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As Intermarriage Spreads, Synagogues Find Ways to Welcome JUNE 13, 2019 – 10 SIVAN 5779 JEWISHVOL 43, NO 23 JOURNALJEWISHJOURNAL.ORG Over 350 attend Peabody rally against anti-Semitism Photo: Steven A. Rosenberg/Journal Staff Rabbi Nechemia Schusterman addressed the gathering at Peabody City Hall on June 5. By Steven A. Rosenberg The incident occurred on JOURNAL STAFF May 25 when Rabbi Nechemia Schusterman, director of PEABODY – Just days after Chabad of Peabody, and Rabbi a motorist yelled anti-Semitic Sruli Baron, who leads Tobin TRTN students hold photos of survivors in front of the Terezin Memorial outside Prague. remarks and threw pennies at Bridge Chabad, were out for a two rabbis on a busy Peabody walk on Shabbat. Schusterman street, over 350 joined area said a man in a pickup truck At Holocaust sites, students are working clergy, law enforcement, and threw pennies out of his win- elected city and state officials to dow and shouted anti-Semitic ‘Together, Restoring Their Names’ decry the incident and stand in slurs. solidarity with the city’s Jewish According to the state’s Hate By Michael Wittner a Combined Jewish Philanthropies-subsidized fel- community. Crimes law, a perpetrator can JOURNAL STAFF lowship that aims to restore the memory of the “Last week’s incident is dis- be prosecuted if the offender Holocaust and its victims through travel, educa- heartening and so despicable,” acted with the intent to intimi- Many visitors to Nazi death camps are flood- tion, and volunteerism. Over five days, this diverse Peabody Mayor Ted Bettencourt date the victim or targeted the ed with powerful emotions that are difficult to group of students, about half of whom are not told the crowd. “It’s not who victim because of the person’s process. Seven students from Boston-area col- Jewish, researched and developed personal proj- we are as a community; it goes race or religion. In an interview, leges felt this anguish during their recent visit to ects based on what they learned and saw as part against every value we hold Peabody Police Chief Thomas Auschwitz-Birkenau, where they wrote down their of an initiative called “We Will Write Our History.” dear. It’s an act of hate, pure and Griffin said his department is thoughts and feelings. “I want students to find a project that speaks simple, and we come together investigating the incident but is The students went to the concentration camps to them while they’re there,” said Elan Kawesch, a today with one voice to con- unsure if charges could be filed. as part of Together, Restoring Their Names (TRTN), continued on page 21 demn it.” continued on page 12 As intermarriage spreads, synagogues find ways to welcome non-Jews By Michael Wittner bership and asked to pay dues, tant to us,” said Rabbi Michael JOURNAL STAFF but were still not allowed to Ragozin. “In the bylaws of our vote at annual meetings. congregation, in terms of the SWAMPSCOTT – It’s been “It was like taxation without membership and the definition quite a journey. When Bob representation,” said Powell. and the privileges associated Powell joined Temple Israel – At Congregation Shirat with it, we say that everyone’s the former Swampscott syna- Hayam’s annual meeting on equal.” gogue that merged with Temple May 24, congregants voted 119- Last fall, Shirat Hayam’s Bethel to become Shirat Hayam 12 to change temple bylaws board of directors voted to allow – in the early ‘90s, non-Jews to allow non-Jews to become the congregation to decide were not members. full members who can serve whether or not non-Jewish Even though Powell, who on boards and vote in annual members could vote. Approval grew up Catholic, attended with meetings. failed by just two votes. Powell, his Jewish wife Amy, Amy paid “I think that it really reflected who was the first and only non- for a single, rather than a fam- a degree of compromise within Jewish president of the Jewish Bob Powell was part of an interfaith committee examining how to ily, membership. Subsequently, the congregation to advance Journal Board of Overseers, was better include non-Jewish members at Congregation Shirat Hayam. non-Jews were granted mem- something that’s really impor- continued on page 17 The Jewish Journal is a nonprofit newspaper supported by generous readers, committed advertisers and charitable organizations. Email [email protected]. 2 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – JUNE 13, 2019 COMMUNITY NEWS TheMillennials By Michael Wittner HOW DID YOU END UP JOURNAL STAFF WORKING AT CNN? WHAT WAS YOUR JEWISH In college, I worked on my school newspa- BACKGROUND GROWING UP? per until I was a senior, and I covered news on campus, and I also did some work at UChicago Both my parents are Jewish, I was bat mitzva- on David Axelrod’s podcast “The Axe Files.” After hed at Shirat Hayam, and after my bat mitzvah, graduation, I packed all my bags, moved to D.C., I was a madrich with the Hebrew school. I was and got an internship, and after that moved up doing that every weekend, and as a kid we also the ladder and now I am with cnnpolitics.com as were part of Rekindle Shabbat, where a couple an associate producer/web producer. I manage of families would get together and celebrate the the CNN Politics homepage, as well as our Twitter, Sabbath together. That was a great way to keep in Facebook, and Instagram accounts. We work on touch with my faith throughout my childhood, SEO, headline writing, and also on the side I do and it was really important to my parents that I breaking news coverage, so reporting and writing keep the Jewish faith. I went off to college, and articles with our breaking news team. Jamie Ehrlich, 23 continued staying in touch with the Hillel there, HEBREW NAME: Leah Devorah and I celebrated holidays at school there. Since YOU MUST HAVE SOME HOMETOWN: Marblehead moving to D.C. after graduating college, I work INTERESTING STORIES. kind of crazy hours, so I don’t get to go to temple CURRENTLY LIVING IN: Washington, D.C. as much as I’d like, but I found that with my I remember last summer, there was a shooting ALMA MATERS: Marblehead High School ’14, University of inability to do that, I’ve seen my faith come into in Annapolis in that newsroom, and the day after Chicago ‘18 play in other ways where my Jewish friendships they sent me and someone else and they basically have become more important to me, the tradi- said, “Go to Annapolis, go to the courtroom, pull Associate producer, CNN JOB: tions that my family had have also been more every single file they have on the shooter.” It was FAVORITE FOOD: I would be totally fine if both peanut butter important to me. kind of surreal, as one of my first assignments, and Nutella were in every single one of my meals. getting sent out to cover a shooting where jour- WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO GO nalists were killed. That was a surreal moment FAVORITE MUSIC: Lizzo, Vance Joy, Vampire Weekend INTO JOURNALISM? starting my career in journalism. FAVORITE BOOKS: “The Argonauts” by Maggie Nelson, I had all these role models – people who I “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt, “The Future is History: How YOUR MOM, LORI EHRLICH, IS wanted to be 10, 15 years out, and they were all Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia” by Masha Gessen A STATE REPRESENTATIVE. HOW journalists. So I looked at Wolf Blitzer, and said, DID THAT INFLUENCE YOU? FAVORITE TV SHOWS: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” “I want to be Wolf Blitzer one day on CNN.” But FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION: Paris and Tel Aviv also, we’re kind of facing this crisis of informa- I think her being in that position and us hav- tion where I think with new media happening, ing a campaign run out of our house definitely PLACES YOU WANT TO GO TO NEXT: I want to and with the Internet evolving, and seeing how inspired me to go into journalism. Her high pro- explore the West Coast more, and my next trip will hopefully be to the 2016 played out, the struggle of information and file mixed with my appetite for news made for Pacific Northwest. truth around an election, and how people are really interesting dinner table conversations. I FAVORITE JEWISH PEOPLE NOT IN YOUR getting information into their brains, I found was able to learn about how lawmaking happens this calling in journalism, where it was a pres- on the local level, while also turning to places like FAMILY: My rabbi at Hillel at University of Chicago [Anna Levin ervation of fact. So many people are reading CNN for national coverage, and I think before she Rosen] has served as a Jewish role model for me … It was very cool to these articles, and they take what’s in them to be was a rep, she was an environmental activist, so have this Jewish role model and faith leader who was female, which is true, so you’re helping them and you’re helping that taught me to care about the world around something I’ve found to be quite rare. people around the country understand what’s me, and question everything, and not take any- FAVORITE JEWISH HOLIDAY: Definitely Passover happening in the world. thing for granted. CHOOSE TO CONNECT A women’s night out on the North Shore WEDNESDAY, JULY 17 | 6:00 P.M. | OLIO | 43 MAIN STREET, PEABODY We all have something unique to oer our community. Let’s get together to connect over our individualities and shared experiences.
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