ISRAEL World leaders to Jerusalem for Fifth US professors visit Israel World Holocaust Forum Immunity debate for Netanyahu HEADLINES REBIBO commemorative video played on a “Phoenix is constantly growing, people CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 loop in one corner of the living room. here identify with Judaism,” Rosengard The video alternated between a said. “He must have had some sort of rabbi, and we’re doing this with a name.” slideshow of photos and news clippings vision. He was able to see the greater Going forward, the campus that set to upbeat music, and videos of com- needs of the community at large.” houses the Phoenix Hebrew Academy, munity members with good wishes for Guests also crowded around a table Beth Joseph Congregation and the the rabbi and rebbetzin. stocked with neon pink, yellow, orange Greater Phoenix Vaad HaKashruth will be “Rabbi, I’ll try my best to carry on and green notecards, writing messages known as The Rebibo Center for Jewish your legacy,” said Rabbi Yisroel Isaacs of to the rabbi and Odette. Those messages, Life. Beth Joseph Congregation in one clip. along with a commemorative journal “For me and Sandra and our One attendee, Julia Rosengard, and the video slideshow, will go with the 2020 Phoenix family, we’ve been involved, as many said she’s been amazed by the richness Rebibos to Israel. have been, ever since the rabbi and of Jewish life since she moved to “These are mementos that they’ll be Jewish News Odette came to Phoenix,” Sheinbein Phoenix. Her husband grew up at Beth able to take with them to Israel and be Print Dates said. “This is a very, very special way that Joseph, her father-in-law walked to able to look at from time to time, and we want to honor and express our synagogue with the rabbi every Saturday recognize the people that have been very January 10 August 7 love and gratitude to both of you.” and last year, and Rabbi Rebibo officiated special to them and they’ve been special to January 24 August 28** Throughout the afternoon, a at her wedding. over the years,” Sheinbein said. 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PHOTOS BY ELLEN O’BRIEN 602 753 9366 • gpjff.org director of Yahad-In Unum, gave the keynote the Holocaust by Bullets exhibits are personal. address. “While most people do not know about “It is important that the new generation this part of Holocaust history, it has particular today learn from the Holocaust, learn their meaning to me,” Bronkesh said. “I’ve grown history, that they understand that it really up knowing about these massacres. My grand- happened,” Gonzalez said. “I want you to be father and great-grandparents were murdered a witness when you visit the exhibit.” into pits in the woods, along with more than Gonzalez explained the history of Yahad-In 14,000 other Jews in Sarny, Ukraine.” Unum, which was founded by Father Patrick Two school groups attended the presenta- Desbois, a Catholic priest, in 2004. Desbois tion, including a Holocaust literature class from knew records of Jews living in Ukrainian vil- Dobson High School. Meza and Gonzalez lages, but no records of what happened to both thanked the students for coming, and them, and he went to the villages to find out. emphasized that the importance of teaching Eventually, a group of villagers took him to the the next generation about the Holocaust. site of a mass grave in the forest and told him “They are our future, so let’s teach them what they witnessed. well, let’s educate them and let’s get them out “They saw the killing of the last thousand in the world to fly,” Meza said. Jews in the village,” Gonzalez said. “They After the program, students and commu- explained how the Germans arrived in the nity members crossed the capitol grounds morning, how they measured the place for to the Arizona Capitol Museum, where the them to build a mass grave, how they got Holocaust by Bullets exhibit is housed on the the Jews themselves to go and dig these mass second floor.