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CEO/Executive Director ...... Rob Goldberg President ...... Howard Rosenhoch Editor, Marketing and Community Relations Director ...... Ellen S. Goldstein Advisory Board Susan Adelman Elizabeth Kahn Eric Reich Jonathan Epstein Alyssa Rabach Kenneth Rogers Richard Hirsch Peter Simon

The Buffalo Jewish Federation Is a proud member of the Jewish Federations of North America and the American Jewish Press Association Produced by Ellen Goldstein, Editor Photo by K.C. Kratt. This year, the Gesher School and Congregation Shir Shalom School joined Long before Hillary Clinton ever walked on a stage forces to provide education for children from their congregations in Senior Vice President/Creative Director ...... Chastity O'Shei one place. Some of those students and teachers are seen here lighting to give a speech, there was Ruth Kahn Stovroff [email protected] Hanukkah candles at Congregation Shir Shalom. (z”l). Ruth, who passed away this October at the Vice President/Production ...... Jennifer Tudor age of 104, was the original “Wonder Woman.” She [email protected] Lead Designer ...... Kimberly Miers was the first woman president of both the Buffalo [email protected] Jewish Federation and the Foundation for Jewish Senior Graphic Designers ...... Josh Flanigan, Philanthropies; she was smart, well-educated, funny, Andrea Rowley, Jean-Pierre Thimot, Nicholas Vitello 3 Message from the President: gracious and gifted with a personality that enabled Traffic Coordinator...... Adam Van Schoonhoven Howard Rosenhoch Associate Publisher/Senior Vice President/Advertising ...... Barbara E. Macks her to have other people want to listen to her, want [email protected] and follow her, and want to be associated in whatever 4 Remembering Ruth Kahn Stovroff Assistant Sales & Marketing Manager ...... Marianne Potratz project she was leading. She was a role model to every 5 TELLL Fund Musical Tribute [email protected] single Jewish and non-Jewish woman I know who Sales Director ...... Cynthia Oppenheimer, December 4 [email protected] was engaged in civic life in the second half of the 6-7 Hanukkah in Buffalo Senior Account Executives ...... Robin Kurss, [email protected] twentieth century as well as the nearly two decades Bruce Halpern, [email protected] of the twenty first. You can read our small tribute 8 2016 Federation Annual Meeting Betty Tata, [email protected] Proofreaders ...... Sharon C. Levite, Amy Goldstein to Ruth Kahn Stovroff’s life in this month’s issue on Moments page 4, and remember the elegance combined with 9 Weinberg Campus Update Members of community action that is Ruth’s legacy. And this month as we prepare for our joyous 10 NCJ Welcomes Newcomers Submissions: celebration of Hanukkah, let’s remember that the for Shabbat Submit editorial stories, photos, and calendar items by the 1st of the word “Hanukkah” means rededication. And so, as 11 Hanukkah Donuts by Robin Kurss preceding month of issue to [email protected]. those Jews living in ancient Israel rededicated their 12 From the Rabbi: To Advertise: lives to preserving Judaism and their Jewish ways of Rabbi Joshua Strosberg To advertise, call Cynthia Oppenheimer at 716-783-9119 x2240. life—though there was struggle and failure before Ad space & materials are due by the 10th of each month prior to their success—in our current American political 13 5 Things you can do to repair the publication. For a rate card and any additional information, please climate where it is so easy to become frustrated, world in December email Cynthia Oppenheimer [email protected] or Barbara Macks [email protected]. disenfranchised and angry, let us all rededicate Where in Jewish Bflo? To Subscribe: ourselves to trying to reach out to talk to and to listen 14-15 Special Advertising Supplement: To subscribe, visit www.jfedbflo.com and click on “JJWNY to those we might otherwise ignore or shun. It’s hard Holiday Shopping subscription.” Free for Western New York area residents and donors work, but easier than fighting Antiochus and the to the Campaign. Non-resident subscription is $36 for 12 issues, Greeks! There are so many modern-day Maccabees 16-17 Agencies & Synagogues payable to The Jewish Journal. living right here in Buffalo, right here in our community, 18-21 Synagogue Happenings The Jewish Journal of WNY (JJWNY) reserves the right to cancel any advertisement at men and women with Ruth Kahn Stovroff’s vision, any time. The Buffalo Jewish Federation and Buffalo Spree Publishing, Inc. are not 22-27 Special Advertising Supplement: liable for the content or errors appearing in the advertisements beyond the cost of gumption and grit. the space occupied. The JJWNY does not assume responsibility for the kashrut of Happy Hanukkah any product or service advertised in this paper. Editorials, columns, advertisements, And we thank God agency reports and other outside articles do not necessarily represent the views of the newspaper or the Buffalo Jewish Federation, but rather express the view of for them! 28 December Calendar the writer.

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Howard Rosenhoch Buffalo, we are moving forward. limited resources, done a great job Most recently, when my predecessor, welcoming and engaging young Jews President, Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Immediate Past President David Desmon, on campus. Too many, however, remain highlights of this year was the convened our nominating committee, unconnected, in large part because visit in March by Alan Morinis, David, along with Rob and Steve Weiss, despite good strategies and dedicated head of The Mussar Institute, as our incoming President, urged us to implementers, we’ve not had the resources Scholar in Residence. Mussar invite several folks previously uninvolved necessary to power a staff of sufficient is a program of learning Jewish in Federation to sit on the Nominating size and muscle to make the necessary value traits by study and practice. Committee. They nominated a slate of inroads. Now, however, we can change all During Alan’s short time with us, candidates for elected governor which that. I am delighted to announce that four nearly 150 people were exposed includes several young, dynamic and sets of donors, Marilyn Shuman, Gordon to the beauty of Mussar learning. energetic women who will diversify our and Gretchen Gross, and Sol Messinger, Alan also kicked off our Lead with board and, more importantly, bring new along with the Foundation for Jewish Jewish Values program, during ideas to the forefront of our community. Philanthropies, have made substantial which 20 leaders representing Thanks to all of you for voting in these multi-year commitments to Hillel ten different agencies or capable folks. With them on board, our of Buffalo which, in partnership with synagogues studied and put into future is bright. Hillel International, will give Buffalo the practice midot – or traits - such We’ve got even longer range opportunity to develop campus programs as Humility, Patience, Generosity, engagement programs in the works, that will not only be the envy of its Honor, Gratitude and Loving including The Jewish Cultural Festival in counterparts, but will establish the model Kindness. One of our newly March 2018 that Hailey Epstein told us for other campuses like ours to develop My term as President of Buffalo Jewish elected board members, Cheryl about this evening, and the JFNA General their own programs. Thank you, Marilyn, Federation is drawing to a close at the end Stein, was my classmate. Cheryl, Assembly in Jerusalem in November Gordon and Gretchen, Sol, and Peter of this calendar year. At our Annual Meeting I look forward to serving with 2018. With almost three dozen of us Fleischmann of Jewish Philanthropies, held on November 3, 2016 at the University at you in the coming years as we attending the GA in Washington DC this for your generosity and vision. Buffalo Center for the Arts, I gave my second help each other implement the year, imagine Jewish Buffalo ascending Before I relinquish the podium, please and last annual report. For those of you who important teachings we practiced. to Jerusalem in 2018 in even greater allow me a few moments of reflection. were not able to be with us that evening, I am There is planning afoot to expand numbers!! Mark your calendars. It has been an honor to serve as your pleased to share my report with you. the scope of Mussar offerings Enhancing our connection to Israel – Buffalo Jewish Federation President the Let me start out by congratulating Sheri in Jewish Buffalo, so stay tuned. As Logan and Ivana mentioned, Buffalo past two years. There are several folks Rodman and Jonathan Epstein on their well- I’d like to acknowledge George has embarked on a collaboration with to thank for making my experience the deserved recognition as the Dr. Milton and Gellman, whose generosity and 13 like sized US communities, Budapest, most satisfying and energizing volunteer Ruth Kahn and Dr. Meyer and Ann Riwchun vision is instrumental in bringing Hungary and the Western Galilee Region posting I have ever had. Young Leadership Award recipients. Sheri, I look Mussar in Buffalo to fruition. of Israel, or as I’ve dubbed it, sister cities Rob Goldberg, in you we have a forward to the week after next, when you and I Engagement - As you all on steroids. The opportunities for us in goldmine. Seeing your work up close is, in will be among nearly three dozen of us forming know, Rob Goldberg is well into Buffalo to connect with our brothers and a word, inspiring. Your vision is matched the largest ever Jewish Buffalo delegation at the his second year as CEO of Buffalo sisters in the Western Galilee, in Budapest, only by your energy. Thank you for all Jewish Federations of North America General Jewish Federation. Rob’s impact and to share their connections with other you’ve brought and continue to bring Assembly in Washington DC. is out of all proportion to the US communities, are boundless. Whether to Jewish Buffalo. Thanks especially for At the same time, Jonathan, you, along with short time he has been leading us. you travel to Israel on an organized trip, being the greatest professional partner a other leaders of Kadimah Academy, will be You heard our wonderful young as our two major reform congregations, volunteer could ask for. Thanks mostly, attending the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Annual Meeting Chairs, Ivana TBZ and Shir Shalom, are doing with their however, for being a friend. Education’s Governance and Fundraising Academy Slifstein and Logan Woodard, local Presbyterian partner congregations Rob’s work and his success do not in North Carolina. Kadimah’s participation in this refer to the many task forces and next year, or on your own, we will be happen in a vacuum. We have wonderful terrific program, which is being underwritten in initiatives that have been started able to make connections for you in the professional and support staff at part through Buffalo Jewish Federation’s Human under Rob’s leadership, and the Western Galilee no matter your interests. Federation. Ellen Goldstein, editor of our Capital Fund, is bound to have significant impacts numbers of people previously There are opportunities in medicine, the acclaimed Jewish Journal, Randi Morkisz on the quality and success of Kadimah’s leadership. uninvolved in Federation or even arts, education, development and any who runs our terrific campaign, Debbie Buffalo Jewish Federation is obsessed with Jewishly who have stepped up number of fields, as well as some of the Pivarsi whose financial management investing in our next generation of leadership. with enthusiasm and energy to most spectacular scenery and sites of is top notch, Miriam Abramovich and We’re proud to see the likes of Sheri and Jonathan power these projects. From our historical interest. Mandy Weiss whose engagement efforts at the center of the continuous pipeline of talent Leadership Think Tank, to our Resource Development – I’d like to with Nickel City Jews and PJ Library are so that we are nourishing to build a vibrant and new and exciting Buffalo Jewish focus this last section of my substantive impactful. That’s just a small part of what caring Jewish Buffalo. Service Corps, from our Branding remarks on the campus, because we’re these dedicated people do. Supported My second and last year as your President Task Force which developed featuring Jewish life on campus at this by Joan Kwiatkowski, Mary Jo Fragale, has been one of progress and promise. We’ve our new name – Buffalo Jewish Annual Meeting, and our keynote speaker Lori Lewkowicz and Nadine Ryback, this made strides in leadership development, engaging Federation, and our new moniker, is Eric Fingerhut. As Hillel International is a team whose quality and quantity previously uninvolved members of our community, JewishBuffalo - to our Jewish President, Eric has his finger on the pulse of product is unmatched. I’ve had the deepening our relationship with Israel, and Campus Life and Hillel Oversight of Jewish Campus life. Hillel of Buffalo privilege to get to know and work with developing resources to power the programs, Task Forces which combined particularly, and Jewish campus life in each of you, and it has been my honor to activities and human interactions that enable the community and campus talent to Buffalo generally, have had dedicated and do so. community we envision. reimagine how Hillel can have a hard working professionals and student We are blessed in Buffalo with Leadership Development - One of the greater impact on college life in interns who have, with significantly Cont’d to pg. 5

December 2016 | www.jfedbflo.com 3 COMMUNITY Remembering Ruth Kahn Stovroff: A Woman of Valor

By Ellen Goldstein in Buffalo as a young I cherished. For the past few bride in l946, Ruth was years I would call Ruth nearly Ruth Kahn Stovroff, the first woman president of the Buffalo Jewish Federation, recently passed already deeply involved every morning. Over time, the away at age 104 in Buffalo, New York. She was indeed a Woman of Valor in every sense of the word. in community affairs. conversations became shorter She was a heroine, a role model, a wife, mother, friend, community leader and benefactor. She was She was a role model to and shorter. Up until two weeks the person we all wanted to emulate. many young women like ago it was: me who were seeking an “How are you Ruth?” A native of Denver, Ruth Kahn opportunity to be involved “Fine, dear, and how are you?” Stovroff, doyenne of the Buffalo Jewish in an important civic cause. “Fine. I love you and miss Community, arrived in Buffalo in 1937 I was drawn to her in hopes you.” and built bridges to other communities of learning how best to “I love you and miss you, too.” and building legacies for the Jewish be engaged and make a “We will talk tomorrow.” community ever since. From the 1940’s meaningful contribution. Only now I will not talk to her when she joined the JCC’s Camp At first she was, to me, a tomorrow. There is a void in my Lakeland committee, to her assisting in distant, admirable figure heart for the days that remain reshaping the community’s health and who I wanted to emulate. for me.” human service system, to her becoming To my joy, she reached out the first woman president of the Jewish to me almost immediately Lana Benatovich Federation of Greater Buffalo, then the and enveloped me in that Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies, warm, healing grace which “Ruth was the wind beneath she set the pace that every single young she exuded. Our friendship my wings. She was an inspiration Jewish woman in a Buffalo leadership became akin to a family to not only me, but also so role was keen to emulate. relationship. Since neither many women tahroughout the The Dr. Milton and Ruth H. Kahn of us had sisters and she community. Her wisdom, warmth Young Women’s Leadership Award was was12 years my senior, it and love made a difference to established by Ruth and her first late was natural for me to look others throughout her life, and husband in order to recognize young up to her for guidance and her legacy of compassion will women in leadership roles at Buffalo’s advice; which was always continue on long after her death. Jewish Federation, with 40+ young sound. 25 years ago, Ruth came to me to women earning the award since its My children called ask me to lead MCCJ- now NFJC. inception. her “Aunt Ruth”, but she It was because of her that I was Mrs. Stovroff’s influence extended really was more than an ab le to make the transition into into the greater Western New York aunt to them. She also the position I hold today. I will community and beyond. The Food Bank played Cupid for my always be thankful and grateful of Western New York was founded in Ruth Kahn Stovroff z”l daughter Vivian and Jim to her. “ Mrs. Stovroff’s living room many years Ullman, the son of Ruth’s ago, and she continued to inspire She is incomparable, as her one of the most respected and dear friend Sonya Ullman. such organizations as the Elizabeth dear friend Gerda Weissman revered figures in the history Thus, Ruth became almost Amy Zeckhauser Pierce Olmsted Center for the Visually Klein would tell you. She of our community. Ruth Kahn a grandmother to their “Ruth was the epitome of Impaired—which honored her this Fall- has created solutions to Stovroff was an extraordinary children. And her match- great leadership. She had a - Child and Family Services of Western community problems, found leader who possessed a quiet making skills extended special way of getting people New York, the National Conference for ways to encourage young dignity and strength that to many, many other involved in her projects, whether Community and Justice, and the national people to achieve and helped drew people to her. She has successful marriages. it was the Food Bank, Federation, Florence Heller Research Institute of the to create community that had an enormous impact not Over the years our the CAO or the Olmsted Center. Jewish Community Centers Assn. She will last well beyond her. She just in the Jewish community age difference no longer For the entire 68 years of our was a founding member of the Western is indeed a Woman of Valor.” but throughout our city and mattered as we shared friendship, I was aware that our New York Woman’s Fund, and the first May her beautiful memory region as well. She leaves thoughts as equals. But to connection was a special thing. president of the local Community Action forever be a blessing to all a profound legacy that will me she was always cloaked Among other things, we were Organization. Mrs. Stovroff she was of us. endure for generations to in a certain nobility, even part of a group of women friends inducted into the Western New York come.” a majesty, that one could and we called ourselves the Women’s Hall of Fame in 2005. Reflections on Ruth by: touch. I never saw Ruth “God Squad,” because we often In 2012, the Jewish Federations of really angry; just perhaps attended Saturday morning North America’s national Lion of Judah Peter Fleischmann on rare occasions upset Shabbat services and Classical Magazine profiled Ruth as she turned and thoughtful. Living in Reform services together at 100 years old in an issue which highlight At the Buffalo Jewish different cities for the last Temple Beth Zion. Right before exceptional women of all ages. This is Federation Annual Meeting many years, and given the she died, Ruth voted for Hillary part of what the story noted: November 3rd, Foundation realities of our advancing Clinton for president by absentee “As she reaches her century mark, Ruth for Jewish Philanthropies Gerda Klein age, we were compelled ballot.” Kahn Stovroff represents the absolute Director Peter Fleischmann “For nearly 70 years Ruth to rely on phone calls best of the Buffalo Jewish Community. paid tribute to Ruth has been a vital, important to replace the in-person observing that “We have lost part of my life. When I arrived get-togethers which 4 www.jfedbflo.com | December 2016 COMMUNITY BONNIE CLEMENT Musical Memorial Tribute 716.553.8384 [email protected] Commemorating the 5th Yahrtzeit of Joan Ellis Shatkin, ob”m

On Sunday, December 4th, 2016, The TELLL Fund (Torah Experience for Life-Long Learning, a fund with the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies) is presenting: “Klezmer, Classics & Jazz” - A Musical Memorial Tribute To Broker for HUNT Real Joan Ellis Shatkin. It will be held in Estate ERA,* which includes the Rabbi Joseph L. Fink Auditorium 1,100 sales associates and at Temple Beth Zion, 805 Delaware 38 offices nationwide from Avenue, Buffalo, from 12:00-3:00 Buffalo to Albany and the p.m. Beginning with a tour of the State of Arizona Benjamin and Dr. Edgar R. Cofeld # Judaic Museum, the highlight will be Men, women and children are welcome. a piano recital beginning at 1:30 p.m. An $18.00 tax-deductible donation is The featured artist is Mikhoel Pais – suggested, and sponsorships for this HUNT Real Estate ERA pianist composer, teacher and arranger and any other TELLL Fund program are congratulates Bonnie extraordinaire. He was the First Prize welcome. For more information, contact Winner of the Bradshaw and Buono Piano information is above. on her remarkable, Competition in 2004. Mr. Pais will delight The TELLL Fund is in memory of Dr. 1 us with the his virtuosity, performing and Mrs. Samuel Shatkin, ob”m. The 2013, 2014, classics – composed by Mrs. Shatkin’s Fund provides honorarium for Torah favorites (Chopin, Rachmaninoff, lectures, sponsorship of local Jewish 2015!!! Beth Joseph, Bari Spokane, Bonnie Clement, Sheryl Martin Tchaikovsky and Gershwin) as well as workshops and talks, as well as Jewish his unique arrangements of traditional educational and cultural programs * All of HUNT Real Estate ERA Gross Closed Commission and #1 total Units Buffalo / Niagara Region 2013. Jewish melodies and “oldies but goodies” and materials for dissemination. It and jazz favorites from the swing era. is part of the Foundation for Jewish Light refreshments will be served. Philanthropies, a 501(c)3 organization. Over 40 years servicing Buffalo, Niagara Falls & Canada Howard Rosenhoch President’s Column cont’d from pg 3 LIBERTY a committed and active volunteer what’s in store for us. I’ll be there to help community. The members of our Buffalo in any way I can. Jewish Federation Board of Governors Thanks, of course, to my family. YELLOW and Executive Committee exemplify that Valerie, Alan and David, and the newest commitment and activism. None of you member of our family, Alan’s wife, Gabby 716-877-7111 has hesitated to constructively voice your Balderman, you have encouraged me thoughts and suggestions, even when every step of the way. Even more so, the they have differed with my own. Keep passion each of you has shown in your doing so. Respectful conversations about own way for improving our community Buffalo’s Largest differences make for the best results. inspire me in everything I do. Taxi Company Thanks to each of you on our Board and Let me close by thanking each and Exec for your unwavering support, and every one of you, the members of our most importantly, for your commitment larger Buffalo Jewish Community. I can to Jewish Buffalo. hardly count the number of times one When I took on this role, Valerie, or another of you has come up to me PREPAID GIFT CARDS my wife whose wisdom is unmatched, to tell me that you’ve read my column can be used at any time urged me to make finding my successor in the Jewish Journal, to thank me for • Doctor Visits a priority. In Steve Weiss, we have an serving Jewish Buffalo, or to give me a • Theaters incoming President whose skill as a suggestion on how we can do something • Sporting Events leader is matched only by his passion for just a little bit better. Every time you do Libcomm LibertyYellowCab Jewish Buffalo. Steve, thanks for being that, you demonstrate just how vibrant Give your parents the gift of independence www.libertycab.com such an integral part of the team that is and caring a community we are. Thank reimagining Jewish Buffalo. As I close you for putting your trust in me. It has out my term over the next several weeks been an honor to serve you. and you take the helm, I can’t wait to see December 2016 | www.jfedbflo.com 5 COMMUNITY Hanukkah, What does Is it Hanukkah? Is it Christmas? By Judith Whitehead home that lingers for many days after Oh Hanukkah! Hanukkah the holiday is over! Our family will be Over the many years of celebrating together this holiday since Hanukkah By Amy Avrunin Slater & mean to me? Hanukkah, we have seen that the date is coming so late this year and my out Norma Avrunin Stern” By: Zachary Bloom of celebration depending on the Jewish of town son will come home for a visit. calendar can vary greatly. We can And our Christmas tradition will Our children have been researching remember lighting our first candle on still hold true—watching movies at the our Ukranian ancestry for some time the Hanukkah candelabra - menorah matinee and culminating our day with and have uncovered our father’s – as early as Thanksgiving time. a nice oriental dinner. What better way and paternal grandfather’s family’s Somehow one does not feel Hanukkah- to celebrate with family and friends life before and after they emigrated spirited while Thanksgiving is being and people we are sure to run into that from the Ukraine. Our father came celebrated. share our tradition. Hope you all have a to the U.S. in 1904, and others of I can remember only a few times when joyous holiday season and Happy New his fourteen siblings went to other the holiday coincided with Christmas, like Year. countries. this year. The fact that our holiday can Judith Whitehead is a certified Our uncle Abraham Avrunin emigrated As a kid, this question was very easy move not only among days but months is ophthalmic technician working to Israel where he helped establish for me to answer: it meant PRESENTS! mind boggling to non-Jews. It opens up a in the ophthalmology field for last one of the first kibbutzim. Later, his Of course, as I have grown older (and conversation that confuses and amazes 35 years. She has been published in wife became a member of the Knesset. the presents have gotten less exciting), many people. local newspapers and ophthalmology Abraham also became famous as a my view of what Hanukkah represents Of course people still try to link the journals and lectures at ophthalmology scholar, poet, composer, educator and has definitely changed. To me today, the two holidays together, and how many seminars on various topics. author(we have a book he edited which celebration of Hanukkah is a celebration times do we say “Hanukkah is not the still needs translation, if anyone in the of the freedom to worship Judaism. We Jewish Christmas!” To this day I still community is capable/interested). He all know the story of how Antiochus tried meet seemingly intelligent people that actually wrote the Hebrew lyrics of the forcefully to convert us to Greco-Roman are amazed Jews do not have a Christmas song “Hanukkah, oh Hanukkah”, which Paganism. He obviously didn’t succeed, tree. I try and make it a short and simple is sung by Jews the world over. For those because we are still here. The story of explanation but they still walk away with lyrics, there is often an “anonymous” Hanukkah is just one of the many times the “deer in the headlights” look. I try byline. That now stands corrected! that oppressive rulers and groups have to explain that we are not “missing” It also turns out that in Israel, forcefully tried to take away our religion. anything and our celebration has a very some Avrunins adopted the more native I find it so amazing that we as a people, different meaning than the Celebration sounding “Arnon.” Many of them have although not unscathed, have been able of the Christ child, but to no avail. This served in the highest positions of to keep our covenant with G-d through part of life never seems to change. I used government, the military and academia. thick and thin. When we celebrate to resent it when people wished me a We are unendingly proud of our family’s Hanukkah, we defy our past oppressors Merry Christmas, but after many years I many and notable contributions to the by not only continuing to practice just thank them and feel the spirit of the life and well-being of Israel and wanted to Jewish tradition; but by passing it on holiday season and the wish it came with. say so to the broader Buffalo community. to our children and future generations. Our family still does enjoy the And as Chanukah approaches, when you So, as we all get ready to spend time Hanukkah season and although it is not as sing songs, remember that we wanted to with family during Hanukkah, let’s all much fun as watching our children open give credit where credit is due. remember to be thankful that we have their gifts, we still do all the traditional Sisters Norma (94) and Amy (88) still the freedom to practice Judaism. customs, lighting candles and making live and celebrate Hanukkah in Buffalo. Zachary Bloom is a senior at latkes with the family. Who can resist the Williamsville North High School. aroma of frying potato pancakes in the

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6 www.jfedbflo.com | December 2016 December 2016 | www.jfedbflo.com 7 COMMUNITY Buffalo Jewish Federation’s 113th Anniversary The Buffalo Jewish Federation celebrated its 113th anniversary at the UB Center for the Arts. The program, chaired by UB students Ivana Slifstein and Logan Woodard, featured Hillel International CEO Eric Fingerhut, who spoke about the importance of Hillel and other Jewish organizations on campus; Jonathan Epstein and Sheri Rodman were honored, as was outgoing Federation President Howard Rosenhoch.

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December 2016 | www.jfedbflo.com 11 COMMUNITY RABBI’S COLUMN Light up the Room Rabbi Joshua Strosberg: Two Thousand Years of Gefilte Fish A bizarre, humorous and authentically Jewish moment occurred at the Ahava Party and Raba klezmer concert when Chazzan After Party Yanky Lemmer introduced one of the songs. To paraphrase him: a Yid is sitting down to shaloshudes, the third Shabbos A glow in the dark meal, the holiest time of the week. He - - - clings to the last precious moments of dance party for kids Shabbos before he must reenter the work week. He slowly sings a melody full of and their families brokenness and longing for the bitter . exile to end. He reaches for another piece of gefilte fish...Two thousand years is too long.” Then laughter from the audience. It took me a second to figure out what was funny about this, but then I Rabbi Joshua Strosberg understood. Two thousand of what is too long? Exile...or gefilte fish? as an obligation upon every Jew to study That was what I call a Rashi moment. along with the weekly Torah portion. A moment in which what seems like a Why? What’s so special about Rashi’s simple sentence or idea is understood in commentary? Because Rashi involves a new way. Rashi, the 11th century Torah the reader in the process of discovery. sage, was the master of uncovering fresh We see new colors and designs emerging The Park School interpretations of old Biblical verses. from an old text right before our eyes. 4625 Harlem Road, Snyder, NY For instance, in this week’s parsha, a And as Chazzan Lemmer’s gefilte fish well known verse states about Abraham: story shows, Jews love to discover new “God took him outside and said, “Look meanings. toward heaven and count the stars…” Nachmanides wrote his own The simple understanding is that God commentary to the Torah, often took Abraham outside of his tent for a disagreeing with Rashi’s interpretation glimpse of the night sky. But Rashi puts and yet he writes this in his introduction: a twist on it: God took Abraham outside “I will place as an illumination before of his constricted consciousness that me the lights of the pure menorah, the was bound by the idea that stars control commentaries of our Rabbi Shlomo our destiny. God showed him that he was (Rashi)...” As Hanukkah approaches and outside of those stars and free to craft we light the Menorah, let us shine new his own destiny. light on old texts. Don’t just read the Is that the original intent of the verse? Bible. Read it with Rashi. Don’t settle Probably not, but no matter. Out of all for gefilte fish when there is sea bass Event Details the Rabbinic commentaries on Torah, it and filet of sole out there. Two thousand : is only Rashi’s that is mentioned by the years is too long... Facebook com PJLibraryBuffalo . / Shulchan Aruch, the code of Jewish Law,

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Red Door Ski & Snowboard 4169 Transit Road Williamsville, NY 14221 (716)634-5545 14 www.jfedbflo.com | December 2016 December 2016 | www.jfedbflo.com 15 SYNAGOGUES AGENCIES Jewish Community Agencies in Western New York Buffalo Jewish Federation Jewish Community Center of Greater 2640 North Forest Road Buffalo, Inc. Getzville, NY 14068 Benderson Family Building TEL 716-204-2241 | FAX 716-929-0482 2640 North Forest Road www.jfedbflo.com Getzville, NY 14068 Rob Goldberg - CEO & Executive Director TEL 716-688-4033 | FAX 716-688-3572 Howard Rosenhoch- President Richard Zakalik- Executive Director Susan Freed-Oestreicher - President Bureau of Jewish Education 2640 North Forest Road Holland Family Building Getzville, NY 14068 787 Delaware Avenue TEL 716-204-5380 | FAX 716-688-3572 Buffalo, NY 14209 www.bjebuffalo.org TEL 716-886-3145 | FAX 716-886-1367 Jill Komm - Executive Director www.jccbuffalo.org Michael Berger - President Jewish Discovery Center Chabad House of Buffalo 757 Hopkins Road 2450 North Forest Road Williamsville, NY 14221 Getzville, NY 14068 212 Exeter Rd. TEL 716-688-1642 | FAX 716-688-1643 Williamsville, NY 14221 (office) www.chabadbuffalo.com TEL: 716-639-7600 Rabbi Moshe Gurary - Director TEL: 716-632-0467 Rabbi Heschel Greenberg Chai Early Childhood Center 757 Hopkins Road Rabbi Laizer Labkovski Williamsville, NY 14221 www.jewishdiscovery.org TEL 716 580-4600 www.chainursery.com Jewish Family Service Of Buffalo And Chani Labkovski -Director Erie County 70 Barker Street Department of Jewish Thought Buffalo, NY 14209 712 Clemens Hall - University at Buffalo TEL 716-883-1914 | FAX 716-883-7637 Buffalo, NY 14260 www.jfsbuffalo.org TEL 716-645-3695 FAX 716-645-3473 Marlene Schillinger - Executive Director Email: [email protected] Blaine Schwartz- Chair http://www.jewishstudies.buffalo.edu/ Dr. Sergey Dolgopolski, Chair Jewish Federation Apartments 275 Essjay Road Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Williamsville, NY 14221 2640 North Forest Road TEL 716-631-8471 | FAX 716-631-8768 Getzville, NY 14068 www.jewishfederationapartments.org TEL 716-204-1133 | FAX 716-204-1129 Karen Greenspan - President www.jewishphilanthropies.org Kathleen Haggerty - Property Manager Peter Fleischmann- Director & CEO Ray Fink- President Jewish Federation Cemetery Corporation, Inc. Hadassah 2640 North Forest Road 2640 North Forest Road Getzville, NY 14068 Getzville, NY 14068 TEL 716-204-2246 | FAX 716-929-0482 TEL 716-688-5260 www.jfedbflo.com [email protected] Deborah Pivarsi - Director Marlene Katzel - Co-President Charlotte Gendler - President Jay L. Mesnekoff Maxine Seller - Co-President Director Kadimah Academy Hebrew Benevolent Loan Association 1085 Eggert Road 2640 North Forest Road in FJP offices Amherst, NY 14226 Getzville, NY 14068 TEL 716-836-6903 | FAX 716-837-7322 TEL 716-204-0542 www.kadimah.org Sam Golden- Loan Officer Einav Symons - Head of School Linda S. Boxer- President Jonathan Epstein - President Hillel of Buffalo Campus Foundation for Jewish Life Ohr Temimim School 520 Lee Entrance/UB Commons 411 John James Audubon Parkway Suite # 210 W. Amherst, NY 14228 W. Amherst, NY 14228 TEL 716-568-0226 | FAX 716-636-1899 TEL 716-645-8787 | FAX 716-639-7817 www.ohrtemimimschool.com Logan Woodard & Evie Weinstein- Rabbi Shmuel Shanowitz - Principal Coordinators of Jewish Student Life Jonathan Gellman - President www.hillelofbuffalo.org Weinberg Campus Holocaust Resource Center 2700 North Forest Road 336 Harris Hill Road, Suite 302 Getzville, NY 14068 Williamsville, NY 14221 TEL 716-639-3311 | FAX 716-639-3309 TEL: 716-634-9535 www.weinbergcampus.org www.holocaustcenterbuff.com Robert Mayer- President & CEO Pieter Weinrieb- President Kenneth Rogers- Chairman of the Board Mara Koven Gelman- Executive Director of Directors 16 www.jfedbflo.com | December 2016 AGENCIES SYNAGOGUES

Yad B’Yad Jewish Federation Apartments A program of the Bureau of Jewish Himmel Family Chapel (Unaffiliated) Education 275 Essjay Road TEL 716-204-5380 / FAX 716-688-3572 Williamsville, NY 14221 www.yadbyad.org Pinkhos Blitshteyn- President Laurie Criden- Chair Rabbi Daniel Shuman UPSCALE Western New York Saranac Synagogue (Orthodox) President - Shmuel Rashkin CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN STEAKHOUSE Synagogues and Temples Vice President - Reuven Alt Chabad House of Buffalo (unaffiliated) Gabbai David Kunkel 2450 North. Forest Rd, 85 Saranac Avenue Getzville, NY 14068 Buffalo New York 14216 OFFERING TEL 716-688-1642 TEL 716 876 1284 www.chabadbuffalo.com www.SaranacSynagogue.org CLASSIC AMERICAN

Congregation Beth Abraham Temple Beth Tzedek (Conservative) USDA PRIME AGED STEAKS, (Conservative) 621 Getzville Road 1073 Elmwood Avenue Amherst, NY 14226 FRESH SEAFOOD, Buffalo, NY 14222 Rabbi Perry Netter www.congregationbethabraham.net Cantor Mark Spindler CLASSIC COCKTAILS Harvey Brenner - Executive Director Congregation B’nai Shalom Lisa Wallenfels - President AND A (Conservative) TEL 716- 838-3232 1641 North Forest Rd. www.btzbuffalo.org VIBRANT HAPPY HOUR Williamsville, NY 14221 TEL 716-689-8203 Temple Beth Zion (Reform) [email protected] Sanctuary: 805 Delaware Avenue www.bnaishalombuffalo.org Buffalo, NY 14209 Religious School and Offices: 700 Sweet Home Road Congregation Hesed Abraham CAN ACCOMMODATE PARTIES 215 Hall Ave Amherst, NY 14226 Jamestown, NY 14701 Rabbi Jonathan Freirich UP TO 75 PEOPLE Rabbi Allen Podet Rabbi Adam Scheldt TEL 716-484-1800 Cantor Penny Myers Amy Schaefer - Temple Administrator MTK PRIME AT THE WYNDHAM GARDEN BUFFALO Congregation Shir Shalom miriam treger honig - President 5195 MAIN STREET, WILLIAMSVILLE (Reform/ Reconstructionist) TEL 716-836-6565 716.428.3957 4660 Sheridan Drive www.tbz.org Williamsville, NY 14221 TEL 716-633-8877 Temple Beth El (Reform) Rabbi Alexander Lazarus-Klein 720 Ashland Avenue Cantor Arlene Frank Niagara Falls, NY 14301 Joanne Marquisee - Executive Director Cantorial Soloist Barry Rose Todd Sugarman - President Robert Duell- President www.shirshalombuffalo.org TEL 716-282-2717 www.niagarafallstemple.com Congregation Havurah 6320 Main St., Williamsville, NY 14221 Temple Emanu-El (Reform) Bernard Schenkler, President 124 Bank Street Annette Pinder, Membership Chair Batavia, NY 14020 TEL 716-689-2256 TEL 585-343-7027 www.congregationhavurah.org Stan Schumann - President [email protected] The Family Shul (Unaffiliated) Kehillat Ohr Tzion (Modern Orthodox) 757 Hopkins Road 879 Hopkins Rd Williamsville, NY 14221 Williamsville, NY 14221 Rabbi Heschel Greenberg Email: [email protected] Rabbi Laizer Labkovski Rabbi Joshua Strosberg 716-639-7600 Dr. Ted Steinberg- President http://ohrtzion.org/kot Young Israel of Greater Buffalo (Orthodox) Knesset Center (Orthodox) 105 Maple Road 500 Starin Avenue Williamsville, NY 14221 Buffalo, NY 14214 Rabbi Eliezar Marcus TEL 716-832-5063 Richard G. Berger- President Rabbi Shmaryahu Charitonow TEL 716-634-0212 www.chabad.org www.yibuffalo.org

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possibilities for funding its efforts, including grants, joint efforts with other Shir Shalom Going Green! religious institutions and contributions By Peter Simon consumption by taking a from congregants. He hopes to avoid close look at the efficiency asking the temple board to commit Driven by a moral imperative to save the planet, Congregation Shir Shalom of appliances, windows and operating funds. is going green. A newly-formed committee plans to build awareness of the doors, and to meet a major The committee’s establishment dangers of global warming by greatly increasing the synagogue’s recycling portion of the temple’s had an unusual twist. Morris—who efforts, using more efficient lighting and planting trees on the temple grounds. power needs through the use has degrees in both engineering and “You start with the low-hanging fruit and proceed from there,” said Joe Morris, of solar panels. “That would physics—gave a well-received speech chairman of the Green Committee. “We’re in a very early stage.” But intentions be the ultimate statement Joe Morris to the Shir Shalom Men’s Group about and enthusiasm run high. Ultimately, the committee hopes to slash energy in green,” said Morris, who is recent advances in physics, and was retired after 40 years as an Tikkun Olam,” Rabbi Lazarus- asked to come back and talk about aerospace engineer. Klein said. “It’s part of our global warming. Shir Shalom Rabbi Alex role. Honestly, Shir Shalom As he researched his second Lazarus-Klein said the group hasn’t been doing enough in talk, Morris became more and more not only has the potential to regard to the environment.” concerned about the potentially implement cost-savings, but But he said the enthusiasm catastrophic impact of global warming vividly reflects the Jewish of Morris and the committee and, he said, our mishandling of the commitment to Tikkun Olam, members has focused fresh world God entrusted to us. or repairing the world. “We’re attention and energy on the Members of the committee include living in a changing world, issue. Brian Schepart, Daniel Kester, Barry and it’s very important that Morris said the group Heitner, Ronna Glickman and Jan Berg. synagogues take the lead in will look at a variety of Other congregants are welcome to join.

BARNES AND NOBLE CONGREGATION BOOKFAIR AND STORY TIME SHIR SHALOM With Congregation Shir Shalom and PJ Library HOSTS HANUKKAH Sunday, December 18th 1:00pm 1565 Niagara Falls Boulevard EXTRAVAGANZA! Amherst, NY 14228 Friday, December 16, 2016 Join Congregation Shir Shalom clergy and staff 6:00pm Happy Hour for adults and for Hanukkah stories! children with a Latke Bar Enjoy singing Hanukkah songs! Stop by and do some holiday shopping! 7:00pm Erev Shabbat Family Free gift wrapping available from 1pm to 5pm Hanukkah Service Featuring our house band and Please present the voucher prior to making your purchase and a intergenerational choir led by Cantor Frank percentage of the sale will go to CSS Religious School!

EVERYONE IS WELCOME! Celebrate the holiday with BRING YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS! family and friends! Eat a variety of latkes! Play the dreidel game with Hanukkah gelt! Sing your favorite Hanukkah songs!

Please RSVP to the Temple Office!

HAPPY HANUKKAH! Congregation Shir Shalom 4660 Sheridan Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 716.633.8877 www.shirshalombuffalo.org

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Rabbi Adam Scheldt PALS and TBZ Chosen for Select Group of North American This Community of Practice will include an in-person meeting for congregational Congregations Investing in Full-time Early Education staff and lay leadership involved in the Temple Beth Zion, through the Play And “Temple Beth Zion has had a long initiative at the URJ Biennial on December Learn School (PALS), is one of 12 Reform commitment to early childhood education 6-10, 2017 in Boston, MA. There also will be congregations in North America selected and we are excited to be selected to monthly virtual gatherings and e-learning to participate in the newly formed Union participate in this initiative so that we may opportunities. Finally, results of these for Reform Judaism (URJ) Community continue to lead the way in cultivating strong strategic experiments will be shared with of Practice dedicated to Full-time Early Jewish values and connections among the congregations outside the Community of Education. This URJ Community of Practice youngest members of our community. L’dor Practice and with the Reform Movement at is a congregational networking group for Vador. From generation to generation,” said large. Reform congregations that are seeking to discover new ways to integrate early childhood Jewish education and full-time childcare for congregations throughout North America.

A sunny day at PALS

By participating in this initiative, the PALS team will have the opportunity to meet with leaders from congregations with common interests to share ideas and experiment together with new strategies. The PALS team will also have access to the URJ’s professional staff and expert consultants, some of the most renowned thought leaders Sharing Sukkot with Rabbi Scheldt in their fields. Members of Temple Beth Zion’s CoP team are: Ken Levin, Valerie Rosenhoch, Shira Goldberg, Melissa Milch, miriam treger honig, Amy Schaefer and Rabbi Adam Scheldt. The PALS team, along with the other 12 congregations in the URJ Full-time Early Education Community of Practice will work together formally for 24 months to push the boundaries of existing congregational efforts. Participating congregations will receive guidance from peers and advisors to experiment in their own communities, create congregational innovations, and garner skills that will benefit all areas of Simchat Torah with Cantor Penny congregational life.

December 2016 | www.jfedbflo.com 19 SYNAGOGUES CBA Jewish Movie Group Hosts a Movie Young Talent at TBZ December 6 and Dinner December 25 Hayden Fogle and Vin DeRosa will be representing Western New York at the next Congregation Beth Abraham’s Jewish International Blues Challenge (IBC) held in Memphis Tennessee January 31-Feburary 4, Movie Group will once again be observing 2017. The International Blues Challenge represents an international search by the Blues a Christmas tradition (Jewish style) by Foundation and its Affiliated Organizations (mostly Blues Societies) from around the showing a film on Sunday December world. Each affiliate Blues Society holds a competition for which the winners in both the 25, followed by dinner/discussion at a full band and Duo category are selected to participate at the challenge. local Chinese restaurant. We’ll also light Hanukkah candles and sing a song or two. to take their act to the national stage The film, My Lovely Sister, from Israel, is with over 250 bands competing in a very poignant and beautifully realized previous competitions. story about two sisters and how their To help with the cost of going relationship is broken by challenging to Memphis to compete at the personal and cultural issues. What sets IBC, Hayden and Vin are holding a the film apart is the style of magical fundraiser event concert in the TBZ realism that weaves its way throughout. If Sanctuary on December 6th from 7pm you are a fan of this genre, you will enjoy until 8:30pm with a short meet and its surreal, dreamlike quality. The film will will be drinks, popcorn and other snacks. greet following their performance. especially resonate with you If you have RSVPs for dinner will be appreciated in Hayden Fogle, a member of TBZ, is sisters or daughters. helping us make a reservation. a 16 year old Blues guitarist who was The film is in Hebrew with subtitles. It For contact information and further given his first opportunity to perform will be screened in the CBA social room, details on this event, as well other with a band at the age of 12 alongside 1073 Elmwood Avenue (near Pano’s) at programs, please visit the CBA website, one of his biggest influences, the 4:00 PM (no Bills game). As always, there www.congregationbethabraham.net. legendary Buddy Guy (Kennedy Center Honoree). Since then, Hayden has been invited to perform with several other nationally known musicians and his band has been recognized as one of the top 3 Blues bands in Western NY. This Hayden Fogle year, Hayden was the recipient of first place runner up in the Lee Ritenour’s Hayden Fogle and Vin DeRosa won the Six String Theory Music Competition Duo category of the competition held by the in the Blues guitar category which is Blues Society of Western New York. The IBC a biennial international competition has evolved into the nation’s biggest and most that included entrants from over 40 respected showcase for Blues musicians ready countries. Sukkot @ Marjim Manor

Congregants from Congregation Havurah in Amherst and Temple Beth El in Niagara Falls made their annual trek to Bittner Singer Orchards to celebrate Sukkot. After picking apples in the orchard, a service was held in the chapel at The Winery at Marjim Manor. The group then shared a meal.

This gathering is being hosted at the home of Amy, Andy and Lewis Shaevel who are the local Camp George family ambassador and it is open to the community. To RSVP and for more information, they can contact Kara at TBZ- 836-6565. Celebrating Sukkat with Friends

20 www.jfedbflo.com | December 2016 SYNAGOGUES TBZ Sisterhood Winter Kulanu Holds Annual Service Scheduled Hanukkah Bazaar At Temple Beth Zion Sundays, December 11 and 18 Broder Center, 700 Sweet Home Road

The Judaica Shop at Temple Beth Zion will be open additional hours with a large selection of Hanukkah gifts and decorations. The Annual Hanukkah Bazaar is also open to the community. Call the Temple office at 716-836-6565 with questions regarding shop hours. Temple Beth Zion’s Winter Kulanu Service will be held December 9 at 7 p.m., at Temple Beth Zion, 805 Delaware Avenue. All members of the community are invited to join our circle of light and warmth, and to take that light and warmth back into the winter night with them. This year’s service will feature a Hanukkah Service newly revised liturgy prepared by Mat’an Schwartz, and participation by Temple Temple Beth Zion will hold its annual Beth Zion’s youth. Rabbi Adam Scheldt Hanukkah Service, Friday, December 30 will be the featured speaker. Members at 7 p.m. in the Broder Center for Jewish of Jewish Pride of Western New York will Education, 700 Sweet Home Road in join us. Amherst. The entire community is invited Kulanu (“all of us”) is Temple Beth to come for the service and celebrate Zion’s group committed to making our Shabbat and the Festival of Lights. Anyone Congregation an embracing and supportive who has a special menorah is encouraged home for our LGBTQ members of all ages. to bring it and we will light our candles We are proud to partner with Jewish Pride together. of WNY to help make our entire Community The evening will also include special equally supportive and welcoming for all Hanukkah songs, spin the dreidel and Jews. For more information, or to join with delicious food as we share a special us, please contact Rabbi Adam Scheldt at evening together as a community. On 836-6565. this Seventh Night of Hanukkah consider giving a gift instead of getting a gift. In the spirit of holiday giving, we will be You’ll have LATKE fun collecting new toys and non-perishable food for local families in need. at the For more information, check the Temple’s Family Hanukkah Party! website at www.tbz.org or call the office at 716-836-6565. Special Shabbat Alive Service TBZ Friday, December 2, at 7 p.m. 805 Delaware Avenue Hanukkah festivities Keep calm and Shir (sing) on! Our Food, music, & activities musicians and choristers will lead the Sunday, December 18th music for this energetic and lively Shabbat Service. Members of the TBaZY, Temple Temple Beth Zion – Broder Center Beth Zion’s Youth Group, will also lead 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM the December Service. Join us at 6:30 for $5/child Happy Half Hour. Sponsored by TBZ Sisterhood

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December 4 December 17 TELLL Fund Concert @ TBZ Auditorium. Nickel City Jews Hanukkah Party 805 Delaware Ave. 8:00pm. LIFT Nightclub. Festivities begin at 12:00 $18. 257 Franklin Street. Call 716-308-4843. $26. facebook.com/NickelCityJews December 6 Hayden Fogle Concert @ TBZ. December 18 7:00-8:30 pm. $10. Shir Shalom, PJ Library www.HaydenFogle.com & PJ Our Way Book Fair and Story Time. December 9 1:00 pm. Barnes & Noble. Temple Beth Zion 1565 Niagara Falls Blvd. Special Kulanu Shabbat. facebook.com/PJLibraryBuffalo 7:00 pm. 805 Delaware Avenue. December 24-31 December 11, 18 Hanukkah is celebrated. Temple Beth Zion Sisterhood Light the first candle Hanukkah Bazaar during religious school. December 24. 700 Sweet Home Road.

December 14 December 25 Special “Fiddler on the Roof” performance Movie & Dinner by Our Lady of Hope Youth Choir. at Congregation Beth Abraham. @ JCC- 2640 North Forest Road 4:00pm film followed by dinner. 6:30 pm. FREE. www.congregationbethabraham.net

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28 www.jfedbflo.com | December 2016 AGENCIES KADIMAH ACADEMY HOSTS Adult Education at FIRST PARENT OF ALUMNI TEA Temple Beth Zion was the setting the BJE Sunday afternoon October 30 for the first ETHEL MELZER, ADULT ED DIRECTOR Kadimah Academy Parent of Alumni Tea, and it was beautiful! The turnout included past parents, current parents, grandparents, alumni, teachers, and even a parent/alum from the FIRST graduating Kadimah class - the connections running through the crowd were electrifying! Dr. Chana Kotzin, past Kadimah parent and Buffalo Jewish community archivist gave a brief but wonderful presentation of a tiny bit of the history of the TBZ sanctuary, and Judge Lisa Bloch Rodwin (parent of two Kadimah alumni) gave remarks that focused on supporting the school as cheerleaders and encouraging alumni (and parents) to complete the online survey at www.kadimah.org to stay in touch with the school. Judge Rodwin shares her story

Rabbi Perry Netter explaining the significance of the Jewish Festivals to students in the Introduction to Judaism class.

an in member of the rst adimah Dr. Chana Kotzin presents a history of the Temple Beth graduating class with wife, Ronna. Zion sanctuary, including the Ben Shahn Menorah Students in the Alef-Bet Beginning Hebrew Reading course listen intently as instructor, Michal Shmuel-Lewis points out Hebrew letters that make up new vocabulary. YAD B’YAD IS ON THE WEB

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The Bureau of Jewish Education’s Hebrew and the stories these amazing individuals High program gratefully acknowledges had to share. And there was more chatter the Better Together Program (generously and less silence as the weeks went on, as supported by a prominent national well. Everyone seemed to have a great time foundation) which has enabled our students sharing, laughing, and truly enjoying the to develop meaningful relationships with the company of one another. elderly at Weinberg Campus. In the beginning Last month, tenth graders began a of our school year, tenth graders were told break from the Better Together Program that they were going to be part of something so they could take other classes at Hebrew great, but none of them knew the impact five High. However, teens will be returning to weeks with the seniors at Weinberg would Weinberg Campus to meet with their senior make. friends next March! At the conclusion of Through the Better Together Program, the program, teens will have completed these teens spent five amazing Wednesday final projects, which is their opportunity to evenings talking to, getting to know, and create something memorable about their learning from Jewish residents at Weinberg senior friend that they want to share with Campus. In the beginning of the program, the public. A reception at the end of teens paired themselves up based on the school year will showcase the projects common interests through an “icebreaker” for residents, teens and their families. We conversation. For the following meetings, look forward to sharing more about this teens brought their notebooks full of wonderful opportunity as the year goes on. questions, Jewish historical facts, and Hebrew High is a supplemental program conversation starters that their teachers, for Jewish teens in grades 8 - 12, regardless Hannah Lapides and Chana Kotzin, put of affiliation. For more information about together to help guide discussion. the Better Together Program or Hebrew As the weeks went on, the residents High, please visit our website: www. of Weinberg started bringing personal bjebuffalo.org/hebrewhigh or contact Jill memorabilia to share with the teens. Komm, Principal, at 716-204-5380 or Students were engulfed with the history [email protected].

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Beth El Genealogical Records genealogical information, JCC STAFF AND letters and photographs, and MEMBERS ART SHOW By Chana R. Kotzin, Ph.D. for this we have not just the AT BENDERSON/BUNIS genealogist avocation at play, Likewise, the cemetery but members stylizing their GALLERY THROUGH DECEMBER 30 lists created and compiled own family histories. Muriel An exhibit of art by Muriel Selling include Selling, a retired general work, created by JCC expected information contractor, was involved in staff and members, such as grave number, a range of organizations in will be on display at name and date of lay leadership positions, not the Jewish Community death, but also includes just Beth El. Not only did Center Benderson records of rights such as she assemble these helpful Building, Bunis reserved space status, materials, she also co-founded Family Art Gallery, and whether a deceased the Jewish Genealogy 2nd floor, 2640 North came from overseas, for Society of Buffalo, and was a Forest Road, Amherst, example - if they had cemetery administrator for the NY, November 1 – died during military independent fraternal Holy December 30, 2016. service. It also includes Order of the Living. This mixed media collaborative exhibit will include family relationships; To explore these materials photography, beadwork, paintings, drawings, cross Cite s 222 Temple Beth El 17200 1.1 niersity rchies deed information; and more, please check the BJE stitching, anatomy sketches, and more. An exhibit University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Photograph headstone details, website at www.bjebuffalo.org/ reception will take place on Monday, December 5, 6-8 credit on annecerI location; cemetery jbap and click on the Temple p.m. in the gallery and the Lippman Lounge. Members topography, natural Beth El finding aid link to plan of the community are invited to attend this free event, Year by year, the fascination with genealogy grows and it features (“tree nearby”) your trip to the University meet the artists and view the exhibit. seems like near and dear, neighbors and friends, are all in and even pew holder at Buffalo archives. You can Gallery admission is free and the gallery is open search of somebody! While these very personal explorations status for the much older also contact Chana Kotzin at during JCC business hours, 7 days a week. For bring their practitioners personal joy and greater self- entries archivesproject@bjebuffalo. more information visit jccbuffalo.org. For more understanding, when an individual undertakes this for a These 3-inch- org or call 716-204-5380 for information contact Jordana Halpern, Director, group, or an organization, they elevate the personal pursuit thick series of loose more information. Cultural Arts, JCC at [email protected] or to a community endeavor. This is why the Temple Beth El oversize pages also help 716-204-2255. materials collected, collated and transformed by Muriel anyone seeking further Selling are so important, not just for synagogue members information for those but for the history of Jewish Buffalo more broadly too. Muriel buried up to the 1990s Selling created a number of resources in her roles within at Pine Ridge. Another the synagogue - as de-facto Temple historian - and as part resource was a series of of the leadership of the cemetery organization. One of her volumes that provides a main listings combined historical materials and membership wide range of member FOXTIRE rosters to provide detailed membership lists that include materials that relate & AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR not just individual names, and when members joined, but to the Beth El “Family spouses’ date of birth and date of death as well as marriage History Project” which dates. In addition, where she was able, she included Hebrew was captured as part of 1035 William Street • Buffalo names, place of work, company name, business name, college the Temple Beth El 150th Please visit www.foxtire.com or university, profession, and Levy or Cohen status. This dot Anniversary Committee matrix continuous feed document does not photograph well, in 1997. In two volumes, but it is a treasury of information, and its modest appearance Muriel Selling enabled belies its critical contents. family members to supply LOWEST PRICES IN BUFFALO! ON NEW & USED TIRES! 856-1696 Thousands in Stock!

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The well-being of the Buffalo Jewish community has been at the heart of the mission of Jewish Family Service of Buffalo & Erie County (JFS) for more than 150 years. “We were founded to provide support to our own individuals, families, children and elders as they made the transition to life in America. Thanks to the support of this same community from one generation to the next, we are now able to extend the same kind of support to the broader community of which we are a critical part,” JFS President and CEO Marlene Schillinger says.

For the last few years, the agency MHFA is an international has focused on developing its training and education resettlement services for today’s program that teaches immigrants and refugees–in keeping people how to identify, with the core commandments of understand signs of mental tikkun olam (acts of kindness to illnesses and substance use perfect or repair the world) and disorders, and to respond tzedakah (giving aid, assistance appropriately to someone and money to the poor and need . who may be experiencing a showing empathy and compassion). crisis. JFS offers the training “In 2014 we founded the Western to individuals and groups in New York Center for Survivors of partnership with Compeer Torture, a comprehensive and Buffalo and the Erie County collaborative initiative that provides Mental Health Association: much needed support to Holocaust in October, the cooperative Survivors and their families as well initiative earned an award as for the many individuals and Temple Beth Zion members do a mitzvah by cleaning a play from the P2 Collaborative of families who have now resettled space for displaced refugees resettled through JFS Resettlement Western New York. Services. — M. Schillinger photo here from war-torn regions around “Because over 1200 people the world,” says Schillinger. in Western New York received “This year we expanded our a certificate by taking the American Sign Language Class for eight-hour Mental Health Deaf refugees, and were honored First Aid training, hundreds last September when the Jewish of lives can be saved,” says Federation arranged for Oscar- Schillinger. winner Marlee Matlin, who was in She invites the community Buffalo to help launch a Federation to visit the Jewish fund-raising initiative, visit one of Community Services page our classes.” on the JFS website at www. In 2017, Jewish Family Service jfsbuffalo.org beginning will return to its roots, re-focusing January 1, 2017. The newly services tailored for the Jewish added presence will include community regarding mental and detailed information on behavioral health care, well aging services tailored to serve support, care coordination for elders Buffalo’s Jewish community. and people with disabilities, and “Our Jewish Community career development. The agency counts on us to provide began in 1862 when the Hebrew Rabbi Alex Lazarus-Klein and JFS AmeriCorps Volunteer Anna high quality, confidential Benevolent Union, Sisterhood of Sharpe with resettled refugee family. — M. Schillinger photo and compassionate services Zion, Women’s Jewish Benevolent that reflect and respect our Society and Ladies Sewing Aid in 1960. cultural and faith traditions,” Society formed the Federation of Today, the NYS-licensed JFS Mental Health/Behavioral says JFS Board Chair Blaine Jewish Charities. The Federation Health Outpatient Clinic offers compassionate, Schwartz, Esq. formed the Jewish Welfare Society confidential care that helps individuals of all ages “This is why we were in 1930, which in 1947 became the struggling with mental health challenges improve their founded. But from elder Jewish Community Service Society quality of life — and helps their families define and care and care coordination with three departments: Family implement ways to support them. “We are among the to career counseling, Service, Child Care and Vocational few resources in Western New York with the ability resettlement, mental and Service. to deliver mental health care with an understanding behavioral health care, Jewish In 1958, shortly after associating of Jewish faith and culture that can improve overall Family Service of Buffalo & the agency with the United Way, counseling and treatment outcomes,” Schillinger says. Erie County is committed to former executive director Albert “This is especially critical considering the current extending a lifeline to help Deemer established its first epidemic of prescription drug abuse, which sometimes all who come through our psychiatric outpatient clinic: the is connected to undiagnosed or untreated behavioral doors meet the challenges of Jewish Community Service Society and mental health disorders.” life change.” officially became Jewish Family JFS also hopes to increase Mental Health First Aid Service of Buffalo & Erie County (MHFA) certification within the Jewish community. 34 www.jfedbflo.com | December 2016 AGENCIES PREMIER OF HRC’S DENIAL!

A sold out Buffalo Premier of the film Denial took place October 22 at Amherst Dipson Theatre. The film about the trial of a Holocaust denier was introduced, with a Q&A after by Dr. Dan Leshem, the director of the Kupferberg Holocaust Museum in Queensborough College in NYC. Dr. Dan Leshem worked with the film’s protagonist, Dr. Deborah Lipstadt while he earned his PhD at Emory University.

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By Mara Koven-Gelman, Executive Director, Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo

A Continuing Legal Education program (CLE) on the Nuremberg Trials-Legal Ethics and the Holocaust was held October 28, sponsored by Holocaust Resource Center, Erie County Bar Association, Buffalo Jewish Federation and the Robert H. Jackson Center was a sold out, well- receivedprogram! More than 100 lawyers and community members gathered in Former Refugee Youth perform Fiddler on the Roof at the Maxine and the Jury Assembly Room inside the Robert Seller Theatre, Wednesday, December 14, 2016 Robert H. Jackson Federal Court House in CLE in progress Buffalo, that day. Several presenters and A production of the musical Fiddler on the Roof, performed participants said it was the best CLE they Nuremberg Trials and Justice Robert H. Jackson’s role as the by Our Lady of Hope Youth Choir, will take place in the Maxine have attended in their career. chief prosecutor, and Honorable Howard Gutman, former and Robert Seller Theatre at the Jewish Community Center on The series of presentations Ambassador to Belgium, who shared his family history of Wednesday, December 15, 6:30 p.m. included “How the Third Reich survival during the Shoah in Poland. The performance is directed by The Our Lady of Hope Youth dismantled the German legal system The dais and topics also included Judges of the Third Reich Choir director Jennifer Serniuk, a PhD graduate student in for its own purposes,” and details of by Hon. Eugene M. Fahey, NYS State Court of Appeals; and Educational Culture, Policy, and Society at the University at the Nuremberg Trials including the Ethical Responses to Immoral Laws by Professor James G. Buffalo, who began working with congregants five years ago. “We Alstoetter Trial (focused trial on the Milles, University at Buffalo School of Law. began with only 10 children and that group has since grown to judges) which was presented by Hon. Referring to the Nuremberg Trials and the key Nazi more than 25 with youth ranging from third grade up to freshman Lawrence J. Vilardo, US District Judge defense of separating laws from ethics, Judge Fahey said “it year in college. The choir sings regularly at Sunday mass, Western District of New York) and was a moral nightmare; abandonment of the law doesn’t community functions, and recently at the Cathedral for Bishop raised the ultimate ethical issue of require the abandonment of morals.” He admitted that, “The Malone the Chrismas Mass during Catholic Holy Week,” says what would you do if that happened language of the Nuremberg Laws and the judges’ rulings is Serniuk. “The ensemble is entirely made up of former refugee here? very difficult to read publicly. But we need to do this; to learn youth hailing from both camps and protracted urban settings. Highlights included Professor John so that we don’t recreate this dangerous time....” The ethnicities of the youth include Karen and Karenni from Q. Barrett from St. John’s University The Q&A was moderated by Vincent E. Doyle III, Esq, Burma and youth from Burundi, Togo, and Rwanda.” School of Law who described the Connors LLP, former President, and NYSBA. Fiddler on the Roof will be the choir’s third musical endeavor following successful productions of Once on This Island and Godspell. “Most of these students are not offered musical theater in their public schools, so this has been a fantastic opportunity for our youth to learn more about performance Singing “Tradition” art and specifically Sharon Nosenchuck, Anna Marie Richmond, John Q. Barrett about other cultures,” says Serniuk. “With the assistance of Mrs. Judith Olin we all have learned a great deal about Jewish history, culture, and most importantly about a different and strong faith community. We are excited to present this work to students at the High School for Jewish Studies and members of the community at the Jewish Community Center.” The performance of Fiddler on the Roof is a free community event and will take place in the Maxine and Robert Seller Theatre, home of the Jewish Repertory Theatre, located in the JCC at 2640 North Forest Road in Amherst, NY. For more information, contact 716-204-2255.

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A large group of Buffalo women, many of whom attended for the first time, enjoyed an inspiring morning of “Torah & Tea” in the Sukkah, hosted and led by Rivky Greenberg. They explored the value in choosing the right thing in every small battle, which is our primary purpose in life. They learned that winning the entire “war” and fully transforming is only secondary. They discussed various ways Judaism offers to help achieve true change. Women got to study, schmooze, sip tea and taste some delicious refreshments. They also had a chance to fulfill the special Mitzvah of shaking the Lulav and Etrog. “Torah & Tea” is a program of the Jewish Discovery Center. A different topic is chosen every month and women are welcome to participate in one or any number of classes. You may email Rivky at [email protected] or contact her at (716) 906- 8890 to learn more about this program.

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YOM KIPPUR REMEMBRANCE IN RHODES, GREECE By Alyssa Rabach

In planning a much anticipated trip to Santorini, Rhodes and Athens, Greece, my research included Jewish museums, landmarks and neighborhoods to visit. Knowing I would be in Rhodes over Yom Kippur, I was so excited to learn that in the Jewish Quarter (La Juderia), High Holiday services are held at Kamal Shalom. This is the only remaining Synagogue in Rhodes, built in 1577, and the oldest in all of Greece.

The Jewish community of Rhodes has stones patterns, large elegant hanging a rich and tragic historical background crystal chandeliers, heavy pillars to the dating back to ancient times. Over the ceiling that anchor the room, numerous last five hundred years, a large number elaborate wall paintings, two silk draped of Sephardic Jews, who fled Spain at arks that were on either side of the the time of the Spanish Inquisition entrance to the courtyard, and a hand traveled across the Mediterranean and carved raised bimah in the center. It took settled in Rhodes, Izmir, Salonica and my breath away. Istanbul. These Jews brought their Once I settled into my seat in the customs, traditions and their language women’s section, I felt the presence of called “Ladino” and “Judeo-Spanish”. many generations of what was once a The Jewish community of 4,000 and vibrant and beautiful community over five synagogues thrived until the hundreds of years. The balcony that 1930’s. Things gradually changed when was originally built for the women is the Italian government took over and no longer used, but adds to the richness Sam Amiel and Alyssa Rabach in Rhodes passed anti-Jewish laws. A curfew was of the architecture. There was another imposed, travel was restricted, Jewish presence I felt, which emotionally stirred There were a total of did not leave the bimah. Instead he continued to chant schools closed and the Sabbath was no within me. My daughter, Rachel, recently only thirty five people. and I realized he was reciting the Haftorah. For a minute, longer allowed to be observed. Over one married a lovely young man whose Men were called to the his voice quivered with deep emotion. He chanted hundred families were ordered to leave. grandparents came from Rhodes. I had Torah for an aliyah. Ed with kavenah. (and this was one long Haftorah!) I asked Many others fled. framed a photograph of this handsome was raised Orthodox him what went through his mind. He said, “It was an On July 23, 1944, the Germans invaded couple for the wedding and I could see and is well-versed in emotional remembrance of his family Jewish roots that and arrested 1673 Jews (except for 42 their faces and felt my extended family reading and chanting trace back from Ames, Iowa, as the son of immigrant Turkish Jews). They were treated brutally with me. Now I am both smiling and in Hebrew. When he parents from Czarist Russia (now the Ukraine) and Poland. and then sent to Auschwitz. Only 151 teary. finished his Aliyah, he He added that he reflected on his Bar Mitzvah and felt survived. Another flourishing Sephardic deeply honored and humbled by the experience. community of the Mediterranean ceased For the last nine years, Sam Amiel travels from Israel to exist. In 1946, the first Mayor of a to lead the services with his two sons. He has family roots free Rhodes named the central square, in Rhodes and made aliyah from Seattle. He works for The the Square of the Jewish Martyrs. It Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Israel, and he says was a unanimous resolution of the he does his work in Rhodes “from his soul.” City Council, being the first official We broke the Yom Kippur fast with our new friends, recognition of the Holocaust on behalf eating delicious traditional Greek food. No bagel and lox of a Greek authority. here! Sitting together on the rooftop after the services Along with my travel companion Ed looking over the Jewish Quarter under the moon was Mezvinsky*, we were welcomed to join beyond magical. It was a memorable experience and the both the service and break- fast. We highlight of the trip. It brought in a New Year experience would be joining the few remaining that I will never forget. Jewish residents along with expats who traveled from Israel, England and as *Mezvinsky is Advisor of Patient and Global Health far away as the Congo. Located in Old for Jericho Road Health Center in Buffalo, NY. Former Town where there are no cars allowed, Member of Congress from Iowa, he also served as the US we found the synagogue nestled in a Representative to the UN Human Rights Commission. hidden alleyway. The weathered doors with the original stone mezuzah did not Alyssa Rabach is a former Public Relations Director for prepare us for the magnificent restored the Buffalo Jewish Federation. An interior designer, she interior. One immediately sees and is currently on the Advisory Board of The Jewish Journal feels the Turkish influence. The floor is and most recently participated in the Federation’s new decorated with black and white mosaic Inside the Rhodes Synagogue Branding Task Force.

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