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May 11-17, 2018 Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton Volume XLVII, Number 19 BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK “Faces: Holocaust” exhibit on display at the JCC The Jewish Community Center, 500 Professor Patricia Evans’ beginning drawing Clubhouse Rd., Vestal, is holding the ex- students seek to tell the story of sacrifice and hibit “Faces: Holocaust” through Thursday, struggle, and to make a difference through June 14, in the meeting room. The artists form and content. Part of their project was are from SUNY Broome, who drew faces researching the history of Holocaust survi- of marginalized and overlooked people for vors and non-survivors, including their birth the exhibition series “Faces.” The exhibit at and death records, culminating into a lesson the JCC is the second in the series. on social and cultural history. The exhibit showcases a series of classical The JCC requests that people call its realist larger-than-life-size portrait drawings office at 724-2417 to find out if the meeting rendered in charcoal, pencil and mixed media Above, left and right: The exhibit “Faces: Holocaust” is now on display at the room, which is located just off the lobby, along with life stories that represent survi- Jewish Community Center. The artists are SUNY Broome students and the portraits is available for viewing. The lobby is open vors, as well as those who perished during represent survivors and non-survivors of the Holocaust rendered in charcoal, pencil Monday-Thursday from 8:30 am-8 pm and the Holocaust. SUNY Broome Associate and mixed media. on Friday from 8:30 am-4 pm. TC-TI to hold iEngage programs Temple Concord and Temple Israel, future through video lectures, discussions from 7-9 pm, then continuing with six understand these important milestones,” in partnership with the Jewish Federa- and texts. Each participant will get their more sessions in the fall. Rabbi Barbara said Goldman-Wartell. “Memory is a tion of Greater Binghamton, will bring own booklet of materials and access to Goldman-Wartell and Rabbi Geoffrey central element in defining modern Jewish the Shalom Hartman Institute’s iEngage all the lectures and more online reading Brown will be facilitating the sessions. identity. As we look to Israel’s future, we program on “Israel’s Milestones and their materials to continue their explorations. Advanced registration is requested so the need to engage anew with our past and Meanings” to the Binghamton Jewish The cost is $20 per person for the entire booklets can be ordered. explore its meanings and consequences. community. The program will explore the program, starting with two spring ses- “iEngage: Israel’s Milestones and This iEngage series grapples with the legacy of the past and the challenges of the sions, Thursdays, May 31 and June 21, Their Meanings” will explore the events different ideas and values that shape the of 1917, 1947 and 1967 as key moments meaning of modern Israel, Zionism and when Zionism unleashed new thinking Jewish identity today. Together we will about the meaning of Jewishness. Each engage in a new values-based discourse TI Sisterhood to host session includes text study and discussion about Israel, including such topics as led by Brown and Goldman-Wartell, and nationhood, land, sovereignty, Jerusalem, video lectures and roundtable discussions occupation and moral red lines.” book review on May 22 with leading Hartman scholars. To make a reservation, contact Temple “I’m excited that we are offering this Concord at 723-7355 or templeconcord- The Temple Israel Sisterhood will host World War II refugees who were personally program to the Jewish community since [email protected], or Temple Israel the Sisterhoods of Temple Concord and escorted to the U.S. in August 1944 by Gru- the program expands the way we might at 723-7461 or [email protected]. Beth David Synagogue, and welcomes the ber, a Jewish American journalist. It details community to join them on Tuesday, May how the author went to Italy and managed 22, at 7 pm, for a dairy dessert event at which to shepherd refugees from 17 countries Merri Pell-Preus will present a review of all the way to Fort Ontario, a retired U.S. Federation board meeting Ruth Gruber’s book “Haven.” Army camp in Oswego, NY. Gruber was According to organizers, “This book also considered instrumental in helping offers a first-hand account of a remark- them to obtain United States citizenship open to community able rescue that took place during the after the end of the war. Holocaust and which, unknown to many To ensure adequate preparations for the The Jewish Federation will hold a special board meeting on Wednesday, May of our local residents, has an important evening, advance reservations are required 16, at 7:30 pm. The community is invited to attend. Those interested in attending historical connection to an area here in by Friday, May 18, to the temple office at should make a reservation by calling the Federation at 724-2332 so that enough upstate New York.” 723-7461 or e-mail [email protected]. materials will be available. “Haven” tells the true story of the 1,000 com. CJS spring program on “Speaking Through Art as a Jew” to conclude with “People of the Image” on May 17 The third lecture in the College of bookish, are also the Yale University. Epstein script Illumination” (Princeton University Jewish Studies spring 2018 program ‘People of the Image’ did much of his graduate Press, 2015), a large-format survey of the “Speaking Through Art as a Jew: Visual as well, creating art that research at Hebrew Uni- genre with more than 300 illustrations in Expressions of Jewish Culture” will be can give us insights into versity in Jerusalem. He digital color, was the winner of the National held on Thursday, May 17, at 7:30 pm, their views of God, the is the author and editor Jewish Book Award in 2015. During the at the Jewish Community Center, 500 Universe and other peo- of numerous scholarly 1980s, Epstein was the director of the Clubhouse Rd., Vestal. Professor Marc ple – Jews and non-Jews books and articles, re- Hebrew books and manuscripts division Michael Epstein will speak on “People of – with results ranging cipient of several awards of Sotheby’s Judaica department, and the Image: Jews and Art.” The program from the conservative to and has lectured widely, continues to serve as consultant to various is open to the entire community. General the controversial.” holding several distin- libraries, auction houses, museums and admission is $8 per program or $20 for Epstein has been guished lectureships over private collectors throughout the world. all three programs; senior admission teaching at Vassar Col- the years. Epstein has written widely on various top- is $5 per program or $12 for all three lege since 1992 and is His 2011 book, “The ics in visual and material culture produced programs. BU students are welcome to currently a professor and Medieval Haggadah: Art, by, for and about Jews. He is currently in attend at no charge. the Mattie M. Paschall Narrative, and Religious the process of completing a book titled “Everyone knows that Jews are a ‘Peo- (1899) and Norman Davis The Golden Haggadah will be Imagination” (Yale Uni- “People of the Image: Jews and Art,” to be ple of the Book,’” said organizers of the Chair in Religion and discussed during Marc Michael versity Press), was select- published by Thames and Hudson, which event. “But everybody also ‘knows’ that Visual Culture. He was Epstein’s lecture. ed by the London Times also published his 2016 edition of “The the second commandment prohibits the Vassar’s first director of Literary Supplement as Brother Haggadah: A Medieval Sephardi making of art. As it turns out, everybody Jewish studies. He is a graduate of Ober- one of the best books of the year. His “Skies Masterpiece in Facsimile.” knows wrong: Jews, while indisputably lin College and received his Ph.D. from of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Manu- See “CJS” on page 5 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Israel Bible Bernstein and Cohen Birthright for everyone Special Sections The new Israel Bible’s study notes A look at a centennial exhibit An inclusive Birthright Israel trip Legal Notices ................................... 4 center on modern Israel as a on Leonard Bernstein; Montreal through Friendship Circle seeks Book Review .................................... 4 biblical prophecy fulfilled. celebrates Leonard Cohen. to help empower its participants. Summer Camps ............................ 7-9 ........................................Page 5 ....................................Pages 6-7 ........................................Page 9 Classifieds ..................................... 12 Page 2 - The Reporter May 11-17, 2018 Opinion Jerusalem experiment breeds peace By Linda B. Glaser live with people who are not the same as I am.” rounded by colorful samples of the students’ artwork, she I watched the red-haired girl race around the kindergarten The school’s importance sprang into focus during the said that “Knowing how to look at other people in an equal class, laughing delightedly as the black-haired girl joined war with Gaza in 2014. Instead of the divisive arguments way, it’s priceless. It’s an unbelievable practice for life.” her. A normal classroom scene in Israel, except for one I saw in my own school community in the U.S., more than Suidan said he was interested in Hand in Hand at first thing: the red-haired girl is Jewish and the black-haired girl 100 parents gathered in the Hand in Hand library to discuss because it would give his daughter a better education and is Arab. They are students in an experiment in coexistence the conflict and what it meant to them. Fadi Suidan, an Arab preparation for Hebrew-language colleges.