Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage E PAID Norwich, CT 06360 Permit #329 TH RETURN TO: 28 Channing St., New London, CT 06320 Serving The Jewish Communities of Eastern Connecticut & Western R.I. CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED VOL. XXXXI NO. 6 PUBLISHED BI-WEEKLY WWW.JEWISHLEADERWEBPAPER.COM MARCH 27, 2015/7 NISAN 5775 NEXT DEADLINE APR. 10, 2015 16 PAGES HOW TO REACH US - BY PHONE 860-442-8062 • BY FAX 860-443-4175 • BY EMAIL [email protected] • BY MAIL: 28 CHANNING STREET, NEW LONDON, CT 06320 Indyk to Yom Hashoah observance April 14 speak at Tuesday, April 14om atHaShoah Congregation will be Beth commemorated El at 7 PM. tion are Joe Biber, Oleg Elperin, Lola Fox, Ray Beth El by our community on Gawendo, Rosa Goldblatt, and Henny Simon. Y Enchanted Prelude music will be performed by Roz Etra - Circle TheaterWe are presentexcited toA Dramaticannounce Readingthat this and Barry Weiner. Rev. Ann Aaberg, Pastor, Ambassador Martin Indyk- ofyear NIGHT we will by have Elie the Wiesel. theater group, Mystic Congregational Church, will deliver- will speak about Israel, Pales - the Statement of Concern. Special memorial tine, the Middle East, and re Enchanted Circle candles will be distributed following the com- lations between AmericaSun and- Theater has performed in the Smithsonian In memoration. - day,Israel April as the 12 Bethat 7:30 El PM.Weiner/ stitution, the JewishCommonwealth Museum in New Award York City,- Eastern Connecticut’s local Holocaust Com Tom lecturer for 2015 on and the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC. The memoration is sponsored by the Jewish Fed group received the , Mas eration of Eastern CT, Beth Jacob Synagogue,- A former ambassador to- sachusetts highest honor in arts, humanities,- CongregationYOM Ahavath HASHOAH Achim, CONT. Congregation ON PG 13 Israel (1995-97, 2000-01), and sciences. Ahavath Chesed, Congregation Beth El, Congre Indyk served as Assistant Sec Candle lighters for this year’s commemora retary of State for Near East- - Echoes & Reflections program Affairs from 1997-2000 and- Martin Indyk was born to a- By Nickie Padilla, Strochlitz US Special Envoy for the Is Jewish family in London, Eng Holocaust Resource Center rael-Palestine 2013-14 nego land. He was raised in Austra- Coordinator tiations. He resigned that post- lia, growing up in the Sydney and now serves as the Foreign suburb INDYK of Castlecrag.CONT. ONHe PGgrad 10 Policy Executive at the Brook On Tuesday, March 17, ingsRepairing Institution. the alliance 2015 the Strochlitz Holocaust Resource Center of the Jewish By Bob Schieffer, CBS News Federation of Eastern CT and- the Anti-Defamation League co-hosted a teacher profes So, the Prime Minister of Israel doesn’t like the President and sional development training has decided dealing with this administration is no walk in the on Holocaust education. park. I get that -- there are some in Washington, including some Thirty-two teachers from The program, Echoes and Reflections, was facilitated by Marji- Democrats, who feel the same way. over 20 different schools across Lipshez-Shapiro of the ADL.It is designed to prepare teachers to And the president thinks the prime minister dissed him when the state were in attendance. It- teach the complex history of the Holocaust in a way that stimu he spoke to the joint session of Congress without a presidential was the largest turn-out in the lates engagement, critical thinking and personal understanding invitation. I get that, too -- it was not just rude, but disrespectful history of the program. Lan among students. The program is organized around ten themes to the office. CONT. ON PG 7 REPAIRING THE ALLIANCE guage Arts and Social Studies each focusing on a different dimension of the Holocaust. teachers of grades 6-12 joined The teachers received a ten chapter resource guide filled in the day. with lessons, and primary sources to use with their students. Save These Important Dates Also included were a DVD of visual history testimonies and an By Marcia Reinhard, expansive websiteECHOES with supplementary & REFLECTIONS multimedia CONT. assets ON PG and 13 Director-Israel & Youth Programming Israel Independence Day ple Emanu-El in Waterford, during the next to- SSA hires new head Wednesday, April 22 - last class of Jewish Community High School,- By Laura Frommer the Jewish Federation will be bringing a fabu- - - On the Jewish Fed lous speaker from “Stand With Us”, an organi strong relationship between- the school and the surround eration will present its big Yom Ha’Atzmaut zation that helps us understand the complex- Solomon Schechter Acad WOLFE CONT. ON PG 10 celebration (Israel’s Independence Day) held ities of Israel and ultimately helps us speak in emy is pleased to announce ing community as well as ex at Congregation Beth El in New London. There support of Israel. This is particularly impor that it has hired a new Head of will also be a Yom Hazikaron observance to tant for our teens heading off to college. - School, Barbara Bentley Wolfe, begin the event. I heard a young woman from “Stand With who begins her leadership Our Emissaries Noa Brosh and Ron Peleg Us” speak at a recent convention. She was ex- with the 2015-16 school year. - have already begun working on, planning and tremely engaging as she spoke passionately Barbara has 13 years of creating this special evening! Some of the about Israel and how to counter verbal at elementary school experi things we will bring back will be the Israeli tacks on Israel. She is also highly informative ence. Most recently she comes food (of course), the moonbounce, the shuk so you can understand situations and draw from Waterford Public Schools and various stations for everyone to enjoy as your own conclusions. where she was teaching 2nd we celebrate Israel’s Independence Day! The “Stand with Us” will not tell you what to grade, and prior to that she event begins at 5:45 PM in the Social Hall. think but informs you so you can draw your taught 6th grade at SSA. RSVPs would“Stand be appreciated With Us” to help with own conclusions. Please join us when “Stand- Having previously taught food prepMonday, and set May up. 11, at 6:30 PM - With Us” comes to our community for the first at Schechter, she understands time. This will be a very informative, energiz first-hand what an outstanding On at Tem ing and empowering evening. Don’t miss it!! education SSA provides and is looking forward to building a 2 THE JEWISH LEADER, MARCH 27, 2015 and the Hendels now mishpochah???? Ari Shavit’s ‘My Promised Mention & Menschen I spoke to Sherry Turner of Niantic recently and she said nothing much was going on with Land’ becomes HBO film NADINE LIPMAN her personally; I can understand, because she By JTA [email protected] must be very tired from all the wonderful par- “My Promised Land,” a best-selling book about Israel by jour- enting she and her late husband Phil Turner nalist Ari Shavit, is being made into a documentary for HBO. Congratulations goes out to William Ca- did in raising their sons! Son Mark Turner Shavit and HBO Chairman Richard Plepler announced the massar of Norwich who joined with other out- graduated in December with his MBA from Bab- project on Monday at a conference in Jerusalem by the Israeli standing high school students from across the media company Keshet. The project does not yet have an air nation from March 17-22 for the National Youth of SapientNitro at their Boston headquarters as date. Leadership Forum (NYLF): National Security – sonthe ManagerCollege. He of works Finance. for Histhe international(younger, but firm f-r- “The great hope is that the HBO documentary ‘My Promised Diplomacy, Intelligence & Defense, an Envision e-e-z-i-n-g- brother Keith Turner did the Pen- Land’ will be able to open people’s minds and hearts to realize program (www.envisionexperience.com). The forum, held each spring and fall in Wash- Special Olympics. made miracle and an astonishing human endeavor,” said Shavit, guinFrom Plunge the injust-released Westport recently PR put to outbenefit by the oncewho writesagain that,for the with Haaretz all its newspaper.flaws and problems, Israel is a man- experiences and challenging career options in American Dance Festival in Durham, NC and at “My Promised Land” delves into Israel’s turbulent history ington, D.C., introduces students to firsthand- Duke University (I never, in my wildest dreams, through Shavit’s family story. His great-grandfather was one of riculum for the six-day forum is based on actual thought I would ever mention anything about the earliest Zionists to visit the region that would become the nationalworld events. security and related fields. The cur the “dukies” in my column) “Monday, June state of Israel. Throughout the program, students develop 29-Wednesday, July 1 at 8:00 pm -What hap- critical thinking, leadership abilities and pub- pens when you pair up some of today’s hottest lic speaking skills to tackle the complexity of choreographers to create new duets that they PleplerThe HBO said chief that said when the he book first approached“captured both Shavit, the “I objective told him national decision-making in the face of a chal- themselves will dance? You get Dynamic Duos! thattruth I’ve and waited the emotional my whole truth, adult the life psychologicalto find this book.” truth of how I Superheroes! Larry Keigwin & Rosie Herrara, love Israel and ponder its challenges, and wrestle with its ob- opportunity to meet with policy makers, mili- Mark Haim & Jessie Zarrit, Chris Yon & Taryn vious mistakes and foibles. And I thought, my goodness, what lenge, crisis or conflict.