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Israel Scouts Friendship Caravan Community Performance on July 19 by Lynette Errante in the World Where Boys and Girls Partic- Camps and Cities June 29-July 5, 2018 Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton Volume XLVII, Number 26 BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK Israel Scouts Friendship Caravan community performance on July 19 By Lynette Errante in the world where boys and girls partic- camps and cities. In representing Israel, the The Israel Scouts will perform on ipated together. The first delegation was Tzofim Friendship Caravan members use Thursday, July 19, at 7 pm, at the Jewish sent to the United States in 1958. Today, song and dance as their means of expression. Community Center, 500 Clubhouse Rd., the Israel Scouts, Tzofim, remain the only The Caravan features 10 teenagers and two Vestal. Their performance will be followed non-political youth movement in Israel and adult leaders. by refreshments and a meet-and-greet with are supported mainly by the Ministry of To become part of the Friendship Cara- the Scouts. The Scouts will spend the day Education and Culture. van, the Tzofim must go through a four-tier with the campers at Camp JCC playing Like Scouts throughout the world, the elimination process. They are selected traditional Israeli games. The evening Tzofim are said to be “always prepared” and on the basis of personal interviews, their performance will be free to the community, learn the principles of “working with spirit” and knowledge of Israel, English communica- but RSVPs are appreciated by calling the “providing community service.” Out of 60,000 tion skills, general group interaction and JCC office at 724-2417, ext. 110. Tzofim throughout Israel, only 100 are chosen leadership abilities. Founded in 1919, the Israel Scouts were annually for the Tzofim Summer Delegation. After they are selected to be part of the the first Zionist youth movement in Israel The Tzofim Friendship Caravan travels Friendship Caravan, the Scouts rehearse and the first egalitarian Scouting movement throughout North America, visiting summer weekly for four months in Tel Aviv under the direction of entertainment professionals. By the end of the rehearsal period, they are said to have attained the level of a professional Federation seeks board entertainment troupe. The Caravan’s performance will convey Israeli culture, music and tradition, bringing members for 2018-19 term with them a message of peace and friend- The members of the Israel Scouts Friendship The Jewish Federation of Greater Bing- relating to the Jewish community. ship. Their professionally choreographed Caravan. hamton is looking for volunteers to become Anyone interested in joining the board song and dance routines are charged with board members for 2018-19 for three-year or looking for more information should natural enthusiasm and energy. Audiences look forward to this event every year,” says terms. The Federation board meets once a contact Sima Auerbach, Federation ex- are encouraged to dance, sing and enjoy camp counselor Jil Foster. “The Scouts get month September-June to discuss issues ecutive director, at 724-2332. the spirit of Israel. the crowd dancing and singing along with “Camp JCC campers and counselors them, it’s so much fun!” Spotlight Making beautiful food and music as part of Philadelphia Orchestra’s trip to Israel By Eliana Rudee investment commitments.” (JNS) – A delegation of 60 donors from According to Fleur, the musicians found the Philadelphia Jewish Federation traveled the country to be “welcoming” and “beauti- to Israel this month with the Philadelphia ful,” with the people extraordinarily appre- Orchestra, playing three concerts there from ciative” – a different perspective than the June 1-7. Israeli-American chef Michael BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) Solomonov, best known for his award-win- movement seeks to portray. ning cookbooks and his acclaimed restau- Gold reported that the orchestra saw BDS rants in Philadelphia – the high-end Zahav on the streets of Philadelphia, where two is known nationwide – also accompanied people desecrated an Israeli flag on Benja- the tour. min Franklin Parkway in the city’s center, “These are but two great examples of and in Europe in the lead-up to the Israel how Philadelphia has become a center of leg of their trip, where they experienced extraordinary Jewish communal life in a disruption of their concert in Brussels. America,” David Gold, a member of the Solomonov, too, experienced anti-Israel Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia’s challenges in which Americans argued with Board of Trustees, told JNS. him that Israeli cuisine does not exist and, Gold maintained that what distinguishes rather, the country culturally appropriates the Philadelphia Federation from other other nations’ food traditions. In April, Sol- Jewish Federations in North America is omonov experienced criticism for hosting its success in simultaneously building and a dinner with Reem Kassis, author of “The funding its Jewish community, co-branding The group of 60 donors from the Philadelphia Jewish Federation at Nigun Culinary. Palestinian Table,” in which Palestinian itself with the likes of the local symphony (Photo by Jamie Gordon) dishes were highlighted at Zahav in cele- and growing cultural ties with non-Jews, bration of Kassis’ new cookbook. beating BDS at home and on its missions Israel and its people.” Toscanini leading the first performance of “While I am proud to work in an industry to Israel, and finding creative ways to Similarly, said Gold, “The Jewish what was to become the Israel Philharmonic where there is a focus on change, when support Israel. Federation of Greater Philadelphia is the to Leonard Bernstein’s 40-year relationship you start putting limitations on food, that’s This creativity, said Melissa Greenberg, driver of that success and has enabled the with the country; fulfilling our purpose of ridiculous. To say there is no Israeli cuisine chief development officer of the Jewish Fed- orchestra to visit Israel for the first time in people-to-people exchange; letting music is an argument to say that Israel doesn’t have eration of Greater Philadelphia, is coming almost 30 years.” speak across cultural divides and language the right to exist,” he told JNS. up with this multifaceted trip that included Ryan Fleur, interim president of the Phil- barriers to promote mutual understanding; Solomonov explained that Israeli cuisine Solomonov, Federation philanthropists and adelphia Orchestra, told JNS that the goals strengthening the bonds between Philadel- is defined by the embodiment of what it musicians who had never before been to in performing in Israel was about “returning phia’s Jewish community and Israel; and means to be local out of necessity and, like Israel. “Both music and food reflect human- to a country that has a deep history with including the sister-city relationship with Israel itself, is a gathering of the exiles in ity; [they] tie people back to the essence of and connection to classical music – from Tel Aviv, and many joint social-service and See “Orchestra” on page 7 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Point/counterpoint U.S. leaves U.N. HRC Newsbrief Special Sections Two views of Michael Chabon’s The U.S. has withdrawn from Palestinian baby did not die in Legal Notices ................................... 4 recent comments on intermarriage the U.N. Human Rights Council Gaza clash; terrorist attacks Safe Driving .................................. 6-8 and Judaism. because of its bias against Israel. increase; and more. Dine Out .......................................... 9 ........................................Page 2 ........................................Page 5 .................................Page 9 & 12 Classifieds ..................................... 12 Page 2 - The Reporter June 29-July 5, 2018 Opinion Point/counterpoint Michael Chabon’s intermarriage views are “Radical inclusion” of interfaith families is increasingly mainstream – and morally abhorrent the best response to Michael Chabon By Sylvia Barack Fishman, Steven M. “retreat from religious practice.” Indeed, the By Edmund C. Case community for all who want to share in our Cohen and Jack Wertheimer only aspects of Jewish culture that Chabon (JTA) – In an essay for JTA on Michael traditions; to expand the protective circle of Imagine there’s no countries / It isn’t ratified as valuable today are those related to Chabon’s intermarriage views, Sylvia Jewish teachings around the “other” and, hard to do/ Nothing to kill or die for / And critical thinking, such as “learning, inquiry Barack Fishman, Steven M. Cohen and yes, to seize the opportunity to enrich the no religion, too – John Lennon and skepticism.” Jack Wertheimer describe a “left camp” that Jewish cultural genome by the changes (JTA) – On May 14, Michael Chabon Not content to pummel a traditional argues for greater acceptance, welcoming that result from increased diversity – i.e., gave the most remarkable commencement norm, Chabon targeted the heart of Juda- and inclusion of the intermarried and their intermarriage. It doesn’t sound like dis- speech in the recent history of Hebrew ism itself. He condemned the overarching family members, and a “Jewish right” that mantling Judaism to say, as Chabon does, Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, concept of “havdalah” (the Judaic value of argues for holding on to distinctions between that it has reinvented itself over history by the Reform movement’s highly respected distinguishing between entities), which he the inmarried and the intermarried. being mutable and flexible, and that could flagship seminary and training institution. depicted as a “giant interlocking system of As a proud member of the left camp, and must happen again. Surpassing the widely held view that distinctions and divisions.” He specifically I’ve never said that marriage between two Fishman and her co-authors write that the intermarried, their children and their targeted Shabbat candle-lighting, monthly Jews is a bad thing, and if that is what those in the left camp don’t believe the non-Jewish family members ought to be immersions in the ritual bath, circumcision, Chabon meant, he’s wrong. But in his right is sincerely committed to tolerance welcomed warmly by the Jewish commu- bar mitzvah and the Four Questions recited commencement speech in May at Hebrew and welcoming.
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