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Light Shabbat candles: TYCHER LIBRARY SPRING READ 6:09 p.m. Friday, Mar. 5 Jan Eliasberg’s ‘Hannah’s War,’ March 21, other BookFest events, p.4 Shabbat ends: 7:20 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 6 2 | March 4, 2021 Israeli Supreme Court’s new conversion ruling in Israel

State must grant such as Conservative or Reform will cause arguing and a diffi cult citizenship to Jews, however, still often face rupture among the people.” non-Orthodox hurdles in obtaining Israeli Successive government Jewish converts citizenship and are sometimes coalitions, based on their political denied. leanings, have attempted to By Ben Sales Monday’s decision extends the either liberalize or narrow (JTA) — Israel must grant right to citizenship to those who Israel’s conversion standards. citizenship to Jews who converted converted to Judaism under non- But such efforts at reform usually to Judaism in Israel under non- Orthodox auspices in Israel itself. fall fl at. Haredi Orthodox Orthodox auspices, its Supreme The petition that spurred the politicians object to laws that Court ruled Monday, possibly court ruling was fi led in 2005 but would broaden the range of igniting another round in the was postponed for more than a recognized conversions, while long-running government battle decade because the court wanted attempts to make requirements over whom the state should to give the government time stricter have provoked backlash recognize as Jewish. to resolve the matter through from organizations representing The decision, written by Chief legislation. American Jews, the vast majority Justice Esther Hayut, comes less “The petitioners came to Israel of whom are not Orthodox. That than a month before national and went through a conversion has effectively meant that any elections. process in the framework of a change in conversion regulations Israel’s Law of Return offers recognized Jewish community comes from court decisions. automatic citizenship to and asked to join the Jewish Once they become citizens of Photo: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90 Supreme Court President Esther Hayut presides over the high court in Jerusalem, anyone with at least one Jewish nation,” Hayut wrote in her Israel, non-Orthodox converts March 19, 2020. grandparent. The state also ruling, according to Haaretz. still face restrictions. Several generally recognizes those who Rabbi Gilad Kariv, a leading issues of personal status in Return but are not considered decided that Israel should be a converted to Judaism under Reform rabbi in Israel and a Labor Israel, including marriage and Jewish by Orthodox standards national home for all types of Orthodox standards. Party candidate for the Knesset, divorce, are controlled by the — such as immigrants whose Jews,” said Mickey Gitzin, the Past Supreme Court decisions called the ruling a “foundational country’s haredi Chief Rabbinate. maternal grandmother is not Israel director of the New Israel have mandated that the state also decision of the High Court” in a Because the Chief Rabbinate does Jewish — similarly cannot marry Fund and a longtime Israeli recognize Jews who converted Facebook post. not recognize non-Orthodox legally in Israel. Legislation activist for religious freedom. outside of Israel under non- Aryeh Deri, the head of the converts as Jews, they have no way to address that issue has been “It is a day to celebrate, even as Orthodox authority, provided Sephardi haredi Shas party, wrote to marry legally in Israel. stymied as well by haredi the road towards equality for all they live in a recognized Jewish on Facebook that the decision was Others who obtain Israeli opposition in the Knesset. — especially those who are not community. Non-Orthodox converts, “misguided, very troubling, and citizenship under the Law of “Today Israel’s Supreme Court Jewish — remains long.”

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Other helpful resources With thousands experiencing emer- Given the unprecedented weather and the Jewish Federation of Greater Many of the buildings that house gency repairs, some needing respite conditions and their resulting effects, Dallas made the swift decision to fund nonprofi ts have major issues, such as • The Jewish Federation of Greater housing and other necessities, the agen- the Dallas Jewish Community many of these meals. a local shelter that had to temporarily Dallas Community Crisis Manage- cy has interest free emergency loans of Foundation is providing support to Now, the Foundation is prepared to close for fi rst time in 35 years due to ment team is assisting with mitigation $500, general loans of up to $7,500 and those affected. help the broader community as a whole. structural damages. This fund will and restoration. While they cannot business loans to $20,000. Our community is benefi ting It has established the Natural Disaster make emergency grants to agencies guarantee the availability of plumbing For information, or to apply for emer- from so many besides us. Within days Emergency Response Fund of the that need the help and agencies that are and other professional services, if you gency or other loans, visit dhfl a.org or call of millions losing power and water, Dallas Jewish Community Foundation, providing assistance to those in need. fi ll out the intake form, a member of 469-206-1639. some local kosher establishments, which will supply emergency aid Together with you, the Dallas the team will share the most current in- • Jewish Family Service is available coordinated by Chaim Goldfeder of to nonprofi t organizations that are Jewish Community Foundation can formation around available resources. to help anyone in need with food and Kosher Palate, offered free hot kosher providing vital and urgent assistance help more in need. They have been here Visit https://www.surveymon emergency fi nancial assistance, coun- meals for anyone in need, distributing to affected communities and families. for tornadoes in Dallas, COVID-19 and key.com/r/dallassnowresponse to access seling, information referrals and other thousands of meals the week of the With many still suffering even after now the Dallas Winter Storm, and they the intake form. storm related issues. storm. To ensure they were able to the power returned — burst pipes, will always be here to help. For more • The Dallas Hebrew Free Loan As- Call the JFS intake line at 972-437- continue this generous offering, the plumbing issues and more — it is not information, visit www.djcf.org or call sociation is providing a helping hand 9950, etx. 340. Dallas Jewish Community Foundation just personal homes being affected. 214-615-9351. to those in need of emergency funds.

SJP drops complaint targeting Jewish student at Tufts

By Sean Savage 1964 and Tufts University’s stated (JNS) The anti-Israel group institutional policies. Students for Justice in Palestine Price said that while he has withdrawn its impeachment welcomed the decision by SJP to complaint against a Jewish student end its months-long harassment government member at Tufts campaign, he said it does not University. “absolve” the anti-Israel group of Max Price, the Jewish its behavior. Similarly, he expressed Community Union Judiciary disappointment that the university (TCUJ) member, was informed on did not intervene on his behalf. Monday that the complaint fi led “I am disappointed that by SJP that sought to have him university administrators failed to removed from offi ce for expressing intervene and have not yet reached Jewish identity was withdrawn and out to me to address my concerns. the hearing canceled. Unless Tufts introduces sweeping The hearing represented reforms to combat antisemitism, a continuation of a months- this will happen to somebody else.” long campaign of intimidation, Patrick Collins, a spokesperson harassment and discrimination for Tufts University, confi rmed to targeting Price on the basis of his JNS that the complaint has been Jewish identity, according to the withdrawn. Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human “We respect the TCUJ Senate’s Rights Under the Law (LDB), the independence regarding the group representing Price. conduct of its business according After Price attempted to point to its policies and procedures. out baseless lies in SJP’s proposed We take very seriously any “Deadly Exchange” referendum, concerns raised by students — he was harassed, targeted and regardless of their backgrounds marginalized; slandered in the and perspectives — of bias, safety, student newspaper; interrogated privacy and intimidation, whether as to whether he is fi t to hold by organizations affi liated or offi ce; muted for an entire student unaffi liated with Tufts.” government Zoom meeting that he Alyza Lewin, president of the was elected to participate in; and Brandeis Center, echoed Price’s attacked with age-old antisemitic sentiment and called on the tropes about money and power. university to take more proactive Earlier this month, the Brandeis steps to combat anti-Semitism. Center demanded that Tufts “SJP got caught, their president Anthony Monaco halt harassment of Jewish students was the disciplinary hearing and end exposed, and they backpedaled. the harassment and discrimination But this goes beyond Max. Now is that has infringed on Price’s when the real work begins. It is time freedom of speech, denied him due for the Tufts administration to take process and deprived him of equal concrete steps to end the ongoing opportunity and equal access to marginalization, harassment and university programs in violation of discrimination of Jewish students Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of on campus.” 4 | March 4, 2021 Tycher, BookFest present ‘Hannah’s War’

By Deb Silverthorn Jan Eliasberg’s “Hannah’s War,” a post–World War II- era thriller, is the featured novel for two upcoming events sponsored by the Tycher Library Jimmy Wisch of the Jewish Federation of Publisher & Editor | 1947-2002 Greater Dallas Center for Jewish Education. Rene Wisch In Berlin, in 1938, physicist Publisher & Editor | 1947-2010 Hannah Weiss is about to discover the splitting of the PUBLISHER & EDITOR atom, but as she is a Jewish Sharon Wisch-Ray woman living under the Third [email protected] Reich, her research is diminished by her German colleagues, who VP SALES & CIRCULATION claim credit for her work. In Susan Wisch Photo: Courtesy Jan Eliasberg 1945, Weiss, now in Los Alamos, Photo: Courtesy Jan Eliasberg [email protected] New Mexico, becomes the prime Jan Eliasberg’s debut novel, “Hannah’s Jan Eliasberg, a television writer, producer and director, will be interviewed virtually for the Tycher Library Spring Read off ered in association with the JCC’s target of Major Jack Delaney, War,” will be featured in virtual events VP SALES & MARKETING on March 8 and March 21. Margot Rosenberg Pulitzer Dallas Jewish BookFest and Jewish Book Council. who is investigating leaks to Amy Doty Hitler’s scientists. Schedule of BookFest events [email protected] “‘Hannah’s War’ is an The JCC’s 2020-2021 Margot Rosenberg Pulitzer Dallas Jewish BookFest exceptionally written and PAGE DESIGNER continues to add titles to its schedule: compelling story through • March 7: “The Telling: How Judaism’s Essential Book Reveals the Chad Austin which we all get a cursory Meaning of Life” [email protected] physics education,” said Karen • March 11: “You’re Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility” Schlosberg, Center for Jewish • March 21: “Eternal: A Novel” AD REPRESENTATIVES Education coordinator of • March 25: “The Book of Longings” Nancy Sadicarios projects and administration. • April 7: “Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power” [email protected] “It’s science, it’s an unforgettable • April 11: “The SS Offi cer’s Armchair” Judy Wisch love story and it shares the • April 15: “Lilyville: A Memoir” • April 25 empowerment due its lead.” : “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm” COPY EDITORS/PROOFREADERS • May 2: “Hadassah Lieberman; Hadassah” On March 8, physics professor Phyllis LaVietes, Susan Wisch • May 6: “The Woman with the Blue Star: A Novel” Lindsay King, of the University • May 10: “The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance of Texas at Dallas, will lead a COLUMNISTS/CONTRIBUTORS Photos: Courtesy Jan Eliasberg Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos” virtual discussion of “Hannah’s Physicist Lindsay King will lead the • May 13: “The Instant Pot Kosher Cookbook” Rabbi Yerachmiel Fried, Harriet P. Gross, War,” beginning at 10 a.m. for “Hannah’s War” discussion during the Rabbi Dan Lewin, Laura Seymour, Deb the Tycher Book Club. March 8 virtual meeting of the Tycher Visit jccdallas.org/special-events/bookfest for complete schedule and registration. Silverthorn, Jerry Kasten, Rabbi Benjamin “This book puts into context, Library Book Club. Sternman and Rabbi Yogi Robkin regardless of Weiss’ brilliance, structuring and writing, it who was inspired to tell the what was offered to me and the bias and attitudes regarding sometimes seemed like an physicist’s story through her by producers’ ideas of what MULTI-MEDIA INTERN women as scientists and the endless quest but, once it was own vision. stories a woman can and should Hannah Simon added backdrop of her Jewish done and [sent] to my agent, “I was taught that nothing tell, so I decided to write for heritage,” said King, who has things escalated quickly: There is impossible. I wasn’t strong myself,” said Eliasberg, whose EDITORIAL ASSISTANT a Ph.D. in astrophysics. “The was even a bidding war,” said in math or science in school, credits include television series Daniela Appel science of the novel is not at all Eliasberg, now writing the but I taught myself how to “Bull,” “Criminal Minds,” off-putting. Rather, it brings true screenplay of “Hannah’s War” communicate and to teach “Parenthood,” “Nashville,” AD DESIGN context in a manner that those and a companion book. others,” said Eliasberg. The “Sisters” and “Supernatural.” Chad Austin who haven’t studied science can While researching another author is the daughter of She has written a number of [email protected] appreciate.” project, Eliasberg found an Ann Pringle Eliasberg and screenplays featuring strong On March 21, the author article published the day Jay Eliasberg, both of blessed women, including the story of Views and opinions of columnists and contributors are their own and not necessarily those of this newspaper. All rights reserved. Photocopying, reproduction or quotation strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher. Composition responsibility: This newspaper will not be liable for errors will be interviewed online by America dropped the atomic memory, the sister of Kristin the W.A.S.P. — the Women Air appearing in advertisements beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Advertisers assume responsibility for errors in telephone orders. 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By Tzvi Sinensky It was at one such 1919 (JTA) — With “Superman performance that the German and Lois,” the newest TV circus Busch, famed for featuring series involving the character, Harry Houdini and other top premiering last week on the CW performers, spotted Breitbart network, it’s a good time to recall and brought him on board to that Superman was the 1938 perform its opening act. brainchild of Jewish creators Breitbart’s strongman routine, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. which had him dressed in Many have suggested that the hypermasculine costumes such as pair were inspired by their own a Roman centurion, skyrocketed Jewish backgrounds to create in popularity, and he quickly was Superman as the paradigm of a moved from sideshow to main hero who defended vulnerable event. Notwithstanding the fast- populations from their enemies. rising tide of antisemitism in But there is reason to suspect Germany and Austria, Breitbart, that a more specific encounter who often wore the Star of David may have inspired them to craft while entering the circus ring, the Superman persona. achieved a mass Jewish and Photo: ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images The years 1923 and 1924 saw non-Jewish following in Berlin, Breitbart performs a show of strength in 1921. a phenomenon in the United Vienna, Prague and Warsaw. NOW OPEN! States: tours by Siegmund Breitbart’s act was based on images of German masculinity. Breitbart, known as “The his early experience working As Breitbart’s legend grew, Jewish Superman,” across North with iron. He bent rods he increasingly became the Wednesdays – Sundays 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. America. Breitbart performed into horseshoes, bit through talk of each town in which he in Cleveland and Toronto, chains and pounded nails performed. One reporter noted, Siegel’s and Shuster’s respective into boards with his fist. He “Not only do gymnasia students hometowns. could draw chariots with his and high school girls talk about While it is nearly impossible teeth. And his image undercut him; even first graders know to prove — there are no records racial stereotypes about Jews. how strong Breitbart is.” of Siegel or Shuster mentioning As musclemen were seen as A tavern proprietor complained, Breitbart — there is reason to representing the proud, strong “My tables are studded with holes surmise that the strongman may German male throughout the because my customers test their have served as something of an opening decades of the 20th strength by hammering nails inspiration. He wore a cape and century, Breitbart was in effect Get tickets at DHHRM.ORG was advertised as capable of also embodying quintessential see BREITBART, p.9 stopping speeding locomotives. Who was this man Breitbart, lauded during his lifetime as the strongest man in the world, The Iron King, Jewish Hercules and a modern-day Samson? Siegmund “Zishe” Breitbart was born to a family of locksmiths in Lodz (now Poland, then Russia) in 1893. In his autobiography, he reports that his family discovered his unusual strength when, at age 3, he extricated himself from beneath an iron bar that had fallen on him in his father’s store. By 4 he was casting iron in his family shop. His early years were difficult. Expelled from a number of religious schools for using force against fellow students, Breitbart was captured by the Germans while serving in the Russian army during World War I. After the war he remained in Germany, subsisting on the money he earned by performing feats of strength at local markets. 6 | March 4, 2021 DALLAS DOINGS

ttjpnews.comjpnews.com Andrew Daitch elected to publicist). In this role, Wizards; Pete Davidson, BBYO International Board Andrew will be a part of a comedian, actor and 12-member international “SNL” cast member; Over 60 local teens joined teen board that will help Karla Martinez De Safely thousands of other teens, organize BBYO’s vision Salas, editor-in-chief, educators, thought and business for the coming year and Vogue Mexico and Celebrating leaders, celebrities, political fi gures provide leadership and Vogue Latin America; and philanthropists from around support to teen leaders Andrew Daitch The Honorable Gabby Simchas at the world at BBYO International in local communities Giffords, activist and Convention 2021, one of the largest throughout the BBYO system. former member, U.S. House of convenings of Jewish teen leaders Andrew is the son of Lauren and Representatives; Susan Hennike, worldwide. Held over Presidents’ Ben Daitch. president, Champion North Day weekend, Feb. 11–15, this “I’ve had my life changed America; Avi Issacharoff, co- year IC was a hybrid festival with by BBYO and I believe it’s my creator, “Fauda”; Grant Hill, digital and in-person experiences duty as a newly elected leader to former NBA player and vice around the globe. The event International Board to make sure chairman, Atlanta Hawks; and In partnership with Dallas' offered countless opportunities every Jewish teen, anywhere and Rebel Wilson, actress, comedian, fi nest Kosher caterers. for Jewish teens to connect with everywhere, has the opportunity writer and producer. 214-748-5559 | http://www.sevenforparties.com/ their peers, learn new skills, and to have their life impacted as In addition to the hundreds commit themselves to projects well by this organization,” said of speakers and educators at IC and initiatives they are passionate Andrew. “I can’t wait for the year throughout the weekend, delegates about. ahead furthering our impact and had access to a variety of other For the Dallas community, the helping others fi nd BBYO as their unique program highlights Live for Today elections of the 2021-2022 AZA home.” including: Protect them for the future and BBG International Boards Among the special guests who • Over 450 local experiences were a highlight. Andrew Daitch, addressed IC attendees this year in BBYO chapters around the 17, a Greenhill School junior, was were Deni Avdija, professional world; from Montreal to Moscow elected as Grand Aleph Mazkir (i.e., basketball player, Washington to Buenos Aires to Baltimore, programming took place in person (where permitted), digitally or via a hybrid experience • Thirty-three Leadership Labs for teens to choose from on topics such as fi ghting online hate, exploring activism through art, apparel design and sports technology • Trusts & Trust Administration • Twenty-eight diverse Shabbat Ann & Nate Levine Academy Celebrates prayer options for teens to • Asset Protection 5400 LBJ Freeway, Ste 1200 participate in across a multitude of time zones, showcasing themes • Wills & Probate Dallas, Texas 75240 and intentions designed by teens 972.773.9095 from social justice to mental health to connecting with peers during • Business Representation www.colinsmithlaw.com COVID-19 • An exclusive studio show and conversation with global Israeli star, singer and winner of Eurovision 2018, Netta Barzilai 2021 Virtual Gala • IC kitchen experiences to learn new cooking techniques, including a Guac Off, Beyond the Braid with Challah Prince and a global food tour • A private concert and live Q&A with DJ superstar, songwriter and Honoring Lois Davidson and Emily Kern record producer Diplo, live from Mexico “The leadership our local teens Sunday, April 11th | 8PM have demonstrated this year is inspiring. Teens utilized BBYO to At this important event, during this launch community service projects, unprecedented year, we will show gratitude to identify changes they wanted to to our educators who have stepped up and see in the world, to mobilize their given so much love and care to every student peers on causes they are passionate about,” said Lory Conte, senior at Levine. This year, we recognize what is most regional director, North Texas important in life: our health, our friends, our Oklahoma region. “We’re looking family and our Levine community. forward to Andrew’s impact on the international and local levels this We hope you can join us! year, building even stronger bonds between our local teens and the Register today at global Jewish community all over www.levineacademy.org/gala the world.” —Submitted by Lory Conte DALLAS DOINGS March 4, 2021 | 7

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JFS takes Purim on the road

Groggers, masks, princesses, kings and queens — the Jewish Family Service Senior Program got to experience it all when the JFS Purim bus came to their homes on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Each person was greeted by King Barry (Barry Ables, the new Federation director) with cape, crown and scepter; Queen Carole (Carole Rogers, JFS director) in full regalia including a crown and blonde wig; Debbie Goldsmith in a Purim T-shirt and crown; Cinderella (Marge Van Giesen); Princess Miau Photo: Submitted by JFS Ling; and Princess Hedy (senior Spreading Purim cheer, from left, Marge Van Giesen, New Federation Director program director). Barry Abels, Dr. Carole Rogers, Hedy Collins, Margarita Zamora and Miau Ling Photo: Submitted by JFS Tjahjadi Izakil and Lora Golden Debbie Goldsmith joined the revelers in her Purim T-shirt and to Kim Factor for making Beth Shalom provides shelter congregation to check on their families were asked to bring their and crown taking pictures along sure all the senior participants to congregants in need well-being. The 10 members of own food, rather than mingling the way. Linda Moses graciously received beautiful feathered the Caring Committee called or in the kitchen. drove the band of merrymakers masks. The Queens also want to Congregation Beth Shalom texted every member and found The Congregation Beth around Fort Worth. thank new Federation Director in Arlington is known for being that, fortunately, most of our Shalom Caring Committee The Royals held court at each Barry Abels for driving through “hamish,” for the coziness and families had power and were was formed several years ago. home and made sure each person the winter storm to get here in warmth of its small congregation. fine. Other projects of the committee received a special treat bag with time to join them and to start the During the February cold- Those families that were include checking on congregants mask, grogger, fresh fruit and Federation Annual Campaign weather disaster, the “warmth” without power were invited to who are sick and delivering freshly baked hamantaschen. (Jewish Family Services of Fort that Beth Shalom offered its camp out at Congregation Beth prayer books for online High The Queens and crew Worth and Tarrant County is members was literal. Shalom, which had power and Holy Days services. want to thank Elaine and Dr a committee of the Federation Like many in Texas, the Big heat throughout the long period Congregation Beth Shalom Alan Schuster for making of Fort Worth and Tarrant Freeze left some Beth Shalom of below-freezing temperatures. Board Member Lisa Rein praised sure each person received County). congregants without power and Beth Shalom has been vigilant the offer of the synagogue a half-dozen kosher, fresh “The smiles and laughs we heat for significant periods of during the COVID-19 crisis, and facilities as a literal shelter baked hamantaschen from saw let us know a good time was time. families that took advantage of during the storm. “I think it’s the Congregation Ahavath Sholom had by all,” said Rogers. The synagogue’s Caring the warmth at the synagogue thing I am most proud of that we Committee, which is headed were asked to stake out a have ever done,” Rein said. Rent what youy need from by Janet Aaronson, set about classroom and stay in that —Submitted by contacting every family in the room. Masks were required and Cathy Frisinger

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Photo: Cover art by Michal Reva “Lungs of Gold,” a children’s book written and illustrated by Akiba Yavneh Academy students, to be distributed to pediatric patients around the country, follows Becca, who has cystic fibrosis, and Talia, who has Crohn’s disease, who meet while they are receiving treatments at the same hospital.

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those passionate about medical BOOKS fields, and for them to organize continued from p.10 quickly over the books project. “Our students have the freedom children with our own vocabulary, to do almost anything they’d like, design and art and to share it as and they really do take it upon widely as possible.” themselves to build on their ideas. “Lungs of Gold” follows Becca, They thrive on pushing toward and who has cystic fibrosis, and beyond their goals,” Hutcheson said. Talia, who has Crohn’s disease, In addition to the club and girls who meet while they are the books, they’ve also starting a receiving treatments at the same blog devoted to the subjects. “It’s hospital. Commiserating about wonderful how these students have what they can’t do because of their identified medical issues connected conditions, they join forces to to their heritage,” Hutcheson said. realize that they can participate in “They are teaching, sharing and, a hospital talent show. as our kids often do, making a Photo: Courtesy Noa Ksabi “I’ve loved to draw since I was difference.” Pre-pandemic, Akiba Yavneh Academy members of JMAAC: Jewish Medical Awareness and Action Club were able to gather. little and this was an incredible Ksabi, a junior, is a member The group now continues producing their “JMAAC Journal” blog with students from around the country. Pictured clockwise opportunity to work with my of the Bulldog basketball and from lower left are: Jessie Lampert, Hanna Michaeli, Isabel Strobel, Michal Reva, Daniella Feldman, Jordyn Behr, Noa Ksabi, friends, to design online, and to volleyball teams, president of Eli Burstein, Yael Schuller, Devorah Zhrebker, Elana Sunshine and Natalee Katave. learn a lot about the issues our Students for Students, a Student the project together by calling the books are being published is time and know we accomplished stories are about,” said Reva. “We Ambassador and member of and texting and meeting weekly sharing them to local hospitals. something meaningful.” have all been faced with separation Students Against Terrorism. She is deadlines. Now, it’s second nature They also hope to raise enough For information on ordering and stress this year, but it’s been the founder of the Jewish Medical for them. The team is readying funds from book sales to send the books, or supporting the projects, super-exciting to have something Awareness and Action Club, which to release “Bonnie the Bunny — books to young patients around email [email protected]. To special to work on together.” now hosts the “JMAAC Journal” Don’t Fear It’s Time to Hear,” the country. “I’m proud that read articles of the JMAAC Journal, The students of Akiba Yavneh blog, with dozens of Jewish high which follows a young child with we’ll be able to look back on this visit jmaacjournal.wordpress.com. are known for independent school contributors from around cochlear implants. pursuit of school activities, said the country providing distinctive “With so many activities and General Studies Principal Donna ideas about the medical field. social times canceled, we’ve had a Hutcheson. The same energy The pandemic hasn’t made it lot of time we’ve never had before,” motivated them to form a club for easy on the students, but they put said Ksabi, who as quickly as

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These pillowy rolls dry yeast are the ultimate treat • 2 tablespoons sugar • 2 tablespoons oil (sunflower, By Sonya Sanford avocado or olive) Pampushky are fluffy, soft • 3 cups all-purpose flour Ukrainian garlic bread rolls. • 2 teaspoons salt Ukraine was known as the • 1 egg, beaten “breadbasket” of the Soviet Union, and both garlic and For the garlic oil: bread are staples of the cuisine. • 3 tablespoons oil (sunflower, These rolls are traditionally avocado or olive) served alongside borscht; the • 3-4 garlic cloves garlic’s sharpness compliments • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh the sweetness of borscht’s beets. dill Garlic plus bread is such a • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh common side to borscht that my Italian parsley own grandparents would often • Flake salt (optional) simply eat slices of brown bread and whole raw cloves of garlic Directions: with their soup. I was first inspired to make 1. For the dough, warm the milk pampushky years ago when I came until it is between 80 and 100 across a recipe in “Mamushka,” Olia degrees — just warm to the touch. Hercules’ exceptional Ukrainian Add the milk to the bowl of a stand cookbook. This recipe differs mixer fitted with a dough hook Photo: Sonya Sanford Pampushky are best served warm. slightly, but the idea is the same for attachment or to a large bowl if CHABAD OF PLANO/COLLIN COUNTY PRESENTS all pampushky: Make pillowy soft kneading by hand. Add the sugar to buns, and top them with a mixture the milk, then sprinkle the yeast on into a ball by pinching the edges of oil and copious amounts of top. Whisk the mixture and allow it inward, and then on a flat surface, freshly minced or grated raw to activate and become foamy for roll the dough into a ball shape. garlic. I prefer sunflower oil for about 5-10 minutes. this recipe, which is traditionally 5. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. used in Ukrainian cooking. The 2. Once the yeast is activated, Lightly grease a 9-inch round or moment the rolls come out of the add the oil to the milk mixture, square baking dish, preferably oven, generously slather them with then add the flour and salt. If metal as opposed to glass or the garlic and oil mixture. The using a stand mixer, start mixing ceramic. Beat the egg for the egg heat of the bread cooks the garlic the dough on the lowest setting. wash. Place each ball of dough just enough to slightly mellow its Once the dough starts to form in the baking dish, with an equal flavor. Fresh parsley and dill are a ball, increase the speed to distance between each ball. Allow also added to the garlic oil, which medium and knead for 6-8 the dough to rise a second time for offers a bright herbaceous zing to minutes. Alternatively, knead for 30 minutes, or until the rolls have the spicy heat of the garlic. Make no 10-12 minutes by hand. The dough puffed up and filled the pan. mistake: These rolls are adamantly is done when it is elastic, glossy, THE LEGACY OF for garlic lovers. soft, and easily comes away from 6. Brush the tops of the dough Pampushky are best served the sides of the bowl/surface. with the egg wash and bake for 25- ELIE WIESEL warm, either soon after coming 30 minutes, or until deep golden out of the oven, or reheated just 3. Add the dough to a lightly oiled brown. Through the eyes of his son Elisha Wiesel before serving. As you set the bowl and cover with a clean, damp rolls on the table, make sure to kitchen towel. Let the dough rise 7. While the rolls bake, make the A STORY FOR OUR TIMES announce that you are serving for 1-1½ hours, or until doubled in garlic-oil mixture. Finely mince the “pampushky.” Saying the word size. garlic, then combine it with the oil, out loud is part of the joy of chopped dill and chopped parsley. making these rolls. 4. Once the dough has risen and Brush the garlic-herb mixture over doubled in size, punch it down to the rolls immediately after they SUNDAY MARCH 21, 2021 Ingredients: remove the air, and transfer it to a come out of the oven. Allow the clean surface. Form the dough into rolls to cool for 15 minutes before PROGRAM 7:30 P.M. For the dough: a rectangle, and then divide it into serving. Pampushky can also be Live Streamed from Chabad of Plano • 1 cup milk 8 equal-sized pieces; weigh each served at room temperature or • 2¼ teaspoons (1 packet) active one to be exact. Form each piece reheated. GUEST OF HONOR MABRIE JACKSON CHECK US OUT FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THE EVENT WEBSITE ONLINE! WWW.CHABADPLANO.ORG/EVENT

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Masks of all kinds the last holiday to be observed weather, the North Texas Jewish creative with their celebrations, normally in March 2020 before community did summon a joyful from virtual to drive-thru, and Unless otherwise noted, photos It might have felt hard for the coronavirus halted in-person air of celebration for Purim. other outdoor gatherings as well submitted by the organization/ many to generate a festive mood communal gatherings. But after a In and around the Metroplex, as some socially distanced indoor synagogue this Purim. For many, Purim was week of hardship and devastating schools and synagogues got observances.

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The cast of Adat Chaverim’s virtual Purim shpiel Rabbi Andrew Bloom, left, and Hazan Jeffrey Tzila Lestz Oren Abramov reads the Megillah. performance Weber aka Peanut Butter and Jelly read the megillah at Ahavath Sholom’s parking garage celebration. (Photo: TJP staff)

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Olivia Lowery Nathan Henochowic, Benjamin Green, Phillip Steinberg, Wyatt Levine, Reagan Bergman, Cantor Shoshana Abrams Kaikov and Rabbi Brian Austin Green, Dylan Green, Kaeden Korobov, Gabriella Juco, Samara Juco, Maelyse Jarocki, Zimmerman at Beth-El’s drive-thru celebration Bev Sandheinrich.

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Arts and crafts at Chabad of Frisco’s Purim Leah, Yehuda and baby Aiyla Oziel An outdoor Megillah reading at DATA of Plano celebration POST PICS March 4, 2021 | 15

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Goldberg Family ECC students Caroline Van, Goldberg Family ECC students Ford Vineyard, The cast of Congregation Kol Ami’s Purim shpiel, clockwise from top left, Nancy Friedman, Paul Dietz, Mackenzie Ginsburg, Anna Bollner James Grodin, Theodore Ellsworth Samson and Casey Flancbaum, Harry Friedman, Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis and Brian Hoffman

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Charlotte Tonini dressed as Elsa for Purim 2021. Lil Goldman Early Learning Center students celebrate Purim. Tzipora and Michael Genish with their daughters, from left, Leah, Avigail and Sarah Rivka

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Getting ready for the Temple Shalom Purim Drive Thru are: front row, from left, Jeff Kort, Monica Rivae and Bauer Campo at Temple Shalom Aviva Chandler Susman, Rosie Akerman, Debbie Niederman, Rabbi Andrew Paley; back row, Mark and Laurel Fisher. Munchkin Minyan Purim celebration 16 | March 4, 2021 In their words . . . What’s the takeaway Columnists, opinion from the TJP from COVID-19? Dear Rabbi Fried, Jews, he thinks to himself, “Why Opening In the beginning of the pandemic, we were hearing me? Why was I spared when so a lot about what we are to learn from it and what to take many were taken around me?’’ So away from all that has come down as a result of it. Now he bows a bit more deeply and takes that people are being vaccinated it seems like the whole thing an extra moment to reflect on his the shul for is beginning to wind down (which is a good thing!), but at appreciation for the gift of life itself. the same time, to tell the truth, I don’t feel like I’m really He continued to say that just walking away with anything concrete in my life that’s dif- ASK THE expressing the appreciation is not Boubby ferent because of it. It would be a real shame to have gone RABBI enough. Each one of us should find through all of this and then, at the end, just say “Phew, I something concrete to begin to made it through!” like to wear a T-shirt saying, “I survived do, or take something we already By Rabbi Purim has come and gone, but home. (Of course COVID.” Just for that I don’t think the whole thing is worth do and do it better, as an expres- Yerachmiel its memories are always with me, my Boubby had it; G-d must have had more in mind for us to come away sion for our appreciation to the Al- D. Fried rich and fresh every year. That’s already spread with. Any suggestions? mighty for the gift of life. because of my dear Boubby the “shaloch monos” Mordechai L. When asked what should be the Philosopher, who made me a throughout her Dear Mordechai, takeaway for Klal Yisrael, he replied that such a question re- Jew…a real one, far more than just own neighbor- I’m with you! I think that most thinking people share quires sages far greater than himself. But for each individu- anyone born to Judaism by Jewish hood and brought your struggle and are feeling empty not to have a concrete al, he can just say that we all need to find something, some law alone. IN MY hamantaschen takeaway from all this. (By the way, in the meantime it’s mitzvah, some kindness, some action, that will continue Of course, my mother was a MIND’S I with her for our still far from over, but it’s not too early to give thought to to remind each of us for decades that we appreciate the gift born Jew, oldest child of a dozen family.) the future!) of life despite COVID-19. Whatever it is that we take on, it brought into the world by that By Harriet I have oth- Just today I heard a beautiful thought from one of should be for life. Decades from now we should be able to amazing woman. However, those P. Gross er wonderful America’s leading rabbis, Rabbi Shraga Neuberger of the tell our children and great-grandchildren that the reason children never fully shared the old- memories of Ner Israel Yeshiva of Baltimore, who was scholar-in-resi- we do such-and-such is because we lived through a diffi- world involvement in the Yiddish- this wonderful dence at a local synagogue, Ohr HaTorah, regarding this cult time called the COVID-19 pandemic and do this to speaking culture and traditional woman, many of them having to very question. express appreciation for living through it. ways of Cneses Israel, the nearby do with her personal philanthropic The rabbi said that since COVID-19 he bows a little Why this is happening, nobody can answer. I often small shul to which my Boubby work throughout our entire Jewish deeper and a little longer when he recites the “modim” say that we have no prophets today to tell us “thus says actively pledged her Jewish alle- community. She was always much prayer of the Amidah. It is proper for one to bow at the G-d” and have clarity. But if we use this time as a cata- giance. All were supporters, but not appreciated, but I never knew how beginning and end of that blessing, a thanksgiving prayer lyst to accept some new area of growth, something small participants. very much until the afternoon of which expresses our appreciation for all that we have and which is sustainable and can be accepted with integrity, However, my Boubby was nev- her funeral. That day, the proces- for life itself. Now, since COVID-19, through which we this time will not have been for naught. er fazed: “The first generation sion from city to cemetery was have sadly lost so many precious Jewish souls, commu- May this end soon, but with the Jewish people on a goes away,” she would say, “but routed past the little shul, where it nity leaders and sages, and so many special “regular” higher plane that we went into it! the second comes back.” She was stopped for a view of something talking about the generations never seen before (at least not there, born in America, and she was so maybe not anywhere, maybe never right about me that I always used to be seen again): All the windows What’s Jewish about her statement when I opened the were opened wide, and outside the many presentations I gave as part wide-open front door stood the of a long-gone national program synagogue’s elders, holding all their dinosaurs? called “Panel of American Wom- Torahs in silent tribute to a sort of en.” Across the nation during the Jewish saint. This, I later learned, Dear Families, dinosaur shows up at Shabbat), ‘60s, it made quartets available to is called “Opening the Synagogue,” When you work with children, there is a part of Ma’aseh B’reishit — Miracle of tell their personal stories before a custom I had not even heard of you that must always be a kid. To tell the truth, no one Creation (those were some really interested groups; each speak- before, and I’m certain I won’t ever should eliminate that wonder that children have in ev- crazy ideas that G-d had) and Tal- ers’ group featured a Catholic, see again. But I will certainly never ery experience they have each day. How do we keep mud Torah — Study (kids love to a Protestant, a Jew and a Black forget it. that sense of wonder within us? Jewishly we do it by learn about dinosaurs!). There is person. (I’ll tell more about this Today, one of those same To- blessings, which really means that we have to notice an Israel connection as dinosaur at another time, but for now, I’ll rahs “lives” here, in my own lo- and then bless. Then the most Jewish thing to do is footprints were sighted in the Ju- continue concentrating on Pu- cal congregation’s Ark, often to question. What am I noticing and questioning and SHALOM dean Hills near Bet Zayit and, of rim…) leading the parades around the letting my “kid mind” explore today? At the Gold- FROM THE course, archeologists abound in SHABBAT LADY Every year, Boubby would take two sanctuary on Shabbats and holi- berg Early Childhood Center, we just had a wonder- Israel so who knows what they streetcars to get from her home to my days — and of course, always on ful Purim but I don’t want to talk about Purim — I By Laura will find. family’s house on another side of the Purim. want to talk about costumes. Yes, I know that we wear Seymour Probably the most interesting city. And then the two of us would My mother, as eldest child of the costumes on Purim to remember how Esther hid the connection is from the book “… walk together to the little shul where dozen, knew much of all the old fact that she was Jewish. This past week, I talked to our And Then There Were Dinosaurs” by Sari Steinberg. It I — although my parents had no real customs, and impressed on me the children about how sometimes we do hide who we are, is a wonderfully artistic reimagining of the legend “Six involvement with it — was sent to Sun- rarity of this one. Well — maybe but it is more important to be who you are and stand Worlds Were Created Before Our World.” The idea is day school. In those days our Purim she made that up. Maybe no other up proudly. Yet, that isn’t what I want to tell you about that G-d tried six times before our world and dino- flags were cloth, topped by lit candles, place ever did this. I can never be the costumes I saw — LOTS OF DINOSAURS!! AND saurs were one of those attempts that didn’t work. The but nobody sensed any danger as we sure about these things, but I can I LOVE DINOSAURS!! conversations about this idea and why the dinosaurs marched around and around the long, be sure that I’ll never see it again But what do dinosaurs have to do with being Jew- failed can be amazing with both children and adults. narrow sanctuary, waving them en- myself. Google doesn’t tell me any- ish? In the book “What’s Jewish About Butterflies?” So there are Jewish connections to dinosaurs!! This thusiastically. Then there was always a thing about it, but if any of you authors Maxine Segal Handelman and Deborah L. week I will take my love and fascination (and all my Purim spiel, a silly playlet of some kind, know something more, please share Schein answer questions about many different things toys) to teach about the wonder of dinosaurs and cre- after which everyone left, munching it with me. I see it in my Mind’s Eye that we may not see as Jewish. The values associ- ation plus share the many Jewish values that we can on hamantaschen during the walk every Purim… ated with dinosaurs are Kavod — Respect (in case a learn — all while having a great time! In their words . . . March 4, 2021 | 17 EDITORIAL Saudi prince must answer for murder

In October 2018, the world learned of in The Post. His published columns have been directly engaged in serious, that the ‘fundamental’ change promised the horrific murder of Jamal Khashoggi, “lamented that Saudi Arabia’s repression extraterritorial counter-dissident activities, in U.S.-Saudi relations will not include a permanent resident of the United States was becoming unbearable to the point including those that suppress, harass, holding to account its reckless ruler, who and highly regarded columnist for The of his decision to leave the country and surveil, threaten, or harm journalists, consequently is unlikely to be deterred Washington Post. Khashoggi, a native of live in exile in Washington,” wrote activists or other persons perceived to be from further criminal behavior.” Saudi Arabia, was brutally murdered by a Karen Attiah, his editor, shortly after dissidents for their work, or who engage in In early February, President Biden team of Saudi operatives while inside the his death. He specifically called out the such activities with respect to the families terminated American support for Saudi Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. crown prince for unfulfilled promises to or other close associates of such persons.” Arabia’s five-year military campaign Last week, the Biden administration embrace social and economic reforms. Despite its condemnation of Khashoggi’s against Yemen that has inflicted massive released a previously classified intelligence Instead, he wrote, “all I see now is the horrific murder, and its new policy of suffering on the Arabian peninsula’s report that concluded that Saudi Arabia’s recent wave of arrests.” His columns were banning visas for foreign agents who poorest country. He said that the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sharply critical of MBS. In November execute or terrorize innocent victims, the United States would emphasize restoring (MBS) approved Khashoggi’s killing. An 2017, he said the crown prince was “acting Biden administration failed to take any diplomacy, democracy and human rights elite team of Saudi operatives executed like Putin.” adverse actions against MBS. in Yemen. Khashoggi, and after killing him within Last Friday, Secretary of State Antony As The Post pointed out in an The president has also made clear that minutes of his arrival at the Saudi Blinken announced the “Khashoggi editorial, “Under U.S. law, Mohammed his administration will continue to sell consulate, beheaded and dismembered Ban.” He described the new policy bin Salman, or MBS, as he is widely sophisticated military weapons to Saudi him with a bone saw. as a measure that “allows the State known, ought to be banned from travel Arabia. Under the Constitution, the power Khashoggi had drawn the ire of the Department to impose visa restrictions to the United States and subjected to an to formulate the United States’ foreign crown prince for his columns that were on individuals who, acting on behalf of asset freeze. That President Biden has critical of the Saudi regime published a foreign government, are believed to chosen not to pursue that course suggests see EDITORIAL, p.19 Enrollment — lifting our heads My lifelong relationship

There were no government and for paying the half-shekel with King David forms to fill out at Sinai, but in stems from being b’nai Israel, this week’s Torah portion of Ki “Israelites.” When the slaves came When you were a camper opportunity to start over. Tissa, Moses is commanded to out of Egypt, they left as family at the JCC, did you sing this? If I had to choose just one aspect take a census of the people. This units, as clans, and as tribes. “David, Melech Yisrael, chai, of King David that draws me in and is not the only census mentioned But standing at Sinai, building a chai, vekayom…” Did you begin deeply wants to be in relationship to in the Bible. Obviously, census- shared Tabernacle, they are now religious school around age 5 or him, it would be his passion. I know taking is necessary for the conduct D’VAR enrolled by God’s command in 6 and almost immediately hear we overuse this word. It is trending, of public affairs, though there is TORAH one people, whether for military the Biblical story of David and like the word “awesome.” But when always an inference that every or peaceful purpose. Goliath? And when you learned, MY JEWISH you read his last words, I believe you census is accompanied by danger. The dignity of the individual “Thus David bested the Philistine can fully sense the man who became By Rabbi JOURNEY This seems apt since head counts Seymour Rossel also implies that each one is with sling and stone,” did your a king and knew the truth of his own were necessary to army service Parashat Ki Tissa responsible for paying his own little brother beg for his own By Debbi K. Levy frailty were it not for his devotion to and warfare. That seems to be the “ransom” — his half-shekel is to slingshot too? If the early years the Almighty. initiating motivation this time, also. be given by no one else. It is his statement are the ones that form some of our most “The utterance of David son of Jesse, The command as given is unexpectedly on behalf of himself and — if he is married, impactful theories and relationships, then The utterance of the man set on high, recondite and highly idiomatic. To render or married with children — on behalf of King David was mine. Scrappy and brave, The anointed of the God of Jacob, it literally we should translate it something his immediate family (for this is always David, the boy shepherd, who belonged to The favorite of the songs of Israel: like this: “When you lift up the head of each implied). all of us when we were kids. The spirit of the LORD has spoken through me.” male Israelite according to his enrollment, Last, there is an assertion that failure to My maternal family loves the name —2 Samuel 23:1-2 and each man pays his own ransom to the pay, failure to be recognized as a member of David. One great-uncle, one cousin, another Embedded and connected within the Eternal as they are enrolled, then there will the Israelites, failure to take responsibility uncle, and my son Jeremy David all enjoy tent of our Jewish community, each one of be no plague among them because they are for oneself and one’s family could result in the strength of Melech David’s name. Is it us nevertheless retains an individual Jewish enrolled” (Exodus 30:12). The controlling a plague. Here, it is unspecified what kind because of the way it rolls off the tongue, uniqueness. Our worship and ritual styles, Hebrew word (p-k-d), occurring three of plague. Today we might imagine the or is it in part due to our exposure from traditions, and congregational affiliations times, denotes “enlistment” or military disease for failure to pay taxes as the “IRS childhood, that we adorn our children with can strengthen and define us. Some volunteer “enrollment.” plague.” But the biblical command closes his name like a crown? on behalf of Jewish organizations, or find “Lifting up the head” is, of course, the with the third mention of enrollment, so we As a grown woman exploring Torah, I enjoyment savoring a lox and cream cheese idiom for taking a head count. Here, at might venture to say that the plague would lingered over the words in 2 Samuel. From bagel as a nod to our culture of nourishment. Sinai, though, it also gives the sense that be more a matter of destroying the strength the moment “David sent messengers to Still others trace sacred lineage for the next each person is worthy of being seen as an of Israel by any who would fail to enlist fetch her,” I could feel the negative spiral generation, or help and encourage those individual. The following verse asks each themselves. being set in motion as my own adult approaching Judaism as a path to God. person to pay the gold or silver equivalent For God to count us, even today, we must mistakes and sins revisited my heart. Under the wedding canopy, the loud crush to a half-shekel as a tribute tax for the lift our own heads, enroll ourselves in our Bathsheba and our king somehow endured, of the glass emits shouts of “Mazel Tov!” as building of the Tabernacle. Surely, everyone people, take responsibility for paying our even after losing the child they conceived joy erupts. I like to think that this kind of could just throw their fair half-shekel own fair share by tax and by participation, on that fateful day. Did I mention that gusto in all things Jewish stems from King weight of metal into a basket and the metal and add ourselves to the joint strength of David did away with her husband? And David. The boy with the slingshot who knew could be weighed to get an accurate census. the people of Israel. then, the real magic happens. David teaches that with God in his heart, he was a giant. But there’s no dignity in that. “Lifting up us how to repent. The spiral, it turns out, The boy who grew into his kingship with the head” here means seeing each face as Rabbi Seymour Rossel is the author of “The Essential Jew- is one that we human beings seem to enter heartfelt praise of Adonai on his lips. Do you essential to the whole. ish Stories,” “The Wise Folk of Chelm,” “Bible Dreams,” and into again and again. It causes us to cling agree with me? I think I can almost see your “According to his enrollment” reminds other books featured at https://RosselBooks.com. He is a and shudder at the thought of Yom Kippur, hand motions as you hum…David, Melech us that the responsibility for being counted member of the Rabbinic Association of Greater Dallas. all at the same time, and grasp the sacred Yisrael… 18 | March 4, 2021 BBC debate on whether Jews are an ethnic minority group sparks outrage

(JTA) — The BBC has been community, where many Jews feel parties, from Conservative Prime therefore “don’t need to be seen as accused of bias in its coverage of marginalized by allegedly hostile Minister Benjamin Disraeli in the a group needing recognition in the Israel for decades. Now the public media treatment and the rise of 19th century to former Labour same way as others.” broadcaster is taking fl ak from anti-Semitism both from the far leader Ed Miliband starting in 2010. That ruffl ed Cohen’s feathers. British Jews for coverage much right and at the heart of the Labour Whether or not to designate “We face anti-Semitism and closer to home. Party. Jews as members of an ethnic group racism very clearly,” Cohen told What’s causing their biggest The broadcast was prompted — a debate among Jews themselves Coburn. “We’ve just seen that with dispute in years? by comments made last month by — has political and cultural the many years of racism and anti- It’s the broadcast of a debate Labour lawmaker Angela Rayner, implications. Many Jews and others Semitism within the Labour Party, over whether Jews should be who congratulated a Scottish consider Jews an ethnic entity so it suggests that Jews don’t face considered an ethnic minority — lawmaker of Pakistani descent cemented by culture, tradition racism and therefore we’ve reached a panel discussion featuring four as “the fi rst-ever ethnic minority and genetics. The late former chief such a high offi ce that we’re not Photo: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images non-Jewish panelists and a Jewish leader of a political party anywhere rabbi of Britain, Jonathan Sacks, an ethnic minority. It’s frankly BBC journalist Jo Coburn, seen stand- commenter as a guest. in the U.K.” famously argued, by contrast, that ridiculous. Frankly the notion of ing outside Parliament in London, sug- Monday’s discussion touched Some Jews protested on social Jewishness is not an ethnicity but a this debate is ridiculous.” gested during the debate that Jews raw nerves in the organized media, noting that Jews had led “bricolage of multiple ethnicities.” It wasn’t the fi rst debate in have succeeded in reaching high po- litical offi ce and therefore “don’t need Others, including many anti- the U.K. about whether Jews are to be seen as a group needing recogni- Zionists, refuse to recognize an ethnic minority and whether tion in the same way as others.” LIBERATOR LLC Judaism’s peoplehood dimension they benefi t from so-called white ROCKET HEATER altogether, saying Jews should be privilege. More than 1,000 people have regarded strictly as members of a A similar debate arose in 2018 signed a petition titled “BBC: •HYPER-EFFICENT STOVE religion. 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over Saudi Arabia may last a future king who sanctioned most the compromises that are Ignatius continued that EDITORIAL decades. By issuing a report the murder and dismembering necessary to survive in a world “Khashoggi’s friends and continued from p.17 that finds MBS responsible for of a critical journalist must be where government leaders can admirers should be similarly Khashoggi’s murder, the Biden carefully monitored by the Biden order a murder, cover it up and vigilant. Killing a journalist for administration has pointedly administration. maintain control. He would telling the truth is a crime that policy is vested in the president. criticized the crown prince. As The Washington Post’s have been glad that the United must never be repeated by MBS MBS will almost certainly When he released the report, award-winning columnist David States told the truth about his or anyone else.” succeed his father, King Secretary of State Blinken said, Ignatius wrote last week: murder, but he would have Salman. He remains the “The [American] relationship “Khashoggi lived in the wanted to be sure that the new A version of this editorial appeared in the most powerful person in the with Saudi Arabia is bigger corridors of power all of his Biden administration had truly March 4, 2021, issue of the Jewish Herald- Persian Gulf. His future reign than any one individual.” Yet, life. He understood better than resolved: Never again.” Voice in Houston. Reprinted with permission. FIDF briefing addresses COVID-19

Top Dallas, Israeli release. Rambam Hospital has been doctors provide able to return to mostly routine, insight, status on patient-centered care, according fight against virus to Furer. While Israel is ahead of America in administering Submitted vaccines, there is still On Feb. 10, Friends uncertainty surrounding of the Israel Defense what this will mean for Forces (FIDF) North future hospitalizations. Texas Chapter held “It is difficult to say a virtual event titled what exactly will happen “Medical Heroes Behind with the ward as numbers COVID-19,” an exclusive of cases are still high in Dr. Lt. Col. briefing with Head of Israel,” said Dr. Lt. Col. Ariel Furer Critical Care for Baylor Furer. “There has been University Medical Center an increase in younger Dr. Ariel Modrykamien patients admitted to the and Chief Innovation unit who typically need Officer of the Israel less time in the hospital. Defense Forces (IDF) We hope that the large Photo: Screenshot Medical Corps Dr. Lt. Col. distribution of the vaccine A slide from Dr. Lt. Col. Ariel Furer’s presentation shows the breakdown of COVID-19 patients treated by the FIDF medical Ariel Furer on the current helps. We are still trying corps at Rambam hospital. status of COVID-19 in to understand the effect COVID-19 patients and big events vaccine will protect us from the As part of its outreach, FIDF’s Israel and Texas. Dr. Ariel of the vaccine on the and holidays, like Thanksgiving regular variant and UK variant; we North Texas Chapter has partnered The event touched Modrykamien number of severe cases,” and Christmas. We are now waiting are hoping we will also be protected with local synagogues for several on the current status of he added. for the Super Bowl effect, waiting to from other variants. Following other local events. fighting the pandemic, new strains At the event, Dr. Modrykamien see what two weeks from now looks vaccination, it is most likely you On Sunday, Feb. 21, FIDF of the virus, and the ongoing shared that there are still many like,” he added. will not get severely ill. However, National Director and CEO Rabbi challenges that must be confronted unknowns about the disease. Texas Jewish Post Editor and this does not mean you will not Steven Weil joined Temple Shalom’s to be successful in saving lives in Modrykamien also shared that Publisher Sharon Wisch-Ray led carry the virus.” Sisterhood Rosh Chodesh to discuss Texas and Israel respectively. 30% of patients his hospital has the event’s Q&A segment. “As the director of the the importance of women in the During the event, Dr. Lt. Col. treated have needed ventilators. In response to a question North Texas Chapter it is my IDF. Furer commended Rambam After noting that there has about what precautions people goal to continue to provide To learn more about FIDF, Hospital’s acceptance of his been a significant decrease in the should take after being vaccinated, programming that allows the please contact FIDF North Texas military unit, crediting his team’s number of COVID-19 patients Modrykamien reinforced, “We are Jewish communities of Texas and Director Kathi Ravkind Sebastian ability to provide fantastic care. compared to several weeks ago, still in a pandemic and are facing Israel to come together in unity at [email protected] or 214- Furer shared that the Rambam Dr. Modrykamien said, “We have different variants of the virus. The to support our Jewish homeland,” 713-4810. staff conducts follow-up calls with found there is a mathematical majority of the U.S. population said FIDF North Texas Director To watch a recording of the event, patients following their hospital correlation between the number of is not yet vaccinated. Getting the Kathi Ravkind Sebastian. please visit https://bit.ly/2MDBAia.

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