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July 21-27, 2017 Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton Volume XLVI, Number 29 BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK Family Field Days at the Israeli Scouts at JCC on JCC on August 6 on July 27 The Jewish Community Center of Nichole Fuller at the JCC at 724-2417. By Lynette Errante Binghamton will hold a Family Field Days The event and all proceeds raised The Israel Scouts will perform on event on Sunday, August 6, from 11 am-2 will directly benefit the JCC’s Early Thursday, July 27, at 7 pm, at the Jewish pm. The cost of attendance will be $5 per Childhood Center. The ECC seeks to Community Center, 500 Clubhouse Rd., person, with a $20 maximum for families. provide a warm and caring environment Vestal. Their performance will be followed The entire community is welcome and where children explore, experiment, by refreshments and a meet-and-greet with encouraged to attend. play, grow and learn to ask questions. the Scouts. The Scouts will spend the day Among the program’s offerings will Programming is offered for infants-5- with the campers at Camp JCC playing be carnival games, a watermelon eating years-old, including full-day daycare and traditional Israeli games. The evening contest and a water slide. DJ Johnny preschool, half-day preschool, art and performance will be free to the commu- Only will also be present at the event. physical education classes and Universal nity, but RSVPs will be appreciated and For families with younger children, the Pre-Kindergarten. Money raised from can be made by calling the JCC office at Field Days will have an area with activ- the Field Days will be used to provide 724-2417, ext. 110. ities specifically for toddlers. There will classrooms with needed items. “Camp JCC campers and counselors be snacks for sale and a basket raffle. For more information about the Family look forward to this event every year,” said The JCC is currently taking donations Field Days program, the Early Childhood camp counselor Jil Foster. “The Scouts get for baskets from area businesses and Center or the JCC, contact the JCC office the crowd dancing and singing along with individuals. Those interested can contact at 724-2417. them; it’s so much fun!” The 2017 Israeli Scouts. Six reasons why Macron’s speech about the Holocaust in France was groundbreaking to be French and Jewish,” she said. organized the event, did not object publicly ANALYSIS Here are six significant ways that the to Netanyahu’s attendance and facilitated it. address differed from those of previous The arrival of Netanyahu and his wife, French presidents, including in scope; the Sara, in a motorcade whose limousines By Cnaan Liphshiz unusual role played at the event by Israeli sported gold-fringed Israeli flags electrified PARIS (JTA) – It wasn’t the first time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; its the predominantly Jewish audience of 1,200 that a French president acknowledged his references to present realities; and Macron’s people. Holocaust survivors in their 80s nation’s Holocaust-era guilt, but Emmanuel emotional delivery. and 90s approached the monument railing Macron’s speech on July 16 was nonetheless It was the first time that an Israeli head to catch a glimpse of the Israelis as others groundbreaking in format, content and style. of state attended the annual commemora- reacted with thunderous applause. They oo- Delivered during a ceremony at the Vel d’Hiv tion for the Vel d’Hiv deportations of July hed and applauded as Netanyahu delivered Holocaust memorial monument exactly 75 Emmanuel Macron spoke at a July 16-17, 1942, named after the Velodrome the first part of his speech in French, which years after French police officers rounded 16 ceremony commemorating the 75th d’Hiver stadium that used to stand near the he speaks with a thick accent and some up 13,152 Jews there for deportation to Nazi anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv Holocaust monument. Netanyahu was invited despite errors, but understands without requiring death camps, the 35-minute address was roundup in Paris. (Photo by Kamil objections on Muslim websites, by the translation. And they nodded as he urged Macron’s first about the Holocaust since the ZihnIoglu/AFP/Getty Images) Communist Party and the party of the far-left Macron to stand with Israel and fight “the centrist won the presidency in May. leader Jean-Luc Melenchon – although the cancerous spread of militant Islam” and Evocative and more forthright than any by many Jews due to antisemitism today, invitation came from the CRIF federation “hate that starts with the Jews, but never of the speeches on the subject delivered according to Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, of French Jewish communities and not by ends there,” as Netanyahu defined it. But by Macron’s predecessors, his address “re- who leads the Liberal Jewish movement in the Elysee Presidential Palace, as reported their enthusiasm for Netanyahu was dwarfed lieved the feeling of isolation” experienced France. Macron’s speech “made me proud by some French media. The Elysee, which See “Macron” on page 3 Poconos bound with Camp JCC TI Sisterhood Program Committee held meeting Temple Israel’s Sisterhood Program Committee met recently with Rabbi Geoffrey Brown to make plans for the coming year. The committee is working on a variety of programs. Committee members noted feeling a “renewed energy” in the reformation of the Sisterhood in the synagogue’s new building. Back row (l-r): Maxine Rosenberg, Wendy Wolff, Julie Camp JCC’s Eliter and Galgalimer campers were ready for their overnight trip to Camel Piaker, Marcia Hofstein, Arlene Osber, Brown, Beverly Rozen and Betty Warner. Front Beach in the Poconos. See more camp photos on page 7. row: Barbara Zelter, Lois Levitt, Bobbi Markowitz and Barbara Gilbert. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Intersectionality Start your engines... News in brief... Special Sections A writer believes Jews must learn A look at NASCAR’s first Israeli Tensions are rising between Legal Notices ................................... 4 the difference between inclusive driver, Alon Day, and his road to Israeli Druze and Muslims; Hamas Book Review .................................... 4 and exclusive intersectionality. success on the circuit. wants to set up its HQ in Algeria. Beat the Heat-Ice Cream Scoops .... 5 ........................................Page 2 ........................................Page 3 ........................................Page 8 Classifieds ....................................... 8 Page 2 - The Reporter July 21-27, 2017 Opinion From the Desk of the Federation Executive Director Hello, this is Sima SIMA AUERBACH The lyric “could it be, yes it could, something’s coming, September, when you will get the chance to see the worries about how and what to teach my new grandchild something good” comes from a musical I saw as a teenager. movie “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy” at our Edythe Jean. Communication is so different today. The “West Side Story” was a musical that was not a comedy, very own Film Fest. world seems to move in nano seconds – whatever that is. but rather a drama with music that spoke about prejudice. Besides the fabulous music you’ll hear, you will learn How do you get across values and ethics in a text message It was eye-opening for me. that these talented Jewish composers and lyricists added a or a tweet? That music from “West Side Story” was written Jewish ethos to all that they wrote. In addition to “Bloody But Edy does love when I sing to her – perhaps soon by two Jews: Leonard Bernstein (music) and Stephen Mary” and “Some Enchanted Evening,” Rodgers and I will forgo “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” and start singing the Sondheim (lyrics). Jews were involved in most of Hammerstein wrote a song about prejudice: “You’ve Got folk songs of my teenage years or meaningful songs of the musicals from the Golden Age of Broadway. But to Be Carefully Taught” tells how people are taught to hate. Broadway. Could songs help inspire a lifelong dedication there was more meaning to many of these works than It makes you feel proud! to tikkum olam – repair of the world? Who knows? “Could you might expect. You can learn more about this in This means a lot to me since I’ve shared with you my it be. Yes it could.” Intersectionality excludes and includes – Jews must learn the difference By David Bernstein yet another manifestation of anti-Israelism. could be considered a form of inclusionary intersectionality. (JTA) – Last year, I wrote an opinion piece for JTA Since that time, I’ve delved deeper into the doctrine and Increasingly, however, a more exclusionary discourse about a term and a trend few Jews over the age of 30 had observed its various manifestations. In its original form, has been used to divide people and target, in particular, ever heard of: intersectionality. Coined in the late 1980s, intersectionality is a perfectly legitimate way to understand Jews and supporters of Israel. The detractors use the same intersectionality posits that various forms of oppression – discrimination and power, and can bring people together. I call framework of interconnected identities to limit, not expand, racism, sexism, classism, ableism and homophobia – are this “inclusionary intersectionality.” In its more malevolent the scope of human empathy. all interconnected. According to the theory, a black female form, however, it is used to purge social justice causes of anyone In June, for example, three Jewish women were ejected is doubly marginalized by racism and sexism, for example. who doesn’t agree with the entire package of ideologically from the Chicago Dyke March because they were carrying As a result, it is necessary for activists to connect these extreme views. I call this “exclusionary intersectionality.” a rainbow flag with a Jewish star on it.