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JEWISHVOL 41, NO 28 JOURNALJEWISHJOURNAL.ORG Hate, turmoil… Aug. 11, Charlottesville Aug. 14, New York Aug. 14, Boston

Vice News “I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no The New England Holocaust Memorial was White supremacists chant, “Jews will not replace us.” The next day, doubt about it,” said President Trump. vandalized for the second time this summer. a woman was killed by a suspected white supremacist in the city. and resolve Aug. 19, Boston

Photos by Larry Constantine About 40,000 counter-protesters marched for tolerance at last Saturday’s ‘Free Speech Rally’ at the Boston Common. Boston Proud: Jews cannot afford What I saw at in the face of hate to be silent the Free Speech Rally By Robert O. Trestan By Steven A. Rosenberg By Larry Constantine and Talia Ben Sasson-Gordis JOURNAL STAFF JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT

This past week was a tumultuous, exhausting, and In these days when there are broken hearts across the BOSTON – What was that all about? I was probably not ultimately uplifting set of days. Our community found country, it may be easy for some to dismiss a swastika, alone in wondering this as the Orange Line train pulled itself swimming in the aftermath of hate, both nation- drawn yet again earlier this month on a Marblehead out of Downtown Crossing after Saturday’s Boston “Free ally and locally – reeling from the horrific outcome of athletic field. It’s harder to turn away, though, when Speech” Rally, an event that some feared might become the events in Charlottesville, and shocked by the sec- the New England Holocaust Memorial is shattered for another Charlottesville but proved to be something else. ond instance of vandalism of the Holocaust memorial the second time in a month. And for those who need It was no love-in, but neither was it violent confrontation. in Boston. Many of us in the Greater further proof that America is a Was it really about free speech? Was it OPINION Boston area were worried and fearful ANALYSIS less tolerant place than it was a FIRST– about standing up against hatred and of how last Saturday’s “Free Speech” year ago for Jews and minorities, PERSON intolerance? Or was it against fascism? rally on the Boston Common would the scene of hundreds of white All of the above? None of the above? play out. supremacists marching and carrying torches and Of course, it could have been dif- Yet, as it has before, Boston stood strong. Saturday’s chanting “Jews will not replace us,” in Charlottesville ferent things to the varied constituencies and factions Free Speech rally was overpowered by more than 40,000 should have been a wake up call. More hate fol- assembled on a hot summer day to stand up for what people who came with a different message, and who lowed though, and death: a white supremacist was they believed in and believed Boston stood for. The rally understood the importance of simply showing up. The charged with killing a woman after he was seen driv- itself, if it could be called that, was tiny. Fewer than 50 free overwhelming message across our city this past week- ing his car into a crowd near the rally. Then, President speech demonstrators and speakers huddled into the continued on page 6 continued on page 16 continued on page 6

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Diamant finds her muse on Cape Ann nita Diamant knows her Dogtown,” a gem of a historical Museum to theatrical produc- escape route. When the novel set on Cape Ann in the tions at the Gloucester Stage ANew York Times best-sell- early 1800s. Company to music at the Shalin ing author needs to get away Diamant’s most recent novel, Liu Performance Center. from the stress of everyday life, “The Boston Girl,” published in Readers of Diamant’s blog she heads to the shores of Cape 2014, tells the fictional story of posts on her website, anita- Ann. 85-year-old Addie Baum, who diamant.com, know that this “When I’m going up there, recalls her early years growing spring and summer Diamant I start to chill down. Once you up in Boston in a Jewish immi- bravely immersed herself cross the bridge, it’s ‘Ahhh, grant family at the turn of the in Shakespeare in a perfor- you are there,’” said Diamant, last century. The lyrical narra- mance workshop at Actors’ describing the feeling of tive sheds light on the real-life Shakespeare Project in unwinding as she approaches Rockport Lodge, a Cape Ann Somerville led by Jennie Israel the ocean. inn that was nearly lost to his- and Paula Plum. Also this sum- Diamant is the author of tory, now a private home, that mer, Diamant’s Facebook fans five novels, including “The Red served as an inexpensive sum- caught her taking the plunge Photo by Jim Ball Tent,” the beloved story of the Anita Diamant, with Halibut Point in the distance in Rockport. mer retreat for many of Boston’s into the Charles River as a way imaginary biblical character philanthropic social-service to promote the efforts of the Dinah, and a series of seven riage equality and incorporates tion place, near the ocean. I am groups that served poor, work- Charles River Conservancy. highly acclaimed, groundbreak- intermarriage more seamlessly Pavlovian. When I get there, I ing immigrant girls. “It was a gas,” she said. “I ing guidebooks on contempo- than the earlier versions. She calm down. A lot.” Diamant’s signature, deep- love going in the water.” rary Jewish life. has also revised her book on But Cape Ann has proven to ly researched preparation for Even the frigid waters of She sat down with the Journal Jewish mourning, “Saying be more than a relaxing get- the story led her to Cape Ann Cape Ann, she said. for a conversation in the airy Kaddish: How to Comfort the away for Diamant. She’s done archives and the Schlesinger Many Journal readers famil- Brookline condominium where Dying, Bury the Dead, and a lot of writing there, noting Library at the Radcliffe Institute iar with Diamant know she she and her husband, Jim Ball, Mourn as a Jew,” due out in it’s where she penned the final at Harvard University, which has a long association with director of communications at 2018. pages of “The Red Tent.” had just acquired the archives Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters the Jewish Arts Collaborative, The Diamant-Ball family was “I have this memory walking of the Rockport Lodge. In its Community Mikveh and moved last year from their fam- first introduced to Cape Ann along the beach, feeling like it’s newsletter, the library revealed Education Center as the found- ily home in Newton. Their dog in the early 1990s by Newton done … That was memorable,” that Diamant was given priority ing president of the trailblaz- was never far from her side. neighbors who had a child the she said. access to some 47 boxes of mate- ing Newton mikveh that revital- It’s a year of literary mile- same age as their daughter, now Diamant didn’t set out to rial before they were readied for ized and reimagined a world stones for Diamant – Scribner in her early 30s. The wife of the use Cape Ann as a story source, scholars. Wading through the of Jewish ritual that was once is releasing a special 20th anni- couple grew up on the North but over the last two material, Diamant associated only with Orthodox versary edition of “The Red Shore. decades, the intimate said she focused Jewry. Tent,” which has been pub- “We started going with towns and rocky coast on the scrapbooks While some read a theme of lished in 25 countries. In 2014, them to Good Harbor Beach in that have attracted and photographs, water into her life’s pursuits, it’s it was adapted for a Lifetime Gloucester,” Diamant recalled. artists for more than and expressed her far from scripted, Diamant said. miniseries starring Rebecca “I fell in love with it.” The fam- a century has become appreciation to But, there’s tremendous healing Ferguson, Minnie Driver, and ily rented in Gloucester before a central character the library in the power in water, recognized by Debra Winger. buying their own place, a and the landscape book’s acknowl- so many faiths, she noted. “The Jewish Wedding Now” 100-year-old, year-round home in three of her five edgments. “People feel very spiritually was just released, a comprehen- in Rockport. novels, including On Cape Ann, connected,” she said. “It’s very sive update of “The New Jewish “If it’s Friday night, we light “Good Harbor,” set Diamant is drawn elemental.” Wedding,” Diamant’s first book, candles [for Shabbat],” Diamant in Gloucester, and to the arts: from that more fully integrates mar- said. “It’s a slower pace, a vaca- “The Last Days of the Cape Ann – Penny Schwartz JEWISH JOURNAL SPEAKER series PRESENTS The FuTure oF Jewish Journalism FEATURING:

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How a roving sea captain became an observant Jew mong regulars in the of his hosts were observant, and convert through a private Sunday-morning minyan Howe was living the kosher life court at Kfar Saba, which he did Aat Gloucester’s Temple even before he converted. over the next six months. Ahavat Achim is a self-effacing Howe took a year off to study His decision to observe man with wavy white hair and at Hebrew University, “a 40-year- kashrut extended to his boat. a weather-wrinkled face that old taking a junior year abroad,” To Howe, his days on the ocean speaks of years at sea. Gloucester as he put it. During his year are part of a spiritual connec- resident Ed Howe is also known of study, Howe roomed with a tion, where the vastness of for wearing sandals year round, friend from New York, learn- sea and sky and the forces of grudgingly donning shoes only ing about the Jewish holidays, weather and wave are humbling on the worst days of slushy Cape Shabbat, and keeping kosher and relentless reminders of how Ann winters. The custom traces by living an observant lifestyle. small we are and how little we to his years living in Israel, but By the end of the year, what control. may also be a sign of his yearn- had started as a cultural interest Eventually, Howe intends to ing to make Aliyah. in the country and its people return to live out the rest of his How this scion of a Presby­ was transformed into a com- life in Israel. “It’s just so much terian family from Oregon mitment to convert. 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Marblehead’s Dolphin Yacht Club has survived stormy seas By Shelley A. Sackett Harbor. JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT In 1964, 22-year-old John Smidt bought his first sailboat, MARBLEHEAD – John Smidt a 16-foot Bullseye, and joined was a kid from Marblehead who the Dolphin. By 1969, he and loved sailing and being around Marvin Frank put the club on the harbor. His dad, Phenny, the yachting map when they bought a boat in 1948 and John raced Frank’s boat, “Bat Yom,” remembers they joined the in the 70-hour Marblehead to Salem Willows Yacht Club, even Halifax race, becoming the first though his hometown harbor Dolphin boat to compete in that was miles closer. prestigious event. “The way the story has been By 1973, the club needed passed down, there was no place more income to remain solvent. in Marblehead Harbor for a Jew Smidt tried to beef up member- with a boat,” John said over cof- ship numbers – and the club’s fee and a muffin at an outdoor finances – by advertising the café on a recent sunny morn- Dolphin as “a yacht club for all ing. “I didn’t know the politics people.” He did the same thing of what was going on, but I in 1980 when membership had watched what was happening.” dwindled to 45. By the end of Although there was no writ- that season, the Dolphin had ten ban, realtors steered Jewish 75 members who represented a buyers away from Marblehead. mixture of people and cultures. “‘You probably wouldn’t be “We took on a bunch of non- comfortable here’ was the Jewish members,” Smidt said. phrase most commonly used,” But the club still struggled to said retired psychiatrist George make ends meet. Freedman, who grew up in The situation was so dire Marble­head. that a 1986 article in the Jewish That discrimination extend- Photo by Steven A. Rosenberg/Journal Staff Journal was titled, “The Dolphin ed to Marblehead Harbor and George Freedman of Marblehead reflected on the history of the Dolphin Yacht Club. sends an S.O.S. to the Jewish its yacht clubs, which in 1950 community.” Marblehead denied fuel, mooring, or launch bers regardless of color, race, Smidt remembers going with Yacht Club. “He was just open- pharmacist Elliot Strasnick, a service to Jewish boaters. Like or creed.” Initial membership his father to the Dolphin Yacht minded,” Smidt said. “Looking member since 1975, dug in his Phenny Smidt, they either would be limited to 60. Club’s first location, a space back, it took guts.” heels, enlisted volunteers like joined clubs in nearby harbors The list of founding mem- under the Rockmere Hotel (now Over the next six decades, the Freedman, and “decided to go or had to moor at a spot unaffili- bers and tentative officers Glover Landing condos) with a club fluctuated in its financial for it. We started to think outside ated with any of the Marblehead who signed the letter included gravel floor and metal lockers. solvency, physical amenities, the box,” he said. The club sold clubs. Harry Weinstein, B. Frederick Boaters would grab their din- and members, but remained bonds, paid off its debts, and Fed up with the status quo, a Yoffa, Morris Jaynes, Ben Myers, ghies and row out to their moor- steadfast in its promise to be an rebooted with more emphasis group of Jewish boaters decided Arthur Rubino, Phenny Smidt, ings. inclusive presence on the pre- on social and kayak member- to take matters into their own Irving Mann, Leo Sonnabend, In 1955, the Marble­head viously exclusive Marblehead ships and amenities. hands. In January 1950, 14 men Dr. Adolph Sandberg, Harry Harbor Yacht Club, adjacent to formed the Dolphin Yacht Club Simon, Nathan Cohen, Dr. the Rockmere Hotel, merged and sent letters soliciting char- Nathan Silbert, Hy Jaffee, and with another club and its prop- ter members “with the main John Rimer. erty became available. Lewis qualification being a desire to Nine attended the club’s first Athanas, brother of restauran- participate in nautical activ- breakfast meeting on January 15 teur Anthony Athanas, offered ity as an avocation.” The stated at Lynn’s Hotel Edison, accord- to act as a non-Jewish “straw” purpose and scope of the club ing to a $12.65 bill that itemized – or third party – to buy the was to “promote and foster the breakfast charges at 85 cents Marblehead Harbor Yacht Club nautical spirit among its mem- each and room rental at $5. and turn it over to the Dolphin Marblehead’s Premier Prosthodontist

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Boston Proud: in the face of hate from page 1 end was one of unity against racism, Boston Globe earlier in the week and incredible professionalism and restraint has partnered with the U.S. Conference anti-Semitism, and all forms of hate and the Massachusetts legislature, along throughout the day of the rally. The prep- of Mayors (USCM) on a new joint initia- bigotry. Boston – a city still in some with Governor Baker, passed a resolu- aration, planning and training of our law tive to fight extremism and bigotry and ways haunted by a history of racial injus- tion to “strongly denounce and oppose enforcement officials paid off. Ground promote justice and equality. Under the tice – came together this weekend. This the totalitarian impulses, violence, xeno- rules were widely publicized and the vast compact, mayors commit to vigorously city showed the country how commu- phobic biases, and bigoted ideologies majority of people followed orders and speak out against all acts of hate; pun- nity members and leaders can start to that are promoted by white nationalists instructions that police gave. On the day ish bias-motivated violence to the fullest respond to hate and make a significant and neo-Nazis.” This is the type of unity of the rally, thousands of peaceful coun- extent of the law; encourage more anti- impact, by sending a powerful message against hate – without equivocation, ter-protestors came together to support bias and anti-hate education in schools of unity while embracing diversity. from across party lines – that needs to be Charlottesville, marginalized communi- and police forces; encourage community That strength was the result of the affirmed throughout the country in these ties in Boston, and call attention to the activities that celebrate their population’s joined efforts of Boston’s leadership, challenging times. embers of racial hierarchy and white cultural and ethnic diversity; and ensure grassroots organizing, and civil rights In the week leading up to the rally, supremacy from those torches of old that civil rights laws are aggressively enforced coalitions. Here at the Anti-Defamation ADL worked in coalition with other still burn in our society. and hate crime laws are strengthened League, as one of the city’s civil rights civil rights partners, including the Boston should be very proud of how when needed. Over 200 mayors have organizations, we were proud to work Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and the event was handled. already joined, committing to this neces- with coalitions of community and inter- Economic Justice in Boston, to express This past weekend’s uplifting show sary work to bring Americans together. faith partners over the last week. ADL public safety concerns after the events of unity and rejection of hate proved We can’t wait any longer. ADL is ready to supported the Greater Boston Interfaith in Charlottesville in advance of the Free just how easy, and how important, it is work with local communities across the Organization’s interfaith gathering on Speech Rally in Boston. ADL worked to simply show up and stand up when country on action to combat hate. Friday night that drew 1,700 people, with Mayor Walsh, who hosted a meet- you encounter hate. But, we must con- including Republican Governor Charlie ing with all civil rights and community tinue to show up. And we must turn Robert O. Trestan is the New England Baker, Democrat Attorney General leaders about the public safety plan for strong words into action. We need to Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation Maura Healey and Democrat Mayor the rally and response by the city. Boston build upon the statements, resolutions, League. Talia Ben Sasson-Gordis is the Marty Walsh. The mayor and gover- Police Department worked tirelessly with and protests to advocate for policies that Associate Regional Director of the Anti- nor jointly published an Op-Ed in the the entire community and exercised promote justice and equality for all. ADL Defamation League. What I saw at the Free Speech Rally from page 1 Parker Bandstand near the edge were inaudible to the assem- lence and only 33 arrests were names. I later watched as an AP in Needham. Wanting to be of Boston Common without bled crowd kept, along with the reported over the whole course, reporter pleaded with a group “present and counted,” they even an adequate public address media, behind police barriers mostly for disturbing the peace. of masked counter-demonstra- held aloft a hand-lettered sign system. They were outnum- some 100 feet away. In the imme- I witnessed only one shouting tors, but none were willing to declaring them “Jewish, Tolerant, bered more than ten-to-one by diate aftermath, crowd estimates match; like the others, it was be interviewed under their real and Proud.” Lex Rofes, sporting police, a 500 strong contingent for the counter-demonstrators quickly broken up by motorcy- names. a rainbow-hued kippah, and Val from Boston and surrounding on the Common and march- cle-mounted Special Operations Some I talked with self-iden- Langberg, along with their friend communities, including MBTA ers along Tremont Street ranged officers before it could escalate. tified as antifa, the truncated Samantha Weiser, drove all the Transit Police and even officers from 15,000 to 50,000. By the Conflicting signals from rally rubric under which many mili- way from Providence because from the Harvard University following Monday, most media organizers left doubts over the tant ultra-left antifascists in they saw a clear need for a strong patrol. It is possible, the media reports had settled on 40,000, extent of their ties and sympa- America are cast, but there were Jewish presence against “white even outnumbered the police. an estimate attributed to Boston thies with the alt-right and white also sign-carrying antifascists supremacists and their so-called I couldn’t hear the speech- Police Commissioner William supremacists. In ways, the coun- who insisted they were not anti- free speech rally.” Samantha car- es from the bandstand. They B. Evans. Few incidents of vio- ter demonstrations were equally fa. One man, no name offered ried a rainbow sign quoting Hillel hard to parse. 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n the wake of the Charlottesville mayhem, sented with a president who cannot fully separate when many Americans were contemplat- himself from radical extremists. As Jews, we must Iing just how fragile our democracy can be, take this new presidential policy seriously, and Donald Trump missed an important opportu- reexamine our own beliefs. We must ask ourselves nity to unite the country. A day after hundreds of – whether we supported or opposed Trump – torchlight carrying neo-Nazis descended upon what does America stand for, and how do we best the University of Virginia campus chanting, “Jews move forward to protect our democracy? will not replace us,” a white supremacist was Freedom of speech is the right of every charged with killing a woman and injuring many. American, as the neo-Nazis proved in Trump initially denounced the violence and Charlottesville. But fascism, racism and anti- called out the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis, Semitism will not go away unless it is rejected by a declaring racist hate groups “repugnant to all nation and its leaders. As the president continues that we hold dear as Americans.” Yet, the next day his orchestrated nationalism – as he takes aim at during a live televised press conference he began the free press, and minorities like Muslims and an open dalliance with white supremacists, and Mexicans – we must understand that today is a suggested that counter-protesters were also to different day than it was just a week ago. blame for the violence. He also insisted that there Trump’s Jewish staff and major Jewish donors were “fine people” who were there to protect a have remained silent since Charlottesville. But Confederate-era statue of Robert E. Lee. American Jews cannot follow their lead, and “You look at both sides. I think there’s blame minimize the danger of fascism. We must stand on both sides. And I have no doubt about it. And up for democracy, and take the lead in protecting you don’t have any doubt about it either. And, and our republic. For those who consider all of this if you reported it accurately, you would say it,” he heated discussion as over-reported rhetoric, it told the assembled press, and millions of shocked would be worth having a conversation with some Americans. of the veterans who fought against Hitler, and Seventy-two years after more than 400,000 fellow Jews who survived the Holocaust. They American soldiers fell in World War II battles will tell you that if a person threatens you, then against fascism and Nazism, we are now pre- chances are they will attack you. An open letter to our fellow Jews o our fellow Jews, in the United States, in Israel, and expressed admiration and sympathy for a group of white around the world: supremacist demonstrators who marched through the T We know that, up to now, some of you have streets of Charlottesville, flaunting Swastikas and openly made an effort to reserve judgment on the question of chanting, along with vile racist slogans, “Jews will not whether or not President Donald Trump is an anti-Sem- replace us!” Among those demonstrators, according to ite, and to give him the benefit of the doubt. Some of you Trump, were “a lot” of “innocent” and “very fine people.” voted for him last November. Some of you have found So, now you know. First he went after immigrants, the employment in his service, or have involved yourself with poor, Muslims, trans people and people of color, and him in private business deals, or in diplomatic ties. you did nothing. You contributed to his campaign, you You have counted carefully as each appointment to voted for him. You accepted positions on his staff and his his administration of an avowed white supremacist, councils. You entered into negotiations, cut deals, made anti-Semite, neo-Nazi or crypto-fascist appeared to be contracts with him and his government. counterbalanced by the appointment of a fellow Jew, and Now he’s coming after you. The question is: what are reassured yourself that the most troubling of those hires you going to do about it? If you don’t feel, or can’t show, would be cumulatively outweighed by the presence, in any concern, pain or understanding for the persecution his own family and circle of closest advisors, of a Jewish and demonization of others, at least show a little self- son-in-law and daughter. interest. At least show a little sechel. At the very least, show You have given your support to the President’s long a little self-respect. and appalling record of racist statements, at worst assent- To Steven Mnuchin, Gary Cohn, and our other fellow ing to them, at best dismissing them as the empty blan- Jews currently serving under this odious regime: We call dishments of a huckster at work, and have chosen to see upon you to resign; and to the President’s lawyer, Michael the warm reception that his rhetoric found among the D. Cohen: Fire your client. hood-wearers, weekend stormtroopers, and militias of To Sheldon Adelson and our other fellow Jews still hate as proof of the gullibility of a bunch of patsies, how- engaged in making the repugnant calculation that a hater ever distasteful. of Arabs must be a lover of Jews, or that money trumps You have viewed him as a potential friend to Israel, or Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman hate, or that a million dollars’ worth of access can protect a reliable enemy of Israel’s enemies. you from one boot heel at the door: Wise up. You have tried to allay or dismiss your fears with the knowledge that most of the To the government of Israel, and our fellow Jews living there: Wise up. President’s hateful words and actions, along with those of his appointees, have targeted To Jared Kushner: You have one minute to do whatever it takes to keep the history of other people immigrants, Black people, and Muslims taking hollow consolation in how your people from looking back on you as among its greatest traitors, and greatest fools; open and shameless his hate has been, as if that openness and shamelessness guaran- that minute is nearly past. To Ivanka Trump: Allow us to teach you an ancient and ven- teed the absence, in his heart and in his administration, of any hidden hatred for us. erable phrase, long employed by Jewish parents and children to one another at such The President has no filter, no self-control, you have told yourself. If he were an anti- moments of family crisis: I’ll sit shiva for you. Try it out on your father; see how it goes. Semite – a Nazi sympathizer, a friend of the Jew-hating Klan – we would know about it, Among all the bleak and violent truths that found confirmation or came slouching by now. By now, he would surely have told us. into view amid the torchlight of Charlottesville is this: Any Jew, anywhere, who does Yesterday, in a long and ragged off-the-cuff address to the press corps, President not act to oppose President Donald Trump and his administration acts in favor of anti- Trump told us. During a moment that white supremacist godfather Steve Bannon Semitism; any Jew who does not condemn the President, directly and by name, for his has apparently described as a “defining” one for this Administration, the President racism, white supremacism, intolerance and Jew hatred, condones all of those things. To our fellow Jews, in North America, in Israel, and around the world: What side are you on? Sincerely, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman Berkeley, California

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Free speech and hate speech, from Skokie to Charlottesville

company would issue a policy about government using this By Jack M. Beermann to the Nazis, which meant they doctrine to limit white suprem- could not legally march in places acist speech. On the one hand, grew up in Skokie, Illinois. where insurance was required. it is heartbreaking to read about One day in 1975 or 1976, I had After the Nazis applied for a per- the fear that was instilled in Ijust come home from work as mit to march in Skokie, the village Charlottesville’s Jewish popula- a vendor at Wrigley Field when I government quickly enacted an tion by the “Sieg Heil” chants heard a knock on the door of our ordinance requiring insurance of passing demonstrators, apartment. Although I was still and rejected the application. the presence of armed white soaked with sticky Coca-Cola, I After years of litigation, supremacists across the street answered the door, and standing the Supreme Court held that from their synagogue, and there was an older man in short Skokie’s insurance require- online calls to burn it down. But sleeves. ment was unconstitutional. on the other hand, as a nation He asked, in a heavily Yiddish- This decision clearly established we are strengthened by our tra- accented English, “You Jewish?” that the Constitution protects dition of free expression, and I “Yes” I said. the right of hate groups – like don’t trust the government to be “You Bar-Mitzvah?” those who marched recently in a neutral arbiter between per- Again, “Yes.” Charlottesville – to spread their Photo by Lloyd Rutzky mitted and forbidden speech. “Come,” he said, turning his vile messages. The author experienced Chicago’s anti-Semitism firsthand, when he I am certain about one thing. sold kosher hot dogs in Comiskey Park during White Sox games. back for me to follow before the Once the Nazis received their It is disheartening that the word was completely out of his permit and set a date for their What they really wanted, and with history, it is not surprising president of the United States mouth. I followed him across the march – June 25, 1978 – Jewish what they ultimately bargained that the most vehement opposi- thinks that there are “good courtyard into an apartment with groups across the country mobi- for, was the right to march in tion comes from white suprema- people” among the parading a small group of similar men and lized to plan counter-demon- their Chicago neighborhood, cists. white supremacists, and that a few women. This was a Shiva strations. I was attending the where they would be safe among Most of the contested monu- counter-demonstrators share house, and as soon as we walked University of Wisconsin at the the many anti-Semites and rac- ments were erected decades the blame for the violence that in, the men began reciting the time and a group of us chartered ists who lived in America’s most after the end of the Civil War, and erupted in reaction to their afternoon prayers. They finished a bus to take us to Skokie for the segregated city. I had experi- many were intended as expres- vile message. If the president in record time and immediate- fateful day. Actor Avery Schreiber, enced Chicago’s anti-Semitism sions of support for Jim Crow cannot recognize and call out ly hustled me out of the room. who grew up in Chicago and firsthand, mainly in the snide laws and opposition to African- racial and religious hatred for The only thing I had a chance to was a close friend of one of my comments a few fans would American calls for equal rights what it is, we have passed the notice was that every man in the father’s law partners, was part of make when I was selling kosher and racial integration. The mon- point of no return. room had a number tattooed on a group that chartered a plane hot dogs in Comiskey Park dur- uments were part of a package It is time for this president his arm. They were all Holocaust from Los Angeles. When he called ing White Sox games. designed to perpetuate inequal- to resign, for the Cabinet to survivors. my father’s office to talk about it Given this history, I was not ity that included lynchings and invoke Section 4 of the 25th Around the same time, the with his friend, I was answering surprised that the recent white limitations on black people’s par- Amendment and declare that Nazi group called the National the phones and I got so excited supremacist demonstration in ticipation in the political and eco- he is incapable of continuing Socialist Party of America was to talk to him that I accidentally Charlottesville, Va., resulted in an nomic life of the South. To blacks, in office, or for Congress to headquartered on the South Side disconnected the call. eruption of violence. The provo- the continued presence of these impeach and remove him for of Chicago. It was led by Frank But the Nazis never marched cation for the white suprema- monuments is less a reminder of giving comfort to the treason- Collin, whose Jewish father, a in Skokie. A gathering of 20 or so cists’ demonstration was the plan pre-Civil War slavery than of 20th ous activities of our own ver- Holocaust survivor, had changed dispersed after 10 minutes, sur- to remove a statue of General century racial oppression. It’s as sion of the Taliban, the white the family name from Cohen to rounded by throngs of Jews and Robert E. Lee from a city park if Germans opposed to immigra- supremacists and Nazis who Collin. Frank Collin applied for a others. They didn’t really want to that had formerly been named tion today began erecting statues are apparently alive and well permit to hold a parade in Skokie. march in Skokie, mainly, I think, for him but had been recently of Adolph Hitler. The message to in today’s United States of He was clever to choose Skokie. because they were afraid of the renamed Emancipation Park. immigrants would be clear. America. Not only did it have a large popu- violence their presence among There is a roiling conflict over In constitutional law, there is a lation of Holocaust survivors and 30,000 Jews and thousands of the removal of Confederate sym- limitation on freedom of speech Jack M. Beermann is profes- a substantial Jewish population, Holocaust survivors would pro- bols across the South. While known as the “fighting words sor of law at Boston University it had no ordinance requiring voke. There were even rumors some opposition to the removal doctrine,” which allows govern- School of Law, where he groups holding demonstrations that the Jewish Defense League of statues like the one of Lee is ment to limit speech that is virtu- specializes in Separation of to carry insurance. had promised to kill any Nazi benign, based in Southern pride ally certain to provoke a violent Powers, Administrative Law, Not surprisingly, no insurance who set foot in Skokie. and opposition to tampering reaction. I have mixed feelings and Civil Rights Litigation. The Bibi files: A primer

By Lawrence Rifkin File 2000 involves Arnon Mozes, pub- lisher of the Yediot Aharonot daily. ERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Yediot was the country’s best-selling Benjamin Netanyahu is legally belea- newspaper until the advent of Israel Jguered. He’s under direct investiga- Hayom, a paper bankrolled by US casino tion in two separate corruption cases and magnate Sheldon Adelson that’s firmly linked to two more, at least one of which and even fawningly behind Netanyahu. might ultimately suck him in. To make It overtook Yediot primarily because it’s matters worse, members of his immedi- handed out for free at venues where ate family have legal woes of their own. there’s heavy pedestrian or vehicular Netanyahu has been down in the traffic. Not only did this reduce Yediot’s polls, and it’s clear that the investiga- circulation, it put a dent in its ad rev- tions have played a role. Irked by the fact enues. that few members of his Likud Party in The case alleges that during a phone Knesset and even those in his cabinet call, the prime minister colluded with have publicly come to his defense, he Mozes to obtain positive coverage in channeled his Donald Trump and staged Yediot in return for limits on Israel what amounted to an election rally, hav- Kobi Gideon/GPO Hayom’s circulation. A recording of the ing his most loyal troops organize a pub- Several investigations into alleged corruption by Benjamin Netanyahu or those around call was found in the possession of Ari lic gathering of support by some 3,000 him have been taking their toll on the Israeli prime minister, and his wife, Sara. Harow, who was Netanyahu’s chief of faithful who were bused in to cheer him staff at the time and was being investi- on. connection to justice.” them something, it doesn’t matter what.” gated for allegedly lying about having “The State of Israel is experiencing a What’s eating at Benjamin Netanyahu Publishers? Submarines? Cigars? divested himself of a consulting firm. time of unprecedented political prosper- to the point where he’s conjuring up talk Police File 1000 centers on allegations Knowing they’d struck gold, investiga- ity. The flow of visits to Israel and the of conspiracies, as if the police (led by that Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, have tors offered Harow leniency if he’d turn flow of invitations for me to go over- a man he had a role in choosing), the enjoyed the high life thanks to the deep state’s witness not only in File 2000, but seas are unprecedented. India, China, Justice Ministry (led by a member of pockets of wealthy people. also in File 1000. (It’s said that if any- the United States and Africa, every con- his coalition), and the attorney general One of them is Israeli-born Hollywood one knows about the nexus between tinent, countless countries,” he told his (again, a man he had a role in appoint- producer Arnon Milchan, who is said Netanyahu’s public and personal lives, enthusiastic audience on the evening of ing) are actually succumbing to “non- to have showered the couple with gifts it’s Harow.) The US-born ex-aide report- Aug. 9 at the Tel Aviv Exhibition Grounds. stop pressure” from certain quarters? ranging from expensive jewelry to fine edly flipped in return for six months of “Both the left and the media – and “The media, and the left, which serves cigars and cases of pink champagne. community service and a fine equaling they are the same thing – know this,” he it … invent an infinite number of affairs, Much of it, if reports describing claims about $200,000. went on. “So they are now involved in an infinite number of headlines so that made by an annoyed Milchan are to be File 3000 is less about Netanyahu and an unprecedented, obsessive witch hunt maybe, maybe, something will stick,” he believed, was at the couple’s request. more about his cousin and personal law- against me and against my family with continued from the podium. “If not the It’s not yet clear whether Milchan or yer, David Shimron. the goal of achieving a coup against the submarines, then the cigars; if not the others received anything in return, but According to an e-mail obtained from government. Their aim is to put false, cigars, then the conversations with the it’s against the law in Israel for officials the Defense Ministry by Israel’s Channel nonstop pressure on the legal system to publisher. If not File 1000, then File 2000. to accept gifts beyond those considered 10 news, Shimron tried to steer a mul- get an indictment at any price, without If not 2000, then 3000, 4000, or 5000. reasonable, say, for birthdays. The gifts any connection to the truth, without any They demand that the legal system give seemed to come year-round. continued on page 17 10 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 24, 2017 COMMUNITY NEWS

JEWISH JOURNAL The Personal Essay PUBLISHER/EDITOR The day the sky fell Steven A. Rosenberg [email protected] By Howard Wiseman ing without purpose, suffering that CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER defied explanation. David Kasoff 33.53N, 110.57W, and 44 years. When school ended that early [email protected] Dad’s friend Claude D’Amour, summer with David yet unfound, I was who knew something about asked to empty his junior high locker BUSINESS MANAGER small planes, said it was and return his books. I gathered his Chet Baker icing. Wings glaze, lift slips possessions from the metal space and [email protected] away, and the aircraft no lon- walked through the school, deliver- ger flies. And on that day ing my dead friend’s books. Our math ADVERTISING in the Arizona mountains, teacher, the formidable Mrs. Algrin, DIRECTOR OF the inability to climb was the started to cry and I did, too. ADVERTISING & MARKETING same thing as falling. The After hearing the rabbi’s eulogy, I Lois Kaplan ridge line was the last high knew he loved David, even though no [email protected] point between them and home, but one in our class took more delight in they were simply too low. tormenting him. Rabbi Klein had seen SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Getting killed by ice flying over too many Jewish boys die, and losing Marcy Grand a desert – even at 13 – David even one more left him on the preci- [email protected] would have recognized the pice of despair. Yet the rabbi never irony and mocked the absur- strayed from his duty in comforting GRAPHICS, WEB, dity, because he was wicked the grieving Badlers, perhaps because RUSSIAN CHRONICLE EDITOR smart and loved practical jokes. he knew even this misery could be Yulia Zhorov Neither of us would have borne, and that survival alone was [email protected] used the word “wicked,” enough. though. He came from Long Forty-four years and a spot on GRAPHICS, WEB, OBITUARIES Island and I was from Canada, a map, a civil air patrol footnote, Andrew Fleischer and the bizarre nature of discourse an accident report accounting, two [email protected] in Manchester, N.H., was equally baffling souls on board, both lost to the moun- to the two new kids there. Perhaps that’s why we tain, two coordinates where hikers EDITORIAL CARTOONIST became friends. That and our mutual delight in watch- on innocent ascent confronted the George Freedman ing Rabbi Klein turn red with fury when we goofed off during wreckage of flight suddenly interrupt- Hebrew class. That and David’s amazing older sister, who I hoped ed, two lives cast upon the stone. VOLUNTEERS would be around when I hung out at his house after school. Forty-four years passed and I no longer speculate upon who or Harriet Moldau, Jerome D. Ogan David and his dad went missing for months and Rabbi Klein what David might have become. It is enough for me to know that BOARD OF OVERSEERS would visit his mom and sisters. He would sit on their living he had fallen to rest at that place. Certain, fixed in time, fixed in Robert M. Rose, President room couch, kind and patient, far from the raving maniac who my memory. Bob Blayer, *Rick Borten, taught our bar mitzvah class. He was a Hungarian Jew, a survivor Fred M. Cohen, Daryl Colden, of the Budapest Holocaust, and he knew too much about suffer- Howard Wiseman writes from Sharon. Neil Donnenfeld, Susan Garnick, Lisa Kosan, Johanna Matloff, David Moldau, Lynn Nadeau, Donna Lozow Pierce, Learning to connect by disconnecting *Howard Rich, Heidi Shear, Stephanie Simon, John Smidt, By Nechemia Schusterman time to slow down and smell Bradley J. Sontz, Ted D. Stux, the roses, and perhaps leave Matthew Swartz, *Selma Williams While I was out of town the phone at home by mis- *Life Board Members recently, my cell phone take/on purpose more often rebelled. First it played with and allow my phone-sickness PAST PRESIDENTS me by pretending to remain to heal a bit. Lisa Kosan, Izzi Abrams charged at 100 percent far The Baal Shem Tov teaches PUBLISHER EMERITA past the point when that was us that God guides the steps of Barbara Schneider even possible. Then it died. I humanity, meaning that wher- tried to resuscitate it, and gave ever we are and whatever we The Jewish Journal, ISSN it a fresh round of CPR (cell experience are paths to learn- 1040-0095, an independent, non- phone repair), but alas, it had ing and growth. profit community newspaper, breathed its last. Needless to say, the obvious is published bi-weekly by The problem was that lesson from my trauma (since North Shore Jewish Press, Ltd., I was in the Borscht Belt — I have my phone back, I find 27 Congress St., Suite 501, also known as the Catskills. myself returning to my sinful Salem, MA 01970. Periodical I am now an expert on cell ways) is to work on our collec- postage paid at Salem, MA. POSTMASTER: Send address phone repair options within and look for them, versus the I was detoxing, but I stopped tive phone addictions. changes to THE JEWISH most of those 100 miles: In a completely normal thing: tex- missing my phone. And that’s However, on a deeper level, JOURNAL, 27 Congress word, none. ting “where r u?” when the really crazy stuff hap- as we near the holy month St., Suite 501, Salem, MA I began going through the It got progressively worse. I pened. of Elul, a month dedicated 01970. Circulation to eastern stages of grief. I called my had a few spare minutes when Turns out I have seven kids, to introspection, perhaps we Massachusetts and north of therapist (on someone else’s I wasn’t doing something that four of whom were with us at need to orchestrate phone Boston. Member of American phone, of course), and he was filled my brain, and that right the time. Turns out they speak down times — not just on Jewish Press Association and the not sympathetic enough, so arm did its thing again, with and are really great company. Shabbat, but in our day-to-day Salem Chamber of Commerce. I fired him. I figured I would the aim of scrolling through Apparently, if you sit on a lives — so that we can live in The opinions of contributors do rough this tragedy all by Facebook or Instagram. With hammock with a couple of the mundane world without not necessarily reflect those of the paper. The Jewish Journal myself. It would be Tuesday, no phone I was stuck there, in your children and no phone, the mundane distractions. assumes no financial responsibility a five-day delay, until I could the mountains, with only my they talk and say some of the Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah, for typographical errors in get it fixed (without ruining thoughts. 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Looking at gor- it when I look at her when she Beloved, our Father in Heaven. Copyright © The Jewish Journal was this involuntary jerking geous scenery, tall trees, fields speaks, and when I smile when To truly see Him, we need to (All rights reserved). motion of my right hand to my of green grass as far as the eye she makes a funny comment. put down the distractions. We side where my phone holster could see, rivers and dams and My ears suddenly started work- need to put down our phones, 27 Congress Street, Suite 501, lives, and it didn’t matter that other natural beauty, was all ing, and I heard her when she because only then can we pick Salem, MA 01970 I knew my phone wasn’t there. I could do. If only my phone asked me to take out the gar- up the messages! www.jewishjournal.org I couldn’t drive, because was working, I could drown bage. 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Our holy duty: Protecting the Earth By Rabbi David Kudan the least sensitive mals in the Garden even over-population, we will our spiritual, sociala and intel- manner, then how of Eden, the have failed in the task we have lectual capital – and take care magine a city besieged. It much the more so Eternal did not say been assigned. We will not only not to squander, but to value is surrounded by soldiers. must people act that they should let God down, but also harm them, to share them, to apply IProjectiles fly toward the city with sensitivity rule over it, in the ourselves and deprive all our them to sustaining, preserving, gates. No one is allowed in or under normal cir- sense of being able descendants of the blessings of and even improving the world out and, as the days and weeks cumstances? to take whatever the Earth. we have received. And as Hillel drag on, there is suffering with- In other words, they might desire Waste not, want not. 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We should you into the besieged city?” The not think of nature as only being sages looked to this passage and there for our exploitation, but understood it not only to apply we are encouraged to cultivate to this one situation, but much an emotional connection, to more broadly. The rabbis reason feel empathy with the Earth and in this way: If Scripture instructs other living things. us to limit our destructiveness In the Midrash, we learn that in the moment when human when Adam and Eve were given beings are expected to act in sway over the plants and ani- Israel committee approves medical cannabis exports By Adam Abrams would only be exported to coun- JNS.ORG tries where the plant is approved for medicinal use, and which Israel stands to generate already have trade relations with large profits from its burgeon- Israel. 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MUSIC Israeli-born Hendelman brings a world of music to Rockport By Matt Robinson that he would one day perform to be part of the musical troupe. JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT with the likes of Gladys Knight, “I wrote a song about Tel Aviv John Pizzarelli, and the Clayton- for a competition,” he recalled. hough he was born in Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, but he “When it was selected, I was Tel Aviv and first landed may have had hints. given a choice of arranging it for Ton American soil in Los “As a 6-year-old, I remember professionals or having a pro- Angeles, pianist and composer walking down Dizengoff Street fessional arrange it.” Tamir Hendelman has strong in Tel Aviv, and passing by the Though he deferred to the ties to our neck of the woods. big music store, where someone professional, Hendelman said In addition to studying at the was demonstrating the newest the resulting rendition was not Tanglewood Institute, he also electric organ to a customer,” as he had envisioned it. attended the Eastman School Hendelman recalled. “I was “So I decided I would arrange of Music at the University of enchanted by the sound and my own songs from there on,” Rochester, N.Y. knew I wanted to get into music he said. Perhaps that is why he is so right there and then.” From Count Basie and Chick excited to be appearing at the Inspired by Israeli stars such Corea to the Swingle Singers, Shalin Liu Performance Center as Matti Caspi, Shlomo Grunich, Hendelman continued to in Rockport on September 8. Kaveret, and Yoni Rechter, expand his musical horizons “The audience is really there Hendelman also listened to and to absorb all he could into for the music, and the set- everything from Dave Brubeck his own compositions. When ting is absolutely beautiful,” to Beethoven. not out at concerts, he also Hendelman said. When he joined HaTzofim – was privy to the musical influ- Photo courtesy of rockportmusic.org Growing up in Israel, the Israeli version of the Boy ences of his grandmothers, who Pianist and composer Tamir Hendelman Hendelman never suspected Scouts – Hendelman was asked were both known to belt out Yiddish and Israeli folk tunes improvisations.” and American show tunes from When he returned to Los TEMPLE EMMANUEL, WAKEFIELD their nearby apartments. Angeles, Hendelman began As American music had hanging out with such stars as invites you to become such a big influence, drummer Billy Higgins and sax- Hendelman was excited when ophonist Teddy Edwards. CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS his family relocated to Los “I got to learn standards the Angeles in 1984. old-fashioned way,” he said. WITH US THIS YEAR “I was exposed to a lot more “On the bandstand.” classical and jazz music,” he It was during this period that Temple Emmanuel is an open and welcoming Reconstructionist Community. recalled. Hendelman began working with Eager to make his mark in his such vibrant vocalists as Cathy Rabbi Gregory Hersh and Cantor Jonathan Tepper will be leading us in prayers. the U.S, Hendelman entered a Segal-Garcia, Tierney Sutton, music competition and placed and Sandra Booker. “I loved how We use a prayer book that enables people from a variety of backgrounds, practices second in his age group. After each vocalist would have their and beliefs to participate more actively in the prayer services. The traditional the event, one of the judges own very individual take on the Hebrew text with full transliteration and a modern translation are both readable approached and invited him to same song,” he recalled. “I got Rabbi and meaningful, with a column of commentaries, all on the same page. meet. to learn a lot of repertoire this Gregory Hersh “He became one of my men- way.” tors,” said Hendelman of the Hendelman has recorded Open House with Havdalah & Selichot award-winning composer Joe a series of acclaimed albums, Saturday, September 16th at 7:30PM Harnell, who worked with Peggy some his own compositions and Lee, Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne others as part of larger groups. Our website has a complete schedule of Shabbat & Holiday services, and and Pearl Bailey. While his list of musical influ- more information about the Reconstructionist movement & our synagogue. A few years later, Harnell ences continues to grow, he invited Hendelman to come to also takes inspiration from his Temple Emmanuel, 120 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, MA • 781-245-1886 • www.WakefieldTemple.org Tanglewood to study compos- daughters, Zoe and Sophia. ing. Once on the East Coast, “My tune ‘Playground’ was Hendelman decided to stay a inspired by the birth of my first while and attended the Eastman daughter, Zoe,” he said of the School of Music in northwest- title track of his 2008 debut Shirat Hayam Loves Families! ern New York State. album. “Her younger sister, “This was a very intense Sophia, will soon get her own Tonight! Thursday, August 24th, 6 pm – 7:30 pm High Holy Day Family Services experience,” said the classi- song, I hope.” Sundown and Smores by the Sea No tickets needed cal composition major. “It was a great chance to be exposed For more information or to Join us for Smores at Devereux Beach. Smores more deeply to music, lead purchase tickets, visit rockport- materials provided, bring your own picnic if desired. my own trio, and explore solo music.org or call 978-546-7391. Friends and dogs welcome. Saturday, September 16, 10:30 am – 11:30 am Jewish World and Mideast News Briefs Join us for Family Shabbat Services — from Jewish News Service (JNS.org) Rosh Hashanah, Day 1 Special Young Families Shabbat – Morning Thursday, September 21 Musical Fun with Mr. Philip and snacks. Free and 9:30 am Family Service (ages 0-5) Israeli Air Force unveils new advanced drone open to the community (during Shabbat Synaplex™). 4:00 pm Tashlich at Phillip’s Beach Israel has successfully tested up to 30 hours at a time. Sunday, October 8, 11 am - 12:30 pm Yom Kippur a new drone that will be incor- The unveiling of the new IAF farm day at shirat hayam Saturday, September 30 porated into the Jewish state’s drone comes as the Hezbollah 9:45 am Family Service (ages 0-5) air force. The Elbit Hermes 900 and Hamas terror groups have Freee -andA -openSh toa theb community: petting zoo, ar b drone, called Kochav (meaning also been incorporating drone Sh pony rides, crafts, fooda fort purchase. Sukkot “star” in Hebrew), is an improved technology into their arsenals. Sunday, October 8 version of its predecessor, the Hezbollah announced this week Fridays Oct. 20, Nov. 10, & Dec. 8 9:00 – 10:30 am Sukkah Cycle at Dandee Donut Factory in Marblehead Elbit Hermes 450. that it used a drone to carry out share-A-Sah-ashabbat The Kochav, which is nine a strike against an Islamic State re b 5:30 pm: Dinner a b Simchat Torah meters (30 feet) long and has a position along the Lebanese- a6:00 pm: Fun, musical Kabbalat Shabbat Service h t Wednesday, October 11 wingspan of 16 meters (52 feet), Syrian border. S 6:30 pm: Dessert 5:30 pm Dinner followed by can achieve a maximum speed Earlier this month, a small Celebration @ Shirat Hayam of 200 kilometers per hours (124 drone from Gaza infiltrated miles per hour) and can fly for Israeli airspace. Our weekly Saturday morning Shabbat Synaplex™ Kushner arrives in Israel for peace talks A high-level American dip- National Security Adviser Dina Offering a multitude of ways for parents to connect Jewishly while your kids are in Hebrew School. Pre-K Hebrew School is free — lomatic delegation, led by Powell, reportedly landed in the registration required. President Donald Trump’s Middle East Sunday for talks son-in-law and senior adviser, with the leaders of the United 9:00 am Renewal Service or Traditional Minyan Jared Kushner, arrives in Israel Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar 10:00 am Nosh & Drash (Torah discussion), Yoga Minyan Wednesday night for continued and Saudi Arabia. or Traditional Torah Service discussions in renewed US-led The US diplomatic team will 11:10 am Healing Service and Rabbi’s Talk peace efforts. meet separately with Israeli and 11:45 am Ruach Rally with the Ruach Rally Band The delegation, which also Palestinian leaders Thursday. 12:00 pm Shabbat Café includes Trump’s international Kushner and Greenblatt also Come and go any time! Babysitting available, 9:00 – 11:45 am 55 Atlantic Avenue, Swampscott, MA 01907 negotiations representative visited Israel and the disputed 718-599-8005 • shirathayam.org Jason Greenblatt and Deputy territories in June. ARTS THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 24, 2017 13

THEATRE Four women, one man, and classic Israel Horovitz cursed to go on” and describes herself as an unwanted twin who “crawled out on my own.” Marie Belle, who was with the professor when he passed, believes that his spirit inhabits the spacious apartment, and he even tickles her, which calls to mind the meddling late wife’s spirit in the Noel Coward gem, “Blithe Spirit.” The talented cast makes the most of the play’s material. Debra Wise captures Evelyn’s vulnerability as well as her hau- teur. Paula Plum catches Evvie’s Photo by Gary Ng Obehi Janice, Sarah Hickler, Debra Wise and Paula Plum in “Out of alternating exasperation and effervescence. Sarah Hickler the Mouths of Babes’’ at Gloucester Stage. Photo by Paul Lyden finds all of Janice’s sadness and Tommy Labanaris (Dr. Frederick Frankenstein) and the company of By Jules Becker their respective memories of insecurity without turning her North Shore Music Theatre’s production of the Mel Brooks musical, JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT this man whose funeral they into a caricature. Obehi Janice “Young Frankenstein.” will be attending – an eclectic is a standout as Senegal native srael Horovitz is a playwright music buff who loved Chopin, Marie Belle, both with a proper- Frankenstein,” based on his has just the right blend of non- in love with the mysteries at Ella Fitzgerald, and the Rolling ly thick French accent as the one own 1974 cult classic film of the chalance and peculiarity as Igor Ithe heart of people’s lives. Stones – than with their own non-American and a winning same name. and Brooke Lacy the allure and That was true of the revelations situations and fortunes. evocation of her character’s very Director-choreographer sincerity of laboratory assistant about Jewish apartment heir All four women refer to the humorous moments respond- Kevin Hill has a strong cast Inga. Mathias Gold and 94-year-old deceased Sorbonne professor as ing to the supposed spirit. making this shamelessly silly “It’s alive!” shouts the excited tenant Mathilde in his intriguing “He” or “Him.” An added ironic “Out of the Mouths of Babes” but rollicking show a hilari- scientist in the classic film. Say 1999 play set in Paris, “My Old touch has Evelyn – who seems may not have as much linger- ous high-stepping revival at the same for North Shore’s ener- Lady.” So it goes for his 2016 Off- to know about Jewish mourn- ing power as “Blithe Spirit,” but the North Shore Music Theatre getic revival of Brooks’ Borscht Broadway hit, “Out of the Mouth ing traditions – asking about the Horovitz and company make in Beverly. Tommy Labanaris Belt fun. of Babes,” now in an appeal- covering of a mirror, though the this candid talkfest a winner. proves appealingly adventur- ing New England premiere at play never actually identifies ous as naïve young scientist “Young Frankenstein,” North founding former artistic direc- “Him” as being Jewish. “Out of the Mouths of Babes,” Frederick Frankenstein, and Shore Music Theatre, Beverly, tor Horovitz’s Gloucester Stage Ironies aside, Horovitz does Gloucester Stage Company, Brian Padgett is a likeable hoot through August 27. nsmt.org, Company. make the women’s exchanges through September 2. glouces- as The Monster. Brad Bradley 978-232-7200. Ultimately, this four-charac- alternately amusing and tell- terstage.com, 978-281-4433. ter comedy may provide little ing. Evelyn, one of “Him’s” insight about the very different wives, comes across as a reflec- * * * women, but director Horovitz tive if sometimes rueful sage ransylvanians dance a makes the resulting encounter who believes that there may Russian Kazatzke right out intriguing nonetheless. be no men that make women Tof “Fiddler on the Roof.” These women ‒ Evelyn, 88, happy. Evvie darkly compares The 7-foot Monster taps in top Evvie, 68, Janice, 58, and Marie much of her experience writ- hat and tails to the Irving Berlin Belle, 38 ‒ have been involved ing screenplays to the work of classic “Puttin’ on the Ritz.” Who with a 100-year-old man who undertakers. Teacher Janice, else but Jewish iconoclast Mel loved each of them, at times who has periodically attempted Brooks would make such comic SYLVIA COHEN RELIGIOUS SCHOOL simultaneously. Horovitz’s suicide, wonders if she is like invention an integral part of the OPENAND TOTS HOUSE PROGRAM play often has more to do with “some Samuel Beckett character 2007 Broadway musical “Young

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FILM ‘Menashe’: A rare authentic on-screen depiction of Hasidic Judaism By Jane Hanser and their communities. against the resulting father- JNS.ORG A Hasidic father named and-son relationship is Aizek, Menashe, who works long Menashe’s former brother-in- n “Menashe,” director hours in a small grocery store law and Rieven’s uncle, a suc- Joshua Weinstein has deli- in Brooklyn, struggling to make cessful but arrogant property Icately crafted a work that ends meet, has lost his young owner who seeks custody of the emanates a rarely seen authen- wife Lea to illness. Their sole boy to raise him in his own fam- ticity, tenderness and depth child Rieven, an adolescent, ily. sadly lacking in other main- has become suddenly bereft of This heart-wrenching trian- stream films about Hasidic Jews his beloved mother. Anchored gulated scenario could play out anywhere. But this is Borough Park, home to numerous Hasidic groups, a world unknown – and also misunderstood and mis- BLER TRAVEL judged – by many. Filmed on location, this engrossing explo- Photos by Federica Valabrega Hasidic father Menashe and his son Rieven in “Menashe.” ration of love, grief and devo- tion pulses to the heartbeat of subtitles), Weinstein sheds layer cery store where Menashe is the Hasidic community and its after layer, and reveals a pro- employed, to the faint sun’s rays Always the Lowest Air Fares • Customized Individual & Group Tours many nuances. In Menashe’s found humanity. illuminating the early morning Bar Mitzvah Tours & Ceremonies particular community, children The real-life story of the netilas yadayim (ritual hand- must be brought up in a home unpretentious Menashe Lustig, washing) or a wordless sunset EASTERN EUROPE with a mother, meaning that fol- who loosely portrays himself shared by father and son in the Independent & Escorted Tours lowing his wife’s death, Menashe in the film, inspired this main park, the camera’s deft touch VACATIONS & HONEYMOONS faces a choice between finding character. Lustig is a grocer from pulls us into story after story. Europe • Far East • The Caribbean • Florida • Arizona • Las Vegas a wife or giving up his son, or New Square, N.Y. Except for Weinstein calls these “micro- violating the community’s tradi- Menashe’s Hispanic co-workers, moments.” 617-738-0500 • 800-399-8467 tion. all of the actors are Hasidim, “I think the whole film is www.bler.com • [email protected] In the film, spoken almost most of whom have chosen to like that…. How does a small 45 Bartlett Crescent Road • Brookline, MA 02446 entirely in Yiddish (with English remain unnamed in the cred- moment tell a big story?” the its. Rieven is portrayed by a boy director told JNS.org in a joint from London who was learn- interview with the soft-spoken ing in an American yeshiva. The Lustig. casting choices are instrumental The many local charac- to the film’s authenticity. ters emanate genuineness As Lea’s first yahrzeit (death and a strong on-screen pres- anniversary) approaches, the ence. Aware of the challenges conflict over custody heats up, Hasidim face today, Weinstein framed by the swirling, towering says he understands that when flames of the night’s Lag B’Omer problems happen, “it’s so easy street bonfires, around which to leave … I wanted to make the Hasidim have gathered to a character that by definition celebrate, dance and sing. never even thought about leav- Menashe is defiant that he ing.” can be responsible for his son, Weinstein explained that the but the harder he tries to prove goal of Ruben Niborski, who his worthiness, the more goes plays Rieven, “wasn’t to be an wrong, and the more rebuke actor … He was just a regular and humiliation the principled boy who was humble, polite and Menashe is subjected to. We nice, and had no pretenses.” empathize. 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Flying Horse Ethel (Borr) Band, 93, of Chelsea from page 15 Ethel (Borr) Band, 93, of grandchildren and her close Kenneth J. Band and her sisters Chelsea, the beloved wife of the friends. Evelyn Miller, Freda Reynolds, awards at the Grand National late Maurice “Murray” Band, Ethel was active at the assist- Seidel Borr and Lillian Beader. Roadster Show and he was the died unexpectedly on August 8, ed living center where she was Services were held at Torf winner of the New York Times 2017 at Mass General Hospital. a resident and a member of the Funeral Chapel, Chelsea, on Collectible Car of the Year award Born in Chelsea, she was the B’nai Brith. She will be deeply August 10. Interment followed in 2009. daughter of the late Simon and missed by all who knew her. in Agudath Shalom Cemetery, David X. Klein (1908-1990) Ann Borr. She was raised and She is survived by her son Everett. Contributions in Ethel’s was born and raised in the educated in Chelsea attending Richard L. Band and his wife memory may be made to Midwest, graduating from the Chelsea schools. Loretta of Peabody, and her Temple Ner Tamid, 368 Lowell University of Chicago Phi Beta Ethel was a homemaker and grandchildren Stephanie L. St., Peabody, MA 01960, or Kappa with a bachelor’s degree enjoyed tending to her family’s Band and her fiancé Brian Cohen Florence Levine Estates, in chemistry. While pursuing his needs. Her favorite hobby was Kaplan, Josh M. Band and his 201 Captains Row, Chelsea, MA career in science, working for shopping and she was an avid girlfriend Catherine Threlkeld, 02150. For an online guestbook, such companies as DuPont and Red Sox and Patriots fan. She and Jonathan A. Band. She visit torffuneralservice.com. Tenneco, he spent his free time enjoyed spending time with her was predeceased by her son engaged in art. Sculpture was his favorite medium, though A scuplture by David X. Klein he also painted and was an the country on a school cam- Neil L. Chayet, 78, of Salem accomplished photographer. pus, the Flying Horse Outdoor Neil L. Chayet, 78, passed trustee of Tufts University, he Mr. Klein’s two sculptures in this Sculpture Exhibit is open to the away at his home in Salem on was on the faculty at Harvard year’s exhibits were created in public seven days a week dur- August 11, 2017 at the age of 78, Medical School Department of clay. His daughter, Judith Klein, ing daylight hours. A full-color after a nine-month battle with Psychiatry at McLean Hospital curator of the exhibit, recently brochure is available as well as a small cell cancer. for 30 years. had the pieces cast in bronze for free app guide for smartphones. Born in Boston on January 17, A member of the Manchester his three grandsons. The public is invited to a recep- 1939, he was the son of the late Yacht Club, Neil enjoyed his Returning Jewish art- tion with the artists at 1 p.m. on Judge Ely Chayet and Blanche 1946 Hinckley sloop, “Breeze,” ists include Mitchel Lunin of Sunday, September 10, in the (Poretsky) Chayet. Neil lived in and his DownEast power boat, Newton, Janice Corkin Rudolf school’s library. the Boston area for his entire “Sooner.” He and his wife of Sudbury, and Yetti Frenkel of life, most recently at the Joseph Martha traveled to destinations Peabody. Pingree School is located Story House, a National Historic around the world with itinerar- One of the largest displays at 537 Highland St., South Landmark in Salem. ies focused on history, culture, of outside art in New England, Hamilton. Call 978-468-4415 or He leaves his wife of 37 food and the world’s religions. and the only show of its kind in visit pingree.org/sculpture-show. years, Martha Chayet; two sons, In lieu of flowers, the fam- Michael R. Chayet of Weston ily suggests remembrance gifts Conn., and Ely Todd Chayet may be made “In Memory of Neil BUY OR SELL SPACES IN of Calabasas, Calif., and his is Neil Chayet, Looking at the Chayet” in support of Small Cell daughter, Lisa Chayet Sahlberg Law™”. A sought-after public Cancer Research, and sent to SHARON MEMORIAL PARK! of Raymond, Maine, formerly of speaker, Neil delivered count- the MGH Development Office, Duxbury. Also his daughters-in- less speeches and lectures with Attention: Carrie Powers, 125 law, Julie Min Chayet and Kathy the general theme of avoiding Nashua St., Suite 540, Boston, Contact the Lot Broker Today. Lyon Chayet, and son-in-law, conflict. He recently taught a MA 02114 (https://giving.mass- Jon Sahlberg. And five grand- course at Tufts entitled “Conflict: general.org/donate/). 617-640-3143 children: Max, Hannah, and New Ways of Thinking About Services were held on [email protected] Sarah Chayet, Brett and Linnea Life’s Challenges”. Neil prac- August 15 at Temple Emanu- www.thelotbroker.com Sahlberg. ticed health law, authored four El, Marblehead, with interment A graduate of Tufts University books, and served on numer- at Mount Auburn Cemetery and Harvard Law School, he ous boards, including Massport in Cambridge. Arrangements recently retired after 42 years Security Advisory Council and were handled by by Stanetsky- with CBS News Radio, and his the Whitehead Institute for Hymanson Memorial Chapel, legendary daily program, “This Biomedical Science. A former Salem. Joseph Feinbloom, 88, of Pompton Lakes, N.J. Joseph Feinbloom, age 88, a Wayne, N.J., as a realtor. longtime resident of Pompton Joe was an Army Veteran Lakes, N.J., passed away peace- of the Korean War. He was a fully on August 11, 2017. member and past president He was the beloved hus- of Congregation Beth Sholom www.maplehillcemetery.com band of Marie (née Picerno) in Pompton Lakes, N.J., and Feinbloom. Joe was the was a longtime member of the devoted father of Devorah Pompton Lakes Chamber of Slotnick Monuments Rosenberg and her husband Commerce, Pompton Lakes 232 Fuller Street, Everett, MA 02149 Steven, of Swampscott, Stephan Senior Center and the Pompton 617-387-3980 Feinbloom, of California, Donna Lakes Historical Society. He, Production facility / Sales office / Outdoor display S Full service drafting and sandblasting shop Hook and her husband Kenneth, even on his most difficult day, C of N.J., Michele Owen and her always had the best sense of Memorial Group Slotnick’s MetroWest Monuments husband Edward, of Florida, humor. He was affectionately Est. 1910 5 Edgell Road, Suite 1 and Douglas Lanzet, of N.J. He referred to as Gentleman Joe. Framingham Centre, MA 01701 was the cherished grandfather former owner of Feinbloom’s Services were held on August 508-872-1400 of Laura, Aaron, Alexei, Lindsay Men’s Shop, located on Wanaque 14 at Louis Suburban Chapel, Corporate office / Sales office / Indoor display and Phillip. Avenue in Pompton Lakes, N.J., Fair Lawn, N.J. Memorial dona- Joe was a graduate of for many years. Mr. Feinbloom tions in memory of Joseph American International College was employed by Nordstrom, in Feinbloom may be made to the Drive carefully… in Springfield, where he earned Paramus, N.J., in the men’s cloth- Wounded Warriors (wounded- We can wait. his Bachelor of Education ing section since the first day of warriorproject.org), 4899 Belford Degree and also his Master of the store’s opening. Afterwards Road, Suite 300, Jacksonville, FL Two convenient locations servicing families throughout Greater Boston, Education degree. He was the Joe joined Weichert Realty in 32256. North Shore, South Shore, Sharon Memorial Park and MetroWest. www.scsmg.net Arthur Finkelstein, 72 , of Ipswich and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Arthur Finkelstein, a con- Ford, and his winning race four inscribed on the cornerstone of If a death occurred yesterday... servative campaign strategist years later. One World Trade Center, com- who helped elect Republican In the 2000s, Finkelstein pleted in 2014. At the 2004 dedi- ...what would your family be facing today? presidents and Israeli govern- spent more time working over- cation, Gov. Pataki read aloud ment leaders, died on August seas, with clients in Albania, the inscription: “To honor and Peace of mind is priceless. Avoid crisis and provide 18, 2017. He was 72. Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech remember those who lost their comfort with Advance Planning of final arrangements. Finkelstein was perhaps best Republic, Hungary, Kosovo and lives on September 11th, 2001 known as the brains behind the Ukraine. He continued to con- and as a tribute to the enduring Call us today for a free Personal Planning Guide unlikely elections of N.Y. Sen. Al sult in Israeli elections, work- spirit of freedom – July Fourth, 781-581-2300 D’Amato and N.Y. Gov. George ing for Benjamin Netanyahu in 2004.” Pataki. But he also helped 1999, Ariel Sharon, whom he Finkelstein died of lung Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon helped become Prime Minister cancer at his home in Ipswich. and even Sen. Jesse Helms win. in 2001, and Avigdor Lieberman Survivors include his husband, Early in his polling career, and his Yisrael Beytenu party. Donald Curiale, of Ipswich and Finkelstein joined Nixon’s 1972 He also ran the successful cam- Fort Lauderdale; two daughters, campaign at just 26 years old. paign of Nir Barkat for Mayor of Jennifer Delgado of Danvers, Finkelstein later helped run Jerusalem in 2008. and Molly Baird-Kelly of 10 Vinnin Street, Salem MA 01970 Reagan’s unsuccessful 1976 pri- Finkelstein is also report- Alpharetta, Ga.; two brothers; A Service Family Affiliate of AFFS and Service Corporation International, 206 Winter Street, Fall River MA 02720 mary campaign against Gerald edly the author of the words and a granddaughter. OBITUARIES THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 24, 2017 21

Sylvia Brown, 92, of Roslindale, NOTICES BLOCK, Ida (Klane), 106 – late wife Sandee Giller, and Bruce 16, 2017. Wife of the late Harris formerly of Swampscott and Malden of Chelsea, formerly of Revere. Giller. Sister of Michael Abelson. Pruss. Mother of Rhonda Pruss Sylvia Brown, 92, passed Women’s Organization. She Died on August 7, 2017. Wife (Goldman) and her husband Donald Messer, of the late Alfred Block and the and the late Joseph Pruss. Sister away on August 12, 2017. never met a Democrat she didn’t MIRRER, Melvin, 83 – late of late Israel Rosenthal. Mother of of Diana Baseman of Newton and Born in Malden on June 2, like, and especially looked for- Andover. Died on August 16, Shirley and Harvey Zides and Joan Shaffer and her husband 1925, she was predeceased by ward to her yearly Christmas 2017. Son of the late Michael and Jason and Ronni Rosenthal. Richard of Salem. (Stanetsky- her parents, Morris and Mary cards from the Obamas. Fannie (Rosinsky) Mirrer. Father of Daughter of the late Simon and Hymanson) Gould of Malden and Lynn. She Sylvia left the North Shore Barry (Angela) Mirrer of Newton, Bessie (Gal) Klane. Sister of Sylvia is survived by her daughters, for Boston in 2008 in order to be Karen (Raulf) Neelis of Pompton WASSERMAN, Bernard, 92 – Leeman of Fla., and the late Celia Linda Sapol of Brookline, and closer to her daughter. Lakes, N.J., and Susan (Michael) late of Boxford. Died on August Stone, Etta Katz, Abraham Klane, Phyllis Haxell of Sodertalje, Thank you to the staff at Mulhern of Andover. Grandfather 11, 2017. Husband of Joan and Helen Lipofsky. Grandmother Sweden, and her husband Hebrew Senior Life who cared of Samantha and Victoria Mirrer (Baucum) Wasserman. Father of Mark and his wife Rachel, Evan Hannu Tjader. for our mother for two years. and Max and Molly Mulhern. of Katherine Wasserman and and his wife Tiffany, Mitchell and Her beloved grandson, Donations in Sylvia’s memory Brother of the late Robert H. her husband Steven Pearlman, Bridgitte, and Adina Newman Anders Michel Nord, also of may be made to hebrewsenior- Mirrer. (Stanetsky-Hymanson) Deborah Wasserman and her and her husband Dan. Great- Sweden, was the apple of her life.org/tribute. fiancé Richard Blades, Henry grandmother of 11. (Torf) PHILLIPS, Scott F., 65 – late of eye. Born in Haiti, he sensitized Funeral services were held Wasserman and his wife Karen Melrose, formerly of Lawrence Sylvia to the plight of Haitian on August 16 in the chapel at BOYLE, Nancy E. (Knudsen) Wasserman, Jan Hamrick and and Chelsea. Died on August orphans and the difficulties they Brooksby Village, Peabody. – late of Marblehead. Died on her husband Dr. Robert Hamrick, 6, 2017. Husband of Constance face. She was proud to support Interment followed in Beth August 6, 2017. Life partner and Kyle Jarrard and his wife (Raftell) Phillips. Brother of local Haitian organizations. Israel of Malden Cemetery, of John Cohen. Sister of Diane Nathalie Jarrard. Grandfather of Jacqueline and her husband An avid bridge player, Sylvia North Reading. Arrangements and the late Albert Cocci, Niels Jesse, Luisa and Daniel, Caitlyn, Stephen Pierce. (Goldman) was also a vibrant community were handled by Stanetsky- (Skip) and Janis Knudsen, and Benjamin, Christopher, Blake, member, active in the Temple Hymanson Memorial Chapel, the late Carol Connearny. Mother PRUSS, Helen (Yashgar), 87 – Jeremie and Kate. (Levine) Beth El Sisterhood, B’nai Brith Salem. of Kathleen and David Toner, late of Peabody. Died on August Women, as well as Mizrachi Kimberly Blais, Rebecca Beckett, and Michael Boyle. Grandmother Arnold Gordon Goldstein, 92, of Stoneham and great-grandmother to many. Arnold Gordon Goldstein, He was the loving grandfather FREEDMAN, Paul, 84 – late PRIDE OF LYNN CEMETERY 92, passed away on August of Kenneth, Melissa and Cory. of Everett. Died on August 13, CHEVARA MISHNA – 8 Lake Shore Road, Lynn, Ma 01904 11, 2017 at Life Care Center of Funeral services were held 2017. Husband of the late Rose Serving the JewiSh CommunitieS of Stoneham. He was the beloved on August 13 at Temple Shir (Prusky) Freedman. Father of he orth hore for ive enerationS husband of Paula (Blau) Tikvah, Winchester. In lieu Marcia and her husband Bennett t n S f g Goldstein for 56 years. of flowers, contributions in Delatizky, Bennett and his wife Pre-plan your future needs with our traditional and Born in Fall River, the son Arnold’s memory may be Mary Freedman, and Joel and his of the late Maurice and Esther made to National Parkinson wife Lori Freedman. Grandfather interfaith options. Contact our new management team: (Silver) Goldstein, Arnold lived Foundation, 200 SE 1st St., of Dori-Ann Delatizky, and [email protected] – 339-440-6312 in Stoneham for 50 years, pre- Ste. 800, Miami, FL 33131, Bradley, Hannah, Alyssa and viously living in Somerville for or Boston Braves Historical Daniel Freedman. (Goldman) viSitation DayS for the high holiDayS: six years. He was an electronic Association, P.O. Box 67195, GILLER, Rhoda J. (Abelson), Sunday, September 17 – 9am-12pm engineer at G.E. in Wilmington Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. 73 – late of Malden. Died on for 12 years, retiring in 1988. For online condolences, visit Sunday, September 24 – 9am-12pm August 17, 2017. Wife of Jason Arnold was a mem- ShalomMemorialChapel.com. Giller. Mother of Scott and his ber of Temple Shir Tikvah in Selling plots at very affordable rates Winchester, president of No synagogue or temple affiliation required Temple Judea, vice president of United Synagogue New Geraldine Limon Polansky, 80, of Beverly England Region, and a mem- Geraldine Limon Polansky, of shopping, discussing cats and ber of The Stoneham Interfaith Beverly, passed away on July 14, catching up on the phone. She Association and IEEE. 2017, at the age of 80. doted on her “girls,” Daffney and He was the devoted father of Geraldine was the daugh- Azalea Kerber. And until very Maurice Goldstein and his wife ter of the late George M. and F. recently, she was always ready Lisa of San Antonio, Texas, and Lillian (Axelrod) Limon. She was to hop into her (always new) car, Loren Goldstein and his wife the mother of Lee Sonia Polansky and drive over to the “Atomic” Michelle of Bradford. Arnold of Washington, DC, Jordan M. for an iced coffee with her kids. was the brother of the late Ethel Polansky (Bridget Bedore) of Geraldine could compete Levy, Mildred Calef and his dear Springfield, Ill., and Robert M. with any professional chef, and brother Dr. Wallace Goldstein. Polansky (Lisa Faia) of Beverly. her cooking covered the world: Family-owned and operated since 1933 Other survivors include his broth- Indian curry (she mixed her own ers Peter J. Limon (Judith Jackson) curry powder), fried chicken and of Irisburg, Vt., and Joshua S. collard greens (no biscuits – she Limon of Peabody, her grandsons disliked baking), Ghanaian pea- David H. Polansky of Brookline nut soup (Nkatenkwan), and and Jonathan L. Polansky of brisket with tzimmes. Beverly, and her godson E.J. While she spent most of her OBITUARY POLICY Coleman of Nashville, Tenn. life on the North Shore, Geraldine Geraldine had a wide range had friends and relatives across The Jewish Journal prints brief of interests and many passions. the US, and she will be missed. notices for free. Biographical As a lifelong progressive and Burial services were held on sketches up to 200 words, “In autodidact, she enjoyed dis- July 16 at Sons of Jacob Cemetery Memoriam,” cost $100; longer cussing current affairs and that in Danvers. Donations in submissions will be charged morning’s news on NPR. She Geraldine’s memory can be made accordingly. Photographs cost was a blues aficionado, and a to the American Civil Liberties $25 each. Due to space limita- voracious reader of mysteries Union (aclu.org) or Population tions, obituaries may be edit- and Jewish history. She enjoyed Connection (popconnect.org). ed. Submissions are subject to editing for style. Obituaries can be mailed, faxed, emailed Sidney J. Tankel, 89, of Newton, or hand-delivered to our office. Emailed photos should be sent formerly of Waltham as jpeg or tiff files. For further Sidney J. Tankel, 89, of late Eliot and Dorothy Young. information, contact your local Newton, formerly of Waltham, He was the fond uncle to his funeral home; call Andrew at passed away peacefully sur- nieces and nephews. the Jewish Journal at 978-745- rounded by his loving family on Sidney was a proud alum- 4111 x174; or email andrew@ August 15, 2017. nus of Massachusetts College of jewishjournal.org. He was the beloved husband Pharmacy and long-time owner of Eleanor (Young) Tankel for of H.I. Johnson Drug Company 61 years. He was the loving and in Waltham. He was a veteran of LEGACY devoted father of Cheryl Cohen the Korean War, a Mason and a and her husband Gary, Stephen Shriner. Tankel and his wife Rose Services were held in the Honor your friend Shapiro, and Gail Cohen and her Chapel at Sharon Memorial or loved one husband Scott. Sidney was the Park, Sharon on August 17. In with a donation to adored grandfather of Matthew, lieu of flowers, donations in the Jewish Journal. Andrew and his fiancée Sara, Sidney’s memory may be made Jake, Charli, Sam and Alex. He to the Michael J. Fox Parkinson’s Your gift supports was the dear brother of Florence Foundation or the Jewish Family the continuity of Jewish life Marcus and her late husband & Children’s Service of Waltham. in our communities. Warren, the late Charles Tankel, Arrangements were handled by and the brother-in-law of the Levine Chapels, Brookline. 22 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 24, 2017 CALENDAR Looking AUGUST 24 SUNDOWN AND S’MORES BY THE SEA Join Center for Jewish Education families and friends at Devereux Beach to watch the sunset, nibble some s’mores The Jewish Journal Speaker Series SEPT and reconnect after the summer. Families with kids 2-13 especially welcome. Free, s’mores materials provided. 6-7:30 p.m. RSVP to [email protected] – this is Join us for the 6 REQUIRED or there will not be enough marshmallows. debut evening of The Jewish Journal Speaker AUGUST 25 Series, co-sponsored by HOLY HAPPY HOUR MINYAN Shirat Hayam’s monthly Musical Friday Night Service. 5:30 p.m. Congregation Shirat Hayam of the North Shore, 55 Atlantic Ave., The Jewish Journal, The Jewish Swampscott. No registration necessary. Call Sherri at 781-599-8005. Ahead Advocate and Temple Ner Tamid of CONGREGATIONAL SHABBAT Peabody. The topic is “The Future BBQ DINNER Join Temple Emanu-El for a of Jewish Journalism.” Featured special Shabbat dinner. BYOS (Bring Your Own Shofar) for practice with Rabbi Meyer after speakers are Steven A. Rosenberg, dinner. Adults $18, children (6-17) $10, tots (5 editor and publisher of The Jewish and under) free, or $50 for the family. 7-10 p.m. Temple Emanu-El, 393 Atlantic Ave., Marblehead. Steven A. Rosenberg, left, and Brett Rhyne Journal, and Brett Rhyne, editor of Reservations at emanu-el.org. The Jewish Advocate. Q & A to FRIDAY NIGHT SERVICE at Congregation Tifereth Israel. 7:30 p.m. Oneg will follow. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. 7:30 p.m. RSVP follow. All are welcome to attend. Elliot Hershoff, President. 8 Pierpont St., to [email protected]. Temple Ner Tamid, 368 Lowell St., Peabody. Peabody. 978-531-8135. Visit ctipeabody.org. AUGUST 26 THE RHEA SIMON JAZZ TRIO Performing at The Forge Tavern at The Colonial Inn. Featuring Steve Hershman, piano; Dave Zox, bass; Rhea Simon, vocals. No cover. A Salute to Veterans Concert 7:30-10:30 p.m. 48 Monument Square, Concord. 978-369-9200. AUGUST 27 Area veterans and THROUGH AUGUST 26 Gold Star Families are TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS DRIVE Donate pens, pencils, crayons, lined paper and invited to attend “A Salute other school supplies. Collection boxes available at Stanetsky-Hymanson, 10 Vinnin St., Salem. Visit stanetskyhymansonsalem.com. to Veterans” with singer-songwriter CALENDAR continued on page 23 Don Campbell and his band upon registration at their local Senior COME SEE… WHAT’S NEW! Center. All veterans will have free Sizzling, Summer Weddings - Bar/Bat Mitzvahs admission and wheelchair vans shoWers - anniversaries * will be provided for veterans who engageMents & More! request them. Veterans’ guests will Sale! be admitted for $10, which will The Don Campbell Band Casual Daytime Wear Selma’sSelma’s be collected at the door. 2-4 p.m. to Black Tie Party Wear Extraordinary, Contemporary * Prior purchases & special orders excluded. Selected merchandise. Clothing for Today’s Woman Maudslay Arts Center, 95 Curzon Mill Road, Maudslay State Park, Newburyport. 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CALENDAR continued from page 22 AUGUST 27 THE ARTHUR J. EPSTEIN HILLEL SCHOOL NAMING CEREMONY HEAR GREAT MUSIC. Brunch and the renaming ceremony of Cohen Hillel Academy to Arthur J. Epstein Hillel School, in recognition of Epstein’s generous $5 million donation to the school in January. A permanent tribute to the Cohen family will be installed at the school to honor their legacy. RSVP to Diane at [email protected] or call 781-639- 2880. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Cohen Hillel Academy, 6 Community Rd., Marblehead. 2017 Y2I WELCOME HOME EVENT The community is invited to the Robert I. Lappin Youth to Israel Adventure (Y2I) 2017 Welcome Home Event. Join us to welcome home 2017 Y2I teens and honor outstanding leaders of our Jewish Seaside. community. The celebration is free and open to all. A kosher, dairy dessert reception will be served following the program. 2-4 p.m. Temple B’nai Abraham, 200 E. Lothrop CLASSICAL St., Beverly. SEPT 24: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center TEMPLE OPEN HOUSE Temple Agudas Achim Ezrath Israel in Malden will be OCT 22: Jinjoo Cho, violin holding an Open House to which all interested Jewish or Interfaith prospective members are welcome. Program will include a barbecue and tour of the Temple. NOV 19: Ying Quartet & Zuill Bailey, cello There is no charge, but reservations must be made by calling the office at 781- 322-7205 or Marilyn Masters at 781-322-2035. 4 p.m. 245 Bryant St., Malden. DEC 10: Cantus Visit aa-ei.org. JAN 28: Juilliard415 with Rachel Podger, baroque violin WATERCOLOR PAINTING DEMONSTRATION APR 22: Dawn Upshaw, soprano

And much more! Jinjoo Cho JAZZ, FOLK & POP SEPT 8: Tamir Hendelman Trio Well-known for playing with the Clayton- Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, as well as featured on recordings by Barbra Streisand “Sacred Spot” by Anita Helen Cohen SEPT 22: Bettye LaVette Join solo exhibitor Anita Helen Cohen for an artist demonstration of watercolor SEPT 29: Live from Laurel Canyon painting techniques on yupo synthetic paper. Free and open to all. 781-631-2608. 1-3 p.m. Marblehead Arts Association, King Hooper Mansion, 8 Hooper St., OCT 8: Regina Carter: Simply Ella Marblehead. Visit marbleheadarts.org. OCT 28-29: Mary Chapin Carpenter TASTE OF ROSH HODESH: IT’S A GIRL THING! For girls entering 6th and 7th grade, and their parents. Meet other Jewish girls from the North Shore and create DEC 8: The Four Freshmen a sisterhood with your peers. Snacks will be served. 3 p.m. RSVP at 978-535- DEC 9: Felix Cavaliere’s The Rascals 2100. Temple Tiferet Shalom, 489 Lowell St., Peabody. Tamir Handelman CONNECTIONS Widows, Widowers and singles BBQ. $18 paid in advance, $25 rockportmusic.org :: 978.546.7391 at the door. 4 p.m. Congregation Shirat Hayam of the North Shore, 55 Atlantic Ave., Swampscott. 781-599-8005. Visit shirathayam.org. AUGUST 30 Jewish Journal Size: 6" x 7", 4 color, Run: 8-24-17 MAH-JONG TOURNAMENT The Merrimack Valley Chapter of Hadassah will be co-hosting a Mah-jong Tournament with Brightview North Andover Senior Living to raise money for the research and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. 6-10 p.m. The evening will include a reception with wine, appetizers, and a vendor’s gift fair. Open House Prizes will be awarded during the evening, with a grand prize for the winners at the end of the tournament. There will be a $20 donation fee to participate in the tournament. Send a $20 check made out to MVHadassah to Merrimack Valley Hadassah at P.0. Box 531, Andover, MA 01810. For more information, contact the chapter at [email protected]. Weekend AUGUST 31 Temple B’nai Abraham TEMPLE NER TAMID FAMILY HAPPY HOUR Meet Rabbi Richard Perlman and Friday, September 8 learn about TNT’s community and exciting programming coming for the new year. 5:30pm-6:30pm 200 E Lothrop Street, Beverly Open to all families and young adults. 6:30 p.m. 368 Lowell St., Peabody. tbabeverly.org RSVP 978-532-1293 or [email protected]. Tot Shabbat and Dinner 7:00pm SEPTEMBER 3 BoardSpirited Installation Shabbat service Service followed and Wine by and Cheese Reception FLYING HORSE OUTDOOR a wine and cheese reception SCULPTURE EXHIBIT Eighth annual exhibit on the campus of Pingree School. Free and open to the public, Sunday, September 10 seven days a week during daylight 9am-12pm hours. Reception with the artists, Religious School Opening Day Open House September 10, 1 p.m. Through November 5. Pingree School, 537 9:00am Family Service Highland St., So. Hamilton. 978-468- 4415. pingree.org/sculpture-show. 9:30am Meet our teaching staff, visit our classrooms SEPTEMBER 8 “Blue Moon” by Gints Grinbergs 9:45am Nosh and shmooze with other parents, Rabbi Alison Adler and Education Director Deb Schutzman FRIDAY FAMILY PRE-SHABBAT JAM SESSION! Sing and dance in a circle of family and friends with the Rabbi and his guitar. Welcome Shabbat with songs 11:00am Rabbi Adler will hold a discussion on and traditional Oneg treats. Free and open to all. 5:30 p.m. Chabad Lubavitch of Peabody, 682 Lowell St., Peabody. Visit JewishPeabody.com to register. “Spiritually Preparing for the Holidays” SEPTEMBER 10 PJ LIBRARY NEW YEAR AT THE FARM Lappin Foundation and Congregation Special new member rate: Ahavas Achim invite families with children, 8 and younger, to Individual $300, Family $500 celebrate Rosh Hashanah from Pre-K & Kindergarten Free 10-11 a.m., at Cider Hill Farm, 45 Fern Ave., Amesbury. Enjoy stories, songs, apple and honey tasting, hayrides, apple picking JOURNALISM DOES MATTER and a sounding of the shofar. In Support our newsroom and reporting. The Jewish Journal is the event of rain, the program is the sole Jewish content that reaches thousands of Jewish homes every other week. canceled. For more information Your tax deductible contribution helps us continue to link the Jewish community. or to RSVP, contact Phyllis Osher at 978-740-4404 or [email protected]. Walk-ins are welcome. Send your donation to: The Jewish Journal, 27 Congress St., Suite 501, Salem MA 01970 CALENDAR continued on page 24 Donate online at: jewishjournal.org 24 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 24, 2017 CALENDAR

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SEPTEMBER 12 ONGOING ADULT TORAH STUDIES ART SPIEGELMAN Center for MONDAYS With Rabbi Steven Lewis. 11 a.m. Temple Jewish Studies presents the Pulitzer ZUMBA FOR ADULTS Ahavat Achim, 86 Middle St., Gloucester. Prize-winning artist and author 6:15-7:15 p.m. Temple Ner Tamid, 368 Lowell St., taagloucester.org. of MAUS and In the Shadow of Peabody. 978-532-1293. office@templenertamid. No Towers. The event is free, but org. NO CLASS ON AUGUST 28, RESUMES PJ LIBRARY WIGGLES AND GIGGLES tickets are required; limit four tickets SEPTEMBER 4. Jewish children ages 2½-5 and parents/ per person. Free pick-up at the caregivers are invited to a high-energy music and Harvard Box Office, Farkas Hall, 10 TUESDAYS movement program with Jewish-themed. games Holyoke St., August 29-September and activities. Free and will meet on Thursdays, ISRAELI DANCING 12. Tickets available by phone or August 10, 17 and 24 from 10-11 a.m. at Cohen No partner needed, all levels welcome. Free. online for a small fee. Tickets will Hillel Academy, 6 Community Rd., Marblehead. 8-9:15 p.m. Temple Ner Tamid, 368 Lowell St., also be available at the door at 3 To register or for more information, contact Peabody. 978-532-1293. office@templenertamid. p.m., pending availability. 5 p.m. Phyllis Osher at 978-740-4404 or posher@ org. Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 lappinfoundation.org. Walk-ins welcome. Quincy St., Cambridge. 617-496- NEW PARENT SUPPORT GROUP 2222. boxoffice.harvard.edu. Mothers and/or fathers can give and receive FRIDAYS support, and ask questions. Open to all faiths, SEPTEMBER 14 races, and sexual orientation. Registration is SENIOR LUNCH AND LEARN Seniors are invited to participate in a class or LADIES CHALLAH BAKE Enjoy not required and is free to attend. 10:45 a.m.- 12:15 p.m. Free. JCCNS, 4 Community Rd., enjoy a guest speaker on the third Friday of an evening of inspiration and unity each month and stay to socialize over lunch! Photo by Enno Kapitza-Agentur Focus and learn everything you KNEAD to Marblehead. jccns.org. Art Spiegelman 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Register in advance by know about challah. Make your own PAPERBACK JUKEBOX (at Abbot Library) calling 781-631-8330. JCCNS, 4 Community Rd., delicious challah to adorn your Rosh Hashanah tables. $20 per baker. 7 p.m. Chabad Lubavitch Join Temple Emanu-El for a musical story hour Marblehead. jccns.org. of Peabody, 682 Lowell St., Peabody. RSVP at JewishPeabody.com. designed especially for children 5 and under and PRIVATE TOUR AT THE PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM their families. 10:15-11 a.m. Abbot Public Library, SATURDAYS Come tour the exhibit Oceanliners: Glamour, Speed, and 235 Pleasant Street, Marblehead. emanu-el.org. Style, with curatorial scholar George Schwartz. 10-11:00 TORAH STUDY a.m. Private tour 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Explore the museum on WEDNESDAYS Temple Emanu-El invites everybody to lay-led your own, 12 p.m. Meet up with group at the museum Torah Study. The first Shabbat of every month is KNITTING KNIGHTS led by Rabbi Meyer. 9-10 a.m. Temple Emanu-El, café for lunch on your own. Cost: $20 includes museum Join the JCCNS for casual evenings of knitting admission and private tour. Reserve your spot at the 393 Atlantic Ave., Marblehead. 781-631-9300. and chat. Every first Wednesday of the month. emanu-el.org. Welcome Center, 781-631-8330. Limited to 20 spots. Open to all ages. Free. 7:30-9 p.m. RSVP Peabody Essex Museum, 161 Essex St., Salem. pem.org. [email protected]. JCCNS, 4 Community Road, Marblehead. jccns.org. SUNDAYS SEPTEMBER 16 SUNDAES ON SUNDAYS! SONGS OF THE STEPPES & THE SHTETL WITH THURSDAYS Sunday nights after minyan (starts at 7:30 POLINA SKOVORODA-SHEPHERD Come and enjoy p.m.), enjoy an ice cream sundae. September 3. LEARN TO LEAD WITH TOASTMASTERS Temple Ner Tamid, Temple Ner Tamid, an evening of old and new songs in Yiddish and Russian. 8 p.m. $20. Advance purchase at Learn public speaking and leadership skills at brownpapertickets.com/event/3073556; any remaining tickets will be available at the door 368 Lowell St., Peabody. 978-532-1293. Toastmasters at the JCCNS every first and third [email protected]. (cash only). Third Life Studio, 33 Union Square, Somerville. Thursday each month. 7-8 p.m. You will find a supportive, learn-by-doing environment that THROUGH SEPTEMBER 24 allows you to achieve your goals at your own Submit your events to: pace. For more info, contact Sara Ewing at SUMMER SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITS IN THE MAA GALLERIES Marblehead Arts [email protected] Association - King Hooper Mansion, 8 Hooper St., Marblehead. Free. 781-631-2608. Visit [email protected] or 781-476-9913. JCCNS, marbleheadarts.org. 4 Community Rd., Marblehead. jccns.org.

St. George Greek Orthodox Church 54 South Common Street, Lynn, MA 01902 ~ 781-593-6162 ~ www.stgeorgelynn.org GRECIANGRECIAN FESTIVALFESTIVAL 20172017 LABORLABOR DAYDAY WEEKENDWEEKEND UNDERUNDER THETHE BIGBIG TENTTENT ~~ RAINRAIN OROR SHINESHINE Friday, September 1 ~ 6 p.m. to midnight Saturday, September 2 ~ Noon to midnight Sunday, September 3 ~ Noon to midnight (Admission: $3.00 for Adults after 4 p.m. ~ Sat. & Sun. only) Continuous Traditional & New Greek Music provided by DJ George Athas Greek Cuisine ~ Pastries ~ Loukoumades ~ Kafenio Boutiques ~ Children’s Games & Rides ~ Authentic Greek Dancers Friday Evening: Dj George Athas Saturday & Sunday Evening: orfeas

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NBA Hall of Famer David Robinson Annual Vinnin Square summer sidewalk spreads message of unity in Israel sale slated for August 25 and 26 A sidewalk sale will NBA players participated in be held at the Vinnin special workshops for 150 Young Square Mall, on August Ambassadors for Peace from 25 and 26, from 10 a.m.- diverse religious backgrounds 5 p.m. August 13 to 16 at the Peres Organized by Pauline Center for Peace and Innovation Spirito, Infinity Boutique in Israel. owner, the event will fea- One of the speakers, NBA leg- ture hundreds of items end David Robinson, said to the from an array of partici- group, “I learned in the NBA that pating stores. in order to succeed, you have “I can’t believe it’s to work together, play together, been 10 years and each and win together.” year it gets bigger and Robinson, the former San better. Everyone loves Antonio Spurs star, led an NBA a bargain,” Spirito said. contingent that included Israeli “There will be bargains Omri Casspi and Anthony galore, you’ll simply Parker, who came to Israel as adore. Organizing the part of Basketball Without Annual Sidewalk Sale is Borders Europe, which was held a labor of love and my this year for the first time in way of giving back to the Israel. The three players par- community who sup- ticipated in several workshops ports shopping locally.” with 150 young leaders – Jews, Consumers will be Kathy Cohen and Pauline Spirito Christians, Muslims, and Druze able to save up to 85 per- – on peace education through cent on all types of merchandise – clothing, jewelry, dancewear and basketball. During the work- giftware from the store’s Spring/Summer and Fall Collections. There shops, the pros used language, will be sales on clothing, jewelry, dancewear, giftware, novelties, music, sports, and other medi- eyewear, along with a free snack and beverage sampling sponsored ums as tools to build mutual by Panera. understanding. Participating businesses include Advanced Vision Center, In a moving ceremony held David Robinson visited Israel in August. Elements Therapeutic Massage, Greater Boston Running Company, during the gathering, Robinson, Infinity & Skate Skins Fashion Boutique, Panera Bread, Petco and an NBA Hall of Famer who won in order to succeed you have I thank you. My father [former The Paper Store. two league championships with to work together, play together, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon the Spurs, told the young lead- and win together. Sports is a Peres] believed that sports can For more information contact Pauline at Infinity Boutique, ers: “It is exciting for me to be wonderful way to see a person bridge social and cultural gaps.” 781-599-8829. in Israel and to see youths from for who they are, and it is a all different faiths come togeth- tool that can make the world er. Sport is a wonderful way to better.” do it because you don’t have Chemi Peres, chairman of to look alike, you don’t have to the board of directors at the be alike, you have to choose to Peres Center, spoke at the cer- work together. emony and said: “On behalf of “I learned in the NBA that the young leaders here today, Lappin Foundation cordially invites the community to our 2017 Youth to Israel (Y2I) Celebration! Sunday, August 27 2 p.m. Temple B’nai Abraham, 200 Lothrop Street, Beverly

NBA forward Omri Casspi grew up in Yavneh, Israel. Join us to welcome home 2017 Y2I Teens and to honor outstanding leaders of our Jewish community Lebanese beauty queen loses her title after visit to Israel Jeffrey Robbins Youth to Israel Award A winner of a Lebanese beau- ty pageant has been stripped of Ray Hanna her title after it was revealed she Friend of Israel Award visited Israel. Dual Swedish-Lebanese citi- Elana Zabar zen Amanda Hanna, who won the Miss Lebanon Emigrant 2017 Y2I Exceptional Teen Israel Advocate Award competition earlier this month, Ally Kramer was told she would be stripped of her title after visiting Israel Y2I Exceptional Jewish Teen Leadership Award using her Swedish passport on Mason Quintero an academic trip in 2016. “After communicating our Y2I Exceptional Jewish Teen Leadership Award decision with Lebanon’s Facebook Dual Swedish-Lebanese citizen Minister of Tourism, he decided The celebration is free and open to all. A kosher, dairy dessert reception that Hanna should be stripped Amanda Hanna, who won the Miss Lebanon Emigrant 2017 will be served following the program. RSVPs requested to of her title because her visit to competition earlier this month. Israel violates our country’s Susan Feinstein at 978-740-4431 or [email protected]. laws,” according to a statement This isn’t the first contro- The Festival of Lebanese versy over a Lebanese beauty Emigrants in Dhour Al Choueir queen and Israel. In 2015, Miss provided to the Lebanese news- Lebanon, Saly Greige, nearly Lappin Foundation paper Al Modon. lost her titled after she posted a Enhancing Jewish Identity across Generations Israel and Lebanon techni- photo on social media appear- 29 Congress Street • PO Box 986 • Salem, MA 01970 cally remain in a “state of war,” ing with Miss Israel, Doron 978.740.4431 • fax 978.744.1411 • www.lappinfoundation.org and it is illegal for Lebanese citi- Matalon. zens to travel to the Jewish state. – JNS.org 26 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – AUGUST 24, 2017 COMMUNITY NEWS

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BOGOSIAN NAMED INTERIM RABBI CJP AWARDS $28,000 IN NORTH SHORE GRANTS AT HAVERHILL’S TEMPLE EMANU-EL Combined Jewish Philan­thropies, Greater Boston’s Jewish Temple Emanu-El of Federation, announced that six organizations will receive a total Haverhill is pleased to wel- of $28,000 in grants for programs to strengthen the North Shore come Rabbi Ilene Bogosian, Jewish community. The recipients of the grants for 2017-2018 who joined the temple com- include: munity as its interim rabbi on July 1, 2017. Over the next year, Cohen Hillel Academy a traditional temple-sponsored “The CJP North Shore grants Rabbi Bogosian will assist with This grant will fund the program. The program centers process is an exciting way for the the search for a successor to development and implemen- on music and books geared for community to actively partici- Rabbi Emeritus Ira Korinow, tation of Shabbat Unplugged, children ages 2-5, and weaves pate in the creating and grow- who retired in June after lead- a weekend to strengthen con- Jewish content into a children’s ing [of] innovative and engag- ing Temple Emanu-El for 36 nections among synagogues music routine. ing programs in the North Shore years. Rabbi Bogosian has and Cohen Hillel families on community. We are excited to extensive experience guiding congregations through this process the North Shore, while exposing CJP’s North Shore Commun­ help the community build and and will serve as both spiritual leader to the congregation and advi- these families to a meaningful ity Grants program is run by a grow in engagement and partic- sor to the search committee. camp-like experience. This pro- committee of volunteer lead- ipation through quality Jewish Rabbi Bogosian started her professional life as a rehabilitation gram will provide participating ers from the region. The North programs,” said Ariella Levy, co- counselor, later becoming a psychiatric social worker and family families a holistic Shabbat expe- Shore Grants Committee chair of the North Shore Grants therapist. In 1988, she decided to change career paths and follow rience including educational reviews grant allocations and Committee. a long-time interest in studying for the rabbinate. She enrolled opportunities; music and tefil- decides grant recipients. The “CJP works to ensure that at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and was lah; sports and recreation; and committee evaluated 12 appli- funded agencies and programs ordained in 1992. She served as campus rabbi and Hillel director communal meals over which to cations on the merit of their improve the lives of people in at Wellesley College for ten years. In 2004, she was one of the pio- relax, get to know each other, alignment with the following our community. The North neers recruited to pilot the Interim Clergy program for the Central and come together as one com- funding priorities: Shore Community Grants pool Conference of American Rabbis and the Reform movement. Since munity. • High quality Jewish educa- is a small aspect of the total that time, Rabbi Bogosian has served as an interim rabbi at 12 con- tion (for children, teens, and resources and efforts CJP con- gregations across the country. Jewish Family & Children’s adults) tributes to support the North Rabbi Bogosian has a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from Service; Schechter Holocaust • Programs that engage fam- Shore. As a member of the Simmons College, a Master of Education in counseling psychology Services ilies with young children and North Shore Community Grants from Northeastern University, a Master of Arts in Judaic studies This grant will fund efforts teens who have previously not Committee, I and other com- from Hebrew College, and a Master of Hebrew literature and a to meet the needs of aging been engaged with Jewish life munity based volunteers can Doctor of Divinity from Hebrew Union College. She and her hus- Holocaust survivors on the • Social service programs, help be a part of that process, band George have been married for 48 years and have two grown North Shore while allow- including initiatives for people learn more about the vibrant sons, two daughters-in-law, and a grandchild. ing them to remain safe and with disabilities and those who landscape of Jewish life on the age comfortably in their own are economically vulnerable North Shore, and provide pru- PREUSS TO LEAVE CJP homes. The grant will be used • Programs that focus on dent stewardship for these des- for vital home care services for leadership development for the ignated grant funds,” added Jon Gil Preuss, the executive the most vulnerable survivors next generation Marcus, co-chair of the North vice president at Combined on the North Shore. • Programs that focus on Shore Grants Committee. Jewish Philanthropies, has Israel engagement accepted a new position as New England Yachad chief executive officer of the of the Orthodox Union: Jewish Federation of Greater North Shore Programming JAN THE TEACHER Washington (D.C.). Preuss Through creative arts and will begin his new post next recreational activities, this grant month. will help Yachad expand pro- In a statement, CJP gramming to reach more of Jan Steven Brodie President Barry Shrage, and the North Shore’s 23 communi- Bar and Bat Mitzvah Tutoring Board Chairman Neil Wallack, ties; increase parent and fam- 80 Dennison Ave Swampscott MA 01907 praised Preuss: “It is an honor ily support services; create new, to be able to develop leaders meaningful partnerships in the who can shape the Jewish community around the country. This region; and identify new peers 617-620-8276 announcement is, nevertheless, bittersweet, for as excited as we and volunteers who will enjoy [email protected] are for Gil, he has very much been an integral part of our family and benefit from Yachad. and has been an inspirational leader at CJP for the past 13 years. “As many of you know, Gil has been a relentless advocate for our North Shore Teen Initiative: When Was the Last Time Jewish community in areas including Jewish education, caring for Middle School Initiative with the vulnerable including our anti-poverty initiative, Israel advo- Cohen Hillel Academy You Checked on How Much cacy, and broad community engagement. He has offered inspired This grant builds upon a col- Your House is Worth? direction on everything from broad strategic initiatives to men- laborative program that was toring staff to developing deep partnerships with individuals and implemented on a limited trial Do you think that knowing the value agencies to benefit our community. We recognize that this is hard basis last year. It will enable of what is probably your greatest asset to digest for those of us who have worked closely with Gil and for Jewish organizations on the would be useful information? many outside our organization as well. We will miss him dearly and North Shore to offer Jewish mid- I am offering you a complimentary we know you join us in wishing him and his family the very best.” dle school students (grades 6-8) Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) a diverse menu of opportunities which will detail what your property DENBO, MOLDAU FAMILIES which include social, experien- tial, and interest-based oppor- will sell for in today’s robust market. ATTEND NATIONAL JEWISH RETREAT tunities; tikkun olam (repair- I will assist you in determining how much equity you have in ing the world); and leadership your home having purchased it several years ago – in today’s building programming. market, that value has certainly gone way up! Temple B’nai Abraham: Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage New England leads Pe’ah Garden the industry in market share and has sold more homes than This grant is for Temple B’nai any other real estate company in New England. As a Coldwell Abraham to double the size of Banker affiliate I have the most integrated and comprehensive its Pe’ah Garden, and for related approach to marketing in the industry. hands-on activities to teach all generations about Jewish val- Ready to get the process going? ues, holidays, and prayer; help people connect spiritually; and build community. SCOTT BORNSTEIN REALTOR® Temple Emanu-El: Paperback Jukebox (617) 593-7240 DIRECT • (978) 927-1111 OFFICE This grant will help Paperback [email protected] Jukebox continue to develop relationships with Jewish fami- 50 Dodge Street, Suite 105 lies with young children who Sam and Carol Denbo, and Harriet and David Moldau, attended are not inclined to participate in Beverly, MA 01915 the National Jewish Retreat this month in Palm Desert, Calif. The event was a program by The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. The The Jewish Journal is happy ColdwellBankerHomes.com program included five days of classes given by top rabbinical to print news of your simchas Operated by a subsidiary of NRT LLC. scholars. Over 150 topics were offered, covering subjects ranging at no charge. Text may be from Jewish Medical Ethics, to Torah perspectives on the death edited for style or length. penalty, to tales of survival from Holocaust survivors, to the future Photos will be used if space JOURNALISM DOES MATTER of Judaism in the 21st Century. Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, former Chief permits. 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By Steven A. Rosenberg that I feel that I really belong here in alongside the clinic in which I work, JOURNAL STAFF Massachusetts. run by Boston’s Health Care for the We joined Temple Sinai, in Homeless Program. I could see some opportunities for a change in the way lison Brookes has lived on the Marblehead, as a young couple and we homeless people are served at LSA. North Shore and been a member are definitely part of the temple family. I became president of the board two of Temple Sinai in Marblehead We eventually settled in Salem. I have A years ago. since she arrived from England with never forgotten being a newcomer to this country, being welcomed and her husband, Anthony Zietman, What do you feel you’ve experiencing what it is like to be 30 years ago. Both are physicians at accomplished as president? Mass General in Boston, and they live “foreign.” I think that is why I care in Salem. Alison is an internist and about Lynn so much. It is one of the The biggest accomplishment is that Anthony is a radiation oncologist. first places in which our own Jewish I have made myself redundant! My Their family of four recently expanded community settled when they arrived physical presence is not needed much to six: their daughter, Willow, married in America. As an immigrant myself, it now because LSA has an excellent Sarah in February of this year, and their makes sense to me, to help the people management team with clinically son, Jack, married Ilana in June. The who come to our country nowadays. trained staff, providing state-of-the- children are a law student, a rabbi, a art care conforming to Housing First How did you get involved with blacksmithing artist, and a puppeteer principles. This means that LSA’s and children’s therapist. the homeless and the Lynn staff is trained to provide trauma- One of Alison’s many passions is Shelter Association? informed care. People are sheltered her connection to the Lynn Shelter I was a volunteer on Temple Sinai’s unconditionally and the mission is to provide not only shelter, but also Association, which cares for homeless Alison Brookes sports a shirt she Social Action Committee about 17 years individuals and families. For the past designed from a photograph taken by a ago. The Lynn Shelter Association has professional assistance to all guests 17 years, she has volunteered at the homeless person in Lynn. an emergency shelter for individuals with an overall goal of housing. We association’s emergency shelter, who have no place to call home. are measuring “outcomes” as well as When did you decide you wanted organized fund-raisers, and most That Christmas, there was no special “output,” and we are seeing significant recently served as the president of LSA’s to become a doctor? meal planned, so we showed up with improvements in the rate of housing, board of directors. I knew when I was 7 that I would be the Jewish version of a traditional especially in our three family shelters. These are the realizations of big dreams. A A A a doctor and have never questioned it. Christmas meal, which was very well I feel a sort of pleasant responsibility to received by the shelter guests. It felt so Are there homeless Jews in the How was it to grow up in a Jewish make sure that people are healthy and good to spend Christmas Day with the area? home in London? well cared for. I would make a terrible guests, and hearing their stories that Of course. Anybody can have a My parents were born in Northern nurse, but I do like making decisions I never wanted to stop doing it. Since catastrophe happening in their life. England before World War II. They and have always been very bossy but then I haven’t missed a Christmas We have people of every imaginable were teenagers in the war. Their with extremely good intentions. I find Day at the shelter, and actually we go national and cultural origin taking grandparents had been immigrants most people to be fascinating and I every Thanksgiving as well. I just kept refuge in our shelters, and I have from Eastern Europe. My mother taught like hearing their stories, and helping falling more and more deeply in love met many Jewish people who are French and Spanish in public schools them to determine what is happening with the whole idea of supporting the experiencing homelessness both there in London, but she was best known to them and what would be their best organization. and in the MGH clinic. for a very dry sense of humor and an course of action. I produced a number of fund-raisers extraordinary ability to win general- I went to medical school in London for LSA, but more recently I realized What about Temple Sinai in knowledge quizzes. My father was a at age 18, and was a doctor, married that I would probably be more useful if Marblehead? scientific researcher in the physiology to my childhood sweetheart, by the I applied some of my other experiences I was given the opportunity to sing of bones, and an embryology professor; age of 23. I interrupted my studies at from my life practicing medicine. I had Shacharit [morning prayers] on Rosh but also a Classics scholar. the age of 20 and traveled solo around learned a lot from current colleagues Hashanah, which I’ve been doing Africa for 6 months, and did quite at MGH, where there is a “street clinic” I grew up in North London in the for 8 years. So now, Temple Sinai has ’60s and ’70s. Our family was – and still a few other things over subsequent years that could be generally described offered me the part of Judaism that I is – close-knit, providing an eccentric thought was lost to me. Standing on mix of traditional Ashkenazi Jewish life as “exploring the world.” I am deeply grateful for those years of traveling, the bimah and singing with my heart rhythms with liberal open-mindedness. and soul, sometimes in front of the ark, Our home was noisy and crowded, and talking, listening, and attempting to understand what makes all of us is something I never thought I would full of books. The main thing we did that have the chance to do. defined us a family was to sing together, human, because the reason I like being Now Temple Sinai has officially and to be absolutely terrible at sports. a doctor is to share episodes of life with adopted the Lynn Shelter Association At our Orthodox shul, I sang in the choir people who are going through things, and we are doing more and more and learned the Jewish liturgy, but the and you have to know and love people projects together. This year, Temple opportunity to be called to the Torah to do that well. Sinai has agreed to host a photo exhibit and to lead services was not available What made you move to the US? by the homeless guests of Lynn Shelter because I was a girl. I was educated at Association. “Off The Grid” will be in a rather “posh” English school in the When we were 26, Anthony was the lobby at Temple Sinai during Rosh center of London, where my sister and offered a job at Mass General in Boston. Hashanah and Yom Kippur. I were considered somewhat unusual I came with him, and was thrilled to be and called “The Jewesses.” We were able to live in Nahant, by the sea. I did Homeless people are just as talented misfits in the Orthodox shul, and misfits a medical residency at Salem Hospital, and worthwhile as everybody else. This at school, but within our family, we for which I am truly grateful. I learned exhibit gives them a voice. I hope the were quite ordinary. so much from the physicians and it Brookes pulls a cartful of food that will Jewish community comes to see the is because of what they taught me go to the homeless. photos, because they are truly moving.

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