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What’s Inside... the ewish jourNal j of WNY Published by The Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo April 2015 2640 North Forest Road Getzville, NY 14068 Inmates waving a homemade American 716-204-2241 April has blown into Western New Flag greet U.S. Seventh Army Troops upon www.jfedbflo.com York, and what a festive April it will be this their arrival at the Allach concentration year! Passover starts the month off – the camp. Photo by Arland B. Musser. Photo first Seder is April 3--as we try to imagine reprinted by permission- Photo Credit United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, ourselves as slaves in Egypt—“Mitzrayim”— courtesy of National Archives and Records Interim Executive Director...... Lewis Stolzenberg or some kind of Egypt or oppression or President...... Howard Rosenhoch Administration, College Park. Editor, Marketing and Community Relations Director...Ellen S. Goldstein discomfort or trial. And during Passover, Advisory Board we symbolically travel from slavery into Susan Adelman Elizabeth Kahn Kenneth Rogers freedom. I try to time travel --in my mind-- Jonathan Epstein Rabbi Gary Pokras Peter Simon back to Egypt, to Europe in the 1930’s, to Richard Hirsch Eric Reich Michael Weisman Spain in the 16th century at least to think

Editor’s Note Editor’s how I would live my life, had I been in those On The Cover places in those dark times. The Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Is a proud member of the Jewish Federations of North America Next, Yom Hashoah commemoration and the American Jewish Press Association brings us again back to slavery as we Produced by remember the Kedushim who perished, and 3 Message from the we relate that specific, Jew-hating genocide President: Howard Rosenhoch to today’s world. This year marks the 70th 4 Yom Hashoah 5775 Senior Vice President/Creative Director...... Chastity O'Shei anniversary of the liberation of the camps, 5 The Remuh Cemetery [email protected] and we will be commemorating the Shoah as Vice President/Production...... Jennifer Tudor by D.A. Gerber [email protected] a community Sunday, April 19 at 10:30pm 6 Israel’s 67th Birthday Lead Designer...... Catherine Sollenberger at Congregation Shir Shalom. Everyone is [email protected] welcome to attend. Celebration Senior Graphic Designers...... Josh Flanigan, Then following that event, freedom arises 7 Springtime in Israel Andrea Rowley, Jean-Pierre Thimot Traffic Coordinator...... Adam Van Schoonhoven in the guise of Yom Ha’atzmaut as we by Rick Zakalik Associate Publisher/Senior Vice President/Advertising...... Barbara E. Macks celebrate Israel’s 67th birthday with a joyous 8 Buffalo @ AIPAC [email protected] event on April 26 at the JCC/ Benderson Assistant Sales & Marketing Manager...... Marianne Potratz 9 Israel Through the Eyes of [email protected] Family Building. Students by Dan Metchnik Senior Account Executive...... Cynthia Oppenheimer, Speaking of joy, don’t miss the photos 10 Essen ‘n Fressen: Julie Ann Nagel, Robin Kurss on page 16 of the wedding of Lital Liberty [email protected], Robin Kurss & Jessica Altman [email protected] and Dan Metchnik! It was such a thrilling [email protected] occasion, and we are so proud of them and 11 Passover Seders Around Proofreaders ...... Rhonda Wise, Sharon C. Levite the work on behalf of Israel that they have Town Amy Goldstein done in our community. Wishing you a 12 Rabbi’s Column: Members of liberating month filled with friends, family Rabbi Alex Lazarus-Klein and yiddishkeit! 13 5 Things you can do to Submissions: Submit editorial stories, photos, and calendar items by the 1st of repair the world in April the preceding month of issue to [email protected]. 14-15 Nickel City Jews To Advertise: 16 Dan & Lital Get Married! To advertise, call Cynthia Oppenheimer at 716-783-9119 x2240. The Future of Aging in Ad space & materials are due by the 10th of each month prior to 17 publication. For a rate card and any additional information, please Jewish Buffalo- Part 3 - email Cynthia Oppenheimer coppenheimer@jewishjournalwny. by David Dunkelman com or Barbara Macks [email protected]. 18-19 Agencies & To Subscribe: To subscribe, visit www.jfedbflo.com and click on “JJWNY Photo Credit: Linda Gellman Synagogues subscription”. Free for Western New York area residents and 20-24 Synagogue donors to the UJF Campaign. Non-resident subscription is $36 Happenings for 12 issues, payable to The Jewish Journal of WNY. 26-27 Happy Passover! The Jewish Journal of WNY (JJWNY) reserves the right to cancel any advertisement at any time. The Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo and Buffalo 28-39 Agency Events Spree Publishing, Inc. are not liable for the content or errors appearing in the Ellen Goldstein - Editor advertisements beyond the cost of the space occupied. The JJWNY does not 29 April Calendar assume responsibility for the kashrut of any product or service advertised in this paper. Signed editorials do not represent the view of the newspaper or the Jewish 40 Homegrown Buffalo Federation of Greater Buffalo, but rather express the view of the writer. Business All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968, which makes it “illegal to advertise “based on race, color, religion, 41-43 Jews in the News sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” This newspaper will not knowingly 44 Not The Last Word – accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available

Departments Avrom Sterman on an equal opportunity basis. 2 www.jfedbflo.com | April 2015 Mark Poloncarz as we observe Yom HaShoah in Mayor Brown’s office on Thursday, President’s Column April 16 to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. We are grateful for the participation and support of our local government leaders in this important event. And Howard Rosenhoch please make sure to join us at Congregation Shir Shalom Sunday morning April 19 for As we say goodbye to this long winter the annual community Yom HaShoah observance. and usher in Spring, April is a time of This year, HRC is also collaborating with the Robert H. Jackson Center and the hope and renewal. This year on the Jewish Bar Association of Erie County on a conference, “Professional Ethics in a Democracy: calendar, April gives us Passover, Yom Lessons from the Holocaust,” being held April 17 at the US Courthouse in Buffalo. HaShoah and Yom Ha’Atzmaut, with The conference will feature St. John’s University Law Professor John Q. Barrett, opportunities for observance, reflection, who will critically examine the decisions German jurists made that corrupted the commemoration and celebration. administration of justice in prewar Nazi Germany and led to the Holocaust. The Even as we shared the beauty and conference will also emphasize the importance of legal ethics, human rights, and the drama of the Passover story last month significance that individual decisions have in preventing genocide. Many of us will with our non-Jewish friends at the remember Professor Barrett’s keynote speech during our community Yom HaShoah Community Interfaith Seder, we all get commemoration a number of years ago celebrating Justice Jackson’s work as chief to relive that story with our own families prosecutor at the Nuremburg war crimes trials. As a practicing attorney, I am grateful and friends as Passover starts on Erev to Richard and Roberta Handel, HRC Co-President Peter Weinrieb’s law firm and Shabbat, Friday, April 3. However you Phillips Lytle, LLP, for their generous co-sponsorship of this important conference. choose to observe or celebrate, may it be a time of family togetherness and pride in our We will close out the month with our Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration of Israel Jewish community - and a wish for “Next year in Jerusalem” Independence Day, which marks the 67th anniversary of the founding of the modern On Yom HaShoah, we commemorate the memory of the Six Million Jews who died State of Israel. Our community celebration will take place on Sunday, April 26 at at the hands of the Nazi regime during World War II, and reflect on the evil that was the JCC Benderson Building and Weinberg Campus. Many of you will remember allowed to spawn such hateful philosophies and actions. We resolve that Never Again the exciting Israeli exhibits and activities available at the JCC during last year’s event, will we remain silent in the face of genocide. as well as the moving Torch Ceremony held at the Weinberg Campus to observe The Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo, a Jewish Federation supported agency, is Yom Hazikaron and commemorate fallen Israeli soldiers. Our Israeli Shlicha, Lital committed to honoring the victims, remembering the events, and teaching the lessons Liberty, along with Patty Simonson of the JCC and a dedicated corps of volunteers, of the Holocaust. The HRC carries out its mission in many ways throughout the are organizing new exciting and moving ways to celebrate and commemorate this year. year, including compiling and preserving testimonies, providing teacher workshops to This will be a family friendly event, so bring your kids and the whole mishpucha. As assist educators in teaching the history and lessons of the Holocaust, and organizing an added feature this year, Nickel City Jews and the JCC are sponsoring a young adults’ community commemorations of Yom Ha’Shoah. Yom Ha’atzmaut party Saturday evening April 25 at the Falafel Bar on Sheridan Drive. It is at this time of year that HRC’s work culminates very publicly. As we do each I’m sure it will be a great party. year, we will partner with Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and Erie County Executive Valerie and I wish all of you a very happy Passover.

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4 www.jfedbflo.com | April 2015 Community Yom Hashoah 5775 The Buffalo International Jewish Film Festival presents The Remuh Cemetery, Run Boy Run KAZIMIERZ IN KRAKOW, Dipson Theatre | Sunday, May 17 | 8:00 pm Seller Theatre | Saturday, June 6 | 8:00 pm OCTOBER 10, 2004 Genre: Action, Drama, War Rating: NR (PG-13 equiv) By D. A. Gerber Sponsored by the Sara and Bill Eisen Fund of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo Germans laid to ruin the ancient burying ground in Kazimierz. They smashed the memorials of the dead Jews, Films are screened at the Dipson Amherst & JCC’s Maxine and Robert Seller Theatres. some say for paving material, Visit www.bijff.com for full festival details. but more likely as an act of revenge, because they could not kill the dead.

They violated the peace of the place, where the Torah sage, Moses Isserles, the Remuh, is buried. Yet Isserles’ stone was left standing, said to be concealed by a knowing willow. A miracle, believe the Chassidim, who leave notes with prayers and supplications on the rabbi’s grave.

Years later, the Poles came, and neatly fixed the headstones they found wherever they might stand, for the order of the place was destroyed. They took fragments of the others, smashed and ruined, but at least not the sediment below an autobahn, and set them in the cemetery wall to form a memorial.

The dead are not fooled. They envy the Remuh, whose peace remains eternal. Lapidary art and lamentation walls will not appease them. Their spirits fly about the cemetery, ceaselessly seeking the ground, soaked by familiar tears, where they had been placed.

But there is no help for them. They will circulate in the air forever, An unseen but insistent presence, Mistaken on these Sunday afternoons, for a breeze, a leaf, or the shadow cast by a cloud.

D.A. Gerber taught at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow in the fall of 2004. Like many Jews who travel in the new, European and democratic Poland, he found that the landscape continues to be filled with remnants of the pre-Holocaust Jewish presence. This poem is a meditation on that haunted landscape from the perspective of a visit to one of the iconic places – a many- centuries old cemetery in Kazimierz, the old Jewish ghetto of Krakow – that has come to commemorate historic Jewish Poland and its demise, and its strange permanence. April 2015 | www.jfedbflo.com 5 Yom Ha’atzmaut 5775 Community

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By Rick Zakalik, Executive Director, the Jewish Community. With Israel as Jewish Community Center of our background, all twenty of us asked Greater Buffalo ourselves about the “why” of the JCC. We came to understand our JCCs as a During the first two weeks of February primary place of Jewish community and I had the opportunity to join a group of peoplehood for Jews who are religious 20 Jewish Community Center (JCC) and secular, rich and poor, old and staff members and volunteers from 15 young, gay and straight, typical and different North American JCCs for challenged. Our “why” isn’t about Fitness a seminar in Israel sponsored by the or Aquatics in and of itself; rather it is JCC Association. Underwritten by the about Jews communing around fitness, philanthropist Larry Magid, the heavily recreation, culture, holidays, education Middle School students learning to sail in the Port of Jaffa subsidized trip was offered to me by the and more. Just like Shabbat and Israel, Jewish Federation and funded by the JCCs help to keep the Jewish people Israel is more than a nation at war. Night joint program of the Federation, Hillel, United Jewish Fund Campaign. The engaged, and our JCC has a “reason-for- life, technology, economic prosperity, the Bureau of Jewish Education and the major difference between this trip and being” that illuminates our work. The secular culture and a history of modern JCC, as we welcome new Israeli shelichim my previous nine trips is that this time “how” and the “what” of our work follow architecture presented Tel Aviv as a holy to Buffalo. You will hear Israeli music my focus was on the “why” of Israel naturally. city which, with its environs, houses the in the lobbies of our JCCs. Israeli foods and the “why” we, as JCC leaders need Our seminar took place primarily in largest population of Jews in the world. will continue to be featured at the Meyer to connect our members and enhance the south of Israel and Tel Aviv/Jaffa and Interestingly, I discovered many Family Tel Aviv Café. Hebrew classes our relationship with the land, people, Jerusalem. Exercises and visits to the connections between the Buffalo Jewish will continue to be offered. We’ll be culture and spirit of Israel. Yad Avdat were where we related Biblical Community and Israel. In Ashkelon, advocating for Israel, showing Israeli Simon Sinek, the ethnographer of references and prayer references (Shir I spent time with more than 20 close films, displaying Israeli art and we will “TED Talk” fame and author of Start with Hamaalot) to the land and topography. cousins who helped me piece together look for new and different ways in which Why and Leaders Eat Last encourages us At Yerocham, we saw a successful branches of my family tree. In Jerusalem, to present Israel as the homeland of to focus first on the “why” of our goods development town and paid for group Shabbat was enhanced by encounters the Jewish people and a light unto the and service businesses rather than the meals in homes of women who are with and meals shared with members of nations. “what” or “how” of what we do. As a JCC dealing with less than perfect lives. In the Shuman Family. When I entered the With all earnestness, I encourage you Executive Director, it is easy to get lost in Sderot, we viewed a less than perfect city Israel headquarters of the Jewish Welfare to find a trip to Israel. Make sure your the everyday work of staff management, which is living in the shadow of shellings, Board (JWB), the parent of the JCCA, children and grandchildren take a free program directives, financial balancing poverty and difficult social problems. my attention was drawn to listings on trip with Birthright. If possible, take acts and member satisfaction. Like Nearby we were inspired by amazing a plaque of donors that included the the kids yourself and understand that other Jewish professionals, I sometimes research and technology that emanates Rochwargers and the Grossmans-all of ideas and concepts of Israel which may get sidetracked from the “why” of my from Ben Gurion University’s branch in Buffalo. At a hotel in Jaffa, a photograph seem perfectly natural to us might not be work, and this seminar, which took place the Negev, where amazing ingenuity is on a wall in the lobby featured a familiar automatic for younger people. Israel is in Israel, our ancestral homeland, has helping to make the world a better place face from Buffalo--someone who is much more than a “how” and a “what”. helped me to refocus. My refocusing will in which to live. married to my close friend who heads It is the soul of the Jewish people and its help others at the JCC focus on why we In Jerusalem, we saw an informative the Jerusalem Water Authority. The “why” could not be stronger. Without do what we do. amalgam of music, art, literature, “why” of Israel is very personal for me, as a clear understanding of why Israel is In the coming months and years, we architecture and religion. Meals were it should be for all Jews. at the heart of the Jewish people, we will strive to reinvigorate our programs shared with “Lone Soldiers” who told In coming months you will see a chance forgetting Jerusalem and a clear and facilities with programs that are soulful stories about themselves and their continuation of the successful shalichut understanding of why we do what we enticing to all communities, including “whys”. Tel Aviv/Jaffa reminded us that program that began two years ago as a do as Jews.

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Israel through the Eyes Which brings me to my closure- Israel as a Jewish State is a great resource to of Students enable our future Jewish generations to become emotionally invested in the Jewish communities and embrace their By Dan Metchnik- Israeli Shaliach comfortable with, while passing it on to Jewishness in their own unique way. In the generations to come. addition, visiting Israel has been found Recently I returned to Buffalo What I was trying to say here and to be the best predictor in strengthening from staffing a Birthright Israel trip back in Israel is that we are living in Jewish identity within Birthright Israel with my Hillel of Buffalo students. a very interesting time. World Jewry participants. So the question that should As always, it was remarkable to is facing once again the ugly reality of be asked is this-- when Israel is being see Israel through their eyes, anti-Semitism. This time it comes in jeopardized by our enemies, is the and reinforce the idea that Israel various forms: in Europe, the hate is Israeli Shaliach Dan Metchnik identity of all future Jewish generations as a sustainable, Jewish and very visible as you can see in a recent at risk? democratic State shouldn’t be video of an Israeli journalist wearing a Let me make it clear- it’s a well-funded In conclusion, I feel the need to finish taken for granted. It was amazing kippah, walking in the streets of Paris organized diplomatic terrorism that is on an optimistic note. In spite of all to watch my student’s views about and being spit upon and cursed. That’s working against Israel inside the campus. the adverse events that have happened Jewish identity, our collective not an exception, but a growing problem The same campus that my students from to world Jewry, the flip side of the memory and what it means to all across the European Union, including Birthright are coming back to. I can’t coin forces us to remember that time be Jewish in the 21st century Belgium and Germany. In the United stress it enough. It doesn’t matter if after time, they tried to kill us (literally evolve over the course of the trip. States, hate takes a different shape. In you are liberal or conservative in your or metaphorically) but we’ve made it The answers they found to those Oakland, BDS (Boycott, Divestment, opinions, it all comes down to one through. We have not only survived, issues are less important than it Sanctions) activists prevented an Israeli thing. It’s not about the borders, the but trials have made us even stronger by was for them to have a deep and ship from docking while shouting settlements, the refugees or Jerusalem. reminding us not to take our Judaism meaningful conversation while “Zionists are not welcome.” The anti-Israel activists want the end of for granted. Like the old Jewish joke exploring their identity, asking the It’s no longer about Israel, per se, but the Jewish State and nothing less. Many about the common theme in every hard questions and choosing their about all of us who support Israel as a of them won’t recognize Israel as a state Jewish holiday “They tried to kill us, we path as they go. Jewish state. at all. survived- now let’s eat!” On the trip, we contemplated things that connect us all both American Jews and Israeli Jews and discussed how we strengthen this significant relationship. My message was that it doesn’t matter where you stand on the spectrum of your Jewish identity- what kind of Judaism you practice. What really matters is exploring it. The Sages (Chazal) said “Remember whence thou hast come, whither thou goest, and before whom thou must be prepared to render an account of thy doings.” Each and every one of us has to remember where we came from and discover where we are we headed. It’s a recurring theme in our history --e.g. the Passover Haggadah in which we recite that “In every generation, we must see ourselves as if we too left Egypt.” Moreover, I told my students that they don’t have to be religious to practice their Jewish identity. I like the simile which says that our Jewish Heritage is like an inheritance that we have received from our grandfather. Some grandchildren will put everything in the living room, like the Orthodox Jews. Others may throw everything into the garbage because, in their eyes, it’s obsolete, when in fact they don’t understand the worth of it. You don’t have to keep it all, but why not choose at least some of it to have and cherish, whatever you feel April 2015 | www.jfedbflo.com 9 Essen N' Fressen Community

Meringue or liquor of choice Healthy Food for Passover 1 2/3 c heavy cream Roll for 2 c fresh berries (I like raspberries and By Jessica Altman blackberries) Passover-the holiday that typically makes you feel like you weigh a Passover ton of bricks. Meat, eggs, and matzah; it’s enough to check you in to Garnish: the cardiologist’s office. It doesn’t have to be that way! There are many ways to make your holiday lighter and full of veggies versus cholesterol. By Robin Kurss 1/2 c slivered almonds, toasted I love to cook and bake for Passover! Think of all the colors: fruits like 2. Add in carrots, sweet potato, peppers, Oven to 325° It’s the one time of year that those berries, mangoes, bananas, oranges, thyme, garlic, and cook until softened unique recipes come out of the box and Line the bottom and sides of a 9 x pineapple, apples, pears, grapefruits, 3. Add in water, harissa, sauce and meals seem new again. Time to get 13 sheet pan with parchment. Beat egg avocados, cantaloupe, honeydew, and simmer for about 20 minutes until out of our usual rut and try something whites till firm, slowly add sugar till veggies like kale, spinach, swiss chard, heated through, and flavors have familiar but different. glossy and stiff. Gently fold in vanilla, mushrooms, asparagus, carrots, squash, blended. vinegar and potato starch. Spread into cabbage, beets, celery, cucumbers, 4. Puree in blender or food processor Meringue Roll pan. Bake for 30 minutes, cool in pan. cauliflower, broccoli, and I could go on until smooth. Unfold onto a new piece of parchment, and on. How much more colorful are Meringue: peel off old parchment. Make the filling those than the brown foods that typically 4 egg whites by beating the cream cheese, sugar and grace your plate at this time? 1 1/4 c sugar Break free! Grain-like substitutes like vanilla, then adding the cream and beat 1tsp vanilla quinoa, sweet potatoes, squash, are great till beginning to stiffen, don’t over beat! 1 tsp vinegar or lemon juice choices and if you’re sephardic-beans and Spread filling over meringue, leaving a 1tsp potato starch rice. Eating whole foods rather than small border around whole thing. Scatter processed forms will leave you feeling Cream Filling: berries evenly over the filling. Starting so much better and they are so much 1/2 c cream cheese (whipped) from long edge, use the paper to help more beautiful. Passover is a celebration 1/4 c sugar roll into a log. Chill at least 1/2 hour. of spring, so bring in the brilliant greens Moroccan Kale Salad 1 1/2 Tbsp vanilla, brewed espresso Garnish with almonds and extra berries. of spring, they will also bring you plant- based protein and calcium. Try some Ingredients: new, lighter recipes this year with a • Head of kale, torn/cut into bite sized Moroccan flair. 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Is Snow a On Passover, we place ourselves on the JFed also allocates money around the continuum between slavery and freedom. world, especially to communities in crisis. Plague? The bitterness of the bitter herbs serve as When we sit around our seder tables, a reminder of the hardships our people we sit not only with the guests and family By Rabbi Alex Lazarus-Klein experienced in Egypt. While the bounty members present in the room with us, of the Passover meal returns the focus on but with generations of Jews who have In the Ten Plagues of Buffalo, the joy of crossing the sea into freedom. encountered good times and hard times snow would be at the top of the Matzah itself is both “lechem oni,” the as well. The cup of Elijah is filled with list. We had so much of it at times bread of our affliction, and the afikomen, their tears of joy and sadness, and it is this winter, we hardly had any the sweet dessert that concludes the those tears that give us confidence that place to put it. How grateful we seder. we will one day make it to better times are that spring has finally arrived Despite the difficult winter, how lucky ourselves. and with it maybe a little relief we are to live in a place of religious In the maggid section where we retell from all of that white stuff. freedom. Across the sea, the Jews in the story of the Exodus, we ask God However, half a world away in Europe are being persecuted in levels who “took the Israelites from among Jerusalem, snow is cause of celebration. unseen since the Holocaust. To see the Egyptians and led them through the When it comes, as it did in February, headlines of rabbis being beaten, sea,” to “have mercy on those among the people gather outside amazed at their synagogues under attack, and Jews being House of Israel who are distressed and good fortune. This sentiment is reflected forced to flee countries is unnerving, to oppressed, whether by land or sea.” in the Book of Proverbs where the arrival say the least. On behalf of my colleagues in this area, of sheleg, snow, is compared to a faithful We are all Klal Yisrael, therefore and our entire Jewish community, I pray messenger whose return “refreshes the Rabbi Alex Lazarus-Klein their pain is our pain. As it says in for a good, safe, and peaceful Passover, soul of his master.” the Talmud, Kol Yisrael Aravim Zeh where everyone has food, shelter, and the As Jews, we are trained to always through another Buffalo winter, there are LaZeh, “all of Israel is responsible for ability to “lean to the left” in the way our look beyond our own surroundings. Jews who are suffering much worse tzorus one another.” Supporting organizations rabbis determined was the way of free Jewish communities have existed almost somewhere else. Far from making us like the Jewish Federation is one way people all over the world. And, maybe, any place human beings have taken up callous, this focus on the bigger picture to make a difference. In addition to just maybe, a respite from the snow in residence. While we may have suffered makes Jews very empathetic as a group. distributing funds locally, the Buffalo Western New York!

The TELLL Fund is excited to be co-sponsoring a momentous, community-wide event with The Institute of Jewish Thought & Heritage at UB and Concierge Dental Group. Heart & Soul is bringing together women from all walks of Jewish experience in Western New York, for a performance and sing-along for women by women. Please join all of your friends on Sunday, May 31st at 7:00 pm, when we will showcase our local talent at the State University of New York at Buffalo in the Center for Tomorrow. This one-time performance is beginning to come together! Additional support is requested in a number of areas. If you are not already volunteering on a committee or if you would like to become a sponsor, please let us know of your willingness to participate. Here are some of the areas that need additional support: Ticket Sales • Technology • Food • Registration • Organizational Support • Raffles & Sponsorships Advertising & PR • Liaison to Community Orgs • Fundraising

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5 Things You Can Do IN APRIL TO REPAIR THE WORLD

Earth Day is April 22 this year. It will be celebrated on Saturday, April 25 from 10am to noon at the Burchfield Nature and Art Center, 2001 Union Road in West Seneca. Volunteers will commemorate Earth Day by doing a park clean-up. Anyone interested in helping is welcome. Dress appropriately 1 for weather and most likely soggy grounds. Call 677-4843 or visit www. BurchfieldNAC.org for more information.

Nickel City Jews and Jewish Family Service is looking for volunteers to help welcome and set up apartments for new refugees to Buffalo. It’s an amazing mitzvah that needs more willing hands. For more 2 information, contact Lauren Califano at JFS at [email protected] or (716) 883-1914 Ext 337

Books for Kids. Donate one or more new or gently used children’s books to the Jewish Federation’s Buffalo Jewish Coalition for Literacy program. Amy Heumann , Carin Greenfield and other volunteers are happy 3 to distribute them to Buffalo Public School #80 children. Bring them to the Jewish Federation office or email [email protected]

Jump for Roswell at Skyzone Sunday, April 19th and help raise funds to defeat cancer. Ruth Lipsitz has created another fabulous fundraiser for the Roswell Park Cancer Inst to fight esophageal cancer. Jump for Roswell takes 4 place at Skyzone, 425 Cayuga Rd. in Cheektowaga from 9:00am to 9:00pm. For more, go to www.jumpforroswell.org

The newly opened Town Center Food Pantry at the Weinberg Campus continues to take food and personal hygiene items. A project of Temple Beth Zion and Catholic Charities, you can drop off canned goods to Temple Beth Zion for the new Town Square Food Pantry or go to www. 5 tbz.org and look for“social action” under Community. Or call Rabbi Adam Scheldt at 836-6565. Where in JBFLO ?

Where is this found in Western New York? The First 5 people to correctly identify the location will win a $10 lunch to the JCC’s Tel Aviv Café’. E-mail your answers to [email protected]

Last Month’s Photo of the Nathan Benderson Community Leadership Award located in the JCC Community Board room was correctly identified by Herm Engel and Jacqueline Marcus. April 2015 | www.jfedbflo.com 13 Nickel City Jews Community NCJ events for April Dyngus Day Meet Up Monday, April 6th; 5:30pm RSVP for downtown meet up location Join other NCJers at Dyngus Day, an annual Buffalo tradition which celebrates spring and Polish pride. Meet up with Laura Hemlock to eat and listen to the best polka bands in the nation. FREE, RSVP for meet up location. Contact: Laura Hemlock: 645-8787 or [email protected] Mimouna Celebration Saturday, April 11th; 7:00pm Private Home in Williamsville HELPING TO MAKE JEWISH BUFFALO Mimouna is a traditional Morrocan Jewish celebration held at the end of Passover A VIBRANT PLACE TO CALL HOME FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR to mark the start of spring and the return to eating Chametz! Join Lital as we learn about this cool tradition and make/eat Mofletta. Bring a dessert or beverage to share!

20s,30s, EARLY 40s FREE; Advanced RSVP required Contact: Jill Komm: 204-5380 [email protected]

www.jfedbflo.com/nickel-city-jews Cooking with Bubbe Nickel City Jews is a program of the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo Sunday, April 12; 2:00-4:00pm Temple Beth Tzedek, 621 Getzville Road, Amherst For more information contact: Learn how to cook classic Jewish dishes from a real live Bubbe! This is the first in a 4 Miriam Abramovich at [email protected] or 716-204-2247 part series. In April we will learn to make Kugel - master 5 different kugel recipes and go home with your own! FREE; space is limited, RSVP by April 8th Contact: Jill Komm: 204-5380 [email protected] Congregation Beth Abraham Shabbat Meet Up Friday April 17th; 6:30pm 1073 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo Join Amanda Miller-Burg and friends for a cozy downtown musical Kabbalat Shabbat service with Cantor Gellman at CBA. Afterwards, head out on Elmwood for drinks. FREE; no RSVP Required Contact: Jill Komm: 204-5380 [email protected] Yom Haatzmaut 67 @ Falafel Bar Saturday April 25th; 8:00 PM Falafel Bar 3047 Sheridan Drive, Buffalo Join us for an amazing night to celebrate Israeli Independence Day! NCJ is offering free Israeli appetizers during the night and drinks will be sold with happy hour prices. Hookahs out in the patio, DJ and Belly Dancing! This program is a partnership of Nickel City Jews and the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo. FREE; RSVP to get a FREE DRINK! Contact: Lital Liberty, 716-704-5420 or [email protected] Speaker Kasim Hafeez Tuesday, April 28th; 7:30 pm University at Buffalo, Center for Tomorrow Kasim Hafeez is a British Muslim of Pakistani origin, who grew up in a community that espoused extreme anti-Semitic and anti-Israel views. Come hear how he fell in love with Israel and today he is proud to speak up for Israel and call himself a proud Muslim Zionist. COST: $10/person. Free for Students with ID. Contact: Lital Liberty, 716-704-5420 or [email protected] 14 www.jfedbflo.com | April 2015 Community Nickel City Jews PJ Library and NCJ Head The Big Bake - Part 2 to the Southtowns idea of meeting other families who are raising Jewish children in the Southtowns and cultivating a sense of community. So, on one of many snowy Sunday mornings in February, five enthusiastic families gathered in my living room for bagels, coffee, PJ Library storytime and schmoozing. The energy that morning was palpable. Connections were forged, Jewish Southtowns families playdate invitations were exchanged and repeated expressions of “let’s do this again” By Stacie Greenfield Stone echoed. Our first PJ Library/Nickel City Jews Southtowns Bagel Brunch was a When I tell fellow Jewish Buffalonians great success, and we are looking forward that I live in the Southtowns, I’m usually to planning additional Jewish events in greeted with a funny reaction or look of the Southtowns. If you, or someone you surprise. While some may be reacting love, live in the Southtowns and would to the fact that I have chosen to live like to connect with other Jewish families in an area that is notorious for snow please reach out to us. blizzards, others are clearly surprised to For more information about PJ learn that there are Jews living in the Library, Nickel City Jews or about events Southtowns! Although it’s true that taking place in the Southtowns for we Jewish Southtowners are small in Jews or families raising Jewish children, number, I am discovering that there are please contact Miriam Abramovich at more Jews than one might expect, and [email protected] many are interested in creating a sense of community. A few months ago, at the end of a Nickel City Jews Leadership Team meeting, Miriam Abramovich from the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo and I began planning to formally reach out to young families living in the Southtowns. We called parents of children who receive PJ Library books, asking if they would be interested in attending a Sunday gathering. Although I was initially reluctant to pick up the phone and call a list of strangers, I was pleasantly surprised by the warm and enthusiastic response I Enjoying treats at the Stone’s house received. People were excited about the

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April 2015 | www.jfedbflo.com 15 Community Dan & Lital’s Wedding A wonderful wedding ceremony and celebration in late February united our two shlichim—Dan Metchnik and Lital Liberty—in marriage. They chose to have a small ceremony with close friends in Buffalo before they return to Israel in late spring, where they will have a larger event. The wedding took place in the home of Sonia and Rabbi Pinny Young. Rabbi Young together with Rabbi Heschel Greenberg married the couple. Michael Wise and Ariel Kostiner accompanied the groom and Rhonda Wise and Sharon Kostiner accompanied the bride to the chuppah. MAZEL TOV!

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delaying or preventing The Future of Aging in institutionalization such as nursing home placement. Jewish Buffalo - Part 3 This program is most known for its adult day By David Dunkelman for qualified enrollees, is completely health component with separate from Medicaid, which provides a full team of geriatric Everything is changing dramatically most non-intensely medical care needed professionals supporting in the world of aging and in our by that frail population with minimal each participant. Jewish community. This is the third in resources (and most all of us will In three years Fallon a series of articles which will explain outlive their assets – 90% of New York Health Weinberg is what Weinberg Campus is doing to State’s nursing home days are paid by projected to be a $150 address the future. The first and second Medicaid). Combining these two very million/year series of articles discussed Jewish aging and the distinct programs is beneficial from a programs. governmental responses to the age wave. care coordination standpoint and for In summary, Fallon This third article explains one of the efficiency and cost savings and it will Health Weinberg will be the major Weinberg Campus initiatives, take 5 to 10 years and many millions of only locally based nonprofit Managed Care. We call it Fallon Health dollars. Fallon has been doing this for offering the full range of Weinberg (FHW). 20 years. programs for dual eligibles 30 years ago, the average length of stay Fallon has consistently ranked among (Medicaid and Medicare) in the Rosa Coplon Jewish Home was the nation’s top health plans, with a in our region. This is an eight and a half years. Today it is less than proven track record of managing high- exciting opportunity a year, frequently a few months. And as risk populations through coordinated care for Weinberg Campus people live longer, they will spend more models that improve health outcomes to further its mission of of their frail years in the community. This and ensure appropriate utilization of creating safe and engaging of course is what government wants as services. For the 2014-2015 national quality of life for the well – to avoid paying for people’s room rankings, Fallon Health ranks 22nd out members of our community and board. But the challenge becomes of over 400 Medicare Advantage Plans, who need it the most. how to coordinate/orchestrate the range and ranks #2 out of over 136 Medicaid of needed interactive programs and Plans. services to thousands of decentralized When our process is completed there people living in the community. will be three programs offered under the Recognizing the increased number of Fallon Health Weinberg umbrella. elders in our region, Weinberg Campus Fallon Health Weinberg-MLTC is a saw the need to extend its services further Medicaid Managed Long Term Care into the community, to address the needs plan (MLTC) that provides community- of older adults in their homes to delay or based long term care services. The avoid the need for institutions. Weinberg program is designed to help members reached out to a nationally recognized to continue to live safely in their own nonprofit managed-care organization homes and communities by providing with extensive experience in caring for and coordinating needed health care community living elderly who have and supportive services to promote limited health and financial resources. independence. The FHW-MLTC plan Weinberg Campus has formed a serves eligible individuals 21 years and joint venture with Fallon Health of over in both Erie and Niagara counties. Massachusetts, called Fallon Health Fallon Health Weinberg—HMO SNP Weinberg, which will bring each is a Medicare Advantage Special Needs organization’s capabilities and expertise in Plan. This is a Medicare Advantage delivering high-quality, person-centered, plan for individuals 21 years and older cost-effective health care programs to who are eligible for both Medicare and individuals who require supportive Medicaid (dual-eligibles). This program services due to long-term health needs. works collaboratively with community Why Fallon Health? Massachusetts physicians and other providers and offers has been at the vanguard of developing full care coordination. programs for frail people in the Fallon Health Weinberg-PACE. FHW community. They are far ahead of New also has applied to become a provider of York State in addressing the immense a Program of All-inclusive Care for the challenge of integration created by the Elderly (PACE). PACE is a Medicare basic framework of our aging health and Medicaid program that helps people system. Medicare, which pays for age 55 and older meet their health doctoring/hospitaling/medical improving care needs in the community, thereby April 2015 | www.jfedbflo.com 17 Agencies Whether you are thinking about growing, protecting or passing on Jewish Community Center of Greater your wealth, we can help you. In Buffalo, Inc. 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April 2015 | www.jfedbflo.com 19 Synagogues Making a difference- Gan Chesed

By Rachel Anderson, TBT Social Laurie Werbow, and myself both of Beth Action Chair Tzedek. Max Robinson, Eagle Scout will be our Project Manager. Max will be Congregation Shir Shalom, Temples responsible for planning and executing Beth Tzedek and Beth Zion are the building of our garden beds. We, as collaborating to make a community a team, are very excited about the system garden to benefit the recently opened we have decided upon, brought to our Town Square Food Pantry. attention by Laurie Werbow for which I can’t tell you how excited I am we are extremely grateful. The beds are about this joint venture that is already raised and called wicking beds. They in its planning stages. Congregation are constructed from recycled materials, Shir Shalom, and Temples Beth Zion so if you own a business that has some and Beth Tzedek will combine forces to of the materials that we require, please grow an organic community garden that consider donating them to our joint we have named Gan Chesed, to provide venture. The wicking beds are made organic produce to the recently opened from old pallets which will be turned Town Square Food Pantry, which is also a collaboration between Beth Zion and into frames to support the soil and keep Catholic Charities. it where we want it. Tumbled glass will The representative from each temple act as a reservoir for the water. This is as follows: Martha Rothkopf of feature makes us very happy because it Beth Zion, Julie Laczkowski, and Max means that the beds only need watering Robinson of Congregation Shir Shalom, every two to four weeks. Other materials required are PVC tubing, burlap, and tarpaulin. Our temples are dedicated to making our planet green, and recycling is a wonderful way to put to a new use old, What if you are called to justify the wrong? discarded, and unwanted items. It might even be cheaper than disposing of them Make sure you’ll be okay if you are called upon to justify you were not wrong in more conventional ways. when picking your company name, domain name, trademark, logo, color Other ways to contribute would be scheme, music, photography or any other creative work. unwanted garden tools, excess plants if you purchase more than you have Retain me to set right what you are doing before anyone demands that you room to plant, and we would even “cease and desist.” Use power with power and defeat whomever deigns accept money. You can contact one of complain! Call Steve Fox, Creative Lawyer. the team members highlighted or their respective temple office. Please refer to (716) 852-3800 [email protected] www.CreativeLawyer.com the project’s name “Gan Chesed” BUSINESS COPYRIGHT TRADEMARKS ENTERTAINMENT INTERNET The children of our respective religious schools will also be asked to play a big part in this enterprise. We think it is important that our younger generations learn how food is produced, and just think, they may be motivated to have gardens of their own when they become adults. In the coming weeks, we will be giving them the necessary materials to start growing plants from seed, and when the weather is favorable (quite soon we hope) we will have a planting day. Our vision is that in future years, other organizations will follow our lead and grow community gardens bringing sustenance to the poor and needy and Tikkun Olam to a broken world. 20 www.jfedbflo.com | April 2015 Synagogues Temple Beth Tzedek Rabbi Isaac Temple Beth Tzedek Art Klein Scholar-In-Residence Auction May 17 Weekend - May 29-31 By Leon R. Komm, President of and culture brings a sense of hope and Temple Beth Tzedek. security to our lives, by seeing and feeling Temple Beth Tzedek’s Adult Education Japanese and thus has published thirty God’s protective presence in these pieces Committee is excited to announce that books in Japanese on the connection Adorning one’s home with of art. Rabbi Marvin Tokayer will grace our between Judaica and Japan. Three of his works of Art is a custom Jews I am pleased to announce that pulpit as the Scholar-In-Residence for notable works are The Fugu Plan – The have embraced since biblical Temple Beth Tzedek is bringing to our our Rabbi Isaac Klein Weekend to be Untold Story of the Japanese and the times. Jewish artisan Bezalel was community a night of special delight in held Friday, May 29 through Sunday, Jews During World War II, Paddington appointed specifically by God the way of an Art Auction containing May 31. to build the Tabernacle (Exodus Press, Pepper,Silk, & Ivory – Amazing many pieces of both religious and secular Rabbi Tokayer has a fascinating 31:2), considered to be one of the stories about Jews and the Far East, and art. An excellent opportunity to purchase background in which his original career earliest works of Jewish art. Western Jews in India. art at a price you are willing to pay. May goal was to become a comedian. After Art can bring much joy and richness to Over the course of the weekend Rabbi 17th will be a night of hors d’oeuvres, a home. Among other things it can serve a short run he turned his talents to the Tokayer’s lectures will address the rabbinate, becoming ordained in 1962. as a connection between the past and wine and splendid comraderie in Temple following topics: Because all seniors in his graduating class the present. In addition, Jewish art can Beth Tzedek’s Lippa Family Auditorium; were notified that they would all serve as remind us of our rich and accomplished a lovely way to celebrate life and bring Friday Night: The Fugu Plan chaplains in the United States’ military, journey, as we moved as a people from culture and hope into your personal Saturday Morning: West meets East Rabbi Tokayer joined the Air Force. ancient times to today. Often, this space, your home. Following basic training in Texas, he was in China reflection of what Jews have brought Please join me, Cindy and many other sent to southern Japan. This assignment Saturday Afternoon: Unknown Jewish to this world in the way of medical close friends of yours on this special altered the focus of his life and career heroes in China, Japan, India and advancements, scientific achievements evening. as he became the Rabbi to The Jewish Singapore Community of Japan in 1968, a position Sunday Morning: Pepper, Silk & Ivory he held through 1981. Rabbi Tokayer held the distinction of being the only Contact Temple Beth Tzedek to Coming up in April at CBA rabbi in the Far East for most of that make reservations for any or all of this time period. exceptionally interesting weekend. Congregation Beth Abraham religious, cultural and social entities by Rabbi Tokayer became fluent in 838-3232 will be hosting a community inviting them to join us in our monthly seder the second night of Pesach, musical Kaballat Shabbat services. On Saturday April 4. Join us for a April 17 we will host our special guests lively, participatory reading of the Hagaddah, with lots of from “Nickel City Jews” Buffalo’s vibrant spirited singing, acoustic musical “young adult” component of the Jewish accompaniment and a delicious Federation. As always, we expect there meal catered by Wegman’s kosher to be lots of singing and clapping, with foods and deli. You may still an Oneg buffet to follow. be able to make reservation, so Please visit the website, www. please RSVP at CBA’s website as soon as possible. congregationbethabraham.net for further Congregation Beth Abraham continues details on both of these programs – all its tradition of reaching out to WNY are welcome.

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PALS Frozen Experiment Yields Beautiful Results Before the February break, Temple left them there over the February break. Beth Zion PALS Preschool teachers and When the balloons were dug from the students explored the concept of turning snow and cut away, what we discovered liquids into solids. Five large balloons inside was amazing! See the pictures of were filled with water and food coloring the students checking out the colorful was added. The class took the water frozen orbs. We had to study them fast filled balloons outside buried them in the – our lesson in solids returning to liquid! snow (which we had in abundance!) and

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Creating frozen balloons at PALS 22 www.jfedbflo.com | April 2015 Synagogues What is Zionism? Annual Mother’s Day Sisterhood of Temple This course, taught by Dr. Daniel P. Kotzin, will examine the development Flower Sale Beth Zion’s of the Zionist idea. A particular area of focus will be on the modern Zionist To Benefit the Temple Beth movement, the variety of perspectives on Sylvia Morris Theater Bus Zionism within the movement, and their Zion Religious School Trips Presents conflicting visions. The major theme for Sunday, May 10 the course is that the Zionist movement “Sweet Charity” in Niagara-on-the-Lake Broder Center Parking Lot, 700 Sweet Home Road has always been heterogeneous, reflecting Tuesday, June 16 the tremendous diversity of world Jewry. 9 AM – Noon Temple Beth Zion will host the course Open to the community Gerber daisies, geraniums, zinnias, and much more! Hanging along with Congregation Shir Shalom baskets and full flats. A delicious buffet lunch, followed by a matinee at and Temple Beth Tzedek. The classes will Cash-and-carry or you can obtain a pre-order form by visiting the Festival Theater to see the dazzling musical “Sweet be held at the Broder Center, 700 Sweet www.tbz.org/education or by calling 836-6565 Ext. 112. Pre- Home Road, at 7 p.m. on the following Charity”, will take place on Tuesday, June 16. Songs orders must be received by April 29. dates: like “Big Spender” and “If My Friends Could See Me April 23: The Foundation of the Now” paired with a book by Neil Simon made this a Zionist Idea and the Zionist Movement Broadway hit! May 7: Building up the Yishuv The cost, which includes the bus trip, a buffet lunch, May 14: Zionism and the Arabs and the matinee, is $130 per person. The bus leaves the May 21: The Creation of the TBZ Broder Center, 700 Sweet Home Road, at 10:30 State of Israel The class is free and open to the AM. *Participants must bring either a passport or an community. For more information and enhanced license to cross the border. to register, contact Education Assistant Seating is limited. For more information, call Marilyn Kara Kane, 836-6565, Ext. 112. at 832-4757.

April 2015 | www.jfedbflo.com 23 Synagogues Temple Beth Zion Presents Lunch and Docent Tour Sunday, April 19 Come for an exciting program to welcome in spring and the return to warmer weather. Lunch will take place at 11:30 a.m. at J.P. Bullfeathers, followed by a 1 p.m. docent tour of the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Look for further information in the April Bulletin and if you have any questions you can call Jody at 633-9355 or Jane at 632-3835. The cost will be $35 per person and includes lunch and the tour. Everyone is invited to attend. Temple Beth Zion Summer Celebration Summer is just around the corner, so mark your calendar for the Temple Beth Zion Summer Celebration Monday, August 10 Transit Valley Country Club Deny Adelman and David Goldberg, Co-Chairs Set aside all or part of the day and plan to lunch, wine tour or golf, or just come for a delicious dinner and lively auctions. All proceeds from this event benefit all educational programming at TBZ. For more information, call Julie Feldman at 836-6565.

Don’t miss the premier social event of the summer!

Sign up for Summer PALS! The winter has been long, cold and hard but things are looking up! You can sign your child up today for the fantastic fun and learning at Temple Beth Zion’s Play And Learn School. Summer PALS include weeks beginning July 20, July 27, August 3 and August 10.

• 3 to 5 year-olds attend on Monday/Wednesday/Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. • 2 year-olds attend on Tuesday/Thursday from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Call Melissa Milch-Klein at 836-6565, Ext. 139 or email [email protected] for more information.

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Wishing Our Family & Friends Happy Passover

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Passover 716.892.5294 Delaware District Ellen Daly Council member 1085 E. Delavan Avenue [email protected] 716-634-9535 · [email protected] · www.hrcbuffalo.org 1405 City Hall | Buffalo | NY 14202 Buffalo, NY 14215 716-830-8285 www.facebook.com/HRCOB · twitter.com/HolocaustRCOB 716-851-5155 April 2015 | www.jfedbflo.com 27 Agencies buy specialist supplies, and are especially remember, is all the more cherished. helpful in a community archives program. Several photographers who are no longer Images of our Past: The other vital groups are the original with us fulfilled that role in Buffalo. We creators themselves. Without them there are still uncovering all of their names Hauser Bob and Jewish Buffalo would no records at all! This includes and their work, and tracking their studio the individuals who ran the programs, records. By Dr.Chana Kotzin, Jewish Buffalo materials, and then donate them. the boards that memorialized their Hauser Bob (at one time also known Archives Project Similarly, individuals are stewards of their decisions, friends and families who wrote as Bob Hauser), was a professional family archives, keeping family stories letters, and finally those who recorded photographer, who had a long association here are many individuals who help and memorabilia for future generations. special moments visually, through film or with Temple Beth El, as a member, and make an archives project successful, Together they provide the primary motion camera. as a photographer for events, school Tdirectly and indirectly. Collection documents, photographs and more, that When a photographer was hired photographs and building images. He donors are critical. Administrators and comprise archives. repeatedly for an organization, or was a started his association around 1913, and executives maintain agency records and Funders are equally essential - they family member, the value of the work seems to have continued this relationship make the decisions to save organizational keep the lights on, pay for staff time and they left behind for us to enjoy and at least through the 1930s and perhaps into the early 1940s. He retired in 1947. He also took photographs elsewhere: in the Jewish Community Building, at Temple Beth Zion and Jewish community events around the city, such as at the B’nai B’rith conventions, held at the Statler Hotel. His legacy lives on with many iconic photographs, some of which were featured in Jewish Community of Greater Buffalo. He was actively in business in Buffalo as an industrial and business photographer, and from research carried out by Dale Rossi, when in business with his sons, he widened his clientele, working not just locally, but also for Condé Nast and McGraw-Hill magazines. Hauser was the “official photographer” for the opening of the Peace Bridge, the new City Hall and the New York Central Terminal on Memorial Drive. He took motion pictures too. You can find his work from Buffalo and Connecticut at the Library of Congress. Yet with all these sources, we have no private portraiture materials, or films, despite these being his preferred mediums. Did he photograph your wedding or your parents or grandparents Temple Beth El, Youth Theatre Production, 1922, photo by Hauser Bob wedding? Did he take your family portrait? Alternatively, did he capture a moment in your organization’s history? Can you help me trace more about the Reliable Private Valet Transportation life and work of Hauser Bob? Please contact Chana Revell Kotzin, Director, Jewish Buffalo Archives Project, if you would like to discuss a particular donation at 716-204-5388. You can also email archivesproject@bjebuffalo. org. You can also visit the Jewish Buffalo Buffalo’s only Archives Project at 2640 North Forest Road, Getzville, NY 14068, however as Private Car and Wheel Chair Van Valet this is a part-time position, and there are GET YOUR LIFE BACK times when I am working offsite, it is always best to make an appointment to Tim Stevenson (716) 948-7829 | timsvalet.com avoid disappointment. 28 www.jfedbflo.com | April 2015 Calendar

April 1 April 17 y a D s ’ l o o F l i r p A Attorney’s professional CLE class- “Professional Ethics in a Democracy”; 8:00am-12:00noon; Jackson Court House in Buffalo. www.eriebar.org April 3-11 Passover Celebrated; See page 11 for a April 19 listing of community events. Yom Hashoah Commemoration- Congregation Shir Shalom. 10:30 am April 6 NCJ Dyngus Day Meet-Up RSVP April 25 [email protected] NCJ Yom Ha’atzmaut party. 8:00pm- Falafel Bar. RSVP [email protected] April 11 April 26 Mimouna for NCJ- 7:00 pm; RSVP Yom Ha’atzmaut celebrated. 11:30 [email protected] am-4:00pm JCC/ Benderson Family Building & Weinberg Campus April 14-15 Institute of Jewish Heritage & Thought April 28 (IJHT at UB) 8:00am-5:00 pm each Dosberg Notable Speaker Series- Kasim day; UB, Clemens Hall, North Campus. Hafeez. 7:30pm. UB Center for Talmud & Philosophy- an international Tomorrow. $10- call 204-2244 or www. symposium jfedbflo.com for tickets.

Wishing our clients, family and friends a very happy Passover.

Dana Lewis JoAnne Nover (716)510-4646 (716)479-2600 8780 Sheridan Dr. HUNT Williamsville (716)633-5350 April 2015 | www.jfedbflo.com 29 Agencies so successful and popular with students and families that she plans to integrate it Kadimah To Bring Robotics into the science program for third- and fourth-graders next year. To Younger Grades To learn more about Kadimah School’s advanced science and mathematics programs, which culminate in 8th adimah School of Buffalo plans collaboration has been a great success.” graders taking Regents exams in both to expand its highly successful The main focus of the class is to learn subjects before graduation, please call the Kmiddle-school robotics to younger about computer programming, and for school at (716) 836-6903. grades next year, introducing the cross- students to use that knowledge to make Charlie Herman and Michael Sanders: Clash of the Titans? Kadimah School students Charlie Herman curriculum program to third and fourth and program their robots to compete in a and Michael Sanders show off their robots, part of graders to enhance their technology mock sumo-wrestling competition. the school’s science program. experience at school. Last year, Kadimah students Kadimah’s robotics program integrates demonstrated the robots they had science, math and experimental design constructed, and what they were capable techniques, using commercially available of, to several UB engineering professors, Lego Mindstorm robo-lab kits. who expressed admiration for what the The program is coordinated at students were achieving. “It was a great Kadimah by science teacher Anna opportunity for our students to showcase Martinick and computer specialist Yair their achievements,” Martinick said. Sageev, but with valuable mentoring and This year’s class took a special assistance from University at Buffalo opportunity to visit the General Motors Robotics Club students. Powertrain engine plant in the Town “Robotics is a great, totally hands-on of Tonawanda, to see first-hand how Kadimah School’s 5th and 6th graders at the platform to engage students in computer robots play a role in today’s advanced General Motors Powertrain plant in Tonawanda, for science, technology, engineering, math, manufacturing, in this case to build a tour of how robots are used in factories today. With the students are parent Scott Herman and science, creativity, logic and problem- engines for cars. Kadimah School students Maya Slabodkin and Shira science teacher Anna Martinick, in the back left, and Symons collaborate on their robotics work, during technology and robotics coordinator Yair Sageev and solving skills,” Martinick said. “This Martinick said the program has been science class at Kadimah. parent Robyn Weed, on the far right.

30th Annual Buffalo International Jewish Film Festival Takes Place May 15 - June 7

The 30th annual Buffalo International Jewish Film Festival – the third longest running festival of its kind in North America – will present 18 award winning and critically acclaimed films from around the world including Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Poland, South Africa, USA and Venezuela It will take place at the Amherst Dipson Theatre, 3500 Main Street from May 15- 21 , and May 31 – June 7 at the JCC Theatre in From The Dove Flyer Getzville, NY. A 30th anniversary celebration fundraiser will take place at MusicalFare’s Cabaret, Thursday, May 21, 6 -9 p.m. featuring a cocktail party, live music with jazz singer Barbara Levy Daniels, and the film Walk on Water. A closing Festival Gala takes place Sunday, June 7, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. featuring a kosher buffet dinner and the closing night film – Above and Beyond. Trailers, schedules and ticket purchasing at www.bijff.com or either JCC location From Above and Beyond or by calling 716-204-2084. 30 www.jfedbflo.com | April 2015 Agencies Holocaust Resource Center presents Professional Ethics Class for Attorneys The Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo, the Bar Association of Erie County, Weinrieb Law, and the Robert H. Jackson Center are proud to announce their co-sponsorship of the following CLE Event Professional Ethics in a Democracy: Lessons from the Holocaust Date: Friday, April 17th, 2015 Time: 8:00AM – 12:00PM Place: Robert H. Jackson Federal Courthouse, Buffalo, NY Speakers: Introductory remarks – The Hon. William M. Skretny, Chief United States District Judge for the Western District of New York • Law and its corruption in Nazi Germany – John Q. Barrett, Professor of Law – St. John’s University • Jackson: From Jamestown to Nuremberg - John Q. Barrett, Professor of Law – St. John’s University • Holocaust Survivor testimony - Ms. Sophia Veffer.

By showing how law was corrupted in prewar Nazi Germany, it is hoped that the conference will challenge its participants to critically examine the decisions German jurists made that led to the Holocaust, gaining new insight into their responsibilities as professionals and as individuals in a democracy today. Likewise, by highlighting the significant contributions of Buffalo’s own Justice Robert H. Jackson, the event will emphasize the importance of legal ethics, human rights, and the significance that individual decisions have in preventing genocide. To register for this CLE Event, please contact: Bar Association of Erie County, 438 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14202 Mary Kohlbacher 716.852.8687 This event is made possible thanks to the generosity of Roberta and Richard Handel, as well as our co-sponsors, the Robert H. Jackson Center, the Bar Association of Erie County, and Weinrieb Law. For more information click on hrcbuffalo.org.

High School of Jewish Studies OPEN HOUSE For 7th grade students and parents Wednesday, April 15 - 7:00- 8:30 pm Café Europa’s Purim Luncheon TBZ Broder Center for Jewish Education at the JCC 700 Sweet Home Rd, Amherst wenty two Café Europa guests Survivors through a generous grant RSVP no later than April 8 to celebrated Purim on Wednesday, from the Conference on Jewish Material Melissa Schreiber at 204-5380 or [email protected]. TMarch 4 at the JCC. The Myers Claims Against Germany, Inc. Family Tel Aviv Café served a beautiful lunch--as always-- that included hamantaschen, of course. Following the holiday meal everyone enjoyed the film “The Jewish Cardinal” Café Europa programs are offered several times throughout the year and offer Holocaust survivors the opportunity to socialize with other survivors from similar backgrounds and experiences. Sandy Saada, Executive Director of The Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo and Karla Wiseman, Adult program Director at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo are able to provide these programs to Holocaust April 2015 | www.jfedbflo.com 31 32 www.jfedbflo.com | March 2015 Agencies A Confirmation Trip to the Big Apple “I Just Discovered My Mother’s By Melissa Schreiber, BJE Program allowed them to reflect their own sense Mother Was Jewish!” Director of what it means to be Jewish. “I had never been to NYC before. I really liked By: Ethel Melzer from articles and other marketing efforts. As the plane landed in New York the focus of Jewish identity,” said Nick Telephone comments I have heard are, “I City, the students were welcomed with a Looking back on the very successful am curious to know more about Judaism,” Lowinger. downpour of rain. But the bad weather Introduction to Judaism course – a “I just discovered my mother’s mother was Special Thanks to all of our chaperones: couldn’t stop them from learning about collaborative program of the Buffalo Jewish!” and very often, “My fiancé is Jewish culture and discovering their Rabbi Netter, Cantor Colbert, Steve Board of Rabbis and the Adult Education Jewish and we want a Rabbi to marry us.” Jewish identities. Lippa, Lisa Wallenfels and Leah Blum. Department of the Bureau of Jewish For those who learned about Judaism Students in the High School of Jewish We’re looking forward to next year’s joint Education - it is hard to believe that 87 in your teen years – why not attend the Studies from Congregation Shir Shalom Confirmation trip to Toronto! students have successfully gone through Introduction to Judaism course as an and Temple Beth Tzedek embarked on a the 14 week course of study since the adult, where you will learn the adult confirmation trip to New York City to program began with the spring class of version – the real story of the Jewish learn about Judaism and Jewish identity. 2012. Offered twice a year for 2 hours a people? The course is taught by several The experience left lasting impressions. week at the reasonable fee of $72 (with of our community’s rabbis. The rabbis “I learned about Jewish life in New York generous scholarships and payment plans cover the spectrum of Jewish thought, City, and the history of Judaism,” said provided) seven Rabbis from the Buffalo custom and point of view and provide Jordan Grubea when he returned to Board of Rabbis have led Jews and non- a fascinating insight into Jewish life and Buffalo. Jews through a comprehensive 28 hour- practice that is both stimulating and New York City offered the platform long curriculum that begins with The enlightening. to see Judaism through a different lens. Cycle of the Jewish Year and Shabbat To receive information about an The Jewish Museum had the students and ends with The American Jewish Introduction to Judaism course that will understanding what it means to be Teens in Times Square Community Today. begin again in the fall, please contact Back row (L-R): Nick Lowinger, Josh Seefried, Jewish, and how it is portrayed to the Hannah Linsky, Erin Lippa, Robyn Lippa, Mack Most students come to the class through Ethel Melzer, Director of Adult Jewish world. Kehlia Kedosha Janina Synagogue Bluman the suggestion of a Rabbi – however, some Education at [email protected] or at Front row (L-R): Seth Blum, Jordan Grubea, Jared (Greek Romaniote Synagogue) allowed Wallenfels, Ben Wolfson, Ayelet Forrest, Aaron Blum read about and apply through information 204-5380. the students to learn about when the Lower East Side of New York City was a Jewish epicenter. Later the students were able to immerse themselves into the 18th century with the Tenement Museum, with an actor portrayed as Victoria Confi, a Jewish Sephardic immigrant. She welcomed the students into her home, and shared her knowledge on what it was like to be a Jewish Sephardic immigrant living in the tenements in the 18th century. The students absorbed all that she was telling them, and began to have a better grasp of what it meant to be Jewish then, and HEAD LICE Serving Buffalo, what it means to be Jewish now. Rochester, and Syracuse When leaving the Tenement Museum A distressing, unexpected inconvenience! we were thankful the weather cleared up Your child has to leave school, you miss work, • Fast, Effective, Non-Toxic Treatments so that the students could explore Times and the lice spread to another. • Accurate Head Checks • Immediate Care by Certified Technicians Square. 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Agencies Where does Talmud stand in such Professors Chaya Halberstam Symposium on a divide? The answer has never been (University of Waterloo, Canada,) Dana an easy one, reflecting the unique Hollander (Kings College, Canada,), character of Jewish intellectualism. “Talmud and Philosophy” Moulie Vidas (Princeton University, Furthermore, the post-Holocaust crisis in understanding the very notion and US,), Zvi Septimus (Cornell University, at UB April 14-15, 2015 limits of humanity, and of the limits USA,), Richard Cohen and Sergey of responsibility, makes it necessary Dolgopolski (both SUNY Buffalo, USA) Talmud is the heart of Jewish tradition. in all its branches. The Talmud is what to mobilize the intellectual resources will speak and contribute to discussion in Philosophy is the core of Western reason. defines the difference between Jewish, of both Talmudic and philosophical the symposium. What are the relationships between Muslim and Christian ways of reading disciplines of thought in answering this the two? On Tuesday April 14, 8:00 and understanding Scripture. question and in understanding Judaism The symposium is free and open to am to 5:00 pm, in 830 Clemens Dolgopolski continues: “In Greek, and humanity in our world. the public. Hall, and Wednesday April 15, 8:00 the word ‘philosophy’ literally means am to 2:00 pm, in 708 Clemens Hall, ‘love for wisdom,’ the continual effort UB North Campus, the Institute for to obtain wisdom even if one cannot Sending Wishes for a Jewish Thought and Heritage and the finally succeed.” Unlike the “sage” or Happy Healthy Passover Humanities Institute of the University at “wise person,” who already has wisdom, Buffalo are sponsoring an international the philosopher is a continual seeker of symposium to address this topic. wisdom. From late antiquity on, however, According to UB Professor Sergey philosophical reasoning led to theology Dolgopolski, organizer of the conference, as a way of reading Bible, on the one “In Rabbinic Hebrew, ‘talmud’ literally hand, and to science as a way of reading means ‘deriving an interpretation from Nature, on the other. The segregation of a given text.’” The Talmud serves as the these two modes of thought is reflected main source-text for the Jewish Law which in academia, where “science,” “social regulates the daily lives of observant Jews studies,” and “religious studies,” for from the Middles Ages until today, and example, are carefully distinguished from Marjory Jaeger has determined the contours of Judaism “theology” or “faith.” Amherst Town Clerk

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Center) was, in part, inspired by the JFS’s Western New York Center Jewish Holocaust history: its mission also carries forward Jewish faith tenets for Survivors of Torture and such as tikkun olam, which instructs individual and collective responsibility to Yom HaShoah human dignity and right to live without fear in the world. Jewish Family Service (www.jfsbuffalo. Somber and sobering, Yom HaShoah connects the atrocity of the Holocaust to the org) launched the WNY Survivors triumphant continuum of Jewish faith and life. Formally translated as “Holocaust Center in June of 2014 with initial and Heroism Remembrance Day,” the annual observance — April 15 this year– but funding from the New York State Health commemorated April 19th in Buffalo this year--began in 1953 with a law signed by Foundation. The “center without walls” Israel Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion is staffed collaboratively with University and President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. at Buffalo Family Medicine and Journey’s “This year marks the 70th anniversary End Refugee Services, and in partnership of the liberation of the camps. The with Jericho Road Family Practice, Survivors number of living Holocaust survivors Vive Refugee Shelter, University at with the Holocaust Resource Center of diminishes each year,” JFS President and Buffalo School of Social Work and the Buffalo (HRC) to coordinate outreach CEO Marlene Schillinger says. “It is more Rochester-based Catholic Family Center. to members of its community who may important than ever that we continue to Its interdisciplinary program addresses be eligible for assistance through the tell their story, about the history, to the complex medical, psychological, Western New York Center for Survivors honor the strength and courage of those immigration, legal and social service of Torture. The Holocaust Resource who survived, the heroism of those who needs of survivors of political and state- Center of Buffalo was founded in 1983 resisted, and to help prevent the world sponsored torture living in Buffalo to raise public awareness, knowledge from allowing this kind of unspeakable and Western New York – to support and understanding of the Holocaust genocide to happen again.” the healing process and increase self- – a mission achieved in part through The Western New York Center for sufficiency. documentation and personal testimony Survivors of Torture (WNY Survivors Jewish Family Service also collaborates of local Holocaust survivors. “We engage survivors of the Holocaust, genocide and torture in an effort to remember, honor and raise awareness of these important issues,” says Pieter Weinrieb, co-chair of the HRC board. The WNY Survivors Center assists genocide survivors, which extends to elders who survived the Holocaust as children, explains Pam Kefi, JFS director of program development and implementation. “As our local child survivor population ages, they are becoming eligible for certain supports HAPPY PESACH through The Blue Card services and the Claims Conference. The Holocaust Resource Center is helping us to reach out to them,” says Kefi. Matzah Makeover The Blue Card (www.bluecardfund. org) not for profit organization was founded in 1934 by the Jewish $200 OFF community of Germany to help Jews there who were already being affected by in-office whitening for new Nazi restrictions. It was re-established patients only, with routine care in the U.S. in 1939 to continue aiding Jewish refugees of Nazi persecution who Call for details; Offer expires were resettling in America. Today the core mission of The Blue Card is to New patients receive free exam provide direct financial aid to needy and x-rays with hygiene visit Holocaust survivors. “With support from the Holocaust Resource Center, we are helping the local 5462 SHERIDAN DRIVE | WILLIAMSVILLE Holocaust survivor population access 716.831.8018 | WWW.ALTMANDENTAL.COM The Blue Card services and other local 36 www.jfedbflo.com | April 2015 Agencies resources they may not have been aware of or able to navigate,” Kefi says. HBLA Assists With College Trauma survivors, she adds, may live without full manifestation of their and Graduate School consequences of their ordeal until they experience the social isolation and Expenses declining health which is sometimes associated with retirement and aging. Affiliation with the Holocaust Resource he start of April brings the celebration loan. But a schedule of repayment for Center (www.hrc.org) is helping JFS and of Passover, a very welcome Spring these loans begins shortly after the check its WNY Survivors Center partners better Tthaw, and the anticipation of college is cut. understand how to support members of acceptance letters for soon-to-be high Now there is an additional option— other refugee communities as they age. school graduates. At the same time, the deferred repayment education loan. “We all pray the world never again many students who will soon graduate Full or part-time college or graduate sees as profound a human genocide from college are contemplating what they students can take out loans of up to as the Holocaust, but there are many have to do and where they want to go to $2,500 per year, to a total of $15,000, people in many places in the world obtain an advanced degree in their chosen and not be responsible for repayment today who are suffering the physical field. But with higher education comes until they complete or leave school. And, and mental atrocities of state-sponsored additional cost to the students and their as with all HBLA loans, these loans are persecution,” Schillinger says. families and the HBLA may be able to interest-free! With the cost of college and “The Western New York Center for help. graduate school skyrocketing, these loans Survivors of Torture brings together the Jewish residents of Western New can help to relieve the stress by covering resources needed to support refugees York have always been able to apply for the cost of needed equipment, books, or of these places who are now part of an interest-free loan of up to $5,000 to pay those ever-present fees. our Buffalo community, and who need for education-related expenses. Many If you or a family member could help re-establishing their lives and sense students have gone to college with a new benefit from a deferred repayment of well-being, much like Holocaust computer or set of books financed with education loan go to www.wnyhbla.org survivors did.” help from a standard HBLA personal or call (716) 204-0542.

April 2015 | www.jfedbflo.com 37 Agencies JDC’s Chai Friendship Circle

uffalo is proud to introduce a children flourish through their own new, important, and exciting pilot familiarity of activities shared with their Bprogram initiated last month. buddy volunteers. Facilitated by Rabbi Laizer Labkovski Not only is Chai Friendship Circle from the Jewish Discovery Center and filling a void in our Jewish community coordinated by educator Keren Green, at large by providing the opportunity Chai Friendship Circle (CFC) connects, for integration in familiar environments integrates, and encourages the blending for those children in need, CFC builds of teenage volunteers with special needs bonds with the teenage volunteers children and their families. Through an themselves through this unique program. array of programming with a focus on CFC encourages Jewish teens to unite, at home play dates, CFC maintains its perform the mitzvah of v’ahavta l’reacha philosophy that children with special kamocha and immerse themselves in a needs not only benefit but can thrive in piece of the Buffalo Jewish community an environment shared with their peers of that they may not have otherwise. This various backgrounds and abilities. opportunity is a tremendous chesed for Chai Friendship Circle fosters the all parties involved. Both affiliated and creation of new relationships that may unaffiliated Jewish teens are encouraged not have otherwise developed while to volunteer. promoting the Jewish values of hachnasat CFC is also currently inviting Jewish orchim (welcoming guests) and v’ahavta families with special needs children and l’reacha kamocha (loving your neighbor teenagers who are interested in joining this as your fellow self). With scheduled wonderful opportunity for developing play dates, special needs children visit and sharing in new friendships. For more with their assigned volunteers and have information on the program, becoming the opportunity to welcome their new a volunteer or a family recipient, please friends into their homes. In their own contact the Chai Friendship Circle at safe, comfortable environment, these [email protected]

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38 www.jfedbflo.com | April 2015 Agencies Job Open: PJ Library Coordinator – Part Time Position Position Overview: The Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo seeks to hire a PJ Library Coordinator. This is a year-round, part-time position, 10 hours per week which is available immediately. Hourly salary commensurate with experience. PJ Library is an international Jewish book subscription program for children age birth to 8, and their families, and is the cornerstone of the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo’s effort to engage families with young children. The Coordinator is the face of PJ Library in Buffalo interacting with families, program partners and at times, donors. The Coordinator will play a key role in the young adult engagement team/Nickel City Jews and represents the Federation in its many collaborations with other Jewish and secular organizations. The PJ Library Coordinator must have a strong understanding of Judaism, child development, family life, engagement best practices and the multi-faceted Jewish community. He/she will be someone with experience working as a professional in the Jewish Community, discipline and the ability to be self-directed. The PJ Library Coordinator will be responsible for managing the varied aspects of PJ Library in Buffalo which include all administrative elements of the PJ book subscription service; program planning; sustaining community partnerships; outreach and engagement and meeting all the grant reporting requirements of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation and funders. Exceptional organizational, administrative and engagement skills are required along with the ability to build relationships with a wide variety of young parents from diverse backgrounds.

Contact: Send resume to [email protected] or email for a complete job description.

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hen I came early for the first shift for Jewish Federation’s Super Sunday on the five-day Presidents’ Mission to in late January and worked from 9:30 am until 1:00 pm, I asked Leslie Israel. This was a special mission for WKramer if I could say a few words during the training session. I said three campaign chairs and donors making a things. minimum gift of $50,000. When we arrived, we spent four First, how lucky we are to be living in Making my phone calls reminded me days visiting Israeli air bases and tank America, where we feel safe every day! I of my own history with UJF campaigns factories, etc. On the fifth day, we was thinking about the news from Paris over the decades. In 1940, I was giving attended a dinner at the Knesset with and Europe, where our fellow Jews feel $40 to the UJA. Gordy Gross invited Prime Minister Menachem Begin and all so threatened. Second, I said, the most me to Arnold Jacobowitz’ home for a of the major donors from the USA. important pledge card you are going to Young Men’s UJA meeting. Arnold gave During that week, I had spent time cover this morning is your own. If you us a talk about the needs of Israel. When traveling around Israel with a young man don’t increase your own gift, you will Hy Scheff announced that he would give named Roy Zimmerman from Nashville, Photo by Jessica Altman taken on Super Sunday not have the confidence to get increases $100, a substantial gift in those days, I TN. He wore a plaid shirt and tan 2015 where Avy continued to call for the UJF on the cards you call this morning. The also said that I would increase from $40 trousers and seemed like a regular guy. Campaign third thing I said is that when you call a to $100. I think I was earning about $40 We had dinner together at the Knesset, Roy answered, “I spoke to my dad last donor, before they have a chance to say a week at that time. and after dinner, Roy invited me to go night; we gave a million dollars last year, “put me down for the same as last year,” Fast-forward to 1982 or 1983, when with him to announce our pledges. We and this year we’ll give $2 million, plus I suggest you ask for a specific increased I was chairman of the Campaign in went to the microphone nearest our $200,000 to Project Renewal.” I almost pledge. If you set a reasonable goal, most Buffalo. The Executive Director, Morris table, where the chairman asked Roy fell over! In 1982, I was planning to raise people will agree to an increase. Rombro, and Ron Benderson and I went “What are you going to do this year?” my pledge from $7,000 to $10,000. When Ray turned to go back to his seat, I turned to go with him. He stopped me and asked “Why are you sitting down? You didn’t announce your gift yet.” I said “Ray, how can I announce a $10,000 gift right after you just donated $2,200,000?” He said to me “Avy, if that’s a good gift for you, be proud of it and announce it to the Prime Minister.” So I went back to the microphone and announced that I was the Chairman of the Buffalo Campaign, and that my gift was $10,000. What I learned from that experience is that if your gift to the Federation’s United Jewish Fund Campaign is right for you, be proud of it. Then you can look anyone in the eye and announce your pledge. On the other hand, what if your gift is $200 when it could easily be $2,000? Only you, your family and your accountant know what you are really capable of giving. Think of what you spend on entertainment and vacation travel. Your Jewish Federation, with the local agencies it supports and the funds that it sends to Israel and the Jewish people around the globe, needs and deserves your support. Be the good person you always strive to be, and count yourself as a philanthropist by giving the gift that is right for you when the Federation calls. 44 www.jfedbflo.com | April 2015 Marketplace Happy To advertise call ENT Passover! | an Account Executive today! ADULT AND PEDIATRIC CARE BOARD CERTIFIED 972-2250 P 716.832.8500 F 716.832.8501 4955 NORTH BAILEY AVE. • Happy Hour 3-6pm Daily SUITE 202 • Serving Lunch AMHERST, NY 14226-1206 & Dinner Daily • Plus 20 Craft Beers on Tap • Wednesday 50¢ wings

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