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THE NEW JEWISH VOICE April 2014 Non-profit Organization U.S. POSTAGE PAID The Federation and the Board 8 Permit # 428 of Rabbis will host an interactive Binghamton, NY discussion on the Passover seder; Ronnie Fein offers a recipe. The community will 13 commemorate Yom Hashoah with several programs. Jewish Federations of North 16 America, JDC and others respond to the crisis in Ukraine. april 2014/nisan 5774 a publication of United jewish federation of Volume 16, Number 3 Greater Stamford, New Canaan and Darien Shalom Rav, Farewell Rabbi Retelling the Story Joe Community Yom Hashoah Seder to By Sheila L. Romanowitz refuseniks, including Anatoly Commemorate Holocaust The passing of Rabbi Joseph Sharansky, in Moscow in 1976, H. Ehrenkranz z”l, on Febru- and met with Pope John Paul By Peter Lilienthal as these stories are passed down from ary 23 marks the end of an II in 1990 to begin an ongo- This year’s Yom Hashoah (Holocaust generation to generation, as is done, for era and the celebration of a ing dialog on Catholic-Jewish Remembrance Day) Commemoration example, in a Passover seder. This year, legendary life. relations. And those are only will be held at Temple Sinai on Sunday, the community will commemorate the He marched on Washington the highlights. April 27, at 7 pm. The program is open Shoah at a communitywide Yom Hashoah in 1968, with both Dr. Martin Closer to home, “Rabbi Joe” to the entire community under the seder. Unlike a Passover seder, there will Luther King Jr. and fellow dazzled his congregation with auspices of United Jewish Federation be no meal, but Holocaust appropriate Stamfordite Jackie Robinson. extraordinary sermons and of Stamford, New Canaan and Darien. symbols will be placed on everyone’s He led a peace mission to mesmerizing storytelling. He The Yom Hashoah Committee is being seder plates and the story of the Shoah Egypt in 1978 to meet with Rabbi Joseph H. engaged and encouraged all chaired by Peter Lilienthal. will be told by survivors, the second President Anwar Sadat. He Ehrenkranz (Photo people to feel welcome and The ability to “tell the story” has con- generation and beyond. conducted a seder for Jewish by Harold Shapiro) See “Rabbi” on page 4 tributed to the Jewish people’s survival See “Story” on page 13 With Israeli Tech, Amiran PJ Library Goes to School Kenya Boosts Africa’s Farmers Joint Program for Three Local Federation By Ben Sales Kenya. From there they will be shipped Communities NAIROBI, Kenya (JTA) – Bags of seeds to farmers across East Africa. By Danielle Alexander conceived as a way to deliver free from the Israeli seed company Hazera The conduit between Israeli labs and “PJ Goes to School” has come to the Jewish children’s books and music Genetics line the shelves of one ware- African fields is Amiran Kenya, an Israeli- Greater Stamford, Westport-Weston- to families with young children each house. Another houses rolls of plastic founded company (now a subsidiary of Wilton-Norwalk and Eastern Fairfield month. Three years ago, the program from StePac, an Israeli firm whose bags the British multinational Balton CP) that communities. “PJ Goes to School” brings expanded into preschools. “PJ Goes can keep vegetables fresher for longer. brings Israeli agricultural know-how to together preschool educators from to School” is a program dedicated In a third warehouse are rows of coiled East African farms. Established in 1963, seven preschools across three Fairfield to enhancing the Jewish content of hoses, each pricked with holes engi- the year Kenya gained independence, County Federations. “It is a wonderful the preschool classroom. It engages neered by Netafim, the Israeli company Amiran provides supplies to farmers opportunity for us to learn together families, educators and children in that pioneered drip irrigation. from planting to harvest with an eye and work collaboratively,” said Beverly conversations about Jewish values by The warehouses containing the latest toward supporting small growers across Stein, director of Nitzan Nursery School using PJ Library books as a catalyst. in Israeli agricultural technology are lo- the region. of Congregation Beth El of Norwalk Program participants enjoy a variety cated not on a farm in the Jewish state, but “We linked the farms with Israeli ex- and volunteer coordinator of “PJ Goes of benefits. The program challenges 3,500 miles away on an expansive campus perts to build the industry,” said Yariv to School.” participating teachers to learn how outside Nairobi, the booming capital of See “Farmers” on page 18 The PJ Library was originally See “PJ” on page 2 Candle 6 Better 11 Family 15 Adult 17 Voices & Bits & Pieces 6 Lighting Together Central Education Views 18 Local Teens Attend AIPAC Conference Local teens from the “Speak Up for Israel” program, a partnership of United Jewish Federation of Greater Stamford, New Canaan and Darien and the Stamford Jewish Community Center, met up with teens from the Jewish High School of Connecticut and from Congregation Agudath Sholom at the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, during the AIPAC Policy Conference held March 2-4. See page 18 for the teens’ perspective on the conference. 2 THE NEW JEWISH VOICE ■ APRIL 2014 President’s Message The Yin-Yang of Ankles and Community By Shoshana Dweck and community. Ankles matter a lot to the the precept that “kol Yisrael arevim zeh la zeh” – all of Oh, it’s good to be in April and finally Jewish people – we are the children of Israel, Israel is responsible one for the other. out of our Yin-Yang winter. Snow made our which is a name for “Jacob,” and “Jacob” de- We never know when we will need our community. environment beautiful and our children glow, rives from the Hebrew word for ankle. But, With Federation, we are always paying it forward even while adults joyfully reminisced about child- I’m talking about real ankles and modern as we derive the benefit of the community built and hood snowstorms (the Blizzard of ‘78 was communities. In Greensboro, Israel, Stamford sustained by the people who came before us. John the best birthday present ever). But, Yin-Yang, and Montreal, four people in my life suffered Ruskay, the outgoing CEO of the New York Federa- the storms turned schedules into stressful serious ankle injuries within a week, three tion, famously said that we were there and effective on mincemeat, along with work/family balance, needing surgery and becoming bedridden, September 11 because we were there on September 10. school curricula, JCC schedules and services. Shoshana Dweck, wheel-chair ridden and housebound before We never know what will be the next need – personal We celebrated the glory of athletic achieve- UJF president finally getting back on their feet. Lives and ankles, communal future, or danger in Ukraine. I just ment and Russian excess at the Olympics, livelihoods were disrupted in the blink of sleep better at night knowing that our community is Yin-Yang, as dogs and other undesirables “disappeared” an eye. Treatments were complicated by storms, ice, there, giving, building and sustaining, rescuing and and opinions were suppressed while Ukraine blew Hadassah Hospital’s bankruptcy, and long and painful reshaping, for the land of Israel and the Jewish people up. Meanwhile, closer to home, we celebrated a very trips home. In each case, these giving, caring people here and worldwide. successful launch to our 2014 Better Together Annual struggled to learn how to receive the support that When the brokenness keeps me up at night, whether Campaign with Superhero Super Sunday and strong poured in. Facebook spread “Misheberach” blessings it is a broken ankle or spirit or country, it is you, the involvement across the community, but Yin-Yang, said across the globe, and four people who could not stand interconnecting web of community and support, that a sad good-bye to the talented Anat Chavkin, who has were held upright by community. From challot to meals lets me sleep in peace. As Yin-Yang winter gives way to moved on to a new position in the firmament of Jew- to errands to sitting up all night in a hospital, I watched spring, thank you for acting and giving, so that together ish philanthropy. as simultaneously four Jewish communities activated we can ensure the strength of our community and the I will remember it as the Yin-Yang winter of ankles their unique caring community support systems, living continuity of the Jewish people. PJ Continued from page 1 to use the books to incorporate Jewish values into every area of their classroom and daily routine, and to create family engagement experiences. At right: Preschool teachers “This shared language of Jewish values never and directors from Greater goes out of date, and supports a family’s life-long Stamford, Westport-Weston- learning of Jewish ideas,” said Lisa Litman, director Wilton-Norwalk, and Eastern of PJGtS for PJ Library, a program of the Harold Fairfield Jewish preschools Grinspoon Foundation. learned together at the first On a monthly basis, the participating preschools re- PJGtS training for the local ceive PJ books, related resource guides and professional community at Temple Israel, development. PJGtS is in approximately 400 classrooms Westport. in 14 PJ Library communities – and growing! The first local PJGtS professional development session for preschool directors and teachers, held on February 25 at Temple Israel in Westport, was led by ish values into their curriculum. The group read, the Jewish values that the books elicited. “The room Lisa Litman. The participants studied Torah together discussed and brainstormed how they would use PJ was filled with excitement as the educators shared and discussed the importance of incorporating Jew- Library Purim books in their classrooms focusing on their ideas and their personal teaching experiences,” said Stein.
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