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Yashek, a Holocaust survivor 2010 totals its recent past. But have national and longtime Berks County resident. as of Feb. 19 Jewish Community Campaign $110,708 Page 2 SHALOM October 2013 Federation News Leave a Jewish legacy By Paul L. Landry communities, support Israel and provide dedicated to that area is a great way how you could do it. All without any There is a national needed help to Jews worldwide by to provide funding for it independent of obligation on your part! All contacts are program, sponsored by arranging a gift through their estate Campaign revenues. And if the bequest confidential! Call me at 610-921-0624 or the National Council plans. is large enough (usually about 20 times e-mail [email protected]. on Planned Giving While our Annual Jewish Campaign the annual budget of the program), So please — think about the many and the Association provides dollars for all those purposes, it can be “endowed” to support the things the Federation does each year: the of Fundraising it never provides enough income to meet purpose for years to come. Examples: Food Pantry; the Jewish Community High Professionals, called all of the needs that exist. So additional a program that costs $5,000 per year School of Gratz College; Jewish-themed “Leave a Legacy”. It encourages people income from endowments or estate to run could be endowed with a gift of films, trips and events; Jewish Family to support their favorite charities by gifts (bequests, trusts, real estate, etc.) only $100,000. A program that costs Service help for those in the community leaving them a bequest. The Jewish always allows the Federation to do more $2,000 per year could be endowed for who need it; support for social services in Federations of North America has than it can do from Campaign income just $40,000. Israel; support for needy Jews throughout adapted that program a bit and called it alone. If you would like to talk about the world, and more. “Leave a Jewish Legacy”. If there is a particular area of supporting a particular program area And then consider putting your name Its specific purpose is to encourage Federation programming that you through your estate, please give me a on it by leaving a “Jewish Legacy” to Jews in the U.S. to help their Federation’s would especially like to see continue, call. I would be happy to help you think support these programs for many years efforts to build strong, vital Jewish arranging a bequest whose income is about what you would want to do and to come! Juliette’s gift to the Reading Jewish community When artist Juliette Aristides, spoke Jewish Federation of Reading. The study on the occasion of the opening of of the female figure, carrying a candle her recent exhibition at the Reading in the painting, will be exhibited at the Public Museum (“Juliette Aristides: Jewish Cultural Center. Observations”) in August, she discussed “Juliette’s figures transcend the at length her 2011 painting “Liberty,” a canvas and remind us of the complexities Holocaust masterwork selected for the of the human experience. Her study of exhibit. The large canvas (49” x 72”) was the female subject, pictured in Liberty, especially personal to Aristides and her conveys the emotion and sympathy of the family. Originally titled, “1945 (Bendheim artist to the character. We are honored Remembrance),” the painting was a to be entrusted with this moving drawing. reminder of the many family members Returning to the community where she her mother had lost, murdered by the grew up, the exhibition provided the Nazi regime. A classically trained painter, nationally and internationally recognized Juliette shared with her audience the artist and teacher with a homecoming, challenge of finding the right models but Juliette left a very personal part of for the haunting figures, central on the herself and her family here for us to landscape, and her considerations experience. We are appreciative of her for every detail of the oil painting that thoughtful generosity.” ultimately resulted in a yearlong process *** of transferring her emotions onto the Photo credit: Special thanks to Dr. canvas. The painting was later purchased Ivan Bub, uncle of the artist, for allowing and will remain in the community. us to use one of his photographs of In September, Tammy Mitgang, the artist demonstrating the classical Federation president, received an email tradition of drawing during her lecture. from Aristides, gifting “Study for 1945,” The photo was used in the September (sepia pencil on paper, 22 x 12”) to the Shalom.

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May you have a May you have a New Year blessings to all. New Year blessings to all. sweet & prosperous sweet & prosperous New Year. New Year. OctoberOctober 20122013 SHALOMSHALOM PagePage 33 LookingHelp us forward thrive to ain great a challenging New Year future DON’T MISS OUT By Alvin Katz in need. Providing food, assistance with visit, among other sites, Yemin Orde, and By Alvin Katz and diminished career opportunities. we look to the future. Jewish communities successionBe sure to in pick our up organizations the October by Chairman expenses and many other aspects of getting Meir Panim, which we support through Chairman Most of our children that go off to college outside Reading are faced with these same identifying those individuals who will lead I want to take this those less fortunate back on their feet. your contributions. Yemin Orde is a youth Berks County Living I hope everyone are not returning to the area. Fewer issues and are having discussions that we this community into the next decades time to wish all of you a Our ܁nance committee has been working village in the Carmel mountains near Haifa magazine featuring a special had a happy New young Jewish families are moving to need to have to rediscover who we are and and who understand the NEW NEEDS very Happy and Sweet overtime ensuring that our funds are well which caters to youth in need, providing Year and are looking our community. We have an aging what are our changing needs and how best of thesupplement Jewish community produced and by how the best New Year. cared and accounted for. I also want to them with shelter, emotional support and forward to this community, and many of our seniors are to meet those needs. to achieveJewish thoseFederation goals. Today’sof Reading. lifestyles As we enter into the recognize Tammy Mitgang and her entire an excellent education. Meir Panim is, for coming year with retiring out of the area or have passed We also need to understand that we make it more challenging to find the time New Year, we reflect Federation/JCC staff who work tirelessly the lack of a better description, similar to great expectation. away. The reasons “how”, “when” and are all sharing the same financial pie to becomeSpecial involved thanks in to community Campaign affairs, on what we have for you. what we would call a soup kitchen but with This month I would “why” we connect as Jews have changed. — congregations, the Cultural Center, butCo-Chairs it is no different Howard than &it hasVictoria been for accomplished this past As we enter the New Year, I am happy to a different concept. Here those in need can like to discuss the These factors affect the memberships Federation, other Jewish organizations those who have previously taken the year and what challenges lie ahead for us announce that we have a Mission to Israel get hot meals that are SERVED to them, not Hafetz for spearheading the challenges that await in our religious organizations, the Jewish and the rest of the non Jewish not-for- challenge to lead. As I noted in an earlier in the coming year. Your Federation has this month in conjunction with the Allentown cafeteria style as here in the States, so that project, which raised $19,200 for us as a Jewish community and how it Cultural Center and contributions to the profit world. We need to determine what article — “if you want a job done, give it provided many interesting programs and Federation. With the numbers participating, they don’t feel like they are getting a handout. is no different than what the rest of the annual Federation campaign. There are our Jewish community wants and needs toFederation! a busy person.” See BecomePage 7 forinvolved a list in speakers this past year. We have attended this should be a very worthwhile Mission. In addition, Meir Panim serves thousands country is facing. also those who wish to remain unaffiliated and how best to meet those needs. Aided communityof advertisers affairs and and you patrons. will be able to those less fortunate, maintained our state They will be visiting many sites and meeting of hot meals to schoolchildren throughout It is not a secret that the number and may be unknown to the Jewish by wise investments and thoughtful to tell your children that you helped certi܁ed Nursery School. We completed with some well-known names in Israel Israel and maintains a Goodwill-like facility of Jews and Jewish families in Berks community. This phenomenon is not planning, we hope to ensure that our makeLook Reading for it at local a better retailers community and a very successful Gratz College program politics and military. I feel certain that many to help furnish clothing and furniture to those County is dwindling. This is due to a unique to Reading. Less religious and financial assets continue to grow to meet and hopefully will encourage others to for our teenagers and a wonderful senior if not all of them will return with a better in need. For both of these organizations and libraries and at the Berks Encore number of factors. There are shifts and more spiritual, faith communities are asking our future needs. relocate to Reading and grow the Jewish program. Our Jewish Family Service has understanding of Israel and its position in Jews throughout the world who receive your Senior Expo Oct. 23 at BodyZone. contractions in our business community themselves what the next steps will be as We also need to develop leadership community. again done a wonderful job helping those the world and the Middle East. They will support, I thank you. FromFrom thethe President’sPresident’s DeskDesk BeingNY Times Alma op-ed piece calls for destruction of Israel ByBy TammyTammy K.K. 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Israel, together with Jewish Federation At home in Berks County, the JCC’s Alma Lakin passed away Aug. 27 at The ongoing turbulence in the Middle of North America’s major partners on the Lakin Early Education Center preschool the age of 82. Federation mission to Israel begins Oct. 21

A joint mission composed of chaired by Michael and Susan Fromm and Berks County will be joining the group purpose and heightened appreciation community members from the Reading Victor and Dena Hammel. In addition to on the mission. and connection to Jewish identity. area and the Lehigh Valley will leave for Mitgang, Jayne Kleinman, Cultural Center The Reading Jewish community has Mission participants will visit Reading’s Israel Oct. 21. program director and Mark Goldstein, bene܁ted from teaming with the seasoned Israel Now projects — two important For the Reading community, it is the Executive Director of Jewish Federation of mission-goers from the Allentown area humanitarian efforts that both save ܁rst mission the Federation has ledin the Lehigh Valley will staff the mission. and Lehigh Valley Federation’s “well- and change lives — Yemin Orde Youth more than 15 years. A goal of Federation Rabbi Brian Michelson from oiled” mission process. Village in the Carmel Mountains and Meir President Tammy Mitgang and Federation Congregation Oheb Sholom and Rabbi “Mark Goldstein and his staff have Panim’s new nutrition center in Kiryat leadership,Steven Cold,the BethReading Krumholz mission and Erin isRiley-Lopez co- Yosef join together Lipsker, at Beth’s Chabad-Lubavitchart opening at the JCC. of created overFellow theartist yearsNancy Sarangoulis a network views ofBeth’s Gat,works whereYes/No watercolors the community on cotton paper.will dedicate The “House Art” exhibit continues through Nov. 22 resources and processes that have the kitchen that was made possible bene܁ted our community — newbies, thanks to the Reading community’s if you will, when it comes to mission funding efforts. SHALOM planning. And, we are neighbors. The The dedication will be a big thank you AA newspapernewspaper servingserving thethe JewishJewish communitycommunity ofof Reading,Reading, Pennsylvania,Pennsylvania, mission projectInnovative is just the start of services future to our communityprovided and a proudto moment. andand publishedpublished monthly,monthly, SeptemberSeptember throughthrough June,June, underunder thethe JewishJewish joint efforts,” Mitgang said. With two out of every ܁ve children in FederationFederation ofof Reading.Reading. FundedFunded byby thethe ReadingReading UnitedUnited JewishJewish Campaign.Campaign. There are many details that need Israel living below the poverty line, to be addressedhomeowners when moving a groupand Meirbusiness Panim’s network owners of soup kitchens, GeneralGeneral Offices:Offices: 11001100 BerkshireBerkshire Blvd.,Blvd., SuiteSuite 125125 of more than 50 people across Israel. restaurants and feeding centers, ensure Wyomissing,Wyomissing, PAPA 1961019610 Jewish Federation of Northfor America’s over 80warm, years. nutritious meals for thousands of Phone:Phone: 610-921-0624610-921-0624 FAX:FAX: 610-929-0886610-929-0886 Missions Department and its staff in children and families every day. WebWeb site:site: www.ReadingJewishCommunity.orgwww.ReadingJewishCommunity.org Israel along with Kenes Tours will further At Yemin Orde, the group is anxious to ensure that each and every• dayGeneral of the Pest Controlsee ܁rsthand • Termite the progress Control that has been Jewish Federation of Reading Jewish Federation of Reading mission is maximized. made at the village since the wild܁res Chairman: Alvin Katz Chairman: Alvin Katz Federation missions are• Bed travelBug Control devastated it• Birdin 2010. Control President: Tammy K. Mitgang President: Tammy K. Mitgang experiences unlike any other. Along The group is honored that Chaim Peri, Communications Director: Mark Nemirow, Editor • Bioremediation • Vegetation Management Communications Director: Mark Nemirow, Editor with visits to historic and sacred sites, beloved educator and director of Yemin Proofreaders: Esther Strauss & Federation staff Proofreaders: Federation staff museums and popular tourist destinations, Orde for 30 years, will personally be hosting Member: American Jewish Press Association Member: American Jewish Press Association Federation missions provide exclusive, the group during a tour and lunch. The opinions expressed in Shalom are of the writers and not the Jewish Federation of Reading The opinions expressed in Shalom are of the writers and not the Jewish Federation of Reading insider access to residents, community Young people from610-372-4500 the village will join Deadline for the November issue is Oct. 5 leaders, area experts, and political the group for the tour and share their Deadline for the November issue is Oct. 5 personalities and provide a sense of experiences. www.jcehrlich.com Page 4 SHALOM October 2013 Big crowd gathers to mark Holocaust Library anniversary

By Amanda J. Hornberger the final number to grow over the next Director, Holocaust Library dozen years as the final encyclopedias & Resource Center are released. A crowd of students, faculty and One aspect of the Holocaust that community members filled the 270 many people still question is how did the seat capacity Wachovia Theatre at German population not know about the Albright College Sept. 9 to hear a lecture camps, ghettos and mass extermination commemorating the Holocaust Library during the war. Megargee vehemently & Resource Center’s 20th anniversary. shot down the ignorant bystander theory Special guest lecturer, Dr. Geoffrey by stating that there was not a single P. Megargee from the United States sector of German society that was not Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), supported or connected to the forced was on hand to discuss his research as labor controlled by the Nazis. In fact, editor of the Encyclopedia of Camps according to Dr. Megargee, a “German and Ghettoes, 1933-1945. This multi- could not turn a corner in without volume encyclopedia is being produced finding someone held there against their by USHMM in order to facilitate research, will.” This definitive statement and the create the most complete list of camps sheer number of camps and ghettoes hit and ghettoes available, and perhaps home for surprised audience members. most importantly, memorialize the Megargee fielded many excellent thousands of camps and ghettoes, questions from audience members, many small, previously unknown and students and community members alike. now forgotten, where millions of victims The various survival rates for different of Nazi persecution were held, tortured persecuted groups was outlined by and killed. Megargee as well as explaining the After a welcome by Albright College general hierarchy of the Nazi camp President Dr. Lex McMillian III, state Sen. and ghetto system, including different Judy Schwank was on hand to offer an statuses of prisoners held within camps. official proclamation honoring the 20th A joint toast by McMillan and From left, Albright College President Lex O. McMillan III and community leaders Victor Hammel and Kenneth Lakin. Both Hammel and Lakin served as past presidents of Jewish Federation of Reading. Ken is a son of Edwin anniversary of the HRC and the strong Jewish Federation President Tammy and Alma Lakin, who were instrumental in establishing the Center. Victor was a nephew of the late Richard J. partnership between the college and Mitgang, in which the strong partnership Yashek, a survivor who died in 2005. Both families continue to play an active role in supporting the Center and the Jewish Federation. Sen. Schwank’s between Albright and the Federation the Berks County community. presence was especially fitting since her was highlighted, capped the evening. predecessor Senator Mike O’Pake was Cocktails and desserts were enjoyed with the community for the dedication of in a reception after the lecture where the HRC in 1993. community members feted the success Megargee’s lecture focused on the of 20 years of promoting Holocaust shocking research that found there education and genocide awareness in were over 42,500 camps and ghettoes greater Reading. throughout occupied Europe from 1933- Special thanks to the community’s 1945. Perhaps more startling was his local Holocaust survivors and founding revelation that the number was actually HRC committee members who were able quite low. Researchers are still finding to be there to celebrate the Holocaust more camps and Megargee expects Library’s platinum anniversary. Photos by Susan L. Angstadt, courtesy of Albright College

Albright President Lex O. McMillan III, Ph.D., keynote speaker, Geoffrey P. Megaree, Ph.D. and Federation President, Tammy Mitgang join in a toast marking the partnership between Albright College and Jewish Federation of Reading that established the Holocaust Library and Resource Center on the campus. Originally spearheaded by Alma Lakin, Federation President at the time and Daniel Tannenbaum, Federation executive director and former college president, David Ruffer, the evening commemorating this important education resource was bittersweet as the community remembered both Federation and community leaders, now deceased.

Keynote speaker, Geoffrey Megargee speaks with State Sen. Judy Schwank, who offered a proclamation in honor of the Holocaust Center prior to the lecture. Schwank’s predecessor, the late Sen. Michael A. O’Pake, spoke on the occasion of the Center’s dedication on April 19, 1993. (see proclamation on facing page)

Dr. Geoffrey P. Megargee’s discussion shared the research he has headed for the past 13 years. Breaking down the structure of the system, he helped the audience better understand the scope of the ghettos, slave From left, Esther Bratt, a Holocaust survivor; her granddaughter Michele Leisawitz; Michele’s mother-in-law labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazi set up throughout Europe – 42,500 to date. Doris Leisawitz; Sid Bratt, survivor and husband of Esther and their daughter Corinne Wernick view one of Dr. Megargee’s work drew national and international attention after an article in The New York Times, The Samuel Bak’s powerful paintings at the Freedman Gallery on the Campus of Albright College. “Illuminations Holocaust Just Got More Shocking (Sunday Review, March 3, 2013) was published. One of two lead editors on -The Art of Samuel Bak” was exhibited in conjunction with the 20th Anniversary Commemoration of the the project, Megargee and Martin Dean, estimate that 15 million to 20 million people died or were imprisoned in Holocaust Library and Resource Center at Albright College. The Center is a partnership between the college the sites that they have identified as part of a multivolume encyclopedia. The United State Holocaust Memorial and Jewish Federation of Reading. The exhibition was sponsored in part by the Federation. Museum in Washington, D.C. has published the first two volumes, with five more planned by 2025. October 2013 SHALOM Page 5

State Senate issues proclamation in honor of the Albright Holocaust Library & Resource Center Page 6 SHALOM October 2013 Gratz school year gets off to fantastic start

By Rabbi Barry Dov Lerner cashews. (Brochures from *ndulge were Gratz JCHS Reading Branch left behind, as the bakery also prepares The Reading Branch of the Gratz gluten-free baked goods and kosher Jewish Community High School opened gelato in multiple flavors.) Sept. 15 with the largest number of In honor of Sukkot, Rabbi Dov students registered yet in our history. Not prepared a six-page brochure, a further only do we have the largest numbers of copy of which was sent out to each students, we are spread across all five name in our Gratz database. Copies of grades, 8-12, with numbers promising our publications will always be available a good future for our program in years to members of the JCC and Federation. to come. The rabbi regularly provides students NOTE: Any Jewish student in the and families by email and handouts to greater Reading community, grades 8-12, students and parents. is still invited to contact the JCC at 610- Regular email letters are sent to 921-0624 for details and instructions for families bi-weekly from Gratz College registration for Gratz classes, or speak and the JCHS, which enable everyone with Rabbi Dov Lerner at Gratz, 215- to know what is occurring in each of the Instructor Andrew Apt prepares for the first period - note yummies in the bowls! 572-9175. Previous Jewish education branches of JCHS. Gratz maintains a is not required, nor is affiliation with a Facebook presence to which everyone synagogue.. is invited. We invite you to visit the JCHS We invite you to visit the new Gratz Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ College website, www.gratz.edu. gratzjchs We also accomplished to date two Thereafter, the students and teachers 5774 records: we have — among all met for three slightly shorter periods the Gratz branches and locations — (a) to introduce our program of classes: the largest number of new registered “Jewish Bioethics: Sacred Mind and students and (b) the largest number Body,” “Media Messages and Jewish of returning students, proportionally! Values,” “Jewish Heroes: Who and Why,” Congratulations to our entire community, “Tikkun Olam: Hands-on Doing Judaism,” our rabbis and religious schools that feed and we may be changing a class to deal our system. with Israel per the students request. At our first session we began with an “Jewish Bioethics” is a college credit orientation and then a introduction of our course. Students in 11th and 12th new teacher, Andrew Apt, who spoke a grade have the opportunity to choose to bit about himself and his background meet the full requirements, including a — including his professional degrees research paper, with which to transfer 3 in education, his degree from Hebrew credits to college each year. University, his work in informal education Interested students in 11th or 12th with B’nai B’rith Youth Organization and grades (especially pre-law or pre-med) his enthusiasm for teaching teenagers. or their parents are invited to speak We then broke for a very special snack with Rabbi Dov for details or to answer of cupcakes, with a theme proposed questions about the College Credit Class, by Rabbi Dov of “Etrog Cupcakes” or any other courses for any ages, grades for Sukkot — what a success.With 8-12. recipes created by the pastry chef and Don’t overlook JOLT — Jewish Online Glad to be back!! Great eats, great friends, great classes! baked by *ndulge, a new kosher dairy Learning for Teens — another opportunity for interested teens and prospective 1-800-475-4635, x267. To learn more, go bakery in Philadelphia, our students to add credits to a teen transcript for institutional partners is available from to http://gratz.bluestatedigital.com/jchs consumed dozens of cupcakes with college application and credit and/ Project Coordinator, Michael Schatz, at and click on the JOLT link. incredible enthusiasm, accompanied or to simply add credits to one’s total with lemonade and chocolate covered accrued JCHS total. More information

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Pre High Holiday Family Fun People from across the community gathered at the JCC for Pre High Holiday Family Fun. A special thank you to Zeldi Lipsker for bringing the idea to our community. The event’s success was a result of Zeldi’s planning. Thank you to Rabbi Bromberg, Rabbi Michelson and Rabbi Lipsker for their partic- ipation, and to the following volunteers: Megan McIntosh, Rachel McIntosh, Jessica McIntosh, Cecily Hewins, Jojo Ure, Bryce Weizer, Zalman Lipsker, Janine Ure, Mindy Mcintosh and Chana Lipsker

Rabbi Michelson is our guest PJ Library reader, joined by Simon Janine and JoJo Ure,Cecily Hewins and Chase Weizer enjoy Rabbi Lots of activity at the Simchat Torah flag making stand. Julie, Eliana Seesengood, Jennifer, Jacob and Gabrielle (sitting on Daddy’s lap) Bromberg’s Shofar song as she introduces the Shofar Factory. Everyone and Evan Alwies, Daniella ,Sammy and Hannah Leisawitz,Sari and Gurwitz, Aidan Incledon, Jennifer and Beni Beniquez ,Rob Seesengood, at the JCC was invited to make a shofar to take home. Aidan Incledon are waiting patiently for their turn. Ben and Leah Leisawitz. The rabbi read “Today Is the Birthday of the World” by Linda Heller, one of the many PJ Library books sent to young members of our community each month.

Our event was a huge success thanks to our volunteers: Zalman From left, Carol and Gordon Perlmutter’s granddaughter Lizzy is next Zeldi and Shterna Lipsker form round while Rabbi Lipsker Lipsker, Zeldi Lipsker, Bryce Weizer, Rachel McIntosh, Megan in line after Lena Ure finishes making her edible staff for a Simchat and Jennifer Koosed are involved in conversation. Rose and mom McIntosh, Jessie McIntosh seated JoJo Ure and Cecily Hewins Torah flag. Chana Lipsker are in the background.

Sukkot Rabbi Yosef Lipsker and his wife, Chana, hosted members of the community for “Sushi in the Sukkah,” a special event to mark Sukkot at the Chabad Center of Berks County.

Attendees enjoy a delicious treat. Rabbi Lipsker welcomes his guests to the Sukkah. Freshly prepared sushi is on the way. When Thanksgiving meets , fun is sure to follow Gas up the turkey fryer because including a “menurkey” (turkey shaped on Nov. 28 Hanukkah will fall on menorah at www.menurkey.com), Thanksgiving Day for the first time ever! “Thanksgivukkah”* t-shirts and assorted And, the holiday ‘share’ will not happen greeting cards. Creative chefs are again for another 70,000 years. Thanks imagining deep fried turkeys with to an unusual occurrence in the Hebrew stuffing. And, cranberries will most likely and Gregorian calendars, we can all find their way into donuts, cheesecakes enjoy this special moment in Jewish- and blintzes. If a game of is American history — with a side of on your list of activities to stave off a cranberry sauce! tryptophan nap, try substituting chocolate Hanukkah starts on the eve of Nov. covered cranberries or craisins in lieu 27. That’s the night before Thanksgiving of gelt. Cornucopias may overflow with (first candle), which falls on Nov. 28 chocolate gelt and . and marks the first day of our Festival When the sun sets on Thanksgiving, of Lights. Celebrating Thanksgiving in one thing is certain; it will be time to once the light of the is again light a candle on the Hanukkah actually a brilliant pairing. After all, both menorah, the eve of Black Friday! holidays share many of the same values Happy Thanksgivukkah! – religious freedom, gratitude and the -*“Thanksgivukkah” is a word coined gathering together of family and friends. by marketing professional Dana Gitell Retailers and entrepreneurs have and celebrated online at http://www. wasted no time in capturing the moment facebook.com/Thanksgivukkah and by designing souvenir merchandise http://www.twitter.com/Thanksgivukkah. Page 8 SHALOM October 2013 Community News Woman with Reading ties addresses new IDF soldiers Mika Fox, daughter of Don* and Tali of 30 Americans and two months later Fox, was invited to welcome the roughly was drafted into the Israeli Army. I was 400 new soldiers who trained to be an Infantry Instructor — a began their journey this summer. There madrichat chir — and since March I’ve was an impressive ceremony at been teaching both soldiers and, miluim University with more than 1,500 people (reserves) how to use an IDF missile in attendance, including members of known as the Til Gil or Spike. the Knesset, ministers and generals. It’s almost surreal that a year ago I Fox is one of many who was here, listening to other Garin Tzabar have decided to join the Israeli Defense soldiers share their amazing stories. I Forces. Garin Tzabar is a program that couldn’t picture myself in their position — makes that possible/ thinking that accomplishing what they had A link to a video of her speech can be done would be next to impossible! But now found at www.readingjewishcommunity. I can assure you that it’s not only possible, org or at www.youtube.com/watch?v=R- it’s going to happen — I did it, people before RZIYLiwhY&feature=em-share_video_in_ me did it and you will too. Even though this list_user&list=UUy0iTe4GdNbyq2S7_Chligg year has been the most challenging year of Hi everyone! My name is Mika Fox. I my life, having the Garin Tzabar family has Page  Shalom March 2010 am 18 years old and originally from New made every step of the way a great deal York City — but today I’m from easier and much more enjoyable. Maoz Chaim! I am honored to speak to When I first moved to the kibbutz with my Community News you about what this past year has been Garin exactly one year ago, like you all will in a like for me and give you an idea about couple of hours, I must admit I was in a culture some of the things that lie ahead. shock. Moving from Manhattan to Kibbutz Obituaries Mika Fox addresses fellow Jews who have agreed to serve as Israeli soldiers My relationship with Israel started , a small kibbutz near the Jordan when I was young — loving spending border, was such a mind-blowing change, your Garin. In my basic training and Garin Tzabar backpacks on soldiers Lucy Suzanne Knoblauch L. (Sulman) Moyer. He is also survived every summer here with my family and but having a group of 30 American teenagers infantry instructor course, there were ten running to the bus or sitting on the train. Zeidman, 96, Wyomissing. by his daughters, Aileen D., widow early on even thinking that someday around somehow made me feel right at home. Garin Tzabar girls. Having them around You’re all about to embark on an Surviving are a son, Bruce F., of Neal H. Endy, of Pennside, and E. I might want to live here. Then, in I was the first in the group to receive came in handy when I needed a break unforgettable journey where you will husband of Geraldine L. Zeidman, of Roxanne, wife of Les Walker, of Batavia August of my junior year of high school, my draft notice. It happened so fast. My from the Hebrew textbooks or the nights learn so much about yourself. I can Shillington; a brother, Harry Knoblauch, Ohio; sons, Stan B. , husband of Kristine after returning from a trip to Garin friends came right to the rescue. when I missed home. No matter how hard tell you that after only a year you won’t husband of Edith Knoblauch, of Reading; K. Moyer, of Sinking Spring and Jay with the Tzofimmishlachat, I realized They helped me pack, threw me a farewell they try, not even your commanders will believe how much you’ve accomplished a sister, Ruth Balis of Wyomissing; and H., husband of Margaret R. Moyer, of that my feelings towards Israel had party and some even accompanied me be able to understand the life of a lone and how much you’ve changed. I’m several nieces and nephews. Muhlenberg Township. Other survivors changed. I now felt a profound sense of to the IDF draft center in Tiberias a week soldier ­— like the longing for our parents not saying it’ll be easy and always fun --- are grandchildren: Brett A. Endy, Chad responsibility for this country, a duty that later for my draft. I was able to survive the or the importance of Thanksgiving. (because it won’t be), but don’t forget Irene S. Zeidman, 62, Wyomissing. M. Endy and Elizabeth K. Moyer; and I knew I could fulfill by enlisting in the IDF. tough weeks of basic training through their Meeting other lone soldiers, from Garin you’ll always have your Garin members She is survived by her brother Bruce great-grandchildren, Carson N., Logan Since I would be leaving my family support on the phone during the week and Tzabar, both on and off the base, will and the TzofimImages Garin Tzabar from team to help F., husband of Geraldine L. Zeidman C., Ardyn N. and Ava L. Endy behind, I looked for a program that then on weekends at the kibbutz. Even be a reminder that you really aren’t so you along the way. of Shillington. --- would give me both army and emotional now, ten months in, getting through the alone after all ­— that being a It’s beenYemin a true honor Orde speaking to you --- Shirley Robinson of B’nai B’rith support. Garin Tzabar was a perfect fit. week is easier, knowing I have the Garin in the IDF and part of Garin Tzabar is today andArea from resident the bottom and recent of my college heart I Robert Berger, 54, Reading. Apartments. Survived by her Friendship Last August my dream finally came true family to come home to. something that connects each one of us wish yougraduate all the Jessica very best! Flamholz sent us He was the former spouse of Lea Circle friends. — I moved to Israel with a Garin (group) Encouragement isn’t only found within in the shared passion and love for Israel. *A nativethese pictures of Berks from County, her recent Don Foxvisit is Berger, Reading. He is survived by --- We’re scattered throughout the country, owner ofto Fox Yemin Theatres Orde, an LLC Israeli with villagelocations two daughters, Molly R. Berger, State Louis Malamud, 95, formerly all of us — just look for the bright blue in Exeterfor Township children and and youth Wyomissing. supported College, and Bethany S. Berger, of Temple. He is survived by a son, by our Federation. Reading; and one brother, Dr. Barry M. Mitchel, husband of Laura Malamud, Berger, husband of Kathleen A. Vieweg, of Las Vegas; grandchildren Barry , Mass. husband of Johna Malamud, Deborah --- Babbit-Malamud and Sheri Malamud; All Around the Town______David Moyer, 85, Reading. and great-grandchildren: Jessy Babbit, , who has received the honor of He is survived by his wife, Marjorie Carly Malmud and Ian Malamud. By CongratulationsJoan G. 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Israel is in many of the students keeps teaching and true learning are embodied on singing and songwriting as healing ways closer to us here in the States than talking on and on in our whole selves. This teacher’s practices at a conference on spiritual it has ever been. Without a doubt, I’ll be and on about all the wisdom and goodness filled his whole care; I hope to visit some folks from able to stay connected with life here in great things they have being; it’s who he is and how he lives Reading who are currently in Israel; I’ll Reading in ways that would not have learned from their rabbi that with each breath, not only what he be working on increasing my Hebrew been imaginable 30 years ago. And, in the past and all the says (as wise as that might be). Because fluency; and I’m delighted that Tammy thank God, we can connect with Israel great things they are sure to learn this of this, his student could learn from his Mitgang has a mission or two for me. from anywhere in the world. time as well: all the wonderful stories smallest gesture. We learn most deeply But in large part I am going to Tel Aviv But there are still things we can learn he tells, the unforgettable lessons he about who we are and who we want to be to see how it “ties its shoes.” The city will best by true immersion in the day-to-day teaches. Finally the student turns to his from watching how other folks live their be my teacher, embodying its culture, its of a place. I am excited to deepen my traveling companion and says, “You’ve daily lives, not just from listening to them wisdom, and its challenges in its smallest connection with Israel by living there been kind of quiet; what’s your favorite tell us how we ought to be. gesture. I want to learn from how people again. And I am looking forward to teaching that our great teacher has As many of you know, my husband stand in line at the grocery store, from coming back and sharing with you all that given? Is it a story about moral behavior? will be spending the fall semester on a how they order in the restaurant. I want I have gleaned. Perhaps I’ll even change Is it one of his fantastic explanations of graduate research fellowship at Tel Aviv to see what books people read on the bus how I tie my shoes. Theater group to headline Jewish Food & Cultural Festival The annual Jewish Food & Cultural guests the highlight is dessert. Our Festival returns to Reform Congregation famous apple cakes sell out every year, Oheb Sholom in Wyomissing Sunday, and pastries such as ruggalah and Nov. 3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. mandel bread are big hits as well. There’s New for this year: Reading Theater much more on the menu, too. Project takes the best of Yiddish Theater A ticket good for one dinner, deli, or songs, Borscht Belt comedy and modern Israeli platter costs $12 in advance. The Broadway hits by Jewish writers and same meals cost $13 if purchased the composers and presents a vaudeville day of the festival. Advance tickets are for all ages. Featured performers include available from Oheb Sholom members Christine Cieplinski, Joel Gori, Vicki and the synagogue office. Graff, Chris Heslop and Amy Shea. Other highlights include performances The event features a wide variety by the congregation’s choir, tours of the Chris Heslop Christine Cieplinski of delicious food for sale, most of sanctuary by Rabbi Brian Michelson, which is prepared by members of the Jewish educational displays and the sale congregation. But there’s much more of gift items by the Temple Sisterhood to do than eat. Admission is free for the and Ofar Enterprises. 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Linda Maizels, PhD, the Senior garnered a number of positive reviews, in infrastructure. Rather than relying on In other words, my coffee date with Ziad Associate for Israel and Middle East part for its even-handed approach. I went airstrikes, Israel sought to minimize Doueiri is not a solution. After exhausting affairs from the Jewish Federation of to see the film because I was curious to Palestinian casualties by sending in all of the safe topics (film, food, wine) we Greater Philadelphia, traveled to the see what someone from had to ground troops. A total of 23 Israeli would have to move to the final status GoggleWorks in September and led a say on the subject. In a Jerusalem Report soldiers, most of them reservists, were issues: settlements, re­fugees, Jerusalem. discussion group following a screening article, Doueiri expressed a similar killed. Furthermore, we would have to confront of the film “The Attack.” She presented a curiosity: “I was brought up believing that Immediately following the incursion, the clash between the ways we see and short ’s attempts to secure all Israelis were gung-ho Goliaths,” he allegations of a “massacre” of thousands understand the conflict. On certain issues, peace. She addressed some of the explained. “But when I arrived (in Israel), of Palestinian­ civilians began to spread it is obvious that we do not — and possibly issues raised in the film within historical I found that I was working with people and were repeated by credulous will not ever — agree. The massacre that context. The audience, a mix of loyal who think like me and have a decent members of the media. The truth was he remembers is, for me, a slanderous GoggleWorks film discussion participants perspective of the conflict.” later confirmed by a United Nations accusation against the state of Israel. and other new faces listened intently Reading this, I began to wonder: what investigation: there were 52 Palestinian Nevertheless, I believe that there is to her informative narratives. A lively would it be like to get to know — perhaps deaths. While the numbers were dismal, no choice but to move forward, As Oz question and answer session followed. even to have coffee with — a man like this was no massacre. Many media trenchantly stated, “I don’t need to go The lights dimmed and we exited the Doueiri? For the first two-thirds of the outlets recanted and some apologized for somewhere for a tête-à-tête with my theater to continue our discussions in movie, it seemed to me we might share spreading misinformation. Nevertheless, Palestinian colleagues in order to get to the parking lot. a “decent perspective of the conflict.” the damage to Israel’s reputation was like them — I like them, and yet they are Below is a related article Dr. Maizels But I began to question that view when done. Meanwhile the myth of the my enemies, and it is precisely because wrote for the Jewish Exponent, which the characters in the movie explained Jenin massacre lives on, ready to be they are my enemies that I believe I need published it in September. It appears that Siham was radicalized because she resurrected whenever its destructive to make peace with them.” If I were to here courtesy of the Exponent. saw the aftermath of the Israeli army’s power is needed. have coffee with Doueiri, I would have no Peace talks between Israel and the incursion into Jenin in 2002. The line that Israeli novelist Amos Oz wrote that illusions. No matter how much I might like began last month, at about relates this information to the audience is he was bemused by the invitations he or respect him, I know that we understand the same time that the movie “The almost a throwaway. As the Village Voice received from “well-meaning” European the Israeli-Arab conflict — its past, present Attack” was playing in area theaters. “The review explained, “We discover which and North American groups to spend and future — in very different ways. Attack” is a film about a suicide bombing particular controversy radicalized her, time in “idyllic retirement” with Palestinian Nevertheless, with eyes wide open in Tel Aviv and its effect on Dr. Amin but neither Jaafari nor the movie makes artists and intellectuals so they would get and always expecting the worst, I still Jaafari, a secular Muslim who is deeply much of that.” to know and like each other. Oz explained want that coffee date, even knowing that integrated into Israeli Jewish society. His Indeed, for those less knowledgeable that Israelis and Palestinians are not I do not, ultimately, want to make friends. complacency is threatened, however, about the conflict, “Jenin” is merely a victims of a simple misunderstanding; Instead, I want to sit with my enemy and when he discovers that his wife, Siham, placeholder for generalized suffering by they are combatants in a very real conflict. find a way to make peace. a Christian Arab from Nazareth with no Palestinians at the hands of Israelis. But “This conflict,” Oz continued, “can be *** history of political extremism, was the “Jenin” refers to something quite specific: resolved through compromise, through a Linda Maizels, who has a doctorate in suicide bomber. in response to a suicide bombing in partition, but not by simply having a nice Jewish studies from Hebrew University, Directed by Ziad Doueiri, a Lebanese- Netanya that killed 29 people, the Israeli cup of coffee with the enemy. Rivers of lives in Melrose Park, Pa. This piece was American who worked as a cameraman army reoccupied Jenin, which was seen coffee cannot extinguish the tra­gedy of adapted from a recent talk she gave at a for Quentin Tarentino, “The Attack” as the heart of the terrorist two peoples loving the same homeland.” showing of the movie in Reading. Technology park to aid development of Negev region American Associates, A similar amount of space next to “This is a project that took courage Ben Gurion University of the Negev the commercial park will be used by and vision to implement,” Suomi said. BEER-SHEVA, Israel — The the (IDF), whose “Without the unwavering support of development of the Negev took a elite technology units are relocating [Beer-Sheva’s] Mayor Ruvik Danilovich, significant leap in September with the to the Negev to take advantage of the BGU President Rivka Carmi and their inauguration of Beer-Sheva’s Advanced resources at BGU and in the ATP. leadership teams, I doubt we could have Technologies Park (ATP), in which Ben- Prime Minister Netanyahu declared been successful. It is one of the best Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) is the park a national cyber center that will examples in the world of the public and the academic research partner. Prime maximize the resources of the University, private sectors successfully partnering.” Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presided the IDF and the new high-tech tenants. Prof. Rivka Carmi concluded in her over the ribbon-cutting ceremony. In order to advance the issue, NIS remarks, “The opening of the Advanced A joint public-private partnership $11 million in government support has Technologies Park in Beer-Sheva will of BGU, the Beer-Sheva Municipality, been allocated over the next three be remembered as the turning point in KUD International LLC, and Gav-Yam years for companies that establish cyber the development of the Negev. We have Negev, the first building of the ATP was innovation centers in Beer-Sheva. always been at the geographical heart completed and occupied this summer Speaking at the ceremony last week, of Israel. Now we are on our way to by international companies that include he stated that “we are launching the becoming the true center for innovation Oracle, Deutsche Telekom, EMC², RSA, economic anchor that will turn Beer- Benjamin Netanyahu at the ribbon cutting and growth.” and ECI Telecom. New incubators such Sheva into a national and international “This academic-businessgovernment *** as Elbit Incubit and Jerusalem Venture center for cyber security. We are changing partnership is the ultimate fulfillment of Partner’s CyberLabs, as well as BGN the future of Israel and we are doing it in David Ben- Gurion’s dream to develop the American Associates, Ben-Gurion Technologies, BGU’s technology transfer Beer-Sheva.” Negev through science and technology.” University of the Negev plays a vital company, have also taken space. Cyber security is a major focus and “BGU will play a prominent role in role in sustaining David Ben-Gurion’s When completed, the ATP will be strength at Ben-Gurion University of the major technology innovations that will vision, creating a world-class institution adjacent to BGU’s Marcus Family Negev. The University’s emphasis on secure Israel’s future.” of education and research in the Israeli Campus and will encompass 16 buildings applied research in information systems The project was originally the desert, nurturing the Negev community on 23 acres, with 2 million square feet of is unparalleled in Israel. vision of MK Prof. Avishay Braverman, and sharing the University’s expertise office and lab space, a conference center “The goal is to create a ‘Silicon Wadi,’ conceived when he was president of locally and around the globe. With some and hotel. harnessing the research and brainpower BGU. However, it was not until 2007 that 20,000 students on campuses in Beer- The site was designed by KUD emerging from BGU and the IDF, as it moved to the national agenda when Sheva, Sede Boqer and Eilat in Israel’s International LLC, based in Los Angeles, well as to provide high paying jobs to Marvin J.Suomi, the Los Angeles-based southern desert, BGU is a university and a subsidiary of the Japan-based keep Israel’s best and brightest in the president and chief executive officer with a conscience, where the highest Kajima Corporation, one of the world’s area,” said Doron Krakow, executive vice of KUD International became involved, academic standards are integrated with largest development and construction president of American Associates, Ben- bringing the parties together to develop community involvement, committed to firms. Gurion University of the Negev (AABGU). the project. sustainable development of the Negev. 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The annual James J. Gallagher Memorial Lecture at Albright College on Thursday, February 13 will be presented by Amy-Jill Levine, a leading New Testament scholar and author. The topic of her discussion will be “Jesus, Judaism, and Jewish-Christian Relations.” Details of the lecture including time and campus location will follow. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Dr. Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and College of Arts and Sciences. She holds a B.A. from Smith College, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University, and honorary doctorates from Christian Theological Seminary, Drury University, the University of Richmond, the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, and the University of South Caroline-Upstate.

Her books include “The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus” (HarperOne), the edited collection “The Historical Jesus in Context” (Princeton), and the fourteen-volume edited series, “Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings” (Continuum). With Marc Brettler of Brandeis University, she has edited the Jewish Annotated New Testament (Oxford).

The Jewish Annotated New Testament, edited entirely by Jews, includes notes and explanatory essays by 50 leading Jewish scholars, including Susannah Heschel, a historian and the daughter of the theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel: the Talmudist Daniel Boyarian: and Shaye J. D. Cohen, who teachers ancient Judaism at Harvard.

In her Vanderbilt profile, Dr. Levine describes herself as a “Yankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a predominately Christian divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt.”

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Page 12 SHALOM October 2013 Daedalus Quartet presents ‘Music from Exile’ on Jan. 4 On Saturday, Jan. 4, at 8 p.m., The Daedalus Quartet — Artists: Min- Founded 12 years ago, the Daedalus renowned Juilliard-trained clarinetist Friends of Chamber Music will present Young Kim, violin; Matilda Kaul, violin; Quartet has established itself as one of Alexander Fiterstein, winner of the the Daedalus Quartet in a program Jessica Thompson, viola and Thomas the most exciting of America’s chamber 2009 Avery fisher Career Grant. He is featuring works by a group of composers Kraines, cello. Guest Artist, Alexander ensembles. a professor of clarinet at the University forced into various forms of exile by the Fiterstein, clarinet — is sponsored by It has performed in many of the of Minnesota, and a member of the third Reich, “Music from the Exile.” the Arthur and Beatrice Hammel Music world’s leading music venues, including Fiterstein-Peled-Goldstein Trio. From those who were arrested and Series Fund of Jewish Federation of Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Library Jewish Federation of Reading is never completed the journey to exile, to Reading. of Congress, Washington’s Corcoran pleased to sponsor Mr. Fiterstein’s those who spent the war years far from Music from Exile Gallery, and Boston’s Gardner Museum. performance through the Arthur home, and those forced into internal exile Erwin Schulhoff: Five Pieces for It has been the Quartet-in-Residence and Beatrice Hammel Music Series within a state to which they were vocally String Quarter (1923) of Columbia University since 2005 and Fund. opposed, the effect on their music was of the University of Pennsylvania since The 2013-2014 season marks the profound. Paul Hindemith: Quintet for Clarinet 2006. Friends of Chamber Music’s 61st year This first appearance of the Daedalus and Strings, Op. 30 (1923, rev. 1954), Cellist Thomas Kraines has performed of bringing chamber music concerts Quartet in Reading occurs in 2014, the with guest artist, Alexander Fiterstein, in Reading in 2008 on the Friends of in Reading. The concerts are free and year that will mark the 75th anniversary of clarinet Chamber Music Stirling Series with his open to the public. Donations are always the outbreak of World War II. The concert wife, violinist Juliette Kang. appreciated. is free (donations appreciated) and open Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String Quartet Of local interest, Thomas’ father, The Friends of Chamber Music is a to the public and will be presented in the No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 66 (1945) David is Judith Kraines’ father’s brother’s nonprofit organization and supported in newly renovated WCR Center for the son. Judith and her husband, Dr. Neil part by a grant from the Reading Musical Arts, 140 N. 5th St. in downtown Reading. Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String Hoffman, live in Spring Township. Foundation. To learn more about the Free parking is available. Seating is on a Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 34 (1945) For the Hindemuth Quintet, the ‘Friends’ 2013-2014 season – www. first come basis. Daedalus Quarter will be joined by the chambermusicreading.org.

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But the more he learns one young man’s search for happiness— cable networks such as FX and AMC, Hearts, Souls and Wars in Hungary” about his perfect girlfriend’s unresolved and an inside look at how he really thinks dramatically stretched television’s by Marianne Szegedy-Maszak past, the further Eric’s obsessive mind about women, sex and love. narrative inventiveness, emotional A magnificent wartime love story spirals into confusion and doubt. *** resonance, and artistic ambition. No about the forces that brought the author’s This brilliant debut ushers Eric Muller “Last Car Over the Sagamore longer necessarily concerned with parents together and those that nearly — flawed, funny, irresistibly endearing- Bridge” by Peter Orner creating always-likable characters, plots drove them apart into the pantheon of unlikely heroes. The long-awaited second collection that wrapped up neatly every episode, Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s parents, *** of stories from a writer whose first was or subjects that were deemed safe Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in “Memories of a Marriage” by Louis hailed as “one of the best story collections and appropriate, shows such as “The Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in Begley of the last decade” (Kevin Brockmeier). Wire,” “The Sopranos,” “Mad Men,” the foreign ministry—a vocal anti-Fascist From the author of “Wartime Lies” In “Last Car Over the Sagamore “Deadwood,” :The Shield” and more who was in talks with the Allies when and “About Schmidt,” an irresistibly Bridge,” Orner zeroes in on the strange tackled issues of life and death, love and he was arrested and sent to Dachau. entertaining novel about a man struggling ways our memories define us: A woman’s sexuality, addiction, race, violence, and She was the granddaughter of Manfred to understand his friends’ seemingly husband dies before their divorce is existential boredom. Weiss, the industrialist patriarch of an charmed marriage, which may have been finalized; a man runs for governor of This revolution happened at the aristocratic Jewish family that owned doomed from the start. Illinois and loses much more than an hands of a new breed of auteur: the all- factories, were patrons of intellectuals In the unforgiving class system of election; two brothers play beneath the powerful writer-show runner. These were and artists, and entertained dignitaries the 1950s, Lucy de Bourgh, daughter infamous bridge at Chappaquiddick. men nearly as complicated, idiosyncratic, at their baronial estates. Though many in of one of Rhode Island’s first families Orner presents a kaleidoscope of and difficult as the conflicted protagonists the family had converted to Catholicism and beneficiary of an ample trust fund, individual lives viewed in startling, that defined the genre. Given the chance decades earlier, when the Germans was married to Thomas Snow, son intimate close-up. to make art in a maligned medium, they invaded Hungary in March 1944, they of a Newport garage owner and his *** fell upon the opportunity with unchecked were forced into hiding. In a secret and bookkeeper wife. It hardly mattered that “Margot” by Jillian Cantor ambition. controversial deal brokered with Heinrich Thomas was a graduate of Harvard Anne Frank has long been a symbol *** Himmler, the family turned over their Business School, or that he went to work of bravery and hope, but there were two “Kafka:The Years of Insight” vast holdings in exchange for their safe for a great Wall Street firm and succeeded sisters hidden in the annex, two young by Reiner Stach, translated from the passage to Portugal. beyond expectations. In Lucy’s eyes, he Jewish girls, one a cultural icon made German by Shelley Frisch Framed by a cache of letters written remained a “townie.” Decades later, a famous by her published diary and the This volume of Reiner Stach’s between 1940 and 1947, Szegedy- chance meeting brings Lucy together other, nearly forgotten. acclaimed and definitive biography of Maszák’s family memoir tells the with Philip, our narrator. They’d known In the spring of 1959, “The Diary Franz Kafka tells the story of the final story, at once intimate and epic, of the each other earlier, and he remembers her of Anne Frank” has just come to the years of the writer’s life, from 1916 complicated relationship Hungary had as a ravishing, funny, ready-for-anything silver screen to great acclaim, and a to 1924 — a period during which the with its Jewish population—the moments hellion with a well-earned reputation for young woman named Margie Franklin world Kafka had known came to an end. of glorious humanism that stood apart generosity with sexual favors. He also is working in Philadelphia as a secretary Stach’s riveting narrative, which reflects from its history of anti-Semitism—and remembers Thomas, killed in a freak at a Jewish law firm. On the surface the latest findings about Kafka’s life and with the rest of the world. She resurrects accident years after his and Lucy’s she lives a quiet life, but Margie has a works, draws readers in with a nearly in riveting detail a lost world of splendor divorce, and is shocked to hear Lucy refer secret: a life she once lived, a past and cinematic power, zooming in for extreme and carefully limns the moral struggles to Thomas insistently as “that monster.” a religion she has denied, and a family close-ups of Kafka’s personal life, then that history exacted — from a country How is he to reconcile that unexpected and a country she left behind. pulling back for panoramic shots of a and its individuals. and overflowing reservoir of bitterness Margie Franklin is really Margot Frank, wider world scarred by World War I, *** and resentments with his own memories? older sister of Anne, who did not die in disease, and inflation. “Hothouse: The Art of Survival Philip sets out on a quest that soon Bergen-Belsen as reported, but who In these years, Kafka was spared and the Survival of Art at America’s becomes an obsession to discover who instead escaped the Nazis for America. military service at the front, yet his Most Celebrated Publishing House” exactly these friends were whom he had But now, as her sister becomes a global work as a civil servant brought him into by Boris Kachka understood so incompletely, and what icon, Margie’s carefully constructed chilling proximity with its grim realities. Farrar, Straus and Giroux is arguably happened in their marriage. Through American life begins to fall apart, and she The outbreak of tuberculosis and the the most influential publishing house of Philip’s patient probing, a brilliant portrait is forced to come to terms with Margot, collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire the modern era. Home to an unrivaled emerges of Begley’s heroine. with the people she loved, and with a life constituted a double shock for Kafka, 25 Nobel Prize winners and generation- *** swept up into the course of history. and made him agonizingly aware of defining authors such as T. S. Eliot, “Freud’s Mistress” by Karen Mack Nonfiction his increasing rootlessness. He began Flannery O’Connor, Susan Sontag, and Jennifer Kaufman “Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures to pose broader existential questions, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Philip Roth, A page-turning novel inspired by the of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster — The and his writing grew terser and more and Jonathan Franzen, it’s a cultural true-life love affair between Sigmund Creators of Superman” by Brad Ricca reflective. institution. But FSG is no ivory tower—the Freud and his sister-in-law. In time for the 75th anniversary A door seemed to open in the form owner’s wife called the office a “sexual It is fin-de-siècle Vienna and Minna of the Man of Steel comes the first of a passionate relationship with the sewer” — and its untold story is as Bernays, an overeducated lady’s comprehensive literary biography of Czech journalist Milena Jesenská. But tumultuous and engrossing as many of companion with a sharp, wry wit, is Shuster and Siegel, creators of Superman the romance was unfulfilled and Kafka, the great novels it has published. abruptly fired, yet again, from her position. and the inspiration for Michael Chabon’s an incurably ill German Jew with a Czech Kachka deftly reveals the era and the She finds herself out on the street and out “Kavalier and Clay.” passport, continued to suffer. However, city that built FSG through the stories of of options. In 1895, the city may be aswirl Drawing on 10 years of research his predicament only sharpened his two men: founder-owner Roger Straus, with avant-garde artists and revolutionary in the trenches of Cleveland libraries, perceptiveness, and the final period of the pugnacious black sheep of his ideas, yet a woman’s only hope for boarded-up high schools, and secret, his life became the years of insight. powerful German-Jewish family — with security is still marriage. But Minna is private collections, and a love of comic *** his bottomless supply of ascots, charm, unwilling to settle. Out of desperation, books, this is the first full biography of “Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography and vulgarity of every stripe — and his she turns to her sister Martha for help. Superman’s creators. Among scores of of Raphael Lemkin,” edited by Donna-Lee utter opposite, the reticent, closeted *** new discoveries, the book reveals the first Frieze editor Robert Giroux, who rose from “The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.” stories and pictures ever published by Among the greatest intellectual working-class New Jersey to discover the by Adelle Waldman the two, where the first Superman story heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin novelists and poets who helped define Bold, touching, and funny — a debut really came from, the real inspiration for lived an extraordinary life of struggle and American culture. Page 14 SHALOM October 2013 A few great books of a great people

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TANAKH SECTION WITH 10. Earth color and Jamie had been me be a better person in the coming JEREMIAH, MICAH, AMOS (two words) 11. Highly admired use of social media in the Canary Islands year. It is a day when life slows down 20. Strive to attain to publicize website (acronym preceded for her best friend’s and we take the time to pray together. 22. Play with another’s mind, jokingly by accolade) wedding. I made an Unfortunately, I didn’t think of this until (as an option here, 2 words) 12. Hey! ___’_ roll! off-the-cuff remark we hung up. Perhaps you agree with 23. VOCALIZATION BY FAUNAL 13. Leisure about “well they must me, the friends I told the story to while SYMBOL OF JUDAH (2 words) 19. School non-profit not be Jewish if they got married on baking apple cakes did, or perhaps you 26. FINE ___ DECORATED THE 21. The small-time gambler had great faith Yom Kippur”. Matt said they were not also think it is OK. This is not meant TEMPLE. READ CHRONICLES. ______, in his own, of course (2 words) but that many invited were. to be judgmental, as that is God’s job, 27. GREAT EXPANSES OF ____ 24. The paper relied __ __ rather than His explanation was that their not mine. We’re still friends. I do WERE ENCOUNTERED IN THE SINAI on Reuters or NYT (2 words) families were spread all over the world, not think you are a bad person if you 28. Tactic of deceit 25. The ______. Henry virtually as were their friends, and that was the don’t agree. We just have different 30. Theater district sign invented the short story only date they could agree upon. He philosophies. 33. Scientist exclaims; Hey, found this 29. Ici __ (here and there, in Quebec) went on to say that one couple there This is a cookie that came from ___ __ the atom’s corner! 31. Large mythical bird had decided to observe Yom Kippur Facebook. Pinterest has had lots of 36. Julie ______, great director of 32. Where surgs. work on another weekend, they could pray good ones recently. It’s also fairly theater (Lion King, Spider-Man) 34. Hockey great Bobby and fast Yom Kippur-style anytime. healthy and gluten free. Don’t let the 39. , BARUCH, JUDITH 35. “The Science Guy” and family After all, the wedding was being held chick peas throw you off; you’ll never & OTHERS ARE ______(2 words) 37. Alphabet start after sundown to respect those of the know they are there. 43. Esteem with great respect 38. Popular singer Faviere with first Jewish faith present. Jamie’s mother 44. Land _’____, company that markets name in Hebrew and stepdad took another avenue by Chocolate Chip yarn, fine needlework 39. HERO OF LEON URIS’ EXODUS declining an invitation to the wedding Peanut Butter Cookies 45. Anger 40. “for each” because it was Yom Kippur. Jamie was 1 ¼ c. canned chick peas well-rinsed 46. Certain settled inhabitants of central, 41. 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JFS TaxiFood Transportation Bank Program $25 $20 JFS Taxi Transportation Program $20 ContributionsContributions asas ofof April Sept. 16 17 Holocaust Library & Resource Center $18 DorisHolocaust Levin Library Fund & Resource Center $18 $10 Holocaust Library & Resource Center Doris Levin Fund $10 InUJA-Federation honor of: Campaign Jaclyn Shor’s wedding – Debbie Goodman and John Moyer In honorSidney of: Bratt’s Special Birthday – Hilde Gernsheimer, Trina Rudolph Birth of Debbie Goodman’s granddaughter – Dena and Vic Hammel Sarah Simon’s engagement – Vic and Dena Hammel Michael Clymin (Ellen Abramson’s father) – Susan and Richard D’Angelo Robert Kauffman’s Special Birthday – Hilde Gernsheimer, Trina Rudolph Birth of Sam and Alex Goodman’s daughter – Dena and Vic Hammel Alma and Ed Lakin’s new home – Vic and Dena Hammel, Mildred & Ivan Frank Mehringer – Edith Mendelsohn Ed Lakin’s Special Birthday – Debbie Goodman and John Moyer, Lynn Salpeter, Samara Blum and Matt Jacobs’ engagement – Dena and Vic Hammel, Debbie Gordon Lois and Irv Cohen, Sue and Herb Wachs, Barbara Nazimov, Eunice & Al Boscov, Meg Goodman and John Moyer Sam Goodman’s engagement – Alma and Ed Lakin Boscov & Randy Brown, Ellen Boscov and Todd Taylor, Ruth and Michael Aichenbaum Ed Lakin’s special birthday – Rob and Yvonne Oppenheimer Alyse Corbin’s marriage – Carol and Bernie Gerber, Alma and Ed Lakin Rosalye Yashek’s Birthday – Hilde Gernsheimer DorisTrudy Levin Katz’s Fundbirthday – Rob and Yvonne Oppenheimer SueHolocaust Viener’s Library Birthday and Resource– Yvonne Center& Rob Oppenheimer20th Anniversary – Hilde Gernsheimer In memory of: Birth of Selma Cutler’s great-grandson Jacob - Debbie Goodman and John Dr. Walter Gershenfeld – Stephanie and Dennis Arbige, Carole and Mike In memory of: Moyer Robinson Les Lerner – Sue and George Viener Birth of Carol and Gordon Perlmutter’s new grandson – Debbie Goodman and Shoshana Tannenbaum – Carole and Mike Robinson Pauline Israel (Solange Mintz’s mother) – Rob and Yvonne Oppenheimer JohnJewish Moyer Family Service In memory of: Harvey-Ann Ross – Lois and Irv Cohen Shirley Ullman – Carol and Gordon Perlmutter HolocaustShirley Ullman Library – Judy and and JerryResource Berger Center Get well: In memory of: Pauline Israel (Solange Mintz’s mother) – Carol and Gordon Perlmutter Harold Leifer – Rob and Yvonne Oppenheimer Shoshana Tannenbaum – Ken and Mary Holt, George and Sue Viener, Sue Schlanger,JFS Taxi GordonTransportation and Carol Perlmutter, Program Leah Kanter-Salis, Rosemary and John In honor of: Deegan,In memory Naum of: and Lyudmila Ger, Louis and Katherine Danzico, Florence and EvelynBernard Thompson Mendelsohn’s Nursery birthday School– Marcia andFund George Eligman In memory of: MarvinSidney Segal, Kane Vic – Sueand andDena George Hammel, Viener Emma Holder, Susan Gallagher, Mildred & Birth of Debbie Goodman’s granddaughter Violet Patricia Goodman – Louise Shoshana Tannenbaum – Beth and Bob Caster Ivan Gordon, Carrie & Stephen Latman, Judy, Bob & Susan Pollack, Anna & Moisey Zeidman Schneider,PJ Library Norman Fund & Rita Wilikofsky, Audrey Williams, Alan and Esther Strauss, Andrew Oppenheimer and Susan Kirby’s engagement – Barbara Nazimov JayIn honor and Evelyn of: Lipschutz, Carol and Bernie Gerber, Barbara and Seth Rosenzweig, JewishMargo FamilyFilstein’s Serviceengagement – Barbara Nazimov In honor of: JohnBen Castrege and Michele and Leisawitz’sfamily, Michael new homeGeraci, – SueMaxine and &George Dick Henry, Viener Piekara Family, Ed Lakin’s Special Birthday – Andy and Corinne Wernick Birth of Carol and Gordon Perlmutter’s new grandson – Sue and George Viener, LauraBirth Higgins of Debbie Goodman’s new granddaughter – Sue and George Viener Betsy and Al Katz Bat Mitzvah of Fran Mendelsohn’s granddaughter – Rosalye Yashek Federation Jewish Community Campaign FriendshipLakin Early CircleEducation Center In honor of: In memoryhonor of: of: Get well: Ed Lakin’s special birthday – Bob & Kaye Ullman ShoshanaEngagement Tannenbaum of Andrew Oppenheimer – Jill and Gladys and Susan Skaist Kirby – Sue and Mel Blum Harold Leifer – Glenn and Gaye Corbin Holocaust educationJewish Community spreading Calendar in Berks Corrections County The following are updates and corrections to the Jewish Community Calendar for 2013/2014 Continued from Page 5 also that the students are genuinely On a wider note, there have justice and Holocaust remembrance today. silence is not the reason why survivors interested in hearing their stories. 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Pete has resurrected a professor also teaches at Reading Area course on Holocaust Literature at Twin Community College.  Valley, and its first offering is during PUZZLEAs mentioned SOLUTION above, Kim Yashek, the current fourth quarter. He is very daughter of the late local Holocaust excited about offering this course to survivor Richard Yashek, is speaking at  his students and has even lined up Twin Valley, Hamburg and Fleetwood.  several guest speakers including Rabbi Right now Albright College is hosting Brian Michelson, Kim Yashek and Hilde an exhibit titled, “Stories Among Us: Gernsheimer. Washington State Connections to the Jim Konecke is teaching at Wilson Holocaust, Lessons in Genocide.” The Central Junior High but will be moving up exhibit includes the stories of five Holocaust to Wilson High School at the beginning survivors and one liberator and has of next school year. He will be offering a received good reviews. It is definitely course on Nazi Germany. His students worth a visit! It will be at Albright’s Gingrich will be studying this period of German Library through May 10. history in depth, including a study of the *** rise of anti-Semitism, the initial period of Jennifer Goss teaches social studies the Holocaust and the Final Solution. The in the Fleetwood School District and latter part of the course will look at post-war specializes in Holocaust education. Plan for your Bar/Bat Mitzvah & Wedding Guests!

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