Tampa Jewish Federation, the PRESIDENT JCC on the Cohn Campus, the Bryan Glazer Family JCC and Several Joseph Probasco Strategic, Community-Based Committees
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St. Petersburg, FL 33707 St. Petersburg, FL Avenue 6416 Central Tampa Jewish Press of Inc. Bay, Tampa The Jewish Press Group of www.jewishpresstampa.com VOL. 31, NO. 4 TAMPA, FLORIDA A SEPTEMBER 7 - 20, 2018 TWO SECTIONS, 28 PAGES May You Be Inscribed In The Book Of Life For Good The Jewish Press Group U.S. POSTAGE PAID U.S. POSTAGE of Tampa Bay, Inc. Bay, Tampa of PRESORTED STANDARD JCCs and Federation INSIDE announces Leadership Award recipients JustJust Compliedaa fromnosh..nosh.. news wires The Tampa Jewish Community Centers and Federation In flip-flop, Paraguay’s embassy will honor 19 people and one organization next month when is leaving Jerusalem for Tel Aviv it presents its annual Community Leadership Awards. An additional five people will receive awards from various Jewish JERUSALEM — Israel closed its embassy in Para- guay following an announcement by the South Ameri- organizations. can country that it was relocating its embassy back to Award recipients are chosen based on their commitment Tel Aviv four months after moving to Jerusalem. and dedication to the Tampa JCCs and Federation and their The move comes as Paraguay joins the effort to beneficiary agencies. All honorees – seasoned and emerging bring peace to the Middle East. “Paraguay wants to lay leaders alike – are making a difference in advancing the contribute to an intensification of regional diplomatic values of an authentic and dynamic Judaism through their vol- efforts to achieve a broad, fair and lasting peace in the From the Virtual Reality film, “The Last Good Bye,” Holocaust survivor Pinchas unteer efforts, support services, resources and genius. Middle East,” Foreign Minister Luis Alberto Castiglioni Gutter takes viewers inside a barracks at the Majdanek death camp in Poland. The awards ceremony will be held Thursday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 told reporters. p.m. at the Maureen and Douglas Cohn Jewish Community Shortly after the announcement of the return to Tel Campus, 13009 Community Campus Drive, Tampa. Aviv, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu re- Film reveals a new reality called his country’s ambassador to Paraguay and then Each award is named after a beloved community member ordered the Israeli embassy closed. Netanyahu also that embodies the principles of leadership, tikkun olam and holds the foreign minister’s portfolio. for Holocaust remembrance commitment to enriching the continuity of Jewish life. Paraguay opened its new embassy in Jerusalem in The Florida Holocaust Mu- setting film on Sunday, Sept. 16. AWARDS continued on PAGE 2 May, a week after the United States moved its embassy seum in St. Petersburg has been The limited engagement exhibit is to the capital from Tel Aviv and days after Guatemala moved its embassy. selected as one of only four in the expected to remain at the Florida nation to premiere a a virtual real- Holocaust Museum through mid- Israeli on way to explosives detection ity film,The Last Goodbye, which January. Theater in the Rye offers enables viewers to virtually walk The Last Goodbye features sur- seminar arrested for fake bomb at airport An Israeli man heading to Florida for a police training in the shoes of a Holocaust survi- vivor Pinchas Gutter’s visit to the kosher slice of Broadway seminar on X-ray detection of explosives was arrested vor as he retraces his steps from a site of the Nazi death camp Maj- J.D. Salinger gave us Catcher in the Rye and some at Newark Liberty Airport for carrying a realistic-looking railroad boxcar into a Nazi death danek in Poland. Gutter, 86, is the unknown culinary genius came up with pastrami on rye, fake homemade bomb. camp. only member of his family of four but it takes a rye sense of humor to come up with this Alon Felman, 50, was charged Sept. 4 with creating The USC Shoah Foundation to have survived the Holocaust. a false public alarm and interfering with transportation one: Jo-El’s Theater in the Rye. -The Institute for Visual History Viewers, wearing VR headsets, after a Transportation Security Administration officer at and Education, one of the co-pro- will get a fully immersive experi- Step right up and order your tickets quickly because the airport saw the item in his carry-on and alerted a ducers of the film, selected Jewish ence, visiting the site with Gutter there is seating for only 100 at St. Petersburg’s latest supervisor, according to local media reports. museums in Chicago, Los Ange- as he travels in life-sized projec- entertainment venue on Sunday, Oct. 14 at 4:30 p.m. TSA temporarily closed the third level of Terminal C at les and New York, as well at here tions through the railway car, gas when Jo-El’s Kosher Deli & Marketplace is transformed the busy international airport while it confirmed that the device was not a working bomb. A local bomb squad to show the 17-minute film in its chamber, shower room and bar- into the Theater in the Rye for a production of Tops from Flops: An Exuberant Tour of Musical Theater. was called to the scene. first museum exhibitions. racks of Majdanek seven decades Feldman was headed to Panama City, for the training All four museums will simulta- later. THEATER continued on PAGE 2 conference. He could face a civil fine of up to $13,000 neously premiere the precedent- FILM continued on PAGE 7 for the incident. Female Hasidic EMT corps gets movie treatment By CURT SCHLEIER for patients in already stressful emer- a woman needs to be moved to a JTA news service gency situations. The strict boundar- stretcher or requires assistance while Like many heavily Orthodox sec- ies between men and women are fa- giving birth. But while Jewish law tions of Brooklyn, Borough Park miliar to anyone who has attended an has its exemptions, women con- has been served for decades by an Orthodox synagogue or has read the cerned about the rules of modesty all-male volunteer ambulance corps stories of airplane flights being de- have plenty of reasons to prefer treat- called Hatzalah. layed because haredi Orthodox men ment by a female EMT. The corps caters to a religious refuse to sit next to women. 93Queen, Orthodox filmmaker Photo by Julieta Cervantes Jewish community with particular In the event of a medical emer- Paula Eiselt’s big-screen debut, docu- Rachel Freier, center, had the idea for the all-female Orthodox needs and customs – including one gency, the male Hatzalah volunteers ments one woman’s attempt to create ambulance corps in Brooklyn. custom that can increase the tension may touch women – if, for example, EMT CORPS continued on PAGE 10 PAGE 2 A JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA SEPTEMBER 7 - 20, 2018 ing with marketing for the event. AWARDS sion Leadership Excellence Award: In addition, the following in- THEATER “We like the idea of Jewish arts • CONTINUED from FRONT PAGE Deborah Rosenthal dividuals will be recognized by • CONTINUED from FRONT PAGE and entertainment and are happy The following awards will be Steve Marx Innovation Award: various Jewish community orga- “We will have theater-style seat- to see things like this going on,” said Maxine Kaufman, the Federa- presented by the Tampa JCCs and Hillels of the Florida Suncoast’s nizations: ing and a backdrop on a wall for the tion’s director of arts, culture, and Federation: Reverse Tashlich Program Hillel Academy Outstanding performance,” explained Sharon education. Leo Levinson Award for Leader- Service Award: Carolyn Fink Goetz, daughter of Joel and Ellen Alice Rosenthal “It’s More Than It will be no mean feat to turn ship Excellence: Rabbi Richard Goetz, owners of Jo-El’s. There Just a Job” Award: Loni Lindsay Hillels of the Florida Suncoast Jo-El’s into a theater, navigating Birnholz will also be a raised platform, Maril Jacobs Todah Rabah Appreciation Award: Arnie Ross around shelves chock full of kosher Bob Jacobson Memorial Award sound system, special lighting and Awards: Morris Behar, Michael TJFS Sofia Maisler Leadership food items and wine, a butcher for Excellence: Liam Brien a piano to accommodate a trio of Bloom, Vanessa Cohn, David Award: Seth Dugan cantors who will perform famous shop and deli counter. Some tables, Hope Cohen Barnett Young Goodman, Ellis Norsoph, Lauren Tampa Orlando Pinellas Jewish Broadway songs. chairs and hot dog carts will defi- Leadership Award: Luy Teitelroit Prager, Susie Rice, Jack Ross, Foundation Distinguished Trustee The event will include a wine nitely have to be moved, Sharon Charles Adler Young Leadership David Scher, Ella Shenhav, Kim Award: Les Barnett tasting and hors d’oeuvres. said. The store, at 2619 23rd Ave. Award: Jason Kislak Stebbings, Allison Stinson and Weinberg Village Volunteer Ser- The Jewish Federation of Pinel- N. in St. Petersburg, is tucked away Leonore Kessler Women’s Divi- Vicky Tullman vice Award: Samantha Cully las and Pasco Counties is assist- in a district where warehouses are common, but the local Jewish com- munity, as well as non-Jews, have been coming to the place for years to get their kosher fix, and yes, even a pastrami on rye. The idea for the Theater in the Rye was conceived one day when Cantor Riselle Bain, formerly of TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE Congregation Schaarai Zedek in Tampa and now spiritual leader at FOR PURCHASE AT WWW.BRYANGLAZERFAMILYJCC.COM/SENIORMOMENTS Temple Israel of Highlands County, stopped by Jo-Els, as she often does, for chopped liver. Bain chatted about her Tops from Flops original production that she put on earlier in the summer in Sarasota. TICKETS “Sharon said, ‘Can we do that here?’” Bain recalled. “They de- AS LOW cided to make it the first Theater in the Rye production and I am very AS $18! excited about it.” While Sharon says her dad, Joel, came up with the name Theater in the Rye, she takes credit for the concept of “doing fun things” at Jo-Els “as a way of giving back to the community.” She hopes this is just the begin- ning of events Jo-El’s will host.