MASSACHUSETTS 28 Adar 11 5768 Vol. VI - Issue VII www.jvhri.org A ril 4 2008 Newhook blasts gender inequity in Jewish workplace Concrete steps offered to create a more Photo by Mary Karr gender-equal footing SOPHIE FREUD signs a copy of her book, Living in the BY SUE FISHKOFF Shadow of the Freud family, ]TA Staf!Writer at her March 25 lecture. SAN FRANCISCO OTA) Sophie Freud: - It's been 45 years since the U.S. Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, making it Living in the illegal to pay men more than women for the same job. shadow of fame It's been 44 years since Title Vl of the Civil Rights Act Sigmund's Photo by Sam Asinof barred employment discrimi­ PREPARING FOR PASSOVER nation on the basis of race or granddaughter This year, in Rhode Island, The Voice & Herald shares some traditional recipes from grandma, sex, and the Equal Employ­ the secrets to a great flour-less chocolate cake, and some new twists on old traditional dishes. ment Opportunity Commis- gives an intimate See PASSOVER, Page 22-31 glimpse ofthe See GENDER, Page 15 Freud family

BYMARYKORR Showing solidarity with Sderot families [email protected] the city of Sderot. The sun is who fire Kassam rockets at people have merely seconds to Code Red sends find cover in one of the many DARTMOUTH, Mass. - shining, people are socializing Sderot from nearby Gaza. bomb shelters situated through­ Sophie Freud, 84, recalls the residents scurrying in a nearby cafe, and trucks It happens quite often that the out the area. The Hamas mili­ last time she saw her famous are driving by to shelters tants fire these rockets which grandfather, Sigmund Freud. running their JERUSALEM JOURNAL relative calm I described can cause significant property "He came through Paris. Bv DANIEL STIEGLITZ usual errands. above is broken damage, or worse, to achieve My mother and I went to [email protected] Unfortu- by a loudspeaker blaring a their primary objective of killing the train station. I felt sad as nately, this atmosphere is not LIKE previous articles, TzevaAdom (or "Code Red") Israeli civilians. And from time I looked up at him. I knew always the norm in Sderot. hich I've written which signals the imminent to time, they are successful. this was the last time I would That is because Sderot often om the comfort of attracts the unwanted atten­ descent of a Hamas rocket. So the citizens of Sderot go See FREUD, Page 9 Jerusalem, I write this one from tion ofHamas militants, Once this alarm sounds, about their daily lives, always on the lookout for signs that danger is just a few seconds away. You might be asking yourself, Day trading ·at JCDS why don't these people simply tion pie. Let's not put every­ pack up and move to a safer Students bullish thing in Hershey," teacher location? For several reasons, on Microsoft, Lisa Bergman advises this is not as practical or easy as two of the day traders. it may sound. Coca Cola Bergman was trained in First, to relocate to a new The Stock Market GameTM home further inside Israeli terri­ BvMARYKORR (SMG), and then spent several tory would mean having to give [email protected] classes introducing it to stu­ up their homes, jobs, businesses, dents who chose this elective. and community. PROVlDENCE - The The class meets twice a week And, though I'm no econo­ Stock Exchange at the for an hour. They work in mist, it's probably safe to assume Jewish Community Day teams, which have deep pock­ that the job opportunities will School was open for ets: a hypothetical $100,000 to significantly diminish when business, and students invest in an online portfolio. thousands of people suddenly in this elective course, The "game" is approved by the migrate to a new area of the "Money Madness," were New York Stock Exchange. country. buying and selling. Not only that, but the citi­ Photo by Mary Kort "Readjust your alloca- See INVEST, Page 9 RACHEL NASSAU, left, and Sophie Harlam check their portfolios zens also have to be realistic with Daniel Gamm a JCDS parent who coaches the class. See SOLIDARITY, Page 8 PAGE 2 Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 ti•1~~1&[i)~iiN A novelist envisions a Jewish nation 20 years before the first Zionist Congress In Daniel Deronda, One story is about a gentle­ seem so disconnected from one seeing the narcissism of Gwen­ causes others to become their woman, Gwendolyn Harleth, another that critics have sug­ dolyn. We see the ways Gwen­ best selves. W hen we learn of his George Eliot creates selfish and spoiled, who, when gested the two stories should dolyn has to change. origins, we feel it's not accidental her family loses its money, goes have been turned into two dif­ D aniel ties the stories together that he's a Jew; it's as if his moral the model for a against what she knows to be ferent novels. by the force of his beautiful soul, nature is associated with his righteous man right and falls into a loveless But no - Eliot is writing a dif­ his goodness. D aniel is a good havingJewish ancestors. With­ marriage to one of the great cold ferent form of the novel. The two man, who, in Victorian fash­ out having ever met them, he B Y J OHN }. CLAYTON villains of literature, Mallinger stories are analogous. They are ion, lives by his sense of duty. I seems to have sprung from the jc!ayton@english. umass. edu Grandcourt. mirrors each for the other. We can't think of any character in values and vision of his father H er rescue comes from D aniel; see in the loving virtue of the a novel that is so motivated by T M AY SEEM odd to she turns to him as a moral Jewish woman, Mira, a way of love, by concern fo r others. H e See RIGHTEOUS, PAGE 41 Italk in a column in a Jewish guide. newspaper about a great In the second story, folded into novel published not last week nor the first, D aniel saves a young last year but 133 Jewish woman from suicide and QUOTE OF THE WEEK: years ago. It may helps her find her life. As he CANDLE seem especially becomes interested in Jews and UGHTING TIMES "The Jewish community is a much more gender- odd since George Judaism, D aniel meets a deeply stratified community than any I know, much more Eliot (the nom de religious and passionately Z ionist For Greater than the U.S. military." plume of M arian intellectual, M ordecai, sick with RINNlelslud Evans) wasn't consumption, who sees in D aniel Jewish. Yet the Morlie Levin a fellow soul, someone who will, April4 8:55 novel is so deeply after Mordecai dies, carry on his SEE Page 1 about Jews, it work of bringing into being a April 11 7:0J so beautifully Jewish nation. describes and idealizes the moral At first D aniel, while caring April11 7:10 IN THIS ISSUE: essence of Judaism, that every deeply about the dying Jew, Jew should be encouraged to thinks M ordecai's plans fo r Israel at 18: A kaleidoscope of read it. him are Daniel shattered preconceptions. "How many characters have deluded. Deronda, But SEE Page 1 published been models of what a ultimately, in 1876, person should be, models D aniel is Eliot's begins ·I · last of righteousness? We are to fulfill 1. II COMING NEXT ISSUE: novel, these ...... writtw suspicious of righteousness. plans. about We believe in the anti-hero, D aniel's N ew York T imes columnist Nicholas Kristof five years tortured, self-destructive own past after is revealed visits Brown to talk about human rights. Middle­ characters." fairly early march on in the and four novel: years though he assumes the man before she died. Basically, Eliot who has raised him is his father, ROlLER tells two stories, both about Daniel is in fact a Jew. a young gentleman, Daniel These two stories of moral :JC. CLIMBING Deronda. redemption by the same rescuer lSER TAG

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Gary S. Siperstein President www .eliotrose.com ti•1 ►•,1~,(•)~i••· Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 PAGE 3 Yom HaShoah service on April 13 to honor New Bedford's Abe Landau Drivingforce behind the OBSERVANCE IN history's first eyewitness," Churchville said. PROVIDENCE The process is time-intensive, because local Holocaust memorial, Here in Providence, Temple the transfer of the archival material needs Emanu-El will host a com­ to take place in real time, Churchville Landau is subject ofnew munity observance of Yorn explained. documentary HaShoah on Wednesday, Once the transfer is completed to April 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the digital media, it will enable the materials main sanctuary. About 300 to viewed in any number of formats. She Bv RICHARD As1NOF community members are hopes that the project will be completed by [email protected] expected to attend, which will the end of this year. NEW BEDFORD, M a- - For the late focus on the kindertransport, Churchville, whose mother worked Abraham Landau, the only survivor of the effort to rescue children as a librarian at the National Archives, his 95-member family from Poland, his from the Holocaust by trans­ spoke of the importance of digitizing and dream was to preserve his own Holocaust porting them to England. preserving the materials. "Digitzing the story so that it could be shared with and A number of survivors, who material preserves the testimony," she said. remembered by younger generations. were kindertransport chil­ Born in Wilchen, Poland in 1922, dren, will participate, Landau and his family were first impris­ including Professor oned in the Zagorow Ghetto in 1939. Emeritus Peter Wegner During the next six years, he was held of Brown and Professor at 13 concentration and labor camps, Emeritus Albert Sil­ including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, verstein of the Univer­ and Bergen Belsen. Landau was liber­ sity of Rhode Island. ated from Bergen Belsen in April 1945; "This interfaith he met his future wife Freda Gold- community gather­ berg in a refugee camp, and they were ing is a way to make later married in Hanover, Germany sure that our com­ In 1950, the Landaus arrived in munity remembers the New Bedford and Abe, as he was ABRAHAM LANDAU was held in 13 different Holocaust," said Rabbi known, opened Landau's Custom Tai­ concentration camps, the only member Wayne Franklin of loring Shop in the city's downtown. of his family to survive. Temple Emanu-El. "It Landau also performed as a cantor is also an avenue for us at High Holiday services at syna­ to learn and hear from service marking the lQ•h anniversary of the gogues throughout New England. survivors." Holocaust memorial. The service will pay Landau, who served as a member of The community observance, he tribute to Landau and other victims of the the B'nai B'rith Speakers Bureau, brought continued, was begun about 25 Holocaust. his personal story about the Holocaust years ago. At the conclusion of the service, Lart'=­ to schools and students throughout the The Kol Kesem teen choir will dau's daughter and his friends will light region. He was also interviewed and vid­ perform. 12 rnemo: eotaped by the One of the more important rial candles Shoah Visual efforts to preserve the memories of and lead a History Foun­ the Holocaust is the volunteer work "Landau also performed as a procession dation; he made that Lisa Churchville, the general toTife­ a gift of his cantor at High Holiday services manager at WJAR-TV, NBC 10, reth Israel personal papers has undertaken to transcribe all the at synagogues throughout New Synagogue, to University of video archives at the Rhode Island where a Massachusetts England." Holocaust Museum into digital newdocu- at Dartmouth. media. Many of the existing video­ mentary, His dream tapes, which capture the personal "Remember­ of sharing the stories and testimony of survivors ing Abraham Landua," will be shown. Holocaust story was realized in part in in Rhode Island, were done on out­ Following the screening, prizes will be 1998, with the dedication of a Holocaust dated video formats, such as Beta. awarded to the students oflocal public and Memorial sculpture in Buttonwood Park "More and more, we recognize, HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL sculpture in parochial schools who participated in the on Rockdale Avenue. in the same way we recognize Buttonwood Park on Rockdale Avenue in art and essay contest dedicated to the life On Sunday, April 13, at 6:30 p.m., that print sources serve as the first New Bedford, created by artist Peter London. of Landau. A reception will follow. there will be a special Yorn HaShoah draft of history, video journalism is

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PAGE 4 Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 ------~------•1~1~it•1~-- A MAJORI1Y OF ONE FROM THE ExEcUTIVE EDITOR Grandfather's wisdom: The legacy of Dr. King

BY RICHARD AsINOF Is anyone out there listening? [email protected] Adopting a new there can be one exception - if the mother which was cut off from Israel by the UCH LIKE the Beatles, has become a born-again Christian. Jordanian army in 1948, nor the newer Mwhose meteoric rise and style of Family courts are very unpredictable in one in Ein Kerem which had not yet dissolution as a band these cases; they see a mother, now clear been built. In the interim years Hadas­ lasted less than a decade, the life of grandparenting of drugs or alcohol and desperately afraid sah leased the Scots Mission Hospital, a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and that her child will spend eternity in hell, decaying structure with peeling paint and his leadership of the civil rights IRST, SOME old business. and they sympathize with her to the point creaking floors. My children's mother, a struggle in America was, by mere F Those among us with function­ where they can rule for shared custody or young woman from Chicago for whom measurement of time, relatively ing memories will recall that this even return the child to its mother. The life in the Holy Land had never been an brief. But King's legacy, like the department's last column formal signing of adoption papers pre­ option before we met, adapted very well Beatles, has had a profound and included the sentence: sumably makes that possibility moot. to her new life but found the birth experi­ lasting influence on our society. 'The Germans have a I once wrote in this space about my ence rather trying When she awoke in the Forty years ago, Dr. King was word for it: Schaden­ frustrated expectations as a grandfather. "recovery room," a bed in a hallway, she gunned down in Memphis, attempt­ freund." Unfortunately I dreamed of retirement and of a gaggle saw a man standing by her bed waving ing to bring dignity and respect there is no such word of small grandchildren standing around a chicken over his head. His attentions to striking trash collectors, most in German, a fact made my rocking chair taking in the profound were not directed at her but at the new ofwhom were African American. clear to me by several He was about to launch an anti­ observations of their wise and sagacious mother in the next bed for whom the readers with greater grandfather. I have since discovered that chicken was intended to remove all of the poverty protest, bringing a "train" linguistic talents than of poor people to Washington, it doesn't always work that way. One evil spirits that possibly accompany the I possess. The D.C., when he was assassinated. Yehuda birth of a child. Lev correct word is For Americans, 1968 was a time of As for me, I wasn't even allowed to schadenfreude. great divisiveness: black and white, "I dreamed of retirement and of enter the hospital and was told to go Now, on to new business. Rosie rich and poor, hawk and dove. In turn, a gaggle of small grandchildren home until they called me with news. politicians such as former President and I have been presented with a There was no Lamaze, no husbandly Richard Nixon, skillfully provoked new granddaughter, pre-packaged, standing around my rocking coaching, no pre-birth classes; none and exploited those tensions to gain potty trained, bubbly, six-years- of the encouraging assistance that is electoral triumph. old and ready to begin her formal chair taking in the profound so in favor today. These came in time Today, when the gap between the education. There are, as you know, observations of their wise and for the arrival of my fourth child, in very wealthy and the very poor has two ways of having grandchildren, Los Angeles, the daughter who has never been greater, when we are stuck the regular way that entails much sagacious grandfather." just adopted Issadora. in the quagmire of a war without wear and tear on the mother, and the Through all of this I managed to a clear exit strategy so reminiscent painless way that is called adop- survive unscathed, until the fifth of Vietnam, when our economy is tion. Issadora is the child of my grandchild lives in St. Louis, three in Los grandchild appeared. I thought I troubled by a shrinking dollar, a daughter, Ariela's husband, Clayton, Angeles, and lssadora will continue to should write her a letter welcoming her ballooning deficit and a plummeting and last week, accompanied by her other live with her grandparents near Seattle. into the family. I wrote in a style suitable housing market, the temptation is to grandmother, she flew to Boston from Ariela is about to begin law school and for a six-year-old to read, placed the letter look for scapegoats. Seattle to have the formal papers signed. Clayton remains the main provider for in an envelope, and handed it to her at a In the 1960s, the rallying cry of There are many risks in connection his family. The cost of adequate child care small celebration that followed the sign­ demagogues was "welfare"; today, it with adoption and the signing of the ing. All went well until I looked again at is "illegal immigration." The rhetoric would price Ari and Clayton out of the papers removes one of them. When Clay­ the top of the letter. There, in big, bold is all too familiar, sadly, to some of market so, for the time being, Issadora ton was given full custody of the child, letters, I had typed "Dear Issabella." the hateful words of the 1920s and will live with her grandparents. there always loomed the possibility that Of my own four children, three were 1930s.; as Jews, we need to be willing her birth mother would want her back. Yehuda Lev can be reached at yehuda!@ to stand up for the shared values of born in the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusa­ Normally, this would not be an issue but cox.net. a democratic society, and to protest lem, not the older hospital on Mt. Scopus "scapegoating." No one can deny that the issue of Now BATTING immigration needs to be addressed; that it is a big problem; and that it touches sensitive legal and political· Firebombs and ·flags nerve endings. However, it is very OW SHOULD a weeks after the attack on Yossi much a federal issue, not a state issue. jew in Providence Knafo's apartment, no official Our problems here in Rhode Island H - the need to transition to an innova­ respond when two word has designated the fire­ tion economy, the need to change our Molotov cocktails are thrown bombing a hate crime. No one regressive system of funding public at the apartment of the repre­ claims to know who or what education, which puts an undue sentative of the Jewish Agency caused the attack. As a result, burden on our cities and towns, and (a world-wide organization we are left to our own devices, the need to develop a modern, public affiliated with and our different interpreta­ transportation system - will not be the Israeli tions induce different reactions. solved by state orders on immigration, government) Frankly, I am disappointed in regardless of what any talk show host to the Hillel our responses - not in what we purports. at Brown and have done, but in what we have As we recall the turbulent times RISD? How not done. Offering a reward which followed the King assassina­ should the for information, while waiting tion, let us also remember his dream. community, for official word on the cause, When politicians seek to sow the wind in the form is appropriate. Beefing up of discord, ask them, in the Jewish Alan of the Jewish security at Jewish institutions tradition: Is your blood redder than Zuckerman Federation is prudent. But both responses anyone else's? At this time of Passover, of Rhode are defensive, versions of keep when we retell the story ofliberation Island, respond? your head down. Don't misun­ &om bondage, let us remember that How should the synagogues, derstand me: I am not calling we, too, were once slaves. the day schools, and the other for an active defense. There is institutions? As I write, more than two See FIREBOMB, Facing Page 1111 •1 ~ •~ it•1~-~------Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 PAGE 5 FROM THE OLD OUVEITI 'All the world's a stage' ''Lord, what fools tians can't agree on things any that our children's inheritance apostolic church. Whether Mor­ fire by God, the bursting forth more than Muslims. Or Jews. would be diminished consider­ mons are Christian is a debate I of flame at the sacred tomb and these mortals be!" In 326 CE, St. Helen, the ably. He showed us; in fact he choose not to enter. the lighting of the candle held in mother of the Emperor Con­ took us and gave us a mini-tour But back to the Holy Land, the hand of the Greek Orthodox Puck in A Midsummer Night's stantine the Great, traveled and then brought us back to his which Zionists such as I call patriarch ofJerusalem." Dream, Act 3, scene 2. to the Holy Land and identi­ shop. By the time we were able Israel, there is a new feud It should be noted that this fied exactly where every event to extricate ourselves ...well, developing. No one Christian sort of thing has precedent. mentioned in the New Testa­ she looks lovely in the items we sect controls the church of Two weeks ago Jews read parsha S IF ISRAELI police ment took place. "The birth was, purchased at bargain rates.) ~ Holy Sepulchre. It's been Sh 'mini, about the dedication of Adon't have enough here," she pronounced, pointing The Christian community divided among six different the Tabernacle. God sent fire problems, there's a new to the spot where there forms of Christianity then, too it is said. fracas in the offing. Long ago, arose the Church of the with precise lines of But for the past couple of even before Sunnis and Shiites Nativity in Bethlehem. demarcation ever since years, the Greek patriarch has started slaughtering each other, "Our L.ord was crucified "In 326 CE, St. Helen, the 1852 when the Turks, refused to be accompanied by Christians were killing other here, anointed there and mother of the Emperor in a vain attempt to stop the Armenian patriarch who Christians. entombed, (from which on the shouting, divided is slighted, feeling that the The cause? the third day he emerged) Constantine the Great, authority among the Greeks are treating Armenians A proper precisely here. In short traveled to the Holy Land and sects and left other areas as second-class Christians. understand­ order, a huge church was as common. (Which Fisticuffs have resulted. Israeli ing of who built to encompass all identified exactly where every means that no one authorities arrest the miscreant and/or what three of these latter spots, event mentioned in the New controls them, so no one monks, but then release them. Jesus was; the Church of the Holy cleans them which cre­ Oh, if you've not read about the a proper Sepulchre. Identifying Testament took place." ates a terrible odor from fights it's because Christians understand­ where something took the lavatories. No, I'm can't seem to agree on when pre­ Josh ing of the place 300-plus years before not making this up.) cisely to celebrate Easter. In the Stein relationship is difficult, but did not stop To complicate mat­ West this year it was March 23. between the the saint from her appointed has fractured many times over ters, at noon on every Easter eve To the Orthodox it will be April three persons of the Holy Trin­ task. After all, the site of the the centuries. There is the split (I don't know what that means 27. Israeli police are hoping that ity. This is a series of arguments Crucifixion was somewhere between East and West that either) the Greek Orthodox the only sparks flying will be the Jews managed somehow not to and St. Helen's location is as became official in 1054. The Patriarch ofJerusalem, cur­ divine ones sent from heaven. have with each other, and I, for good as anyone's. (The last time Orthodox Church has as many rently Theophilos III, descends "Lord, what fools these one, thought that in the name we were in Israel we wanted branches as there are nations into the tomb in which Jesus mortals be/To take religion seri­ of sanity that a via media by to visit this holy shrine but got that adhere to it. In the West, was briefly buried and receives ously." which each sect agreed not to lost in the back streets of the from 1517 on, Protestants from God, fire. According to an Josh Stein can be reached at persecute members of the others Arab shuk. My wife approached divided, subdivided and con­ article in the April 7, 1982 issue [email protected]. had been reached. But C hris- a merchant and asked how to tinue to create new and fascinat­ of Christian Century, "The event get to the church and I knew ing versions of the one true holy consists of the sending down of

FIREBOMB: Flying Israel 's flag is one response Letter to the Editor M.D.'s Rx to navigating health-care system From Preceding Pag e pushed this point even further: we should do more than that. if only Brown Hillel had wel­ If we have learned anything "\ J{ ]hen I read the recent The American Academy of noneed for bands of armed Jews comed lesbians when she was a from the existence of the State V V article byTema Gouse, Family Physicians is one of the to roam the streets. To the con­ student, she might have actu­ oflsrael, it should be the abil­ "Understanding medical largest national medical orga­ trary, I am advocating for other terminology-do you know nizations, representing more ally set foot in the building. ity to raise our heads. Even if and more than defensive action. what you are taking?" I could than 94,000 family physicians, Then my colleague, Rachel the bombing is not officially Three nights after the attack, I not help but feel that what most family medical residents and Friedberg, brought the meeting defined as a hate crime, the attended a meeting at the Hillel people need is a competent medical students nationwide. back to focus. This was an attack attack reminds us to stand tall House. About 40 students, primary care physician. Ms. Founded in 1947, its mis- on an Israeli. That's what we for Israel. The JFRI, too, should faculty, staff (including Knafo), Gouse referred to the "olden sion has been to preserve and know; hate crime or not, some­ ·fly the flag, and so should the promote the science and art of visiting rabbis, board members, days" ...when most families one tried to hurt him, even kill JCC, and the day schools, and had a family doctor. .. " I family medicine and to ensure and friends of Hillel sat in a him, and, she insisted, we should the synagogues, and so should am happy to say that the high quality, cost-effective circle to discuss the incident. respond to that specific action. each of us. Imagine that! "good ole' days" still exist. health care for patients of all Predictably, the participants Quiet until then (I am not As Pesach approaches, we There are many highly quali­ ages." (See the AAFP website tried and failed to agree on what big on group discussions in relive the Exodus from Egypt, fied family physicians right here for more: http//www.aafp.org/) happened: hate crime or not, an in Rhode Island. We are com­ By taking full advantage of which participants express remembering that it was our first attack on Jews or Israelis, a Jew mitted to providing up-to-date, what one's family physician (or their feelings), I agreed. The redemption. Even though we are or an Israeli. One man insisted high quality and cost-effective other primary-care physician) appropriate response, I sug­ no longer in bondage in Egypt that the Molotov cocktails were care. By completing a three­ has to offer, one can avoid some gested, is for Hillel to fly the and even though we have the one of a series of anti-Semitic year residency after medical of the problems that Ms. Gouse Israeli flag outside its building. Torah, we still await the final acts in Providence, like the verbal school (the same as internal describes, i.e., patients having Show pride, don't just redemption. Medina! Yisrae/, in to navigate and negotiate the abuse hurled at him and children. medicine and pediatrics), family worry! Deal with attendance the words of the prayer for the physicians are trained in many complex world of"neurologist, A few others agreed, but hardly at Hillel events at another State, begins the flowering of areas, including pediatrics, psychiatrist and neuro-psy­ anyone else claimed that he or time. Raise the flag, don't just our redemption. May it be so. geriatrics, neurology, gynecol­ chiatrist, ear, nose and throat she has also been harassed during sit in a circle and emote! On Shabbat 5 Iyar (May 10), ogy and many more. Family specialists, etc." the past year or two, and that The meeting broke up soon we celebrate the 60th anniver­ physicians are competent at Michael Felder, theme faded from the discussion. managing over 90 percent of all after those comments. This sary of the State's founding. Buy DO, MA, FAAFP Moving away from the patients' problems. morning, I bicycled past the a flag (they are easily available Clinical Assistant Professor, specific topic, some students As a result, it is a relatively Medicine and Pediatrics Faculty, building, but did not see the online); put it out on Friday and expressed dismay that so few small number of patients who Center for Biomedical Ethics flag's blue and white colors. display it for the weekend. Let of their Jewish friends were at need to be referred to sub-spe­ Warren Alpert School of Perhaps, it was up for a day each and all of us fly the blue and the meeting. Others expanded cialists. We manage patients Medicine at Brown University or two, and I missed it; per­ white Magen David with pride. with problems ranging from the point: worrying about low Director, Oi!a!ity Care and haps it will fly tomorrow. hypertension to allergies; diabe­ attendance at Hillel, especially Improve1nent Yes, in the face of attack, Jews, Alan Zuckerman can be reached tes to headaches and asthma to University Medicine on Friday nights. One of the as individuals and as institutions, at [email protected]. depression. Foundation visiting rabbis, a Brown alumna, should take prudent action. But PAGE 6 Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 ______, __ •l~l~it•U~ Camp JORI: 100 years of developing Jewish children Rhode Islands j ewish also learned that when I became The camp continued with In July 1999,JORI in part- in the fact that a small agency, a president of the board, past a goal of providing a positive - ~- nership with the Nature Con- with one full-time employee, can overnight camp is presidents of the organization (no Jewish camping experience, espe- servancy bought a run-down accomplish such big things. matter how distant their service) cially for families with limited transient trailer park for a new In recent years, JORI has at the center ofthe could clearly be relied on for both funds, and to maintain afford- home. The new 72-acre lakefront received several national recogni­ j ewish melting pot the biggest and smallest of tasks. ability for those who are full- site, surrounded by other proper- tions. These include: American As Bert once pointed out, paying. JORI's Board takes great ties in preservation, was a dream Camping Association Accredita­ BY MICHAEL SCHUSTER JORI has provided valuable pride in the fact that fees are come true. The JORI Board tion and Re-Accreditation, Spiel­ Special To The Voice & Herald service to the community and 70-80 percent of those charged and the community stepped up berg Fellowship in Theatre Arts, has made little demand on it. The by comparable non-profit Jewish with money and time to make Grinspoon Institute for Jewish ERT BROWN story of the JORI organization is overnight camps, while provid- this new venture a success. Over Philanthropy beneficiary status, recently passed away one from which we can all take ing substantially greater financial the next four years a committed and Weinberg Foundation and Bat age 93. He was past great pride and personal satisfac- assistance. The camp is available group of volunteers designed the Kresge Foundation grant awards. president of Camp tion. to all children regardless of their new camp, achieved zoning and JORI is Rhode Island's Jewish JORI and served five years in Briefly, the Jewish regulatory approvals, raised melting pot. Rarely does one that capacity. Bert remained Orphanage of Rhode Island S6 million and built or meet a Rhode Islander who did active and interested in the camp (JORI) began in 1909 and "As JORI approaches its 100- refurbished 25 buildings. not attend JORI at one time in long after his term ended. operated through 1943. In In 2003,JORI sold its their life or know someone who I last saw Bert a week before year anniversary, all involved 1937, the camp was created Narragansett property and did. Lifelong friendships devel­ his death and we reminisced as a vacation location for can look back with enormous opened its new facility to oped at camp. Thirty-six years about the camp. His lovely wife the children. In 1943, the provide state-of-the-art later, as I remember Bert, we Phyllis gave me notes from a pride and satisfaction." orphanage was closed, the camping facilities to a are bound by a friendship and a speech that Bert had given to building was sold to the much-expanded population commitment that was established assist in writing this article. Miriam Hospital, and the economic circumstances. as well as year-round facili- at JORI. As JORI approaches its I first met Bert Brown in JORI Board approved a $20,000 Following World War II, ties for other communal orga­ 100-year anniversary, all involved the summer of 1972. As head donation to the Miriam (in JORI was the home to a number nizations. This would not have can look back with enormous counselor at JORI, I walked into today's dollars, approximately of surviving children from the been accomplished without the pride and satisfaction. an empty cabin one day to find $260,000). H olocaust. tremendous dedication ofJORI a middle-aged man with rubber We were touched by Jim After 1943, the camp grew staff, board, and past presidents. Michael Schuster is a Professor gloves up to his elbows, a long Weiss's 2003 speech dedicating slowly as funds were raised. Little JORI's most recent initiative, ofStrategic Management at scrub brush, and a bottle of acid, the new camp where he cited the known was the JORI college "Reaching Up," for children with the United States Coast Guard cleaning the rust stains on the very positive impact the orphan­ scholarship program. From 1948- disabilities, reflects a long his­ Academy. He has served as JORI sinks from the prior winter. age had on his life. Many of the 1964, JORI awarded 400 college tory of values dating back to the president since 1996. This summer This was where I learned the surviving orphans came together scholarships (a total of $50,000) orphanage - we simply do not Robert Stolzman will take over as true meaning of commitment to in 2001 to share their stories at a to help young men and women turn away children in need. The president. the camp and the community. I reunion. achieve their potential. community can take great pride

BE1WEEN WORK AND HOME Wrestling with the choice: Jewish day school, or public school? I struggle with the and ability to choose, something point. I shouldn't be sending them to don't even realize they are doing about this picture troubles me. When it was time to enroll public school. Yes, the Provi­ it. Perhaps public schools might cost, and wonder: Growing up on Long Island my son in kindergarten, my . dence public schools struggle, foster an ability to function in in one of New York's wealthier ex-husband and I chose Alperin but I have plenty of friends who pluralistic society? My friends why isn't the Jewish communities, I attended public Schechter (now the Jewish Com­ send their children and those report that Vartan Gregorian's community investing schools. So did all my friends. munity Day School). I love many kids seem to get a solid education student body is a racially and eco­ Naturally, I thought that when I things thatJCDS offers and and go on to attend prestigious nomically mixed group. Wouldn't more in day schools? had children, they, too, would go which I couldn't find anywhere universities. this be a better environment for to the local public school. else. One is a love oflearning My struggle comes down to my children as it more accurately S SPRING ARRIVES, Then, even before I was three issues. The first - and reflects the growing diversity in A I face my annual quan­ pregnant with my first biggest - is cost. As a single this country? dary. Do I keep my kids child, I was asked to sit on "While Jewish day schools mother, I shudder each The third issue is my commit­ enrolled in Jewish day school the board of the Alperin month as I send off my ment to our larger community. I or transfer them to the local Schechter D ay School. are less expensive than other payment. Sending my kids wonder how much stronger our neighborhood public school? I wanted to know more private schools, most of us to Jewish day school means public schools would be if all of Earlier this about a school that seemed I am not saving for college our children were attending them. winter, I was to graduate an amazing still struggle to pay the costs." or often delaying necessary If more Providence families used having dinner number of mature, articulate ------repairs on my home. the public schools, perhaps there with friends, all and lovely young people. Is this a worthwhile would be even greater demand to of whom live I had met many of them that is centered around com­ trade-off? If the Jewish make improvements and make on Providence's through my synagogue, and they munity and grounded in Judaism community believes that Jewish them quickly. How much richer East Side. impressed me with their intelli­ - lessons which will hopefully day school is the best way to would our community life (and What struck me gence and social graces - but even serve my children well over the secure future generations with a our city) be if our children were that night was more with their knowledge of all course of their lives. The other strong commitment to leading all attending the local public that we were a Barbara things Jewish. is a second language. I strongly Jewish lives, why isn't there more schools? Fields group of four These young people were com­ believe that every elementary investment in our day schools? So as the weather warms up, I Jewish families fortable with Judaism in a way school in America should be As the costs continue to rise, I wrestle with the choices we make with eight kids that I struggled to feel as an adult. teaching a second language start­ wonder if my children might for our children. Perhaps, like among us who were attend- I had only minimal Jewish educa­ ing in kindergarten. Children get just as much from regular Jacob, I will continue the struggle ing four different schools - one tion as a child having grown up have an enormous capacity to attendance at synagogue and by without yet knowing the deeper public, one private, one parochial in the 1960s with German-born learn and we shouldn't be wasting attending Jewish summer camp. meaning or impact. and one 'lab.' parents committed to assimilating this talent. My second concern is the lack As we sat around eating dinner, and enjoying a middle-class life While I believe my children are of diversity. My daughter is just Barbara Fields can be reached at I thought about how each of us that Hi tier had denied them in learning in a supportive, caring one of only a few children of color [email protected]. cares deeply about our children's their younger years. While Juda­ environment that is nurturing in her school. She is often singled education and about passing on ism played an important role in their Jewish identities, I con­ out because of this - sometimes Jewish values to our children. our family life, it was not a focal tinue to wrestle with whether in such subtle ways that others And though I value our options .,.L!Z•1__ .__ ___ ti..i.; __ :i=I:;a.-:i_.,._.a.;;. I__a Ll,l if!i__ .,: __1.:1,_:;,a I •l______1 Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 PAGE 7

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Spitz-Weiss Realtors • 785 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02906 • 401-272-6161 • www.spltzwelss.com PAGE 8 Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 ------~-~1;,Z,~ - SOLIDARITY: An organization opens an office in Sderot to support families there From Page 1 to hang on our office wall. about the overall situation. If By doing what they retreat from their borders, we do, we make then it becomes easier for those a statement that borders to be overrun. And then, we are standing the new borders edge even closer by our fellow T to the heart oflsrael. If com­ Israelis. We help munity after community retreats give the people to "safer ground" then eventually of Sderot a voice, there wi ll be no safe ground to while at the same stand on. time letting them So what am I doing in Sderot know that they on this particularly fine day? are not alone. One of my colleagues at Nefesh Such gestures B'Nefesh had the brilliant and of solidarity are heartfelt idea to rent office space needed even here in Sderot. We established more when trag­ a rotation so that a few of us edies take place, ~------,-h-0,-0,-,-ou-,t-.,-,-o-, o-.-n;-,,-;.-.,-;.,-~~- commute to Sderot and spend such as the recent LEFT: AT THE ENTRANCE to the city, the "Wei- ,------...------~ a few hours working in our attack on the come to Sderot" sign. TOP RIGHT: A bomb shel- rented office space each day. My yeshiva in Jerusa- ter, painted to mask its "dreariness." BOTTOM colleague also made sure that lem where eight RIGHT: Author Danny Stieglitz in his office in we have all the necessities such innocent students Sderot. as internet connection, printer, were murdered in or revenge, but to take a moment and phone. The idea is that we cold blood. to mourn together as a nation. show our support for the people Thousands of people, consist- In the midst of the Intifada a by simply being here and few years back, one of my going about our regular "One of my colleagues had Israeli professors made a work routines side-by-side statement in class declar­ with them. the brilliant and heartfelt idea ing, "Israel is the safest It is a simple gesture to rent office space place in the world." that definitely does not fall My first reaction to on deaf ears. As we pull here in Sderot." this statement was that, into the parking lot each though I've never felt day, the people sitting in ing mainly of strangers who had Israel is anywhere near as the cafe downstairs greet us with never before met these victims dangerous as some people make warm smiles and affectionate by saying, "... for the Jews." I had nations of the world. or their families, gathered to pay it out to be, I wouldn't go as far hellos. My first day working in no doubt in my mind that this their respects for those whose as to say that it is the safest place Sderot, the owner of the build­ statement was accurate, and as Rhode Islander Daniel Stieglitz lives were cut so short. They in the world. ing we are renting the office long as we stand in solidarity made aliyah in July. He can be attended the funerals of these However, after a brief pause, space from brought us a thank­ with one another, we will always reached at [email protected]. young men not to call for justice he then concluded his statement have a safe haven among the you Chamsa (good-luck charm) Never have three little words Brier & Brie"r caused so much tsuris. Personal Service ... Insurance Professionals One Richmond Square Providence • Rhode Island • 02906 ••11: needs sa11:.•• 401-751-2990 Visit our updated website www.brier-brier.com, For a century, the Dubroff family has gathered at The Passover and celebrated the Seder together. 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Sophie is sitting at a table in German immigrant, The book is based Esti wrote: "I was not pre­ the UMass D artmouth library when she was 21. on a memoir her pared for housework or being on for an interview. She has a ready The couple had three mother wrote, and a daily household stipend." smile and sparkling blue eyes. children; they were the many letters The couple's first child, She checks her watch. "I am a married fo r 40 years, that were exchanged Walter, was born in 1921. punctilious person," she says. when Sophie decided within the Freud Sophie was born three years Nearby, a table has been set she didn't want to be family, as well as later. up with her book, L iving in the married any longer, a diary she kept in "I was a post-war baby," Shadow ef the Freud Family, pub­ and they divorced. France as a young Sophie says. "Fear of war was lished last year, which she will She is a professor woman. part of my childhood." sign after her talk to an over­ emerita at Simmons, An early World She skips ahead to a day in flow crowd. The cover features where she earned War I letter is from 1938. "I remember the cries a stunningly beautiful young her master's degree ··- --~ Sigmund to his son, of newsboys in the streets of woman. It is her mother. in social work. Now Martin, who had Vienna. 'Something terrible has Sophie is here at the invitation in "retirement," she •.>,. ~,1.~· :r: ·· enlisted, dated Aug. happened.' The Germans had of Dr. Mel B. Yoken, director -~ :• ,;.• .,. writes, travels, and . ~- . . 16, 1914. "No Jew got annexed Austria." of the Boivin Center of French teaches at Brandeis any recognition for The Freud family gathered to Language and Culture. H e University's Osher war service. The Ger- decide what to do. "M y grand­ and his wife, Cindy, had heard Lifelo ng Learning LIVING i11 rlic mans called the Jews father did not want to leave," Sophie speak in Brookline, Institute (BOLLI). SH/\IJO\X/ ,f rhc 'draft dodgers.'" Sophie recalls. "He said he Mass. , last summer. "She was She is also an alumna Her.mother and was 'too old to move.' Then my such a charismatic speaker. I had at Brandeis, where she I REUi) FA1v1ILY father's love letters, Tante Anna (Freud's daughter) to bring her here," he said. earned her Ph.D. in exchanged while he was picked up by the Gestapo On the Simmons College social welfare. 111111,11 ,m,l l :,l/1,-, I l•r \()P f Ill: FRl:LIJ was a prisoner of war and interrogated. She was let go campus in Boston, where she This semester she in Italy, are in the but that changed his mind. It taught at the School of Social is teaching what she book. But it was a took important people who paid The book jacket from Living in the Shadow Work for decades, she is perhaps describes as a discus­ match both fathers enormous sums in "taxes" and of the Freud Family shows Sophie's mot her, Est i. best known not for her famous sion class at Brandeis disapproved of. Sig- exit visas to get us out." grandfather but for the red called "Personal T ales mund wrote ofEsti: While the rest of the Freud scooter on which she zipped to of Sadness and M ad­ "She is maliciously family, including her father work. ness." It would have been "We were headed by a famous meshuga and mad in and brother, fled to London to "There is an exaggerated an apt description of her patriarch but were still a normally the medical sense." escape the Nazis, Sophie and her interest in the name Freud," talk this night. Esti's father mother, Esti, were sent on their Sophie says. "But it has opened "My book adds a small dysfunctional family." warned his daughter own to France. Sigmund hoped many doors for me." stone to the last dark she was marry- this would end the unfortunate At age 18, after immigrating century," she begins her Sophie Freud ing into a family marriage of his son. to America, she studied psy­ talk. "I think history where the patriarch Sophie reads from her diary. chology at Radcliffe. "But the takes on a new reality was "just another "I roamed the streets of Paris, of my family, and I will let the moment I stepped into a class­ when it is told by those who have psychiatrist and one who writes characters speak for themselves. room during a teaching course, I lived through it. This is the story pornography at that." See FAMILY. Page 10 INVEST: JCDS students learn by playing The Stock Market game

From Page 1 to understand how the economy Their portfolio also included Financial partners David works. Apple and Coca Cola. They had Shlepakov and Eli Kanter, both The students turned savvy considered Pepsico, "but a Pepsi 12 and sixth-graders, logged investors are coached by ]CDS spy infiltrated Coca Cola trying onto their portfolio. parent Daniel Gamm, a senior to steal company secrets," said "We're checking to see if financial advisor at Ameriprise Harlam. "We didn't want to we made or lost money since in Cranston. "Did you look at invest in a company that would Tuesday," Shlepakov said. The the company profile, key statis­ do that." duo checked their hold- tics and competitors?" he asked The two fifth-graders dis­ ings: Google, Microsoft, cussed the possibility of Yahoo being bought out Whole Foods, Goldcorp. "The two fifth-graders The consumer stocks were by Microsoft, a rumor doing well, and gold was discussed the possibility of that was flying around the trading floor that skyrocketing. By the rules Yahoo being bought out by of the game, they had to day. trade 100 shares at a time Microsoft, a rumor that was They said sitting on the ]CDS stock Photo by Mary Korr - buy, sell or short. JCDS STUDENTS David Shlepakov and Eli Kanter check their online flying around the trading exchange has taught In building a portfolio, portfolio for gains or losses. them life skills, and at students research and floor that day." evaluate stocks, and make the right time in their your financial homework before keeping the rest in cash, ready lives. "We're tweens," decisions based on what investing and avoid trying to to pounce on an upstart or IPO. they've learned. Teams trade Sophie Harlam and Rachel explained Nassau, 11. time the market. On this afternoon, he checking common stocks and mutual Nassau. "You're a kid through age 9, a In one corner,Jacob Mukand, the analysts' rating for LDK, a tween from 10 to 12, and then a funds from the NYSE, Nasdaq They nodded. Before buying another 12-year-old fledgling solar company and its one-year teenager at 13." and AMEX exchanges; earn 300 shares of CVS, they financier, was checking the 52- target range. "We're learning how to interest on cash balances; pay researched Rite Aid and Wal­ week range of Starbucks, betting Ultimately, as in life, there manage money and not throw it interest if buying on margin and green. on a turnaround at the java will be winners and losers in this around like most teenagers do," pay a commission on all trades. They checked the beta, which giant which has suffered losses stock market game. But time is said Harlam, who is 10. To determine why certain Nassau explained was a mea­ recently. He also holds stock in on the side of these tweens, who Gamm gives the students tips stocks perform the way they do, sure of volatility. "The higher GM, Abercrombie and Fitch may well be able to retire early, for this current volatile market: or why the broader market has the beta, the more volatile the and Microsoft. He's 48 percent say by age 21. diversify, be disciplined, do moved up or down, they need stock," she said. in stocks and bonds overall, PAGE 10 Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 Peace encounters of a close kind Israeli, Palestinian the Oslo Accords. were defeated. daily newspaper, Al Fajr, which Baskin was a Instead of supported the Palestinian Libera­ partners predict peace member of the having a Pal­ tion Organization (PLO) against Jerusalem Experts estinian state the remnants of the Jordanian will happen sooner Committee in the with 45 percent regime. It showed a sheik with rather than later Prime Minister's of the land, a shoe in his mouth. Nasr "was office during the Israel grew." kidnapped and never reappeared." BvMARvKORR final status negotia­ 1967(Six Siniora was asked by family [email protected] tions in 2000-2001. Day War): "It members to take Nasr's place, and Prior to the talk was June 5'\ he eventually became Al Fajr's PROVIDENCE - Israeli at Beth-El, the two on a Monday, editor-in-chief. He is also the Gershon Baskin and Palestinian men sat down at in 1967.My publisher of The Jerusalem Times, a Hanna Siniora are co-CEOS the home ofJudy father and I Palestinian newspaper in English, of the Israel/Palestine Center Kaye, co-chair of went to work. and founder of the Israeli-Pal­ for Research and Information Brit Tzedek's local By noon that estinian radio station "All for (IPCRI), which they describe as Photo by Mary Korr chapter, and spoke day the war had Peace." a non-governmental "think and ISRAELI GERSHON BASKIN, left, and Palestinian Hanna Siniora about their own work together in an NGO think tank looking at new ways to started. We In 1987, he announced he do tank" in Jerusalem, devoted to backgrounds. facilitate peace. closed the store would run for office in the Jerusa­ developing practical solutions for and people ran lem Municipal Council. His car the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. to their homes. was firebombed by the Popular Baskin and Siniora spoke P RE-WAR PALESITNE 1948: "I remember that day, Palestinian radio reported that Front for the Liberation of Pales­ at Temple Beth-El last week, Siniora, a Palestinian Christian, May 15, 1948, after the State of the Air Force oflsrael had been tine, radical and violent Palestin­ on a tour sponsored by Brit was born in 1937 and raised in Israel was declared. All Pales- destroyed. It was false, though ian militants. Tzedek V'Shalom, the Jewish the western part even the King of In 2002, he called for an end to Alliance for Justice and Peace. ofJ erusalem. "Nothing is too late in the dreams and Jordan believed it. all suicide bombings. Providence was their last stop His father was By the sixth day Siniora has several children, on a very hectic schedule. a pharmacist in aspirations of a people. The Palestinians the whole of Gaza, two of whom live in Atlanta. Both have negotiated in vary­ the Old City of want to live in a peaceful society." and the West Bank "Palestinians are today's wander­ ing capacities with Israeli, Arab, Jerusalem. As a were occupied ing Jews," he jokes. He also has European and American govern­ boy, he worked and Sinai and the relatives in Los Angeles and San ment leaders and militant groups, in his father's Hanna Siniora Golan H eights Francisco. including H amas, to achieve store; later he were lost. It was "It's like Jewish geography," peace. Siniora has been a member would go to tinians were ordered to go into the biggest victory explains Baskin, finding relatives, of the Palestinian National Coun­ India to study pharmacy. H e the Old City, and we were told for the young state oflsrael." perhaps several times removed, cil since 1990. H e participated in recalls key political events in his that the Arab Armies were on In 1973, a relative by marriage, wherever you go. the Madrid negotiations prior to life. the way to victory. Instead, they Yusef Nasr, posted a cartoon in a WNG ISLAND ROOTS Gershon Baskin was born in The Freuds were 'normally dysfunctional' Brooklyn in 1956, and grew up FAMILY: on Long Island. H e felt drawn to From Page 9 gone by when I have not consid­ to time there was an air raid had died, of throat cancer, in Israel as a young boy and when ered suicide but haven't found alarm we would go into a ditch. 1939. Freud's five sisters perished it was time for his Bar Mitzvah, vaguely apprehensive. I heard the courage. Your, Esti." I kept looking back. My task in the Holocaust, but a younger he asked for a family trip to Israel German canons in the distance. In 1940, the Germans invaded was to pedal as fast as possible to brother had left for Canada. rather than a party. I kept my mouth with this give­ France and "my mother decided escape the German tanks." "Do you believe in miracles?" He also recalls a family vacation away dangerous accent closed," we would leave by bike and go to Mother and daughter made a member of the audience asked in Williamsburg, Va., where he Sophie said. the free zone in Nice. She told it to the "zone non-occupe" in Sophie at the conclusion of her read an advertisement for "whites On Sept. 3, 1939, a Sunday, me it was her final escape plan Nice, and were put up in a hotel talk. only." This introduced him to Esti sat down at a table at noon and to pack a rucksack. I took for refugees." Sophie answered: "I believe I the Civil Rights movement as to write to her husband and my gas mask out of its container Here they would stay for a have a guardian angel. It is the a youth. During high school he son. "I am writing this at the and threw it out and packed into year and then immigrate to only miracle in which I believe. participated in anti-war protests, moment of the declaration of it a fancy organdy blouse and off America, via Casablanca and I have a very dark outlook on the and managed to meet presidential war. I am all alone. There are we sent south towards Chartres. Lisbon - and that is another future. Any cheerfulness you see candidate Eugene McCarthy and almost no people in Paris. Since "The roads seemed like a huge story in itself. is only on the surface." Congressman Al Lowenstein, an May 21, 1938 not an hour has endless parking lot. From time By that time Sigmund Freud anti-war activist. He also followed a Jewish path, ultimately becoming president of Young Judea in his locale. ~eniorCare Concepts Inc'. "My parents encouraged these Gerintric Care Mnnagemt>11t activities, it kept me away from the drug culture of the times," he said. 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BvJFRI STAFF Outreach: The Who, What, Special to The Voice & Herald When, Where and How." Since 1988, the Jewish Out­ HE COMMUITY Lead­ reach Institute has been a leader T ership Council (CLC) of in the development ofJewish the Jewish Federation of Rhode community-based outreach Island will meet at 7 p.m. programming. Monday, April 14, for a discus­ This meeting is open to all sion about effective outreach members of the CLC. The CLC to the Jewish community. meeting will take place in the The featured speaker will Jewish Community Center be Paul Colin, the associate Social Hall, 401 Elmgrove executive director of the Jewish Ave., Providence. Outreach Institute, based in New York. For more information, contact He will lead the CLC in a POLITICAL ACTION Amy Rovin at 421-4111 ext. TEMPLE HABONIM'S confirmation class members joined 250 other Reform Jews from around the discussion and breakout sessions 169, or [email protected]. country for the L'Taken Seminar at the Religious Action Center in Washington, D.C. From left, on the topic: "Community-wide Charlotte Mintzer, Laura Cohen, Anna Pet, Noah Buff, Rose Phipps, and Mason Cunha.

PEACE: Israeli, Palestinian hopeful on prospects for accord From Previous Page that it would be observed by all rial link between the Gaza Strip Shocked by this retort, Baskin factions in Gaza. and the West Bank; the alloca­ began to frame his life plan. He Three weeks ago, H amas again tion of shared resources such as went to Israel and made aliyah in asked them to act as intermediar­ water; and the economic relation­ 1978, joining a program called ies. Baskin said this resulted in ship between the two states. Interns for Peace. He lived in further discussions with potential "Israel and Palestine have very an Arab village for two years, interlocutors - Norway, Turkey, weak leaders," both stated. "But and realized there needed to be Palestinian president Mahmoud because of their weakness they a formal educational approach Abbas and Egypt. have the possibility of making to relationships and exchanges Back-channel negotiations history. Olmert and Abbas both between Palestinians and Israelis. open the door a little further. recognize they are in their final He designed and proposed a Said Baskin, "When Anwar moments - they know it and position in the Ministry of Edu­ Sadat stood in the Knesset to want to get an agreement. It is cation and was hired. announce peace with Israel, within site. That is our message he knew Sinai was in his back tonight." CURRENT EVENTS pocket." "Nothing is too late in the At the talk at Beth-El, Baskin Baskin and Siniora seemed dreams and aspirations of a said that four months ago Hamas both pragmatic and optimistic. people," Siniora said. "The Pales­ approached them to send a mes­ "This is the most researched con­ tinians want to live in a peaceful sage to Israel that Hamas was flict in history," Baskin said. society." ready to talk about a "temporary" The key issues include: borders; AL EPH BET YOGA: Students and parents from the Jewish ceasefire - a period of"calming Jerusalem's future; the question of For more information, visit Community Day School practice their poses as they participate in down" to last about a year, and Palestinian refugees; the territo- www.ipcri.org. Aleph Bet Yoga at the JCC, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island, the Jewish Community Day School, and PJ Library.

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well as parts of nearby Mas­ Our young man was in his glory, Photo by Stan Turco sachusetts and Connecticut. the scoutmasters were delighted, RABBI SOL GOODMAN, the senior chaplain at Camp Yawgoog, leads a Torah reading at services in In a given year, about 25,000 and the day was the high point for 1994. From left, Kurt Abbott, Troop 183, Warwick; Eagle Scouts Abe Aron and Mark Robinson, Troop youngsters participate in the him at camp. 7, Buttonwoods, Warwick; and Rabbi Goodman. scouting program in this Coun­ He promised to return and asked cil. When you add to that the me ifI would as well. I am wait­ more than 5,000 adult leaders ingfor the photograph from his who pitch in, you realize that scoutmaster to arrive. scouting touches many people. The effects ofthese simple gestures In Rhode reverberated Island we throughout the have one of "Scouting should be camp and dearly the premiere made an impres- scouting - and is - a welcoming sion. camps in the place for boys of all Another adult country. For leader from eight weeks and any faiths." another troop during the sought me out summer, Rabbi Sol Goodman, the very next this camp, morning to known as Chaplain discuss what Yawgoog Camp Yawgoog he could do to Scout encourage the Reservation, participation of serves hun- a Muslim scout dreds of scouts. Each year, about in his troop, whose parents were 6,500 scouts attend Yawgoog for reluctant to send their son to camp one week. because they felt he would be so out At Yawgoog there are three ofplace. chaplains - Catholic, Jewish and We discussed different strategies, Protestant. Rabbi Sol Goodman and I encouraged him to tell this serves as the Jewish chaplain. family about this week's experience. Rabbi Goodman is also the I spoke about how scouting should senior chaplain at the camp. be - and is - a welcoming place According to the rabbi, we for boys ofall and any faiths, and have scouts of 12 different that in sharing our be!ieft we come religions at camp each year. together and create a climate of These scouts play together and greater understandingfor all ofus . work together with few if any This truly is the reason why our incidents; anti-Semitism does chaplaincy program is so invalu­ not appear to exist at all at the able to Yawgoog, to scouting, to camp, and the rabbi's role in Jewish scouts, and to the world. ecumenical activities certainly It is this opportunity for scouts contributes to this peaceful and scout leaders which creates condition. respect and understanding among In the rabbi's summer-ending individuals ofdiverse backgrounds report this past year, there was andfurthers the greatest lesson a beautiful story demonstrating that scouting can teach: no matter this spirit of understanding. .what ourfaith, color, or country of His report reads: origin, we are all one and united "One event brings this idea home by that sacred spark which glows more than ever. This past summer w ithin each ofus. a young scout ofArab /Muslim That is - and must continue to be Join your neighbors and make your pledge now to the J ewish descent spent his first summer with - our message." JFRI 2008 Annual Campaign. his troop at camp. W ouldn't it be great if this Fed eration of Clearly, he was the only camper scouting story were to be basis of Please call 401 -421-41 I I or donate on line at ofhis faith, and certainly the most teaching tolerance everywhere? Rhod e www.JFRl .org. devout, praying each day. I sland 130 Sessions St., Providence RI 02906 H is adult leaders approached PAGE 14 Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 ______J llll"l'WZ•lti 1111 Bombay bound: Return trip to my birthplace in India my father was 12-year-old boy's kind enough to let us in and have Family fled pogrom persuaded by his eyes come back a look around. We visited our in Iraq in 1941 extended family into sharp focus former school, walked the parks that we should and brought tears where we played as children. We ·settling in India relocate to Iran, to my eyes. The also visited the David Sassoon .r partly because sights rushed at Library. We visited our family Bv SAM SHAMOON business pros­ me, this huge synagogue. At first I wasn't Special to the Voice & Herald pects were more metropolis that sure which one was ours. We lucrative there was a mere belonged to the one built by the FTERAN ABSENCE than in India. By five million in Sassoon family. But there are two f over 50 years, I finally Af the early 1950s 1957 and now prominent Sassoon synagogues ad the opportunity all of our family estimated to be in Mumbai: The Maghen David to visit my birthplace: Bombay members who over 17 mil- in a neighborhood called Byc­ (now called Mumbai), India. My fled Baghdad for lion people, 60 ulla and the Kenesseth Eliya­ family, whose forebears lived in India had moved percent ofwhom hoo in another neighborhood Baghdad for some 27 centuries, on to places live in deplorable called Colaba. My brother and I were forced to flee the pogrom of like America shanties lining decided to visit the latter build­ Baghdad (known as the Farhud) and Israel. We most of the major ing, as it was closer to the hotel. in 1941 and sought refuge in were the last to city highways; I found out later that Kenesseth the only safe haven available to leave. My father the sounds of Eliyahoo synagogue was built by them. India was more than just a decided that it constant traf- David Sassoon's son, Sir Jacob safe haven; it became our home, was best fo r him fic with horns Sassoon in 1884. The scene was a place where my family could and his family blaring every hauntingly familiar - as ifl was live unmolested; we were made to move to Iran. two seconds; walking in a dream and knew I to feel welcome with not even a The "vacation" SAM SHAMOON on Jew Street in Cochin, India. the crush of had been here before. hint of anti-Semitism. Bombay turned into a people teem- I went to Shabbat services the was the only place I knew in permanent move. walked as a boy. That opportu­ ing everywhere; next day, still not totally certain my early childhood; I have fond It was not by any means a nity came just last month when I the myriad crows overhead with that this was where my father memories of our house, friends, bad move. I quickly made new and my younger brother, David, their own cacophony added to took me. We were not regulars trips to Poona, Juhu beach, friends, got acclimated to a new and his son, Adam, traveled the human din; the hot, heavy, by any means; my memory was the parks and playgrounds. school and even shed my Indian to Mumbai and Cochin. My humid subtropical air (average of Rosh H ashanah services when This would be my first trip accent. The school was an Ameri­ nephew is a documentary film highs in the 90s in January, the the place was full. My father back to the city of my youth. can school that enabled me to maker, and he came to chronicle "cool" season) with severe smog had a seat and I sat next to him. In 1957, at the age of 12, my apply to an American that stings the eyes and Since children were not really father took us on a family vaca­ college and eventually ------causes one to cough; the col- welcomed, I had to give up the tion to Teheran, Iran where his settle in Rhode Island, orful flow of humanity, with seat to other men, but I was able mother, uncle and brother lived. "India is not for the faint of where I have lived with little beggar girls and boys to sit on the tile floor beside my As we left India on a ship, I my family for over 40 heart. But to me, it was a to break your heart - India father. I didn't complain. Now, watched the famous Gateway of years. is not for the faint of heart. attending Shabbat service as an India become smaller and smaller satisfying homecoming." But I often thought But to me, it was a satisfy- adult, I sat in my father's seat. until it disappeared into the about India. Of all the ------ing homecoming. About 20 or so men sat nearby horizon. I turned my attention to places I have lived, this Boyhood home and a handful of women were in the exciting vacation which was our return after 50 years. birthplace of mine had a compel­ We found the apartment house · the balcony. We all davenedwith to last three months and then we It was a thrill to land in ling lure. I simply had to go back of my childhood, a stunning art Hazzan Solomon Sofer. would all come home to Bombay. Mumbai and take the hour and find my boyhood home. I deco building on Dinshaw Vacha In the 1950s our rabbi was What I didn't know at the time drive to our hotel that faces the yearned to see and touch and Road, and entered our first floor Chacham Baruch, but no one was that we would never return. Gateway oflndia. To see that hear and even smell the places I flat. The current tenants were See INDIA, Page 42 After a few weeks in Teheran, marvelous edifice that faded in a Improve Your 6-racles! Tutoring Students K-12

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-~~iit•j~ - ~------~------Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 PAGE 15 GENDER: How to change inequity in the Jewish workplace is book's focus From Page 1 offederations, ofJCC profes­ effectiveness. Sociologist Sylvia Barack "People are ready to be part sionals, and wherever we look, "Everyone wants to run a Fishman of Brandeis University of a change initiative," she says . sion was set up to enforce it. men occupy more prestigious more effective organization," she says it's partly about money, that "This book is aimed at giving No one pretends, however, and better-compensated posi­ says. "Everything up to now has men don't want to give up the them the tools." that gender inequity has dis­ tions," says sociologist Steven M. failed" to close the gender gap. lucrative positions. But it's also Bronznick, who wrote the appeared from the American Cohen, whose studies are cited "This book can help. It holds about prestige. book with Didi Goldenhar and workplace. And it is just as in the new book. up a mirror to Jewish organiza­ "Men with power have been Marty Linsky, is the founding pervasive in the Jewish work­ "What's bad and wrong for tions and Jewish leaders, so they very cautious about allowing president of the eight-year-old place - even more so, critics America is bad and wrong for can assess gender inequity in women to penetrate the high- advocacy group Advancing charge, than in fields such as American Jewry," says est level ofJewish Women Professionals and the law, medicine and academia, Cohen of Hebrew Union communal leadership Jewish Community. areas that have poured resources College-Jewish Institute "The Jewish community is a because they're afraid She has spent years working on into closing the gender gap in a of Religion. the same thing will gender inequity issues, devoting way that Jewish organizations much more gender-stratified com­ Leveling the Playing Field, happen as elsewhere much of the early 2000s trying have not. produced by the group munity than any I know, much in Jewish life," says to convince Jewish CEOs and Morlie Levin, the national Advancing Women Fishman, who just communal leaders to take the executive director of H adassah, more than the U.S. military." Professionals and the completed a study on problem seriously. the W omen's Zionist Organiza­ Jewish Community, along gender imbalance in Chazan says that such efforts tion of America, spent 25 years with Cambridge Leader- Morlie Levin, Jewish life. have a better chance of succeed­ as a national security analyst at ship Associates, lays out "Once the field ing today because more Jewish the Rand Corp. before going national executive director, the theoretical basis for becomes feminized, it resources are being directed at into Jewish communal work a creating gender equity Hadassah will be very difficult to the problem and researchers decade ago. in Jewish organizations, re-engage men." such as Cohen, Bronznick and "The Jewish community is a showing that it is not only Shifra Bronznick, Fishman are producing stud- much more gender-stratified right, it's good business. one of three authors of ies that support the need for community than any I know, their organizations and improve For example, the book cites Leveling the Playing Field, says change. much more than the U.S. mili­ it." a 2004 study of more than 350 the will to change is more preva­ "There are statistics connected tary," she says. If women are so prevalent in Fortune 500 companies, which lent now, but the change has to to the sentiment," Chazan says . A new book, Leveling the every other aspect of American found that those with the great­ come from below - the men and "People are suddenly sitting up Playing Field: Advancing Women Jewish life, what is keeping them est percentage of women on top women coming up within these and listening. in Jewish Organizational Lift, out of the top positions? management teams performed organizations. aims to change that. better financially than companies Published by a group that has with the fewest women leaders. long sought to advance the cause The book then provides of gender equity in Jewish life, concrete steps that women - and Leveling the Playing Field pro­ men - can take to move their vides a how-to guide to gender own Jewish organizations onto a equity for Jewish professionals more gender-equal footing, from and the organizations where building alliances to setting up they work. inhouse mentoring programs fo r It's not that women are absent promising young employees. from Jewish life. 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Yisrael, haunted by those sad and sober in 1965 neighbors was the occasional ofJune, 1967; the 1973 Yorn the State oflsrael. Part of the words that Professor D avid overhead roar of French-built Kippur War; the incursion into complexity of our Jewish identity Hartman addressed to a couple BY ) AMES B. ROSENBERG Mirage jets piloted by members Lebanon in 1982; not one but results from the interplay of of hundred Reform rabbis when Special To 7he Voice & Herald of the Israeli air force. two intifadas with the attendant these three Israels in shaping we were meeting in Jerusalem in AM THREE YEARS Two other incidents during suicide bombings; the current who we are. March, 2002: "We are living in I older than the State of that summer challenged my tense stand-off between Israe- As almost all of you know, a time of moral ambiguity." Israel. When I set foot wishful thinking that all was !is and Palestinians; and the our Biblical ancestors began an I take this to mean that none in Israel for the first well on Israel's borders. They insistent rumblings of a bellicose almost two-thousand-year exile of us can escape as morally pure time in June of 1965, I had occurred at opposite ends of the Iran. in the year 70 C.E., when the individuals from this witches' recently completed my junior country, as I was touring with Certainly, on that summer Romans destroyed the Temple brew of current events; during year at Columbia College. two British co-workers during a evening in 1965, I myself was in Jerusalem. these troubled times, we are To be honest, I was a rather 10-day break from our labor on both unwilling and unable to see It was not until the late 19'h forced to choose among the least naive 21-year-old, while the kibbutz. the clouds on the horizon. I pre- century that the first Zionist bad options. This is not a com- Israel was an adolescent 18. H aving hitchhiked to Elat ferred to hold fast to my dreams pioneers began the process of fortable place to be, but Jewish Step- - which at the time had virtu- of an Israel safe and secure. reclaiming our ancestral home- tradition has always insisted that ping off ally no tourist accommodations Almost 43 years later, Israel is land. One of the saddest and bit- our task is to live in the here and the KLM whatsoever - and having slept still very much on my mind and terest paradoxes of 20'h century the now and to strive to trans- "Jumbo under the stars on the beach at in my heart. Given the ongoing history is that a burgeoning form the chol - everyday, messy, Jet" on the lip of the Red Sea, the three confusion of worry and hope Jewish nationalism sowed the morally ambiguous reality - into June 29, of us were hiking on an arid hill- which seems to be the Israelis' seeds of Palestinian nationalism. the kadosh - the realm of the 1965, top almost within sight And, so it is that our holy. I was of the Egyptian border. third Israel, Medina! The State oflsrael will be eel- "What is not so obvious is that l surprised There, much to our sur- Yisrael, the State oflsrael, ebrating her 60th birthday this i and a bit prise, we came across a there are not one, not two, but must continually confront coming May 8; the country has dismayed large cache of weapons excruciatingly painful certainly changed immensely l to see concealed under sandy three Israels - Am Yisrae/, the choices as it attempts to since my fust visit back in the blades of colored tarps - what people of Israel; Eretz Yisrae/, safeguard its citizens from summer of 1965. j grass peeking through the cracks appeared to be rifles hostile attack and, at the Although there are profound , in the tarmac of what was then a and machine guns, a the land of Israel, and since May very same time, seek to differences among us in our rather ramshackle Lod airport. grim reminder that 14, 1948, Medinat Yisrael, the address the legitimate Rhode Island Jewish commu- I remember the flies, I remem- Israel was in a state of demands of an angry and nity, let all of us come together ber the lizards that nobody was siege. State of Israel." dissatisfied Palestinian to express our solidarity with j quick enough to catch. I remem- A few days later I population. the State oflsrael as she marks ber visiting relatives in Hadera was walking alone Not even King Solo- 60 years of remarkable achieve- ! lot, I remain preoccupied, even mon in all his wisdom could ment. and hearing the loudspeaker on after dark on the outskirts of < a passing truck proclaim: Ein Kibbutz K'far Giladi (the very obsessed by events beyond my be expected to tease apart and We are Orthodox, Conserva- mayim machar (no water tomor- same kibbutz at which 12 Israeli control which are taking place finally resolve all these issues tive, Reform, Reconstructionist, row). soldiers were killed by a Hezbol- 6,000 miles away, as are many, if that might one day- God will- as well as fiercely secular. We not most, American Jews. i For me the summer of 1965 !ah rocket Aug. 6, 2006), when I ing - lead to peace. are young, and we are old. We turned out to be a kaleidoscope was stopped by an Israeli soldier, There are many reasons for our These three Israels - Am represent a wide spectrum of l of shattered preconceptions. riding in a jeep. continuing involvement with the Yisrael, the people oflsrael, political positions; and yes, we For the majority of my 10- Qyickly grasping that my State oflsrael - some obvious, Eretz Yisrael, the land oflsrael, fundamentally disagree as to week stay, I worked at various comprehension of Hebrew some not quite so obvious. We and Medinat Yisrael, the State what is the best course of action jobs on Kibbutz K'far Men- was weak, he informed me in have family and friends in Jeru- oflsrael, do not exist as abstract that Israel should take during achem, which is located more very clear and strongly worded salem or Tel-Aviv or H aifa or Platonic ideals. Rather, our these difficult days for the or less in the center of a triangle English that I was a jerk and some of the smaller cities, towns, three Israels exist in the messy Jewish state. formed by Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, was endangering myself by and kibbutzim throughout the and confusing particulars of the Nevertheless, now is the time and Beersheba. wandering towards the Lebanese length and breath of the land. every day. How much more con- to put aside our differences in For a few days I toiled under a border. H e was equally explicit We have visited Israel again and fusing have these messy particu- order to affirm, that ko!Yisrael very hot sun in the apple orchard in directing me to proceed again; indeed, I suspect that Jars become in recent months. arevim zeh ba'zeh, all Jews are and the cotton fields; but then I immediately in the opposite many readers of 7he Voice & Am Yisrael, the people oflsrael responsible for one another, and moved into the mishchatah, the direction back to the safety of Herald have been there far more world-wide has been filled with that am Yisrael chai, the Jewish slaughter house, where for the K'far Giladi. often than my four trips. fear and trembling over what is people live! rest of the summer I assisted the Despite his gruff manner, I W hat is not so obvious is that happening in Eretz Yisrael, the shochet in the kosher dispatching find it hard to imagine that on there are not one, not two, but land oflsrael, under the leader-

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In WASHINGTON: As if to prove the - For the first time since the ing another 5,000 Palestinian has announced that due to a lack an apology, a BBC spokesman ancient cliche about Jews being Annapolis peace parley last workers to work in Israel, of rain, high use by agriculture said "We accept that we should the same as everyone else - only November, the United States bringing the total number and pollution, the amount of have made reference to Israel's more so, there comes news of a is leaning heavily on Israel permitted to do so to 23,500; usable water supplies in the right to defend itself as well as to recent Gallup Poll finding that to move ahead in peacemak­ • Issuing permits to another country is at a 10-year low. By the excessive use of force by the Jews, like almost everyone-else, ing with the Palestinians. 500 Pal­ year's end, the Authority said, Israelis." (BBC/JTA) are pretty evenly split in choos­ This week, on her second estinian the Sea of Galilee's level is likely Vitriol, and talk ing between Barack Obama visit to Israel and the Pal­ business­ to drop below the so-called and Hillary Clinton. In the poll, of ceasefire estinian areas in a month, men, "black line," when pumping will Clinton received 48 percent of U.S. Secretary of State enabling have to stop as the machinery GAZA: From Hamas, still in the vote, Obama, 43 percent. Condoleezza Rice secured a a total will no longer be submerged. control of the Gaza Strip, there Since the margin of error was six long list oflsraeli commit­ ofl,500 Officials say that Israel may soon was more talk about violence, percent, that means they were in ments designed to improve Palestin­ have to begin rationing water, this from Ayman al-Zawahiri, a statistical tie. Other findings: Palestinian living condi­ ians to a measure last used in the late deputy to Osama bin Laden's They are also equally divided tions and indicated that the move in 1990s. Meanwhile the Authority deputy. "Muslims! This is your among Protestants, but Clinton United States would make and out of Condoleezza Rice is pushing plans to build desali­ day," he said in a voice record­ has a substantial edge among sure Israel carried them out. Israel on nization plants to augment the ing posted on the Internet, last Roman Catholics while Obama The measures included: business; dwindling supplies. OTA) week. "Hit the interests of the leads among non-Jewish and • Dismantling 50 road­ • Providing Israeli support BBC apologizes Jews and the Americans and non-Christian voters as well as blocks around the West Bank for development programs to Israel all those who participate in the among those with no religious cities ofJenin, Tulkarm, · and foreign investment in the aggression against Muslims. No affiliations. OTA) Kalkilya and Rart\allah; West Bank; allowing 700 LONDON: The BBC has apolo­ one can say today that we should Saudi interfaith summit • Streamlining operations at Palestinian security police to gized for two major inaccuracies fight the Jews in Palestine only." the remaining 500 or so Israeli move into Jenin to maintain SAUDI ARABIA: For the first in reports about Israel. In the Meanwhile there was talk of a roadblocks in the West Bank; law and order - a similar time that anyone can remember, first instance, concerning Israel's different kind from the Hamas • Dismantling a perma­ contingent is already at work Saudi Arabia is invitingJews to response to the murder of eight political leader, Khaled Meshal. nent checkpoint near Jericho, in Nablus; attend an interfaith summit that yeshiva students in Jerusalem, On Monday of this week he gave giving Palestinians direct • Allowing the supply of they intend to host. The con­ the communications network an interview to the Palestin- access to the Dead Sea; 125 vehicles and 25 Rus­ ference will include Muslims, showed film of a home being ian daily, AI-Ayam, in which he • Allowing the construc­ sian-made armored personnel Christians and Jews, according demolished and claimed it was said that Hamas would agree tion of5,000 to 8,000 new carriers to Palestinian security to a report in the Saudi news­ the home of the Arab terrorist. It to an Israeli state within the Palestinian homes in some 25 forces; paper AI-Sharq al-Awsat and turned out to be a nearby home 1967 borders. He explajned that villages in the Rarnallah area, • And building dozens of , later in the Israeli newspaper, that had felt the wrecker's ball Hamas is interested in a tahadi­ a project that has been on hold Palestinian police stations HaA.retz. Saudi Arabia's King two weeks previous. The home yeh, a complete cease-fire, not for more than a year; across the West Bank to oper­ Abdullah discussed the plan of the terrorist and his family a comprehensive peace treaty. • Connecting Palestinian ate under Israeli supervision with Pope Benedict. is still standing. In the second He was asked if this included a villages without electricity to and ultimate security control. instance, the BBC said that prisoner exchange and said that Compiled by Yeduha Lev

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PAGE 22 Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 Making your own gefilte fish from scratch A once-in-a-lifetime extent that we planned our hon­ know, we're only having 10 the fish mixture. eymoon around a food-and-wine people at our seder. There's a The process of form­ experience? tour of the Pacific Northwest. LOT of fish here." ing loaves and dropping But the idea of beheading, gut­ He had to order whole fish, them into the cooking B v D ANA B OTTORFF ting and filleting a bushel of carp he explained, in order to get the water seemed to take [email protected] was something I couldn't quite heads and tails for stock, and "the hours. Fifteen pounds T SEEMED LIKE a embrace. Not to worry, said Don. fish don't know to grow to the of fish goes a long way, good idea at the time. "We'll buy it already ground from right size for our family's con­ and much ofit seemed I the fish store." They always do. sumption." to be coating Don's The time my husband, Suddenly, absent the vision of The following day, the cook­ arms up to the elbow. Don, suggested we make our fish entrails, this seemed do-able. ing commenced. We hauled out But the result was own gefilte fish from scratch, So a week before Passover, the biggest mixing bowl we own, worth the effort, the it sounded intriguing. he called the local fish monger turned the first batch of fish into mess and, amazingly, GOING TO a fish monger and having the W e had finally succeeded in and ordered several whole carp, it and mixed in eggs, mat-zah the price. fish prepared and ground in advance convincing his kosher family to whitefish and pike - all cleaned meal and seasonings until we Our gefilte fish was eases the process. The recipe for the broth come out to our non-kosher and ground. When I arrived at achieved the perfect consistency the sweetest, softest, includes fish heads and tails. for forming gooey little most flavorful we had home for the Passover seder, anything. loaves. ever tasted. It so far outshone on the promise that we Making homemade gefilte "Fifteen pounds of fish goes I use the term "we" in even the "gold label" stuff, it would kasher the kitchen. fi sh is one of those experiences the royal sense, as D on spoiled us forever. And thank The research that went into a long way, and much of it that you say you're glad to had still points out to me that goodness it was so tasty - the kashering the kitchen led once in a lifetime. But every once seemed to be coating Don's my role was pretty much three gallons of it that we put to all sorts of ruminations in a while, the urge to visit the limited to chopping veg- up in the freezer were eventually on tradition, family, Jewish arms up to the elbow." fish monger crosses our minds. etables and cheerleading. eaten. cooking and gefilte fish. Maybe this year. ... "Lees make our own!" he We chopped many We haven't made homemade exclaimed, his eyes gleaming the store to pick up the bounty, I pounds of onions and gefilte fish since that first foray. On Wednesday,April 16, carrots for the cooking water, with an excitement that bordered was stunned not only by the price But we did find an acceptable at 8 p.m., Rhode Island's PBS on insanity. (more than $100), but the quan­ and since the recipe Don found store-bought substitute in our TV station will air "7he Gefilte followed the traditions of Galicia, local kosher grocer's freezer that ·We had always been gas­ tity of fish. There was enough to Chronicles," one family's Passover tronomically inclined, valuing feed the Israeli army. the southern Poland region of his we cook ourselves. story, underwritten by the Jewish gourmet food and cooking to the "H oney," I said gently. ''You grandmother's birth, ground car­ We love it, the kids love it Federation ofRhod e Island. rots, parsnips and sugar went into and no one gets elbow-deep in

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PAGE 24 Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 Perfectly Pareve food writer offers Passover recipes BYTh E O RTHODOX U NION in the OU Passover cheese but totally remaining matzo, remaining Special to The Voice & Herald Guide, offering help­ pesadic (Kosher for cheese/onions. D ot top with ful hints about what OR THOSE seeking Passover)," says Goltz. butter. Pour milk mixture over to substitute for a par­ to liven up their holi­ INGREDIENTS top. Cover and bake for 30 ticular recipe ingredi­ day fare, the Passover minutes. Remove cover and bake F ent that isn't kosher for 1 large onion 10-15 minutes more, to brown. website of the Ortho­ chopped Passover. Cut into squares or serve with dox Union, www.oupassover.org, 4-5 lg. eggs• The following are large spoon. will once again this year offer 5-1/4 cup matzo some of the featured assistance to those preparing farfel (9 broken recipes that can be meals for the seder and the rest matws) SAVORY CHAROSET MATZAH found on oupassover. of the holiday by providing a 3/4 lb. cheddar KUGEL (PAREVE) org. large number of recipes together cheese and/or other "A very different kind ofkugel with other food-related features. strongly flavored but very delicious," says Goltz. Eileen Goltz, author of the L EFTOVER CHICKEN cheese, shredded INGREDIENTS cookbook Pe,jectly Pareve, pres­ OR ThRKEY (MEAT) 1-1/2 cup milk 4 matzahs ents original recipes comprising "This recipe includes 1/4 teaspoon pepper 3 eggs, beaten a treasure trove of selections, green olives and they 2 tablespoon butter including chicken, muffins, give the salad an 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup honey kugel, desserts, and salads. interesting tang," says Note: If watch- Recipes are meat, dairy or pareve Goltz. 1/4 cup oil ing cholesterol, use 1 2 tablespoons prepared white (neither meat nor dairy). Ingredients: whole egg and substi­ horseradish Goltz is a freelance kosher 3/4 lb (2-3 cups) of tute 2 egg whites fo r 1/2 cup cl10pped walnuts food writer who was born and cooked chicken meat, Cookbook by Ei leen Goltz each whole egg. Use raised in the Chicago area. She coarsely cl10pped 2 apples, chopped 2 egg whites over the cup raisins graduated from Indiana Univer­ 2 stalks celery, 1/2 METHOD matws, the whole egg 1 teaspoon cinnamon sity and the Cordon Bleu Cook­ cl1opped In a large bowl, combine the and remaining whites in milk ing School in Paris. She lectures 1/2 red bell pepper, seeded chicken, celery, pepper, olives, mixture. METHOD on various food-related topics and chopped Preheat oven to 350. Grease onion, apple and lettuce. Toss to METHOD across the U.S. and Canada 4-6 green olives, pitted and combine. In a small bowl, com­ an 8-inch square baking pan. and writes weekly newspaper minced Preheat oven to 350. Saute Break matzah in pieces. Place bine the mayonnaise, preserves, onion until translucent and columns fo r the Chicago Jewish 1/4 cup of chopped red onion lemon juice, and salt and pepper. them in a bowl and soak for fragrant. Grease a 9x13 baking News, kosher.com and the OU 1/2 to a whole apple, cored Whisk to combine. Taste to five minutes and then drain. In dish. Beat 3 eggs well. Place Shabbat Shalom W eb site (www. and chopped balance for sweetness. Add more another bowl combine the eggs, the farfel in a large bowl. Pour ou.org). She is the author of 1/3 head of iceberg head let­ preserves or lemon juice depend­ salt, honey, oil, cinnamon and the Pe,jectly Pareve Cookbook tuce, sliced and chopped the beaten eggs over the farfel. horseradish. Mix and add the ing on your taste. Add salt and In another bowl combine the (Feldheim) and is a contribut­ 5 tablespoons mayonnaise pepper to taste. Mix the dressing mixture to the marzili. Mix ing writer for the Chicken Soup 1 tablespoon plum or any remaining egg with the milk and in the nuts, apples, and raisins. in with the salad ingredients. far the Soul Book Group, Chicago berry preserves or 2 teaspoons pepper. Beat to combine and set Place the mixture into the pre­ Sun Times, Detroit Free Press and honey aside. Combine the onion with pared baking dish and bake for Woman 's World Magazine. 2 teaspoons fresh squeezed SAVORY FARFEL AND CHEESE the shredded cheese(s). Layer 35 minutes. A list of ingredient substitu­ lemon juice K UGEL (DAIRY) casserole as follows: half the tions by Goltz also appears Salt and pepper to taste "Sorta kinda like mac and matzo, half the cheese/onions,

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KOSHER BUTCHER & KOSHER FISH SERVICE There will be NO Kosher service on Thursday, April, 24 Regular Kosher service will resume on Thursday, May 1 from 8:00-2:00 p.m. Under the Supervision of the Rhode Island Kashruth Commission OUR BEST WISHES FDR A H APPYZ::X PASS OVE R WITH DINNER, a salad of bitter herbs and oranges offers a tart con ­ trast to a rich brisket or brais ed la mb. Biblical schola rs surmise that greens like chicory, da ndelion, sorrel and hyssop, w hich grow wild EastsideMarketplace in Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula, first symbolized the bitterness of bondage at seders. Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 PAGE 27 Flour-less chocolate souffie cake A Passover tradition ture butter or margarine in our house and brush it over all inte­ BY LYNN AslNOF rior surfaces Special to 1he Voice & Herald with a pastry IS CAKE has become brush.) Then TIPassover tradition in sprinkle ur house. The long granulated baking time is needed to create sugar all the sugar crust that gives the over the pan. cake its shape. I usually make Shake the the cake the day before - or early pan to coat the day of seder - because I like it with sugar the way it tastes after it sits for a and then bit. If it will be sitting overnight, tap out the I cover the cake with foil or excess. Set stir to mix. Set 2 1/4 hours.) During the baking plastic wrap until ready to serve. pan aside. Put aside. the cake will rise and then sink. coarsely In the large It will sink more in the middle INGREDIENTS: chopped bowl of an electric than on the edges. 8 ounces semisweet chocolate chocolate mixer, add the salt Remove the pan from the oven 8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted in top of a to the egg whites and let it stand in the pan for butter or pareve margarine double boiler and beat until the about five minutes. Then cover 2 T. salad oil set over hot whites hold a point the pan with an inverted serving 8 eggs (large) separated water on when the beaters plate. Hold the plate and the pan 1 cup granulated sugar moderate heat. "The long baking time is needed are raised but not firmly together and then turn 1 teaspoon vanilla until they are stiff them over. The sugar coating in Cut up the butter to create the sugar crust that 1/4 teaspoon salt or margarine and or dry. Fold a few the pan forms a crust, and the add it, and the gives the cake its shape. " large spoonfuls of the cake should slide out easily. Let Adjust rack one-third up from oil, to the choco- ______whites into the choco­ stand until cool. the bottom of the oven and pre­ late. Cover and late mixture. Then Serve with whipped cream or heat the oven to 300 degrees. You add the remaining sprinkle with powdered sugar. cook until almost tions, whisk in about half of will need a 10-inch Bundt pan or whites and gently fold together completely melted. Stir until the hot chocolate. Then add the any other fancy shaped tube pan only until incorporated. 1he recipe is adapted.from Maida melted and smooth. Remove rest of the chocolate mixture to with a 12-cup capacity. Mine is Gently turn the mixture into Heatter's New Book ofGreat from hot water. the yolks and mix together. The non-stick. Butter the pan, even the prepared pan. Desserts. In a mixing bowl, stir the mixture will thicken as the heat if it has a non-stick lining. (The Bake for 2 1/4 hours (This is yolks with a wire whisk to mix, of the chocolate cooks the eggs. best way is to use room tempera- not a mistake - it actually takes then gradually, in a few addi- Add the sugar and vanilla and jlccountingfor 'Taste, ~~c '\\GPPY JCosher Caterer Pas.so~ Appetizers and Soups Entrees Desserts ~ Gefilte Fish $2.99ea. Boneless Chicken Marsala $4.99ea. Krakofsky Cookies (made with cashews not peanuts) $12. per lb Chopped Liver $8.99 lb. Oven Roasted Quartered Chicken $2.99ea. Chocolate Cream Roll • Lemon Roll Sweet & Sour Meatballs $12.50 doz. Poached Salmon in White Wine $12.99 lb. Raspberry Roll • Apicot Roll !serves 1-si $10.95 ea. Tri-Color Gefilte Fish (serves 10-12) $45.00 Brisket with Deb's Special Gravy $18.991b. Mini Bon Bons • Rum Balls • Chocolate Petttifor Potato Leek Soup $7.95 qt. Mini B&W or Pink &White $9.001/2 doz. Pareve Chicken Soup with carrots $5.95 qt. Sides Assorted Chocolate Dipped Chicken Soup with Carrots $7.95 qt. Eggplant Cutlets (serves 10-12) $24.99 Dried Fruits & Marshmallows $22.00 per lb. Meat Knishes $6,00 1/2 dOL Sweet Potato & Carrot Tzimmes (serves 10-151 $17.99 Chocolate Brownies $10,95 pan Matzo Balls $8.99doz. Potato Kugel (serves 10-15) $17.99 Linzer Torte (serves 10-12) $45.00 Mushroom Farfel Stuffing (servesl0-15) $18.99 Chocolate Dipped Coconut Macaroons $9.00 1/2doL

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Orders MUST be placed by April 11, 2008 Orders MUST be picked up on April 18, 2008 at Temple Emanu-EI Kitchen between 9:00 a.m. & noon Call: 301-1889 or FAX: 831-2849 Under the strict su ervision o Rabbi Wa ne Franklin...... PAGE 28 Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 Daffodil dessert is lemony light medium high speed, 2 Tblsps. at Method: For a light touch, a time. Add vanilla and vinegar Mix sugar, salt and and beat until glossy and holds starch in a medium-large try this individual stiff peaks. Using 2 tablespoons saucepan. Gradually stir lemon meringue or a pastry bag, shape meringue in water until mixture shells, about 5 inches in diam­ is smooth. Cook over dessert eter on a cookie sheet, lined medium heat stirring with greased parchment or wax constantly until mixture BY M ARYLYN G RAFF paper. Bake for about 45 minutes thickens and boils. Turn [email protected] and turn down oven for about heat to medium and HIS IS a perfect spring 15 minutes more. Meringues simmer, stirring, for about T dessert, delicious and should not brown. Open oven a minute. Gradually stir light after a big holiday door and let meringues sit until several tablespoons hot dinner. I cut the recipe out of a cool. Remove very carefully onto mixture into egg yolks to magazine many years ago and a rack, as they break easily. Store temper so they don't cook. it's been a favorite ever since. airtight if not using right away. Then stir yolks into rest DAFFODIL DESSERT LEMON FILLING: of mixture in pan. Stir in margarine, lemon juice Preheat oven to 275 F. Ingredients and zest. Cook for about Ingredients: 3/4 cup granulated sugar another minute until well 6 egg whites 6 egg yolks, slightly beaten in blended and thick. Cool pinch salt a medium-large bowl to room temperature. Just Individual daffodil dessert 1/4 tsp. cream of tartar 3 Tblsps. potato starch before serving, place each 2 cups granulated sugar (cornstarch if not making for meringue shell on a plate, Note: you can make one large Warning: Do not try to make 1 tsp. vanilla Passover) and put a good dollop oflemon dessert by spreading meringue meringues on a damp or rainy 1 tsp. vinegar 1/4 tsp. salt mixture in center of each. into two circles about 9 inches day as they will not crisp up. Method: 3/4 cup cold water You can put a spoonful of in diameter and baking that way (Don't ask me why.) Beat whites with pinch of salt 1 Tblsp. parve margarine parve whipped cream or straw­ (longer in the oven) serving with and cream of tartar until foamy 1 cup lemon juice berries and/or blueberries on top filling between layers, and cut­ and beginning to thicken up. 1 tsp. grated lemon zest if you wish. ting into wedges. Slowly beat in sugar at DANIEL Gourmet Kosher Catering, Inc. P~ssovcr Grcctitt5s! FROM ... PASSOVER ORDERS

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Bv B ARBARA R EFFKI N 3. Add tomato [email protected] soup - wash can out with water - add ENJOY collecting and this too (love that cooking with recipes that ! instruction!) have personal instruc- 4. Add chicken tions that take you back to livers ½ hour the person's kitchen. When I before done. receive these recipes, I keep 5. Lemon juice them "as is," preferably in the and sugar to taste cook's handwriting, telling you - here's the hard how and why they cook it "their part - trying to way." It's always fun to joke get it to have the about the methods of measure, correct sweet and and advice for presentation. sour mix according The following recipes are not to Bea. I just have only regulars at my family's her sons taste it! seder, but come with the joy and memories of the original cook. A JEWISH MOTHER'S B EA'S F RICASSEE FRUIT SALAD This recipe was given to me 1 grapefruit stirring until the mix­ Carrots with absolutely no measure­ as the measures and directions 2 oranges ture is thick. Cool. Sweet potatoes ments; so that I won't torment are priceless. Roberta's mother ½ cp chopped dates Add 5 jumbo eggs, one at a Sugar (about ½ cup) you - here's my take on it. converted the quantities, which I ½ cup raisins time, sti rring thoroughly after Bone and Flanken meat 2 lbs . hamburg will put in parenthesis. 1 cup fresh orange juice each egg. Pineapple or prunes 1 ½-2 lbs. chicken livers Preheat the oven to 375 Pineapple, apricot or orange 3 eggs 2 Tbl. lemon juice 1 juice glass peanut oil or ½ cup sugar degrees. marmalade M atzah meal regular oil (5/8 cup) Grease 12 muffin tins very salt & pepper ¼ cup sweet red wine Uewish) ½ cup chopped almonds 3 juice glasses water (15 oz. well, ¾ full. (Spray well with Boil carrots, sweet potatoes onion flakes - scant 2 cups) Pam.) and sugar. Put everything in water D ivide fruits into sections 3 pieces large lump sugar (6 After baking for 45 minutes, a baking dish with the boiled 4-4 ½ cans tomato soup - put in a nice bowl. In a small cubes sugar - we don't check the muffins to see if water (add more sugar to taste) about 8 Tbl. lemon juice separate bowl, mix juices, sugar convert to teaspoons - keep the they're brown; if not check every - enough to almost cover. about 2-3 Tbl. sugar and wine. Refrigerate. Mix tradition) 5 minutes. Cool a little and then Cover top with marmalade. salt, pepper everything together in the nice (1 tsp.) salt take out of the tins. (Keep going Bake uncovered for two hours - you'll need a lot.) at 350 degrees. 1. Make small meatballs. bowl with almonds just before Bring to a boil. When boiled 2. Put in pot with onion serving. - shut off the fire. I RENE'S T ZIM MES flakes, salt and pepper. Cover R OBERTAS G RANDMA In another pan put in (1-½ Sorry - figure the amounts to with water. Let cook-skim off B ESSIE'S PASSOVER ROLLS cups) matzah meal, then pour your liking. fat. This recipe has been kept as is, the boiling water over it. Keep If you're not eating FINE l~IHIEI~ WINES CASERTA's you're FROM AROUND THE WORLD!

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Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 PAGE 31 'Passover by Design': Fishbein's latest bestseller LARRY LEVINE'S BY VOICE & HERALD STAFF USIE FISHBEIN'S KOSHER MEATS & DELI . latest cookbook, Passover Sby Design, sold out in its first printing, but You asked for it, a review copy was sent to the Voice & Herald, and below are So we are doing it! some of our picks for Passover. • By popular demand, we are delivering CRANBERRY CHICKEN to Providence, Cranston & surrounding areas. This tasty, colorful and dif­ ferent chicken dish will wake • We have available the finest Kosher up any appetite. Easy to pre­ pare besides. Susie says, "You fresh meats and poultry. will love this moist chicken •Our own fresh cooked foods from dish. The combination of tart, tangy and sweet, plus its gor­ Tevya's kitchen and a complete geous colors will surely make it line of delicatessin and smoked fish, a keeper for all-year round." groceries and frozen foods. Ingredients: Ingredients: 1 tsp. baking powder 2 medium oranges 1 large red beet, peeled and cut 1 Tblsp. vanilla sugar or 1 tsp. • CALL FOR OUR PASSOVER MENU • A 3-4 lb. chicken, bone in, into 1-inch chunks vanilla skin on, cut into eighths (or eight 1 large red onion, peeled and 1 cup vegetable oil • Also, inquire about Catering by Tevya, of your favorite chicken parts.) cut into 1-inch chunks 4 large eggs • 1 (16 oz.) can whole berry cran- 2 medium sweet potatoes, 1 cup potato starch full service catering, berry sauce peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes Crumb topping: for all of your party needs. 1 cup bottled French dressing 1 cup baby carrots 2 tsps. ground cinnamon 2 Tblsps. dry onion soup mix 2 large parsnips, peeled and cut 4 Tblsps. (1/2 stick butter or Preparation: into 1-inch pieces parve margarine, cut into small Try us. Yoµ·n like us! Preheat oven to 375 F 1 acorn or small butternut bits) Zest one orange and reserve the squash, peeled and cut into 2-inch About 4 oz. Passover ladyfin­ 474 Lowell St., (Lowrnart Shopping Ctr.) Peabody zest. Slice the orange chunks gers, egg kichel or other Passover Slice the second orange and 1/2 cup orange juice cookies (not macaroons) crushed Reach us toll free at 800-547-1869 place all the orange slices in a 3 Tbsps. duck sauce and crumbled (617-884-1406) (978-535-6449) (FAX 978-535-6816) roasting pan in an even layer. 1 Tblsp. coarse sea salt or 1/4 cup brown sugar Under the strict supervision of the Othodox Rabbinical Council of MA Arrange the chicken skin side kosher salt 1/4 cup gran­ Visit our website at www.levineskoshermkt.com up on the oranges. 1/4 tsp. dried thyme ulated sugar. In a medium bowl, mix the 1/4 tsp. dried rose­ Method: cranberry sauce, dressing and dry mary, crumbled Preheat oven onion soup. Stir in the orange Place all the vegetables to 350 F zest. Pour over the chicken, coat­ into the slow cooker Spray a 9-by- II. BREAKFAST or roasting pan. Mix 13 baking pan Monday-Friday Only* ing all the pieces. Bake uncovered w M·F 8 AM· 11:30 'Tl for 11/2 hours. Transfer to a serv­ orange juice with rest with nonstick w ANY BREAKFAST ITEM :II of ingredients. Toss spray. Set aside. a: LUNCH 12·5 m ing plate or platter along with the II. or ANY LIJNCH ITEM m caramelized orange slices. with a wooden spoon to In the bowl of combine. Cover the slow a stand mixer, w 'Tl GLAZED ROOT VEGETABLES w :II cooker and cook on high Passover crumb cake mix the sugar, a: Caffe Dolce Vita 331-8240 m Farve (10 servings) for 4 1/2 hours. brown sugar, baking powder, I&. o • " I • I • 0 I I• m Another excellent dish from vanilla sugar or vanilla, oil, eggs Susie's Passover cookbook. She PASSOVER CRUMB CAKE Take a break and sit down with and potato starch and beat on says, "Don't be afraid to turn to medium speed until you have a a cup of tea or coffee and a piece your slow cooker for a healthful smooth batter. Pour into prepared of Susie Fishbein's yummy crumb and tempting side dish." If you pan and bake for 20 minutes. cake from her wonderful new don't have a slow cooker for Pass­ In a medium bowl, toss the cookbook, Passover by Design. over, just roast uncovered for 11/2 cinnamon, butter or margarine, This recipe can be dairy or parve. hours at 375 F. This recipe yields crushed cookies, brown sugar and Ingredients: a bounty of gorgeous root vegeta­ sugar. Use your fingers to pinch Nonstick cooking spray bles. The beet tinges everything a into coarse crumbs. Sprinkle the 1 cup sugar light pink. This dish will certainly crumbs on top of the cake and 1 cup brown sugar please the vegetarians in your life. bake for 35 minutes more.

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Please do not destroy or deface this card. - ➔ =i~it•1;\;------Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 PAGE ·3~ As "WE GROW OLDER 'Those were the days, my friend ... ' he had other failings as a When Uncle Sholom I looked forward to how this Reminiscing Jew, my father was the pen­ died, we had a few years of devout family would handle a about Passover ultimate Zionist. no observance. My mother · Seder. To my absolute astonish­ My mom is dead for had also died by then and ' ment, I learned that I could read with Uncle Sholom nearly three-quarters of a the two junior housekeep­ Hebrew better than any of my century, but it takes just a ers (my sister and I) bought new family and the entire Hag­ BvThMA GousE short period of calm and matzah for Passover and gadah was read in English. The Special to The Voice & Herald closed eyes to recall her that was the extent of the Passover songs that the young­ Passover preparations. By observance. sters learned in Hebrew School H E WINTER was 7:30 a.m. she was sitting in A few years later my were sung (loudly) in H ebrew not too severe. The the kitchen rocker, chopping father married Yetta. If one and that was it. The rewards for flu epidemic was hor­ T the fish for the gefilte fish. is to pick a substitute family finding the Ajikomen were given rible. And it now stays (I could not understand how it should always resemble in U.S. currency. But the food light outside until after we have she could bear to taste the Yetta's extended family. was super; even the Gefilte fish finished supper. Passover will raw fish to see if it had the Yetta's brother Mausice that came out of the jar. start in just a few days, with some memory, washed his hands the right amount of salt, pepper, and was as devout as Uncle Sholom Well, the years go on. My changes in Passover observance. appropriate number of times and onion). and had a delightful personal­ in-laws, my parents, the beloved Basically, the Haggadah remains hid the Afikomen, but we children Once she had the fish boiling ity. And it was to his house that uncles, most of our siblings have the same, but were rewarded with candy, not she would start on the chopped we then went for seder. The new died. My children and grand­ its recitation money for finding it. Aunt Dena, liver, also hand-chopped, while young cousins encouraged wine children live out of state. I know can vary his wife, would sneak small sitting in the rocker. I will not go drinking and Maurice proceeded the holiday is coming because on drastically. potato kugels to the children into the details of the chicken, with the narrative. A great time consecutive days I was phoned I was born the veggies, the cakes, and was had by all. (We by the local niece and grandniece to an observant the cookies. Suffice to say, had matzah at home for inviting us to seder for the first mother and no one starved. Aunt Dena would sneak small Passover - but I have no and second nights of Passover. To a very Jewish And the funny part of the recollection of the other appease the old auntie and uncle non-obser­ potato kugels to the children story is that we never had a fixings.) (we are now the patriarchs of vant father. seder in our house. Instead because the Haggadah reading And then I got mar­ the family) they will make every My mother we went to Uncle Sholom's ried. Not just married. I effort to recite the Kiddush in was certain took a long time, as Uncle house. Uncle Sholom was moved from Chicago to Hebrew. that a greater power (probably five feet tall, never learned Sholom truly reclined on Providence. The bigger I hope that seder will always my zayde) was supervising her to speak English but transition was moving be observed, however modified it making the kitchen kosher-for­ pillows. understood everything said from a family of very lim- becomes. It is one of few parts of Passover, so she did it strictly in English. H e davenedthe ------­ ited ritual observance to a Jewish History that has a happy according to The Book. My prescribed number of times family of kosher house- ending. father made little comment on every day of his post-Bar­ holds. Out of respect to Happy Holidays! the food preparation, but was because the H aggadah read- Mitzvah life. H e was a shochet (a my mother-in-law, I too kept happy to extol the significance of ing took a long time, as Uncle ritual slaughterer) and had the kosher. The whole business; two Passover because the Haggadah Sholom truly reclined on pillows. Tema Gouse, ef Cranston, writes best Yiddish sense-of-humor. sets of dishes all year long and told the story of the return of the The children were bored. But I a regular column for 1he Jewish He recited the Haggadah from special dishes for Passover, etc. Jews to their homeland. And if am so glad I experienced it. Voice & Herald.

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STEMS, A F'L □ RIST Am David, JCC raise funds for Sderot BYJE SSICA P ERLMAN PERSON AL F"L □ RAL DESIG N Special to the Voice & Herald ABBY LEAVITT WARWICK - When Barbara Dwares began planning the WEDDING SPECIA LIST annual Meir Panim spaghetti EVENT PLANN ING dinner and raffle event at Temple CONSULTIN G & DAY MANAGEMENT Am D avid, she initially felt that due to the state of the economy, ' ·. the numbers in attendance 4 0 1.725.595 1 wouldn't be quite as high as in AP _P L AN N I NG @H □ T MAIL.CO M previous years. However, she quickly discovered that while the country may currently be in a financial crisis, the hearts of those in the community Get an additional are still as wealthy as ever. copy of "This year we have 170 people Photo by Jessica Perlman registered which is up from last TEMPLE AM DAVID, for the third year, held its Meir Panim year," she explained. spaghetti dinner to benefit the needy in Israel. TheJEWISHVOIC E & HERALD The Meir Panim Relief Centers in Israel, the "leading charity tion. Upon learning about the performing in the second of three Attleboro Providence Cont. conduit in Israel today," offer Meir Panim centers from Cantor concerts that the JCC hosted Cong. Agudas Achim Books on the Square assistance to the needy, distrib­ Richard Perlman, spiritual leader across the state. Barrington: Brooklyn Coffee and Tea uting food and social services of Am D avid, Dwares and her In June, Perlman will be going Barrington Books Brown RI SD Hillel through their 30 locations, class were so moved, that they to Israel with members of Temple Bagels, etc. Butcher Shoppe including free restaurants, food decided to contribute to the Am D avid, as well as his brothers Princes Hill De li Chabad House, 360 Hope St. credit cards, children's lunches, centers. and their congregations, where Temple Habonim, 165 Ne w Clark t he Fl orist meals on wheels, vocational "Every year people come he will distribute the proceeds to Meadow Road Coffee Exc hange training, after-school youth clubs, together to this synagogue and M eirPanim. Cranston: Cong. Beth Sholom, 275 Camp occupational rehabilitation, and are given the opportunity to do "We're going to hand them a Art & Soul Inc., 2007 Broad St. St. Defusco's Bakery + Del i furniture and appliance distribu­ something good for the people check from the dalet hay class at Borders Books East Side Marketplace tion warehouses. in Israel," Perlman said. "It's an Temple Am David because of an Chabad CHAI Center, 15 Center­ East Side Prescription For the last four years, Dwares incredible way for us to truly feel event that took place along with ville Road EPOCH Blackstone Blvd. and her dalet hay classes have like a community." the Jewish Community Center Cranston Public Library EPOCH East Side been hosting these evenings, with Also in attendance were the of Rhode Island," he said. "And Dufusco's Bakery #2 Park Farmstead (cheese shop) all of the proceeds going directly Klezphonics, aJewish musi­ we're very proud that happened Fitness Together, 145 Elmgrove Galaxie, Reserovir Ave to one of the Meir Panim centers; cal group from Rhode Island here." Phreds Pharmacy Gourmet Deli on the Square this year being the Sderot loca- Rainbow Bakery Highland Court Sonya's, 766 Oaklawn Avenue Jewish Fam. Service (2nd fir, Leisure Club plans special day, April 1Z Temple Sinai, 30 Hagen Avenue United Way) JCC starting Temple Torat Yisrael Mealsite Judaic Traditions (Hope Street) Author to speak Meyer, club president, will Temple Torat Yisrael, 330 Park Lasalle Bakery, 993 Smith Street welcome everyone. After ser­ Jr. Maccabi Avenue Laurelmead PROVIDENCE - On April vices, guests will have a chance The Waters Edge, 2190 Broad Miriam Hospital 12, the Leisure Club will par­ to hear Professor of Political program Street Miriam Hospital ticipate at the Shabbat services Science William Miles speak Ursula's European Pastries, (outpatient bldg.) at Temple Emanu-El and read about his new book on Israel. PROVIDENCE - The 1860 Broad Street Palmieri Bakery (Federal Hill) from the Torah. One of the Another 'first' for the club Jewish Community Center is East Greenwich: Providence Hebrew Day School founders, Greta Steiner, will this year is the recent addi- offering a new program this Blossoms Florist Providence Public Lib rary also be celebrating her 95th tion of an afternoon of board spring that is geared towards Felicia's Coffee (5757 Post Rd .) (downtown) birthday that day. Her family games, taking place bi-monthly. educating and conditioning East Providence: Rhodas / Judaic traditions will attend. The community is Contact coordinator Miriam & Rochambeau Library young athletes for the nation­ Town Wine Liquors invited to join in the services Abrams-Stark at the temple, Centre Court Tennis Club Spoons, 485 Angell Street ally-renowned JCC Maccabi and the kiddush luncheon. 331-1616, ext. 23 for more Swan Liquor Games. Unlike ordinary Middletown Rabbi Alvan Kaunfer, who has information on the club. Tealuxe, 225 Thayer Street sports programs, the course Temple Shalom been the club's advisor, will Temple Beth El, 70 Orchard will teach the history of the add;ess the congregation. Beryl N. Kingstown Avenue games and teach young athletes J+W Grahm Temple Emanu-EI , Taft Avenue skills and rules of the game. Wickford Flowers Tockwotton Home The Jr. Maccabi Program Daves Villiage Health launches at an especially excit­ 729 Hope Street North Kingstown Library ing time for young athletes in Seekonk Rhode Island. For the first year Narragansett Seekonk Liquors in the game's history, Team Cong. Beth David Wakefield: Rhode Island will be repre­ Newport: Wakefield Prescription sented at the 2008 Maccabi Inn on Bellevue Warwick: Games later this summer by 15 Touro Synagogue Barnes+ Noble teens. Pawtucket: Coffee Grinder The Jr. Maccabi Program East Side Eden, 1 Afred Stone Food Challet, Post Road kicks off on Monday, April 7 Road Shalom 1 & 2, 1 Shalom Drive at 3:45 p.m. and runs for eight Tamarisk, 3 Shalom Drive Garden Grille weeks through June 18. The Temple Am David, 40 Gardiner Modern Diner program is funded largely by Street Old World Furniture Purim in Peking a donation from Dr. and Mrs. Warwick Public Library Quality Rentals CHILDREN ENJOYED THEMSELVES at the Chabad Purim in Peking Al Glucksman and is open to West Warwick: Russian Market feast. The full house of participants enjoyed a catered meal by children ages 9 to 12. For more Galaxy II Yarn Outlet Daniel Catering of Providence, Magic and balloons by Tommy information, or to register for Wkkflmt Pawtucket Library James and music by Jon Nelson. From left are Hannah Coken, Emily the class, call (401)861-8800. J. W. Graham Providence: Nelson, Mushka Laufer, Chaya Laufer, Esther Laufer, and Bluma Jewish Communit Da School Wickford Flowers Laufer. ti•J~~•~(•l~liiil PAGE37

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Rhode Island A Program of tht == Jewish federation of Rhode 1, land ON WORDEN'S POND PAGE 38 JewishVoice&Herald April4,2008 ______l,.1if41~ - Low salaries, high taxes subject Israel to brain drain BY DINA KRAFT economics and the sciences. group was even higher, 6.9 ]TA staffwriter Professor D an Ben-David, percent, when immigrants to the director of the public policy Israel, the majority of them from TEL AVIV OTA) - Even department at Tel Aviv Univer­ the former Soviet Union, were though H ebrew University's sity, has conducted research on included. economics department is rated ' academic brain drain and says Ron Siegal is part of this one of the top centers for eco­ ,I 10 percent oflsraeli physicists trend. After receiving offers from nomics in the world, the head and a third of computer-science the economics departments of of that department is having a academics work in top U.S. uni- Hebrew University and Tel Aviv tough time recruiting facu lty. University, he decided It's not that good ------to accept a tenure-track students don't come assistant professor posi­ out of the center. Just "10 percent of Israeli physicists tion at Northwestern last year, eight went to and a third of computer-science University, considered top doctoral programs one of the top schools at H arvard, Stanford, academics work in top U.S. for his specialty, eco- the Massachusetts university departments." nomic theory. Institute of Technology In a phone interview and Yale, according to Professor Dan Ben-David, from Chicago, Siegal the departmental chair, told JTA that his choice Professor Eyal Winter. Tel Aviv University was difficult to make It's that they're but ultimately came not coming back. down to being in the "W e discuss their versity departments. best place to begin his career. Photo Brian Hendler prospects of return after graduat­ PROFESSOR EYAL WINTER, teaching an economics class at the Brain drain is a significa nt "Israel is not a central place," ing and they say it's inconceivable Hebrew University, says Israeli doctoral students who study abroad problem as well in other profes­ he said, "and when you are start­ that they'll stay in the U.S., but rarely return because of higher salaries and better working condi­ sional field s with major salary ing out exposure is important." it turns out they rarely return," gaps, including high-tech, engi­ tions. Winter said. "Once they receive neering, business and medicine. offers in the American market "I think we should be they decide to stay." alarmed," said Omer Moav, a Hebrew University's problem is Hebrew University economist D'var Torah Israel's problem. who co-authored research on In growing numbers, young the topic for the Jerusalem-based top-tier Israeli academics and Shalem Center think tank. Parental sacrifice professionals are being drawn to Low salaries and high taxes spread out on the altar of The Gemara's interpretation positions abroad, mostly in the PARASHAT TAZRIA are leading thousands oflsraelis child development. The olah of the pasuk (verse) teaches a United States, lured by higher LEVlTICUS 12:1 - 13:59 with higher educations to leave and the chatas symbolize the profound truth. The olah is salaries and better working the country every year, the report BYRABBI)0SEPH S. dual nature of parenting. listed first in the verse. When conditions. found. O ZAROWSKI The olah, considered the a child is born, we have high The academics expect to earn "The canary in the coal mine Special to 1he Voice & Herald highest offering, symbol- hopes, and we should never much more money overseas than is telling us something: that the izes the high aspirations we give up those hopes and in Israel, and abroad they face H E OPENING State oflsrael is failing to allow parents have for our children. dreams; we must continue our lighter teaching loads and better verses ofTazria deal the educated, middle- and upper­ T We expect great things from struggles and efforts, so that research facilities. A recent study with the various ritu­ middle class a good life here," them in their Torah learn­ our sons and daughters can be found that more than one-quar­ als a woman undergoes after said Moav, who co-authored the ing and personal piety, in the best they possibly can be. ter oflecturers who have taught childbirth. After the birth report with Eric Gold, another their academic and financial We are bidden to dedicate in Israel have taken jobs in the of a child she brings two Hebrew University economist. pursuits, indeed, in almost all our efforts to this end, United States. offerings: a year-old lamb or a The study found that between everything they do.We want even though we know that, turtledove or a pigeon ~ That figure makes Israel's rate 1995 and 2002, 4.7 percent of in reality, perfection is of academic brain drain the high­ Israelis with master's degrees as an olah, a burnt ------unattainable. We, as offering; and a turtle­ est in the world - 10 times the and above between the ages of parents, cannot always dove or a pigeon as a If we keep our dreams in rate in Europe. 30 and 40 - considered the implement every one of chatas, a sin offering. The brain drain problem is not primary period people emigrate focus, we can reach many of our dreams. new to Israel, but it has intensi­ The Talmud ques­ - decided to leave the country. Thus the chatas is, tions the order of the them and enjoy satisfaction fied in recent years, especially in The figure for the same age in actuality, brought offerings as they are and nachas (pride) in seeing before the olah. described in the Torah, Rabbi Sacks points out pointing out that when our children grow as Jews and Voice & Herald Classifieds that the chatas repre- these two offerings are as human beings. sents the Rambam's brought as a pair, the housecleaning. Dependable, "golden mean." Real­ I BUY BOOKS AND OLD chatas is always offered Bonded. 401-942-5782. ity may not equal the PHOTOS OF ALL KINDS first. Yet in these verses them to be great and we want dream, but it can be quite about childbirth, the olah is Call 401-421-2628 or email to HOUSECLEANING them to be perfect. good. 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Contributions may be made to Eunice (Woolf) Kalver. Born the late Abraham Pollock. for the Aging, formerly of She leaves a niece, Anita F"ine New Bedford Jewish Convales­ in Providence, a son of the late Born in Cleveland, she was the Delray Beach and Providence, and her husband, Allan, four cent Home. Harry and Sarah (Goldstein) daughter of the late Morris and died Jan. 21 in Los Angeles. stepchildren, Ronald Glantz, Sidney Harrison, 90 Kalver, he had lived in East Rose Russ. She was a gradu- Mickey Glantz, Sally Glantz Providence until 1988. ate ofJohn Carroll University "' She leaves her husband of NEW BEDFORD - Sidney Blitzer, and Patsy Glantz F"ield; A graduate of Hope High in University Heights, Ohio, 72 years, Jeffrey; a son, Alan; a Harrison, 90, died March 20. and two great-nephews. School and Bryant College, he where she received her bachelor's daughter, Susan (Smith); two He was the husband of the Burial was in Temple Beth-El ~ served in Germa-ny degree in English Literature. grandchildren and three great­ late Ray (Cohen) Harrison. Cemetery, Providence. ~ during his time in the She was a member ofTife­ grandchildren. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., a son Army. reth Israel Congregation, New Contributions may be made to a Molly Halpren, 89 of the late Ansel and Gussie Mr. Kalver was the owner of Bedford, and Temple Beth El, favorite charity. NEW BEDFORD -Molly (Banowitz) Harrison, he moved the former Clip and Dip Dog Fall River; as well as a member Fruma Fidler, 92 (Goodman) Halpren, 89, died to New Bedford in 1939. Grooming Salon for 20 years. ofHadassah and ORT. Mrs. March 14. She was the wife of For 50 years he was the man­ PROVIDENCE- Fruma Besides his wife, he leaves a Pollock was very sociable, an avid the late Myer Halpren; they were ager of the former New Bed­ Fidler, 92, died March 4. son, Bruce Kalver of Cranston; bridge player and loved spending married for 60 years. Born in New ford Manufacturing Co. and a daughter, Jeanette Aiello of time with her family and friends. Fredda Galkin, 92 Bedford on Dec. 29, 1918, she was retired when it closed in 1990. Swansea; and four grandchildren, She leaves a daughter, Marlene SMITHFIELD - Fredda a daughter of the late Hyman and Mr. Harrison served in the U.S. Sharon, Raina, Eric and Wendy. Pollock, and her husband, Daniel Heyman Galkin, 92, died Florence (Shalit) Goodman. She 1a§ Coast Guard. He was the brother of the late Gilbarg, of New Bedford; a son, March 27. She was the wife of graduated with honors from New ~ He was a member of Hilda Kalver. Sheldon Pollock and his wife, the late Andrew Heyman and Bedford High School in 1938. Tifereth Israel Congre­ Allison Busch, of New York City; the late Joseph Galkin. Born Mrs. Halpren was a life gation, and served on the board Gary Lappin, 61 three grandchildren, Ben Gilbarg in Worcester, a daughter of the member of the New Bedford of directors of the New Bedford PROVIDENCE - Gary and his wife, Missy; Mica Pollock late John and Eva (Rabinowitz) Jewish Convalescent Home, a life Jewish Convalescent Home. Lappin, 61, died March 14. and her husband, Joe Castigil­ Solomon, she had lived in member ofHadassah, a member He leaves two daughters, Born in Providence, he was ione, and Nira Pollock and her Smithfield for three years, previ­ of the Hebrew Ladies Helping Andrea Harrison of New Bed­ the son of Elmer S. and husband, Rick Ruberg, and six ously living in Providence. Hand Society, a member of the ford and Marcelle Harrison of Shirley (Weisberg) Lappin. great-grandchildren. She was the A graduate of the Rhode Island Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary, City Island, N .Y., and a grand­ Mr. Lappin was a former sister of the late Abraham Russ. School of Design, Mrs. Galkin serving as president in 1968, and son, Michael Stergiotis. He was member of Temple Emanu­ Burial was in Beth El Cem­ was a member of the Rhode was a member of both Aha- predeceased by his 12 brothers El, and was a talented artist etery, Fall River. Island Art Club and Providence vath Achim and Tifereth Israel and sisters. with a great sense of humor. Contributions may be made Watercolor Club. Congregations and their Sister­ The family would like to thank Besides his parents, he leaves a to: Coalition Against Poverty, 30 She was a former member of hoods. She was a volunteer for the staff of the New Bedford sister, Roslyn Guarnieri and her Union St., New Bedford, Mass., Temple Beth-El and Temple St. Luke's Hospital, the Red husband, Ronald; a niece, Shayna; Jewish Convalescent Home for .02740. Emanu-El. Cross, the Jewish Convalescent its work on his behalf and the two nephews, David and Michael, She leaves a son, Robert Home, and WBSM Open Line. following caregivers who showed and a great-niece, Maia Rose. Charlotte Rabinowitz Heyman of Sausalito, Cal.; and a She was an award-winning poet him immeasurable care and Burial was in Lincoln Park PROVIDENCE - Charlotte grandson, Sean. She was the sister and playwright. affection: Natalie Bariteau, Maria Cemetery. (Lischner) Rabinowitz died of the late Elliot Solomon and She leaves a son, Jack D avid Linhares, Connie Amaral, Bar­ Contributions may be made to March 17. She was the wife of Edna Dashoff. Halpren and his wife, Diane; a bara Piava and many others over Temple Emanu-El, 99 Taft Ave., the late Irving Rabinowitz. Burial was in Lincoln Park daughter, Susan H arriett Lefkow­ the years. Providence, R.I., 02906. Born in Fall River, a daughter Cemetery, Warwick. itz and her husband, Steven; a Burial was in Plainville Cem­ Elsie Pollock, 91 of the late William and Jennie Contributions may be made to sister, Jennie Diane H abib; five etery, New Bedford. (Billingcoff) Lischner, she had NORTH DARTMOUTH RISD Scholarship Fund, 2 Col­ grandchildren, Linda, David, Contributions may be made to been a resident of Providence -Elsie Pollock, 91, a resident lege St., Providence, R.I., 02903. Laurie, Matthew and Benjamin; the New Bedford Jewish Conva­ since her marriage in 1938. of North Dartmouth, formerly Madeline Glantz, 99 and nine great-grandchildren, lescent H ome, 200 H awthorn St., See OBITUARIES, facing page Kyle, T immie, Kaitlyn, Aryana, New Bedford, Mass., 02740. PROVID ENCE- Madeline Taylor, Maya, Anya, Alexxa and (Dolberg) Glantz, 99, died March Everett "Ed" Kalver, 80 Landon. She was the sister of the 26. 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RIGHTEOUS: Stories tied together by goodness and soul From Page 2 literature is that Jews are, after before Zionism became an and grandfather. all, like other people: "Hath issue! It's true, as it has often not a Jew eyes? H ath not a Jew In Daniel, Eliot has cre­ been argued, that Eliot does hands, organs, dimensions, ated that most difficult of a better job at giving us the senses, affections, passions ... characters to make interest­ conflicted Gwendolyn than If you prick us, do we not ing - a good man. We get she does giving us Mira, who bleed? Ifyou tickle us, do we . such a character in Levin in seems just too good, too noble. not laugh? If you poison us, do Anna Karenina. In the 20th In the context of a shocking, we not die?" and 21st centuries, how many poisonous British 19"'-century But Eliot is doing far more. characters have been models anti-Semitism, Eliot seems to She has created characters that of what a person should be, need to idealize Mordecai and express the special culture of models of righteousness? We Mira. Mira is too beautiful a the Jewish people - our his­ are suspicious of righteousness. soul, and Mordecai is hardly tory, our texts, our common We believe in the anti-hero, more than a dying man with a heart. tortured, self-destructive set of passionately held ideas. And, perhaps most amaz­ characters. As a fiction writer, But the ideas are beautiful ingly, she wrote a vision of a I know how much easier it is and are beautifully expressed. Jewish nation more than 20 to find energy in conflict than They express so deeply the years before the First Zionist in goodness. spirit of a people that it's Congress (1897). The intel­ I'm not saying that's bad. shocking the words come from lectual world was not buzzing I'm saying that in creating a JOSH SAUNDERS, a freshman member of Josephson Szold BBYO, a non-Jew. with Zionism in 1876. We believably righteous Daniel works on Passover greeting cards. Eliot used as a model for can look back and see what Deronda, Eliot was doing Mordecai a Jew, Emmanuel she was reading, but think of something worth doing and A helpful "plague" of frogs helps Deutsch, with whom she how extraordinary it is that something difficult to accom­ discussed Talmud and from the finest novelist in England, plish. local BBYO create Passover cards whom she learned Hebrew. a woman deeply rooted in It's a long novel, Daniel The usual defense ofJews English soil, should express Deronda - over 700 pages in BY BECCA BARRY rated for the elderly, we soon real­ and Judaism in European a Zionist vision of a renewal the Modern Library edition. Special To 1be Voice & Herald ized that our chapter had received of the Jewish nation 20 years But it's worth the time. many more card requests than th the recent induc­ we could handle. We needed tion of Henrietta Passover table cards for commu­ temples. tables across Rhode Island and W help to complete our project. Szold, the female nity seders at Tamarisk Assisted We hope that Henrietta Szold M assachusetts. On the bus ride to the New namesake of our BBYO chapter Living and Temple Torat Israel. would approve ofBBYO's project Becca Barry is a member ofth e England Region Spring Con­ into the National Women's Hall In addition, more than 100 and that all ofthe frogs are now Josephson Szold BBYO. BBYO is vention earlier this month, 85 of Fame, we wanted to honor Passover cards were completed happily jumping around on seder a youth-led organization open to BBYO members from Rhode her with a service project. for individuals and sent out via Jewish teens ofall backgrounds. Island and Massachusetts Looking at the origami frogs local Jewish service agencies and chapters decorated frogs and and Passover cards to be deco- As The ]ewirh Voice & Herald went to press, we learned of the passing of Alan M. OBITUARIES Gilstein, on Tuesday, April 1. For updated information, visit www.jvhri.org. From Preceeding Page Cumberland; four grandchildren, dence, previously living in Boca Mr. White was a World War at her Narragansett home. Mrs. Rabinowitz was a volun­ Jennifer, Michael, Harold and Raton and Delray Beach, Fla. II Army veteran, serving in the Mrs. Winkleman was a gradu- teer at Miriam Hospital for more Danielle, and a lifelong friend, Mrs. Weil was a member of European Theater. ate of Commercial High School. than 30 years. Agnes Mintel of Pawtucket. Temple Emanu-El and a former He was the owner of Sanford She was an office manager and She leaves a son, Martin She was the sister of the late member ofB'nai Torah Con- White Co., Inc., Central Falls. bookkeeper for the former A. Rabinowitz of New York City, Edwin Semper, Sr., and step- gregation and Temple Torah in He was a member ofTemp le Winkleman Dry Goods store in and a daughter, Irene Rabinowitz mother of the late Gerald Ride. Florida. She was a board member Beth-El and its Brotherhood, East Providence. of Provincetown, Mass. She was Burial was in Lincoln Park of the Jewish Federation of R.l. the Jewish War Veterans and the She was a former member of the sister of the late Irene Lisch­ Cemetery, Warwick. and a life member of Hadas- Jewish-Community Center. Temple Beth Shalom, Temple ner, Nettie Levy and Madeline Contributions may be made to sah, Pioneer Now NiAmat, He leaves two sons, Neal White Emanu-El and its Leisure Group, Sandler. Meals on Wheels, 70 Bath St., Mizrachi and many other ofWarwick and Steven R. White the Majestic Guild, The Cranston Burial was in Lincoln Park Providence, R.I., 02908. Jewish and civic organizations. ofWest Warwick; a daughter, Senior Guild and the Home for Cemetery, Warwick. Irene Schoenfeld She leaves two sons, Simon Lynn W. Aaronson of Cranston; a the Aged. She volunteered for 20 Contributions may be made to Weil of Downingtown, Pa.; Cory stepson, Steven D . White of Cape years at the Miriam Hospital. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Fink of Cranston; a daughter, Coral, Fla.; nine grandchildren She leaves two sons; Murry and Miriam Hospital, 164 Summit - Irene (Silver) Schoenfeld died Judith Weir of Smithfield, and and five great-grandchildren. his wife, Patricia, of West Kings- Ave., Providence, R.l., 02906. March 11. She was the wife of five grandchildren, Naomi, Shira, He was the stepfather of the ton, and Sarasota, Fla., and Jack Mary Ride, 93 the late Herbert Schoenfeld. Aviva, Asher and Kate. She was late Marjorie Parness and brother and his wife, Linda, ofWalling- She leaves three sons, Bob PROVIDENCE - Mary the sister of the late Goldie Brass of the late Leonard White and ford, Conn.; five grandchildren and his wife, Helen; Larry and (Semper) Ride, a lifelong and David Fish. Dorothy Stampe!. and nine great-grandchildren, his wife, Barbara; and Edward resident of Providence, died Contributions may be made to Contributions may be made to and a very dear friend, David and his wife Sandrine, a sister, March 28. She was the wife Temple Emanu-El, 99 Taft Ave., the Alzheimer's Association. Berson, whom she considered as a Kitty; and eight grandchildren. of the late Howard K. Ride. Providence, R I., 02906. son. She was the sister of the late The funeral was in Philadel- Lenore Winkleman, 99 Born in Providence, she was the FLAG Pearl Sandler-Kaufman, Shirley PROVIDENCE- Lenore daughter of the late James L. phia. Shimberg, and Samuel and Max Contributions may be made to Sanford White, 93 (Silverman). Winkleman, 99, for- and Esther (Tennant) Semper. Silverman. Mrs. Ride had been the co­ Boys' Town ofJeru salem. PROVIDENCE- Sanford merly of Rochambeau Ave., died Burial was in Lincoln Park March 15. She was the wife of the owner of the former Ride's Grille Jeanne M. Weil, 83 White, 93, died March 28. He Cemetery, Warwick. late Abraham W. Winkleman. in Pawtucket. She was a member was the husband of Bernice Contributions may be made PROVIDENCE-Jeanne M . (Turner) White and the late Born in Providence on of the former Temple Beth Israel. W eil, 83, died March 23. She was to Chabad of RI, 360 Hope St., Helen (Goldenberg) White. June 13, 1908, a daughter She leaves a brother, James the wife of the late Manfred W eil. Providence, R.l., 02906, or Hos- Born in Providence, a son of the of the late Nathan and Rose Semper of Providence; a nephew, Born in Boston, a daughter of the pice Care of R.I., 159 George St., late Nathan and Jennie (Lisker) (Klozner) Silverman, she was Edwin Semper, Jr.; two nieces, late Harry and Annie (Chesler) Pawtucket, R.l., 02860. White, he was a lifelong Provi- a Iifelong Providence resident, Diane Litterick of Providence Fish, she had lived in Provi- and Kim Ouimette ofWarwick; dence resident. and enjoyed many summers a daughter-in-law, Denise Ride of PAGE 42 Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 -~•1.~1M(•l~iiM We are read everywhere Where in the world will we go next?

THE PARADES! SYNAGOGUE in Cochin was built in 1568 by Jewish settlers on land given to them by a local maharajah. INDIA: Return of the native From Page 14 Today, most of the Cochin seated around me had heard Jews have left India for Israel of him. Then I spied an and only 13 families remain. elderly man seared nearby. Most are elderly widows and They all called him Freddie. there are only five men. They I asked Freddie if Chacham cannot make a minyan on At Angkor Wat, Cambodia Baruch was ever the rabbi of their own and rely on tourists. From left, Susan Bahr, Bob Bahr, Hope Hirsch, David Hirsch, Barba ra Feldstein, and Ed Feldstein in Kenesseth Eliyahoo. Freddie The synagogue is small and front of the 12th-century classical temple at Angkor Wat. The group also visit ed Laos, and Vietnam. nodded. Chacham Baruch quite remarkable in its meld­ was, indeed, the rabbi in the ing of eastern themes. Indian 1950s. I almost wept with joy. motifs abound, including the I was given an aliyah, where Aron Kodesh that has decora­ my father had stood. Then, as tive carvings reminiscent of I sat in my father's seat, I felt a Hindu temple. The floor of quite emotional in reflecting the main sanctuary is entirely on my connection through the covered with 1,100 exquisitely ages. Here is Hazzan Sofer hand-painted Chinese tiles reciting in the old Baghdadi that were installed in 1762. In the Ukraine nusach that penetrated my No two tiles are alike. We A MY GROSS, former CRC/ soul. I felt connected not only were not permitted to take Young Leadership director to my father but also to all our pictures indoors and had to from 1999-'01 at the Jewish ancestors from Baghdad who remove our shoes to protect Federation of Rhode Island, worshiped in this way. And the tile floor. Once again I who now lives in Balti­ best of all, I understood the felt intensely connected to our more, recently met with the tradition. Reform community in Khar­ prayers and the order of the service. Thanks to my studies This part of Cochin, also kov, Ukraine, while visiting known as Mattanchery, in the JDC projects. with my rabbis and cantors at Temple Emanu-El in P rovi­ province of Kerala, is the old dence, I could follow along, city and is filled with tourist and other than the differences shops maintained by Keralan We.have now been to: in pronunciation and melody, artisans. The only Judaica shop is run by one Sarah Taiwan it's all there. We read Parashat Tanzania Cohen, seen here, sewing and Canada: Qyebec City Thailand: Bangkok, Bo and I realized that in a few Caribbean: Aruba, Cruises, Sukothai }lours, Jews in Israel, E ngland embroidering kippot, challah Bonaire, St. Thomas Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh and Providence would all soon covers and the like. Russia: Moscow City read the same passages. It was Going to India was a dream Turkey: Istanbul Egypt: Luxor come true for me. It was awesome! Austria: Vienna; Israel: Tiberias, Jerusalem personally intensely satisfy­ During our trip we also Croatia: Dubrovnik; Jordan ing. But parts were disturbing Argentina: Buenos Aires went to Cochin, in part Czech Republic: Prague; as I witnessed heart rending France: Paris, Brazil because I wanted to see the suffering and poverty. Most Germany; Colombia: Bogota old Paradesi Synagogue. The distressing was looking into Hungary: Budapest: Peru: Chiclayo synagogue was built in 1568 United States: the beseeching eyes of small Iceland: Reykjavik; by the first Jewish settlers with Italy: Rome, Tuscany; Alaska beggar children. As our taxi names like Castiel, Beleliah Poland: Warsaw; Arizona: Scottsdale, Phoenix, and Salla. The land was given drove us to the airport, I Ukraine: Kharkov The Grand Canyon looked back at the Gateway of Cambodia: Angkor Wat Hawaii to these settlers by the local India as it disappeared while China: Beijing, The Great Washington: Mt. Rainier maharajah (king) close to his we sped away. I said a heartfelt Wall Florida: All over own palace. He respected his "Goodbye" - a feeling I was India: Taj Mahal, Mumbai California: San Francisco, new neighbors and allowed denied 50 years ago because I Japan: Okinawa Los Angeles, Berkeley them to live and worship was sure we would return in a Laos undisturbed. The area came to Nepal few months. Will I go back? be known as Jew Town and a Maybe. But for now I can street nearby is Jew Street. The revel in the recent memories names are simply identifiers that are mingled with the and are not now or ever iden­ childhood memories of my The newspaper invites readers to take along a copy of 1he tified as anything other than Voice & Herald on their next trip and send us a photo. first home. In Vietnam a respectful acknowledgement Photos can be emailed to [email protected], with Sam Shamoon is a Providence that Jews live here. DAVID and ELLY LEWIS at the Chabad "We Are Read Everywhere" in the subject line. Or, send to resident. House in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam JV&H at 130 Sessions St., Providence, R.I., 02906. ----- ·- ~-- - --.l

..3 h~t;: ta. 1111.______Jewish Voice & Herald April 4, 2008 PAGE 43 People Births Providence Hebrew Day School honors Weiners PROVIDENCE - After an affiliation of over four decades as student, alumnus, president, officer, board member, parents and selfless volunteers, The Providence Hebrew Day School (PHDS) has named Mordechai and D evorah Weiner Amudim awardees to the long list of accomplish­ ments that they have achieved. Mordechai Weiner was born and raised in Providence. He attended PHDS from 1965 until his graduation in 1978 from the high school divi­ sion, New England Academy aco Walter Lax of Torah. In August of 1982, welcomed their second son, Jacob Ryan and Maggie Lax Mordechai married Devorah MORDECHAI AND DEVORAH WEINER have been named W alter, on Feb. 26. Jacob weighed 9 lbs., 3 ounces and was 21 Adler, and after a short stay Amudim recipients. 5/8 inches long. H e joins big brother, Noah, and the family in New Haven, Conn., they of the Ladies Association, now H e currently serves as a member dog, Eddie. The paternal grandparents are Marvin and moved back to Providence. known as Parents, Teachers and of the PHDS Executive Com­ Rhonda Lax of Pawtucket. The maternal grandmother is Altic Distinguished in their pro­ Friends (PTF) organization, mittee, as well as on the board of K.irk ofM onroe, Conn. fessional lives, M rs. Weber and_as the graphic designer of Congregation Mishkon Tfiloh serves as the executive admin­ the l nnual school commu- and the Lincoln Park Cemetery. istrative assistant of Cranston nity newsletter. She currently The couple has five sons, A RC, a non-profit human oversees the set up of the Day Yisroel, Yosef, Baruch, Yehuda service agency benefiting the School Minyan kiddushim. and Binyamin, who have all developmentally disabled. He He served as president of the attended PHD S. Yisroel, his serves as a property manager school from 1995-1999, vice wife, Suri (Samberg), and the for National Investments Ltd. president of fund raising and of Weiner's first grandson, Yossi, Both have served the school personnel, and chairman of the currently live in Baltimore, Md. in many different capacities. school's nominating committee. She served as the vice president Ruttenberg elected by Resnick celebrates milestone wiili-state police VNA of Care N.E. TFC Samuel L. Resnick, the At the VNA of C are New son of Al and Corinne Resnick England's 99th annual meeting earlier this month, Devin Joel Silversmith ofWarwick, will have completed 20 years of service with the Con­ Bruce Ruttenberg of Bar­ Jeanine, Ian, and Sierra Silversmith of Warwick happily necticut State Police this April. rington was elected for a announce the birth of Devin Joel. He was born Feb. 27. He A graduate of the University three-year term as trustee. weighed 9 lbs., 2 oz. and was 20 3/4 inches long. of Rhode Island, Resnick first Ruttenberg is an attorney Correction served in the National Guard. "of counsel" with Chace, Greta Alison, was born June 14, 2007, the daugh­ H e then joined the Connecticut Ruttenberg and Freedman. ter of Gregory and Sarah Rotmer; all live in Cranston. State Police and was assigned He is a graduate of Harvard to various troops in the eastern University and the University part of the state. His duties of Pennsylvania Law School. Engagement have included road patrol, Mr. Ruttenberg is a co­ detective and K-9 officer. founder and board member Donald and Cheryl Berger of (Rubin) Churnick of Warwick He holds a master's degree in of Trinity Repertory Theater, Cranston announce the engage- and the late George "Yussi" board chair of the Gordon ment of their daughter, Tara, to Churnick. Paternal grandpar- criminal justice. School, and a trustee of Jared Motzenbecker, both of ents are the late David and Cele H e and his wife, Lynn Ricard, Temple Beth-El in Provi­ St. Petersburg, Fla. The future (Novick) Berger. have two sons, Cody and Joshua. dence, The Miriam Hospital, bridegroom is the son of Peter Ms. Berger earned a bachelor's Frishman named program director and Lifespal'i-Corporation. Motzenbecker of St. Peters- degree in psychology from The VNA of Care New Eng­ burg and Maria Lanzillotti of American University, Washing- University, has been named land is celebrating its 100th Sarasota. ton, D.C. and a master of science program director of Women anniversary this year and The future bride is the mater- in school psychology at the & Infants residency program serves home health and hos­ nal granddaughter of Estelle University of Rhode Island. She in obstetrics and gynecology. pice needs of adult patients is employed as a school D r. Frishman is a nationally throughout Rhode Island. psychologist for the recognized medical educator Pinellas County School who has been teaching residents Dean's List Board. at Brown/Women & Infants for Mr. H otzenbecker the past 17 years. In 2006, he Elliot Gaber, son of earned a bachelor's was the second faculty member Ephraim and Rivkie Gerner degree in business to be inducted into the Academy of Pawtucket, recently made administration from the Dr. Gary Frishman of Teaching Scholars, W omen & D ean's List at the University University of F lorida Infants Department of Obstet­ of Massachusetts in Amherst. Gary Frishman, M.D., a and is employed as an rics and Gynecology, its high- Elliot is a former student of reproductive endocrinologist at internal wholesaler with est recognition for teaching. the Providence H ebrew D ay Women &Infants Center for Franklin Templeton He serves on the boards of School and a graduate of Reproduction and Infertility Investments. several international societies M aimonides High School in and a professor of obstetrics A December 2008 dedicated to the improvement of Brookline, M ass. and gynecology at The Warren wedding is planned. women's gynecologic health care. Tara Berger and Jared Motzenbecker A lpert Medical School of Brown ..

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