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VOLUME XI, NUMBER 6 MARCH 22, 2018 Israel is the star at a national security conference in Mississippi BY BEN SALES BILOXI, MS (JTA) – A homeland se- curity conference took place in a southern Mississippi town with an Air Force base At right: Mississippi and a shipbuilding yard. Among those in Gov. Phil Bryant at attendance were the commandant of the a press conference U.S. Coast Guard; a general from India, with Israeli officials the world’s second-largest country; and at the Homeland representatives from Taiwan and South Defense and Security Korea, a U.S. ally in a key trouble spot. Summit in Biloxi,MS, But Israel was the star. on March 13. (Photo The International Homeland Defense by Ben Sales) and Security Summit, organized by the state government, was held March 13 in this Gulf Coast city far from any Jewish population center, in a state the local Is- the conference, whose organizers paid They were there to expand into the U.S. migrants and weapons across the water. raeli consul visits only twice a year. But for JTA’s flight to Biloxi along with hotel market and introduce themselves to local They discussed natural disasters like representatives of 16 Israeli companies costs. “They have a tough neighborhood officials and private companies. Hurricane Katrina – its effects are still attended, along with a delegation from they live in.” One tool, Smart Shooter, promises visible here – and how climate change its Defense Ministry and arms industry. The admiration went beyond the to make guns more accurate. Another, could exacerbate future storms. They And speakers, especially Mississippi Gov. governor. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard Magal Security Systems, is a border talked about the area’s military presence Phil Bryant, couldn’t stop talking about it. commandant, said of Israel that “[t]here’s security sensor system that’s used on and how manufacturing equipment like Bryant credited a national security no better example of a country that finds Israel’s northern and southern frontiers. drones can boost the state. conference he spoke at in Israel in 2016 itself in the bullseye.” A panelist said “Is- A third, Beeper, is a surveillance system But the governor said there’s still plenty as the inspiration for this one. One of the rael is literally our anchor in the Middle – already deployed by the Israeli military of opportunity for Israelis to do business first pictures he showed during his speech East.” Israelis spoke on two panels, and at and by police departments in Baltimore in the state. Bryant pointed to the border was of him grinning with Prime Minister a news conference the governor invited a and Houston – that can pinpoint where tech they have developed, from sensors Benjamin Netanyahu. few Israeli officials to stand alongside him a gun is fired and instantly take video of to surveillance, as a way to secure the “If there’s anyone that knows about and some U.S. military officers. who fired the weapon. coast without a physical barrier. He has homeland security, it’s the Israelis,” he The Israeli delegation featured compa- While there are no hostile borders in made supporting Israel a priority of his said at the start of his address opening nies specializing in security technology. Mississippi, Magal has already done work administration, visiting three times since there and elsewhere in the United States he took office in 2012. securing the perimeters of prisons, power “What we can learn from the real plants and Secret Service sites. It’s played world experience, unfortunately of having a role in securing 80 percent of Israel’s someone on your border in a threatening borders, as well as some borders in Europe, manner, can be very beneficial here in the the manufacturer claims. United States of America,” the governor “I don’t think they suffer from any said at a news conference. “Israel has illegal movement on the border, “said shown the world that you can secure a Saar Koursh, CEO of Magal. “But for border with the use of technology as well us, securing Mississippi’s critical sites as the new advanced structures that we is definitely an opportunity, and besides see being used here.” that, collaborating with the industries Israel and Mississippi also share cul- doing projects out of Mississippi as tural similarities, said Lior Haiat, Israel’s well.” Israel Aerospace Industries has consul general for the region, who is based two facilities in Mississippi. in Florida. Its population of fewer than The threats discussed in Mississippi three million makes it intimate like Israel. were a far cry from those in Israel, where And the high percentage of soldiers and militant groups aim missiles across a veterans makes military service a famil- border, terrorists try to infiltrate from the iar and appreciated part of life, as it is in barely self-governing territory next door Israel, where there’s a mandatory draft. and at least one regional rival threatens “It’s very similar because Mississippi annihilation. is a very small place where work is very Instead, discussion focused on the centralized,” Haiat said. “The governor Gulf Coast’s maritime economy. Panel- knows all of the key players personally, ists talked about boats ferrying drugs, and he personally opens the door for Israeli companies.” In his closing speech at the conference, Bryant said: “Should there come a day Federation when there will be a threat, and it will, we will have friends around the world. From our families to yours, We are preparing ourselves in the event on Facebook that that terror attack does occur.” The Jewish Federation of Northeast- have a happy and healthy ern Pennsylvania now has a page on Passover! Facebook to let community members Candle lighting know about upcoming events and keep March 23...... 7 pm connected. March 30...... 7:08 pm March 31...... after 8:10 pm INSIDE THIS ISSUE April 5...... 7:14 pm April 6...... 7:15 pm New cancer study Passover On the silver screen April 13...... 7:23 pm A new four-city study for cancer A look at Moroccan Passover Two documentaries look at the PLUS risk in Ashkenazi Jews is intended traditions; nine little-known lives of playwright Arthur Miller Opinion...... 2 to be a model for genetic testing. holiday facts; recipes; and more. and violinist Itzhak Perlman. Passover Greetings...... 6 Story on page 5 Stories on page 6-7, 9-11 Stories on pages 12-13 D’var Torah...... 8 2 THE REPORTER ■ MARCH 22, 2018 A MATTER OF OPINION Make the Iraqi Jewish Archive a gateway between Arabs and Jews BY DAVID A. DANGOOR That they were confiscated by Iraqi Iraq is still in our blood and in our bones. people and government of Iraq viewed (JNS) – I launched what is now an dictator Saddam Hussein’s Intelligence It’s like a distant bell ringing in the back people of different faiths. There would internationally acclaimed documentary Agency and left in a basement until of our heads, always reminding us where need to be a genuine desire to welcome last year, titled “Remember Baghdad,” discovery by the U.S. Army during the we came from. them, treat them with care and con- which chronicles the history of the Jews Iraq war should not nullify the nature of For those, like for me, Baghdad is the sideration, and respect their national of Iraq until the community’s destruction this stolen property. formation of our identity. aspirations – something now common in recent decades. It’s already been seen Secondly, while we are indeed To be a Jew is sometimes to be a in many parts of the world. by many thousands of people, from Jews indebted to the United States for res- bridge to the past, but I believe that we If this were to be achieved, it would and non-Jews around the world to senior cuing and restoring the archive, which can also serve as bridges to the future. matter less where the archive resided Iraqi diplomats. would undoubtedly because we would So it is with great interest that I read have been left to rot have access to it. otherwise, it’s not In the Iraq where I was raised, Jew, Christian, Muslim, Sunni Perhaps an agree- the article “Iraqi-Jewish archive triggers or Shia worked, learned, sang and danced together. We lived ‘traumatic memories,’” published on Al American property. ment could be for- However, the an- side by side in peace and harmony. mulated whereby Jazeera a few weeks ago. While in part, I believe that while the Jewish community there is no more, it nicely encapsulates issues like the swer to what hap- the archive would pens next should perhaps the Iraqi Jewish Archive can serve as a new conduit also be on display history and sensitivity surrounding the between peoples, nations and religions. Iraqi Jewish Archive and Iraqi Jewry’s lie in not whose at various locations, feelings toward our former homeland, property it is, but With ISIS finally expelled from Iraq, this could be an auspicious allowing this col- it missed some vital elements. where would it be time for Jews of Iraqi origins to rebuild ties with our former lection of artifacts First, and perhaps importantly, it best preserved and country, and for the leaders of the Republic of Iraq to provide to educate and in- should be recognized that the archive provide access for gestures of reconciliation to its Diaspora Jewish community. form others. is mostly private and community all, especially in its For Jews and artifacts, from family heirlooms to potential use as a non-Jews around school records. These were not the gateway toward better relations between In the Iraq where I was raised, the world, this could serve as a testa- property of the state, and were taken Jews and Arabs. Jew, Christian, Muslim, Sunni or Shia ment to the good relations that Jews and from the homes and communities Between 1950 and 1952, approxi- worked, learned, sang and danced to- Arabs shared in the past, and serve as that we were forced to abandon as mately 130,000 Iraqi Jews were airlift- gether. We lived side by side in peace a point of entry in exploring how these tens of thousands of Jews – many of ed to Israel, where they became fully and harmony. ties could become strong and vibrant whom had been living in these lands integrated into the country despite their I believe that while the Jewish com- once again. for thousands of years – fled increas- arrival with no assets. This constituted munity there is no more, perhaps the To Iraqis, the archive communicates ing atrocities, pogroms and attacks around 75 percent of the total Iraqi Iraqi Jewish Archive can serve as a the long-standing Jewish community against our communities. Jewish community at the time. While new conduit between peoples, nations that lived among them. They could A condition for being able to flee the creation of the state of Israel was and religions. demystify the tradition and culture to sanctuary and safety was that we the proximate driver, the Jewish com- With ISIS finally expelled from of the Jewish people in the hopes of leave behind our properties, assets munity, which had been living in many Iraq, this could be an auspicious time exploding certain myths and as a point and goods. places around Iraq, had already been for Jews of Iraqi origins to rebuild of greater engagement. traumatized by the Nazi-directed trou- ties with our former country, and for I call on all those who are involved bles in the early 1940s that highlighted the leaders of the Republic of Iraq to in the issue not to use the Iraqi Jewish the need for a safe haven, which Israel provide gestures of reconciliation to Archive as a point of division, but in- now represented. its Diaspora Jewish community. stead, as a point of unity and harmony. Those of us who remained behind We hope it could begin with en- Not to hide the materials away in the “ The Reporter” (USPS #482) is published bi-weekly by the Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania, 601 Jefferson subsequently fled in the ensuing years suring the Jewish character of holy dark, but to allow the artifacts to shine Ave., Scranton, PA 18510. – after the Iraqi government stripped sites such as the Prophet Ezekiel and a light in informing the world about President: David Malinov us of our citizenship, property and Ezra the Scribe, and that the cemeter- how Jews and Arabs are not so very Executive Director: Mark Silverberg business interests – to places like the ies of our families and ancestors are different. About how we can and should United Kingdom. well-maintained. Most of all, we hope live side by side. Executive Editor: Rabbi Rachel Esserman Many of us, despite how it ended, to be provided with visas to visit Iraq, Let these artifacts inspire and not Layout Editor: Diana Sochor Assistant Editor: Ilene Pinsker look back fondly on our lives in Iraq or better still, to have our passports discourage relationships, so that we can Production Coordinator: Jenn DePersis and are deeply proud of our more than and citizenship returned and restored. regain aspirations of a better future for Advertising Representative: Bonnie Rozen three millennia sojourn there. Some of I know I speak for many when I all the peoples of the region. Bookkeeper: Kathy Brown the greatest rabbis, scholars and artists say I would love to travel to Iraq to David A. Dangoor, a Jewish enriched not only world Jewry with see my family home on the banks of businessman and philanthropist living OPINIONS The views expressed in their work, but the non-Jewish world the Tigris and visit the places in my in the United Kingdom, was born editorials and opinion pieces are those around them. dreams of childhood. in Baghdad and has served as vice of each author and not necessarily Arabic was our mother tongue, our For that to happen, there would need president of the World Organisation of the views of the Jewish Federation of culture and a strong part of our identity. to be a complete change in the way the Jews from Iraq for the past 10 years. Northeastern Pennsylvania. LETTERS The Reporter welcomes letters on subjects of interest to the Jewish community. All letters must be signed and include a phone number. Israel to broadcast FIFA World Cup to The editor may withhold the name upon request. ADS The Reporter does not necessar- Arab states for free ily endorse any advertised products BY AUSSIE DAVE broadcaster, Kan. we can use our patented Zionist Sub- and services. In addition, the paper (Israellycool via JNS) – Dear Arab According to the Egypt Independent liminal Messaging Device of DoomTM is not responsible for the kashruth of world, news site, Kan purchased the rights for to bring about some peace! any advertiser’s product or establish- ment. Don’t thank us! We’re givers. 6.3 million euros ($7.8 million). But soccer fans love their soccer, DEADLINE Regular deadline is two The Foreign Ministry announced on so there were also positive reactions. weeks prior to the publication date. March 13 that for the first time, Israel [S]occer fans love their Many were looking forward to watching will broadcast the 2018 FIFA World soccer, so there were also the games, leaving messages on social FEDERATION WEBSITE: Cup via satellite free of charge to Arab positive reactions. Many media praising Israel for the move. www.jewishnepa.org I bet the haters and BDS-holes of nations in the Middle East – complete were looking forward to with pre-game discussion and live those countries will not stick to their HOW TO SUBMIT ARTICLES: watching the games, leaving “principles” and will take advantage Mail: 601 Jefferson Ave., Scranton, PA commentary in Arabic. 18510 Though Egypt qualified for the soc- messages on social media of this kind offer. I bet that Ismail E-mail: [email protected] cer tournament, along with Morocco, praising Israel for the move. Haniyeh is already arranging some Fax: (570) 346-6147 Tunisia and Saudi Arabia, the country soccer and popcorn evenings as we Phone: (570) 961-2300 did not purchase the rights to broadcast speak. the games. In previous years, viewers When it was announced on Egyp- All joking aside, this is actually a HOW TO REACH had to purchase a subscription to the tian television, several critics were rather brilliant move by Israel. A goal THE ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE: Qatar-based Al Jazeera network to angry that Israel would broadcast in the back of the net, if you will. Phone: (800) 779-7896, ext. 244 E-mail: [email protected] watch the games. to a large Arab population, with one This article was originally published This year, Egyptians, Jordanians television host suggesting that Israel at israellycool.com at www.israellycool. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION: and others in the region will be able to may use the broadcasts to send other com/2018/03/14/brilliant-move-israel- Phone: (570) 961-2300 watch an Arabic satellite transmission messages to the country. to-broadcast-fifa-world-cup-to-arab- free of charge via Israel’s national Actually, that’s a great idea. Maybe states-for-free/. MARCH 22, 2018 ■ THE REPORTER 3 COMMUNITY NEWS JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE NOTES Bais Yaakov news BAIS YAAKOV OF SCRANTON HELD YOSEF CHAI DINNER AND CARNIVAL Don’t be rude, or how not to use a On February 21, the students of the Bais Yaakov High School of Scranton planned and hosted a dinner combined with a carnival for the community. Different cell phone carnival attractions, including a moon bounce, graced the Beth Shalom social hall. There were adult and children’s BY DON MINKOFF, L.C.S.W. remembering to turn-off the phone or put the ring menus and carnival prizes. Coordinators of the carnival I only travel by train, where tone on silence when appropriate. One of the articles were Leah Laury and the students of Bais Yaakov. Many as the rest of my family prefers used for this article reported a survey in which of the helped with serving of the food, to name a few, Chana planes. I find the pace of riding 1,035 respondents, over half admitted they would Valencia, Miriam Raizel Valencia, Leah Pion, Naomi the train peaceful and relaxing, happily answer their phone while making a purchase Lopez and Nancy Ben-Dov. All funds raised went directly watching the world go chuga- at a shop, 41 percent while eating at a restaurant and to matonos l’evyonim for Od Yosef Chai in Eretz Yisrael. chuga by at the same time as I am 10 percent while in a library. BAIS YAAKOV SPREADS SIMCHAS PURIM reading and listening to music. ‹‹ Don’t light up your phone in a dark place to check (PURIM JOY) THROUGHOUT THE SCRANTON Two years ago, while riding the and see if you have received any calls or texts. COMMUNITY train from Milwaukee to Chica- ‹‹ Stay away from others while talking on the phone. Each year, the students of Bais Yaakov prepare and Don Minkoff go (the Hiawatha, a commuter ‹‹ Do not talk too loudly; lower your voice. deliver numerous shalach manot (Purim food packages) train route between the cities of ‹‹ Be aware of how you are talking on the phone. throughout the community. Packages were delivered to Milwaukee and Chicago operated by Amtrak), a man ‹‹ Do not put the phone on speaker in public. Elan Gardens, an assisted living facility; Webster Towers, was sitting a row in front of me. He was doing busi- ‹‹ Do not talk about personal details in public. a senior adult residence; The Jewish Home of Eastern ness on his cell phone and working on his computer, ‹‹ If you are with someone and know you will be ex- Pennsylvania; Plaza 550; the JCC senior adult program; which was not the problem. It was how he was doing pecting to receive or use your cell phone, let the other Clay Common Apartments; and other people throughout business. He was loud and very inconsiderate of the person know. the community, may of whom were unable to go out other people in the car. He was all into stressing how ‹‹ Do not use your cell phone when driving. This is themselves and many who would not otherwise receive good “I am” even as he was demeaning competitors the law. shalach manot. The project is sponsored annually by and co-workers within his company. In addition, he Don’t get me wrong, I am far from against the Harris and Janice Cutler, and the Kaplan family. gossiped about people he worked with using language use of cell phones and other forms of social media. and discussing situations; fortunately, there were no Cell phones, social media sites, blogging and gaming children within ear shot. sites have allowed us to share almost immediately The use of phones has come a long way. Back in the multiple aspects of our lives with anyone. The ben- DEADLINES day, you went through an operator to talk with a person efits they provide allow us to link and communicate The following are deadlines for all articles and if they had a phone. Now you are able to dial directly with people, and access information and a variety of photos for upcoming Reporter issues. to anyone with a phone. What was once used in the entertainment instantly. privacy of our homes, or if in public within a telephone However, as the technology evolves, how are we DEADLINE ISSUE booth, is now used openly in public. This should imply growing as we use the technology? What are the posi- Thursday, March 22...... April 5 an awareness of others. My train buddy seemed to tive and negative consequences of connecting through Tuesday, April 3, early...... April 19 be unaware and unconcerned about how he talked to technology rather than relating face to face? Are we Thursday, April 19...... 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BREAKFAST TAKE-OUT SEDER DINE-IN MEALS LUNCH (MAKE AVAILABLE DINNER RESERVATIONS) ÊCheck out the Federation’s new, updated website at www.jewishnepa.org or find it on Facebook 4 THE REPORTER ■ MARCH 22, 2018 National spotlight shines on Jewish judge in Ohio for role in battling opioids BY AMANDA KOEHN “I requested that everyone try and work against drug manufacturers and distribu- facturers named in the lawsuits have said (Cleveland Jewish News via JNS) – together to come up with some steps that tors, including other Ohio cities, the state they don’t believe litigation is the answer, Judge Dan Aaron Polster of the Northern we can take this year, in 2018, to begin and Cuyahoga County. The city and county but have pledged to help solve the crisis, District of Ohio is presiding over a case to abate the crisis because we are losing have been disproportionately affected the A.P. reported. involving more than 400 federal lawsuits 50,000 people or more a year,” he said. by the opioid epidemic. According to The Times article said Polster was brought by communities around the coun- The transcript read: “With all of these December 31 data projections from the chosen by a judicial panel to hear the case try against drug companies and pharmacy smart people here and their clients, Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner, 822 based on Ohio being hard-hit by the crisis, chains for their role in perpetuating the I’m confident we people died last year its central location to defendants and his opioid epidemic. can do something Judge Dan Aaron Polster from drug overdoses. experience with multidistrict litigation, The case and Polster – a member of to dramatically re- says he uses the Jewish Of those deaths, 522 or consolidation of many similar cases. Congregation Shaarey Tikvah in Beach- duce the number concept of tikkun olam to died from heroin, Polster told the Cleveland Jewish News wood, and Park Synagogue in Cleveland of opioids that are help him to try to make an fentanyl or a combi- that the Times reporter, Jan Hoffman, shad- Heights and Pepper Pike – were covered being disseminat- nation of both. For owed him while he tutored a third-grader in a March 6 front-page story in The New ed, manufactured impact and affects how he context, the county through the Jewish Federation of Cleve- York Times. It discussed Polster’s urging and distributed. Just goes about his work. saw 666 overdose land’s Public Education Initiative, among of lawyers to settle the case in a way that dramatically reduce deaths in 2016 and other legal engagements he had that day. will provide meaningful solutions to the the quantity, and make sure that the pills 370 drug deaths in 2015, according to the He said she “got a pretty accurate picture crisis, rather than focusing on a trial and that are manufactured and distributed go medical examiner. of me, my strengths and weaknesses.” “finger-pointing,” and how that stance has to the right people and no one else, and By filing lawsuits, the city and county Most recently, Polster and the lawyers caused an uproar in the legal community. that there be an effective system in place aim to acquire financial reparations for the involved in the case met on March 7 in “I don’t think anyone in the country is to monitor the delivery and distribution, costs the city has faced due to the epidemic. a closed meeting. According to court interested in a whole lot of finger-pointing and if there’s a problem, to immediately Drugmakers targeted in the lawsuits documents, “the parties reported import- at this point, and I’m not either,” Polster address it and to make sure that those include Allergan, Johnson and John- ant and substantial progress on several said, according to a January 9 legal tran- pills are prescribed only when there’s an son, and Purdue Pharma, in addition to fronts, but also identified barriers to a script of the first hearing. “People aren’t appropriate diagnosis, and that we get three large drug-distribution companies, global resolution.” interested in depositions, and discovery some amount of money to the government Amerisource Bergen, Cardinal Health and “Everyone,” insisted Polster on the and trials.” agencies for treatment.” McKesson. Drug distributors and manu- matter at hand, “is working hard.” Polster told the Cleveland Jewish News The lawsuits allege that drugmakers that his view of the world through a Jewish used deceptive marketing to push the sale lens – and the Jewish obligation to help of opioids and targeted vulnerable popu- others – has conditioned him to try to make lations, such as the elderly and veterans, Exploring the fabric of Israeli an impact and affects how he goes about despite knowing that the drugs are addic- his work. “I take our obligation of tikkun tive. They are also accused of negligent olam [often defined as the ‘repair of the product oversight and ignoring suspicious, society through fashion world’] very seriously,” he said, adding large orders of the drugs, according to the BY ELIANA RUDEE that what he said at that first hearing best Associated Press. (JNS) – “We are not Russia, Paris or reflected how those intentions of helping On March 6, the city of Cleveland was Milan. We are a young country and our others may apply to these lawsuits. added to the list of cities filing lawsuits story, parallel to the establishment of Israel, is the story of the growth of cre- ativity,” says Galit Reismann, founder of TLVStyle, on the fashion industry there. Mirroring Israel’s startup nation men- tality in the face of minimal resources, Reismann maintains that with no fashion houses, textile factories, governmental support and few large brands to intern for, young designers must become en- trepreneurs to survive in a small and competitive industry. Designer Elisha Abargel (right) posed She hints that challenge breeds in- with Galit Reismann, wearing one of his novation. As such, her creative tourism designs. (Photo by Eliana Rudee) company conducts fashion tours of Tel Aviv and produces fashion pop-up events. for the country’s fashion designers. “I was Elisha Abargel, owner of a store by in Paris last week and needed ribbons, the same name (Lilienblum Street 20, so I walked across the street and found Tel Aviv), notes that the inaccessibility exactly what I needed,” he tells JNS. of fabrics can make it “more interesting” See “Fashion” on page 14

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Send Dassy Ganz an email if you would like to join the list. [email protected] Pledge or Donate online at www.jewishnepa.org/donate MARCH 22, 2018 ■ THE REPORTER 5 A new study for cancer risk in Ashkenazi Jews aims to be a model for genetic testing BY JOSEFIN DOLSTEN from their primary care provider. The Foundation, the Breast Cancer Research women with a BRCA mutation have their NEW YORK (JTA) – A new study will testing will be free for participants and Foundation and other donors, allows ovaries surgically removed after they finish provide free testing for three mutations the study is open to anyone over 25 years people to register on their smartphone childbearing. In terms of reducing the risk that substantially increase the risk for old who has health insurance and at least or computer, receiving testing at a local of developing breast cancer, some women developing breast, ovarian and prostate one grandparent with Ashkenazi heritage. laboratory. They can choose whether to choose to undergo a mastectomy, while cancer among people with Eastern Euro- “This study is different because we’re receive the results from a primary care others elect to get frequent breast screenings. pean Jewish ancestry. The BRCA Founder making an effort to ensure that the testing provider or a cancer specialist. Primary Men should be screened regularly for Outreach Study (or BFOR), which was is not done at a distance from your doctor. care providers will receive training about prostate cancer, including by taking a test launched recently, will test 4,000 men and We’re really reaching out to have doctors how to provide follow-up counseling if a to measure the level of PSA, a protein that women in four U.S. cities – New York, Los involved,” Offit said. patient tests positive. could indicate prostate cancer. Offit said Angeles, Philadelphia and Boston – for In 1996, Offit discovered the most For those who test positive for a BRCA doctors should use a lower cutoff for the mutations in the BRCA gene that are more common BRCA gene mutation for Ash- mutation, there are steps that can be taken level of PSA for men who have a BRCA common among those with Ashkenazi kenazi Jews, but he said the vast majority to lower cancer risk, Offit said. Since ovar- mutation in order to perform a biopsy to Jewish ancestry. Those who test positive of people have not been tested for the mu- ian cancer is almost always discovered at check for cancer. for one of the mutations will receive ge- tation or the two others that are prevalent an advanced stage, it is recommended that See “Cancer” on page 11 netic counseling to figure out next steps. in the group. “In the [Ashkenazi] Jewish “We think it’s important because it will community, where these mutations are save lives,” Dr. Kenneth Offit, who is serv- quite common, we think that probably ing on the study’s Executive Committee, 90 percent of people who could be tested told JTA earlier in March. have not been tested,” he said. The BRCA gene is found in all humans, Offit said some people are scared of but mutations can cause it to function finding out the results and view testing Alan improperly and increase the risk of as too much of a hassle. In addition, developing certain cancers: breast and insurance companies only cover testing Glassman ovarian in women, reast and prostate in for those with a family history of breast, men. Those with Ashkenazi Jewish roots ovarian and prostate cancer, but up to 40 are 10 times more likely to have a BRCA percent of those with the mutation do not mutation than the general population, with have a family history of those types of one in 40 carrying a mutation in the gene. cancer, according to Offit. An Israeli study But the study’s goal extends beyond published in 2014 recommended that all cancer or Ashkenazi Jews, said Offit, Ashkenazi women age 30 and over should who serves as chief of the clinical genet- be screened for BRCA mutations. ics service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Women with a BRCA mutation have a Cancer Center here. “We think it’s a model risk as high as 80 percent of developing for the future of genetic testing in health breast cancer and as high as 40 percent care,” he said. of developing ovarian cancer. Men with a –Providing Wealth Management for Generations– What’s new about the way testing is mutation have an increased risk of devel- conducted in the BFOR study, Offit said, oping breast and prostate cancer. T: 1.800.373.3383 F: 570.823.3416 is the fact that patients sign up online The BFOR study, which received www.riggsadvisors.com and can choose to receive their results funding from the Sharon Levine Corzine

ÊCheck out the Federation’s new, updated website at www.jewishnepa.org or find it on Facebook 6 THE REPORTER ■ MARCH 22, 2018 Nine things you didn’ know about Passover BY MJL STAFF 3. Arizona is a hub for matzah wheat. festival day of the Di- (My Jewish Learning via JTA) – Here are nine things Chasidic Jews from Brooklyn have been increasingly aspora” – the practice that many likely wouldn’t know about the Festival of sourcing wheat for their Passover matzah from farmers in was begun 2,000 years Freedom: Arizona. Excessive moisture in wheat kernels can result ago when Jews were 1. In Gibraltar, there’s dust in the charoset. in fermentation, rendering the harvest unsuitable for informed of the start The traditional charoset is a sweet Passover paste Passover use. But rain is scarce in Arizona, which allows of a new lunar month whose texture is meant as a reminder of the mortar the for a stricter standard of matzah production. Rabbis from only after it had been enslaved Jews used to build in ancient Egypt. The name New York travel to Arizona in the days leading up to the confirmed by witnesses itself is related to the Hebrew word for clay. In Ashkenazi harvest, where they inspect the grains meticulously to in Jerusalem. Because A table set for the Passover tradition, it is traditionally made from crushed nuts, ap- ensure they are cut at the precise moisture levels. Jewish communities seder and the holiday. (Photo ples and sweet red wine, while Sephardic Jews use figs 4. At the seder, Persian Jews whip each other with outside of Israel were by Rebecca Siegel/Flickr, CC or dates. But the tiny Jewish community of this small scallions. often delayed in learn- BY 2.0) British territory at the tip of the Iberian Peninsula takes Many of the Passover seder rituals are intended to ing the news, they con- the brick symbolism to another level, using the dust of re-create the sensory experience of Egyptian slavery, sequently couldn’t be sure precisely which day festivals actual bricks in their recipe. from the eating of bitter herbs and matzah to the dipping were meant to be observed. As a result, the practice of 2. Abraham Lincoln died during Passover. of greenery in saltwater, which symbolizes the tears shed observing two seder days was instituted just to be sure. The 16th American president by the oppressed Israelites. Some Jews from Iran and 7. You’re wrong about the orange on the seder plate. was shot at Ford’s Theatre on a Afghanistan have the tradition of whipping each other Some progressive Jews have adopted the practice of Friday, April 14, 1865, which with green onions before the singing of “Dayenu.” including an orange on the seder plate as a symbol of coincided with the fourth night 5. Karaite Jews skip the wine. inclusion of gays, lesbians and other groups marginalized of Passover. The next morning, Karaite Jews reject rabbinic Judaism, observing only in the Jewish community. The story goes that the practice Jews who wouldn’t normally have laws detailed in the Torah. That’s why they don’t drink was instituted by the feminist scholar Susannah Heschel attended services on the holiday the traditional four cups of wine at the seder. Wine after she was told that a woman belongs on the synagogue were so moved by Lincoln’s is fermented, and fermented foods are prohibited on bima, or prayer podium, like an orange belongs on a seder passing they made their way to Passover, so instead they drink fruit juice. (Mainstream plate. But according to Heschel, that story is false. In synagogues, where the normally Jews hold that only fermented grains are prohibited.) that apocryphal version, she said, “a woman’s words are celebratory Passover services Abraham Lincoln The Karaites also eschew other staples of the traditional attributed to a man, and the affirmation of lesbians and were instead marked by acts of was assassinated seder, including the seder plate and charoset. Their maror gay men is erased. Isn’t that precisely what’s happened mourning and the singing of Yom during Passover in (bitter herbs) is a mixture of lemon peel, bitter lettuce over the centuries to women’s ideas?” Kippur hymns. American Jews April 1865. (Photo and an assortment of other herbs. 8. “Afikomen” isn’t Hebrew. were so affected by the president’s by Wikimedia 6. Israeli Jews have only one seder. For many seder participants, the highlight of the meal is death that Congregation Shearith Commons) Israeli Jews observe only one Passover seder, unlike the afikomen – a broken piece of matzah that the seder leader Israel in New York recited the everywhere else where traditionally two seders are held, hides and the children search for; the person who finds the prayer for the dead – usually said only for Jews – on one on each of the first two nights of the holiday. Known afikomen usually gets a small reward. Most scholars believe Lincoln’s behalf. as “yom tov sheni shel galuyot” – literally “the second the word “afikomen” derives from the Greek word for dessert. Others say it refers to a kind of postmeal revelry common among the Greeks. Either theory would explain why the afikomen is traditionally the last thing eaten at the seder. 9. For North African Jews, after Passover comes Mimouna. Most people are eager for a break from holiday meals when the eight-day Passover holiday concludes. But for the Jews of North Africa, the holiday’s end is the perfect time for another feast, Mimouna, marking the beginning of spring. Celebrated after nightfall on the last day of Passover, Mimouna is marked by a large spread of foods and the opening of homes to guests. The celebration is often laden with symbolism, including fish for fertility and golden rings for wealth.

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Rabbi Rachel Esserman MARCH 22, 2018 ■ THE REPORTER 7 First person My primitive Passover scavenger hunt BY LINDA PRESSMAN But then there’s Passover. run into the rest of the world. There they (Kveller via JTA) – When I see the Costco, of course, can only satisfy a few are, happy normal people, out shopping giant gefilte fish and matzah display at needs for this holiday. Though I’m will- for regular groceries, like bread, or in Costco in late February, it sends me into ing to bounce back and forth between its the Easter aisle buying chocolate eggs, a panic. I think, is it time for gefilte fish kosher smoked fish case and the Passover squishy Peeps and giant chocolate Easter already? I think that finding the holiday display, both forming a miniature Pale of bunnies. I’m somewhat surprised that the foods, including that gigantic jar of ge- Settlement in the store for Jewish shoppers world is just ticking along as normal, and filte fish, is not easy and maybe I should to cling to, eventually I must venture out to there’s not an emergency in their kitchens stockpile now. I start thinking about how the Jewish section of the regular grocery like there is in mine. Because no matter many people I’m having for Passover – a stores, to their Pesach tables, and to the how far ahead I start, no matter how much Gefilte fish is an easy find at Passover. lot or a little? One manageable table or an kosher stores to get everything else I need. I’m sure I’m finished the night before, it (Photo by Wikimedia Commons) impossible four? Shopping for Passover is like being on never fails that two hours before the seder Most of the year I’m a pretty normal the worst scavenger hunt ever. My grocery I have to call my sister for emergency on my list, horseradish root for the seder American woman. I look normal. I dress in list looks like it was written in medieval backup, for parsley sprig placement or plate – a gnarled, primitive-looking thing a fairly normal manner. I walk in grocery Poland. I need a really big brisket. Like peeling boiled eggs. that I grasp in my matching gnarled hand stores and have a vaguely normal shopping maybe an entire cow. And chicken livers. Back at the store, I find the last thing – and I head home. list. Yes, there are certain Jewish holidays Like the whole chicken. here and there where I’m maybe shopping And maybe 10,000 eggs. for 20 pound bags of potatoes in the win- I need horseradish – red and white. I ter, apples and honey, round challahs and need fish and potatoes, matzah and parsley. smoked fish in the fall, or poppy filling in Coconut and carrots. Apples and walnuts Passover Greetings from March. All a little odd. and honey and wine. Oh, and they wouldn’t happen to have four shankbones hanging around, would they? One time when my mother was alive, she had a craving for real kishke. I went to the store with her instructions: I needed rendered fat and Jewish recipes and casings. The butcher seemed mystified. How did I become my mother? Or, rath- more er, my grandmother, great-grandmother The Jewish Food Experience, and great-great-grandmother, all the way https://jewishfoodexperience.com, offers down the line? How did I get so fascinated a weekly newsletter and seeks to “brings with the butchers at all the grocery stores Sidney R. DeSantis - Supervisor people together through the universal lan- in town, interrogating the staff about their guage of Jewish food, which is so much a briskets, their chicken livers, the weights 318 East Drinker Street, Dunmore, PA part of Jewish culture, tradition and even and when they’re expected? religion.” In addition to information about When I’ve bought everything on my 570-343-6013 Jewish food events in the Greater Wash- list, I start cooking very meticulously. I www.scrantonjewishfuneral.com ington, DC, area, it offers articles about cling to the idea that if I’m organized about Jewish food and food customs worldwide, this, I can be ready. I can’t really be ready. Serving the entire Jewish community of Northeastern, PA including recipes for each. Sometimes while I’m out shopping, I Celebrate Israel’s 70th Birthday with The Jewish Federation and The Scranton JCC

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ÊCheck out the Federation’s new, updated website at www.jewishnepa.org or find it on Facebook 8 THE REPORTER ■ MARCH 22, 2018 D’VAR TORAH Light my fire BY RABBI DANIEL SWARTZ, TEMPLE HESED symbol for passion – and, in this case, this fire we need OF SCRANTON to constantly guard could be understood as symboliz- Tzav, Leviticus 6:1-8:36 ing our deepest passions – for a meaningful life, for a From the earliest midrashim to the most recent Torah connection to the Divine, for relationships that give us commentaries, our sages have paid attention to lashon purpose and strength. y’teirah – literally, extra language, what most of us would One of my teachers, Rabbi Shefa Gold, has written a call redundancy. Since the style of Torah is so often terse, chant/spiritual practice based on the last of these three they reason, when seeming redundancies appear, there verses. (You can listen to the chant and read about the must be a reason. In this week’s Torah portion, Tsav, practice here: http://www.rabbishefagold.com/fire-on- there is a six-fold redundancy – so you can imagine that altar-aish-tamid/.) She writes: “Inside our hearts is a the commentators have a field day. flame that must be kept burning…. We keep that fire In three separate sentences (verses 6:2, 6:5 and 6:6) burning by engaging in spiritual practice, by surrounding the Torah recounts Moses being commanded to convey ourselves with beauty, by giving and receiving love and to Aaron and his sons that the fire upon the altar must support and by fully connecting with what (and whom) be kept going – and in each of these sentences, there is we love. It is crucial to bring attention to that flame on some variation of the phrasing: “keep it going, it must the altar of the heart – to feed that fire and to guard it not go out.” The Talmud (Yoma 45b) interprets all these with loving vigilance.” warnings as referring to multiple fires, each of which must Through its six-fold repetition, the Torah reminds us be maintained constantly. In contrast, Abarbanel explains to tend to that inner fire not just sometimes but all the the repetition by arguing that each sentence warns against time, as a constant and central part of our awareness. a different possible reason to let the fire go out. So many things in modern life conspire against our Personally, I like Ibn Ezra’s much simpler explanation fire-tending – getting caught up in social media, being better: it’s simply a matter of emphasis. Since it is extra addicted to our phones, focusing on division and anger important to keep the fire going, people have to take rather than connection and love. But if we keep the fire special care that it won’t go out – thus, repeated warnings going, it brings a warmth to our lives that Twitter and are necessary. It’s sort of an ancient version of NASA’s Facebook never can. Don’t let it go out. standard protocol – if it is a vital system, make sure you Rabbi Daniel Swartz is the spiritual leader of Temple have at least one backup in place. Or, perhaps a better Hesed and the executive director of the Coalition on the analogy is the method used by most e-mail marketers, Environment and Jewish Life. whether they are selling goods, promoting a cause, or presenting a candidate – most people need to see at least three e-mails before they respond. 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For information on advertising, please contact Bonnie Rozen at 1-800-779-7896, ext. 244 or bonnie@ thereportergroup.org MARCH 22, 2018 ■ THE REPORTER 9 Two favorite Jewish foods, updated for Passover BY SHANNON SARNA golden on each side – depending on thickness of chicken, food scale if eyeballing is too difficult). Leave one plain. (JTA) – Two of my family’s favorite dishes are around 3 minutes each side. Take care not to overcrowd Add green food coloring to one batch of batter. Add red schnitzel and rainbow cookies, and I have a feeling your the pan or chicken will not cook properly. food coloring to the other batch of batter. family may feel the same. Here’s some great news about 5. Remove from pan and allow to cool on a wire rack. 5. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake for 8-9 min- both: They very easily translate into Passover-friendly 6. While chicken is still hot from pan, sprinkle each utes, or until just set and no longer wet in the middle. versions with minor adjustments. cutlet with additional pinch of salt. 6. Allow to cool completely. While you could serve them for your seder meals, both PASSOVER-FRIENDLY RAINBOW COOKIES 7. Place chocolate, shortening and pinch of salt in are great to enjoy during Chol Hamoed, the intermediate Rainbow cookies are such a beloved American staple. a glass bowl. Microwave for 30-second intervals until days of the holiday, when you’re sick of eating leftover The task may seem intimating, but once you make your melted. Stir vigorously to ensure there are no clumps. brisket and coconut macaroons. own – especially this Passover-friendly version – you 8. Place a piece of parchment paper on top of a platter or PASSOVER-FRIENDLY CHICKEN SCHNITZEL will never go back to the store-bought version. baking sheet. Add red cake layer to parchment paper. Spread Schnitzel is satisfying and easy to make, and will be For the cake: thin layer of raspberry jam. Top with white cake layer. Add the perfect dinner served with some roasted potatoes 4 eggs another thin layer of raspberry jam. Top with green cake. and a simple green salad. 1 cup white sugar 9. Carefully spread half the melted chocolate on top. 2 pounds chick- 4 ounces almond paste, Place in refrigerator for 15-20 minutes or until com- en cutlets broken into little pieces or pletely hard. Salt and pepper processed in food proces- 10. Turn over and spread remaining chocolate on other 2 eggs, beaten sor for 30 seconds side. Place back in refrigerator for 30 minutes or overnight. 2 tsp. ko- 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted 11. Trim edges and slice into cookies. sher-for-Passover butter or margarine mustard or hot ½ cup matzah cake meal sauce ½ cup blanched almond 1 tsp. water flour (not almond meal) Passover-Friendly 1½ cups matzah ½ tsp. salt Rainbow Cookies (Photo meal Passover-Friendly Chicken ½ tsp. kosher-for-Pass- by Shannon Sarna) ½ cup almond Schnitzel (Photo by Shannon Sarna) over vanilla extract meal Red and green food coloring (about 8 drops each) 2 Tbsp. sesame seeds (optional) For the chocolate glaze: Need help with your Pre-Pesach 2 Tbsp. dried parsley 1 cup dark or semisweet chocolate chips ½ Tbsp. smoked paprika 1 Tbsp. vegetable shortening or vegetable oil 1 tsp. sea salt Pinch salt ½ tsp. black pepper Special equipment: 3 square baking pans, offset A Pre-Pesach Playgroup Vegetable or canola oil for frying spatula, food scale for children ages 2-9 Tuesday, March 27-Wednesday, March 28 & Thursday, March 29 1. Combine eggs, mustard or hot sauce and water 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease your pans. Add (Depending on registration) in a large bowl. Combine matzah meal, almond meal, parchment paper to bottom of each pan. Grease again 10:00am-1:00pm sesame seeds (if using), parsley, paprika, salt and pepper and add light dusting of matzah cake meal. Tap pan to Location: Bais Yaakov of Scranton in another large bowl. remove any excess flour. $10.00/day 1st child 2. Dredge each chicken cutlet into egg mixture, then 2. Using a hand mixer (or whisk attachment to stand $8.00 each additional child into matzah meal mixture, pressing down to ensure the mixer), mix eggs and sugar until thick and yellow. Add please send a non-chometz lunch entire piece is cover. Lay flat on a plate or baking sheet. crumbled almond paste and combine. 3. Pour oil into large sauté pan to about 1½ inches 3. Add melted butter (or margarine), matzah cake R.S.V.P. 343-1686 high over medium-high heat. meal, almond flour, salt and vanilla. 4. Fry chicken cutlets in batches, 2-3 at a time, until 4. Divide batter into three even amounts. (Try using a Arts & Crafts

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Their reliance year-round which to draw. on a variety of salad dishes translates well for Early in our marriage, my husband experi- Passover, and I often feel as if my diet during enced his first Ashkenazic seders at my parents’ the holiday is not so different from our normal home. However, once we decided that we were fare – with the exception of matzah, of course. ready to host our own seders, we happily merged However, during the seder itself there are some customs from both of our backgrounds to create differences, no doubt due to the availability of our special family experience. vegetables in Morocco. For example, romaine Perhaps the most unique Moroccan custom lettuce and not horseradish is used for maror and of our seder occurs early on when the head parsley, not potatoes, for karpas. The charoset is of the household – in my husband’s family, also noteworthy with the absence of apples. I have his mother would do this – holds the seder included a traditional recipe below for Moroccan plate over the head of each guest separately Charoset adapted from Claudia Roden. I have and chants the following: “Bibhilu yatsanu also made charoset without any spices using mi’misrayim, halachma ‘anya bené horin.” Moroccan Jews in a synagogue in Marrakesh last year. (Photo by Fadel only dates, walnuts, wine and raisins. For those This roughly translates to the following: “In Senna/AFP/Getty Images) who are nut free, the charoset can also be made haste, we went out of Egypt with our bread without the walnuts. of affliction and now we are free.” pour the liquids into the bowl as each plague is recited). This charoset, especially when using raisins, is quite I have taken on this unusual ritual, which has become The idea here is that one can see the effect of the first thick and thus can last throughout the entire holiday and one of the highlights of our seder. Our Ashkenazic friends plague as the Egyptians witnessed their precious Nile enjoyed as a snack with matzah. love this tradition, and with a glass seder plate it is even River become contaminated with blood. Betai’avon (Bon appetite)! more entertaining! Perhaps the biggest misconception when it comes MOROCCAN CHAROSET One interesting take on the ritual is that is it connected to Sephardic Jews is that they all eat rice on Passover. 1 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped to Kabbalah. It is believed that Rabbi Isaac Luria, who Like anything else in Judaism, there are myriad customs ½ tsp. ground cloves is known for revolutionizing the study of Jewish mys- and traditions depending on where your family lived 1 tsp. ground cinnamon ticism through Kabbalah, connected the various items in the old country, or even from where they originated 1 grind freshly ground nutmeg of the seder to the 10 Kabbalistic sefirot, the mystical generations before they ended up in that particular city. 1 pound dates, pitted and chopped dimensions that described the divine attributes of God, Moroccan Jews, for example, are a diverse group with 1½ cups grape juice and so the seder plate became a sacred symbol of God. different customs depending on their ancestry. There Put the dates into a pan with the wine, cinnamon and In this sense, when raising the seder plate, one is being are those that came after the destruction of the First cloves, then simmer, stirring occasionally, until you have blessed by the Shechina (the Talmud defines the Shechina Temple in Jerusalem and settled among the Berbers. a soft paste. Put through the food processor if you want as the divine that lives within the world, on earth with Others came in 1492 from Spain and Portugal like my a smoother texture. Let it cool and stir in the walnuts. the Jewish people, and accompanies them when they are husband’s family. Most Moroccan Jews do not eat rice Natasha Cooper-Benisty has been a Jewish educator exiled), in addition to enjoying the Shechina’s presence on Passover, but they do eat other kitniyot, including in both day school and religious school for the past 10 at your seder table. legumes, fresh beans and fresh peas. years. She enjoys educating her students about Moroccan Another interesting difference is the ritual accompa- In researching this piece, I came across a quote by a Jewish culture and creating Moroccan feasts for her nying the recitation of the Ten Plagues. Instead of the man who said that his father had told him that the reason Ashkenazic friends. Ashkenazic finger or a knife dipping, Moroccans fill a that the Spanish Moroccan Jews ate this way was because This piece appeared originally on Jewish&, the blog large bowl with water and wine (two different glasses Spain was close to Ashkenaz (the area along the Rhine of Be’chol Lashon, http://bechollashon.org/. s on our bus t Join u rip to

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Instead 2 cups water or more BURNT BROCCOLI of packing my Passover meals with heavy dishes, I’m 1/3 cup shredded Parmesan 2 heads broccoli, cut into florets offering a lighter, lower calorie and lower carbohydrate cheese 2 Tbsp. olive oil plus more for option this year. 1 lemon, juiced drizzling If you have seen my recipes before, you may know 1 pint crimini mushrooms, 1 Tbsp. honey that I love cauliflower as a stand-in for potatoes and rice. quartered Seared Mushroom Salt to taste There is truly no better substitute! Not only is it delicious, 1 tablespoon olive oil Cauliflower Risotto Steam broccoli until just tender it’s now incredibly easy to find already riced. And who Salt to taste (Photo by Megan Wolf) and bright green, about 2 minutes. can’t use a time saver in the kitchen? Sauté onions and garlic over Toss broccoli with 2 table- Burnt Broccoli (Photo I prefer frozen riced cauliflower to fresh. The more low heat until cooked through and translucent. spoons olive oil and place on a by Megan Wolf) I make these dishes, the more I realize this is by far the Add frozen cauliflower and mix to combine. Add large baking sheet. Roast until best method of purchase. I think it works so well in part white wine and continue stirring. crispy and starting to char, about 15-20 minutes. because there is already some water in the cauliflower Add water ½ cup at a time, stirring frequently and Microwave honey until it’s liquid, then immediately and it helps the vegetable to cook more evenly. adding more water as each batch is absorbed. pour evenly over broccoli. Drizzle broccoli with olive These recipes are delicious and well-suited for any While the cauliflower is cooking, sauté mushrooms oil and season with salt. time of year, but they are especially welcome at Passover, in olive oil in a separate pan, set aside. when we’re all looking to lighten our load a bit. I also Once the cauliflower is soft and resembles risotto, love how these dishes come together in color, taste and add Parmesan cheese and stir to combine. NEWS IN BRIEF texture. The sweet and crunchy aspects of the broccoli From JNS.org play off the creamy cauliflower and punchy salmon. SIMPLE LEMON SALMON Cancer Continued from page 5 Foreign ambassadors break matzah in 4 6-ounce salmon portions Offit hopes to learn more about how people opt to Israel two weeks before Passover Salt and pepper receive the test results – whether through their primary More than 70 ambassadors and senior foreign dip- 2 Tbsp. olive oil care providers or a specialist – and how many primary lomats sat down to a “model seder” dinner in Tel Aviv, 2 lemons, juiced care providers will feel comfortable giving the infor- organized by the Israel Project and the World Jewish 1 lemon, sliced mation to their patients. “Yes, we will be testing many Congress. The pre-Passover seder, taking place for the Preheat oven to 400°F. Place sheet individuals of Ashkenazi background and we will save third year in a row, was led by former Israeli ambas- pan in the oven to heat. lives for sure because we know that,” he said, “but the sador to the United Kingdom Daniel Taub. Among the Whisk olive oil and lemon. research question is to improve the way we offer this diplomats attending were ambassadors from Rwanda, Season salmon with salt and pepper. information to the whole population.” Belgium, Argentina, Angola, the Dominican Republic Brush salmon with half of the lemon Offit said similar testing could be offered for the general and the Philippines, as well as senior diplomatic repre- mixture. Simple Lemon population for a wide variety of diseases. sentatives from the United States, the United Nations, Place salmon skin side down on Salmon (Photo The Executive Committee consists of doctors from the European Union, Great Britain and China. Israel’s the hot sheet pan, roast until cooked by Megan Wolf) institutions in the four cities. Offit said he is hoping to Minister of Construction and Housing Yoav Gallant to your liking, or about 8-10 minutes. launch a larger study later this year. greeted the ambassadors minutes before heading off Serve salmon by topping the fish with the remaining For those who are not eligible to participate in the study, to vote on the state budget in the Knesset. Said Lior oil mixture and sliced lemon. he recommends speaking to a doctor about risk factors. For Weintraub, vice president of the Israel Project: “This SEARED MUSHROOM CAULIFLOWER RISOTTO those who do not have a family history of breast, ovarian pre-Passover dinner has become a tradition, in which we 1 Tbsp. olive oil or prostate cancer, insurance does not cover testing for take pride hosting foreign ambassadors and distinguished 1 medium onion, diced BRCA mutations. In those cases, Offit recommends regular guests, while exposing them to the unique culture and 10 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped screenings for breast and prostate cancer. Jewish tradition.”

ÊCheck out the Federation’s new, updated website at www.jewishnepa.org or find it on Facebook 12 THE REPORTER ■ MARCH 22, 2018 On the silver screen Documentary spotlight Arthur Miller’s daughter made an intimate HBO documentary about her father BY CURT SCHLEIER Jewish. Certainly they were based on his (JTA) – “Arthur Miller: Writer,” a own family.” lovingly crafted documentary about the Asked in the documentary if he was award-winning playwright set to air on Jewish, Miller responds, “Absolutely HBO, doesn’t reveal a lot of new informa- Jewish. But I inherited from my father tion. A good portion of the film involves the attitude of being American more than Miller himself speaking from the audio being a Jew.” version of his 1987 memoir, “Timebends: That was typical of his generation of A Life.” And much has already been writ- American Jews, who hoped to assimilate, ten elsewhere about the tumultuous life Rebecca noted. But she also said she had of the Jewish author who gave us classics heard Miller’s great-grandfather was a rabbi. such as “Death of a Salesman” and “The His mother kept kosher at home until she Crucible,” and spent much of the 1950s developed a “taste for bacon.” In one of their in the public eye. Arthur Miller’s public and private Arthur Miller with wife Marilyn Monroe last conversations in the film, Miller says a But the film succeeds at filling the lives are the subject of a new HBO in 1956. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton play “is the process of approaching the un- gaps between Miller’s public and private documentary. (Photo by Arthur Miller Archive/Getty Images) witting, the unspoken and the unspeakable.” lives, painting a fuller and more nuanced Archive/Robert Miller/HBO) Rebecca suggests that that sounds a lot like portrait of one of the 20th century’s most Kabbalah, and he agrees. celebrated writers. That’s probably in large “In the beginning, I just wanted to get met and married Slattery, a lapsed Catholic. At the height of the McCarthy era, Mill- part because the film’s director is Rebecca the stories down,” she said. “She wanted an intellectual and Jewish er penned “The Crucible,” a thinly veiled Miller, Arthur’s daughter. In film school, though, Rebecca Miller artist, and I wanted America,” Miller says indictment of the House Un-American The movie, which premiered on March won a prize for an unrelated project and in the film. Activities Committee, using the Salem 19, is as much a warm and intimate was given reels of professional-grade 16 The newly married Millers moved to witch trials as backdrop. (The committee father-daughter conversation as it is a millimeter film. That made her “think of New York, where his first Broadway ef- later found him guilty of contempt of Con- summary of his life. It traces Miller’s story doing more formal interviews and turning fort, “The Man Who Had All the Luck,” gress when he refused to out fellow artists from his childhood in New York City to his it into a more serious film.” had none, closing after six performances. as communists. He received a suspended marriage to Marilyn Monroe to his run- Rebecca eventually found a treasure Miller’s fortunes changed in 1947 with the prison sentence and was fined $500.) In in with the notorious “anti-Communist” trove of old family films dating back to debut of “All My Sons,” his initial collab- 1956, he married Marilyn Monroe, who House Un-American Activities Committee. the 1940s and added interviews with her oration with director Elia Kazan. The play, converted to Judaism. They divorced in But the film also captures Miller in two half-siblings, Robert and Jane (born which involved a company that knowingly 1961 and Monroe died of an overdose unguarded moments, in his woodworking to Miller’s first wife, Mary Slattery); manufactured defective airplane engines, little over a year later. shop and in his garden with his third wife, Arthur’s older brother, Kermit, and his won multiple Tony Awards. Three years after Monroe’s death, Inge Morath, who was Rebecca’s mom younger sister, Joan Copeland; as well Miller followed that with “Death of a Miller reunited with Kazan for “After The and a noted photographer. Rebecca fol- as with Jewish playwright Tony Kushner Salesman,” which debuted in 1949 and Fall,” a roman a clef that re-created his life lows him through these moments, asking and the late Jewish director Mike Nichols. is widely considered one of the great with Monroe. It was savaged by reviewers. questions that search for the secrets behind On its own, Arthur Miller’s story has American plays of the last century. The When talking about the play in the film, his creative process. enough ups and downs to pack far more protagonist Willy Loman was based on Miller laments the future of playwriting In a phone conversation, Rebecca Miller than the film’s 98 minutes. A lackluster one of the playwright’s uncles. and his treatment at the hands of critics. told JTA that though she wanted to be a student, Miller took a job after high school “There is an ongoing debate on how Miller never enjoyed superstar success filmmaker growing up, her sessions with her that required a 90-minute commute. He Jewish the Lomans are,” Rebecca said. again. Among his subsequent plays were father, which began over two decades ago, began reading what he called “thick books” “They’re Jewish if you want them to be See “Miller” on page 19 started as more of a family project than a on his way to work that awakened literary potential film. (These days, she is a respected ambitions. At the University of Michigan, indie filmmaker and author, and is married Miller twice won the school’s Hopwood to Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis.) Award for creative writing. While there, he At right: Rebecca Miller filming her father. (Photo by Inge Morath/The Igne Morath Foundation/ Magnum Photos/HBO)

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Effective immediately, please send all articles & ads to our new E-mail address, [email protected]. MARCH 22, 2018 ■ THE REPORTER 13 On the silver screen Itzhak Perlman’s inspiring musical journey – and his 50-year marriage –captured in a documentary BY CURT SCHLEIER Sullivan Show,” to the enormous (JTA) – Itzhak Perlman, arguably concerts he has played around the the most famous violinist in the world – but it inevitably appears. world, has heard plenty of questions In one scene, he shares a Shab- in his 50-year career. But when asked bat meal with his children and if his religious heritage has affected grandchildren. (He never travels his playing, he sounds stumped. or performs on Friday evenings.) “I’m a violinist. I’m Jewish, so In another, shot in Israel, he takes that makes me a Jewish musician,” Itzhak Perlman, shown in a scene from the director Alison Chernick on a he tells JTA on the phone recently documentary “Itzhak.” (Photo courtesy of tour of the many streets named from Singer Island, where he is to Greenwich Entertainment) for figures in Israeli and Jewish perform at a benefit. “I’m a musician history. Then there’s a visitor, a who just happens to be Jewish. When I play klezmer...” friend from Boston, who worries that the pickles she Itzhak Perlman with his wife, Toby, in a scene from He doesn’t get to finish the thought because he is brought as a gift don’t have the Kosher K on their label. “Itzhak.” (Photo courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment) interrupted by Toby, his wife of more than 50 years. The film is most interesting when it shows Perlman in “I think that’s not true,” she says in the background. “I private moments, often in conversation with Toby. The But Perlman has faced hardships: He contracted polio think you’re the embodiment of a Yiddle with a fiddle.” pair met at a music camp and, after hearing him play at 4. It was the late 1940s, and Israel was in its infancy Perlman, 72, is the subject of a new documentary, just once, Toby went to Itzhak’s bunk and proposed to as a nation and had limited medical facilities. Many died “Itzhak.” His Jewishness is not front and center – the the Israeli virtuoso, then 17. from the disease, even in the most advanced nations. Part film spans his entire life, from his birth in Israel and “I was hopelessly in love with him,” she says in the film. of his treatment involved inhaling the smoke of burning early struggle with polio, to his appearance on “The Ed Perlman had one other girlfriend after that, but eventually parchment on which religious sayings had been written. came back to her, and they have been married since 1967. Perlman survived, with paralyzed legs, and went on At one point in the film, Toby points out that a note he to reveal musical brilliance. Still, many experts saw his played was out of tune. “About his playing, nobody else disability and discouraged thoughts of a music career. is going to be honest with him,” she tells JTA. “Everyone His break came at 13, when he caught the eye of Sulli- is going to tell him ‘you’re so great.’ I’m going to say van – who sent talent scouts to Israel to look for acts for ‘you’re so great,’ too. Do I think he’s the greatest? Yes. his “immensely popular” variety show and eventually But if he’s sharp, or I believe I see a bad habit that [has] visited the Jewish state himself. creeped into his playing, I’ll tell him – I’m truthful.” In the documentary, Perlman admits he suspects Sulli- Perlman hasn’t encountered much criticism of his van brought him to New York as much for the inspirational playing over the decades. The Tel Aviv native first fell in impact of his disability as for his skill. Nevertheless, he love with his instrument at the age of 3, when he heard was a hit after performing on the program in 1958. From Jewish violinist Jascha Heifetz playing on the radio. “It’s there, the rest is history – he has performed at the White very interesting what makes kids who study instruments House, in concert with Billy Joel, before a New York Itzhak Perlman, right, having dinner with Alan Alda choose the instrument. It’s what speaks to you. The sound Mets playoff game and with countless orchestras around from a scene in “Itzhak.” (Photo courtesy of Greenwich just appealed to me. I wanted to do that,” he said in the the world. After winning the 2016 Genesis Prize – known Entertainment) phone interview. See “Perlman” on page 19

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ÊCheck out the Federation’s new, updated website at www.jewishnepa.org or find it on Facebook 14 THE REPORTER ■ MARCH 22, 2018 Fashion Continued from page 4 “But in Israel, we don’t have the material. You can’t find After having them fill out a style questionnaire, everything you can wish and dream for, so we need to visitors are taken on a customized tour of Tel Aviv, innovate and invent.” where Reismann winds through hidden alleyways and Abargel upholds that colorful fabrics are in low the studios of some of the 69 burgeoning designers supply in Israel, encouraging designers to get creative with whom she works. “It’s not just a shopping tour with their work, developing solutions such as 3D and or a styling tour,” she tells JNS. “It’s good to bring a digital printing. garment back home and discuss it over Friday night Up-and-coming designer Danit Peleg uses 3D printing dinner, but even if you don’t, you go home as an am- to “e-mail a dress and jacket through an incredible new bassador for Israel with an even bigger treasure – the design tool”: a digital printer the size of a large microwave. stories of the people.” Inspired by artwork, the city of Tel Aviv, modernization As she explains, each designer has a narrative; each and sustainability, she tells JNS that “you can print any has a “personality, message and passion, and is fighting structure. Your imagination is the only limit.” to survive. It gives clients a glimpse of life in Tel Aviv.” Likewise, Moran Porat, a jewelry designer based in Although much of her clientele – primarily, American Rishon Letzion, developed her style after being inspired Jewish women – has been to Israel prior to her tours, by pieces that were inaccessible to her. “I couldn’t buy Reismann gets to show them an Israel they’ve never seen. royal jewelry, so I made my own,” she says. “You have to go off the beaten track to truly understand “They were right to say that necessity is the father of the rhythm of this country,” she insists. all great inventions,” quips Reismann. “That’s the spirit Nir Goeta showed one of his pieces. (Photo by Eliana Her message is one of “the liveliness of the Israeli of the people in Israel. Even with a history of hard times, Rudee) people, telling unique stories of their dynamic country, we continue because there is no other way. Innovation creating together and reshaping [their] country through is in the DNA of our country.” asking for something back,” Peleg says, agreeing with the fashion industry.” Because of shared challenges, says Reismann, Israeli Reismann. “To create something new is enough to open It is an empowering message, especially for Reis- designers often reflect akibbutz mentality and are more their minds and hearts.” mann, whose grandmother was able to survive Aus- willing to work together rather than fear competition. Much like a melting pot for culture, Reismann defines chwitz because she could tailor clothes. It is considered They often mentor young designers, forgoing their desire the industry in Israel as a “slow fashion movement” a message not only of exploration of the human fabric for ego and power. where, similar to slow cooking, everything is made in of Israel, but of the Jewish people and the evolution “Here, people are happy to share their time without small batches, by hand and with great attention to craft of their homeland. and detail. The recipe? It’s a mix of traditional embroidery taught by Jewish grandmothers, with the manipulation of fabrics from the Arabic, Bedouin and Ethiopian pop- ulations, merged with a contemporary style that is said to reflect the free spirit, imagination and independent thinking of those who reside in Tel Aviv. Nir Goeta, co-owner of the shop Hannah (Lilien- blum Street 19, Tel Aviv), is motivated by this mix and focuses his work on traditional tailoring from Europe, fit to Israeli comfort and minimalism. Even his studio, set in a Bauhaus building that represents the foundational architecture of Tel Aviv, inspires his work. Reismann, too, pioneers a business that represents the intersection of the city and its character. “I feel that it brings my spirit higher doing something for my people,” Moran Porat displayed her jewelry. (Photo by Eliana she says, proud that her work supports the local fashion Elisha Bargel showed a piece inspired by Jewish prayer Rudee) industry and tells Israel’s story. shawls. (Photo by Eliana Rudee) P A C E Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment Your gift to the Annual Campaign DOES A WORLD OF GOOD. Endowing your gift allows you to be there for the Jewish community of NEPA forever. A Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment (PACE) is a permanent fund that endows your Jewish community Annual Campaign gift as a lasting legacy. A PACE fund will continue to make an annual gift in perpetuity on your behalf. 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D D ­e Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania presents “My Brother’s Keeper - e 911 of the Jewish People” How the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) is changing the Jewish world Scranton Jewish Community Center Thursday, May 17 at 7pm Given the importance of the work done by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) to assist imperiled and threatened Jewish communities around the world, a special program will be presented on ursday, May 18th at 7:00 PM in the Koppelman Auditorium of the Scranton JCC and will be open to our entire Jewish community - at no charge.

Our guest for the evening will be Shaun Goldstone, Global Development Ocer for the JDC who has participated in JDC’s worldwide international disaster relief e
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The program is open to the entire Jewish community and a dessert reception will follow. An RSVP to Mary Ann Mistysyn at either 961-2300 (x4) or [email protected] would be appreciated in order to facilitate food arrangements. We hope you can join us for this wonderful program. Mark Silverberg, Executive Director Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania D D 16 THE REPORTER ■ MARCH 22, 2018 Israeli startup goes ga-ga over “smart” baby monitors BY JEFFREY BARKEN At left: Nanit’s “Not many people know that my first attempts to (JNS) – “Kids who know they’re cared for and cared smart baby monitor, measure sleep with a camera were by placing a camera about have fewer behavioral problems and stronger re- which utilizes what above my own bed at night… It was during the time that lationships,” author Heidi Murkoff asserts in her “What the company calls we were expecting, and I wanted to try the technology to Expect” series on pregnancy and child-rearing. Many “computer vision” to myself before looking at babies,” Nanit’s CEO Assaf experienced parents will agree that one of the mechanisms document the quality of Glazer tells JNS. to such constant care, at least in the very early stages, is sleep an infant receives. His reflections on the humble origins of his venture, electronic: a baby monitor. (Photo courtesy of coupled with his experiences as a first-time parent, Indeed, one of these high-quality, new-parent “must Nanit) demonstrate the millennial generation’s budding desire haves” can be essential to establishing foundational trust to utilize smart technologies to positively influence both among newborns and toddlers, as well as help ensure environmental conditions such as room temperature, their daily and nightly existence. Glazer soon realized the their safety. Although they offer a window into the humidity and nursery lighting. Subscribers also receive value that sleep data presents, helping adults distinguish nocturnal lives of infants, there has been surprisingly regular video highlights that enable parents to replay best practices in the bedroom and beyond. little innovation in this realm since baby monitors were important sleep milestones like the first time their “It was an ‘aha’ moment for me,” he says. “I wanted first invented in 1937. Now, an Israeli startup company baby rolls over or successfully finds self-comfort in to make it bigger.” called Nanit is said to be on the brink of revolutionizing the wake of a startling dream. Certain statistics trigger Although Nanit is not a medical device, clinical an entire industry. detailed personalized sleep-routine suggestions that applications for the collected data soon became Nanit has developed a “smart” baby monitor with not only help parents construct a healthy, conducive apparent. “Sleep – and seeing what’s happening potentially far-reaching practical and even medical environment for their child, but also evaluate their own while a baby sleeps – can potentially assist in early applications. The company has brought together a interactions with their babies whenever a late-night diagnosis of global and/or individual anomalies and “tight-knit collection of scientists, parents and design- visit to the nursery proves necessary. disorders like sleep apnea, autism and more,” states ers – experts in the first beautiful months of human “The better you sleep, the better you feel – and the Glazer. He sees schools, hospitals and senior housing life,” reads the company’s website. These profession- better you can perform,” Aaron Pollack, Nanit’s vice as the next potential settings where Nanit can also als and consultants have helped tailor sophisticated president of marketing, tells JNS, stressing the “signif- be successfully utilized. data analysis algorithms that offer an interactive icant health benefits” that Nanit Insights presents for “The market for smart baby monitors is growing at a and adaptive learning experience for families with the entire family. rate of almost 30 percent year over year,” notes Pollack, young children. Part of the Internet-of-things, Nanit Nanit is the product of the Runway Program, hosted and it is not without competitors. monitors utilize what the company calls “computer by the New York City-based Jacobs Technion-Cornell One company called Owlett has developed a smart vision” to document the quality of sleep an infant Institute (a collaboration between the Technion-Israel baby sock that measures a sleeping baby’s vitals and receives. At the same time, a high-end night-vision Institute of Technology in Haifa and Cornell University breathing to protect against Sudden Instant Death Syn- camera beams real time, securely encrypted video in Ithaca, NY). According to Fernando Gómez-Baque- drome, or SIDS, among other conditions. Pollack stresses feeds to a parent’s phone. ro, director of Runway, this paradigm-shifting program the risk that false positives will prompt a scare when Parents unlock Nanit’s true promise by subscribing is “part business school, part research institution and using this device, and differentiates Nanit from Owlett to Nanit Insights. For $10 a month or a $100 single part startup incubator.” It offers those who have earned by acknowledging that “they are about breathing and payment for a year of service, Nanit’s all-seeing their Ph.D.s in the field of digital technologies a plat- we’re about sleeping.” “Intelligent Sleep Guru” generates a detailed sleep form where academics can embrace an entrepreneurial Nevertheless, there is clear and mounting market summary on a nightly basis. Sleep scores chronicle perspective, developing state-of-the-art products and pressure for companies to rethink classic baby-monitor everything from how long it takes for a child to fall launching new companies. technology and to apply effective data-analysis capability. asleep to the number of times his or her sleep was “As of last summer, [Runway] has created 18 com- Although priced at $279 for the Nanit device plus basic interrupted, in addition to the child’s overall sleep panies, raised $19.3 million in venture-capital funding services, it seems likely that this sophisticated monitor efficiency – a statistic calculated by dividing the time and employed 80 people. Of the 18 [companies], four certainly could gain broad acceptance. a child spends asleep by the amount of time he or have operations in the U.S. and Israel,” Gómez-Baquero And that, of course, will cause Glazer and his team she is in bed. Nanit Insights further assesses indoor tells JNS. to sleep soundly.

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ForF more information, call Mark Silverberg, Executive Director JJewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania Endowment Fund 570-961-2300 ext.1 MARCH 22, 2018 ■ THE REPORTER 17 NEWS IN BRIEF FROM ISRAEL From JNS.org defense-ministry recommendations. The 2019 state budget will also be approved. The Arab MK suspended for calling Israeli soldiers “murderers” government was pushed to the brink of elections in the last week, with the haredi United Torah Judaism Party rejecting several deal offers. The party has threatened to shoot down The Knesset Ethics Committee suspended MK Hanin Zoabi (Joint Arab List) on the 2019 state budget if the conscription bill does not go through, freeing the overwhelming March 14 from Israeli Knesset plenum sessions and committee discussions for one week majority of ultra-Orthodox students of age to be drafted into the Israel Defense Forces for calling IDF soldiers “murderers.” MK Oren Hazan (Likud) filed a complaint against from serving in the military. Israel Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, leader of Yisrael Zoabi for statements she made in February in the Education Committee during debates on Beiteinu, reiterated that his party would vote against the legislation, which he dubbed the a law to ban anti-IDF organizations from being allowed to give lectures in Israeli schools. “evasion bill.” He added that he has no interest in early elections. Leaders of coalition “A person who kills even once in his life or kills every day of his life is called a murderer. parties have suggested that Netanyahu may have engineered the coalition crisis in order Therefore, even the army which occasionally murders, not every day.... Have you not heard to garner a public display of support ahead of possible indictments on corruption charges. about the young Palestinians who were murdered?” Zoabi asked. “How the truth scares The prime minister has consistently denied any wrongdoing. people here. It’s enough that they murder every four days. Who is murdering Palestinians in occupied territory?” The Ethics Committee ruled that calling IDF soldiers “murderers” Gallup poll finds highest U.S. support for Israel since 1990s does not qualify as the kind of political expression deserving of broad protections, and A Gallup poll released on March 13 found a surge in American support for Israel that Zoabi’s libel is a violation of ethics laws requiring a Knesset member to “act in a that hasn’t been seen since the early 1990s. According to the poll, some 74 percent of manner appropriate to his position as a member of the Knesset and [to] promote public Americans view Israel favorably: 83 percent of Republicans and 64 percent of Dem- confidence in the Knesset.” Zoabi did not apologize, stating that she had “spoken the ocrats. “As the Trump administration prepares to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to truth.” She called the Ethics Committee a “censorship committee” and admitted, “I did Jerusalem and is reportedly finalizing its broader Middle East peace plan, Americans’ indeed say that among IDF soldiers there are those who murdered Palestinians. I spoke stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is as strongly pro-Israel as at any time in Gal- the truth and I would be happy to hold a discussions on the matter.” lup’s three-decade trend,” wrote Senior Gallup Editor Lydia Saad. However, a favorable Israel becomes first country to OK medical cannabis vaporizers view of the Palestinian Authority was recorded among 27 percent of Democrats, with only 12 percent of Republicans expressing a favorable view and 21 percent of Inde- Israel has become the world’s first country to approve cannabis vaporizers for pendents. Overall, 64 percent of those polled said they sympathized more with Israel, medical use. The Israeli Ministry of Health has granted initial approval to the VapePod whereas 19 percent said they sympathize more with the Palestinians. Almost 90 percent vaporizer developed by Kanabo Research, a Tel-Aviv-based medical cannabis research of Republicans said they have a more favorable view of Israel, with just 49 percent and development company, according to a report by Israel21c. Most medical marijuana of Democrats saying the same. A 2017 Pew Institute report showed that Republican patients receive the benefits of cannabis from smoking. The approved vaporizer will support for Israel is at a record high, though support among Democrats is declining. free users from the detriments of smoking and deliver consistent, accurate dosing in The Gallup poll showed stronger numbers than the Pew report. a more effective manner. “We expect that due to the transition of most of the cannabis consumers to the use of vaporizers, our company is projected to reach $10 million Israeli researchers say smart home devices can be hacked in sales within three years in the Israeli market, while the Israeli cannabis market is Researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University have revealed that off-the-shelf smart expected to reach $100 million in sales within three years, Avihu Tamir, cofounder devices like baby monitors, air conditioners, robot floor cleaners, cameras and doorbells and CEO of Kanabo Research said. “The Israeli market is a platform to deliver our can be corrupted by malware and used to spy on users. In a paper appearing in Smart technology to global markets in North America and Europe.” The organization is Card Research and Advanced Applications, Yossi Oren of Ben-Gurion University’s currently performing preclinical trials to treat sleep disorders with VapePod. software and information systems engineering department revealed that almost any Netanyahu avoids coalition crisis with agreement on haredi nonstandard computing device that can connect to a wireless network can be used to transmit data. The senior lecturer noted that many web-connected devices “lack even conscription bill basic security protections such as secure password authentication,” and that thousands Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government reached a compromise deal of “Internet of Things” devices are infected with malware, with many more left vul- on March 13 shoring up the coalition and quashing calls for early elections. According to nerable. The researchers conducted a test and were able to reverse engineer several the deal, the haredi army conscription bill would pass before the Knesset goes to its spring home devices using low-cost methods, uncovering serious security issues. The BGU recess on March 15. Coalition member Sofa Landver and the five members of the Yisrael researchers discovered that the same default passwords are used for similar products Beiteinu Party who are “strongly” opposed to what they call the “evasion law” will be sold under different brands, and that consumers and businesses rarely change them permitted to vote against it as a one-time move against the government, as it is expected after purchase. The paper urged consumers not to buy used devices that could already to pass without their support. Before it is finalized, the bill will be amended according to have malware installed and to change passwords after purchase.

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February 2018

Feature Films *A Tale of Love and Darkness - Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman directs and stars in the emotional and thought-provoking story about Fania, a young wife and mother in war-torn Jerusalem, during the early years of the State of Israel. Stifled in her relationship and weary from the tedium of her new life, Fania creates fantastical stories for Amos, her 10-year-old son, amazing him with tales of adventure and beauty— stories that would influence the boy to become a writer himself. Based on the international best-selling memoir by Amos Oz. Denial - Based on the acclaimed book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, Denial recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (BAFTA nominee Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. In the English legal system, in cases of libel, the burden of proof is on the defendant, therefore it was up to Lipstadt and her legal team, led by Richard Rampton, to prove the essential truth that the Holocaust occurred. *Fanny’s Journey- In 1943, 13-year old Fanny and her younger sisters were sent from their home in France to an Italian foster home for Jewish children. When Nazis came to Italy, their caretakers organized the departure of the children to Switzerland. Based on a true story. Hidden in Silence- During the Nazi occupation of Poland,Catholic teenage Stefania Podgorska chooses the role of a savior and sneaks 13 Jewish into her attic. *Loving Leah: A Hallmark Hall of Fame Classic - A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and a young New York woman fall in love at an unusual time...after they get married. Leah Lever is married to an Orthodox rabbi, Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake, is a successful cardiologist and a non-practicing Jew. Jake is stunned when Benjamin dies suddenly, but not as stunned as when he is told that, under an ancient Jewish Law, he is expected to marry the childless Leah to carry on Benjamin’s name. The only alternative is to go through a ceremony where Jake must deny his brother’s existence. For Jake, that’s unthinkable, so impulsively he suggests to Leah that they get married and maintain a secretly platonic relationship. Eager to pursue her own dreams, Leah gladly accepts. Their oversimplified plan to live separate lives under the same roof proves challenging when Leah’s suspicious mother shows up unexpectedly. The harder they try to disguise their “pretend” marriage, the more their appreciation for each other’s worlds grows - and out of understanding, a real love develops. Loving Leah is a heart-warming story. Munich - Inspired by real events, Munich reveal the intense story of the secret Israeli squad assign to track down and assassinate the 121 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre of 11 Israeli athletes. ( The Jewish Film Library also owns the movie “Twenty One Hours in Munich” about the massacre at the Olympics). Music Box - In this intense, courtroom thriller, Chicago attorney Ann Talbot agrees to defend her Hungarian immigrant father Mike Laszlo against accusations of heinous war crimes committed 50 years earlier. *Norman - Norman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere) lives a lonely life in the margins of New York City power and money, and strives to be everyone’s friend. His incessant networking leads him nowhere until he ends up befriending a young but charismatic politician, Micha Eshel at a low point in his life. Three years later, the politician becomes the Prime Minister of Israel. Norman uses Eshel’s name to leverage his biggest deal ever: a series of quid pro quo transactions linking the Prime Minister to Norman’s nephew ,a rabbi, a mogul, his assistant and a treasury official from the Ivory Coast. Norman’s plans soon go awry, creating the potential for an international catastrophe he must struggle to prevent. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer is a comedic and compassionate drama of a man whose downfall is rooted in a human frailty all too easy to forgive—a need to matter. Remember - Remember is the suspense-filled story of Zev, an Auschwitz survivor who discovers that the Nazi guard who murdered his family some seventy years ago is living in America under an assumed name. The Devil’s Arithmetic - Sixteen year old Hanna Stern was a typical American teenager who ignores her family’s heritage until a mystical Passover seder takes her back in time to German-occupied Poland on an emotional journey of life, death and survival. The Impossible Spy - The story of the life and death of Israel’s most celebrated spy, Elie Cohen. *The Last Butterfly - This World War II drama stars Tom Courtenay as the famous French Mime Antoine Moreau. Ordered by the Nazis to provide ‘the greatest show of his life’ for use as propoganda showing the kinder side of the Nazis as the war draws to a close, Moreau decides to risk everything to tell the world the real truth behind this monumental lie, and although as a mime he is pledged to keep his lips sealed, his voice must be heard. *The Women’s Balcony - Discover Israel’s #1 film of the year! An accident during a Bar Mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout community in Jerusalem. *The Wedding Plan - A poignant and funny romantic comedy about love, marriage and faith in life’s infinite possibilities. *The Zookeeper’s Wife - In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska (two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain) and her husband successfully run the Warsaw Zoo and raise their family in an idyllic existence. Their world is overturned, however, when the country is invaded by the Nazis and they are forced to report to the Reich’s newly appointed zoologist (Daniel Brühl). To fight back on their own terms, the Zabinskis risk everything by covertly working with the Resistance and using the zoo’s hidden tunnels and cages to save families from Nazi brutality. Non-Feature Films Above and Beyond - In 1948, just three years after the liberation of Nazi death camps, a group of Jewish-American pilots answered a call for help. As members of Machal- “volunteers from abroad”- this ragtag band of brothers not only turned the tide of the war; they also embarked on personal journeys of discovery and renewed Jewish pride. *Body and Soul: The State of the Jewish Nation - A powerful documentary sets the record straight eloquently and comprehensively. It not only shows the undeniable historical connection between the Jewish People and the Land of Israel, but also succeeds in debunking propaganda, myths and misinformation that have become accepted as truth by many people. Follow Me - The story of the fantastic rescue at Entebbe and the loss of Yonatan Netanyahu (brother of the Prime Minister). The Jewish Film Library also owns an Israeli film about the rescue at Entebbe entitled “Operation Thunderbolt” Hava Nagila (the Movie) - Hava Nagila is a documentary romp through the history, mystery and meaning of the great Jewish standard. *I’m Still Here - Real Diaries of young people who lived during the Holocaust. Jews and Baseball (narrated by Dustin Hoffman) Israel: The Royal Tour - A delightful tour headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and travel correspondent Peter Greenberg. Nicky’s Family - The amazing story of Sir Nicholas Winton who created, on his own, a Kinder-transport in Czechoslavakia saving 669 children from the Nazi inferno. No Place on Earth - The harrowing story of Esther Stermer and her family and friends who escaped extermination by the Nazis by hiding in an underground cave is unearthed by accident when cave explorer, Chris Nicola stumbles upon remnants left behind by the cave dwellers. *Rosenwald - Rosenwald tells the incredible story of Julius Rosenwald, the son of an immigrant peddler who never finished high school, who rose to become the President of Sears. Influenced by the writings of the educator Booker T. Washington, this Jewish philanthropist joined forces with African American communities during the Jim Crow South to build 5,300 schools, providing 660,000 black children with access to education in the segregated American South. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg *The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers and Soldiers and Peacemakers - A two disc-set based on the international best-seller by Ambassador Yehuda Avner (New films denoted with an asterisk *)

MARCH 22, 2018 ■ THE REPORTER 19 NEWS IN BRIEF From JTA Hitler and the Nazis as historical villains was once unusual in many Arab nations, where Israel’s Supreme Court issues restraining order on gov’t plan to until recently Holocaust denial was prevalent. The Saudi-based Muslim World League, deport African refugees a body once notable for its anti-Israel hostility, in January condemned Holocaust denial. The Supreme Court of Israel has issued a temporary restraining order on a government Bin Salman has forged a “close friendship” with President Donald Trump’s Jewish son- plan to deport African asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan to a third country in Africa. in-law, Jared Kushner, who is spearheading Trump’s drive to revive Israeli-Palestinian The court issued its decision on March 15 in response to a petition signed by 120 refugees peace talks. Israel and Saudi Arabia both opposed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal brokered and asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan. The deportations will be suspended by at by the Obama administration. Trump has said the deal, which swaps sanctions relief for least two weeks, until hearings on the request resume, the Times of Israel reported. The a rollback in Iran’s nuclear program, should be drastically amended or scrapped. injunction suspends the deportations “until further notice,” the report said. The court’s Polish Senate OKs national day to honor citizens who saved Jews ruling will not apply to African migrants who have already volunteered to leave Israel for The Polish Senate approved a resolution making March 24 a day to remember Poles a third African country, which has not been named but is believed to be either Rwanda or who saved Jews during World War II. President Andrzej Duda initiated the National Uganda. Israel’s Cabinet in January approved a plan and the budget to deport thousands of Remembrance Day for Poles Who Saved Jews. The resolution approved on March migrants from Sudan and Eritrea. Prior to that, the Population and Immigration Authority 14 was supported by 58 senators, including 51 from the ruling Law and Justice party. notified the migrants that as of Jan. 1, they must return to their own countries or to a Fourteen senators voted against the resolution, including 13 from the center-right Civic third nation, or be sent to jail until they are deported. According to the government plan, Platform party. Three abstained from the vote. “In the conviction of the president, this migrants who choose to leave by March 31 will receive a payment of $3,500 as well as day is meant to connect Poles with different views, but with a common belief that free airfare and other incentives, according to reports. For now, deportation notices will people who saved the Jewish population deserve respect,” said Wojciech Kolarski, not be issued to women, children, fathers of children, anyone recognized as a victim of the undersecretary of state in the Chancellery of the President. On March 24, 1944, slavery or human trafficking, and those who had requested asylum by the end of 2017 the Germans murdered the Ulma family – Józef, Wiktoria and their six children – in but have not received a response, Haaretz reported. There are up to 40,000 Eritreans Markowa, in southeastern Poland. Jews who were hiding in their house also were and Sudanese living in Israel, including 5,000 children. Human rights activists in Israel killed that day. On March 17, 2016, the Museum of Poles Rescuing Jews was opened and U.S. Jewish organizations have urged the Israeli government not to go ahead with in Markowa. Some 6,000 Poles have been named Righteous Among the Nations by the plan to force the migrants to choose between jail and deportation. the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem for saving Jews, the most of any nation. In nuke warning, Saudi crown prince likens Khamenei to Hitler Orthodox Jews in FL against all-year daylight saving time bill Likening the Iranian leader to Hitler, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said a nuclear Iran Florida’s Orthodox Jewish community is working to convince the governor not to would require his country to acquire a nuclear weapon. “Saudi Arabia does not want to sign a bill that would keep the state in daylight saving time all year. Agudath Israel acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will of Florida has contacted state lawmakers to explain how the Sunshine Protection follow suit as soon as possible,” Mohammed bin Salman said in an interview with the Act would adversely affect the Orthodox Jewish community, Vos Iz Neis reported, CBS’ “60 Minutes” program due to air on March 18. Bin Salman said Iran posed a threat citing Rabbi Moshe Matz, the state Agudath’s executive director. Matz also called on because of what he said were its expansionist policies, likening the country’s supreme Florida’s Jewish community leaders, institutions and residents to contact Gov. Rick leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to Adolf Hitler. “He wants to create his own project in the Scott to express their opposition. The bill is awaiting Scott’s signature; the Florida Middle East very much like Hitler, who wanted to expand at the time,” Bin Salman said House of Representatives and Senate voted overwhelmingly earlier in March to adopt in an excerpt of the interview released by CBS. “Many countries around the world and in the measure. It will still need congressional approval. One of the reasons for the en- Europe did not realize how dangerous Hitler was until what happened, happened. I don’t thusiasm is the benefit to tourism, a major industry in Florida, by providing an extra want to see the same events happening in the Middle East.” The language reflects similar hour of daylight for activities. But having sunrise and sunset arrive an hour later is a warnings about Iran by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Additionally, casting problem for Orthodox residents and visitors, Vos Iz Nei reported.

Miller Continued from page 12 “Incident at Vichy” (1964), about a group of men detained by Nazis; “The Price” (1968), which featured Gregory Solomon, a Yiddish-accented character; and “Broken Glass” (1994), about a Jewish couple from Brooklyn set around the time of Kristallnacht. In the film, Rebecca is able to bring out a warmth and honesty from her father – he was hardened by public scrutiny and decades of waning critical relevance – that a stranger might not have elicited. The viewer can hear her say things such as “OK, Pops, you’re on” while filming. “[His] public persona is so different from the man I knew,” she said. “I felt I was the only filmmaker he would let close enough.”

Perlman Continued from page 13 as the “Jewish Nobel” – he directed the $1 million in prize money toward projects that foster the inclusion of people with disabilities in Jewish life, Israeli society and classical music. The film illustrates how collaborative and generous Perlman is. While visiting a friend who tunes up his violin before a tour and teaching gifted students in one of his many workshops, he comes across less like a classical music Beatle than a peer. He is not a fan of giving interviews, though, and when Toby voices her opinion, Perlman sees a way out. “You’ve asked enough questions,” he says at one point, and asks Toby to pick up the phone. Fortunately, she is an astute observer of the seasoned maestro. “He doesn’t know a lot of things about himself because so much of it comes so naturally,” she says. “It’s like breathing. We don’t think about breathing, and that’s the way he plays.” There is one thing Perlman is acutely aware of: He has a gift that can’t be taught. “You can teach almost everything with one exception: the magic that makes performances special. You can have two people – both great – play the same piece, and one will move you and one won’t,” he said. ssove Geeti Pa fro ng

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