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Enriching Lives Volume 51, No. 7 July 2021 Tammuz-Av 5781

ShaloThe Journal of the Reading Jewish Communitym published by0 the Jewish7 Federation2 of Reading/Berks1

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Jewish Education Preschool, Federation build on success

Food Pantry By Holli Winick Viau Since I started as incoming director of Friendship Circle the Lakin Preschool in April, I have been Chevra learning so much about our preschool families, our children, and how we can make Community Shabbat changes to enrich the preschool experience Reading Jewish Film Series for everyone involved. I have been greeting everyone at PJ Library the door so that I can become familiar with parents and caregivers, as well as Jewish Family Service having the children and parents become Jewish Cultural Center accustomed to seeing me each morning. I love being able to welcome every little Lakin Holocaust Library smiling face into the building each morning! We are working to upgrade our preschool & Resource Center and our enrichment programming as the Israel & Overseas school transitions to management by the Jewish Federation of Reading. We want to Camp Scholarships continue to provide rich and varied experiences for our children in a loving environment, while Israel Trips making it fun and promoting growth. We are Jewish Community working to offer a music class during school this year as a “special” class for each age High School group, as well as welcoming back a gross Holli Winick Viau has been working to get to know the Lakin Preschool children. motor program in which children are running, Emergency Support jumping, playing and working together while Our creations will be displayed in locations welcoming and encouraging, and open to Lakin Preschool using up their boundless energy. throughout the school. some new ideas and changes. We will be adding new teacher technology We offer a tour for prospective parents, Word of mouth has always been our Richard J. Yashek Lecture in the form of a laptop and projector in order and a trial visit for prospective students. best advertising, and we appreciate you Transportation to have some yoga and movement time with This would be a pre-planned, one morning sharing your positive experiences from Lakin their classes, as a way to promote peace spent with the appropriate age group, and Preschool with anyone you know who might Maimonides Society and zen, as well as having a break from the a wonderful opportunity for the incoming have children who would like to join us. We classroom setting for a short time once or student to meet the teachers and classmates. have enjoyed the support of so many families Your Jewish Legacy twice a week. We will be offering many of It enables the parents and children to see over the years and look forward to continuing 92ND ST Y Programs the same enrichment classes that have been what a day would be like in one of our our loving, caring, growth-oriented program favorites in the past, and I will be teaching classrooms. Parents can schedule this while for many years to come. Joint Distribution Committee Torah Tots once a month for any children who they tour or another day after they tour and Open house on July 28 are interested in learning more about Jewish are considering us for their child. Please join us and encourage your Meir Panim holidays and customs. Everyone is welcome. I am looking forward to a great school friends and neighbors to join us for a Annual Campaign We will be adding a group craft to our year ahead. Transitions aren’t always easy, summer open house July 28 from 6 to 8 p.m. usual Shabbat celebrations each Friday. but Judy Synammon has made this one easy. Come see our bright and fresh classrooms, Jewish Agency for Israel Each Friday morning we meet as a whole She has trusted me to come in and begin to meet our staff and see our amazing outdoor school to sing songs and talk about Shabbat, take over, and to allow her to focus on her space. Children are welcome to attend. Yemin Orde and now we will work together to create a classroom and planning for her students for This is for registered families and new/ School Education Programs piece of Shabbat-related artwork each the upcoming year. Judy will be stepping down prospective families. Masks are required. week. It is my hope that working together to from her duties as director of Lakin Preschool, Please feel free to contact me at any Interfaith Unity Council create something meaningful and beautiful but we are so thankful that she will continue on time with thoughts or questions at the new as lead teacher in our Adventurers classroom. preschool phone number, 610-223-8058 or Israel Advocacy will help us to learn more about the peace of Shabbat and the value of working together. All of the teachers and staff have been so at [email protected]. Youth Events Great Decisions Series Annual meeting at the ballpark Jewish Community The Jewish Federation Relations Council of Reading held its Community Holiday Programs annual meeting at First Energy Stadium in June. Women’s Philanthropy Attendees got to enjoy a ballgame, a delicious Jewish Federations meal and access to the of North America pool in rightfield. There was fun for the entire Counseling Services family. 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Shabbat B’Yachad Page 2 SHALOM Summer 2021 My Learning Curve, Part 1

By Laurie Waxler for the Federation and am now working the way as well. Together we can grow Development Director with the same people with whom I formed to have a better understanding of what Moving to Berks those relationships, so many years ago makes our Federation great, increase County in early 2001, … Brenda still greets me every morning community involvement, and continue I wasn’t sure what to at the front desk, and Sari and Carole to grow a strong Federation for future expect. My kids were are still doing their thing reaching out generations of Jewish families in our 2, 4 and 6, and we to our community members in need. area. were living in a three- To imagine I am filling the shoes of our The Jewish Federation of Reading/ bedroom apartment. beloved Barbara Nazimov is beyond Berks has an incredibly long and rich

n t My husband, Andy, was belief as everyone had a special place history, made up of many generations starting a new job, having been recruited in their hearts for Barbara. (I am not who have lived here throughout the by Gary Lattin to join Berks Cardiologists. sure I will ever fill those shoes, but I will years. I’m doing my best to educate Gary was probably happy to bring certainly try!) myself on what is important to you and e in a new cardiologist but was probably Always a supporter of our JCC, I must what you believe is important to our more excited to have a young, Jewish admit I didn’t have a true understanding community. family moving into the area. My oldest of the Federation and its role in our I offer my thanks to all those who have was in kindergarten, and it didn’t take community, and I’m finding that every taken the time to speak with me, and for long before we enrolled the younger day is a new experience. anyone who would like to meet with me two in the Lakin preschool at the old Over the next few months, I’d like to via phone, in-person or even through m JCC. We have such fond memories of take the opportunity to invite you along Zoom, I welcome the opportunity! You the teachers, the summer camps, the on My Learning Curve, because I’m can reach me by email (lauriew@ activities, and all the people we met thinking I may not be alone. For those jfreading.org) or phone (610-921-0624,)

p along the way. who are “in the know” it’s never a bad I’d love to hear from you! Fast-forward 20 years, I find myself idea to be re-educated, and perhaps Until next month…I wish you all a in the position of Development Director there is something you will learn along wonderful, healthy summer! o l e v e D

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Maimonides Society DATE/TIME Your Jewish Legacy • Wednesday, September 1, 2021 Chai Circle • 8pm ET L’Chaim Society Book of Life THE EXPERIENCE Letter of Intent • 1-hour live virtual cooking class with 5-time James Beard Foundation Award-Winning Chef Michael Solomonov and New York Times Best-Selling cookbook author Adeena Sussman • Interactive experience with recipes shared in advance and audience ability to ask questions that will be answered live

HOW TO WATCH • Use QR Code or link on website to register to receive link in advance Class is free for JCC members, $5 for non-members DONATE NOW • TO OUR JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN Please visit ReadingJewishCommunity. org Make your gift today! Summer 2021 SHALOM Page 3 From the President’s Desk We must learn how to combat antisemitism

By William D. Franklin 2,024 antisemitic incidents. Antisemitic received. When the Philadelphia Jewish programs to enhance our community’s President incidents in non-Jewish K-12 schools community protested the exclusion understanding of antisemitism and other Former Middle were up 19.5% to 411 in 2019. Last year of the Israeli food truck, the event’s hatreds. We will be teaching: East envoy Dennis there were 870 antisemitic incidents sponsors canceled the food festival, an • Why people of all ages should Ross said: “The rise on US college campuses; 31% were event meant to reinforce unity, rather fight hatred. in antisemitism has classified as bullying and 22% as than stand up against the antisemitism • How to differentiate legitimate been increasingly demonization of Israel. The top five It is painful to realize that many of criticism (often of Israel’s policies) from driven by entities on were at : NYU with 30 incidents; George our educational institutions are failing to antisemitism. the left which hope Washington University - 25; Cornell teach our youth how to identify hatred • How to respond effectively to to delegitimize Israel and Depaul - 24; Rutgers - 20. More and respond effectively. We need to antisemitic language and acts. and its right to self- and more, Jewish college students find teach them the defining characteristics Separate age-appropriate programs defense. When we add to this a surge themselves targeted and ostracized by of hatred, both antisemitic and other, will be developed for our youth (8-12 years in antisemitism on the right, the outcome fellow progressive students as soon as and how to speak up and stand up to old), teens (13-16 years old), and upper- is that over half of U.S. Jews now feel their heritage is known. hate when they see it or experience it. high school and college students. Separate less secure than they did five years ago.” And it is hitting close to home. In late We want them to appreciate the power programs will be developed for parents so Obviously, the flames of antisemitism May, a group of professors at Franklin & that they have to make change. We that they recognize if their children are are growing higher fueled by both the Marshall College in Lancaster published want them to feel free to be themselves, having an issue with antisemitism and to left and the right. an anti-Israel and antisemitic petition free of fear of bullying, intimidation, or know how to guide them. A recent poll found that 60% of in the school paper. In June, an event violence. And we want them to be proud Our programs will be developed in American Jews have witnessed in Philadelphia sponsored by Eat Up and active Jews conjunction with the ADL, the United antisemitism online or in person and the Borders, which claims to “celebrate We know that we cannot truly defeat States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 43% said they are now more concerned diversity through food,” banned an antisemitism if we allow other forms of and other communities that have about their personal safety. In 2020, Israeli food truck from participation due hatred within our midst. To this end, we developed programs to accomplish the Anti-Defamation League reported to antisemitic threats Eat Up the Borders are organizing education and discussion similar goals.

Anti-hate summer reading program concludes in August

By Amanda J. Hornberger discussion and action around books on on an Asian American experience. also include a social action component. This summer Jewish Federation topics such as hate, racism, diversity The culminating event for Throughout the summer the community of Reading/Berks in partnership with and how to be an ally to marginalized all participants will be a large, will be encouraged to drop off donations local nonprofit partners the Exeter communities focusing on tweens, communitywide virtual author visit from at the Exeter library and the JCC to Community Library and Bring the Change teens and adults. M. Evan Wolkenstein Jason Reynolds on Sunday, Aug. 1, at 7 benefit Helping Harvest. At the end of have brought the community together kicked the series off with an inspiring p.m. Tweens will be reading “Look Both the summer the group will gather to around literature in our new Anti-Hate conversation about bullying, hate and Ways,” teens will be reading “Long Way pack the food to be donated to Helping Summer Community Reading Program hope through his semi-autobiographical Down” (available in novel and graphic Harvest. (AHSCRP). novel “Turtle Boy”. We discussed novel form), and adults will be reading By tying together the themes in The Anti-Hate Summer Reading spirituality and coming out in the LGBTQ “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and the books read over the summer, the Program is funded by a $10,000 grant themed graphic novel “Flamer” by Mike You,” all titles by #1 New York Times discussions with the diverse group of from the Berks County Community Curato. bestselling author Reynolds. authors with a hands on service project to Foundation “You Are Here” grant Tae Keller will join us July 27 to Reynolds is a two-time National Book combat local hunger, our goal of creating cycle. discuss her Newbery Award winning Award finalist, a Newbery Award Honoree lasting change and positive impact in AHSCRP has created conversation, novel “When You Trap a Tiger”, focusing & the 2020-21 National Ambassador for our community will be better met and Young People’s Literature. His titles achieved. include “When I Was the Greatest,” Participants will be reading, talking “The Boy in the Black Suit,” the Track and doing, which will help reinforce the series, “Look Both Ways” and “Long tenets of fighting hate and racism and Way Down,” which received a Newbery creating positive change in Berks County. Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta To sign up to attend the events please Scott King Honor. Reynolds’ book visit ReadingJewishCommunity.org. “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and Copies of all the books including You” was recognized this spring for e-books and audiobooks are available spending an entire year on the New from the Berks County Public Libraries. York Times bestseller list. He also was All events are free and open to the public. recently awarded the Carnegie Medal Our goal is to create community for literature. conversations about diversity within In order to bring the reading and Berks County through award-winning

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Spices, Surprises and Sun ShaloThe Journal of the Reading Jewish Communitym published by0 the Jewish9 Federation1 of Reading/Berks7 Your Federation Supports: A newspaper servingJewish Education the Jewish community of Berks County, Food Pantry The Jewish Federation of Reading is planning a culinary Pennsylvania, andFriendship published Circle monthly, September through June, under Chevra

the Jewish FederationCommunity Shabbat of Reading/Berks. Funded by the Annual Jewish adventure in Israel for early 2022. To facilitate that, an online Reading Jewish Film Series Community Campaign.PJ Library survey is available to get community input. We are working with Jewish Family Service Jewish Cultural Center General Offices: Lakin Holocaust Library 1100 Berkshire Blvd., Suite 125 the wonderful travel agency that guided our 2018 Family mission. & Resource Center Israel & Overseas Wyomissing, PA 19610 Camp Scholarships

Phone: Israel Trips 610-921-0624 FAX: 610-929-0886 Click the QR code below to complete the survey. You can Web site: Jewish Community www.ReadingJewishCommunity.org High School

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also call 610-921-0624 and let us know your thoughts. Lakin Preschool Jewish Federation of Reading Richard J. Yashek Lecture Chair: Transportation Robert M. Caster, CPA Dates and details are yet to be Maimonides Society President: Your Jewish Legacy William D. Franklin 92ND ST Y Programs determined. We would love to CommunicationsJoint Distribution Director: Committee Mark Nemirow, Editor Proofreaders: Meir Panim Federation staff have you with us. Annual Campaign Jewish Agency for Israel The opinions expressed in ShalomYemin Orde are of the writers and not the Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks School Education Programs If you have any questions, Interfaith Unity Council Israel Advocacy

Youth Events please contact Margo Levin, Great Decisions Series Jewish Community Luba Karchevsky or Andi Relations Council Community Holiday Programs

Women’s Philanthropy Franklin. Jewish Federations of North America

Counseling Services

Leo Camp Lecture

Shabbat B’Yachad Page 4 SHALOM Summer 2021 PJ Library grant helps connect local Jewish families By Amanda J. Hornberger 32 countries. Last year’s Find Your Voice family engagement, and we are grateful Local families raising Jewish children will program was successful in engaging tweens to be able to add financial support to help have more opportunities to participate in Jewish virtually with authors and connecting through ensure the success of great initiatives.” life, thanks to a grant awarded by PJ Library®, service learning opportunities. We look forward We are grateful to our PJ Library Alliance the flagship program of the Harold Grinspoon to continuing this work with our community partners who have joined the Harold Foundation that provides free books to families partner, Exeter Community Library. Grinspoon Foundation in funding these grants: raising Jewish children all over the world. The 13 winning grant proposals were William Davidson Foundation; The Marcus Jewish Federation of Reading received chosen through a competitive process open Foundation, Inc.; The Azreili Foundation; $6,500 to continue its Find Your Voice to organizations across the U.S. and Canada. Genesis Philanthropy Group; Jim Joseph program, an interfaith book club that engages A survey of participants in previous grant- Foundation; The Micah Foundation; Sam tween readers with diverse authors on funded projects showed: Berman Charitable Foundation; Carl & Joann subjects affecting their lives. • 85% of families connected socially Bianco; The Crown Family; Marilyn Einstein Tracy Newman, director of community during the programs & Steven Sim Charitable Fund; Dr. Steven engagement for PJ Library, says, “These grants • 64% of families followed up with the Grinspoon; Klaff Family Foundation; One8 reflect incredible creativity and flexibility in how social connections afterward Foundation; Howard & Geraldine Polinger our implementing partners are approaching • 76% of families sought out or attended Family Foundation; Stephen and Bebe Saks our work during this unprecedented time. All other Jewish programs Family Foundation; Sherrie R. Savett Family funded grants showcase PJ Library’s best • 99% would recommend the programs Foundation; Mike & Sofia Segal Family practices on engaging families in Jewish life “PJ Library’s impact goes well beyond Foundation; Susser Family Trust; Walter, while adapting to the current realities of virtual the more than 251,000 books we send Arnee, Sarah, & Aaron Winshall; Zucker Family and social-distancing modalities.” out each month across the United States Foundation and three anonymous partners. The Federation is honored to receive and Canada,” said Debbi Cooper, director PJ Library and PJ Our Way in Reading this grant and thrilled to be part of the global of engagement for PJ Library. “We have are generously sponsored by the Sue B. PJ Library community reaching more than worked closely with our local partners for Viener Memorial Fund of Jewish Federation of 667,000 children and their families across over a decade to help advance Jewish Reading/Berks. Center Jewish Cultural

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Game Nights

Community Shabbat

Reading Jewish Film Series

Great Decisions

Interfaith Mitzvah Day

Yom Ha’atzmaut

PJ Library

PJ Our Way

Leo Camp Lecture

Tech Tuesday

Yom Hazikaron

Art Exhibits

Yom Hashoah

Annual Meeting and Picnic

Purim Carnival

Richard J. Yashek

Memorial Lecture

Kristallnacht Remembrance

Youth Events

Purim Masquerade Party

Bridge

Chevra

Mahjong

Trips to NYC/Philadelphia

Lakin Holocaust Library

& Resource Center

Shabbat B’yachad

Community Calendar Summer 2021 SHALOM Page 5 Brave Space: Interfaith program begins in August

By Amanda J. Hornberger & Kelly Barnett professionally facilitated, tough-topic conversation space on IUCC’s campus! It’s time to think “connecting” rather than series held with our members & interfaith neighbors Join us for one or all of these Sundays — Aug. 8 “distancing” when you hear the word “social”! in the fall. (11 a.m.-3 p.m.), Aug. 15 (11 a.m.-3 p.m.), and Aug. Our friends at Immanuel United Church of Christ Brave Space Camp Days is an interfaith program 22 (beginning at 11 a.m., leading up to Immanuel’s in Shillington invite the Jewish community to open to all children who have finished K-6th grade. Music Made Local lunch and outdoor concert). participate in their new program – BRAVE SPACE: 4 It will be held outdoors and indoors on Immanuel’s Amanda Hornberger, Program Director, will be in Connections. BRAVE SPACE is designed to celebrate campus. During these age-appropriate activities, attendance at each event and will help connect our differences and our authenticity by connecting students will play and learn as they get to know families during the event. with others. their neighbors and practice valuable skills in To sign up for this program, scan the QR code A $9,000 grant from the Berks County Community communication, respect, and empathy. We will also on the flyer (on page 8) or contact Kelly Barnett, Foundation was awarded to Immanuel to implement work on our program’s signature project: painting [email protected], or the Immanuel church an interfaith children’s camp followed by a chairs to set up a brand-new outdoor conversation office, [email protected]. Iranian author to deliver talk on fate, faith and identity By Amanda J. Hornberger aware of the paradoxes in her life and community — translator. Her writings on Iranian topics appear in The community is invited to hear the riveting true primarily the disparate religions and cultures. national and international publications, including story of fate, faith, and multiple cultural identities of Under the Ayatollah regime, Iran became Foreign Policy News, The Seattle Times, The a young woman in one of the most fascinating and increasingly unfamiliar and hostile to Saper. Jerusalem Post, Breitbart, Aish, Sun-Sentinel, politically turbulent parts of the world. Jacqueline Seemingly overnight she went from living a carefree Persian Heritage, American Thinker, The Forward, Saper, author of “From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in life of wearing miniskirts and attending high school and The Times of Israel. Fluent in Persian and Revolutionary Iran” and winner of the Chicago Writers to listening to fanatical diatribes, forced to wear the English, she serves as a translator/interpreter for Association 2020 Book of the Year Award, will be hijab, and hiding in the basement as Iraqi bombs fell the National Immigrant Justice Center, working joining us via Zoom on Sunday, Aug. 15, at 7:30 p.m. over the city. She eventually fled to the U.S. in 1987 with supervising attorneys on behalf of immigrants, Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born with her husband and children after, in part, witnessing refugees, asylum seekers. She is a Fellow member in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At 18 she her 6-year-old daughter’s indoctrination into radical at MESA, Middle East Studies Association and a witnessed the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to Islamic politics at school. At the heart of Saper’s story member of the Speakers Bureau of JIMENA: Jews live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times, is a harrowing and instructive tale of how extremist Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa. including the Iran-Iraq War. In a deeply intimate and ideologies seized a Westernized, affluent country and Please look for a link to register in the weekly personal story, Saper recounts her privileged childhood transformed it into a fundamentalist Islamic society. emails and our website in August. Program is in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became Saper is a writer, public speaker, analyst, and sponsored by Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks Page 6 SHALOM Summer 2021 Literatour Berks third season begins in September By Amanda J. Hornberger lineup, and we look forward to building literature on Jewish topics or by Our committee is hard at work on the success of the past two seasons. Jewish authors to Berks County. finalizing the third season of Literatour Literatour Berks is a partnership Interested in supporting Literatour?

Berks! We will have more than a dozen program of Jewish Federation of Patrons and Sponsors from the authors coming in-person and virtually Reading/Berks and Exeter Community community are encouraged to help to Reading this year. A complete list of Library. We continue to work with support this amazing new collaborative authors and dates will be announced independent bookstore Reads & program! Contact Laurie Waxler at in the September Shalom.There is Company for book purchases. We [email protected] or 610-921-0624 something for everyone in this season’s continue our goal of bringing quality to find out more.

Monday, September 9, 2019 at 7 p.m. JCC and Exeter Community Library Literatour Berks Preview Night

Come learn more about the 18 authors visiting Berks this year! August Av -Elul Very Israeli Rosh Hashanah ______✡ ______

Monday, October 7, 2019 at 7 p.m. Exeter Community Library E.R. Ramzipoor The Ventriloquists cooking class Shabbat Candle Lightings Presented in partnership with the LGBT Center of GreaterTorah Reading. Portions

By Amanda J. Hornberger interactive…so bring your questions. August 6 August 7/21 Av 7:54 p.m. Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 7 p.m.Re’eh Location (Deuteronomy Provided Upon 11:26 Registration-16:17 ) Join award winning Chef Michael This Federation-sponsored class is Angela Himsel A River be a Tree Solomonov and New York Times g\ available free of charge to JCC August 13 August 14/6 Elul A program of Women’s Philanthropy of Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks. bestselling cookbook author Adeena members, and the cost is only $5 7:45 p.m. Shoftim (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17)

Sussman for an early Rosh Hashanah for non-members. ______cooking class on Wednesday, Sept. 1, Visit the link at www. August 20 A ugust 21/13 Elul 7:36 p.m. Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 7:30Ki p.m. Tetze Wachovia (Deuteronomy Theatre, Albright 21:10 College-25:19 on Zoom! readingjewishcommunity.org or use Thomas Wolf ) The Nightingale’s Sonata: Recipes will be sent prior to the QR Code on the ad on page 2 to The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz August 27 40th Annual Leo CampAugust Memorial 28/20 Lecture Elul the event, and it will be live and register. 7:25 p.m. Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8) Program includes Curtis Institute musicians performing César Franck’s “Sonata for Violin and Piano”. Presented in partnership with the Camp family and Albright College. ______

Monday, December 2, 2019 at 7 p.m. Exeter Community Library Tiffany Shlain 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 7 p.m. Location Provided Upon Registration Dawn Raffel The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies

A program of Maimonides Society of Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks.

Sunday, December 15, 2019 at 4 p.m. Exeter Community Library Joni Klein-Higger and Barbara Sharf Barnyard Bubbe’s Hanukkah

Presented by PJ Library of Reading with support from the Sue B. Viener Memorial Fund of Jewish Federation of Reading/Berks.

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For More Information - 610-921-0624 To Register - ReadingJewishCommunity.org/home/literatour Page Shalom March 2010 Community News Obituaries

Lucy Suzanne Knoblauch L. (Sulman) Moyer. He is also survived Zeidman, 96, Wyomissing. by his daughters, Aileen D., widow Surviving are a son, Bruce F., of Neal H. Endy, of Pennside, and E. husband of Geraldine L. Zeidman, of Roxanne, wife of Les Walker, of Batavia Shillington; a brother, Harry Knoblauch, Ohio; sons, Stan B. , husband of Kristine husband of Edith Knoblauch, of Reading; K. Moyer, of Sinking Spring and Jay a sister, Ruth Balis of Wyomissing; and H., husband of Margaret R. Moyer, of several nieces and nephews. Muhlenberg Township. Other survivors --- are grandchildren: Brett A. Endy, Chad Irene S. Zeidman, 62, Wyomissing. M. Endy and Elizabeth K. Moyer; and She is survived by her brother Bruce great-grandchildren, Carson N., Logan Summer 2021 SHALOM Images fromPage 7 F., husband of Geraldine L. Zeidman C., Ardyn N. and Ava L. 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What if it had been Isn’t there a midrash — I look out the window, My kids are all healthy and wise, Adam side story based on Torah’s the sun is so bright. I give them a smile instead of a sigh. instead of Eve the big one — that says, What a beautiful day, We are all lucky to be living in a “free” viper had chosen to God laughed in delight what a beautiful sight. place, tempt on that fateful day of when he saw man we spend each day at our own pace. eating? had disobeyed Him I am so glad all my family and friends feel and said, “We are One, so good, Being black, brown, or white does not Would things be better Me, her and him, If I could see them, I truly would, matter at all, would we be in less of a and it is glorious? give them a kiss and a great big hug, It does not matter if we are short or tall, predicament that the one — Nancy Knoblauch the old saying says, it would be like snug as All that matters is what we can do, we are in? a bug in a rug. to make our country better and be a good Jew. — Tootie Moyer EXPANDING HORIZONS as part of the Anti-Hate Summer Reading Program with Tae Keller The Exeter Community Library, the Jewish Federation of Reading/ Berks, and Bring the Change welcome author Tae Keller to the Anti- Hate Summer Reading Program. Tae Keller grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she subsisted on kimchi, purple rice, and stories. Now, she writes about biracial girls trying to find their voices, and lives in Seattle with her husband and a multitude of books. When You Trap a Tiger is a 2021 Newbery Award winner.

Would you make a deal with a tiger? When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni’s Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. This program is perfect for tweens, teens, and families. To register, visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ tZYqc-2uqzwvGNU11pmbFyBGw1T3U-B7QgJC

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By Carole Robinson Everyone is invited to attend these programs these programs and other vital JFS services My garden, at the JCC at no cost to participants. for older adults and families is by donating bursting with leafy On Tuesday, Oct. 19, as part of Literatour your used vehicle to JFS. Donating avoids plants, brings me Berks, David Page will discuss his book the hassles of selling an older car privately. joy as I bask in the “Food Americana: The Remarkable People You can save money on hefty repair bills

e warmth of the sun. and Incredible Stories Behind America’s and reclaim your garage space by placing I smile, reflecting Favorite Dishes.” He is the creator and a phone call to 877-537-4227 and telling on the new growth, executive producer of “Diners, Drive-Ins them your donation is for Jewish Family akin to the feeling of and Dives.” His book is an entertaining mix Service in Reading, Pa. Representatives are c life beginning anew of food culture, personalities, and the history available seven days a week to help you with due to the easing of of American food. SaraLouise Howells, a your donation. They will accept almost any i COVID restrictions. local art historian and educator, will deliver a vehicle, running or not, as long as you have Now that we may congregate more freely, presentation about Marc Chagall on Tuesday, the vehicle title and it is tow truck accessible. JFS is resuming in-person gatherings. Nov. 16. She will examine Chagall’s most Once your donation information is v Friendship Circle, our senior group, famous works and discuss how they differ complete, a licensed tow vendor will contact met in June to welcome Laurie Waxler to from those of his contemporaries. you within 72 hours. Schedule your free

r the Federation staff and plan to gather for an Another new program JFS plans pickup when it’s most convenient for you Israeli meal and to play “Guess the Country” to launch in the fall is “B’Yachad,” a — from your home, business, or repair with Adi Shalev, our Israeli shlicha. Amanda Hebrew word meaning “together.” This is shop. You will be mailed a tax receipt Hornberger will describe “Violins of Hope” on an intergenerational program designed for within 30 days of the completion of the sale e Thursday, Aug. 19. September programming teenagers and older adults. Participants will if the vehicle sells for more than $500. JFS begins with a Rosh Hashanah Service and meet once a month on a Sunday starting graciously acknowledges a recent vehicle lunch on Thursday, Sept. 2, at Manor at in October. They will engage in a variety donation from Mike Pardo. To date, JFS has Market Square and concludes with Pamela of activities together to foster connection received more than $17,000 from donated S Anthony’s presentation on honeybees and and a sense of community. This interactive vehicles. Make your tax-deductible vehicle beekeeping on Thursday, Sept. 23. partnership will promote l’dor v’dor, passing donation and help JFS flourish! Noontime Knowledge, a new program on wisdom and cultural traditions from No matter how you choose to participate designed to educate on a variety of topics, generation to generation. Please contact — by joining one of our upcoming in-person has been on hiatus since the pandemic Carole if you or a family member would like programs, through volunteering, or by l y began but will resume in October. It will be to participate in “B’Yachad” at CaroleR@ donating your used vehicle — you will help

i held on the third Tuesday of each month at JFReading.com or 610-921-0624. our JFS garden bloom. And that, my friends, noon and will include the option of lunch. Vehicle donation: One way to support should put a smile on your face!

Upcoming Friendship Circle programs at the JCC m All events offer an optional luncheon at 1 p.m. ($7 fee), with program starting at 1:45

a Thursday, Aug. 19 - “Violins of Hope”: This collection of rare instruments played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust arrives in Reading on Nov. 1 for a two week stay that includes a Reading Symphony Orchestra perfor- mance. Amanda Hornberger will explain “Violins of Hope,” which is designed to combat racism and foster social

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h Manor at Market Square invite seniors to a Rosh Hashanah service and holiday lunch. All are welcome, but reservations are required by Aug. 20. Call JFS at 610-921-0624.

Thursday, Sept. 23 – “Honeybees and Beekeeping” Meet local beekeeper Pamela Anthony. Pam will describe how she and her husband got interested in beekeeping and talk about their hives. Participants will have the opportunity to sample her honey. ewi s J September 2021 - Food Pantry September 2022 Friendship Circle

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Helene Berne, and Tootie Moyer, left, enjoy being together for a Friendship Circle program. At right, volunteers at a July JFS food pantry in Reading.

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From online news sources pulled back tightly who is busy giving Eisenberg lives across the street from couple poses arm in arm, crowns “I’m a Jew, I’m a Jew, I’m a Jew,” Steve volunteers orders laced with smiles. The The Shul of Bal Harbour and is part of touching, against a seascape, maybe Eisenberg says while standing in The Shul supplies are going out to families made this tight-knit community — Surfside is the one just beyond the rubble, its salt of Bal Harbour, in its social hall under homeless by the collapse settling into at least one-third Jewish. That is why, lacing an acrid stench. The printout is construction. Two days earlier, it was piled temporary housing. within hours of the collapse of Champlain partially obscured by a string of prayer high with blankets, clothing, mattresses, Eisenberg has been matching families Tower South, messages and calls lit up beads hanging off the fence. food, and toiletries for the families made with apartments owned by non-Florida his phone. This is not just a Jewish tragedy. The homeless after a Surfside, Fla., building residents who return home for the Across the street and across the beads, the crucifixes, the leather-bound collapsed into a pile of rubble. summer. ocean, Jews came together to bring relief New Testament on the pavement abutting Now it is almost empty thanks to people Asked how he got involved in the to a crowded little beachside community the fence. The circle of evangelical like Eisenberg and Judit Groisman, a tall, recovery efforts, he replied, “I’m a Jew.” devastated by a sudden, unfathomable Christians standing next to the memorial means-business woman in jeans and That seemed to answer the question of loss. Eisenberg knows at least 10 people fence, holding hands, and belting out a black Women’s International Zionist why he got involved, not how. But in fact “in the rubble,” as he puts it, and he prayers in Spanish. Organization T-shirt with blonde hair he was getting at the how. knows them because they are Jewish The relics that are heartbreaking in and he is Jewish, and they are part of his their universal meaning: The toy truck, community. “Brad Cohen, I was under the the battered Supersoaker. huppah with him,” he says — meaning As search efforts went on, most of he was a witness at Cohen’s wedding. “I the Shul says that about 40 are Jewish, saw him every day.” meaning most were not Jewish. And The woman in her 30s schlepping the Jews who have come together from boxes at the Surfside community center across the world, the rescue teams four blocks down, about a mile from from Israel, from Mexico, from Canada, the building collapse, says the same know it. “It’s not only about Jews,” said thing: She grew up in the Cuban Jewish Nachman Shai, the Israeli minister for the community, and there were these ladies Diaspora who was given VIP treatment her mother was friends with, and though when he visited here accompanying she was not close to them, now that she Israeli rescuers. “I have to make sure that is grown up, she always said hello when that’s fully understood. It’s about human she saw them on the street. And now … beings, it’s about a national tragedy.” they are gone. Raphael Poch, the spokesman But not quite. The missing peek out for the United Hatzalah team from from behind faded roses, on printouts Israel, describes how Hatzalah’s trained thick with Miami’s wet 90-degree heat, counselors worked on the second floor pinned to a fence overlooking the rubble. of the Grand Beach Hotel, where the A grinning young man, Andres Levine, families, Jewish and non-Jewish, sit and leans into a woman’s head, her hand wait. “It’s a state of unknowing, and that languidly appropriating his shoulder. can cause a sense of helplessness,” he A man in a tux, a blond, leans into his says. “Helplessness is the beginning of chest. The text reads: “Dr. Brad Cohen’s what can lead to an emotional reaction brother Gary (also a doctor) is missing or traumatic stress reaction. And that is as well.” There is something unbearably what we are trying to avoid — we are poignant about the parenthetical aside, engaging them to help the people around “also a doctor.”: Not one, but two good them if we see there is a need because For more information Contact Chabad: men are missing. they are often in the same place, the 610-334-3218 | [email protected] Looking forward to sharing this VIP Israel Experience with you and your family! “Ilan Naibryf+Deborah Berezdivin,” same location with other families. So says another printout. A happy young Continued on Page 12

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Continued from Page 11 It is hard to extract meaning from so means closer relations to Israel. “Our Burkett says. “They wanted to know if even if they are not doing anything that arbitrary an event, one without intention. 2014 demographic study — you’ll see that the Israeli team thought that the Miami- moment, they can go and help another A rabbi gives a shiur, a lesson, following we have the highest percentage of adult Dade team had been doing the right family, they can interact with them.” Havdalah services at The Shul, and mentions Jews who have been to Israel, the highest thing. The gentlemen, the commander, There are Jewish ways of knowing the building collapse perfunctorily, saying the percentage of emotional connection to from the Israeli team did not hesitate. He and there is a Jewish way of unknowing: services were in “the honor” of the dead Israel.” Just weeks before the building turned around and said, ‘They’ve been The Jewish tradition of the shomrim, the and missing. He launches into a fire and collapse, some of the same people who doing exactly the right thing,’ which was a guardians, sought permission to stake out brimstone sermon about the Fast of Tammuz volunteered were turning up at protests beautiful validation.” the rubble, to watch over the dead — or 17, which began that night, and how the sins against the spike in antisemitism following Shai was not surprised when he heard the people who may be dead — until they of the Jews merited its privations. the Israel-Gaza conflict. Poch says he the story. “Jews around the world look at are buried. Or, miraculously, alive. No one Miami’s Jewish community is more was bowled over by the welcome for the Israel as a source of support,” he says, knew with absolute certainty. insular, Solomon says, because so much Israelis. “and sometimes even as a source to “We have rabbis who are on call of it is first-generation — from Israel, from “Once the Israeli teams landed, there come and save them.” who are ready to be with families as Venezuela, from Mexico, from Central was a veritable sigh of relief,” he says. “The Or they look to themselves. Eisenberg, they receive notifications,” said Jacob America. “They see being Jewish as families, they basically felt like, you know, at The Shul, scrolls through his text Solomon, the longtime president of the a way of holding on to the identity that ‘You guys are here to help and it’s amazing messages: Jews from around the country Greater Miami Jewish Federation. they brought with them,” he says. That you came all this way.’ They appreciate just who want to help. A man from New the fact that we came. We gave them a York offers crisis response canines. A sense of relief and a sense of hope.” Baltimore woman wants to help set up a At a news conference, Surfside Mayor database of the missing. Charles Burkett described an encounter Eisenberg looks around at the he had one Sunday morning at the Grand emptying storage area. “I don’t know STAY UPDATED! Beach Hotel. “One of the questions how this got done. There was no one from the residents was pretty poignant,” person leading it,” he says. Join our Mailing List to receive weekly emails, the latest news and access to upcoming events!

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Page 13 SHALOM Summer 2021 Nine important firsts about Israel’s new government Israel21c.org Here are nine notable firsts in this Karine Elharrar as Minister of Energy. Knesset has had only eight American- For the first time in 12 years, Israel’s 36th Knesset, formed with the intention 5. There are nine female cabinet born members in its 73-year history. Likud Party and its head, Benjamin of unseating Netanyahu and bringing ministers (out of a total of 27), the (Bennett was born in Haifa to American Netanyahu, has moved from the prime change to Israel. highest number in Israel’s history: immigrants.) minister’s seat to the opposition in 1. Bennett, 49, is the first prime Yifat Shasha-Biton (Education), Ayelet 8. Three former broadcast journalists the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. The minister from the high-tech world, having Shaked (Interior), Merav Michaeli are in the top echelon: Yair Lapid, Nitzan new government brings into power a headed and sold two successful software (Transportation), Tamar Zandberg Horowitz and Merav Michaeli. Lapidus broad coalition of eight political parties companies, Cyota and Soluto. He also is (Environmental Protection), Orna late father, Tommy, was also TV journalist- spanning left to right. the first prime minister to wear a kippah. Barbivay (Economy), Karine Elharrar turned-politician. (A video made in 1994, Heading Israel’s 36th government 2. The ruling coalition includes an (Energy), Pnina Tamano-Shata (Aliyah recently recirculated on Twitter, shows is Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett, Arab party — the Islamist Ra’am Party. and Integration) and Orit Farkash Michaeli and Lapid emerging disheveled the 13th Israeli prime minister Bennett Other parties representing Israel’s 21% Hacohen (Science and Technology). from behind a sofa. Now 54 and 57, was sworn in along with Yesh Atid Arab minority remain in the opposition. 6. There are two Arab cabinet respectively, they have shed their playgirl/ Party leader Yair Lapid, who will serve 3. Incoming Health Minister Nissan ministers: Esawi Frej (Regional playboy personas of the past.) as alternate prime minister and foreign Horowitz was the first openly gay Knesset Cooperation) and Hamed Amar (Finance). 9. Incoming Minister of Public minister until becoming the country’s member to head a major party (Meretz). 7. Two new Knesset members hail Security Omer Bar-Lev is heading the 14th prime minister in August 2023 for 4. The 36th Knesset includes two from English-speaking countries: Cape same ministry — then called the Police the final two years of the term — if all longtime disabilities activists: Shirley Pinto, Town-raised Ruth Wasserman Lande Ministry –that was led by his late father, goes according to plan. Israel’s first deaf Knesset member; and and North Carolina native Alon Tal. Yhe Haim Bar-Lev, from 1984 to 1990. Muslim, Jewish medics tended to all amid tensions

From online news sources in Jerusalem when a fateful series of The 60-year-old medic from east nonprofit independent emergency Sami Darwish had just returned events turned an otherwise peaceful Jerusalem is a volunteer ambulance medical service. home from prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque afternoon into a close call with death. driver at United Hatzalah, Israel’s largest One Friday Darwish was standing outside his home in Sharafat when he said he saw a white van begin driving around the neighborhood, its occupants shouting insults and curses. They appeared to be ultra-Orthodox Jews. Though the rabble-rousers did eventually leave, residents of Sharafat were shaken. The incident occurred against the backdrop of a flare-up in Arab-Jewish violence across the country, which had seen lynching attempts, riots and clashes with police. The story did not end peacefully. Hours later, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man passed through the same area. Thinking he was somehow connected to the extremists from earlier in the day, Arab residents began attacking the Jewish man. Had Darwish not intervened in time, the man might have been killed. “He was innocent and had nothing to do with what had happened before,” Darwish said. “I took the man and brought him away to a safe place to save his life.” One of the reasons Darwish joined United Hatzalah was due to a lack of efficient first response services in Arab areas. Through weeks of riots, rockets, and civil unrest, United Hatzalah’s medical emergency service emerged as a beacon of coexistence. When they receive an emergency alert from the organization’s national dispatch center, volunteer first responders drop everything and rush to help save lives. In urban areas, the average response time is 90 seconds. On the eve of Shavuot, two people were killed and 184 injured when bleachers in a Hassidic synagogue in Givat Ze’ev collapsed during holiday prayers. Many Muslim first responders from United Hatzalah took the lead in treating those injured and alerting their loved ones. About 10% of the organization’s volunteers are Muslim. Khaled Rishek, who hails from a mixed Jerusalem neighborhood, is one of them. The 54-year-old father of four described the recent uptick in violence across Jerusalem as being among the toughest periods he had ever witnessed in the city. Rishek has seen his fair share of injured people in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, which has been the site of protests over planned evictions of Palestinian families. He treated Jews and Palestinians hurt in the resulting violence. “United Hatzalah is a very important organization for us because it responds to and connects people, regardless of their faith, race or gender,” he added. 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Congratulations to Berks Encore employees Carolyn Krebs Shoshana Tannenbaum – Jill and Gladys Skaist Harold Leifer – Glenn and Gaye Corbin and Martha Sitler for receiving one of the Social Security Share your simchas with the Administrations highest awards for their providing the public with Call SariCall at Sari610-921-0624, at information covering Social Security issues. Holocaust educatione-mail [email protected] spreading in Berks Countycommunity. 610-921-0624or go to Berks Encore enables older adults to achieve a better quality of Continued from Page 5 www.charitableautoresources.comalso that the students are genuinely On a wider note, there have justice and Holocaust remembrance today. life by providing a comprehensive program of services, referrals, silence is not the reason why survivors interested in hearing their stories. I know been manyJust recent developmentscall the Federation in I am heartened to office hear that three additional are invited in. Instead, that factor is my studentsor were email genuinely interested in Holocaust education in Berks County schools in Berks County will be offering education and advocacy. For more information call Berks Encore [email protected] present because of the immense respect hearing Hilde’s story and many still talk and the surroundingor email areas. [email protected]. Within these courses for their students. at 610-374-3195 or visit them at www.Berksencorepa.org students have for these individuals and about it now, several weeks later. the past month I have met with two Though the fourth quarter of the individuals who are in the process school year has begun, there are still of developing a Holocaust course to many additional opportunities that  Living with Loss be offered at their local high school. remain. I just spoke to an undergraduate   One gentleman was from Lancaster ethics class at Penn State Berks County. The other, Gerry Evans, is a regarding the ethical/moral implications formerly Bereavement Group teacher at Hamburg High School. I of the Holocaust. I found the students Mondays, March and 22, 3:00- 4:30 p.m.EXPANDINGhave been in contact with Htwo otherORIZONS to be receptive and inquisitive and  local teachers, Pete Ruckelshaus at have been asked to deliver a similar 2131_Shalom_ad:Layout 1 9/8/09 11:57 AM Page 1 Twin Valley and Jimas Koneckepart of atthe Wilson program in the classes that the same For more information call Sari at 610-921-0624 High School. Pete has resurrected a professor also teaches at Reading Area Anti-courseHate on HolocaustSummer Literature Reading at Twin Community Program College.  Valley, and its first offering is during As mentioned above, Kim Yashek, A f f i n i t y B a n k P A . c o m the currentwith fourth Jason quarter. ReynoldsHe is very daughter of the late local Holocaust excited about offering this course to survivor Richard Yashek, is speaking at The Exeter Communityhis students Library, and hasthe evenJewish lined Federation up Twin Valley, of Reading/Berks,Hamburg and Fleetwood. and Bring the Changeseveral welcomeguest speakers author including Jason Rabbi Reynolds Right now to Albrightthe Anti College-Hate is hosting Summer Reading BrianProgram. Michelson, Teens Kim Yashekwill read and Hilde“Long anWay exhibit Down” titled, (available “Stories Among in Us:  novel and graphic novelGernsheimer. form). Adults will read “Stamped:Washington Racism, State Antiracism, Connections to the and You.” Both titlesJim are Konecke #1 New is Yorkteaching Times at Wilson bestsellers. Holocaust, Meanwhile, Lessons in Genocide.”tweens The  Banking the Way Central Junior High but will be moving up exhibit includes the stories of five Holocaust will read “Look Both Ways,” a recipient of multiple awards. to Wilson High School at the beginning survivors and one liberator and has Jason Reynolds isof a nexttwo school-time year.National He will Book be offering Award a receivedfinalist, gooda Newbery reviews. Award It is definitely It Should Be. Honoree, & the 2020course-2021 on National Nazi Germany. 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