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April 2020 Nissan/Iyar 5780 Volume XIX: Number 7 FREE Their gigs canceled by the coronavirus, Jewish performers and educators innovate online Gabe Friedman (JTA) — As a freelance Jewish educator, mu- Jewish folk music in addition to performing sician, and consultant, Eliana Light knows and leading services in a variety of ways, is the coronavirus outbreak puts her line of one of several young Jewish artists and spiri- work in a precarious situation. tual leaders hoping that they will retain an Instead of being hired to perform at audience as they shift their work online, in synagogues, or getting invited to be an art- the form of Zoom calls, Facebook Live ses- ist in residence at Jewish centers around the sions and other forums. Unlike the many country, she will have to adapt as cities enact synagogues and large organizations that have quarantine and social distancing policies — at least somewhat of a built-in audience, and just like freelance performers and small Light and her cohort will have to get creative businesses in other industries, she could lose and do a lot of online outreach. a lot of her traditional business. The program brainstorming and decision But the whole ordeal has had the opposite making process is happening in real time, as than expected effect on her. the virus’ spread accelerates each day and “Personally, I’ve gotten up the past couple forces more people online for their Jewish of days with more energy and excitement learning needs. Hours before being called than I have in a long time,” Light said on a Father and daughter San and Emily Slomovits perform a concert from their for this article, Light and some of her friends, Zoom call from her home base, a Moishe home via Facebook Live on St. Patrick’s Day. You can catch their internet con- including Chava Mirel, Rachel Goldberg and House in Durham, North Carolina. “I did certs on Emily’s Facebook page on select days at 5 p.m. (for a schedule and Rabbi Alexis Pinsky, formed what they are the elliptical for two hours this morning… more information, please visit emilyslomovits.com). calling the Mispacha Collective. Their de- That’s not me, I’m not that person usually!” “I think big shifts like this help us as indi- you want to do … more professional devel- but online event, which they’re dubbing the She has big goals she now plans to tackle viduals and as a community sort out our pri- opment, clergy training, layleader training, World Synagogue Sing, is set to take place in the coming months, and thinks the Jewish orities, what matters to us, what’s important one-on-one training and consulting, a pod- Sunday. community will emerge stronger than ever in life,” she said. “All of a sudden, all of my cast, a new album.” On Thursday, on a bit of a whim, Light from the trying time. gigs get canceled, it’s time to do all the things Light, 29, who records albums of original continued on page 24 Passover in a pandemic: Families on Zoom, solo seders and broken traditions Ben Sales (JTA) — Rena Munster was looking forward to “The hardest thing to But all of that has been upended by COV- hosting a Passover seder for the first time. translate into an online ID-19 and the restrictions necessary to contain In past years, her parents or another relative platform is going to be the its spread. Israel has limited gatherings to 10 hosted the meal. But this year she had invited food,” she said. “The fam- people — smaller than many extended families her parents, siblings and other extended family ily recipes and all the things — and President Donald Trump asked Ameri- to her Washington, D.C., home. Her husband, that we’re used to probably cans to do the same. Countries are shutting an amateur ceramics artist, was making a set of won’t be possible. … We their borders, making Passover travel near im- dishes for the holiday. always get together to help possible. Hotels and summer camps that have And she was most excited for her family’s with the preparations, and held Passover programs, as well as synagogues traditional day of cooking before the seder: that’s just as much a part of that hold communal seders, are canceling. And making short-rib tzimmes, desserts that would the holiday as the holiday families are scrapping traditions as Passover, pass muster year-round, and a series of harosets itself.” like so much else in Jewish life, is remade for the made by her uncle and tailored to each family In a Jewish calendar current moment. member’s dietary restrictions (one with no cin- packed with ritual obser- “Something like a Pesach seder has a lot of namon, another with no sugar, another without vances and religious feasts, people in a pretty close space,” said Mari Sartin- walnuts and so on). the Passover seder is the Tarm, who is immunocompromised due to Then came the new coronavirus. Now the quintessential shared holi- Rhoda Kinberg, WJN editor's mother, using livestream to medications she is taking following a January family is preparing to scrap travel plans and day experience. It is perhaps attend services from her nursing home in 2014 kidney transplant. “I’m concernedthat if things hold the seder via video chat, like so much else the most widely observed are the way they are right now, if people are still in this new era. Munster expects to enjoy her Jewish holiday ritual in the United States, ac- journey from slavery to freedom, along with the kind of self-quarantined or schools are closed family’s usual spirited discussions and singing. cording to the Pew Research Center’s 2013 songs, customs and food, have become a core or businesses are closed, I don’t know that But she will miss the meal. study of American Jewry. And the story of the part of Jewish tradition. continued on page 24 I From the Editor

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Washtenaw Jewish News A April 2020 3 IRabbis’ Corner: Passover Thoughts

On Passover We Celebrate “The Power Pharaoh’s Heart, Our Heart That Saves” Rabbi Jared Anstandig, special to the WJN haraoh’s heart is a central feature of to power, an addiction to obstinance, or even Rabbi Nadav Caine, special to the WJN the Exodus story. As the plagues un- an addiction to disbelief – what began as Pha- he other night I was watching the injustice: the saving power to free a shepherd P fold, Pharaoh’s heart becomes more raoh freely choosing to say no to Moses and recent Superman movie, The Man of people from a tyrant’s bondage and cruelty, prominent and the Torah describes it becom- the Israelites, ultimately became compulsory. T Steel. My wife and I were both struck to free Jews from the Crusades, from the gas ing harder. Numerous times, the Torah tells Pharaoh was so accustomed to rebelling, de- by the unimaginative illustration of Super- chambers, and from local massacres. And in us that Pharaoh hardens his own heart (see spite the consequences, he eventually couldn’t man’s powers. In no other movie has Super- our time, to free boys and girls from sexual for example Exodus 8:11, 8:28, and 9:34). stop himself from continuing. man been so incredibly powerful. Though trafficking, free villagers from the town-to- Yet, on a number of instances, we read that While this interpretation might leave us he can pretty much do anything in this film, town raping and murdering by an ISIS or it is God who hardens Pharaoh’s heart (see with little hope at repentance after doing he spends his time rebel hoard, free exploited workers every- for example Exodus 9:12, 10:1, 10:20, 10:27, something wrong, Rahav-Meir points out exclusively on sav- where from their taskmasters, free Israelis 11:10). This poses that it is quite the opposite. If we can become ing people from ac- from the fear of Hamas rockets and Iranian a slew of theologi- addicted to destructive behavior, then we can cidents. It’s almost nuclear capability, free African-Americans cal questions. Most also become addicted to constructive behav- comically repetitive: from racial profiling and harassment, free problematic, if God ior. Pirkei Avot 4:2 quotes a statement by Ben car accidents, tor- LGBTQ individuals from discrimination hardened Pharaoh’s Azzai, “Be quick to perform a minor mitzva nadoes, that sort of and prejudice. heart, then Pharaoh just as you would be to a major one, and flee thing. Even with no That’s the power of the mighty hand and lacked free will to from sin. Because, a mitzva leads to another limits to imagining the outstretched arm, God’s.... and ours when choose anything but mitzva, and a sin leads to another sin.” We are “a power that saves” we fulfill God’s mission for us and reach out to rebel against God. creatures of habit. When we start perform- at their disposal, with our outstretched arms to fight injustice A basic tenet in Ju- ing minor positive actions, they lead to more the writers couldn’t Rabbi Nadav Caine and save those in bondage. We as Jews under- daism is that every Rabbi Jared Anstandig and greater positive actions. And, God forbid, think, apparently, of stand that power in our very bones and our individual has the once we start down the road of negativity, it anything beyond addressing our fear of ac- inmost hearts. We’ve experienced that saving ability to choose the life he or she lives. What can be hard to pull ourselves out. cidents. power, and now we tell each other that story, does it mean about our own free choice if This Passover, as we read the Haggadah The Haggadah has a much broader imag- our story, as we say, “This is the bread of af- God can revoke Pharaoh’s? and recount the story of Pharaoh, may we ination for a power that saves. fliction... let all who are in distress, come and Sivan Rahav-Meir, a prominent contem- learn a lesson from Pharaoh’s heart. Let us While accidents are a personal fear we celebrate” this saving power. porary Israeli journalist, likens the hardening avoid becoming like Pharaoh who became share, the Torah, God, and the Prophets Let us break free of the mitzrayim, the of Pharaoh’s heart to an addiction. At first, she addicted to his oppressive ways. Instead, command us to think beyond our individual “narrow confines,” of the Hollywood imagi- writes, Pharaoh had complete control over as Ben Azzai says, let us be ever-searching lives: they command us to think globally and nation of what it means to save and be free. what he did and how he did it. But, at a cer- for even the smallest mitzva we can do so morally, not just about life and death, but Embrace the imagination of the Haggadah, tain point, after repeating an action over and that we can uplift ourselves and everyone about the divinely-intended quality of lives. as we tell our story with pride, purpose, and over, he became addicted. Call it an addiction around us. n Real power is the power to free people from celebration! n Why is Matzoh Required & Chometz Prohibited? A Lesson from Matzoh and Chometz Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, special to the WJN his year the first seder of Passover will prohibition of eating or possessing chometz. business, professions and/or other aspects of humble is something that needs to be worked be Wednesday night April 8. So let’s One cannot own or eat even a speck. Also, the their life, might lead one to feel that these ac- at. Therefore, the obligation of eating matzoh T learn something about Pesach (Pass- prohibition of having chometz is not just the complishments are a result of their own ex- is only the first night of Pesach. From there over). first night of Pesach but it is all eight days of ceptionalism and begin to feel haughty about one works their way up to the next level which The holiday of Passover is called Chag the holiday (outside of Israel). it. So, the Torah teaches us that once a year is not quite as humble - exemplified by eat- Hamatzohs - the holiday of matzoh. When So why is it that the obligation to eat mat- to dedicate the holiday of Pesach in order to ing matzoh that contains fruit juice or eggs or we look at the holiday we see two precepts. zoh is only for the first night of Pesach, but teach us not to be haughty. A person should anything that is more than the humble flour 1) the obligation the prohibition of chometz is for the entire distance themselves from any sign of haugh- and water of the first night’s matzoh. These to eat matzoh (un- holiday and the tolerance level is zero? tiness. Therefore, the prohibition of chometz additions to the matzoh symbolize that, even leavened bread) The answer can be found by examining the is absolute. We should have absolutely no though one is not haughty, one serves God during Pesach. 2) ideas that matzoh and chometz symbolize. haughtiness. Pesach teaches us how haugh- with some understanding and feeling. This the prohibition In our service to God, matzoh and chometz tiness is something very undesirable to God. is an allowable way to serve God - with one’s of eating chometz symbolize two different aspects of our ser- We have to get rid of it completely and not own logic and understanding. This is not (leavened bread) vice. When we look at chometz we find that it allow any residual to be present. That’s the les- prohibited. That’s why the remaining days during the same symbolizes haughtiness and arrogance. Equal son we learn from chometz. The entire holi- of Pesach, after the first night, we are allowed period. Not only do amounts of flour and water will yield very dif- day of Pesach is supposed to train us how to (only for health reasons) to have other types we not eat chometz, ferent products if one has leaven (chometz) be humble. of matzoh (obviously it must be kosher for we are prohibited and the other doesn’t. The one with leaven On the other hand, when we speak of the Pesach and consul with your rabbi). from owning any will be bread - light, fluffed up and full of air. mitzvah of matzoh, it teaches us to be humble. As a result of: 1) Not having any haughti- Chometz during The other will be matzoh - dense and flat. Within being humble there are many different ness at all during Pesach, and 2) Eating mat- Pesach. As the To- Rabbi Aharon Goldstein Chometz is the leavening agent that makes levels - one above the other. zoh during Pesach, it gives everyone the ability rah says, that Chametz should not be seen and dough rise and puff itself up - much like The humility that matzoh teaches is called to withstand the different influences from the not in your possession. These two obligations haughtiness and arrogance puff up our egos. the bread of affliction. It has no taste and is secular world that might want to cause us to during Pesach are obviously different. These traits are prohibited by the Torah. We very thin. This shows how we serve God to- be haughty. So we learn from Pesach not to The obligation to eat matzoh has a mea- should have no haughtiness or arrogance in tally devoted to a level beyond understanding. be haughty. If anything, it should teach us to sure to it. There is a specific minimum our personalities. Haughtiness is considered We are just doing it because God said to do so. be humble. And with that we can “go out of amount of matzoh required as well as a spe- the source for all negative traits and deeds. As We don’t mix our own logic and reason when Egypt”. Not only the physical Egypt but our cific time measure within which it must be King Solomon writes, God dislikes it when doing the mitzvah, neither intellectually nor own internal “Egypt” enabling us to reach eaten. The amount of matzoh must be at least people are boastful of themselves - that is, emotionally. If anything, we give ourselves true freedom. And as a result of all of us do- the size of an olive (approximately one ounce expressing haughtiness. Also, in the Talmud over to God entirely (without our own ego ing our own internal work of “going out of - 28 grams), and the time requirement is only tractate Sota, the rabbis tell us that God says involvement). This is what the matzoh sym- Egypt”, going to true freedom, going out of on the first night of Passover during the seder regarding a person that is haughty; I can’t live bolizes. the limitations and boundaries of our bodies at nighttime. After the first night there is no with them in the same space. This illustrates To demand from a person, all year-round, and animal souls, this will be a preparation for longer any obligation to eat matzoh. One can that God dislikes the trait of haughtiness. to be totally ego-nullified and totally humble the “going out of Egypt” in general with the have matzoh made with eggs or fruit juices or Therefore, throughout the year, when a as on the first day of Pesach - that’s hard to redemption of the coming of the Moshiach even eat other types of foods such as meats, person is busy with mundane things in the demand from most of us for the eight days very soon! n fish, vegetables, etc. So the obligation to eat world, there’s a possibility that haughtiness of Pesach. matzoh is only the first night as opposed to the might creep into one’s self-image. Success in Not to be haughty is one thing. But to be 4 Washtenaw Jewish News A April 2020 ICommunity

Find your hope Community seders are for grownups & Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner, special to the WJN assover is a story of movement and dislocation: our ances- big kids & little kids, too tors were required to put their trust in a God of flux (‘eheyeh by Carol Bloom Levin P asher eheyeh’/‘I will be Who I will be’) and walk out of slav- isits with my mother during those granddaughter whose four questions brought ery, through the narrowness of the split sea, and into the desert wil- confused later years often ended in the house down. derness. V tears. The rare exception – that ex- Everyone participated in one way or an- On Passover, we are commanded to consider ourselves as having traordinary Passover Seder with her assisted other. Residents and guests alike felt a kinship. lived through this transition from constriction to expansion. Passover living community. We were the people fleeing Pharaoh, seeking can help us reflect on what in our lives is currently in flux and what freedom. We built Hillel sandwiches. We called feels rooted. out the Ten Plagues. We roared “Dayenu!” In the poem below, Wendell Berry invites us to pay attention to the Somehow, Passover awakened a lost spirit Rabb Ora Nitkin-Kaner path we are on, and to find a measure of hope in where we are rooted in Mom. Each step of the Seder called for ac- and what lights our way. n tion. And act she did: swishing parsley in salty water; plinking wine drops; clapping with the melodies. To borrow a phrase, “the night was different from all other nights.” Why? Because From It Is Hard to Have Hope (Sabbath Poem, 2007, VI) for a few delicious hours, my mother returned Wendell Berry to her fun-loving, caring self. Looking back to that night, I see the ker- nel that took root and ripened into my chil- Find your hope, then, on the ground under your feet. dren’s book Haggadah Regatta. Rabbi Stein had reached across the community. He included Your hope of Heaven, let it rest on the ground learners at every level, touching all members underfoot. Be it lighted by the light that falls of the tribe. We are grownups and big kids and little freely upon it after the darkness of the nights kids too. Sometimes we’re smart. Sometimes we’re selfish. Sometimes we’re foolish. Some- and the darkness of our ignorance and madness. The author’s daughter, Naomi Levin times we can’t find our words. But we tell Pass- with her grandmother. The two share over stories year-after-year to remind us how Let it be lighted also by the light that is within you, an April 7 birthday, which sometimes our actions matter. What we say and what we requires a flourless cake. do make a difference in the world. which is the light of imagination. By it you see Rabbi Stein was a new resident in the com- This year, celebrate Passover with commu- the likeness of people in other places to yourself munity. At age 93, he had led many a Seder in nity. Make a difference. n his day. The rabbi’s proud family rose from in your place. It lights invariably the need for care their seats at his introduction. It was clear why Carol Bloom Levin, author/illustrator of Hag- they adored him. He honored their individual gadah Regatta (Two Kids Books, 2019), joins toward other people, other creatures, in other places strengths and limitations. The brief Haggadah Zingerman’s Deli for a Family Food Tast- made for the event, combined the best parts ing “Seder” on Saturday, April 4, 5 - 6 p.m. as you would ask them for care toward your place and you. of a traditional seder with smart graphics. https://carollevin.us https://www.zingerman- Rabbi Stein knew this crowd. All was carefully sdeli.com/event/familypassoverseder2020/c planned, including the role for Anna, the great- Talmud study with AARC Odile Hugonot Haber and Carol Levin, special to the WJN dedicated group of life-long learn- For example, the text says that we should bling in ecstatic ecstasy like the “Shakers”? In gogues and libraries were all destroyed. ers spent Sunday afternoons in pray with severity, but also trembling. Does the readings, we can explore our own feel- Along with the reconstruction of the A February and March immersed in this mean trembling with fear and awe in ings and ideas. In prayers, do we include the community, Bill Haber arranged for the Talmud text. Ann Arbor Reconstructionist encompassing all suffering on earth reprinting of the Talmud in Heidelberg in Congregation’s Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner of- with fear and awful sadness? Or do 1948. In appreciation for his work on the fered a foundation for Talmud study in the we open our hearts to the array of printing, Bill was given a full set of the new five-week series, “A Taste of Talmud: When magnificent possibilities the Cre- Talmud. He kept the volume that deals with Life Meets Prayer.” The rabbi describes the ator affords us? Through discus- Shabbat, which Alan brought to the study Talmud as, “…the quintessential Jewish text sion, acts of co-creation awaken an group. Other volumes were housed in the of- ...full of everything that makes Jews Jewish: active spiritual life. fice of the University of Hillel Director until love of debate, intellectual curiosity, story- In a moving addition to the recently. An exhibit of the complete set at telling, humor, and the search for new mean- class, AARC member and iconic ac- Hillel would make a meaningful display dur- ing in inherited text and tradition.” tivist Alan Haber brought a historic ing Holocaust commemoration days. Using oversize photo-copies of the Baby- volume of Talmud from his father’s The dedication to the Heidelberg Talmud lonian Talmud’s tractate Berachot, Rabbi personal library to the study group. reads: “This edition of the Talmud was dedi- Ora explained the complex organization of Alan’s father, William (Bill) Haber cated to the United States Army. This army the page with formatted columns. The Tal- a former chair of the University of played a major role in the rescue of the Jew- mud is made up of the Mishnah, the oral Michigan Economics Department ish people from total annihilation, and after tradition, and the Gemara (the rabbinical and dean of the College of Lit- the defeat of Hitler, bore the major burden of analysis and commentaries). The traditional erature, Sciences and the Arts had sustaining the DPs of the Jewish faith. This way to study Talmud is in pairs, chevrutah in served as Advisor on Jewish Affairs special edition of the Talmud published in Hebrew. In this class, partners were given a to the Supreme Allied Command in the very land where, but a short time ago, half hour to pour over the page-of-the-day Germany in 1948 and was respon- everything Jewish and of Jewish inspiration before sharing their observations with the sible then for all displaced persons’ was anathema, will remain a symbol of the full class. Energy in the room rose as readers camps. Bill Haber took the family indestructibility of the Torah. The Jewish read aloud, prodding each other with ques- with him to Frankfurt and Heidel- DPs will never forget the generous impulses tions, researching cited passages, and consid- berg for that year. and the unprecedented humanitarianism of ering meaning. The fascinating thing about Alan, eleven years old at the time, the American forces, to whom they owe so studying Talmud are the many diverging says he hardly understood what was much.” In the name of the rabbinical orga- opinions that lead us to compare, explore, happening, yet was shocked by the nization, signed by the chief rabbi and chair- and advance the conversation. front of the creator? Or does it mean trem- horror of war and terrible destruction. Syna- man of the US Zone, Rabbi Samuel Snieg. n

Washtenaw Jewish News A April 2020 5 IJCC Film Fest

19th AA Jewish Film Festival planned for May Clara Silver, special to the WJN

he 19th Annual Ann Arbor Jewish start a new life as a high school teacher in ultimately, love. Touching on notions of the Film Festival will be presented by Sderot. Through the art of film, his students, snap judgments and assumptions that come T the Jewish Community Center of initially skeptical of this big city transplant, with age, socio-economic, and lifestyle dif- Greater Ann Arbor Sunday, May 10 through begin to trust and find their own voices. ferences, this film is a reminder that we all Thursday, May 14 once again at The Michi- However, honest self-expression inevitably have a story that makes us who we are and gan Theater, 603 Liberty, Ann Arbor. Films leads to conflict both for Yigal, and for his we are all worthy of love. It is both quintes- being reviewed by the AAJFF committee students. This film explores the shattered sentially Israeli and delightfully universal in reflect a wide variety of Jewish subjects, as dreams and future hopes in the Middle East its hopeful, joyful celebration of life and love Noemi Herzig, the first full time Director of through the eyes of teens about to come of at any age. Jewish Cultural Arts and Education at the age. Judy Endelman, a festival committee The Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival com- mittee screened over 60 full length and 24 short films. In addition, committee members will be helping to encourage sponsorships to continue funding this extensive and costly festival, as well as providing some support during the festival itself. In addition, the Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival is once again pre- sented as a capsule festival within Cinetopia. Drawing audiences from all over southeast Michigan with screenings in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Royal Oak, Bloomfield Township, and Dearborn, Cinetopia’s Director, Sarah Escalante is proud that, “this great relation- ship between Cinetopia and the Ann Arbor While at the time of the printing of this ar- ticle Cinetopia is still planned to commence as scheduled, there will be updates in the in- tervening weeks which may result in screen- Ann Arbor JCC, notes: “The films we are member, noted that “this film shows us an- ings continuing as planned, or being delayed. choosing from reflect the Holocaust, Jew- other side of Israel, away from the big cities, Those who would like to attend are encour- ish heritage, the differences between secular where families struggle with unemployment, aged to check websites to be kept up to date and orthodox Judaism, present day Israeli divorce, addiction, lack of opportunity, and regarding the status of both Cinetopia and society, Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and Is- more. It lets us into their lives. The view is the Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival. raeli LGBTQ youth. The committee’s goal is honest, unsparing, but can sometimes be Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival offerings to present films that provide the entire Ann tough to watch.” will be shown at The Michigan Theater, and Arbor and surrounding community with an Originally filmed as a three part docuse- tickets will be available through Cinetopia. opportunity to explore Jewish life from a va- ries, Transkids, now a full length documen- For those who choose to become sponsors of riety of perspectives: socially, culturally, eth- tary, follows four transgender Israeli youth the Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival, available nically, and spiritually. We also hope these over four years. Director Hila Medalia shared only through the Ann Arbor JCC, there will films inspire the broader community to en- in an ILTV interview that she was first ex- once again be a special sponsor-only din- gage with Jewish heritage.” posed to transgender issues while filming ner at Knight’s Restaurant on Monday, May The AAJFF committee screened many another documentary about the only 24/7 11, 2020, timed to fit between the afternoon films, selecting 13 for possible inclusion. Ci- suicide prevention hotline in the United and evening film screenings. Sponsors at the netopia professionals review those films and States serving the LGBTQ community. Hav- $180 level and above will be granted access choose the best 10 for the designated Ann ing moved back to Israel, she was curious to all Festival and Cinetopia films at no ad- Arbor Jewish Film Festival screening slots. about the transgender community there, ditional charge similar to last year. New this Cinetopia then obtains the rights to show the and spent two years researching the issues year, however, is that sponsorship levels of films. At the time this article went to print, and finding subject for the film. Not only increasing amounts will also be accompa- three Israeli films had been confirmed. does the film present an intimate portrait nied by increasing access to Cinetopia perks Shooting Life, originally titled in Hebrew of the teens themselves, but shows the entire such as Cinetopia parties, front of line ac- Herzl’s Susita, is a full length Israeli drama reality around the teens that includes their Jewish Film Festival expands the multicul- cess, and free concessions at select venues. set in the small, war-weary city of Sderot. Yi- family, friends, and society. While the teens tural reach of Cinetopia to include Jewish For more information about sponsorship, gal (Mickey Leon) is a divorced, unemployed deal with typical adolescent concerns, they and Israeli life.” films, or the Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival, filmmaker from Tel Aviv who attempts to also face difficult and irreversible decisions Other films will be confirmed in the time visit film.jccannarbor.org or contact Noemi about their health, layered with the unique leading up to the Ann Arbor Jewish Film Fes- Herzig, director of Jewish cultural arts and concerns affecting those in various segments tival, and their trailers will be posted at film. education at [email protected] of Israeli society. The transgender teens must jccannarbor.org as they become available. or call 734-971-0990. n face the same decision to choose army or na- tional service, pressures of conformity in the religious community, and navigating Israel’s strongly gendered social structure as their gender conforming peers, but with the added complexity of their gender non-conforming realities. Committee member Charles Weav- er observed that, “not only does this movie give a very personal view of the gender tran- sition process, but it also shines a very reveal- ing light on the family life of a cross-section of Israeli society.” Committee member, Linda Benson, states, “This movie is unflinchingly honest and sensitive, regarding a topic most of us know little about.” Love in Suspenders is an Israeli romantic comedy, originally titled in Hebrew Ahava B’Shleikes. The simplicity of this “boy meet girl” film belies a warm and heartfelt por- trait of aging, grief, family dynamics, and 6 Washtenaw Jewish News A April 2020 ICommunity

ARC welcomes Rav Lisa Stella as president Stacy Carroll, special to the WJN he University of Michigan’s Asso- ciation of Religious Counselors has Life, building critical relationships with hopes to broaden ARC’s programming T a new president, Rav Lisa Stella, university staff in service of supporting reach and foster greater understanding of Director of Religious Life & Education for students in a holistic way. As an example our campus’s diverse communities. She is Michigan Hillel. On her appointment Rav of their work, ARC recently partnered with encouraged by new opportunities to con- Lisa said, “Religious affiliation can be an University Student Life to host Eboo Patel, tinue ARC’s work with university partners, incredibly important part of one’s identity, founder of Interfaith Youth Core, for a se- as together, they develop comfort with and and getting to know people of other faith ries of events with students. Comprised of deeper understandings of religious iden- backgrounds is one way we learn more representatives from all leading religious tity as an integral piece of the diversity about ourselves and others around us. and spiritual communities that serve the that Michigan students bring with them to At Michigan Hillel, the core of our work students, staff, and faculty of the Univer- campus. is building relationships. ARC allows the sity of Michigan, ARC members advocate Please join our community in celebrat- clergy and professional staff of all religious for the religious, spiritual, and ethical di- ing her role by extending your well wishes groups on campus to build relationships mensions of university life. to [email protected]. n beyond our own communities, modeling Looking at the path ahead, Rav Lisa interfaith connections for our students, and to see the impact of our work more broadly on campus.” ARC regularly works with campus orga- Rav Lisa Stella, Director of Religious nizations and the Department of Student Life & Education for Michigan Hillel

“There should be a piano in the house” Patti Smith, special to the WJN ael Rothfeld, Michigan Music all of them at Thurston Elementary School. Education Association’s Music Rothfeld played flute and piccolo in el- Y Educator of the Year, has been ementary school and says that her experi- surrounded by music from practically the ences in band classes solidified her passion day she was born. “My grandma decided for music. “Many of my close friends today that there should be a piano at my house. are from high school band. We all shared a Without telling my mom, she had one de- love for music that our band director rec- ognized. We had to play complicated pieces, chal- lenging us to learn more. When I decided to go to college to be a music teacher, it was because I wanted to bring the love and excitement that I had for music to others around me.” Rothfeld’s classroom is built to inspire young minds as she creates mu- sicians who can work independently but also helps them to “build re- lationships, build their self-confidence and find their voices, and a Yael Rothfeld safe place to use it.” She stresses the importance livered. When the deliverymen knocked at of learning music at a young age, saying the door, my mom told them she didn’t “the younger you learn it, the better, much order a piano--they said it was from her like a language…Students eagerly soak up mother. As soon as I could walk, I would the information I teach them. Even as first go to the piano and try to play. My mom graders, some of the things they are doing began teaching me how to play piano when are things I learned as a music major in col- I was four years old, and I continued to play lege.” throughout my life.” In addition to her full-time teaching While a Piano Pedagogy major at Michi- job, Rothfeld teaches yoga at the Jewish gan State University, Rothfeld assisted in Community Center and evening education "Even though this Passover a class in Early Childhood Music, which classes at Eastern Michigan University. She sparked a desire to change paths. “I always says, “My mother, grandmothers on both is different from all others, enjoyed teaching others–whether it was ex- sides, and one of my aunts were all teach- plaining to others how to play a game or ers. I think it’s always been in my blood.” still we celebrate freedom." helping my younger sisters with homework. To any aspiring music educators, Roth- When I got older, I tutored a few students, feld says, “Try it! The worst that can happen and was a camp counselor at my mom’s He- is you realize it’s not for you. But it could Zay gezunt, Clare Kinberg brew Day Camp, Camp Shalom.” be that you find something that brings you Rothfeld earned her Bachelor’s and Mas- joy. Playing an instrument can be a way to ter’s Degree in Music Education and then express yourself, become a part of an en- began her career. She has been a teacher in semble, work together, and create some- the Ann Arbor Public Schools for 17 years, thing meaningful.” n Washtenaw Jewish News A April 2020 7 IFeature

Looking for Rose: Exodus and Exodusters by Clare Kinberg, fourth installment in a series looked for my father’s missing sister for years ago, including my spouse and our two After the U.S. Civil War, the biblical imag- their fare, packed everything they could car- forty years. Born to an Ashkenazi immi- daughters. As our daughters grew, our family inary mirrored reality as promises made, left ry, camped on both the Mississippi and Lou- I grant family in 1908, my aunt Rose had told the story of the journey to freedom in unfulfilled, and then revoked by the post- isiana shores of the Mississippi River, and married an African American man in the ways that we thought were appropriate to the Reconstruction government were not unlike frantically signaled to the boats to pick them late 1930s, left her family in St. Louis, and girls’ ages, and also that brought in contem- Pharaoh’s wavering negotiations with Moses. up. Painter describes the scene as desperate moved to Chicago. In 1943, they settled in porary issues of persecution and injustice. The Mississippi River, like the Red Sea and and chaotic, yet purposeful and imbued with Southwest Michigan. She was never spoken At a recent seder with friends and family, the Jordan River, needed to be crossed to full faith that once they were across the river, about in my family, but after my father died we conducted the ritual storytelling by letting freedom. in other words, made it out of the South to in 1975, I began looking for her. As my own each person at the table tell a part of the story The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 pro- St. Louis, God would provide the ways and Black and Jewish family grew, I felt my aunt’s in their own way. I read a favorite children’s posed to open up 44 million acres of land in means to make it to the Promised Land of absence like an almost endless desert. book about the Exodus told from the point the South to African American freedmen and Kansas. Every Spring during the Passover festival, of view of a young Israelite child. One of my whites who had been loyal to the Union. This When the Exodusters reached St. Louis Jews retell the story of the Israelites’ escape daughters was the only one who brought a seemingly abundant amount of land turned they encountered a segregated but growing from slavery. Each year we take the opportu- contemporary issue to the table, violence out to be undesirable as farm land and dif- city that would be changed by their presence. nity to tell the story in a different way, and as among teenage girls. ficult to cultivate, es- Black churches and newly formed Black civic we age, each time we tell or hear the story it Later, she told me pecially without the groups raised money to feed and house the has different meanings. I’ve known Jews who the whole evening resources needed to travelers, and send them on their way. Black read the Exodus story as our people’s own felt uncomfortable start a homestead. In community leaders formed the “St. Louis history. For others, the story is a metaphor to her, white Jews the end, only about Colored Relief Board” and it grew to include for God’s relationship to humans, or for the focusing on slavery 1,000 African Ameri- 25 of the city’s prominent Black clergy, busi- way God interacts with history. According to 2500 years ago felt to can families were nessmen and professionals, raising several all Jewish understandings, the Exodus story her like white privi- able to fulfill the re- thousand dollars almost entirely from the was written by free people, or in the most tra- lege, a ritual that ex- quirements to claim Black community. White officials were afraid ditional view, spoken by God to Moses after cluded, rather than permanent deeds to that if the Exodusters were given aid, they the liberation from slavery, during that forty included, her. the 80 acre plots in would continue to come. The truth was, the years in the desert. In his introduc- the South. The vast Exodusters would continue to come whether The Exodus story could be rooted in his- tion to the anthology majority of freed- they received aid or not. It was the intolerable torical facts, or it could be a fable, an allegory, African Americans people experienced conditions in the South, and their faith, that a spiritual journey written with moral, or po- and the Bible, Vincent only the disappoint- freedom was possible, that drove them. litical, purpose. It can be read as a story that Wimbush writes, “It ment of unfulfilled “Exoduster,” a peculiarly American word, happened thousands of years ago, or that [the Bible] quickly promise. with connections literal and obvious to the happened 150 years ago. One that is happen- came to function as a Nell Irvin Paint- story told in the Torah of the Israelites’ exo- ing now, or hasn’t happened yet. It could be language-world, the er’s book Exodusters dus from Egypt, while the “-ster” suffix is tied a constitution for a patriarchy, as the Israeli storehouse of rheto- Black Migration to to American slang: songster, hipster, road- feminist Esther Fuchs writes in Sexual Poli- rics, images, and sto- Kansas after Recon- ster, etc, making it sound adventurous and tics in the Biblical Narrative. Or it could be a ries that, through a struction tells the sto- offbeat. And “dust,” invoking the journey to blueprint for liberation. complex history of ry of the migration Kansas, hot, dry, and exhausting. Exoduster, a I wonder, whose story is it that is told in engagement, helped establish African Ameri- of freedpeople who, after Reconstruction word that knots together Jewish and African the Torah? Is the cycle of slavery and libera- cans as a circle of the biblical imaginary. It ended in 1877, rushed to leave the intoler- American stories, well before my aunt Rose tion unending? Do we recreate the cycle by helped them imagine themselves as some- able conditions in the South. They aimed to and Mr. Arnwine tangled their lives together. re-telling it every year? thing other, in another world, different from move to Kansas to seek the lives emancipa- Black culture and politics in St. Louis A central part of the Passover ritual is for what their immediate situation reflected or tion had allowed them to imagine. Land was were deeply affected by this influx of African Jews to imagine ourselves into the story of the demanded.” the first and foremost goal of freedpeople in Americans from the south, the support they Exodus. We say “We were slaves to Pharaoh Wimbush’s words shifted my world, al- the South, Painter writes in the introduction. received from the African American commu- in Egypt/avodim hayinu l’paroh b’mitzraim.” lowing me – an Ashkenazi Jewish woman Acquiring land meant owning the means to nity, and the hostility from the white power Jews not only try to feel our way into the an- living in the United States and coded as support their families, the fulfilment of free- structure. The adjacent Black and Jewish cient story, we also think about current ways white – to de-center my relationship to the dom. tenement neighborhoods that Mordche and that we are enslaved: social, economic, psy- Exodus story. My Jewish practice taught me The Civil Rights Act of 1875, the last Zlate Kinberg and their young sons Max and chological “narrow places/mitzraim.” to ground my sense of self by ritually imag- Reconstructionist Era piece of legislation, Joseph found when they arrived in St. Louis For the past couple of decades, my seder ining myself into the Exodus story. Enslaved required equal treatment in public accom- in 1891 from Russia were shaped by the ra- table has included Jews who consider them- Africans, I am learning to understand, used modations and transportation. The Act cial segregation experienced by the Exodust- selves to be descendants of people enslaved the story to imagine themselves into, to cre- was never enforced, but in the hope that ers when they arrived. Joseph Kinberg grew 2,500 years ago in Egypt, and also Jews and ate, freedom that they did not experience in the steamboats traveling up the river would up in that St Louis. His second child would non-Jews whose people were enslaved 150 their lifetimes. comply with the law, freedpeople saved up be Rose, his fourth, my father. n

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Pesach, Pesach, Pesach Lonnie Sussman, special to the WJN he holiday preparations and thoughts 3 cups matzah farfel the whites are stiff. Gently fold into the bat- ½ cup dried cranberries or craisins. totally consume my brain for weeks 2 cups chicken broth, heated (or from ter. It’s best to use room temperature eggs. Tahead of time and through the end left over soup) Spray a frying pan with the cooking spray (or Dressing of Pesach. This is 2 onions you can fry the pancakes in oil) and drop the ½ cup sugar not a complaint. It is 2 stalks celery batter into the pan. ½ cup lemon juice my opportunity for ½ green pepper ½ cup oil thinking about the Mushrooms, optional ½ tsp salt meaning of the holi- 2 cooked chicken breasts (or any part), Beet and Butternut Squash Salad ¼ tsp onion powder skin and bones removed, cut into cubes day and the beauty by Paula Shoyer Place all the ingredients for the roasted al- totaling 2 cups The New Passover Menu, and wisdom of our monds in a bag and shake to coat. Bake on 3 TB oil serves 8 Jewish traditions, the 3 eggs This is a terrific, healthy and year-round a parchment lined baking sheet in a 350 blessings of family Salt, pepper, garlic powder and paprika salad that can be served in a salad bowl or -degree oven for 7- 10 minutes. Make the and friends and the to taste plated on a platter. dressing ingredients in a small container or spirit of community. bowl and combine the salad ingredients in a Add broth to the farfel in a mixing bowl and 3 medium red beets Of course, a lot of energy goes into planning large bowl. Just before serving, toss the salad let stand while you saute’ the vegetables in a 3 medium golden beets the Seders and the food we will eat. Hope- with the dressing and sprinkle the almonds skillet with the oil until they start to brown. 2 cups diced butternut squash in 1-inch fully, there will be plenty of leftovers to last on top. Then add the chicken cubes and cook to- cubes (I use whole sweet potatoes, a few more days. Then we can start thinking same color but easier to peel) about what else to have for breakfast, lunch, gether with the vegetables for another min- ute or two. Add to the farfel and stir to mix 2 tsp. olive oil or dinner during the eight days of the holi- 5 oz or about 6 cups of arugula leaves Cauliflower Popcorn well. Place mixture in very well-greased muf- day. Oy! (or other salad greens) Passover By Design, Susie Fishbein fin tins. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes When my children were young and school 1 cup rough chopped cilantro or parsley parve, 8 servings. was in session, the question of lunches was or until the tops are golden brown. “These 1 cup pomegranate seeds or craisins make delicious lunches for the kids!” These Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Cover a jelly roll the most challenging. They weren’t adven- (optional) or baking pan with parchment paper. Cut 2 turesome eaters and the choices were pretty are the final words on the recipe she left for us. heads of cauliflower, cut into medium sized limited. Their favorite (really, only) lunch For the Dressing: florets, no stems. Combine the cauliflower in was what we called “Chicken McMuffins.” 2 Tbs. balsamic vinegar a large bowl with 1 tsp. fine sea salt, 2 tsps. Basically, it was a vegetable kugel with some Gluten Free Pancakes 2 Tbs olive oil sugar, ¼ tsp. onion powder, ¼ tsp. garlic of the soup chicken mixed in and baked in 1 tsp orange zest (about 1 orange) powder, ½ tsp paprika, ¼ to ½ tsp. ground The New Passover Menu, by Paula Shoyer 1 tsp fresh orange juice (from the zested muffin tins. It was easy, nutritious and de- turmeric and 6-8 Tbs. olive oil. Place in the 6-8 medium pancakes orange) licious and super easy to pack. Of course, baking pan in a single layer. You may need Sure, you can use the boxed pancake mix, but ¼ tsp salt and black pepper to taste there is the tried and true matzah with but- 2 plans. Roast uncovered for 30-35 minutes you can also make them from scratch. You ter or cream cheese or whatever you liked, Preheat oven to 400 degrees. until the largest pieces can be pierced with a know that is better in every way. but it was harder to pack in a lunch box and Trim the beets, rinse, dry and wrap each one fork. Occasionally toss the cauliflower so it 1-1/2-4 cups ground almonds it was easily broken into small pieces. For the in foil. Place on one side of the baking pan roasts but doesn’t brown. adults, matzah and gefilte fish or tuna fish 1 tsp. Passover baking powder and place the squash (or whole sweet pota- ¼ cup sugar or an avocado. But, what to make for dinner toes) cubes on the other half. Drizzle with 2 Tbs. vanilla sugar (or make your own that wasn’t so heavy on meat or chicken? A the olive oil and toss to coat. Bake for 20 by placing 1 vanilla bean into 2 cups Baked Farmer Cheese Loaf few years ago, I adopted the idea that simple, minutes or until the squash cubes are fork Passover By Design, Susie Fishbein plant heavy meals are just fine. We ordinar- sugar in a container) ½ cup potato starch tender. Remove the squash and allow to cool Dairy, 6-8 servings ily don’t eat much red meat so it’s not a big 2 large eggs, separated but return the beets and roast for an addi- 4 large eggs stretch to return to a normal diet. But still, I ½ cup milk tional 30 to 40 minutes or until the center of 1 cup sugar look to find ideas that make the holiday spe- ½ tsp. orange zest the beets can be pierced with a fork. Let cool 1 tsp. vanilla cial but don’t take too much work. Here are ½ tsp salt until you are able to handle them. 1 tsp. fresh lemon juice some ideas for more meals to enjoy either for Nonstick cooking spray Place the arugula or salad leaves in bowl or 16 ounces farmer cheese the holiday of Pesach or for any time of year. In a medium bowl whisk together the dry in- platter then add the squash. Cut the beets 1 whole matzah board gredients, except the salt (ground almonds, into similar sized pieces and add to the bowl. Cinnamon/sugar Simi’s Chicken McMuffins baking powder, sugar, vanilla sugar, and po- Make the dressing and drizzle over the salad. Preheat oven to 325 degrees Add the pomegranate seeds or craisins over This is my mom’s creation. We mark her tato starch). Add the egg yolks and whisk. Use an electric mixer to beat the eggs until the top. Yahrzeit a few days before the start of Pesach Add the milk and orange zest and whisk to they are light and fluffy. Add the sugar, va- and it is one of my tributes to her memory. combine. nilla and lemon juice and then mix in the The key to this recipe is LOVE. Add it to the In a large bowl beat the egg whites at medi- Dried Mango Salad farmer cheese. ingredients without measure. Everything she um speed and when they are foamy, add the Line a loaf pan with foil or parchment paper A Taste of Pesach, A Project of Yeshiva Me’on made had this ingredient in it. salt. Turn the speed up to high and beat until leaving it to hang over all 4 sides of the pan. Hatorah Break the matzoh in half and place in a dou- Roasted Almonds ble layer on the bottom of the pan. Pour the 1 cup slivered almonds cheese mixture over the matzah and sprinkle ¼ cup confectioner’s sugar ¼ tsp. cayenne pepper with cinnamon/sugar. TO A MARCH HAWK IN SPRING Bake, uncovered, for 40-50 minutes or until by Henry David Thoreau Salad Ingredients set in center. Remove from the oven and let 16-ounce bag of lettuce cool in the pan. Use the parchment paper or There is health in thy gray wing, 7 ounces of dried mangos, cut into strips foil to lift the loaf out of the pan and place it Health of nature’s furnishing. ½ cup pomegranate seeds on a serving platter. Slice and serve. n Say, thou modern-winged antique, Was thy mistress ever sick? In each heaving of thy wing, Thou dost health and leisure bring, Thou dost waive disease and pain And resume new life again.

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Meet award-winning Hebrew teacher Nancy Berg Eric Berger, reprinted with permission form the St Louis Jewish Light ike many Hebrew language educators out with a career.” “Can Hebrew Save the Humanities?” and Berg in the United States, Nancy Berg had On why interest in Hebrew in particular has contributed a second essay, “The Anxiety of L been disappointed in recent years by declined, Berg cites a number of factors. When Authenticity: Hebrew, Sushi and Suspicious the decline in enrollment and interest in He- she was in college, it was unusual for Jewish stu- Objects.” brew classes and, more generally, dismayed by dents to take Arabic but very common for them In the opening, the two academics write: “the plight of the humanities,” she said. to take Hebrew. “It is unlikely that Hebrew studies can save But the longtime Hebrew language and lit- “Today, fortunately, there is not a taboo on the humanities. We can barely save our own erature professor at Washington University re- learning Arabic, and there has been a flourish- academic programs these days. The title of our ceived a boost last month when she was awarded ing, and that’s wonderful, but sometimes it’s introduction, an ironic overstatement of our the National Jewish Book Award for her latest been at the expense of learning Hebrew, which fondest wishes, no doubt will remain a pro- work, What We Talk About When We Talk About is less wonderful,” Berg said. vocative and exaggerated plea. Nonetheless, our Hebrew (And What It Means to Americans). She She also says the issues in supplementary work here is based on solid conviction that He- edited the book with Naomi Sokoloff, a profes- Hebrew school education for K-12 students brew studies are neither narrow nor parochial. sor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the — finding “strong Hebraists who are good at We cannot save the humanities, but we can try University of Washington in Seattle. Nancy Berg teaching languages and managing classrooms” to indicate, through essays in this book, why “We are really hoping that people get excited for 2,000 years is just extraordinary,” Berg said. (when kids may not want to be there) — has a Hebrew studies merit saving, as well as why about the prospect of learning Hebrew or the But while interest in Hebrew in the United trickle-down effect. they warrant a more widely recognized place of idea of learning Hebrew,” Berg said in her office States also grew, it has since waned. The For- “If a student has been studying Hebrew for honor in the humanities.” on the Washington University campus last week. ward reported last year that the number of U.S. however many years they are in religious school Berg said that she and Sokoloff have received Berg, who is Jewish and attends Kol Rinah in college students enrolled in a modern Hebrew or in day school and have never become fluent, a greater response to this book than anything St. Louis, grew up in Boston but has taught at the course had declined from 9,620 in 2006 to 5,521 they have little motivation to continue at the either had written previously. She has received school in St. Louis since 1990. She became inter- in 2016, according to a report from the Modern university,” Berg said. letters from people who said the book inspired ested in Hebrew, she said, because “of the backsto- Languages Association. Enrollment in biblical In 2016, Berg helped organize a symposium, them to go back and work on their Hebrew ry. The story of the revival of Hebrew is like none Hebrew decreased to 9,587 in 2016 from 14,000 “Hebrew and the Humanities: Present Tense,” skills. other. It’s a linguistic feat that is unparalleled.” students in 2006. with Sokoloff in Seattle in which Berg asked at- “Nothing is going to make a teacher happier The language had not been used for every- Part of that trend follows a general decline tendees to contribute artifacts — souvenirs, for than that,” Berg said. day conversations for centuries before Eliezer in foreign language programs. The Modern example, that they brought home from Israel The two professors are working on a new Ben-Yehuda, a lexicographer and newspaper Languages Association reported that from 2013 — for a pop-up museum that would illuminate book, Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Mak- editor, in 1881 in Jerusalem set out to make He- to 2016, 651 foreign language programs at U.S. the role Hebrew plays in their lives and in the ing, meant to take stock of and celebrate Israeli brew the language of Jews who immigrated to colleges ended. United States. literature, Berg said. what was then Palestine. It has since, of course, “The humanities are not valued as highly “At first it was more for fun, and then it The idea stemmed from the academic tradi- become the official language of Israel. as they have been in the past, and they are not gained meaning,” Berg said. tion of celebrating a professor when the person “To see Israeli literature and Israeli culture valued as highly as they should or could be,” Afterward, the two editors invited a dozen turns 70 by compiling volumes of their work or created in real time and to see what people can Berg said. “Pragmatically speaking, when col- scholars to submit a chapter to a book exam- staging a conference in their honor. Berg want- do with Hebrew now when you think of it as a lege tuitions are so high, it’s hard to argue with ining the place of Hebrew in the United States. ed to do the same thing with Israel. n language that had been pretty much dormant students’ parents who want their kids to come Berg and Sokoloff wrote the introduction, It’s scheduled to be published in the fall.

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Frankel Institute 2020-2021 Fellows: Secrets and love in a Chasidic community On Division, a novel by Goldie Goldbloom, 2019, Reviewed by Eeta Gershow Translating Jewish Cultures curious fact emerged as I was read- talked to her about him and all traces of his Kelsey Robinette Keeves, special to the WJN ing the five reviews I found of On presence in the home had been destroyed. n the upcoming year, the Frankel Insti- munity and public through guest lectures, ADivision by Goldie Goldbloom. “What we do not talk about, does not exist.” tute for Advanced Jewish Studies will symposia, the Frankely Judaic Podcast, and Just as the novel de- I focus on the theme of “Translating Jew- the collection of essays released at the end of scribes conflicts with ish Cultures.” Our fellows will explore the the year as the Institute Annual. acceptance of anyone The Frankel Institute for who is different in the Advanced Judaic Studies at the ultra-Orthodox Chas- University of Michigan pro- sidic community in vides annual fellowships for Williamsburg, Brook- scholars from around the world lyn, only three writ- to conduct research in relation ers even mentioned to a given theme. Established that one of the central through a generous financial characters in the novel contribution from the Jean and is gay. This is a weird Samuel Frankel Jewish Heri- mirror of the themes tage Foundation, the Frankel of the book. Institute is committed to inter- Goldie Gold- disciplinary, multilingual work bloom, who is a Cha- spanning ancient times to the sidic mother of eight present day. Fostering the ideal (and a LGBTQ advo- of community and scholarly ex- cate), has written a Adriana X. Jacobs left, and Maya Barzilai change of the highest standard, novel about iron-clad Goldie Goldbloom the Institute upholds its long- traditions and aver- theme of translation across a wide range of standing mission to advance global leader- sion to change in the present-day Chasidic As the pregnancy progresses, Surie re- time periods and geographic locations, such ship in Jewish Studies. community. Fear runs so deep in the com- solves to speak of Lipa to her husband be- as ancient and modern biblical translations, munity described in the book that boys are fore she can speak of the new babies. She had medieval translations of science and law, The 2020–21 Frankel fellows and forbidden to have bicycles (might ride to remained in the closed community up to this and twentieth-century literary and cultural their fields of research are: other neighborhoods, where they will see point. Now, however, she is receiving pre- translations in the Americas, Russia, Europe, Maya Barzilai, University of Michigan, ‘goyish’ things), homes have no television natal care at the local hospital and forms a and Israel. Critically engaging with the in- “Translation Beyond Zionism: Hebrew-Ger- (full of filth), no secular newspapers appear bond with the midwife who has delivered all terdisciplinary field of translation studies, man Literary Exchanges” (same reason) and computers are absolutely her children. This time she will not be per- this Institute includes scholars who work in off limits. When a boy is discovered with a mitted to deliver at home because she is con- Lucia Finotto, Brandeis University, “The the fields of political thought, literary stud- hidden DVD, his parents demand to know sidered ‘high risk.’ Surie is asked to help with Jewish Translators of Medieval Sicily” ies, musicology, anthropology, and religious where he found a ‘lep tup’ to watch it on. other patients who speak Yiddish and little studies. Many of the projects share a focus Alessandro Guetta, Institut National des The central family consists of Yidel, a or no English. Gradually, she enjoys her role on Jewish migration and situate translation Langues et Civilisation Orientales, “’A Com- scribe; Surie, his wife of forty years, and as a ‘lay midwife’ and begins studying to get practices within contexts of linguistic and mon Tongue’: Jewish Translation from He- their ten children. Four generations live in certified. This, of course, is not sanctioned by cultural negotiation. brew in Early Modern Italy” a shared house and the love of family is a her family or the elders. The book leaves us This year’s head fellows are Maya Barzilai, Adriana X. Jacobs, University of Oxford, constant throughout the book. Surie was to wonder whether she will risk ostracism to Associate Director of the Frankel Center and “Undead Poets Society: Hebrew Afterlives in married at sixteen and her children are now pursue her goal. Associate Professor of Hebrew Literature Translation” fifteen to thirty-nine. She is a grandmother Goldbloom lovingly describes the dedi- and Jewish Culture, and Adriana X. Jacobs, Oren Kosansky, Lewis & Clark College, “Ju- many times over and about to become a cation of the community to its children. Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Lit- deo-Arabic, Translation, and the Languages great-grandmother. At forty-three she had Each child is seen as a repudiation of Hitler erature at the University of Oxford. Barzilai of Jewish Morocco” been treated for breast cancer and thought and his goal of extermination of the Jews. studies modern Hebrew literature in com- she was entering menopause (chemothera- When the midwife comments that Chasidic Roni Masel, New York University, “Disrup- parative and multilingual contexts, focusing py, infrequent menstrual periods). women do not scream during labor, Surie tive Violence: The Gothic and the Grotesque on Hebrew-German literary and scriptural At fifty-seven, she discovers she is unex- says “Why should I scream when I am doing in Hebrew and Yiddish” translations in the context of early twenti- pectedly pregnant with twins. The extreme the exact thing I was made for?...Every part eth-century Zionism and secularism. Work- Joshua L. Miller, University of Michigan, “‘A rarity of a woman in her late fifties becoming of my life is turned toward children....At the ing in a comparative vein, Jacobs’s research race in fragments, almost completely scat- pregnant was, for me, a distraction I couldn’t end of the Holocaust when we thought no on modern Hebrew poetry examines the tered’: The Translational Networks of Jewish shake throughout the whole book. children were left, the sound of one child’s relation between translation and writing, Latin America” Surie finds that she cannot tell her hus- cry was enough to fill every heart to over- highlighting the multilingual networks that Alex Moshkin, University of Toronto, “Mi- band about the pregnancy. Memories surface flowing. It is all that we live for.” poets claim and imagine in translation. gration and Translation: Contemporary of her son, Lipa, who had revealed to his fa- At the book’s end, we are left to wonder The Frankel Institute fellows will con- Russian-Israeli Poetry” ther that he was gay and was summarily ban- whether Surie can continue to be devoted to ished from the community. Lipa had moved family and community while finding satis- sider how the study of Jewish translation Anita Norich, University of Michigan, somewhere in Manhattan, contracted HIV/ faction pursuing her own dream. histories and practices stands in dialogue “Translation Matters: Women’s Prose Writ- AIDS, and was found hanging from a tree. Goldie Goldbloom is the winner of the with recent theoretical developments in the ing in Yiddish” fields of postcolonial translation studies, Whether it was suicide or a hate crime is not Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fic- gender studies, transnationalism, and world Naomi Seidman, University of Toronto, made clear. When Surie and Yidel identi- tion Award for this novel. n literature. They will explore how Jewish so- “Freud and/in Yiddish” fied his body, Yidel said, ‘This is not my son.’ cieties negotiated their minority or majority Yael Sela, The Open University of Israel, Surie confirmed that it was. Yidel had never positions through translation. This theme “Music, Myth, and Aesthetic Sensation in year also will afford opportunities to discuss Moses Mendelssohn’s Translation Enter- how translation enabled exchanges around prise” Jewish scripture, law, and thought, and how Anna Elena Torres, University of Chicago, these practices of translation have changed “‘Utopian Tongues: Jewish Anarchist Trans- To the remarkable staff of Jewish Family Services across time and space. lation Practices” By bringing together scholars working in for finding creative ways to keep serving the Jason M. Zurawski, University of Gronin- translation studies across a range of regions, gen, “The Reception of the Greek Transla- community during these difficult times. languages, and periods, this fellowship year tion of Hebrew Scriptures in the Hellenistic promotes a productive conversation among Diaspora” n With much admiration, fields that have often been studied in sepa- rate departments and forums. Fellows will Sue Sefansky and David Goldstein. share their research with the scholarly com- Washtenaw Jewish News A April 2020 13 IFrankel Institute

giraffe Jewish Culture between the wars Kelsey Robinette Keeves, special to the WJN Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918-1939, edited by Todd Endelman and Zvi Gitelman his month University of Michigan poetry - is known only to a handful of special- Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and ists. One of our goals in editing this volume was T Posen Library will be celebrating pub- to make their work known to a much wider au- lication of Volume 8 of The Posen Library of dience. Some were well known in their day but Jewish Culture and Civilization, Crisis and Cre- even in their cases the vagaries of translation ativity between World Wars, 1918-1939. Edited and publication have made their work largely by Todd Endelman and Zvi Gitelman, the book unavailable. Among these is a long excerpt from is an anthology of Jewish primary sources pro- the largely forgotten Anglo-Jewish writer Betty duced between the world wars. It encompasses Miller’s novel Farewell Leicester Square, the sto- what was simultaneously a tense and an inno- ry of an ambitious and talented young Jewish vative period in modern Jewish history. filmmaker whose rise is complicated by his am- During these decades, Jews vigorously de- bivalent sense of Jewishness. There are several bated religion, politics, migration, and their poems by the American Yiddish writer Kadya relation to the state and to one another. The se- Molodovsky, whose work showed acute sensi- lections capture the variety, breadth, and depth tivity to the tension between the role of women of Jewish creativity in those tempestuous years. in traditional Jewish life and her role as a cre- The texts, translated from many languages, ative writer. We have also included an excerpt span a wide range of politics, culture, literature, from the memoir of the novelist and playwright and art. Edna Ferber describing her experience growing The Posen Library is a collection of ten vol- up Jewish in Appleton, Wisconsin.” umes of primary sources on Jewish creativity, Another one of the challenges in compil- diversity and culture, edited by Judaic studies ing the volume was working with translators to scholars from the United States and Israel, in- convey the meaning, beyond a word for word cluding editor in chief, Deborah Dash Moore. translation, of the text. Translating text written Philanthropist Felix Posen launched the proj- in Germany or Russia before World War II was ect more than 15 years ago as an effort to high- difficult for some translators because of signifi- light previously unknown or forgotten works cant differences in terminology from the 1920s of Jewish artists and writers. The volumes are and 1930s to the present. Endelman noted that Inspired Design. Excellent Craftsmanship. Delighting People & Planet. available for purchase online and free as a PDF the goal of the volume is not only to portray via The Posen Digital Library. Endelman and the Jewish artists and writers who lived at the giraffedesignbuild.com [email protected] 734.489.1924 Gitelman’s volume is the third released and will time, but also the age in which they lived. “It is be available online on April 7. not as if one viewpoint emerges, but I would The editorial responsibilities for the vol- say many of the essay writers in our period are ume were divided geographically. Gitelman dealing with the difficulties of being Jewish in was responsible for the material from Eastern inter-war Europe. They wanted to know what Europe and Endelman was responsible for the the future would be, and offered all kinds of rest - Latin America, the United States, Western projections, solutions, and alternatives.” and Central Europe, and Africa. “We decided Many of the writers were previously un- that Czechoslovakia outside of Prague was in known due to a lack of accessibility. Works Eastern Europe, but that Prague was in Central were translated from more than ten languages, Europe,” quipped Endelman. “And Hungary including Hungarian, Croatian, Czech, and was in Central Europe,” added Gitelman. Romanian, some for the first time. Some of the Endelman and Gitelman wrote an extensive authors were famous in their time, but are now introduction to the volume to place the sources long forgotten. “Nothing dies quicker than a lit- in context. Gitelman stated, “It’s not as if Jews erary reputation,” observed Endelman. “Some lived in a vacuum. They were profoundly influ- of the authors are well known–Franz Kafka, enced by their surroundings and many of them Martin Buber–others, readers will have never deeply engaged in them. One has to appreci- heard of before.” ate the cultural, political, economic contexts Endelman and Gitelman believe that one in which all of these arguments and writings of the reasons this period had such a large and played out.” varied amount of Jewish viewpoints compared In order to help narrow down what to in- to other eras was the high rate of literacy and clude in the volume, they decided to only use density of population. “There is no intellectual one piece of art per person. To narrow it down diversity in the university today, but in this pe- further, they chose to include only the work of riod there really is. There really are solutions on Jewish artists’ whose work dealt with portray- the total spectrum,” stated Endelman. ing Jewish life. Gitelman said, “I came to this The selections in the volume “range from project from more of a social science perspec- ultra-Orthodoxy to communism, from radical tive. So I’m not as concerned with the writer or assimilation to fierce nationalism,” added Gitel- the quality of the writing, but more focused on man. “It is inevitable that you look at this 20- the issues that were raised–Yiddishism, Hebra- year period backwards from the Holocaust and ism, socialism, communism, Zionism, all the you can see what was destroyed. How vibrant, ideologies and ideas that agitated Jews during multifarious, and variegated Jewish life was and this inter-war period.” how passionate people were about being Jew- They also decided to include large excerpts ish, or becoming not Jewish, or becoming more from the primary texts, rather than short snip- Jewish.” pets. “That meant a great deal of editing,” said The volume is principally intended for use Endelman. “So after, or even before, material by specialists and students, but has illustrations had been translated, we cut out a lot of mate- and passages that can be enjoyed by anyone in- rial, but still the final product, rather than a few terested in the Jewish authors of this era. “One quotations, was a comprehensible story or es- of the primary goals of this enterprise is to say.” make original material available, largely online, Endelman added, “Among the writers, read- for pedagogical use at a variety of levels,” said ers will find dozens of Jewish women whose Gitelman. n writing – primarily novels, short stories, and 14 Washtenaw Jewish News A April 2020 ITemple Beth Emeth

Mental health and suicide in teens Temple Beth Emeth Online April Trina Fuller, Ketl Freedman-Doan, and Barbara Burstein, special to the WJN emple Beth Emeth has put this pro- With everything changing because of the Coronavirus, we ask that people check the website gramming list together amid the Torah Study to see if the presentations will still be taking place. COVID-19 outbreak in the Greater Saturdays at 8:50 am T Zoom ID: 780 410 1503 he Women of Temple Beth Emeth In 2001 she was recruited by the American Ann Arbor region to ensure the Ann Arbor (WTBE) has focused their yearly pro- Foundation for Suicide Prevention to develop community has opportunities to connect Shabbat Morning Services Tgramming on mental health, suicide, comprehensive programing relating to the after- with each other and TBE’s clergy. It is as Saturdays at 10 am and community and personal response. In recent math of suicide. She and created the most well- important as ever to make time to engage Live-stream online here: http://live.temple- years, within Temple Beth Emeth and the com- respected, far-reaching array of programs and with ourselves and others spiritually and bethemeth.org/new/. munity at large, there have been several individu- resources in the field. emotionally during this time of communal als who had decided to end their lives by suicide. The Women of Temple Beth Emeth in Ann anxiety. Please call the TBE office, 734-665- Daily Morning Blessings As part of this programming, WTBE is Arbor are proud to sponsor her presentation, 4744, or email [email protected], Daily, 9:15 am, Led by Rabbi Whinston pleased to host Joanne Harpel, MPhil, J.D. from “When Should I Worry? Mental Health and Sui- with questions. Please check the TBE web- Zoom ID: 780 410 1503 the non-profit suicide prevention organization, cide in Teens.” Discussion topics will include re- site, www.templebethemeth.org, for updates “Rethink The Conversation.” Ms. Harpel is an sponses to such questions as: Are antidepressants and any changes to this schedule. Daily Afternoon Blessings international authority on suicide bereavement dangerous? With the pressure kids are under, are Daily, 3 pm, Led by Cantor Hayut and postvention with over twenty years of expe- they at higher risk of suicide? Does bullying cause Tot Shabbat Services Zoom ID: 499 764 4651 rience. She is the founder, president, and CEO of suicide? My gut is telling me something’s not Fridays at 5:45 pm Live-stream online here: http://live.temple- Lunch & Learn “Rethink The Conversation” and has a nation- right. What should I do? Is suicide contagious? Fridays, Noon, Led by Rabbi Whinston bethemeth.org/new/. wide practice providing guidance and support to Parents and other interested adults are invit- Zoom ID: 780 410 1503 individuals, families, schools and colleges, faith ed to join WTBE and Joanne Harpel for an open Friday Shabbat Services communities, and workplaces with suicide loss. forum to address the emotions, concerns, and Fridays at 7:30 pm Women’s Torah Study Mondays, 7 pm, Led by Cantor Hayut Her work also involves training clergy, educators, fears that inevitably arise around these challeng- Live-stream online here: http://live.temple- Zoom ID: 499 764 4651 physicians, and other professionals and develop- ing issues. This program is open to the commu- bethemeth.org/new/ ing public awareness initiatives. nity. Saturday, April 18, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Harpel is a former litigation attorney with Temple Beth Emeth Sanctuary, 2309 Packard St. one of the country’s leading law firms, and a Refreshments will follow after the program. n longtime survivor of her own brother’s suicide.

Washtenaw Jewish News A April 2020 15 IHebrew Day School

Talent at HDS Jennifer Rosenberg, special to the WJN ebrew Day School welcomed the joyful month of Adar with happiness and talent! The annual HDS talent show was expertly hosted this year by alumna Jessica Schwalb, HDS H class of 2015. The only thing better than the variety of talent exhibited by the HDS students was the incredible support offered to all the performers by their peers and families. n

Daniella and Merav delivered an important message with their Klez Kids, the HDS klezmer band, opened the show with two fantastic pieces. Three Olson siblings wowed the crowd with their vocal rendition of the song Be Confident and Strong. creative growing machine.

Third grader, Nitai, expertly played two songs on the In honor of National Reading Month and Dr. Seuss’s birthday, the HDS staff and Four 1st/2nd grade girls choreographed and performed a dance to piano, one of which he teachers rapped One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish in English and Hebrew. Katy Perry’s Firework. composed himself.

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A cool school sign, bought and paid for Amalia and Aya, student journalists for the HDS Press, special to the WJN ach year as a part of their year-long rah Jen agreed to lend them money so they curriculum focus on leadership, ad- quickly wrote a business plan that included E vocacy, and philanthropy, the fifth- how they would raise money and the payment grade student council of the Hebrew Day schedule. Cheryl, the HDS business manager, School of Ann Arbor takes on two fundrais- created the loan agreement. It was thrilling to ing/service projects. This year, one of the proj- see fifth-graders use their math skills to solve ects was to raise money for a new Hebrew Day real-world problems.” School sign to be installed on the outside of Sonia, the student council secretary, had the Jewish Community Center building. this to say: “I think that the loan was a great Since they wouldn’t have raised the neces- idea because it helped us get the cool school sary $790 in time for the sign to be installed, sign. It made me a little nervous while we were the student council took out a loan from the doing it, but it was all ok in the end.” Hebrew Day School in order to pay for it. The Lou Morse, the Financial Literacy Pro- loan agreement stated that they were sup- gram Coordinator at Bank of Ann Arbor, posed to pay it back by May 31, but they paid who helped the student council learn about it back early on January 30. They made many the loan and about finance was impressed that deposits to Cheryl Newton, the business man- “the 5th grade class wanted to take on a ma- ager of Hebrew Day School. jor fundraising project to benefit their school. They raised the money through fundrais- We discussed taking out a loan and what their ers and by providing service to some com- obligation would be for repayment. They munity members. The first fundraiser was a kept fundraising foremost in their minds to penny drive. In this fundraiser, each HDS class allow them to meet their pay-off deadline. got a special container and students in each They approached the entire project in a very grade brought in money to put in the contain- help to the student council because they paid gram Coordinator at the Bank of Ann Ar- businesslike manner. Their commitment and ers. The class that filled up the most contain- the student council to rake their leaves. All of bor to teach the student council, because of dedication allowed them to pay off the loan ers in the end won. The 3rd and 4th graders their hard work resulted in the new Hebrew her vast knowledge of finances. This year the very quickly. I think this exercise helped them ended up winning. The second fundraiser Day School sign posted on the JCC building, student council decided to buy a sign for the to see the entire lending process and the im- was a bottle and can drive. The student coun- which is modeled after the Jewish Commu- front of our school. In order to purchase the portance of establishing a strong repayment cil set up boxes around the JCC and people nity Center sign. sign at a discounted rate, the student coun- record. I am always impressed by the subjects donated bottles and cans that could be turned Carol Gannon, student council advisor, cil had to take out a loan. Lou was the perfect that are covered in this class and the life les- in at stores for money. Dave Stone, Jennifer said about the loan process, “Every year I person to teach the student council members sons that are learned.” n Rosenberg, and Lou Morse were all a huge invite Lou Morse the Financial Literacy Pro- about the process of taking out a loan. Mo-

With all the healing needed in today's landscape, let us unite as a community.

Please reach out to those around you to deepen your relationships, even as we increase our physical distance.

Temple Beth Emeth encourages compassion and safety as we navigate the impact of COVID-19 on the Greater Ann Arbor communities. TBE is offering online programming and live-streamed Shabbat services for our community members. Stream services and learn about our programming opportunities at www. templebethemeth.org.

Washtenaw Jewish News A April 2020 17 IInside Israel

Sitting Hasidic Musicians displace Srulik By Shifra Epstein rafts people around the world have new trend among figurines of Hasidim - Sitting appropriated images of the Hasid and, Hasidic Musicians. These musicians, ranging in C in general, Eastern European religious size form 8 cm to 16 cm, are mostly made of polyresin, silvered or colored, with or without cloth or stick legs. They hold a variety of musi- cal instruments including clarinet, accordion, violin, cello, saxophone and guitar. Although figurines of Hasidim playing a violin have been popular in the past, such a diverse selection of figurines of Hasidic musicians is a new phe- nomenon. The Sitting Hasidic Musicians can be seen in Judaica stores and Steimatzky book stores all over the country, in cities, the airport, Yad Vashem, in malls, and in open air markets such as the Car- mel market in Tel Aviv and Makhne Yehuda in Jerusalem. I also spotted them in the markets of the Old City in Jerusalem and in the Druze village of Osafiya in Northern Israel, and in book stores serving Jews of the former Soviet Union. The upper photographs are of the large The booming tourism industry in Israel, Hasidic Musicians manufactured by reaching four and a half million in 2019, con- Golyan Matanot. tributed to the popularity of these figurines. Jews into their crafts. Poles appropriated these For many tourists, Jewish and non-Jewish, the images to invent the figurines of the so-called Sitting Hasidic Musicians are simulacra of the “Lucky Jews” which, they believe, can bring exotic Eastern European Jews and Hasidim, good luck and financial success. In another ex- which continue to occupy the imagination even ample, Disney World uses images of male and though they do not exist anymore. female Hasidim to depict Israel and Jews in Six companies manufacture the figurines in their “It’s a Small World After All” attractions. China and import them to Israel, where they re- Figurines of Hasidim have also been bought tail the figurines to more than 1500 virtual and and sold for many years in Israel. However, dur- on line shops. Among these are Art Judaica in ing my travels in Israel in 2019, I discovered a the town of Yavne, Karshi Judaica in Neve Sha-

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18 Washtenaw Jewish News A April 2020 lom, Ami Souvenirs in Bat Yam, Avi Matanot in Tel Aviv, Giftshop in BatYam, and Golyan Matanot in the town of Kiryat Ekron. The companies mostly specialize in the manufacturing of low-cost objects of Judaica.

The second photograph is of seated cloth legs Hasidim manufactured by Art Judaica. Most recently, Israeli companies specializing in the manufacturing of objects for home dé- cor also introduced the Sitting Hasidim Musi- cian figurine. Most recently, in 2019, Golyan Yitzak Rabin called Magen David Adom Matanot introduced the largest Sitting Hasidic Musicians (31 cm x 12 cm) to date. These are manufactured in collaboration with Wayfair, Israel’s second line of defense. the world’s largest low-cost home décor com- pany. In these, the heads of the musician were replaced with the characteristic Hasidic fur hat With the coronavirus, we’re the first. known as the shtraymel. While the figurine of the Sitting Hasidic Mu- sicians has taken over the country, the ethnic and national dolls which were popular in the 1950’s and 1960’s, have completely disappeared from the Israeli landscape. Yemenite men and women, When the COVID19 coronavirus arrived in Israel, the Ministry of Health Persian Jews, Hasidim and Israeli Arabs have dis- appeared from the Israeli landscape. Also gone knew who could best protect everyone’s health. Because Israelis know are figurines representing Israeli national identi- Magen David Adom has the paramedics, training, and vision to minimize ties: the Palmachnik, the Kibbutznik, the Israeli male soldier and even Srulik (the mythical char- the spread of the disease. acter symbolizing Israel ).

The figurines of the Sitting Hasidim Musi- With its innovative home-testing program and cutting-edge video apps, cians also replaced the olive wood figurines of a Hasid holding a Torah made post-1967 by MDA can literally see how patients are recovering — enabling most Palestinian craft people from Bethlehem. The figurines were made after the 1967 war and Israelis to recover at home, where they can infect the fewest people. helped bring Palestinian business men and shop keepers in the old city of Jerusalem closer to each other. Support from Americans like you has helped MDA shield almost all of With the disappearance of the Israeli ethnic Israel’s 9 million people from this disease. But this fight has depleted and national dolls, the companies had no problem replacing the void with the Sitting Hasidic Musi- the tools and supplies MDA needs to ensure the infection rates don’t cians. The large figurines manufactured by Golyan Matanot best illustrates the domestication of the rise. Help Magen David Adom continue to protect Israelis and save lives. Hasidim as objects for the Jewish home. As is often the case, Israel is a country full Make a gift today. Chag Pesach sameach. of contradictions and conflicts, and attitudes toward the Sitting Hasidic Musician reflect this incongruity. Despite the fact that most religious authorities recognize that as long as one doesn’t worship the figurines, the figurines are kosher for the Jewish home, some Orthodox Jews still consider the figurines as pesalim (graven im- ages) and, as such, will not bring them home. Interestingly, two owners of Judaica stores, in Rehovot and Bne Braq, showed me that upon the recommendation of Halakhic authorities, afmda.org/protect breaking a finger or nose of the figurine makes it acceptable for a Jewish home. I look forward to my next trip to Israel to discover the latest figurines of Hasidim. n

Washtenaw Jewish News A April 2020 19 IIsrael Center

Rabbi Ladon to Lead Session on Jewish Power and Vulnerability Clara Silver, special to the WJN he Israel Center at the Jewish Com- tional and programmatic activity in the San stitute and is currently a Doctoral student Michigan. Midwest Manager, Rebecca Starr, munity Center of Greater Ann Francisco Bay area. He received a B.A. from in Jewish Education at the Jewish Theologi- shares that, “this is a challenging and compli- T Arbor in partnership with the cal Seminary in New cated time for Jews in America and we at the Hartman Institute of North America Mid- York. Joshua joined SHI Hartman Institute are honored to be able to west Hub will host Rabbi Joshua Ladon on North America from bring the best scholars and faculty members Wednesday, April 22 at 6 p.m., when he will San Francisco’s Jew- to help address the complexities of Jewish lead a beit midrash style virtual experience ish Community High life. It is especially thrilling to be able to bring on “The Responsibility of Jewish People- School of the Bay, where Hartman scholarship to the Midwest.” hood: Navigating Power and Vulnerability.” he served as Dean of The Israel Center at the J has been able to Using the Zoom online webinar platform, Student Life and Jewish build on its partnership with Shalom Hart- Rabbi Ladon will lead participants through Life with great distinc- man North American this year, and bring an exploration of notions of Jewish identity, tion, including receiv- other speakers and programs to the Ann Ar- Jewishness and Americanness, and Jewish ing the Diller Award for bor community, through a grant from the D. power and vulnerability using a variety of outstanding teaching. Dan and Betty Kahn Foundation. The mis- classical and modern Jewish texts. Starting The Ann Arbor sion of the Israel Center at the J is to pro- from the question, “why do Israel conversa- JCC’s Israel Center has vide opportunities for individuals to engage tions so often land as personal,” participants been connected with with Israel, thoughtfully and respectfully, to- will discuss how these and other ideas play the Shalom Hartman gether as a community. Rabbi Ladon’s class out in conversations about Israel and about Institute since 2018 in is offered free of charge, funded by the Kahn ourselves. Rabbi Ladon is, “offering different RabbiJoshua Ladon an effort to bring the Foundation grant. The session will take place ways of understanding Jews as both powerful Washington University in St. Louis and sub- high level scholars and conversations about online, and will require pre-registration in and vulnerable.” sequently lived in Jerusalem for seven years, critical issues facing Israel and the Jewish order to obtain the link to the webinar. For Rabbi Ladon is West Coast Director of completing an M.A. in Jewish Thought at community to Ann Arbor. This year, Sha- more information or to register, visit jccan- Education for Shalom Hartman Institute of Tel Aviv University. He received rabbinic lom Hartman North America expanded its narbor.org. n North America, where he oversees educa- ordination from the Shalom Hartman In- presence into the Midwest, based in Detroit,

Opinion: The Protocols of Ann Arbor Henry Brysk t the beginning of the twentieth not meddle in other countries internal af- from Palestinian activists; the complainants cal alliances with active anti-Semites. This century, the Czarist government fairs; that is deplored as nation-building. deny that Jews have constitutional rights has had an impact on public policy: The A circulated “The Protocols of the Concurrently, a substantial faction of the and want the bullying to be unhindered (the American commitment to the survival of Elders of Zion” which expounded that all same isolationists reverses course in one Protocols lurk). Israel used to be viewed as unshakable, as a Jews were in a conspiracy to take over the single instance, obsessing about advocating The Niemoeller sermon “…They came third rail for politicians. It has progressively world; the intent was to lay the ground- the nation-deconstruction of a tiny country for the Jews and I am not a Jew, so I kept become seen as vulnerable to the vagaries of work for pogroms. A century ago, Henry with one thousandth of the world popula- quiet…” is much quoted but not fully un- partisan politics. That has enhanced Arab Ford published an English translation, for tion. They seek to boycott it (and no one derstood: The heroic pastor was condemn- irredentism and Israeli wariness, encour- which he accepted a medal from Hitler. In else). The one thing unique about Israel is ing the Nazis and what they perpetrated. But aged the continuing Russian adventurism, 1929, Amin Husseini led a wave of pogroms that it is Jewish; that is the only plausible his main thrust was to reproach the larger and undermined the prospects of early ac- in the British Mandate of Palestine and reason for the exception. masses who failed to do anything about it; commodation. became the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; he Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 they enabled the atrocities by their passivity. There is an old saying that revolutionaries subsequently spent most of World War II in prohibits discrimination on the basis of My perspective so far has been on the love humanity but hate people. The Jewish Berlin on Himmler’s payroll. Husseini man- race, color and national origin in pro- Jews as victims. A vital part of the story is subspecies loves humanity but hates Jewish aged to convert Arab anti-Judaism from its grams and activities that receive federal that Jews also appear on the other side, at people. Some German Jews believed that as- distinctive Medieval pattern to the German funding. For quite some time now, it has all levels. The Gestapo employed “honor- similation and a low profile would extricate version. been invoked by the Department of Edu- ary Aryans,” Jews who hunted Jews. The them from marginalization; it did not work. In Ann Arbor, a cult-like group has laid cation to mandate that colleges protect founder of the American Nazi Party had a After the Holocaust, we cried “Never again!” siege to Beth Israel Congregation during its Black and Latino students from bullying. Jewish mother. The siege of Beth Israel was First of all, it meant literally that the world services for the past 16 years, purportedly Bureaucrats claimed that it did not apply originated by a handful of Jews. Many Jews should not allow six million Jews to be mur- to protest the existence of the State of Is- to Jews because religion was not specified; give anti-Semitism a pass when it calls it- dered again (even if they had the bad taste rael. Its guru has invoked the Protocols to they reversed this interpretation late in the self “anti-Zionism” (in the language of the of living in Israel). More broadly, it also claim a linkage between an American house Obama administration, but took no action. Protocols and of the Iranian regime); they meant that the same fate should not befall of worship and a foreign nation overseas. Recently, Trump issued an executive order boycott Israel but not Syria or China. In other ethnic groups (on which the world MLIVE’s latest story on the subject had a stating that “While Title VI does not cover the early days of the Hitler regime, there response has been abominable). It certainly Comments section. I was nonplussed that discrimination based on religion, individu- were rich assimilated Jews who believed did not mean the shameful trivialization the Protocol rationale drew little interest als who face discrimination on the basis of that they were immune, that only the Pol- that labels all perceived political injustice as among the participants, including those race, color, or national origin do not lose ish immigrants would be targeted. In the a Holocaust. The Jewish tradition includes critical of the “protestors.” It suggested to protection under Title VI for also being a mode of their German predecessors, some Tikkun Olam, the duty to help the needy. me an unhealthy political climate that re- member of a group that shares common Jews discount Iran’s genocidal ambitions. Again, it first calls for helping poor Jews; quires exploration. religious practices. Discrimination against More have returned to the faith that an afterwards (assuming sufficient resources) Isolationism has been surging in the U.S. Jews may give rise to a Title VI violation…. unenforceable piece of paper can ensure it enjoins also assisting non-Jews. There are A corollary has been a dismissive disinterest It shall be the policy of the executive branch “peace for our time.” I was tempted to delve still many poor Jews, both here and abroad, in atrocities abroad. In an ongoing geno- to enforce Title VI against prohibited forms into the psychopathology of all this, but a in destitution. Too much of the complacent cide, the murderous Syrian regime, assisted of discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism lifetime as a scientist has conditioned me American-Jewish bourgeoisie prefers to ig- by Russia and Iran, has killed half-a-million as vigorously as against all other forms of to shun unverifiable speculation. I now ac- nore their existence (out of discomfort with of its citizens. Not long before, Sudanese Ar- discrimination prohibited by Title VI.” cept that people are less rational than they their perceived lack of enlightenment) and abs killed two million of their Black compa- Previously uncomplaining individuals and believe themselves to be. I am concerned, skips to politically more fashionable proj- triots (first in South Sudan, then in Darfur). organizations averred a threat to the First however, by the consequences. ects that exclude Jews. Jew-bashing mutates Even more have died in Congo without Amendment rights of Palestinians. This “…They came for the Israeli Jews and I in its political context and rhetoric, and it is much notice. The Chinese government has was remarkable in that the order nowhere am not an Israeli Jew, so I kept quiet…” That insensitive to what Jews do or do not do. It been stamping out the Tibetan and Uighur mentions Israel or Palestinians. The under- appears to be the mood of many American is based on unreasoning hatred. Our choice cultures. We are told these (and many other) lying reasoning is that Jewish students and Jews. They have subordinated Jewish soli- is to oppose it or to succumb to it passively. cases are none of our business, we should campus groups most often need protection darity to other ideology, embracing politi- I prefer self-respect. n

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Lawsuit against protesters is likely to succeed. by Marc M. Susselman, J.D., M.P.H. am lead counsel in the lawsuit against political hate speech may not be restricted testers can take their speech wherever they to force their message on congregants who the protesters who have been picketing unless there is a threat of imminent vio- choose. They simply ask the court to stop are incapable of avoiding it when attending I Beth Israel Synagogue every Saturday lence is incorrect. the targeted picketing of a house of worship services. The congregants are not required morning for 16 ½ years. The following is a Not only has Beauharnais never been in a residential neighborhood. This is noth- to accommodate the purported free speech response to the opinion piece in the March overruled, it has been favorably cited in ing more than a time, place and manner re- rights of the protesters by continually avert- issue of WJN, written by Jessica Lefort, Uni- numerous decisions, most significantly in striction, the kind of regulation which has ing their eyes, or attending services at a versity of Michigan Professor of Law. R.A.V. In R.A.V., the Court held that an been sanctioned in numerous decisions by different synagogue, or foregoing services In her article, Lefort suggests that it will ordinance which made cross burning and federal and state courts. altogether, just to avoid seeing signs foisted be a hurdle for the Plaintiffs in the lawsuit to inscribing swastikas on public or private Lefort also mischaracterizes the scope of on them week after week. overcome the protesters’ defense that their property a crime was unconstitutional. The the “captive audience” doctrine. The doc- Finally, Lefort asserts that, “In order to placement of anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist Court reasoned that the ordinance was not trine holds that the 1st Amendment does maintain its claims, the suit has to jump yet signs on the grassy right-of-way in front of “viewpoint neutral,” as it selectively chose not protect speech being forced on an audi- another hurdle, in that it has to prove that the synagogue is speech that is protected by what hate speech was impermissible. The ence against its will. In the paradigm case, the city is responsible for the protesters’ be- the 1st Amendment. She reasons that, un- Court indicated that, had the ordinance Lehman v. Shaker Heights (1974), a political havior.” In saying this, Lefort ignores three less speech is likely to result in “imminent been more broadly worded and prohibited candidate argued that the city’s policy of federal statutes upon which the Plaintiffs’ or immediate violence,” it is protected. all hate speech, as was the case in Beauhar- disallowing political advertising on the in- claims are based which do not require state However, this assertion is contradicted nais, it would have been constitutional. side of buses violated the 1st Amendment. action. Federal statutes 42 U.S.C. §§1981, by two Supreme Court decisions: Beauhar- While pursuant to Beauharnais the The Court rejected this position and held 1982 and 1983(5) all apply to private citi- nais v. Illinois (1954), and R.A.V. v. St. Paul Court may prohibit the protesters’ speech, his free speech was limited because it forced zens. In addition, Plaintiffs rely on the (1992). In Beauharnais, a white man was the Plaintiffs are not seeking to prosecute the bus patrons to be a captive audience. Michigan Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, prosecuted for violating an Illinois statute the protesters, nor are they seeking to pro- Justice Douglas stated: “While petitioner which also does not require governmental which made it a crime for a person to “pres- hibit the use of their signs elsewhere. The clearly has a right to express his views to participation. ent or exhibit in any public place in this state Plaintiffs’ position is clear: Let the protest- those who wish to listen, he has no right to Lefort’s legal interpretation would re- any ... publication or exhibition [which] ers spout their hate speech anywhere in Ann force his message upon an audience incapa- quire that the congregants continue to tol- portrays depravity, criminality, unchas- Arbor, in Michigan, or the United States, ble of declining to receive it.” The Court did erate harassment by a group of antisemites tity, or lack of virtue of a class of citizens, but not in front of a synagogue. Plaintiffs’ not state that the passengers were required for another untold number of years and of any race, color, creed or religion which position applies with equal force to the to avert their eyes or forego using public there is nothing any court can do to curtail said publication or exhibition exposes the use of hate speech near any house of wor- transportation in order to accommodate it. Her position is contrary to the law. I am citizens of any race, color, creed or religion ship, whether a Christian church, a Moslem the politician’s 1st Amendment right. In confident the Plaintiffs will prevail. n to contempt, derision, or obloquy or which mosque, or a Hindu or Sikh temple. the same vein, the congregants are a cap- is productive of breach of the peace or ri- Aside from Beauharnais, the Plaintiffs tive audience. The protesters have no right ots.” Beauharnais was charged with violat- put forth numerous claims to support ing the statute by distributing leaflets which time, place and manner restrictions on the called on the mayor of Chicago to halt the protesters, yet Lefort incorrectly dismisses encroachment, harassment and invasion of them. For example, while acknowledging the white race. The leaflets stated: “If per- that the synagogue is located in a residen- suasion and the need to prevent the white tially zoned area, Lefort rejects the applica- race from becoming mongrelized by the ne- bility of the doctrine prohibiting targeted gro will not unite us, then the aggressions… residential picketing. The leading case, Fris- rapes, robberies, knives, guns and marijua- by v. Schultz (1988), involved an ordinance A letter na of the negro, surely will.” When Beau- which made it unlawful for a person to tar- to our customers harnais was arrested, he had not incited get a specific location in a residential area. any mob to attack African Americans, nor In that case, anti-abortionists were picket- were there any threats to commit violence. ing in a residential neighborhood at the Small businesses are struggling right now. We are navigating Beauharnais was charged with violating the home of a physician, carrying signs with payroll, rent, inventory, and expenses, with daily sales down over statute simply because he distributed leaf- messages such as, “Stop Abortion Now” and 75%. We are doing everything in our power to keep our employees lets which subjected African-Americans to “Abortion is Legal Murder.” The protesters and customers healthy, while keeping our business afloat and our “contempt, derision [and] obloquy.” challenged the constitutionality of the ordi- team employed. So whether it’s your favorite restaurant, theater, Similar to the speech in Beauharnais nance, but the Supreme Court held that the or clothing store, we’re asking you to support small business if you which cast “contempt, derision [and] ob- ordinance was constitutional. It stated: “The Here are a few ideas: loquy” on Black people, the protesters’ type of picketers banned by the ... ordinance can. speech, including “Resist Jewish Power” generally do not seek to disseminate a mes- and “Jewish Power Corrupts,” casts “con- sage to the general public, but to intrude > Buy a gift card: Purchase a gift card online or via the phone tempt, derision [and] obloquy” on Jews. 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If Lefort were correct, rejected a notion that all political speech in website to understand your options before going elsewhere. Beauharnais should have prevailed and his a residential area could be prohibited. Al- conviction should have been overturned. though the Court has occasionally upheld Lastly, and most importantly: Thank You. You are the reason However, the Supreme Court, held that the laws restricting speech in residential areas why we have been here for 49 years, and the reason why we want statute was constitutional and did not vio- (where the synagogue is located), those laws late his rights. Justice Frankfurter stated: “In have been narrow in scope and were not to continue to be here. the face of this history ... of extreme racial based on the content of the speech itself. Ed Davidson and AJ Davidson and religious propaganda, we would deny Here, the suit does not attempt to uphold experience to say that the Illinois legisla- a law restricting speech generally, but asks ture was without reason in seeking ways to the Court to restrict the specific speech of curb false or malicious defamation of racial the protesters.” Lefort’s comment, however, and religious groups, made in public places entirely misstates the Plaintiffs’ position. 336 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, Mi 48104 and by means calculated to have a powerful The Plaintiffs in no way ask the Court to 734.761.6207 · www.bivouacannarbor.com emotional impact on those to whom it was restrict the content of the speech. On the presented.” Hence, Lefort’s assertion that, contrary, the Plaintiffs suggest that the pro-

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Creating a culture of belonging Sustaining Jewish community for generations to come Eileen Freed, special to the WJN Margaret Schreiber, special to the WJN hat does it take to be a Jewish every person should experience a sense of be- n March 1, the Jewish community of Arbor Jewish community is thrilled to be in- community in which everyone longing in ways that respond to their specific Greater Ann Arbor officially kicked- cluded in the eighth cohort of LIFE & LEGACY. W feels they belong? What steps needs.” However, despite clear need, they found O off LIFE & LEGACY®, a four-year The Harold Grinspoon Foundation provides can local organizations, congregations and that resources are few and far between and that program of The Harold Grinspoon Founda- monetary support with a grant of up to 33% programs take to demonstrate their openness the community lacks an intentional plan for tion (HGF). The goal of LIFE & LEGACY is to of the community’s LIFE & LEGACY budget, and accessibility to all? How can the commu- successful community-wide belonging. sustain the Jewish community for generations with a maximum grant of $100,000 for each nity work together to create an environment Recommendations from the extensive re- to come. It aims to change the philanthropic of the four years of the program. Federation in which individuals and families with special port center around five areas: community culture of the community so that legacy giving collaborates with HGF in financial investing, needs are able to participate and belong fully in awareness, intra and inter-agency collaboration becomes the norm. It further aims for organi- training, marketing, administering and provid- Jewish life? and communication, personnel, and training. zations to develop a camaraderie and respect ing incentive grants throughout the program. These are the kinds of questions being grap- A range of suggestions put forward in the as- while sharing the goal of increased legacy giv- Over the course of the four years, the Federa- pled with by the Jewish community’s Belong- sessment are being considered and evaluated by ing to the entire community. It changes the tion is expected to invest over $800,000 in the ing Task Force – a group of dedicated volunteers the committee as well as by individual organiza- perception that only certain people in the com- sustainability of the greater Ann Arbor Jewish and professionals, including parents of children tions. In the coming months, priorities for next munity can afford to be philanthropic. Instead, community. with special needs, from Jewish Federation, steps and potential funding will be established. the program trains the LIFE & LEGACY team On January 9, Arlene Schiff, National Direc- Jewish Family Services (JFS), Jewish Commu- Task Force members are conducting additional members on how everyone can make an im- tor of LIFE & LEGACY, conducted a training nity Center, Hebrew Day School, and Ann Ar- research and contacting communities that have pact, regardless of wealth. entitled “How to Write a Legacy Plan.” Teams bor congregations. taken successful concrete steps in developing There are 11 organizations participating in spent time working on writing their Legacy Belonging and inclusion have a range of cultures of belonging. LIFE & LEGACY here in Washtenaw County, Plans, the backbone of any successful legacy meanings and applications. The initial focus of Simultaneous to the Task Force convening, and they are all receiving the tools needed to campaign effort. Schiff returned to town on the Belonging Task Force is on how – individu- JFS has coordinated a belonging pilot project. mount a successful legacy campaign. The lo- February 24 – 26 to meet with individual teams ally and as a collective – communal organiza- With funding from the Jewish Women’s Foun- cal partners include: the Ann Arbor Orthodox to discuss the details of their drafted Legacy tions can best address the needs of individuals dation, JFS engaged an expert consultant to ad- Minyan, Beth Israel Congregation, Chabad of Plans. The plans include case statements, de- with a wide variety of learning, developmental vise JFS, Beth Israel Congregation and Temple Ann Arbor, Eastern Michigan University Cen- tails of marketing and stewardship of donors, and mental health challenges. To inform the Beth Emeth on issues of special needs inclusion ter for Jewish Studies, Hebrew Day School of and anticipated goals. Schiff was impressed conversation, identify service gaps, and provide with a focus on shaping inclusive family events Ann Arbor, Jewish Cultural Society, Jewish with how much work the teams put into their guidance to developing a culture of belonging and Shabbat experiences. As part of the project, Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor, Jew- plans and helped provide constructive feed- for all, the Task Force commissioned a needs as- a manual emphasizing best practices and re- ish Family Services of Washtenaw County, Jew- back based on her seven years of experience sessment of the greater Ann Arbor Jewish com- sources will be developed and distributed to all ish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, Michigan leading the LIFE & LEGACY program for the munity. Jewish Federation funded the needs local Jewish organizations for their benefit and Hillel, and Temple Beth Emeth. Grinspoon Foundation. assessment with supplemental financial sup- use. The knowledge and early findings from this Stacy Carroll, Director of Advancement & “LIFE & LEGACY is a game changer for port from local organizations and donors. The endeavor have been shared with the Belonging Planned Giving at University of Michigan Hil- this community,” says Sharyn J. Gallatin, Esq., Task Force selected Matan, a national organiza- Task Force along the way and continue to in- lel says “Michigan Hillel is excited to participate Chief Development Officer for the Federation. tion which supports Jewish professionals, com- form the Task Force’s deepening understanding in the LIFE & LEGACY program alongside so “Watching all of the Jewish organizations and munities and families in creating and sustaining of community needs. many Ann Arbor partner organizations. It’s congregations in town work together to sustain inclusive settings in educational, communal To find out more about how our commu- potential to create new opportunities for us our community for generations to come is re- and spiritual aspects of Jewish life, to conduct nity is working together to foster a sense of be- to further support our student community on ally something special.” the assessment. longing for all, contact your congregation, local campus and their Jewish life programming is If you have questions, please contact Mar- The Matan report references significant Jewish agency or Federation Chief Develop- endless.” garet Schreiber, LIFE & LEGACY Coordinator, “philosophical agreement on the part of JFS, ment Officer Sharyn J. Gallatin (sharyn@jew- Since its inception in 2012, LIFE & LEGA- at [email protected] or call 734- Federation, synagogues, early childhood offer- ishannarbor.org, 734-773-3533). n CY has partnered with 63 communities of all 773-3538. n ings, the day school, and camps that each and sizes across North America. The greater Ann “I’ll be in touch when I can”: Aliyah and Rescue Operations to Israel Stephanie Glass, special to the WJN n March 5, the Jewish Federation After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Hebrew) once they have arrived in Israel. The resettlement of Jews from around the world. and Jewish Community Center of Ms. Angel traveled to Russia, Moldavo, and olim are brought to absorption centers located In addition to hearing stories of rescue and O Greater Ann Arbor hosted “Aliyah other former Soviet Union countries to estab- around the country where they are provided learning more about the Jewish Agency, Ms. and Rescue Operations,” with guest speaker lish field offices for the Jewish Agency, which lodging for five months while learning Hebrew Angel shared her personal connection to mak- Vicki Angel, the former Deputy Director of Im- assisted Jews in making aliyah. Along with cre- and receiving assistance in finding a job and ing aliyah. Originally from Turkey, Ms. Angel migration at the Jewish Agency for Israel. Ms. ating offices, Ms. Angel developed aliyah pro- home. Some absorption centers provide addi- and her family made aliyah in 1965 after hav- Angel worked for the Jewish Agency for 32 years grams, including programs for young people tional help depending on the needs of the olim, ing been involved in underground Zionist net- and during that time she aided in the planning and Jews with professional backgrounds like which was the case for those rescued in Opera- works in Turkey. Her connection to her first and execution of notable rescues of Jews, in- tion Solomon. These absorption centers are just homeland has been something she has carried cluding Operation Solomon in 1991. She told one example of the extensive work the Jewish throughout her work at the Jewish Agency, the audience that when she was leaving for the Agency does on behalf of the worldwide Jewish including leading Birthright trips for Turkish covert Operation Solomon rescue, she was un- community. The Jewish Agency is supported Jews and helping the Turkish Jewish commu- able to tell her family where she was going or for through a wide range of sources, with a signifi- nity recover from the 2003 terror attacks on two how long she would be gone. She told them, “I cant percentage coming from the Jewish Feder- synagogues in Istanbul. Without a doubt, Ms. have to leave and I will be in touch when I can.” ations of North America (JFNA). The funding Angel has and continues to lead an exciting and For over 36 hours, Ms. Angel worked tire- JFNA provides comes from the money raised by meaningful life that fully embodies the mitzvah lessly to welcome over 14,000 Ethiopian Jews local Federations throughout North America. of Kol Yisrael arevim zeh bazeh (All Israel is Re- after they landed in Israel. The secret operation These Federations raise money through their sponsible for Another). required 36 planes, and throughout the course Annual Community Campaigns and a percent- For more information about the Jewish of the 24-hour rescue five babies were born age of these funds are sent as a core overseas al- Federation’s overseas allocations, please contact aboard the planes. In addition to her work with At an Israeli Absorption Center location. This allocation is then distributed to Stephanie Glass, Development and Planning Operation Solomon, she also assisted in rescu- doctors and dentists. One of the young women JFNA’s overseas partners, the Jewish Agency, Associate, at [email protected] or ing Jews from Albania and Yugoslavia during from the Soviet Union she helped make aliyah American Jewish Joint Distribution Agency, 734-773-3534. For more information about the the fall of the countries’ Communist regimes. is now her dentist, she said, highlighting her on- and ORT. The Jewish Federation of Greater Annual Community Campaign, please contact These rescues required charting busses through going connection to ensuring the Jews she helps Ann Arbor is part of this network and in 2019, Sharyn J. Gallatin, Chief Development Officer, Eastern Europe and working with community rescue truly find a home in Israel. the Annual Community Campaign sent over at [email protected] or 734-773- leaders to ensure they had reached every Jewish Ms. Angel also discussed how the Jewish $150,000, which went toward supporting the 3533. n person in the community. Agency helps immigrants (known as olim in Jewish Agency’s work, including the rescue and

Washtenaw Jewish News A April 2020 23 Community Shabbat returns (when safe) Eileen Freed, special to the WJN he Jewish Federation of Greater Ann by Federation and UM Hillel in partnership Jewish Family Services, and the Jewish Com- ganizers this year aim to make this event Arbor, in partnership with organiza- with Ann Arbor Orthodox Minyan, Ann Ar- munity Center of Greater Ann Arbor. environmentally friendly and zero-waste. T tions and congregations from across bor Reconstructionist Congregation, Beth The evening will commence at 5:30 BGreen, a local company devoted to sup- the community, is delighted to announce the p.m. with a Tot Shabbat service, led plying quality compostable products to the return of Community Shabbat. Community by rabbis from several congregations, community, will be generously donating all Shabbat will be scheduled as soon as pos- followed by dinner for families with supplies for Community Shabbat. sible, at University of Michigan Hillel, 1429 young children. Everyone is invited to Thanks to financial support from the Jew- Hill Street. gather at 6:15 p.m. for a welcome and ish Federation’s Community Engagement Initiated in 2017 by UM Hillel with sup- short Shabbat sing-a-long, after which Fund and our local partners, Community port from a Federation Impact Fund grant, participants will have the opportunity Shabbat is provided free of charge. However, Community Shabbat unites greater Ann Ar- to choose from a variety of Kabbalat pre-registration by April 30 is required. bor’s Jewish organizations and synagogues Shabbat services. Services will be fol- To register, donate or volunteer, visit in welcoming Shabbat together. People from lowed by a delicious communal meal www.michiganhillel.org/communityshab- diverse backgrounds are expected to attend, Israel Congregation, Chabad House of Ann catered by Hillel Café Chef Jonathan Shepa- bat20. For more information, contact Jessica representing the broad tapestry of Jewish life Arbor, Jewish Cultural Society, Pardes Han- rd. Weil at [email protected] or 734- in Ann Arbor. This year’s event is organized na, Temple Beth Emeth, Hebrew Day School, Taking an eco-conscious approach, or- 585-5405. n

Continued from page 1, Jewish performers and educators tried running an impromptu morning Light said. “I’m not even worried about There are challenges for Light and others delays. shacharit prayer service through Facebook money, I know we’re going to figure it out.” in her field, who are used to thriving off of But overall, Light is full of enthusiasm Live and was overwhelmed by the response. Light is far from alone in these endeavors. in-person interactions at their performances about the potential that online work offers, In addition to the 1,000-plus views, many Jewish kids performer Joanie Leeds is offering in moving online. For instance, Light noted and the new audiences around the world that people donated to Light through a PayPal “Quarantine Kids Concerts” each afternoon. that the steep increase in screen time has she could reach. account. The individual donations ranged Interested viewers will pay a subscription fee hurt her eyes. She also finds it alienating at “I hope we don’t go back to the way things from about $3 to $54. through PayPal or Venmo to access a private times to not be able to see her audience as were, [and] call each other even more and Light thinks people understand the dif- Facebook group. Josh Nelson, Noah Aron- she plays guitar. share our resources and support each other,” ficulties that freelancers and small businesses son, Shira Kline, Elana Arian and Rabbi Leora There are technical obstacles too, such as she said. “Hopefully we get back to some- are going through, and that their situation Kaye are offering a “Quarantine Shabbat,” or the lag that often occurs during a Zoom call, thing even better than it was before.” n could get worse the longer the pandemic Shabbat service via Facebook Live. Lex Ro- depending on everyone’s internet connec- Locally, Rabbi Josh Whinston and family do a wears on. feberg and his Judaism Unbound group has tion. Light’s in the process of hooking up a Facebook Live morning sing-a-long at 8:30 a. m. “People don’t want to support the thing started a Facebook page that gathers many of better quality microphone to her computer, that you create, they want to support you,” these online offerings in one place. and downloading software to help with the

Continued from page 1, Passover in a pandemic: Families on Zoom, solo seders and broken traditions

I could justify taking the risk of being at a tations on large gatherings could be a prob- in the local U.S. embassy — which has access this year, I accept it.” Pesach seder. It’s really hard to say that as a lem for people like Alexander Rapaport, who to Amazon Prime — to order some for him If people are limited to small or virtual Jew.” runs the Masbia network of soup kitchens online. Barring that, he will try to import seders on the first nights of Passover, they Kosher food professionals say shelves of in New York City. Masbia hosts two seders matzah all the way from South Africa. might have a kind of second chance, said Uri kosher grocery stores will probably still be every year for the needy, usually drawing And if all of that fails, he plans to make Allen, associate rabbi of Temple Beth Sho- stocked with matzah and other Passover sta- around 40 people per night. matzah himself — starting with the actual lom in Roslyn, New York. Allen is in a group ples. Rabbi Menachem Genack, CEO of the Rapaport stressed that because many ob- wheat. In any case, if Fisher and his wife end of rabbis pondering the renewed relevance Orthodox Union’s Kosher Division, said that servant Jews having little trouble finding an up in Senegal for the holiday, they plan to of Pesach Sheni, literally “Second Passover,” due to social distancing, some kosher super- invitation to a family or communal seder, host a seder for the tiny community of Jews a day that comes exactly a month after the visors have been supervising food produc- those who come to a Masbia seder truly have there who also would be unable to travel. first day of Passover. In ancient times, Pesach tion plants via a livestreamed walk-through. nowhere else to go. “If we are actually here for Pesach, it will Sheni was a second chance to make the pas- But he said the food is still being produced. “We are hoping for the best and we will be the first Pesach in my life that I won’t have chal sacrifice for those who had been unable “Most of the kosher-for-Pesach produc- definitely follow the Health Department a Pesach store to go to to buy my Pesach sup- to on the holiday itself. tion began a long time ago,” he said. “There’s guidelines on how to operate a seder — plies,” Fisher said. “While it’s not an ideal Allen said that in any event, Jews should not going to be any problem at all in terms of spread out the seating, limit capacity,” he situation, the prospect of sharing Pesach have a seder on the first night of Passover. availability of products for Pesach.” said. “It depends how severe it will be three with the friends and Jewish community that But if they are looking for a chance to make a On the other end of the supply chain, weeks from now. I hope we don’t have to we’ve built here over the past few months is communal seder with friends or family, then Alfredo Guzman, a manager at Kosher Mar- cancel.” exciting.” depending on the coronavirus’s spread, they ketplace in Manhattan, said two deliveries As Passover nears amid the coronavirus Others now face the unusual prospect might be able to do so on Pesach Sheni — of Passover food that were slated to come outbreak, some Jews would find any kosher of conducting the communal meal alone. without the blessings or dietary restrictions. Monday had canceled, though the suppliers grocery store a luxury. Rabbi Ariel Fisher, Efrem Epstein, who lives alone in Manhat- “I’m imagining both for my family and hoped to arrive later in the week. Guzman who is living in Dakar, Senegal, for the year tan, planned to join with friends or family, also probably many other families who are was worried as well that because of social while his wife conducts field research for her or a synagogue, for the seders. Now he’s won- used to a certain kind of seder, larger gather- distancing measures, he would only be al- doctorate in anthropology, hopes to return dering whether he’ll end up hiding the afiko- ings and things like that, that probably won’t lowed to let in a limited number of custom- to New York City to officiate at a wedding men and finding it himself. happen a lot this year,” Allen said. ers at a time during one of the busiest times and spend the holiday with his parents. But “Throughout the Haggadah, we read “I would definitely encourage and advo- of the year. if travel becomes impossible, he may be stuck about many accounts of our ancestors, cate, if your seder got interrupted or disrupt- “I really don’t know what we’re going to in the West African city, where he estimates whether it be in Egypt or whether it be hid- ed because of the coronavirus, why not have have, what is coming, what is not coming, re- that the nearest kosher store is more than ing in caves or any other times, that are go- the seder that you wanted on Pesach Sheni garding products for Passover,” he said. “A lot 1,000 miles away in Morocco. ing through some very challenging times,” — provided everything is clear and people of people are going to get nervous. … It’s not Now he is scrambling to make sure that Epstein said. “I’m an extrovert. I like being can resume some sort of normal life.” n good for business, this situation, and it’s not they will have enough matzah and kosher around people, but I also know that there are good, I believe, for the people.” wine for the holiday. He is hoping the local sources saying that if one is doing seder by Even if the food does make it to the Israeli diplomats will be able to get a ship- themselves, they should ask the Mah Nishta- shelves and into people’s kitchens, the limi- ment of matzah, and also asked a good friend na of themselves. If that’s what I have to do

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Studying Talmud every day is helping me harness my rage Jessica Ullian This story originally appeared on Kveller. ive days into this new decade, I started seemed like it might help me get on solid relevance in my life. But within a week — far to how the text wrestles with the age-old daf yomi, the 7 1/2-year Talmud study footing in both a social justice and a spiritual sooner than I expected — some of that clash between daily life and belief. I had been F that examines one page of the ancient sense. So I signed up for a daily email summary sunlight shone on my own path. treating the text as a legal debate: Here’s the text each day. Overwhelmed by the pressure to from MyJewishLearning with a link to the text The first volume is titled Berakhot, or rule, here’s the precedent. But the reality is, in do something important in the 2020s — espe- in English and Hebrew, and I joined an online blessings, and its seventh page opens with a the Talmud, messy, inconsistent humanity is cially after the 2010s seemed to have vanished discussion group. question about God and prayer. How do we a feature on every page. There are exceptions in a blur of new parenthood and family life — Perhaps I should have predicted this, but know that God prays? And if we do, what does made for every circumstance. The question the idea of joining “the world’s largest book conflict rose immediately: Commenters began God pray for? The answer is straightforward: over what time to say the Shema, for example, club,” where all participants study the tract of arguing, viciously, about the role of women in God prays for anger management. “God is addresses the possibility that you partied hard Jewish law at the same pace, seemed like a rare Orthodox Judaism. Alarmed, I quit the group. furious,” the text says, “every day.” at a wedding and forgot. The prohibition on opportunity. I didn’t lack opinions on the subject, but I When I read this passage, I immediately bathing during mourning is exempted for Like many women in their early 40s, I’d wasn’t even sure I was interpreting the text saw myself. I realized I’m not simply confused someone who argues that not bathing will only recently reached a moment where I felt correctly. How could I enter a debate unless I or overwhelmed: I’m deeply angry and only make him suffer more. like I could come up for air and think about was secure in my thinking, with an argument afraid. I am angry about my vanished decade, That’s not to say the Talmud is filled with myself. When I did, I realized how many of backed by citations? personally, and about how we all looked the benign debates. On a good day, the rabbis my career, parenting and Jewish-practice Instead of a discussion group, I kept to other way as our world overheated and the disagree with cutting wit and sarcasm; on a decisions I’d made by going along with humorous Twitter recaps. And although I hatred in our country pushed its way to the bad day, they call for their rivals to be put to someone else’s expectations. I was seeking surface. I’m angry about our death. Yet no one gets “canceled” — the debate meaningful change, personally, professionally complacency with the status rages on, as it has for thousands of years. And and spiritually. quo, and I’m afraid that I don’t in studying daf yomi, we rise again to begin it I had some sense of what that change have the skill or power to do each day, no matter how unpleasantly things should be: After a career in journalism, I anything about it. ended the night before. realized that I didn’t want to be neutral Though I work hard to This, I realized, was at the source of so anymore, dutifully reporting both sides of an manage it — to literally act much of my discomfort and confusion. I was issue and striving for the middle ground. I toward my children with the hiding my vulnerability and avoiding deep, wanted to use the voice I’d refined to mobilize attribute of mercy, as the text potentially meaningful disagreement for people to action. I wanted to speak out against says, God prays to do — I fear of exposing it. I thought my viewpoints policies that perpetuated structural racism feel furious every day. And needed to be intellectually infallible, ignoring and socioeconomic inequity. I wanted to wake though I’ve tried to channel the fact that my lived experience has informed people up to the injustice taking place in front my anger into activism, when them as much as any path of study. Whenever I of us every day, nationally and locally. my faith and politics clash, my wasn’t 100% confident on something, I simply Yet as an affluent white woman, I wrestled fear conquers my anger and it exited the conversation — depriving myself of with feeling like a fraud and a hypocrite each silences me. both the opportunity to speak and to listen. time I spoke out against the systems that The truth is, I have trouble Committing to daf yomi, however, is I had benefited from all of my life — and stuck to the schedule, the rocky start left me voicing my opinion when the issue makes me forcing me to stay in the conversation, no never more so when a social and political skeptical. I’d never attempted serious Talmud feel vulnerable. For example, I proudly wear matter how uncomfortable it gets. I have no issue intersected with Judaism. When anti- study before, and without a discussion group my “We Are The Squad” shirt, representing idea what the next decade holds for me, but I Semitic acts made their way into the news, I to hash out these arcane writings, I began to the new women in Congress, but I also have a new sense of how to meet it: day by day, often landed somewhere between two deeply doubt that I’d be moved by the painstaking have hurt feelings about what Ilhan Omar page by page, giving voice to both my opinions divided positions, disappointed by my own debates of past centuries. (How many modern said about AIPAC and “the Benjamins.” and my emotions. confusion. I was glad, for example, that debates, really, can be resolved by checking the I’m genuinely afraid about the rise of anti- If Jewish law was formed, in part, by fear politicians took action against increased anti- color of your rooster’s comb?) Semitism in this country — a local rabbi’s and fury, my own fear and fury are critical Semitic violence in New York. At the same As I read my daily page, I found myself house was set on fire, twice, last year — but in shaping my actions and character in the time, however, I was fearful that the call for thinking: This is the foundational text at the the conversation around it seems to focus on years ahead. And in exchange for that sense increased police presence would target black root of Jewish culture and practice? To me, the blame instead of unity. I’m not sure how to of rightness, I need to acknowledge my own residents in neighboring communities. The Talmud seemed like an interesting historical address these topics with both nuance and wrongness, too. I need to stay in when I’m dialogue around the issue didn’t seem to leave document, but nothing more. After all, the text knowledge, so I stay quiet. And then I find challenged, listen as I want to be listened to, and room for both positions, and I didn’t feel goes on for pages over when to say the morning myself even angrier than before. be honest about my own messy, inconsistent confident I had the tools to navigate between Shema, something that’s determined, in part, But then, discovering God’s daily fury a humanity, just as the rabbis were. n the two. by the amount of sunlight needed to recognize week into daf yomi changed my perspective Studying Talmud each day, in a virtual an acquaintance from four cubits away. on both myself and the Talmud. Seeing a partnership with people all over the world, I was becoming convinced this had zero piece of myself on the pages opened me up

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Pardes Hannah BIC Online April Events for April uring this unprecedented time of tomary to gather for a Siyyum, the conclusion closings and social distancing, it is of a Jewish text. Use the link on the Beth Israel Shabbat Limmud - Online Saturday, April 18, 9:30 a.m. lease check the Pardes Hannah important to still be able to come homepage (www.bethisrael-aa.org). D Held before Shabbat morning services by Rabbi website and calendar at http:// together in new ways as a community. While P pardeshannah.org for the most all in-person services, classes, events, and pro- Pesach Service Times – All Online Robert Dobrusin, this session will offer a lively up-to-date information on events. grams remain suspended until further notice, Thursday, April 9: 9:30 a.m. Shaharit discussion on Parashat HaShavua, the Torah Friday, April 10: portion of the week and other traditional texts. Shabbat Morning Service we invite everyone to take part in services and 9:30 a.m. Shaharit, 6:00 p.m. minyan online via Zoom. Below is a list of the Kabbalat Shabbat Service We invite you to join us in the library for Torah Saturday, April 4, 10:00am – 12:30pm links to participate in services at Beth Israel. All Wednesday, April 15: 9:30 a.m. Shaharit, 7:30 study over coffee and cake. https://zoom.us/j/8635648078 links will also be available on the Beth Israel p.m. Minyan in chapel Rabbi Elliot Ginsburg will be leading Thursday, April 16: 9:30 a.m. Shaharit with Holocaust Poetry Reading - Online homepage (www.bethisrael-aa.org). Monday, April 20, 7 p.m. Shabbat morning services, followed by a Yizkor, 7:30 p.m. Minyan in chapel virtual Kiddush. For questions, contact Evening Minyan In observance of Yom Hashoah, join us before Rabbi Ginsburg, [email protected]. Sunday – Thursday at 7:30 p.m. First Seder with the Caine Family – minyan for a poetry reading of Holocaust po- etry. Participants are welcome to bring a poem Full Moon Online Gathering Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/267845102 Online Meeting ID: 267 845 102 Wednesday, April 8, 5:30 p.m. in English, Yiddish, Hebrew or other language Tuesday, April 7, 7:00 – 9:00pm Join Rabbi Caine’s family for a Zoom on- to read, as we light memorial candles, share, and https://zoom.us/j/6138544637 Friday Evening Services line Seder. From the Four Questions to Chad pray. We meet on the evening of the Full Moon Friday at 6:00 p.m. Gadya, we’ll make a virtual seder happen. (Hag- to explore what insights we can gain from Eco Shabbat Weekend – Online Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/657949107 gadot will be provided by PDF document.) Use its light on the night before the first Pass- Friday, April 24, 6 p.m. Meeting ID: 657 949 107 the link on the Beth Israel homepage (www. over Seder. In this month of Nissan, we Kabbalat Shabbat Services – Hear a D’var Audio only is available at: http://mixlr.com/ bethisrael-aa.org). remember our slavery and bondage in beth-israel-congregation/ Torah with a focus on the environment. Egypt yet also see that disruption can Saturday, April 25, 10:30 a.m. create possibilities for a new reality. For Shabbat Morning Services Magical Musical Shabbat - Online Eco Shabbat - Join Beth Israel virtually for questions, contact Lucinda Kurtz, lucin- Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 17, 6 p.m. Shabbat services focused on ecological topics. [email protected]. Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/359791284 Join Rabbi Caine and family for a musical ser- Sunday, April 26, 1 p.m. Meeting ID: 359 791 284 Eco Shabbat Event – Watch for more details Kabbalat Shabbat vice and light Shabbat candles together. Use Audio only is available at: http://mixlr.com/ the link on the Beth Israel homepage (www. on the Beth Israel homepage (www.bethis- Friday, April 17, 7:00 – 9:00pm beth-israel-congregation/ bethisrael-aa.org). rael-aa.org). https://zoom.us/j/8635648078 Kabbalat Shabbat service co-led by Gabri- Havdalah elle Pescador and Rabbi Elliot Ginsburg. Saturday at 9:00 p.m. For questions, contact Gabrielle Pescador, Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/121983146 [email protected] Meeting ID: 121 983 146 Rav Nadav and Neil’s Folk Seder - Online Talmud Study with Rabbi Dobrusin - Rosh Chodesh Iyar Virtual Circle Thursday, April 9, 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 24, 6:00 – 8:00pm Online Join Rabbi Caine and Neil Alexander by Zoom teleconference from the https://zoom.us/j/6138544637 Monday, April 6, 20, 3:30 p.m. comfort of our own homes to celebrate our Redemption by singing Please join us as we delve into the energies Rabbi Dobrusin will lead virtual Hebrew text along to such Jew-ified classics as Bob Marley’s Redemption Song: of the new month of Iyar. For questions, classes, studying selections from the Talmud. contact Lucinda Kurtz, lucinda@lucinda- We will study the text in Hebrew with English kurtz.com. translations available. The class will take place Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery from 3:30-4:45 on Monday afternoons. Use We Jews must free our minds Rosh Chodesh Iyar Virtual Minyan the link on the Beth Israel homepage (www. Saturday, April 25, 9:00 – 10:15am Have no fear of being Jewish bethisrael-aa.org). We hope you will join in https://us04web.zoom.us/j/8635648078 Don’t say you have no time this opportunity for text study. Pardes Hannah’s Rosh Chodesh Online How long shall we ignore our prophets Minyan meets monthly to celebrate the Theology Book Club - Online While they stand aside and look? new moon, weaving davening with teach- Wednesdays, 8 p.m. ings from Kabbalah on the unique quali- Beth Israel Congregation’s Theology Book Club We’ll build a new Jerusalem ties of each Hebrew month, which offer welcomes you to join them to read together and We’ve got to fulfill the Book special opportunities for inner reflection discuss books on Jewish thought and beliefs. Won’t you help to sing and spiritual growth. Please note that this The books are in English. Contact Paul Shifrin service is not just for women. Everyone is at (248) 514-7276 for more information. These songs of freedom? welcome! For questions, contact Gabri- ‘Cause all we ever have...Redemption songs! elle Pescador, roshchodeshonline@gmail. Pesach Shaharit and Siyyum Bechorot com. - Online A special musical Haggadah will be provided in PDF format. From Bob Marley to Matisyahu Wednesday, April 8, 7 a.m. to Leonard Cohen, go on our virtual musical journey of redemption together. The Zohar: Study and Practice On the morning before the first Seder, it is cus- Session Sunday, April 26, 11:00am – 1:00pm https://zoom.us/j/8635648078 Please join our monthly study session on Environmental efforts at BIC the Zohar, the masterpiece of the Jewish Amanda Glucklich, special to the WJN mystical tradition/Kabbalah, led by Rabbi n January 2020, Beth Israel Congrega- individuals and communities to make spe- look forward to channeling our holy efforts Elliot Ginsburg. For readings and ques- tion board passed a resolution that the cific commitments to change with a particu- in living up to its high standards.” For more tions, contact Rabbi Ginsburg, rebelliot91@ congregation will join a leading move- lar focus on food systems.” information about what the Seal of Sustain- gmail.com. n I ment in the Jewish community and beyond In the last year BIC not only became a ability initiative is, visit https://hazon.org/ towards a healthier and more sustainable Certified Green facility -- the congregation seal/about/. world by participating in the Seal of Sus- also moved to a compost system in which Interested in learning more about BIC’s tainability program managed by Hazon. only compostable products are used; com- eco-conscious efforts? Join us for our Eco “Hazon is the largest faith-based environ- postable items, in comparison to its plastic- Shabbat Weekend April 24-26. Hear en- mental organization in the U.S. and is build- and styrofoam-based counterparts, use less vironmentally-focused sermons by guest ing a movement that strengthens Jewish life energy and water; they also aren’t pollutants. speakers. For more information about and contributes to a more environmentally We will continue to work closely with Hazon weekend specifics contact Amanda at en- sustainable world for all. As the Jewish lab to make positive environmentally-beneficial [email protected]. n for sustainability, Hazon effects change changes. Rabbi Caine shares, “Hazon’s Seal through immersive experiences and inspires of Sustainability is a proud achievement. I 26 Washtenaw Jewish News A April 2020 Together, we as a community have cared for our vulnerable since JFS was founded 27 years ago, and we thank you for your help, kindness, and trust over all these years. JFS will continue to support families, older adults and their caregivers.

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First Seder with the Caine Family: BIC. Online. Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. Weekly discussion ecological topics. Use the link of the Beth April 2020 5:30 p.m. of the Torah portion led by Rabbi Whinston Israel homepage (www.bethisrael-aa.org). Thursday 9, Second night Pesach seder 8:50-9:50 a.m. 10:30 a.m. The Calendar has been updated to reflect Rav Nadav & Neil’s Folk Seder: BIC – Online. Shabbat Services: TBE. Livestream 10:00 a.m. Rosh Chodesh Iyar Virtual Minyan: Pardes events that are happening only online. Always 5:30 p.m. Hannah. 9 - 10:15 a.m. check websites or call for updates before Sunday 19 planning to attend anything listed here. Friday 10 Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into Sunday 26 the basic text of Chassidim and discover the Wednesday 1 Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into Lunch and Learn: TBE. Zoom. Rabbi Whinston beauty and depth of Judaism. 11 a.m.- noon. meets on Fridays for an informal discussion the basic text of Chassidim and discover the about religion. Noon–1 p.m. beauty and depth of Judaism. 11a.m.- noon. Theology Book Club: BIC. Online Join the Monday 20 The Zohar: Study and Practice Session: Pardes Theology Book Club to read and discuss Tot Shabbat Service: TBE. Livestream. 5:45 p.m. Hannah. 11 a.m. – 1p.m. books on Jewish thought and beliefs. 8 p.m. Talmud Study with Rabbi Dobrusin: BIC.On- Paul Shifrin at (248) 514-7276 for more in- Friday Shabbat Services. TBE. Livestream. line. 3:30-4:45 p.m. formation 7:30 p.m. Holocaust Poetry Reading: BIC. Online. In Monday 27 observance of Yom Hashoah, join us before Women’s Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. For ques- minyan for a poetry reading of Holocaust Thursday 2 Saturday 11 tions, contact Cantor Regina Hayut at can- poetry. Participants are welcome to bring a [email protected]. 7–9 p.m. Talmud–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. Sharpen Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. Weekly discussion poem in English, Yiddish, Hebrew or other your wits and knowledge of the Jewish legal of the Torah portion led by Rabbi Whinston language to read, as we light memorial can- system by following the intriguing discus- 8:50-9:50 a.m. dles, share, and pray. Use the link of the Beth Tuesday 28, sions in the Talmud. The Talmud is a com- Shabbat Services: TBE. Livestream 10:00 a.m. Israel homepage (www.bethisrael-aa.org). 7 Yom HaZikaron posite of practical law, logical argumentation Ta’Shma: Come and Learn. AARC. Zoom. Be- p.m. and moral teachings. Study from the original fore each Second Saturday Shabbat morning Women’s Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. For ques- Tea and Torah on Tuesday–for Women: Talmud tractate. 8 p.m. service, Rabbi Ora leads an educational dis- tions, contact Cantor Regina Hayut at can- Chabad. 8 p.m. See first Tuesday of month. cussion about a relevant topic. 10 a.m. Visit [email protected]. 7–9 p.m. Friday 3 aarecon.org for Zoom link. Shabbat morning Wednesday 29, Yom service follows at 10:30. Tuesday 21, Lunch and Learn: TBE. Zoom. Rabbi Whinston Ha’atzmaut meets on Fridays for an informal discussion Yom HaShoah Sunday 12 Theology Book Club: BIC. Online Join the The- about religion. Noon–1 p.m. ology Book Club to read and discuss books on Tot Shabbat Service: TBE. Livestream. 5:45 p.m. Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into Wednesday 22 Jewish thought and beliefs. 8 p.m. Paul Shi- Friday Shabbat Services. TBE. Livestream. the basic text of Chassidim and discover the frin at (248) 514-7276 for more information 7:30 p.m. beauty and depth of Judaism. 11a.m.- noon. “The Responsibility of Jewish Peoplehood: Thursday 30 Saturday 4 Monday 13 Navigating Power and Vulnerability.” On- line. Rabbi Josh Ladon of the Shalom Hart- Talmud–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. See first Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. Weekly discussion Women’s Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. For ques- man Institute. 7 p.m. Thursday of month for details. 8 p.m. of the Torah portion led by Rabbi Whinston tions, contact Cantor Regina Hayut at can- Theology Book Club: BIC. Online Join the 8:50-9:50 a.m. [email protected]. 7–9 p.m. Theology Book Club to read and discuss Shabbat Services: TBE. Livestream 10:00 a.m. books on Jewish thought and beliefs. 8 p.m. Phone numbers, websites and ad- Tuesday 14 Paul Shifrin at (248) 514-7276 for more in- dresses of organizations frequently formation listed in the calendar: Sunday 5 Tea and Torah on Tuesday–for Women: Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into Chabad. 8 p.m. See first Tuesday of month. Thursday 23 Ann Arbor Orthodox Minyan (AAOM): 1429 Hill the basic text of Chassidim and discover the Street, 248-408-3269, annarborminyan.org beauty and depth of Judaism. 11a.m.- noon. Wednesday 15 Talmud–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. See first Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Congregation Thursday of month for details. 8 p.m. (AARC): 2935 Birch Hollow Drive, Monday 6 Yidish tish(Yiddish Conversation & Reading . 734.445.1910, aarecon.org Group): See first Wednesday. 10:30 a.m. Friday 24, Beth Israel Congregation (BIC): 2000 Washt- Talmud Study with Rabbi Dobrusin: BIC.On- Rosh Chodesh Iyar enaw Ave, 734-665-9897, bethisrael-aa.org line. 3:30-4:45 p.m. Thursday 16, Chabad House: 715 Hill Street, 734-995-3276, Women’s Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. An in- Lunch and Learn: TBE. Zoom. Rabbi Whinston jewmich.com depth study and lively discussion of the Final day of Pesach meets on Fridays for an informal discussion week’s Torah portion led by Cantor Regina about religion. Noon–1 p.m. Jewish Community Center (JCC): 2935 Birch Hollow Drive, 745-971-0990, jccannarbor. Hayut. For questions, contact Cantor Regina Rosh Chodesh Iyar Virtual Circle: Pardes Han- org Hayut at cantorhayut@templebethemeth. Friday 17 nah. contact Lucinda Kurtz, lucinda@lucin- org. 7–9 p.m. Jewish Cultural Society (JCS): 2935 Birch Hol- Lunch and Learn: TBE. Zoom. Rabbi Whinston dakurtz.com 6 – 8 p.m. low Drive, 734-975-9872, jewishculturalso- meets on Fridays for an informal discussion Tot Shabbat Service: TBE. Livestream. 5:45 ciety.org Tuesday 7 about religion. Noon–1 p.m. p.m. Tot Shabbat Service: TBE. Livestream. 5:45 Kabbalat Shabbat: AARC. Zoom. Visit aarecon. Jewish Family Services (JFS): 2245 South State Full Moon Online Gathering: Pardes Hannah. p.m. org for the Zoom link. 7 p.m. Street, 734-769-0209, jfsannarbor.org For questions, contact Lucinda Kurtz, lucin- Friday Shabbat Services. TBE. Livestream. 7:30 Jewish Federation: 2939 Birch Hollow Drive, [email protected] -9 p.m. Friday Shabbat Services. TBE. Livestream. 7:30 p.m. p.m. 734-677-0100, jewishannarbor.org Tea and Torah on Tuesday–for Women: Chabad. 8 p.m. See first Tuesday of month. Magical Musical Shabbat: BIC. Online. Pardes Hannah: 2010 Washtenaw Ave, 734- Saturday 18 Saturday 25, 761-5324, pardeshannah.org Wednesday 8, Rosh Chodesh Iyar Temple Beth Emeth (TBE): 2309 Packard Shabbat Limmud: BIC. Online. Held before Road, 734-665-4744, templebethemeth.org First night Pesach seder Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. Weekly discussion Shabbat morning services by Rabbi Robert of the Torah portion led by Rabbi Whinston UM Hillel: 1429 Hill Street 734-769-0500, Pesach Shaharit and Siyyum Bechorot BIC– Dobrusin, this session will offer a lively dis- 8:50-9:50 a.m. michiganhillel.org Online. 7 a.m. cussion on Parashat HaShavua, the Torah Shabbat Services: TBE. Livestream 10:00 a.m. Yidish tish (Yiddish Conversation & Reading portion of the week and other traditional Group): See first Wednesday. 10:30 a.m. texts. 9:30 a.m. Eco Shabbat: BIC. – Online. Join Beth Israel virtually for Shabbat services focused on 28 Washtenaw Jewish News A April 2020 IObituaries

Beth Greenapple, an active member munity. She was a founding member and elynn (Mark), Maya, Maris, Noah. Preceded Maxine S. Rosenbaum of Jewish communities across the country early president of the Jewish Gay Network of in death by loving wife Marilyn, sister Clare (nee Gibbons) beloved wife of Charles from New York to Detroit, passed away in Michigan, and made huge strides in pushing Winkler, parents Joseph and Mae Mend- “Chuck” Rosenbaum. Loving mother of her home on the evening of March 2nd, for the acceptance of LGBT Jews in the local lovits. Allen grew up in Detroit. A believer Daniel and Barry Rosenbaum, Abby (Tom 2020 after a long battle with brain cancer. community. in lifelong learning, he earned his B.S. and Bick) Rosenbaum. Devoted grandmother She was 62. Loving friend and partner to Julia Pais. M.A. degrees from Wayne State University, of Mabel Rose and Julian Bick. Dear sister Originally hailing from New York’s Long Devoted mother of Nadav Pais-Greenapple. while also serving in the Navy. He com- of Judith (Elliott) Island, she was the first child of Larry Gree- Treasured daughter of Lawrence Greenapple pleted his Ph.D.at the University of Michi- Schaffer. Dear napple and Emily Schneider Greenapple, of and the late Emily Greenapple. Cherished gan in 1956and continued as a Professor in sister in law of blessed memory. After attending Carnegie sister of David (Donna) Greenapple and the School of Education, teaching until the Ken and Karen Mellon, Mannes Steven (Bonnie Lauton) Greenapple. Proud age of 90, as Professor Emeritus. Professor Rosenbaum, Sue College of Music, aunt of Matthew Greenapple, Joshua Green- Menlo received many awards in recognition (Richard-de- and the College apple, Benjamin Greenapple, Tyler Anastasio of his excellence in teaching, and creative ceased) Limbach. of New Rochelle, and Morgan Anastasio. Also survived by her approaches in human relations. His teach- Cherished aunt she spent many canine Buddy Mishka, other loving family ing was consistently student-centered and of Matt, Linden, years teaching at members and a world of friends. resulted in an enduring network of students Andrea and Eve. various schools in and colleagues. In late 1960, he developed Maxine received New York state in- Professor Allen Menlo of Ann Arbor, the Interpersonal Process Program, which a Master’s Degree cluding Solomon Michigan, 3/30/1922 – 2/26/2020. Allen had became the largest graduate program area in Education and Schecter. an especially warm, patient heart and will in Educational Psychology at the University. became a learn- After moving forever be in ours. Beloved husband, father, He held leadership posts in the American ing and disability educator for 30 years, of to metropolitan and grandpa, he passed away peacefully on Educational Research Association, the Soci- which half was spent in the Orange School Detroit in 1995, February 26, just ety for Cross-Cultural Research, and served District. Maxine was a member of the Cleve- she became a fix- shy of his 98th on editorial boards of several research and land Racquet Club where she played tennis 3 ture at various Jewish institutions in the area birthday. Passion- educational journals. Passionate about his times a week and also played 3 times a week and was known for her passion for music ate family man, research and students, Menlo formed the at her winter home in Miromar Lakes, Flor- education. A former teacher at Hillel Day educator, col- Consortium for Cross-Cultural Research ida. In lieu of flowers, friends who wish may School of Metropolitan Detroit and at the league and friend, in Education, resulting in university re- contribute to The Leukemia And Lymphoma Roeper School, Beth was a lifelong educator survived by his search teams in 12 countries. His research Society, 6111 Oak Tree Blvd., Suite 130 Inde- and lover of music. As a friend and student children, Beth Salk took him, his wife and family to countries pendence, OH. 444131 or the Hillel of Ohio of renowned Jewish musician Debbie Fried- (Dan), Michael around the world. Allen was an amazing University, 21 Mill St. Athens, OH. 45701 man, Beth brought her love for music, her Menlo (Etta), Me- listener, innately supportive, and quick (where Chuck and Maxine met 55 years ago). singing voice, and her guitar with her wher- lissa Reid (Rick), to charm. He will be remembered dearly ever she could, making an indelible impact grandchildren by those who met and loved him. Charter on many in the metro Detroit Jewish com- Brendan, Mad- member of Temple Beth Emeth.

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