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JEWISH NEWS® CANDLELIGHTING DENVER 7:46 P.M INTERMOUNTAIN WWW.IJN.COM JEWISH NEWS® CANDLELIGHTING DENVER 7:46 p.m. BOULDER 7:48 p.m. ASPEN 7:52 p.m. Vol. 106, No. 32 Av 8, 5779 AUGUST 9, 2019 © Published every Friday, Denver, CO $1.75 Surgery sharpened Dems in Cummings brings more than my sight Detroit youth to Israel split Baltimore’s Congressman celebrates 20 years of youth leadership program What to do with Rashida Tlaib? By RON KAMPEAS JTA ETROIT — The Jews of Detroit, which hosted last week’s Democratic presi- dential debates, are proud Dof their role in the recovery of their city. Scott Kaufman, CEO of the Jewish federation here, described efforts spearheaded by the philanthropy to encourage younger Jews to move back into the city,and the relatively youth- ful congregants at the Downtown Synagogue. Jewish leaders are especially proud of the role played by Daniel By HILLEL GOLDBERG Gilbert, the local boy who found- ed Quicken Loans and who has IJN Editor and Publisher led the revitalization of the city center. he whole world is a syna- closed the “new,” good eye and I can’t tell you how often I heard gogue. I realized this last looked at the same wall with my that I and other debate-goers week after an eye surgery old, bad eye. The wall was a dull would not have been able to safe- Samuel Scott (yellow shirt) says the Elijah Cummings Youth which endowed a short Jew- green. Then I closed the old eye ly stroll to the Fox Theatre a Leadership Program, including a trip to Israel (above), inspired Tish prayer with sparkling new and opened the new one. The wall him to build bridges with the Jewish community. decade ago, and that much of this meaning. Like all observant Jews, was light blue! I asked my wife, was thanks to Gilbert. By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN I recite each morning upon awak- which is the true color? “Blue,” But this wasn’t a unanimous JTA ening: “I give thanks before You, she said. I had been looking out opinion. Rabbi Alana Alpert, who living and enduring King, for hav- at a world through a smudged film leads Detroit Jews for Justice, ALTIMORE — Eight years the Holocaust and spent close to ing returned my soul to me, with that dulled all of its colors. provided a counterpoint: Gilbert compassion. Great is Your faith [in Now, everything from the sky ago Aaliyah Cuthrell knew a month living in a youth village was “not elected to make deci- little about the Jewish com- in Israel’s north. me].” (clear or cloudy) to a tree to a yel- sions,” and some of the develop- Gratitude is the highest Jew- low sticky pad to a grey-and-white munity, beyond what she Cuthrell said that after having ment has pushed people out. Bhad seen on a visit to her local JCC done the program she believes it ish ethical trait. Never did it pattern on a tissue box jumps out That disagreement is an echo to use the pool. is crucial for the two communi- become more meaningful to me at me. The words on the comput- of wider tensions in the Jewish than when I threw away my whole er seem to wiggle and dance, so Things look different now for the ties to have good ties. community here and elsewhere, 24-year-old.As a high school junior, “From what I saw growing up life. To be more precise, my oph- bright and distinct they are. Any between moderate mainstream thalmologist threw it away. Sud- image, whether artistically con- she joined a prestigious two-year and from how I’ve studied things and vocal progressives. program for African-American when I was in college and learned denly, my world is a blaze of reds, figured or unaesthetically jumbled These and other tensions were greens, blues, yellows and blacks. like a toddler’s smears, screams teens in Baltimore. The program, about incidents in the past, the on display last week in Detroit, founded by Rep. Elijah Cummings, communities are not very close,” I had no idea what the world looked one word: beauty. I am humbled where I attended the debates. like. For who knows how many and grateful. I cannot believe D-Md., seeks to strengthen ties Cuthrell, who works as a commu- Over two nights, the 20 Democ- between the African American and nications coordinator for an insur- years I had looked out at a dif- how blessed I am nor how igno- ratic contenders showed a will- ferent, darker, blurry world, as rant I was. Jewish communities in his Balti- ance company, told JTA. ingness to tear down the more district. Bringing them together is my eyesight progressively deteri- The emergence of gratitude as moderate frontrunner,former Vice orated. the primary Jewish ethical trait As part of her fellowship in 2011- “important because it brings two President Joe Biden, and uncer- 2013, Cuthrell met with Jewish After the surgery that repaired has long roots in Jewish ethical tainty about how best to achieve one of my eyes but not yet the teens, attended seminars on top- CUMMINGS other, I was standing in the doc- SIGHT DETROIT ics such as anti-Semitism and Continued on Page 16 tor’s office looking at the wall. I Continued on Page 17 Continued on Page 17 Israel No freedom Anti-Semitic, righteous convert thwarts of religion in isenmenger belonged Mannheim, Germany, who dedi- to the class of insects FRAUD which sucks poison Continued on Page 5 mass shooting Jordan even out of flowers,” “Ethe 19th-century Jewish histori- ERUSALEM (JTA) — A JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jor- Hamas cell in Hebron dan’s religion minister, Abed an Heinrich Graetz wrote. INSIDE Graetz was referring to Johann was planning a bomb al Nasr abu Bassel, ordered Business .......................................13 attack in Jerusalem but the presumed gravesite of Andreas Eisenmenger, a young Classifieds ....................................19 Jwas thwarted, the Israel Secu- Aharon the High Priest, Moses’ 17th-century scholar from Columnists ...............................4, 23 rity Agency said. brother closed on Aug. 2, fol- Editorials......................................24 The cell, operating under the lowing a mass prayer there Legal Notices...............................18 direction of Hamas’ military earlier last week by 500 pil- Leisure..........................................12 wing in the Gaza Strip, had grims from Israel at the Lively Opinion...............................4 gravesite, located about 100 Readers Speak................................5 been ordered to carry out Shmoos.........................................22 attacks against both Israel and miles north of Eilat. Obituaries.....................................20 the PA. A statement by the ministry Synagogues & Calendar ..............21 “The operatives in the West called the pilgrimage “illegal” Today’s Life...........................10, 11 Bank were instructed to form and stated that the Jordani- Weekly Calendar 14 cells in order to carry out kid- ans responsible for allowing nappings, shootings and stab- pilgrims access to the site THWARTS will be “held accountable,”Ynet Continued on Page 16 reported last week. WWW.IJN.COM — Most Local Jewish Information on the Web • FOUR-WEEK FREE IJN SUBSCRIPTION, 303-861-2234 2• INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • August 9, 2019 Snapshot ® SHORT EDITOR AND PUBLISHER from the assistant publisher Rabbi Hillel Goldberg, PhD • [email protected] TAKES Shana R. Goldberg ASSOCIATE EDITOR Larry Hankin • [email protected] ASSISTANT EDITOR Book of 1912: Negro Leagues Chris Leppek • [email protected] ’ve always liked the turn of But it also outlines the chal- SENIOR WRITER Tucholsky’s Rheinsberg phrase: “I’ve forgotten more lenges, which ranged from finan- Andrea Jacobs • [email protected] about ]fill-in-the-blank] than cial to logistical: Where could you’ll ever know.” That can players literally sleep when travel- ASSISTANT PUBLISHER eutsche Welle recently DIGITAL EDITOR Icertainly be said about me, my ling through areas where black peo- released its 100 must-read Shana R. Goldberg • [email protected] books of German litera- father and baseball. ple were, to put it mildly, not ture translated into Eng- I love going to Rockies’ games, welcome? FEATURES Dlish. The list has one entry per but my knowledge of the history Through the story of the Negro Elaine Goldberg, Jonathan Tobin, year, starting in 1901 and going of the sport is pretty much limited Leagues, the museum also con- Tehilla R. Goldberg, Amy Lederman, through 2016. For 1912, the book to “Field of Dreams” and the infa- veys the wonder of the baseball’s Drs. Oz and Roizen, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks mous tale of Shoeless Joe Jack- early days, before everything was is Rheinsberg, Kurt Tucholsky’s first ISRAEL BUREAU novel. son. And though I’ve seen “42,” so highly professionalized. The Rabbi Mattis Goldberg Tucholsky, best known as a Jew- the film about Jackie Robinson, I Negro Leagues weren’t the only ish Weimar-era journalist, satirist didn’t really understand what the alternative baseball around. One ADVERTISING and writer, based the protagonist Negro Leagues were. That all that caught my attention was the Lori Aron • [email protected] of Rheinsberg, Claire, on his first changed with a trip to Kansas City, all-bearded “House of David,” field- home to the Negro Leagues Base- ed by a Christian religious cult. PRODUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY wife Else Weil. Written at the age Seiji K. Nagata • [email protected] of 22, Rheinsberg tells the story of ball Museum. Another oddity: An 1925 exhi- a young couple vacationing in the In the late 19th century, one play- bition game pitted the black Wichi- BUSINESS STAFF countryside where they bicker in a er, Cap Anson, helped erect in ta Monrovians against a white team David H. Fetscher • [email protected] patois of their own devising. the Major Leagues a color barrier fielded solely by KKK members.
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