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FALL 2018 Holocaust Educators Workshop Saint John International Culture Fest Shalom Philip Riteman’s Pickled Salmon CONNECTING THE ATLANTIC JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMP KADIMAH 75 REUNION NOVEMBER 15-18 2018 Halifax, Nova Scotia Tickets on sale September 21. Tickets available at TicketAtlantic.com SAMMY DAVIS, JR.: TIME 7:00 pm I’VE GOTTA BE ME LOCATION Cineplex Cinemas Park Lane English ADDRESS 5657 Spring Garden Road THURS 15 THURS TEVYE’S DAUGHTERS TIME 11:00 am Russian and Ukrainian LOCATION Museum of Natural History with English subtitles ADDRESS 1747 Summer Street AN ISRAELI TIME 1:30 pm LOVE STORY LOCATION Museum of Natural History Hebrew with English subtitles ADDRESS 1747 Summer Street FRIDAY 16 FRIDAY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PHOTOPOLIS AHEAD OF TIME TIME 3:30 pm THE EXTRAORDINARY LOCATION Museum of Natural History JOURNEY OF RUTH GRUBER ADDRESS 1747 Summer Street English and Hebrew with English subtitles TIME 7:30 pm BUDAPEST NOIR LOCATION Canadian Museum of Hungarian with English subtitles Immigration at Pier 21 SAT 17 SAT ADDRESS 1055 Marginal Road POST-FILM 5TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY! TIME 1:30 pm THE SAMUEL PROJECT LOCATION Cineplex Cinemas Park Lane English ADDRESS 5657 Spring Garden Road AZIMUTH TIME 4:00 pm Hebrew, Arabic, English LOCATION Cineplex Cinemas Park Lane with English subtitles ADDRESS 5657 Spring Garden Road SUNDAY 18 TIME 7:00 pm (Closing Feature) KEEP THE CHANGE LOCATION Cineplex Cinemas Park Lane English ADDRESS 5657 Spring Garden Road AJFF.ca IN THIS ISSUE FALL 2018 VOL. 43 | NO. 2 Shalom TISHREI 5779 SHALOM MAGAZINE President ON THE COVER MICHAEL ARGAND 18 Executive Director A Celebration In Laughter NAOMI ROSENFELD Camp Kadimah alumni and friends gather for Editor 75th anniversary EDNA LEVINE Contributing Editor FEATURES JOEL JACOBSON 8 8 Holocaust Educators Workshop Design 11 My Trip To Israel—Essay By Bailey Karrel MEGHAN RUSHTON 14 Saint John International Culture Fest Advertising EDNA LEVINE 15 Second Annual Pride Shabbat Dinner MICHELLE LEVIN | HIYAM GEDALIA 23 The Medjucks Of Dalhousie Address all correspondence 24 Remembering Louis Greenspan Z”L including advertising enquires to: EDITOR, C/O SHALOM 24 Remembering Steven Istvan Markus Z”L ATLANTIC JEWISH COUNCIL 14 25 Remembering Dr. Philip Riteman Z”L 5670 SPRING GARDEN ROAD SUITE 309 27 Recipes: Philip Riteman’s Pickled Salmon HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA B3J 1H6 TEL. 902-422-7491 | FAX 902-425-3722 IN EVERY ISSUE [email protected] 4 President’s message: Michael Argand [email protected] 5 From the desk of Naomi Rosenfeld, www.theajc.ns.ca Executive Director This publication is printed by: 7 From the desk of Edna LeVine, HALCRAFT PRINTERS INC. Director of Community Engagement Mailed under Canada Post: 9 The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs PUBLICATIONS MAIL SALES AGREEMENT 15 (CIJA) Report NO. 40052452 10 Campus News 13 PJ Library® News NOTE TO OUR READERS Our Atlantic Jewish community is losing more 17 Camp Kadimah News and more members as the years go on. In the past, 35 Rabbis Corner Shalom has printed stories of regional community members who have passed away. While we try to acknowledge the major contributions of many of AROUND OUR REGION our late friends and family members, we request 20 Halifax that you inform Shalom of passings of which 28 Newfoundland we may be unaware so we may recognize these 17 individuals. Shalom’s editorial staff reserves the right 29 Fredericton to determine the length of memorial pieces to be 30 Prince Edward Island printed in the magazine. 31 Moncton Written articles are the opinion of the 32 Saint John individual writers and do not necessarily COVER PHOTOS BY: reflect the opinion of the AJC. PHOTOBUG: www.photobug.ca 34 Cape Breton theAJC.ns.ca FALL 2018 Shalom 3 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE From The Desk Of MICHAEL ARGAND President of the Atlantic Jewish Council Wow! What an amazing spring and summer WE FOUND A NEW HOME FOR OUR JEWISH reminisced, and caught up with old friends. it has been for our Jewish community! While STUDENTS! Congratulations to everyone involved with other Jewish communities report that their After many amazing years and countless this special event! programming schedules tend to lesson over programs held at the house on Walnut street, the spring and summer months, our amazing the Board of Directors of the AJC decided WE WELCOMED LUCY, OUR NEW SHLICHA team of staff and volunteers at the Atlantic to sell the property and move the students (ISRAELI EMISSARY) WHO WILL BE HERE Jewish Council has been hard at work pushing to a new home. Thanks to time and efforts UNTIL MID-OCTOBER! the needle on many of our strategic priorities of community members Mark Stein and In partnership with the Canadian Zionist including engaging the next generation, Victor Goldberg, we were able to sell the Federation, we could not be more thrilled to reaching out to unaffiliated demographics, house quickly for a very good price. We welcome Lucy Kleinerman, our new short- bringing Israel/Judaism into the wider Halifax are very excited to officially announce that term shlicha, to Atlantic Canada. Lucy will be community, connecting our community to the students will have a new home in the joining us for the next two months, bringing Israel, and ensuring the financial sustainability old caretaker’s apartment of the Beth Israel many programs about Israel to every aspect of our organization and our community in the Synagogue. Thank you so much to the board of our community’s celebrations of the high long term. Here are some notable highlights of the Beth for working with us to make this holidays. She is also hoping to visit many that have happened since we last published dream a reality. of the communities throughout the region. Shalom Magazine. Let’s welcome Lucy with some Maritime FAMOUS ISRAELI COMEDIAN SHACHAR hospitality! JOLT (JEWISH TEEN ENGAGEMENT) FINISHED HASON PERFORMED IN HALIFAX! OFF A SECOND SUCCESSFUL YEAR! In late April, we welcomed Israeli comedian UPCOMING EVENTS For the second year in a row, Jewish teens Shachar Hason to Halifax. Over 100 We also have a very busy line-up of fall in Halifax completed a year of Jewish pro- Hebrew-speaking Maritimers from as far programming coming up! In September, we gramming and volunteering as part of JOLT away Fredericton and Charlottetown came to will be recognizing the 100th anniversary (Jewish Outreach Leadership Training). This hear his two-hour long stand-up routine. This of the Jewish Legion training in Windsor, amazing new program has seen Jewish teens was a huge step forward for us with regards to Nova Scotia with a reception in Windsor. from all over Halifax getting together twice engaging our Hebrew-speaking community This event represents a remarkable yet little- monthly for both social events and volunteer- and we cannot wait to continue these efforts known part of our community’s history. In ing. We ended the year with a big trampolin- in the fall. October, we will be hosting our 15th Annual ing event sponsored by the AJC! We can’t wait Holocaust Education Week, including to keep this momentum going in the fall! WE WELCOMED MORE THAN 125 PEOPLE TO many community programs, and programs OUR 2ND ANNUAL PRIDE SHABBAT DINNER! specifically aimed at teaching Nova Scotian PJ LIBRARY® SHABBAT PROGRAMMING IS For the second year in a row, over 125 junior high school students, high school EXPANDING! people turned out for this special event that students, and educators about the Holocaust. Over 80 young Jewish parents and their celebrated the intersections between the Pride In November, we will be hosting our 5th kids came out for our final PJ Library® and Jewish communities in Halifax. We heard Annual Atlantic Jewish Film Festival. Finally, Shabbat Dinner in May. This event was from heartfelt guest speakers and a number instead of having a full biennial conference, the final installment in a series of Shabbat- of politicians who were in attendance. We we will be having our biennial general related programming for young families in followed up this amazing dinner with our 3rd meeting on the Sunday morning of the film Halifax sponsored by the Harold Grinspoon time marching in the Halifax Pride Parade. festival. I hope that many of you reading this Foundation which included a number of from around the region will consider making Shabbat-related community-wide programs WE CELEBRATED KADIMAH’S 75 BIRTHDAY! a weekend-trip for these two events! Shana as well as 9 different home-hosted Shabbat In a weekend-long series of events put on Tova! S dinners. We could not be more thrilled by an incredibly hard-working committee to announce that the Harold Grinspoon of volunteers from our community, we Foundation has decided to provide us with celebrated Kadimah’s 75th anniversary the funding to continue with this program in style. Everything went off without a and expand it beyond the HRM borders to hitch as we recognized those who have our communities across the region. served community over the many years, 4 Shalom FALL 2018 theAJC.ns.ca FROM THE DESK OF NAOMI ROSENFELD From The Desk Of NAOMI ROSENFELD Executive Director 7 LESSONS I LEARNED ABOUT BUILDING JEWISH COMMUNITY FROM MY TIME AT CAMP KADIMAH The main event of summer 2018 was without Palestine flew off the pages of history books. 5 EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO FEEL a doubt CK75—our celebration of Camp Our daily Hebrew-word-the-day skits made INCLUDED Kadimah’s 75th Anniversary. Those of you who the task of learning this new language a Over my 10 summers at Kadimah, I saw were there know what I mean when I say it is hilarious creative challenge.