AUGUST 26, 2021 – 18 ELUL 5781

JEWISHVOL 45, NO 28 JOURNALJEWISHJOURNAL.ORG Life lessons of the Holocaust passed on to Duxbury teens

By Ethan M. Forman What also opened their eyes were sto- JOURNAL STAFF ries of victims, like Blimcia, whose iden- tification cards the students were given DUXBURY – Senior Molly Taberner at the start of their tour. was among a group of 18 Duxbury High The emotional ceremony in the students who completed the Salem- Duxbury Performing Arts Center took based Lappin Foundation’s first ever place more than five months after the Holocaust Symposium for Teens over high school’s football team made nation- the summer, which included a trip to al and international news after it was the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in learned an offensive lineman called out Washington, D.C. “Auschwitz” for a play during a March 12 During a ceremony at the comple- game against Plymouth North, according tion of the symposium at Duxbury High to a summary of an investigation report. on Aug. 16, Taberner read her letter to The report found that “Jewish-related Blimcia Lische of Kolbuszowa, Poland, words” like “Rabbi” and “Dreidel” had who along with her family was gassed at crept into word-association play calls at the Belzec killing center on July 7, 1942. practice as far back as the 2010 to 2012 Blimcia was just 3½. football seasons. “Reading your story, Blimcia, and The report found the actions of the reading other people’s stories who suf- coaching staff in condoning the use of fered with you has made it so you’re not these offensive terms were inconsistent just one of the 6 million Jews who were with the school district’s policies. The murdered in the Holocaust. You are a real school’s winning head football coach, person who lived during the Holocaust, Dave Maimaron, was fired from his and you matter and your story needs to coaching job on March 24. be shared,” Taberner said. The report also found the school dis- Piles of shoes, a rail car in which trict took prompt action, including the hundreds of Jews were crammed, and football team taking part in a mandatory desecrated Torah scrolls on display at Holocaust presentation during which the Holocaust museum opened the eyes they met a third-generation survivor. of these 18 Duxbury students, none of The district also planned a full external whom are Jewish, to the Nazi atrocities Photo: Karen Wong review of the athletic program and the and the dangers of unchecked antisemi- Duxbury’s Eva McDermott looks at a poster of Adolf Hitler and his senior military staff. establishment of an Athletic Advisory tism. continued on page 20 SHARON RABBI: ‘HUNDREDS’ MAY HAVE BEEN ABUSED BY USY ADVISER

By Steven A. Rosenberg an overnight Jewish camp in New York City, decided not to JOURNAL STAFF Cold Spring, New York. The file a lawsuit and wanted to plaintiffs allege that Ward promote reform and transpar- (Editor’s note: This article repeatedly sexually abused ency within the organization. con­­tains explicit sexual content.) them while on the job for USY “I was hoping to get USY to and USCJ in the 1990s and from figure out how this could hap- Amid a flurry of lawsuits 2016-18. One lawsuit against pen,” said Soffer, who went to a and allegations that as many as Surprise Lake alleges sexual Conservative Jewish Day school hundreds of former members assault going back to 1989 and as a child, and during his seven of United Synagogue Youth may 1990. Another lawsuit includes years in USY rose to become have been abused by a longtime an affidavit from the mother of president of the Metropolitan adviser, a prominent Sharon a former Surprise Lake camper New York Region of United rabbi has become the first to who said that she had notified Synagogue Youth chapter. publicly detail the alleged the USCJ in 2002, and alleged According to Soffer, he was abuse. that her son had been sexually 15 when he was approached Rabbi Jordan Soffer, the abused by Ward in 1989. by Ward during services at a head of school at Striar Hebrew In 2002, the camp fired Ward. USY convention in Long Island. Academy in Sharon, has But he continued to work with Soffer alleges that Ward asked alleged that Ed Ward – who Jewish children for the next 18 him to take a break from prayer, worked with Jewish children years, rising up through the and accompany him to the for decades as an educator, Courtesy of Jordan Soffer Conservative movement’s USCJ bathroom. There, said Soffer, adviser and camp counselor for Rabbi Jordan Soffer to serve in senior USY positions Ward began to masturbate in USY and its umbrella organiza- Ward, who most recently were first published in an arti- in Long Island and Manhattan front of him and encouraged the tion, the United Synagogue of served as the executive direc- cle this month by the Times of and as a camp counselor at a teen to do the same. “He asked Conservative Judaism – sexually tor of a Jewish center in Long Israel. USY overnight camp in New me why I’m not doing it with assaulted him during morning Island, could not be reached for In recent months, lawsuits York. him; I gave him several excuses. prayer services at a USY con- comment. have been filed against USY, Soffer, 32, who grew up in I said ‘I’m scared, I don’t want vention when Soffer was 15. The allegations against Ward USCJ and Surprise Lake Camp, New City, New York, north of continued on page 15

APPLY FOR A GREAT MORTGAGE IN LESS TIME THAN IT TAKES TO READ THE PAPER. Use your smart phone to apply for a great mortgage in just 15 minutes. Apply now at MetroCU.org.

Chelsea | Boston | Burlington | Framingham | Lawrence | Lynn | Melrose Newton | Peabody | Salem | Tewksbury | MetroCU.org | 877.MY.METRO NMLS# 198524

The Jewish Journal is a nonprofit newspaper supported by generous readers, committed advertisers and charitable organizations. Email [email protected]. 2 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021

Wishing an Aliyah Tovah to the thousands of Olim who made Israel their home this year. We look forward to helping thousands more in the year ahead. Shana Tovah!

www.nbn.org.il/shanatovah 1-866-4-ALIYAH • [email protected] THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021 3

Auchincloss: ‘There was never going to be a ticker-tape parade out of Afghanistan’

Saigon in 1975 that ended the not outfight Americans but they access to electricity tripled, the Vietnam War. In a response to knew, also, they could outlast rate of education increased by a reporter’s question on July us, and they could outlast us an order of magnitude for boys 8, President Biden said he saw because to counter an insurgen- and girls. The Taliban are taking zero similarities between the cy, you don’t just need military over a country that is different situations in Afghanistan and superiority, you need to offer from two decades ago.” Vietnam. better governance – and the “The important thing, as an Auchincloss said, “The right Afghan leaders in Kabul offered, Afghan War veteran, I don’t feel contrast, to me, is not between instead, corruption and incom- my service was in vain,” Blonder today and 50 years ago, but petence.” said. “I don’t believe my friends between today and 50 years from He noted that there had been who lost their lives in service now. Without this president’s tangible improvements over the were in vain. Remember, one clear-eyed assessment of the past two decades – “the literacy of the reasons we went into national interest, we would be rate in Afghanistan was doubled, Afghanistan was to find Osama risking a scenario in which the infant mortality was halved, bin Laden, and we did.” U.S. had forces in Afghanistan indefinitely, and another 20 years of fruitless conflict.” U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss, right, in Afghanistan. However, Blonder said that many Vietnam veterans attend- By Rich Tenorio in a country whose moniker is ing the JWV convention had JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT ‘a graveyard of empires,’” he expressed concern about said. “There was never going to Afghanistan. After a young Harvard gradu- be a ticker-tape parade out of “I think a lot of bad memo- ate named Jake Auchincloss Afghanistan. It was going to be ries are coming up for Vietnam deployed to Afghanistan with rocky. What’s critical is how he veterans, as they are coming the U.S. Marine Corps in 2012, adapts to a highly fluid situation up [for] Afghanistan veterans,” he commanded patrols in the and the U.S. military has adapt- Blonder said. southern province of Helmand, ed well and was gaining control He served in Afghanistan as guiding infantry through villages over the airport.” a combat advisor to its military that the Taliban were seeking Auchincloss and fellow from 2008 to 2009, in its fourth- to control. Now a Democratic Jewish veterans are concerned largest city of Mazar-e-Sharif Congressman representing the about Americans and allies who and the nearby Camp Mike 4th District of Massachusetts, remain in Afghanistan – includ- Spann, named after CIA opera- Auchincloss was one of sever- ing an estimated 11,000 U.S. citi- tive Johnny Micheal Spann, the al Jewish Afghan War veterans zens. The congressman said that first American to die in combat reflecting on a dramatic turn- the military has resumed daily in Afghanistan. around since their days overseas. evacuations from Kabul’s inter- Blonder characterized the In a weeklong offensive earlier national airport. Afghan strategy against the U.S. this month, the Taliban took “I have confidence this presi- as one of patience, a success- control of Afghanistan following dent will work with both his dip- ful defense against occupiers President Joe Biden’s decision to lomatic and military people and from Genghis Khan to today. He end a 20-year American military be able to evacuate American recalls an Afghan general’s com- presence. personnel as well as allied per- ment: “You have all the watches “This president took office sonnel,” Auchincloss said. “I will but we have all the time.” and faced a stark, wrenching be holding the administration to Auchincloss said that when decision,” Auchincloss said. “He account for that. he was in Afghanistan, “The could either ramp up the U.S. “I feel confident that I can Taliban at that time were wait- military presence in the coun- speak for my Jewish constitu- ing us out. They knew they could try to launch a third decade of ents when I said we welcome counterinsurgency and to coun- refugees from Afghanistan. That ter the Taliban fighting season, is a core to the Jewish faith, that or he could draw down our we welcome the stranger and troop presence. In recognition provide a solace and strength to You asked... of what has long been under- them. So I know I represent their stood, which is that you cannot values, and I say Massachusetts for more Memory Care units. win a counterinsurgency when welcomes Afghan refugees,” he there is no political endgame, said. he made the high-integrity deci- The Jewish War Veterans, a sion to end a failed forever war.” 125-year-old advocacy organiza- Yet the way in which Biden tion, has been urging the rescue ended the war has drawn criti- of Afghan translators who aided cism for multiple reasons – from the U.S. On July 13, the organi- the relatively short time in which zation tweeted a statement call- SCHEDULE A TOUR the Taliban gained control of the ing on Biden to act quickly. [email protected] country to images and reports At the JWV’s annual conven- 617.887.0826 of the fall of the Afghan capital tion held earlier this month in of Kabul. A widely circulating New Orleans, attendees got a photo showed over 600 Afghan briefing about evacuations refugees crowded into a trans- from Afghanistan by a staffer port plane, amid reports that from the office of Democratic individual Afghans had died Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Seth clinging to airplanes in hopes Moulton of Salem. of escape. Swampscott resident Jeffrey Auchincloss called such Blonder – the commander of images and accounts “distress- the Massachusetts JWV and an ing.” Afghan War veteran – described “This president is wind- Rep. Moulton as “very interest- TAKING ing down a two-decade effort ed in trying to get” American citizens to the airport, “and try- * ing to relocate all the interpret- APPLICATIONS NOW ers, people who were serving FOR SEPTEMBER 1ST America over there.” OPENING Blonder voiced concern over the fate of Afghans who helped the U.S. “Will they be We heard you! discovered and hurt now, and the Taliban will say ‘You helped More Florence & Chafetz Assisted Living America’? What is their future? Seth Moulton is working hard to units opening soon* get them out of the country.” The fall of Kabul has drawn comparisons with the rapid defeat of a U.S.-backed govern- Jeff Blonder of Swampscott ment following an American served in Afghanistan. military pullout – the fall of Campuses in Chelsea, Peabody and Longmeadow • www.chelseajewish.org • 617.887.0826 4 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021

PART TIME COUNTER HELP WANTED Area researchers, activists sound alarm over climate report By Rich Tenorio JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT BEACH BLUFF CLEANERS, Marblehead BOSTON – Following an international scientific body’s Tues 8-6 Thurs, Fri, Sat 8-2 grim prediction for the future of Planet Earth, Jewish scientists Call or Text 781-640-2162 and researchers in the Boston area and the North Shore shared their thoughts on the dire fore­ cast. PRIDE OF LYNN CEMETERY On Aug. 9, the Intergovern­ AND CHEVRA MISHNA mental Panel on Climate 89 LAKE SHORE ROAD, LYNN, MA 01904 Change (IPCC), a part of the UN, released its latest findings in the ServingServing Boston Boston and and the the Greater North North Shore Shore Sixth Assessment Report, which stated that it is likely that global JewishJewish and and Interfaith interfaith families since since 1920. 1920. warming will increase by 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius in the com­ CompassionateVISITATION personalized service. DAYS Individual and ing decades. The report linked multiple lots available with competitive pricing. this to global warming caused FOR THE HIGH HOLIDAYS by humans, principally through Sunday,ASK ABOUT August OUR 29 PRE-PLANNING- 9 AM - 12 NOON SAVINGS. the emission of greenhouse CREMATION OPTIONS AVAILABLE. gases such as carbon dioxide, Sunday, September 5 - 9AM - 12 NOON and cited already-record tem­ Sunday,No September synagogue or temple 12 - 9affiliation AM - 12 required. NOON peratures and extreme weather [email protected] events that may become more Readers available for assistance with the dramatic. (978)commemorative 594-4249 prayers • www.prideoflynn.org for your loved ones. “The key takeaway is that Board members available to highlight chapel climate change isn’t some­ thing happening in the future, Rabbi Dan Slipakoff from Temple Israel Boston sounded the shofar renovations, new sections for family and individual it’s happening now,” said Peter at the State House this month. lots, and locate family gravesites Frumhoff, the director of science lievably extreme heat in the Reflecting on the most recent and policy and chief climate sci­ Pacific Northwest, the floods in findings, Michaels noted the entist of the Cambridge-based Europe, the wildfires that – even IPCC statement that dating back Union of Concerned Scientists. though they’re in the West – [we to 1850 or 1900, global warm­ “We’re already seeing demon­ see] smoke coming over New ing has increased by 1.1 degrees strated threats to the Earth’s cli­ England and affecting our air Celsius. mate – rising seas, more extreme quality … we know the cause “It doesn’t sound like a lot,” floods and droughts, more – burning fossil fuels, primarily he said, but it’s “one of the rea­ extreme heat in every section the major driver, CO2 pollution sons we’re now seeing extremely 5 of the world, including the U.S.” in the atmosphere. … If we are strange weather [of] all types all Rededication of ouR new chapel THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – JULY 29, 2021 OPINION Frumhoff had participated to limit the worst consequences over the world.” Sunday, SeptembeR 5th, 10 am in a previous IPCC study, the of climate change, we have no “The last time CO2 concen­

Fourth EastAssessment Jerusalem because theyReport, time to wait.” trations were this high, there Israel accused of apartheid, and a quarter “Thereof American are a substantialwhich was wantedJews released to “end agree complicity in 2007 in and It’s a call echoed by local were crocodiles in Greenland,” No synagogue or temple affiliation required number of younger Jews who Israel’s occupation and abuses By David M. Shribman accept that characterization,”won the Nobelof Palestinian Peace human Prize. rights.” advocacy organizations such said Joel Schwartz, a professor JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT said Kenneth D. Wald, emeri- Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield [email protected] • 978-594-4249tus professor of AmericanThe pointboth are of Jewish. the most recent as the Jewish Climate Action of environmental epidemiology arning: A look at the Jewish Culture & Society at the “There’s growing impatience results of the national University of Florida.study, “Many ofhe amongsaid, a “is certain that segment the of unbe­ Network (JCAN) and the Jewish at the Harvard T.H. Chan School Wsurvey of American them may not know what apart- American Jews about the pol- Jews’ viewpoints conducted heid actually was. They don’t icy of the Israeli government, Alliance for Law and Social of Public Health. “It’s a lot hotter. only weeks ago for the Jewish remember when there wasn’t an particularly the [Benjamin] Electorate Institute may make Israel, they don’t remember the Netanyahu government, which Action (JALSA), which were It’s going to get hotter. Just with your eyes glaze over. Six-Day War. For them, Israel can be accused of violating the among the cosponsors of cli­ the concentrations we’re seeing Here are some of the find- has always been the dominant human rights of Palestinians,” ings: Two-thirds of Jews expect power in the Middle East. They said L. Sandy Maisel, the Colby mate rallies in multiple loca­ today, concentrations have been to vote for a Democrat in next look at Israel as if it should be College political scientist year’s midterm congressional a liberal democracy, and it is who was co-editor of “Jews in tions across Massachusetts on going up faster in the last decade elections. No surprise. Seven in not. It is an ethnic democracy. American Politics,’’ published in 10 Jews view Joe Biden favor- For a lot of American Jews and 2001. (Disclosure: I contributed Aug. 19. than in previous decades.” ably. Of course they do. Eight of others, that is a different thing both the introduction and final THE JEWISH JOURNALto accept.’’ “Our Jewish values compel Frumhoff said that although 10 Jews view Donald J. Trump chapter of that volume. Wald unfavorably. No great revela- But for a lot of Jews, it also co-wrote a chapter.) tion there. Seven in 10 feel it is difficult to accept that Israel “But,” Maisel continued, us to work for environmental some CO2 escapes through pho­ is important that the United At Boston College, anti-Israeli activists have erected an eight-foot- might not be true to its found- “that is very different from say- high wall during its annual “Peace, Not Apartheid Week.” justice,” Cindy Rowe, executive tosynthesis, it will “more likely States provide financial aid to ing ideals – ideals that are, to ing that American Jews have lost of oppression, one condemned be sure, a Rorschach test, one Israel. Ho-hum. al law, originally in the 1973 their commitment to Israel.” director of JALSA, said in a state­ stay in the atmosphere … The by Israel at the United Nations) where Americans in particular And so on. International Convention on the SEEKS Make no mistake. The But hold it. Keep going was especially searing. project their democratic val- Suppression and Punishment “Laws, policies, and state- Human Rights Watch report and ment. “We are at a tipping point, blanket of gas covers the Earth through those numbers. Explore ues onto the Jewish state. So the new poll results are a chal- of the Crime of Apartheid ments by leading Israeli officials a little further and the eyes that the apartheid poll result is not lenge for Israel and American and we need our elected officials and causes warming around and then – 15 years later – in make plain that the objective of were glazing over suddenly will out of sync with a separate poll Jews at a time when the Biden the 1998 Rome Statute of the maintaining Jewish Israeli con- pop out. Can this be so: that question in which a third of the administration is shaping its to act with urgency. All of us both the oceans and land sur­ International Criminal Court. trol over demographics, political one-quarter of American Jews American Jewish respondents Middle East policy and when FREELANCEThis past spring, the word power, and land has REPORTERSlong guided should be able to live in a clean face … with warmer water, believe Israel is an apartheid agreed that “Israel’s treatment tensions still smolder following took on a more ominous mean- government policy,” the report state? of Palestinians is similar to rac- the springtime violence. ing. said. “In pursuit of this goal, and healthful environment, expect sea levels to rise and gla­ Apartheid of course was a ism in the United States.” Still, “When the Jewish population First, in March, the Inter- authorities have dispossessed, specific condition – the legal nearly two-thirds said they had becomes among the most vocal national Criminal Court began confined, forcibly separated, regardless of race, national ori­ ciers to melt, land-based ice to separation of the races in South an emotional attachment to critics of Israel, you know it’s an investigation into whether and subjugated Palestinians by Africa beginning in 1948 – the Are you a print journalist?Israel. not a message problem,” said gin or income. We must join melt.” apartheid exists in the broad virtue of their identity to vary- The poll’s sponsor, the Jewish very year, it turns out, of Israeli region controlled by Israel. Frank I. Luntz, a prominent ing degrees of intensity.” Electorate Institute, describes independence. The word itself Then, only two weeks before the Republican pollster who has together, before we face even Jennifer Bender, aquacul­ Supporters of Israel – a coun- itself as “an independent, non- comes from the Afrikaans lan- latest surge in Israeli-Palestinian been involved in Israeli politics try that had voted to apply dip- partisan organization dedicated more severe climate change, to ture education coordinator at guage, growing out of the Dutch violence,If so, Human Rightswe’d Watch like to speak with you.for decades. “This is a message lomatic and economic sanc- root “apart,” for “separate.” to deepening the public’s under- crisis. But I can’t say I’m sur- – an international organiza- tions against South Africa in its But since the end of formal standing of Jewish American prised. The Israeli government protect our planet from environ­ the School for the Environment tion headquartered in New York apartheid period – were quick apartheid more than a quarter- participation in our democra- has shown little concern about that conducts research and to find fault with Human Rights mental destruction.” and executive director of the century ago, the word has been cy,” but the Times of Israel char- its image for years now.” advocacy on human rights – Watch, and Steven A. Cook, the employed more as metaphor acterized it as “a group led by released “A Threshold Crossed,” columnist at “Foreign Policy,” Meanwhile, the Clean Power Marine Studies Consortium at than noun. Increasingly, the prominent Jewish Democrats.” David M. Shribman, who Freelancea blistering news 213-page report reporters acknowledged wanted that while the for the Jewish Journal. word has been used to describe One way or another, the report teaches American politics at arguing that Israeli authorities report was “damning,” it seemed Coalition is fighting a planned the University of Massachusetts the separation of Palestinians cannot be summarily dismissed McGill University’s Max Bell were committing “the crimes “unlikely to have much influ- and Jewish Israelis. at a time when American rela- School of Public Policy in natural gas-fired power plant in Boston, noted that the chemical Dailyagainst humanity or weekly of apartheid newspaperence on the conflict between experience required. For a long while the word tions with Israel are in transition Montreal, is executive editor and persecution.” The applica- Israelis and Palestinians or on was employed in a facile man- and when businesses such as emeritus of the Pittsburgh Post- Peabody. composition of oceans is also tion of the emotionally loaded the Western powers that express ner, kind of as a critics’ arch Ben & Jerry’s, the ice-cream pur- Gazette. He led the newspaper’s phrase “crimes against human- an interest in ending it.” shorthand to describe the sep- veyors, announce – as they did Coalition director Jerry changing. ity” (summoning images of the Even so, the notion that coverage of the Tree of Life syna- arate worlds inhabited by the earlier this month – that they gogue shooting that won the Holocaust, where the principal Israel was imposing a stigma- Halberstadt said of the IPCC’s “As CO2 is released by human two groups and thus served as no longer will sell their con- Pulitzer Prize. victims were Email Jews) and “apart- covertized socialletter system bothand stung resume to: a cudgel to pour disgrace on fections in the West Bank and heid” (summoning images of a — and stuck. findings, “I think the over­ activity, the oceans absorb more Israel. But the term also has globally reviled social system been encased in internation- [email protected]. whelming evidence is that our of it,” she said. “CO2 unfortu­ use of fossil energy has direct­ nately creates a more acidic Ben & Jerry’s is voluntarily cooperating with economic terrorism ly and indirectly changed the ocean, less basic,” with such JULY 29, 2021 – 20 AV 5781 from page 4 ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT JOURNAL EXCLUSIVE: Coverage on pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 17, 20 and 22. WATCH AN INTERVIEW WITH RABBI NOGINSKI AT Go to www.jewishjournal.org for updates. WWW.JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG Ben & Jerry’s would not take MAY 20, 2021 – 9 SIVAN 5781 JULY 15, 2021 – 6 AV 5781 conditions that affect climate effects as “some of the coral any action to interfere with the JEWISHVOL 45, NO 26 JOURNALJEWISHJOURNAL.ORG and it’s pretty convincing that bleaching, animals from plank­ IsraeliJEWISH franchisee’s activities JOURNAL in DA pledges ‘to hold VOL 45, NO 21 JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG JEWISHVOL 45, NO 25 JOURNALJEWISHJOURNAL.ORG all of Israel – including Judea people accountable when ton to shelled [species] having a Jewish Journal reaches campaign goal Boston rabbi recovering after brazen stabbing they engage in hate’ that is the relationship, and we and Samaria. Therefore,page violat-in July. The funds from the campaign will help bol- outside of Jewish day school By Ethan M. Forman semitism exists, and that we are ing these merger decisionster the paper’s terms journalism, its JOURNAL STAFF going to hold people account- website and social media plat- Egyptian man arrested and held without bail able when they engage in hate basically have no time to do a hard time growing their shells.” forms, allow for broader distri- BRIGHTON – Last week, – which is what I believe hap- is considered a grave violationbution and also strengthen the Suffolk District Attorney Rachael pened here.” Journal’s endowment. Rollins visited the home of the On July 8, a judge ordered The Journal, which began rabbi who was attacked and the suspect, Khaled A. Awad, of Israeli Competition Law.publishing in 1977, is the largest repeatedly stabbed in broad 24, of Brighton, held without full-court press to turn things Of the report, Bender said, Jewish paper in New England daylight outside the Shaloh bail pending a dangerousness – mailed free to over 10,000 House Jewish Day School on hearing and a 20-day crimi- homes every other week. Over July 1. nal responsibility evaluation at Strum has concluded thatthe last year, it it has is faced sig- Photo: Steven A. Rosenberg/Journal Staff PMC Founder Billy Starr, a Barry Lipsett of Falmouth rides for Photo: Ethan M. Forman/Journal Staff The suspect now faces a Bridgewater State Hospital. nificant economic challenges Ambassador Meron Reuben, Consul General of Israel to New England, Newton native, on a “reimag- his late sister, Sue de Vries, who Long-time PMC rider Donna series of assault and battery and In the attack, police say during the coronavirus health at a pro-Israel rally last week in Boston. “I don’t think anything is up for Cohen of Swampscott. around. The world’s not going ined” ride last year. died from breast cancer in 2006. prohibited to limit the emergency license – with its major hate-crime charges in connec- Noginski was confronted by Matthew Swartz, Howard Rich, Steven Rosenberg and Johanna source of revenue, advertising, tion with the attack and a dan- Awad outside the Jewish day Matloff. Israel and Hamas move via limiting sales of icedropping cream, over 35 percent. Still, Spirit of tikkun olam drives many gerousness hearing on July 29. school and camp on Chestnut JOURNAL STAFF REPORT ation of the Epstein Center for while other Jewish papers in toward ceasefire; Boston Rollins, who was nominat- Hill Avenue. At gunpoint, the Behavioral Health at Salem major cities such as New York ed Monday by President Joe rabbi was nearly forced inside debate. There’s unquestionably Biden to be U.S. Attorney for his minivan, before he fled to be livable for human beings let aloneInspired by a challenge terminate from Hospital, and has donated the and con-Los Angeles have elimi- riders in annual Pan-Mass Challenge philanthropists Arthur J. Epstein generously to the area’s Jewish continued on page 23 Jews rally for Israel Massachusetts, reiterated her across the street to a park. and Bryna Litchman, the Jewish day school – the Epstein Hillel Photo: Steven A. Rosenberg/Journal Staff Photo: Rabbi Dan Rodkin Photo: Chris Kleponis By Ethan M. Forman tual, with riders planning their own routes while support for the Jewish com- In trying to fend him off, By Steven A. Rosenberg Jerusalem. They include the PA’s Shaloh House in Brighton, where a rabbi was attacked Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was stabbed eight times and Noginski speaking at a rally against antisemitism in Journal has successfully reached School in Marblehead – which JOURNAL STAFF fundraising with pledges for their “reimagined” munity during her July 21 visit Noginski, who has a background JOURNAL STAFF cancellation of planned elec- in broad daylight. treated on July 1. Washington, D.C., on Sunday. tractits goal withof raising $200,000. the is named licensee for him. “I believe that in Israel rides. This year, the ride is coming back together to Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi in martial arts, was stabbed tions in the West Bank; protests Photo: Israeli-American Council (IAC) With the campaign reaching its the Jewish Journal serves as the SALEM – The Pan-Mass Challenge bike-a- with 16 planned routes and starts and finishes Shlomo Noginski’s home. eight times in the arm, shoulder a human influence on the atmo­ By Steven A. Rosenberg to stab me so many times; tens of times, maybe a hun- Bridgewater State Hospital for 20 days to undergo a or much else.” BOSTON – As Israel and over a court case involving the mark, Epstein and Litchman connector of our North Shore Hamas inched closer to a cease- proposed eviction of some JOURNAL STAFF dred times, without stopping, into here. Because he criminal responsibility examination. thon has raised $767 million and counting for the across Massachusetts, plus the inclusion of the “We are sorry this happened,” and ribs. Noginski believes his withoutplan to donate $100,000 the to the Israeliand larger Jewish community, Competition fire after nearly two weeks of families in the East Jerusalem didn’t stop, I felt that he wanted to kill and didn’t wantPhoto: The attack Flash90on Noginski has caused further unease Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in its more than four “reimagined” ride, where participants can ride said Rollins. “We are taking this attacker was motivated by hate. Journal. Their gift is the largest and we all need to invest in its fighting, the war was felt in neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah; BOSTON – In a more just world, Rabbi Shlomo to stop until he got to my heart. So, it’s a miracle that I among Greater Boston Jews, who have been dealing decades. wherever, whenever, and however far they choose. incident incredibly seriously, When the commotion caught single donation the Journal has sustainability.” Greater Boston as American rioting on the Temple Mount Noginski would have been overseeing the 100 kids at can even speak,” he said. with an uptick of antisemitism in the lastThe few years. Israeli-AmericanThe ride involves more than 6,000 Councilriders, sup- Its founder flew and executive a director, banner Billy Starr, and just over to speak to Benhim as a the & attention Jerry’s of others, Noginski fac- Authority’sreceived in its 44-year history. approvalDonors to this historic cam -which they Jews and Israelis held rallies and where Palestinians and Israeli Shaloh House’s Jewish day camp last Friday. Instead, Khaled Awad, 24, an Egyptian man who was seen the The stabbing is also the most serious attack on a rabbi ported by thousands of volunteers, pedaling along said the PMC has come to embody the spirit of tik- person and let him know that was able to flee inside the Shaloh JCAN representative Harvey sphere, the oceans and land. “Bryna and I think this is paign are listed in a special sec- gathered in solidarity to sup- police were injured; Israel’s he was changing the bandages and wiping blood on his day before the stabbing acting suspiciously near the in New England since July of 1969, when two youths various routes from 25 to 211 miles during the first kun olam, repairing the world. we are going to fight to make House. Awad was later arrested great and unbelievable and tion within this week’s paper port Israel. decision to remove Palestinians left arm and hand – reminders of the brutal stabbing Shaloh House, is being held without bail after he was hurled acid into the face of a Mattapan rabbi.tory and globalweekend of August. It’sheadquarters goal this year is to raise $52 “It certainly hasin more South resonance 40 years inBurlington, than sure that this individual is held Vermont, by police. reading dowe notboth appreciate have. every- and Israel represent gifts or commit has- sent a Israel hasA fought Ben several &from theJerry’s Old City’s Damascus factory nearhe incurred on JulyKiryat 1 outside of the campMalakhi. and school arrested and charged with the stabbing and multiple Noginski, who is 41, is married and the father of million for the Jimmy Fund. The ride accounts for it did two years in,” said Starr, a Newton native. accountable; and that we want When asked how he was feel- body who contributed to this ments made between March 11 mini-wars in Gaza since Hamas Gate during Ramadan. in Brighton. counts of assault and battery. At a hearing last week, 12 children. He grew up in the former Soviet Union 64 percent of the Jimmy Fund’s revenue. “Originally, it was like ‘repair my own soul’ or offer the Jewish community to know ing, the rabbi, a native of the most worthwhile campaign to and May 11. Additional gifts can “Serve Ice Cream, Not Hate” on July 23, 2021. written notice to Ben & Jerry’s seized control of the autono- On May 10, Hamas fired a Noginski was treated at two Boston hospitals and prosecutors filed hate crime and civil rights charges and learned martial arts as a child in order to defend Due to the pandemic, last year’s ride went vir- continued on page 17 that we are aware that anti- continued on page 6 keep our Jewish Journal as a still be made, and those dona- Michaels attended the most There’s much stronger language, mous strip from the Palestinian barrage of rockets into Israel. released in time to prepare for the Sabbath. With help, against Awad, who allegedly chased Noginski through himself from antisemitic attacks. A resident of Israel, central link to the Jewish and tions received between May Ben & Jerry’s decision to boy- Authority (PA) in 2007, but the Israel responded by bombing he was able to walk to synagogue on Shabbat. “Thank the streets of Brighton Square before stabbing him he formerly served as a city councilor in Kfar Chabad. interfaith communities,” said 12 and July 15 will be included Global warning them Arthur that Epstein and they Bryna latest conflict can be traced Gaza. Over the last 10 days, God, many people ask how I feel. I tell them that if they eight times in a park across from the Hasidic day school He moved to Brighton two years ago with his family to Chelsea Jewish Lifecare mandates COVID-19Israelis vaccines are for on all the its employees line. But, Epstein, who funded the cre- in a special acknowledgment Litchman. different arrangement’ waswant to see a miraclenot just look at me. Because he tried and Jewish camp. After the hearing, Awad was sent to to a spate of recent events in continued on page 20 cott Israel constitutes a surren-continued on page 16 decision doesn’tBy Ethan M. Forman promoteapproval of one of peace,the three residences in Wellesley. are in violation of Israeli compe- JOURNAL STAFF which is great, in my perspec­ authorized by the (Ben & Jerry’s) available vaccines, which are when deciding toBerman eat said they ice have had cream, recent in-person gathering of As Memorial Day approaches, Jewish war veterans’ stories are shared SUSPECT IN ATTACKder ON to RABBI ongoing IN BRIGHTON aggressive FACES HATE belea- CRIME CHARGES now being administered under very few cases during the past nor is it a solutionCHELSEA – Guided by Jewish toemergency the use authorization. con- six to eight months, and while titionBy Ethan M. law Forman and the terms of the among the 10,000 or so [U.S, vant Jewish family, and his father By Ethan M. Forman light, with the Jewish day school’s chil- Awad lived until February, according to values, mindful of the cases and That could be granted in a cou- it shouldn’t be becausemany restrictions have been of JOURNAL STAFF military] whoboard.” are buried there. made his living in the liquor JOURNAL STAFF dren’s camp in session nearby. Rollins. They also interviewed local wit- deaths long-term care facili- ple of months. lifted, Chelsea Jewish Lifecare is As we walked through the cem- business. His father fought in guering by groups dedicated “We have added civil rights and hate nesses. flict. On theties suffered contrary, at the start of the “We allthe saw what action this virus still mindful of what happened the IPCC, in Madrid in 2019. He tive.” 2001Marblehead’s agreement. Robert Sanford etery, it was the solemnity and World War I, losing the use of BRIGHTON – Nearly a week after crime charges,” said Suffolk County “We wanted to make sure we got it pandemic, and witnessing the can do just to the broader soci- politics. When itin the comes past and are hearing from to my and his wife of 72 years, Bery, the quiet and the dignityI of have the one of his beenlegs in a battle in the curious to see the bloody attack on a Hasidic rabbi in toDistrict the Attorney Rachael dismantling Rollins during of the Stateright,” Rollins said about the delay in arrival of the highly transmissi- ety in the course of last year,” epidemiologists and others managed to survive the Holo- place that made me feel part of Carpathian Mountains. Brighton, prosecutors introduced new a press conference on the steps of the bringing hate crimes charges. strengthens“And we organizations caustInterestingly, and after the war escaped B&J’s values, something that is far bigger than Sanford’s parents and sis- ble delta variant, Chelsea Jewish said Adam Berman, president household, wellabout before the spread of the thedelta boy- how Ben & Jerry’s decisionhate crime and will civil rights violation Brighton Division of Boston Municipal have the evidence we needed to prove Lifecare recently announced it of Chelsea Jewish Lifecare, variant in Massachusetts. the Communist Regime in I am.” ter managed to survive the charges against the suspect and called ofCourt. Israel.The court building Byis across giving in to thesethis. I know people watching this knew in Romania by crossing into With the help of the GI Bill, Holocaust and migrated to Israel would require all 1,800 employ- which has campuses in Chelsea The delta variant is a high- was there presenting research One scientist expressed dis­ out his alleged antisemitism. the street from the Shaloh House and their heart what they believed hadopposed hap- to reconciliation and whichHungary, Austria, Germany, they and proudly articu- Sanford got his first degree in 1950. Sanford also was able ees across the Legacy Lifecare and Peabody with about 1,100 cott, our dog Doobily transmissible professed form of the a resonate with Israel’s manyLast Thursday, Boston Municipal Brighton Common, where the attack took pened. network to get the shot. employees. coronavirus, but the vaccines France. from City College of New York. to bring his brother to the U.S. Court Judge Steven Key ordered Khaled “This rabbi was living a full, authentic sundryplace. groups, the company The nonprofit says 80 percent Not every staff member will are still proving highly effec- But after they arrived on tem- He continued his education at However, his wife’s grandparents A. Awad, 24, formerly of Brighton, held The two additional charges are a life as we are all entitled to do,” Rollins actively callsof staff already for have rolled the up be requireddestruction to get a COVID shot, tive at preventing severe dis- lateporary visas on in the United their States, website, allow Purdue University, where he were killed by the Nazis. without bail for 20 days while a criminal civil rights violation causing injury, and said. “He was wearing a yarmulke stand- long time ago that he is not a fan friends worldwide. So far, in the their sleeves. Berman said, because, based ease after exposure to it follow- Sanford was drafted into the earned degrees in chemistry Sanford met his wife as a responsibility evaluation was performed isassault voluntarily and battery to intimidate result- cooperatinging with in front of a school that teaches about he was doing at MIT, where he is approval with the IPCC’s state­ Army while living on Staten and physics. He worked for the teenager, he was 17 and she at Bridgewater State Hospital. ing in bodily injury while armed. the Jewish faith and religion, standingof the StateThe senior of care Israel. organiza- on the Thelaw, those with Israeli sincerely ing two doses, according to a themIsland. to sell their ice cream Atomic Energy Commission at was 15, and it was love at first United States, five statesA dangerousness are tak- hearing was post- According to state law, if convicted of in front of an enormous menorah, and tion is one of the first provid- held religious beliefs or medical of Ben & Jerry’s,recent and study in the Newas England always in Sanford, now 92, who was Columbia University and then at sight, he said. Today, the couple poned until July 29. During last week’s the civil rights violation, Awad could face a bus for the Hebrew camp. So we don’t ers of its kind to mandate vac- contraindications – such as a Journal of Medicine. born Isidor Strulovici in 1928 in has three adult children, seven economic terrorism, led by the General Electric, which brought hearing, Awad was arraigned on two new up to a $10,000 fine and up to 10 years in want you to think that we did notfactory know thatcines for staff Ben and volunteers & Jerry’ssevere allergic reaction is to vactar-- Kaplan Estates employee Elena Shevtsova receives a vaccine. While Chelsea Jewish Lifecare inBotosani, many Romania, reported other for conflictPhoto: zones Ethan M. Forman/Journal Staff him to Marblehead in 1960. grandchildren, and four great- Photo: Mary Schwalm/Boston Herald/Pool charges relating to hate crimes, and he prison, while the other charge carries up what was happening. We just wanted to in Massachusetts. This policy is cine components – would be our household,has he topped thegets national goal the for final duty and served in Korea even Robert Sanford of Marblehead, who fled Communist Romania, is a Recent healthing scares, includ action- grandchildren. in the U.S. – looking Egyptian nationalist Khaled A. Awad, 24, ments – Richard Lindzen, an consistent with the requirement exempt. Chelsea Jewish Lifecare has management resources collab- vaccinations within long-term a lecturer in energy and climate Jewish veteran of the Korean War. pleaded not guilty. to $10,000 and up to five years in prison. make sure we knew a little bit more about though he was not a U.S. citizen. ing colon cancer and heart sur- Bery’s stepfather, Iancu Zissu, BDS movementis charged with– stabbingan Rabbi anti-Israel Shlomo In all, Awad faces seven felonies and Hate crimes charges were not part of Noginski in Brighton on July 1. this suspect and we could provegeting these employsemployees get a flu shot. Jews,During Arabs,the start of the pan- hundreds of residents in its orative that oversees JGS Lifecare care facilities of 75 percent, this worldwide,As Memorial Day approach- Jewish though war veteran. theinvasion boardcemetery in France,” gery, prompted him and his wife was an important Jewish lawyer two misdemeanor charges stemming the initial round of charges brought by additional two charges.” The mandate will go into demic, senior care provid- care. The nonprofit say.senior care Soin Longmeadow, you Deutsches won’t still leaves find hundreds ofB&J staff in our es May 31, Sanford and sever- “My wife and I were privi- Sanford said. That was around to write about theirinto lives. potentiallywho was able to flee Romania divesting from from the violent July 1 attack on Rabbi prosecutors. local law enforcement agencies worked The added charges were welcomed by effect once the Food and Drug ers were especially hard hit by provider is a founding member Altenheim of West Roxbury, and unvaccinated. al others reflected on being a leged to visit the [Normandy] 1999. “And there are many Jews Sanford grew up in an obser- organization with antisemitic has not announced any simi- continued on page 21 Shlomo Noginski outside the Shaloh Boston Police, including the Civil over the long July Fourth weekend to area Jewish leaders, who called the Ethiopians,attack Administration Ultra-Orthodox, grants final COVID-19. of Legacy Lifecare, a nonprofit the Elizabeth Seton and Marillac continued on page 17 Unilever under their variousHouse in Brighton Center in broad day- Rights Unit, the FBI, and other state and gather information from Florida, where continued on page 13 freezer. innovation at the university’s emeritus professor of meteo­ undertones. Ben & Jerry’s move refugees and other minorities. larTAKING end CAREof sales OF YOUR for MONEY, other AND coun- YOU. state laws. In addition, anti-BDS is immoral and discriminatory Ultimately,APPLY FOR like A GR theEAT MO Israeli-RTGAGE IN LESS TIME THAN IT TAKES TO READ THE PAPER. tries.Our expert Indeed,guidance and services will withouthelp you feel better about ques-your money. laws are in 34 states, includ-APPLY FOR A GREAT MORTGAGE IN LESS TIME THAN IT TAKES TO READ THE PAPER. Ambassador Meron Reuben Sloan Sustainability Initiative. continued on page 14 Talk to us today. as it singles out Israel, harms Use your smart phone to apply for a great mortgage in just 15 minutes. Use your smart phone to apply for a great mortgage in just 15 minutes. PalestinianApply conflict,now at MetroCU.org. the case of tion, there is a unique focus ing Rhode Island. Of theseApply n osaidw at MetroCU.org . is the Consul General of Israel to Boston | Chelsea | Burlington | Framingham | Lawrence | Lynn | Melrose | Newton | Peabody | Salem | Tewksbury both Israelis and Palestinians Chelsea | Boston | Burlington | Framingham | Lawrence | Lynn | Melrose MetroCU.org | 877.MY.METRO Chelsea | Boston | Burlington | Framingham | Lawrence | Lynn | Melrose Ben & Jerry’s boycott is much on Israel. Anuradha Mittal, Insured by NCUA | Member MSIC Newton | Peabody | Salem | Tewksbury | MNewetroCU.org | 87England.7.MY.METRO states, 21 explicitly include Newton | Peabody | Salem | Tewksbury | MetroCU.org | 877.MY.METRO and encourages extremist NMLS# 198524 chair of the independent board NMLS# 198524 more complicated than meets The Jewish Journal is a nonprofit newspaper supported by generous readers, committed advertisers and charitable organizations.Judea Email [email protected]. and Samaria as part of The Jewish Journal is a nonprofit newspapergroups supported by generous readers, to committed continue advertisers and charitable and organizations. Email inten- [email protected]. The Jewish Journal is a nonprofit newspaper supported by generous readers, committed advertisers and charitable organizations. Email [email protected]. of directors for Ben & Jerry’s, the eye. Jobs of 160 diverse the boycott in their anti-boycott sify their aggressive tactics. The retweeted that “The line about legislation. ‘we will stay in Israel through a THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021 5

Five students from LARRY LEVINE’S Epstein Hillel heading KOSHER MEATS & DELI to Gann this fall Available from LEVINE’s for the coming holidays SHOULDER LEAN WHOLE BEEF ROASTS lb $9.99 FLANKEN lb $9.49 BRISKETS lb $8.99 12-14 lb avg Tzimmes Chicken Soup (Clear or w/Chicken) Knishes (Meat or Potato) Sweet & Sour Meatballs Kasha Varnishkes Roast Brisket w/gravy Potato or Noodle Kugel Chopped Liver Roast Turkeys & Capons Meat Kreplach Kishke Stuffed Cabbage

And, of course, the largest selection of top choice & prime beef, fancy white veal, lamb, and fresh poultry cut to order, not packaged, and served with a smile. Epstein Hillel graduates Sarina Ariely, Jordyn Burkatovsky, Olivia F LET US PREPARE YOUR HOLIDAY MEAL THE WAY YOUR BUBBIE DID! F Schuller, Jorja Odorczuk and Orli Gold will attend Gann Academy this year. Whole Roasted Turkey Kasha Varnishkes By Ethan M. Forman approximately 30-mile com- Pick Roasted Chicken Potato Kugel one Pick JOURNAL STAFF mute. { Sliced Brisket in Gravy Noodle Kugel two But with much of the class Roasted Potatoes $ 95 MARBLEHEAD – Gann applying, Sharon Ariely said, Chicken Soup {Carrot Tzimmes per person Academy’s spring graduating “We saw it would be a continu- Pick {Chopped Liver (minimum 6 people) class contained just one senior ing of her education at Hillel … one — JUST HEAT AND EAT! — Brisket $22.95 pp from Marblehead. We just wanted her to continue 21 However, Gann’s incoming with the momentum.” freshman class will contain a There is a long history of We have all your holiday baked goods and challahs. contingent of five North Shore Hillel students attending Gann Glatt kosher meat available. students who will be making as well as other local public and the trek to Waltham to continue private schools, according to Now taking orders for your break fast platters. their Jewish and regular educa- Amy Gold, Epstein Hillel’s head tion. of school. 474 Lowell Street (Lowmart Shopping Center), Peabody That’s because five of The percentage of Epstein Epstein Hillel’s six graduates Hillel graduates attending Gann (978) 535-6449 • FAX (978) 535-6816 plan to attend Greater Boston’s is “probably one of the biggest Under the strict supervision of the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of Massachusetts sole independent Jewish high in recent years” Gold said. Visit our website at www.levineskoshermkt.com school. Gold herself is a Gann par- The five young women ent: Her son, Zachary, 18, grad- who will be attending Gann uated from there in the spring are Jordyn Burkatovsky of and plans to attend Colgate Swampscott, Olivia Schuller University in New York. Gold of Lynn, Sarina Ariely of said she saw her son grow both Swampscott, Jorja Odorczuk of Jewishly and academically in Swampscott and Orli Gold of preparation for college. Considering a Marblehead. Gold said her daughter Orli’s “I made a lot of friends,” decision to apply was influ- said Sarina Ariely, the daughter enced by attending her broth- move to the city? of Sharon and Mike Ariely of er’s basketball and lacrosse Swampscott, about her time at games or attending various arts This listing will come to the active Epstein Hillel. “It’s been a really festivals. Orli heard about the fun nine years there.” relationships her brother had market this Fall in the heart of Brookline. Ariely originally thought with teachers, and how much about going to Swampscott he learned and enjoyed Gann. Enjoy long, treetop views of Boston and the serenity of High, but decided to head to “I think for her, it was just Corey Hill, Brookline in this highly stylized, two bedroom Gann to continue with what she something she knew she want- duplex with designer touches. The centrally located home had learned at Epstein Hillel. ed to do,” Amy Gold said. is in a coveted complex and is just minutes to Corey Hill Continuing her Jewish educa- The pipeline between the Outlook Park, Coolidge Corner and Washington Square. tion was only part of the attrac- two schools did not open by The home also boasts a private deck, a one car garage, tion of Gann – there also was happenstance. “everything it had to offer,” In the fall of 2019, Gann’s and second deeded parking space. including its academics, elec- new head of school, Dr. Dalia tives and clubs, she said. Hochman, and an admissions Another reason she applied official toured Epstein Hillel was a collective decision among and met with middle-school the class to do so. A couple of students and parents, giving members had planned to apply, them the opportunity to hear leading others to research the about Hochman’s vision for school further. In addition Gann. Epstein Hillel parents to heading to Gann with her also asked Gold about her son’s Karen Butt friends, Ariely is also looking experiences. forward to meeting people “Our recruitment efforts from outside Swampscott and [begin] early,” Hochman said, Marblehead. noting it’s a big decision for a The Modern Mass Group Her mother, Sharon Ariely, family to have their children go [email protected] who is from Israel, said Sarina to a high school that is farther 978.337.5597 started at Epstein Hillel in kin- away, but it’s also a decision dergarten, transferring into the based on the desire to attend a school around Thanksgiving school with a sacred and special after the family moved back to mission. the North Shore from Iowa. “Wherever a student’s Jewish “Me and my husband real- journey begins, we meet them, ly liked what it had to offer,” and then we customize their The Modern Mass Group is a team of real estate agents affiliated with Compass, a licensed real estate broker and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. Sharon Ariely said. pathway forward to grow them Sharon Ariely said her in terms of their Jewish identity daughter, Lia, is going into sev- and Jewish journey and Jewish enth grade at Epstein Hillel and education,” Hochman said. her son, Eitan, will be attending Hochman, who is originally kindergarten there in the fall. from Lexington, is Gann’s third WATCH FOR OUR “Sarina, she’s the one who head of school, and she began ROSH HASHANAH pushed us,” Sharon Ariely said there in July 2019. Hochman is of her daughter applying to known for her work for Summit GREETINGS ISSUE Gann. “It wasn’t on our radar in Learning, a Silicon Valley char- the beginning, mainly because ter network funded by the SEPTEMBER 2. of the distance,” she said of the continued on page 14 6 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021 EDITORIAL JEWISH JOURNAL Steven A. Rosenberg PUBLISHER/EDITOR USY’s sex scandal SY, the United Synagogue Youth, and its the allegations. It hired Boston-based Sarah E. parent organization, the USCJ, the United Worley Conflict Resolution, P.C., as third-party USynagogue of Conservative Judaism – investigators to review the claims, and has set up which represents the Conservative movement – is a reporting hotline for potential victims. now in crisis mode. This month, several lawsuits According to USY, it has 15,000 members were filed against a former USY adviser accused across the U.S. – making it one of the largest of sexually assaulting Jewish teens – including Jewish youth groups in the country. The allega- one that asserted that the USCJ had been alerted tions the organization faces present the biggest as far back as 2002 about the alleged perpetra- challenge it has ever faced. In order to move tor (who continued to work for Conservative- forward, it must commit to a full and thorough affiliated organizations until 2020). investigation into all allegations and any new This week, the USCJ took a proper step in claims that may be reported to its hotline. Its allowing an independent firm to investigate future depends on truth and transparency. Duxbury moves in the right direction ince the public learned that the Duxbury High The investigators reported that in addition to Football Team used the term “Auschwitz” using Jewish terms and the name of a Nazi Sand other Jewish-related terms as plays – concentration camp as plays, homophobic slurs violating several of the school district’s policies and profanity was uttered on the sidelines. over the last decade – the town has been under the Months later, the school district has a fresh spotlight to reform its athletic program and also to start – its superintendent has resigned, and reexamine its culture. its athletic director was not rehired. And this After the team used the “Auschwitz” play summer, 18 Duxbury High students completed during a game in March, the town moved slowly the Salem-based Lappin Foundation’s first ever to grasp just how hurtful the phrase was to Jews Holocaust Symposium for Teens, which included and others. It did fire the team’s head coach, but a trip to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum many residents demanded that he be rehired. in Washington, D.C. These actions signal the Meanwhile, the district allowed the football town’s commitment to learning from the season to continue. In the meantime, it hired investigation and making it a better place to live LETTERS TO THE EDITOR an independent firm to investigate the incident. and learn. Reader has questions, after Marblehead releases No dog days of summer in Jerusalem its report on police swastika incident So many questions (“Marble­ I suggest several days of head police officers kept silent mediation to fully grasp the on swastika,” Aug. 12, Jewish wider problems that culminated Journal): in this one act. Massachusetts Why did it take so long for the has a state Office for Mediation, Swastika outrage to come to the called the Massachusetts public eye? office of Public Collaboration Why was the police officer and Mediation. The Anti- whose car was scratched with Defamation League is another said symbol not angered enough professional group with expe- to seek help from agencies (I rience in the collaboration of thought the police was one of many minds. these agencies) who prosecute The parties should decide hate speech or hateful acts? how to go forward and with Why was the neutral inves- whose leadership, but I do hope tigator of this heinous act an the present investigation is not officer, himself, in a neighboring considered the conclusion. Too community? many facts and feelings are How can we get the commu- unresolved. What can be done nity and the Marblehead Police to change the future? Department to come together Barbara Younger and confront the issues? Danvers

We accept letters by email and U.S. mail. Email your letter, with “Letter to the Editor” in the subject, to: [email protected]; or mail to: Letters to the Editor, The Jewish Journal, P.O. Box 2089, Salem, MA 01970.

Photo: Margot Dudkevitch Last week’s fire over Ramat Raziel in the Jerusalem hills.

By David Brinn • the COVID-19 pandemic died about for the month-long JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT seemed to be under control, holiday period beginning with with much of the country vacci- Rosh Hashanah. Most parents JERUSALEM – August is nated, numbers way down and were aghast at the specter of known in the Israeli journalism the battered economy opened the school year opening being trade as the cucumber season up; delayed until October, having (onat mlafefonim). Similar to • our seemingly annual con- scrambled all summer to find the ‘silly season’ in the UK, it flict with Hamas in Gaza had day care and activities for their denotes the sultry days of sum- already taken place in May; home bound kids. mer when it’s too hot to even • and despite a gallant effort, Then, out of nowhere, a huge make news, and media orga- the Israel baseball team in the series of fires engulfed the for- nizations are forced to dredge Olympics (manned by mostly ests around the Jerusalem hills up all kinds of color stories and American Jews) failed to win a for three days, destroying hun- features to fill the space. medal (even though Israel did dreds of acres of trees, forcing Usually, in Israel, half the revel in winning two golds for the evacuation of thousands of country is abroad in August and the first time!). residents of towns and moshavs the other half is stuck inside Suddenly, though, the dog in the area and threatening trying to stay cool and recuper- days of summer turned on us to reach homes. Throughout ating from the rest of the year’s with a vengeance bordering on Jerusalem, clouds of black onslaught of cataclysmic events rabies. smoke blocked out the sun and that constantly one up each First of all, COVID came roar- an acrid smell filled the air, thick other in the frantic news cycle. ing back, with cases multiplying with ash. Thankfully, there was This August appeared to be weekly, the number of serious no loss of life and minimal dam- no different. We had: patients in hospitals also spik- age to property. • A relatively stable govern- ing, a third booster shot being Another silver lining was the ment in place after two years rolled out and the dreaded cooperation between Israeli fire- and four elections; “lockdown” word being ban- continued on page 7 OPINION THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021 7

Kaddish and gratitude for a father who forever guides his child

By Steven A. Rosenberg Roth title I can’t remember, and Lenny JOURNAL STAFF Bruce’s “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People.” Bruce seems most promising his Saturday night marks my and I hold up the paperback and read father’s 20th yahrzeit. Twenty years a page. “Good choice, he’s a genius,” he Tof separation and Kaddish; of pon- tells me. Soon, I start to write every day dering the most influential person in my and never talk about trade school again. life. When I recite the prayer, I hope it will May there be abundant peace from ease my family’s collective loss. But each heaven, and a good life for us and for all year, the Kaddish is a blur – I try to say Israel; and say, Amen. the prayer with intention and hope that In 1979, he and his brothers sell the the Hebrew deli. My mother and older sister insist words some- that he has worked hard enough and in PERSONAL how carry his the late afternoons he runs the register soul higher to in their Revere clothing store. He walks ESSAY a place where the beach every morning and I join him he is reunited on occasion. He asks questions about with his loved ones and family. Instead my goals and is still a great listener. He of connecting to the words, though, my knows if he listens, I’ll talk long enough attention shifts to the film of his life that about an issue and be able to figure it plays in my mind; and while the words out by myself. As we walk, he wades I say are Hebrew, they seem to translate The writer, with his father, Sam Rosenberg. knee deep into the water and when the into one English sentence: How lucky was sun splashes over him the world seems I was to be to the son of Zalman “Sam” Street clothing company who worked the couch with our knees balancing the golden. He does not seek attention or Rosenberg. side-by-side with the man who would Baseball Encyclopedia which we duti- adulation and is comfortable with the The projector is turned on, its motor become Malcolm X. fully study after supper. It’s our Talmud man he has become … so much that whirs, and the images flicker. In your lifetime and in your days and and my father believes that some of life’s there is a wisdom to that containment Exalted and hallowed be his great in the lifetime of the entire House of Israel, secrets are contained in the game and that makes me feel he could lead a nation Name. speedily and soon, and say, Amen. statistics. “OK, you can come to the deli. if he wanted to. He is a two-year-old child on a boat On Sundays, after Hebrew School, But remember: You’re going to college, He who makes peace in his heavens, from Lithuania sailing to Boston. He we drive to Chelsea. We visit my father’s and you’re going to get an education. I may he make peace for us and for all doesn’t know it yet, but the family will mother, the Bubbie, and my tantas Rosie won’t let you own a deli. You’re going to Israel; and say, Amen. fall into abject poverty once they reach and Noinkie on Spruce Street. They only make it.” It’s the early morning hours of Sept. 9, Chelsea … Scene change: I am five and he speak Yiddish and my sisters and I speak Beyond all the blessings, hymns, praises 2001. I sit by my father’s bed in his Florida hands me a baseball glove and patiently English. When we visit, my father speaks and consolations that are uttered in the condo. He’s in a coma but my mother and teaches me to play catch in our backyard Yiddish quietly to his mother and aunts. world; and say, Amen. I talk to him about family. We tell stories on Orchard Road in Swampscott. I can’t They smile, they laugh, they hug. It’s an At my bar mitzvah. my father chokes about my sisters and their children and I articulate it yet, in words, but if I could it equation based on love, and somehow up during his Aliyah. I know why he’s talk about my son. I expect a miracle to would be: He knows how to be a father. even without ever getting to know his crying. This is the life and family he had occur, that his eyes will open and he’ll ask Throughout the world which he has father, he has become everything you dreamed of creating. I stand next to him for a cup of coffee and a bagel. created according to his will. May he want in a parent – a listener, a teacher of and help him with the prayer. establish his kingship, bring forth his right and wrong, and a man who takes his Upon Israel, and upon our sages, and * * * redemption and hasten the coming of his job seriously. One Sunday, in my Bubbe’s upon their disciples, and upon all the dis- When I’m finishing this last line of Messiah. modest apartment, I figure it out: Family ciples of their disciples, and upon all those the Kaddish I am thankful that my father He had once wanted to write, and even is everything. who occupy themselves with the Torah, never had to experience 9/11 or how saved a few articles he had published May his great name be blessed forever here or in any other place, upon them and civility has slowly diminished during the in his junior high paper. Had poverty, and to all eternity. Blessed and praised, upon you, may there be abundant peace, rise of misinformation in his beloved hunger and sadness killed that dream? glorified, exalted and extolled, honored, grace, kindness, compassion, long life, America. If he had written, how would he have adored and lauded be the name of the ample sustenance and deliverance, from But I see him in the faces and feel him described a drunken father who died of Holy One, blessed be he. their Father in heaven; and say, Amen. in the souls of an America that still exists tuberculosis, a blind mother, or a bout of I am 10 and want to spend more time I am 14 and bored and suddenly dis- for millions of immigrants. The climb, the malnutrition that preceded a state order with my father. I want to go to the deli interested in school. I hear some kids talk sacrifice, the hustle of multiple minimum to place him in an orphanage for two because it’s something that belongs to my about going to trade school to become wage gigs while cherishing every stolen years? father and his brothers; a place where he a plumber. My mother seems in shock moment with your loved ones. And the He did what was he thought was right, works seven days a week; the reason why when I pitch the idea; my father doesn’t dream of a better world for the next gen- what he figured children of poor immi- he isn’t at home with us. I long to see him respond right away. Instead, he spends eration. I know that look and feel. grants were supposed to do. He quit high in charge, and stand next to him as the more time with me. It’s love. school to help put food on the table, and boss’s son. I have no sense of what a deli “Stevie, you like English, right? It’s your scrounged for odd jobs during the war. man’s duties entail, but I expect his work favorite subject?” Steven A. Rosenberg is the editor and He was a carnival barker, a tablecloth to be profound. I nod, and he hands me a pile of books. publisher of the Jewish Journal. Email salesman, and a runner in a Kneeland “OK,” he says one night as we sit on There’s “Exodus” by Leon Uris, a Philip him at [email protected]. No dog days of summer in Jerusalem from page 6 cation from the terror groups Gaza in 2005. Not all of them Bennett’s tenuous coalition has in Gaza would be met with a worked out so well, and pun- no consensus on forwarding a military reaction. Would we see dits weren’t shy about explain- two-state solution at present. an escalation into another full- ing why the U.S. and Biden were All at once, the slow news blown conflict? right, or wrong, in their move. season had become an exhaust- That question became even And the other angle was, of ing and stressful period of crises more relevant when an IDF sol- course, how the withdrawal and and catastrophes amid the coro- dier, Barel Shmueli, 21, from reactions to it would affect the navirus. Luckily, there’s another Be’er Yaakov near Rishon Lezion Biden-Bennett summit. Would week left in August. Maybe just was shot in the head at point- Biden be reluctant about sum- enough for a short cucumber blank range during clashes moning a peace plan for Israel season before we have to start with Palestinians who gathered and the Palestinians and keep cutting up salad for our holiday in a Hamas-led protest along foreign policy on the slow burn- meals? the Gaza border on Saturday. er? Or would he try to deflect In addition to worrying every the criticism of his decisions by David Brinn grew up in Israeli parent with children shifting the focus to a new initia- Maine and is the managing edi- in the army, the incident only tive, despite the knowledge that tor of The Jerusalem Post. sharpened the point that 16 years after Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza, Gaza hasn’t with- Get local Jewish and interfaith news by signing up drawn from Israel. for your FREE subscription to THE JEWISH JOURNAL. Also, this month, the U.S. Email your address to: [email protected] Photo: Kobi Gideon/GPO withdrew from Afghanistan. Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett received his third COVID-19 Although not directly affecting vaccine last week. Israel, we were riveted to the images on the TV screens just fighters and their counterparts the dreaded alert sirens signify- like everyone else. in the Palestinian Authority, ing a rocket fired from Gaza were And of course, the sites and which sent four contingents to sounded – the first time since the front pages were full of the help battle the blazes. ‘Better IDF’s Operation Guardian of the “Israel angle.” We have a wealth neighbors through disaster’ was Walls in May. The rocket didn’t Your tax-deductible gift helps keep our publication free. of experience with withdrawals, a headline that was unexpected, cause any damage, but accord- Donate now online, at www.jewishjournal.org, or mail your gift to whether it be from the Sinai to but welcome. ing to Prime Minister Naftali The Jewish Journal, P.O. Box 2089, Salem, MA 01970, make way for peace with Egypt, In the middle of that tumult, Bennett’s directive, any provo- or by calling 978-745-4111. from Lebanon in 2000 and from 8 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021 ARTS

JEWISH JOURNAL Terkel’s words still resonate – loudly – in ‘We Live On’

Publisher/Editor By Jules Becker during the 1930s – an injustice that may call Steven A. Rosenberg JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT to mind the Obama administration’s depor- [email protected] tations and the separation of children from Call Studs Terkel a kind of documentarian parents during the Trump presidency. Associate Editor Dickens. The son of Russian Jewish immi- Women fighting sexist injustice come Ethan M. Forman grants (1912-2008) interviewed hundreds to the fore in the saga of labor organizer [email protected] of Americans from diverse ethnic origins Evelyn Finn, who led sit-ins and pushed for and financial conditions in a wide-ranging suits with union labels. Jeanette Horn brings Accounting Manager 1970 exploration of the impact of the Great Finn’s tenacity to life. Anne Waymouth Depression. Now actor-director Tim Robbins In contrast to Finn, repo man Harry [email protected] and the Actors’ Gang Theater Company Hartman is a more ambiguous protagonist. Director of have culled a cross-section of subjects from On the one hand, he participated in an evic- Advertising & Marketing Terkel’s ground-breaking oral history “Hard tion and left poor people without furniture Lois Kaplan Times” (A title calling to mind Dickens’1854 and sleeping on the floor. On the other hand, [email protected] serialized novel of the same name) in three he purposely claimed some beds were not stand-alone parts. “We Live On,” presented healthy so he could give them to children. Senior Strategic Media Manager on Zoom, serves not only as a tribute to the Photo: Library of Congress The third part, “We Shall Not Be Moved,” Marcy Grand master interviewer but also as a very timely Harry Hartman, repo man endorses opposition to evictions, and [email protected] look at the ways in which his interviewees’ to the title’s implication that the subjects’ women march to the anthem “Bread and Graphics, Web, insights – both disturbing and inspiring – stories still have meaning in our own times. Roses.” Lyrical poetry looms in memora- Russian Chronicle Editor resonate today. The contemporary impact becomes ble lines from Harlem Renaissance giant Yulia Zhorov Their responses – with informative apparent early in the opening segment. As Langston Hughes. Cyrus Roberts catches the updates about the subjects – center on a hardworking, laid-off African-American, beauty and poignancy of Hughes’ verses. [email protected] employment issues, family and individual Louis Banks was arrested for vagrancy and Cady Zuckerman brings engaging affec- Graphics, Web, Obituaries concerns, organized labor, women’s strug- sentenced to work on a chain gang. Jeronimo tion to the narrative of New York activist Andrew P. Fleischer gles, the 1929 crash, the Depression itself, Sphinx brings immediacy and intensity to Larry Zuckerman and matriarch Charlotte [email protected] and the New Deal. Director Robbins and the Banks’ ordeal. Morton De Vries, a Herbert Zuckerman, who escaped a pogrom. Terkel Actors’ Gang have put together a fascinating Hoover supporter, blamed the victims of wrote about ordinary people doing extraor- Administrative Assistant combination of talking heads, photo foot- the Depression for FDR’s relief programs – dinary things and insisted they “must count.” Linda Smidt age and iconic songs. In addition to strong just as many Americans today fault jobless Robbins and the Actors’ Gang cast, in “We [email protected] efforts from talented actors, the three parts workers for accepting assistance through the Live On,” do just that. Editorial Cartoonist feature relatives delivering some of the nar- Biden rescue plan. The unflinching narrative Tickets and schedule information at George Freedman ratives. These generational connections add speaks of Americans being illegally deported [email protected]

Board of Overseers Johanna Matloff, President Bob Blayer, *Rick Borten, Andrew Caplan, Beverly Clark, Teen Israel Fred M. Cohen, Neil D. Donnenfeld, David Gershaw, Leadership Institute Marcia Glassman-Jaffe, Cara Hogan, Lynn Nadeau, Donna Lozow Pierce, *Howard Rich, *Robert M. Rose, Presentations and content provided by CIE Founding President Ken Stein and a team of experienced Stephanie Simon, John Smidt, teen and young adult Israel education specialists. Ted D. Stux, Matthew Swartz, *Selma Williams *Life Board Members Past President TWO VIRTUAL SESSIONS: SEPTEMBER 19 & 26, 2021 Neil D. Donnenfeld Publisher Emerita 12:00 — 3:30 PM ET | LEARN MORE & APPLY AT WWW.ISRAELED.ORG/TEENS Barbara Schneider

The Jewish Journal, APPLICATION DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 5 ISSN1040-0095, an independent, non-profit community newspaper, is published bi-weekly by North Shore Jewish Press, Ltd., P.O. Box 2089, The CIE Teen Israel Leadership Institute will enhance Israel knowledge among Jewish teens and Salem, MA 01970. Periodical postage paid provide valuable skills for sharing that knowledge with others. Participants will engage in a wide at Salem, MA. variety of learning activities and have an opportunity to hear from college students. Teens with all POSTMASTER: Send address changes to levels of background knowledge of Israel are welcome to apply. THE JEWISH JOURNAL, P.O. Box 2089, Salem, MA 01970 Circulation to Eastern TOPICS COVERED Massachusetts and North of Boston. The opinions of contrib- Israeli Culture and Politics through Music • Identity and Religion in Israeli Society • Israel’s utors do not necessarily reflect those of the paper. The Jewish Jewish and Democratic Origins • Building the State from 1882 to 1949: Examining the British, Journal assumes no financial responsibility for typographical Arab and Zionist Texts • Arab-Israeli Relations and Negotiations Since 1948 • Being a errors in advertisements, but Critical Consumer of Media • Israel on Campus will print in a subsequent issue a retraction and correction of that portion of an advertisement whose value has been affected. The Jewish Journal does not In partnership with: endorse the goods and services advertised in its pages, and it makes no representation as to the kashrut of food products and services in such advertising. The Jewish Journal is the recipient of a grant from Combined Jewish Philanthropies. Copyright © The Jewish Journal (All rights reserved). P.O. Box 2089 Salem, MA 01970 This program is intended for students in grades 10-12 • The $54 registration fee has been waived www.jewishjournal.org for the September TILI • Qualifying participants will receive a CIE Teen Israel Leadership Institute Phone 978-745-4111 Fax 978-745-5333 Certificate in Israel Education • Contact CIE Teen Program Manager Michele.Freesman at Subscriptions x121 [email protected] Website admin x172 Calendar submissions: Apply at: centerforisraeled.wufoo.com/forms/z17eulny17aksgp/ [email protected] ROP THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 12, 2021 9

Swampscott man’s tennis lessons for the disabled a labor of love IsraelIsrael BookBook ShopShop NEW ENGLAND’S JUDAIC SUPERSTORE with those with intellectual and developmental disabilities start- High Holidays ~ Sukkot 5782 ing at a young age. The parents said Jacobs has a We carry: knack for working with the group and he keeps them energized. SHOFAROT, TALLEISIM, GREETING CARDS, But this lesson was also a bittersweet one for them, as it HONEY DISHES, CALENDARS, KIDDUSH CUPS, was the next-to-last one before LULAV AND ETROG SETS, PRE-FAB SUKKOT Jacobs heads off to California for a new job. 410 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA 02446 “It was a lifesaver for them,” 617-566-7113 • 1-800-323-7723 said Suzanne Ryan, Northeast Arc’s director of volunteer ser- Sunday-Thursday, 10-5 • Friday, 10-2 • Call for Special Holiday Hours vices. Ryan knew Jacobs because he came to her a few of summers Photo: Ethan Forman/Journal Staff ago and offered to give lessons to Left to right, Mary Cuffe, Gillian Jacobs, Jacob Yellin, Matthew those in the Arc’s STEP program Jacobs and Gabriella Foley at the group’s next-to-last lesson on for a brief stint when he was still Sunday, July 25. in college. www.israelbookshop.com • [email protected] By Ethan M. Forman but to get them out to socialize, continued on page 10 JOURNAL STAFF which he said has been espe- cially hard for this population to MARBLEHEAD – On a Sunday do during the pandemic. HAPPY ROSH HASHANAH! “FROM LARGE TO SMALL, WE DO IT ALL” afternoon in late July, the rain “This is an easy sport to dis- held off just enough so Gabriella tance,” Jacobs said, “and just Foley, 30, of Swampscott and be outside.” The group, he said, others with disabilities could was passionate, and no matter take their weekly tennis les- the weather, two or three would son from Matthew Jacobs out- show up on Sunday afternoons. doors on the Jewish Community “He’s been great,” said Peter Center’s courts. Cuffe as his daughter, Mary As she went about her lesson, Cuffe, 26, of Marblehead took Foley proclaimed she was the part in the group lesson on July “queen of tennis!” 25 that also included Jacob Yellin, Since last September, amid son of Marcy and Ben Yellin of the ongoing coronavirus pan- Swampscott. Ben Yellin said his demic, Foley and three other son also participates in Special adults with disabilities who get Olympics tennis. COME IN AND LET’S PLAN services through the Danvers- “Absolutely the best,” said based human service agency Phyllis Foley. Her daughter has YOUR HOLIDAY DINNER TOGETHER! ✿ Northeast Arc got free ten- been doing sports at the JCC Chicken Soup Matzo Balls nis lessons from Jacobs, 23, of since she was 3, and takes part Brisket ✿ Chicken ✿ Tzimmes Swampscott. in recreation programs offered ✿ Fruit Platters Jacobs volunteered his time by Northeast Arc. to not only coach the group on Mary Cuffe’s father said she Etc, Etc, Etc!!! their forehand, backhand and has long been involved with serve during 45-minute lessons, Northeast Arc, which works 7 Bessom Street ~ Marblehead, MA ~ 781.990.1220 ~ www.mariasgourmetmarblehead.com

HIGH HOLY DAY SERVICES Worship with Us for a Sweet New Year

Remote only. All are welcome. Please register and make your voluntary contribution at https://www.taagloucester.org/high_holidays 978-281-0729

Note: Jewish Journal will do layout

Top - Zucker Logo in blue block

non-dairy Prepare for the High Holidays! certified Now accepting orders! kosher mk

PREPARE FOR THE HIGH HOLIDAYS! NOW ACCEPTING ORDERS!Note: Jewish Journal will do layout Top - Zucker Logo in blue block

Stop by, call, or email to place your order by SeptemberPrepare for the High 1st Holidays! Now accepting orders! for Rosh Hashanah. New tasty pastries & items featuring: n Round Holiday Challah n Montreal Bagels & Knishes n Honey Cakes n Blueberry Pie Muffins n Chocolate Cakes & Brownies n Dairy Free Cheesecakes

Wishing all our friendsWishing a SWEET all our friends A SWEET New New Year Year! OPEN: Sun 9-12 • Mon & Tues 7-1 • Wed, Thurs & Fri 7-5 4 Lake St., Peabody | 978-535-5335 | www.zuckerfoods.com

Wishing all our friends A SWEET New Year 10 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 12, 2021 ROP

Tennis lessons from page 9

They offered some lessons at Matt even got his sister, Gillian the Danvers High tennis courts, Jacobs, 16, an incoming junior but the program was limited due at Swampscott High, to help out. to transportation issues. “We just love him,” Ryan said. Last summer, Jacobs again “We just love this guy.” reached out to Ryan to offer his When Gabriella Foley was services. asked what she thought of Jacobs “He got in touch with me and teaching her tennis, she said, said, ‘What do you think about “Good,” and that she was sad to this? Let’s keep it small, we are see him go. “The best coach,” in the middle of COVID,’ ” Ryan she said. said. Mary Cuffe said Jacobs is “a “We just thought it would good guy, you know,” and “it’s be a great opportunity to get it tough” when asked about Jacobs OPEN HOUSE going again, and there wasn’t a heading off to California. ton going on for COVID,” Jacobs “It’s awesome,” Jacob Yellin WHENEVER WORKS FOR YOU! said, “So we thought it might be a said of the tennis lessons with nice thing to get it going again for Jacobs. Your safety is important to us. Schedule a personalized in-person socializing.” “I’ve always just kind of Jacobs said he got the idea enjoyed working and being with (safety precautions in place) or virtual visit at your convenience. to restart the group after he had that group,” Jacobs said. “And I given some tennis lessons to think I get a lot out of it, they get Looking for a synagogue community with spirit and close connections? Jacob Yellin “and the bells kind a lot out of it, and I think during Congregation Beth Israel in Andover is the place to find a warm, of went off and then it was nice COVID, especially for this age because I wanted to socialize, group, it’s pretty easy to get over- welcoming, vibrant community. At CBI, we believe everyone is family. they wanted to socialize. It had looked in terms of programming been so brief in the summer that and stuff like that.” JOIN CBI FOR THE HIGH HOLY DAYS! I had done it, [and it] was nice Jacobs is a 2016 graduate of Hybrid services with Rabbi Howard Mandell, Cantorial Soloist Mindy Harris, to kind of get it to where it was a Swampscott High and a 2020 pretty consistent, every Sunday graduate of Claremont McKenna in-house musicians “Bashert,” and Kol Nidre cellist. type of thing.” College in Claremont, California, Ryan said she contacted east of Los Angeles, where he several families who might be was a double major in econom- 6 Dundee Park, Andover, MA 01810 interested and the group got per- ics and psychology – and where 978.474.0540 ~ www.BethIsraelMV.org mission from the JCC through he also played tennis. For more information• and to schedule a visit, Membership Operations “I’m a tennis guy, I guess, and Director Andrew Dalton. then I just came back and I was contact [email protected]. They began the lessons on the teaching tennis here in the sum- outdoor courts last September, mer, and it all kind of fell into and in December, Jacobs was place for this group,” Jacobs said. able to secure time in the indoor All good things must come to Shanah Tovah! ! gym. an end as Jacobs is moving to San • There was a brief lull after the Francisco to do consulting work. holidays, but they have contin- The group planned a popsicle ued with the lessons ever since. party for its last lesson with him. EVA N’s NEW YORK STYLE DELI

NOW TAKING HOLIDAY ORDERS FOR ROSH HASHANAH Please place your orders by MONDAY, AUGUST 30th by the close of business day Call 781-631-DELI (3354)

Brisket ✡ knishes ✡ Matzoh Balls 6-pack chicken soup ✡ chicken Broth

potato latkes 6-pack ✡ Gefilte fish potato kuGel ✡ noodle kuGel VeGGie tziMMes ✡ Meat tziMMes apricot chicken ✡ stuffed caBBaGe ✡ chopped liVer plain challahs ✡ raisin challahs ✡ kasha Varnishkes

252 Humphrey Street • Marblehead • 781-631-DELI (3354) • www.evansnewyorkstyledeli.com Hours: MON 10am - 5pm • TUES-FRI 8am - 5pm • SAT 7:30am - 5pm • SUN 7:30am - 1pm ROP THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021 11

RECIPE Round raisin challah Happy New Year! with sweet crumb topping It’s traditional to use round challahs for Rosh VINNIN LIQUORS Hashanah, to represent the cycle of life. It’s also cus- tomary to eat sweet foods at this time, to symbol- 371 Paradise Road, Swampscott • 781-598-4110 ize our desire for a sweet year ahead, hence the raisins and sweet crumb topping. Think of us when preparing to celebrate Make the dough according to the directions below. Use a large bowl, because this yields One stop shopping for all your beverage needs six loaves, and the dough needs enough space to double in size. When the dough has risen, punch it down and let it rest for 10 minutes V Buckets, Tubs V Spirits & Liqueurs before doing the mitzvah of separating chal- lah. Say the blessing, separate a small piece of and Coolers to tempt your dough, and set it aside to burn after the challah taste buds has finished baking. V Craft Beer Now divide the dough into six relatively equal pieces. and Hard ciders V Ultra fresh cigars Each of the six pieces will make one challah. Roll each piece galore to smooth out into one long “snake.” Press the raisins along the dough, then roll it up from one end, until you have a circle. Tuck the end underneath. V Wines & Sparklings your days Put the challahs on greased baking trays, brush with egg and sprin- kle with the crumb topping. Let them rise another 40 minutes and for every budget V Custom Gifts then bake at 375° F until golden brown, approximately 45 minutes. for any occasion Traditionally, at Shabbat and holiday meals, we dip the challah into salt. But from Rosh Hashanah until the end of Sukkot, we dip it in honey instead. Enjoy!

Dough Ingredients: For the egg wash: 4 tbsp. dry yeast 1 egg 5 cups very warm water SHOP US NOW ONLINE 5 large eggs For the crumb topping: www.vinninliquors.com 1¼ cup honey ½ cup flour 1 cup oil (canola or light olive oil) ½ cup sugar For In-Store Pickup, Curbside Pickup & Delivery to your Door! 2 tbsp. salt 1 tsp. vanilla Approximately 18 cups flour 5 tbsp. oil We are a FULL service establishment and 1 cup raisins will cater to ALL your Holiday and Party needs! Directions: In a very large bowl, dissolve yeast in 2 cups warm water and let Follow us on @vinninliquors Download our sit about 15-20 minutes until slightly frothy. Add the rest of the ingredients and half the flour. Mix until a Like us on facebook.com/vinninliquors new phone app! loose batter forms. Add the rest of the flour a couple of cups at a time, until the dough is soft but not sticky. Knead. continued on page 18 12 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021 ROP

RECIPE Pumpkin honey cake (Pareve) Temple Ner Tamid Makes 1 loaf (9x5x3-inch dish) and 1 extra mini-loaf (not indi- 368 Lowell Street vidual, but mini-size), or 4 mini-loaves.

Peabody, MA 01960 Cook’s Tips: *Substitute 2 teaspoons cinnamon and 1 teaspoon nutmeg for pumpkin-pie spice. *Substitute ¾ cup candied citron peel instead of raisins. *For full-proof nonstick effect, line bottom of loaf pan with COME JOIN US waxed paper and spray with nonstick vegetable spray.

Ingredients: We are a modern Conservative synagogue that has structured ourselves to meet 4 eggs the current day spiritual, educational and social needs of our Jewish community. 1 cup dark-brown sugar • A welcoming community for the young, young at heart, families and singles ½ cup water 1 cup vegetable oil • Egalitarian conservative synagogue offering Shabbat services and a daily minyan 1 cup canned pumpkin • All who are interested are welcome to participate in services (not pumpkin-pie) mix ¾ cup molasses • Two dynamic, warm and knowledgeable Rabbis that are great with kids ½ cup honey, warmed • A growing Religious School with caring teachers and students that enjoy school 2 cups whole-wheat Photo: Ethel G. Hofman flour Pumpkin Honey Cake • Our “Sustaining Our Eternal Flame” voluntary pledge structure removes all finan- 1 cup all-purpose flour cial barriers to joining TNT 2 tsp. baking soda • An Adult Education Program that enhances our Jewish heritage 1 tbsp. pumpkin-pie spice 1¼ cups dark or golden raisins • Virtual transmission of many activities to permit participation remotely • A large building to host events of any kind Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray loaf pan and extra mini-loaf pan (or 4 mini-loaf pans) with We encourage you to join us for a meaningful engagement in enhancing nonstick vegetable spray with flour. your Jewish identity. Beat eggs and sugar until blended. Add the water, vegetable oil, pumpkin, molasses and honey. Mix well. Visit our website at www.templenertamid.org for more information about us. Stir in the flours, about ½ cup at a time, mixing to blend between each addition. Stir in the baking soda, spice and 1 cup raisins. Spoon into pre- pared pan(s). Scatter remaining raisins on top. Contact us at: 978-532-1293 or email Bake in preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Bake mini-loaves 45 minutes or [email protected] until toothpick comes out clean when inserted in center. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Loosen edges by running a round bladed knife around. Turn out onto a wire tray. Cool completely. Wrap and freeze. – JNS.org

High Holidays at the Walnut Street Synagogue 2021 / 5782 WALNUT STREET SYNAGOGUE, 145 WALNUT STREET, CHELSEA, MA 02150 617-884-8668 ~ [email protected] www.WalnutStreetSynagogue.com/High-Holidays-2021/5782 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ~ 1993

PLEASE JOIN US FOR Saadia Weisenberg and THE HIGH HOLIDAYS 2021 / 5782 the Congregation BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY. wish you and yours SERVING THE COMMUNITY FOR OVER A CENTURY. a Happy and Healthy New Year.



THE BUILDING IS CURRENTLY NOT ACCESSIBLE FOR THOSE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES. ROP THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021 13 Looking Submit your events to [email protected]

ONGOING WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1 KNITTING KNIGHTS AT THE MUSIC AND MORSELS: THE JCCNS, Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m., GREAT ROMANTICS, 4 p.m. Visit JCCNS parking lot, 4 Community Road, www.jccns.org for more information Marblehead. In the event of rain, will and tickets. meet on Zoom: Meeting ID: 510 795 968, Password: JCCNS4. PRE-ROSH HASHANAH FAMILY ISRAELI FOLK DANCING AT FAIR, 5 – 8 p.m. Presented by Chabad of Peabody. Families are invited to join THE JCCNS, Thursdays, 6 p.m., and us for the pre-Rosh Hashanah family fair. Sundays, 8:30 a.m., 4 Community Road, Ahead Learn how honey is made, make your Marblehead. Visit www.jccns.org for own honey dish, enjoy a hot dog dinner more information. and make cards – fun for the whole family. To register and for more info, go SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 to: https://www.jewishpeabody.com. Chabad of Peabody Jewish Center, 682 OPEN HOUSE & COOKOUT, 4 Lowell St., Peabody. p.m. Temple Emmanuel of Chelsea invites the community to its courtyard tent for HERZLMANIA! 125 YEARS nosh and schmooze. Rain or shine, tour OF HERZL’S “THE JEWISH our beautiful Gothic Revival temple. STATE,” 5:30 p.m. Presented by the Email RSVPs to: herb@sterlingselesnick. Schusterman Center for Israel Studies com, or call 978-273-5115. More info at Brandeis University. Community is at: www.templeemmanuelofchelsea. invited to commemorate the 125th org. Temple Emmanuel is at 60 Tudor St., anniversary of Theodor Herzl’s “The Cary Square, Chelsea. Jewish State.” Watch the premiere screening of “Herzlmania,” a short film MONDAY, AUGUST 30 celebrating David Matlow’s Theodor Herzl Memorabilia Collection, the MOSAICS WITH MIA: CREATE world’s largest private collection of Herzl A ROSH HASHANAH-THEMED artifacts. A free online event. To register, CARD OR PICTURE, 7:30 p.m. go to: https://www.brandeis.edu/israel- Presented by the Lappin Foundation. center/events/index.html#herzl. Join Israel-based mosaic muralist Mia Schon for a one-hour collage workshop THURSDAY, SEPT. 9 via Zoom. Participants will learn how to creatively repurpose old magazines EXPLORING BROADWAY: and paper to create a card. For more FABULOUS FIDDLER, 4 p.m. Visit information, contact Sharon Wyner at www.jccns.org for details and tickets. [email protected] or call 978-565-4450. SUNDAY, SEPT. 12 A MANDYLICIOUS CHALLAH SPLASH ‘N’ DASH BY THE SEA, BRAIDALONG, 5:30 p.m. Join 8 a.m. Visit www.jccns.org for details Mandy Silverman of Mandylicious and and to register. 18Doors’ Molly Kazin Marshall for a virtual challah-making class. In honor DOOGIE DIP, 4 p.m. $5 per dog and of Rosh Hashanah, we will be making open to all dogs. Visit www.jccns.org a special apple-shaped round challah. for more information. Ingredients list and a dough recipe will be shared upon registration. $10. To register, go to: https://18doors.org/ MONDAY, SEPT. 13 event/boston-2021-08-a-mandylicious- challah-braidalong-for-rosh-hashanah. JCCNS WOMEN’S BOOK CLUB: The book “We Begin at the End,” by AN AFTERNOON CONCERT Chris Whitaker, will be discussed. WITH COLBY KRAMER, 12 p.m. Book club will be meeting in person at Presented by the JCCNS. Bring your the JCCNS but will also be available lunch and enjoy a classical piano concert virtually. Visit www.jccns.org for more by the very talented Marblehead High information. School senior Colby Kramer. He will be playing a repertoire of Chopin, Schubert, SUNDAY, SEPT. 19 V EVENT PLANNING V Ravel, and Liszt. Free to attend. RSVP to Sara at [email protected]. THOMAS MACENTEE – TWO LECTURES, 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. Presented by the Jewish Genealogical Justice of the Peace TUESDAY, AUGUST 31 Society of Greater Boston. Thomas Donna Kagan’s THE PERFECT VENUE “Your wedding done your way” WOMEN’S HONEY CAKE BAKE, MacEntee, a professional genealogist, FOR YOUR EVENT 7 – 8 p.m. Presented by the Chabad is a well-known blogger, educator, Elegant Touch of Peabody. Women are invited to get author and social media connector. First into the Rosh Hashanah spirit at the presentation, “Google for Genealogists,” EVENT PLANNING honey cake bake! Join us as we bake will explain how Google components can AT ITS BEST… our own honey cakes, learn about why be leveraged for better search results. For all your we emphasize sweet foods and taste Second presentation, “The Genealogy Celebration needs CONTACT US AT Do-Over: A Year of Learning from Complimentary consultation 781.207.9353 an array of honey cakes. For women by appointment and young adult girls. $15. To register Mistakes,” will show how to embark on Attorney Todd Finn a genealogy “do-over,” how to re-start 781-631-6603 and for more info, go to: https://www. [email protected] CAFEESCADRILLE.COM/JWJ TheBostonJP.com | 978-836-9106 jewishpeabody.com. Chabad of Peabody genealogy research from scratch and Jewish Center, 682 Lowell St., Peabody. include sound research practices and methodologies as well as new tools, and BACK TO SCHOOL: MANAGING the latest technology. Free for members, KAPPY’s-ON-CALL STRESS, THE GRIND & $5 for non-members. Register at: https:// Zayde’s Market EXPECTATIONS, 7 p.m. Presented www.jgsgb.org. MAKES Zayde’s Market Your NeighborhoodYour Neighborhood Specialty Food Specialty Store: Where Food TraditionalStore: Meets by the Jewish Teen Initiative. We ENTERTAINING EASY! Where TraditionalNon-Traditional! Meets Non-Traditional! Need To Talk invites you to a Zoom Where Quality Zayde ’s MarketSee our Sales & panel discussion. Children and teens SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 Your NeighborhoodWE CATER Specialty Food Store: Where Traditional Meets Matters WE CATERNon-Traditional! Specials on our have more on their plates than ever BEGINNERS WORKSHOP ON Where Quality See our Sales & Prepared Foods Matters All Occasions webSpecials site on our before, managing the demands of JEWISH GENEALOGY, 10 a.m. All OccasionsWE CATER Groceries Prepared Foods All Occasions and Facebook.web site schoolwork and extracurricular activities Presented by the Jewish Genealogical GroceriesPlain & Simple and Facebook. Wines-Spirits-Beer Plain & SimplePlain & Simple Join Our Blog all while continuing to cope with a Society of Greater Boston. Carol Clingan Wines-Spirits-Beer Join Our Blog Located at Cobb Corner ~ 15 Washington Street, Canton, MA global pandemic. Join our panelists, and Debbie Lerner, who together have Located at Cobb LocatedCorner at Cobb~ 15 Corner Washington ~ 15 Washington St. Canton, St. Canton, MA MA www.zaydesmarket.com ~ 781-828-3530 Dr. Natasha Kendal, Ph.D., LMFT; more than 30 years of genealogy www.zaydesmarket.com www.zaydesmarket.com 781-828 781-3530-828 -3530 Brenda Mann, MA Ed; Rabbi Yarden research experience, will present a 781-395-8888 x3 Free parking ~ Closed Saturdays Blumstein; and Laura Milner, LMSW, workshop tailored for beginners on to learn concrete strategies to help the process of researching your family youth in your life manage anxiety, tree. Their core message is that you stress and challenges that may arise can research your family tree and will To advertise in the Journal’s Event Planning directory, contact: during their transition back to school. be off to a great start after you attend [email protected], [email protected], or call 978-745-4111. Free. To register, go to: https://jlive.app/ this workshop. Free. To register, go to: events/803. Sunday 7AM - 4:00 PM, Monday –Wednesday 8AM - 7:00PM, https://www.jgsgb.org. Thursday 7AM - 7:00 PM, Friday 7 AM - 5/6 PM, Closed Saturday. Sunday 7AM - 4:00 PM, Monday –Wednesday 8AM - 7:00PM, Thursday 7AM - 7:00 PM, Friday 7 AM - 5/6 PM, ClosedSee Saturday.our specials and sale on our web site and facebook See our specials and sale on our web site and facebook 14 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021 OBITUARIES

Susan (Weisbrot) Mulligan, NOTICES INDOOR SHOWROOM of Long Island, New York BAKER, Herbert, 87 – late of HUNDREDS OF MEMORIALS Gloucester. Died on Aug. 12, NO SUB-CONTRACTING Susan (Weisbrot) Mulligan, 2021. Husband of Marjorie of Long Island, New York, IN-HOUSE DESIGN & MANUFACTURING (Neipris). Father of Judith passed peacefully on Aug. 10, and Robert Mosgrove, Susan 2021. and David Leader, and Robert ’ OURKE ROS. EMORIALS Susan was the beloved wife Baker. Grandfather of Jennifer, O R B M of the late Donald Mulligan. Jessica, Andrew, Allison, and 73 North Street, Salem, MA ~ 978-744-0871 She was the loving daughter of Max. Brother of the late Burton the late George and Beatrice Baker. (Goldman) BATE ONUMENTS (Skovronek) Weisbrot, and the A M dear sister of Harriet Moldau BLOOM, Arlene (Axelrod), 92 82 Elliott Street, Beverly, MA ~ 978-922-0517 and her husband David. Susan – late of North Andover, for- was the loving aunt of Jackie merly of Marblehead. Died on www.obmemorials.com Moldau and Greta Taglieri and Aug. 6, 2021. Wife of the late her husband Tony, and the Milton Bloom. Mother of David “Serving the Jewish Community since 1890” great-aunt of Alana, Alex, Adam, Bloom and his wife Pamela of and Aliya. Hampstead, New Hampshire, Services were held at Maple Jody Fraser and her husband Hill Cemetery, Peabody on Aug. David of Amesbury, and Peter 17. Donations in Susan’s mem- Bloom and his wife Denise ory may be made to the Suffolk of Florida. Grandmother of County Jewish Community Brittany Fraser, Kimberly Chase Center, 74 Hauppauge Road, and her husband Benjamin, and Commack, NY 11725, or to a Lindsay and Michael Bloom. charity of your choice. www.torffuneralservice.com. Great-grandmother of Brady Arrangements were handled “Say not in grief, she is no Bloom Chase. (Stanetsky- by Torf Funeral Service, Chelsea. more but live in thankfulness Hymanson) For an online guestbook, visit that she was.” ROSEN, Martin Sydney – late of Winthrop, of Swampscott. Died on Aug. 21, 2021. Husband of Climate report Louise (Rodakis) Rosen. Father from page 4 of Michael Rosen and his wife Candy and Lori Rosen Caplin rology at MIT, who was a lead noted some common ground and her husband Alan. Son author of the IPCC’s report in with colleagues on climate: “If of the late Nathan and Mary 2003. you were to ask people, what Rosen. Brother of the late Barry “Let’s say CO2 is a pollutant do they agree with? Man has Rosen and brother-in-law of and somebody figures out a way some influence? OK. It’s more Christine Devanna. Grandfather to cut the amount of CO2 we likely becoming warmer than of Benjamin, Ethan, Daniel, have now in the atmosphere,” cooler? Fine. It’s warmed since Maxwell, and Aidan. Uncle of Lindzen said. He predicted that the Little Ice Age in the 18th Valerie, Edward, and Joseph. cutting current CO2 levels in century? I agree. Ninety­-seven (Torf) the atmosphere by a bit more to 100 percent agree with these than half would have dire con- statements. It has nothing to do sequences because of photo- with the statement that climate synthesis, in which plants eat change is an existential threat.” CO2 to produce oxygen – “It’s For those who agree with the Gann how life started.” If current CO2 IPCC findings, time is of the levels in the atmosphere are cut essence. students by a bit more than half, he said, “There are [hundreds of mil- from page 5 “almost all advanced life forms lions of] vehi­cles in the world on the planet would die. When and in the U.S.,” Schwartz said. Chan Zuckerberg Education plants, vegetables, fruits die, we “They’re not all going to go Initiative, according to her bio. die. When was the last time we toward elec­tricity right away. Nearly her entire career has had a pollutant that when you We’re burning gas all the time. been spent in high-school-level got rid of it, it killed you?” It’s the same thing in every other education. Although he has drawn country ... so we have a major “We are the only pluralis- criticism for his positions, he problem.” tic Jewish high school in the area,” Hochman said. “So our goal is to serve the North Shore, Slotnick Monuments South Shore, MetroWest.” This 232 Fuller Street, Everett, MA 02149 year, Gann even has a student 617-387-3980 coming all the way from New Production facility / Sales office / Outdoor display Hampshire. S Full service drafting and sandblasting shop C “Part of it is our mission of Memorial Group Slotnick’s MetroWest Monuments our school to serve the broader Est. 1910 5 Edgell Road, Suite 1 community,” said Hochman, Framingham Centre, MA 01701 who said the work of both 508-872-1400 Epstein Hillel and Gann are Corporate office / Sales office / Indoor display interconnected. “[Amy Gold] has done tremendous work making [Epstein Hillel]a gem,” Drive carefully… Hochman said, “so her suc- cess impacts our success, right? We can wait. We’re sort of a rising tide [that] Two convenient locations servicing families throughout Greater Boston, lifts all boats.” North Shore, South Shore, Sharon Memorial Park and MetroWest. Thanks to donors, more than www.scsmg.net half of families­ receive financial aid at Gann. For the upcom- ing school year, tuition indexed to fam­ily income ranges from $10,000 to $49,950, according to the school’s website. As for the commute, Gold said there will be a van from the North Shore with about seven or eight students. The Epstein Hillel-Gann pipeline should continue for some time. Epstein Hillel saw Family-owned and operated since 1933 admissions increase during the pandemic, with about 94 stu- dents this past school year, and 105 incoming students this fall. There will be 11 students in the eighth-grade class, many of whom have friends among the five students attending Gann this year, Gold said. THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021 15

SHARON RABBI: ‘HUNDREDS’ MAY HAVE BEEN ABUSED BY USY ADVISER from page 1

Photos courtesy of Jordan Soffer Jordan Soffer at a USY international convention in 2007. Lee Soffer at a USY convention in the late 1990s. to, and can I leave?’” said Soffer, investigation into Ward, and its campers to do the same daily. youth programs,” they said. they’ve been contacted by peo- who added that Ward told him employee vetting process. That’s In a statement this week, They also voiced concern ple who say they were abused afterwards, “if you’re going to what caused Jordan, and Lee, to USCJ Chief Executive Officer about the allegations. “For all during their time at USY. be cool in USY, you’ve got to go public with their stories. Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal, USCJ of us at USY and USCJ, the past While Jordan Soffer wants the be less scared. You’ve got to be “I felt that at this point the President Ned Gladstein, and several weeks have been deeply USCJ and USY to acknowledge more chill.” only way they would take it Rabbi Joshua Rabin, senior painful. We are very saddened the victims’ stories and make Soffer said he immediately as seriously as it needed to be director of USY, said that they by the heartbreaking narratives sure the organizations prevent told a USY youth counselor taken was with a public state- have hired Boston-based Sarah shared by students and alum any sexual abuse from ever tak- who was under 18 at the time ment and public retelling,” said E. Worley Conflict Resolution, of USY and admire their cour- ing place, he is holding out hope but believes it was not official- Jordan Soffer. P.C., as third-party investigators age in coming forward to bring that change in the Conservative- ly reported to USY. Still, Soffer In an interview, Lee Soffer, to review the claims and have voice to their experiences. To run organizations can occur. remained on guard and alleges 36, described Ward as a char- set up a reporting hotline for those sharing their narratives: Said Soffer, “My entire life is that Ward started an online chat ismatic youth leader who was potential victims. “Pending liti- We hear you. We care deeply to help Jewish children develop room with USY boys where “he capable of discussing Torah one gation limits what we can share about you. We want to learn self-confidence and a love of would explicitly describe how moment and graphic sex anoth- publicly; we cannot and will more and be sure those with Torah and Judaism. And, in this he likes to masturbate and er moment. Soffer said Ward not litigate these issues in the information to share about any too, though it’s not the easiest asked other boys in the chat- was his counselor for two years media. What we will do is engage inappropriate sexual conduct way I’ve ever done it, my only room” about the sex act. at a USY overnight camp in New directly with affected individu- from any time period have a full goal is communal growth.” Soffer said he and his broth- York. “He was a kingmaker of als, continue our search for the opportunity to do so.” er, Lee – a former USY inter- sorts,” said Soffer, who alleges truth, hold those responsible for Meanwhile, the Soffer broth- Steven A. Rosenberg can be national president and now a that he witnessed Ward mas- misconduct accountable, and ers have not heard from USCJ or reached at rosenberg@jewish- Connecticut attorney – have turbate, and also convinced his safeguard all participants in our USY. But in recent days, they say journal.org been working for years behind the scenes to try make sure sex- ual predators do not work for CAREGIVER HOME CARE USY or USCJ. Certified Male Home Health Aide The First Choice for In 2017, the brothers say Loving, Compassionate 12 years experience working with they ran into Ward and a teen- HEALTH Home Care on the males. Available on the North Shore. age boy at the Barclays Center North Shore in Brooklyn, and immediately Known for flexibility, honesty and reliability. Reasonable rates. Specializing in Companionship, Meal Prep, Transportation, Bathing & Hygiene, Mobility & Toileting Assistance notified USY. The brothers say References available on request. USY informed them that Ward SERVICES 781.691.5755 would be banned from working Call or text Dan (978) 828-2742 NorthShore.FirstLightHomeCare.com at USY or USCJ. But in 2020, the Soffers learned that Ward had HOME HEALTH CARE HOME HEALTH CARE SENIOR CARE become the executive direc- tor of a Conservative-affiliated Jewish center in Dix Hills, New York. After they contacted the center, Ward resigned. Still, the 781-639-4759 brothers were unconvinced that VNA www.confidentialcareathome.com the Conservative movement Hospice Specializing in Home Health Service since 1997 had conducted a thorough “WHERE CARING COMES FIRST” Palliative Care Private Services OPTOMETRIST Complimentary Nursing Evaluation Dr. Philip Linsky For ALL Your Eye Exams, Contact Lenses, Home Care Needs! Fashion Eye Wear ASSISTED LIVING SHORT-TERM REHAB Delivering Excellence in 238 Humphrey Street, Swampscott Home Care for Over 100 Years! AND MEMORY SUPPORT AND LONG-TERM CARE 781-598-2454 | www.allcare.org (781) 592-6633 Cohen Florence Levine Leonard Florence Most Vision Plans Honored Estates Center for Living 617-887-0826 617-887-0001 HOME HEALTH CARE ORTHODONTIST Florence & Chafetz Katzman Family Center Specialized Care for Living 617-887-0826 617-884-6766 Harriett and Ralph Kaplan Jeffrey and Susan Brudnick We understand how important it is Estates Center for Living to find the best quality care for a loved Your tax-deductible gift one needing assistance. Caring for our 978-532-4411 978-471-5100 helps keep our publication free. clients with personal attention and Donate now online, at compassion is our highest priority. ADDITIONAL SERVICES SERVICES AVAILABLE: www.jewishjournal.org, Shapiro-Rudolph Adult Day Health Center | 978-471-5180 Home Health Aides • To advertise or mail your gift to Chelsea Jewish Hospice and Palliative Care | 617-889-0779 Companion Services • 24-Hour Care • in this Directory, The Jewish Journal, Respite Care • Special Care Chelsea Jewish Visiting Nurse Agency | 617-889-8744 P.O. Box 2089, for Alzheimer’s & Dementia call For a FREE assessment or more information: Salem, MA 01970, 978-745-4111 chelseajewish.org 978-922-0745 or 800-281-0878 or by calling 978-745-4111. 16 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021 SENIOR LIVING

Elegant Independent and ‘The Jew hopes’ By Myrna Fearer good, but I have to admit, this tions, his intent to help others Assisted Living, with JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT year was in many ways peculiar – even strangers, as he said. This and I had yet to know why. 18-year-old had already learned Exceptional Alzheimer’s Care t’s been more than two It all started as I was getting what life is all about and that it is months since I honored my dressed for the event. I was just incumbent on us to make things Ask about our Try us...you’ll love us! Enjoy the Ilate son’s memory with the about to leave for the school better. He wrote how important annual scholarship at Danvers when I realized I was missing it is to treat others the way they 30 DAY food and activities. Just relax! High School. Brian died May something important; it was my should be treated, a lesson he TRIAL STAY 14, 1982, and a year later, the favorite Star of David, my hand- hopes his films will impart. first scholarship was awarded made three-dimensional Magen And for the first time in 40 to someone interested in com- David. years at the podium, I called this munications, from newspapers I was almost obsessed with young man a “mensch,” a Jewish to television. That was Brian’s making sure I was wearing that word indicating someone who major at Boston University. piece of jewelry. I knew I couldn’t is an especially good person. I We’ve been giving this scholar- leave home without that impor- shared this important word with ship for almost four decades tant symbol of my Judaism. the audience. and we always seem to find an And that’s a first. I’m Jewish Did I know I was going to say appropriate male or female can- and I’m proud of it. Sometimes that? Not at all. The words just didate who deserves it. I wear that star and other times flowed from my lips indepen- So why was this year so dif- I might wear a chai (life). I cer- dently and I was just the con- Pesach ferent? What set it apart it from tainly would never hide my duit, like a ventriloquist and his Sameach! other years? For one thing, the background, my religion; it’s a puppet. Why did this happen? I awards evening was June 11, huge part of me and of my heri- didn’t know. Brian’s birthday, and the first tage. But I couldn’t understand But the realization finally WINDSORW PLACE time the ceremony and his why I felt so compelled to don dawned on me: This was my OF WILMINGTON birthday coincided. The other that piece of jewelry that par- reaction to all the negativity, An Assisted Living Residence was a change in venue thanks ticular night. to the hatred around us, to the 92 West Street, Wilmington, MA. Just off I-93 at Exit 38. to COVID. The event was held Then, during my scholar- antisemitism that has become outside the school on the foot- ship presentation, when I spoke as viral as the pandemic. I have 978-988-2300 • WindsorPlaceOfWilmington.com ball field and we were seated the about the young man who was been so disturbed with the ani- requisite six feet apart. to receive this educational gift, mus toward Israel and the Jewish OK, sometimes change is I mentioned his lofty ambi- people that is so toxic and yes, dangerous. And yet, these same people who condemn Israel are the first to benefit – thanks to the many discoveries in medi- EWOOD DIFF cine, science and space explora- DG ERE tion. And the list goes on. When E E N H CE parts of the world are in trou- T ble, which country sends help immediately? Israel, of course. The most recent example was a cadre of helpers that immedi- ately showed up in Florida for what they hoped was the res- LIFELONG cue of vacationers and owners residing in that high-rise that collapsed. It’s not unusual to LEARNING find Israelis first on the scene to volunteer; when people cry that keeps your brain out, Jews try to answer that call. Once the crisis is past, people on its toes. forget about Israel’s assistance. And, somehow, they hate us even more. Nowhere is Edgewood’s culture of continuous learning and growth more evident Almost 10 years ago, I vis- ited Eretz Yisrael as part of the than in Edgewood Lifelong Learning, a program that features classes, lectures Women to Israel group under and workshops on a variety of topics chosen, and often led, by members. the Lappin Foundation. We were there during Israel’s Yom No wonder we say Edgewood members put the life in our LifeCare Community. HaShoah commemoration and I still feel the power of that day. To learn more, call 978-420-4175. In my mind I can see the smoke rising from the chimneys of cre- matorium in Auschwitz, and places like the Warsaw ghetto eliminating a population that could have added so much more to our civilization. It was some- thing I shared with the gradu- ates of Danvers that year. Now, once again, I feel the terror of that time, the antisemi- tism that has surfaced and per- meated the world and led to the death of so many Jewish people. Sadly, however, it has also affect- ed our bright young students and invaded their colleges. When I was a freshman at BU, my American history teacher, a product of the South, intro- duced himself the first day and announced that anyone calling the “War for the Confederacy” the Civil War would not pass his course. Was he serious? Who knows? It was just easier to go along. On the other hand, my math teacher announced that 575 Osgood Street homework was to be passed in each day, and that included North Andover, MA 01845 Yom Kippur. Since I was a com- 978-420-4175 muter there was no way I could EdgewoodRC.com meet that requirement. After explaining it to the professor, Edgewood is a not-for-pro t 501(c)(3) organization. who wouldn’t budge, I decided he was antisemitic and I wasn’t SENIOR LIVING THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021 17

when I went to the cemetery Offering Hearing Aid and Cochlear Implant Services to pray with and for my loved ones, to remember them at this Custom solutions for your hearing loss, lifestyle and budget. time especially, I also prayed for ACCEPTING TRANSFER PATIENTS the end to the pandemic and for COMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATION peace in this world. That will be We direct bill most insurance, no interest financing and leasing available. my mantra once again. L’Shana Tova.

Myrna Fearer writes from Danvers. 990 PARADISE RD, SUITE 3A / SWAMPSCOTT, MA 01907 / 781-581-1500 2 FIRST AVE, STE 127-1 / PEABODY, MA 01960 / 978-717-5370 www.atlantichearingcare.com

Assisted Living Geriatric Medicine Independent Living Long-Term Care Outpatient Therapy Memory Care Short-Term Rehabilitation Skilled Nursing Care Family Support Hospice Fitness Home Care The author’s favorite Star of David, a handmade three-dimensional Magen David. Nutrition welcome there. I transferred out No matter what happens, Jews Dementia Care of that class. are to blame. Even when Hamas Geriatrics Education Today, however, antisemitism inundates Israel with its mis- is more pervasive and even more siles, somehow the news gets Mobility Research frightening than ever before. twisted and the Jews suppos- Our news media is biased and edly started it all. We send our many newspapers now espouse children to schools and colleges the owners’ philosophy. College for their education, not to be fed Expressive Therapies kids are fed the age-old trope erroneous information and bias. that Jews have all the money And so as I did last year before Geriatric Psychiatry and essentially rule the world. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Elder Abuse Prevention Aging Brain Research Palliative Care Chestnut Clinical Trials Gardens And More > Apartments 301 Essex Street, Lynn, MA 01902 • 781-592-1246 Spacious, Modern Affordable Apartments Social Activities 24 hr Emergency Maintenance Get the Facts About Senior Living at Brooksby Village

Now Taking Applications Order your FREE brochure for Senior Housing to discover all the amazing benefits of Brooksby Village, the North Shore’s premier One & Two Bedroom Apartments • Off Street Parking Available senior living community. It’s packed with over 40 pages of information about apartment homes, amenities, financial Seniors value, and more. Af for da ble Se nior Hous ing For Over 30 Ye ars social activities • small pets oK Cle an, qui et, Af for da ble. Order your FREE brochure today! Call 1-800-614-6998 or visit us at BrooksbyVillage.com.

4 loCA tions: danvers • salem peabody • beverly North Shore BrooksbyVillage.com 14682491

EQU AL HOUS ING OP POR TU NI TY A POAH Community Preservation Housing Community Management, LLC 18 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021 ROP

RECIPE Surprise! Round honey challah Ticks are not something you should find.

This delicious challah recipe sugar in ½ cup of warm water. includes a technique for shap- Cover and let stand for 5 – 10 ing your challahs according to minutes until it foams. Beat in a special Rosh Hashanah cus- 4 cups of flour and remaining tom – with small ladders on top ingredients, except raisins, until that bring to mind the ladder in smooth – about 5 minutes. Add Jacob’s dream... remaining flour 2 cups at a time, Ingredients: beating well after each addition. 2 packages active dry yeast, or Add raisins. Knead with a dough 2 cakes fresh compressed yeast hook or by hand for 10 minutes. 800-525-4825 1 teaspoon sugar Place in a greased bowl and turn 2 cups warm water dough to grease all over. Cover www.a1exterminators.com 8 – 9 cups flour, sifted with a damp cloth and allow to ¾ cup honey rise until double in bulk – about ¹∕³ cup sugar 1½ – 2 hours. Punch down. Get pest free. 1 tablespoon salt Divide dough into 3 equal 1 teaspoon baking powder, parts, setting a handful aside for optional the ladder. Roll each part into a ¾ cup margarine, room tem- rope 18 inches long. Taper ends. perature Coil rope around itself (there Get local Jewish and interfaith news by signing up for 3 eggs, beaten should be no hole in the center) your FREE subscription to THE JEWISH JOURNAL. 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract and tuck ends under. Place in a ¹∕8 teaspoon nutmeg round, 9-inch springform pan. ½ cup raisins To make ladder, make 2 pencil- Email your address to: [email protected] thin strips, 4 inches long, for Glaze sides; and 4 thin strips, 2 inches 1 egg yolk, beaten with wide, for rungs. Fasten securely 1 teaspoon water to top center of each challah. sesame or poppy seeds, Cover and place in a warm optional place for 50 minutes to rise again. Brush with glaze. Sprinkle www.jewishjournal.org Directions with sesame or poppy seeds, if In a large mixing bowl dis- desired. Bake in a preheated 350° solve yeast and 1 teaspoon of oven for 40 – 45 minutes. When challah is done, it has a hollow sound when tapped on bottom. AT YOUR SERVICE – Chabad.org Buy Local & Become Part Of The Family Financing BAY STATE Round raisin Available WINDOW FASHIONS challah 978-531-9144 ★ Nationwide from page 11 Now carrying Ready Made Curtains Cover the dough with a Selected items 25% OFF wet towel or plastic wrap Custom Draperies, and put it in a warm place Blinds, Shades & More! to rise for about 1½ hours. 978-741-0424 www.A-AServices.com Text us: 617shipcar 617 (7447227) Free Estimates & Installation Dough should double in size. Punch the dough down and HOME IMPROVEMENT 86 Tremont Street, Peabody WE HONOR ALL APPOINTMENTS • Chris & Barb Zorzy, Owners www.baystatewindowfashions.com let it rest for 10 minutes. Divide into 6 equal pieces. Roll according to directions Eco-Friendly above. Place loaves on lightly greased cookie sheets and let DRY CLEANER rise for another 40 minutes. Make the sweet crumb top- ping by putting the flour and sugar into a bowl. Slowly add the vanilla and oil, mixing with a BEACH BLUFF ROYAL CLEANERS www.homedecorgroup.com spoon, or your fingertips until it CLEANERS 125 Canal St. reaches crumb consistency. 242 Humphrey St. (Crosby’s Plaza) CRANNEY HOME SERVICES Egg wash the loaves and Marblehead Salem Plumbing Heating Cooling Electrical Drain Cleaning sprinkle with crumb topping. 781-639-9550 978-741-3337 1.800.CRANNEY • cranneyhomeservices.com Bake at 375° F for approximately 45 minutes. Loaves should be Now providing free mobile estimates golden brown and firm on the bottom. – Chabad.org

& CONSTRUCTION LLC

Visit us today for all of your • auto body repair needs. Kitchens Bathrooms All insurance companies accepted! Additions • Decks MARBLEHEAD SWAMPSCOTT 218 Beacon St. 201 Essex St. 781-631-7555 781.631.2218 781.595.5300 781.598.5989 www.raffaeleconstruction.com www.precisionremodelingmhd.com marbleheadcollision.com swampscottcollision.com 3/16 PEOPLE THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021 19

Cohen Florence Levine Estates hosts flea market LISTEN TO COMMUNITY LEADER To perk up the summer sea- JIM SHAINKER AND GUESTS son, Cohen Florence Levine Estates staff teamed up with DISCUSS CURRENT EVENTS ~ LITERATURE ~ HOLIDAYS ~ “Judy’s Jewels” on July 28 to POLITICS ~ ISRAEL ~ MUSIC ~ HALACHA ~ AND MORE orchestrate a lively flea market in the assisted living residence. L’CHAIM Judy Weiss, a volunteer, curat- ed a wonderful assortment of JEWISH INTERACTIVE RADIO gently used clothing and acces- FRIDAY @10AM ~ SUNDAY @7PM sories, including stylish coats, dresses, sweaters, handbags, 980 AM / WWW.980WCAP.COM / ANY RADIO APP scarves and colorful costume YOU CAN BE PART OF THE SHOW! jewelry. The Judy’s Jewels sale raised over $800. All proceeds from the sale went directly to Cohen Florence Levine Estates Fay Woltag, Judy Weiss, Tina Smith and Joanne Anderson. Assisted Living, which is oper- ated by the nonprofit Chelsea Florence Levine Estates. “There the assisted living for the last Jewish Lifecare. was an eclectic mix of merchan- five years. “I really enjoy work- “We are so grateful to Judy dise, with some truly amazing ing with the residents and the Weiss for creating such a fun finds. In addition, our residents staff,” said Judy. “They are a NEED CASH? day for our residents, our fami- loved having access to a day of terrific group of individuals. lies and our friends in the com- shopping right in their lobby.” Clearly, the residents relished ALWAYS BUYING munity,” said Kristen Donnelly, Weiss, a longtime resident searching for some wonderful executive director of Cohen of Revere, has volunteered at bargains.” OLD JEWELRY New England Chapter of March of the Living promises $2,000 scholarship for each teen participant

In anticipation of the 2022 The unique trip, which annu- says additional financial assis- restart of the annual interna- ally attracts 10,000 teens from tance may be available from tional March of the Living 50 countries, teaches about area temples and organizations. (MOTL) program for Jewish high the roots of prejudice and schoolers to Poland and Israel, Holocaust history, builds life- For more information, New England Friends of March long Jewish identity, and cre- contact Aaron Kischel at & DOLLS of the Living has committed to ates ambassadors for Israel and [email protected], or 781- giving every qualified recipient new friendships. New England 799-4765, or visit https://motl- a $2,000 scholarship toward the MOTL Chairman Irv Kempner newengland.org. 978-335-0035 cost of the two-week heritage trip. The 2022 MOTL trip will run April 24 – May 8, 2022. Aaron Kischel, director of teen pro- gramming, urges early registra- tion as space is limited

The Jewish Journal will print your simchas at no chargeSend your news to rosenberg@jewishjournal. org, subject “People.” NOW OPEN FOR INDOOR DINING

TEMPLETEMPLE EMMANUELEMMANUEL We are offering CURBSIDE 5782 ofof ChelseaChelsea ORDER ONLINE AT: 5782 PICK UP www.fantasyislandsalem.com Call us at 978-745-1700 516 Loring Avenue, Salem to place an order. Tel: (978) 745-1700 MAZEL TOV AND Fax: (978) 740-9121 HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL As we at Temple Emmanuel begin our 15th year with Rabbi and Cantor Oksana at our helm!

Please join us at High Holiday services in our Breathtaking Sanctuary Italian IN PERSON and LIVE STREAM Restaurant Courtyard Activities, Historic Walks, and Famous Cellist Open Daily at 11AM Come enjoy our Book Your Special “Haimish” atmosphere! Event with Us! For High Holiday details and TO LEARN MORE … FUNCTIONS • CATERING • PARTIES WEBSITE: www.TempleEmmanuelOfChelsea.org Curbside To Go Take Out Service EMAIL: [email protected] TEL: (617) 889-1736 Rabbi and Cantor SAUGUS - 781.233.3765 - WOBURN - 781.938.1900 Temple Emmanuel, 60 Tudor Street, Chelsea, MA 02150 Oksana Chapman Polcaris.com 20 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 26, 2021

Life lessons of the Holocaust passed on to Duxbury teens from page 1 Florida. They had planned to meet with Dita Kraus via Zoom from Israel, but she had been hospitalized, underscoring the fragility of Holocaust survivors who are now in their 90s. It was pointed out that these students, who represent just 2 percent of Duxbury High’s stu- dent body, will now be able to carry forward the stories they heard from Holocaust survivors to their peers to help fight anti- semitism. “I definitely think we are going on the right track,” said sophomore Brent Watts after the ceremony. “There’s definite- ly still much more road to travel, but we are definitely going in the right direction.” “It’s something we always Photos: Karen Wong Delby Lemieux sits quietly in an audio theater listening to memories learn about in school but actu- of Auschwitz survivors. ally getting to go there and see the museum was really a life- Committee to review and make through this program in the changing experience for me,” recommendations to the ath- summer, when you could be said senior Jon “Delby” Lemieux, letic program. This spring, doing a lot of other things, really 17. When asked if there was coaches were given Diversity, moves me and I know it will something in the museum that Equity and Inclusion training move my family.” Kraft noted he made an impression on him, he prior to the season, and such lost relatives in the Holocaust said, “there would be too may training is being given to staff and had a relative that survived. to count.” for the upcoming school year. “They are not here,” Kraft “You feel the gravity of what A core group of coaches and said, “but you have connected happened,” Lemieux said. student athletes will be trained with all of them and their spir- Incoming freshman Eva by Northeastern University’s its.” McDermott, 14, said the visit to Center for the Study of Sport in The symposium included the museum was one of the sad- Society. in-person and dest things she has In another attempt to learn virtual learning ever seen. from what happened, the 18 sessions, vir- “They had this Duxbury High students – a tual meetings “They are not here, exhibit there that number that coincides with with Holocaust had hair of the At the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Duxbury Student Union chai, the Hebrew word for life survivors and but you have connected people that died Assistant Director Jessica McDermott views the display of three floors worth of family photos taken before World War II. – completed the Holocaust the reading of with all of them and and it said in the Symposium for Teens sponsored “The Librarian their spirits.” exhibit that the speak for me,” posted at the ence,” Bradford said. by the Lappin Foundation and of Auschwitz,” hair was used for end of the exhibits, a saying They were able to attract a the Duxbury Student Union, by Antonio – Joshua Kraft like mattresses by Lutheran minister Martin cross-section of Duxbury stu- an independent nonprofit that Iturbe, about and pillows and Niemöller, struck the young dents. serves young people in Duxbury the life of survi- things like that, man. Niemöller was imprisoned “The only criteria that con- through after-school programs vor Dita Kraus. and I just couldn’t for opposing Hitler’s regime nected them was a willingness and special events. The students heard from two imagine how people could buy after initially supporting it. to stand up against hate and be The six-week symposium Holocaust survivors, Dr. Hans them or like people not know- The idea for the sympo- leaders amongst their peers,” was endorsed by Salem State Fisher of Newton, who was a ing what was in them and peo- sium came about last spring Bradford said. University’s Center for Holocaust passenger on the ill-fated M.S. ple could just sleep on that and when Deborah Coltin, Lappin “What I learned about these and Genocide Studies and the St. Louis, an ocean liner with spend their money on that,” Foundation’s executive director students over the past six weeks Holocaust Legacy Foundation. 937 passengers aboard, many McDermott said. and a Peabody resident, invited is they did not take the sym- This was the inaugural sympo- of them Jews fleeing Nazi Her twin brother, Gavin, also Sue Bradford, executive direc- posium for the sole benefit of sium for Lappin. Germany, that was turned away found it hard to go through tor of the Duxbury Student themselves,” Coltin said. “They While not all students and by Cuba, the United States and the exhibits, but the quota- Union, to a Zoom meeting did it for Duxbury.” families could attend the cer- Canada; and Auschwitz survi- tion, “Then they came for me with state Rep. Lori Ehrlich, Middleton’s Jody Kipnis, co- emony due to other summer vor David Schaecter of Miami, – and there was no one left to D-Marblehead, a Jewish mem- founder and president of the commitments, 10 students and ber of the state Legislature, to Holocaust Legacy Foundation, their families did. garner support for a genocide and Todd Ruderman of the They heard from Joshua education bill. Ruderman Family Foundation, Kraft, president of Kraft Family Amid the fallout from the joined the group in Washington Philanthropies and son of busi- football team’s callousness, at the Holocaust museum. nessman and New England Coltin continued to reach out to “My thoughts are that I think Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Bradford to offer help. it’s wonderful, they are not who presented them with cer- “It felt overwhelming at Jewish and they are having this tificates of completion. times,” Bradford said. “Duxbury experience and they are going Kraft, who also oversees the was on the national news, to become teachers to their Foundation to Combat Anti- and our community was real- community,” Kipnis said. “It’s Semitism as part of the Kraft ly struggling. We were looking not just going to end here.” Family Philanthropies, told the for greater understanding, and Ruderman said they “heard students that the horrors com- education, to heal and grow, from one of the students that mitted against the Jews down and Duxbury students were they are embarrassed to say that through history “sort of have making their voices heard. They they are from Duxbury because been lost on a lot of people, knew there was work to be done of what happened with the foot- and we see it unfortunately in and they were willing to do it.” ball team, which they had abso- today’s world, beyond Duxbury. “We agreed upfront that it lutely nothing to do with.” Way beyond Duxbury. After students and chaperones walked through the Holocaust would not be about making The symposium, he said, has “But your resilience,” Kraft museum at their own pace during the morning, they met outside for amends or penance, but rather given the students power and said, “your courage, 18 of you, a brief conversation led by Debbie Coltin, president and executive an opportunity to engage in knowledge so they can stand up none Jewish, to stand up, go director of the Lappin Foundation. an immersive learning experi- for their town and themselves.

Marblehead’s Premier Prosthodontist InnovatIve RestoRatIve & aesthetIc DentIstRy Dental Implant Restorations • Prosthodontic Dentistry Sensitive care and superb aesthetic results are Crowns & Bridges • Inlays & Onlays • Smile Makeovers the hallmark of our world class Veneers • Teeth Whitening • Dentures prosthodontic practice.

JeffRey R. DoRnbush, D.D.s. 210 Humphrey Street, Suite 103 • Marblehead 781-639-0700 • drdornbush.com • [email protected]