OCTOBER 15, 2020 – 27 TISHRI 5781 JEWISH JOURNAL VOL 45, NO 4 JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG Doctors brace for second COVID-19 wave By Rich Tenorio JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT

Jewish medical profession- als in the Boston area and on the North Shore are urging continued vigilance to miti- gate a possible second wave of COVID-19 and the additional threat of the flu with fall in full swing. “If we do all of the things that need to be done – masks, social distancing, hand-washing – and are observant of other data and Flowers left in front of a memorial at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh where 11 Jews were science-driven public health killed in a mass shooting on Oct. 27, 2018. controls,” said Mark Poznansky, an infectious disease physi- cian at Massachusetts General Hospital, “we will not only flat- WHEN BELIEFS ARE TESTED ten the curve on COVID-19, we will also flatten the curve on the “Everybody should be as careful ary, 11 Jews were slaughtered in an onslaught of flu and other seasonal respira- and cautious as possible; make By David M. Shribman bullets. A symbol because the episode, the worst tory viruses.” sure we’re saving as many lives as JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT incidence of anti-Semitic violence in the history of Poznansky is the direc- possible,” said Dr. Camille Kotton, clinical director of transplant and the United States, stood as a tragic emblem of the tor of MGH’s Vaccine and PITTSBURGH – They were the shots heard immunocompromised host infec- way we live today: Immunotherapy Center, where ‘round my neighborhood. The shots heard ‘round tious diseases in the Infectious In fear. In mourning. In sad reflection. he spends 75 percent of his the country. The shots heard ‘round the Jewish Disease Division at MGH. These shots rang out two years ago this month. time. As director, he guides world – indeed heard ‘round the entire world. So much has happened in those crowded 24 vaccine and immunotherapy On an otherwise tran- months: More mass shootings. A bitterly divided efforts for infectious diseases including COVID-19, as well as cancer quil autumn Saturday nation. A corrosive presidential campaign. A pan- and Type 1 diabetes. The other 25 percent of his time goes toward morning before the coro- demic. Shutdowns and lockdowns. Tears and fears. clinical service at the main hospital for patients with infectious dis- Opinion navirus – people lining up Two years ago we walked the streets without eases, including COVID-19. at the bakery a few blocks masks and, generally, without trepidation. But The surge of the past spring was a challenge for hospitals like away, others walking along Shady Avenue, still after October 27, those walks – I take mine right MGH, which had hundreds of patients hospitalized. Although the more shopping near the Squirrel Hill intersection past Tree of Life at least four times a week – have number has decreased since then, it has crept back up over the past of Forbes and Murray Avenues, for a century the taken on a new character, and possibly a new month, from 300 in September to 500 currently, according to Dr. center of Jewish life in Pittsburgh – a clutch of men meaning. Wilkins Avenue, where the synagogue Camille Kotton, the clinical director of transplant and immunocom- and women were at prayer. In a tragic instant their faces the world, has become a miniature portrait promised host infectious diseases at MGH. pews in the Tree of Life synagogue became a crime of America: Down the street the Five Points Bakery It is important to realize that in general, Massachusetts case scene – and a symbol. allows only two customers at a time into its tiny numbers are “slowly trickling up,” Kotton said. Addressing the A crime scene because there, in the sanctu- continued on page 17 continued on page 17

The three ‘landsmen’ are among the nation’s best photographers Getting the story, one picture at a time

By Ethan M. Forman fall cushioned by her godmother, according to an JOURNAL STAFF account Forman gave in a 1991 book, “Winning Pulitzers.” “Fire Escape Collapse” also triggered Award-winning Jewish photojournalists Stanley changes to fire-escape safety legislation in Boston Forman, Stan Grossfeld and Mark Garfinkel have and across the nation. crossed paths many times at countless scenes, press In the photo that resonates to this day, Forman’s conferences and events over the years in search of “The Soiling of Old Glory” captured a white teen- just the right shot. ager pointing an American flag toward a black Garfinkel’s and Grossfeld’s careers behind the lawyer named Ted Landsmark on Boston City lens are intertwined around that of Forman, who at Hall Plaza during an anti-busing demonstration in age 75 still keeps his ear to the scanner as he works April 1976. as a cameraman for WCVB-TV. His career in the “I guess that you could say Stan, Stan and me are news spans nearly 55 years. landsmen,” said Garfinkel, a Swampscott native, Forman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photos have using the Yiddish term that is pronounced “lants- influenced the work of The Boston Globe’s men” for Jews who come from the same commu- Grossfeld, 68, who is also a two-time Pulitzer Prize nity, even though the three did not come from the winner, and Garfinkel, 55, an award-winning news same town. and weather photographer working for NBC10 Recently, the three photographers were inter- Boston. viewed about their work, and discussed how they Forman, who lives on the North Shore, has won have adjusted to shooting in the time of COVID-19, three Pulitzers, including a 1979 Boston Herald and what their Jewish identity means to them as American staff award for coverage of the Blizzard of they seek out their next shot. 1978. More importantly, he won back-to-back spot In addition to his photography, Forman is news photography awards in 1976 and 1977. known for his uncanny ability to seemingly get Standing on the bed of a ladder truck with a to know and befriend everyone, from firefighters camera with a motorized drive set for three frames to police officers, to those just standing around a a second, Forman captured the indelible image of scene. It’s also indicative of an encyclopedic mem- a 2-year-old girl and her 19-year-old godmother ory in which he can recall minute details of photos plunging to the ground in a fire escape collapse dur- he took decades earlier. Photo: Tim Mantoani/Courtesy of Stanley Forman ing a fire on Marlborough Street in 1975. Stan Forman, who grew up in Revere, is shown holding the two “I do remember a lot of stuff,” Forman said, The woman died, but the toddler survived, her Pulitzer Prize winning photos he shot. continued on page 4

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Parents get crash course in time management, logistics and motivation as school starts amid pandemic

By Ethan M. Forman said Greenstein, who grew up in Alissa, of Lynnfield, have a lot to JOURNAL STAFF Hamilton and attended Temple juggle as their three kids, fifth- Ner Tamid in Peabody. grader Sarah, 10, third-grader On a recent chilly morning, Attorney Tracy Cranson of Hannah, 8, and Ariella, 5, who Jamie Greenstein dropped off Peabody said her 12-year-old is in kindergarten, go back to her 3-year-old son, Aharon, at son, Jacob, is pleased with school school. the integrated preschool at the so far. “Excellent,” she said. “I That’s because in addition to Swampscott Middle School on really have no complaints.” being working parents, they both Forest Avenue. Aharon, who Her son attends school work as teachers. turns 4 next month, attends both in-person and virtually at Kaufman teaches comput- school there from 9 a.m. to noon the Higgins Middle School on ers at Revere High while his wife five days a week, then goes to Perkins Street. As part of Cohort works as a preschool teacher in Congregation Shirat Hayam in A, he attends school in-person Salem. The family attends Temple Swampscott in the afternoon. on Mondays and Thursdays, and B’nai Abraham in Beverly. After exiting the car, goes remotely the other three Kaufman said Lynnfield has Greenstein placed a mask over days. gone back with a hybrid sched- Aharon’s ears. She then fitted “From our perspective, the ule, with their three kids, all in him with his PAW Patrol back- social interaction for teenagers, I the same cohort, going to school pack and walked him a short appreciate they are allowing it to on Mondays and Tuesdays, then distance to the outdoor class- happen,” Cranson said. attending remotely the rest of room. The unintended consequence Photo: Ethan Forman/Journal Staff the week. “They have to wear a mask,” of having half the students in Jamie Greenstein and her son Aharon, 3, during drop-off at his pre- Because of their various Greenstein said, “and they have school at any given time is her school in Swampscott. schedules, with Revere going specific times throughout the son is in a class of 12 students, back remotely and Kaufman day when they have a mask instead of 24, a class size akin to Cranson said. The remote learn- be a result of her son being stu- teaching from Revere High three break.” a private-school education, she ing is much more structured dious. days a week, the Kaufmans Greenstein, who works as said. than it was in the spring. One “I think it’s keeping him have opted to send their kids an associate director of mar- “He’s getting much more downside, she said, is that on grounded and organized,” she to a program run by Lynnfield keting at Endicott College, said attention than if he were going virtual days, her son will get his said of the remote program. Community Schools, an orga- her young son is getting used to five days a week in-person,” work done by noon, which may David Kaufman and his wife, continued on page 15 wearing a mask, including those of Spider-Man, PAW Patrol and Mickey Mouse. To make him understand the concept of mask wearing during a pandemic, she tells him if he wears a mask, he won’t get the sniffles. “If you don’t want to get sick or make other people sick, you wear the masks,” Greenstein said she tells him. Such is life during the new back-to-school normal of the coronavirus pandemic, which some North Shore Jewish parents said involves a mix of in-person and online learning; masks and mask breaks; hand sanitizer; YU VIRTUAL social distancing; Chromebooks and entire schools’ student bod- ies divvied up into cohorts. Some parents interviewed said they like that their kids are OPEN HOUSE going to school and are able to be with teachers and other students for the first time since WOMEN MEN March. They like the hybrid arrangement, even if it is only for two days a week. 11.15.2020 11.22.2020 When he arrived at school, 11:30AM EDT 11:30AM EDT Aharon did not go right inside the building, but to an enclosed outdoor playground with a tent over it at the front of the school. Virtually everything you need to know! To limit indoor time, the school has various outdoor classrooms for the integrated preschool set Hear from YU President Rabbi Dr. Ari Enjoy breakout sessions with up around the building. The Berman and distinguished deans faculty in your area of interest students rotate around, includ- ing to an indoor classroom, Greenstein said. Discover our Torah Studies programs and world- Learn how YU prepares you for “So far, going back to school has been really good for him,” renowned Roshei Yeshiva and Torah scholars your career after college

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Getting the story, one picture at a time from page 1

While covering a Boston busing protest in 1976, Stan Forman captured Joseph Rakes as he moved toward Ted Landsmark with a flagpole. The photo won the 1977 Pulitzer Photos Courtesy of Stanley Forman Prize for Spot News Photography. Boston Mayor Kevin White on the Cape in the late 1970s. though it’s not always the best of traits. Forman grew up on Franklin Avenue Forman has two grown children with chasing a David Ortiz grand slam dur- “You know, Stanley, I think you remember in Revere. His father, Dave (this reporter’s his wife, Debbie: Hannah Forman, who ing the American League Championship too much,” a news director once told him. father’s cousin), was a bandleader. works as an emergency room nurse, and Series in 2013. By 1983, Forman saw the handwriting “I never made it in music,” Forman Molly Andruszkiewicz, who works as a Grossfeld won two Pulitzer prizes in the on the wall as a newspaper photogra- said. “I tried a couple of things. I tried physical therapist. 1980s, one in 1984 for his coverage of the pher. He said the paper’s general manager clarinet. You know, there is always a piano “Debbie and I have someone to get us impact of the war on Lebanese citizens, told him: “Start looking.” Concerned the in the house. My music is my scanners.” out of bed when we get older, and some- and the other for a series of photos of newspaper might close or be sold, and he When he was 8, in 1953, his father dis- one to give us our meds,” Forman joked. victims of the famine in Ethiopia and pic- would be out of a job, Forman took a job covered he could hear the Revere police As for his Jewish identity, Forman likes tures of undocumented immigrants along as a cameraman for WCVB-TV, where he frequency at the end of the AM radio to think it helped him get his start in the the U.S/Mexico border in 1985. has been ever since. dial. Stan Forman enjoyed listening in and news business. He had been the campaign Grossfeld said when he first came to Forman shoots plenty of video, but he chasing sirens. photographer for former Massachusetts Boston, Forman had just won the Pulitzer likes to grab still frames and share them on “I like to call myself a frustrated fire- Attorney General Edward Brooke during for “Fire Escape Collapse.” Facebook and Twitter. man and policeman, I got to do both,” his successful run for the U.S. Senate. “I remember I was working at my first “There’s nothing like a still photo,” Forman said. At the end of the campaign he got inter- job at the Newark Star Ledger, and I was Forman said. In reflecting on his two Pulitzer-prize views at the Boston Record American, The saying these are the greatest spot news Due to the fact that he’s 75, which puts winning photos, Forman said “the flag” Herald and the Globe. photos ever,” Grossfeld said. him in a high-risk category for complica- will be the one that is most recalled. “The Record American was the smart Eager to prove himself at the Globe, tions from COVID-19, Forman says he has “The fire escape was just a tremen- one, they hired me,” Forman said. Grossfeld wound up at an accident scene not done that much shooting around the dous spot news picture,” Forman said. But Forman said the chief photographer one day on the old Expressway. To get a pandemic. there has been little demand for it for its and managing editor who hired him were high-angle shot, he climbed a street lamp “And what I’m really scared of now is re-publication, he said, though it made both Jewish. which proved slippery and hard to grip. I really do think we are all, most of us, TIME’s list of “the 100 most influential Grossfeld, a native of New York City, “All of a sudden, I felt someone giving are letting down our guard a little bit,” photos ever taken.” works as an associate editor for The me a boost, and I turned around and it Forman said. The flag photo will stand the test of Boston Globe and shoots mostly sports, was the great Stanley Forman,” Grossfeld He’s not getting up close and personal time “and not in a good way,” he said. nowadays. said. like he used to. When asked if the photo resonates “I grew up in the Bronx but I stopped “He tells me that story when I see him,” “Channel 5 has been very protective today, given renewed interest in calls for being a Yankee fan when Steinbrenner Forman said. “We worked side-by-side of us,” Forman said. He works by himself social justice with the Black Lives Matter fired Yogi,” said Grossfeld, about the time many times. Probably one of Boston’s chasing news. He likens himself to a news movement, Forman said because he is a in 1985 the legendary Yankees owner best. He also writes a great story to go with helicopter. “I do news from a distance,” working journalist, he does not want to get George Steinbrenner fired the just as leg- his images, now. He was always a notch he said. into the politics. endary Yankees manager Yogi Berra. above us all with his vision.” He has photographed some “great “Because of what is going on, the pic- And that’s a good thing, because The pandemic has changed the way parades” during the pandemic, including ture has been resurrected again,” he said. Grossfeld is responsible for one of the Grossfeld shoots, which includes having one at Salem Hospital. He’s getting calls from different shows ask- most iconic images ever captured for Red to wear masks and trying to stay six feet “I’ve done some really good, brings- ing to use it. Sox Nation: A photo of Boston police offi- apart from others. He uses a telephoto tears-to-your-eye parades, thank-yous. It’s “The picture will never go away,” cer Steve Horgan, with his hands in the air lens now more than ever. “Let the lens do just been fabulous, fabulous stuff I get to Forman said. “The question is, will what it as Detroit Tigers outfielder Torii Hunter, the walking,” he said. cover. The good stuff.” represents go away?” legs in the air, flipped into the bullpen It can be dangerous work, Grossfeld

Photo: Mark Garfinkel/Boston Herald Construction worker Steven Smith pleads for help from others shortly after two workers were buried under water in Boston in 2016. For this photo, Mark Garfinkel Photo: Mark Garfinkel/NBC10 was awarded first place in the Domestic News category in the National Press Swampscott native Mark Garfinkel photographs the moon rising above the Zakim Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism 2016. Bridge. COMMUNITY NEWS THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – OCTOBER 15, 2020 5

with the Beatles singing “You’re He installed a darkroom in the Boston, which wanted him for Gonna Lose That Girl.” His tape cellar of the family home, and his still photography. His pic- recorder only recorded over half his late father, Robert Garfinkel, tures and video are featured dur- my Beatles ‘Hard Day’s Night’ who died in 2014, would get up ing the weather broadcast and tape. I became a man one day at 2 a.m. and see the wet prints on social media. early because I was scared to drying before Garfinkel would Garfinkel said part of his fas- death that I’d never learn it in drive them over to the Daily Item cination with the weather and time. Actually, the Hebrew – with in Lynn. planes comes from growing up in a slight Liverpool beat – came Early in his career, Garfinkel a close knit family in Swampscott out OK.” freelanced at The Salem News where he would watch the jets Grossfeld said he has a strong and The Jewish Journal, and he fly overhead on King’s Beach on Jewish identity, “but it’s not so shot spot news for The Boston summer evenings. formalized.” Globe, but he mostly shot for Today, the 55-year-old pho- “I fast on Yom Kippur. We’ve the Daily Item until he got a job tojournalist lives with his wife, had a Seder that we’ve had with at The Boston Herald in 1993, Globe reporter Laura Crimaldi, our Jewish friends for 20 years. where he worked for 25 years. and their 3-year-old son in I abhor the scary increase in While freelancing for Winthrop Highlands. The loca- anti-Semitism that is going on The Salem News, Garfinkel tion provides a vantage from now and I think it’s a tragedy worked with then-photo edi- which to shoot planes passing that these old stigmatisms and tor Barbara Kennedy, the wife by the moon, colorful sunsets inaccurate stereotypes are being of Northeastern University and lightning. He said he is also taught to a new generation … It’s Journalism Professor and media probably the only person on the really growing now, and hate is critic Dan Kennedy. North Shore training an 800mm taught.” Grossfeld, who is 68, married and has two grown children, added: “In this time, I just try to be a nicer human being.” Mark Garfinkel now works as a photographer for NBC10 Boston, where his feature pho- tos of airliners streaking across the moon, sunrises and sunsets, lightning across the Boston sky- line, and his spot news photos of crashes, fires and various inci- dents continue to captivate. Garfinkel was part of a team Photo: Courtesy Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe of seven that won a New England Stan Grossfeld won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in Emmy for a historical special 1985 for his series of photographs of the famine in Ethiopia and for called “D-Day 75: New England’s his pictures along the Mexican border. Here, an Ethiopian mother and child await food in a Sudanese refugee camp. Heroes.” He has also won awards from the Boston Press Photographers Association and said, and photographers don’t he sprayed himself with Lysol. the National Press Photographers have any special immunity to At home, he took off most of his Association. COVID-19. clothes before he went inside. Garfinkel grew up in At the height of the pandemic “I was concerned for my fam- Swampscott where his family in the spring, Grossfeld recalled ily: You don’t want to bring some- was active at the former Temple setting up in a parking garage at thing home,” Grossfeld said. Beth El, now Congregation Shirat Massachusetts General Hospital But there are other things he Hayam, on Atlantic Avenue, and using a long lens to get shots has shot, too, during the pan- where his bar mitzvah was held of about a dozen ambulances as demic, pictures showing the joys and his mother, Marion, is still Photo: Courtesy Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe patients were being taken into of summer or ones that show an active participant. Fenway Park, Oct. 13, 2013: Detroit’s Torii Hunter flips into the Red the hospital. you could still go to the beach. Sox bullpen chasing David Ortiz’ grand slam as Boston Police officer He said his Jewish identity Grossfeld also recalled going “You can’t just go COVID, Steve Horgan and Sox fans celebrate. means more to him now than to a nursing home in Quincy COVID, COVID,” he said. it did back when he was look- “Mark has spoken about the lens into the night sky. at the height of the pandemic As for his Jewish identity, ing to find a way to get out of ethics of photojournalism to my Garfinkel uses flight tracker where Massachusetts National Grossfeld shared a story about Hebrew school on Tuesdays and students on several occasions,” apps along with his experience Guard were deployed to assist his struggle to learn his haftorah Thursdays. A 1983 graduate of Dan Kennedy said in an email, of knowing where the moon will with testing. for his bar mitzvah. His rabbi Swampscott High, Garfinkel “and they always appreciate his be relative to a jetliner’s flight “I found out that they were suggested he bring him a reel- attended Salem State for a few perspective on how to get the path to help him gauge whether bringing in these Hazmat to-reel tape, and he would chant years, but he did not graduate. story while maintaining your a plane 250 miles out might pass National Guardspeople, and I the passage and Grossfeld could In 1987, he was living at home sense of humanity.” in front of the moon. went there and the director said: learn it from that, which he did. and had done some photogra- Two years ago, on Oct. 4, Garfinkel said as a young pho- ‘I’m not going to kick you out, I’m “Unfortunately, I am a pro- phy, and he recalled there was a Garfinkel was let go from the tographer, he knew about the not going to interfere with you.’ ” crastinator and didn’t listen fire on Walker Road in town. The Herald for what Garfinkel called historical importance and insti- Grossfeld got shots of per- to it until the night before,” son of the fire chief at the time “cost-cutting measures.” tutional memory of Forman’s sonnel decontaminating them- Grossfeld said in an email. saw him outside and told him The irony of the date was not pictures. selves, all while trying to keep “When I switched it on there there was a fire up the street. lost on the police officers and “Then I met Stan,” Garfinkel at a safe distance. Grossfeld said was the rabbi singing ‘Baruch He asked him if he was still tak- firefighters he covered, because said of Forman. “He’s a walking, when he went back to his car, Atah Adonai Eloheynu’ mixed in ing pictures. He drove Garfinkel in radio parlance, 10-4 means living legend every day, and he’s home to get his camera. “OK,” and Garfinkel’s bread and very humble.” “I sold the picture to The butter was shooting police and Salem News and I caught the fire scenes. Associate Editor Ethan bug,” said Garfinkel. “I couldn’t A couple of weeks later, Forman can be reached by email believe it,” he said. “I got paid.” Garfinkel got a call from NBC10 at [email protected].

Photo: Damian Strohmeyer/Courtesy of Stanley Forman Stan Forman, of WCVB-TV, and Mark Garfinkel, of NBC10, won Photo: Courtesy Jim Davis/The Boston Globe awards while at the Boston Herald. They speak to one another nearly Boston Globe photographer Stan Grossfeld prepares to bat away a beer thrown in the direction of every day. Mookie Betts during the 2018 Red Sox World Series Parade. 6 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – OCTOBER 15, 2020 EDITORIAL JEWISH JOURNAL Steven A. Rosenberg PUBLISHER/EDITOR From sick people to sick societies

By Michael Widlanski Benjamin Netanyahu, unlike edented exploitation of police, President Donald Trump, has military and courts to stem pro- JERUSALEM — When people for the most part been an advo- tests against Ariel Sharon’s uni- get ill in large numbers – and for cate of lock-downs and other lateral expulsion of Jewish resi- a long time – their governments tough measures, but his two- dents from Gaza in 2005. and professional agencies show headed government, that shares On the Religious Right, espe- increasing signs of dysfunction, power with the Blue-White Party cially on the fringes of the Haredi and this is something that links of Benny Gantz, often punches community, some have charged Israel, America and Europe. itself repeatedly instead of strik- that the secular establishment As countries ing at the virus. in Israel is trying to hurt the face the second Netanyahu has wanted to Haredi community by using the Letter wave of a previ- limit the rambunctious and virus as an excuse. To their cred- ously unknown crowded protests in Jerusalem it, most Haredim do not believe from virus that origi- against him, claiming that pro- this nonsense, but Haredi lead- Israel nated in China, testers – many of whom defi- ers seem unable to rein in their leader- antly refuse to wear masks or to extremists in their own camp, ships have shown a mixed bag heed police requests – are likely particularly in the Belz and of countermeasures that have spreading disease as well as tax- Vishnitz Hasidic communities. been driven by incomplete ing already thin police resources Moving forward, the main knowledge, media hype, occa- during the virus epidemic. Blue- problem in Israel now seems sional superstition and large White insists there should be no to be lack of government cred- dollops of partisan stupidity. limits on right of protest, assert- ibility. Small store owners and “The government is sick, ing that Netanyahu is really restaurateurs have appeared on and that is not healthy for all of afraid of free speech. television to denounce govern- us,” asserted Prof. Hagai Levin, Blue-White, meanwhile, ment officials who do not prac- A clear sign of growing dissat- similar to plans articulated by a leading epidemiologist and has championed an iron-fist tice what they preach. isfaction with Netanyahu is that some American governors and chairman of Israeli Doctors’ approach against prayer in polls show his Likud Party would mayors, but Haredi ministers Public Health Forum. He was synagogues, especially by the get 26 of 120 parliament seats, opposed it because they said it critical of the Israeli govern- ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi com- versus 23 for the rightist Yemina was designed to hurt them. ment’s repeated inability to munities in Jerusalem and Bnei If hypocrisy were Party of Naftali Bennett, ex-Edu- Israel’s saving grace is that plan, articulate and implement Brak, charging that the Haredim a vitamin, both the cation Minister and ex-Defense the people are smarter and an anti-virus program. are “super-spreaders.” However Left and Right have Minister. Bennett had widely more reliable than politicians Dr. Levin and many other Blue-White and other left-of- taken heaping doses urged using the assets of the or health officials. Most people doctors say that the Israeli center parties have been less army and Defense Ministry to realize there is a real health Health Ministry has been slow than firm in their opposition to of Vitamin H. pick up the slack from the limp- problem and want to help by to develop and implement pro- maskless young adults attend- ing Health Ministry. Bennett practicing physical distancing tocols for massive testing and ing beach parties or makeshift urged moving sick people out and common-sense hygiene. stopping chain spreading, and concerts. Like several prominent of their communities to hotels The “High Holidays” sometimes ministry officials claim they If hypocrisy were a vitamin, American officials – on the city, or supervised hostels in order mean praying from porches in are understaffed, but critics on both the Left and Right have state and national level – who to reduce virus spread, but little cross-street open-air minyans both the Right and Left say that taken heaping doses of Vitamin have violated their own rules, was done. or in courtyards – a flexible Prime Minister Netanyahu has H. some Israeli officials have When he was Defense spiritual response to a physical dropped the ball. The Left has been quick to been caught violating epidem- Minister, Bennett wrote a danger. “The results are all skewed,” charge police brutality and ic guidelines about travel and major anti-virus program that Many Jews and Arabs go asserted Dr. Danny Pepperman, “stimat piot” – the closing of socializing. Netanyahu initially ignored but for long walks by themselves head of the Government Bureau mouths, but there can be lit- This credibility gap has been later largely adopted – several or in pairs, holding or wear- of Statistics, referring to Health tle doubt that the Netanyahu compounded by the “emergen- months late. Prof. Roni Gamzo, ing masks. Along the Jerusalem Ministry seriological surveys, Government and police have cy unity government” showing the anti-virus “czar” or “proj- Promenade, when the sun sets adding that the ministry turned for many months allowed wide- a lack of unity and organization. ect director,” was appointed and the heat relents, women in down his office’s offers of help. ranging protests in Jerusalem Several rightist intellectuals and and then often ignored by Jewish and Muslim headdresses, Dr. Pepperman, Dr. Levin and and across the country – some- journalists believe Netanyahu Netanyahu and many of his men in shorts and running suits others say the Health Ministry times at the expense of cleanli- has lost his focus, preoccupied ministers. walk, run and grunt, hoping for has been both lax and late across ness and even violence. with charges filed against him Gamzo’s “traffic light” or a better day. the board. By comparison, no one on by the State Prosecutor. “Ramzor” program divides the Bureaucratic infighting aside, the Left strenuously defended Even though the charges country into zones defined Michael Widlanski, a former there is a rising pattern of a sick the right of protest for rightists may be unjustified, they say, by virus spread, suggesting New York Times correspondent, body politic to match an ail- after the assassination of Yitzhak Netanyahu has lost the ability to a more pinpoint approach – writes from Jerusalem. ing population. Prime Minister Rabin in 1995 nor the unprec- do the job.

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Hamas detains Israelis and the world is silent By Daniel Mariaschin ment of mentally ill non-com- media, as well. JNS.org batants, is in flagrant violation While major news outlets of the International Covenant on disproportionally and unfairly or decades, Hamas has Civil and Political Rights. Under focus on Israel, one would think perpetrated gruesome this covenant, Mengistu and al- that the enforced disappear- Fand unprovoked attacks Sayed must be brought before ance of two civilians at the very on Israeli civilians, leaving no a local judge shortly after their least would warrant a mention. demographic unharmed. Its initial detention, thus revealing Disappointing, yet not surpris- long list of victims ranges from and confirming their identity, as ing, Hamas’ human-rights abus- infants to the elderly. Further well as charging them with an es continue to go largely ignored aggravating these acts of ter- offense. by the media. ror is Hamas’s pathological Failing even this, their detain- Those of us who engage rationale that no one in Israel ment now falls under the classifi- in advocacy for Israel are not is considered a non-combatant, cation of an enforced disappear- surprised by the inhuman- or to quote Hamas co-founder ance. Hamas has also refused ity of Hamas, which is respon- Mahmoud al-Zahar during a to allow the International Red sible for incessant terror toward 2016 conversation with an inter- Cross, or any other organization, all Israelis. We are well aware national human-rights group: to check on their health and that Hamas does not play by “There are no civilians in Israel.” well-being, yet another indica- the rules of war or the norms Facebook This “principle” extends Avraham “Avera” Mengistu is believed to be held by Hamas in the tion of Hamas’ depravity. of humanity; that its children’s beyond terror victims and is cur- Gaza Strip. This indefinite and surrep- television shows glorify suicide rently being used to justify the titious confinement, coupled bombers; that it lynches LGBTQ incommunicado detention of volition. Despite a series of The Israeli Ministry of Foreign with troubling psychological people publicly; that it impris- Avraham “Avera” Mengistu and warning shots fired by an IDF Affairs confirms on its website distress, amounts to cruel and ons journalists; that it sends Hisham al-Sayed, two young patrol, he continued over the that Hamas is holding captive inhumane torture. Violating incendiary balloons to Israeli Israeli citizens who have no affil- border fence. He has not been the two men. international law further still, kindergartens; that it spends iation with the Israel Defense seen by an Israeli since then. Hamas also refuses to return Hamas is attempting to use any humanitarian relief funds on Forces and documented histo- Unfortunately, it is impossible the remains of two Israeli sol- information on the captured building underground tunnels ries of mental illness. to know his current condition diers killed in Gaza during the men as a bargaining chip in a to attack Israeli civilians instead Mengistu was born in because in the six years since 2014 “Operation Protective prisoner swap for members of of feed its people. But it is not Ethiopia and made aliyah with he is believed to have been Edge,” Lt. Hadar Goldin, 23, Hamas currently held by Israel. the sole responsibility of Israel his family at age 5. After settling captured and held captive by and Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul, 20. A It appears that neither Mengistu or its advocates to tell this story. in Ashkelon, the family endured Hamas, there has not been a few hours into what was to be nor al-Sayed would actually be The topic of their return is on a series of hardships, both eco- single detail about him or even a ceasefire, Hamas attacked a surrendered in exchange for our agenda each time we hold nomic and personal. Mengistu’s confirmation that Hamas is group of IDF soldiers working to the Hamas prisoners; instead, policy meetings with diplomats older brother, Masrashau, died holding him. demolish a network of the terror Hamas would only reveal the asking them to raise their voic- in 2011. According to friends Al-Sayed, the young Israeli group’s cross-border tunnels. most basic information con- es over this travesty. We must and family, it was around this Bedouin from the southern The Goldin and Shaul fami- firming the captivity and proof do all that we can to increase time that Mengistu began to town of Hura, who also crossed lies have endured years without of life of the two Israeli men. public outcry and demand their exhibit a psychological disorder the border of his own volition proper closure. Hamas’ complete Hamas’s kidnapping and release. We owe it to these help- that purportedly intensified in in 2015, is in a similar situation. disregard for the ethical norms detaining of civilians in secret less young men who have no the months before his detain- According to al-Sayed’s family, that most of the world abides captivity is an appalling viola- voice to ask. ment by Hamas in Gaza and his he, too, suffers from mental ill- by is not surprising consider- tion of human rights. Six years subsequent disappearance. ness. For years, his family has ing it is a terror organization. later, the international commu- Daniel S. Mariaschin is the On Sept. 7, 2014, the then pleaded publicly to Hamas for The interminable length of being nity remains silent on the situ- chief executive officer of B’nai 32-year-old Mengistu crossed his release; five years later, his held incommunicado, to say ation. There has been a virtual B’rith International. the border into Gaza of his own fate is still unknown. nothing of the unlawful detain- blackout in the international Turkey helped build ISIS into a functioning state

By Mordechai Kedar the consent of the Turkish government. JNS.org Anti-Assad activists reported that ISIS was attacking them from inside Turkey, n view of Turkey’s increasingly divi- and a senior Egyptian official indicated sive and destabilizing influence in in October 2014 that Turkish intelligence Ithe Middle East, the region’s biggest was passing satellite imagery and other concern for the West could be President data to ISIS. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s burgeoning Erdoğan’s reluctance to take a step Islamist tendencies. In order to under- back and denounce ISIS’s methods of stand the Turkish role in the threat of operation has led, in part, to an assump- Islamic State (ISIS), born of the Muslim tion that Turkey ceased to assist ISIS Brotherhood, it is necessary to rewind not because it rejected its ideology but six years. because of pressure exerted on it by The year 2014 was one when ISIS Russia, the United States and Europe. became a very real threat to the Middle With the increasing parallels drawn East. Within a year, the group managed between the Islamist extremism of to take over one-third of Iraq and half Turkey and Iran, and repeated criticism of Syria, with 200,000 fighters under its The ability of ISIS to become a functioning state so quickly is largely due to its relation- directed at former U.S. president Barack control. ISIS quickly became successful ship with Erdoğan. Obama for being soft on Islamist forces at producing and selling oil as an impor- also provided it with assistance. Turkish tries, Europe, America, Africa, Australia in the region, the United States and the tant source of income. It also managed contributions to the flourishing of ISIS and even Israel. The vast majority arrived European Union, in particular, will have to ensure a constant supply of weapons, were most apparent in these areas: legally in Turkey and went from there to a part to play in deciding what kind of ammunition, vehicles and advanced Syria and Iraq. The Turkish authorities, role they assume in the Middle East. communication devices. Money who were aware that these people were To this day, Turkey is under the influ- The ability of ISIS to become a func- In 2014, it was reported that ISIS had passing through Turkey on their way to ence of the Muslim Brotherhood doc- tioning state so quickly is largely due to taken over oil fields in Iraq and Syria join ISIS, did nothing to stop it. trine, which underpins the continued its relationship with Erdoğan. and produced large quantities of crude In June 2014, Turkish Interior Minister existence of ISIS and shows a lack of ISIS has had strong connections to oil to sell, consolidating its grip on oil Muammar Guler admitted that Hatay concern in Ankara for the group’s acts of Turkey over the years, whether through supplies in the region. They are thought was a strategic location for the crossing violence. its oil industry or through its willingness to have transported the oil to Turkey in of mujahideen to Syria and that logisti- With that said, it is becoming harder to shield wanted members of the Muslim tankers, whereupon Turkey sold the oil cal support for Islamist groups would be for Erdoğan to hide behind his NATO Brotherhood. This “neighborly” relation- to other countries as if it were from Iraq increased in that area. membership as he designs a foreign pol- ship was essential to ISIS’s success, and and Syria and shared some of the pro- icy that is less West-oriented and more it continues to be reflected in Turkish ceeds with ISIS. These oil exports were Tactics E.U. – and U.S.-hostile – a far cry from decision-making. stopped in December 2015 following a It has been widely reported that the political reforms that were once Turkey has been ruled by Erdoğan Russian bombing of the tankers, but not Turkey’s Intelligence Agency illegally promised for a democratic transition in since 2002. He is a vocal supporter of the before ISIS had received millions from dispatched arms to Syrian jihadists. In Turkey. This will have consequences for Muslim Brotherhood, a movement that oil exports through Turkey. It seems per- August 2014, an ISIS commander told the country’s regional and international seeks to establish a worldwide Islamic tinent to mention that Erdoğan’s family The Washington Post: “Most of the fight- relations as it becomes less and less reli- caliphate that applies Islamic Sharia was personally involved in the oil busi- ers who joined us at the beginning of the able as a security partner, especially if it law. The Muslim Brotherhood has been ness with ISIS. war came via Turkey, as did our equip- chooses to work increasingly with those linked to many fundamental Islamist ment and supplies.” who fight against the West. organizations. Volunteers Turkey also allowed ISIS forces to Not only did Erdoğan never launch any Thousands of Muslim volunteers who launch attacks on their opponents from Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar counterterror operations to disrupt ISIS’s identified with the goals and methods of Turkish territory. ISIS forces could have is a senior research associate at the networks or recruitment activities, he ISIS went to join it, from Muslim coun- not entered or left Turkey freely without Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. 8 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – OCTOBER 15, 2020 CAMPS AND SCHOOLS

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A moveable sukkah: Rabbi creates door-to-door Mitzvah Mobile

By Ethan M. Forman This has special meaning dur- were not putting up large com- JOURNAL STAFF ing the pandemic, Baron said, munity sukkahs, Baron said. because even though we live in Those who typically gathered at SWAMPSCOTT — What if you homes and are not technically large family sukkahs were also were standing in the middle of exposed to the elements, “we unable to do so. So that’s why a the desert and wanted to build are still exposed.” The tempo- Sukkah Mobile came in handy a hut for Sukkot, and there were rary huts speak to the fragility of this year. no trees around with which to human life at a time of COVID- “It has an added meaning this build its walls? Could you sum- 19. year,” Baron said. “A lot of peo- mon a sukkah on wheels to help This year, due to safety pre- ple are requesting visits this year you celebrate? cautions regarding large indoor because it’s a way to do a social- According to Rabbi Sruli gatherings, many synagogues distanced yontif.” Baron of Tobin Bridge Chabad in Everett, if you chant: “Sukkah, Sukkah, Sukkah Mobile!” one INTRODUCING THE CANADA GOOSE will magically appear. BASE CAMP AT GIBLEES “And maybe, just maybe, you’ll hear grumbling in the dis- tance,” Baron told about a dozen Rabbi Sruli Baron instructs Helena Wyner, 2, of Aleph Academy, how preschoolers and kindergartners to hold the lulav and etrog in the Sukkah Mobile. of Aleph Academy of Chabad of the North Shore in Swampscott people in the age of COVID,” he wooden lattice panels screwed on the morning of Oct. 7. “And said. into the frame. The sukkah was a big red pickup truck with a Baron built it with help from then strapped onto the cargo sukkah on the back will come Chabad’s Young Professional bed. It was just big enough for roaring through the sand and Community. Baron to stand up in without bring the sukkah to you so you “The Lubavitcher Rebbe of bumping his head. can celebrate Sukkot.” blessed memory was always at “How do you make a Sukkah The Sukkah Mobile that the forefront of meeting people Mobile?” Baron asked the kids. Baron was talking about con- where they were religiously with “You have to make a sukkah and sisted of a rented Dodge Ram a deeply compassionate under- put the sukkah on top of the pickup with a Hemi engine and standing of where they stood truck and then the truck and the a sukkah strapped on the top of existentially,” Lipsker said in a sukkah together become a magi- the cargo bed. text message. “Conceptually, the cal combination called a Sukkah VISIT OUR SHOWROOM PACKED WITH A sign on the side of the ‘sukkah mobile’ was simply the Mobile.” CANADA GOOSE FOR HIM + HER 5-foot-wide, 6-foot-long and literal byproduct of that philoso- Sukkot is held on the 15th day 6-foot-tall sukkah invited peo- phy.” of the seventh month of Tishrei. ple to “Hop on board and do a Added Lipsker: “It goes with- It’s a seven-day festival that both mitzvah!” out saying that this unique commemorates the harvest and The truck was there so the approach feels custom-made symbolizes the huts in the des- young children could do the for the tumultuous challenges ert the Israelites lived in while “sukkah dance” inside with the we are currently experiencing fleeing Egypt on their way to etrog and lulav. globally. The notion of a mitzvah the promised land. Those who The idea of a mobile sukkah coming to you when you aren’t observe the holiday typically and having a way “to take your able to get to the mitzvah reso- take all their meals in the huts mitzvah to go” is an ancient one nates in our COVID world with during the week. and was discussed by the schol- particular poignancy.” Made of natural materials, ars of the Talmud, Baron said. Last week, the Sukkah the sukkah also symbolizes the 85 Andover Street, Rt. 114 “The idea is an old one,” Mobile visited Epstein Hillel “clouds of glory” that protected Danvers 978.774.4080 Baron said. “The idea is to bring School in Marblehead, the the Jewish people from the ele- giblees.com the sukkah to those who don’t Jewish Community Center in ments, Baron said. have one.” Marblehead and, later in the COME IN ONCE, YOU’LL BE A CUSTOMER FOR LIFE! The Sukkah Mobile harkens day, Chabad of Peabody, where to Mitzvah Mobiles or Mitzvah it made home visits. Tanks made up of converted When the Sukkah Mobile buses, campers or trucks that drove up to the preschool, Baron BREATHTAKING VIEWS served as mobile synagogues was greeted by his wife, Chaya and formed a way to reach out Baron, who serves as the Judaic to assimilated Jewish people in educator at the school and who New York City starting in the co-directs with Baron Tobin 1960s and 1970s by the Orthodox Bridge Chabad. Aleph Academy’s Chabad-Lubavitch practitio- director, Pam Kelley, was also on ners, according to a 2017 article hand. on Chabad.org’s website titled Baron then set up a folding “Mobilizing the Mitzvah Tanks: table in the sukkah and spread The Untold Story of the ‘Are You bamboo mats over the roof. Jewish’ Guys.” He set up a gallon jug of hand Mobile sukkahs have sanitizer and a step stool so the appeared on the North Shore mask-wearing kids could climb in the past, said Rabbi Yossi up and down, though most had Lipsker of Chabad of the North to be handed up and down to Shore. and from the truck. It was Baron’s idea “to bring it The sukkah was framed with back this year specially to reach two-by-fours, with walls of

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Harold Cohen, 89, of Salem and Boca Raton, Florida, INDOOR SHOWROOM HUNDREDS OF MEMORIALS formerly of Swampscott and Nantucket NO SUB-CONTRACTING Harold Cohen, of Salem and ing brother of Gertrude Gilman, Boca Raton, Florida, formerly the late James Cohen, and the IN-HOUSE DESIGN & MANUFACTURING of Swampscott and Nantucket, late Melvin Cohen. He was the entered into rest on Sept. 29, dear son of the late Samuel and 2020, surrounded by his family, Minnie (Goldstein) Cohen. O’ROURKE BROS. MEMORIALS at the age of 89. Harold was born on Jan. 16, 73 North Street, Salem, MA ~ 978-744-0871 Beloved husband of the late 1931, and grew up in Chelsea. Janice (Samuelson) Cohen, he After graduating from Cushing was the devoted father of Jill Academy in 1948, he attended ABATE MONUMENTS and Tom Bloom of Hollywood, the Business School at Indiana 82 Elliott Street, Beverly, MA ~ 978-922-0517 Florida, Beth and Peter Shribman University. While at IU, Harold of Swampscott, Linda and and his Pi Lambda Phi fraternity Steven Weinstein of Marblehead, brothers rode in the first Little www.obmemorials.com and Brian and Michele Cohen 500 bicycle race and set the pole of Marblehead; cherished grand- position. Upon his graduation “Serving the Jewish Community since 1890” father of Jeremy and Sharlene in 1952, he married his college Weber, Ross and Ari Weber, Cory sweetheart, Janice Samuelson, Weber, Randy Weber, Danny and and whisked her off to Germany, Laura Shribman, Nikki and Doug and treasured great-grandfather where he served in the army for Lutin, Katie and Mark O’Shea, to Ava Weber, Tyler Weber, Harry the next two years. When his Samantha and Zach Weiss, Tim Shribman, Benny Shribman, tour was up, the young couple PRIDE OF LYNN CEMETERY Weinstein, Karly Cohen, Jake Lizzie Shribman, Kelsey Lutin, returned to New England, ulti- AND CHEVRA MISHNA Cohen, Jessica Cohen, and the Jake Lutin, Nathan Weber, and mately settling in Swampscott to 89 LAKE SHORE ROAD, LYNN, MA 01904 late Charlie Madyson Weber; William O’Shea. He was the lov- raise their family. SERVING BOSTON AND THE GREATER NORTH SHORE JEWISH & INTERFAITH FAMILIES In 1956, along with his broth- Serving Boston and the Greater North Shore er Melvin, Harold purchased CompassionateJewish and interfaith personalized families since service. 1920. Prospect Lumber on McGrath Highway in Somerville, and CompassionateIndividual personalized and multiple service. lots Individual available and renamed it Somerville Lumber. 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Parents get crash course in time management, logistics and motivation from page 3 nization which offers before- and their plugs, masks, and tow- in Peabody who attends Temple to be online and in Zoom classes been two cases at the Higgins and after-school programs els to sit on outside. Tiferet Shalom in Peabody. He a lot longer than the 13-year-old. and one at an elementary for Lynnfield Public Schools. “There is a lot of moving piec- has two children at the Higgins “She’s in front of the com- school, which Hochman said is Their kids are enrolled in what es to this,” Kaufman said. That’s Middle School: Laney, 11, who is puter and doing school work a good sign. is called the Remote Learning in addition to making sure their in sixth grade, and Sadie, 13, who for a longer portion of the day,” He said if you had told him Child Care program run by Lynn kids are keeping tabs on their is in eighth. Hochman said. And that’s a in June or July that four weeks Community Schools which is homework, clicking on all the “The in-person school has good thing. The older daugh- into the school year during the being run out of the Lynnfield links for their assignments and been going very well,” said ter appears to be done by 11:30 pandemic there would be only Senior Center. The program is submitting the work on time. Hochman, who voted on the a.m., and he said it’s a challenge three cases throughout a school limited to about 40 kids who are The two older children are fairly district’s reopening plan. “The to keep both engaged. district of nearly 6,000 students, separated into different rooms independent, but Kaufman said administration is doing a great Hochman said the district has he would have told you, “that so they can attend their remote there still needs to be support job of keeping our kids safe and reported every time someone would be a success.” classes via Zoom, Kaufman said. for his younger daughter. “My healthy.” in the schools, be it a student, He said the most challenging kids seem happy,” Kaufman His children are having differ- teacher or staff member, has Associate Editor Ethan aspect has been the logistics of said. ent experiences when it comes tested positive for COVID-19, Forman can be reached by email packing what the kids need each Attorney Jarrod Hochman is to remote learning, however. without identifying anyone, and at [email protected] or day, including the Chromebooks a School Committee member His younger daughter appears as of early October there had on Twitter @JJournalNews. Annual ALS & MS Walk for Living celebrates those who inspire

CHELSEA — Unlike Robert Living and the 2020 Walk for ering zest for living inspires us Frost in his famed poem, “The Living,” said Alan Bolotin. “The every single day. Clearly, the Road Not Taken,” Ken Dudzik Leonard Florence Center resi- Walk for Living brings togeth- did not choose to take the road dents inspire us every day. It is er a community of passion- less traveled. After being diag- our fervent hope that this event ate, caring individuals. We are nosed with ALS (amyotrophic will raise funds and awareness deeply grateful to our residents, lateral sclerosis) in 2017 at age about living with ALS and MS staff, families, friends and local 58, Ken did not appear to have today.” community who support us many choices. As his symptoms It’s easy to participate in year after year.” progressed and he lost the use this virtual two-mile walk. Over the past 12 years, the of his legs, he faced the daunt- Participants can pick their own Walk for Living has raised ing prospect of finding a place route, the people they choose over $2 million. The goal is to to live. to walk with or walk by them- make 2020 the best year ever. “I was an outlier—too young selves. They can choose to walk, Once again, M&T Banks will socially and potentially too run, roll, ride a bike or log their be the Platinum Level sponsor; difficult a case medically for miles on a treadmill. They can additional sponsors include nearly all nursing homes,” said also choose the day and time A.H.O.A and The Independent Dudzik. they would like to walk. The two Newspaper Group. Individual Leonard Florence Center residents and staff take part in the 2019 But as fate would have it, miles can be completed prior registrants raising more than ALS & MS Walk for Living. This year, the walk will be virtual. he discovered the Leonard to or on Oct. 18. 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The ads, depict- group Amal after bailing Israel’s Supreme Court ing women with prayer out over Lebanon, and upholds the Central shawls and Torahs, are he is never seen in Israel Election Committee’s posted by Women of the again. Amal demands $3 ban of the Kach party Wall, a group of mostly million and the release from the election for the religiously observant of 200 Lebanese and 450 12th Knesset. Kach vio- Jews who believe that Palestinians for Arad, lates Section 7A of Basic women should be and the negotiations Photo by Avi Ohayon, The Women of the Wall began Israeli Government Press Office Law: The Knesset, which allowed to pray at the fall apart. He instead is monthly Rosh Chodesh Torah Batya Arad, the mother of bars parties whose object Western Wall with the sold to the Iranians for services at the Western Wall captured Israeli flier Ron is inciting or engaging in same access and rights in December 1988. $300,000 in December Arad, speaks at the open- racism. Section 7A was as men. In 2014, WOW 1987. He is rumored to ing of the World Zionist enacted after the court members bring a miniature Torah to the Wall for the first be executed in 1992. Congress in Jerusalem on reversed a ban on Kach Photo by Ayalon Maggi, bat mitzvah there. Reports in 2016 indicate Dec. 23, 1997. Israeli Government Press Office in 1984. Meir Kahane in that he was tortured to death in 1988. A support of Meir Kahane’s 1971 founded Kach, which Kach party protests Prime advocates stripping the Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s OCT. 21, 1967 citizenship of non-Jews visit to the Migdal settle- and annexing all occupied ment on Oct. 10, 1988. Warship Eilat Is Sunk OCT. 17, 1973 territories. Oil Is Weaponized Against Israel’s Allies OCT. 19, 1959 Politician Nir Barkat Is Born Nir Barkat is born in Jerusalem, which he serves as mayor from 2008 to 2018. He founds BRM, which specializes in anti-virus software, in 1988, and the company becomes an incubator for Photo by D.W. Cooksey, British Royal Navy tech companies such as The Eilat served as the British ship HMS Zealous during Check Point and Backweb. World War II. Israel bought the destroyer in 1955. U.S. Air Force cargo planes prepare to fly emergency He loses the 2003 mayoral The destroyer INS Eilat is sunk on a routine patrol military supplies to Israel in October 1973 in an airlift election to Uri Lupolianski, in the Mediterranean in international waters off Port known as Operation Nickel Grass. That effort led to the Photo by Amos Ben Gershom, then reverses the results in Said, Egypt, by two Soviet-made missiles launched by Arab oil embargo of the United States. Israeli Government Press Office As mayor of Jerusalem, Nir 2008 and wins re-election Egyptian missile boats in the harbor. The ship is almost Arab oil ministers cut exports by 5% and recommend Barkat attends a ceremony in 2013. After two terms cut in half and sinks within minutes. Of the 199-man an embargo of Israel’s allies in response to the U.S. airlift for fallen Israeli soldiers at as mayor, Barkat joins the crew, 47 sailors are killed, and more than 100 others are to Israel during the Yom Kippur War. When President Ammunition Hill on May Likud party and is elected wounded. The Eilat originally was the HMS Zealous, a Richard Nixon asks Congress for $2.2 billion in emer- 8, 2011. to the Knesset. World War II British destroyer that Israel bought in 1955.

OCT. 22, 1979 High Court Rules Against Settlement On an appeal by Arab landowners, the Israeli After the 1979 court decision, Elan Supreme Court rules that the Moreh was moved to nearby land Gush Emunim settlement of seized by the Israeli military and Elon Moreh must be disman- today is home to nearly 2,000 people. tled for lack of evidence that it was established for security reasons. It is the first time the high court has ruled against Jewish settlers in nine years of such cases. The settlers are given 30 days to evacuate, and the military govern- ment must cover the trial costs of the Arab villagers of Rujeib who filed the appeal.

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Doctors brace for second COVID-19 wave Seniors from page 1 Af for da ble Se nior Hous ing For Over 30 Ye ars longer-term situation, she said, Poznansky, of MGH, generation of COVID-19 vac- “We anticipate an increase in cited “how we learned cines. What we are doing at the social activities • small pets oK disease activity over the next six Dexamethasone was useful, Vaccine and Immunotherapy Cle an, qui et, Af for da ble. months. The likely prediction Remdesivir could be used to help Center covers a new design of a for the Boston area is that we patients with severe COVID-19 vaccine for COVID-19 that may may see up to one-third of the infections, how important [it is] help to address any weaknesses disease activity of the spring. to maintain excellent protocols of first-generation vaccines cur- We’re hoping no more than in ICUs, the use of ventilators rently in Phase 3 clinical stud- that.” and so forth.” ies.” On the North Shore, medical Messenger said that the As for the flu vaccine, professionals are preparing for assisted living centers he vis- Poznansky said, “The flu vaccine 4 loCA tions: a second round of COVID-19, its have been “very careful. has been around for a long time. danvers • salem should it occur. Everybody is wearing gloves, Each year, it’s made on the basis peabody • beverly “We all know how important masks. Visits are outdoors right of the flu virus that is predicted are social distancing, wearing now. … There’s some commu- to be a threat during the winter. masks and avoiding large gath- nal dining. There’s much more The vaccine is safe and effec- erings in reducing the spread knowledge.” tive. It’s strongly recommended of the virus,” Yuriy Levin, a “There’s been a lot of learn- to have the flu vaccine this year.” primary care doctor at North ing,” Poznansky concurred. “I It’s been an unprecedented EQU AL HOUS ING Shore Medical Center, said in certainly feel, as a practicing year for medical professionals. OP POR TU NI TY A POAH Community Preservation Housing Community Management, LLC an email. “I also think our orga- infectious diseases physician, Poznansky and Kotton have been nization is well prepared for [a] that we’re better equipped now part of Zoom webinars at their possible increase in cases and to deal with a second surge.” synagogue, Temple Emanuel we are in much better shape Farther out on the horizon is in Newton, sharing frontline than in March/April.” the possibility of a vaccine. reports and lessons with two fel- Elegant Independent and Dr. Mark Messenger, “So far, it looks like it’s a rea- low temple members – Rochelle the medical director of the sonable prediction to hope we Walensky, chief of the Division of Assisted Living, with HomeMD primary care pro- have a COVID-19 vaccine in the Infectious Diseases at MGH, and gram at Danvers-based Care first quarter of 2021,” Kotton Darrell Kotton, a professor in the Dimensions, a provider of hos- said. 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Yet he might be in store. “I think one of the most continues to take precautions “Making a safe, effective vac- important tenets of Judaism is when visiting patients in their cine for COVID-19 is very chal- that we do whatever it takes homes or at assisted living cen- lenging,” he said. “Targeting any to save a life,” Camille Kotton ters, arriving in a gown, mask infectious disease for a vaccine said, adding that “everybody and face shield. under a highly accelerated time- should be as careful and cau- “I anticipate COVID will come line is extremely challenging.” tious as possible, make sure back at some point,” he said. However, he cautioned, “It is we’re saving as many lives as If and when it does, medical possible that the first-generation possible and not put any of professionals anticipate apply- vaccines may not work as well as our fellow congregants, fellow ing lessons already learned from we need them to. We may have Americans, others at risk for the first wave. to continue developing a second more COVID-19.” Pesach Sameach! WHEN BELIEFS ARE TESTED WINDSORW PLACE from page 1 OF WILMINGTON salesroom. Up the street the that is not the case. Nonetheless Pittsburgh the date October 27 An Assisted Living Residence campus of Chatham University, I am clinging to the thought that may mean nothing, but here in 92 West Street, Wilmington, MA. Just off I-93 at Exit 38. usually bustling with students, humanity is good.” Pittsburgh 10/27 has a 9/11 feel has an eerie tranquility. Along What? An inadvertent para- to it: A terrorist attack conduct- 978-988-2300 • WindsorPlaceOfWilmington.com the street there is a block-long phrase of Anne Frank – “I still ed in stealth and in hate. display of art growing out of the believe that people are really Two years on, ours is a coun- Tree of Life shooting. The draw- good at heart,’’ from the diary try reeling from tragedy, strug- ings and paintings are by stu- of a young girl who would have gling to process it, grappling dents. Many of them are from been 91 years old now – from a with how to proceed. Our news- LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE Marjory Stoneman Douglas man who witnessed the slaying papers and news channels are AT High School in Parkland, of 11 of his congregants, in cold full of contention and chaos. Florida. There 17 people were blood, in real time? Our friends and neighbors, even killed, another 17 injured. But there it was, plus this our families, are behind doors Over the past two years I line: “I still believe that.’’ or masks. There’s not much of repeatedly have been asked to This is a time when beliefs are the Anne Frank ethos in my 299 Cambridge Street • Winchester, MA 01890 write commemorative columns tested: beliefs in the endurance neighborhood, and probably and memorial columns. These of the Constitution, beliefs in not in yours, either. occur every time there is a mass the essential justice of America, And yet. Here is the leader of shooting – as in the case of the beliefs in the American way, the Tree of Life, yet again: Chabad of Poway Synagogue American dream, the American “Unfortunately, there is in in April 2019 – when there is experiment. Belief “that people our society a concentration on anti-Semitism involved. Every are really good at heart.’’ the negative,” said Rabbi Myers, time, I call Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, All that has been tested in the who has seen his share of the who was the officiant during the past two years. It has been test- negative. “That is damaging Tree of Life synagogue shooting. ed anew in the past two months, to our psyche. We need to be Every time, we take the phrase as the gears of the presiden- reminded there are so many “Never again” and transmogrify tial campaign began to turn, as good and decent people out it into “Yet again.” the chimera of an autumn with there. Ordinarily I would say Yet again. And so, as the new a vaccine proved to be a false that we shouldn’t have to cele- • All day dining with delicious chef prepared year 5781 began, I called him up hope, as we struggle to com- brate people for being good and meals again, to talk once again about memorate the second anniver- decent, but maybe in this atmo- the shots heard ‘round my sary of Tree of Life. sphere we need to do that.” • Lifestyle360 activities for well-rounded days neighborhood. This time he was Here in Pittsburgh – where Maybe in this atmosphere we • On-site Five Star Wellness & Rehab not angry, nor especially sad. 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Mikvahs GENERATION VANESSA FREEDMAN, 21 from page 11 from page 2 Z directors voted to close, out of to be concerned about health an abundance of caution. It was and wellness,” said Rabbi Lila one of the hardest decisions Kagedan, a bioethicist and inter- What’s your dream job/ What’s the best way Jewish teens they’ve had to make, Bornstein nationally recognized expert on profession after you graduate and young adults can tap into their acknowledged. mikvahs who has developed a and why? Jewish identity? “Should one person be set of COVID-19-specific guide- exposed, in our house, that lines used by mikvahs in the would be too much,” she said. Boston area and around the My dream job is becoming a doctor I think the best way Jewish teens and young On August 24, Mayyim globe. on the North Shore of Massachusetts. adults can tap into their Jewish identity is by going Hayyim reopened its doors for “There is risk in everything, immersions, following exten- but medical specialists have I spent this past summer applying to to Israel with other Jewish people similar in age. sive consultation with health, consistently found that immers- These types of groups allow Jewish youth to medical schools and I plan to go next religious and other experts and ing in mikvahs is reasonable, year after I graduate. I want to spend explore their religion and discover their identities after upgrades to its ventilation so long as they adhere to strict the rest of my life treating patients and together. By sharing their own home experiences system. New protocols limit the health and safety guidelines,” giving them the best medical care and and having new experiences together, they can number of visitors and volun- said Kagedan, the former senior attention that they deserve. learn and grow into educated and motivated teer guides, and visitors shower rabbi at Chelsea’s Walnut Street members of the Jewish community. at home and bring their own Synagogue and current director towels. of bioethics at New York Medical Since reopening, some 45 College. people have visited for immer- “There is no evidence that – Ethan M. Forman, Journal Staff sion and the mikvah has wel- water is an effective medium comed nine new people into for transmission of the virus,” the Jewish community, accord- stated Dr. Shira Doron, an infec- ing to Rachel Eisen, the mik- tious disease physician and vah’s director of development. hospital epidemiologist at Tufts Through donor support and a Medical Center. federal pandemic loan, the non- “Most individuals can attend profit has maintained its staff. the mikvah with very little risk,” Greater Boston boasts several she wrote in an email. mikvahs, including in Boston, Doron and Kageden rein- Brookline, Lexington, Sharon forced safety protocols includ- and Mikvah Mayanei Tovah, ing symptom self-screening, operated by Congregation Beth keeping at least 6 feet of distance Israel in Malden. That mikvah from the mikvah attendant and has remained open, adhering to disinfection of surfaces. strict safety guidelines, accord- Lipsker and Bornstein both ing to Matthew Garland, the said having the mikvahs open is Orthodox synagogue’s executive a rare opportunity of normalcy director. and respite during the pandem- Almost two years ago, Chabad ic. of the North Shore opened a “It’s a place of meditation and new mikvah in Swampscott. solitude and peace. That was “The mikvah has remained particularly appreciated dur- open the entire time,” Rabbi ing these tumultuous times,” Yossi Lipsker told The Journal. Lipsker said. Keeping the Swampscott mik- “This time helped people vah open during the pandemic, realize what the communi- THAT ANYWHERE THEY PLAY... following strict safety protocols, ty would look like if Mayyim Know meets an important need for Hayyim didn’t exist,” Bornstein people who observe the reli- said about its pause in opera- gious laws between husbands tions. and wives, Rabbi Lipsker noted. While Mayyim Hayyim was “It’s an integral part of their closed, Hachen used the Malden is pest free. lives,” he said. “That is why it mikvah once and immersed in was and is so important to keep outdoor bodies of water a few it going.” times this summer. She shared People from all walks of life her feelings about returning use the Swampscott mikvah, he to Mayyim Hayyim, where she said. “They were grateful … that began her mikvah journey, in we created an environment they the mikvah’s guest book. 800-525-4825 felt is totally safe,” he said. “It felt like coming home,” www.a1exterminators.com “First and foremost, we have she wrote.

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VIRTUALLY PERFECT COMMUNITY CELEBRATION More than 300 people from throughout Greater Boston logged on to celebrate the strength and resiliency of our Jewish community at CJP’s From Strength to Strength virtual event. Switching to an online platform, the evening kept its trademark energy and excitement as CJP celebrated its 125th anniversary and highlighted the volunteers, donors, and staff who made a bigger difference this year. Rabbi Marc Baker explored our connections to the past, as well as the questions we need to answer in order to meet this moment we’re living in. To watch clips of Marc’s speech and other highlights from the evening, visit cjp.org/fsts2020.

CJP’s 2020 Circle of Excellence Award Honorees (L-R) Samuel Andler, Kerry Epstein, Pamela Joy Friedman, Catharyn Gildesgame, Jeremy Yamin

2020 CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE AWARD 2020 CJP CORE VALUE AWARD 2020 CJP SUPERSTARS HONOREES RECIPIENTS Darren Abrahamson Growth Award Carissa Woolf Phyllis M. Brick Kerry Epstein Jeff Remis Abby Fierman Leadership Award Grace Rose Khalsa Sarah Konter and Jacqueline Adelson Catharyn Gildesgame Lily Doel Patricia R. McWeeney Young Leadership Awards Becca Manning Samuel Andler and Pamela Joy Friedman Lauren Pyes Gene Lee Barry Shrage Dr. Jonathan D. Sarna Leadership Award Nicole LeBlanc Brenda Tobin and Marissa Wainwright Jeremy Yamin Alex Mazarakis

2020-2021 CJP BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Shira Goodman Harvey Beker David J. Fine Dale S. Okonow Seth Stier Chair Darren Black Reva Fischman Jonathan Orkin Adam L. Suttin Cynthia R. Janower Bradley M. Bloom* Catharyn B. Gildesgame Marjorie W. Patkin Nancy Viner Immediate Past Board Chair Michael J. Bohnen* Neal Karasic Sari Anne Rapkin* Zachary Wainwright Elizabeth Jick Treasurer Rachel Chafetz Judith A. Kaye Dena Boronkay Rashes Neil A. Wallack*

Amy S. Berylson Secretary Amanda Clayman Amy B. Klein Howard Rubin Jeffrey Wolk

Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine Howard E. Cohen Daniel A. Kraft Aviva E. Sapers *Emeritus Director

William R. Adler Alan Crane Steven D. Krichmar Caroline Sherman

Aron Ain Kimberly Creem Emily Leventhal Paula L. Sidman

David B. Aronoff Diane J. Exter Joshua D. Margolis Laurene M. Sperling