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Happy Chanukah! Connected Jewish Federation of NEPA Non-profit Organization 601 Jefferson Ave. U.S. POSTAGE PAID The Scranton, PA 18510 Permit # 184 Watertown, NY Change Service Requested Published by the Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania VOLUME XI, NUMBER 23 NOVEMBER 29, 2018 In Israel, missile alert apps save lives -- and spread anxiety BY SAM SOKOL “It was stressing me out a lot more than JERUSALEM (JTA) – Four years ago, it should’ve.” on the eve of the Israeli military’s Gaza Aviva Adler said she had turned off operation known as Protective Edge, a notifications because “it was just too private developer created the Red Alert nerve-wracking.” app providing real-time notification when Inside the areas most likely to be tar- missiles or rockets were fired into Israel. geted, the apps have become essential. But Since then, Red Alert and smartphone even those living at a distance from Gaza apps like it have become tools for saving say they want to know when the missiles lives, social media sites in their own right are incoming, often as a way of showing – a portable source of anxiety for Israelis solidarity with their fellow Israelis. already living in a state of high alert. “I use it, so that each time there is a As Hamas and other terrorist groups siren anywhere, I pray for the people there again fired hundreds of rockets at cities to have strength and be safe,” said Chana and towns in Israel’s south recently, alert Shields Rosenfelder of Beit Shemesh, a apps were again pinging and buzzing central Israeli city located between Jeru- their way into the Israeli psyche. When a salem and Tel Aviv. reporter asked on Facebook if they made Barbara Freedman of Jerusalem echoed users anxious, Israelis were quick to agree. that feeling. “I put on an app so that I am “I had to turn it off,” Izzy Berkson said. aware of the suffering of our brothers and sisters in the south, and so my life is not ‘business as usual,’” she said. Smoke rose from a fallen rocket fired from Gaza in a field in southern Israel near That impulse is felt even thousands of the border on November 13. (Hadas Parush/Flash90) miles away. Shmuel Katz, an American immigrant living in Beit Shemesh, recalled Paul Frosh, a professor of communi- and military don’t always approve. how his son, who had moved back to the cations at Hebrew University, says the During the Israel-Hamas conflict in 2014, United States, had gotten in trouble at apps are in a tradition of more humble Daniel Tal-Or, who lives in Efrat, near work because his phone wouldn’t stop technologies, including church bells and Jerusalem, was having issues with Israel’s buzzing. The son had to explain to a sirens, that have been used not only to official air raid notification system. “My stunned supervisor that dozens of rockets signal specific events, but to “connect wife is hearing impaired, and we had were being launched at Israeli citizens, and people to each other across space and problems with the sirens not reaching Israeli apps alert users whenever a that he had installed Red Alert in order to time.” Like the Muslim call to prayer or everyone” in our town, he recalled. “In missile is headed into the country. (Photo “keep up and make sure that his family the Shabbat siren that sounds in Jerusalem, situations like this, it’s very important by Sam Sokol) here was safe.” he said they enable people to “feel part of that you have a backup.” the community at the same time.” With missiles from Gaza again raining However, unlike those previous down on Israel, Tal-Or created his own methods, users of the modern-day alert take on Red Alert. Sitting in front of his essings and j apps opt in and are “deliberately making computer, he cobbled together a bot that u bl oy th yo is themselves the subject of an emergency would warn members of his family’s ng se broadcast,” Frosh said. “That’s a very chat channel on the communications hi as is o powerful opt-in medium of social soli- app Discord when a rocket threatened W n darity and cohesion.” their location. Asked if he believes that the use of such See “Alert” on page 5 apps contributes to the spread of anxiety among the population, Frosh replied that it very well might do so. But what he finds even more interesting is why people would 2019 UJA choose to subject themselves to that. “It’s almost as if people are saying ‘I Pay it forward & give to should be anxious, I live in a community with these people, even if they are strang- the 2019 Jewish Federation ers,’ and it’s almost as if I have a moral of Northeastern Pennsylvania [imperative] to experience their anxiety,” Annual Campaign! he said. “They may not benefit from their anxiety, but my being part of this emer- gency system is a sign of solidarity and Goal: makes me feel closer to them.” For information or to $910,000 For other users, the apps fill a more make a donation call practical need, even if the government 570-961-2300 ext. 1 or send your gift to: Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania 601 Jefferson Ave., Federation Scranton, PA 18510 $445,795 (Please MEMO your as of Nov. 21, 2018 pledge or gift 2019 on Facebook UJA Campaign) The Jewish Federation of Northeast- ern Pennsylvania now has a page on Facebook to let community members know about upcoming events and keep Happy Chanukah! connected. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Candle lighting November 30 ...............................4:16 pm Chanukah “Shoah” sequel Science news December 7..................................4:15 pm A local Chanukah celebration Claude Lanzmann’s posthumous Israelis develop a new cancer December 14 ................................4:16 pm is announced; new kids’ books; “Shoah” sequel “Four Sisters” is treatment; Israel’s moon launch PLUS holiday memories; and more. being called relevant today. gets new investor; and more. Opinion .......................................................2 Stories on pages 3, 6, 7, 9, 14 Story on page 5 Stories on page 19 D’var Torah ...............................................8 2 THE REPORTER ■ NOVEMBER 29, 2018 A MATTER OF OPINION Stan Lee gave comic books permission to be more Jewish BY ARIE KAPLAN humor. When Spider-Man fights his foes, 1972, no other Spidey writer has deviated about Trask. “So, it has finally begun,” he (JTA) – When Stan Lee died on Novem- he usually makes jokes and quips to cut from this template. These types of jokes frowns. “The one thing I always feared – a ber 12 at 95, he left behind a vast legacy. the tension. In Amazing Spider-Man have always been a popular part of the witch hunt for mutants!” Between 1961 and 1969, his greatest #40, published in 1966, the web-head is character’s repertoire. And no matter how The newspaper features an artist’s sustained burst of creative activity, he fighting the Green Goblin, and our hero dark a Spider-Man story is, Peter Parker interpretation of a mutant in a chariot co-created a vast array of iconic characters, climbs up on the ceiling. His nemesis never loses his sense of humor. being ferried around by human slaves. including Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, yells, “The Goblin has ways of bringing Lee’s stories were more than just yarns The caption above the drawing reads, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible you down!” Spidey replies, “But it’s so about earnest (yet conflicted) do-good- “Dr. Trask warns that the superior abilities Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Black Panther, nice and cozy up here!” ers. Thanks to visionary artists like Jack and supernatural powers of the hidden Daredevil, Nick Fury, Doctor Strange Superheroes often quipped in the middle Kirby and Steve Ditko, the 1960s Marvel mutants will enable them to enslave the and Falcon. of action sequences in those days. But when titles were stunningly delineated dramas human race, replacing our civilization Lee raised the bar for superhero sto- most superheroes made jokes, the jokes were bursting with emotional angst and stuffed with their own.” rytelling. He created characters who had so... generic. On the other hand, consider to the gills with pulse-pounding action By today’s standards, this dialogue is godlike powers, but who were painfully Spider-Man’s line: “But it’s so nice and sequences. But thanks to Lee, sometimes more than a bit cheesy. But for a comic human nonetheless. They were relatable cozy up here!” It sounds like something a they also had a layer of sharp social com- book designed for children in the 1960s, because of their flaws and foibles. They Borscht Belt comedian would say. mentary baked in. this was heady stuff; a superhero tale de- squabbled and gave in to petty jealousies, Did Lee purposefully intend to put Take, for example, the X-Men as ini- signed to warn kids about the dangers of a rarity at the time. Lee’s skill at writing Borscht Belt-style jokes in Spider-Man’s tially created by Lee and Kirby in 1963. prejudice. In the story, mutants are clearly clever dialogue and witty one-liners mouth? Not likely. However, there was an The titular supergroup was a band of mu- a substitute for any oppressed minority. ensured that his characters came off as interesting thing happening to American tants, people who were more than people, Even the newspaper caption might sound charming and lovable, if also plagued by comedy in the 1960s. Television shows their bodies having evolved to contain a eerily familiar with the line about mutants self-doubt.
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