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As a reminder, the Federation Food Pantry is open for PORCH PICK- Yom Ha’atzmaut UP by calling 860-442-8062 between 9AM-12PM to reserve your food bag/s. THEN call the Federation office again between 1-2PM from EVERYONEour parking in lot the at community. 28 Channing Street in New London so we can put your food on the BACK PORCH. The Federation Food Pantry is open to for Fromthree Aprilto four 1 through days which April means 21, the we JFEC gave Food out Pantry enough has food provided for at food to 238 individuals or 64 families. We typically give enough food least 2,142 meals this month. Between shopping weekly at the Gemma Moran United Way Labor Meet JFEC’s Food CenterPantry to has restock been our able food to pantrykeep up and with the clientdonation demand of a significant for shelf at 72-April 29 stable,amount frozen of food food from and an some anonymous fresh food donor like earlier eggs. this month, the JFEC newest staff If you are able to donate to the Federation’s Relief & Recovery Fund, a portion of the money will go to the purchase of food should it member By Marcia Reinhard, JFEC Ass’t Director We are living through an historical, unprecedented time. Everyone food pantry in action. Jennifer Ripa is hunkered down at home, leaving only for occasional walks, and become necessary to supplement any deficiencies. See page 9 for our making sure not to be within six feet of anyone. Everywhere we go Teens take we see people walking around with masks. While this is challenging to Thewelcome Jewish our Federationnew Finance of programming Eastern Connecticut is pleased itand is difficultcritical. Wefor everyone,need a minyan for Jewish – a minimum people, this of ten is especially people - to difficult, gather for inservices, our Jewish we need lives, each our culture,other for being our togetherfunerals andis not shivas, only wanted,and we to zoom wealthCoordinator, of experience Jennifer in accounting Ripa. need to gather together for Yom Hashoah, Yom Hazikaron and Yom Jennifer comes to JFEC with a By Eleanora Lerner Ha’Atzmaut. In the past month, social distancing in general operations accounting. After lost a parent and had to rely on Zoom for the funeral for non-profits and over 20 years measures have moved virtually all and shiva, after being online for Yom Hashoah and planning Yom community events online, and Yachad accounting systems as well as Hazikaron and Yom Ha’Atzmaut with Roi and Tal virtually, I felt Her proficiency with payroll and compelled to write this article about the Yom Ha’s. group, is no exception. Typically, our Holocaust Survivor Zigi will be an incredible asset to the financial reporting and analysis groupBBYO, Easternholds in-person CT’s senior events Jewish youthabout Shipper Holocaust. Each year we have a community-wide Yom Hashoah once a month. Most of our members serviceApril which 19 and brings 20 wereso many the of official us together 24 hours to remember of remembering and honor the organization. She spent seven years with the Jewish Alliance of moving online, we have been holding events one night each week to she created the bookkeeping Greater RI in Providence where keepalso participate teens connected in JFEC’s and weekly engaged. Jewish Community High School. Since position and developed alsothe six killed million for no Jews reason. who were murdered during that dark time in the All of Yachad’s programs are run by our elected teen board. We work procedures for accounts payable historyI am of comforted the world. to Not know to mention, that there the are five so million many othersonline whomemorial were together to brainstorm ideas and publicize our events. The programs and receivable according to best services that we can participate in and I was happy to hear this are planned by myself, as Vice President of Programming, and Ethan practices. morning, during the Federation staff meeting, that there were many

Most of our online programs have been online games which are fun at the end of February. In addition from our community. Jennifer hit the ground running andNovick, give our us Vice a chance President to connect of Jewish with Heritage our friends. and Community During Passover, Service. to jumping into her own position, on Ithe was JFNA not, (Jewishas I was Federationson a Zoom call of with North the America) teens in ourservice community. last night A we created a series of Passover-themed competitions which got our moving and thought-provoking program was created by Ethan Novick, participants up and moving around their house. We also used the call Jennifer is part of JFEC’s staff as an opportunity to discuss our holidays and how they differed this Yachad BBYO chapter. Ethan took the lead on this and did an amazing operating out of our Channing year. services during this great time of VP of Jewish Heritage and Ellanora Lerner – VP of Programming for our Street location providing critical more serious program than anything we had previously done online. food pantry up and running and job. (See more about the teens’ program in an article elsewhere in the The following week, on Erev Yom HaShoah, we gathered for a much administeringneed. She is helping payments to keepfrom the paper. Suffice it to say, our teens are totally engaged in Jewish life, even whichwithout include the structure quality time of regularwith our Monday Young Emissaries, night Jewish which Community the teens onWe teachingstarted with about a video the Holocaust of Holocaust through survivor the Zigistories Shipper. of individuals. The video As we move toward being areHigh sorely School missing. classes and our monthly Youth Group events, both of JFEC Relief and Recovery Fund. Wehas beenthen postedspent most by Zikaron of the BaSalon, rest of the a non-profit call discussing organization the video, focused the on the other side of the current This month is a particularly strange time for me as, not only would I have been involved in the preparations for Yom Hashoah, but I us. forward to establishing a would be entrenched in the planning and preparations for the Young Holocaust, and Anti-Semitism via questions Ethan had prepared for pandemic, Jennifer is looking TEENS CONT. ON PG 13 STAFF CONT. ON PG 13 YOM CONT. ON PG 13 2 THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 24, 2020 January throwback - When young emissaries were still here

Young Emissary Roi Refeaeli spoke to the Old Saybrook Rotary Club on January 29. His host, Dr. Eugene Sapozhnikov is a member and arranged for Roi to speak. Unfortunately, with the spread of COVID-19, young emissaries photos.from all In over Marty’s the United own words, States “Roi were is sentcertainly home a specialat the beginning young man!” of March. Thanks go to Rotary Club member, Marty Drobiarz for submitting these

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— Lasta seemingly week, when dilapidated a colleague but informedsuper luxe me two- that watching Mo Willems’ “Lunch a houseboat once owned by writer Shel Silverstein Willems,Doodles” the livestreams author/illustrator (which of the market, I was so excited you’d think I was just soI highlymany modern-day recommend). children’s I find bedroom number in Sausalito, California — was on going to safely reopen. the Elephant & Piggie series, to informedOf all thatthe Newunprecedented York City’s publicthings schools that werehave beclassics, incredibly from charming, Knuffle Bunny but my to happened this past month or so — oh, you know, 10-year-old, probably not seeing global pandemic, government mandated lockdowns, past the shock of salt-and-pepper the president using Twitter to foment civil war, and hair, declared him to be creepy. so on — one of the most surprising things has been This, in turn, lead us to a newsthat Silverstein about someone has become who a died recurring in 1999 theme felt of like my photo,conversation which, about in turn, Silverstein has somethingfamily’s quarantine. akin to bashert. So, hearing a spot of incredible evolvedand his Lightinto insomething the Attic authorof a This jaw-dropping property, on the market for fun family obsession. We now $783,000, looks like something the genius author Shel Silverstein’s houseboat. possess a printout of that very and illustrator would himself dream up, from the baseball player or a hit with the All I knew was that the author initial plan was to create a stop- weather-worn wooden exterior, the stained-glass windows, and the girls. But I couldn’t play ball. I photo on the rear cover of his motionsame Silverstein animation headshot. short about Our the photo — a brilliant third literal dreamboat — a refurbished World War II-era barge, where the didn’t want me. Not much I could in the Attic, was enough to give bed suspended from the ceiling. Looking at the listing photos of this day-of-quarantine idea that has author lived in the late ’60s through the mid ’70s — was the perfect couldn’t dance. Luckily, the girls me1981 nightmares poetry collection, as a young A Lightgirl. most certainly not materialized antidote to another long day cooped up inside. and to write. By the time I got to There’s something about that amid the pileup of homeschool wheredo about I was that. attracting So I started girls, to Idraw was oversized portrait — the odd assignments. Instead, we have all Although, to be clear, I absolutely am one: As a mom, a writer, and already into work, and it was angle of the camera, the absurd This isn’t because we are Silverstein megafans at my home. had a bit of a laugh leaving said more important to me.” amount of white space above his photo in all sorts of unexpected He wrote a ton of illustrated bald head, the super-white teeth a human being with a pulse, I absolutely adore his work. (One huge places: under the covers, tucked contrasting with the dark, bushy exception: The Giving Tree. The tree gives and gives and gives… What away in underwear drawers, I hasten to add, I think I’d love facial hair — that truly scared the does the boy-turned-man ever do for the tree? Nothing!) Having a lead taped upon the inside of a door. one of the highlights of my childhood — I still know some of the poems travelogues for Playboy (which, crap out of me. And apparently role in a fourth-grade play based upon Where the Sidewalk Ends was Every day is a new discovery! Hefner’s Playboy mansion, and As we’ve all been cooped wasto see), something was a regularof a atplayboy Hugh by heart — and, as a parent, reading that same book (my very own inside adjusting to this strange tears to my eyes on several occasions. himself. He was also an incredibly I’m not alone: The actor Kal Penn copy from when I was a kid) to my children has brought sentimental new reality, secretly hiding The source of my family’s current obsession, however, has nothing factortweeted was about a minor this inplot 2014, point and in several well-known songs, apparently Silverstein’s creep gag going over here about just how “creepy” the author is. prolific , penning house has brought some much- to do with Silverstein’s enormous talent. Rather, we’ve got a running neededSilverstein’s joy in photoour lives. around And since the moreone of like the aDiary burglar of a orWimpy a pirate Kid andincluding a successful “Cover ofplaywright, the Rolling to thanbooks. a guy (“Shel who should Silverstein be writing looks Now, to be clear, I know next to nothing about Silverstein and his 1932. He served in the military and didn’t start out writing children’s boot.Stone” and “A Boy Named Sue,” personal life. I know he was born to a Jewish family in Chicago in oncewe don’t owned, have quarantining a spare $800K with or literature. As he famously told Publisher’s Weekly: “When I was a kid But as a kid in the pre-internet My family’s recent hisso to photo live in has a boat been that the Silverstein next best era, I didn’t know any of this. books for kids.”) thing. — 12 to 14,13 around million there — I would documents much rather have been a good on Nazi victims conversationmade about available Silverstein, online By Jacob Judah, Jewish Chronicle UK relatives of the victims of Nazi the victims of Nazi persecution,” the Archives said. The Arolsen Archives, formerly known as the International Tracing persecution.” The archive, which is based online database of documents and information on the victims of Nazi The International Tracing Service was established by the Western persecution.Service, have added a “milestone” 13 million documents to their Arolsen, said that the project was Allies in 1944, and in 2019 changed its name to the Arolsen Archives – This follows the upload of 13 million documents with the launch of facilitatedin the north Germanby its town of Bad International Centre on Nazi Persecution. the online database in May 2019. Israeli partner Yad It will now be possible to access and search all 26 million of the Vashem. Arolsen Archives’ documents online. They contain information on 21 Almost all the million names of those displaced, persecuted and murdered by the documents that Nazi regime. relate to Nazi “The Arolsen Archives have recently expanded the collections persecution are now on the internet to include documents on forced laborers and on publicly available deportations to concentration camps,” the Archives said in a statement online, it said. earlier this week. “They are a unique body of evidence that Moravia,The latest and theuploads card indexincluded of forced data aboutlabourers. the deportations of Jews, documents the Roma“This and means Sinti from that the the former majority German of the Empire, documents Austria, in Bohemia the world’s and crimes committed most comprehensive archive on Nazi persecution are now accessible by the Nazis, online,” the Archives said. and they are of “They are a unique body of evidence that documents the crimes immeasurable value committed by the Nazis, and they are of immeasurable value to the to the relatives of Some of the thousands of files from the Bad Arolsen archives THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 24, 2020 5 A mitzva for fruit trees in Israel

Eastern Connecticut Hadassah Members This is an unprecedented time. Our Board wants to reach out to all of you. What has not changed is our connection to each other, to Hadassah, to our country, and to Israel. There are so many ways to use Hadassah for information about the disease, what is happening at our medical Hadassah. org center, and what is happening elsewhere in Israel. Look at and also try one of the podcasts -- The Branchksbloustine@gmail. or Hadassah on Call. Raffi eating some hefker non sour oranges. comThere if areyou also have several any questions. briefings stored there. Raffi about to gather kumquats. Contact Karen Bloustine, 860-451-8249 or By Raphael Manley Also, Judy Deglin, noted that Planet Fitness and Silver Sneakers are streaming on their Facebook pages 24/7. spendingThe Manley a sabbatical Family in (Martin, Israel. WeEveryone will resume counts: Coffee Klatches We and are other counting programming on you! when. . . MyDana, mom Raffi\me is working ) has at beenthe Here in Eastern Connecticut the JFEC works to support, Rehovot. I go to peerha hamada, sustainand revitalize Jewish life. But we can’t do it without you. aWeizmann school. We Institute have kumquatsof Science, in Send in your donation today. the backyard of our apartment. For every ten fruits that we pick, we have to do the mitzvahs of terumah and maaser.

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That study also found that Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL’s CEO, acknowledged that the survey American Jewish Committee. does not reflect the current national reality. The group has been had experienced verbal anti- andtracking their anti-Semitism families’ and during communities’ the COVID-19 security era asin well. a way that they approximately 20 percent of Jews “American Jews are deeply concerned for their personal safety experienced physical assaults “We recognize the reality on the ground has changed dramatically wasSemitism in the and thelow percentage single digits. that haven’t been in more than a decade,” Greenblatt said in a statement. Arab and Haredi youth at a café in Jerusalem (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM) months; this survey offers a snapshot of a window in time prior to the for Jewish communities, as it has for all communities, in recent The AJC survey found that one- This year’s ‘Celebrate Israel’third parade of Jews are affiliated is with Only 7% of Israeli Arabs called off as New York City cancels events define as ‘Palestinian’ By Shira Hanau, JTA By Idan Zonshine, Jerusalem Post Among the many signs of summer that the coronavirus pandemic According to preliminary data from the Jewish People Policy is silencing: the annual identifyInstitute’s themselves. (JPPI) upcoming annual Pluralism Index for 2020, over the parade that draws tens of past year there has been a significant change in the way Israeli Arabs thousands of supporters of Israel to New York According to the survey, conducted by Prof. Camille Fuchs of Tel “Israeli-Arab.”Aviv University, about a quarter of Israeli minorities (23%) define themselves primarily as “Israeli” and half (51%) self-identify as City’s Fifth Avenue. The Jewish thisThe time proportion last year. of non-Jewish people who define themselves whichCommunity organizes Relations the primarilyMoreover, as “Palestinian” there was a sizable now stands increase at around in the number 7%, down of Arabsfrom 18%who Council of New York, thatCelebrate this year’s Israel parade, define themselves as Israeli - that number rose from 5% last year to confirmed Monday 23% this year. will not take place. According to Shmuel Rosner, one of the people who conducted Organizersscheduled forare working June 7, Arabsthe study at the for endthe ofPluralism an election Index year, at thein which JPPI said there that was “these widespread figures on a virtual event to take discussionindicate a regarding significant the change question in of the Israeli self-determination Arabs’ participation of Israeliin the place that day, according political arena and social fabric of Israel.” to Michael Miller, the Another question on the survey asked respondents to rate how council’s executive vice Mayor Bill de Blasio marches in the Celebrate Israel parade in much they agree with the phrase “I feel like a real Israeli.” New York City, June 5, 2017. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) “We’re saddened by thepresident necessity and of CEO. canceling this parade,” Miller said. “Its absence on Fifth AmongMost Arabs Muslim responded Arabs, the that vast they majority either agreewho “feel” completely Israeli (65%)stands orat Avenue will be notable, but its absence in the hearts of New Yorkers, NYC CONT. ON PG 13 somewhat agree (33%) with the statement.

61%. Nearly one in five Arabs in Israel (18%) say otherwise. THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 24, 2020 7 Realtor Corner Will Surging Unemployment Crush Home Sales? From the Keeping Current Matter the last thirty years doesn’t show that direct relationship, as noted in How does this compare to the other financial (KCM) website* the graph below. The blue and grey bars represent home sales, while crises? Ten million Americans lost their the yellow line is the unemployment rate. Take a look at numbers 1 jobs over the last two weeks. The next announced unemployment Some believe this is going to be reminiscent rate on May 8th is expected to be through 4: of The Great Depression. From the standpoint of in the double digits. Because the unemployment rates alone (the only thing this health crisis brought the economy Recession,article addresses), and the projected it does not rates compare. moving forward:Here to a screeching halt, many are are the unemployment rates during the Great Depression, the Great feeling a personal financial crisis. explainedJames Bullard, that the President government of the is Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, who have lost their jobs and the companiestrying to find which ways were to assist forced those to heclose said: (think: your neighborhood restaurant).This Inis a arecent planned, interview 1. The unemployment rate was rising between 1992-1993, yet organized partial shutdown of home sales increased. the U.S. economy in the second 2. The unemployment rate was rising between 2001-2003, and quarter. The overall goal is to home sales increased. Bottom Line keep everyone, households 3. 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of theDespite 60 million skyrocketing Americans food facing insecurity hunger in the due newest to the stimulus COVID-19 bill. pandemic, Congress has once again failed to address the urgent needs let alone make it more accessible to millions of Americans who are Congress is advancing a bill that does not even mention SNAP, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, said: struggling“This tois appalling put food onand the unacceptable. table. In response, Congress Abby has J.— Leibman, once Presidentagain — & denied CEO of support for the growing numbers of Americans who face food insecurity in the wake of COVID-19. We are facing an urgent crisis, and our policymakers are continuing to look the other way. Increasing SNAP will not only help millions of Americans who are struggling to put food on the table — it will stimulate the economy and contribute to a faster national recovery. SNAP is and always has been our country’s frontline defense against hunger. This moment requires all of us to work together to ensure that food insecure Americans are not just another casualty statistic. Congress must take immediate action to ensure that SNAP is available for all those who need it, now more than ever.” The New York Times imploring Earlier this“there week, is no Leibman question was that featured food banks in and pantries are on the front lines to Congress deliver what to prioritize they can SNAPto those as whoquickly are asfacing possible. food Sheinsecurity wrote thatbecause of the virus. There is also no doubt that they alone cannot meet the ongoing needs of those who are struggling, regardless of how much food is donated and distributed by hardworking staff and volunteers.”

About MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger JFEC’s newest staff member, Jennifer Ripa, has played a critical role in keeping the food pantry stocked and organized. She also fulfills client phone requests for food between organization working to end hunger among people of all faiths and 9AM-12 PM. From 1-2PM clients call from the Federation parking lot to announce their Inspired by Jewish values and ideals, MAZON is a national advocacy arrival and Jennifer places food bags marked with the client’s last name on the back MAZON, please visit mazon.org. porch for the client to pick up. See JFEC food pantry update on page 1. backgrounds in the United States and Israel. For more information on

A couple of weeks ago, an annonymous donor ordered a significant amount of food to stock the Federation food pantry. See related food pantry article on page 1. 10 THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 24, 2020 Pandemic’s impact on halacha -- Jewish law By Ben Harris, JTA had’chak” — literally “time of The coronavirus pandemic has upended so many parts of life that law traditionally refrain from any form of touch for the period of the law that permits a reliance on woman’sritual baths menstruation be forced toand close. for Couplesa week after, that closelyresuming observe contact Jewish only lesspressure,” authoritative a concept opinions in Jewish in after immersion in a mikvah. it’s perhaps little surprise that it’s also having a significant impact emergency situations. But the committee posted a letter on its website this week from questionsin the field never of Jewish considered law, orbefore halacha. — and The sudden impossibility of “No one thinks you can once routine facets of observant Jewish life has generated a surge in only for the period of the coronavirus Rabbi Joshua Heller asserting that under certain circumstances, and world over are more able than ever to ask crisis, a woman could resume sexual thosemodern questions technology and share means their that answers. Jews the relations with her husband after “I don’t think there’s ever been anything showering in 11.25 gallons of water like this because of the proliferation — a rough approximation of the of questions and because of the extraordinary means of communications,” “I think we are learning from earlier Talmudic measure of 40 kabim. said David Berger, a historian and dean of historical epochs of crisis and taking

Yeshiva University. our predecessors showed,” said Rabbi inspiration from the flexibility that theAmong Graduate the School questions of Jewish rabbis Studies have at Daniel Nevins, a committee member had to confront during the corona crisis: and the dean of the rabbinical school prayer quorum over internet-enabled To be sure, not all rabbis have Is it permissible to constitute a Jewish acceptedat the Jewish these Theological leniencies. Seminary. physically intimate if the woman cannot immersevideoconference? in a ritual Can bath married because couples they are be liberal Orthodox rabbi in Israel, issued After Rabbi Daniel Sperber, a closed for public health reasons? 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married couples should Jewish THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 24, 2020 11 Many Jewish groups in limbo with pandemic loans

By Ron Kampeas, JTA to keep paying their staffs through the coronavirus pandemicJewish institutionsare again andin limbo organizations with the that federal hope government having exhausted the $350 billion set aside for payroll relief. The Paycheck Protection Program, which

Administration, doled out all the allocations included inis the administered $2 trillion stimulus through passed the last Smallmonth. Business through the program, others have had their applications Some Jewish groups have already received grants haverejected applied and — still applications others that opened filed are only still on waitingApril 3. to hear if they made the cut. Some groups might not yet applicantsNow umbrella to remain groups calm working even toamid steer the the ongoing Jewish world through the financial crisis are urging the loan uncertainty“The important — and questions thing is to about not whethergive up,” nonprofits said Eric were given short shrift in the first round of funding. President Trump, center, speaks at the White House on small business relief, April 7, 2020. From left, joining Trump gottenFingerhut, your theloan Jewish yet, stay Federations in the queue.” of North America CEO said Friday in a Facebook webcast. “If you haven’t at the meeting are the administrator of the Small Business Administration, Jovita Carranza; Treasury Secretary Steve out in the frenzy to take advantage of the funds, which Mnuchin; and senior adviser Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) coveredNot even two insidersmonths of know salary how for Jewish applicants groups to madekeep

clear how much a business could Gurvis said. It was never exactly putting nonprofits to the back of the line,” Diament said. results.employees on the payroll through the end of June. apply for and what should be Jewish Federations sent out a survey on Friday afternoon to assess included in the calculations, he keyCongress element iswill now be considering more cash afor sequel more to loans. the $2 Fingerhut trillion Coronavirus said in his said. messageAid, Relief, Friday and that Economic he anticipates Security another Act passed $250 lastbillion month, being andmade a centersBut Doronwere turned Krakow, away CEO than of the received JCC Association loans. of North America, Absent that clarity, banks available for small businesses. said that from what he has heard anecdotally, more Jewish community established their own guidelines. getting the money, and he expected that number to rise to 20 to 25 Krakow said 12 to 15 Jewish community centers have reported religious institutions until the wantNonprofits assurances again that are groups pressing providing for $60 relief billion during in dedicated the pandemic funding will Some balked at lending to that they asked for the first time around and did not get — and they said he did not know how many had applied for the loans, but said the be pushed to the front of the line. next week. But that’s out of about 150 JCCs in the country. Krakow that those institutions could Trump administration clarified The stimulus bill’s drafters said they expected banks to act receive the funds. number of recipients “represents a small fraction of the field.” “In the early days, banks said Thursday“We continue to constituents. to believe that“However, Congress let’s is likelynot take to pass this supplemental for granted. appropriations,” Jewish Federations of North America said in an email That appears to have happened in some cases, such as for Ramah ‘We don’t think you’re eligible,’” impartially and treat applicants on a first-come, first-serve basis. What’s more, some in the OrthodoxPlease contact Agudath your Israel Members of America, of Congress said now.”his group also would lobby Gurvis said. Abba Cohen, who directs the Washington office of the haredi toof submitthe Rockies, its application. a Colorado-based Jewish camp that found out its loan had been approved just days after working with the Bank of Colorado raised questions about whether “These steps will hopefully address the main impediments that Jewish world and beyond have for a clearer dedication of funds to nonprofits. said a number of obstacles stood in the way of successful applications have been experienced: slow bank response, preference of larger for Butsome Mark groups, Gurvis, even Jewish as he said Federations’ he was already executive getting vice thank-you president, shortchanged in favor of for- organizations over smaller ones, and loans being restricted to already nonprofit applicants were notes from groups that logged into the umbrella’s webinars and existing customers,” he said in an email. subsequently got grants. funds. profit“We businesses competed applying with for the in if they are considering a change in tactics. Gurvis had some advice for groups with loan applications already positioned if they had a longstanding relationship with a lending “If you are already in a process, you really want to understand institution.Chief among the hitches, he said, was that groups were better An April 8 letter from the where you’re at with the bank, and will they move your application private sector,” Krakow said. “It wasn’t enough to have a checking account,” he said. “If the bank along if there’s more money,” he said. didn’t have experience with you as a borrower, the banks needed a This piece has been updated to include information about the grant National Council of Nonprofits signed by Krakow and Fingerhut’s Yet another factor, he said, was that smaller banks in smaller believe private sector businesses groups suggested that nonprofits received by 70 Faces Media, JTA’s parent nonprofit. communitiesway of filtering.” were more agile and able to process the loans quicker and their allies in the Trump than large institutions that were overwhelmed with applications. administration hindered the fair “Whereas regional banks were able to move their customers much disbursement of the funds. Byles-MacDougall Nathan Diament, the Orthodox Funeral Service, Inc Union’s Washington director, (860) 442-0343 (888) 736-7036 more quickly, for a Jewish community heavily concentrated in urban said that a number of his group’s areas, that was more of a problem for us,” Gurvis said. larger banks for assistance — Daniel W. Byles (This experience was not universal. 70 Faces Media, JTA’s parent Reid B. Burdick nonprofit, received a grant after working with its bank, a large bank andaffiliates then did were not forced necessarily to turn have to with whom it had no previous borrowing relationship.) their applications moved ahead John D. MacDougall Treasury,Gurvis issued said the changes haste ofin puttingguidance the on program April 2, inthe place night inhibited before quickly. Byles Memorial Home Byles-Groton Memorial Home applicationsclarity. The opened, Small Business and twice Administration, afterward. working with the U.S. “What we’ve heard 99 Huntington Street 310 Thames Street New London, Conn. 06320 Groton, Conn. 06340 “As Treasury tried to clarify the loans, they created new ambiguities,” anecdotally, many banks were 12 THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 24, 2020 Self-test your sense of smell releases ‘Quarantine Song’ By Marcy Oster, JTA

earworm is a tribute to doctors and nurses and an exhortation for peopleForget to stayabout home “The to Chanukah stop the Song.”spread Actor of the Adam coronavirus. Sandler’s latest https://youtu. be/F1axBGWFm4U Sandler debuted “Quarantine Song” ( broadcasting from his) home from as his well. home during a recent guest appearance on “The Tonight Show with .” Fallon was

Sandler pulled a hoodie over his baseball cap and put on sunglasses“Doctors (so and viewers nurses would will save not seeus fromhim readingthis mess the if lyrics, we give he Illustration by Goa Nov/Shutterstock.com themsaid) beforethe supplies he began that strumming they need /on And his Iguitar. hope they save us really By Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c the light-hearted yet incredibly serious song. Is your sense of smell suddenly not working very well? Not to panic soon“We because gotta buildI’m getting some ventilatorsreally sick of and my make family,” some Sandler more sang masks in Adam Sandler playing at a benefit / We got to now, so let’s all come together / I’m teaching math to my kids, and that can’t be good for America,” he also sang. you,In but fact, sudden in France, olfactory people loss reporting has emerged a dramatic as a significant drop-off symptom in their concert in Los Angeles, March 3, 2018. abilityin about to 60 smell percent are automatically of COVID-19 patients.assumed coronavirus-positive. His latest standup special has received warm reviews. (Jerritt Clark/Getty Based on this data, Weizmann Institute scientists, in collaboration At the end of the song, Sandler implores listeners: “Stay home Images for Artists for Peace and Justice) this damn thing go away.” as much as you can, make sure to wash your hands / Let’s make an online platform that enables self-monitoring of smell in order to with Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, developed SmellTracker – Founder of ‘Birthright for Moms’ will detect early signs of COVID-19. HisSmellTracker team previously was cooked developed up in the aolfactory mathematical research model lab of Prof.that represent Diaspora Noam Sobel in the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Neurobiology. By Marcy Oster, JTA Israel will hold its annual Independence Day torch-lighting on accurately characterizes an individual’s unique “olfactory fingerprint.” Mount Herzl, but only with a television and digital audience because Using this existing algorithm, SmellTracker guides users on of coronavirus regulations. mapping their sense of smell with the help of five scents found in virtually every home (spices, vinegar, toothpaste, baking extracts, peanut butter and others). The test is available in English, Hebrew traditionAmong in therecent torch-lighters years. announced by the Culture and Sport and Arabic, and is also expected to be available in Swedish, French, Ministry is the one representing Diaspora Jewry, which has become a Japanese, Spanish, German and Persian. The five-minute online odor test can discover sudden changes in ProjectThe and honor colloquially goes to called Lori Palatnik,“Birthright the for foundingMoms.” Palatnik director lives of odor perception that may be an early indication of COVID-19. Momentum, formerly known as the Jewish Women’s Renaissance AsThe more test data has is already collected, identified the researchers potential are coronavirus more likely cases to be able that More than 20,000 women from the Diaspora have taken part in were later confirmed. part-time in Washington, D.C., and Jerusalem. connection to Israel through young mothers in their communities,” Lori Palatnik, founding director to characterize a unique olfactory fingerprint for the early detection Momentum, which “works tirelessly to strengthen Jewish identity and The venture, launched with backing from the Ministry of Defense, of Momentum, was selected to of COVID-19. Other torches will be lit by the popular Israeli singer-songwriter light the 2020 Independence IdanCulture Raichel, and Sports whose Minister Idan Raichel Miri Regev Project wrote fuses in electronics, the announcement. traditional countries. Day torch representing the will be promoted in the coming days in Sweden, France and other Diaspora community. (Courtesy Sobel’s lab also is distributing “scratch and smell” kits among Hebrew texts, and Arab and Ethiopian music, and Col. Hisham Ibrahim, of Momentum) confirmed coronavirus patients to map their sense of smell. among the most senior combat officers from the Druze community. Israel will have national said“Col. in her Hisham announcement. symbolizes the alliance and deep connection between emergency government the‘’ Druze community and season the State of Israel 3and itslaunches citizens,” Regev this week By Marcy Oster, JTA By Marcy Oster, JTA Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White chairman stars — served in the army unit depicted in the series.of Israel news website, and actor Lior Raz, who government’ that keeps Netanyahu as the prime minister for now. “Fauda”Season 3 focuses of the hit on Israeli a commando series “Fauda” unit of thewill Israeli begin Benny Gantz signed a deal April 20 to form a “national emergency Israel has spent more than a year under a caretaker government as armyairing thiswhose week members on Netflix. embed themselves in the Palestinian community, gathering intelligence and With the agreement, the country avoids a fourth national election in preventing terror attacks. neither Netanyahu nor Gantz could assemble a coalition government. less than a year and a half. This season, which launches Thursday with Following two meetings on Monday, the two parties released a brief statement saying that “an agreement for the establishment of a national emergency government” was being signed. The announcement English subtitles, will focus on Gaza. provided no details, though Hebrew-language media reported some debutIn Israel, in December. the first episode of season 3 was viewed details, including that Netanyahu would remain as prime minister and about 1 million times in the first 48 hours after its its start in Israel. BothNetflix of picked the show’s up the creators show in— 2016, , the year after the Gantz would be prime minister-designate. Monday evening, which is the start of Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Arab affairs reporter for the English-language Times “Fauda” involves an Israeli counterterrorism unit RemembranceNetanyahu Day. and Gantz are expected to give statements later on that poses as Arabs. 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Marilyn (Lynn) Liberman New London – Deutsch Roslindale, MA -- Marilyn (Lynn) Ethel Stoner Perl, 94, of New London, Norwich – formerly of Philadelphia, PA, passed passed away Thursday, April 16, 2020 at Lawrence + awayJoyce Liberman,on Monday, 92, April of Roslindale, 20, 2020, MA, at Memorial Hospital following a brief illness. She was born April 11, at Norwichtown Rose K. Deutsch, Rehab in NewA lifelong London resident on February of 9, 1926 to the late Harry and 93, passed away on Saturday in Roslindale, MA, of complications Rebecca (Merims) Stoner. the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center her family survived the & Healthcare Center. New London, Ethel and She was born on Nov 26, 1926 of the COVID-19 virus. She was born a graduate of the Williams grewin Colchester, up on the CT tofamily’s the late poultry George in 1928 in Norwich, CT, to the late Obituaries MemorialHurricane ofInstitute 1938. She wasand farmand Fannie and graduated (Seagal) Korman.from Bacon She 1950Lena after (Tuber) they andboth Benjamingraduated Lahn.from She married Cyrus S. Liberman in University with a degree in dentalgraduated hygiene. Columbia herAcademy beloved in 1943. husband Daniel in Rollins College, and her daughter, On April 3, 1949 she married Kristen Liberman, was born in 1955. Philadelphia,Lynn was where an accomplished she lived for artist, many winningyears, and a numberloved to ofopen prizes her on SheAugust married 9, 1998. Murray Ethel and A. PerlMurray on Colchester,Rose served CT. Heas predeceasedsecretary at throughout her career. She showed her work at many galleries in April 19, 1947. He predeceased her her on Sept 8, 2001. greatstudio restaurant, to visitors the during opera the and yearly theater, Philadelphia good novels Open and Studiosbiographies, Tour andtook Facilities over runningDesign Associates New London from caringBrothers for ofher Joseph home, Synagogue husband, (POST). She had bountiful joie de vivre, and loved a good party, a Ethel’sStore Fixturefather in Company 1955 and (NELSCO)grew the and a Cashier for Shop Rite while Fitzgerald, and all the great jazz sax players. business until it closed in December the Philadelphia Art Museum, and her favorite music: Stan Getz, Ella 1987. Ethel was ahead of her time lifetimeand children. member She of was Hadassah. a member of BethDuring Jacob retirement, synagogue andRose a by then.She was a huge Philadelphia Eagles fan and got to see her beloved 30 years. During that time she and Murray raised three children. volunteered at Backus Hospital, Eagles win the Super Bowl in 2018 although she was living in Boston managingEthel andthe NELSCOMurray office enjoyed staff fortraveling and doting on their women in Philadelphia would stop her on the street to rave about her and was the Treasurer for the She was always beautifully dressed, and even in her eighties young the Rose City Senior Center, asgrandchildren. celebrating Shethe washolidays a life membersurrounded of Hadassah. by her family and friends. Federation. Rose also enjoyed outfits. Ethel loved hosting Shabbat dinner every Friday night as well Norwich Senior club of the Jewish She is survived by her daughter, her son-in-law Andrew Hollinger, mandelbrot were favorites with all. her sister Ina and Ina’s husband Seymour Kroopnick, her cousin She enjoyed cooking and her chicken soup, brisket, apple pie and Hertraveling, pride gardening, and joy thecame Red with Sox Nancy Gossels, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. Her husband seeingand UCONN the successes woman’s ofbasketball. her son, preceded her in death and passed away in 1976. Her sister Sylvia Ethel is survived by her son Edward (Mimi) Perl of New London, daughter and especially her Stoner died in 2013. daughters Janice (Richard) Pullman of Dallas, TX and Carol Darver Special thanks to the staffs of Goddard House Assisted Living and and her life partner Joel Persky of Sarasota, FL; grandchildren Rebecca would never miss a graduation, inHebrew Boston. Rehabilitation Center and also to her wonderful caregivers of Hogan, Michael Pullman, Jennifer Perl (Wes) Thompson, Matthew play,granddaughters. dance recital Grandma or piano Rose theA last private year for graveside their kindness, service care, was and held love at for the Lynn Norwich during herHebrew time Perl, Elizabeth Darver Leak and Harris (Leslie) Darver. There are concert. five surviving great-grandchildren – Aaron Hogan, Elliot and Nicole Rose is survived by her son; Leak, and Clare and Summer Thompson. She was predeceased by her Dr. Paul H. Deutsch and his Benevolent Association Cemetery #2 in Preston, CT. A celebration of siblings Morris, Carl, Jeannette, and David. wife Dianne of Norwich, and isLynn’s assisting life will with take arrangements. place in the futureYou are when invited her to friends visit www.byles.com and family can remainSpecial in herthanks home to theto almost Visiting the Nurse very Association end. Thank (VNA) you to of the SE staffCT and at granddaughters; Alexandra be together. Byles Memorial Home, 99 Huntington Street, New London, to her caregivers from Warm Hearted Home Care for allowing Ethel to Deutsch of Amherst, MA and may be made to the organization of your choice. as possible. to sign the guestbook or share a memory. Donations in Lynn’s memory L + M Hospital for making Ethel’s last days as pain free and comfortable Norwich Hebrew Benevolent niecesMichelle and Deutsch nephews. of Norwich, CT. She is also survived by numerous Association celebrationA private of family Ethel’s graveside life will service take place officiated at a future by Rabbi date. Marc Ekstrand Besides her husband, she P.O. Box 663 Jewett City, CT 06351 was held on Sunday, April 19, 2020, in Beth El Cemetery, Groton. A was also predeceased by her with arrangements. You are invited to visit www.byles.com to sign daughter; Ellen Deutsch on theByles guestbook Memorial or share Home, a memory. 99 Huntington St., New London. assisted March 9, 2015, and her brothers; Hebrew Cemeteries #1, #2, and #3 Interfaith Cemetery #4 Cremains Cemetery Donations in Ethel’s memory may be made to the VNA, 403 N events,Jack, Julius a andprivate Max Korman. graveside donor’sFrontage choice. Rd, Waterford, CT 06385, to the Jewish Federation of Eastern serviceIn lightwas held. of current Covid Synagogue Affiliation Not Required CT, 28 Channing St., New London, CT 06320, or to a charity of the Donations in Rose’s memory may be made to Ovarian 860-887-0896

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I’mpre-school up for the before challenge, it closes though. at 4:00 We p.m.? are I’m all readyafraid tothat have it won’t our full be liveslong not be able to give hugs’ back—maybefore focusing it be on soon. the good become as difficult as it was pre-corona. By Marcy Oster, JTA of the coronavirus. The astronaut also posted a photo of Israel in November as a tribute Meir told reporters ahead of her Janice Reisner returnJewish to Earth astronaut that watching Jessica the a photo of her holiday-themed socks with Earth seen through the coronavirus crisis unfold from windowto her father. in the Shebackground. also tweeted a Hanukkah greeting that included space has been “quite surreal” — Janice Reisner, 91, born Newark, NJ resident of Union and that she is looking forward and Maplewood, NJ died April 9. to getting home, even if the Mrs. Reisner was a graduate of Weequahic High School pandemic has changed it. in Newark, and Bloomfield College. She worked at St. Meir and fellow astronaut Michael’s Medical Center, the phone company, and Schraffts Andrew Morgan spoke to Reisner,as a Dietician catered, overseeing and worked the food as service. a vocational She was teacher co-owner in reporters from space on Friday, of Bragman’s Delicatessen with her late husband, Charles a week ahead of their scheduled Newark, NJ.

return after nearly seven months Obituaries She was active in Hadassah, the National Council of Jewish Women, B’nai’ B’rith, Temple Sha’arey Shalom Sisterhood, on the International Space the Temple Renaissance Group and weekly Mahjong games beStation. able to give hugs to my family and bridge. She enjoyed playing tennis and traveling. “It will be very difficult to not Mrs. Reisner was predeceased by her husband Charles added: “I think for me it’ll still be Reisner, surviving are a son, Lawrence of Union, NJ, two niceand to friends,” go back Meirand to said.see some She daughters, Mrs. Ellen Hoffman of Culver City, CA, and Mrs. Roberta familiar places and some familiar Reisner Winograd (Sam) of Ledyard, CT, grandchildren Rebecca and faces.” Cheryl Hoffman, Yitzchak (Amanda Wycoff) and Hannah Winograd. “I think that I will actually feel She enjoyed spending time with all of her extended family. more isolated on the Earth than Astronaut Jessica Meir before launching on a mission to the I did up here because that’s just International Space Station. (Sergei Savostyanov/TASS via Getty part of our expected routine up Images) here,” Meir also said. “We’re so busy with so many other amazing ON THE BAY pursuits and we have this Custom Tub & Shower incredible vantage point of the Ruby Glass Enclosures Earth below, that we don’t really CO., INC • Design & Installation FOR ALL YOUR feel as much of that isolation.” • All-Glass Enclosures SERVING SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT REAL ESTATE NEEDS FOR OVER 60 YEARS about how to stay mentally Expert Mirror Design & healthyLast week,while Meirliving offered in isolation. advice FULLSERVICE GLASS SPECIALISTS Installation Direct: 860-443-4400 Cell: 860-625-5255 And in March, she tweeted a • Visit Our Showroom Email: [email protected] photo of that she took Website: www.CallTheHouseman.com from space, in which the usually 151 Jefferson Avenue • New London, CT 06320 bustling Israeli city is seen Phone (860) 442-0373 • Fax (860) 442-1356 Blog: CTHouseMan.com looking desolate amid the spread 16 THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 24, 2020

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