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JEWISHVOL 43, NO 14 JOURNALJEWISHJOURNAL.ORG Jewish Journal creates endowment fund By Michael Wittner JOURNAL STAFF
The Jewish Journal, the largest free Jewish publication in New England, has established an endowment to ensure its future. The newspaper plans to raise $500,000 in the next five years. “As a community and as stewards of this paper, we must make sure that this publication will continue to link Greater Boston Jewry,” said Steven Temple Emanu-El of Marblehead has a $2 million renovation fund. A. Rosenberg, the Journal’s publisher and editor. Bob Rose, a former president of the North Shore Jewish institutions Journal’s Board of Overseers, believes the Journal will find creative ways Neil Donnenfeld, president of the to navigate the ever-changing land- Jewish Journal Board of Overseers investing for the future scape for small community news- made a pledge to put $10,000 in my papers. That is why he and his wife estate planning for this fund, is that I By Michael Wittner Synagogues and Money.” However, Judson Martha donated $20,000 to start the don’t know what the future’s going to JOURNAL STAFF noted that in recent years, synagogues – like Jewish Journal Continuity Fund, an bring,” said Donnenfeld. many other nonprofits – have set up funds in endowment fund that will allow the “I want future boards to inherit a The Talmud advises that a person should hopes of emulating the incredible success of Journal to grow. financially sound organization that “divide his money into three: one third in university endowments, which can amass to “You have to find a way to try not only has working capital for day- land, one third in commerce, and one third billions of dollars. things, to experiment with things. to-day expenses, but also has robust at hand.” Centuries later, North Shore syna- “Institutions establish endowments for a That is what this fund is for,” said financial cushioning to ride out any gogues and Jewish institutions are listening variety of reasons,” said Marty Schneer, the Rose, a retired MIT professor. “It is unexpected things that may come to the sages by setting aside funds in endow- executive director of the Jewish Community essentially an evolutionary vehicle up. We live in a world of disruption. ments and other reserves. Center of the North Shore in Marblehead, – it’s a tool for survival and growth. I want the paper and the people who Endowments, to which synagogues pool which boasts a nearly $4 million endow- It needs to finance and enable the are leading it to have the flexibility a large sum of money and use the income ment. “The main goal is to establish an ongo- Journal to try things.” to, in a methodical fashion, be able generated for a specified purpose, have exist- ing revenue stream from interest to support Journal Board President Neil to fund the Journal on its mission of ed in some form since at least 1820, when the agency during economic downturns, and Donnenfeld, who set aside $10,000 connecting the community without Abraham Touro set up a trust in his will allo- to in some cases fund certain programs.” in his will for the Jewish Journal major disruption.” cating $15,000 ($256,466 in today’s money) to North Shore synagogues began starting Continuity Fund, believes that this There are several ways to contrib- the Touro Synagogue of Newport, R.I. Until such funds around 15 years ago. Dr. Phil new endeavor is important because it ute to the Jewish Journal Continuity recently, endowments were mostly limited Cutter, a retired psychiatrist from Rockport will allow the Journal to weather what- Fund: mandated IRA distributions, to large and wealthy synagogues, according and the former president of Temple Ahavat ever storms may come. “The reason life insurance policies, naming the to Rabbi Daniel Judson, author of “Pennies Achim in Gloucester, said that before his why the Jewish Journal Continuity fund in a will – or simply writing for Heaven: The History of American continued on page 21 Fund is so important, and why I’ve continued on page 23 New Consul General of Israel feels welcome in Boston
By Penny Schwartz Israel’s foreign ministry, Boker has held big sports fan. His passion is for basket- JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT diplomatic positions across Europe. ball. In his younger days, he was an avid He served as Israel’s first resident player on the kibbutz where he grew up. BOSTON – Come Saint Patrick’s Day, Ambassador to Slovakia and was deputy “I would naturally go to a Celtics parade,” don’t be surprised to find the new Consul chief of mission in embassies in the for- he said with a chuckle. General of Israel to New England at one mer Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands. As consul general, Boker is particularly of Boston’s events celebrating the popu- He welcomes his newest position in interested in bolstering relations in the lar Irish holiday. Before stepping into his Boston. “When you come here, you are medical and academic fields. In meeting new role last October, Consul General surrounded by friends,” he said, noting with the heads of some of the city’s large Ze’ev Boker served for three years as there are relationships in fields rang- hospitals, he was struck that most had Israel’s ambassador to Ireland. ing from the economy to innovation visited Israel. He’s been impressed with the high and technology. “There is a very strong Boker also sees greater potential in level of cooperation between Boston’s Jewish community here, which is also a digital health, in part by bringing together Jewish and Irish communities, he said. very active one. The sense of together- hospital executives and leaders in medi- The New England Consulate is the first ness, for the benefits of the relation- cal innovation with their Israeli counter- US assignment for the 60-year-old Boker, ship between Israel and Boston, is very parts. he told the Journal in a recent conver- unique.” Among the pressing diplomatic sation not long after the New England He’s already made introductory visits responsibilities is sharing Israel’s per- Patriots’ Super Bowl victory parade made across the region, including Connecticut. spective on the Middle East with the its way past the consulate’s Park Square He is impressed with the scenic and cul- Photo by Penny Schwartz area’s elected leaders as well as the media office. tural sites that he had visited only a few Ze’ev Boker, Consul General of Israel to and the general public. This includes the In his three-decades-long career in times as a tourist. And yes, Boker is a New England continued on page 10
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Marblehead teens form Advocates for Israel group By Michael Wittner experiences, and what we want army just out of high school, JOURNAL STAFF to hear is both sides of the story but they said they were proud and understand what’s happen- to do it, and it was something MARBLEHEAD – Israel usu- ing.” they were looking forward to,” ally leaves a profound effect The group has invited a speak- said Zamansky. The Marblehead on people visiting for the first er from StandWithUs, a pro- students noted that while in time. Marblehead High School Israel nonprofit, and listened to Israel, they had made friends junior Adam Zamansky, who vis- two Israeli teens who are spend- with Israeli teens, and they still ited in July as part of the Lappin ing their gap year between high communicate nearly every day, Foundation’s Youth to Israel pro- school and army service living comparing classes and talk- gram, left wanting to spread the in Marblehead and traveling to ing about other things such as word. schools talking about their lives the respective requirements for “Going to Israel changed in Israel. The conversation was driver’s licenses in both coun- my life, and I didn’t want it to Maria Ntourlia, Northeast High School Coordinator of StandWithUs, largely apolitical: it focused on tries. end when I got home,” said meets with Marblehead High School’s Advocates for Israel Club. universal experiences shared by Whatever the topic of the Zamansky. “It made such a huge aren’t necessarily Jewish on how Still, Mogolesko maintains teens everywhere. week, Zamansky hopes the impact on me … and I know it to deal with information that that Advocates for Israel is an “They mostly talked about group will help his peers develop did for so many other people gets spun in the media.” Israel education group, rather their experiences as a teenag- informed opinions on an impor- that went on the trip with me, so Even in a high school with than an explicitly political pro- er,” said Gregory. “They talked tant topic. “I think it’s a major, I wanted to keep that going, and many Jewish students, anti- Israel advocacy one. “It’s about about their high school and how modern world problem, and make a club for it at my school.” Semitism and anti-Israel bias knowledge – it’s not showing they can major in classes at high people can’t have strong opin- He did just that. Once a sometimes creeps up. “There are that you should be for Israel or school, and they also talked ions if they have no idea what’s month, Zamansky’s Advocates definitely issues of it happening against it – I think it’s knowl- about how they could go abroad going on,” he said. “I think it for Israel club brings about in the school, but some just go edge on what is happening in before their army service.” should definitely be taught more 15 of his peers together to eat unreported or kind of blow over, the country,” he said. “We’re “I’d expect them to be real- in our schools.” Israeli food, watch Israeli films, and I feel like you don’t hear bringing speakers to show their ly worried about joining the swap travel stories, discuss cur- about it as much as it probably rent events, and listen to guest happens,” said Max Mogolesko, speakers. another member of the group Anti-Israel posters found at Tufts Hillel According to club member who also went on the Dor L’Dor Rachel Gregory, a junior who trip last summer. According to By Steven A. Rosenberg In a statement, Tufts Hillel said. “We have been work- visited Israel last summer with Gregory, a student drew a swas- JOURNAL STAFF President Tony Monaco called ing closely with the University the Cohen Camps’ Dor L’Dor tika on a desk a few years ago. the posters “profoundly disturb- at large since the posters were Leadership Program, the goal Zamansky reported that just a MEDFORD – Over two dozen ing and hurtful to those targeted discovered in order to ensure of the group is to raise overall few minutes before this inter- anti-Semitic and anti-Israel and to others” at the univer- the safety, security, and well- awareness in a school that does view, a student proclaimed in posters were discovered last sity. “Recognizing these posters’ being of staff and students. We not cover Israel anywhere in its class that Israel does not have week fastened to the grounds of impact on our campus climate, invite you to stand with us in curriculum. the right to exist. the Granoff Family Hillel Center we will fully investigate this condemning all forms of hate “We want to reach out to “Right before this conversa- at Tufts University. matter and follow up appropri- and vitriol.” more people to broaden every- tion, we were planning ways that The posters depicted mili- ately on the results of that inves- Rabbi Naftali Brawer, execu- one’s knowledge on the topic, we could raise awareness about tarized pigs, and included at tigation,” he said. tive director of Tufts Hillel, also because a lot of people aren’t this and prove them wrong,” least one with a caption call- In a separate statement, Tufts denounced the posters. really informed, and only see said Zamansky, who said that ing for the destruction of Hillel also condemned the post- “This was a cowardly and things in the media, which can the group hopes to hold a debate “ISRAELI APARTHEID FORCES ers. “We would like to remind shameful act targeting the sometimes be biased toward in the school auditorium against AND AMERIKKKAN [sic] the Tufts community that we are Jewish community on campus,” Palestine,” said Gregory. “We a pro-Boycott, Divestment, PIGS WHICH FUND IT. FREE here to listen, to support, and to Brawer said. want to inform people that Sanctions group. PALESTINE.” engage in conversation,” Tufts
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For Barth, the music has never stopped
ful not to include songs from Barth, whose parents Richard the night before. Barth’s favor- and Sheila still reside in Beverly, ite Dead songs to play seem to believes that a sense of com- be a microcosm of the band’s munity has drawn many Jews expansive collection – merg- to connect to the Dead. “It is ing bluegrass, country, jazz and interesting how many Jewish rock. “It is so hard to pinpoint Deadheads there are,” he said. favorite songs to play,” he said, “I’ve never really stopped to “sometimes that can be based think about why that may be, on what is feeling really good but I’d venture to say it exists on on a given night. But on the a communal/tribal level … that whole, ‘China Cat Sunflower/I feeling of being part of a com- Know You Rider,’ ‘Eyes of the munity that is defined not by World,’ ‘Mississippi Half-Step geography but by a shared belief Uptown Toodeloo,’ ‘The Music and love in something that is Never Stopped,’ and ‘Terrapin somewhat beyond description.” Station’ are a handful that come to mind.” PHYLLIS LEVIN on REAL ESTATE “There is so much about the Dead’s music that I find compelling,” says Gary Barth, of DeadBeat. ARE YOU CONFUSED BY By Steven A. Rosenberg Halen. But the Dead sounded with former Dead members Bob REAL ESTATE TERMS? JOURNAL STAFF nothing like the Beatles, and Weir and Phil Lesh. Others, like The technical terms that REALTORS® use can in July of 1989 he decided it Barth’s band DeadBeat, play sometimes be confusing to buyers and sellers. If you BEVERLY – Perhaps because was time to experience the about 20 gigs a year – most- Phyllis Levin find yourself confused and a bit frustrated when your of their name, the Grateful Dead live. So he drove down to ly in Massachusetts and New CRS GRI CBR REALTOR® talks about titles, easements, interest rates, Dead have long been a misun- Foxborough to attend his first Hampshire, and have a list of contingencies, financing or appraisals, don’t hesitate to derstood band. But the group, show. about 100 Dead tunes they per- ask for a translation! which remained together for 30 “There is so much about the form. Buying or selling a home is a very complex process and your REALTOR® years before lead guitarist Jerry Dead’s music that I find com- “I think the thing that has wants to help you understand every step thoroughly, so that you can make Garcia’s death in 1995, became pelling, especially the different always fascinated me most informed decisions. What was once a simple transaction of trading property one of America’s most success- musical influences that they all when going to Dead shows for money has become complicated by years of ever-changing state and local government requirements. ful acts because of its diverse brought to the table and how was wondering what’s lurking blend of bluegrass, country, jazz that ultimately led to such a around the next corner,” said These days, there are several smart phone apps and websites that provide and rock ‘n’ roll. broad and diverse catalog of Barth, who is 49 and married dictionaries for real estate terms. But discussing your questions directly with Gary Barth first heard the music,” said Barth, who had with two grown daughters. “This your REALTOR® can give you a deeper understanding of these terms and of the whole buying and selling process. With so much at stake, it’s important Dead in the 1980s when he was his bar mitzvah at Temple B’nai could be within a song itself to ask every question that arises and make sure your REALTOR® gives you a a student at Fitchburg State. A Abraham in Beverly and gradu- – the feel of the jam that par- satisfactory answer. talented guitarist, he had honed ated from Beverly High School. ticular night – or what song was his skills as a teen while growing Fast forward to 2003. Barth going to follow it.” JUSTEXPERIENCE CALL AND IS THEI’LL DODIFFERENCE THE REST. up in Beverly – playing every- was at the Worcester Telegram DeadBeat’s typical show is Feel free to call me at SAGAN REALTORS thing from the Beatles to Van & Gazette, where he still works around three hours, with the on allFeel aspects free ofto callbuying me orat SAGANselling real REALTORS estate as operations manager. 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Providing comfort on the last Shabbat
By Michael Wittner volunteers stay with them for a while. JOURNAL STAFF “If they were unresponsive, I would sit by their bed, and I would say the bless- DANVERS – One Friday night ings quietly so that they could hear in February 2013, Ellen Frankel of them, because when someone is in a Marblehead sat at the bedside of her coma, the last sense to go is hearing,” dying father at a hospice house in her said Michele Tamaren, a spiritual direc- native Chicago. Unexpectedly, a volun- tor and retired special educator from teer came into their room with everything Marblehead who has been volunteer- necessary for an impromptu Shabbat ing for the program since its inception. meal: electric candlesticks, challah, a box “Sometimes I would just sit afterward of cookies, and a bottle of grape juice. and be present.” “It really did feel like someone put Other times, patients talk about how a warm blanket from the dryer around it feels to be at the end of their life. “A my shoulder, and I didn’t even know woman in her late 80s surrounded by how cold I was,” said Frankel, who is loving family clasped my hand, pulled now a bereavement counselor with me close, and whispered in my ear: Care Dimensions in Danvers, formerly ‘Remember, life goes by so fast – so very, Hospice of the North Shore. It was her very fast,’” said Tamaren. “I remember father’s last Shabbat. her words, her voice, and her wisdom – Frankel returned to the North Shore I always will.” hoping to pay forward this act of kind- Because Newman’s Bakery donated ness that had brought her comfort dur- the food for the Shabbat bag program, ing one of the most difficult times in her the endeavor was put on hold when life. Frankel was volunteering at Hospice Newman’s Bakery of Swampscott donates food to Ellen Frankel’s Shabbat bag pro- Newman’s shut down last year. Now of the North Shore at the time, so she gram for hospice patients. that Newman’s is back, so is the Shabbat knew just who to call. She enlisted the bag program: new volunteers are train- help of Sheryl Meehan, the head of vol- Now, every Friday that there is a parent, or something about that time,” ing this week to prepare to begin deliv- unteers, and Nate Lamkin, who at the Jewish patient in hospice care at the Frankel said. “I think at the end of life, ering the bags by mid-March. To honor time was the director of bereavement Kaplan Family Hospice House, a vol- people find comfort in going back to the re-opening of both Newman’s and services. unteer arrives with challah, two bottles tradition.” the volunteer program, Frankel, Care She also partnered with Congregation of grape juice, a bag of cookies (which Volunteers come in, introduce them- Dimensions Director of Volunteer Shirat Hayam in Swampscott in a number are donated by the recently reopened selves, and if the patient is responsive, Services Sheryl Meehan, and Care of ways. Baruch HaLevi, the rabbi of Shirat Newman’s Bakery of Swampscott), elec- ask if they would like to observe Shabbat Dimensions President and CEO Pat Hayam at the time, used a discretionary tric candlesticks, and a card of Shabbat together. After the Shabbat rituals are Ahern presented a certificate of appre- fund to help pay for the first batch of elec- prayers. Frankel believes that for many complete, volunteers often stay and ciation to Jessica and Bernard Newman tric candles. Shirat Hayam congregant Jews, even non-religious ones, the mem- chat with patients and their families. at their bakery on February 15. Marla Gay helped create attractive designs ories and traditions associated with Frankel recalls a man who chanted his “I knocked on your door and you lis- for the prayer cards, providing photos and Shabbat can have healing powers, espe- Haftarah portion to her, and requested tened to me about my dad,” said Frankel transliterations. The first group of volun- cially when it is often the last that person less challah and more cookies. Another to the Newmans, recalling how the near- teers were a group of women from the will experience. patient wanted to sing, and Frankel, ly six-year partnership began. “You lis- synagogue who were part of a spiritual “Sometimes you weren’t lighting the Lamkin, and the whole family joined tened to me about my thoughts and all community with Frankel known as the candles for a good part of your life, but together in song. the plans that we had, and there was no “Spirited Sisters.” you remembered a great-aunt, or grand- Other patients are unresponsive, yet hesitation – you said, ‘We can do this.’ COMMUNITY NEWS THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – FEBRUARY 21, 2019 5 TheMillennials WHAT WAS YOUR JEWISH myself, and family, and heritage, and I went, and it BACKGROUND GROWING UP? was on a Shabbat. We were in Jerusalem on Shabbat and saw how Hannah had taken this group of young I grew up in a Reform congregation in Andover, people between age 20 and 25, and was facilitating Temple Emanuel. I started there as a preschooler their really learning something about themselves, and continued my Jewish education there until and developing and connecting to one another. It confirmation in 10th grade. My family there was was something more profound than a shared inter- very active in the synagogue, particularly my mom, est. It’s a very powerful thing for a group to come and it was always a special place to be. I was very together around a type of music, or whatever, but the fond of my rabbi, Rabbi [Robert] Goldstein, and specifics of the lives of the young people who were always understood that something special in par- there were so different, but we felt very close to each ticular happened in temple that didn’t happen in other based on this very old thing, and I thought the rest of my life. that revealing that sort of common thread between HOW DID YOU END UP IN people – people who are either born in Judaism or RABBINICAL SCHOOL? had chosen to take on that practice – that was a really worthwhile endeavor. I got home from that trip and I In college I took kind of a winding path. I went to started studying Hebrew on my own and that lit a fire McGill in Montreal for a semester, but I left after that in me as well, and I sort of put one foot in front of the Sam Weiss, 28 semester and worked a little retail and a little bit of other and applied to [rabbinical] school. food service. I saved up and moved out to Oakland, HEBREW NAME: Shmuel WHAT DO YOU THINK Calif., where I pursued being in bands and eventu- MILLENNIALS ARE LOOKING HOMETOWN: Andover ally after some years there I started at Berkeley City FOR IN THEIR RABBIS? CURRENTLY LIVING IN: New York City College, in the community college system of the East Bay, and I transferred to UC Berkeley where I gradu- Definitely millennials are looking for some- ALMA MATERS: Phillips Academy Andover ’09, University ated with a degree in rhetoric. thing different. I think that religious institutions of California at Berkeley ’14 are struggling in the way that many institutions [My Jewish identity] waned – it became a point are to gain the trust of a generation that sees it as CURRENT SCHOOL: Hebrew Union College – Jewish of difference that I wasn’t interested in wearing on a value to question everything, push back. I think Institute of Religion ’22 my sleeve. I had aspirations with art and music, that personally that the way forward for a rabbi and those are very broad, humanistic pursuits – you JOB: Rabbinical student attempting to serve millennials is to try to keep want to connect with something. What I came to see a clear head as to the value of a spiritual compo- FAVORITE FOOD: Sushi and burritos in my unique Jewish perspective was something to nent of living. I think that many millennial Jewish FAVORITE MUSIC: Folk music, ambient music, and avoid, or push aside for the time being. I didn’t make institutions are going wrong in trying to say, ‘Well, it very far doing that – I found myself after some punk millennials are not connected to Jewish life or our years in Oakland finding my way back to services. FAVORITE BOOK: “Mr. Palomar” by Italo Calvino Jewish institutions, so what sort of things are they I’d walk there and back to services. A big part of my into?’ Such-and-such TV show, or craft beer, and FAVORITE MOVIES: “There Will Be Blood,” Shabbat services became taking walks like that. At they adapt those things as bait. But I think that’s “Moonlight,” “The Birds” the time I was just looking to connect with myself, undermining your own value in a culture that’s so and my culture, and that unique sort of world view. FAVORITE TV SHOWS: “True Detective,” “Top Chef” hungry for authenticity. So in terms of how to be FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATIONS: Spain, Rabbi Robert Goldstein has a daughter named a millennial rabbi, or build a synagogue or Jewish Rabbi Hannah Goldstein, who was leading a trip to community that millennials would want to be a would like to go to Argentina Israel, and I had moved back from the West Coast, part of, I think they need to be really clear about FAVORITE JEWISH PERSON NOT IN and was starting to go to different traveling minya- what we’re offering and why we believe it’s essen- YOUR FAMILY: Sigmund Freud nim around Cambridge, where I was living, and it tial to others. FAVORITE JEWISH HOLIDAY: Rosh Hashanah seemed like a time to learn more about Judaism, and – Michael Wittner
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New England Yachad hosts inclusive shabbaton at Maimonides in Brookline By Michael Wittner life, host five shabbatons per and developing community in a JOURNAL STAFF year at different Jewish schools way that’s organic.” and synagogues throughout The 25-hour shabbaton BROOKLINE – On Feb. 8-9, their region. At each shabbaton, began at 3 p.m. on Friday, Feb. the Maimonides School Kehillah community members open up 8, when host families greeted of Brookline welcomed about 30 their homes on Friday night to their guests. After settling into Jews aged 8 to 16 with disabili- both Yachad members with dis- their weekend homes, the visi- ties and community members abilities and the high school or tors joined their families for a to Shabbat services that cele- college student volunteers who community dinner at the syna- brated Jewish inclusion. are often part of Yachad clubs gogue. Rina Hoffman, the assis- at their school, which foster The next day was the Shabbat tant director of New England friendships between students service, which was attended Yachad, said that her chapter’s and Yachad members. by over 125 people. At Yachad first shabbaton of 2019 allowed “Each shabbaton is real- shabbatons, traditional Shabbat participants to “experience ly based on the community services are supplemented with inclusion in a vivid way.” that we’re in,” said Hoffman. meditations on the theme of Local chapters of Yachad, an “Everyone stays with local fami- inclusion and reflections from international organization that lies, and it’s really an opportu- the Yachad community. allows Jews with disabilities to nity for building relationships, “The services are led by the take part in all aspects of Jewish getting to know one another, rabbi of the community in what- A Havdalah service caps off a Disney-themed shabbaton at the Maimonides School in Brookline. ever format is traditional to that one of New England Yachad’s TEMPLE B’NAI ABRAHAM community, but Yachad mem- primary funders. Because the bers – sometimes the advis- Maimonides School is right in 14T H A NNUA L ers, sometimes the students – the Newton-based foundation’s have an opportunity to share backyard, the foundation has words of Torah, to give a D’var an especially tight connection Torah, to speak … at various to the Maimonides shabbaton. LECTURE intervals, throughout the eve- Sharon Shapiro, the director ning, throughout the Shabbat of the foundation’s Boston office, service during the day,” said is a member of the Maimonides Hoffman. After the service, the Kehillah and served on the host SER IES community takes part in a large committee for the event. “The Kiddush lunch, which hews to Ruderman Foundation are tre- the Jewish summer camp tradi- mendous supporters, not only B RUN C H tions of singing, dancing, and financially, but really being Presented by overall ruach. involved in our program, in our Temple B’nai Abraham Yachad shabbatons are made mission – they’re very hands We strive to ensure that all of our programs and events possible by the Ruderman on,” said Hoffman. are accessible to people of all abilities. Grant Welker Family Foundation, which is Lecture, Discussion, Brunch and Book Signing Super Bowl class Sunday, March 24, 2019 10:00am - 12:00pm $25/person ($18/person over 65)
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Local filmmaker investigates assassination of a Russian Jewish freedom fighter
resented hope that a different it was only my friends who I is that democracy is a very frag- Russia could exist. “He was the shared the story with,” said ile thing, and Americans take poster boy – he was the symbol Egisserian. “He’s a very polariz- it for granted,” said Egisserian. of the Russia that we always ing person. From Americans, it “We are very wrong, because dreamed of,” she said. “He was was a 99-percent positive reac- it requires work every day to an absolutely uncompromised tion. The Russian community defend it. I hope to wake people fighter. He felt it was his person- is 50-50. Some people consider up to see what happens when al destiny to bring Russia to the him a traitor.” we’re not aware what is going on democratic world. He couldn’t Egisserian has had to publi- around us. There’s a quote: ‘You see himself doing anything else. cize her film because she needs may not be interested in poli- He couldn’t be bought, and he to obtain funding in order to fin- tics, but politics is interested in couldn’t be sold.” ish it. She hopes to raise $30,000 you.’” Egisserian, who is Jewish by March 5. If she obtains it, she and has a daughter who lives thinks she can finish the film To support “Not Your Average in Tel Aviv, does not think that within a year. Citizen,” visit nemtsovfreedom. Nemtsov was killed because he “What I want to tell in my film com. was Jewish, nor does she think Putin is especially anti-Semitic. Still, anti-Semitic slurs against Lucy Egisserian’s film explores the life and death of Boris Nemtsov. Nemtsov are common. “He strongly believed his eth- By Michael Wittner Nemtsov that she found online, nicity wouldn’t forbid him from SIMCHA JOURNAL STAFF which eventually became “Not being president … he always Your Average Citizen,” a docu- believed in common sense,” MARBLEHEAD – When Lucy mentary film that explains, in said Egisserian. “But from his SHOWCASE 2019! Egisserian read the headline her words, “The why, rather than own words, there always was that Boris Nemtsov had been the how, or who, killed him.” someone who called him ‘[the shot near the Kremlin, she had While a Moscow jury found K-word],’ and all that stuff. And Sunday, a similar reaction to the thou- five Chechens guilty of mur- if you go on YouTube, you will March 3 sands of Russians who would dering Nemtsov, the “who” see it’s a nonstop anti-Semit- 10:30 am – 1:00 pm later march in his memory and and “how” of the masterminds ic rant: ‘Go back to Israel,’ or continue laying wreaths, flow- who ordered the assassination ‘You’re selling Russia to who- Temple Emanuel ers, and candles at the site of remain unknown. The “why” of ever.’” 385 Ward Street his death four years later: shock his death may have something Since Nemtsov died four and horror. to do with the fact that he was years ago, Egisserian has been Newton Centre “I couldn’t make sense of it the charismatic Jewish leader of addressing these questions Meet & Greet with… – all the words I understood, the liberal opposition to Putin’s in her documentary, which but I couldn’t make sense of authoritarian government. tells Nemtsov’s story through DJ’s, Photographers, the sentence,” said Egisserian, a Nemtsov, who was the gover- voiceovers and archival footage. Florists, Local Kosher web designer turned filmmaker nor of one of the most populous Obtaining the rights to hours Caterers, Photo Booths, from Marblehead who was born regions in Russia, had openly of footage has not been easy, in Odessa, Ukraine. “For me it criticized the Putin’s govern- especially since many in Russia Party Planners, Rental was a shock … I couldn’t sleep, I ment for years, and he esca- do not want her to have it, and Companies, and More! couldn’t eat.” lated his public attacks follow- do not want this story told. As a Nemtsov, the leader of ing Russia’s 2014 invasion of result, Egisserian was afraid to Admission is Free! Russia’s liberal opposition Ukraine. The day after his mur- make the film for a long time. to Vladimir Putin, was shot der, Nemtsov was scheduled to “I was very much in the Door Prizes! while walking on the Bolshoy lead a peace protest against the shadows, and this is my first Moskvoretsky Bridge on Feb. 27, war in Ukraine and the ongoing coming out – for three years www.templeemanuel.com/simcha 2015. financial crisis in Russia. After his death, Egisserian Egisserian offered glowing began editing some footage of praise of the man she feels rep-
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Already, at [email protected], or by calling $40,000 has been pledged by community 978-745-4111. members with the goal of reaching at least Thank you for your continued support. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Who is responsible for Havurat Shalom hosts vibrant the collapse of Labor Zionism? Reconstructionist community In the January 24, 2019 Jewish elements of the original havu- By Jonathan S. Tobin Journal, it was reported that rot movement, and add some “mirroring a national trend” structure and sustainability fea- lections in Israel are less the [Havurah] movement has tures that give our community a than two months away, mostly “fizzled out. Various permanence, while preserving Eand so far the campaign North Shore rabbis mentioned the dedication to the values of has been dominated by two that while they were aware of friendship, communal obser- main stories. One is speculation private havurot in their con- vance, learning, being open and about whether Israel’s Attorney gregations, they do not know welcoming to all, social justice General Avichai Mandelblit will of any current, independently and action. With a vibrant sis- indict Israeli Prime Minister organized ones.” Well, as your terhood, parent-run Hebrew Benjamin Netanyahu prior to scribe Linda Greenstein report- school with professional teach- the voting. The other is the rise ed in October 19, 2017, in an ers, tzedakah committee, social of former Israeli Defense Forces article titled, “Andover congre- justice committee, bar and bat Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and gation renews focus on change mitzvah tutoring, shabbat and his new centrist party. But there for the good” – I guess we have holiday services, we have a con- is another angle to the election evidence, to quote Mark Twain gregation with co-op values – that deserves some attention: that “rumors of our death have led by a partnership between a the virtual collapse of the once Miriam Alster/Flash90 been greatly exaggerated!” As loving and brilliant rabbi [Karen dominant Labor Party and the Tzipi Livni and Labor chair Avi Gabbay at the Knesset in 2017. the oldest organized Jewish Landy] and a board of directors. marginalization of the parties of Menachem Begin led the Likud a state of near equilibrium as congregation based in Andover, True to the origins of the havu- the left. to victory after 29 years of Israel was seemingly split down Massachusetts, we began in the rot movement we move forward The slow-motion fall of the unbroken Labor-led coalition the middle on the issues of 1960s and have since reached and ever-changing, reflecting movement that was primar- governments. Since then, Labor peace with the Palestinians and out to cover the Merrimack the needs and wishes of our ily responsible for building has had its ups and downs. Up West Bank settlements. Labor Valley and Southern New community. the state began with its first until 2000, the parties of the left won clear victories in both 1992 Hampshire. We also became the So, to those North Shore rab- electoral defeat in 1977, when and those of the right were in and 1999 under Yitzhak Rabin first area Jewish community to bis who do not know of us – we and Ehud Barak after Likud fal- officially join Welcoming Faiths, welcome you to come and share tered in power. But since the as an open and welcoming place in the beauty of our community outbreak of the Second Intifada, to pray. observances. You are certainly the war of terrorist attrition As a vibrant reconstruction- welcome to attend our open that destroyed faith in the ist community, Havurat Shalom, High Holy Day services too, and Oslo process and its hopes of one of two identically named we don’t charge for tickets! an end to the conflict with the havurot in the northeast cor- Palestinians, Labor has become ner of Massachusetts, we have Ben Kellman, President increasingly irrelevant. been able to take the essential David Hastings, Chazzan That has never been more obvious than now as polls show that the contest is between We are blessed to have Irv Danesh Netanyahu’s Likud and the par- ties of the center, led by Gantz in our community and Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid, with If they asked me today who is amazing man living in our com- Labor no more than a marginal- your role model, I wouldn’t even munity. It’s a well-deserved ized afterthought. have to think twice. It would be honor. Labor wasn’t really a factor Dr. Irv Danesh. Rachel Jacobson in 2009 or 2013, as Netanyahu We are blessed to have this Swampscott began his current decade-long stay in power. It finished third in both of those elections. But in 2015, Labor won 24 seats LETTERS TO THE EDITOR are welcome. operating under a new name: the Zionist Union. That was its Letters must be signed and include your name, highest total since 1999, when address and telephone number for verification purposes. it gained its last election victory Submissions are subject to editing for accuracy, length, libel under Barak. But it had to form issues and good taste. Letters should be 300 words or less. coalition with the remnants of the Kadima Party led by Tzipi Email submissions to: [email protected], Livni. subject “Letters.” continued on page 22 OPINION THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – FEBRUARY 21, 2019 9 ‘This is Your Life’
By Deborah Shelkan Remis “This is Your Life, Cantor Gregor Shelkan. Of all the hearts that sing with those of he month of February is festooned your family and friends gathered here with momentous, extraordinary tonight – there are two that sing with Tanniversaries that have influenced greater joy than all others. They belong our country. Feb. 9 was the 55-year anni- to your two sisters, Bluma Weiner and versary of the much-heralded inaugural Golda Carmi, whom you have not seen appearance of the Beatles on “The Ed since they left Latvia over 20 years ago. Sullivan Show.” The following day, the Hazel Bishop has brought them here House of Representatives’ final version tonight, so here they are your two sisters, of the Civil Rights Act was sent to the Bluma and Golda, from Israel.” Senate, which would ultimately become Audible gasps were heard as my father law on July 2, 1964. rushed toward the curtain. The sisters This month heralds a more personal rushed toward my father, Bluma on the anniversary for our family. With all the left, Golda on the right. They embraced, hoopla and publicity surrounding the grasping and tenderly caressing one Beatles, it dawned on me, that I, too, another, their faces moist with the com- was part of a significant television anni- ingling of their tears. Edwards then ush- versary. I quickly calculated that Feb. 17 ered my father and his siblings to the was the 65th anniversary of the night the couch to join my mother, sister, and me. popular weekly “This Is Your Life” pro- Aunts Bluma and Golda stayed in the gram hosted by Ralph Edwards featured United States for one month. For several my father as the principal subject. weeks, the local Boston newspapers car- The live audience program on Feb.17, ried stories of the show and the reunion 1954, at the El Capitan Theatre in Los of my father with his sisters, and pictures Angeles opened with Edwards deliver- of our family with our Israeli relatives. To ing the obligatory acknowledgements this day, 65 years later, people still regal to crew and sponsors. Then the cam- me with stories of their fond memories “This is Your Life” host Ralph Edwards with Bertha Kerson Shelkan, Gregor Shelkan, eras panned the audience and Bob, the of gathering around the family TV watch- Tamar Leah Shelkan, Deborah Ruth Shelkan, Golda Carmi, and Bluma Weiner. announcer said, “This is Your Life.” The ing the episode of “This Is Your Life.” camera zooms in on my unwitting, sur- Glow, friends from his younger days in to reveal my mother, in a smart black Recently, one of my first cousins, the prised father, as the announcer contin- Latvia and Vienna, and memories of his dress adorned with double-stranded only child of my Aunt Bluma, and now ued … “Gregor Shelkan.” internment in concentration camps, my pearls and wearing black, ankle-strapped the grandfather of 19, happened to be With a mixture of trepidation, resolve father’s life story unfolded in the living heels, holding my 4-year-old sister’s visiting from Israel. On Feb. 17, my cous- and purpose, my father walked on stage rooms of millions of television viewers. hand and carrying 18-month-old me. in Kobi and I viewed the original 16-mil- and in his halting English asked Edwards After various close friends paraded We both were wearing matching pink limeter “This Is Your Life” program on whether they could commence his story on stage to share their stories about my organza dresses with small, red cherries DVD. Mirroring the preserved black and from the present. Edwards encouraged father’s past, Edwards set the stage to adorning the waist and the neckline, white faded images of my parents, we my father to sit down on the couch, bring the audience to Berlin in 1946. My white ankle socks, and black Mary Jane sat side by side on the couch in my den make himself comfortable, and then mother’s voice projected to the audience patent leather shoes. My father rushed to to pay tribute to our family heritage and proceeded to share my father’s life story. and television viewers as she reminisced collect us all in a huge hug, while query- celebrate the anniversary of our 65-year- Peppered by leading questions from how she and my father met: “Grisha ing, “How did you make the trip alone?” old program. Edwards, my father spoke about his life [Gregor] sang so beautifully, so tender- After our family was seated on the and his family, all of whom, except for ly, that I cried all through the concert. sofa in the middle of the stage – my sister Deborah Shelkan Remis writes from two sisters, perished in the Holocaust. Afterward I went to him and thanked sitting on my father’s lap, staring at the Swampscott. Interspersed with two live advertise- him.” live audience and me fidgeting on my ments for Hazel Bishop Complexion The thick velvet stage curtain parted mother’s lap – Ralph Edwards intoned, Are democracies in trouble?
By Judith Bergman planned, “inspired by the mass Tlaib’s tweet accusing Jews of Rashida Tlaib. Rather, there are inconsequential. shooting” in Pittsburgh. dual loyalty to the age-old lies Republicans who have called As an observer far from s someone outside the Threats are, of course, direct- that Jews conspire to control the out Tlaib. the US, perhaps it is easier to world’s most powerful ed against Christians as well as media and finance. These emerging political see, and call attention to, this Ademocracy, the United Jews. These anti-Semitic false- threats to the Jewish commu- threat. In Israel, for instance, the States, it is concerning to see Abroad, the US is being hoods are being promoted nity come at a time when social Jewish community may quar- how many countries in the mocked, and Europe has set up against a backdrop of increased media has totally altered how, rel and debate among itself but West are being transformed. In a payment channel to enable assaults on members of the where and by whom political it always appreciates the pre- Europe, free speech continues trade with Iran that evades US Jewish community at a rate positions are communicated carious nature of its survival. to be seriously eroded, churches sanctions. not seen in generations (most throughout American society. Today’s American Jewish com- are desecrated, and religious The American Jewish com- recently here and here). They also come at a time when munity, however, remains blind Europeans murdered. munity seems to be facing a The threat emerging from radical Islamists are seeking to to the threat, repeating the There are signs that the same threat that it appears quite con- within the Democratic Party is stoke the fires of anti-Semitism mantra of the German Jews of transformation is beginning in tent to ignore. not without irony. The party has and anti-Zionism. Further, it the early 1930s that there has the United States, as well. Not since the aviator leg- been the traditional home of the comes at a time when a legiti- always been anti-Semitism and, International observers end Charles Lindbergh gath- majority of American Jews since mate women’s rights movement aside from some uncomfortable have begun asking if the US ered fellow American Nazis the days of President Franklin has been hijacked by an anti- moments, it is not really an exis- has a problem. Additionally, together and others condemned Semitic leadership. Expect the tential threat. according to the Worldwide American Jews as being a “fifth Democratic Party to be pushed From this offshore observa- Threat Assessment of the column” has the American Abroad, the US is being further into the Islamist camp in tion post, however, it is apparent US Intelligence Community, Jewish community faced such mocked, and Europe the months to come. that, over time, American Jews released on January 29: “Global a threat as it does today from An entire generation of lib- who are Democrats, and most jihadists in dozens of groups openly anti-Semitic candidates has set up a payment eral Democratic leadership that apparently are, will find them- and countries threaten local and recently elected to Congress. channel to enable trade at least recognized Israel’s right selves the voters and donors of regional US interests, despite If the past is any way to pre- to exist is being pushed aside. a party that will initially seek to having experienced some sig- dict how Jews will respond to with Iran that evades The leaders that remain (such marginalize them, then ostra- nificant setbacks in recent years, this threat, sadly, the vast major- US sanctions. as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi) cize them, and finally, demonize and some of these groups will ity will probably remain indif- had been “assaulted” daily with them. This transformation will remain intent on striking the US ferent to the ominous politi- online tweets, trolls and bots be brought about by a group homeland. Prominent jihadist cal changes now taking place Delano Roosevelt. (His stud- launched by younger, aggres- of new leaders, who will have ideologues and media platforms around them. Their indiffer- ied indifference to chilling evi- sive and thoroughly committed the means effectively to rebrand continue to call for and justify ence, however, is likely to come dence of the Holocaust – that Democratic socialists who seek their emerging power base, efforts to attack the US home- with an eventual cost. was smuggled out to the Allies to reinvent the party in their either implicitly or explicitly, land.” Today’s Congressional fresh- – is a topic for another day.) own image, sometimes by using as the neo-Islamic Democratic The report adds: “Home- men class includes Democrats However, with the last election sophisticated online tactics Party, thereby asserting a dom- grown violent extremists (HVEs) who clearly seek to upend the cycle putting Islamists, who are that seemed unstoppable, until inance that will make today’s are likely to present the most belief held by members of the openly hostile to Jews, in the Pelosi awarded them plum posi- political landscape unrecogniz- acute Sunni terrorist threat to Jewish community that they House of Representatives, the tions on the prestigious House able. the United States, and HVE are a respected minority with- Democratic Party has jettisoned Oversight and Foreign Relations It is more than painful, as anti- activity almost certainly will in the American society. These even the pretense of repudiat- Committees. Semitic libels are whitewashed have societal effects dispropor- newly elected members seem ing their anti-Semites. As of this The Jewish American experi- by the media or risk becom- tionate to the casualties and to be trying to isolate the Jewish writing, not one Democratic ence in standing with the Civil ing part of the Congressional damage it causes.” community from their politi- Congressional leader has called Rights movement of the 1960s is Record, to watch the American Late last year, a synagogue cal base by engaging in the tra- for disciplinary action in the in the process of being relegated Jewish community being played in Pittsburgh was attacked. In ditional canard used by past wake of recent anti-Semit- either to ancient history, or the by the political party that many Ohio, another attack was being demagogues, from Rep. Rashida ic slurs by Ilhan Omar and realm of fiction, or discarded as have called “home.” 10 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – FEBRUARY 21, 2019
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Publisher/Editor General Steven A. Rosenberg from page 1 [email protected] subject of Iran, and the threats it Associate Editor poses to his country, he said. Michael Wittner Boker didn’t grow up wanting [email protected] to be a diplomat but acknowl- edged he came to the career Business Manager a bit naturally. “It is based on Chet Baker a sense of mission which was [email protected] part of my family background,” he said. His mother made her Director of way from Poland to Palestine Advertising & Marketing as a teen in 1938, before Israel Lois Kaplan became a state. She was the only [email protected] member of her family to sur- vive the Holocaust. His father, Senior Account Executive also born in Poland, was active Marcy Grand in the Zionist youth movement. [email protected] When he arrived in Palestine, he joined the Secret Service of Graphics, Web, the Haganah. After his parents Russian Chronicle Editor married, they settled in Kibbutz Yulia Zhorov Afek in the north of Israel, where [email protected] their three children were born and raised. Graphics, Web, Obituaries In 1950, Boker’s father Andrew Fleischer accepted a two-year assignment [email protected] in New York where he worked Photo by Steven A. Rosenberg/Journal Staff Yehuda Yaakov, former Consul General of Israel to New England, at a Jewish Journal forum in 2017. Editorial Cartoonist with Jewish communities in the George Freedman United States. Boker, have managed to juggle has been to Boston twice since and Cafe, owned by Tsurit Or, a It is that sense of service – to the demands of a dual-career Boker became Consul General Boston-based Israeli. kibbutz and to country – that couple. A highly accomplished and he’s hoping she may be able So far, Boker is impressed Board of Overseers influenced Boker’s own career doctor specializing in can- to join him for a more extended with the ways Boston’s Jewish Neil Donnenfeld, President choice. Growing up in the small, cer research and the health of time. community and Israelis living in Bob Blayer, *Rick Borten, tight-knit kibbutz community Holocaust survivors, Keinan- For a taste of home, he pops the area have come together. Fred M. Cohen, Susan Garnick, was a good grounding for diplo- Boker is a professor of public in to Cafe Landwer, the popular “If there’s any way that I can Cara Hogan, Johanna Matloff, macy, which requires strong health at Haifa University and Israeli cafe that opened its first be facilitating more contact, I Lynn Nadeau, team work, he said. is acting director of the Israel two US locations in Boston last would be more than glad to do Donna Lozow Pierce, On a personal level, Boker Center for Disease Control. They year. He’s also discovered the it,” he said. *Howard Rich, *Robert M. Rose, and his wife, Lital (Tali) Keinan- have three grown children. She various venues of Tatte Bakery Stephanie Simon, John Smidt, Bradley J. Sontz, Ted D. Stux, Matthew Swartz, *Selma Williams *Life Board Members Past President HEALTH SERVICES Bradley J. 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The best of Israeli TV makes it to American screens
By Steven A. Rosenberg JOURNAL STAFF
It’s more than halfway through winter, and chilly winds and freezing temperatures will be with us for at least another month. At night, the large screen TV beckons. These days though, you have the option to watch more than the latest news, sports, or American movies. A group of Israeli TV series has arrived in America, and most are quite good. Here’s one writer’s look at the top five on American TV (prepare for subtitles): “Shtisel” (Netflix) A look at the complex rela- tionships within the ultra- “Fauda” (Netflix) “Shtisel” (Netflix) Orthodox Shtisel family, set in the Geula section of Jerusalem. relationships with his family and complicated life not unlike the ships in Jerusalem. Like “Shtisel,” by Islamic militants. After two The show focuses on the Reb friends. As it lifts the veil behind world of secular Jewry: control- it reveals the beauty and sim- are released (and the third is Shulem Shtisel, who heads a the cloistered religious commu- ling parents, infidelity, mortality, plicity of prayer, Shabbat, and returned in a coffin), the anxiety yeshiva, and his complicated nity, the Shtisel family reveals a love and faith. friendship. But religion serves begins. While it only ran for two just as a backdrop, not the main years, the brilliant writing, rivet- “Fauda” (Netflix) focus. Instead, we learn how the ing acting, and examination of A breakthrough set of sto- five friends unite as they strug- how war impacts Israeli society ries that go behind the politi- gle with loneliness, disappoint- will stay with you long after you cal and religious issues that ment, broken relationships, and finish all of the episodes. divide Israelis and Palestinians. love. “Mossad 101” (Netflix) The series succeeds because it “Prisoners of War” (Hulu) focuses on the human side of the Exaggerated and tinged with conflict, and shows the impact Those who glorify war most soap opera characters, “Mossad the struggle has had on each likely have never been in com- 101” still succeeds because it’s a side. “Fauda” means “chaos” bat, and “Prisoners of War” tells microcosm of Israeli life. As we in Arabic, and that accurately the story of violence that’s part of follow more than a dozen train- describes the Mista’aravim, or a larger issue deeply imbedded ees, there’s plenty of imperfec- Israeli special forces, who speak in Israeli culture. Even before it tion that pierces the myth that Arabic and blend into Arab vil- aired on Israeli TV, “Prisoners one of the world’s most feared lages and cities as they seek to of War” (“Hatufim” in Hebrew) intelligence agencies can do no eliminate terror groups. was purchased by Showtime, wrong – either in planning or which based “Homeland” on conducting operations. And like “Srugim” (Amazon Prime) the concept. In “Prisoners of many other Israeli TV shows, it This poignant show follows a War,” we follow three Israeli doesn’t shy away from the cor- group of five modern Orthodox men who were captured and ruption and nepotism that is single Israelis who seek relation- held in Lebanon for 17 years deeply rooted in Israeli society. “Prisoners of War” (Hulu)
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Tikkun Olam drives local woman By Judith Klein child, developed after she happened JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT upon Long Way Home on that family ser- vice trip to Guatemala in 2005 to teach GEORGETOWN – “I grew up with English. the obligation of tikkun olam,” recalls Long Way Home, then in its infancy, Elizabeth Rose of Georgetown. “It defined was planning to build a school in the my life.” Raised in Minneapolis by area of Comalapa. It was to be construct- Orthodox parents who were “big mach- ed from recycled trash – walls of tires ers” in their Jewish community, serving filled with earth and bottles stuffed with as presidents of their synagogue and refuse. The exterior became a canvas for its Sisterhood and raising funds for the folk art motifs that reflected the indig- Jewish Federation and the United Jewish enous culture of the people who live in Appeal, Rose felt destined to carry on the the area. Rose and her husband became tradition of helping others. She even fol- committed to Long Way Home, return- lowed in her mother’s professional foot- ing several times before she conceived of steps, becoming a social worker. Rubbish to Runway as a means to raise Once she married and had children, funds for the school and its students. Rose was even more committed to pass- Just as Long Way Home’s school used ing on the values she inherited – espe- recycled materials to construct what is cially the obligation to heal the world. To now an 18-building complex, so would that end, she and her husband, Joe Hull, the designers for Rubbish to Runway use a retired emergency room physician, recycled materials to create wearable art. A design by Alicia Irick Cohen at a past involved their children in activities for The symmetry made perfect sense to Rubbish to Runway show. the betterment of others from the time Rose since it reinforced the value of what their daughter and son were very young. Elizabeth Rose at the podium at a Rubbish too often gets discarded. and strut to the pulses of music and the “We hosted Fresh Air kids for eight years. to Runway event. Rubbish to Runway has grown over flashes of colored lights. We went to a homeless shelter on Route the past eight years, to include off shoots Rose, who now serves on the Board 1 to play with children – my daughter in California, Texas, and Canada. The of Directors of Long Way Home, hopes had her own organization called Wacky local event on the North Shore, however, this year’s show will raise $30,000 so that in grade school that did that. And the remains the largest. This year, it will be more children can attend the school in biggest thing was that we took our kids Comalapa. As she explains, the school to Guatemala to create a family identity teaches the children not only traditional as one that gave back.” academic skills but also skills that can These days, Rose is juggling a list of “We hosted Fresh Air kids lift their families out of abject poverty, activities that would make people half for eight years. We went to like how to build water storage tinacos, her age collapse with fatigue. As part of energy-efficient stovetops, and compost- her third Master’s degree, the 70-year-old a homeless shelter on Route 1 ing toilets. is completing a book about the indig- to play with children.” What does Rose do in her free time? enous people of Guatemala and her fam- – Elizabeth Rose Well, she is in four writers’ groups, belongs ily’s work with them over the past 14 to the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center years; she is a founder and active partici- and Temple Emanu-El in Haverhill, and pant in the Conversation Cafe of Greater goes to the gym four times a week. Newburyport, an initiative to increase hosted by The Governor’s Academy in Dayenu. conversations among those with oppos- Byfield on April 27. More than 30 design- ing points of view on controversial top- ers whose day jobs vary from scientist to Rubbish to Runway will be at The ics; and she is chairing the eighth annual preschool teacher, community organizer Governor’s Academy in Byfield on April Rubbish to Runway ReFashion Show, a to trompe l’oeil painter, will see their 27. Tickets are available at rubbishto- Elizabeth Rose in front of the library of fundraiser for the nonprofit Long Way creations on the runway. Volunteer mod- runway.org. the Long Way Home school in Comalapa, Guatemala. Home. Rubbish to Runway is her brain- els trained by professionals will sashay
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Catching ‘little foxes’ at Lyric Stage Company
racists who repeatedly invoke the N-word. The greedy broth- ers excitedly await the machin- ery will soon arrive at the fam- ily’s Alabama cotton fields. With the arrival of Horace, who has been receiving treat- ment for his weak heart at Johns Hopkins, the three siblings’ avaricious plans are called into question. Horace clashes with his siblings one moment and his scheming wife the next, and through these fights, Hellman asks important questions about Lillian Hellman in 1939 everything from materialism to relationship to his wife, while fascism. Amelia Broome is able to com- For Hellman fans, Lyric municate the tenderness of Stage’s sensitive revival of “The Birdie’s touching relationship Little Foxes” is reason to cel- with the Giddens’ kind daugh- ebrate. It is a worthy addition ter Alexandra, who is played to Scott Edmiston’s fine track with remarkable candor by Rosa Procaccino. Remo Airaldi catches Benjamin’s alternat- For Hellman fans, ing serenity and deceptiveness. Cheryl D. Singleton is a stand- Lyric Stage’s sensitive out as supportive maid Addie. revival of “The Little Also impressive were Janie E. Photo by Mark S. Howard Foxes” is reason Howland’s elegantly expan- Anne Gottlieb and Craig Mathers in ‘’The Little Foxes.” sive set, Gail Astrid Buckley’s to celebrate. well-chosen period outfits, and By Jules Becker Hellman turned these family the foxes that are spoiling her lighting director Karen Perlow’s JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT dramas into her 1939 play. Now, village’s vines. These foxes serve evocative use of spotlight. the Lyric Stage Company of as metaphors for everything The biblical little foxes may BOSTON – Lillian Hellman Boston presents a riveting 80th that can poison personal rela- record as a frequent Lyric Stage threaten to spoil Solomon’s wrote with great conviction anniversary revival of the drama tionships. guest director for classic plays vines, but Hellman’s enduringly against greed and materialism – with telling insights about The play takes place in an like “Who’s Afraid of Virginia prescient play proves a garden – most notably in her superb prejudice, women’s rights, mari- Alabama town in 1900, where Woolf?” and “Anna Christie.” well-cultivated with wisdom play “The Little Foxes.” Sadly, tal conflicts, and the dark side of those “little foxes” are every- Anne Gottlieb’s complex por- about women, family life and the Jewish New Orleans native capitalism. where: in the sibling rivalries trayal of Regina – by turns human values. needed only to look at her fami- Some of these menacing between Regina Giddens and charming, regal, insidious, and ly tree to find inspiration for her challenges – particularly rela- her brothers Benjamin and ferocious – is a revelation. Her “The Little Foxes,” Lyric Stage subject. Isaac Marx, her great- tionship issues and human Oscar Hubbard; the marital scenes with Craig Mathers – Company of Boston, through grandfather, was a peddler suc- greed – hark back to the biblical troubles between Regina and arrestingly vulnerable as Horace March 17. 617-585-5678 or cessful enough to put up a large “Song of Songs” (“Shir ha-Shir- her husband Horace Giddens; – have the perfect combination lyricstage.com. brick store in the heart of town, im), from which the play derives and the conflicts between Oscar of pathos and push-pull ten- but family squabbles contin- its title. In the ancient song, an Hubbard and his wife Birdie. sion. Will McGarrahan catch- ued for generations afterwards. Israelite woman wishes to catch Benjamin and Oscar are virulent es the petty cruelty of Oscar’s
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Shabbat Shalom: Parshat Ki Tisa By Rabbi Shlomo Riskin of the Sanctuary included spic- at least given the opportunity the child who has moved so far ger applies. He explains that es of unappetizing fragrance. to come closer to God and our from the Jewish people that he during Talmudic times, when “And God spoke unto Moses: Perhaps because we must learn traditions. Even the Jew who is isn’t even at the Seder! We must the overwhelming majority of Take unto you sweet spices, to take responsibility for every serving idols must be spoken to, go out to find him – even if he the Jewish people was obser- stacte [nataf], onycha [shelet] member of the “family” no mat- ministered to! is at a neighborhood disco or vant, and when a Jew was and galbanum [helbena], these ter what their behavior, perhaps A month or so after this por- a Far East ashram – and invite defined in terms of their Torah sweet spices with pure frankin- because what appears to us as tion is read, the Seder itself him to come back in. And why observance, any Jew who pub- cense [levona], all of an equal wicked may in reality be more becomes a living demonstration is Elijah associated with this licly desecrated the Sabbath weight.” (Exodus 30:34) genuine spirituality, perhaps of the necessity to include, rath- gesture toward the fifth child? was effectively testifying to because no evil is without its er than to exclude, any Jew. Take The closing verse of the last their exclusion from the Jewish ne of the most unique redeeming feature, or perhaps note of the proverbial four chil- prophet included in the canon, people. Therefore, in Talmudic aspects of the Sanctuary, merely in order to remind us dren: the wise child, the wicked Malakhi, declares: “Behold: I times, a public Sabbath des- Ocontinued in the Holy not to be judgmental towards child, the simple child, and the will send Elijah, the Prophet, ecrator became the equivalent Temples, was the sweet-smell- other human beings, the mes- child who knows not what to before the coming of the great of an idolater; in effect, the per- ing spices of the incense burned sage of the incense could not be ask. It is instructive that the and awesome day of God, and petrator of such a public crime on a special altar and whose clearer: no Jew, even the most wicked child is not defined by he shall turn the hearts of the was excluding himself from the inspiring fragrance permeated egregious sinner, dare be dis- the compiler of the Haggadah fathers to the children, and the congregation of Israel and such the House of God. In the por- missed with mockery and deri- as one who eats non-kosher hearts of the children to their a person was thereby relin- tion of Ki Tisa the Torah lists sion from the sacred congrega- food or desecrates the Sabbath; fathers…” (Malakhi 3:23). No quishing any rights to Jewish the different spices, and their tion of Israel. Every Jew must the wicked child is rather the one, not the “wicked” child, and privileges. names – in Hebrew or English – be allowed to contribute, and one who says “Of what value is not even the “invisible” child, is However, explains Rabbi are strange to our modern ears. only when every Jew is included this work for you?” Wickedness to be excluded from the Seder, Hoffman, when – sadly enough But stranger still is the Rabbinic does the sweet fragrance prop- is defined as excluding oneself the commemoration of our first – the overwhelming majority commentary that one of those erly emerge. from the general Jewish com- redemption. Parents and chil- of Jews are not observant (and spices – specifically helbena – is We have already seen how munity. And even if a person dren must all join together in a today this is even truer than hardly sweet-smelling. On the the Torah portion of Ki Tisa excludes herself – and is there- loving and accepting reunion. it was in nineteenth-century contrary, as Rashi writes, helbe- contains another striking exam- fore called wicked – we dare There is a fascinating hal- Germany), a Jew who publicly na “…is a malodorous spice ple of the significance of every not exclude her. Our Seder table akhic ramification of our desecrates the Sabbath is not which is known [to us as] gelba- single Jew in Israel in the after- must always be welcoming desire to include rather than at all making a statement of nah [galbanum]. Scripture enu- math of the great sin in the des- enough to include everyone, no to exclude. The Talmud (Eruvin exclusion from the peoplehood merates it among the spices of ert. We read that soon after the matter who. 69b) suggests that a public des- of Israel. On the contrary, the the incense to teach us that we revelation at Sinai, Moses’ pro- Indeed, towards the end of ecrator of the Sabbath is com- very fact that such a desecrator shouldn’t look upon the inclu- longed communion with the the Seder we are instructed to parable to an idolater, whose attends a synagogue (if only a sion of Jewish transgressors in divine frightened the people open the door for Elijah the wine cannot be drunk and few times a year) and is willing to our fasts and prayers as some- into worshiping a golden calf. Prophet, forerunner of the who cannot be counted for a partake in the service indicates thing insignificant in our eyes; Our Sages teach: “And God said Messiah. In the past I’ve com- statutory quorum (minyan) for a definite feeling of belong- indeed, they [the transgressors to Moses, ‘Go down’ (Ex. 32:7). mented that opening the door prayer. Does this mean that a ing and a will to belong to the of Israel] must also be included R . Elazar interprets: God was for Elijah seems superfluous Jew who does not observe the historic community of Israel. amongst us” (Rashi, ad loc.). commanding Moses to descend given Elijah’s uncanny abil- Sabbath laws and rituals forfeits Therefore, Rabbi Hoffman con- Rashi is conveying a most from his elevated position. The ity to visit every single Seder in his rights to belong to a proper cludes, a Sabbath desecrator significant Rabbinic insight. only reason I gave you greatness the world; anyone capable of Jewish congregation? One of must not only be included in a The community of Israel – is because of Israel, and now accomplishing such a remark- the towering Torah giants of minyan, but should be encour- in Hebrew a “tzibur” – must that Israel has sinned, what do able feat certainly would not nineteenth-century Germany, aged to become more involved. consist of all types of Jews: I need you for?’” (Berakhot 32a) be stopped by a closed door. Rabbi David Zvi Hoffman, rais- righteous (the letter tzadi for God is reminding Moses that One answer that I’ve proposed es this very question in his col- Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is the tzaddikim), intermediate (the God’s covenant with Abraham is that the opening of the door lection of responsa, Mellamed chief rabbi of Efrat, an Israeli letter bet for benonim), and was with every single Jew. No is not really for Elijah; it is rath- Leho’il (Responsum 29), where settlement established in 1983 wicked (the letter reish for Jew dare be discounted; every er a symbolic gesture of open- he resoundingly rules that the in the Judean Mountains of the resha’im), just as the incense Jew must be loved, taught, and ing the door to the fifth child, Talmudic comparison no lon- West Bank.
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New film details UN’s anti-Israel incitement in Palestinian schools By Josh Hasten trum recognize that the “right mission, according to the cen- JNS.org of return,” in reality, is a code ter’s website, “to put an end phrase alluding to the oblitera- to the humanitarian crisis fac- JERUSALEM – Perhaps unbe- tion of Israel through mass Arab ing descendants of Arab refu- knownst to many Israelis is the immigration of refugees and gees from 1948. The agenda of shocking fact that only 12 min- their descendants. URI is to petition legislators of utes from downtown Jerusalem Until 2017, the United all donor nations to ask that by light rail, a neighborhood States was UNRWA’s largest UNRWA funding be predicated exists within the city’s jurisdic- donor nation, providing more on a change in UNRWA policy.” tion in which Arab children are than $364 million of the orga- The plan calls for donor being taught that they will one nization’s $1.2 billion budget. nations to demand an over- day destroy Israel and replace it However, last year the Trump haul of UNRWA’s educational with a Palestinian state. administration reduced that materials that incite violence, This hate education is number and only gave $60 mil- in addition to the ceasing of on full display in a recently lion. And after calling the agen- the promotion of the “right of released video by the Center cy an “irredeemably flawed return” through armed struggle, Shuafat residents exclaim their desire to murder Jews in “UNRWA for Near East Policy Research in Jerusalem: Anatomy of Chaos.” The video can be seen at www. operation” and questioning among other proposed reforms. titled “UNRWA in Jerusalem: israelbehindthenews.com. its business model, the Trump Bedein says he hopes peo- Anatomy of Chaos.” The film, administration announced in ple will be asking candidates in produced by Israeli journalist Jews.” But what is unique, says from leaving. “UNRWA delib- August that it would cut off Israel’s upcoming April 9 elec- David Bedein, includes dis- Bedein, is the fact that “this is erately keeps them in squalor funding entirely. tions “what they will be doing turbing footage from inside happening inside Israel.” while blaming Israel and telling In the film, Nir Barkat, about UNRWA, which is in the Jerusalem’s Shuafat neigh- He adds that UNRWA offi- them that when you go back to the mayor of Jerusalem from hands of the PLO, and I’m hop- borhood, which serves as a cials running Shuafat are in your homes in Ashkelon, you 2008-2018, discussed what he ing that the new government Palestinian refugee camp under actuality representatives of the will be fine,” said Bedein. believes UNRWA’s true inten- will work with all the donor the jurisdiction of UNRWA, PLO, and that Hamas, Islamic His statement is in reference tions are. nations to implement the the United Nations Relief and Jihad and other terror groups to one of the agency’s goals: “UNRWA is a political orga- UNRWA Reform Initiative.” Works Agency for Palestinian are also active there. to instill in the refugees and nization,” said Barkat. “Their UNRWA’s Jerusalem spokes- refugees. Bedein says that if “terrorists their descendants a desire to goal is to maintain refugee sta- person did not respond to In the film, UNRWA students are operating openly in Shuafat, return to the Arab villages that tus for Palestinians instead of repeated requests via phone and residents describe a neigh- then they have access to the existed before 1948, under the helping them get on with their and email for comment on the borhood beset by violent crime, rest of Jerusalem as well,” since so-called “right of return.” lives. I decided to create a plan story or the video, which was rampant drug abuse, and fac- they possess Israeli residency That “right” is in actual- which is now adopted by the sent to them. tional conflicts between armed cards that grant them complete ity based on U.N. General national government to kick Former Knesset member militants representing Hamas freedom of movement. Assembly Resolution 194 – a UNRWA totally out of the city of Einat Wilf, who recently co- and the PLO. The new video reveals the nonbinding recommendation Jerusalem.” authored the book “The War of UNRWA was established by human tragedy of life in Shuafat passed in December 1948 stat- While some believe that Return,” believes Jerusalem is the U.N. General Assembly in and the detrimental effects ing that Arab refugees should UNRWA should be shut down the best place to start creating 1949 to support those Arabs on its 30,000 Arab residents, be permitted to return to Israel entirely, Bedein insists that change. After viewing the new who fled or were forced from caused by the rampant terror on condition that they are will- this strategy is not realistic. video, Wilf said that “what you their homes in Israel’s War of and incitement, crime, drugs ing to accept Israel’s right to “UNRWA was established by see is that the Palestinians are Independence. and poverty, which are part of exist and live peacefully with the U.N. General Assembly; you declaring that one day we will Bedein, director of the daily life in the camp. the Jewish state. can’t get rid of it. But what you ‘take Palestine from the river to Center for Near East Policy While the residents of Shuafat That resolution has long been can do is try to reform UNRWA the sea.’ The Palestinians know Research, told JNS that as a can opt for Israeli citizenship – rejected by nearly every Arab by working with the donor very well that UNRWA is there result of the educational curric- with free health insurance and country, who have been unwill- countries,” he says. to give international legitimacy ulum used in Shuafat’s UNRWA education to improve their liv- ing to acknowledge Israel’s exis- To that end, his research cen- to their maximalist demands, in schools, “every child is indoctri- ing conditions – Palestinian tence. Today, Israeli politicians ter has launched the UNRWA order to supersede Israel.” nated that they should kill the leadership has discouraged on all sides of the political spec- Reform Initiative (URI) with a
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THE POP ART RABBI FEBRUARY 22 JAZZ SHOW, presented by Temple “MY FUNNY VALENTINE, SWEET COMIC Emunah. An evening VALENTINE, enjoy a Happy Valentines Day, and to of live jazz music by continue a lovely romantic feeling later in the month, come The Rebecca Zola out to hear the Rhea Simon Jazz Trio perform love songs and Quintet! The Rebecca Swing at the Colonial Inn in Concord, MA. 978-369-9200. Zola Quintet, made Performance will be 7:30 – 10:30 p.m. in the Forge Tavern 48 up of musicians from Monument Square in Concord, MA. both Israel and the United States, will SHABBAT SHELIAhea Turn an ordinary Friday night into be playing their own a Shabbat Experience. An Israeli-themed Shabbat dinner arrangements of jazz in a warm atmosphere. Prayers, songs and fun. Zero standards, some of their pressure. Total pleasure. Israeli themed Shabbat Dinner: favorite compositions with Hebrew lyrics, as well as original falafel; shwarma; chumus and tehina; Israeli salad; roasted compositions by Rebecca. Singers Rebecca and Gaya create eggplant; pita & more. 6 p.m. $20 Adult; $10 Child. Chabad unique vocal harmonies and improvise together and with of Peabody Jewish Center, 682 Lowell St., Peabody. the rest of the group. 7:45 - 9:30 p.m. $15 in advance; $20 walk-in. RSVP: [email protected]. Temple FEBRUARY 23 Emunah, 9 Piper Road, Lexington. FEBRUARY 24 ISRAELI DANCING: at Temple Sinai. Join a group of enthusiastic dancers from all corners of North Shore united with love to Israeli music and culture, and, most of all, the desire to learn Israeli folk dance. “Regulars” love to share their skills with the beginners, so no experience necessary. 7 p.m. For questions, email: [email protected]. Temple Sinai, 1 Community Road, Marblehead. February Evening of art, inspiration, and FEBRUARY 25 27 the launch celebration of the FROM COMBATING EACH OTHER, TO North Shore Jewish Art Co-op. R&B CAFE FEATURING HDRNB (Henley Douglas COMBATING FOR PEACE, an evening with former Rythm & Blues) HDRnB is back again by popular demand to Israeli & Palestinian Combatants. Join Congregation Hear the fascinating personal journey of Yitzchak Moully, browse bring another evening of great music. Doors open at 7:30 Dorshei Tzedek and J Street for this 30-minute screening p.m. Program starts at 8 p.m. Tickets: In advance: $20; $25 of part of Combatants for Peace’s award-winning a large gallery styled display of his work. Sample some locally documentary, Disturbing the Peace, followed by a brewed craft beer selections, sip on champagne, and try short-rib at the door. Delicious desserts at intermission are included in the ticket price. Adult and non-alcoholic beverages will be conversation with two Israeli and Palestinian former burger. RSVP required at https://chabadave.wufoo.com/forms/ available. For ticket or other information, contact Susan or combatants. 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. For more information or to w1xceave0ndx9jn/. $18 per person (includes drinks and food). For Meg at 781-631-2763, or visit templesinaiweb.org. Temple RSVP, please email [email protected] or call 617- 965-0330. Congregation Dorshei Tzedek, 60 Highland St., more info: [email protected] or 781-581-2833. 6:45 - 9 p.m. Sinai, 1 Community Road, Marblehead. Chabad Lynn Campus, 151 Ocean St., Lynn. West Newton.
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PJ LIBRARY SHABBAT advocates for Israel using social researching your family history and two religions/cultures? Join Rabbi FEBRUARY 26 media. The program is free, and all are lineage. Individual after-class help Greg Hersh as we enjoy great desserts , presented by Lappin CIRCLE welcome. RSVP to Sharon Wyner at will be given. Instructor Marcelle and a guided discussion about how CANVAS & COCKTAILS Paint Foundation. Join us for a fun, [email protected] or 978- Greenbaum. To register call 978-556- we think about religious and cultural your own canvas masterpiece with interactive family Shabbat service 565-4450. 6:30 p.m. Temple Tiferet 3700. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. $35. 100 Elliott icons. You’ll have a chance to bring Jewish pop artist Yitzchok Moully. geared to families with young children, Shalom, 489 Lowell St., Peabody. St, Haverhill. in and/or talk about a family heirloom Wine and refreshments served. No ages 6 and younger. Older siblings, (such as a Bible, Koran, Kiddush cup, previous painting experience needed. grandparents and friends are welcome. rosary beads, dreidel, Christmas 7:30pm. Limited space available; 10:30 - 11:15 a.m. Free. Temple Ahavat MARCH 7 tree ornament or incense stick) that RSVP at JewishPeabody.com or call Achim, 86 Middle St., Gloucester. 978-977-9111. Chabad of Peabody DESSERT & DISCUSSION is meaningful to you. Cost includes Jewish Center, 682 Lowell St., in Camberville, sponsored by tasty dessert, beverage. Contact Jane Peabody. MARCH 3 InterfaithFamily/Boston. Open to all Maine, program manager, at janem@ COMMUNITY LEARNING DAY interfaith/intercultural couple who interfaithfamily.com. $5 per person MARCH 1 at Temple B’nai Abraham. Community would like to meet other couples to 6:30- 8 p.m. Forge Baking Company, Learning Days are designed to bring all talk about navigating life and balancing 626 Somerville Ave., Somerville. 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Club, sponsored by the Interfaith Clergy “Gulag Archipelago” largely tells of Council of Wakefield. 3 p.m. Tickets the men caught in Stalin’s camps and SHABBAT ACROSS AMERICA, will be sold at the door beginning at special settlements for “crimes against a traditional Friday night dinner 2:00pm.Donation $10 each (3 to 93 the state.” “Women of the Gulag” followed by a Shabbat service with years old) or 4 for $35. Wakefield features six women in their eighties Rabbi Greg Hersh and the congregation. Lynnfield Methodist Church, 273 Vernon and nineties as they tell their stories In March, tens of thousands of Jews St. Wakefield. while going about their daily lives in across America and Canada will come remote Ural’s villages, in break-away Week of Friday, Feb 22, 2019 through Thursday, Feb 28, 2019 Sukhumi, or in Moscow suburbs. together to eat, drink, relax, enjoy, CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT, THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE FAVOURITE (R) Meet director/producer Marianna and celebrate at the 21st Annual presented by Temple Emanuel. Fri & Sat: (1:30), 7:15 Yarovskaya in conversation with Terry THE SECOND PART (PG) Shabbat Across America. Hundreds Featuring the trio of Sarita Kwok, violin, Sun: (11:30 AM), (4:35) • Mon: (4:35 PM) of synagogues across the continent Martin, George F. Baker III Professor Fri - Sun: (11:15 AM), (1:45), (4:15), 6:45 Alexandre Lecarme, cello and Melinda Tue & Wed: 7:15 PM will take part in this wonderful historic of Russian Studies, Harvard University Mon - Thu: (4:15), 6:45 Lee Masur, piano. They will perform Thu: (4:35 PM) national Jewish event to celebrate piano trios from Beethoven, Brahms Free admission with RSVP: www. LORDS OF CHAOS (R) what unifies all Jews. Everyone is and Turina. Admission is free and there eventbrite.com/e/women-of-the-gulag- Exhibited in HD in our intimate 18-seat theater GREEN BOOK (PG-13) invited: singles, couples, and families. are no reserved seats. This concert is film-screening-tickets-56184763139. Fri: (11:30 AM), (2:20), (4:25), 7:20, 9:30 Fri & Sat: (2:00), 7:00 Service prayer books have Hebrew sponsored by the Saul B. and Naomi R. 7 - 9 p.m. Davis Center for Russian and Sat: (11:30 AM), (2:20), (4:25), 7:20 Sun: (11:00 AM), (4:00) prayers, fully transliterated. Free, Cohen Foundation. templeemanuel.com, Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Sun: (2:20), (4:25), 7:20 Mon: (4:00 PM) but reservations must be made by 617-558-8127. Temple Emanuel, 385 1730 Cambridge Street, S301, Mon - Thu: (4:25), 7:20 Tue & Wed: 7:00 PM February 25, 781-245-4372 or info@ Ward St., Newton. Cambridge. THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD (2018) Thu: (4:00 PM) WakefieldTemple.org; WakefieldTemple. org. 6:30 p.m. Temple Emmanuel of 2019 Y2I PRE-TRIP MEETING, (R) MARCH 6 - 27 Fri & Sat: 9:00 PM FREE SOLO (PG-13) Wakefield, 120 Chestnut St. Wakefield. Teens and Parents. These meetings are Fri & Sat: (11:00 AM), (4:30), 9:45 for teens and parents. Robert I. Lappin BEGINNER’S GENEALOGY COLD WAR (ZIMNA WOJNA) (R) Sun: (2:15), 7:15 • Mon: 7:15 PM MARCH 2 Youth to Israel Adventure — pre-trip CLASS at Northern Essex community Fri & Sat: (11:45 AM), (4:50), 9:50 Tue & Wed: (4:30 PM) meetings are designed to: educate college. An introductory course for Sun: (2:00), 7:00 • Mon: 7:00 PM Thu: 7:15 PM AMERICANA CONCERT with teens and parents about Israel; enrich those new to studying genealogy. Tue & Wed: (4:50 PM) the NYC trio Banjo Nickaru & Western the Israel experience; and provide You will learn resources , repositories, Thu: 7:00 PM Visit our website for other showtimes Scooches, presented by The Linden social opportunities for teens and websites and social history for Tree Coffeehouse. Coming to the parents to get to know each other. 3 - 5 One East India Square • Salem, MA • 978-744-1400 • www.CinemaSalem.com North Shore for the first time, this is a p.m. Temple Ner Tamid, 368 Lowell St., group not to be missed. Banjo Nickaru Peabody. & Western Scooches are likely the only band today infusing elements MARCH 4 of world rhythms with global folk traditions, Americana, New Orleans SENIOR JAZZ AND LUNCH at influences, and 1920s jazz. The new the JCCNS. All seniors are welcome Temple Sinai album, “Get Us Out Of Fearland” builds to enjoy a live performance by the upon the multicultural exuberance Insight Band and share a delicious To celebrate with services, music, family, food, & fun! that made the band’s debut, “Very complimentary lunch. 11 a.m. - 12:30 Next Thing,” a transcendent breath p.m. of fresh air. 8 p.m. $20 (those under Lunch & Learn | Meet the Rebbes 18 - $10). Information and reservations: MARCH 5 Thursdays - 11:30 am to 1:00 pm | Torah from the teachings of some of the greatest Hassidic masters LindenTreeCoffeehouse.org, 781-246- February 21st - Yaakov Yitshak Horowitz, The "Seer of Lublin (1745-1815) 2836 Linden Tree Coffeehouse at UU February 28th - Menahem Nahum Twersky of Chernobyl (1730-1797) Church, 326 Main St., Wakefield. Community Members: $10 Temple Members: Free RSVP requested to [email protected]
JEWISH DISCOVERY CENTER, Adult Beit Midrash | Mondays - 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm | 20th Century Luminaries in Jewish Thought presented by Templ Sinai. Join us February 25th - Martin Buber and the Dialogue with God at Temple Sinai for a multi-sensory A R Y approach to Jewish holidays, customs, Temple Sinai's R&B Cafe featuring HDRnB! (Henley Douglas Rythm & Blues: HDRnb.com) and Hebrew language. Children ages 4 Saturday, February 23rd | Doors open at 7:30 pm ~ Program starts at 8:00 pm and 5 years of age and their parent(s) HDRnB is back again by popular demand to bring another evening of great music! will have the opportunity to explore Tickets: In advance: $20 At door: $25 Purchase online at https://tinyurl.com/HDRnB2019 their heritage in a fun, hands-on Attn: RNB2019
BOSTON MEDIA ROOM F E B R U environment while building lasting memories. 9:30 - 11:a.m. Free and open INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP. High (The Manna Project) Roundtable Discussion: Food Insecurity On The North Shore | Tuesday, March 5th to all. Temple Sinai, 1 Community Road, school students are invited to learn how 7:00 pm at the Abbot Public Library | Marblehead, MA Marblehead. the Boston Media Room effectively Come and meet the diverse, smart and hardworking people on the front lines of this resilient problem as they discuss the various approaches, aspects, and possibilities in the future of assuring that all people have enough food to flourish.
Rabbi Ariel Burger: The Mechanics of Moral and Ethical Transformation | Sunday, March 10th 9:30 am Breakfast & Speaker Using stories and teachings from Elie Wiesel, together we will consider how we might apply this great teacher's legacy to our own times. Reserve your seat online to attend: $10 per person Functions https://tinyurl.com/rabbiarielburger Attn: Rabbi Ariel Burger Catering from 2-200 Or contact Susan at [email protected] available Purim with the Temple Sinai Band! | Wednesday, March 20th • M A R C H 6:00 pm Dinner | 6:30 pm Havdalah and Megillah reading followed by dessert and dancing! SU CHANG’S This is a free event and all are welcome! RSVP to Meg at [email protected] FINE CHINESE CUISINE 373 Lowell Street • Peabody, Massachusetts Being Gods Hands - Manna Project Packing Event | Sunday, March 31st | 8:00 - 11:30 am | Volunteers needed to help set up and package meals for the Lynn Shelter and New American Center ~ both located in Lynn. Thank Plan Your Events at Su Chang’s! you in advance for your participation! Sign up with Susan at [email protected] LIVE MUSIC FROM 6:30-8:30 ON WEDNESDAYS
Rehearsal Dinners • Anniversaries • Birthdays All are welcome! Find us on SUN-THURS 11:30am-10pm • FRI-SAT 11:30am-11pm Please contact the Temple Office for more information Facebook! Luncheon Specials: MON-FRI 11:30am-3pm and to RSVP to these exciting programs! TEL 978-531-3366 • FAX 978-531-3060 • www.suchangspeabody.com 1 Community Road Marblehead, MA | 781.631.2763 | www.templesinaiweb.org 18 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – FEBRUARY 21, 2019 CALENDAR
MARCH 10 “THE HUMMUS GURU OF BOSTON”, Colin Daly comes to Andover. The program hosted by the Congregation Beth Israel of the Merrimack Valley. He has an interesting story to share and delicious hummus to sample. 11 a.m. 978- 474-0540. Info at: [email protected] Congregation Beth Israel, Building 6, Dundee Park, Suite 301, Dundee Park Drive, Andover. SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE-RABBI ARIEL BERGER at Temple Sinai. Presentation of the Mechanics of Moral and Ethical Transformation. How do we change, how do we move from being passive spectators to becoming witnesses: active moral agents who stand up for Join us on an unforgettable what’s right? His new book “Witness: Lessons from Eli Weisel’s Classroom” will be available for purchase at the event for $26. Reserve your spot by contacting Susan Weiner at susan. Trip to Eastern Europe [email protected]. 9:30 a.m. $10. Temple Sinai, 1 Community Road, Marblehead.
MERRIMACK VALLEY FAMILY FILM AND FUN DAY, presented by We’re heading to Budapest, Vienna and Prague the Merrimack Valley Jewish Federation (MVJF), for children 2-8 and their parents. The film, “Show Me The Monkey” featuring H. A. Rey’s Curious George starring — with the option of Warsaw and Krakow, too! Will Ferrell and Drew Barrymore will be shown. The afternoon will also include an art project and snacks. Proceeds from the event will go to fund the PJ Library, a program that provides free Jewish books to young children. Tickets cost $5 We’ll be visiting the beautiful sites in these great cities, per adult, children are free, can be purchased by visitingmvjf.org, or calling 978- 688-0466. Advanced registration preferred. Tickets available at the door. Temple with an added focus on Jewish heritage experiences. Emanuel, 7 Haggetts Pond Road, Andover. RESCHEDULED SCREENING OF “COMPLICIT”. Learn the story of the September 18-26, 2019 SS St. Louis. On May 13th, 1939, it set sail from Hamburg to Cuba carrying 937 Approximate trip cost: $3,199 (per person/double occupancy) passengers, most of them Jewish refugees includes land & air from Boston, superior first class hotels, 11-17 meals, sightseeing, experienced tour director seeking asylum from Nazi persecution in Germany. Among the survivors was Hans Space is limited. A $300 deposit will be due by March 15, 2019 to reserve your spot. Fischer. Hear his story firsthand and the director’s retelling. If you have purchased tickets already and plan to come, please let For more information, please contact Diane Knopf ([email protected]) or Sara Ewing ([email protected]) us know that you can still make it. We are delighted to also learn more about the new Holocaust Legacy Fellows Program from co-director Jody Kipnis. 6:30 p.m. Chabad Lynn Campus, 151 Ocean St., Lynn.
THE ILLUSIONISTS: LIVE FROM BROADWAY, trip sponsored by Jewish Teen Initiative Boston. This mind-blowing spectacular is packed with thrilling and sophisticated magic of unprecedented proportions. Cost is $48, which includes ticket, lunch and transportation from Temple Emanu-el in Marblehead. Visitjewishteeninitiativeboston.org/jti-hub/ for registration and more information. V EVENT PLANNINGCAFE113 Jewish_Journal_Ad_UPDATE_HQ_MB.pdf V MARCH 1 10/2/1815-18 4:04 PM L’TAKEN SOCIAL JUSTICE SEMINAR, sponsored by Jewish Teen THE PERFECT VENUE Initiative Boston. Are you ready to change the world? RAC’s L’Taken Seminar in C Washington, D.C., is designed to both expose you to a variety of public policy Donna Kagan’s FOR YOUR EVENT issues and explore the Jewish values that inform advocacy around them. COHENPRODUCTIONS M During the weekend, you will gain the knowledge and tools to write an effective Y speech on a topic of your choice to present when you visit the offices of our Elegant Touch Massachusetts senators and representatives. This trip isn’t all work, though. PROFESSIONAL EVENT PLANNINGCM There’s plenty of time to play as we visit museums and sample the vibrancy of AT ITS BEST… MY CONTACT US AT 781.273.1916 OR Georgetown and other D.C. neighborhoods. Visit jewishteeninitiativeboston.org/ ENTERTAINMENT jti-hub/ for more information. For all your CY [email protected] & DISC JOCKEY SERVICE Celebration needs Complimentary consultationCMY High-Energy, But Not Over the Top by appointment MARCH 16 K CAFEESCADRILLE.COM/JWJ 978.535.0770 781-631-6603 BURLINGTON, MA PURIM MASQUERADE at Center Makor. Meet Purim Masquerade Her www.CohenProductions.com [email protected] Majesty Queen Esther at the Annual Community Purim Masquerade 2019. Wear a mask or costume. Please no jeans or sneakers!. Cash bar. 21+. Enjoy: buffet, photo booth, game booths with prizes, interactive Purimspiel, dance. Tickets: Petropol, 617- 232-8820 box office 617-903-4463. $25 – general admission, $32 – admission Customizable, Personal KAPPY’s-ON-CALL MAKES + 2 drinkds, $20 – students/seniors. 7:30 p.m. 384 Harvard St., Brookline. ENTERTAINING EASY! MARCH 17 TORAH HUB 2019 The Masks We Wear: A psycho-spiritual reading of the V V V Corporate events Weddings scroll of Esther with Rabbi David Cohen-Henriquez. 12 p.m. Lunch will be served. V Private functions V FREE but you must register in advance. Contact Sara Ewing at sewing@jccns. V Full Bar service available V com or 781-476-9913. Temple Sinai, 1 Community Road, Marblehead. Call 978-356-2050 Book for the Fall/Holiday season MARCH 22 10% OFF! 781-395-8888 x332 LUNCH AND LEARN AT THE JCCNS, Hollywood and the Jews. Join Izzi Abrams for a talk on Hollywood’s portrayal of the American Jewish experience. She will focus on films with Jewish themes and characters such as Gentleman’s Agreement, Crossing Delancey, and Annie Hall, and examine the ways in which Zayde’s Market To advertise, contact these films reflect the Jewish struggle to adapt to mainstream American life. Fee: Zayde’s Market $12 on or before March 19, $15 after March 19. Register by calling 781-631- Your NeighborhoodYour Neighborhood Specialty Food Specialty Store: Where Food TraditionalStore: Meets Where TraditionalZaydeNon-Traditional! Meets Non-Traditional!’s Market lois@ 8330. 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Where QualityYour Neighborhood Specialty Food Store: WhereSee ourTraditional Sales Meets& jewishjournal.org, Matters WE CATERNon-Traditional! Specials on our MARCH 24 Where QualityWE CATER See our Sales & Prepared Foods web site MattersAll OccasionsOccasions WE CATER Specials on our marcy@ PASSOVER SEDER MODEL, sponsored by ADL. Join the community in Groceries Prepared Foods All Occasions and Facebook.web site jewishjournal.org, GroceriesPlain & Simple and Facebook. sharing of readings, songs, and stories from the diverse backgrounds that make Wines-Spirits-Beer Plain & SimplePlain & Simple Join Our Blog Wines-Spirits-Beer Join Our Blog up our great nation. The event also serves as an opportunity to inspire people Located at Cobb Corner ~ 15 Washington Street, Canton, MA Located at Cobb LocatedCorner at Cobb~ 15 Corner Washington ~ 15 Washington St. Canton, St. Canton, MA MA or call 978-745-4111. to advocate for important issues impacting immigrants and refugees. 2:30 p.m. www.zaydesmarket.com ~ 781-828-3530 www.zaydesmarket.com www.zaydesmarket.com 781-828 781-3530-828 -3530 Light meal will be served. Event is free, RSVP required, space is limited. For Free parking ~ Closed Saturdays more information, please contact Nora Cohen at [email protected] or at 617-406- 6300. UMass Boston Campus Center Ballroom, 1000 Morrissey Blvd, Boston.
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Soldier wounded in Gaza moved to Israel to serve in IDF
By Nikki Guttmann down and tell them everything get there and we’d go home, Zaguri’s parents were on their ISRAEL HAYOM was all right. That he’s still alive but that isn’t what happened,” way to Israel. means everything,” said Ben- said Avimor. “They got a call from the The Nahal Brigade soldier Avraham. Avimor and Zaguri met via army. His parents are really wor- who was wounded on Sunday On Sunday, Zaguri was hos- mutual friends. “He’s my best ried,” Ben-Avraham said, adding evening when an improvised pitalized in Ashkelon with friend. We’ve been together a that Zaguri’s mother and father bomb was thrown at troops dur- shrapnel wounds to his neck. year and five months,” she said. were due to arrive on Tuesday. ing a riot in the northern part of On Monday, he was in an the Gaza Strip is a lone soldier induced coma and on a venti- who left his family in California lator at Barzilai Medical Center. to move to Israel and enlist in Ella Avimor, Zaguri’s girl- the Israel Defense Forces. friend, said that at first, she A year-and-a-half ago, Yoadd thought he had merely sus- Zaguri bid farewell to his fam- Photo courtesy Israel Hayom tained light wounds. ily, who have a business in Los Yoadd Zaguri “It’s really hard for me to Angeles, and moved to Israel. understand what happened. I worked with his dad at their “He insisted on coming to heard ‘shrapnel,’ and I thought business. He was a great ath- Israel to make a contribution it was a scratch. I was really lete … and surfed a lot, and still and join the army,” said Zaguri’s optimistic. Then I realized it Get Involved with CJP: Upcoming Events decided to give it all up and aunt, Yardena Ben-Avraham. was his neck and a little more come here. They [his parents] “He passed the sniper’s course serious. I left [my] base and insisted that he not enlist, but he and became an outstanding sol- got to the hospital at three in was determined to. The Rabbi Samuel Chiel (zt”l) Genesis Forum dier,” she added. the morning. I saw him and “When his parents were wor- “It was very hard for his realized it was much worse Visit cjp.org/genesis for more information ried, Yoadd would calm them parents when he enlisted. He than I thought. I thought I’d Join our free downtown lunchtime learning series. This year’s theme is Refuat HaNefesh, Refuat HaGuf Temple listings (Healing of Soul and Body): A Jewish Look at Wellness. Temples are listed alphabetically, by city. All events take place at the Kraft Family Building, ANDOVER – Chabad Lubavitch of LOWELL – Temple Emanuel of Music Director Bryna Tabasky. July 126 High Street, Boston from 12:00-1:15 p.m. Merrimack Valley, 310 North Main Merrimack Valley, 151 Warren St., and August only, Friday night Shabbat Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Street. Rabbi Asher Bronstein. Friday Ste. 200. Rabbi Robin Sparr. Friday at 7:00 p.m., 7:30 p.m. for the rest of An Inside-Out Path to Health: Using Mussar night, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Chabad of night services September-June, at the year. Saturday morning Service, Wisdom to Create a Life of Balance and Wellness North Andover branch, Rabbi Zalman 7:30 p.m. temv.org. Snack, and Study at 9:30 a.m. 978- with Rabbi David Jae, Kirva Institute. Borenstein. chabadmv.com. 535-2100. templetiferetshalom.org. MALDEN – Congregation Agudas ANDOVER – Congregation Beth Achim-Ezrath Israel, 245 Bryant PEABODY – Temple Ner Tamid, 368 Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Israel of the Merrimack Valley, Street. Sexton Wayne Freedman. Lowell Street. Rabbi Richard Perlman. Healing of Body and Spirit: The Wisdom of Building 6, Dundee Park, Suite Cantorial soloist Phyllis Werlin. Cantor Stephen Abramowitz. Friday Bikkur Cholim (Visiting the Sick) with Nancy R. 301, Dundee Park Drive, Andover. Saturday services at 9:30 a.m. night at 8 p.m., unless otherwise Smith, MAJS, LICSW, BCC, Jewish Chaplain. Rabbi Howard Mandell. Friday night followed by Kiddush. aa-ei.org. stated. Evening Minyans Sunday- services, musical Shabbat with dinner Thursday 7:30 p.m. Morning Minyans Registration is required. Please feel free to bring your MARBLEHEAD – Congregation twice a month. Shabbat morning Saturday 9:30 a.m., Sunday 9:00 a.m. own lunch. Beverages will be available. For more Ahabat Sholom, 1 Community Road. services every Saturday at 9:30 templenertamid.org. information, please email [email protected] or call a.m. 978-474-0540. Email office@ MARBLEHEAD – Temple Emanu-El, REVERE – Temple B’nai Israel 617-457-8789. BethIsraelMV.org. bethisraelmv.org. 393 Atlantic Avenue. Rabbi David Revere, One Wave Ave., Revere. Reb Meyer. Music specialist Jon Nelson. ANDOVER – Temple Emanuel Misha Clebaner. Cantorial soloist Jake Friday night services 6 p.m. emanu- Real Estate, Construction & Design Annual Dinner Andover, 7 Haggetts Pond Road. Harris. Friday night services 7 p.m., el.org. Rabbi Robert Goldstein. Cantor Idan unless stated otherwise. tbirevere. Thursday, March 28, 2019 | 6:00 p.m. Irelander. Friday night services MARBLEHEAD – Temple Sinai, org. InterContinental Hotel 7 p.m. Beginning Friday, August 24, 1 Community Road, Marblehead. 510 Atlantic Avenue, Boston SAUGUS – Congregation Ahavas Friday night Shabbat services start at Rabbi David Cohen-Henriquez; Cantor Sholom, 343 Central Street. Cantor Please join us as we hear from Lawrence S. Bacow, 6:00 p.m. Saturday minyan at 9 a.m. David Aronson. Friday night services Joel Davidson, High Holidays only. President of Harvard University, and honor Kenneth templeemanuel.net. at 6:00 p.m., Saturday services at Learned fellow, Michael Simons. 9:30 a.m. templesinaiweb.org. Wexler, Chairman, Elaine Construction Company, BEVERLY – Temple B’nai Abraham, Friday night services, once a month, with the Edwin. N. Sidman Leadership Award. 200 East Lothrop Street. Rabbi Alison MEDFORD – Temple Shalom of second Friday of the month. 781-231- Adler. Friday, 7 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. Medford, William and Charlotte 3562. tbabeverly.org. Bloomberg Community Center, 475 SWAMPSCOTT – Chabad Lubavitch Read On with Eternal Life author Dara Horn Winthrop Street. Rabbi Braham David. CHELSEA – Walnut Street of the North Shore, 44 Burrill Street. Tuesday, April 2, 2019 | 7:30 p.m. (doors 7:00 p.m.) Cantor Howard Stern. Friday night Synagogue, 145 Walnut Street. Rabbi Yossi Lipsker and Layah Lipsker. Back Bay Events Center services at 7:30 p.m., followed by Rabbi Lila Kagedan. The Walnut Street Rabbi Shmaya Friedman. 781-581- oneg shabbat; Saturday morning at 180 Berkeley Street, Boston Synagogue is the inclusive and 3833. nsjewish.com. 10 a.m., followed by kiddush lunch. diverse home of Congregation Author Dara Horn will discuss her book, Eternal Life templeshalommedford.org. SWAMPSCOTT – Congregation Agudas Shalom. — a story of regret, obligation, and endless love. Shirat Hayam, 55 Atlantic Avenue. walnutstreetsynagogue.com. MELROSE – Temple Beth Shalom, Whether you’ve read it cover to cover or haven’t yet Rabbi Michael Ragozin. Cantor Alty 21 East Foster Street. Rabbi Arnold CHELSEA – Temple Emmanuel Weinreb. Friday night at 6 p.m. picked it up, this promises to be an exciting evening. M. Fertig. Cantorial soloist Beth Chelsea, 60 Tudor Street. Rabbi/ Saturday services. shirathayam.org. Purcell. tbsma.org. For more information or special accommodations, Cantor Oksana Chapman. Friday WAKEFIELD – Temple Emmanuel, please email [email protected] or call 617-457-8694. night, twice a month, first and third NEWBURYPORT – Congregation 120 Chestnut Street. Rabbi Greg This event is mobility accessible. ASL interpretation Fridays. 617-889-1736. facebook. Ahavas Achim, 53½ Washington Hersh. Weekly Shabbat services: com/TempleEmmanuelChelsea. Street. Rabbi Benjamin Resnick. No will be provided. Friday nights at 7:30 p.m., and cantor. Services Saturday at 9 a.m. NORTH CHELMSFORD – Saturday mornings at 9:30 a.m., on All are welcome. Caanewburyport.org. Congregation Shalom, 87 Richardson the first and third Saturdays of the In case of inclement weather, please call Road. Rabbi Shoshana Perry. Friday PEABODY – Chabad Lubavitch of month. Tot Shabbats are held on the 617-457-8888 or visit cjp.org for event updates. night services at 6, 7, or 8 p.m. (time Peabody, 682 Lowell Street. Rabbi second Saturday at 9:30 a.m., with determined by variant for that week), Nechemia and Raizel Schusterman. an alternative Shabbat on the fourth Dietary laws are observed at all CJP events. Friday Tot Shabbats at 6:15 p.m., JewishPeabody.com. Saturday morning at 9:30 p.m. 781- once a month. congregationshalom. 245-1886. info@WakefieldTemple. PEABODY – Congregation Sons org. org. facebook.com/wakefieldtemple. Visit cjp.org/events to register of Israel, Park and Spring Streets. wakefieldtemple.org. or for more information. GLOUCESTER – Temple Ahavat Spiritual leader Seth Landau. Achim, 86 Middle Street. Rabbi First Friday monthly, at 7:30 WINTHROP – Temple Tifereth Israel CJP’s mission is to inspire and mobilize the diverse Steven Lewis; no cantor. Friday night p.m., Saturday, Sunday, at 9 a.m. Winthrop, 93 Veterans Road. Cantor Greater Boston Jewish community to engage in building services, first Friday of every month; peabodycsi.org. Craig Mael. Saturday services at 9:30 communities of learning and action that strengthen every Saturday at 9 a.m. 978-281- a.m., followed by a kiddush. Sunday Jewish life and improve the world. 0739. Taagloucester.org. PEABODY – Congregation Tifereth services at 8:30 a.m., followed by a Israel, 8 Pierpont Street. No rabbi or breakfast. Friday night services once HAVERHILL – Temple Emanu-El cantor. Services led by shul president a month. 617-846-1390. Jewish- Haverhill, 514 Main Street. Cantor 6 Community Road, Marblehead, MA 01945 | 617-457-8500 Elliot Hershoff and soloist Joanne Winthrop.org. Vera Broekhuysen, spiritual leader, Pressman. Friday services once a Kraft Family Building | 126 High Street, Boston, MA 02110 | 617-457-8500 assisted by Rabbinic Intern Mona month. 978-531-8135. ctipeabody. To list your organization or to change Strick. Services every Saturday Find us on org. any information, contact Steve at morning at 9:30 a.m., special , [email protected]. Friday night services at 7 p.m. PEABODY – Temple Tiferet Shalom 489 Lowell Street. Rabbi David Kudan. TempleEmanu-el.org. 20 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – FEBRUARY 21, 2019 OBITUARIES
Florence H. Jacobs, 93, of Peabody NOTICES FINK, Phyllis L. (Pearlman), Barnehama, and Robin Godine Brother of Margaret Wheaton. Florence H. Jacobs, of teacher. She was a dedicated 85 – late of Revere, formerly and her husband Anthony (Goldman) Peabody, entered into rest on member of Temple Beth Shalom of Delray Beach, Fla., Elmwood Godine. Grandmother of Harry February 7, 2019 at the age of of Peabody, and volunteered for Park, N.J., and Chelsea. Died on and Aaron Godine. Sister of the LUCIEN, Elizabeth Ann 93. many years as the temple music February 11, 2019. Wife of the late David Krupnick. Survived (Canter), 47 – late of Melrose, She was the beloved wife of director. She cherished the time late Carl Fink. Mother of Randi by her extended family Bernard formerly of Lynnfield. Died on the late Robert S. Jacobs and spent with her family and her Ellen and the late Robert Zeff, “Bing” and Betty Ann Fishman, February 9, 2019. Wife of Peter the daughter of the late David friends. Robyn Iorio and her husband Bruce and Linda Fishman, Ellen Lucien. Daughter of Lawrence and Sarah Levine. She is sur- A funeral service for Florence Phillip, Randi and Robyn’s sis- Fishman, Richard Fishman, and Eleanor (Kidder) Canter. vived by her two sons Stephen was held on February 10 at ter Cara Portnoy of Winthrop, Edward and Tracy Fishman, and Mother of Joseph Lucien, Jacobs and Paul Jacobs and his Temple Beth Shalom Cemetery their brother Eric Portnoy of Janice and Steven Krupnick. Patrick Lucien, and Emily wife Janine. She was also the in Danvers. In lieu of flowers, N. Andover, and Susan Swartz, (Stanetsky-Hymanson) Lucien. Sister of Rebecca Lynn beloved grandmother of Russell expressions of sympathy may whom Phyllis referred to as her (Canter) and her husband John Jacobs and his wife Courtney be made in her memory to the “other daughter.” Daughter GOLDBERG-GLICK, Marilyn Scenna of Lynnfield, and sister- Westlie, Margot Jacobs and her Brooksby Village Benevolent of the late Louis and Annie (Barber), 87 – late of Chelsea, in-law of Bridget (Lucien) and husband Jeffrey Lentz, David Care Fund, 300 Brooksby Village Pearlman. Sister of Bernyce formerly of Framingham and her husband Elio Rosatone of Jacobs, James Gunther, and Dr., Peabody, MA 01960. The Goodman. Grandmother of Holliston. Died on February 9, Reading, Maura (Lucien) and Sasha Gunther. staff at Stanetsky-Hymanson Jennifer Lebrun, Jamie Zeff, and 2019. Wife of the late Robert her husband Greg Desmarais Born in Boston, Florence Memorial Chapel, 10 Vinnin St., Cole and Stone Iorio. Great- Glick. Mother of Lisa Goldberg of N.H., and Kara (Lucien) and grew up in Swampscott. She Salem had the honor of caring grandmother of Alexander and Marci Goldberg and her her husband Robert Elmer of graduated from Lynn High for Florence. For more informa- Lund, and Joseph, Henry and husband Steven Gorski. Sister Marblehead. Daughter-in-law School and raised her family in tion or to register in the online Nicolette Lebrun. Aunt of of Rose Glasser and late Alvin of Robert and Gail Lucien of Peabody, where she also worked guestbook, visit www.stanetsky- Jeffrey Goodman and the late Barber. (Goldman) Peabody, formerly of Melrose. as a legal secretary and piano hymansonsalem.com. Maxine Fine. (Torf) Aunt of Rocco, Charlie and KEMP, James A. “Jim,” 69 – Phillip Scenna, Isabella and FISHMAN, Marilyn (Krupnick), late of Medford, formerly of Zachary Rosatone, Emma and 86 – late of Marblehead. Died Acton and Winchester. Died on Ethan Desmarais, and Grace on February 9, 2019. Wife of February 11, 2019. Husband and Luke Elmer. (Stanetsky- INDOOR SHOWROOM the late Seymour “Cy” Fishman. of Susan (Shultz). Father of Hymanson) HUNDREDS OF MEMORIALS Mother of Harriet Fishman Jonathan and his wife Kelly and her companion Edwin Kemp and Aaron and his wife MEHRMAN, Robert (Bob), NO SUB-CONTRACTING Townsend, Rhonda Fishman Jacqui Kemp. Grandfather 91 – late of Danvers and IN-HOUSE DESIGN & MANUFACTURING and her companion Elan of Jack, Hannah, and Ryan. Peabody. Died on February 17, 2019. Wife of the late Selma Mehrman. Companion ’ OURKE ROS. EMORIALS of Dorothy MacDonald. Father O R B M of Barry Mehrman (Ann). 73 North Street, Salem, MA ~ 978-744-0871 Grandfather of Brian Mehrman (Angela) and David Mehrman (Kristi). Great-grandfather of ABATE MONUMENTS Milo. Son of the late Sidney 82 Elliott Street, Beverly, MA ~ 978-922-0517 and Sylvia Mehrman. Brother of Joan Mehrman. (Stanetsky- www.obmemorials.com P.O. 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Contact our management team: of Eileen Hoffman of Peabody prideo [email protected] – 339-440-6312 and Nathan and Debra Crilly- No synagogue or temple a liation required. Colman of Centreville, Va. Grandmother of Caryn Hoffman, VISA MC A Lynne Mellino, Joshua Colman, Allison Colman, Emily Colman, and the late Amy Hoffman. Great-grandmother of Harrison With Advance Planning, and Jaxen Telyas, Ayden and Francesca Mellino, and Henry you can prepare and decide E. Colman. Sister of the late Esther Winer, Shirley Feldman, before funeral needs arise. Mildred Blesofsky, and Charles Epstein. Daughter of the late Samuel and Celia (Afromovitz) Epstein. (Stanetsky-Hymanson)
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Investing for the future Three Chelsea Jewish residences from page 1 awarded CMS five-star rating
For the second consecu- our skilled and compassionate tion from the last three years tive year, three Chelsea Jewish staff, our strong commitment to of onsite inspections, includ- Lifecare (CJL) skilled nursing excellence and our dedication ing both standard surveys and facilities have received the pres- as an organization to provide complaint surveys. Secondly, tigious Five-Star Quality Rating the highest caliber of care pos- a rating is given based upon from the Centers for Medicare sible.” staffing, which details informa- & Medicaid Services (CMS). The CJL homes include the tion about the number of hours This designation reflects the Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home of care provided on average highest number of stars allot- in Chelsea; the Jeffrey and Susan to each resident each day by ted to a skilled nursing facil- Brudnick Center for Living in nursing staff and other health- ity. Currently, there are a select Peabody; the Leonard Florence care providers. The final cate- number of nursing homes that Center for Living in Chelsea, gory involves quality measures, have been awarded this distinc- which is the country’s first which includes data on how tion. urban model Green House® well nursing homes are caring “We are pleased that all skilled nursing facility. These for their residents’ physical and our skilled nursing residences residences offer both short-term clinical needs. have once again been recog- rehabilitation services as well as Today the five-star rating sys- nized as being among the top long-term comprehensive care. tem has become a critical tool JCC Executive Director Marty Schneer believes endowments are nursing homes not only in To receive a five-star rat- for the public to measure the crucial to a Jewish future. Massachusetts, but through- ing, nursing homes are judged quality and performance of a out the country,” states Chelsea by three components. Health skilled nursing facility. Nursing synagogue started its endow- ating costs. The endowment Jewish Lifecare President Adam inspections are one means of homes with five stars are con- ment in 2007, it was necessary is managed by the investment Berman. “Earning this Five-Star evaluating a residence. The sidered well above average to call big donors, known as firm BNY Mellon and Combined designation is a testament to rating is based upon informa- quality. “angels,” at the end of each fis- Jewish Philanthropies, which cal year to ask them to cover the provides assistance for Jewish costs of the deficit. That same nonprofits managing invest- year, Rabbi Myron Geller left the ment funds. pulpit after four decades of ser- The JCC has one of the larg- vice, and the synagogue want- est endowments at any Jewish ed to assure future hires that it institution in the area. It was would have more than enough started in 2014 after a $1.1 money to cover any building million gift from the estate of operating costs for the next 50 Marblehead couple Philip and years. Rosalie Tanzer. After the initial Ahavat Achim’s endowment, gift, the JCC started a campaign like many others, is comprised to grow the endowment to $5 of different funds for differ- million by 2020, according to ent purposes. Unless there is Schneer. Currently, the endow- board approval, the money in ment, which is also partially each fund must be used only managed by CJP, has $2 million for its designated purpose. The in cash, and $2 million pledged building fund pays for operat- in either wills or insurance poli- ing costs. The Eileen and Myron cies. It generates 4 percent to 5 Geller Fund covers the costs percent interest each year. of the Sylvia Cohen Religious “One of the commitments School. people can make at a somewhat “I think temple finances have younger age includes buying an becomes more and more dif- insurance policy that names the THATKnow ANYWHERE THEY PLAY... ficult, because expenses go up,” JCC as the owner and the bene- Cutter said. “If you try to charge ficiary, and in some cases, we’ve enough money to cover operat- actually matched that insurance ing expenses, you can easily get policy with our own contribu- into financial difficulty, and an tion to grow it from the endow- endowment is a way to cover ment fund,” said Schneer. is pest free. those costs and make it reason- Schneer thinks endowments able.” are an important way to ensure Temple Emanu-El of continuity in Jewish institutions, Marblehead also has discretion- and asks the community to help ary funds to support such things contribute in any way they can. as the library or Oneg Shabbats. “If you want a Jewish future The largest of those funds is and a Jewish identity for your 800-525-4825 B’Yadenu (Hebrew for “in our children or grandchildren, or www.a1exterminators.com hands”), which has raised $1.7 have people who want to share million of its $2.2 million goal to the meaningful experience pay for temple renovations. they’ve had, then an opportu- The Temple Emanu-El nity to do this is allocate part of endowment is a general-use your estate to … some organiza- fund that exists to support oper- tion you care about,” he said. 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Rep. Omar apologizes Thousands of protesters march to Jewish groups for latest round against wave of anti-Semitism in France of anti-Semitic tweets Following the van- injured or killed, the whole dalism of 80 grave- Republic” is threatened, US Rep. Ilhan stones in a Jewish Macron said at a news con- Omar (D-Minn.) cemetery in the Alsace ference. apologized via region of France, thou- Macron also visited conference call sands of people joined the violated cemetery to Jewish groups rallies in Paris and in the small town of on Tuesday for across the country on Quatzenheim in the north- her anti-Semitic Tuesday night to pub- east, and appeared vis- tweets last week licly oppose anti-Semi- ibly upset, vowing to “take that blamed the tism in their country. action.” American Israel The events were held Thousands of people joined rallies in Paris and Marine Le Pen’s far- Public Affairs under the banner of across the country to oppose a rising wave of anti- right National Rally party Committee, the “That’s Enough.” Semitism throughout France. also held an event in sup- largest pro-Israel A rally in the French capital of Paris was led by port of French Jews at a different location in Paris. lobbying organi- Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) Prime Minister Edouard Philippe in the Republic On Tuesday, leaders from France’s Christian, zation, of paying members of Congress to back Israel. Plaza, and joined by former presidents Nicolas Muslim and Jewish communities met at France’s “Let me reiterate my sincere apology for any actual hurt my Sarkozy and François Hollande, while French Interior Ministry and issued a joint declaration words have caused,” said Omar, according to someone pres- President Emmanuel Macron made a special visit condemning anti-Semitic acts and called on citi- ent on the off-the-record call, reported the Jewish Telegraphic to Paris Holocaust museum Shoah Memorial, zens to combat racism and hatred. Agency. “I know there are a lot of people who in the last weeks observing a moment of silence along with mem- France is home to the world’s third-largest Jewish have expressed support in trying to say this isn’t anti-Semitic or bers of parliament. population, though a new wave of anti-Semitism this shouldn’t be looked at in that way.” “Every time a French person – because he or has led increasing numbers of French Jews to emi- The call included the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish she is Jewish – is insulted, threatened, or worse, grate to Israel and other hospitable countries. Democratic Council of America, Americans for Peace Now, the refugee resettlement organization HIAS and Bend the Arc. On Feb. 11, Omar replied to a Twitter post by journal- Pro-BDS Tlaib uses Israeli web-development ist Glenn Greenwald about House Minority Leader Kevin platform for campaign website McCarthy (R-Calif.) “[threatening punishment for [Omar] and [Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib] over their criticisms of Israel.” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), a that increases hostility, thereby “It’s stunning how much time US political leaders spend supporter of the anti-Israel BDS making peace between Israelis defending a foreign nation, even if it means attacking free movement, just so happens to have and Palestinians more difficult speech rights of Americans,” he added. used the Israeli web-development to achieve,” said the group’s Omar retweeted Greenwald’s post, adding “It’s all the platform Wix to create her cam- president, Mark Mellman. Benjamins baby.” paign website. “We need to foster economic Batya Ungar-Sargon, opinion editor for The Forward, “I personally support the cooperation between Israelis responded: “Would love to know who @IlhanMN thinks is pay- BDS movement,” said Tlaib in and Palestinians instead of ing American politicians to be pro-Israel, though I think I can December, following the lead of encouraging boycotts. We hope guess. Bad form, Congresswoman.” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Congresswoman Tlaib’s use of Without specifying, she added, “That’s the second anti- Democratic Majority for Israel Israeli products indicates she Semitic trope you’ve tweeted.” applauded Tlaib for utilizing a has changed her mind on boy- Replying to Ungar-Sargon, Omar, who serves on the House product from a country she seeks cotting Israel.” Foreign Affairs Committee, tweeted: “AIPAC!” to boycott. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) Tlaib’s office nor Vanguard Amid backlash from both Democrats and Republicans, “We congratulate Congresswoman Tlaib for her Public Affairs, which designed the website, imme- along with outside pressure, Omar publicly apologized for her decision to use the best products she can find, diately responded to a request for comment. remarks. instead of discriminating against Israel in way Who is responsible for the collapse of Labor Zionism? from page 8 Finishing a respectable sec- to the left, Labor is out of seri- when it was the natural party challengers under its first Prime end to the Israeli public’s faith in ond to Netanyahu’s Likud did ous contention. Its only hope of government in a state that Minister David Ben-Gurion and Labor’s vision or judgment. nothing to inspire confidence in now would be to be a junior was in the process of becoming his successors, the collapse of Today’s Labor wants no part the party. Avi Gabbay, its current partner in a government led by a modern nation. When Israel Labor had more to do with Oslo of the Oslo legacy, and its head, leader, unceremoniously kicked the two centrist parties, though ceased to be the embodiment than with generational, socio- Gabbay, has articulated posi- Livni and her Hatnua faction that seems an unlikely scenario of one party’s ideology – and logical or economic changes. tions on the peace process that, to the curb at the start of the since not even the most opti- instead developed into a coun- The late Yitzhak Rabin led boiled down to actual proposals, current campaign. Since then, mistic polling would give them a try where other ideas and those Labor to victory in 1992 on a sounds little different than those polls showed Labor dipping per- majority in a new Knesset even if who had been shut out of power platform of tough-minded secu- of the center parties or Likud. ilously close to the point where they welcomed the anti-Zionist by the old Ashkenazi elite had a rity, not territorial withdrawal. Only the radicals of Meretz still it might be shut out of the next Arab parties into their coalition. say – Labor had to adapt to the But most Israelis, as well as Jews have faith in the land-for-peace Knesset altogether. But even What killed Labor? changing circumstances. in the Diaspora, embraced the formula that half of Israeli vot- after an uptick in the polls fol- Historians may ultimately But as much as Israel’s trans- hope of peace that the Oslo pro- ers once supported. But the lowing its primaries and the shift say that it was destroyed by its formation undermined the party cess engendered. Under Rabin Israeli left appears to be dead on of the Meretz Party even further success in Israel’s first decades, that had ruled without serious and Foreign Minister Shimon its feet. Shorn of a once innate Peres, Labor had reluctant- pioneering spirit and betrayed ly embraced the makeover of by its peace partners, its irrel- th Israel’s economy from the old evance reflects the consensus Temple Ner Tamid 50 Annual Men’s Club Auction Socialist model to that of the that stretches across the cen- free market. But after the signing ter of the Israeli political spec- of the Oslo Accords in 1993, the trum, which holds that peace party tied its fortunes to the will- is impossible in the foreseeable ingness of its Palestinian part- future, and managing the status ners to embrace peace. quo is the best the country can Though Labor’s supporters hope for. would blame the subsequent That’s still a shock to liberal disasters on Rabin’s tragic assas- Zionists in the Diaspora, who sination or the Likud govern- don’t seem to have paid much ment led by Netanyahu, the attention to the events that responsibility for the failure of caused Israeli voters to reject the peace process falls almost Labor. But if they want to under- completely on Palestinian leader stand Israel – as opposed to join- Yasser Arafat and his successor, ing the war on its existence being Mahmoud Abbas. Their refusal waged by radical anti-Zionists to give up on their century-old – then they should study the war against Zionism and their strange death of Israel’s Labor embrace of terrorism as well as a Party and draw the appropriate culture of rejectionism doomed conclusions about the prospects Go to: www.charityauction.bid/2019TNT Oslo. When Arafat responded to for peace. Barak’s offer of an independent Proceeds from the auction fund youth college scholarships awarded by state at Camp David in 2000 Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in TNT Mens Club. Over $140,000 in scholarships has been awarded to date. with a terror campaign, it put an chief of JNS.org. THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – FEBRUARY 21, 2019 23
Israel’s first moon mission to launch on Feb. 21 Communications, and more. Private donors include Dr. Miri and Sheldon Adelson, Sylvan Adams, Sammy Segol, Lynn Schusterman, and Stephen Grand. The scientific instruments aboard the spacecraft will begin measuring even before land- ing. Prof. Aharonson explains that “the main scientific goal will be measuring the magnetic Journal Board members Matthew Swartz and Bob Rose field of the Moon. This will help us understand its source.” The Moon today has an iron core Journal endowment fund from page 1 like that of the Earth, but it is Image © SpaceIL small and cold. This core does a check right now. Regardless Fund or toward the types of ini- An artist’s depiction of the Beresheet lander on the moon’s surface. not generate a global magnetic of how it is contributed, the tiatives that Bob Rose believes are field, as ours does, but on the money will go far in ensuring crucial for the Journal’s long-term REHOVOT, Israel – After Although the landing will surface, various areas or rocks that the Jewish Journal, at a time success. “If everything is running an enterprise lasting nearly a be a historic achievement for are magnetic at different levels. when community print media well, and we’re continuing to run decade, the Israeli unmanned Israel, the project is an inde- “If we can measure the mag- is increasingly endangered, will a surplus, then the money could Moon mission “Beresheet” pendent initiative started by netism of these rocks, we can survive and thrive for years to be used to fund new initiatives, (“Genesis” in Hebrew) will soon the three founders of SpaceIL, begin to understand how and come. “This is an historic oppor- like hiring young writers, or, at take off from Earth, bound who had two main objectives when this magnetism arose,” tunity to get on board early and the discretion of the publisher for the Moon’s rocky surface. in mind: to land the first Israeli Prof. Aharonson adds. underwrite the future of this – with the input of the board – Prof. Oded Aharonson of the space vehicle on the Moon and According to one widely iconic community newspaper,” hiring an investigative journalist, Weizmann Institute of Science’s to inspire a new generation of accepted theory, the Moon’s said Donnenfeld. bolstering our web presence, and Department of Earth and students to study science and iron core was once warmer, Donnenfeld hopes that the perhaps expanding the reach of Planetary Sciences is head of technology. The three, Yariv creating a dynamo that mag- Jewish Journal Continuity Fund the paper into other communi- the international science team, Bash, Kfir Damari, and Yonatan netized the rocks on the Moon. will have $100,000 in funds and ties,” said Donnenfeld. and will be watching closely as Winetraub, had entered Israel The instruments on the landing commitments by the end of his Matthew Swartz, a member of the craft approaches the Moon into the Google LunarX Prize craft will thus be measuring the board presidency in October the Journal’s Executive Board of and initiates the scientific part competition. Although the magnetic fields in ancient vol- 2020, and $500,000 within five Overseers, is also one of the first of the mission, which will start competition officially ended canic rocks (similar to basalts years. Donnenfeld, who has had donors to the fund. This month, well before touchdown. in March 2018 with no win- on Earth) to see if their inten- experience creating and man- he announced that he would The cost of planning and ners, SpaceIL announced that sity matches that suggested aging several nonprofit endow- contribute $10,000 to the endow- building the spacecraft was it would continue working by the core-dynamo theory. ments, estimates that the endow- ment. “I feel the paper is very $100 million, most of it con- toward the goal of landing on Among other things, such mea- ment will be able to generate important to the Jewish commu- tributed by private donors, led the Moon. surements might frame the four to five percent of its princi- nity and I hope others in the by the president of SpaceIL, the Since the establishment of time in which the dynamo was pal annually. If the endowment community will consider making philanthropist Morris Kahn. SpaceIL in 2011, the mission of active and reveal how long ago reaches $500,000, that will mean a contribution to help sustain If Beresheet touches down a lunar landing has become a it ceased. an extra $25,000 of revenue each this vital Jewish entity. This paper successfully, it will make Israel national project, receiving sup- Other measurements – for year for the Journal, which will serves many different people and only the fourth country to port from many quarters. Israel example, of rocks in the Moon’s be allocated at the board’s dis- organizations. We need to keep it land on the Moon, after the Aircraft Industries has been a craters – could uncover differ- cretion. vibrant and fiscally solvent.” US, the former Soviet Union, full partner in the project from ent sources of magnetization, Assuming that operational and China. The craft will be the beginning. Other sup- possibly providing evidence expenses are covered (in addi- To donate to the fund, or launched on a SpaceX Falcon porters include government- that at least some of the Moon’s tion to the endowment fund, the for more information, con- 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, owned companies and aca- magnetic field is due to the Journal also has a working capi- tact Steven A. Rosenberg at Florida; after multiple orbits demia, most prominently the bombardment of asteroids, or tal account, which is on track to [email protected], around the Earth, Beresheet Weizmann Institute of Science, even from magnetic material contain three months of annual or call 978-745-4111. The Journal will arrive at its destination two the Israel Space Agency, Israel’s that originated in the asteroids expenses as a cushion), this extra will recognize all contributors in months later. Ministry of Science, Bezek themselves. revenue can go to the Continuity a future edition of the paper.
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By Jackson Richman defense system over the Russian Diliman Abdulkader, direc- JNS.org S-400 system has failed to deliv- tor of the Kurdistan Project at er results,” he said. the Endowment for Middle East US President Donald Trump “The language in the spend- Truth, told JNS: “I don’t think this signed appropriations legisla- ing bill signed by Trump will like- is anything new coming from tion late last week that blocks ly trigger US sanctions against the administration or Congress. the sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey and block the transfer The plan was always to have Turkey. The transfer of these of F-35s, as Washington’s policy Turkey cancel the S-400 missile fighter planes to Ankara will not moves from positive incentives purchase from Russia. proceed until the Secretary of to negative incentives,” he con- “Obviously, Erdogan is look- State and Secretary of Defense tinued. ing for further gains despite provide an update to Congress “At this point, Erdogan his harsh stance. But ultimate- related to Turkey’s purchase of seems to be strongly commit- ly, Turkey knows they will not the S-400 missile-defense sys- ted to his deepening partner- receive the F-35 fighter jets tem from Russia. ship with [Russian President if they go through with the The Pentagon, reporting to Vladimir] Putin, and is unlikely Russian purchase,” he contin- Congress in late November, to be swayed by Washington’s ued. “It’s also important to note noted that Turkey’s acquisi- President Donald J. Trump and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of positive or negative incentives,” that this is not just America’s tion of the S-400 missile sys- Turkey at the United Nations. added Erdemir. “Erdogan has position but other NATO allies tems from Moscow could enable helicopter. defense of the West if our allies been pivoting Turkey away from as well, Turkey is [endangering] Turkey’s potential ejection from “We will not stand idly by grow dependent on the East.” the Transatlantic alliance and the security bloc.” the F-35 program, in addition while NATO allies purchase Turkish President Recep its values, putting US-Turkish Last August, Trump signed to purchasing other weapons weapons from our adversar- Tayyip Erdogan confirmed on relations on a crash course, and the annual National Defense such as Lockheed’s F-16 fighter, ies,” said US Vice President Mike Monday the purchase and said 2019 might therefore mark the Authorization Act, which UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters Pence on Sunday in a warning to that there would be no undoing lowest point in bilateral rela- included barring Turkey from and Boeing’s CH-47F Chinook Ankara. “We cannot ensure the of the decision. tions.” acquiring the F-35 from the US. “Having the S-400 from Russia is an outcome of this pursuit,” Erdogan declared to supporters Monday. “Now [Washington], you tell us to give up purchasing the S-400 [but] … don’t provide us joint produc- tion and financial support.” Aykan Erdemir, former Turkish parliament member and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Rabbi Richard S. 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Редактор выпуска Jewish Journal/Boston North Юлия Жорова Русская Хроника ~ Russian Chronicle 27 Congress St., 978-745-4111 доб. 172 Suite 501, Salem, [email protected] рекламно-информационный выпуск, том 43, номер 14 MA 01970 Памяти Бориса Немцова Магия черно-белого рисунка 27 февраля исполняется четыре года со Недавно в Линне, дня убийства Бориса Немцова, известного в здании LynnArts (25 российского политика, государственного и Exchange St.) открылась общественного деятеля. новая художественная Можно смело сказать, что жизнь и судьба общественная галерея Бориса Немцова отражает политическую GALA (Galleries at историю последних 25 лет в России. Его LynnArts), в которую вошли яркая деятельность началась в 90-х, когда художники, объединенные многие считали Немцова чуть ли не будущим общими творческими президентом страны, и трагически закончилась задачами. Галерея также в феврале 2015 года, когда он, представитель спонсируется Линнским оппозиции, был убит напротив Московского Историческим Музеем Кремля выстрелами в спину... низмом и жестокостью была показательно с целью дальнейшего Вместе с ним была расстреляна на Большом Москворецком мосту,” развития культурной жизни убита надежда на сказала Люся. города. свободную Россию. Уже почти три года, Eгисерян работает над В этой галерее до 23 Власть открестилась документальным фильмом о Борисе Немцове марта проходит выставка от Немцова. Пресс- “Not Your Average Citizen.” Для нее это не “Контраст” (Constrast), на секретарь Путина так коммерческий проект, скорее гражданская которой демонстрируются прокомментировал позиция. Люся абсолютно уверенна, что работы, выполненные эту трагедию: именно сейчас история Бориса Немцова будет в черно-бело-серых тонах. Картины наполнены эмоциями, “Немцов в полити- востребована американским зрителем. “Не чувствами и ощущениями, передающиеся с помощью полутонов, ческом плане не только потому, что Россия находится сегодня в где весь акцент направлен на настроение и атмосферу. представлял угрозы центре внимания здесь, на Западе, но и потому, На инаугурационной выставке представлены три работы для действующего что разочарование в нынешних политических художницы Таманы Вольфсон. руководства стра- лидерах достигло наивысшей точки.” Политика Посетители галереи могут приобрести понравившиеся ны и лично для Владимира Путина. ….В не должна быть грязной, убеждена Люся, картины по доступным ценам. Дополнительная информация и целом Борис Немцов был чуть более, чем добавляя: “воспитание гражданственности часы работы галереи на сайте: galleriesatlynnarts.org. среднестатистический гражданин”, приводит – это то, что должно стать приоритетом в его слова Люся Eгисерян, автор и режиссер современном демократическом обществе. “Женщины ГАЛАГа” документального фильма “Not Your Average Иначе мы потеряем демократию. Еще – я Citizen,” и размышляет: “Прошло четыре года хочу сказать своим фильмом – любые самые Приближается Проблема поиска со дня убийства Бориса Немцова. Человека, грандиозные социальные или политические Oскар. В числе в том, что бывшим который, стань он президентом России, изменения всегда начинаются с одного коротких докумен- узницам ГУЛАГа изменил бы ход мировой истории, сохранил бы человека... с себя. Именно так произошло со тальных фильмов, сегодня далеко за 80 тысячи жизней, и мы бы сейчас жили в более мной. Именно так произошло с героем моего отобранных в лет. Для них было справедливом и спокойном мире.” фильма. Возможно, он был идеалистом, но так называе- важным рассказать Eгисерян по образованию театральный прежде всего он менял себя и жизнь вокруг мый “шорт-лист”, свои истории, художник, закончила одесское театральное себя. Что могу изменить я? Я начала делать фильм россиянки отмечают авторы училище, Школу-студию МХАТ, работала в этот фильм. ‘Без вас не наступит весна’ – Марианны картины. нескольких московских театрах. В Америке был лозунг последнего марша, который Яровской “Жен- Этот фильм будет работала веб дизайнером, информационным организовывал Немцов. Давайте приблизим эту щины ГУЛАГа”. показан 5 марта, в 7 архитектором, в общей сложности проработала весну! Сохраним те идеи и ценности за которые Это второй случай за всю вечера в Центре Davis Center в этой области лет 15. Февраль 2015 круто боролся и погиб Немцов, и без которых наше 91-летнюю историю Оскара for Russian and Eurasian изменил ее жизнь, произошла переоценка общество перестанет существовать - liberty, когда женщина-режиссер из Studies при Гарвардском жизненных приоритетов – и неожиданно для equality, justice.” России оказалась так близко к Университете (1730 Cambridge себя, Люся пришла в документалистику. Чтобы закончить фильм, необходимо престижной награде. В фильме St., S301, Cambridge). Вход “Несмотря на то, что я живу в Штатах уже выкупить права на использование архивных рассказаны истории женщин, свободный, необходимо 26 лет, убийство Бориса Немцова произвело материалов. Так возникла идея краудфандинга. которые пережили сталинские получить бесплатный билет на меня совершенно оглушающий эффект. Зайдите на сайт фильма nemtsovfree - репрессии. Съемки продлились на сайте: www.eventbrite. Вероятно потому, что я принадлежу к тому dom.com (или seedandspark.com/fund/ пять лет и происходили на com/e/women-of-the-gulag-film- же поколению, что и Немцов. Поколению, notyouraveragecitizen#story), и если вам Дальнем Востоке и Урале, screening-tickets-56184763139. которое, будучи еще молодыми людьми неравнодушен этот проект – поддержите в Сухуми и Подмосковье. впервые почувствовали вкус свободы. С фильм. Как сказал Дмитрий Быков: “Если вы именем Немцова всегда ассоциировалось слово можете этой картине помочь – это лучшая "надежда". 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English Summary Лечебно-оздоровитеЛьный центр In this week’s issue of the в СэЛеме Journal’s Russian Chronicle, we • Комфортабельный транспорт до центра и обратно feature a Russian-speaking local PRIDE OF LYNN CEMETERY filmmaker who is working on a • Медицинское обслуживание CHEVRA MISHNA CEMETERY • 2-х разовое питание documentary about the assas- 8 Lake Shore Road, Lynn, Ma 01904 sination of a Russian Jewish • Русское телевидение opponent of Putin. Предоставляем ритуальные услуги • Экскурсии и поездки, концерты, танцы, хор We also have an announce- • Классы английского языка ment about the opening of a Еврейской Общине Северного Берега • Занятия по подготовке к экзамену на гражданство new art gallery called GALA in на протяжении пяти поколений • Библиотека и фильмотека Lynn that features black-and- Предварительное планирование включает • Прогулки в парке, поездки в магазины white paintings by local artists. • Шашки, шахматы, бильярд, лото We let our readers know религиозные и светские похоронные услуги, продажа мест на кладбище по доступным ценам. • Кружки по интересам и др. about the screening of an Oscar- • Энергичный, жизнерадостный персонал nominated documentary called Менеджмент ответит на Ваши Сервисы покрываются страховкой Medicaid (MassHealth). ‘Women of the GULAG’ by a вопросы по тел. 339-440-6312 или Russian-speaking director. по электронной почте We also report about two Мы оформим все необходимые документы сами. young pianists who will be per- [email protected] Приходите к нам и Ваша жизнь станет интереснее! forming at Carnegie Hall next Принимаем к оплате VISA & MC Звоните нам по тел. 978-825-0202 month. 26 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – FEBRUARY 21, 2019 PEOPLE
Tabb celebrates 100th birthday Sagan Harborside Sotheby’s International Shadoff named partner Realty has milestone year at JMBM
Lynn native Andrew I. Shadoff has been named a partner at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) in Los Angeles. Shadoff has liti- gated a wide array of subject matters, includ- ing legal and actuarial malpractice cases, breach of fiducia- ry duty and related business disputes, patent, copyright and trademark infringement cases, and commercial lease and contract actions. Sagan Harborside Sotheby’s CURATE, a mobile augmented Andrew also regularly advises local California International Realty closed reality (AR) app that will bring businesses on corporate governance and man- 2018 with over $200 million a home’s virtual staging images agement issues. His clients span a variety of in sales wrapping up a mile- from 2-D perception into aug- industries, from international law firms and Rose Raum Tabb reviews her Simmons College stone year. Along with merging mented reality and SIR Mobile, national restaurant chains to major record diploma (class of 1940), at her party. Sagan Realtors and Harborside an easy to use GPS-enabled real labels and commercial landlords. Sotheby’s International Realty, estate listings app that can help Shadoff is the son of Eddie and Sheryl Rose Raum Tabb celebrated her 100th birthday Sagan Harborside Sotheby’s you find luxury homes for sale Shadoff. He grew up in Lynn and attended on Feb. 2 at Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home. Four International Realty moved their all around the world. Austin Prep in Reading. He holds a bach- generations joined Rose to mark her birthday. They Marblehead office to a new loca- “Transformation and growth elor’s from Duke and also a J.D. from Duke included her son and daughter, Rhonda and Chuck tion at One Essex Street, added were two central themes of University’s School of Law. Tabb, her grandchildren, great grandchildren, niec- new agents to bring the team 2018. I want to congratulate our The Jewish Journal is in the process of es, nephews, and relatives by marriage. Rose lived in total to 73 and launched Elevate, associates on their successes implementing a new database. Massachusetts most of her life. She grew up in Lynn a new regional real estate publi- and thank them for elevating During this process, some subscribers may and raised her family there. To mark the occasion, cation. the customer experience and notice a disruption in delivery. If this occurs, Governor Charlie Baker, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Leading the way in technol- exceeding the expectations of so please call 978-745-4111, x130 and the Massachusetts Senate issued congratulatory ogy, Sagan Harborside Sotheby’s many buyers and sellers,” said or email: [email protected] letters and citations. International Realty introduced President Phyllis Sagan. to have your subscription restored. Rabbi Braham David named fellow at IFF Rukin Rabbinic Fellowship Program InterfaithFamily (IFF) is proud to announce the first- of-its-kind IFF Rukin Rabbinic Save the Date! Fellowship Program. The first cohort of fellows, which includes Rabbi Braham David, director of the Jewish Sunday, May 19, 2019 Discovery Institute and Rabbi of Temple Shalom in Medford, will begin in March. The Rukin Fellows will become part of a unique com- munity of practice which will help them to hone their skills Menschions working with interfaith couples. The Fellows will offer workshops and programs in their communities for seriously dating, engaged and newly married interfaith couples who do not yet have chil- dren. They will provide guidance to help couples find a welcome path into the Jewish community and access to inclusive resources. We are proud to announce that Rabbi Braham David has & been chosen to be a Fellow in Boston. Rabbi David states, “I am delighted for the opportunity to serve as a Rukin Fellow with Mimosas InterfaithFamily to learn how to better serve interfaith couples in our Jewish communities,” said Rabbi Braham David. The Jewish Journal will hold Have a knish at Epstein Hillel its third annual brunch at Temple Ner Tamid in Peabody to honor members of our community who have made great contributions through their work, volunteer efforts, and through their philanthropy.
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[email protected] Recently, Epstein Hillel families were treated to a smorgasbord of knishes, a wonderful book, “The Knish War of Rivington Street,” and a hands-on cooking lesson, courtesy of Todd Levine, Levine’s Kosher Meat Market in Peabody and the Lappin Foundation’s PJ Library. PEOPLE THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – FEBRUARY 21, 2019 27
Schneider receives key Fauda star feted by CJP Sarles releases book to the city of Revere
Lior Raz, co-creator and star of Netflix’s “Fauda” with CJP President Rabbi Marc Baker. Raz was the keynote speaker at CJP’s annual Chai in the Hub last week. The event honored young pro- Sheena Nancy Sarles, of On Feb. 9, Revere Mayor Brian annual JWV of Massachusetts fessionals who’ve made a substantial impact on Boston’s Jewish Marblehead, has released Arrigo presented Jewish War scholarship event honors high community. More than 500 attended the event. During his talk, Raz “Growing Younger Gracefully: Veterans National Commander school students from across the discussed his experience in the Israel Defense Forces, and how he Your Guide to Aging with Vitality, Dr. Barry Schneider the “Key state. created “Fauda.” Resilience, and Pizzazz.” The to the City” in honor of his Pictured above, from left, book is a full spectrum explora- visit to the City of Revere. On Revere Veterans Agent Marc Carrie Berger joins tion with simple tips to navigate Sunday, Schneider addressed Silvestri, Secretary of Veterans and celebrate the gift of aging. 55 high school students hon- Services Francisco Urena, JWV Jewish Family & Children’s Service Sarles leads workshops in the ored at the Jewish War Veterans National Commander Dr. Barry Berger received her bachelor’s US and internationally at the Massachusetts Brotherhood Schneider, Mayor Brian Arrigo, in Sport Management from the BaliSpirit Festival in Indonesia. Breakfast “Classmate Today, JWV Past National Commander UMass-Amherst, and her master’s She has been featured in Yoga Neighbors Tomorrow.” The Ira Novoselsky. in Organizational Management Journal, Elephant Journal, and from Endicott College. Berger a variety of social media outlets. Yeshiva University forward breaks resides in Marblehead with her husband and two children who school’s all-time basketball scoring record both attend the Arthur J. Epstein Hillel School. Paul’s Reptile Circus Carrie Berger has been We will connect reptiles with kids! Featuring your choice of named North Shore engage- reptiles, such as water dragon, corn snake, box turtle, and more. ment manager at Jewish Family & Children’s Service. Berger Schools • Birthdays • Parties will focus on continuing to Bar/bat mitzvahs • Other events bring meaningful programs to www.reptilecircus.net the North Shore and on build- 617-407-7533 ing partnerships, with a goal of recruiting volunteers and clients [email protected] to participate in the variety of programs provided by JF&CS. Prior to founding CB Coaching and Consulting, Berger spent Senior forward Michal Alge, who grew up in Brookline and 10 years working at the Jewish attended Maimonides, has broken Yeshiva University’s all-time Community Center of the North scoring record. Michal currently has 1141 career points, 1215 Shore in a variety of roles. She rebounds, and is among all-time leaders with 226 steals over 90 also worked for two years as the career games. She has recorded 10 double-doubles this season, and marketing and admissions direc- tallied a career-high 29 points against Goucher on Dec 30. tor at the Epstein Hillel School. Berger also serves as a faculty member at Endicott College Students create grooming kits and Salem State University. In addition to her professional for homeless at CTEEN event responsibilities, she has been an active volunteer in the com- munity, and has served on the Board of Directors at the Jewish Community Center of the North Shore.
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Earlier this month, 12 pared grooming kits for a home- Photos are welcome teens took part in Chabad of less shelter, and learned the art if space permits. Peabody’s CTEEN kick off event. of sushi making, and enjoyed Submissions are CTEEN is a group created for games and hamantashens. subject to editing Jewish high school students. CTEEN’s next event will be a Teens who join the group meet Paint Night on April 4. for style and length. Karaoke on fellow Jewish teenagers from the For more information, con- ORDER ONLINE AT: Send your news to Fridays and neighborhood, to expand their tact Chabad of Peabody at 978- Saturdays from www.fantasyislandsalem.com Jewish awareness and social 210-2935 or visit jewishpeabody. the Associate Editor circle. Working with Raizel com. at 8:30 pm to 516 Loring Avenue, Salem Schusterman, the teens pre- [email protected]. 12:30 am! Tel: (978) 745-1700 Fax: (978) 740-9121 28 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – FEBRUARY 21, 2019 COMMUNITY NEWS H onorableonorable MenschionsMenschions TODAY’S MENSCHION: JIM RUDOLPH By Steven A. Rosenberg JOURNAL STAFF
ttorney Jim Rudolph has been deeply involved with Jewish organizations and public service for decades. A Beverly native, he has worked as an Aattorney for 44 years and is the managing partner of Rudolph Friedmann LLP, which has offices in Boston and Marblehead. A former Swampscott selectman and chair of the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals, Rudolph also has been the chair of the New England Regional Board of the Anti-Defamation League and president of the Jewish Rehabilitation Center for the Aged of the North Shore. Rudolph lives with his wife, Susan, in Marblehead. Their son Billy, an attorney, and his wife, Sari, live in Salem with their children, Jackson and Hadley. Another son, Bobby, is also an attorney, and works at Rudolph Friedmann LLP. Their daughter, Katie, is studying to become a physician’s assistant at the University of New England in Maine. A A A
Could you tell us about your family, importantly, to do some good. I realize I Jim Rudolph, center, with his family. and how it was to grow up in Beverly? am fortunate to have founded and now I have two sisters, one older and one manage a law firm with 18 lawyers. One midst of a $75 million capital campaign that responsibility. We must continue younger than me. Beverly had a small- of the benefits and responsibilities of that at Governor’s Academy [from which two to support organizations like ADL that town atmosphere for me growing up. My is getting to decide what organizations of my children also graduated], the major educate the next generation of youth in mother was born and raised in Beverly we support and what pro bono work we emphasis of which is to provide even America and give a voice to people who and her family lived in Beverly for many do. Some of my friends have retired or more need-based financial aid. I usually cannot stand up for themselves. are planning to do so. I’m fortunate that I end up chairing the nominating and/or years. I attended Beverly public schools What’s the biggest challenge [or chal- through the ninth grade, after which I like what I do – practicing law and work- board governance committees of boards lenges] facing the Greater Boston boarded at Governor Dummer Academy ing with organizations that I think matter. I am on. I really enjoy mentoring young [now The Governor’s Academy] in Byfield. leaders and getting new, and especially Jewish community? You have been deeply involved in Our challenges are similar to what When did you first become interested town and area government – you younger, people involved in organiza- tions I support. many other large Jewish communities in Judaism? served as a Swampscott selectman, have in the United States: I learned at a young age to be proud chairman of the Swampscott Zoning You’ve served as chair of the New Anti-Semitism is rising, and we need of my Jewish heritage in a community Board of Appeals, and now you are England Regional Board of the Anti- to recognize that anti-Semitism exists that had relatively few Jews. My great- on the Marblehead Zoning Board Defamation League, on the National here and deal with it. Just because we great-grandfather, Rabbi Jacob Askowith, of Appeals. Why have you been so Executive Committee for ADL, and have a large Jewish population doesn’t designed the flag of Israel. My grandfa- involved in local government? now you are chairman of ADL’s New mean it’s not here. We need to be vigilant. ther from Beverly was the president of As a student, I was always interested England Board of Overseers. You also The priorities of the next generation the Beverly synagogue for 14 years and in government and politics. I considered served as president of the Jewish are very different from those of my gen- a founder of Camp Bauercrest [as well as running for state representative at one Rehabilitation Center for the Aged eration. There are significant conflicts other nonprofits]. My uncle was one of point, but it was too much of a time com- and its charitable foundation. You relative to Israel and its policies; what the founders of the Jewish Rehabilitation happens in Israel is not as important to mitment for me. The boards of appeals were president of Camp Kingswood Center for the Aged of the North Shore. and board of selectmen were ways for me the next generation. My parents were involved in the temple and a member of the board of Camp Boston has over 250,000 college stu- to be involved in the towns where I lived Bauercrest, too. Why are you so com- and on other boards, too. I had great role and concentrate my time where I thought dents. It has become a target of choice mitted to Jewish organizations? models who taught me the importance I could help. I’m grateful to have had the for the dissemination of flyers and other It is part of my identity. I have deep of giving back and of being involved in opportunity to give some of my time propaganda that are anti-Semitic and roots in the Jewish community and want the Jewish community. After I graduated to both the towns of Swampscott and anti-Israel. The [Boycott, Divestment, our children and grandchildren to share Boston College Law School, I got active Marblehead. I have really enjoyed those Sanctions] campaigns on college cam- that identity in the future. I have been with CJP in Boston after a trip to Israel. involvements. puses are more than just anti-Israel; rath- Later I became involved with the Anti- active with ADL for over 30 years. It is er, they are totally anti-Semitic. We need Defamation League and the JRC. You are a longtime trustee and now an organization I have related to both to acknowledge that and deal with it vice president of The Governor’s What made you want to practice law? personally and professionally. Its mission accordingly. I was always interested in civil rights Academy, past president and board has never changed – to protect the Jewish The Jewish community must work and social justice. I still like reading his- member of Associated Builders people, and to secure justice and fair together. That means temples, schools, tory books related to those interests, and Contractors of Massachusetts, treatment for all. If people like me, who all other Jewish organizations, and indi- especially relative to the founding of our board member of the Massachusetts have the passion and the Jewish identity, viduals, must be unified and consistent. country. Like many law students, I want- Restaurant Association, and a mem- don’t get involved with organizations like Our Jewish community is not immune to ADL, who should? ed to be a civil rights lawyer. It didn’t turn ber of the Advisory Board of the divisiveness. out that way, but because of my involve- Massachusetts Commission Against America has seen an uptick in anti- What advice would you give to Jews ment with ADL, I certainly have been Discrimination, a trustee of Eastern Semitism, and across Massachusetts who want to get involved with town exposed to, and involved in, many of the Bank and on the board of the North and the North Shore more and more government or a Jewish organization? civil rights issues of my generation. Shore Chamber of Commerce. Why incidents are being reported. What’s My advice is the same, whether or not What do you like most about the legal are you so active? the best way to combat anti-Semi- it is a Jewish organization. Join a board profession? All of the boards I am on are for really tism? or committee whose purpose you are I have a very diverse practice. Every good causes. I have tried to be involved in My wife and I have always taught our passionate about. Don’t join a board or day is different for me, and often chal- organizations that I think make a signifi- children that we must stand up for what’s a committee unless you are willing to lenging. I am a business lawyer and I cant difference in the lives of other people. right, not what’s popular. In this day and commit the time necessary to become represent a lot of people starting or buy- At Eastern Bank, for example, I am on the age, it’s easy to be silent. Every person involved and to eventually assume a lead- ing and selling businesses. I also handle Bank’s Charitable Foundation Committee who stands up to anti-Semitism, whether ership position. Many organizations have many business disputes between part- which manages a fund having over $100 around a dinner table or in the spot- express [or implied] term limits for offi- ners, often resulting in business divorc- million and last year gave over $7 mil- light, makes a difference. Nobody is born cers, which means that leadership should es. Additionally, I have expertise in real lion to more than 1,500 Massachusetts prejudiced; prejudice is learned and can change every few years. I have never got- estate law, employment law, and con- and New Hampshire nonprofits. At ABC, be unlearned. It’s important that parents ten involved with an organization unless struction law. Practicing law has given I recently led an effort to establish a new teach their children at an early age about I could envision that someday I would be me an opportunity to do well, but more scholarship foundation. We are in the prejudice, hate, and bigotry. Parents have board chair or president.
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