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JewishA publication of the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires, serving V the Berkshires and surrounding ice NY, CT and VT Vol. 28, No. 1 Tevet/Shevat 5780 January 1 to February 16, 2020 jewishberkshires.org Come Together for a Community Going Once… Going Twice… Havdalah and Concert Paintings by Israel’s modern masters to be Jacob Spike Kraus headlines family-friendly auctioned this January by Tiroche Auction House mid-winter celebration

Jacob Spike Kraus PITTSFIELD – On Saturday, Co-sponsors are the Jewish On January 25, Tiroche Auction House, Israel's largest auction house, will hold January 25 at 7 p.m., all are invited Federation of the Berkshires, Berkshire its annual Israeli and International Art Auction. On the block will be this canvas, to a special community-wide Havdalah Hills Hadassah, the Berkshire Minyan, “Synagogue,” by Nahum Gutman, one of Israel’s foremost (and best-loved) painters and concert featuring singer/song- Congregation Ahavath Sholom, of the 20th century. From the auction catalogue: “Gutman's distinct identification writer Jacob Spike Kraus, who will be Congregation Beth Israel, Temple with the city of Tel Aviv is closely linked to the way he followed and documented accompanied by musicians from the Anshe Amunim, Knesset Israel, and it in drawing and writing, step by step, from the yellow sand dunes until it Berkshire Jewish community. This free Hevreh of Southern Berkshire. Partial crystallized into an actual and vibrant city. In his paintings, Gutman attempted event is being hosted by Knesset Israel, funding is also provided by the Harold to perpetuate the Mediterranean atmosphere and grasp the concept of light. The 16 Colt Road in Pittsfield. Grinspoon Foundation. relatively simple compositions are saturated with sharp yet harmonious color Join us for a rocking good time as contrasts.” For more on the paintings to be auctioned by Tiroche this January, we bid farewell to Shabbat with good please see page 12. Inside company, good music, warm hot choc- In Coldest Winter, Warm Thoughts olate, and other treats. of Israel...... 2 About the Performer Beyond the Snow on Tu B'Shevat...... 3 Jacob Spike Kraus is a 28-year-old Your Federation Presents...... 4-5, 10-11 singer/songwriter, educator, and inno- Local News...... 6-9 vator based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, who serves as the artist-in-residence News...... 12-14 Berkshire Jewish Voices...... 18-20 COMMUNITY HAVDALAH, OUR CUP RUNNETH OVER! continued on page 4 Thanks to YOUR generosity and caring A Shtetl in the Sun we have exceeded our campaign goal of Exhibit at The Yiddish Book Center captures the lost Jewish world of South Beach $855,000! By Albert Stern / BJV Editor It wasn’t until the early aughts, around Thank you to all who participated! the time I turned Jewish Federation of the Berkshires’ thirty, before the most Check out the2019 next editionAnnual of the Campaign Berkshire Jewish Voice common response to for a full reporting and Honor Roll of donors. my telling someone GOAL $855,000 that I was born and raised in Miami Beach was likely to be some- 400 480 thing other than: “Oh, 320 560 my grandmother lived 240 640 there. I didn’t realize anyone actually grew 160 up there.” 720 By then, the city was well on the way of reinventing itself 80 855 as the glitzy party town and mega-mil- lionaires’ enclave that DOING YOUR ANNUAL constitutes its current CREDIT: ANDY SWEET PHOTO LEGACY CREDIT: EXTRAORDINARY incarnation. But the Poolside in Miami Beach, circa 1979, by Andy Sweet IMPACT CAMPAIGN Miami Beach of my heart will always be the Miami Beach THINGS IS REAL 2019 inhabited by elderly Jewish retirees, ANDY SWEET, continued on page 19 Page 2 Berkshire Jewish Voice • jewishberkshires.org January 1 to February 16, 2020 In My View In Coldest Winter, Warm Thoughts of a Summer Visit to Israel Seeing up close how our Partnership2Gether participation helps the Afula-Gilboa region By Dara Kaufman The snow may be piled up against the window It is always inspiring to me to see our community’s in my office, but today my mind is filled with memories of the hot sun, green fields, and crispy work in Israel in action, but the main message I want falafel with creamy hummus. to share with you is this – VISIT! During a family vacation to Israel this past August, I took some time out to meet with Jewish Agency For Israel representa- After our tour we went to visit the zoo to see the new space they are creating tives and lay leaders from the Afula-Gilboa for work with individual therapy animals who are “adopted” by the students. region to see firsthand some of the projects our One look at the cute hamsters, rabbits, and ferrets and you can understand Federation is funding through our support of the how important it is for a child, who has lost (or maybe never even had) the love Southern New England Consortium (SNEC) of of a family, to experience the unconditional love that can come from caring for a Partnership2Gether (P2G). vulnerable, furry, cuddly animal. Last year, on another visit to Israel for the Needless to say, it was a loud and slightly “odorful” tour for a hot morning General Assembly of Jewish Federations of North in Israel, but it was so meaningful to witness how our funds help create life- America, I had the privilege of visiting two of our changing experiences for the more than 100 children who currently reside at Beit Israeli beneficiaries – the Valley Rape Crisis Center in Afula and the Sandwich Singer. Club of the Afula Community Center – which I wrote about on these pages. This On our way out, we met a group of young adult counselors and mentors who year, I planned a visit to two more beneficiaries. were taking a break from their training workshop to get lunch. I was thrilled to see Yochai Booganim in the group, and I stopped to have a quick chat. He shared Beit Singer Children's Home how he had come back to Beit Singer as a mentor in order to give back to the Accompanied by my daughter Maya, I started my day with a visit to Beit Singer place that had helped him so much during his life. Children’s Home together with Adi Dado, from the P2G team in Israel. We received a warm welcome from their associate director, Ariel Rakovsky, who had visited the Home in the Valley Berkshires in 2017 with Yochai Booganim, a graduate of Beit Singer. Yochai had After our visit at Beit Singer, we caught up with Naveh, the P2G director shared his life-changing experiences growing up in the Children’s Home (and the for our region, and Dalit Lanir, the chair of the partnership’s Israeli steering successes he had had in his life as a result) with Berkshire community members committee, for lunch at bustling Falafel Golani, the GO TO place for falafel in at our Connecting With Community program and kosher lunch. Afula. If you find yourself in Afula some day, go there!!! As with any meeting between two Jews, we started with Jewish geography. Turns out Dalit is a very good friend of my husband’s cousin, who lives next door to her. And you thought the Berkshires was a small community! We were joined by Shani Bar, the director of Home in the Valley, another beneficiary of our partnership funding. Shani has been at the forefront of engaging an LGBTQ leadership group to design and implement new initiatives to support the LGBTQ community in the Afula-Gilboa region. Prior to Home in the Valley’s formation, there was a significant lack of services and support for this demographic. Home in the Valley works to raise social awareness, develop services, and create a safe place where LGBTQ individuals can meet and take part in joint thinking and action. Shani shared the success of some of their recent events including the region’s first Pride Festival! Hundreds of people participated in the event, which included cultural performances, children’s activities, and various information stands. Shani spoke with great animation about how it felt to see so many people expressing their support for the LGBTQ community and the values of tolerance and equality. She emphasized how tremendously impactful this event was for the local LGBTQ community, especially for the teens and young adults in their community and the children of LGBTQ parents. She also expressed how grateful they are for our support. Concert presented by Home in the Valley, Afula's LGBTQ leadership group Our P2G Partnership – Inspirational, Impactful, and Personal Beit Singer, located in K’far Yehezkel just outside of the city of Afula in the I ended my afternoon back at the Jewish Agency’s office, where I got to say Gilboa region, provides a home for at-risk youth who have suffered abandonment, hello to Achiya Ben Ari Buganim and Karen Brustein. Achiya is the partnership’s neglect, and abuse from an early age. The children are organized into small, inti- living bridge coordinator and has organized so many of the exciting programs mate groups where they receive intensive attention from a range we have hosted the past of professionals including educational staff, social workers, and few years, including our psychologists, along with movement, art, and animal therapists. Israel@70 Hafla Dinner. Due to the large intake of young students over the years, the Karen organized the Project SNEC partnership support has helped Beit Singer add extra hours Zug artists’ learning of psychotherapy and additional social workers in order to better exchange, in which many address the emotional and educational needs of those traumatized Berkshire community by being removed from home. More recently, partnership funding members participated was used to develop an animal therapy program where therapists last year. The highlight of pair the children with an animal that can be a source of comfort, our meeting was meeting and can help them learn to love and trust again. Achiya’s new baby, Yael! It was the end of August and extremely hot, and the residents As always, I returned of Beit Singer were off on an end-of-summer adventure at a time from my site visits when ongoing renovations were being wrapped up at the home. enriched, energized, and Ariel took me on a tour of the campus, pointing out recent reno- filled with a renewed love vations that included the creation of a new computer lab and for this beautiful region an updating of bathrooms and living quarters to better meet the in Israel and the inspira- needs of the children. Many of the children have suffered some The fare at Falafal Golani tional people I met who are form of sexual abuse and the change over to private bathrooms making an impact on the and smaller rooms, for just two children, helps them feel safer and lives of so many. more comfortable in their environment. It is always inspiring to me to see our community’s work in Israel in action, but the main message I want to share with you is this – VISIT! Support Israel with your feet! Tour our partnership area. Stay for a few days in the guest house on Kibbutz Yizre’el, which is available to our community free of charge. Experience the extraordi- nary impact of our work there. Let Naveh, Adi, Achiya, and Karen welcome

IN MY VIEW, continued on next page Adi Dado, Achiya Ben Ari Buganim and baby Yael, Dara Kaufman, Karen Brustein, and Naveh Yogev Animal therapy at Beit Singer Children’s Home Tevet/Shevat 5780 Berkshire Jewish Voice • jewishberkshires.org Page 3 Rabbi Reflection Tu BiShvat in the Berkshires – Looking Beyond the Snow By Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch In my junior year of college, I studied abroad How can we connect to this holiday, if it seemingly in Israel at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, and lived on Kibbutz Keturah. The falls at the wrong time and place for us here? Arava Desert is one of the furthest south and most sparsely populated regions of Israel. For particularly in parts of the world where spring is nowhere nearby. However, the most of my time there, the weather was hot and connection to the environment, nature, and to caring for our earth is one that dry, and the vegetation was bare and empty. We we can explore on this holiday. We can bring a modern urgency to the ritual planned our free time around trips to the pool and spiritual underpinnings of this day. Even if you can’t enjoy the shade of the and midday naps for a respite from the heat. Tanglewood trees or pick fresh produce from your garden on Tu BiShvat in the As a native New Englander, seeing tempera- Berkshires, I encourage you to connect with our environment through advocacy tures in the 80s during the winter months was on awareness at this season. mind-boggling. What’s more, the Arava received One way that I express the values of Tu BiShvat is by serving as a volun- almost no rain during my time there – except for teer for Berkshire Bounty. One out of ten people in Berkshire County and all of one memorable day, when storm clouds rolled in, the air grew dark, and the ever- Western Massachusetts suffer food insecurity, which means they are hungry or present mountains on either side of the valley faded from view. The sky opened at risk of being hungry. Berkshire Bounty collects excess fresh produce, baked up, and we found ourselves dancing in the rare, magnificent rain. goods, and meats from supermarkets, farms, and owners of fruit-bearing trees. Unlike the Arava, central Israel has two seasons: rainy in the winter, hot and Each week, I and many other volunteers throughout the county deliver that food dry in the summer. It never fails that right around Tu BiShvat, our holiday of the to pantries and other distribution organizations in South County and Pittsfield. New Year of the Trees, that the almond trees begin to bloom. There are pink and By collecting food that is beyond the sell-by date at our local grocery stores, we white flowers as far as the eye can see, eventually blanketing the ground so fully, are also practicing the value of Bal Taschit – do not waste. The environmental one almost mistakes it for snow. impact of Berkshire Bounty is another way that this incredible organization is Snow is a little more common than almond blossoms in the Berkshires at this having an effect on our local community and on our world. time of year. Every year, we enjoy a little irony as we celebrate a new year for vege- I wish you a joyful, meaningful, and inspiring Tu BiShvat – whatever the tation and growth when our trees are at their most bare. So how can we connect weather, wherever you celebrate it! to this holiday, if it seemingly falls at the wrong time and place for us here? First, we can highlight the connections to the Land of Israel that are inherent Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch is the spiritual leader of Temple Anshe Amunim in Pittsfield. in this holiday. By sharing stories, photos, and traveling to Israel during this season, we gain firsthand knowledge of why this holiday happens when it does. While there are benefits of our winters, particularly on our pristine ski slopes and backroads, this is always a lovely time of year to trade the snow for blooming branches. Thank you volunteers Ellen Rosenblatt and the BJV delivery team, Beyond connecting us to the Land of Israel, paying attention to Tu BiShvat Mitch Greenwald, Roman Rozenblyum, and Colin Ovitsky deepens our understanding of our sacred texts. While not mentioned in the Torah, Tu BiShvat is akin to Sukkot, Passover, and Shavuot, the three pilgrimage festivals that originated as agricultural celebrations in ancient days. Further, we call our Torah Eitz chayim hi – a tree of life – so the connection among trees, Tu LETTERS TO THE EDITOR BiShvat, and Torah is strong on many levels. The Berkshire Jewish Voice welcomes signed letters on subjects of interest to the Like its fellow minor holiday, Chanukah, Tu BiShvat falls at one of the darkest Jewish community. Letters are printed upon space availability. The BJV reserves times of the year. For Jews throughout the world, Tu BiShvat has taken on signif- the right to edit all letters for content, length, and style. The BJV does not print icance as a harbinger of spring, even if that season is still quite far off. It is a anonymous letters, insults, libelous or defamatory statements. Published letters do holiday that provides a reason to come out of the protective cocoon of our homes not represent the views of the Federation, its board of directors, or the newspaper, and join together in celebration and community. It is a holiday of hope, apprecia- but rather express the views of their authors. For verification purposes, please in- tion, and looking toward a brighter future. clude full name, home address, and a day and evening telephone number. Send Many communities move beyond Tu BiShvat’s agricultural association, letters to: Berkshire Jewish Voice, 196 South Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201, or email: [email protected].

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IN MY VIEW, continued from page 2 JA ewishpublicationA publication ofof the the Jewish Jewish Federation Federation of the Berkshires, of the serving Berkshires,V the Berkshires serving and surrounding the ice Berkshires NY, CT and VT and surrounding NY, CT and VT you as family and show you the beauty of the Afula-Gilboa region through their eyes. The color photography in this issue of the Berkshire Jewish As this edition of the paper goes to production I have just learned that our 2019 Voice is made possible through the generosity of Michael P. campaign has reached its goal! Thank you to all who participated! Your values inspire us. Your strength empowers us. Your commitment is at the very heart of and Susan Albert, honorary publishers. The staff of the Federation: giving to others, taking responsibility, acting with lovingkindness. Thank you! Federation and the BJV are deeply grateful.

Dara Kaufman is the executive director of the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires

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Editorial opinions expressed in the Berkshire Jewish Voice are those of the newspaper and not those of any individual. Signed editorials do not represent the view of the newspaper, but rather express the writer’s view. The Berkshire Jewish Voice is under no obligation to accept any advertisement. It does not guarantee the kashrut of any merchandise or service advertised. To have the BJV mailed to your home, please send a minimum donation of $18 Next issue publication date: February 17 – March 22, 2020 Press deadline: January 14, 2020 • Advertising deadline: January 29, 2020 Berkshire Jewish Voice e-mail: [email protected] Phone: (413) 442-4360, ext. 11 Fax (413) 443-6070 Page 4 Berkshire Jewish Voice • jewishberkshires.org January 1 to February 16, 2020 Your Federation Presents

“Moments to Remember,” Stories About Community Havdalah, continued from page 1 Living and Loving with Dick Macht On three consecutive the game, ‘Dick, what did you Thursdays – January 23, do with your life?’ I will answer January 30, and February 6 Him, ‘I lived it! I lived it and – at 10:45 a.m., the Jewish I loved it – every moment of Federation of the Berkshires it. The stories are about that invites you to join educator, living and that loving. I hope writer, and raconteur Dick you will all feel renewed and Macht for “Moments to blessed – just for being alive Remember,” a series based – after you have heard the on his book of autobiograph- stories. Life is a gift and we ical short stories. This free must not take it for granted. program at Knesset Israel, 16 It is precious and it is fleeting Colt Road in Pittsfield is part and it is our most important of the Federation’s Connecting possession – together with With Community series. good health! May we all appre- Dick Macht says that the ciate it and live it fully!” stories he’ll be sharing “are Join us for this three-part Jacob Spike Kraus filled with love, laughter, series, or come by for one or elder hostels, adult summer kindness, compassion, under- more sessions. camps, and continuing educa- at Temple Israel of West blues genres. Not one to be standing, joy, sorrow, and With a B.A. from tion programs. Bloomfield. His music has “put in a box” stylistically, happiness. They represent Dartmouth College, an M.A. been included in the cantorial Jacob hates the question what it means to be fully alive. from Duke University, and a IF YOU GO curriculum of Hebrew Union “What kind of music do you ‘Moments To Remember’ is Ph.D. from Indiana University, College – Jewish Institute of play?” His go to answer: “the about living and loving fully.” Dick Macht has taught Israeli, Sponsor: Jewish Federation Religion, and is featured by feel-it-in-your-bones, can’t- of the Berkshires / Connecting Macht adds: “Moments To Yiddish, and German liter- Jewish Rock Radio and PJ stop-humming-it-later” kind. With Community Remember is a book of short ature, as well as Jewish Library. His latest release is the stories I wrote which are all mysticism at the college level. Venue: Knesset Israel Originally from Boston, Chanukah-themed album, ‘gems’ from my life. They are Himself a director, Macht has Date & Time: January 23, Jacob has been a song- “Light Up the Night.” my heart and my soul, and also been an instructor of January 30, and February 6, all leader for over a decade at The son of a rabbi as well Thursdays, followed by lunch I hope they will warm your drama and acting at a number synagogues, day schools, as the product of Jewish day (see page 16) heart and your soul. When of academic venues. Presently, and summer camps. Now he school and Jewish summer God says to me at the end of Macht lectures at synagogues, spends his summers touring camp, Jacob brings more Jewish summer camps across than musicality to his work. North America – performing, His intimate knowledge of the teaching, and just being gener- Hebrew language, Jewish texts The Process of Aging, with Maggie Bittman ally “camp-ful.” and culture add depth to his Jacob released his first songs and authenticity to his On Monday, January 13 experiencing aloneness; and album, “Shake Off the Dust” role as a musical educator. and Monday, February 3 engaging free will. in 2014, featuring the smash Throughout the year Jacob at 10:45 a.m., the Jewish Bittman will highlight how hit “What Makes You Glow,” tours the country singing with Federation of the Berkshires this is a lifelong process, and known endearingly in most multi-generational communi- presents “Intergenerational: the ways people return to circles as “Fish Swim.” ties and using Jewish music The Process of Aging” with these existential truths at each His sophomore release, as a tool to educate and therapist Maggie Bittman. This stage of life with the added “Cornerstones,” (2017) intro- engage the next generation of free program at Knesset Israel, wisdom that comes with aging. duced a contemporary style Jews. 16 Colt Road, in Pittsfield, Within this context, partici- to Jacob’s sound, catapulting You can hear Jacob’s music is part of the Federation’s pants will discuss, share and his music into the 21st anywhere music is streamed Connecting With Community offer support, as they explore century. His music is eclectic, or sold. Find out more about series. these existential truths. drawing on themes from pop, Jacob and his music at www. This program will provide rock, folk, and rhythm & jacobspikekraus.com. an opportunity to be part of a IF YOU GO group dialogue, created and facilitated by Bittman, who Sponsor: Jewish Federation of will explain her outlook and the Berkshires / Connecting With approach, emphasizing that Community The Sunday Strummers aging begins at birth. She Venue: Knesset Israel will discuss how all of us are Date & Time: Monday, January confronted with four existen- 13 and Monday, February 3 at Ukulele Ensemble! tial truths as we age – the 10:45 a.m., followed by lunch search to find meaning and (see page 16). purpose; facing mortality;

Volunteers Are Vital! Another Pajama Drive Success!

In time for the holidays, our PJ Library and the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires collected over 100 new pairs of pajama sets and bottoms to help Berkshire kids keep warm this winter! On Monday, January 6 at 10:45 a.m., the Jewish Federation We thank everyone for of the Berkshires welcomes The Sunday Strummers Ukulele their generous donations to Ensemble, a group of avid ukulele players who have been have this important community been strumming, singing, and performing together for several program for the Berkshire years. They will come together to fill the air with tunes from the Office of the Massachusetts 1930s to present day. Join strummers Andrew Krouss, Peggy Department of Children & Richard, Jackie Shepardson and Sherry Steiner. Families. A special shout out This free program at Knesset Israel, 16 Colt Road in Pittsfield to Annie Selke and Pine Cone is part of the Federation’s Connecting With Community series. Hill for donating blankets and tote bags. IF YOU GO Todah Rabah! Sponsor: Jewish Federation of the Berkshires / Connecting With Community B’shalom, Venue: Knesset Israel Susan Frisch Lehrer, Coordinator of Volunteers and the PJ Library Date & Time: Monday, January 6 at 10:45 a.m., followed by lunch (see page 16). Tevet/Shevat 5780 Berkshire Jewish Voice • jewishberkshires.org Page 5 Your Federation Presents “Let’s Keep it Moving” “Shape Your Future: United States Census 2020” On Monday, January 27 at 10:45 a.m., the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires welcomes Mark Maloy, the GIS, Data & IT Manager at the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission and the head of the Berkshire County Complete Count Committee for the 2020 Census. His topic will be “Shape Your Future: United States Census 2020,” an Attention all you movers and shakers! On Thursday, overview of why the census is important January 9 at 10:45 a.m., the Jewish Federation of the and what you can do to make it successful! Berkshires hosts “Let’s Keep It Moving” with Laura Knoepler. The 2020 Census will begin in March Whether you want to shake a leg, or just your little pinky, in 2020 and its success is critical to the this hour of moving to the rhythm and melodies of music from Berkshires. Come learn how the Census Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley to Bach, it will be winter fun as impacts you, how to complete the census, we together celebrate the joy of movement. You can either sit or and what you can do to ensure that the Berkshires will have a complete count. stand during this workshop. This free program at Knesset Israel, 16 Colt Road in Pittsfield is part of the Federation’s This free program at Knesset Israel, 16 Colt Road, Connecting With Community series. in Pittsfield, is part of the Federation’s Connecting With Community series. IF YOU GO Sponsor: Jewish Federation of the Berkshires / Connecting With Community IF YOU GO Venue: Knesset Israel Sponsor: Jewish Federation of the Berkshires / Connecting With Date & Time: Monday, January 27 at 10:45 a.m., followed by lunch (see page 16). Community Venue: Knesset Israel Date & Time: Thursday, January 9 at 10:45 a.m., followed by lunch (see page 16). Freedom on My Mind – A Documentary Elder Services of Berkshire About Mississippi Voter Registration in the County: An Update 1960s were virtually no black On Monday, On Thursday, January 16 voters even though African- February 10 at at 10:45 a.m., the Jewish Americans composed a large 10:45 a.m., the Federation of the Berkshires percentage of the population, Jewish Federation will screen Freedom on My the majority in some locali- of the Berkshires Mind, a 1994 feature docu- ties. Bob Moses entered the welcomes mentary film that tells the state and the Mississippi Voter Christopher J. story of the Mississippi voter Registration Project began. McLaughlin, exec- registration struggle of 1961 to The first black farmer who utive director of 1964, which was characterized attempted to register was Elder Services of Berkshire of New England. There he by violence against the people fatally shot by a Mississippi County, Inc. oversaw the operations of involved, including multiple State Representative, E.H. He will discuss the three skilled nursing facilities, instances of murder. This free Hurst. Due to intimidation of numerous programs and two residential care facili- program at Knesset Israel, 16 witnesses, one of whom, Louis services that Elder Services ties, Western Massachusetts’ Colt Road in Pittsfield is part Allen, was slain, Hurst was provides. The audience second-largest home health of the Federation’s Connecting never prosecuted. will have opportunities for agency, an adult day health With Community series. Among the events depicted Q&A and come away with a program, a 119-unit inde- Freedom on My Mind was in the film is the Freedom gained understanding and pendent living facility, a produced and directed by Summer of 1964, in which perspectives of this important PACE Program, a private Connie Field and Marilyn three civil rights workers were Berkshire County resource. duty provider, and a hospice Mulford, and features inter- slain. This free program at program. Mr. McLaughlin views with Bob Moses, Victoria put together a delegation of Freedom on My Mind Knesset Israel, 16 Colt Road has more than 30 years of Gray Adams, Endesha Ida sharecroppers, maids, and combines personal inter- in Pittsfield is part of the experience in health care Mae Holland, and Freedom day-laborers that challenged views, rare archival film and Federation’s Connecting With management. Summer volunteers Marshall the all-white delegates in the television footage, authentic Community series. Ganz, Heather Booth, and 1964 Democratic National Mississippi Delta blues, and Christopher McLaughlin, Pam Allen. It premiered at Convention. The film describes IF YOU GO Movement gospel songs. It a native of Berkshire County, the Sundance Film Festival, how their effort to replace emphasizes the strategic has led Elder Services since Sponsor: Jewish Federation won that year’s Grand Jury the state’s delegation was not brilliance of Mississippi’s September 2018. From 2004 of the Berkshires / Connecting Prize for Best Documentary, accepted by the Democratic young African American through 2018, Mr. McLaughlin With Community and was nominated for an Party leadership, embittering organizers. Barred from served as the chief operating Venue: Knesset Israel Academy Award for Best the activists. political participation, they officer of the Mercy Continuing Date & Time: Monday, February Documentary Feature. Ultimately their efforts created their own inte- Care Network of the Sisters 10 at 10:45 a.m., followed by In 1961, Mississippi was succeeded. In 1965, Congress grated party the Mississippi of Providence Health System lunch (see page 16). rigidly segregated. There passed the Voting Rights Act, Freedom Democratic Party. (SPHS), part of Trinity Health and by 1990, Mississippi had They recruited a thousand more elected black officials mostly white students from than any other state in the around the country to come to country. Film: Denial – Based on Deborah Mississippi, bringing the eyes We will begin the film at and conscience of the nation 10:45 a.m., break at 11:45 for Lipstadt’s Day in Court with a Holocaust with them. The students lunch, and view the end of the and the Mississippi Freedom film at 12:30 p.m. after lunch. Denier Democratic Party organizers On Thursday, February 13 at 10:45 a.m., the Jewish IF YOU GO Federation of the Berkshires screens the film Denial, which Sponsor: Jewish Federation of the Berkshires / Connecting With is based on Deborah Lipstadt’s History on Trial: My Day Community in Court with a Holocaust Denier. It dramatizes the Irving vs. Penguin Books Ltd. Court case in which Lipstadt, a Venue: Knesset Israel Holocaust scholar, was sued by denier David Irving for libel. Date & Time: Thursday, January 16 at 10:45 a.m., followed by lunch Directed by Mick Jackson and scripted by famed play- (see page 16). wright David Hare, the film stars Rachel Weisz and Tom Wilkinson. We will begin the film at 10:45 a.m., break at 11:45 for lunch, and view the end of the film at 12:30 p.m. after lunch.

For further information on all Jewish Federation of the Berkshires programs, please call Nancy Maurice Rogers, Program Director, at (413) 442-4360, ext.15. Page 6 Berkshire Jewish Voice • jewishberkshires.org January 1 to February 16, 2020 LOCAL NEWS

Mussar and Shabbat Lab Yachad Interfaith Intergenerational Day of Two new ways of forging Jewish Service to Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. connection at Hevreh GREAT BARRINGTON – In Join families and people the broader Berkshire County GREAT BARRINGTON – This Shabbat Lab partnership with Berkshire of all ages for a morning community. winter, Hevreh of Southern Every Saturday through County churches and syna- of interfaith community All are welcome to this free Berkshire introduces two new February at 10 a.m., Hevreh gogues, Hevreh of Southern building through worship, event. ways of exploring the rich- hosts a Shabbat Lab. Berkshire hosts an inter- song, service, and food. The Hevreh of Southern ness of Jewish thought and Organizers write: “Hevreh has faith intergenerational day of day begins with an “Interfaith Berkshire is located at practice. long described itself as a spir- service in honor of Dr. Martin Service for Justice,” followed 270 State Road in Great Lay-led Mussar Group itual laboratory of sorts. We Luther King, Jr. on Sunday, by the opportunity to choose Barrington. For more informa- serve as this laboratory most January 19 from 10 a.m. to from a variety of hands-on tion, call (413) 528-6378 On Mondays, January 6 regularly during Shabbat. 12:30 p.m. service projects that will serve & 20 and February 3 & 17, The Saturday Shabbat Lab from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., is the latest iteration of our a lay-led Mussar Group commitment to experiment. TAA to Welcome Tu B’Shevat With a meets in the Hevreh library. Each Shabbat, we will use our “Broadly speaking Mussar is ‘Palace in Time’ as a plat- Family-Friendly Shabbat Service and the study, discussion, and form to mine for meaning practice of various char- and insight, to study and Dinner acter (or “soul”) traits from pray together, and often to a Jewish perspective,” write eat together. Take a look at PITTSFIELD – Temple Anshe Song, a family-friendly service $36 per family. Reservations the group’s organizers. “While the schedule at hevreh.org/ Amunim invites the commu- filled with music. TAA will for the Seder and dinner are there are over 100 such traits, shabbat and what you’ll see nity to celebrate Tu B’Shevat, continue the celebration, by required by January 31. To typical ones include Humility, are the things we do whenever the New Year of Trees, on featuring a plant-based Seder, register, contact the Temple Gratitude, Compassion, we come together for Shabbat, Friday, Febuary 7, beginning to enjoy the symbolic fruits of Office at (413) 442-5910, or Patience, and Silence.” with a particular emphasis at 5:30 p.m. Earth linked to Tu B’Shevat, TempleOffice@AnsheAmunim. This group is open to all on something a little different Tu B’Shevat, is the fifteenth and to honor the enduring org. TAA is at 26 Broad Street and is free. For further infor- and a little special. All are day of the Hebrew month of connections between Judaism in Pittsfield. mation, please contact Marion welcome.” Shevat, and welcomes the and our environment. A dairy Temple Anshe Amunim is Adler at marionadler613@ Hevreh of Southern emergence of spring. Jews dinner will follow. a Reform Jewish congregation gmail.com or Debbie Harris at Berkshire is located at mark the holiday with a This event is open to all. “that promotes engaging and [email protected]. A Zoom 270 State Road in Great traditional Seder, similar to a The cost for the Seder and widespread participation in (teleconferencing) option is Barrington. For more informa- Passover Seder, and with the dinner is: $8 per person for services, education, and social available for those who cannot tion, call (413) 528-6378. planting of trees to honor or temple members, maximum action programs. The temple attend in person, if you reach remember loved ones. $25 per family; and for is always grateful for funding out in advance. The evening will begin with not-yet-members, $12 per provided by the Harold Shabbat Shira, the Sabbath of person, with a maximum of Grinspoon Foundation.”

As my parents planted for me before I was born, so do I plant for those who come after me. – Talmud Thank you to these individuals who through their gift to the Legacy Circle will ensure that the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires thrives long into the future. May your name be a Blessing, and may the example you set inspire others to create their own Jewish Legacy.

Lee & Sydelle Blatt Elaine Friedman Toby H. Levine Mark & Elisa Snowise Betty Braun* Eiran Gazit Erna Lindner-Gilbert* Harold Sparr* Cipora Brown Jeffrey Goldwasser & Amy Lindner-Lesser Lisa Fletcher-Udel Barbara Cohen Jonquil Wolfson Helen Maislen* Edward Udel Mark Cohen* Jordan & Laura Green Ellen Masters Michael & Joan Ury Mimi Cohen Harold Grinspoon Stuart Masters Mark & Judy Usow C. Jeffrey & Judith Cook Ellen Heffan Estelle Miller Henry* & Beate* Voremberg Gerry & Lynn Denmark Ed Jaffe* Robert Newman* Alexandra Warshaw Jonathan & Lara Denmark Elihu Katzman Wendy Robbins Florence Wineberg* Anonymous (10) Sheila K. Donath Marilyn Katzman Ken & Fran Rubenstein Rabbi Deborah Zecher & Ed Abrahams Melva Eidelberg Dara Kaufman Stella Schecter* Rabbi Dennis Ross Norman Avnet* Monroe England, in memory of Phil* and Rhoda Kaminstein Arlene D. Schiff *Of blessed memory Barbara Bashevkin Monroe B. & Isabel England Howard & Nancy* Kaufman Gary Schiff Robert Bashevkin Dr. Armand V. Feigenbaum* Lawrence Klein Stephen & Deborah Schreier Linda J. L. Becker Dr. Donald S. Feigenbaum* Sarah Klein Martin Silver Robert Berend Steven Feiner Arthur Kriger* Sylvia Silverberg, in memory of Shelley Berend Diana & Stanley Feld Fred & Brenda Landes Jerome Silverberg Helene Berke Stuart M. Fischman, Esq. Beth Laster-Nathan Richard A. Simons & Marcie Lawrence Berke Lynn & William Foggle Andrew S. Levine* Greenfield Simons Tevet/Shevat 5780 Berkshire Jewish Voice • jewishberkshires.org Page 7 LOCAL NEWS

“A Grief Sublime” Documentary on A discussion with author Beth Robbins Ben-Gurion and Rabbi Neil Hirsch Plus talk-back with CEO of American Associ- GREAT BARRINGTON – On solace. They spoke to meaning Thursday, January 16 at and purpose. Somehow Steve’s ates Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 7 p.m., Hevreh of Southern death allowed me to (re) GREAT BARRINGTON – On Sunday, Berkshire hosts a discussion discover my strength.” February 23 at 4 p.m., Hevreh of Southern and talk-back with author Robbins wrote a memoir Berkshire will screen a documentary film Beth Robbins and Rabbi Neil of her experience, A Grief about Israel’s first prime minister titled Hirsch. Sublime, which was published Ben-Gurion, Epilogue (2016). After the sudden death in December of 2019 by Keats The film will be introduced by Doug of her husband of nearly 30 & Company Publishers. An Seserman, CEO of American Associates years, Steve “Sproutman” audiobook version, read by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Meyerowitz, author Beth actress Karen Allen, is also (AABGU). Robbins turned to writing available. In the depths of the Ben-Gurion for comfort. And to Keats, Grief may be unwelcome, Archives at Ben-Gurion University of Whitman, Melville, and but it also brings insights and the Negev, a six-hour-long interview Dickinson. What began as a gifts. Beth Robbins, Hevreh soundtrack was discovered featuring one of modern history’s mourning rite for a grieving member, and Rabbi Neil Beth Robbins greatest leaders – David Ben-Gurion. It was matched with a widow eventually transformed Hirsch will sit down to explore filmmaker who had the footage and was looking to recreate the into a lyrical memoir of child- Beth’s journey and process, interview. It is 1968, and he is 82 years old, five years before his hood, marriage, grief, and and what meaning she’s taken more information, call (413) death. This 70-minute documentary brings to life Ben-Gurion’s ultimately resurrection. spiritually. 528-6378. introspective soul searching that also provides a surprising “The fragmentation, or, Light refreshments will be For more information vision for today’s crucial decisions and the future of Israel. perhaps better said, the shat- served. about Beth Robbins, check Following the screening, Seserman will lead a talk-back tering of my world, led me to This program is free and out: https://bethrobbins.co/ session. look for conversation, recon- open to the public. Hevreh about. For more on Keats & No charge, open to the entire Berkshire Community. Light nection, dialogue,” writes of Southern Berkshire is Company Publishers, visit refreshments will be served. Robbins. “’My poets’, as I located at 270 State Road www.keatsandcompanypub- Hevreh of Southern Berkshire is located at 270 State Road in began to call them, offered me in Great Barrington. For lishers.com. Great Barrington. For more information, call (413) 528-6378.

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The Mews, by the Red Lion Inn Courtyard Stockbridge, MA 413-298-4436 Page 8 Berkshire Jewish Voice • jewishberkshires.org January 1 to February 16, 2020 LOCAL NEWS Williams College Jewish Association Brought the Message and Meaning of Chanukah (Plus Dreidels) to Local First Graders By Emma Lezberg / Special to the BJV

Sure, it’s right in the the Sunday before. middle of finals period, but The students gathered what better study break than on the rug at the front of the playing dreidel with first classrooms, and we told a graders? G-rated version of the story of Every December – Chanukah, focusing more on December 9 and 10 this year the miracle than the war. After – a group of students from fielding a number of questions the Williams College Jewish – Why did one of our meno- Association visits Brayton rahs have a Jewish star on it and Greylock Elementary and the other didn’t? Do latkes Schools in North Adams to have cheese in them? Did we teach their first graders about get presents all eight nights? Chanukah. The excitement – we read a book introducing

of the students was palpable dreidels and wrote the letters CLIA) OUTREACH AT POLK (WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY MOLLY CREDIT: as we – Ariel Koltun-Fromm on the whiteboard. At both At Greylock Elementary School, first grade Emma teaching the students how to play ’20, Regina Fink ’22, Melvin schools, it took the students teacher, Emma Lezberg, Regina Fink, and Ariel dreidel Lewis ’22, Tali Natter ’23, Mira a few tries to figure out Koltun-Fromm Sneirson ’23, Molly Polk from what language these strange the Williams College Center symbols were in – Chinese? comparing with their friends holiday. We headed back to this Chanukah elementary for Learning in Action who Japanese? Spanish? – but and asking us to read their campus rejuvenated, ready to school outreach, she leads a helped to organize the trips, eventually they came up with books to them. hit the books once again. Challah for Hunger program, and I – walked into the class- Hebrew. Seeing children this excited baking and selling challah rooms carrying mysterious The students then split into for books was heart-warming, Emma Lezberg, a 2016 to raise money to combat boxes. One box contained the groups to try playing dreidel, and we are so grateful to their Pittsfield High graduate, is food insecurity locally and Chanukah paraphernalia we and the Williams visitors and teachers for welcoming us into a senior at Williams College nationally, as well as National were to show them: The Magic first grade teachers floated their classrooms and setting and the Tzedek Director for Refugee Shabbat and other Dreidels book to read, two around to help. In one group aside precious class time to the Williams College Jewish service and social justice menorahs to pass around, I played with, the students introduce students to our Association. In addition to initiatives. and a bag of dreidels for the closed their eyes each time students to use. All the other anyone spun and said, “I hope boxes contained surprises for we all get gimmels! I hope the end of our hour together: we all get gimmels!” and lent a book for each child to take their peers extra coins when Educational Opportunities home, purchased jointly by the they ran out. We then had Jewish Association and the the students gather back on A R TS SCIENCE Center for Learning in Action the rug and handed out their LEARNING PERSPECTIVES and wrapped as presents presents. Three…two…one… THINKING futureHumanities KNOWLEDGE Career KEY during our Chanukah party open! They tore open the pack- at the Jewish Religious Center aging and gasped, immediately CHANGE SUCCESS Lecture Exciting

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CULTURE AND ARTS Federation and Guido’s Team Up Berkshire for Our New Jewish Cookbook Club Calling all cooks! The Jewish JewishA publication of the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires, serving V the Berkshires and surrounding ice NY, CT and VT Federation of the Berkshires has teamed up with Guido’s Fresh Thank you to our supporters! Marketplace to host a new Jewish The Berkshire Jewish Voice extends a very special “thank you” for the gen- Cookbook Club. Participants will erosity extended thus far by 168 households as of 12/12/19 who have sent prepare a recipe from a featured in their contributions for voluntary subscriptions to the paper. Jewish cookbook, which will Sylvia Allan Larry and Carolyn Kaplan be shared together at a festive Rob Bildner & Elisa Spungen Bildner Wendy Robbins potluck-style dinner after hours Suzanne Graver Bob and Lee Saltz at Guido’s Fresh Marketplace, located at 1020 South Street in Pittsfield. Cookbooks will be on view in advance at the Federation’s SEED WHAT YOU READ! BECOME A SUBSCRIBER TODAY! Yes, I support the Berkshire Jewish Voice! Please accept my voluntary office, located at 196 South Street tax-deductible subscription contribution. in Pittsfield, or for viewing and _____ $360 Mensch & Honorary Publisher Mail check payable to: purchase at Guido’s. (Supports color printing in one edition of the Voice) Jewish Federation of the The first meeting of the Jewish _____ $180 Sponsor Berkshires, 196 South Street, Cookbook Club will take place on Thursday, February 13 _____ $72 Patron Pittsfield, MA 01201 at 7 p.m. and will feature Modern Jewish Cooking by Leah (Please add Berkshire Jewish Voice _____ $36 Friend Koenig. Additional club dates are May 7, September 10, and _____ $18 Supporter­­­­ in the memo) November 12. Name to be listed: ______Space is limited. Advance registration is required by emailing p I wish to remain anonymous [email protected].

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Announcing the opening of The Early Childhood Center at Hevreh of Southern Berkshire Coming Soon in 2020

Open to families of all backgrounds, NEW! FAIR SHARE TUITION PROGRAM the ECC will provide year-round, full- Affordable academic excellence delivered through a creative curriculum day child care for infants & toddlers.

JOIN US TO LEARN MORE! For more information, Thursday, January 16 contact ECC Director, OPEN HOUSE Ellen Marcus at 9-11am [email protected] and 270 State Road, CONSCIOUS CONVERSATIONS Families at Hevreh Great Barrington Wellness for Children from Head to Toe 413-528-6378 5:30-7pm hevreh.org/ecc

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PJ Library Families Kicked Off the Chanukah Season with Bimuelos and a Sephardic-inspired Celebration By Susan Frisch Lehrer, Coordinator of Volunteers and PJ Library On Saturday, December 7, Federation and PJ Library families enjoyed a Sephardic-inspired Chanukah celebration at Berkshire South in Great Barrington. Sarah Aroeste Blaugrund read a story, The Hanukkah Moon, and sang a Ladino Chanukah song, “Ocho Kandelikas.” We also made Chanukah frames for our pictures. But the best part was making bimuelos – fried dough with syrup and cinnamon on top – with Sarah’s husband, Jeff Blaugrund, in the kitchen. It was a great way to kick off the Chanukah season – not to mention a fantastic way for our PJ families to learn about Sephardic holiday traditions and the richness and diversity of Jewish life. Sound like fun? If you have young children in your family and haven’t signed up for PJ Library or emails about family-friendly programs like this, please contact me at [email protected]. PJ Library is made possible for Berkshire families through a community partnership of the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires, the Spitz Tuchman Family Fund, the Jewish Women’s Foundation of Berkshire County, and the Harold Grinspoon Foundation.

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Day of Holocaust Education and Remembrance On December 8, Jewish teens in the 7th and 8th grades and parents from across the Berkshire Jewish community shared a meaningful day of learning and remembrance at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. The trip, sponsored by the Jewish Women’s Foundation of Berkshire County and the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires, included small group tours with discussion and a testimonial by Holocaust survivor Ruth Gruener. Gruener, who at age 7 was moved to the ghetto in Lvov, Poland, with her family, later evaded the Nazis by hiding in a hole under the floor of a Christian family risking their own lives to save her. Her harrowing story has been preserved in a book for young adults titled Destined to Live: A True Story of a Child in the Holocaust, published by Scholastic Books.

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Museum of Jewish Heritage, A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Page 12 Berkshire Jewish Voice • jewishberkshires.org January 1 to February 16, 2020 NEWS Paintings by Israel's Modern Masters on the Block Tiroche Auction House to hold its annual Israeli and International Art Auction in January

HERZLIYA PITUACH, ISRAEL – On January 25, Tiroche Auction House, Israel’s largest auction house will hold its annual Israeli and International Art Auction. Spanning the decades of pre-state Israel through the 1960s Abstract era, the auction will feature works by Marc Chagall, Reuven Rubin, Nahum Gutman, Yosl Bergner, Yohanan Simon, Ludwig Blum, Samuel Bak, Naftali Bezem, Abel Pann, and Lea Nikel. Bidders may attend the auction in person, bid by phone, or partic- ipate live online via the Tiroche Auction House website. The highlight of this auction is likely to be Marc Chagall’s “Jacob’s Ladder,” which will be on the block for the first time in more than two decades. The painting was infamously stolen from Gordon Auction House in 1996, several days before it was set to go to auction. It was discovered more than 23 years later and, after a legal process, was claimed by the insurance company that had insured it.

“Jacob’s Ladder” by Marc Chagall

The painting depicts one of the best-known Biblical stories. Chagall chose not to depict the scene in utopian colors, but rather used dramatic, more somber colors befitting the painting period of 1973/4, near the difficult time of the Israeli Yom Kippur War. “It has been more than twenty years since an oil painting by Chagall has been sold in Israel,” says Amitai Hazan Tiroche, managing director of Tiroche Auction House, “and we are thrilled to exhibit the work of one of the most important Jewish artists.” Also shown here is Yochanan Simon’s “Figures in the Kibbutz.” According to the auction catalogue: “Simon was a German-born painter who 1936 immigrated to Israel and settled in Kibbutz Gan Shmuel… ‘National kibbutz captains’… recruited him for the glory of kibbutz movement through art. He painted works full of pathos for ‘Hashomer Hatzair,’ paintings depicting the kibbutz’s life as particularly successful, family scenes that combine happiness and intimacy, and works that glorify the value of the work and the beauty of the land. Simon was selected to draw the official declaration of Independence Day.” Later, Simon moved to Tel Aviv, and his work “became modern, abstract, very colorful and full of optimism,” and he went on to create large-scale murals in Israel and South America. “Figures in the Kibbutz” by Yochanan Simon

Rare Pamphlet Illuminates the History of the Galveston Movement That Attracted Jews to Texas HOUSTON – The Houston Jewish History Archive at Rice University has acquired one of the most important documents in Texas Jewish history: an extremely rare 1907 Yiddish-language pamphlet, published in the Ukraine, to encourage Eastern European Jews to emigrate to Texas. According to the Worldcat database, only one other library in the world has a copy. This 1907 pamphlet, produced by the Jewish Territorial Organization, was published in Zhitomir (modern- day Ukraine) to encourage Eastern European Jews to immigrate through Galveston, Texas, instead of Ellis Island and New York City. The Galveston Movement, as it is some- times referred to, saw about 10,000 Jewish immigrants enter the United The pamphlet is written in Yiddish, States through Galveston between with some Russian notations. It lists 1907 and 1914, with about 3,000 the qualifications of potential immi- staying in Texas and the rest settling grants, describes the steps involved in throughout the South and Midwest. the immigration process, details the The project received financial kinds of job opportunities awaiting backing from New York’s Jacob Schiff, immigrants in America, and narrates a wealthy banker and philanthro- the living conditions in Galveston, pist of German Jewish descent who Houston, and other Texas cities at the believed that the Jewish immigrants time. crowding urban ethnic enclaves along “If your family came to the United the East Coast were contributing to a States through Galveston before World rise in American anti-Semitism and War I,” writes Dr. Joshua Furman, xenophobia. Schiff and his colleagues program manager for the archive, wanted to divert Yiddish-speaking “this may have been the brochure that Jewish immigrants into the heart- convinced them to come. Quite simply, land of the country, where they would this is one of the most important docu- attract less attention from immigra- ments in Texas Jewish history.” tion opponents and where they would Currently, the pamphlet is being assimilate into American life more translated by a local expert in Yiddish quickly. translation. Tevet/Shevat 5780 Berkshire Jewish Voice • jewishberkshires.org Page 13

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Israeli Scientists Discover Molecule that Destroys Pancreatic Cancer Cells By Abigail Klein Leichman / Israel21c via JNS

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – A little PJ34 originally was devel- percent. One mouse’s tumor molecule named PJ34 can oped to treat strokes, but completely disappeared. cause cancer cells to self-de- it has been found to have a Cohen-Armon noted that struct, according to an Israeli powerful effect on human the treated mice suffered no study published recently in the cancer cells. The molecule adverse effects from the PJ34 biomedical journal Oncotarget. causes something to go wrong molecule regimen, nor did they Professor Malka Cohen- during cell duplication, leading experience changes in weight Armon and her team to rapid cell death. or behavior. at Tel Aviv University’s “In research published Also significant is that the Sackler Faculty of Medicine in 2017, we discovered a PJ34 molecule exclusively conducted an experiment mechanism that causes the interrupts the duplication of CREDIT: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY. TEL AVIV CREDIT: using xenografts – transplan- self-destruction of human human cancer cells, leaving Professor Malka Cohen-Armon (left) of Tel Aviv University and Dr. tations of human pancreatic cancer cells during their normal cells alone. Talia Golan of Sheba Medical Center. cancer into mice. The mice’s duplication [mitosis] without Although PJ34 could work immune systems were affecting normal cells,” on other types of cancer cells, compromised so that their explained Cohen-Armon. “We pancreatic cancer presents a result, around 80 percent of aggressive cancer in humans. bodies wouldn’t reject the have now harnessed this infor- pressing need. It’s the 12th patients are diagnosed at the It could also prove effective transplanted cells. mation to efficiently eradicate most common cancer world- metastatic stage, and fewer against aggressive forms In collaboration with Dr. human pancreatic cancer cells wide and the fourth leading than 3 percent of patients at of breast, lung, brain, and Talia Golan’s team at the in xenografts.” cause of cancer death. This that stage survive for more ovarian cancer. Cancer Research Center at A month after the molecule type of cancer is often resis- than five years after diagnosis. PJ34 now is being tested in Sheba Medical Center, the was administered, the number tant to existing treatments. Therefore, the Israeli pre-clinical trials according to scientists then injected PJ34 of cancer cells in the mice’s Early diagnosis of pancre- research holds great potential FDA regulations before larger into the mice for 14 days in a tumors were found to be atic cancer is difficult, as often for the development of a new, animal trials, and then human row. reduced by 80 percent to 90 there are no symptoms. As a effective therapy to treat this clinical trials can begin. Israeli Researchers Develop New Technology to Inhibit Alzheimer’s Disease HAIFA & RAMAT GAN, ISRAEL Alzheimer’s, the most protein, neural growth factor, – pore dimensions, surface – Israeli researchers have common form of dementia, is inhibits the damage to the chemical properties and more developed new technology characterized by symptoms cholinergic mechanisms and – the researchers were able to for transporting drugs within that include memory loss, the exacerbation the disease. reach an optimal configuration silicon nanostructures to the speech impairments, orienta- But delivering the protein into that retains the protein in its brain. These nanostructures tion problems, and significant the target area of the brain is active form and then releases release an essential protein, impairment of motor func- not a simple task because the it gradually, over a period of which can inhibit the develop- tions. The disease primarily brain rests beneath the blood- about a month. Afterwards, ment of Alzheimer’s disease, strikes the elderly population, brain barrier (BBB), which the chips safely degrade in the and can provide targeted and after the age of 85 reaches protects the central nervous brain and dissolve. delivery in the brain with the a prevalence of some 30 system (the brain) from being In this way, as mentioned, use of a “gene gun” percent. Due to the increase infiltrated by bacteria and the protein is not required to Researchers at the in life expectancy and the harmful substances from cross the blood-brain barrier Technion–Israel Institute of increase in the elderly popu- the blood. This barrier also since it is inserted directly into Technology and their partners lation, the overall incidence of restricts the passage, from the the brain in one of two ways: at Bar Ilan University have the disease has grown and is bloodstream to the brain, of by implanting it into the brain developed new technology today referred to as the “gray drugs intended to treat brain (as a chip) or sending it to its Professor Ester Segal of to inhibit the development epidemic” or the “21st century diseases. target as microparticles with Technion–Israel Institute of of Alzheimer’s disease. The plague.” The Technion and Bar the use of a dedicated gene Technology work was recently published Alzheimer’s is a neurode- Ilan University researchers gun. Upon reaching the target in the journal Small and generative disease, meaning have presented an innova- location in the brain, the tested in a cellular model also appears on the maga- that it originates in the brain tive solution to this challenge: protein is released from the of Alzheimer’s disease and zine cover. The research was cells. The major cause of the Nanoscale silicon chips for chip and the chip breaksGraphic down Designindeed, the protein release led by Professor Ester Segal disease is the accumulation direct insertion of the protein into non-toxic components.www.tgo.com has led to rescuing the nerve and Ph.D. student Michal of a protein called amyloid into the brain and its release “In a series of experiments, cells.” Rosenberg from the Technion beta (Aß) in brain tissues. The into the target tissue. The we showed in mice that the The research was Faculty of BiotechnologyProof of ad for: protein______Barbara blocks Greenfeld kill the nerve dedicated siliconPlease chips, respond devel- by two ______ways of delivering the plat- conducted with the support and Food Engineering and cells, also called neurons, in oped in Professor Segal’s lab, form into the brain led to the of the Russel Berrie their partners, Professor Orit different regions of the brain. have a nanoscale porous desired result,” said Technion Nanotechnology Institute at Publication: ______BJV May 2016 to: (Tel) 413/ 528-0328 (Fax) 413/ 528-0328 [email protected] Shefi and Ph.D. student Neta This leads, in part, to damage structure that allows them to doctoral student Michal the Technion. Zilony-Hanin from the Bar [email protected] the cholinergic mechanisms be loaded with large amounts Rosenberg. “Furthermore, Ilan University FacultySend of to: ______essential for brain function. of protein. 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Continuous – Chabad of the are accepted. The series begins fluency and practice my reading Thursdays (fourth of each Saturdays at 8:45 a.m. – at Berkshires “Smile on Seniors,” with A Walk on the Moon on skills? How can I be more com- month) – Hadassah Book Club. Hevreh, 270 State Road in Great or “S.O.S.,” volunteer program January 12. Movie aficionado fortable with the language and For times, locations of meetings, Barrington. Every Shabbat morn- to serve senior citizens in the Howard Arkans will provide a process of prayer? Facilitated by and further information about ing, gather in Rabbi Neil Hirsch’s Berkshires. Information for brief analysis of this film and talk Myrna Hammerling. Newcomers the books: Pattie Lipman plip- study and dive into the less-often families who can benefit and back following the movie. Next always welcome. Information: [email protected]. read books of the Bible. All are volunteers: Rabbi Levi Volovik up: Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers (413) 445-4872, ext. 16. welcome to begin the day with Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. – Janet at (413) 499-9899 or visit www. on a Train, on February 9. coffee while studying and relax- Wednesdays, from 12:30 to Lee will continue to teach an jewishberkshires.com. ing on Shabbat. Sessions will be Tuesdays, from 10 to 11:30 1:30 p.m. at Chabad of the intermediate mat Pilates class between 45 and 60 minutes. Monthly, fourth or fifth a.m. – Torah Portion of the Week Berkshires (through June at Hevreh every Thursday. Bring Sunday – Volunteers from study group at Knesset Israel, 16 13) – Join together with fellow a mat and water. Contact Janet Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. at Congregation Beth Israel, 53 Lois Colt Road, Pittsfield. Facilitator Jewish women in the Berkshires Lee at [email protected] to learn Temple Anshe Amunim, 26 Street, North Adams “Take and Myrna Hammerling guides the for inspiring Torah study, warm more, and check hevreh.org/ Broad Street, Pittsfield – Eat” program cook, package, group through the triennial cycle, camaraderie, hot tea and deli- calendar for any weekly changes. “Torah Plus: Exploring Jewish Text and deliver hot meals for all year-round in the KI Library. cious refreshments! Please RSVP and Culture.” Join Rabbi Liz P.G. Fridays at 9 a.m. – Meditation North Adams clients of “Meals Newcomers always welcome to [email protected] or call Hirsch for a conversation based with Rabbi Rachel Barenblat in on Wheels.” Information: (413) to this gathering of students (413) 499-9899. on the texts of the Jewish people the Congregation Beth Israel 663-5830 or [email protected]. of diverse ages, backgrounds, and reflect on Jewish values and Wednesdays at Hevreh, – sanctuary, 53 Lois Street, North and perspectives who search thinking and what it means “to Sundays (second of each “Lunch N Learn” with Rabbi Neil Adams, overlooking the Berkshire together to deepen understand- be Jewish.” All texts are offered month) – Berkshire Hills Society Hirsch at 11:45 a.m. is open to mountains. Silence, chanting, ing of our foundational text. Free. in English. Free and open to of Israeli Philatelists meet. Discuss anyone who wants to deepen and meditation designed to Information: (413) 445-4872, the public. Information (413) Israeli and American stamps. their relationship to Jewish study help prepare for Shabbat. All ext. 16. 442-5910 or templeoffice@ Coffee and donuts. Information: through text and discussion. Says welcomed. Information: (413) ansheamunim.org. Ed Helitzer, (413) 447-7622, Wednesdays, from 10:30 to Rabbi Hirsch: Currently, we are 663-5830 and www.cbiweb.org. daytime. 11:30 a.m. – Hevreh of Southern studying the Book of Judges, Fridays, once a month at 5:30 Berkshire, 270 State Road, Great which tells the stories of the Sunday, January 5, 12, and 26 p.m. (followed by a family Barrington, offers an hour of Israelites as they attempted to and February 2 and 9 at 11 style Shabbat dinner at 6:30 “Shalom Yoga, Gentle Stretch settle the Land of Israel. It’s a You can now read and a.m. – Knesset Israel continues p.m.) – Knesset Israel, 16 Colt and Meditation” with Nina story of one people encoun- its “Introduction to Judaism” Road, Pittsfield. Shirei Shabbat share Berkshire Jewish Lipkowitz a certified Kripalu tering others, the tensions that series. Classes will be on Jewish (“Songs of Shabbat”). Unique Voice feature stories on- and Jewish yoga and meditation exist between those parties, values and discussion of the doc- service combines melodies from teacher. Check https://hevreh. and the complicated, ongoing line! Visit jewishberkshires. umentary The Story of the Jews Carlebach, Debbie Friedman, and org/calendar/ for updates. All relationship of a Covenantal by Simon Schama. For informa- Camp Ramah to create a ruach org and select Communi- levels welcome. Contact Nina at Nation with its God. While the tion, call (413) 445-4872, ext. filled (“spirited”) family friendly ty & Events>Berkshire [email protected] with study is ongoing, we welcome 16, or visit the calendar page of experience. 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OBITUARIES MAZEL TOV Mazel Tov to… Myra Beverly (Klein) (Lehigh Acres, FL), Michael Stephen is the son of Forman, 85, loving and Forman (Linda, Charleston deceased mother Dorothy, Janie Pellish, Alan Rubin, Barbara Waldinger, and Jessie devoted mother, wife, and WV), Sheila Bellinger father Jack, and brother Waldinger on being recognized as one of 25 engaged commu- sister (Slingerlands, NY), and Joseph Ernest. nity members by OLLI, the Osher Lifetime Learning Institute at SCHENECTADY, NY – Myra Forman and Carolyn Gioia Funeral services were Berkshire Community College. The exhibit of their photos and Beverly (Klein) Forman passed (Bridgewater, NJ). She is held Thursday, November 7 biographies was held at the State House in Boston and was away peacefully on Thursday, also survived by grandchil- at Temple Anshe Amunim in titled, “Creative Aging: 65 and Better in the Berkshires.” November 14 after a long dren Amanda and Andrea Pittsfield. c battle with dementia. Bellinger, Donald Forman, Clarinetist Paul Green and his combo Two Worlds, whose Lois Lenett, avid believer Born June 9, 1934 in Joshua Mallet, and Andrew latest album, “A Bissel Rhythm,” was selected as one of the in education and the arts Pittsfield General Hospital to and Matthew Forman. She year’s best jazz albums by Jacob and Lilian Klein, Myra also leaves behind her sister, LEE – Lois Lenett passed away the Chicago Tribune, which grew up in Pittsfield with Elaine Epstein and brother Saturday, November 30. She wrote: “Jazz and Jewish music her older sister Elaine and Chuck Klein, and many was the wife of 55 years of share a long and beautiful her younger brother Charles nieces and nephews. She was Stephen Lenett who passed history, which clarinet- (Chuck). She graduated from predeceased by her husband away November 4. ist-composer Green traced Pittsfield High School in June of 59 years, Leonard (Lenny), Lois was an educator for on an earlier album, ‘Music 1952. She was a loving and and daughter-in-law, Laura over 30 years, teaching at Coming Together.’ This time, devoted mother, wife, and Forman. Valley Stream North High rather than record songs sister. The family wishes to School (NY) and after retire- reflecting both idioms, Green Soon after graduation, thank the caring staff at both ment, teaching another has written original compo- Myra went to work for the Brookdale East Niskayuna 20 years as an adjunct in sitions that give him and his General Electric Company and Alpine Nursing and Communication and English colleagues freer reign in which in Pittsfield as a drafts- Rehabilitation Center in at Berkshire Community to experiment. The music person. She lived with Little Falls, New York. A College. sometimes joyous, sometimes her cousin Myrna before private service was held on An avid believer in educa- mournful attests to these artists’ conversance with two alluring marrying Leonard Forman Wednesday, November 20 at tion and the arts, Lois was musical languages.” in 1957. Soon they moved Chase Smith Family Funeral a leader of the Literacy c to Springfield, MA and then Homes, Stillwater, NY, followed Foundation of Berkshire Berkshire Hills Hadassah on being chosen Chapter of the Hartford, CT and finally by burial in Gerald B. Solomon County and a volunteer for Year by the Hadassah Connecticut Region. Schenectady, NY in 1960, National Cemetery, Saratoga. Reading for the Blind. She was where she lived for the rest of Donations can be made a lifelong friend and mentor her life. to Cure Alzheimer’s Fund to dozens. After first meeting Myra was devoted to her (curealz.org). Stephen in summer stock, family. She was loving, full she remained a dedicated Stephen Lenett, sculptor, of energy, and always made theater lover, attending perfor- artist and scenic designer herself available to help mances from Broadway to the others. Whenever anyone LEE – Stephen Lenett passed Berkshires for the rest of her was looking for something, away Monday, November 4. He life. she had a knack of finding it. was survived by his loving wife A keen swimmer at her She always posted notes on Lois, of 55 years of marriage, beloved Goose Pond, ardent the walls consisting of phone who passed on Saturday, reader, world traveler, numbers, addresses, pending November 30. passionate cook, and generous appointments, and notes on a Stephen was a sculptor, hostess, her greatest joy was variety of concerns. She ran a artist and scenic designer connecting with people and virtual taxi and errand service who was a professor of art making them feel at home. for family and friends, and for over 30 years at Suffolk Lois is survived by her provided essential help with Community College. His sculp- loving son Jarret; nieces Jody Lenny’s businesses after he ture is part of the permanent Rao and husband Julius and retired from General Electric. collection of Carnegie Mellon Caryn Nabozny and husband Myra was very active. Into University, which he attended. David; sister-in-law Joan and He received his MA from great nieces and nephews. She her eighties, she attended Hadassah members Ellen Masters, Chapter President Ros Adelphi University. was the daughter of deceased exercise classes, was a census Kopfstein, and Sherry Boullt taker, and loved spending Stephen designed and parents Bella and Sidney time with her grandchildren. personally built the family Slutskin, and brother Allen c When her own children were home on Goose Pond, where Slutskin. Marshall Raser and Bart Raser on the opening of the new young, she often took them to he pursued his art and loved Funeral services were Carr Hardware emporium in The Center at Lenox, their fifth visit her family in Pittsfield. kayaking and serious exer- held Thursday, December 5 store in the Berkshires. She was a supportive mom cising. He and Lois traveled at Temple Anshe Amunim in and wife. In the early 70s, extensively in art capitals Pittsfield. when her oldest child Daryl in England, Europe and the had an extended hospitaliza- Middle East. tion, she did not leave his side. He is survived by his son Donate. You can now read and share Berkshire Jewish Voice Jarret; nieces Jody Rao and Her love, sense of humor, and feature stories online! Visit jewishberkshires.org and select her husband Julius and Caryn Volunteer. energy will be missed by all for links to who knew her. Nabozny and her husband Community & Events>Berkshire Jewish Voice Myra is survived by her David; sister-in-law Joan; and Make a Difference. highlights of current and past issues. children: Daryl Forman great-nieces and nephews.

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Berkshire Minyan Congregation Ahavath Sholom Jewish Federation of the Berkshires Welcome to the Lay-led egalitarian minyan Reconstructionist 196 South St., Pittsfield, MA Jewish Berkshires held at Hevreh of Southern North St., Great Barrington, MA (413) 442-4360, jewishberkshires.org Everyone is welcome to attend Berkshire, 270 State Rd., (413) 528-4197, ahavathsholom.com Jewish War Veterans services and events at any of the Great Barrington, MA Congregation Beth Israel Commander Robert Waldheim organizations listed here. (413) 229-3618, berkshireminyan.org Reform (413) 822-4546, [email protected] Berkshire Hills Hadassah 53 Lois St., North Adams, MA Please call the organizations Knesset Israel P.O. Box 187, Pittsfield, MA (413) 663-5830, cbiweb.org directly to confirm service times Conservative (413) 443-4386, or to inquire about membership. Hevreh of Southern Berkshire 16 Colt Rd., Pittsfield, MA [email protected] Reform (413) 445-4872, knessetisrael.org Learn more about our Jewish B’nai B’rith Lodge, No. 326 270 State Rd., Great Barrington, MA Temple Anshe Amunim community and find great (413) 528-6378, hevreh.org Chabad of the Berkshires Reform events on the community 450 South St., Pittsfield, MA Israel Philatelist Society 26 Broad St., Pittsfield, MA calendar at: (413) 499-9899, c/o Dr. Ed Helitzer, (413) 442-5910, ansheamunim.org JEWISHBERKSHIRES.ORG jewishberkshires.com (413) 447-7622 ______Page 18 Berkshire Jewish Voice • jewishberkshires.org January 1 to February 16, 2020 BERKSHIRE JEWISH VOICES Traveling with Jewish Taste A Massachusetts Jew in Connecticut By Carol Goodman Kaufman

As much as I enjoy travel (we counted that in 2019, I slept in 18 different places), I also love to explore places nearby. And we do have a wealth of wonderful destinations within driving distance. Joel and I recently had the most delightful visit with friends in New Haven. A From “Afrocosmologies: American Reflections,” at the Wadsworth Athenaeum mere stone’s throw away, Connecticut has it all, from the ridiculous to the sublime. While the museum’s holdings are vast, I chose to spend my time on the third We started off our first morning at the floor, with its fabulous collection of American art and, more specifically, its Pez Visitor Center in Orange, where we were Hudson River School landscape paintings. surrounded by all things related to the little Also on the third floor is a special exhibit, “Afrocosmologies: American fruit-flavored candy. We learned that Austrian Reflections,” in which Black artists from the late-nineteenth century to today candy executive Eduard Haas invented Pez in explore spirituality, culture, identity, and the environment by examining the reli- 1927 as an alternative to smoking (ahead of gious and aesthetic traditions of West Africa and the Americas. This show is only his time, he was an anti-smoking advocate) and that it takes its name from the in Hartford until January 20, so you’d better hustle if you’d like to see it. German word for peppermint “PfeffErminZ.” The original candies were round and Admission to the museum is free from 4 to 5 Wednesday through Sunday. At came in a tin box. all other times, it is $15 for Adults, $12 for seniors, $5 for students 18 and over, The iconic dispenser, called a “Pez Box,” didn’t make its appearance until and free for youth under 18. 1949, and looked like a plain white cigarette lighter. Boring. Pez soon moved to After all this museum hopping, you will no doubt be hungry. So, if you happen decorating the boxes with scantily clad “Pez girls” to entice buyers. But, when to find yourself in New Haven, try the pizza. They’re famous for it. the candy came to the U.S. in 1952, adult themes didn’t fly. The target audience Back in 1861, while America was being torn apart by the Civil War, the states shifted, and popular child-centered designs began their popular run as fun flip of the Italian Peninsula and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies were uniting to tops, known as “heads.” In ensuing years, the heads have included everything become one nation state: Italy. Just a few years later, in 1880, the city of Naples from cartoon characters to presidents, and trucks to football helmets. And virtu- produced the first modern pizza. And when in 1889 Queen Margherita came to ally every Pez dispenser ever made is on display in Orange, as are related items. A town, pizza maker Raffaele Esposito created in her honor the Pizza Margherita, highlight for me was the Camilla Elphick designer pump featuring a Pez dispenser garnished with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil, the colors of the new Italian flag. high heel. Today, pizza is one of America’s favorite foods, and the Neopolitan style of that Pez sells about 70 million dispensers and 5 billion candies beloved pie is alive and well in New Haven, home to a large Italian population that every year in more than 80 countries worldwide. And while the claims theirs as the best pizza in the country. (Apologies to Chicago deep-dish fans.) dispensers are still manufactured overseas, every one of the tiny There are a few important facts you need to know about this storied dish. bricks (kosher, no less!) is manufactured at the Connecticut plant First, it is not pizza, but “apizza,” and it is pronounced “ah-beets.” Second, unlike —12 million tablets every single day. quick-rise New York pizza, New Haven’s dough is left to proof very, very slowly in Pez dispensers have remained the refrigerator. Third, the crust is not only thin; it is charred (please, never say so beloved that thousands of people “burnt”), in a super-hot oven. Finally, although a New Haven pizza does come around the world collect them and with a few shavings of pecorino Romano on top, the sauce is the focus. Mozzarella attend conventions of like-minded is considered a topping that you have to request. aficionados where they can buy and sell the dispensers. And the prices can go sky-high. One fan spent $13,000 for dispensers in the likeness of Britain’s New Haven-Style Pizza Prince William and his then-fiancée I’ve adapted this recipe to use my bread machine for the mixing because I love Kate Middleton. the texture the machine gives. Regular admission to the museum is $5, for children 3 to 12 and Seniors Dough Ingredients: 1 teaspoon salt Warner Brother’s Sylvester the Cat as $4, while $2 from every ticket is cred- 4 cups bread flour, preferably ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper a Pez dispenser and Pez pumps, with ited toward purchase in the gift shop. Italian “00” tipo, extra for 1 tablespoon olive oil Bugs Bunny So of course we bought some — My dusting Little Pony, The Flash, Wonder Woman, 2 teaspoons kosher salt For the Toppings: C3PO, and Darth Vader — for the grandkids. 1 teaspoon active dry yeast 1 cup shaved pecorino Romano On a more serious note was Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, housed at 1 1/2 cups water cheese Quinnipiac College in Hamden. The mission of this unique museum is to investi- Cooking spray 12 ounces fresh mozzarella, torn gate the Famine and its impact through art, artifacts, and literature. The museum into small chunks has an extensive and unique collection of art ranging from contemporaneous Sauce ingredients: Handful basil leaves 19th-century illustrations to present-day paintings and sculptures by Irish and 14 oz. can whole peeled San 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil Irish-American artists. Marzano tomatoes, drained First, some background for those not familiar with the Great Hunger. In 1845, well a fungus-like disease called “late blight” arrived accidentally from North America 1 teaspoon oregano and spread rapidly throughout Ireland, destroying most of the potato crops over the course of seven years. Because Irish peasants relied heavily on the potato for Instructions: sustenance, the consequences were catastrophic. In what has been described Pour water into bread machine bowl. Add salt, flour, and yeast in exact order as “the worst demographic catastrophe in 19th century European history,” the (salt will interfere with yeast action) Potato Famine resulted in the deaths of roughly one million men, women, and children from starvation and other causes. Another million Irish emigrated to Press “Dough” option and let the ingredients come together. If the dough other countries, many to America. By the end of the century, the population of appears sticky, add flour 1 tablespoon. If the mixture is too dry, add water 1 Ireland had dropped to half of what it had been tablespoon at a time. before the blight. Stop the machine and put dough into bowl coated with vegetable spray. Cover We learned that this tragedy wasn’t just about the tightly with plastic wrap. potato blight and the ensuing famine that caused Place bowl in refrigerator for 48 hours. mass dislocation. No, it was about absent land- When ready to make the pizza, transfer the dough to a floured work surface. owners’ manipulation and mistreatment of tenant farmers, about how the British government took food Spray four small bowls with nonstick cooking spray. away from the Irish to feed themselves, and about Divide dough into four equal-size balls. how the British “tumbled” (razed) homes and forced With floured hands, form each section into a ball. migration. Place one dough ball into each bowl. Lightly spray the top of each dough ball The ramifications of British negligence and abuse with nonstick cooking spray. are still felt today. Admission to the museum is $5, and is free Cover each bowl tightly with plastic wrap, and let rise at room temperature for for children, students, and Quinnipiac University 2 hours or until double in volume. faculty and staff. Toward the end of the two hours, pulse the tomatoes in the food processor On the last day of our visit, we drove home by “Connemara Girls,” from until chunky, NOT smooth, and add the spices. way of Hartford to visit the Wadsworth Athenaeum Ireland’s Great Hunger Set the oven to 500 degrees. Place pizza stone or cookie sheet in oven. Museum of Art. Founded in 1844, the Wadsworth Museum is the oldest continuously-operating public art With a floured rolling pin on a floured pizza peel or board, roll out a ball of museum in the country, and its collection includes Greek and Roman antiquities, dough into a 10-inch circle. Shake gently to make sure the dough isn’t sticking European art, costumes and textiles, furniture and decorative arts, and American to the peel. art from the 17th century through today. Divide the sauce and toppings into four portions. Spread the sauce over the dough, leaving a ½ inch edge without sauce. Distribute the pecorino Romano, the mozzarella, and the torn basil leaves on Carol Goodman Kaufman is a psychologist and author with a passion for travel top and drizzle with 1 tablespoon of olive oil. and food. She is currently at work on a food history/cookbook, tracing the paths that some of our favorite foods have taken from their origins to appear on dinner Slide pizza onto the hot stone. plates and in cultural rites and artifacts around the world. She invites readers to Bake 5 to 7 minutes, until cheese is bubbly and crust is charred in places. read her blog at carolgoodmankaufman.com and to follow her on Repeat with remaining dough balls and toppings. Twitter @goodmankaufman. Tevet/Shevat 5780 Berkshire Jewish Voice • jewishberkshires.org Page 19

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ANDY SWEET, sky, the sand, the surf, the your fascinating d’var Torahs, continued from page1 buildings, the clothes. The Henry,” I remember our family difference between Monroe’s rabbi quipping.) the city of my childhood. strident shades of grey and I guess I focus on the This is how I described it in Sweet’s goofily glorious elderly Jews’ aggravation with an article published in The color images is the differ- the cosmos because that’s Forward in 2014: “Growing ence between Dorothy in what entertained me most up in a Modern Orthodox Kansas and Dorothy in Oz. about them. Andy Sweet, who family in Miami Beach in the But Sweet’s achievement by all accounts was a warm, 1960s was like being raised was more than just technical ebullient free spirit, appre- in a Technicolor Anatevka… and compositional – he was hended the pathos but felt South Beach in my formative a true artist who captured far more deeply the joie de years was an insular subtrop- the poignant insouciance of vivre that animated these old ical shtetl, and the idea of his subjects. Sorry for some Jews. It was a zest for living living outside a monolithically more recycled prose, but this that inspired their baroque Jewish community would have is how I once described the sartorial choices, made them been as alien to me then as community of Jews Sweet come together each after- the possibility looking out the photographed in a short story: noon in Lummus Park to sing window and seeing snow.” Miami Beach was home to tens old songs about Romania Sorry for the recycled prose of thousands of Jews who had under the palm trees, led – I just don’t think I can do come south from New York vowing them to packed dances at the much better than that. But not to leave this world without bandshell to show off their photographer Andy Sweet, a fight, or, at the very least, an ballroom steps, and – when also a Miami Beach native, did argument. For the most part their prompted – to strike a pose. do much better, and I prob- lives had been difficult and, having With panache. ably had his work somewhere spent most of their existences buf- ANDY SWEET PHOTO LEGACY CREDIT: As I’ve moved through the in mind when I wrote those feted by stress and turmoil, when Porch sitters on Ocean Drive, photographed by Andy Sweet world, I have often tried to sentences. Sweet’s images of they suddenly found themselves in describe the Miami Beach family owned The Congress cardboard party hats secured South Beach in the late 1970s, a relaxing subtropical environment, of my youth – but if I could Hotel on Ocean Drive in South with elastic bands around now on view at the Yiddish they continued to feel aggravation have, I would have just shared Beach. It was the last such their chins, sang and clapped Book Center in Amherst, are in much the same way an amputee those images captured by property we owned. I was a along. unique, impeccable records imagines he feels pain in a missing Andy Sweet. For decades, they teenager by then, and had I passed endless hours on of that time, that place, and limb. As their time on Earth wound were almost impossible to grown up in the milieu that front porches with people like those people. Starting in 1977, down, the last thing these people find. In 1991, Sweet and Gary Sweet and Monroe docu- those in the picture above, Sweet and his partner, Gary seemed willing to part with was Monroe’s work was published mented. My mother organized who spent the sunny days Monroe, initiated a 10-year their bitterness. in an art book titled Miami grant-funded project to photo- the kind of celebrations in brooding on deck chairs while Beach, with a foreword by graph the denizens of South A person’s time in Miami Beach hotel lobbies that the two staring out at the Atlantic Isaac Bashevis Singer, who Beach. was often short, but it seemed photographers found so fasci- Ocean. My father used to lived just up Collins Avenue in Stylistically and long. Life in Miami Beach was nating – as proprietors, we enjoy telling the story of how Surfside. It was well-received temperamentally, the two like a videotaped 100-meter dash were expected to provide our he, after noticing that one of at the time, but went out of photographers could not have replayed in slow motion. One can guests with ENTERTAINMENT! his resident porch sitters had print. And that was it – Andy been more different. Monroe still see the strain of all-out exer- I still think the second not moved in quite some time, Sweet’s photographs, you see, took a “serious” documentar- tion by the participants, the fury of funniest thing I’ve ever seen called Fire Rescue and sat could not be reproduced. His ian’s approach and used only competition on their faces, but at was the birthday party of one down next to the man – who, negatives had been entrusted black and white film – and the same time everything moves a of our residents, who doddered sadly, had indeed died – and to a storage company that though he might deny it six whole lot slower. The decelerated with pleasure as the frog- engaged him in conversa- specialized in handling fine ways to Sunday (as he once pace of existence served to mag- voiced chanteuse we hired for tion for 20 minutes until the art, but at some point, that did to me at an art opening we nify life’s little dramas, while at the the occasion serenaded him ambulance arrived, so as not company misplaced every last both attended), I bet you he same time cutting every event, be with “Take…good…care of to alarm the other guests. (“No one of them. it tragic or joyous, with a dollop of yourself / Yoooooou belong to doubt an excellent opportunity still sometimes wakes up with ANDY SWEET, the surreal. me,” while the other elderly for you to have shared one of a start in the middle of the continued on page 20 night ruing the opportunity he At the time Sweet and guests, the majority wearing missed. Monroe were engaged in what Because South Beach was they called the “Miami Beach all about color – the sun, the Photographic Project,” my Page 20 Berkshire Jewish Voice • jewishberkshires.org January 1 to February 16, 2020 BERKSHIRE JEWISH VOICES

ANDY SWEET, It was very hard to imagine by chance in the family's attic continued from page 19 the city turning around. And and Ellen’s husband, Stan after my mother died of cancer Hughes, was using them That Sweet’s negatives in 1981, my father more or to restore them with digital vanished was not only a loss less gave up on being a busi- graphic technology. to the art of photography, but nessman, and retreated into In the years that followed, also to history. He and Monroe an uneasy retirement. the Andy Sweet Photo Legacy captured Jewish South Beach Those violent times also started sharing newly-recov- on the cusp of its demise, just claimed the life of Andy Sweet. ered images on its Facebook before the catastrophes the Somewhere along the line, he page. I treated each one’s neighborhood experienced had lost his way and started arrival as a major occa- following the Mariel boatlift of using too many drugs. In sion, perplexing many of my 1980. 1982, he was stabbed to death non-Miami Beach friends who Most of the approximately in his apartment during a couldn’t understand why I was 800 buildings in what is now drug deal gone wrong. The sharing these odd images. This the Miami Beach Art Deco tragedy of his murder was was my childhood, I would tell District were built in the compounded by the loss of his them. This was not only what 1930s, and all started to show negatives by the warehouse the world looked like to me, their age at the same time. company, which was discov- this is what I understood of it. Their inhabitants, mostly ered by his horrified family in Then, suddenly, Andy elderly working-class Jews 1996, ten years after they had Sweet’s photographs were living on fixed incomes, were been placed in storage – all everywhere. The restored willing to sacrifice mainte- that remained of his work, it images were discovered by nance of the properties in seemed, would be prints, their a new audience, and photo exchange for lower rents. By color fading with time. essays appeared in publi- the end of the 1970s, rundown I left Miami Beach for cations like The New Yorker

South Beach was the cheapest college in 1980, returning in and Washington Post. The ANDY SWEET PHOTO LEGACY CREDIT: place to live in South Florida. 1987 to South Beach, which traveling exhibition now at Lummus Park, captured by Andy Sweet The boatlift took place was still suffering the effects of the Yiddish Book Center, A between April and October the early 1980s crimewave but Shtetl in the Sun, was orga- describe, Andy’s I can point must have gotten a real kick of 1980. Cuba’s Communist just starting to turn around nized by The Jewish Museum to, and no longer do they seem out of him. dictator, Fidel Castro, opened thanks to farsighted preser- of Florida—FIU, and has entirely separable. As Paul Bowles famously the port of Mariel for emigra- vationists, canny real estate traveled to museums and As the film wraps up, Stan wrote in his novel The tion, and approximately developers, and a bohemian galleries around the world. A Hughes discusses the ongoing Sheltering Sky: “How many 125,000 of his subjects fled vanguard just looking to live book by the same name, with restoration of the test sheets, more times will you remember by boat to the United States. the life. I took an apartment 120 of Sweet’s photographs, and holds up the one below as a certain afternoon of your Castro also unlocked his on Ocean Drive in a run-down was published in 2019 and is an example of how the images childhood, some afternoon prisons and mental institu- shrine of architectural eccen- already in its third printing. tions, however, sending an tricity called the Amsterdam The documentary film The estimated 16,000 to 20,000 Palace, which Gianni Versace Last Resort came out in 2018, criminals to the United States would a few years later and it tells Andy’s story – the along with the asylum seekers. purchase and transform into Miami Beach Photographic Struggling to resettle in their a real palace. There I enjoyed Project collaboration with Gary new home, many Mariel refu- a glorious few years, living the Monroe; his murder and the gees, law abiding and not, life. infuriating efforts to bring his sought out lodging they could Remnants of the Jewish killers properly to justice; the afford, and showed up in population remained, but their bitter loss of his negatives; Miami Beach. ranks were being thinned by and the restoration and trium- I was finishing up high attrition and mortality. Newly- phant second act that his school when the boatlift minted retirees were no longer work is now enjoying. changed everything. All of a choosing South Beach, opting I didn’t rush out to see sudden – and it was sudden instead to spend their golden it. I’d felt so emotionally – the landscape captured in years in retirement villages connected to Sweet’s work that Sweet’s work was populated further up the coast. By the I wanted to put off the expe- not only by elderly Jews, early 1990s, those of us who rience for as long as possible look before being digitized. that’s so deeply a part of your but also by terrifying thugs remembered South Beach in order to savor not only the The woman on the far left being that you can’t even and people who were clearly, back in the day would talk experience but my anticipation is my mother. She is standing conceive of your life without dangerously out of their about how the best, truest of it, as one might reserve a in the lobby of The Congress it? Perhaps four or five times minds. It was described as an record of that era was repre- special bottle of Scotch for a Hotel with her ladies, dressed more. Perhaps not even that. instant, seemingly permanent sented by Sweet and Monroe’s meaningful occasion. in their finest. As they are all How many more times will crimewave that in fact lasted out-of-print art book, Miami But one snowy morning holding pocketbooks, I assume you watch the full moon rise? for several years, until the Beach. My copy, alas, was last winter, I received a they were about to head out Perhaps twenty. And yet it all hardest of the hard-core cases destroyed by flooding in my Facebook message from one for a luncheon, the kind my seems limitless.” ended up either locked away father’s garage, and when I of my first childhood friends, Jewishly-engaged mother used To which I’ll add, some- or dead. tried to replace it several years who told me that I really had to organize in her role as pres- times it seeming that way is The Jews of South Beach later, I found that copies were to watch The Last Resort right ident of the Hebrew Academy more than enough. who could afford to leave, selling online for hundreds of away. Be sure to pay attention Women. My mother was left. Those who remained felt dollars. near the end of the movie, she constantly shuttling ladies like “A Shtetl in the Sun” will intimidated, and retreated About five years ago, said. these around Miami Beach to be on view through March from the communal activi- however, some of Sweet’s So with my snowbound wife events, doctor’s appointments, at The Yiddish Book Center, ties they once enjoyed. They images started to pop up in and son, I watched The Last shopping, and so on. I was the 1021 West Street, Amherst, were poorer and sadder, and my Facebook feed, shared Resort. As I did, I realized how kid in the car who, my Gawd MA. For more information, the hardships of aging that by groups created for people my own memories of South I can’t believe it, had grown so visit yiddishbookcenter.org. had been ameliorated by the who had grown up in South Beach are now filtered through big since last they saw me. For more on Andy Sweet, visit rich social and civic life once Florida. I started corre- Andy’s images. So many of our My mother died within andysweetphotolegacy.com. available to them became more sponding with Andy’s sister memories, particularly casual two years of that photo being The Last Resort is available pronounced – the loneliness, and champion, Ellen Sweet ones, do not persist as real- taken. It was the first unfa- on Netflix. Albert Stern would the infirmity, the isolation Moss, who was in the early time narratives, but more as miliar image of my mother that like to thank Ellen Sweet Moss from family. stages of bringing the photos moments frozen in time – and I had encountered in nearly for allowing the BJV to use My family sold The back into the public eye. A my Miami Beach moments 35 years – and she is in her the unpublished image of his Congress Hotel, at a loss, in cache of test prints that no and Andy Sweet’s have started element! Knowing the type of mother and her ladies that the early 1980s. 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