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Thursday, January 14, 2021 • 1 Shevat 5781 • VOLUME 75 NO. 2 • tjpnews.com $1.00 The Capitol Breached Jewish groups respond, p.2

Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images A Capitol police offi cer stands with members of the National Guard behind a crowd control fence surrounding Capitol Hill a day after a pro-Trump mob broke into the Capitol building, Jan. 7, 2021.

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By Ron Kampeas supporters to disband and told them the rioters to disperse immediately,” (JTA) — AIPAC hardly ever that he “loved them.” it said in a statement. ”Law and order pronounces on any issue that does The Anti-Defamation League must be restored, and the peaceful not relate to Israel. It’s also loath to also named Trump. “The violence transition of administrations must criticize a sitting president. at the U.S. Capitol is the result continue.” But the preeminent pro-Israel of disinformation from our B’nai B’rith International lobby did both Wednesday, Jan. 6, highest offi ce,” it said in a tweet. “strongly urged” Trump “to publicly after rioters supporting President “Extremists are among the rioters condemn the rioters.” “Though it’s Donald Trump stormed the U.S. in DC supporting President Trump’s horrifying to see the U.S. Capitol Capitol to stop the count of electoral reckless rhetoric on America’s under siege, the seeds for this have votes that would formalize Joe democratic institutions.” ADL’s CEO been planted and nurtured for many Biden’s win. At presstime, fi ve Jonathan Greenblatt called on social years,” the statement said. people died as a result of the violence media to suspend Trump’s accounts; Ronald Lauder, the president of including Capitol police offi cer Brian a number of platforms eventually the World Jewish Congress, called Sicknick. heeded those calls. the attack on the Capitol a “brutal

“We share the anger of our The Jewish Council for Public onslaught on our nation’s integrity Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images fellow Americans over the attack Affairs, the umbrella body for Jewish and historical traditions.” A pro-Trump mob storms the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald at the Capitol and condemn the public policy bodies, also named The Orthodox Union weighed in Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the assault on our democratic values Trump. “This was a direct assault on at fi rst by endorsing the Presidents’ nation’s capital today to protest the ratifi cation of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. and process,” AIPAC, the American our democratic process, and nothing Conference statement, but on Israel Public Affairs Committee, less than an attempt to disrupt the Thursday morning, Jan. 7, issued Rabbi Abba Cohen. including his anti-immigration said in a statement posted to Twitter peaceful transition of power in a a statement pointedly aimed at “The U.S. Capitol is more than a policies, and his expressions of that evening. “This violence, and presidential election and an act of Trump and with a tone of relief at majestic building,” Cohen said. “It is bigotry. President Trump’s incitement of it, is sedition,” it said in a statement. the prospect of Trump’s term ending the true house of the people and the It was no different on Jan. 6. outrageous and must end.” “We urge in the strongest possible and a new administration incoming. home of democracy. It is the hope of “Earlier today, an armed seditious The statement, crafted during an terms that President Trump and “We are deeply saddened and the nation. You feel it when entering mob stormed the Capitol at emergency meeting of the lobby’s others immediately cease incendiary shaken by yesterday’s violent its doors and walking its halls. Today, President Trump’s behest, with the executive committee, was among rhetoric and restore order.” events at the U.S. Capitol that have it was a place of shameful violence aim of preventing elected Members a host of extraordinary comments Two legacy groups were cautious badly upset our sense of peace and and tyranny. Stop or we are lost.” of Congress from certifying the on American democracy by Jewish and condemned the violence while security,” the statement said. “There The Conservative movement’s presidential vote in the Electoral groups, many of which typically not directly blaming Trump. The is no place for the kind of outrageous Rabbinical Assembly called on College,” said the Israel Policy steer clear of partisan politics. American Jewish Committee called incitement that fed that assault on Trump “to defend and uphold the Forum, a two-state advocacy group. AIPAC was not the only on Trump “to call for an immediate the pillars of our democracy. It must constitution of the United States,” “We unreservedly and wholly mainstream Jewish organization end to the riots and respect the stop. We call upon President Trump but did not blame him for what it condemn this.” to speak out on an extraordinary certifi cation process currently to do all that is in his power — and called an “attack on democracy and J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle day that resulted in what once underway,” without noting that it is indeed in his power — to restore its institutions.” East policy group, said, “The was unthinkable: police spiriting Trump started the fi re, as many that peace.” The Reform movement’s president repeatedly incited far-right hundreds of lawmakers into safe others had — including some It concluded: “We pray to the Religious Action Center was less shy, thugs to subvert our democracy, and havens while marauders roamed and leading Republicans. Almighty that He grant strength saying, “The fact that today’s events now they’re trying to do just that.” looted the Capitol. Its statement was The Conference of Presidents and wisdom to President-elect Biden were encouraged by the President of “I’m heartbroken for our also far from the only one to criticize of Major American Jewish and Vice President-elect “Kamala” the United States who has refused country,” National Council of Trump explicitly. Organizations, the umbrella Harris as they lead this great to accept his electoral loss is equally Jewish Women CEO Sheila Katz said Trump invited protesters to foreign policy group for the Jewish country forward in unity, peace, and terrifying and heartbreaking.” on Twitter. Hadassah, the women’s Washington, D.C., and earlier on community, did not name Trump security.” Liberal groups like the RAC have Zionist organization, alluded to Jan. 6 urged them to march on at all, although its statement was Agudath Israel of America throughout Trump’s presidency Trump, saying that “The criminal the Capitol. 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By Ron Kampeas (JTA) — Two days after his election to the Senate helped tip the balance of power in Washington, Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff found another historical echo in his victory. In a Twitter thread, Ossoff described his trajectory from a teenage intern for John Lewis, the Georgia congressman and civil rights hero who died last year, to U.S. senator. “And now a Jewish man he mentored and a Black man who was his pastor have been elected to represent the State of Georgia in the U.S. Senate,” Ossoff said. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images “I know Congressman Lewis Jon Ossoff embraces then-Rep. John Lewis as they campaigned together during Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images a 2017 election for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, in Sandy Springs, Ga., Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock bump elbows on stage during a rally with is looking down on us today June 17, 2017. President-elect Joe Biden outside Center Parc Stadium in Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 4, 2021. beaming with optimism.” Lewis is not the only link alliance that lagged for decades Caucus Co-Chair Congressman whose pseudonym is Chloris whom Gov. Brian Kemp named between Ossoff and Raphael after its 1960s heyday and that John Lewis, and Rabbi Abraham Creator. “Comparing them to as interim senator a year ago, Warnock, who, like Ossoff, in recent years has been revived, Joshua Heschel,” Democratic Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum when neither secured 50% defeated his Republican according to Jewish Democrats Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Independence Day, the black of the vote in the November opponent in last week’s Georgia in the state, particularly in areas of Florida and Brenda Lawrence & the Jew who saved the world election. runoff election and gave like improving health care and of Michigan, the co-chairwoman … I’ll leave it at that.” Still, once it was determined Democrats a razor-thin majority justice reforms. of the Congressional Caucus Of course, Ossoff and on Nov. 3 that Warnock in the Senate. Both invoked the “They campaigned together on Black-Jewish Relations, said Warnock came to be nominees and Ossoff would, in an historic Black-Jewish alliance effectively as a ticket,” said Friday in a news release. not by design, but by fending off extraordinary circumstance, be during their campaigns and in Michael Rosenzweig, an Atlanta A blogger on Daily Kos, others in the primaries. Ossoff running alongside one another, the celebrations that followed consultant who is involved in the clearinghouse website for faced incumbent Republican they seized the coincidence of their victories. state Democratic politics. “And Democratic activists, took David Perdue in a conventional history and repeatedly played “I think Abraham Joshua they were very, very open, very delight in a viral tweet the challenge: Perdue was ending up the Black-Jewish alliance. Heschel, the rabbi who said when explicit about the importance day after the election showing his freshman six-year term in So did the Jewish Democratic he marched with Dr. King he felt of the fact that we had a Black actors Will Smith and Jeff the Senate. Neither man got Council of America, which ran like his legs are praying, I think pastor running alongside a Goldblum, stars of the 1996 a majority and, according to ads in the state. he and Dr. King are smiling in young very proud American film “Independence Day,” Georgia law, that triggered an It was a natural gambit, this moment and we hope to Jew.” enjoying their victory over an automatic runoff on Jan. 5. according to Ellen Rafshoon, a make them proud,” Warnock Others took note of the extraterrestrial menace. “The (Georgia’s unique runoff professor of history at Georgia said in a video, referring to historical resonance. last time a black man and Jewish system was advanced in the Gwinnett College. Rafshoon, the Jewish theologian who “This reckoning celebrates man saved America,” the tweet 1960s by white supremacist state like Ossoff, is a member of The joined Martin Luther King on decades of struggle by countless said. (Smith is Black; Goldblum legislators who did not want an Temple, the Reform synagogue a 1965 march from Selma to civil rights foot soldiers and is Jewish and so was his character African American elevated to in Atlanta white supremacists Montgomery. leaders inspired by the likes in the movie, David Levinson.) office by winning a plurality.) bombed in 1958 because of its Ossoff, a 33-year-old Jewish of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Warnock! Ossoff! … Wow,” Similarly Warnock faced documentary filmmaker, and our recently-passed Black-Jewish said the Daily Kos blogger, Kelly Loeffler, a Republican see SENATE, p.9 Warnock, a 51-year-old pastor at Ebenezer Baptist, the Atlanta If you or someone you know is homebound and has been impacted by the coronavirus church where King preached until his 1968 assassination, Please visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/dallascovidneeds made history when they became the first Jew and the first African American from Georgia sent to The Jewish Federation, led by the Health Crisis Management Team, is orchestrating the delivery of the U.S. Senate. essential needs to those most impacted by social distancing and quarantine due to COVID-19. For Democrats and liberals, their win became a save-the- If you have an urgent need, please call the help line below world moment, particularly 214-615-5241| M-TH 9am-5pm | Fri 9am-3pm as it coincided so starkly with President Donald Trump’s Stay Safe. 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By Deb Silverthorn Dallas native Gabriella Greif has returned to her hometown to open GG-Physical Therapy, a mobile, cash-based, concierge physical therapy practice dedicated to bringing services to indoor and outdoor personal spaces throughout the DFW area. “I’m glad to be back in Dallas and to help my community to feel better and stronger and to actually be better and stronger,” said Greif, who spent the past decade in Boston, where Photos: Courtesy Gabriella Greif she earned her degrees from Gabriella Greif leads a client in a workout. Northeastern University and worked in the field. She is also accenting her Greif Family: parents Lizzy Rosenberg Greif and Dr. Jules Greif, Gabriella and Jake services with free monthly virtual workshops, including rescheduled. to her services, adjusting and Hip Mobility, available for two The daughter of Lizzy customizing work areas and weeks beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Rosenberg Greif and Dr. Jules furnishings. She advises on Jan. 26 at tinyurl.com/gg-pt-hip- Greif, and sister to Jake, Gabriella maintenance of a healthy mobility. is a former Dallas Mavericks workspace and exercises to “Decreased hip mobility can Ballkid. An avid athlete, Greif manage issues due to prolonged lead to many functional deficits was inspired to follow her career sitting. stemming from the lower back path after her own rehabilitative For more information, or to all the way down to the feet experiences. A member of the schedule an appointment, visit and that is often overlooked as JCC Dallas Maccabi basketball gg-physicaltherapy.com or email an impairment in the medical team for four years, who also gabriella@gg-physicaltherapy. Gabriella Greif provides a therapy Gabriella Greif, physical therapist wrap for a client. profession. I am excited to played for the Shelton High com. provide education in this virtual School Chargers, after a knee form,’’ Greif said. injury she followed an intense Greif, who earned her treatment routine. bachelor’s degree in rehabilitative “I always appreciated how my science and her doctorate in dad helped his patients heal,” physical therapy, has worked she said, “and my own physical in private clinics and hospitals therapy program confirmed my including six months earlier this decision, and my future path.” year with patients in COVID- Her pediatrician dad expressed secure units. pride in his daughter’s achievements. Greif comes to all in-home “We’re not surprised that and outdoor sessions with a Gabriella’s drive, passion and table, weights and resistance motivation about fitness and bands and, based on her clients’ health has brought her success,” own equipment, formulates an Dr. Greif said. “She doesn’t just exercise regimen. preach; she absolutely practices “My programs don’t require what she teaches.” bicycles or treadmills, although Her mom agreed: “It’s if available, that’s great,” said incredible to see how happy and Greif, who uses manual therapy, rewarded Gabriella feels as her targeted exercise techniques patients progress. When the kids and functional training. She are happy, parents are at their is also certified in functional happiest, and we’re thrilled for dry needling and as a running her and know her patients are in rehabilitation specialist. “This special hands.” year has taught us to be creative Greif’s initial evaluation in many ways and health care is includes a series of tests and one of them.” measures to assess current Greif shares her COVID-19 injuries or issues and any policies and procedures with her additional impairments. Once clients, each visit preceded by a a diagnosis is made, a care plan temperature check and symptoms is determined and follow-up questionnaire. Masks are worn appointments are scheduled. by patients and Greif throughout With the increased number appointments, and any COVID- of at-home offices, Greif has 19-related cancellations will be added an ergonomic evaluation 6 | January 14, 2021 DALLAS DOINGS

ttjpnews.comjpnews.com Dallas Jewish BookFest resumes Jan. 14

Educate, inspire, entertain

By Deb Silverthorn

Over 20 years Healthcare Executive Experience The JCC’s Margot Pulitzer Dallas Jewish BookFest begins the second half of the season’s offerings starting Susan Cedars at 7 p.m. Thursday. “We are very excited to start • Executive Coaching the year with a lineup of incredible authors, introducing their • Team Coaching books which are interesting and meaningful,” said Rachelle Weiss • Wellbeing Coaching Crane, the JCC’s director of Israel Engagement and Jewish Living. “It’s • Conflict Intervention been challenging but we are inspired as we look forward to providing Photo: Courtesy Holly Firfer our audiences with an incredible Holly Firfer, host of many of the JCC BookFest events, with audience members and schedule.” (bottom left to right) authors Jodi Picoult and Judy Blume (480) 292–2108 · [email protected] The JCC Margot Pulitzer Dallas Jewish BookFest has partnered, for most events, with the Jewish Book Council and the National JCC Literary Consortium of centers from around the country. In the past four months, more than 30 books were featured, many hosted by Holly Firfer of CNN Airport Network and CNN Headline News. “I’ve read more books this year than ever and I’m loving every minute of it,” said Firfer. “The authors have been delightful and appreciative to promote their books however possible right now. “I’m all in for the interviews,” said Firfer, a native of Glenview, Illinois, and now aw member of Photo: Courtesy Holly Firfer Photo: Courtesy Erica Katz Holly Firfer Erica Katz Temple Kol Emeth in Marietta, Georgia. “I want to talk enough inter-office affair but became so Girl Fast & Easy” (Jan. 17); Esther about the books so the authors can much more: friendship, diversity Amini’s “Concealed” (Jan. 19, co- share their masterpieces, but leave and the system of corporate sponsored with Tycher Library); the audiences wanting to read. It’s a America.” Gabrielle Glaser’s “American balancing act, but it’s been terrific.” While Katz’s book is not set Baby” (Jan. 31); Philippe Sands’ The 2021 series opener is Erica at her own firm, the writer chose “The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Katz’s “The Boys’ Club,” a page- not to share her writing project Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive” turner about sex and power in with anyone at work. She sent her (Feb. 7); Ruth Behar’s “Letters from corporate America. manuscript to the agent of a writer Cuba” (Feb. 16, co-sponsored with Katz was a practicing attorney she admired. The book moved Tycher Library); Bill Gates’ “How to in Manhattan who’d always found down the office to an editor, who Avoid a Climate Disaster” (Feb. 24); herself sorting out life through loved the book, and who as it turned Mark Gerson’s “The Telling: How the written word. In 2017, amid a out had interned at Katz’s firm 10 Judaism’s Essential Book Reveals hot political arena, the rise of the years earlier. the Meaning of Life” (March 7); Jan #MeToo movement and more that “It’s a dream come true that Eliasberg’s “Hannah’s War,” also the stirred her soul, Katz found she was I didn’t even know I had. Pre- Spring Read of the Tycher Library writing, a lot, and the words kept pandemic, I had my ideas of what of the Jewish Federation of Greater flowing. promoting the book would mean Dallas’ Center for Jewish Education “My first attempt was just to write and of course the webinar route (March 21); and Daniel Lee’s “The something to get people talking wasn’t even a thought,” said Katz, a SS Officer’s Armchair” (April 11). about the workplace. I sat down pseudonym, who remains working For more details, or to register, to write, with all the voices of the at her New York law firm and who visit jccdallas.org/special-events/ happenings around me that I didn’t is working on her second book, bookfest. Programs are recorded agree with, and my first-person already sold. “Still, I couldn’t be and made available to ticket holders narrative came out as fiction,” more excited to share ‘The Boys’ upon request to rweisscrane@ said Katz, whose debut novel was Club’ and to meet readers around jccddallas.org for seven days after published by Harper Collins and the country.” each event. Most BookFest titles can optioned by Netflix even before its Upcoming titles scheduled be purchased at Dallas’ Interabang first printing. “It started with an include Lisa Lillien’s “Hungry Books and other retailers. January 14, 2021 | 7 OUTRAGE IN BRIEF: THE CAPITOL BREACH continued from p.2 Netanyahu calls attack on most powerful democracy,” said the outgoing administration of increasingly serve to divert Capitol ‘disgraceful’ Gantz. President Donald Trump, who attention and resources away behavior and events of this afternoon Gideon Sa’ar of the New incited the mob. from the important work of the (JNS) Israeli Prime Minister are abhorrent, as are attempts to Hope Party, who will likely be Packer was described as department in this critical time of Benjamin Netanyahu issued disrupt democracy with incitement Netanyahu’s biggest rival in the “offbeat” and “extreme” by people a transition of power,” he wrote. a strong condemnation last to violence. As Jews, we know the upcoming election, said he was who spoke with CNN. Virginia Federal Emergency Management Thursday of the attack on the power of words and demand our saddened by the images he saw. records show that he has three Agency Administrator Pete Gaynor U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump elected leaders raise the level of “The events serve as an convictions for driving under the will become acting DHS secretary. supporters the day before, calling discourse and lead with civility.” important reminder of the dangers influence and another for forging Under Wolf and Gaynor, it a “disgraceful act.” Morton Klein, the president of polarization and extremism public records. Someone told the Nonprofit Security Grant “For generations, American of the Zionist Organization of in society. We must never take CNN he worked as a welder and Program — administered democracy has inspired millions America, a group known for its democracy and its institutions for pipe-fitter. by FEMA under the U.S. around the world and in Israel,” support for Trump’s Israel policies, granted,” said Sa’ar. Department of Homeland said Netanyahu, following a Acting US Homeland Security said on Twitter that the marauding Security — rose to prominence meeting in Jerusalem with Capitol rioter in ‘Camp Secretary Chad Wolf resigns in the Capitol was “thoroughly with increased funding as a U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Auschwitz’ sweatshirt unacceptable & intolerable” but went (JNS) U.S. Homeland result of the recent spike Mnuchin, who arrived in the identified as Virginia man on to cite an unsubstantiated report Security Secretary in antisemitic attacks country from a visit to Khartoum, that an FBI agent reported a claim (JTA) — The man who stormed Chad Wolf resigned against Jews and Jewish during which Sudan formally that a busload of the marauders the U.S. Capitol wearing an anti- on Monday in the institutions in New York signed on to the Abraham belonged to Antifa, a catchall term Semitic sweatshirt reading “Camp aftermath of the Jan. 6 and nationwide. Accords. for leftist protesters. Auschwitz” has been identified as mob invasion of the U.S. Wolf is the third “Lawlessness and violence are That allegation was circulating a 56-year-old Virginia man named Capitol by supporters of Cabinet secretary to the opposite of the values we know widely among Orthodox supporters Robert Keith Packer. U.S. President Donald resign in the wake of the Americans and Israelis cherish,” of the president last week, many of CNN identified Packer, whose Trump. Capitol attack, following he said. “The rampage at the Secretary whom decried the violence in D.C. shirt also said “Work Brings In a letter to U.S. Education Capitol was a disgraceful act that Chad Wolf but not the pro-Trump movement Freedom,” a rough translation the Department of Secretary Betsy DeVos must be vigorously condemned.” that led the mob to convene. of the phrase that greeted Jewish Homeland Security staff, Wolf and U.S. Transportation Mnuchin, who will be The Republican Jewish Coalition prisoners arriving at the Nazi wrote that his resignation, which Secretary Elaine Chao. returning to the United States last Thursday morning congratulated concentration camp. The back of took effect just before midnight, Attorney General Bill Barr following his Jerusalem visit, also Biden on winning the election, and the sweatshirt said “Staff.” was “warranted by recent events, resigned on Dec. 23 with less condemned the attack on Capitol in its statement included a plea for a Packer’s photo has circulated including the ongoing and than a month before the end of Hill as “completely unacceptable” peaceful transition to power. in reports of the mob, whose meritless court rulings regarding the Trump administration. and indicated that he would not “After the abhorrent mob attack violent storming of the Capitol the validity of my authority as Wolf is a graduate of Plano be resigning from office as some yesterday on our Capitol, our elected Wednesday led to the deaths of acting secretary. East Senior High School and other senior staff at the White officials went back to work, fulfilled five people, including a police “These events and concerns SMU. House have done in the wake of their duty under our Constitution, officer. He appeared perhaps most the violence. and certified the results of the 2020 prominently in a report by British At the same time, the Rent what youy need from election,” the RJC said. “Now is the newscasters iTV, in which his shirt Israeli leader thanked U.S. time for the same peaceful transition — one of many extremist symbols President Donald Trump for of power that the U.S. has carried out present — is clearly visible as he his administration’s role in for over 220 years,” the RJC added. “It stands behind people who are normalizing ties between Israel is also time for healing and unity in holding a torn piece of House EQUIPMENT COMPANY, INC. and several Arab countries. our country, because we face many Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office “I want to thank President serious and significant challenges.” nameplate. 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blacks and Jews in their 20s and closer together with attacks that critical of some Israeli policies). Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, SENATE 30s to study the civil rights era. appeared tainted by bigotry. Analysts said the ads may have a liberal activist movement, continued from p.3 Much of the work of the Atlanta Perdue ran Facebook ads backfired and driven Black voter engaged in a get-out-the-vote chapter of the Jewish social which enhanced Ossoff’s nose turnout because they appeared campaign in the state. support for civil rights. The justice network, Repair the to make it look larger. Perdue to delegitimize Black preaching, “To see that Georgia now has Temple and Ebenezer Baptist World, is focused on how Jews pulled down the ads but did which does not shy away from its first Black senator and its join once a year for the Shabbat can be better allies with African not apologize, and Ossoff called treating the political issues of first Jewish senator, those are coinciding with Martin Luther Americans. It runs a course on him out for antisemitism at a the day. incredible signals and symbols King Day and coordinate “Jewish Racial Justice Literacy.” debate. For many savoring the of what it means to become activism. All those factors would have Loeffler ran ads featuring Democrats’ victory, Ossoff truly an inclusive multiracial “We’ve seen him preach, I been reason enough for a close video from Warnock’s past and Warnock are symbols of democracy, which feels like a mean Warnock is familiar to alliance between Warnock sermons, depicting him as something larger than what fundamental pillar for whatever us as a minister,” Rafshoon and Ossoff. But their rivals, an anti-American radical they can deliver as members of comes next,” said Stosh Cotler, said. “I was involved in a racial unwittingly or not, drove them (including for tough statements a Senate majority. the movement’s CEO. justice effort at the synagogue, in which we collaborated with Black prosecutors and Black activists, and so for me it’s nothing different.” For decades, the Black-Jewish alliance was relatively quiescent. Atlanta’s Jewish community was more conservative and Republican than its northern counterparts. Home Depot co- founder Bernie Marcus, a major Republican donor from Atlanta and a backer of Donald Trump, is also a major donor to local Jewish causes, and helped shape the tone. That began to change after Trump’s election in 2016: Liberals in the suburbs who had believed they were outliers saw their neighbors come out against Trump. A galvanizing moment was Ossoff’s run for Congress in a 2017 special election in an Atlanta-area district previously believed to be deep red Republican. He came close to winning it, and a Black Democrat, Lucy McBath, flipped the district a year later. Jews and women were particularly galvanized by Ossoff’s near-win, and then, just weeks later, by the deadly white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Trump’s equivocation in condemning the marchers. “Trump and the Republican Party kind of pushed us out of complacency,” Rafshoon said. “Yes, sure, we’d always kind of been activists, but now because it was so obvious,” starting with Charlottesville. There were, she said, “so many very threatening things happen(ing) that aligned our communities with fear.” The alliance is one driven in part by the fact that Atlanta is a Black-majority city. Atlanta’s Jewish Community Relations Council is a locus for Black- Jewish activism, and the city’s American Jewish Committee branch is a convenor of the Atlanta Black/Jewish Coalition, founded in 1982. The city is the hub of Project Understanding, a program that brings together 10 | January 14, 2021 JEWISH FOODIE Friends’ recipes make recuperating easier

By Tina Wasserman flavor and hearty. This one can have Tina’s Tidbits: Sometimes it takes an illness to or not have the butter, depending be reminded of who your friends on your eating habits, but the • If using store-bought broth, you are and how to receive help and flavor was delicious. She makes her might want to up the cinnamon and kindness gracefully. Although I own stock (see note below) but a ginger a little; since her stock was know who my good friends are, good vegetable stock can easily be based on oven-roasted vegetables, receiving is much harder for me substituted. the natural sugars in the vegetables than giving, even from them. I • 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil were caramelized and therefore the was reminded of that this New • 2 onions, coarsely diced soup had a slightly sweet undertone. Year’s Eve when we had a remote • 2 cups diced carrots (about 4-5 party playing bridge and sharing large) • For a different take, add curry and a meal. Ann told me that I could • Salt and pepper to taste some coconut milk to this soup. not make anything because I had • 2 tablespoons butter, coconut fed the masses so many times butter or vegan margarine Chicken in Orange Honey Sauce Photo: Stock over the years and now it was • 4 quarts vegetable broth (my friend Bringing cooked chicken to Split-pea and pumpkin soup time to let someone else do the makes her own; see below) someone’s home is tricky. The cooking. I didn’t think of it that • 2 cups of split peas recipe could be great but the • Removing the skin made the dish oven and roast for 3 hours. way because it is my nature to give • 1 teaspoon cinnamon, or to taste chicken could be dry and rubbery less fatty but keeping the bone on and do. Receiving was harder but I • ½ teaspoon ground ginger, or to after reheating. Elaine nailed it allowed the meat to have more flavor 5. Remove meat from foil when cool reluctantly accepted the night off. taste with this recipe. I thought the sauce and stay moist. and cover well with plastic wrap. Pour Recently I was incapacitated for • 1 can organic pumpkin puree, was made with orange marmalade off liquid into a storage container. a number of weeks, and friends unflavored but you can see where it got its • This could be a make-ahead Rosh Refrigerate both overnight. wanted to help me out by running • Parsley for garnish, optional great flavor. The breasts were very Hashanah dish (honey) or Passover errands or bringing dinner to me. large, moist and delicious. entrée that doesn’t need last-minute 6. Skim the congealed fat off the One friend made a quick stop to 1. Heat a 6-quart pot over high heat preparation. top of the gravy, and slice the meat the pharmacy and added a six-pack for 15 seconds. Add the oil and heat • 6 skinless chicken breasts on the on a diagonal across the grain. of ginger ale to the prescription for another 15 seconds. Add the bone Place both in a 13x9 Pyrex pan and pickup. He said that ginger ale onions and sauté until the onions are • ½ teaspoon salt Tried and True Brisket Recipe cover with plastic wrap. Reheat in a always made him feel better when a medium golden brown and nicely • ½ teaspoon ground ginger microwave until very hot or remove he was ill. Thank you, Barry and caramelized. • ½ teaspoon ground pepper Many of you might remember the plastic wrap, cover with foil and Debi. It was so hard for me to ask • 1 teaspoon oil my three-ingredient brisket reheat in a 300-degree oven until for that errand, one that I would 2. Add the carrots, some salt and • ½ cup chicken stock recipe; well, here is Bonnie’s five- meat is hot and more tender, about have done for someone else in a pepper and 2 tablespoons butter (if • 1 (12-ounce) can frozen orange ingredient dish. Now, I know you ½ hour. heartbeat. With regard to the meals, using). Sauté for another 2 minutes juice concentrate, thawed might be saying, “I’ve been making you can imagine how nervous some to bring out the sugars in the carrots. • ½ cup honey this dish forever or I add Coke Tina’s Tidbits: of my friends were to cook for me Add the butter or margarine and stir • 1 tablespoon lemon juice instead of water, etc.” Doesn’t although nary a one had to worry, until melted and incorporated. • Fresh orange slices from 3 oranges matter. The meat was delicious • Bonnie uses the flat cut of brisket; because their gifts were heartily and heated up beautifully and we I like to use a fattier cut especially received and delicious. 3. Add the stock, split peas, cinnamon 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place enjoyed it. So, if it hasn’t been part since I congeal and discard all the This made me think about the and ginger to the pot and cook for the chicken pieces on a baking sheet of your repertoire, add it now! additional fat. Just make sure your foods they brought (and the weight 45 minutes over medium-high heat, and rub with the seasonings and oil. • 3- to 4-pound flat cut brisket piece of meat is not too thin. I gained from their good cooking!). slightly covered, until the split peas Allow to marinate while preparing • 1 cup ketchup When put in a position of giving, are very soft and fall apart. the sauce. • ½ cup brown sugar • The sauce for this recipe can be people make their tried and true • 1 package Lipton’s or Goodman’s halved or doubled depending on the recipes. These recipes might have 4. Puree the soup either in the pot 2. Combine the chicken stock, dried onion soup mix size of your brisket. been handed down from family with an immersion blender or place in undiluted orange juice, honey and • 1 cup water members or shared from friends. a blender and blend until smooth. lemon juice in a pan and bring to a • I prefer to reheat my meat in the The origin of the recipe is not that boil, stirring to melt together. Cook 1 1. Take two large sheets of heavy-duty microwave because it doesn’t seem important and myriads of people 5. Combine the pumpkin and split pea minute, then remove from heat. Put foil and connect them lengthwise by to dry it out but if the meat needs to might be very familiar with the soup and bring to a simmer. Adjust the chicken pieces under the broiler bringing edges together and then be cooked longer to tenderize, roast recipe but if it is good, it is good. seasonings and serve garnished with and broil until light golden, about 5 folding joined edge over ½ inch 3 it covered in the oven the additional Do any of us know the origin of some chopped parsley. minutes. times to seal the sheets together. amount of time needed. Tuna Noodle Casserole? Do we Lay opened foil in the bottom of a care? Whether a suggestion straight NOTES: 3. Spoon some of the sauce into a roasting pan and place meat in the out of the side of the box or one’s casserole dish, then place the chicken center of the foil. World’s Best Cookie original creation, time and cooks 1. Cut up enough onions, carrots, on top. Top with remaining sauce. — from Mama Ann have a way of altering and/or parsnips, rutabagas, turnips, Cover with lid or foil. Bake for 45- 2. Preheat oven to 250 degrees. perfecting the recipes. tomatoes, cauliflower and butternut 55 minutes or until tender, turning Updated by Sally, February 2018 The following are just some of squash, some spinach and parsley and chicken once during cooking. 3. Place the remaining ingredients in I know Sally’s Mom and would the recipes that were made for me, mixture of other root vegetables to a 1-quart bowl and mix to combine. not correct anything she or Sally which I relished not only for their cover 3 sheet pans. 4. Garnish with orange slices and Pour mixture over the brisket and would make. Although this is flavor but for the love that went into serve. then bring long ends together and part of a full meal that Sally and them. I hope you enjoy some of my 2. Roast in a 400-degree oven for 15 fold 3-4 times to seal, but still leaving Jill brought to my home, this meal standouts. minutes or until just starting to get Makes 6 servings. a little room above the brisket. Fold cookie was a standout and helped golden. the sides in as if you were wrapping a me soothe my soul while adding Split Pea and Pumpkin Soup Tina’s Tidbits: present — two triangles in and then inches to my hips! 3. Add to a large pot and cover with rolling up from the flat end. Foil must • 1 cup butter, softened Luckily for me that my friend water. Cook until vegetables are soft • Can be made ahead and frozen. be sealed very well to prevent steam • 1 cup brown sugar Shelley is married to a vegan! Some and then strain. Use your homemade To defrost: Thaw overnight in from escaping. • 1 cup white sugar of the best soups and vegetable vegetable stock for this and/or other refrigerator. Reheat in 325-degree stews she made for me were full of recipes. oven, covered. 4. Place the pan in the preheated see FOODIE, p.11 SIMCHA January 14, 2021 | 11

BAT MITZVAH fi fth-fl oor walk-up is one thing as a Brianna Richardson PETS human and quite another as a dog, Brianna Richardson, daughter of Melissa and Brandon continued from p.8 having to climb up and down those Richardson of Dallas, will be called to the Torah as a bat stairs every time you need to go mitzvah at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021 at Congrega- a cat tree with plenty of comfy to the bathroom. And, of course, tion Anshai Torah in Plano. Rabbi Stefan Weinberg and platforms to sleep on. For dogs, the owner would be making those Rabbi Michael Kushnick will offi ciate. Brianna is the sister a soft bed will do best.” treks, too.” of Mika, 11. She is the granddaughter of Sylvia and Glenn Real estate agent Kathryn Nicole Ellis, a well-known Rabin of Dallas and Bonnie and Keith Richardson of Lo- Landow of Warburg Realty has certifi ed professional dog trainer, meta. advice for keeping your home concludes dogs especially just A seventh grade student at Ann and Nate Levine Acad- pet-friendly and clean, too. “Try need time to adjust to a home, emy, Brianna is a student ambassador and a member of to avoid shaggy carpets and keep whether it is new just to them or the National Junior Honor Society and participates in vol- carpeting to a minimum. If your the whole family is moving. “A leyball and track. She is a competitive gymnast with Flip dog is crate trained, a crate can be new home is like a foreign country Factory and a club volleyball player with Pure Athletic. She kept in a corner and custom crate — new sights, new sounds, new also enjoys hanging out with friends, spending time with covers can be made to match your smells, (and with a new pet) a her cousins, traveling and spending her summers at CYJ. apartment.” new routine with new people and For her mitzvah project, Brianna created Bri’s Bake Shop, “For people looking for dog- often other fur and feather friends. where she baked and delivered baked goods to raise money friendly apartments, know your Understanding how your dog for the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum in walk-up limit,” says another processes and adjusts to all these memory of her great-grandparents, Holocaust survivors. Warburg agent, Rebecca Brooksher. novel stimuli will help ease the Brianna and her family will welcome family and friends “I’ve warned dog owners that a transition for everyone.” to celebrate virtually.

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Timepiece, This is a continuation of Rabbi Fried’s column service or merchandise that one from last week, discussing why and how to support lo- would receive from the others.) cal Jewish businesses and organizations. This mitzvah also entails supporting a local business conversation even though it may be far more The mitzvah: continued convenient to order online. Although a website with lower prices might also The mitzvah of tzedakah ap- piece be supporting a Jewish business which needs sup- ASK THE plies even when one is inconve- port as well, still it would be incumbent upon us to nienced to perform it. As with support the local business first. This is learned from RABBI any other mitzvah, we are re- I sat at the computer to write this part of that well-mixed group- the Talmudic teaching, which is codified in Jewish quired to fulfill it despite a level not long after I turned off the TV, ing) is a dark part of our coun- law, that “aniyei ircha v’aniyei ir acheres, aniyei ircha By Rabbi of inconvenience! (Especially unable to watch any more of the try that we were finally coming kodmin,” or if you have limited funds and are solic- Yerachmiel today when, in many if not most hateful chaos filling my screen. to fully recognize, and seemed to ited to support the poor of your city and the poor D. Fried cases, even local businesses are My head was already occupied by be making real of another city, those of your city precede those of accessible either online or by one big question: How did we ever attempts to the other locale. (See Rambam, Matnos Aniim 7:13.) delivery, and nearly all offer curbside pickup during come to this? But of course, I al- do something This mitzvah, vehechezakta bo (“you shall the pandemic.) ready knew… about. strengthen him”), applies to one who is poor or This doesn’t mean that one can never buy online By choice and personal history, My younger could become poor if he or she loses their source or from a more convenient store, especially when the I’m not political. I keep such mat- great-grandson of livelihood should the business fail. It also applies item one needs is not available from the local Jewish ters to myself. But that doesn’t attends a stan- to the hiring of a Jewish contractor, painter and the vendor. It means to be more sensitive and mindful, mean I’d been deaf, dumb and dard American like if that is their source of income. (Of course, blind to the state of our country in public school; IN MY this is assuming the local business offers equivalent these few days before a new, prop- the older one see FRIED, p.14 erly elected candidate was to take MIND’S I is being home- the oath of presidency. Nobody schooled by his By Harriet has needed a crystal ball, nothing father. I don’t P. Gross more than garden-variety decent know yet, and Some benefits of reading vision, to recognize the inevita- neither can ble. I say this with a heavy heart anyone else, how last night’s vi- Dear Families, 3. Reading lowers our stress because I see it as true: This “in- cious attack on our seat of gov- I’ve confessed often about my “biblioholism” — levels. evitable” resulted from our “lead- ernment, fueled by misuse of our there are definitely worse addictions! We, the Peo- While your mind and emo- ership.” And both the preceding most meaningful symbol — the ple of the Book, have always promoted reading and tions are absorbed in a novel, quote-enclosed words should be Stars and Stripes making up our learning. The wonderful tradition of putting honey your heart rate slows and your read with no quotes necessary. national banner — will resonate on the slate as a child is first introduced to the aleph- muscles release tension. A You may or may not know that with these young boys when they bet sends the message that learning is sweet and it study at the University of Sus- I love watches. I collect them, and start asking questions about it, if begins early. We start our children early listening sex found that reading, which wear my timepieces — one around they haven’t already begun to do to stories and exploring books and set them on a SHALOM FROM THE reduces stress by 68%, is even my left wrist every day, and a spe- so. But my Trump watch is being lifelong pursuit of learning and discovery. There are SHABBAT LADY more relaxing than taking a cial one on a chain around my preserved to serve as part of an actually lots of reasons why reading is so important walk or drinking a cup of tea. neck on very special days. During answer to their questions. They beyond the ones that are obvious (like reading a By Laura As a bonus, regular readers the last few weeks, I “invested” will learn from it how danger- sign or a menu!). Sarah-Mae McCullough gives the Seymour sleep better. $6.99 (plus postage and handling) ous having self-serving leadership statistics behind the reading in her article “Why to add a Trump-themed watch to can be, and I would hope that by Many Introverts Love Reading (and Shouldn’t Stop, 4. Reading makes us better communicators. my collection. the time they can ask, they can According to Science).” This article talks of the im- Whether you want to communicate better in This is not something I will ever recognize — or be old enough to portance of fiction but there are really no better sto- conversation or in writing, the more you read, the wear. I will leave it in its Bubble understand when it’s explained to ries to get lost in than those from the Torah. more words seem to work with you. The website Wrap envelope until such time as them — what the word “leader- 1. Fiction increases empathy and social testyourvocab.com reviewed data gathered from my first two great-grandsons (and ship” really means, so that they intelligence. millions of test takers and found that fiction readers other great-grands yet to be born) will grow to be among those who have the most expansive vocabularies, followed by will want to know more about last elect it and follow it, not become Have you ever noticed how the words of a story nonfiction readers, and then those who rarely read. night: what it was — how it came parts of false leadership that can can rise off the page and create a new world that Building your vocabulary and learning to wield the to be — and why, if indeed, it prevent, instead of enhance, the feels just as real as the one we live in? Researchers power of words opens up more opportunities to ex- might have been truly necessary. growth of greatness in our pre- have found that fiction readers create intense mind press yourself and forge meaningful connections The answer to their questions lies cious country. simulations of the narrative’s events as they read, as with others. in the phrase permanently writ- Our nation has had tough times if they were experiencing the plot themselves. Yes, the internet is a wonderful thing but there ten on the face of that watch, the in its past and overcome them all. 2. We become more comfortable with is nothing like reading a “real” book! I do have the simple message reading “Make This too shall pass, as we of Amer- ambiguity, making better decisions. Tanakh app on my phone and instant resources America Great Again.” ica’s oldest, and below us the cur- from Sefaria.com but there is something about delv- At that time, whenever it rent generations, age upward and George R.R. Martin, the author behind Game ing into a tractate of Steinsaltz’s Talmud that can’t comes, I will try to explain that pass on ourselves. We must work of Thrones, said, “A reader lives a thousand lives be described — it is an experience for the senses as most Americans, and most of the with whatever time we have left to before he dies.” Because our mind and emotions well as the mind. One of my favorite quotes from world, knew long before last night pass on the time-honored values become so immersed in narratives, it’s as if we’re an unknown author is: “Some girls watched ‘Beauty that America was already great, of our great nation. I’m hoping my living them alongside the characters we’re reading and The Beast’ and wanted the prince. I watched it and had been for many years. Yes, Trump watch will help. about. In his book, “Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psy- and wanted the library.” it had elements of non-greatness; chology of Fiction,” Keith Oatley writes: “Fiction is unequal treatment of minorities Harriet Gross can be reached at harrietgross@ a kind of simulation, one that runs not on comput- Laura Seymour is director of camping services at the Aaron Family (and, yes, we Jews have long been sbcglobal.net. ers but on minds…” Jewish Community Center. In their words . . . January 14, 2021 | 13 EDITORIAL Time for reflection, rededication to a unified America

The storming of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 The president’s invective was calculated to the coronavirus. Elections are inherently office or invocation of Section 4 of the 25th by unhinged supporters of President Donald whip up the sentiment of his supporters, who competitive. As in sports, even the most Amendment. Trump is now part of American history. were building toward a frenzy. talented competitors experience loss. Trump must be held accountable for As Congress was meeting to confirm Sadly, the president’s lawyer, Rudy Some presidential contests have been inciting an attack on Congress. An attack President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College Giuliani, invited violence from Trump’s close, such as elections in 1968, 1976 and on the orderly processes of government vote victory, a massive throng invaded its supporters. In calling for a commission 2000. This year’s election was not particularly is an affront to the fundamental liberties quarters. to investigate bogus claims of voter fraud, close. Biden garnered more than 81 million that guarantee our most basic freedoms — What happened Jan. 6 was not a Giuliani said, “Let’s have trial by combat. I’m votes; Trump received more than 74 million freedom of speech, a free press and freedom spontaneous event. As the Anti-Defamation willing to stake my reputation, the president votes. Biden was awarded 306 electoral votes; of religion. Now is the time for deep reflection League warned several days before the is willing to stake his reputation, on the fact Trump received 232 electoral votes. Trump by all Americans. imbroglio, the events were “being timed that we’re going to find criminality there (in beat Hillary Clinton by the same margin in On Jan. 20, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to coincide with a joint session of Congress voting in states that Biden carried).” 2016. will be inaugurated president and vice where Electoral College votes will formally The melee that followed was an eerie The president consistently appealed to president, respectively. Let us pray that our be counted — have been encouraged by episode. Many protesters were garbed in right-wing extremists throughout his time in nation’s capital will be safe and secure, that President Trump in multiple inflammatory military fatigues and body costumes. Many office and in his reelection campaign. Trump the inauguration will be peaceful. tweets urging his supporters to show up in in the crowd were followers of QAnon, Proud is not the first demagogue to capture the May Inauguration Day begin a new D.C.” Boys and other “alt-right” movements. imagination of millions of Americans. Sen. chapter in our country’s history, where we The gathering was dubbed “The March to The seeds of the failed insurrection of Joseph McCarthy, Huey Long of Louisiana can find common purpose as we create a new Save America” on social media by pro-Trump Jan. 6 have been sown through President and Gov. George Wallace of Alabama all beginning. organizers. Before thousands moved toward Trump’s tenure in office. Riddled with captured the hearts and minds of legions of May those who seek to despoil our the Capitol, the president stoked the crowd’s lies, half-truths and innuendos, President followers. Each of their lives bespoke tragedy. democracy be doomed to failure. discontent, saying: Trump has governed by appealing to the McCarthy drank himself to death. Long May our new leaders be guided by their “Republicans are constantly fighting like darkest instincts of human nature. Our 45th was assassinated. Wallace was paralyzed by highest ideals. a boxer with his hands tied behind his back. president’s perverse character flaws have been shots fired by Arthur Bremer May 15, 1972. Let us seek unity where there has been It’s like a boxer. And, we want to be so nice. on display to the nation and world. While we wish no physical harm for division. Let us resolve to support and defend We want to be so respectful of everybody, Essentially, President Trump schemed President Trump, he has sown the seeds of our institutions of freedom against those including bad people. And, we’re going to against the fundamental structure of our his own political destruction. who would destroy them. have to fight much harder. … democracy when he insisted that the only way Now, Congress must grapple with the best As we reflect upon the tortured events of “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, he could lose the 2020 presidential election remedy for President Trump’s overt support Jan. 6, may there be a reawakening of the and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators was if it was stolen from him. for the storming of the Capitol. The president decency, civility and respect that represent and congressmen and -women, and we’re With the benefit of a freshman-year must be held accountable for inciting his America at its best. probably not going to be cheering so much survey course in American history, the followers to breach Congress. To date, for some of them, because you’ll never take president would know that every first-term our representatives have not determined A version of this editorial appeared in the Jan. 14 edition of back our country with weakness. You have to president risks losing reelection, especially the right remedy — impeachment and the Jewish Herald-Voice in Houston and is reprinted with show strength, and you have to be strong.” when the economy suffers as it has during conviction in the Senate, resignation from permission. Love, unity and the Exodus

Love, a strong inner in the relationship Paying attention are numerically equivalent. oneness entails acknowledging movement to come closer to — do I feel it or not, Now, when it comes to loving an essentially indivisible and something or someone, is the and to what extent — Maintaining and G-d — a biblical commandment infinite power that transcends first of the soul’s seven powers that they may forget increasing love boils down — arousing this emotion all limitations of time and that make up our character. It about the beloved. to how well you can pay becomes trickier. There is no space. The best Hebrew term is the prime emotion needed Such love inevitably attention to the details tangible interaction taking place. for this complete and wondrous to strengthen a relationship leads to a temporary — listening, gaining an It is easy to go about our business oneness is “yachid.” But we work and override hesitations. bond dependent on the appreciation of unique and forget completely about the from the bottom up, situated Understanding how emotions person’s state at the D’VAR qualities, recognizing big picture. Here again, refining within the physical world. We play out in our tangible human moment. TORAH their contributions to the mind to then experience a look at the world around us, relations also helps us realize Real enduring love, our lives for which personal connection requires observe the multiplicity and the less visible but ongoing in contrast, focuses By Rabbi Dan we must be eternally some contemplation. And for variance, and have the task of interchange with ourselves, and primarily on the Lewin grateful, and simply this we have a special mitzvah, mentally unifying the parts, with G-d. beloved. Put differently, Parashat Vaeira striving to understand twice daily, that entails a realizing that everything that To begin, love can be every emotion contains the other. This focus moment of meditation and we see was brought into being divided into three components: a core statement. The statement naturally feeds the fiery feelings. declaration: “Hear, O Israel: The by one Creator and is somehow The person who feels love, within authentic love is that the But the strong emotion in the Lord is our God; the Lord is one” connected. In this context, the the emotion itself that is other is precious, which prompts present moment is only a means (Deuteronomy 6:4). appropriate Hebrew word is experienced, and the object of attention and respect. In this to create a more eternal bond by “echad.” affection. Which of these three sense, you must earn the ability fulfilling the desires of the other. Oneness Maimonides explains layers is the most dominant feature to reveal true love even more so In this sense, it is not the of meaning behind the word will determine the nature and than the other must earn that love itself that is most revered, The instruction to “hear” “one” (echad) as it applies to the endurance of the bond. feeling from you through their but the beloved. And when the in the above verse also means mitzvah of unification. Each step Often, one’s conception behaviors. And while we cannot experience of love is centered on to contemplate an idea until it has a possible mental mistake of love is distorted, whereby always control the movements a commitment to the beloved, crystallizes within the mind. that it negates. The most basic the main emphasis lies in within the heart, which run wild the resulting feelings can propel And comprehending G-d’s level is to understand that there the emotion itself. In other in all directions, we can steadily you closer to eventually merge unity is the most fundamental is only one, as opposed to two or words, some people may be so work to get the mind straight, completely. That’s why the principle in Torah and sacred more deities. All other entities concerned with subconsciously which then influences how we Hebrew word for love (ahavah) Jewish texts. monitoring the revealed love feel. and the word for “one” (echad) From the top-down, this see LEWIN, p.14 14 | January 14, 2021

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Any business not listed there this mitzvah of vehachazakta bo them precedence as we would our our fellow Jew as family. take them for granted, and do their should make sure they contact that would not be applicable if the shop own brother or sister. (Or — what This would apply today as an best to make it as inviting and easy site and become represented. If owner does not rely upon the busi- should be with a brother or sister!) additional ethical reason to choose as possible to shop with them!) you aren’t a subscriber to the TJP, ness for their livelihood; rather, The authorities of Jewish law say our local Jewish businesses, where Many years ago I saw, in a fur- please consider a subscription. 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Joel Cotter to enlist in the U.S. Navy. forward, they had been together cruises. He could always be found Merle Hacker, Beverly Budman, He served in the Navy ever since. lounging on the pool deck as he Rhonda (Douglas) Taub; and Joel Cotter, 79, passed from ages 17 to 21. Joel Joel was known for his passionate dozed off to the sound of the waves. numerous nieces and nephews. away on Jan. 6, 2020, extended his service in the work ethic. Over the years, Joel Joel’s dedication as a husband, A funeral and memorial alongside a loving family Navy by an extra month kept himself busy with a variety of father and grandfather is service were held for Joel on Jan. following a hard fought due to the Cuban Missile work. He began his career at Coit unmatched. He was preceded in 8 at Shearith Israel Cemetery. The battle with cancer and Crisis. International and eventually co- death by his parents Molly and recorded livestream of the funeral COVID-19. It’s difficult Joel Cotter It was when Joel was developed his own linen business. William Cotter, in-laws Rebecca is available on the Congregation to say Joel lost his fights, stationed in Jacksonville, After selling the business, Joel went and Helman Setzer, and grandson Shearith Israel Life Cycle Facebook because he won each day in the Florida, that he met his loving wife to work as an office manager for his Mitchel Scott Uzick. Joel is page. Donations can be made in manner in which he lived. of 60 years, Sandra. Joel, 19, met son-in-law at VisionCity. survived by his loving wife, Sandra; honor of Joel to the ASPCA or to Joel was born May 3, 1941, in Sandra, 18, while stopped at a red Joel’s hobbies were endless. He children, Stacy (Kenny) Uzick and Congregation Shearith Israel. the Bronx, New York, to William light, each of them in cars with was known for his green thumb. Marc Cotter; four grandchildren, Lastly, the family would like to and Molly Cotter. After graduating their respective groups of friends. Joel maintained a beautiful garden Brandon Cotter, Jennifer Cotter, thank Rabbi Adam Roffman for from high school and spending a It was love at first sight for Joel with a dynamic assortment of Michael Uzick and Ryan Uzick; facilitating a beautiful funeral for semester at Brooklyn College, Joel and he told Sandra that day he was plants. Joel shared his love of siblings Annette (Herb) Pilelsky Joel. The family is forever grateful ultimately decided that he wanted going to marry her. From that day traveling with his family on yearly and Lynn Lerner; sisters-in-law and appreciative of his support. Megadonor Sheldon Adelson dead at 87 (JNS) Sheldon Adelson, the multi- chased the Sands Hotel and Walker and John Kasich. While Adelson may be most known of the Israel Defense Forces, Yad billionaire casino mogul, conservative Casino, knocking it down After Donald Trump for his political involvement, his con- Vashem and the Israeli-American donor and philanthropist, has died at to build the $1.5 billion Ve- became the Republican con- tributions to both the American Jew- Council. the age of 87. netian Resort Hotel Casino tender in 2016, he endorsed ish community and Israel, especially And as the owner of Israel Hayom Miriam Adelson, Sheldon’s wife, in 1999. Eventually, he built the New York real estate mo- in areas such as education and health and the Las Vegas Review-Journal said in a statement that her husband and expanded into other gul and announced a $25 care, could prove to be his most lasting — and a contributor to JNS since its died from “complications” of non- gaming markets, includ- million donation to his presi- legacy. founding in 2011 — Adelson had a sig- Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of blood ing Singapore and Macau, Sheldon dential campaign. The Adelsons also worked to nificant impact on the news media. cancer. where he built the $2.4 bil- Adelson A stalwart supporter of strengthen Jewish identity, donating In addition to his wife, Adelson is In many ways, Adelson was a prime lion Venetian Macao. Israel, Adelson was seen as hundreds of millions to Taglit-Birth- survived by their five children, as well example of an American success story. Forbes calculated his worth at near- one of the driving forces behind some right Israel, which has sent hundreds as grandchildren. Born in 1933 in Boston — the son of a ly $35 billion in January 2021, making of Trump’s pro-Israel policies, includ- of thousands of young Jews to Israel His funeral was to take place in Is- taxi driver and knitting-shop owner — him one of the wealthiest men in the ing moving the U.S. embassy from Tel on free 10-day trips. They are also rael. A memorial in Las Vegas will be he grew up impoverished during the world. Aviv to Jerusalem. major donors to AIPAC, the Friends held at a later date. Great Depression in the city’s Dorches- Aside from his casino business, ‘Champion of the Jewish people’ ter neighborhood, making his first for- Adelson is most known to Americans Granite • Marble • bronze ay into business at the age of 12 selling for his support of conservative causes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin newspapers. and the Republican Party. 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