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Aviv, Tel sented Sheba and asked nered,” if they part- Rinde-HoffmanJewish Press. “My told interest was the in TAMPA EDITION APRIL 23 - MAY 20, 2021 20, 23 - MAY APRIL At a news conference April 19, J Maureen Maureen busi- Palestinian eagerness to reengage with the after years of virtu- ally no relations under former President Donald Trump. Trump mostly ceased ties with and assistance to the Palestin- ians, in part because of the payments, but also because the jected his peace Palestinians proposal, which recog- re- nized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and allowed Israel to eventually annex parts Bank. West of the Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami en- couraged Abbas to reform the payment Sheila Bush, Covering the Hillsborough, Pasco and Polk Jewish and Polk Pasco the Hillsborough, Covering Carrollwood, communities including: Tampa, Citrus Park, Tampa, New Brandon, Westchase, City, Plant Terrace, Temple Sun City Center, Lutz, Lakeland... Land O’ Lakes, Chapel, Wesley Ilana Golden- Susan , Glickman Malina Augustin, , Con- Bowen, Deborah Suzanne , Gellens Jewish Susan Haubenstock Jonathan Levy Barry Karpay Jewish mother she be- Corky Arkovich , achem Chabad; Bais Weinberg Village Assisted Men- Living Residences; gregation Beth Am; Congregation Kol Ami; Cohn, TOP Jewish Lea Foundation; , Garbett Congregation Beth Shalom; National Fund; Tampa Jewish Family Jennifer , Goldberg Services; Congregation Mekor Shalom; farklempt www.JewishPressTampa.com Have you met Cookie Kibbitznik yet? Kibbitznik Cookie met you Have Husband Sid is in the schmatte “Cookie’s “Cookie’s a caricature of my grand- ‘Minute of Yiddish’ reflects ‘Minute of Yiddish’ lifelong quest to make folks laugh By AMY SCHERZER By Jewish Press Of course you have. your She’s Bubbe, rolled all Esther Cousin and Molly Aunt into one funny schtick. ness; the dog is named Babka; opinions flow freely and frequently, unsolicited and unfiltered. mother and all her friends back in the days when people stopped by for coffee and cake,” said Parri Sontag, creator of the comes on Minute a of Yiddish, comedy Barry Levine “On our part, we will remove all Abbas did not outline which “ob- Lindsay August Lindsay toward enhancing Palestinian-U.S. re- lations.” The current the law Palestine designates Liberation Organization as a terrorist group and bans direct aid to the Palestinians as long as payments are made to the families of Palestinians jailed in Israel for any terrorism-related offense. obstacles to achieve this goal,” Abbas said. “The continuity of these laws is frustrating and unconstructive.” stacles” he planned to remove, but his pledge, however vague, was a sign of TAMPA BAY TAMPA Tampa Tampa JCCs & Federation’s The virtual event will be held on The women were selected for This year’s honorees are: Women’s Philanthropy will present will Philanthropy Women’s the Bobbe Karpay Women of Dis- rep- women 18 to Program tinction resenting various Jewish commu- and . nity organizations at 7 p.m. May 11 Tuesday, exemplifying the mission of their lead- her through group nominating ership and commitment. 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communication and professional WOMEN development company. One of Federal authorities charge extremist Orthodox sect • CONTINUED from FRONT PAGE the core tenets of the company is “These dedicated women whom to teach women to brag and self- Lev Tahor with exploiting, kidnapping children we are honoring, each saw a promote (AKA Brag Better™), By SHIRA HANAU have sex with their husbands, to tell “International borders will not need and took action,” said Stacy and to write a vocabulary to talk JTA news service people outside Lev Tahor that they stop the FBI from pursuing justice Leeds, Tampa JCCs and Federa- positively about professional ac- Federal authorities filed child were not married, to pretend to be and enforcing violations of our tion Women’s Philanthropy chair. complishment. exploitation and child abduction older, and to deliver babies inside laws, especially when you target “Through their dedication to our Tickets are $18 per person. To charges against leaders of an ex- their homes instead of at a hospital, children. The behavior alleged local agencies, each of them ex- RSVP, make a tribute gift in honor tremist haredi Orthodox sect that partially to conceal from the public today is outrageous, and there is emplifies tikkun olam, helping of a Woman of Distinction, or place has been accused of forcing girls the mothers’ young ages.” no justification for it whatsoever,” to repair our corner of the world. an ad in the program book, visit as young as 12 years old into mar- Later that year, the girl’s mother Sweeney said. Their efforts inspire others and we JewishTampa.com/WOD, contact riages with much older men within escaped from the group in Guate- The group has been described as celebrate their accomplishments Loni Lindsay at loni.lindsay@ the sect. mala and fled to the United States a and as the “Jewish Taliban,” and achievements.” jewishtampa.com or call (813) Five leaders of the Lev Tahor with the girl and the girl’s younger as women and girls older than 3 brother, arriving in in are required to dress in long black Keynote speaker is Meredith 769-2802. A Zoom link will be group were charged by the United November 2018. According to the robes covering their entire body, Fineman, author of “Brag Bet- provided upon registration. States Attorney for the Southern Justice Department, in December leaving only their faces exposed. ter: Master the Art of Fearless District of New York and FBI Mon- This event is sponsored by RSM 2018, the five men charged kid- The men spend most of their days Self-Promotion.” Fineman is the US LLP, certified public accoun- day, April 19 with crimes related to an alleged in 2017 napped the girl, then 14 years old, in prayer and studying only specific founder and CEO of FinePoint, a tants and business consultants. and a 2018 kidnapping. and her brother in the middle of the portions. The charges include conspiring night and brought them back to her Lev Tahor subscribes to a strict, to transport a minor with intent to husband, then 20 years old, who idiosyncratic version of kosher “I love what I do and you’ll love the results!” engage in criminal sexual activity was then in . The children laws. Members believe that genetic and conspiring to travel with intent were returned to New York several engineering has rendered modern- to engage in illicit sexual conduct. weeks later by law enforcement day chickens nonkosher. Jill Neuman The first charge carries a mandatory but the group tried to kidnap them Marriages between teenagers minimum sentence of 10 years in again two more times. and older members are common. RealtoR prison and maximum of lifetime in Nachman Helbrans is the son According to the Justice De- 813.503.0707 prison; the second carries a maxi- of Shlomo Helbrans, who partment’s announcement of the mum of 30 years in prison. founded Lev Tahor in the 1980s, charges, Nachman Helbrans and Nachman Helbrans, one of the and became the group’s leader in his team “embraced several ex- [email protected] men charged Monday, arranged 2017 after the death of his father. treme practices, including strict, a marriage in 2017 between his The other men charged are Mayer invasive monitoring of members, jillneuman.com 12-year-old niece and an 18-year- Rosner, Yakov Weingarten, Shmiel frequent beatings, and forced mar- old man, according to the filing. Weingarten and Yoel Weingarten. riages of minors to adult members. They were married in 2018 and Yakov Weingarten was arrested Children in Lev Tahor are often began a sexual relationship. last month in on the subject to physical, sexual, and According to the Justice Depart- first day of Passover. The group emotional abuse.” ment press release, young brides in had fled to Guatemala in Leaders of the group have been 1208 e. Kennedy Blvd. Suite 231, tampa, Fl 33602 the community were expected “to 2014 after coming under intense charged with kidnapping before, scrutiny by Canadian authorities including in the case authorities for alleged and marry- charged Helbrans and the others ing off children. for Monday. In 2019, four group The group was founded in Jeru- leaders were indicted for the 2018 salem before fleeing abroad. At nne kidnapping. time, based in the U.S. and Canada. Guatemalan authorities have William F. Sweeney Jr., the FBI’s been monitoring leaders of Lev assistant director, thanked Guate- Tahor, which is now based in the malan and Mexican law enforce- country.. Members of the group, ment for their assistance in the Lev which is anti-Zionist, have applied Tahor case. for political asylum in Iran. Top Jewish Dems reintroduce ammunition background check bill named for Parkland victim WASHINGTON (JTA) — In the Guttenberg has become a lead- midst of a spate of mass shootings, ing advocate for gun control. top Jewish Democrats in the Senate Gun purchases are subject to and U.S. House of Representatives background checks under federal have reintroduced “Jaime’s Law,” law, but ammunition purchases named after a Jewish victim of are not. the Parkland school shooting that The last Congress had launched would subject ammunition pur- the measure, but it failed to ad- chases to background checks. vance with Republicans control- The bill, introduced in the ling the Senate and White House. House by Rep. Debbie Wasser- Backers are hoping that Presi- man Schultz of Florida and in the dent Joe Biden’s vocal backing Senate by Richard Blumenthal of for gun control reforms, and the Connecticut, is named for Jaime Democratic majority in the Sen- Guttenberg, the Jewish girl who ate, will improve the chances of was among the 17 people killed at passage. a high school in Parkland, in 2018. Also present at the introduction “The reality of gun violence in of the legislation was Rep. Ted America will not fix itself,” Fred Deutch, D-FL, the Jewish con- Guttenberg, Jaime’s father, said at gressman whose district includes the bill’s online launch on April 20. Parkland. Blumenthal’s state was “We need this life-saving legisla- the scene of the mass shooting tion or we will continue to face at Sandy Hook Elementary in our current daily reality of gun Newtown in 2012 that killed 26, violence and loss of life.” including 20 first-graders.

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A fire burns amid violent protests in Jerusalem, April 22. MAN OF THE YEAR 2021 What you need to know about the Honoring Gary I. Teblum for over 42 years clashes that rocked Jerusalem of service to Congregation Kol Ami By BEN SALES interethnic tensions, but the foot- JTA news service age that emerged was among the The Israel Police have acqui- worst in recent memory, according A VERY SPECIAL NIGHT esced to the demands of Palestinian to reporters on the scene. protesters who called for the re- It followed more than a week HONORING A GREAT LEADER moval of barricades that prevented in which Palestinian residents of gathering during the Muslim holy eastern Jerusalem protested barri- IN OUR COMMUNITY month of Ramadan. ers that had been erected around the On Sunday, April 25, police Damascus Gate preventing crowds removed the barriers, which of Palestinians from partaking in an SUNDAY, MAY 23 blocked crowds of Palestinians annual Ramadan tradition – sitting from gathering at Damascus Gate at the steps of the gate at night. 7 – 8:30PM VIA ZOOM in Jerusalem’s Old City at night, It all came to a head on the night a Ramadan tradition, according of April 22 when a crowd of hun- to . Palestinians had pro- dreds of far-right marched tested the barriers for about two together on the Old City. They were Tickets are on sale now! $36 per Zoom entry. weeks, clashing with police. The organized by Lehava, an extremist past few weeks have also seen group that seeks to prevent inter- Please visit www.kolami.org and register today. street attacks on visibly Orthodox marriage or coexistence between Jews as well as Arabs. Jews and Arabs. Its leader is Bentzi On Thursday, April 22, the Gopstein, a disciple of the late Special guest appearance by: protests escalated when hundreds Rabbi Meir Kahane, a Jewish ex- of far-right Jews chanting racist tremist who opposed the presence slogans marched on the Old City, of Arabs in Israel. where they clashed with Palestinian As the Lehava march neared the protesters and police in a night that Old City, hundreds of Palestinian JOEL saw arrests, violence and hospital- counter-protesters gathered chant- izations. ing “With spirit and blood we’ll Ten Palestinians were arrested redeem you, O Aqsa!,” according CHASNOFF in a small protest at the site on Sat- to . Police at- urday night, according to Haaretz. tempted to separate the two crowds, COMEDIAN, AUTHOR, There was also a protest at the who shouted insults at each other. Qalandiya checkpoint in the West Eventually, well after midnight, IDF SOLDIER Bank. police dispersed the crowds us- In recent days, Palestinian mili- ing tear gas, water hoses and stun tants in Gaza have fired more than grenades. Join us for an exciting night of laughter and celebration 40 rockets at Israel. While the But violent protest is far from rare as Joel shares with us his Jewish upbringing, life in Israel, rockets have been fired by smaller in the Old City, home to Jewish and armed factions, the barrage has Muslim holy sites. It is at the center and much much more!!!! been endorsed by Hamas, the of one of the most bitterly contested militant group governing Gaza. In a cities on Earth and has seen conflict statement reported by the Times of of one kind or another throughout Israel, Hamas told the smaller terror history. groups to “keep their fingers on the In recent years, the fighting has TRIBUTE JOURNAL trigger.” The groups say the rocket centered on the Temple Mount, the fire is in response to the unrest in holiest site in , which is Jerusalem. revered by Muslims as the Noble The videos circulating out of Sanctuary. In an arrangement more Jerusalem – of beatings, stone than a half-century old, the site is A great way to share a personalized throwing and racist chants – are under Israeli control but governed congratulations to our awardee is to purchase a space in our Tribute Journal shocking, but the tensions that fu- in practice by a Jordanian-affiliated eled the violence in the Old City are Muslim body. Jews may visit dur- where you can show your support and make a lasting memory! anything but new. ing limited hours and their rights are Hundreds of Jewish extremists otherwise restricted there. marched down Jerusalem streets A group of Jewish activists has All proceeds will be designated to the Brotherhood Leadership Fund to support chanting “Death to Arabs” and pushed for expanded rights at the singing “Burn their village.” The site. Palestinians have protested, the next generation of Brotherhood and Kol Ami leaders. Visit www.kolami.org or demonstration followed days of un- sometimes violently, in response. rest in eastern Jerusalem in which This has sparked no shortage of call (813) 962-6338 to purchase today! Palestinian residents clashed with clashes, from bombings, attacks police over restrictions imposed and shootings, to protests, to dip- Personal note: $18 during the Muslim holy month of lomatic tensions between Israel and Ramadan. Jordan. In 2015, anger over restric- In recent weeks, Palestinians tions at the Temple Mount set off a Quarter page: $125 have posted videos to TikTok wave of Palestinian attacks across showing them harassing recogniz- Jerusalem. Half page: $250 ably Orthodox Jews on the street, Jewish Israelis and Palestinians seemingly unprovoked, including have also been fighting over the Full page: $500 knocking the hats off their heads, future of the Old City as a whole, hitting them and throwing stones. which Israel captured from Jordan 2 inside / 1 outside back In response, bands of Jewish ex- in the 1967 Six-Day War. Israel tremists have roamed the streets of claims the Old City as part of its cover: $1,000 each Jerusalem looking for Palestinians undivided capital, while the Pal- to assault with one video shared on estinians see it as the heart of their (limited availability) social media showing Jews attack- own capital in a future state. Most ing an Arab home in Jerusalem as of the international community children cried. The Israeli media views the eastern part of Jerusalem, reported that more than 100 people including the Old City, as illegally in all were injured in the melee. occupied by Israel. Here’s what you need to know On Jerusalem Day nearly ev- about the unrest now taking place. ery year, right-wing Jews march The April 22 violence was unusu- through the Old City, some chant- ally bad, even for Jerusalem. ing “Death to Arabs,” the slogan Jerusalem is no stranger to heard on Thursday. 2” 3” 4” 5” 6” Congregations Congregations Congregations

PAGE 4 A JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA BAY / TAMPA EDITION Congregations APRIL 23 - MAY 20, 2O21 Rabbinically Congregations Shabbat ‘Be the & Shavuot Speaking Cong. Rodeph Sholom miracle’ Cinco de Mayo Shabbat: Celebrate Cinco Candle de Mayo on Friday, May 7 at 6:30 p.m. with By Rabbi JOEL SIMON I would argue, the only miracles are Congregation Schaarai Zedek a Mexican dinner, then services at 7:30 p.m. Lighting the ones that occur in partnership with There will be enchiladas, margaritas and more. Just a few weeks ago we were sitting humans. While I believe that wisdom, Cost for dinner is $10 per person. The service Times around our tables retelling and celebrat- strength, and perseverance are gifts will feature Mariachi music and participants are ing the miracles of the Passover story. As from God, they are gifts that have to be encouraged to wear a sombrero. we reclined and drank four cups of wine used. And in order for the vaccine to Interfaith tradition: The 60th Annual Ann May 7 • 7:50 pm to celebrate our freedom from slavery, work fully, we need a miracle that will Zack Interfaith Gathering, hosted by the May 14 • 7:54 pm we couldn’t help but fulfill the be a true manifestation of the partner- Rodeph Sholom Sisterhood, will take place of seeing ourselves in the story. Mov- ship between God and all of humanity Wednesday, May 19, though this year as a May 16 • 7:55 pm ing from where we’ve been to where we in an ongoing creation. free Zoom event, beginning at 11 a.m. This May 17 • 8:53 pm hope to be has been a constant theme of Afterall, it isn’t just the scientists who year’s theme is: “A Celebration of Religious May 21 • 7:58 pm this past year. are part of the miracle, although they Traditions: History, Inspiration and Meaning.” As I was are definitely partners with God in this Guest speakers will include Rabbi Andres Ko- May 28 • 8:02 pm preparing for miracle. Without those who volunteered rnworcel of Congregation Rodeph Sholom, my family seder, in research, receiving the vaccine early Cantor Roger Weisberg, representatives from seeing my dad as it was tested for safety and efficacy, the Rodeph Sholom Sisterhood and St. John’s for the first modern day Nachshons acting as part- Chabad Chai of South Tampa Episcopal Church; Swami Ishtananda of the A perfect world?: time since last ners with God, there is no miracle. And A Jewish Learning Institute Vedanta Center of St. Petersburg, and Rev. class titled “This Can Happen: A credible case February, I was now, without all of us following their James Golden of Mt. Zion AME Church. especially moved lead, taking advantage of this modern for feeling good about the future,” is under Complimentary lunch bags will be provided. way at Chabad Chai of South Tampa and will by the miracle miracle, receiving the vaccine ourselves, RSVP before May 12, to www.rsholom.org. that we have wit- there is no miracle. Our getting vacci- continue for five more sessions. RabbiMendy For additional information call Michele Nor- Dubrowski leads the class, which is being held nessed in our fight against COVID-19. nated when we’re able to be vaccinated ris, interfaith chair, at (813) 352-8765. To have created a vaccine ready to is our way to be part of the miracle. And in person or online. Confirmation: On Saturday, May A course description notes:“For thousands administer this quickly is truly a modern just as the did not celebrate 22, 10th Grade confirmands, Rayna Sietz, miracle. As a good friend of mine, Dr. until they were safely on the opposite of years, the prophecies of a ‘messianic age’ Nicholas Batoff, and Benjamin Cherkasskiy, stretched the imaginations of even the most fer- Joshua Barocas, an infectious disease shore, we, too, must not celebrate early. will be honored at a special Shabbat service at physician at Boston Medical Center and We must continue to be responsible after vent believers.” But this is not the case anymore 9:30 a.m. Services will be held in person at because “instant media, mass social movements assistant professor of medicine at the receiving the vaccine until we know Rodeph Sholom, following CDC guidelines, Boston University School of Medicine, more about our potential to carry and and a global pandemic have shown us how sud- and livestreamed on Rodeph’s web page. denly the world can be rewired by the actions of a wrote upon receiving the vaccine, “This transmit the virus. When we sing and For more information on Ha’Sadnah, was not just akin to landing a person dance when we do reach the other side few.” Students are asked to “join us to demystify Rodeph Sholom’s Religious School, contact the Jewish idea of a perfect world and discover safely on the moon. Rather, this was akin of this Sea, our celebration will be that Joshua Ackman, education director, at Educa- to landing a person safely on Jupiter and much sweeter knowing that we were a a practical path for reaching it in our lifetime.” [email protected] or (813) 837-1911. The first class began Tuesday, April 27 and will having them return to Earth to tell the part of the miracle. Kids’ Shavuot programs: Congregations tale.” As we think about the brokenness of run each Tuesday through June 8, from 7:30-9 Rodeph Sholom and Kol Ami are planning two p.m. at a total cost of $55 (with prorated fees for The great 20th century rabbi and our world today, we need many miracles, joint youth programs for Shavuot on Sunday, philosopher Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik but as we learn so beautifully from Rav those not attending all classes) plus a $20 book May 16. Both will be on Zoom. The Chaverim fee. For more information visit: www.chabad- has a teaching that makes the connec- Soloveitchik’s reading of the Passover group is for those from kindergarten through tion between the miracle of the vaccine story, and perhaps more succinctly from chaicenter.com/JLI second grade and the Boneem group is for Stories of strength: and our Passover miracles even clearer. Morgan Freeman’s “God” character The Chabad Chai center those in third through fifth grades. Chaverim will present a community live streaming event, Rabbi Soloveitchik questioned why in Bruce Almighty, we have to “be the children will be making two-ingredient mug the Israelites sang and danced after the miracle.” We thank God for all of the a screening of the documentary film, “Where cakes while learning all about dairy farms at 2 Can I Go,” on Monday, May 10 at 8 p.m. The crossing of the Red Sea but not after first miracles that came before, and we thank p.m. The Boneem group will have a program at leaving Egypt. Afterall, he points out, God for the role that we as humanity documentary, filmed during the coronavirus pan- 3 p.m. where they will be making 3D origami edemic, tells the story of five Wake County, NC, their only job during the 10 plagues was played in those miracles. And as we flowers from paper. staying home, doing nothing. That was think about the miracles required to cre- Holocaust survivors who share their experiences If your child is interested in participating of trauma and resilence. To access the event, go a true miracle! Crossing the Red Sea, on ate the world we hope to see next Pass- contact Maci Morse at [email protected]. the other hand, required work. Not only over, we must not see ourselves as the to www.chabadchaicenter.com/zoom. did Nachshon have to step into the cold passive standers by who watched God water, but the entire people marched take us out of Egypt, but rather as active forward, fearful both of the walls of participants who helped in the miracle of EDITOR • CONTINUED from FRONT PAGE This summer we will celebrate the 35th the crossing of the Sea; we must con- water on both their sides and the Egyp- financial support to the paper. anniversary of launching the Jewish Press. tinue to be the miracles we hope to see in tian army chasing from behind. So why Patronize our advertisers. We often use the We began with the Pinellas edition and two the world today. didn’t the people sing and dance after the message "Support our Advertisers. They help years later added the Tampa edition. We are first of these two great miracles? make the Jewish Press possible" as a filler in planning an anniversary edition in July and Rabbinically Speaking is published as According to Soloveitchik, because the paper, but it is vital. Advertisers – for the will be asking the community to support us a public service by the Jewish Press in the people had to help God during the most part – are not philanthropic. They want with congratulatory messages. cooperation with the Tampa Rabbinical crossing of the Sea, the miracle was a return on their marketing dollar investment. While it is rare to make it 35 years in busi- Association which assigns the column on actually greater than the one for which Encourage businesses you frequent to ad- ness, we are hoping with your help to make it a rotating basis. The views expressed in we had to do nothing. We, of course, vertise. Some of our best sales reps have been to 36 – double chai – continued life for both the column are those of the rabbi and do have a new understanding of how hard community members who have told their the Jewish Press of Tampa Bay/Pinellas Edi- not necessarily reflect the views of the “just staying home” is, but regardless, favorite store owner they need to advertise in tion and Jewish Press of Tampa Bay/Tampa Jewish Press or the TRA. this is a good lesson for us today when, the Jewish Press. Edition. Religious Directory Most congregations have limited in-persons ser- Congregation MEKOR SHALOM — 14005A N. Dale MERKOS CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CENTRAL FLORIDA — PASCO COUNTY vices and are offering live-streaming of services. Mabry Hwy., Tampa, 33618 • Jodi Sered-Lever, 613 S. Melville Ave. Tampa, 33606 • Director: Rabbi Orthodox Some other programs are being offered via the Spiritual Leader • Telephone: (813) 963-1818 • Website: Lazer Rivkin • Telepone: (813) 966-8770 • Website: CHABAD JEWISH CENTRE at WIREGRASS — 2124 Ashley internet. For more information, contact the syna- www.mekorshalom.org. • Unaffiliated www.ChabadOfCentralFlorida.com Oaks Circle, Wesley Chapel, 33544 • Rabbi Mendy Congregation RODEPH SHOLOM gogue or go to the ’s website. — 2713 Bayshore Blvd., Campus Yarmush • Telephone: (813) 642-3244 • Website: www. Tampa 33629 • Rabbi Andres Kornworcel • Shabbat eve CHABAD HOUSE JEWISH STUDENT CENTER at USF — ChabadatWiregrass.com drive in services, 6:30 p.m. • Telephone: (813) 837-1911 13287 Arbor Point Circle unit 102, Tampa, 33617, • Website: www.rsholom.org. • Affiliated with United Unaffiliated Mailing address: USF Marshall CTR. Box 310, Tampa, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY Synagogue of Congregation BETH CHAVARIM – Telephone: (813) 957- Reform 33620. • Rabbi Levi Rivkin • Telephone: (813) 504- 1269 • Email [email protected] BETH ISRAEL/ JEWISH CONGREGATION OF SUN CITY CENTER Orthodox 4432 • Website: www.chabadhouseusf.org • Email: — 1115 E. Del Webb Blvd., Sun City Center • Mailing BAIS (TEMPLE) DAVID CHABAD — 2001 W. Swann Ave., [email protected] NORTH PINELLAS COUNTY Address: P. O. Box 5203, Sun City Center, 33571 • Tampa, 33606 • Rabbi Lazer Rivkin • Telephone: (813) CHABAD JEWISH STUDENT CENTER at UT – 401 W. Reform Rabbi Carla Freedman • Telephone: (813) 634-2590 • 966-8770 • Website: www.chabadofcentralflorida.com. Kennedy Blvd. Box P., Tampa, 33606 • Rabbi Levi Temple AHAVAT SHALOM — 1575 Curlew Rd., Palm Web address: www.jcscc.org. • Affiliated with Union for • Email: [email protected] Rivkin • Telephone: (813) 504-4432 • Website: www. Harbor, 34683 • Rabbi Matthew Berger • Cantorial CHABAD LUBAVITCH of TAMPA BAY — 14908 Peninngton chabadut.org soloist, Allison Rosoff • Telephone: (727) 785-8811 • Congregation BETH AM — 2030 W. Fletcher Ave, Road, Tampa, 33624 • Rabbi Yossie Dubrowski, HILLELS OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST— 13101 Sycamore Website: www. ahavatshalom.org. • Affiliated with Tampa, 33612 • Rabbi Jason Rosenberg • Cantor Tanya executive director • Telephone: (813) 963-2317 • Drive, Tampa, 33620 • Rabbi Ed Rosenthal • Telephone: Union for Reform Judaism Greenblatt • Telephone (813) 968-8511 • Website: www. Website: www.chabadoftampabay.com (813) 899-2788 • Website: www.suncoasthillels.org bethamtampa.org. • Livestreaming services • Affiliated CHABAD of BRANDON / JEWISH DISCOVERY CENTER — POLK COUNTY with Union for Reform Judaism USF CHABAD on CAMPUS — 4506 Sweetwater Lake 1578 Bloomingdale Ave., Valrico, 33596 • Rabbi Mendel Reform Congregation BETH SHALOM Drive, Tampa, 33620 • Rabbi Pinny Backman • Website: — 706 Bryan Road, Rubashkin • Telephone: (813) 571-8100 • Website: Temple BETH SHALOM — 1029 Bradbury Road, • www.USFChabad.com • Telephone: (813) 978-8723 Brandon, 33511 • Rabbi Paul Schreiber • Telephone: jewishbrandon.org P.O.B. 313 Winter Haven, 33882-0313 • Rabbi Garson (813) 681-6547 • Website: http://bethshalom-brandon. CHABAD CHAI of SOUTH TAMPA Herzfeld • Telephone: (863) 292-0722. • Website: org. • Affiliated with Union for Reform Judaism — 2511 W. Jewish Renewal Swann Ave. #201, Tampa, FL 33606 • Rabbi Mendy Congregation OR AHAVAH www.templebethshalompolk.org. • Affiliated with Congregation SCHAARAI ZEDEK — 3303 W. Swann Ave., — Rabbi Debrah Shenefelt, Dubrowski • Services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, Union for Reform Judaism Tampa 33609 • Rabbi Joel Simon, Rabbi Michael Weiss spiritual leader • Telephone: 813-968-7850; email: 10 a.m. • Telephone: (813) 922-1723 • Website: www. Conservative • Cantor Deborrah Cannizzaro • Shabbat eve service live [email protected]. • Website: www.Orahavah.org • ChabadChaiCenter.com Temple EMANUEL — 600 Lake Hollingsworth on Tampa Bay Community Network TV, 7 p.m. (check Affiliated with Aleph BAIS MENACHEM CHABAD — 1319 North B. St., Tampa, Drive, Lakeland, 33803 • Rabbi David cable provider) • Telephone: (813) 876-2377 • Website: CITRUS COUNTY Goldstein • Telephone: (863) 682-8616. • www.zedek.org. • Livestreaming services • Affiliated 33606 • Rabbi Levi Rivkin • Telephone: (813) 375-9799, Conservative (813) 504-4432 • Website: www. bmchabad.com Website: TempleEmanuelLakeland.com. • Affiliated with Union for Reform Judaism Congregation BETH SHOLOM — 102 Civic Circle, Beverly with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Congregation BAIS TEFILLAH — 14908 Pennington Road, Hills • Mailing address: Beverly Hills Jewish Center, P. Conservative Tampa, 33624 • Rabbi Yossie Dubrowski • Telephone: O. Box 640024, Beverly Hills, 34464-0024 • Telephone Orthodox Congregation KOL AMI — 3919 Moran Road, Tampa (813) 963-2317 • Website: www. chabadoftampaybay. (352) 746-6258 • Website: www.bethsholomcitrus.org CHABAD JEWISH CENTER — 2270 Griffin Road, 33618 • Rabbi Rachel Blatt • Telephone: (813) 962-6338 com Congregation KOL EMET — Cantor Mordecai Kamlot • Lakeland, 33810 • Rabbi Moshe Lazaros • Telephone: • website: www. kolami. org. • Livestreaming services YOUNG ISRAEL of TAMPA - 13207 N. 52nd St., Tampa, 39 Roosevel Blvd., Beverly Hills • Mailing address: P. O. (863) 937-5565 • Website: www.chabadlakeland.org • Affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative 33617 • Rabbi Uriel Rivkin • (813) 832-3018 • Website: Box 38, Hernando, 34441 • Telephone (352) 643-0995 • Judaism www. youngisraeloftampa.org Website: www.kolemetcitrus.org 2” 3” 4” 5” 6” Bar Mitzvah Bar Mitzvah APRIL 23 - MAY 20, 2O21 JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA BAY / TAMPA EDITION A PAGE 5 Kol Ami Brotherhood to honor Teblum as Man of Year Bar Mitzvah When the Congregation Kol In other service to the congre- journal. Go to kolami.org or call Ami Brotherhood presents Gary gation, he was a member of the (813) 962-6338. I. Teblum with its Man of the Year Kol Ami Guest speaker Noah Matthew Sams award on Sunday, May 23, it will executive Chasnoff is a stand-up comic, NoahBar Matthew Mitzvah Sams, son of Monica and An- be honoring a man who has served committee author, Internet-TV-show host, and drew Sams of Tampa, will be called to the Torah the congregation for more than 40 from 1991- creator/ as a Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, May 1 at Congre- years. 2007. Te- host of the gation Schaarai Zedek in Tampa. The event will be virtual, runing blum was forthcom- Noah is an eighth grade Headmasters List from 7-8:30 p.m. and include a also vice- ing pod- studentBar at Berkeley Mitzvah Preparatory School. Active special guest appearance by Joel president cast, “In- in sports, he plays MLS TBU club soccer and Chasnoff, a comedian, author and of Congre- t e r e s t i n g enjoys attending Camp Cobbossee in Maine dur- former Israel Defense Force sol- gation Kol Jews.” ing the summer. For his mitzvah project, Noah dier. Tickets for a Zoom entry to the Chas- Ami from Gary Teblum hosted a neighborhood Thanksgiving food drive to benefit Metropolitan event are $36 per person and can 1997-2003 noff has Ministries of Tampa Bay. be purchased at www.kolami.org. performed and president from 2003-2005. Special guests will include grandparents, David and Betsy Sams from The 2021 Mike Korenvaes Man at more In wider service to the local - Joel Chasnoff performs Vero Beach and Alice and Stanley Rosenthal, of Tampa. of the Year award is the highest ish community, he served on the than 1,000 from his home in recognition and most prestigious board of the TOP Jewish Founda- J e w i s h Ra’anana, Israel. award the Brotherhood can bestow tion from 2007 to 2015 and as vice events in Bar/Bat Mitzvah policy on one of its members. 10 countries, and more than 200 president-legal from 2003-2005. Bar/Bat Mitzvah are published as a public service in the Jewish Dr. Mario Rodriguez, president In 2014 he was honored at TOP clubs and colleges across North Press. Forms should be available at all synagogue offices. Forms may of the Kol Ami Brotherhood, said Trustee of the Year. America. Since April 2020, he’s also be filled out online at www.jewishpresstampa.com. The completed Teblum’s “42 years of volunteer He also was an Israel Bonds performed more than 100 online form should be sent approximately a month in advance. service, his extraordinary dedica- honoree and received the Cardozo comedy events from his home in Email [email protected] or mail to Jewish Press, 6416 tion and leadership, and his many Society of Tampa Bay Leadership Israel. Central Ave., St. Petersburg, FL 33707. significant contributions on behalf Award in 2017. “Zoom magically narrows the of the Brotherhood, Congregation distance between my audience and Teblum is a senior member at- Kol Ami, the Tampa Bay Jewish me, and online comedy shows can torney with Trenam Law, having community, and the Florida legal be intimate, engaging, and bring Letter to the Editor been with the law firm for more community all made him the obvi- a community together for much- than 41 years. He became a Tre- The Jewish Press welcomes Letters to the Editor. Letters are published on a space ous and most deserving choice for needed laughter,” Chasnoff says nam Law Shareholder in 1984 and available basis with the Jewish Press reserving the right to edit or reject letters for this important award.” on his website. a senior member in 2020. He has clarity, brevity, legalities or taste. Letters must be signed and bear the writer’s ad- Teblum joins Mike Korenvaes He is also author of “The 188th dress and telephone number (which will not be published). The writer’s name will be (z”l), the award’s namesake, and also been a member of the Florida Crybaby Brigade,” about his year withheld on request. last year’s awardee, Barry Dvor- Bar Business Law Section since as a tank gunner in IDF. He is also chik in a select group of volunteers 1979, a member of the Executive co-author of a cookbook, “Bala- to be honored as Man of the Year. Council since 2006 and a member boosta.” Reader fears rising tide of of the Legislation Committee The honoree He lectures on a variety of topics, Editor: listened to Hitler on the Sunday since 2006. He was vice chair Teblum has been a member of including the history and future of This letter is in response to the radio, and opened the newspaper from 2009-2010 and chair from Kol Ami since moving to Tampa Jewish humor, his year-long back- “Perspective” column in the Jewish to headlines, “Nazis Mass in Madi- in 1979 and joining the congrega- 2010-2012. packing trip around the world with son Square Gardens.” I worry a Those who wish to honor Teblum Press of March 26-April 8, 2021. tion’s Brotherhood, an organiza- four kids, and the state of Lone Gary Gould begins his article lot about Mr. Gould’s description tion he has remained a member of and help fund the work of the Soldiers in the IDF. He also hosts of the rising tide of antisemitism Brotherhood can do so with an ad by writing that “..even the most ever since, including as president “FIDF,” a television show put on severe Trump Administration crit- in our own country; a scourge that from 1980-82. in the 2021 Man of the Year tribute by Friends of the IDF. ics would recognize the signifi- will affect our children for genera- cance of the ‘Abraham Accords’,” tions to come. which have apparently made My question to Mr. Gould is PARTNERSHIP simply this, “Should even the most • CONTINUED from FRONT PAGE Sheba Medical Center established the ARC Center it possible for Jews to live and telehealth. I did not realize how timely it would be in 2019, which stands for “Accelerate, Redesign, prosper in Abu Dabai. I do not lay ardent Trump supporters admit [when the spread of COVID-19 became a pandemic]. Collaborate” to give Israeli healthcare startups the awake nights worrying about Jews that much of this ‘rising tide of So, from the conference I called TGH CEO John opportunity to collaborate with expert physicians and in Dubai or anywhere else in the antisemitism’ “ in our own country, Couris and asked if he would have interest in partner- hospital staff to implement global change in medicine. middle east. is the result of Donald Trump and ing with one of the top 10 hospitals in the world. He In recent months, hundreds of new ideas and designs But, as a young Jew coming of his inflammatory rhetoric?” A. H. Felman, MD said, ‘You facilitate it, and I will make it happen.’” for finding technological models to help predict patient age in the 1930’s, I recall the fear Tampa After that, representatives of the two hospitals be- deterioration from the coronavirus have originated at in my parent’s eyes when they gan talks that resulted in the partnership announced Sheba’s Corona Hub, located on campus at the ARC Monday, April 19. The two hospitals say the pact is Innovation Center. grounded in a shared commitment to accelerating Sheba was founded a few weeks after the State The Heights Veterinary Clinic medical innovation and best practices. The partner- of Israel in May 1948. In those days it was called ship will focus on the areas of education and training, “Military Hospital No. 5”, and its wards were housed Examinations - Vaccinations innovation, scientific events, delegation visits between in abandoned British Army pavilions. In 1953 the Diagnostics - Dentistry hospitals and bilateral research. “Military Hospital” became a civilian medical center. “We are hoping to have a first meeting with some Now serving, both the civilian and military population, Surgical Services of Sheba’s thought leaders within the next month,” the hospital has expanded over the years to about 1700 Radiology - Imaging to discuss more concrete areas of collaboration and beds and includes a general hospital and rehabilitation information sharing, Rinde-Hoffman said. She added center. From 2019 through 2021 it has been ranked by Emergencies - Pharmacy that last June, as doctors were learning new things Newsweek as one of the 10 best hospitals in the world. about the effects of COVID-19, she and a doctor from Rinde-Hoffman was honored in 2012 by the Jewish Acupuncture and Laser Therapy Sheba were among four speakers in a webinar about Museum of Florida’s 16th annual “Breaking the Glass how the virus affects the body. Her topic was on the Ceiling” awards for women who have been successful 813-533-7363 effects of COVID on the heart. in fields generally dominated by men, involved in the Another national webinar in a few weeks will feature general and Jewish community, and are role models Dr. Eric Mondschein www.theheightsveterinaryclinic.com TGH and Sheba officials. The Sheba representative for other women. She is medical director of advanced will speak on technological innovations to deal with heart failure and mechanical circulatory support at MON-TUE: 8AM-6PM THU-FRI: 8AM-6PM COVID and Dr. Miship Patel will discuss develop- TGH. 3400 N. 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PAGE 6 A JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA BAY / TAMPA EDITION APRIL 23 - MAY 20, 2O21 Tampa woman pushes effort to fund aliyah for Ethiopians By BOB FRYER Ethiopians died along the way but Jewish Press those who made it to Sudan were airlifted to Israel in a complex and How to donate Since 1984 Lili Kaufmann of To contribute to the Ethiopian Aliyah effort through the Tampa JCCs and Fed- Tampa has advocated for Jews in clandestine operation that brought eration, go to: jewishtampa.com/operationisrael or send checks, with Ethiopian need of a new home, and now she more than 8,000 Ethiopian Jews to Aliyah on the memo line, to: is doing it again, this time to help Israel onboard 30 flights between Tamps JCCs and Federation Ethiopian Jews who have been November 1984 and January 1985. 13009 Community Campus Drive separated from their families make Then in 1991, a lightning-quick Tampa, FL 33625 effort called Operation Solomon aliyah to Israel. To contribute through the Jewish Federation of Florida’s Gulf Coast, go to Kaufman’s current appeal is for was made to aid Ethiopian Jews jewishgulfcoast.org/donateorpledge. On that page there is a box to leave a Jews throughout the Tampa Bay in need. It was done as another comment. That is where you designate that the donation is for Ethiopian aliyah. area to make donations (see details covert military operation to airlift To send a check, with Ethiopian Aliyah on the memo line, mail it to: in informational box) to help settle Ethiopian Jews to Israel from May Jewish Federation of Florida’s Gulf Coast more Ethiopian Jews in Israel. 24 to May 25, 1991. 13191 Starkey Road Kaufman’s efforts to aid others Kaufmann chaired the Tampa Suite 8 Largo, FL 33773 began when she served as chair Federation’s Operation Solomon for the Tampa Jewish Federation’s campaign for the Jewish Agency. For those who want to give directly to the Jewish Agency for Israel in North fundraising effort that brought in “Non-stop flights of 35 Israeli America, go to www.jafina.org, click on “donate” then go to the “Where would Lili Kaufmann is shown two years ago more than $1 million to support aircraft, including Israeli Air Force you like your donation to go drop-down menu and choose “Ethiopian Aliyah & with a young refugee from Ethiopia the Jewish Agency for Israel’s C-130s and El Al Boeing 747s, Absorption.” at an absorption center near Sterodt, Operation Exodus in 1984. That transported 14,325 Ethiopian Jews Israel. was a project that in a relatively to Israel in 36 hours. One of the short period helped more than a aircraft, an El Al 747, carried at other refugees like the Soviet Jews and cultural activities and other try and around the world, and we million Jews flee the Soviet Union least 1,088 people, including two did, Kaufmann said, including services that the Jewish Agency wanted to help the Jewish Agency to Israel and thousands more settle babies who were born on the flight, governmental limits on how many helps provide in order to give a for Israel raise these dollars to help in America and other safe havens. and holds the world record for the can come in a given period of time “soft landing” for new adult immi- as many Ethiopian Jews make ali- Some of those funds also went most passengers on an aircraft,” and challenges from Orthodox grants. Another array of services, yah to is as possible,” said Alissa to Operation Moses in late 1984, she recalled. Jewish officials in Israel over au- including aid enrolling in school, Fischel, chief development officer which took place when a devastat- Kaufmann is currently a mem- thenticating that they are Jewish. Hebrew lessons, guidance about of the Tampa JCCs and Federation. ing famine swept through Ethiopia, ber of the Jewish Agency’s Aliyah Those making aliyah have to learn IDF service and higher education Donors can go to the Federation threatening the survival of the lo- Committee and serves on the Hebrew and if not considered Jews and training for jobs in demand are website and designate funds for cal Jewish community. According boards of governors for the Jewish under the Jewish law, go through also offered by the Jewish Agency Ethiopian aliyah (see information to the Israel Ministry for Foreign Agency for Israel of North America a conversion process to satisfy for Israel. box). Donations from Tampa as Affairs, thousands of Ethiopian and its counterpart in Israel. concerns over their authenticity, Currently, the government has of early April surpassed $16,000, Jews journeyed by foot through Many Ethiopians have been even though the heritage of Jews agreed to allow 8,000 more Ethio- enough to fund aliyah for eight the deserts of Ethiopia and Sudan, waiting for more than 20 years to in Ethiopia goes back three millen- pian Jews to make aliyah, but only Ethiopians. The national goal set braving starvation, dehydration, make aliyah and reunite with other nia, Kaufmann said. They also go in allotments of 2,000 at a time. The by the Jewish Agency for Israel and attacks by brutal militias, with family members who have already through a process to learn job and first allotment of 2,000 arrived in in North America is $4 million, the hope of reaching Sudanese come to Israel. job-search skills, receive transi- Israel in recent months and now the Kaufmann said. refugee camps. More than 4,000 They face more obstacles than tional housing, participate in social need to help those being absorbed The Jewish Federation of Flor- into the Israeli community, as well ida’s Gulf Coast also will accept GREAT GIFT IDEA as support those still waiting to donations specifically earmarked come, has prompted Kaufmann for Ethiopian aliyah. to again work as local leader for Lili Kaufmann noted that reset- a fundraising effort by the Jewish tlement costs include the expenses Agency for Israel to help cover of care and educational classes at those costs. Kaufmann said it costs refugee sites where people await about $2,000 per person to help approval to come to Israel, the cost Ethiopians make aliyah. She has of transportation and the cost to enlisted the aid of the Tampa JCCs help them assimilate once they ar- and Federation and the Jewish Fed- rive in Israel. eration of Florida’s Gulf Coast in Efforts by the getting word out of the need to aid and Israel to help Jews make aliyah the Ethiopians, saying her intention to Israel, Kaufmann says, “have is not to divert funds people would greatly enhanced the economy and give to the annual campaigns for quality of life of Israel today. We the two local federations, but to ask all recognize that Israel today is for additional donations to be made the outcome of the aliyah of Jews for Ethiopian aliyah. from around the world who have The Jewish Agency noted that resettled and dramatically changed since the early 1950s it has assisted the country. We now have the op- more than 95,000 Ethiopians make portunity to help reunite families aliyah. who have been waiting for up to 20 “As a Federation, it is important years to be together in Israel and to to help Jews all around the coun- live freely as Jews.”

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Clearwater, is seeking an ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Next comes meshuganah (crazy, nutty); far- Congregation Beth Shalom of Clearwater is looking for a top-flight Administrative Assistant. This ablondjet (lost, confused) and tchotchke (sit- Don’t plotz, you can find/follow full-time position supports the , Synagogue Administrator, Board Officers and all visitors to on-the-shelf trinket). the congregation office by handling office tasks, providing polite and professional assistance via A former newspaper reporter, now a com- Parri a.k.a. Cookie at: phone, mail, and e-mail, creating flyers, brochures and other desktop publications, and generally munications consultant to a New York-based [email protected] being a supportive presence in the workplace. It reports directly to the Synagogue Administrator. international toy manufacturer, Sontag works (813) 830-3115 The ideal candidate will have: closely with social media influencers. Their • Prior administrative experience success gave her the idea to have Cookie Kib- YouTube: Her Royal Thighness channel • The ability to maintain confidentiality and utilize discretion bitznk schmooze on YouTube. .com/channel/UC4TCWhlOQhi- • Be a team player with an optimistic attitude with the ability to multi-task, Working remotely from her north Tampa igN0Yk5jQTvA and work well under pressure • Knowledge of Judaism or willingness to learn about Jewish practices and customs home throughout the pandemic, “I saw how Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ • Excel at both verbal and written communication. much people really need to laugh,” she said. herroyalthighness Fans subscribe to catch the weekly upload, • Computer literacy with an emphasis on desktop publishing usually on Thursdays, all under five minutes Instagram: @her_royal_thighness Most importantly, the Administrative Assistant should have a genuine desire long. Twitter: @HerRoyalThighness to meet the needs of others. “Let’s face it, Yiddish words sound funny If interested, please e-mail your resume and cover letter directly to: and pack a punch,’ Sontag said. “Take schvitz TikTok: @CookieKibbitz [email protected] versus sweat, but people don’t always know the true meaning. Like chutzpah. A lot of people think it’s as a good thing, they think it’s self- confidence or bravery. But really, it’s brazen audacity, colossal nerve that leaves everyone around you speechless.” Brooklyn-born Sontag, 58, grew up idolizing comediennes Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett, and beloved columnist and author Erma Bom- beck, her inspiration to start a blog called Her Royal Thighness which the BlogHer media company selected as one of the 2014 Voices of the Year in the humor category. Sontag might be starring in her own real- life version of Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel if she hadn’t gotten cold feet after an open mic night 35 years ago at the Comic Strip in New York City. ”I just got up there with some funny riffs off the cuff,” Sontag recalled. “When they invited me back I was terrified that I wouldn’t be able to recreate what I’d done. I was so young and naive I didn’t realize they had rehearsed routines.” At the Erma Bombeck 2018 Writers’ Work- A celebration honoring philanthropists and volunteer leaders shop in Dayton, Ohio, Sontag felt comfortable enough to try out a stand-up routine in front of Jan and Craig Sher and Barbara Sterensis while raising more than several hundred other funny people. $400,000 to support the life-enhancing programs of Gulf Coast JFCS. “One guy, a very successful TV writer, said I was so funny that he spit out his drink,” she said, still tickled at the compliment. LIFETIME THE INAUGURAL Future open mic attempts, “booked for 9, but you don’t go on till 11,” led her to social ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BARBARA STERENSIS media platforms, luring nearly 200 YouTube DISTINGUISHED subscribers and hundreds of followers on Tik- ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Tok, Twitter and Instagram, in just two months. Mastering technical challenges became part of her schtick. “Cookie’s a Boomer,” said Sontag, “so I make my challenges part of hers. She’s im- perfect, and I think people who enjoy my blog embrace imperfections in real life.” Sontag and husband Jim belong to Congre- gation Schaarai Zedek in Tampa, where she sings in the Koleinu choir and is an incoming board member. The couple met in a community theater production of ”Annie” in Jackson, MI, where she was a journalist and he was a Jan & Craig Sher Barbara Sterensis buyer for Jacobson’s Department Store. Tampa became home in 2007 when Jim opened the Zoey Bloom boutique on south Dale Mabry There’s still time to make an Impact: Highway. Their daughter Danielle, 25, a col- lege student in Nashville, is deciding between Gulf Coast JFCS assists Holocaust survivors across Tampa Bay who require varying a career in music or medicine. levels of assistance for essential daily living activities and need our help to accomplish. Toastmasters and National Speakers Asso- To this end, “The Holocaust Survivor Urgent Care Fund” has been established, with an ciation-trained, Sontag absolutely kvells to emcee and entertain for clubs, synagogues and initial goal of raising $100,000, of which $75,000 will be matched 1-1. Please don’t retirement homes, either as herself or Cookie. wait to help if you can, as these survivors need our care now! Her favorite topic as a keynote speaker: How to Find Humor Hiding in Plain Sight. To Activate a 1:1 match to your contribution, go to faces2021.givesmart.com Cookie’s cameo appearance was a hoot when or contact Sue Farley, VP for Development at 727-418-2787, [email protected] Sontag emceed the Scharaai Zedek Sisterhood virtual YES luncheon April 12. “She’s such talent, such a wonderful gift of gab, and this is her lifelong dream,” said Sister- hood member Judith Mish. Sontag is optimistic. “If I could someday make a living doing something I am this passionate about, that would be the ultimate. “I’ve done some soul searching and I believe my whole mission in life is to make people laugh.” To find out more about our programs and

To reach Amy Scherzer, email AmyScherzers- services go to www.gcjfcs.org [email protected] PAGE 8 A JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA BAY / TAMPA EDITION APRIL 23 - MAY 20, 2O21 Who is Joel Greenberg? Meet the Jewish Florida politician at the center of the Matt Gaetz scandal By RON KAMPEAS public role has been tax collector rael Public Affairs Committee. The And he has expensive tastes. JTA news service for Seminole County from 2017 other, from 2019, is at the White Audits show that Greenberg used Matt Gaetz, the Trump-boosting until last year, when he resigned House with Chris Dorworth, a public funds to pay for $384,000 in Florida congressman known for because of the indictments. former Florida state representative. “body armor, unspecified weapons, his firebomb rhetoric, is in big Scott Maxwell, a columnist The same day, Greenberg posted a ammunition, as well as a drone trouble – in part because of the for the Orlando Sentinel, said photo of Gaetz, Trump, and first with thermal imaging capabili- alleged foibles of a Jewish buddy, on Twitter after The Times story lady Melania Trump with Gaetz ties,” News13, a local broadcaster, Joel Greenberg, who has earned broke that Greenberg has kept the holding Greenberg’s daughter. reported. He spent at least $2.65 criticism previously from his local paper busy, posting a long list of In 2018, Gaetz predicted that million on a security force and for Jewish community. headlines related to his escapades Greenberg would one day be a great consultants; staffers could not say The U.S. Justice Department alleged and otherwise. (Sample: member of Congress, The Times what the consultants did. Three of reportedly is investigating Gaetz “Editorial: Good riddance to Joel said. According to the Orlando the people on the payroll were in for sex trafficking, alleging a sexual Greenberg, Central Florida’s worst Sentinel, Gaetz gave $1,000 to his wedding party. relationship with a girl who was 17 politician.”) Greenberg’s reelection campaign He spent $90,000 of agency years old when the affair took place Here (from the Orlando Sentinel last year. money to set up cryptocurrency Photo from YouTube about two years ago as well as pay- and others) is a sampling: That same year, the Republican mining devices, and $15,000 on Joel Greenberg, bearing his tax ing for sexual encounters. So far, Gaetz and Greenberg are close – Jewish Coalition called on Gaetz to collector badge and a sidearm, a sprinkler system that was cali- he has not be charged. but just how close? acknowledge his gaffe in inviting a brated to drive away petitioners. Holocaust denier to attend Trump’s appears in a TV news report about his The investigation, anonymous The Times said it’s not clear how legal troubles in Seminole County. On separate occasions, Green- officials told , Greenberg, 35, got to know Gaetz, State of the Union address. berg used his tax collector badge to stemmed from a federal probe of 38. Gaetz represents the Panhandle But then, Greenberg knows Facebook. stop a woman he said was speeding Greenberg, a friend and political in northwest Florida, while Green- the risks of keeping controversial “Name just ONE society in the and to try and persuade a traffic cop ally of Gaetz. Among an array of berg’s Seminole County is in the company. Another selfie he posted developed world that has benefited not to ticket him for speeding. charges, Greenberg has been in- state’s center. in 2017 is with Milo Yiannopoulos, in ANY WAY from the introduction He has mother-in-law issues. the far-right activist infamous for a dicted for stalking a political rival, Greenberg has posted at least of more Muslims,” Greenberg said. Greenberg broke court restric- long article in Breitbart whitewash- sex trafficking of a child, illegally three selfies on Twitter with Gaetz. “Just one.” tions last month when he figured ing white supremacists. obtaining information from Florida One is from 2017 with Roger Stone, Ben Friedman, the director of out his wife had decamped from “Friday the 13th with Milo Yian- state databases and identity theft. the adviser to President Donald community relations for Orlando’s their home to her mother’s house Greenberg is said to be cooperat- nopoulos,” he wrote. “What could Jewish federation, said Green- 1 Trump who has his own history 2 /2 hours away. Greenberg’s go wrong?” ing with federal authorities in the of legal imbroglios. In 2018, he berg’s question was “disgraceful” mother-in-law emphatically told Gaetz investigation. posed with Gaetz and a Florida Greenberg has angered Orlando’s Jews. and that Greenberg was, basically, police he was unwelcome. He’s So Greenberg has made plenty GOP political operative at the an- Greenberg drew fire in 2018 a shanda. back in jail as a result. of headlines considering his sole nual conference of the American Is- when he peddled Islamophobia on “I am frequently called on to speak on behalf of the Jewish He employs the Roger Stone community,” Friedman wrote in a method. Sentinel op-ed. “It’s tough — con- In 2016, then 31, Greenberg used sensus can be difficult to find — but his own money to run a successful in this case, I can confidently say Republican primary challenge that Prepare for unexpected that Greenberg’s hateful rhetoric accused the 28-year incumbent, does not represent the Jewish com- Ray Valdes, then 78, of being out power outages with a munity. The vast majority of Jews in of touch. 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But they have privately acknowl- Lindsay August - Montefiore Society Legal Services, has chaired the Elder Law to the restrictions of COVID 19, Levine edged that payments to those who have killed August has lived in the Tampa Bay area Section of the Hillsborough County Bar donated pages in Florida Health Care News civilians – as opposed to those convicted of for the past 16 years where she currently Association, and has received an “Out- to tell the story of the benefits of residing at serves as a senior vice president and com- standing Pro Bono Service” award from Weinberg Village. lesser crimes, including membership in banned mercial banker at Truist Bank. In her role at the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court’s Pro Levine is a sponsor of Jewish National organizations – complicate their case. Truist, August works with local businesses Bono Committee. Prior to attending law Fund’s Doctors for Israel. He was honored President Joe Biden campaigned on restor- and not-for-profits to find creative solutions school, she served as a Guardian ad Litem by the Tampa area JNF in April 2017 with ing assistance and reopening diplomatic ties to meet their goals and objectives. for children in the Hillsborough County the Tree of Life Award, the highest hu- with the Palestinians. He has already restored Throughout her time in Tampa, August court system. manitarian award that JNF presents to an nearly $300 million in aid through the U.N. relief has devoted much of her efforts to orga- individual or family. agency UNRWA and other platforms. nizations and charitable causes in both Barry Karpay – Real Estate Society Levine has been board chair of the Patel In asking J Street to seek the rollback of U.S. the Jewish and general community. Her Karpay has built a tremendous reputation Conservatory at the Straz Center for the Per- laws, Abbas named the 1987 law designating involvement in the Tampa JCCs and Federa- in the real estate community. His experience forming Arts. Other Jewish, healthcare and the PLO, an adjunct of the Palestinian Author- tion includes serving as a current board and in the field includes construction superin- artistic organizations that Levine supports ity, as a terrorist group. The law has complicated finance committee member, and previously tendent, home sales, land development and include Tampa Jewish Family Services, U.S.-Palestinian relations for years – setting up serving as the Morasha and Pomegranate owning a home-building company. In the the Greater Seder and Feeding Tampa Bay. a Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington, co-chairs. She is a graduate of the Hope last 20 years, Karpay has held executive D.C., for example, required a special waiver. Cohen Barnett Leadership Institute, and positions in publicly traded companies. His Jonathan Levy – Abbas suggested that the basis for the law was participates in the Tampa Jewish Federa- career has resulted in hundreds of communi- FIBA Entrepreneur Society moot, noting that the PLO had recognized Israel tion’s Young Adult Division (YAD). ties and thousands of homes being built for Levy has been involved in the real es- and entered into agreements with it. Over the years, the JCCs and Federation individuals and families. tate and construction industry for more One of the many topics tackled at the confer- has awarded her with the Hope Cohen Bar- Karpay’s his commitment to the ad- than 40 years. Established in 1988, Levy ence was an exploration of a Palestinian-Israeli nett Young Leadership Award and the Bob- vancement of the real estate industry is co-founded and is managing partner of confederation as a means of preserving the be Karpay Women of Distinction Award. demonstrated through his involvement Redstone Investments, a development, two-state solution. Also on the agenda was She has further shown her commitment to with the Urban Land Institute (ULI), serv- management and acquisitions company advocacy for restrictions on how Israel spends the community through her work with the ing on its national councils to improve best with a focus on shopping center develop- U.S. assistance. Last week, J Street endorsed a Tampa Bay Chamber’s Small Business of practices in master planned communities ment. Redstone’s portfolio is currently bill that would ban Israel from using U.S. funds the Year awards committee and Leadership and home building. He served as chair of comprised of more than 4 million square on jailing Palestinian minors, destroying Pales- Tampa Class of 2015, the Tampa Connec- the Tampa District Council from 2017-19, feet of commercial real estate located in tinian buildings and annexing Palestinian land. tion and SHARE Florida Food Network. where his focus was on the Women’s Lead- 16 states. In addition, Redstone focuses For a group that calls itself pro-Israel, that was ership Initiative and Young Leaders. Cur- on commercial real estate services and August was recognized in 2018 as one of a notable break from the pro-Israel orthodoxy rently, Karpay is as a committee member brokerage, providing asset management Tampa Bay Business Journal’s “40 Under that American financial assistance to Israel is on ULI’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion services for financial institutions and 40.” sacrosanct. Initiative, which acknowledges the role other third parties. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA., who also real estate practices played in perpetuat- Levy has served on numerous boards Susan Haubenstock – Cardozo Society spoke at the conference, said “it would be ir- Haubenstock has been an attorney in ing systemic racism and segregationist of both public and private companies, practices nationally and locally. participated as an active partner and responsible not to consider all of the tools we Tampa for 24 years, practicing in the areas have at our disposal” to influence Israel, includ- of estate planning, probate and guardian- investor in venture capital and private ing military assistance. Sen. Bernie Sanders of ship, elder law, Medicaid eligibility plan- Barry Levine, PhD – equity investments and has been involved Vermont delivered a similar message. ning, and disability planning. She currently Maimonides Society in acquisition and sales of a wide variety Unusually, Warren also weighed in on coali- serves on the board of the Tampa JCCs and Levine holds a Ph.D. in nuclear medicine of companies. He mentors young and Federation and is a Lion of Judah. She is a and is the CEO and executive publisher emerging entrepreneurs. tion negotiations in Israel, advising parties not previous board member of Weinberg Vil- of Florida Health Care News. Established An early supporter of the Florida-Israel to endorse Netanyahu for another term. Warren lage and has served on the board of Tampa in 1987, it is the oldest and largest family Business Accelerator, Levy donates his likened the situation facing the party leaders to Jewish Family Services, and currently sits of health care information publications in time and resources to many organizations, Americans who in November united to remove on its advisory council. Florida. Levine has served on the board of including Tampa JCCs and Federation, the Trump from office. Israel’s elected leaders Aside from her involvement within the the Tampa JCCs and Federation since 2018. Israel Tennis and Education Centers, Meals should do the same, she said, and give the Israeli Jewish community, Haubenstock has been Noting that the census at Weinberg Village on Wheels and Academy Prep. people a new prime minister.

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All other marks are the property of their respective owners APRIL 23 - MAY 20, 2O21 JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA BAY / TAMPA EDITION A PAGE 11 This Sabbath-observant baseball phenom has his eyes on a Major League career. Can it be done? By ROB CHARRY to follow and what I do,” Kligman said. “My favorite player was Roy Halladay,” he JTA news service Asked how he would classify his fam- said, recalling the late pitcher for the Toronto Is it possible to play Major League Base- ily’s Judaism, Marc Kligman said, “Labels Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies. “I was ball while being a Sabbath-observant Jew? are tough. We consider ourselves to be watching the Phillies a lot. I was in kinder- It’s a question that could have an answer observant, religious Jews. The people that garten when they won it all [in 2008 over the within the next few years if Elie Kligman, we pray with, and the customs that we fol- Tampa Bay Rays]. I really liked watching an 18-year-old from Las Vegas, has anything low is Chabad, which is part of the Hasidic Halladay pitch.” (Halladay was traded to the to say about it. Kligman is considered one movement.” Phillies before the 2010 season.) of the top high school players in the West The family’s Jewish community has been Kligman got to meet his idol at a Phillies- and is being recruited by major colleges. mostly supportive of Elie Kligman in his Padres game in San Diego through a family The 6-foot, 185-pound senior plays several pursuit.“The people that we’ve known have “friend” – Carlos Ruiz, the longtime Phillies infield positions and pitches. always known we’ve been doing this for catcher who caught four no-hitters, including But his sports agent father, Marc, thinks a long time,” he said. “The support from two pitched by Halladay. Ruiz happened to his best route to the majors would be as a everybody has been positive, they come to be Marc Kligman’s client, and Marc arranged switch-hitting, strong-armed catcher. games, they ask me about games.” for the meeting. Neither the colleges nor the pros have got- Marc Kligman said not everyone is on “It was pretty cool. Our pony league team ten to see much of Kligman on the field over board, however. “I think those who don’t had gone into a locker room at the Padres the past two seasons because of COVID, as understand maybe think this is nonsense, that stadium,” Elie recalled. “Carlos brought a there have been few games to showcase his kids should be studying to become rabbis and couple of players in – Placido Polanco, Cliff talents. teach at ,” he said. “But most of the Lee. When Roy Halladay walked in, it was Kligman likely would have accepted a Chabad rabbis realize that there are things kinda like, whoa!” scholarship to college as early as last sum- Photo ourtesy of Kligman that Elie and myself can do through the me- Ruiz remains like family to the Kligmans. mer, before his senior year, but now expects Elie Kligman has emerged as one of the top dium of baseball, and what we accomplish While he was unable to attend Kligman’s bar college recruits in the West. to make that decision by July at the latest. to try to bring people closer to Torah and mitzvah – several players did – he was there (He preferred not to say which schools are overcame religious restrictions — Hall of Judaism, that they can’t. for younger brother Ari’s coming-of-age rite. recruiting him, but said they are in Division Famer Christy Mathewson had a contract “We’ve had many people reach out to us During the recent Zoom interview with the I, the highest rung in college sports.) stating that he wouldn’t pitch on Sundays out and ask for Elie to speak to schools, religious Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a framed Ruiz Marc Kligman does not expect his son to of respect for his religious mother. Ed Correa, day schools, to communities. They’re just all jersey was visible over Elie’s right shoulder. be picked in July’s MLB draft – but he didn’t a White Sox pitcher in the mid-1980s was a very inspired that here’s a religious Jewish “I think Carlos was a big influence on rule it out, adding that he believes his older Seventh-day Adventist who didn’t pitch from boy with a Jewish first name, Jewish last Elie,” Marc Kligman said. “That’s maybe of two sons is ready for that step, even with sundown Friday to sunset Saturday. name, playing baseball, and he’s not com- where he got his love for catching. To be a the COVID obstacles. And if a team makes And then, of course, there’s the legend of promising, not letting it get in the way. To good catcher you really have to love it, it’s a good enough offer, Marc Kligman would Sandy Koufax, who sat out Game 1 of the the vast amount of very observant Jews that’s too hard of a position. encourage Elie to take it. 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom very inspirational, especially to young kids.” For now, Elie Kligman said he will play Why does Elie Kligman think he could Kippur. It only takes one team to make this story any position a team wants, as long as it gets convince a major league team to sign a Sab- Kligman, who attends the public Cimar- happen, Marc Kligman said, noting however him to the big leagues. He’ll be playing in bath-observant player, one who wouldn’t be ron-Memorial High School online during that half the pro teams won’t even bother to showcases and tournaments after his high available for as many as two games a week? the pandemic, said playing on Shabbat and look at a high school catcher. school season, The teenager was ready with a quick re- Yom Kippur is a nonstarter, regardless of the “It takes so long to develop a catcher. Or- By midsummer, Kligman will know sponse. “Most guys don’t play 162 games a game’s importance. ganizations want them to go to college and which path he will take, college or the minor year. If I’m a catcher, not playing three days He has raced to the ballpark after figure it all out and come out more mature as leagues. in the week or two days in the week is pretty sundown.“I’ve showed up at games halfway a senior at 21,” he said. “But the other half Bottom line, he said, the teen knows what normal, so I don’t think it would be that dif- through,” he said. of the organizations are potentially interested he wants to do: “Play baseball.” ferent from other guys,” he said. “I would The decision not to play on Shabbat is a because they want to mold them the way they Marc Kligman recalled a conversation he just be missing different days.” personal and a family decision.“It’s the way I want to mold them at a young age.” had with his son a few years ago. There would be even fewer obstacles if was raised, the way our family goes about ev- Marc Kligman was a high school catcher “He said I’m ready for it. I want to see if we Kligman made it as a pitcher, with starters erything,” he said. “Don’t play on Shabbos.” himself growing up in a Jewish but not partic- can make it work,” Marc Kligman said. “God going every fifth game and relievers rarely Teammates, he said, “usually ask me a lot ularly religious household in Stamford, CT.. first, being observant, religious, understand- appearing in more than three games in a row. of questions, like, what do you do on Shab- Elie Kligman was raised in San Diego ing the world is created for service to God, Marc Kligman said people have reached bos, why can’t you be here, but everyone is before the family moved to Las Vegas, but and to make the world a better place. Why out to him with instances of pitchers who super respectful of all the things that I have he wasn’t a Padres fan. can’t baseball and being observant coexist?” Blinken says US will continue Trump policy to urge countries normalize relations with Israel Your loved ones deserve the Best! WASHINGTON (JTA) – Secretary of to normalize relations with Israel, ” he said. State Antony Blinken said he anticipates The Biden administration has pledged more normalization agreements for Israel in to sustain the Trump administration’s nor- the next year. malization push. Other countries believed Blinken spoke Wednesday evening, April to be considering normalization with Israel 15, in Washington, D.C., at the Israeli Em- include Oman and Saudi Arabia. bassy’s virtual celebration of that nation’s Under the Trump administration, the Unit- Independence Day, or Yom HaAtzmaut. He ed Arab Emirates and Bahrain established was joined virtually by Israel’s U.S. ambas- full ties with Israel, and Sudan and Morocco sador, Gilad Erdan. launched the process. “The United States welcomes and sup- There were concerns that President Joe ports the recent normalization agreements,” Biden would not maintain the incentives to Blinken said, referring to the Abraham normalize relations with Israel, chief among Accords brokered last year by the Trump them the sale of stealth combat aircraft to the administration between Israel and four Arab UAE. Congressional aides this week told Re- states. uters that the White House had greenlighted We have been providing Caregivers “We will continue to urge more countries the sale, however. and Private Sitters to the Elderly Israeli wary of Iran nuke deal without enrichment ban Community in Tampa since 2003 Jamie & silvia tafur, owners By RON KAMPEAS Erdan in his speech did not name the Unit- JTA news service ed States, but made clear he was referring to Israel will not abide by any renewed Iran President Joe Biden’s hopes of reentering and • Medical Appointments • Report to family licensed nuclear deal that does not entirely end the reforming the 2015 deal. & insured country’s capacity for fissile material enrich- “Over the past few months, despite Iran’s • Companionship • Meal preparation ment, its United Nations ambassador said. continued illegal nuclear development and • Daily activities • Prescription reminders “For us to be safe, Iran must not be allowed escalated regional violence, the international to have nuclear capabilities today or at any community has attempted to reengage with • Light housekeeping • Assist with personal grooming time in the future. We cannot trust that Iran’s the murderous, genocidal regime in an effort • Errands and Shopping • Transportation enrichment capabilities will not be diverted to rejoin the JCPOA,” he said. “We believe to military use,” Gilad Erdan, who is also this would be a serious mistake.” … And many more services Israel’s ambassador to Washington, told the Israel would not be a party to the deal, U.N. Security Council on Thursday, April but the United States, as Israel’s major ally, DepenDability • Quality • KinDness 22. “That is why we will not see ourselves would expect the country to refrain from any bound by any agreement that does not fully provocations once the deal is in place. address the threat against the existence of the Top Biden officials have said they will 813.505.5040 • [email protected] State of Israel.” consult with Israel as they reenter the deal, The Biden administration is in talks with in part because the Israelis were incensed that www.TampaSeniorsCare.com other parties to return to the 2015 Iran nuclear Obama-era officials shut Israel out of plans deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive for the original agreement. www.facebook.com/eldercareinflorida Plan of Action, seeing it as the best means of However, Axios and Walla News, re- “Knowing that we can make a difference inspires us to move keeping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. ported this week that Israeli Prime Minister Former President Donald Trump pulled Benjamin Netanyahu told Israeli officials to forward one day at a time. We are glad to care for your loved out of the deal in 2018, in part because it did “refuse to discuss” the contents of the deal ones as if they were an extension of our own family.” not end for good Iran’s nuclear activity. when they meet with their U.S.counterparts. Silvia PAGE 12 A JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA BAY / TAMPA EDITION APRIL 23 - MAY 20, 2O21 Pods, more programs outdoors, lots of testing – new normal for Jewish overnight camps By SHIRA HANAU in north Georgia), the group’s from COVID than children, will ing forward to welcoming back camps to open last year, hosting JTA news service Canadian camp may have trouble be protected. And with increased about 900 campers after closing about 300 children for one five- Last year at this time, the mes- due to Canada’s sluggish vaccine understanding of how COVID last year. Staffers, including about week session. The camp asked sage out of Jewish summer camps rollout and rising infection rates in spreads and preventative measures 35 from Israel, will be required to families to quarantine before camp, was one of doom and gloom. , where the camp is located. – namely through mask wearing, be vaccinated, and there will be and tested campers and staff mul- In April 2020, the Union for At most Ramah camps, campers social distancing and activities surveillance testing throughout the tiple times in the first weeks. Reform Judaism announced that will be kept in pods of one or two held outdoors or in buildings with summer. Co-director Howard Salzberg COVID would force a closure of cabins for most of their activities. improved ventilation – keeping While the camp won’t be bring- plans to follow the same playbook its camps for the summer, affect- Spaces like the dining hall, where the virus under control seems do- ing everyone together in one room this year, though at a significantly ing some 10,000 kids. In May, the hundreds of campers and staff able, even if it does require extra for singing the way it usually might, reduced cost now that testing has Conservative movement’s Ramah would come together for meal preparation. OSRUI has ideas about gathering become cheaper and more widely camps across the country followed times, will be subdivided with Helping to cover some of the the entire camp. available. suit. temporary walls or plastic sheet- extra costs for camps to buy tents, “Something like a Friday-night “We learned a lot last year, so we This year, the outlook could not ing to separate pods. Where birkat upgrade buildings and increase song session, instead of being all don’t need to reinvent the wheel,” be more different. hamazon, the blessing after meals, capacity is $3.8 million in funding together [inside], we’re in a soccer Salzberg said. Camps in the United States are was once a rollicking campwide from the Foundation for Jewish field with kids sitting in pods and Modin campers will be asked to opening again with a combination songfest, some campers will have Camp. Its grants are set to add ca- wearing masks,” Kane said. get a COVID test in the days before of testing and vaccinations, along to step outside the dining hall to a pacity for 4,000 campers and will But no matter how much test- camp and will be tested on the first with a better understanding of how tent to say the blessings this year to help the camps recoup some of the ing has to be done and how many day – and possibly again with a COVID-19 spreads. allow another shift of campers to money that was lost last year. events have to be reconfigured to rapid antigen test before boarding “It’s absolutely exhausting but eat in the hall at a reduced capacity. Jeremy Fingerman, the founda- work outside, the most important buses to camp. incredibly exhilarating,” said “The last thing you want to do tion’s chief executive officer, said thing to Kane is to get the kids back “We have the ability to test, test, Rabbi Mitchell Cohen, national di- is to have a super-spreader event Jewish overnight camps lost about to camp. test,” Salzberg said. “That is so rector of the National Ramah Com- at camp,” Cohen said. “We don’t $150 million last year, the vast “It’s been a hard last year for much more than we even had at our mission, which runs the Ramah need that. We can go one summer majority of which was covered by everybody,” Kane said. “Kids need disposal last year and costwise it’s camps across the U.S. and Canada. without everyone davening [pray- loans, cost reductions, donations camp this summer more than ever now affordable.” Cohen’s exhaustion has to do ing] together or singing together.” and tuition rolled over to this year. before.” Still, Salzberg is worried that with the extra planning involved Most camps will be able to ag- “We’re estimating that as a result (The website for the URJ’s parents this year may be less on in fitting campers into existing gressively test their campers and of this grant, it’ll raise more than regional Camp Coleman in Cleve- guard than they were in 2020, when space while allowing for social staff, and receive results quickly $16 million of revenue that will land, GA, says it also is planning to parents were overjoyed to be able to distancing and keeping campers enough to isolate and prevent the drop to the bottom line,” Finger- open with strict protocols including send their kids to camp at all. in pods and outdoors as much spread of the virus. Vaccinated man said. asking all staff and camper families “The thing that was most ef- as possible. And while most of staffers will add another layer of At the Olin-Sang-Ruby Union to sign a brit or covenant prior to fective was that the parents were Ramah’s 10 overnight camps are protection, ensuring that the adults Institute, a URJ camp in Wisconsin arrival.) partners with us and they really, expected to open without issue at camp, who are more vulner- more commonly known as OSRUI, Camp Modin in Belgrade Lakes, really locked down and they tested (including Camp Ramah Darom able to death and serious illness camp director Solly Kane is look- Maine, was one of the few Jewish negative,” he said. CLASSIFIEDS ADS The Jewish Press accepts only pre-paid classified Business & Professional Directory advertising. The paper accepts no responsibility for services and merchandise advertised, nor screens advertisers. All ads must be submitted in writing. 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but donations to Hadassah are Organizations welcome. RSVP to Jill Weisberg Conservative youth groups from the Parkinson’s Foundation, before Saturday, May 15 to bellal- Active Adults University of South Florida Health [email protected] or (717) 917-3748 plan ‘guerilla gardening’ project The Tampa JCCs and Fed- and more. to receive the Zoom link. On Sunday, May 23, youths from will be using materials that can eas- erationOrganizations offers the following pro- Weekly programs: The Par- grams for active adults. Unless Conservative synagogues from Tam- ily be found around the house, as kinson’s Program holds a variety Genealogical Society pa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater and well as any kind of seeds. otherwise specified, all programs Tombstones tell a tale: of classes by both Zoom and The Jew- Sarasota will participate in a virtual The effort of the youth groups listed are for everyone and take ish Genealogical Society of Tampa in-person: Rock Steady Boxing, afternoon effort to beautify the area. is to practice tikkun olam (“re- placeOrganizations on Zoom. To RSVP or for Bay will hold a Zoom webinar on Tremble Clefs singing group, Nia These middle schoolers in Kadi- pairing the world”) by bringing more information on programs, Sunday, May 16 when Robin Melt- Class with Jen Goldberg, chair ma and high schoolers in USY will communities together through the contact Pnina Levermore at (813) yoga with Sarah Flook, stretch and zer, a genealogist and attorney, 291-2253 or pnina.levermore@ will speak on Deciphering Jewish be doing some “guerrilla garden- appreciation of nature. Around the strengthen with Suzanne Chen and ing” and making their own seed world, guerilla gardening is about jewishtampa.com. All registra- Tai Chi. Other programs continue Tombstones. Zoom sign-in begins bombs. Those participating will bringing people together, sup- tions should be completed before on-line only, including fine motor at 1:30 p.m. and the webinar begins have the opportunity to interact porting environmental causes and events begin. skills and handwriting workshop at 2 p.m. To sign in, go to jgstb- Magical Morocco: with other Jewish preteens and preservation, and making locally Discover the with Cathy Daumen, brain games [email protected]. multi-faceted country beyond its with Vandan Kamath, and a va- Using examples from Jewish teens across the area, says Maci grown fruits and vegetables more most known city when you join in riety of support groups for both grave markers, the presentation Morse, youth director at Congre- readily available. a series of virtual tours of “Magical patients and caregivers. For more will focus on building skills in gation Rodeph Sholom in Tampa. Those interested should contact Morocco, More than Marrakesh,” information on schedule, go to understanding an inscription’s To make the seed bombs, the kids Morse at [email protected]. on Mondays, May 10, 24 and 31 jewishtampa.com and search for context. The presentation will also from 2-3:15 p.m. This series is virtual programming for either the suggest best practices for on-site presented in partnership with the JCC on the Cohn Campus or the cemetery visits and tombstone Florida Holocaust Museum’s new Osher Marin JCC (San Rafael, Bryan Glazer Family JCC. photography. For further informa- CA). The cost is $50. For details tion about this program and how to app enhances visitor experience & tickets, contact Pnina Levermore Connect attend it, contact Chris Burklund The Florida Holocaust Museum sional digital reconstruction of at pnina.levermore@jewishtampa. Brunch time: Meet your Tampa by email at jgstb-res@jewishvets. has gone mobile, introducing a new physical artifacts using a collection com Jewish community at a Connect org. An RSVP is required for se- app aimed at enhancing people’s of high resolution photographs, a Learning express: Take in a virtual bagel brunch, an online curity purposes to receive sign-in visit to the museum. controlled light environment, and virtual lunchtime talk on how we experience created by the Tampa instructions. With the new free app, folks can processed with specific software vote, featuring Craig Latimer, JCCs and Federation, to bring to- listen to the museum’s audio tour, based on the pattern of recognition Hillsborough County Supervisor gether new community members Job-Links watch interviews with Holocaust of algorithms. Interactive artifact of Elections, on Thursday, May 13 to the Tampa area, or those new to Job help: Tampa Bay Job-Links Survivors, interact with artifacts, models have been integrated into at noon. In the first of a three-part the Jewish community. The next offers virtual programs to help and more. All they need is a smart- the app, so be sure to check out this series, “Every Vote Counts: A Look brunch is June 6 from 11 a.m. to those in search of a job or career phone or tablet. feature when using the smartphone at How We Vote and Approaches 12:30 p.m. BYOB (bring your own change. Thanks to the museum’s partner- guide. to Reform,” Latimer will talk bagel). This event is for adults of Upcoming workshops: ship with Dr. Davide Tanasi and his The app can be downloaded about the challenges he faced and all ages. Visit JewishTampa.com/ • Job-search fundamentals: team from the Institute of Digital from the App Store or Google Play solutions implemented to conduct welcome to register. Wednesday, May 5 at 7 p.m., “The Exploration (IDEx) at the Univer- Store by searching for The Florida a record-turnout election in the For more information, contact Power of Networking and Informa- sity of South Florida, app users can Holocaust Museum or access the fourth largest county in Florida Lisa Robbins at (813) 769-4723 or tional Meetings” and Wednesday, explore museum artifacts deeper by web app by using the link: https:// during a pandemic. [email protected]. May 12 at 7 p.m., “Unlock the interacting with three-dimensional tour.fhm.yourcultureconnect.com/ Do the puzzle: Crossword puzzle Potential of Linkedin.” renderings. To listen to the audio tour while wizard Steve Manin reveals the Young Adults • Job search readiness: Tues- Digital photogrammetry is a touring the museum, use personal keys to filling in the blanks for the Icebreakers: The Tampa JCCs day, May 11 at 1 p.m., “Ace Your technique that allows three-dimen- headphones or earbuds. New York Times crossword puzzle, and Federation’s #Gather group is Next Job Interview;” Wednesday, offering little tricks and the ability planning a virtual social icebreaker May 19 at 1 p.m., “Soft Skills to train your brain to think like an and group games for young adults – Essential Skills for 2021” and After being cut off for payment issues, expert puzzle solver. on Tuesday on Tuesday, May 25, from 7:30 to Wednesday, May 26 at 1 p.m., May 18 at 6:30 p.m. If you think 9 p.m. To register, go to www.bry- “Determine Your Career Identity. Israel closes deal for more vaccine you are already pretty good at anglazerfamlyjcc.com/gather. For • Financial wellness workshop: (JTA) – Israel locked down new Pfizer had halted a shipment of puzzle solving, test your skills at more information, contact Lisa Tuesday, May 25 at 1 p.m. “Man- deals to purchase more Pfizer vac- nearly a million doses that was sup- 7:15 p.m. in a “master class” with Robbins, director of young adult aging the Financial Impact of Manin. engagement for the Tampa JCCs Coronavirus.” cines and added Moderna doses to posed to arrive on April 4. Prime Plugged in: A free workshop & Federation, at lisa.robbins@jew- There will also be a virtual spe- its arsenal on Monday, April 19, Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held by tech professionals to help ishtampa.com or (813) 769-4723. cial program on Monday, May 24 just two weeks after Pfizer had cut hinted that political infighting over those less tech savvy will be held at 11 a.m. when you can chat with off the nation’s vaccine supply over budgetary concerns led to the delay on Sunday, May 16 from 11 a.m. JWV a career coach. its failure to pay. in payment. to noon. A war remembered: Jewish War To register or for more informa- The country has the highest vac- “There were some obstacles in Ongoing programs: There are Veterans of the United States will tion and to get Zoom links, call cination rate in the world at over Israel that we had to overcome, and a variety of other Active Adults present the second of two webinars Tampa Bay-Job-Links at (813) 50% of civilians, but still needs a we found a way to overcome them,” activities offered on a regular on “Yom Kippur War: History and 344-0200. final push to reach the threshold Netanyahu told reporters Monday. basis through Zoom. These Perspective.” The first focused on of herd immunity, which experts Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said include, but are not limited to: the Golan Heights campaign. The Support group say comes at a vaccination rate of last week that people will likely Yiddish Nostalgia, Men’s Club, second, on the Suez Canal cam- Caregiver support: Temple B’nai around 70%. need a COVID-19 booster vaccine News Talk, and Tuesday Tradi- paign, will be held on Sunday, May Israel of Clearwater and Empath The Hebrew media reported that shot within a year of their initial tions (examination of issues of 16 at 10 a.m. The Zoom webinars Health are partnering to bring the Israel, a country of some 9 million vaccination. He has noted that faith and spirituality). For more feature six former ranking officers Jewish community a free virtual people, arranged to buy 18 mil- “governments around the world are information on the schedule, go to of Israel Defense Forces and a for- caregiver support group, led by lion more doses from Pfizer and working on longer-term pandemic jewishtampa.com and search for mer major and intelligence analyst Kelly M. Siegel of Empath and Moderna, according to The Times preparedness,” with Israel leading virtual programming for either the for Syrian and Egyptian armies. Sandi Sunter, LMHC. The group of Israel. the way on that front. JCC on the Cohn Campus or the For more information go to www. meets via Zoom on the first Thurs- Bryan Glazer Family JCC. jwv-fl.org/yom-kippur day of each month from 10-11:30 a.m. To register, contact Siegel at Parkinson’s Program Hadassah (727) 735-8743 or KellySiegel@ The Tampa JCCs and Federa- Jewish China: The St. Petersburg EmpathHealth.org or Sunter at tion’s Philip Shayman Parkinson’s Chapter of Hadassah invites the (727) 301- 7884 or Yiddishema- program offers the following community to a Zoom presenta- [email protected] programs. To RSVP or for more tion by Joy Katzen-Guthrie on information, contact Pnina Lever- Thursday, May 20 at 7 p.m. titled more at (813) 291-2253 or pnina. “Silk Road to Shanghai: The Jews [email protected]. All of China.” registrations should be completed Katzen-Guthrie, host of the “Sun- before events begin. day Simcha” show on WMNF-88.5 Spring fling: Save the date for a FM and former cantorial leader, Parkinson’s Spring Fling event to has led multiple Jewish heritage celebrate Community Connections tours to China. China has a long on Sunday, May 16 from 2-3:30 and heartwarming history of wel- p.m. The event will be held both coming Jews – a story quite differ- virtually and in-person at the Bryan ent from that of Jews in much of Glazer Family JCC. the world. Jews thrived in China For those who choose, this peacefully with their neighbors for will be a return to in-person con- at least a millennium and found nections after an isolation that refuge in China during the Rus- has been particularly hard on the sian Revolution and during the Parkinson’s community because Holocaust. Today, China is home social contact and support and ex- to modern Jewish communities and ercise are critical to combatting remains one of the only nations in their disease. There will be music, the world with no history of perse- interactive games and activities, cution of Jews. demonstrations, guest speakers There is no charge for this event, PAGE 14 A JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA BAY / TAMPA EDITION APRIL 23 - MAY 20, 2O21 In Eastern Europe, historic synagogues are sold for the price of a used car By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ The city of Vitebsk, located In Belarus, which has a dictator- JTA news service about 130 miles farther northeast of ship with no laws for restitution of On a visit to the city of Slonim Minsk, recently offered essentially confiscated Jewish property, many in Belarus, Ilona Reeves fell in for free the hollowed remains of of these structures were listed for love with a 380-year-old dilapi- the Great Lubavitch Synagogue protection by local authorities that dated building that used to house – where the family of the painter lack the resources to restore them. one of the area’s largest and oldest Marc Chagall used to pray – to Making structural changes to build- synagogues. anyone willing to restore it. ings that are listed for protection is

Reeves, a 40-year-old author who In 2016, a coffee shop called difficult and often illegal, requiring Photos from Commons Wikimedia lives in the Belarusian capital of Synagoga Café opened in the old special permission from the state or Minsk, is a Christian, like virtually synagogue of Trnava, Slovakia. municipality. The protected status everyone who lives in the country. A non-Jewish contractor, Simon often brings down the market price And the synagogue hadn’t been Stefunko, bought the crumbling of the buildings because developers operational since before the Holo- building some years earlier, reno- have no way of turning a profit by caust, when three quarters of Slonim vated it according to the city’s strict purchasing them. residents were Jewish. Virtually all preservation requirements and But many buildings that had were murdered by the Nazis. reopened it as an upscale hangout. housed historical synagogues in Still, Reeves looked at the struc- Financially, creating Synagoga Eastern Europe are not listed, ture, which had fallen into disrepair Café didn’t make any sense, Ste- meaning once they are sold to pri- after years of use as shops, and saw funko said. The renovations cost vate owners they can be altered and something she wanted to save. millions of dollars that the coffee even demolished. A view of “Standing outside the Great shop didn’t begin to mitigate even The former Great Synagogue the exterior Synagogue of Slonim, I felt how before it was shuttered last year in the small town of Ostrino, in and interior small I am, we all are, in the face of due to the COVID-19 pandemic, western Belarus, is on sale in an of the Great such architectural monuments and he said. But he did it anyway “so auction where the minimum bid is Synagogue traditions they represent,” she said. something would remain from the about $40. The new owner will face of Slonim, With money that she’d freed up Jewish community here,” Stefunko some requirements to preserve it, Belarus, by selling her apartment in Minsk, said. “I think it’s beautiful.” but may use parts as a warehouse pictured in 2007 Reeves bought the synagogue in The offloading of restoration or residential unit. December for about $10,000 from costs represents the latest strategy And in 2019, a 19th-century the Slonim municipality on the for managing a glut of historical building that once was a synagogue promise that she restore it. She was Jewish structures that have fallen in the village of Porazava, near the sole bidder. into disrepair since most of Eu- Slonim, was sold for $6,000 to be The Slonim synagogue is just rope’s Jews were murdered in the used as a warehouse. Holocaust. Similar situations occur also bruisk in eastern Belarus handed satisfaction of their own members. one of a number of similar struc- back to the local Jewish community The Jewish community of Satu tures to hit the market across Before the genocide, Europe had in Western Europe. In 2018, a an estimated 17,000 synagogues. 200-year-old synagogue in the city a former synagogue that had been Mare in northern Romania consists Eastern Europe in recent years, used as an army warehouse and of about 100 members. Follow- and Reeves is among a small group Only about 3,300 of the structures of Deventer, in the eastern Nether- remain standing today. Among lands, became a restaurant after its later a tailor shop. The building, ing restitution negotiations in the of people who have committed to the only one of the city’s 42 syna- 1990s, it owns an impressive 129 their upkeep. those, only 776, or 23 percent, are upkeep became unaffordable to the being used as synagogues, accord- local community, which includes a gogues still standing, was restored cemeteries and four synagogues, “Buildings, including old build- and inaugurated as a synagogue which are falling into disrepair be- ings, that used to be synagogues ing to the Foundation for Jewish handful Jews. Heritage. Local governments in Eastern thanks to the fundraising efforts cause the community cannot afford appear on the market pretty regu- of an energetic local rabbi, Shaul to maintain them. larly in Eastern Europe, and for Most of the surviving syna- Europe have given back many gogues are located in Eastern properties that communist regimes Hababo. “In truth, this building is a drain relatively affordable prices,” said In Moldova, Rabbi Shimshon on our resources, as are the hun- Michael Mail, founder of the U.K.- Europe, where most of the struc- had confiscated from Christian and tures that remained standing were Jewish faith communities. Izakson is hoping to pull off a simi- dreds of graves we need to pre- based Foundation for Jewish Heri- lar transformation at the former serve and fence,” Paul Decsei, the tage, which helps restore historic nationalized following World War Christian communities have II by communist authorities who been able to reclaim, restore or Rabbi Yehuda Ţirilson and community’s point man for man- Jewish structures across Europe. synagogue compound – a massive aging the assets, told the Jewish “But there’s often a catch, which were anti-religious and often an- trade up many of the structures tisemitic. returned to them, sometimes with complex in downtown Chisinau Telegraphic Agency in 2017 from is that restoration is complicated that is so dilapidated that only the inside the city’s main synagogue, and costly,” Mail added. Decimated by the Holocaust funding from the Vatican and the and the wave of emigration that Orthodox Church. external walls remain. the Decebal Street Synagogue, Reeves knows that firsthand. But other times, Jewish commu- an imposing but crumbling 19th- She is now working on raising $2 followed the fall of communism, Similar movement has also hap- Jewish communities in places like pened with some properties given nities that inherited historic former century structure. “But on the other million for the restoration project, synagogues stolen from them when hand, we can’t walk away from any which she hopes will take a decade Slonim and Vitebsk had virtually back to local Jews, though with far disappeared, leaving their former less deep pockets of support. they were much larger were not able of it. It’s our heritage and we have but some professionals have told or willing to preserve them to the a responsibility toward it.” her might go on for 25 years. institutions in government hands. In 2002, the municipality of Ba-

Obituaries Sioux City, IA, which she described in her memoir “Growing Up Jewish in Small Town America.” She graduated Northwestern A Community Neighbor University in 1958, majoring in radio/TV and moved to Tampa ENID DEBORAH DOCKSER, 78, of Tampa, died April 14. in 1959 to work for WALT Radio and WFLA Radio as continu- Born and raised in the Boston area, she lived most of her life ity director. She enjoyed acting and performed in many plays in Newton, MA. She graduated Tufts University with a bachelor at the then Tampa Community Theater and more recently of arts and then received her master’s in education from New in some shows for Stageworks. She was a prolific author of York University. Raising her family, she was a soccer mom. 25 books on health and family issues, five children’s books, She enjoyed travel, playing tennis, yoga, knitting and doing the hundreds of articles and numerous greeting cards for Hall- New York Times crossword puzzle. She and her late husband mark and Norcross. Many of her books won national awards, Ron retired to Tampa in 2013. Survivors include her daughters, including “Relief from IBS,” which was selected as one of the Pamela Dockser Miniati (Mike), Cindy Ruzicka (Mike), Hillary “Best Lay Medical Books for Public Libraries 1988-89” by Li- Burns (Dan); sister Norma Linsky; brother Neil Linsky; and six brary Journal. In 1992 she received one of the first “Women of grandchildren. The family suggests memorials to the National Distinction” awards from the Girl Scouts of Suncoast Council, Brain Tumor Society. (Segal Funeral Home) Inc. She appeared on the Chicago AM show with Oprah for her book “How to Be a Successful Housewife/Writer” and the LEONARD S. HIBSHER, 83, of Riverview, died April Today show promoting her book “Blending Families.” She 13. Originally from Brooklyn, NY, he had been a manager co-hosted WFLA-TV’s Women’s Point of View show for five in retail sales. Survived by Pearl Hibsher. (David C. Gross years and was a national speaker at the American Society of Funeral Home) Journalists and Authors meetings in New York City on three different occasions. She and her husband, Mandel, received EVELYN “EVIE” KUSNITZ MAYER, 91, of Tampa, died Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from the Univer- April 1. She and her late husband Albert moved to Tampa sity of South Florida in 2002. She served as vice-president of around 1961, where he was the manager of Stanley Jewels. the Sisterhood of Congregation Schaarai Zedek, served on Later her husband started Almar Chemical Company and she the Florida Public Information Committee for the American Cancer Society for 15 years, the Florida Medical Associa- Charles “Chuck” Segal is a dedicated man. Dedicated to his helped him in the office. The couple were members for more than 50 years at Congregation Rodeph Sholom, volunteering tion’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs for 12 years (the community and profession. He brings these attributes to his position endlessly. She was a lifetime member of Hadassah, belonged first lay person to serve on this board); was chairman of the as funeral director and owner of Segal Funeral Home. to Beth Israel Sisterhood and then Congregation Rodeph St. Joseph’s Hospital Board from 1993 to 2005, and then as For over 37 years, he has provided genuine care and concern to Sholom Sisterhood. She attended many dog shows with her chairman of the St. Joseph’s Hospitals Foundation. Along with thousands of families who have called on him at their time of need. Afghan hounds or Vizslas. Survivors include her daughter her husband of 59 years, Mandel “Hinks” Shimberg, survivors June; her sons Jeffrey, Bruce and Harlan; and grandchildren. include five children: Karen “Kasey” Shimberg Kelly (Robert), Along with his wife Shelly, Chuck transcends the demands of The family suggests memorials to Weinberg Village or Life- Scott Shimberg (Heidi), Betsy Shimberg (Scott), Andy Shim- his chosen profession and is counted on as an active member of path Hospice. (Segal Funeral Home) berg (Cathy), Michael Shimberg (Ramona); 10 grandchildren Tampa Bay’s Jewish Community. and one great-grandchild. The family suggests memorials DAVID STEVEN RIFKIN, 70, of Tampa, died April 16. Born to The St. Joseph’s Hospitals Foundation, the Straz Center You can count on the Segals as friends before, during or after in Bridgeport, CT, he grew up near Trumbull. He graduated for Performing Arts or Congregation Schaarai Zedek. (Segal your time of need. from the University of Bridgeport with a degree in accounting. Funeral Home) After a few years working in banks and an accounting firm, SEGAL FUNERAL HOME, THE WAY IT SHOULD BE. he became a sales representative for The Remington Arms BRUCE MARK SILVERMAN, 75, of Odessa, died March Company, where he worked for over 25 years. He was able 29. He moved to Tampa from Providence, RI, in 1970 when 3909 Henderson Blvd., Tampa • 813.874.3330 to combine his accounting and business skills, his ‘gift of gab’ he established Airite Air Conditioning. He was also a found- www.segalfuneralhome.com as well as his love of skeet and trap shooting. His job moved ing member of Congregation Beth Am and a past president him to Tampa in 1983. Survivors include his wife of 42 years, of B’nai Brith Men. He served on the National Board of the Bobbsie Hertz Rifkin; daughter Laura Rikin Richardson; sister Air Conditioning Contractors of America for 10 years. For the Marcia Rifkin (Kevin); three brothers, twin brother Robert last several years he had struggled with Alzheimer’s disease. OBITUARIES of Jewish community members, both local residents and individu- Rifkin (Judy), Jonathan Rifkin (Debbie), Ronald Rifkin (Selina) Survivors include his wife of 45 years Vikki Silverman; son als whose survivors live in the area, are published as a FREE public service in the and one granddaughter. The family suggests memorials be and daughter-in-law, Avi and Mari Silverman, Asheville, NC; Jewish Press, based on information supplied by the family to the funeral home or made to March of Dimes. (Segal Funeral Home) daughter Liat “Ishka” Silverman of Asheville; four sisters, Joan submitted in writing to the Jewish Press. Email to [email protected]. Nagy, Susan Ben-Avraham, Nancy Gardosh, Margie Sixzay; The information published is at the discretion of the Jewish Press. ELAINE FANTLE SHIMBERG, 84, of Tampa, died April and two grandchildren. The family suggests memorials to the 15. Born in Yankton, SD, she grew up in Fort Dodge, IA, and Alzheimer’s Association. (Segal Funeral Home) APRIL 23 - MAY 20, 2O21 JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA BAY / TAMPA EDITION A PAGE 15 Star chef helps Holocaust survivor recreate recipes from his prewar youth By MARGARET LITTMAN from their home on the Yugoslavia- JTA news service Hungary border in 1944 – his father Visiting Yad Vashem a decade had already been taken away – there ago, Alon Shaya got to see some was a line of people on the stair- of the Jerusalem Holocaust mu- case jeering while waiting to loot seum’s culinary artifacts that aren’t the place. Hidden in that crowd, always on display to the public. unbeknownst to the Fenveses, was It was the James Beard Award- Maris, their former longtime cook. winning chef’s introduction to Maris wasn’t there to steal but the fact that concentration camp to surreptitiously rescue items of inmates distracted themselves sentimental value. by recalling and secretly writing After the war, she surprised the recipes – on scraps of hidden paper family by returning the recipe and cloth – from their prewar lives. book, schoolwork, and lithographs “Food is such a big part of ev- and artwork by Fenves’ mother, erything I do. It really moved me who had perished in the Holocaust. that people who were trapped, who Fenves was liberated in 1945, as were facing almost certain death, was his sister and father, although were helped by these memories of his father died about four months food. It reminded me of the power later. of food,” Shaya said. “They would Fenves, now 89, had memories not have spent their last moments of the family going to the market Photo by Rush Jagoe documenting this if they did not together, choosing seasonal veg- Israeli American chef Alon Shaya is a James Beard award think this was important.” etables, and coming home and winner. Photo courtesy of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum The Israel-born Shaya was pickling them together. He remem- The U.S. Holocaust museum digitized pages of the Fenves’ family cookbook. raised in Philadelphia and now bered potato circles, with yeasted a historian with the U.S. museum. lives in New Orleans, where he bread and mashed potatoes, which While Fenves has an affinity Fenves told Shaya the snack – ice. Fenves would heat and eat at and his wife, Emily, own Pome- he and his sister were not allowed to for languages – even as a child crispy on the outside, creamy on home and provide Shaya with cri- granate Hospitality. The company eat; those were the special occasion he was trilingual – translating the the inside – needed to look like tiques. The process took the better runs several restaurants, including foods for guests. “rescued recipes” was beyond fish sticks. So Shaya made a Cream part of a year. Safta in Denver and Saba in New He and his sister loved a roast entering them in Google translate. of Wheat-type substance cooked Videoconferencing made it pos- Orleans. One will open soon at the turkey dish that involved pulling The recipes are handwritten, so down with milk, then lightly sible for Shaya to see Fenves and Four Seasons Hotel, also in New the turkey off the bone, grinding he had to decipher 100-year-old breaded and fried. The dish was his family, even if Shaya could not Orleans. the meat and then packing it back script that may have regional dif- perfection, according to Fenves. serve him in person, as he wished. Over the years Shaya kept think- on before baking. The two would ferences of language. Some sur- It’s also now in regular rotation at “To send him food and have him ing about those recipes at Yad work their way through the ground vivors’ recipes may be written in the Shaya home. be able to taste those things for the Vashem. meat to reach their favorite part, a combination of languages, such “The semolina sticks and ground first time in 75 years, that was one “Is anyone cooking these reci- the bone. as Yiddish and Polish. And it’s an turkey exactly replicated what I re- of the most moving things I have pes? Do the families know they But Fenves never prepared those emotional process for survivors member,” Fenves told an audience ever done,” Shaya said. exist?” he wondered. foods of his youth. And that’s remembering their losses. (The in a live video presented by the Friedberg, the museum historian, Seven years later, on a Novem- where Shaya stepped in. museum is accepting donations to museum. The video can be found said Shaya brought an “incalcu- ber 2018 visit to the U.S. Holocaust The chef wanted to help Fenves fund the translation and rescue of at https://www.youtube.com/wat lable” amount of joy to Fenves. Memorial Museum in Washington, experience again the tastes of more recipes so that prewar food ch?v=0wOwcKlHCSs&feature= “The importance of the recipes D.C., Shaya would explore its the food made by his mother and traditions can continue.) youtu.be books is the way it makes vivid and food-related artifacts. He learned grandmothers – food he hadn’t Shaya searched the translations The recipes are largely lists of real and visceral what was lost dur- about Steven Fenves, a Holocaust savored in 75 years. for dishes he had never made and ingredients, without techniques ing the Holocaust,” Friedberg said. survivor and museum volunteer, Fenves translated 13 recipes recipes to which Fenves had a and oven temperatures, so Shaya “We have to make sure that Jews are and saw its collection of more than from Hungarian and the book’s ta- connection. He chose the potato worked with Fenves to recre- not flattened into victims. The part- 140 Fenves family recipes. ble of contents working off a high- circles, the turkey, a walnut cake ate them. Due to the pandemic, nership of Alon and Steve is one of Fenves recalled that when he, his resolution copy, as the original is and semolina sticks, which Fenves Shaya worked in New Orleans and the most powerful examples of how mother and older sister were forced quite fragile, said Edna Friedberg, identified as a delicacy he missed. shipped Fenves food packed in dry to appreciate prewar Jewish life.” Crystal, Haddish dance hora in new film (JTA) – Comedian Billy Crystal an allergic reaction to her food, and actress Tiffany Haddish are so requiring a trip to the emergency close that Crystal read a Torah por- room that bonds the pair tightly. tion at Haddish’s 2019 bat mitzvah Over time, Haddish’s character ceremony in Los Angeles. learns that Crystal’s character is Now the two Jewish celebrities losing his memory because of are taking their friendship to the big dementia, and he invites her to Screen shot from YouTube screen in a buddy comedy called help him complete his life’s work Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal in a “Here Today.” The trailer for the before it’s too late. screen shot from the trailer for “Here movie, out May 7, includes a shot The on-screen relationship fol- Today.” of Crystal and Haddish taking part lows a longstanding offscreen one in a massive hora. for the duo, in which their shared her own Jewish heritage until she The trailer offers a snapshot of Jewish identity is a bonding force. was 27, when she met her father, an a heartfelt plot: Haddish’s charac- Crystal, who attended Hebrew Eritrean Jew. She studied Hebrew ter reluctantly goes to lunch with school as a child in Long Beach, in advance of her bat mitzvah, Crystal’s character, a past-his- NY, has spoken frequently about celebrated in December 2019, and prime version of himself, after her his deep love for . explored her Jewish identity in a A Smarter husband purchases the date for $22 Haddish worked as a bat mitzvah comedy special, “Black Mitzvah,” performer but did not learn about released the same day. Way to in a charity auction. There, she has Power Your We are open to serve all your automotive needs Home.

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