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Ethiopian The Jewish Press Group U.S. POSTAGE PAID of Tampa Bay, Inc. PRESORTED Falash Mura STANDARD JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya- hu announced that he has decided to bring some 1,000 Ethiopian Falash Mura who have children living in Israel to the country. Netanyahu made the announce- ment on Monday, Sept. 17, at a JustJust CompliedaaComplied nosh..fromnosh.. from news news wires wires meeting of the Ministerial Commit- Cleveland Browns sign Jewish kicker tee on the Advancement and Inte- The Cleveland Browns have signed kicker Greg Jo- gration of Israeli Citizens of Ethio- seph, who played football and soccer at the Donna Klein pian Origin. Jewish Academy in Boca Raton. Joseph, a 24-year-old There are some 8,000 Falash rookie, was cut by the Miami Dolphins this summer after Marty Goldberg, in yellow shirt, leads volunteers toting a mattress from the shore of the Courtney Camp- Mura in Ethiopia awaiting permis- signing with the club as an undrafted free agent out of bell Causeway to a debris collection site during the Reverse Tashlich cleanup on Sunday, Sept. 16. Another sion to immigrate to Israel, most of Florida Atlantic University. memory foam mattress was also recovered at the same site. whom have some family members The Browns signed Joseph after Zane Gonzalez in Israel. missed four kicks in the The Falash Mura claim links to Sunday, Sept. 16 game against the New Orleans Reverse Tashlich: Volunteers haul descendants of Jews who converted Saints – two field goals and to Christianity generations ago un- two extra point attempts der duress but now seek to return to including a potential game- mankind’s sins from local waters Judaism. They must get special per- tying field goal of 52 yards. By BOB FRYER mission to immigrate to Israel due “Obviously, we have to Jewish Press to their uncertain Jewish status. find someone that can put The beach clean-up treasure of the day “This is not a simple decision due the ball through the up- was overlooked by a dozen or more “Reverse to other ramifications that we have rights,” Browns coach Hue Jackson said after Joseph Tashlich” volunteers before 9-year-old Joa- regarding members of the Ethiopian community,” Netanyahu said at the signed. “We have had this situation happen now for a quin Acanda spotted it in the water, just a small couple of weeks. We have to keep searching and keep dark portion of a huge memory foam mattress meeting. “However, I am deter- looking.” poking above the surface. mined to do this and I add that this is Joseph said he had been working out to stay pre- “I just looked and saw it in the water and told in wake of 1,300 Falash Mura who pared in case a team showed interest, but was not an adult,” Joaquin explained. It was covered in have already come to Israel.” expecting the call from the Browns on that Sunday after- black scum and once he pointed it out to the The announcement came a day noon. “I was just living the South Florida life. Hung out adults, several men and women, including his after reports that Rabbi Moshe Hav- by the water with some buddies, relaxing and watching lin, the chief rabbi of the southern some games. Nothing crazy.” dad, Aaron Medina, attacked it with zeal. For Israeli town of Kiryat Gat, said he Joseph didn’t have much time to become acquainted all their struggle they could not budge it until would withdraw kosher certifica- with his new teammates, as Cleveland hosted the New finally a piece broke off in one man’s hands. tion from a local catering company York Jets on Thursday, Sept. 20, in which the Browns Soon several volunteers were breaking off chalked up their first win since 2016, 21-17. Joseph went if Ethiopian women continued to chunks, getting wet and filthy in the process. two for two in field goals, the longest 45 yards. prepare the food there unless they He left FAU as its all-time field goal leader and shares Others helped relay the waterlogged foam bits From left, Sam Wax, Lynda Arredondo, and Rabbi could prove their Jewishness. Under to the shore, where people would stand on the school record for most extra points. Along with play- Nathan Farb, all of Congregation Schaarai Zedek, Orthodox Jewish law, certain foods ing at Donna Klein Jewish Academy, Joseph also kicked the debris to squeeze the water out. Then the scour for debris in the mangroves along McKay Bay that are completely cooked by a non- at the American Heritage School in Delray Beach. still-heavy chunks were lugged to the cleanup in Tampa. Jew, known as bishul akum, may not The Boca Raton native, who has been praised for his collection site at the west end of the Courtney congratulated him for his sharp eye. be eaten by a kosher observer even charity work, credits his mother, a teacher and head of Campbell Causeway. Finally, someone found Most of the folks at the causeway par- if the ingredients are kosher and the math department at a Jewish day school, for teach- a small wagon and loaded it up with the final ticipating in the first Bay Area Reverse cooked in a kosher kitchen. ing him the values of giving back to the community. pieces of the mattress. Tashlich on Sunday, Sept. 16, were mem- Some political officials charged Despite the hard work, everyone was smil- bers of Congregation Beth Shalom and that the rabbi’s motives are racist, One of Hezbollah’s most important ing and delighted by the find. Several volun- Temple B’nai Israel, both in Clearwater, not religious. members arrested in Brazil teers, including Joaquin’s mom Elyse Acanda, VOLUNTEERS continued on PAGE 8 ETHIOPIAN continued on PAGE 15 BUENOS AIRES – One of Hezbollah’s most wanted members, Assad Ahmad Barakat, was arrested near Brazil’s border with Argentina and Paraguay on Sept. 21. Barakat has been labeled by the U.S. Treasury Jewish book fest touts variety of topics as one of the Lebanese terrorist group’s main finan- visionary Founding Fathers; ciers. He is part of the Barakat Clan, a criminal organi- Jewish Press staff report Openning zation known for its links to Hezbollah. Tampa’s 13th Festival of an Italian cycling legend and a night Barakat was arrested in Foz de Iguazú, in southern Jewish Books & Conversations, mom who helped save the Lou- will Brazil. In July, the Barakat Clan’s assets were frozen by hosted by the Tampa JCCs, will vre and its treasures from the feature the Financial Information Unit of Argentina. On Aug. 31, feature more than a dozen au- Nazis. There are also tales of a author Argentine Judge Rubén Darío Riquelme ordered Bara- thors – many of them acclaimed mystic’s death predictions and Dawn kat’s international capture. award winners – at programs a humorous look at a family Raffel “We commend this arrest and the expected extradi- wedding. tion of Barakat to Argentina, as a sign that the three Nov. 1 through Nov. 18. countries will begin to drive Hezbollah out of Latin Amer- Topics for the slate of authors Festival events will take ica,” Shimon Samuels of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. include never-before-told stories place at the JCC on the Cohn of a mysterious Coney Island Campus, 13009 Community festival coincides with the Na- SC rep. jokes that Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor who saved thousands of Campus Drive, Tampa, and the tional Jewish Book Month of accused Abraham Lincoln of groping babies; another doctor who was Bryan Glazer Family JCC, 522 November. A South Carolina congressman made a joke about one of our youngest and most N. Howard Ave., Tampa. The BOOK FEST continued on PAGE 10 Abraham Lincoln groping Ruth Bader Ginsburg, mocking the controversy over a woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of assaulting her 36 years ago. Rays foundation grant helps fund JCC scholarships “I thought I was going to be late. Did you all hear the latest late-breaking news from the Kavanaugh The Tampa JCCs and Federation re- of the Corbett JCC Preschool Scholarship Key contributors to the Rays Baseball hearings?” Rep. Ralph Norman, a Republican, said cently received a $20,000 donation from Fund. This is the second year the organiza- Foundation include Rays’ owners, play- at an event Sept. 20 in Rock Hill, SC, the Herald the Rays Baseball Foundation, the official tion has received funding from the Rays, ers, sponsors, fans and employees. Funds newspaper reported. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg came out charity of the Tampa Bay Rays, to help part of the foundation’s commitment to a are raised through a variety of events and that she was groped by Abraham Lincoln.” young families with financial hardships be three-year $60,000 contribution. The foun- programs throughout the baseball season. Ginsburg, 85, is the oldest justice on the court. A able to enroll their children in the Tampa dation strives to improve the quality of “We are incredibly grateful for the reliable liberal vote, she has said she has plans to serve JCC Preschools, Club J Enrichment Pro- education, literacy and life skills training support of the Rays Baseball Foundation,” through the term of President . Norman, whose 5th District borders , gram and Camp JCC. provided to youths by creating and sup- said Alissa Fischel, Tampa JCCs and won a surprisingly tight race against Democrat Archie The Rays Foundation funds were award- porting programming that meets their most Federation’s chief development officer. Parnell in a special election a year ago. He faces Parnell ed through a partnership grant in support critical needs. RAYS continued on PAGE 5 again in November. PAGE 2 A JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA SEPTEMBER 21 - OCTOBER 4, 2018

Most of Paraguay’s 1,000 Jews live in Asuncion, where the Torah from Congregation B’nai Jacob Name of Business: Family Diplomacy: A Collaborative Law Firm in Ottumwa, IA, shown Location: 412 E. Madison St., Suite 824, Tampa here, has found a new Ownership: Adam B. Cordover, graduate of home at an Jewish Leadership Training Institute 2010 egalitarian minyan. Q What services do you offer? A Collaborative Divorce and Family Law, Photo courtesy of Mediation, Unbundled Legal Services, Adop- Erin Jones-Avni tions, Name Changes

Q What inspires your work and sets you A Torah scroll makes its way from Iowa to Paraguay, apart from everyone else? A My firm focuses on helping people through difficult timesin the telling a story about modern Judaism on its way least painful way possible. That is why we specialize in collabora- By VICTOR WISHNA sance Revival building was dedicated in 1915, the tive family law, where the children are the top priority and where JTA news service community numbered more than 100 families. Today, respect and privacy are fostered. One family after another hurried through Erin Jones- B’nai Jacob counts perhaps three active members Avni’s front door, anxious to get their first glimpse of in town. It has been five years or more since a Rosh Q Why do clients select your business? the new arrival – to admire its ornate silver breastplate Hashanah service. A Because we practice exclusively in private, peaceful dispute and touch its satiny mantle. “It was a wonderful community, an active commu- resolution and do not engage in costly and painful court battles. “People just kept coming, and they’d make a beeline nity,” said B’nai Jacob board member Sue Weinberg, for the Torah,” she told JTA from her home in Asun- 60, who spent most of her childhood in Ottumwa be- Q How did the business get started? cion, Paraguay’s capital and largest city. “They were fore leaving for college in Iowa City, where she still A During law school in Washington, D.C., I also received a mas- overcome with emotion, to show it to their children, lives. Weinberg’s great-grandparents helped found ter’s degree in International Relations and learned under ambassa- to take their picture with it.” B’nai Jacob and donated one of its four Torah scrolls. dors and diplomats. It turned out that a lot of the skills we learned All were members of the country’s first egalitarian Their story reflects the larger history of Ottumwa’s in International Relations – such as interest-based negotiations, minyan, which was founded earlier this year at the Jewish community. face-to-face diplomacy, etc. – also applied to Domestic Relations home of Gabriela Alonso and her husband, Rabbi Arriving in New York in the late 1800s, originally from Russia, they sought life beyond the sweatshops and family law. And so I’ve taken the diplomatic skills I learned Julian Vainstein. and ventured west. Her great-grandfather arrived in the in my master’s program to help families resolve disputes in better “Now, to have the Torah here, it is amazing,” Alonso coal mining town of Ottumwa as a peddler, eventually ways. said. “It is a new beginning.” It is also a new chapter in a story that started more than opening a hardware store, which morphed into an ap- pliance shop. The 1915 city directory listed some two Q Tell us an interesting tidbit about your business: a century ago and a continent away. The inscription on one of the scroll’s wooden dowels is faded but legible: dozen Jewish-owned businesses in Ottumwa, from I was involved in the first same-sex divorce in Florida to chal- A “Property of Cong. B’nai Jacob, Ottumwa, Iowa.” grocers and mattress manufacturers to clothiers and lenge the Defense of Marriage Act and constitutional amendment How this Torah found its way from the plains of shoemakers – many of the shopkeepers’ names are banning recognition of same-sex relationships. I was collaborative Iowa to the central hills of Paraguay is a remarkable still embedded in the sidewalk along East Main Street. attorney and helped the clients reach an agreement. The trial court story of Jewish geography and connection, of history A Jewish cemetery had been established by an ear- rejected the agreement because same-sex marriage was not rec- and timing, of ancient ties and internet links. Through lier settlement of German Reform Jews, and the new ognized at the time. We appealed to the Second District Court of a series of fortunate events and the efforts of more than influx of mostly Orthodox Jews from Eastern Europe Appeals, and the case briefly went to the Florida Supreme Court. a dozen relative strangers, the sunset of Jewish life in expanded it, established B’nai Jacob in 1900 and Ultimately, the trial judge was overruled and the two women were one part of the world is providing a spark of vitality in bought the lot upon which the synagogue would be allowed to divorce. another – and there may be more to come. built in 1915. Other institutions – B’nai B’rith, Hadas- * * * sah – followed, and by the early 1960s there was even Q If your business were a book, song or famous artwork, More than 5,000 miles away, on East Main Street in talk of building a larger synagogue. what would it be and why? downtown Ottumwa is the pristine, silent sanctuary of “It was like one big family,” said Bernie Ullman, A Actually, the American Bar Association just published a book Congregation B’nai Jacob. When this stately Renais- who was born in Ottumwa in 1939 and now lives in I authored: Building A Successful Collaborative Family Law Kansas City. Practice. The book looks to disrupt traditional adversarial divorce Over time, the synagogue evolved from Orthodox practice and teach lawyers to make a living while helping spouses to Conservative. Oral history claims it was Weinberg’s collaboratively work together. grandmother who, nursing a broken leg, first refused to climb up to the women’s balcony. 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The Global Jewish News Source. kashruth of products & services advertised or mentioned otherwise. Standard Class Postage Permit: TAMPA PI #3763 SEPTEMBER 21 - OCTOBER 4, 2018 JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA A PAGE 3 At 20, Jacob Wohl wants to be the face Trump administration continues to pressure and voice of young Jewish Trump supporters Palestinians; orders close of PLO offices in Washington (JTA) – The Trump administration or- cision” by the U.S. By BEN SALES His father, David Wohl, is an attorney who has dered the close of the Palestine Liberation “The Palestinians refuse to enter negotia- JTA news service appeared on as a commentator and Organization office in Washington D.C. tions with Israel even as they attack Israel NEW YORK (JTA) – If you scroll down describes himself as a campaign surrogate for It’s another indication that the Trump ad- with false claims in international forums,” the feed of Jacob Wohl, former teen- Trump. Wohl has followed in his father’s foot- ministration is stepping up the pressure on he said. “Israel very much appreciates the age hedge fund manager and current pro- steps, appearing on as early as the Palestinians to come to the negotiating Trump administration decision and supports Donald Trump provocateur, you’ll see a 2015 to discuss his hedge fund. table with the Israelis. The Palestinian au- American actions that are designed to make stream of insults directed at , His political activism ramped up with the thority walked away from talks last Decem- it clear to the Palestinians that the refusal to liberals and a proposed plastic straw ban. start of Trump’s campaign in 2015, and since ber after the United States recognized of enter into negotiations with Israel and the And that was just Friday morning. has skyrocketed. In addition to his Twitter Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. unbridled attacks against Israel will not only To his 158,000 followers, Wohl, 20, de- activity, Wohl writes pieces for the right- In the last month the U.S. also said it not advance peace but will certainly not scribes himself as “Conservative, Trump wing site , runs his own would cut more than $200 million for hu- make things better for the Palestinians.” manitarian and development aid in the Ambassador Husam Zomlot, head of Supporter, Zionist.” So he seemed like an right-wing news site called The Washington West Bank and Gaza; halt all funding to the the PLO General Delegation to the United interesting person Reporter and co-hosts a podcast with the in- UNRWA, United Nations refugee agency States, condemned the decision. to profile for JTA. dependent journalist called that aids Palestinians; and halt $25 million “Such a reckless act confirms that the And in the 19 min- “2 Live Jew,” which is advertised as the in funding to the East Jerusalem Hospital administration is blindly executing Israel’s utes before he hung “#1 Podcast for Jewish Trump Supporters.” Network, made up of six hospitals. ‘wish list,’ which starts with shutting down up on me, Wohl said Episode titles have included “The Caliphate Israeli security officials reportedly are Palestinian diplomatic representation in the his share of interest- Comes to Toronto” and “Full Commie.” concerned that the withdrawal of so much U.S.,” Zomlot said. ing things. Loomer boasts of “confronting public fig- aid to the Palestinians could harm Israeli se- He went on to say: “This confirms to us He complained ures” in the style of Project Veritas, the right- curity, in part by fomenting a major humani- that we are on the right track. We will step about children of wing gotcha operation where she worked tarian crisis and collapse in Gaza. up our efforts to hold Israel accountable immigrants who in 2016. Last month she asked a Democrat In announcing the shuttering of the PLO under international law, continue building couldn’t speak Eng- gubernatorial candidate in Michigan who Screenshot from YouTube office, State Department spokeswoman international alliances for peace, double our lish in his second- Jacob Wohl describes is Muslim to “reconcile your own personal Heather Nauert said, “We have permitted efforts to reach out to the American people grade class. He in- himself as a practice of Islamic law with your Marxist the PLO office to conduct operations that as we witness the transformational change sisted that Puerto conservative, a Zionist socialist political platform that directly con- support the objective of achieving a last- in American public opinion in support of the Rico, a territory of and one of President tradicts tenets within Islamic law.” ing, comprehensive peace between Israelis Palestinian cause and our legitimate rights.” the United States, Trump’s most loyal “Laura is on the cutting edge of stopping and the Palestinians since the expiration of In a speech to the Federalist Society in has a socialist gov- supporters. the Sharia invasion that’s happening in the a previous waiver in November 2017. How- Washington, White House National Security ernment. He equat- United States, the Islamification of neigh- ever, the PLO has not taken steps to advance Adviser John Bolton confirmed the closure ed the Palestinian Authority with ISIS. borhoods,” Wohl said on a recent podcast, the start of direct and meaningful negotia- of the PLO office and called the Internation- “I think that conservatives find that I re- referring to Islamic religious law. “They tions with Israel.” al Criminal Court an “illegitimate court.” ally have my finger on the pulse of the is- want Sharia courts. This is what they’re “To the contrary, PLO leadership has con- Bolton added that “The United States sues that matter,” Wohl said of his hyperac- calling for, this is their vision, is to establish demned a U.S. peace plan they have not yet will use any means necessary to protect our tive Twitter feed, which has gained nearly a caliphate in the West.” seen and refused to engage with the U.S. citizens and those of our allies from unjust 100,000 followers in the past year. “I don’t Wohl said he agrees with Trump “on 90 government with respect to peace efforts prosecution by this illegitimate court.” spend a lot of time on things I view as un- percent or 95 percent of his positions” – first and otherwise. As such, and reflecting Con- He called the ICC “ineffective, unaccount- important.” and foremost immigration. He said that “il- gressional concerns, the Administration has able, and indeed, outright dangerous.”“While The weekend saw more bombastic tweets. legal immigration has just devastated com- decided that the PLO office in Washington the court welcomes the membership of the On Sunday, Wohl called Trump “the great- munities” in Southern , some- will close at this point,” she said. so-called state of Palestine, it has threatened est friend of the Jewish People to ever occu- thing Wohl said he realized when most of The announcement also linked the clo- Israel, a liberal, democratic nation, with in- py the White House.” A day earlier he called his second-grade class could not speak “a sure to “Palestinian attempts to prompt an vestigation into its actions in the West Bank on Barack Obama to be extradited to Israel lick of English.” He said that hindered his investigation of Israel by the International and Gaza to defend its citizens from terror- for meddling in its 2015 elections. (A for- education. Criminal Court.” ist attacks,” Bolton also said, reiterating that mer Obama campaign aide, Jeremy Bird, “A wall would change a lot about a lot Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- the “United States will always stand with worked for a nonpartisan Israeli NGO that of border states as far as public safety,” he yahu praised what he called the “correct de- our friend and ally Israel.” campaigned against Benjamin Netanyahu. said. “What’s coming across our southern American campaign consultants of both par- border is in many cases, not in all cases, but ties have a long history of working on Israeli in many cases tremendous crime. elections.) “When Trump came down the escalator Later on Sunday, he debated the causes and said, ‘We’re going to build a great, great of Puerto Rico’s economic misery with wall and we’re going to make Mexico pay Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York for that wall,’ he had my vote,” Wohl said, You are cordially invited to congressional nominee and a rising star of referring to Trump’s campaign launch. progressive Democrats. One of the issues on which Wohl dis- “The Catskills Revisited”- The way Wohl tells his story, he began agrees with Trump relates to Israel. Wohl his first hedge fund, Wohl Capital Invest- would like to see the president, who has ment Group, with money from high school been friendly to the Israeli government’s A Night to Remember classmates and their parents. In a Bloomberg agenda, take an even harder line against the profile, he claimed the principal of his high Palestinian Authority, which administers the school invested with him. Subsequently he Palestinian areas of the West Bank. started another investment fund, Montgom- “I would like to see the Palestinian Au- Sunday, November 4, 2018 ~ 5 p.m. ery Assets. Both funds are currently inactive. thority defunded completely by the United Bryan Glazer Family JCC But the young investor, who has been States and treated like ISIS or any other ter- v called “The Wohl of Wall Street,” soon ran rorist organization because that’s what they 522 N. Howard Avenue Tampa, FL 33606 into trouble and has been investigated by are,” he said. multiple regulatory organizations. He also Wohl’s political opinions are no less posted personal ads on seeking pointed on Twitter, where he focuses his Please join us for a attractive women while claiming to run a commentary on praising the president and modeling agency, according to the Daily opposing his opponents. Wohl said proudly Silent Auction, Beast. One woman accused him of posting that Trump has retweeted him three times Gourmet Dining and Show her photo online, in a bra, as the “Wohl Girl and replied to one of his tweets, which he of the Month” without her permission. The said is “a recognition that you’re doing (Catskills Style), domain WohlGirls.com expired last month. something right.” Music, Dancing and more! Wohl told JTA that he now does due dili- Other tweeters have enjoyed mocking gence for mergers and acquisitions, though Wohl for a curious trope he repeats: a con- he would not reveal the name of his com- tention that he hears “coffee shop hipster pany or any further details. liberals” praising the president. He has said VIP Sponsors Pre-Event “I’m not going to tell you because I don’t so six separate times. Cocktail Party like journalists meddling in my private busi- I wanted to ask Wohl about this surrepti- Entertainer ness,” he said. “It can only cause problems tiously pro-Trump hipster cafe. I also want- Gala Entertainment when journalists start meddling around in ed to ask him more about his Judaism, as Nathan Hefner Fred Astaire Dancers my employment situations and what I’m do- well as his future plans. But he hung up on Featuring Guest MC ing businesswise, as I’ve learned.” me after I asked him a follow-up question Comedian Francine Wolf Wohl was raised and still lives in Orange about his claim that Puerto Rico is socialist. Shlomo “Steve” Schwersky Tummler David Vogel County, a politically conservative area of “You’ve got a terrible attitude,” he said Radio host of “Sunday Simcha” Southern California, in a Republican home. before ending the call. on 88.5 WMNF DJ/Song Writer, David Morris

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Sept. 30 • 6:59 pm of the Florida Suncoast Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Through pollution, overfishing, climate Services, on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Oct. 1 • 7:52 pm Phew! We’ve dipped apples in honey, change and more, we are destroying the synagogue. Vasquez will discuss the process heard the Shofar, we’ve fasted, repented, ocean. According to the most current refugee families follow from the time they Oct. 5 • 6:45 pm and heard the Shofar again. scientific data, if we don’t change our decide to come to the area to if/when they Oct. 12 • 6:46 pm The intensity of the Ten Days of Re- current habits, every major fishery on the arrive here, and how Gulf Coast and other pentance is past, and hopefully all of us planet will collapse by 2048. By 2050 volunteers assist their resettlement. She will have been inscribed in the Book of Life there will be more plastic in the ocean talk about ways to get involved, and the cur- Farb and Cantor Deborrah Cannizzaro can for a year of health and happiness. Now than fish. If we don’t change our behav- rent status of immigration. Opportunities bless them. we can begin to relax a bit and sit in the ior, the ocean will die; and if the ocean are also available for assisting with tutoring, Tot Shabbat: Enjoy an interactive Shab- shade of the Sukkah with the smell of the dies … we die. transportation, providing companionship, bat experience for families with young chil- autumn fruits surrounding us. Sukkot, like I unapologetically believe that when and orienting clients to their new communi- dren on Friday, Oct. 19 at 5:30 p.m. This is for the other Pilgrimage festivals of Pesach Jews get involved in any issue, substan- ties and American culture. children up to age 5 and siblings of all ages. and Shavuot, connect us to the agricul- tive change takes place. So, it’s time Sisterhood has partnered with the Refugee Learn Shabbat rituals and prayers, light the tural cycle of the for the Jewish community to step up to Program of Gulf Coast to provide home fur- candles, sing the Kiddush with grape juice, and year. Sukkot is the save the ocean and the marine environ- nishings for two new families. Bring a dona- bless the challah. After the service, there will Harvest Festival in ment, especially in Florida. When I look tion of a kitchen item for the home of a new be a free Shabbat dinner for the families. This the Land of Israel. at the donor walls of hospitals, theaters, refugee family. event will include a special PJ Library display Here in Florida, universities and museums, I see Jewish Talking God: Rabbi Jason Rosenberg courtesy of the Tampa JCCs. Learn how you it doesn’t feel so names everywhere. When I look at the will lead a 4-part discussion series on differ- can receive Jewish books for children from much like autumn boards of directors of organizations sup- ent ways that Jewish tradition envisions God. birth to age 8, also at no cost to you. Parents as, well … more porting education, medicine, the arts … “God Talk” will include discussion about and grandparents are welcome. RSVP by Oct. summer and hurri- Jews are everywhere. Yet when I look at the literalist theology found in the Torah to 18 by calling the temple or going to www. cane season. Suk- organizations that are working to protect more modern ideas as well as participants’ zedek.org/RSVP. kot reminds me the marine environment, there are almost personal beliefs. The classes will be held “Nu” Frontiers: This program, led by of the passage in the Book of Psalms 115 none. on Wednesdays, Oct. 3 - 24 at 7:30 p.m. For Rabbi Emeritus Richard Birnholz, is a new “The dry land was given to Man.” It was “The Sea is God’s.” I dare say that if more information, contact the Beth Am office, initiative for those 50 and older looking for given to humans to till and cultivate, to anyone entered your synagogue and van- (813) 968-8511. social activities. These might include, but are bring forth the bounty that God provides dalized and desecrated it, we would all be not limited to dinners, movies, bike rides, out for the good of all. in an uproar, screaming and Cong. Schaarai Zedek of town trips, volunteer opportunities, book During Sukkot you should hear ser- calling on the police to find the culprits. Simchat Torah: Celebrate the time reviews, and much more. Let Rabbi Birnholz mons or read articles about Judaism and Yet we vandalize and desecrate the sea, when the congregation finishes reading the know if you’d like to be part of the planning. the environment. I would however, like to the realm of God, with impunity. Torah and begins it all over again on Sunday, Contact him at (813) 876-2377, ext. 205 or draw your attention to another part of the This past weekend, the first “Reverse Sept. 30 from 10:15-11:15 a.m. This is the time email [email protected]. environment that is often overlooked in Tashlich” took place in Tampa Bay and to unroll the Torah and march and sing praises Senior luncheon: Armondo Diaz, an Judaism and, in Florida, we overlook it at in other locations across Florida. I thank to thank God for giving us the Torah. RSVP on- acclaimed Frank Sinatra impersonator, along our own peril. the approximately 300 people who came line www.zedek.org/RSVP or call the temple. with preschool student singers will perform Our holidays intertwine us with nature out and instead of casting our sins into TorahFest: The TorahFest fall celebra- at the senior luncheon on Thursday, Oct. 18, and teach us to appreciate the natural the water, worked hard to remove “sins” tion will take place on Sunday, Sept. 30 from beginning at 11:15 a.m. There is no charge but world yet, when it comes to the marine from the water. It was dirty work. It was 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. The event will include reservations are required. RSVP to the temple environment, our tradition has very little hard work, but everyone made a differ- a hamburger/hot dog lunch at no charge and at (813) 876-2377 or email [email protected]. to say. Tashlich is about as close as we get ence. You can read about it in more detail feature face painting, balloon art and carnival Café CSZ: Have a bagel and a cup of cof- to a communal ritual observance involv- in this edition of the Jewish Press. I hope games for all ages. RSVP online www.zedek. fee at Café CSZ on Sundays from 9-11 a.m. ing water and what do we do? We caste it will inspire you, as I am inspired, to get org/RSVP or call the temple. when the religious school is meeting. Join the our “sins” into it. As if the water is our involved to protect and save the marine Yizkor: Remember deceased loved ones conversation and meet friends, fellow parents, spiritual dumping ground. At the same environment. by attending the traditional Sukkot Yizkor and other congregants. time, humanity as a whole has viewed the “The Sea is God’s.” It’s time, as a Jew- Service on Monday, Oct. 1 at 10:30 a.m. Introduction to Judaism: A 10-part ShaBark Shalom: sea as the ultimate garbage dump. New ish community to treat it as such. Bring your leashed Introduction (or re-introduction) to Judaism York City sends huge barges filled with pets to the courtyard for Shabbat services on lecture series on the nature of Judaism, God, garbage out to sea every day to dump Rabbinically Speaking is published as Friday, Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m. In the spirit of Torah, worship, life cycle observances, and the story of Noah, the temple will honor your the mountains of trash from the city into a public service by the Jewish Press in holidays will be offered on Wednesdays from favorite animals. Ocean. As if putting it out of cooperation with the Tampa Rabbinical 6:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 3 through Dec. 19. This is Bless the Animals: Bring your leashed sight actually disposes of it. Association which assigns the column on for Jews, non-Jews, intermarried couples and pets to the portico on Sunday, Oct. 14 at 8:30 If, as Psalm 92 says “The Sea is a rotating basis. a.m. so Rabbi Joel Simon, Rabbi Nathan • CONTINUED on NEXT PAGE Religious Directory HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY 33624 • Rabbi Yossie Dubrowski, executive director • Telephone: (813) Monthly gathering – see website for more information • Telephone: 813- Reform 963-2317 • Website: www.chabadoftampabay.com 968-7850; email: [email protected]. • Website: www.Orahavah.org • BETH ISRAEL/ JEWISH CONGREGATION OF SUN CITY CENTER — 1115 E. CHABAD of BRANDON / JEWISH DISCOVERY CENTER — 1578 Bloomingdale Affiliated with Aleph. Del Webb Blvd., Sun City Center • Mailing Address: P. O. Box 5203, Sun Ave., Valrico, 33596 • Rabbi Mendel Rubashkin • Services: Saturday, CITRUS COUNTY City Center, 33571 • Rabbi Carla Freedman • Shabbat Services: Friday 10 a.m. • Call for location, Telephone: (813) 571-8100 • Website: Conservative 7:30 p.m., 2nd & 4th Saturday 10 a.m., Torah Study: noon • Telephone: chabadbrandon.org. Congregation BETH SHOLOM — 102 Civic Circle, Beverly Hills • Mailing (813) 634-2590 • Web address: www.jcscc.org. • Affiliated with Union CHABAD CHAI of SOUTH TAMPA — 2511 W. Swann Ave. #201, Tampa, address: Beverly Hills Jewish Center, P. O. Box 640024, Beverly Hills, for Reform Judaism FL 33606 • Rabbi Mendy Dubrowski • Services: 1st and 3rd Saturday FL 34464-0024 • Shabbat services: Friday, 6 p.m., Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Congregation BETH AM — 2030 W. Fletcher Ave, Tampa 33612 • Rabbi of month, 10 a.m. • Telephone: (813) 922-1723 • Website: www. Telephone (352) 746-6258 • Website: www.bethsholomcitrus.org Jason Rosenberg • Joy Katzen-Guthrie, Cantorial Leader • Shabbat ChabadSouthTampa.com th nd th Services: 1st, 3rd and 5 Fridays, 7:30 p.m.; 2 and 4 Fridays, 6:30 p.m., BAIS MENACHEM CHABAD PASCO COUNTY rd — 1319 North B. St., Tampa, 33606 • Rabbi potluck dinner to follow; Saturdays, 9 a.m. • Torah study 3 Saturday, 10 Levi Rivkin • Shabbat dinner, 8 p.m. • Shacharit service: Mon. & Thurs., Orthodox a.m. • Telephone (813) 968-8511 • Website: www.bethamtampa.org. • 8:15 a.m., Weinberg Village. Mincha service: Mon.—Thurs., 7 p.m., • CHABAD JEWISH CENTRE at WIREGRASS — 2124 Ashley Oaks Affiliated with Union for Reform Judaism Telephone: (813) 375-9799, (813) 504-4432 • Website: www. bmchabad. Circle, Wesley Chapel, 33544 • Rabbi Mendy Yarmush • Services: Congregation BETH SHALOM — 706 Bryan Road, Brandon, 33511 • Rabbi com Saturday, 10:30 a.m. • Telephone: (813) 642-3244 • Website: www. Bryan Mann • Cantor Moshe Friedler (visiting) • Shabbat Service: Friday 7 Congregation BAIS TEFILLAH — 14908 Pennington Road, Tampa, 33624 ChabadatWiregrass.com. p.m., • Telephone: (813) 681-6547 • Website: http://bethshalom-brandon. • Rabbi Yossie Dubrowski • Shabbat Services: Friday, 8 p.m. , Saturday org. • Affiliated with Union for Reform Judaism Unaffiliated 10 a.m. • Sunday Shachrit, 9 a.m. • Telephone: (813) 963-2317 • Website: Congregation BETH CHAVARIM – Shabbat services: third Friday at a mem- Congregation SCHAARAI ZEDEK — 3303 W. Swann Ave., Tampa 33609 www. chabadoftampaybay.com ber’s home. Telephone: (813) 957-1269 • Email familyfriendlytemple@ • Rabbi Joel Simon, Rabbi Nathan Farb • Cantor Deborrah Cannizzaro YOUNG ISRAEL of TAMPA - 13207 N. 52nd St., Tampa, 33617 • Rabbi Uriel yahoo.com • Services: Friday, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Torah study, 9 a.m. • Telephone: Rivkin • Services: Monday - Friday 7 a.m., Friday, 7 p.m., Saturday, 10 (813) 876-2377 • Website: www.zedek.org. • Affiliated with Union for a.m. • Sunday, 9:00 a.m. • Evening services every night at sunset • (813) NORTH PINELLAS COUNTY Reform Judaism 832-3018 • Website: www. youngisraeloftampa.org Reform MERKOS CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CENTRAL FLORIDA Temple AHAVAT SHALOM — 1575 Curlew Rd., Palm Harbor, 34683 • Conservative — 613 S. Melville Ave. Tampa, 33606 • Director: Rabbi Lazer Rivkin • Telepone: (813) 966-8770 Rabbi Gary Klein • Cantorial soloist, Allison Rosoff • Services: First Congregation KOL AMI — 3919 Moran Road, Tampa 33618 • Rabbi • Website: www.ChabadOfCentralFlorida.com Friday: 6:00 p.m., All other Fridays: 7:30 p.m., call for Saturday service Howard Siegel • Cantor Beth Schlossberg • Services: Friday 6:30 p.m. time • Telephone: (727) 785-8811 • Website: www. ahavatshalom.org. • (Family Service first Friday of the month); Saturday 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, Campus Affiliated with Union for Reform Judaism 9:15 a.m.; Monday-Thursday, 7:30 p.m. • Torah study every Saturday, CHABAD HOUSE JEWISH STUDENT CENTER at USF — 13287 Arbor Point 8:30 - 9:25 a.m. • Telephone: (813) 962-6338 • website: www. kolami. org. Circle unit 102, Tampa, 33617, Mailing address: USF Marshall CTR. Box • Affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. POLK COUNTY 310, Tampa, 33620. • Rabbi Levi Rivkin • Shabbat Services and meal: Reform Congregation MEKOR SHALOM — 14005A N. Dale Mabry Hwy., Tampa, Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. • Housing Available • Telephone: (813) Temple BETH SHALOM 33618 • Hazzan Jodi Sered-Lever, Spiritual Leader • Services: Friday 6:30 504-4432 • Website: www.chabadhouseusf.org • Email: bmchabad@ — 1029 Bradbury Road, • P.O.B. 313 Winter p.m., Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Telephone: (813) 963-1818 • Website: www. gmail.com Haven, 33882-0313 • Rabbi Garson Herzfeld • Shabbat evening services: mekorshalom.org. • Unaffiliated (usually 2nd and 4th Shabbat of the month at 7:30 p.m.) Torah study- CHABAD JEWISH STUDENT CENTER at UT – 401 W. Kennedy Blvd. Box P., Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. • Telephone: (863) 292-0722. • Website: www. Congregation RODEPH SHOLOM — 2713 Bayshore Blvd., Tampa 33629 Tampa 33606 • Rabbi Levi Rivkin • Telephone: (813) 504-4432 • Website: templebethshalompolk.org. • Affiliated with Union for Reform Judaism • Rabbi Josh Hearshen • Cantor Andres Kornworcel • Services: Friday. www.chabadut.org Conservative 6 p.m.; Saturday service, 9:30 a.m.; Mon. – Fri. 7:15 a.m., Sunday, 9:15 HILLELS OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST— 13101 Sycamore Drive, Tampa, Temple EMANUEL — 600 Lake Hollingsworth Drive, Lakeland, 33803 • a.m. • Telephone: (813) 837-1911 • Website: www.rsholom.org. • Affiliated 33620 • Rabbi Ed Rosenthal • Shabbat Services: (during academic with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. Rabbi David Goldstein • Shabbat Services: Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 9:30 year) Friday 6:30 p.m. • Telephone: (813) 899-2788 • Website: www. a.m. Telephone: (863) 682-8616. • Website: TempleEmanuelLakeland. Orthodox suncoasthillels.org. com. • Affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. BAIS (TEMPLE) DAVID CHABAD — 2001 W. Swann Ave., Tampa 33606 USF CHABAD on CAMPUS — 4506 Sweetwater Lake Drive, Tampa, 33620 • Rabbi Lazer Rivkin • Shabbat Services and meal: Friday 7:30 p.m., • Rabbi Pinny Backman • Website: www.USFChabad.com • Telephone: Orthodox Saturday 9:45 a.m., 7:30 p.m. • Telephone: (813) 966-8770 • Website: (813) 978-8723 CHABAD JEWISH CENTER — 2270 Griffin Road, Lakeland, 33810 • Rabbi www.chabadofcentralflorida.com. • Email: [email protected] Jewish Renewal Moshe Lazaros • Shabbat Services: Saturday 10 a.m. • Telephone: (863) 937-5565 • Website: www.chabadlakeland.org. CHABAD LUBAVITCH of TAMPA BAY — 14908 Peninngton Road, Tampa Congregation OR AHAVAH — Rabbi Debrah Shenefelt, spiritual leader • SEPTEMBER 21 - OCTOBER 4, 2018 JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA A PAGE 5

4432 or email bmchabad@gmail. Congregations com. Presentation on Jews • CONTINUED from PREVIOUS PAGE Practical kabbalah: Enrich the soul and mind with a touch of in China set for Nov. 18 singles and will be taught by Rabbis Pop-Up Shabbat: On Friday, kabbalah. Learn practical spiritual- Simon and Farb. It is required for Oct. 5 at 6:30 p.m., Congregation ity for everyday life. Classes are Performer, composer, and teach- that has anyone who is planning to convert. Kol Ami presents Pop-Up Shabbat held on Wednesdays, 6:15 - 7 p.m. er Joy Katzen-Guthrie will present never per- Call clergy assistant Ming service and oneg surrounded by an illustrated talk on Jews in China secuted its Brewer to register at (813) 876- nature at Lake Park, 17302 N. Dale Cong. Or Ahavah on Sunday, Nov. 18, at 3 p.m. at the Jews. Chi- 2377, ext. 202. Mabry Hwy. All are welcome. Sukkot party: The congre- Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, na and Is- Joy Katzen-Guthrie A taste of Hebrew: Hebrew Pizza & PJ Shabbat: Cel- gation will hold a Sukkot party on 2902 W. Bearss Ave., Tampa. rael enjoy a for Adult Beginners, taught by Can- ebrate Shabbat filled with guitar Sunday, Sept. 30 at 1 p.m. at the Jewish communities have ex- friendly relationship, and there are tor Deborrah Cannizzaro, will be playing, singing, dancing, friend- home of a congregant. Bring a side isted in the country for at least 13 flourishing Jewish communities offered on most Wednesdays from ship and delicious food on Friday, dairy, veggie or fish dish to share. centuries. The largest and most today in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Oct. 10 through March 20 from Oct. 12 from 6-7 p.m. Enjoy a For information on the location prosperous was in the ancient Sung Guangzhou. 6-7 p.m. This 20-lesson course pizza dinner followed by a child- of the party and to RSVP, email capital of Kaifeng. In the 19th centu- Katzen-Guthrie has led six Jew- is designed for English-speaking friendly musical service. PJs not Barry at [email protected]. ry, Sephardic Jews helped develop ish heritage tours to China, and adults who are primarily interested required – just dress comfortably. Shanghai, and after World War I her account of these little-known in learning how to read Hebrew After dinner, there will be a short Cong. Beth Israel Jews fleeing pogroms in Eastern Jewish communities will include a prayers and blessings or want a re- musical service led by Rabbi Europe and the Russian Revolution 90-minute presentation. It is spon- fresher. This class is a prerequisite Howard Siegel and David Berg- Sun City Center settled there and in the port cities sored by Cultural Jews of Tampa Simchat Torah: for an Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah. er. Then it’s on to an ice cream The temple of Northern China. After 1933, Bay and is free. All who are inter- Call Sherry Stein, director of dessert. Cost is $5 per person, with will hold Shemini Atzeret, Simchat they were joined by refugees from ested in the history and culture of Torah, Yizkor on Monday, Oct. 1 at membership and programing, at a $25 family maximum. Children Nazi Germany, who were permitted the Jewish people are welcome to 7:30 p.m. For guest tickets, contact (813-876-2377, ext. 212) to enroll. 3 and under are free. This program entry without documentation, their attend. For more information, visit Janet Corin at (401) 524-0847 or is recommended for families with citizenship having been revoked by the group’s Meetup.com page or Sandy Zains at (330) 509-0123. Cong. Rodeph Sholom children ages 15 months through the German government. contact Jeff Lipkes at jefflipkes@ Beatles bash: The temple Shemini Atzeret: Services second grade but is open to those China is one of the few countries gmail.com. will be held Monday, Oct. 1 at 9:30 of all ages as well. RSVP to front- invites the public to a Beatlemaniax a.m. with a kiddush lunch and learn. [email protected] by Wednesday, concert on Sunday Oct. 7 at 2 p.m. at the South Campus Commu- Simchat Torah: A com- Oct. 10. a sense of community with core nity Center, 1910 S. Pebble Beach RAYS munity celebration/Simchat Torah Parade of pets: Celebrate • CONTINUED from FRONT PAGE human values that students will Blvd., Sun City Center. Tickets are program will be held on Monday, the Parade of Pets Festival on “Education provides a path- carry with them for a lifetime. $15 and will be available at the Oct 1 at 5:30 p.m. with a congrega- Sunday, Oct. 14 at noon. This is way to success and this generous We believe quality early learning th North Campus Community Center tional dinner at 6:15 p.m. and erev the 10 annual Parade of Pets and commitment will help develop kiosk, 1009 N. Pebble Beach Blvd., educationshould be available to all Simchat Torah service at 7 p.m. Birkat Behemot (Blessing of the the leaders of tomorrow.” Nearly from 9 a.m. to noon on Sept. 17, 21, families, regardless of their socio- Services also will be held Tuesday, Beasts). It will be held in the north 300 children attend the JCC 26, 28 and Oct. 3 and 5. economic background or religious Oct. 2 at 9:30 a.m. (b)arking lot. Bring your pets. All Preschools at its north and south affiliation,” she added. Adult B’nai Mitzvah pro- For more information, call Ilene are welcome. Tampa sites. Individuals interested in apply- gram: A new class begins on In conjunction with the pet pa- Unruch at (973) 876-3531 or Mar- lene Hollander at (813) 331-3888. “Our preschools … teach a love ing for scholarship assistance or Wednesday, Oct. 10 and will con- rade, the Chaverim and Boneem of learning,” said Jen Goldberg, ex- in making a donation in support tinue on Wednesdays from 6:30-8 youth groups will hold a party at Fashion show: The Sister- ecutive director of early childhood of the scholarship fund should p.m. A prerequisite for this class 12:30 p.m. at the synagogue with hood will hold its opening meeting education and special projects for contact Goldberg at jennifer.gold- is Embracing Judaism with Rabbi kids from Congregation Rodeph of the season on Tuesday, Oct. 9 the preschools. [email protected] or (813) Josh Hearshen and a Hebrew read- Sholom. at 1 p.m. in the social hall of the “We are committed to building 769-4738. ing class with Judy Van Der Stelt. Youth activities: The Kadi- temple. The program will feature The cost is $150 for members and ma youth group will meet at Dave a fall fashion show with clothing $250 for non-members. The class & Busters, 10209 Estuary Lakes provided by the Nearly New Shop is open to the community. Drive, Tampa, on Sunday, Sept. of Sun City Center. A variety of Anton Legal Group To register, go to www.rsholom. 30 from 1-3 p.m. Cost is $20 and home-baked sweets will complete Since 1985 org or call (813) 837-1911. includes lunch. RSVP to Rachel at the afternoon. Jewish women in the Jammies and jeans Shab- youth @kolami.org. community who have an interest in bat: Throw on your jeans and get The USY group will have an learning more about the Beth Israel Sisterhood are welcome to attend. your kids in their jammies for a fun outing to a corn maze on Sunday, Marital/Family Law • Civil Litigation and casual Shabbat celebration on Oct. 7 from 1-3 p.m. RSVP to Ra- Contact Rochelle Lafer at Sis- select Fridays at 5:30 p.m. in the chel at [email protected] for lo- [email protected] for additional Stock Broker Disputes information. chapel. Open to the community, cation and other details. 813-443-5249 S. David Anton, Esq. the next program will be held on Knitting time: The Sister- Oct. 12. hood Needle Workers hold weekly Cong. Beth Shalom www.AntonLegalGroup.com • 2503 West Swann Ave., Suite 112, Tampa Save the date: Due to the knitting sessions on Tuesdays from Brandon success of the congregation’s 1:30 - 3 p.m. in the boardroom. Monster Mash: The congre- Valentine’s Day concert, a “Love The knitters make fabric quilt wall gation will hold their “Monster “Boiled & Baked Concert” is planned for Sunday, hangings and knitting and crochet- Mash” on Saturday, Oct. 27 from Nov, 11 at 3 p.m. featuring opera, ing squares to make quilts that are 6-7 p.m. This is a costume party the traditional way Broadway, English, Hebrew, Yid- donated to charity. For more infor- featuring an evening of dancing and dish, Ladino and Spanish songs. mation, call the Kol Ami office. contests for prizes. at the same location Performers will include Cantor L’Chaim: A Sharing Life’s Visit http://bethshalom-brandon. for over 30 years!” Andres Kornworcel, Cantor Lessons session is held on Tues- org for more information. Tanya Greenblatt, Cantor Beth days from 11 a.m. to noon. There Tues. – Fri. 6:00 am – Noon Schlossberg and others. is a different topic, readings and Temple Emanuel Sat. & Sun. 6:00 am – 1:00 pm Adult education: Rabbi different leader for each weekly Lakeland Hearshen will teach Torah study on session. This is a friendly group Shemini Atzeret: Services 11 varieties of Bagels • 14 varieties of Cream Cheeses Thursdays at 11 a.m. and Talmud sharing our life’s lessons. including Yizkor will be held on Smoked Salmon • Home-Made Rugelach study on Thursdays at noon. At 7 Sunday, Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. Coffee Fresh Roasted & Brewed on premises daily p.m. on Thursdays he teaches a Chabad Chai Simchat Torah: The temple class titled “Embracing Judaism.” will hold Simchat Torah services on of South Tampa 1871 Gulf To Bay Blvd. (Clearwater) Wrestling with Faith: A Monday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m., followed ~ Next to Clearwater High School ~ Cong. Kol Ami by an ice cream social. Sukkah social: Live music six-session course from the Rohr JP (727) 446-7631 by Some Assembly Required will Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) be provided as the social commit- titled Wrestling with Faith will tee welcomes folks to the Kol Ami begin on Tuesday, Oct. 23 from Sukkah Social on Saturday, Sept. 7:30-9 p.m. and run for the next six 29 at 8:30 p.m. All are welcome in Wednesdays, excluding Nov. 21. the Sukkah for drinks and desserts The cost is $70 with a 10 percent under the stars. discount for those who sign up Shemini Atzeret: Services before Oct. 2. Fees include classes, will be on Sunday, Sept. 30 at 6:30 materials and recorded lessons (for p.m. and Monday, Oct. 1 at 9:30 sessions missed). a.m., which will include a Yiz- For more information, call the kor memorial service. A kiddush Chabad center. luncheon will follow the Monday morning service. Cong. Bais Menacham Simchat Torah: A Torah Chabad tour will take place on Monday, Torah class: Join a weekly Oct. 1 at 6:30 p.m., followed by Torah class on Wednesdays at 7:30 services. Services will be held p.m. at the University of Tampa. Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 9:30 a.m., fol- The class explores contemporary lowed by a kiddush luncheon. A issues through a Torah perspective. concluding Simchat Torah service For more information, contact will be held at 6:30 p.m. Rabbi Levi Rivkin at (813) 504- PAGE 6 A JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA SEPTEMBER 21- OCTOBER 4, 2018 2 Jewish billionaire donors withdraw support from GOP (JTA) – One of the largest donors thropist Leslie Wexner recently “Judgment at Nuremberg” to the Republican Party in New announced at a leadership summit cast members are, from England is calling on voters to in Columbus, OH, that “I’m no left, Greg Thompson support Democratic candidates in longer a Republican” and will no (Judge Ives) , Elizabeth the upcoming elections – and Seth longer support the party. Fendrick (Frau Bertholt), Klarman put his money where his He is telling his friends in elec- Alexander Mc Greevey mouth is. tive office that he is now an Inde- (Rudolf Peterson) , Marie- Klarman, a registered Independent pendent, Claude Tremblay (Maria who stresses that “I’m not a Demo- reported. Wallner), Jim Wicker ( Judge Haywood), Hugh crat,” told New York Times columnist Wexner made the announcement Timoney (Ernst Janning), Bari Weiss that he has donated $4.9 at an event sponsored by the Co- Derrick Phillips (Oscar million this year to nearly 150 can- lumbus Partnership, the group of Rolfe) and James Rayfield didates, most running as Democrats. central ’s most influential busi- (Dr. Wickert). He said that ness leaders by Election that Wexner Day in No- chairs, Photo by: CineView Studios vember he and YPO will have (formerly spent $18 Young Pres- Stageworks production tackles Nuremberg trials million to idents’ Or- Under the motto of Embracing the Past, Changing United Nations Association of Tampa Bay. $20 million ganization), the Future, Stageworks Theatre in Tampa will open its The Holocaust museum and the museum’s Lawyers on Demo- a group of 2018-19 season on Friday, Sept. 28, with the premiere of Conscience organization are sponsoring a special cratic candi- under-45 of Judgment at Nuremberg, a deep and hard-hitting performance on Sunday, Sept. 30 at 3 p.m. with a dates. Photo by Scott Olson Screenshot from YouTube business look at the wartime trials that shook the world after presentation after the play by Tampa attorney Greg “We need /Getty Images Les Wexner leaders. World War II. Kehoe, who will hold a talk-back with the play’s actors. to turn the Seth Klarman Wexner, The play is the sequel to the successful 1961 Judge- Kehoe worked for the U.S. Department of Justice as House and who donates generously to Jewish ment at Nuremberg film, which featured Spencer a prosecutor for more than 20 years with postings in Senate as a check on Donald Trump causes and according to Forbes Tracy, Burt Lancaster and Maximilian Schell. The the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America. and his runaway presidency,” Klar- is the wealthiest man in Ohio, is film’s screenwriter Abby Mann felt the story about the Among this high profile cases, Kehoe led the team man said. the CEO of L Brands, which owns legacy of World War II should be experienced with a of lawyers and investigators which advised the Iraqi Speaking of his planned dona- Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body live performance. Special Tribunal, an ad hoc court formed to prosecute tions to Democratic candidates, Works. The storyline is a dramatized version of the proceed- Saddam Hussein and members of his former regime. he said “I’m stretching far beyond He made his announcement after ings at one of the Nuremberg trials, in which Judge Dan Tickets for the Holocaust museum event are $35 (with what I usually do.” former President Barack Obama, a Haywood (Jim Wicker) is overseeing the trials of four $5 from each ticket sale donated back to the museum). Among the Democrats to whom Democrat, visited Columbus be- German judges – most notably Dr. Ernst Janning (Hugh To purchase tickets for this show, RSVP by Sept. 26 to he has donated in this election fore heading to a rally in Cleveland Timoney) and Emil Hahn (Richard Coppinger) – ac- Arthur Sanchez at (727) 820-0100, ext. 251 or asan- cycle: Massachusetts Rep. Joe in support of Democratic guberna- cused of knowingly sentencing innocent men to death [email protected]. Kennedy III; Texas Senate can- torial candidate Richard Corday. “I in collusion with the Nazis. Representing the defense Throughout the play’s run, the theater’s lobby gal- didate Rep. Beto O’Rourke; and was struck by the genuineness of is attorney Oscar Rolfe (Derrick Phillips), while pros- lery will be showing “Pursuing Justice: Nuremberg’s New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the man; his candor, humility and ecuting the accused is U.S. Col. Parker (Ryan Bernier). Legacy,” created and circulated by the Holocaust a potential presidential candidate. empathy for others,” Wexner said. As the trial goes on, both the visiting Americans and Museum. This traveling exhibit focuses on the two Klarman donated more than $2.9 Wexner told his employees in their reluctant German hosts often find themselves sets of Nuremberg Trials: the International Military million to the GOP in the 2016 elec- a speech last year following the facing the legacy of the war, and how both of their Tribunal (IMT) for the major Nazi war criminals and tion cycle, according to the Times. white nationalist and far-right rally nations have been irrevocably changed by it. Issues at the 12 subsequent trials conducted at Nuremburg for He told Weiss that he “has been in Charlottesville, VA, that left one the forefront of this trial reverberate through history those not tried at the IMT. The IMT set the standard for alarmed by Republican attempts at counter-protester dead that he felt and challenge humanity to this day. subsequent trials as well as hundreds of war criminal voter suppression, and by a president “dirty” and “ashamed” by Trump’s “In a time when society has gotten more and more trisls since 1945. who demonizes immigrants and sug- response. He also said he couldn’t divided along party or ideological lines, it is incumbent Judgment at Nuremberg will run from Sept. 28 gests that Muslims, Hispanics and sleep because of the incident, on us to look at our past in order to make responsible through Oct.14 with evening shows at 8 p.m. on Fri- blacks are second-class citizens.” telling himself that “I have to do choices now,” said Stageworks’ Producing Artistic days and Saturdays and matinée performances at 3 Klarman also said he feels “be- something because the leader of our Director Karla Hartley, who explained that the lineup p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. For ticket information trayed” by “spineless” Republicans country is behaving poorly.” this season aims to “give our audience a chance to look and reservations, visit www.stageworkstheatre.org or who have, with rare exceptions, been In the last year, Wexner and his closely at the past in order to soar into the unknown call the box office (Tuesdays through Saturdays from “profiles in cowardice.” wife, Abby, have donated to initia- ahead.” 1:30-5:30 p.m.) at (813) 374-2416, ext. 1. The Klarman Family Founda- tives that foster bipartisan civility, This production is also supported by community Located in Tampa’s Channelside District at 1120 E. tion, which he runs with his wife, as well as contributed $2.8 million partners: the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Peters- Kennedy Blvd., Stageworks is Tampa’s longest running has some $700 million in total as- to With Honor, which supports burg, Tampa JCCs and Federation, Stetson Law and professional theater company. sets and gave away approximately military veterans from both par- $40 million in 2016 with a focus on ties who are running for office. In pro-democracy initiatives, includ- 2012, he gave $250,000 to a super DeSantis denounces donor’s remarks, but won’t return money ing supporting organizations that PAC backing Mitt Romney’s presi- (JTA) — Florida Republican Asked about his use of the pejora- him. But the campaign also said it protect journalists, combat bigotry dential campaign. Four years later, nominee for governor, Ron De- tive, he told Politico on Sept. 20: “I would not return at least $4,000 he and defend LGBT rights. He is also the Wexners donated more than $2 Santis, condemned racist remarks grew up in New York in the ’50s. had given the campaign because it a major investor in The Times of million to candidates, including a by Jewish backer Steven Alembik We were the kikes. They were the had already been spent during the Israel news site. $500,000 contribution in support as “disgusting” but his campaign n——. They were the goyim. And primaries, The Meanwhile, billionaire philan- of Jeb Bush for president. said it would not return money those were the spics.” reported. Alembik had donated. Alembik, of A campaign statement de- DeSantis spoke in February at Boca Raton, had on Twitter called nounced Alembik’s rhetoric as a pro-Israel event Alembik orga- former President Barack Obama “disgusting,” and said it would nized at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida a “F***ING MUSLIM N*****.” no longer accept money from resort owned by President Trump. SEPTEMBER 21 - OCTOBER 4, 2018 JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA A PAGE 7 Jewish groups decry Holiday preparations at Hillel Academy U.S. cuts to number Hillel Academy’s middle school consisting of stations relevant of refugees in 2019 students prepared for Rosh Hasha- to Rosh Hashanah. A Shofar ta- nah by learning to make shofars, ble was manned by Rabbi Josh (JTA) – The United States will baking challah, making wishes for Hearshen of Congregation Ro- cut the number of refugees that it the new year and enjoying sweet deph Sholom. There was also a will accept for 2019 to the low- treats of honey and apples. baking/challah table and an Apple est level set since the Refugee Act Rabbi Mendy Dubrowski of Wish Tree table where students became law in 1980, drawing con- Chai Chabad of South Tampa put hopes for the new year on an demnation from Jewish groups. brought his shofar factory to the “apple” and hung it from a “tree.” On Monday, Sept. 17, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced school a week and a half before Students also decorated small that up to 30,000 refugees will be the holiday. honey jars and enjoyed apple and resettled in the United States next At a separate event students honey treats as they learned bless- year under the new refugee ceil- Ian Chernin works on making a shofar during a Shofar Factory event in celebrated at a “round robin fair” ings. ing, down from 45,000 this year. preparation for the High Holy Days. Global humanitarian groups have called the 2018 ceiling of 45,000 too low. Since 1980, the average annual ceiling has been set at 96,229 refugees. In addition, more than 280,000 asylum seekers will be processed. There are over 800,000 asylum seekers who are already inside the United States and awaiting adju- dication of their claims, Pompeo said. “These expansive figures con- tinue the United States’ longstand- ing record of the most generous nation in the world when it comes to protection-based immigration and assistance,” he told reporters. The Jewish refugee aid organi- Hillel Academy student Madison Allan gets assistance from Rabbi Mendy zation HIAS condemned the pro- Dubrowski of Chabad Chai of South Tampa during his Shofar Factory Middle school girls at Hillel Academy in Tampa apply a finishing coat to a shofar posed refugee resettlement ceiling. demonstration at the school. they made for use during Rosh Hashanah. “President Trump has once again betrayed America’s history and global leadership in providing safe haven for innocent human be- ings fleeing violence and persecu- tion,” HIAS President Mark Het- field said. “By setting the refugee number this low, this administra- tion is betraying the commitments TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE we made after World War II – fol- FOR PURCHASE AT WWW.BRYANGLAZERFAMILYJCC.COM/SENIORMOMENTS lowed by decades of bipartisan support – to ensure that the world never again turns its back on inno- cent people seeking safety. 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Ellen Siegman, front, and Renee Fienman, both members of Congregation Photos by Bob Fryer Beth Shalom in Clearwater, collect trash from a rock berm along the Courtney Volunteers struggle to remove a huge memory foam mattress from the waters along the Courtney Campbell Causeway Campbell Causeway. during the first Bay area community Reverse Tashlich. program, sponsored by the Hil- Hillels and leader of local Scubi rofoam containers, a garden trellis, opportunities that you facilitated VOLUNTEERS lels of the Florida Suncoast, drew Jew and Tikkun HaYam (repair the a “creepy baby doll” with limbs for my children today ... We truly • CONTINUED from FRONT PAGE more than 300 volunteers to wa- seas) programs. Both programs barely attached, tires, a 5-foot sheet appreciated the opportunity to and Temple Ahavat Shalom in terfront areas throughout out Pi- promote protecting the marine of bubble wrap, a purse, balloons, a change the world in positive ways Palm Harbor. Others there included nellas and Hillsborough counties. environment. tail light and plastic toothbrushes, today,” wrote a volunteer from the seven members of the Acan- Nine Tampa Bay area congrega- Volunteers took buckets and along with the two mattresses. Temple Ahavat Shalom. da-Medina family, members of tions plus Hillel chapters from trash-picking tools to six sites: the Congregation Kol Ami had the Elyse Acanda, the mom whose Chabad Jewish Discovery Center Eckerd College, the University Courtney Campbell Causeway, most participants in Tampa Bay, son found the memory foam mat- in Brandon who came all the way of South Florida and University Maximo Park and the Blackthorn with 47 volunteers at Takomah tress, brought five of her seven from Fishhawk Ranch in southeast of Tampa, officially signed on to Memorial (both near the Sunshine Trail Park. Other Tampa congrega- kids to the event after learning Hillsborough County. the project. Skyway), Takomah Trail Park (east tions participating included Beth about it through social media. “It Though Joaquin’s find dwarfed The concept is the brainchild of of Busch Gardens in Tampa), the Am, Rodeph Sholom and Schaarai is really important for them to un- most of the other debris collected the Scubi Jew club at Eckerd Col- University of South Florida’s Riv- Zedek. In Pinellas, the Skyway derstand their role. When we teach along the causeway, shortly before lege in St. Petersburg. erfront Park and a site at the edge sites were tended to by volunteers them not to litter, here’s why,” she the event ended a group of volun- Tashlich means “casting off” in of McKay Bay in Tampa. from Congregations B’nai Israel said, pointing to collections of de- teers came to the collection center Hebrew and during the High Holy More than 650 pounds of trash and Temple Beth-El, both of St. bris. dragging a more traditional looking Days, the Tashlich ritual is for Jews was collected, including many Petersburg. Some areas of the causeway mattress that had been discarded to symbolically cast their sins into single-use plastic items (water Keep Pinellas Beautiful and were so thoroughly scoured that near the shore. the water. “A reverse Tashlich is bottles, potato chip bags, straws, Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful pro- a few volunteers were not able taking sins from the water,” ex- plastic forks and food take-out vided cleanup materials and chose to collect full buckets of trash. What a concept plained Rabbi Ed Rosenthal, who is containers). Also collected were locations for the project. Rachel Biton, a junior at Eckerd The Reverse Tashlich cleanup executive director of the Suncoast glass and aluminum bottles, Sty- and a Scubi Jew member, put it Giving back in perspective when she said, “I While some folks chose other just want to help the ocean and the Sunday activities – both the Bucs planet. All these little steps make a and Rays had home games – the big difference.” volunteers overwhelmingly agreed Those at other collection sites that their sweaty, sometimes also stressed the importance of the messy, efforts were rewarding. effort put forth by the volunteers. “This is a nice, new tradition. It is Sara Ingber, team leader for good to give back,” noted Marty Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Goldberg of Congregation Beth was overwhelmed by the turnout Shalom in Clearwater. He was in and said, “In the spirit of Tikkun on the recovery of both mattresses. HaYam we did a great mitzvah as “I am a science teacher,” said a community and I can’t wait to do Ellen Siegman, “The [Reverse it again next year.” Tashlich] idea is just powerful. It “It’s our responsibility to take hits you this holiday season.” care of our oceans for our children Temple B’nai Israel member and future generations,” reflected Vivian Benci, who described her- Sam Wax, a board member of Con- self as “a longtime environmental- gregation Schaarai Zedek. ist,” said she and fellow volunteer “As red tide is engulfing our Marcia Miller are part of an effort community, the necessity to raise to end use of disposable items at awareness in the Jewish com- their temple. Miller’s daughter, munity about the multiple threats Samantha, said she joined the ef- to the marine environment is fort because it is important to pro- paramount,” said Rabbi Rosen- tect marine life. thal. “The Reverse Tahslich is just “I have no doubt that the lessons the beginning, I’m ecstatic at the that my children learned from this reception and participation in our day will be lifelong and I am so community, and hope it just con- grateful as a father for the mitzvot tinues to increase.”

Volunteers from Congregations Beth Am, Rodeph Sholom and Schaarai Zedek, all in Tampa, pulled 188 pounds of debris from mangroves along McKay Bay.

Photo courtesy of Hillels of the Florida Suncoast SEPTEMBER 21 - OCTOBER 4, 2018 JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA A PAGE 9 Gilda Radner documentary reveals pain and persistence behind the laughs

By MICHAEL FOX Special to the Jewish Press The late, great sketch comedian Gilda Radner is a Jewish icon. Off- stage and out of character, how- ever, she wasn’t especially Jewish. “I think you would have to ask Gilda with Gilda if she considered herself husband a Jewish comedienne,” muses Gene Wilder Laraine Newman, her friend and and giant fellow Jewish cast mate for the jack-o- first five seasons of Saturday lantern Night Live. “I’d love to hear the answer,” Photos replies Lisa D’Apolito, direc- courtesy of tor of the deeply affectionate and Magnolia painfully revealing documentary, Pictures Gilda Radner at work writing, from the documentary “Love Gilda.” Love, Gilda, during a conversation shortly before the film was shown native, born Jerome Silberman. showed “that she never doubted in writing the things that she did,” however, until he invited the film- at the San Francisco Film Festival “That’s what she always wanted, that she was equal to any man,” Newman asserts. “But I don’t maker to his house the year before in July. I’ve been told.” D’Apolito says. “That’s what I think it occurred to her. If she and he died. They spent a memorable “Honest to God, I don’t know,” Radner and Wilder met on the take away from Gilda’s perfor- Alan Zweibel had collaborated day talking and hanging out with Newman says. “I couldn’t char- set of the 1980s film Hanky Panky mances.” on a feature, it might have been a his dogs. acterize her one way or the other. that originally was going to co-star Newman laments that Radner’s whole different thing.” “Somehow at the end of the day I would think that would have to Richard Pryor and was rewritten movie career suffered because D’Apolito’s connection to Rad- Gene and I just sat in the garden come from her.” for a female lead. Wilder then di- casting directors and producers ner goes back to the first videos together,” D’Apolito recalls. “I Instead, in Love, Gilda, rected Radner (and himself) in the lacked the imagination to cast her she directed eight years ago for could see why Gilda loved him.” D’Apolito does the next best equally disappointing comedies, correctly. Gilda’s Club, a cancer support thing: She wisely channels her The Woman in Red and Haunted “The specific nature of her- tal group founded by Wilder in New Michael Fox is a San Francisco subject’s voice through a trove Honeymoon. ent was she did characters, and York after Radner died from ovar- based film critic, journalist, in- of clips, personal audiotapes and The brashness and vitality of she would probably have been ian cancer at age 42. structor and CinemaLit curator diary entries (read by contempo- Radner’s TV and stage work better served if she had taken part D’Apolito didn’t meet Wilder, and host, Mechanics’ Institute. rary comics Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy and others). Love, Gilda, which has already screened at numerous Jewish film festivals to rousing applause, opened Friday, Sept. 21 at a vari- ety of theaters nationwide, includ- ing locally at the Tampa Theater. Radner grew up in a well-off Jewish family in . But her beloved father was diagnosed with a brain tumor when she was 12 and died two years later. Her mother delegated many of the child-rais- ing duties, and the film hints that she was not the most supportive parent. “Gilda was also raised by her nanny, who happened to be Chris- LILAH TOV tian,” D’Apolito said. “So Gilda observed all kinds of different religions and what she identified with, I wasn’t really sure. I wanted to cover where I thought some of Overiht her insecurities came from. Losing OverihtOverihtOveriht her father was really important – and her mother putting her on diet pills.” CC The nanny, Dibby, was the in- CC spiration for one of Radner’s most popular SNL characters, Emily Litella. As for the diet pills, Gil- da’s body image issues as an ado- ScholrshiScholrshiScholrshiScholrshi lescent led to eating disorders that plagued her into adulthood. “When I found the audiotapes, it was so different to hear her talk- The Tampa Jewish Federation’s Lilah Tov ing than to see her on an interview or hear people talking about her,” Overnight Camp Scholarship Fund will award camp D’Apolito recalls. “It was just mesmerizing, because you get a scholarships to children who would like to attend a non-pro�it real sense of Gilda. She’s sitting Jewish overnight camp in the summer of 2019. in a café talking to somebody, she’s ordering things, she’s telling stories and she’s extremely intel- ligent and extremely funny. That These are need-based scholarships for Jewish children was really important to me, that an audience have the same expe- residing in Hillsborough County. rience I had.” D’Apolito was guided in her in- terview choices – musician Paul For eligibility requirements and to download a Shaffer, actor Martin Short and writer Alan Zweibel, among oth- scholarship application, go to www.jewishtampa.com/lilahtov. ers – by who Gilda spoke about on the tapes. Alas, Gene Wilder, the love of Radner’s life according to DEADLINE ― Apply by November 16, 2018 D’Apolito and her husband from 1984 until she died in 1989, was Questions? Contact Alissa Fischel at (813) 769-4726 too ill to participate. (He died in August 2016.) “Gene was everything she was looking for, because he was a Jewish guy from the Midwest,” D’Apolito says of the Milwaukee PAGE 10 A JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA SEPTEMBER 21- OCTOBER 4, 2018

a mystic. Each child is told the day they will Wednesday, Nov. 7 in the festival bookstore BOOK FEST die. The prophecies inform and shape their at the Cohn campus and a $5 ticket is good • CONTINUED from FRONT PAGE next five decades. Benjamin’s previous for both evening programs – the first one at “Our festival is all about offering conver- book, The Anatomy of Dreams, was also a 6:30 p.m. and the second at 7:30 p.m. sations about compelling topics of interest. New York Times bestseller. She is a graduate Every year our Jewish Book Festival Com- of Vassar and the University of Wisconsin’s mittee, led by Debbie Doliner and Barbara MFA fiction program. Tickets are $5 and Manners, selects amazing top authors who include drinks and a nosh. we present at the festival at entertaining and fascinating events,” said Tampa JCCs Arts Marilyn Simon Rothstein and Culture Director Brandy Gold. She noted that you do not need to be a career at Seventeen magazine. She owned book lover or avid reader to attend, adding an ad agency for 25 years. Her funny and that most attending festival events in the heartwarming novel is about the planning of past had not read the book prior to going Rachel Harris a wedding, set on a rollicking stage of fam- to the program. ily dynamics. Rothstein is also the author of “Come out, enjoy and support our Jewish • RACHEL HARRIS – The 6:30 p.m. Lift and Separate, winner of the Star Award community, while learning, listening, en- program features the author of Warriors, which was presented by the Women’s Fic- gaging in stimulating conversations while Aili McConnon Witches, Whores – Women in Israeli Cin- tion Writers Association. She grew up in having lots of fun,” she said. ema. The book considers the ways social New York City. • AILI McCONNON – This event at and political power have affected the Opening night 11:30 a.m., titled Breakfast of Champions, representation of women in film. Although Veterans’ Day • DAWN RAFFEL – The opening night features the author of Road to Valor, A True academic in tone, Harris’ book will appeal There will be two programs on Sunday, of the festival will be held at the JCC on Story of World War II Italy, the Nazis, and to cinephiles and feminists, as well as those Nov. 11, at the Brian Glazer JCC, one honor- the Cohn campus on Thursday, Nov. 1 at 7 the Cyclist Who Inspired A Nation. McCon- interested in the Israeli culture. Plus, it of- ing a Founding Father and another honoring p.m. and will feature a talk by author Dawn non, co-authored with her brother, Andres fers an excellent films-to-watch list. Harris Jewish War veterans. Raffel, along with a light dinner buffet. McConnon, this biography of Gino Bartali, is an associate professor of Israeli literature Tickets are $18. an Italian cycling legend. The story begins and culture at the University of Illinois, Raffel is author of The Strange Case of with Bartali stunning the world by winning Urbana-Champaign, and is a resident of Dr. Couney, How a Mysterious European the Tour de France at age 24. Then came Safety Harbor. She has also authored An Showman Saved Thousands of American Mussolini and World War II when Bartali Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Lit- Babies. Her book presents an extraordi- heroically works to save Italian Jews from erature and was co-editor of Narratives of nary tale of how Martin Couney, an im- the Holocaust. Aili McConnon is a Cana- Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts migrant “doctor” became a revolutionary dian journalist based in New York. She and Culture. innovator in the early 20th Century, saving writes for The Wall Street Journal, The thousands of premature babies by placing Guardian, and other them in incubators, as part of Coney Island publications. Tickets are $18 and include a Stephn Fried entertainment. Raffel examines the life of breakfast buffet. Couney and his real identity– whether he is • STEPHEN FRIED – At 3 p.m., Stephen a showman with an interest in medicine, or Fried will discuss his book Rush: Revolu- a doctor with an interest in showmanship. tion, Madness & The Visionary Doctor Raffel is the author of a novel, two story Who Became A Founding Father. Fried, an collections, a memoir and this biographi- award-winning journalist and bestselling cal book. She helped launch O, The Oprah author, has written this remarkable story of Jeff Lipkes Magazine, where she served as executive Benjamin Rush, a medical pioneer and one articles editor for seven years and has of our nation’s most provocative and un- held senior-level positions at More, and • JEFF LIPKES – At 7:30 p.m. Lipkes, sung Founding Fathers. Rush, a 30-year-old Reader’s Digest magazines. She has taught author of Rehearsals: The German Army doctor, was one of the youngest signatories at Columbia University and at seminars in in Belgium, August 1914, will be on hand on the Declaration of Independence. He Montreal and Lithuania. Dr. Harold Shinitzky to discuss his book. It is a history of the was also one of the most visionary. Rush German army’s orchestrated campaign of was known as the “American Hippocrates” Day of Champions • Dr. HAROLD SHINITZKY – At 2 terror in Belgium in 1914, when the German for pioneering national healthcare and revo- Three events at the Glazer JCC on Sun- p.m., for what is dubbed Afternoon of military was experimenting with methods lutionizing treatment of mental illness and day, Nov. 4, have been dubbed the Sunday Champions, Shinitzky, a licensed psy- they hoped would facilitate modern, mas- addiction. He was a protégé of Benjamin Festival Day of Champions: chologist with offices in Clearwater and sive, fast-moving warfare meant to terrorize Franklin and served as the editor of Com- St. Petersburg, will talk about his book, A conquered populations into submission. mon Sense, Washington’s surgeon general. Champion’s Mindset: 15 Mental Condition- Belgium was the rehearsal for the Nazi He was slso the the broker of peace between ing Steps to Becoming a Champion Athlete. military machine that was to come: nearly Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson. He specializes in sports psychology and is 6,000 unarmed people were murdered, and Fried’s other books include The New Rabbi, a highly sought-after motivational speaker. some 25,000 homes and buildings were Appetite for America, Thing of Beauty and A His upbeat and engaging trademarked pro- destroyed. Lipkes holds a Ph.D from Princ- Common Struggle (with Patrick Kennedy). grams, “The Winning Edge” and “A Cham- eton and has taught European history at Fried and his wife live in Philadelphia, pion’s Mindset,” inspire athletes all the way USF, Eckerd College and Florida Southern. blocks from where Dr. Benjamin Rush lived up to Olympians and professional athletes. centuries ago. His new book shares 15 mental condition- Lunch with Marilyn Tickets are $10 and include a gourmet Chloe Benjamin ing steps that can boost achievement of any Meet author Marilyn Simon Rothstein on coffee bar with pick-me-up snack buffet. goal, physical or other. Shinitzky has won Friday, Nov. 9 at 11:30 a.m. at Michael’s • DICK BERMAN – At 5 p.m., Berman • CHLOE BENJAMIN – The author awards for his mental-conditioning pro- Grill, 11720 N. Dale Mabry Highway. Tick- will discuss his book, The Machalniks. of The Immortalists, a novel which spent grams and also co-authored the book, Your ets, at $25, include lunch. Reservations are Berman’s novel describes the true story weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, Mind: An Owner’s Manual for a Better Life. required by Nov. 1. of Jewish American World War II airmen will participate in a Sip & Skype interview Tickets are $5 and include healthy snacks. • MARILYN SIMON ROTHSTEIN – who volunteered to smuggle weapons to at 10:30 a.m. The novel is set in 1969 New The author of Husbands and Other Sharp the Jews living in pre-state Israel and cre- York City when the four Gold teenage chil- More local authors Objects is a woman who married a man she ate the first Israeli Air Force in 1948 when dren sneak out to hear their fortunes told by Two local authors will be featured on met in an elevator and began her writing • CONTINUED on NEXT PAGE SEPTEMBER 21- OCTOBER 4, 2018 JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA A PAGE 11

• CONTINUED from PREVIOUS PAGE High School in Tampa and already working on her second novel. She will discuss her first book, One Chance, which has already won a Florida Authors & Publishers Association medal in the “Fiction: Ju- venile Age 7-12” category. In Frank’s book, an or- phan girl uses a magic stone to travel back in time to try to find out what happened to her parents and to see if she can change history. Frank plans to write a 10-book series. The 2 p.m. event will include tea and tickets are Dick Berman $10. At 5 p.m. there will be a book discussion with au- thor Gerri Chanel, the showing of the movie. The Israel is declared a state. Defying enormous odds, Monuments Men and a light dinner buffet. these Jewish volunteers, the Machalniks, the Hebrew acronym for “Volunteers from Abroad,” risked their lives to fly combat missions over Israel in Israel’s War of Independence. Afterward, the volunteer airmen are put on trial by the U.S. government, which aimed to punish them for their actions. Berman currently lives in Delray Beach and is working on his next book, fea- turing Eric Burns, the Israeli Mossad agent from his hit novel, The Collector. Tickets are $18 and include a deli dinner.

Love wins out Gerri Chanel On Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 6:30 p.m. a South Flor- ida author will discuss the unlikely union of his par- • GERRI CHANEL – The author of Saving ents when he greets festivalgoers in the bookstore at Mona Lisa, The Battle to Protect The Louvre and the Cohn campus. Admission is $5. Its Treasures During World War II, will discuss her non-fiction book that chronicles the history of the Louvre staff’s efforts to keep the priceless artwork out of the hands of Hitler and his henchmen. Many risked their lives to protect the world’s artistic trea- sures and as the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the French raced to move the masterpieces south, then crisscrossed France again and again during the war. The 2014 movie, The Monuments Men starring George Clooney, Matt Damon and Cate Blanchett, dealt with the same subject, but according to Chanel, Rudolph Ruder told only a small portion of “the full-length treat- ment it demands.” The film will be shown as a part • RUDOLPH RUDER • Ruder’s book, The Long of Chanel’s presentation. Chanel is a prize-winning Journey to Cleveland, is his parents’ story. His father freelance journalist who divides her time between was a Polish Jew from Lvov who survived German Paris, New York and Toronto. death camps. His mother was a German Catholic who Tickets are $18. had been a member of the Hitler Youth. They were * * * happily married for 57 years, living and raising their The Gemunder Family Foundation is the Jewish family in Cleveland. During his many years of a ca- Books & Conversations Presenting Sponsor. Other reer in business, Ruder aspired to write this book, and sponsorships are available and can be obtained by finally did. He is a resident of South Florida. contacting Gold at (813) 769-4725. The JCC on the Cohn campus will feature a festi- Wrapping it up val bookstore throughout the festival in November, To conclude the fall portion of the Books & Con- where guests can purchase the featured books as well versations festival, there will be two programs on as enjoy festival events. Sunday, Nov. 18 at the Glazer JCC, the first will fea- All events are open to the public. Reservations are ture two authors of young adult fiction and the final encouraged and, for the Nov. 9 luncheon, are required. one will present the author of a non-fiction work re- They can be made with ticket purchases at jewishtam- lated to World War II. pa.com/books, beginning Oct. 1. All events, exclud- Speaking about their books and the Young Adult ing the Sip & Skype program, will conclude with a genre at the 2 p.m. Novel-Tea will be: book signing by the featured author. For more information about the authors, books or festival events, contact Gold at brandy.gold@jew- ishtampa.com.

Ellen Wolfson Valladares

• ELLEN WOLFSON VALLADARES – A native of St. Petersburg now living in South Florida, Val- ladares will discuss her Young Adult novel, Cross- ing the Line. Valladares is an award-winning writer/ author who began her career as editor of the Jewish Advocate of South Broward. Her young adult novel is an intriguing, mystical tale about friendship, fate and the courage to believe. Set in the St. Petersburg area and the beyond, the book features Laura, who died 30 years ago and enlists the help of a high school reporter to investigate the truth about her tragic young death.

Sarah Frank • SARAH FRANK – Also appearing at the 2 p.m. program will be Frank, who is a student at Blake PAGE 12 A JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA SEPTEMBER 21 - OCTOBER 4, 2018 Professor doesn’t regret refusal to recommend student for study in Israel Polish town accused of building sports complex (JTA) – A professor at the University of Michi- Several academic associations, including the professors, administrators, and universities gan is under fire for saying he can’t write a letter American Studies Association in 2013, have accountable.” atop old Jewish cemetery of recommendation for study in Israel because voted for boycotts of Israeli universities. The U.S. Department of Education may agree. (JTA) – A state-funded sports he supports a boycott of the country. Cheney-Lippold rejected the idea that his re- Its Office of Civil Rights under Kenneth Marcus, complex was built on a disused John Cheney-Lippold, a professor of Ameri- fusal was anti-Semitic, as he is boycotting Israeli the department’s new assistant secretary for civil Jewish cemetery in southeastern can culture, declined to recommend junior institutions, not the Jewish student. He said that rights, is employing the State Department’s defi- Poland, several Jewish groups Abigail Ingber for a semester abroad in Israel the study abroad pro- nition of anti-Semitism, which includes some complained. because he supports the Boycott, Divestment grams themselves are types of anti-Israel activity, in investigating The complex, comprising and Sanctions movement against the country, discriminatory, alleging claims of discrimination under Title VI of the a basketball and soccer court, known as BDS. that they would deny ad- Civil Rights Act. The definition includes “ap- was inaugurated on Sept. 6 in “As you may know, many University depart- mittance to Palestinian plying double standards by requiring of [Israel] Klimontow, a town located 20 miles ments have pledged an academic boycott against students or those who a behavior not expected or demanded of any northeast of Krakow, according to Israel in support of Palestinians living in Pales- are pro-Palestinian. other democratic nation” and holding Jews col- the municipality’s website. It said tine,” the professor’s email read. “This boycott “The issue at hand is lectively responsible for Israel’s actions. the project has received more than includes writing letters of recommendation for how Israel and its in- Marcus recently employed the definition in re- $90,000 in government funding. students planning to study there.” stitutions discriminate opening an investigation into an allegedly anti- But according to the Shem Olam Holocaust museum near Hadera in The email was first publicized Sunday, Sept. against Palestinians and Photo from Semitic event at Rutgers University in 2011. 16, in a post on the Facebook page of Club Z, a others, even in terms of Abby Ingber asked Last year, the University of Michigan’s Cen- Israel, the complex is located atop pro-Israel group for young people. the study abroad pro- John Cheney-Lippold, a tral Student Government called on the university the former Jewish cemetery for the JTA has reached out to Ingber for comment, grams themselves,” he professor of American to investigate divestment from companies that town, which before the Holocaust though she declined to comment on the incident wrote. “If a Palestinian culture, for a letter of violate Palestinian human rights. The univer- had thousands of Jewish residents. recommendation to “This is deeply offensive to the to The Michigan Daily, the campus paper. student approached me sity’s Board of Regents rejected the call. help her study abroad Jewish People,” the museum’s Cheney-Lippold told JTA that despite any to participate in this “It is disappointing that a faculty member in Israel. director, Rabbi Avraham Kriger, backlash he has not changed his mind. He wrote study abroad trip, they would allow their personal political beliefs to wrote to the municipality. that boycotts are a tool to fight injustice, and that might be denied because of their ethnic origin. limit the support they are willing to otherwise Meir Bulka, an Israeli Holocaust Israeli universities are complicit in Israeli abuse The same may go for students who express sup- provide for our students,” read a statement on commemoration activist, told JTA of Palestinians because of their role in military port for Palestinian rights.” Cheney-Lippold’s letter from the university’s that he believes the municipality research.“I do not regret declining to write the In a statement to JTA, Club Z’s executive Public Affairs Department, according to the was aware of the cemetery’s letter, precisely because I am boycotting injus- director, Masha Merkulova, said the decision Michigan Daily. “We will engage our faculty location when it built the complex tice,” Cheney-Lippold wrote in an email to JTA. is anti-Semitic as it came “solely because her colleagues in deep discussions to clarify how on it. “They laid down piping there. “I would hope anyone who cares about injustice, chosen destination is Israel.” She accused the the expression of our shared values plays out in There is no doubt they encountered such as Israel’s unequal treatment of Palestin- professor of holding Ingber to a double standard. support of all students.” graves,” he said. ians, would make a similar decision … Israeli “[W]e fully stand behind Abigail, who should The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic Yaakov Haguel, acting director universities are complicit institutions – they have never been subjected to this double stan- and Cultural Boycott of Israel, affiliated with of the World Zionist Organization, develop weapons systems and military training. dard,” the statement said. “We strongly believe the Palestinian BDS National Committee, urges said he holds the Polish government Standing up for freedom, justice, and equality that when such acts of anti-Semitism and big- faculty not to write recommendations for stu- responsible for the construction in for all is something I’m proud of.” otry occur at higher institutions, we must hold dents hoping to pursue studies in Israel. Klimontow. Obituaries LORRAINE “LIBBY” GOLDMAN, 89, of Tampa, died Sept. 13. Born in Youngstown, OH, she attended Rayen High School and Ohio State Business & Professional Directory University before becoming one of the first women in real estate in Youngstown. She moved to Florida in 2001. Known for her singing voice and sense of humor, she enjoyed cooking, theater and reading. Survivors include her daughters; Marcie Clay- man (Wayne), and Saralee Greenfield (Brenda McIntyre); sister Barbara “Bobbie” Goldberg; sister-in-law, Sally Bassoff; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The family suggests memorials to LifePath Hospice in Tampa. (Segal Funeral Home, Beth David Chapel)

DANIELLE BETH TASHMAN, 22, of New York, formerly of Tampa, died Sept. 9. Prior to moving to New York, she had moved to Georgia in 1997, before deciding to make Woodstock her home. Her life was filled with uniqueness and adventure, from her accomplishment of being the youngest assistant court clerk in the history of New York, to her goat farming job which she loved. Survivors include her parents Jeffrey and Karen Tashman; siblings Philip Patron, Shayna Micucci (Anthony), Rebecca Tashman; grandmothers Harriet Chesler and Ruth Tashman. (Segal Funeral Home, Beth David Chapel)

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pitt was a pacifist and conscien- 1-3 p.m. tious objector and sought to write Participants must register for Job-Links Organizations a piece of music expressing the these classes through the USF Monday Morning Links: moral outrages of violence, and OLLI program. For more informa- Free sessions of Monday Morning oppression. Black will speak not tion call (813) 974-8036, or con- Links are offered at the Jack Roth and return Dec. 10. Everyone is only about the music, but about re- tact Pnina Levermore at the JCCs. Center for Career Development Genealogical Society welcome. Cabin rates range from at TampaBay-Job-Links, 4100 W. Discovering his heri- sistance through the arts. The pro- Mah jongg: Folks can play $512 to $639 Proceeds will ben- Kennedy Blvd., Suite 206, Tampa, tage: gram is co-sponsored by the JCC, at both JCCs. At the Glazer JCC, Guest speaker Yoel Chaim efit Hadassah’s medical research. from 9:30 - 11 a.m. On Oct. 1, the BenHabib will share his amaz- the Florida Orchestra and the USF drop-in sessions are offered on For additional information, con- Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thurs- topic will be “Demystifying Be- ing story of discovering that he tact Michele Norris at (813) 352- havioral Interviewing.” On Oct. 8 is Jewish when he speaks at the The cost is $15. days from 1-3 p.m. This is free for 8765. Ghost tour: Tampa Theater all members. All levels of players the topic is “Why the Most Quali- Tampa Bay Jewish Genealogical fied Candidate Doesn’t Always Society’s next meeting on Sunday, at 711 N. Franklin St., Tampa, has are welcome. There will also be Jewish War Veterans a reputation as one of the most lessons at the Glazer JCC on Sun- Get the Job.” The Oct. 15 topic is Oct. 14 at 2 p.m. Born in Cuba, he Volunteers needed: The “What is Your Non-verbal Com- has been interested in his ancestry haunted buildings in Tampa and days from Oct. 21 through Nov. 11 Jewish War Veterans Post 373 is is offering ghost tours to share from 9:30-11:30 a.m. The cost is munication Saying?” since childhood. Currently a junior seeking veterans and non-veterans Job-search aids: Success majoring in history at University stories of the spirited former em- $65 for members and $70 for non- who would like to help permanent ployees and patrons who still members. workshops to aid with job-search of South Florida, BenHabib used live-in disabled veterans at the skills will be held on Thursdays, research, family interviews, fam- make their presence known. Take At the Cohn campus, there are Tampa VA hospital. For details re- the tour on Thursday, Oct. 4. There free open play sessions every Oct. 4 and 18 from 9:30 a.m. – 1 ily customs, and DNA to seek out garding the Post and the latest post p.m. On Oct. 4 the topic is “Finan- his genealogy – all pointing to a will be an optional lunch at Café Tuesday and Thursday from 1:30- activities, visit www.jwvtampa. Paninoteca, 519 N. Franklin St., at 3:30 p.m. cial Fundamentals for Now and Jewish lineage that goes back to org Contact Commander Larry the Future.” On Oct. 18 the topic is the Canary Islands and Spain. He 12:30 p.m. and the tour at 2 p.m. News talk: This discussion Jasper at (813) 404-5616 or email Tour cost is $5 for guests and $10 group, meeting at both JCCs, is led “Five Steps to Successfully Nego- will share his research methodol- [email protected]. tiate a Jon Offer.” The workshops ogy as well as stories detailing for members. Register at either by Pat Renfroe and explores “hot JCC for this tour. button” issues of the day. Sessions are free for Job-Links program the customs he grew up with that participants; $15 for guests. Res- are still being practiced by fam- Young Adults Men’s Club: This group will at the Glazer JCC are on Tuesdays Trivia night: Test your trivia ervations required. To RSVP, call ily members in Cuba, unaware of meet on Tuesdays, Oct. 9 and 23 from 7-8:30 p.m. The group at the knowledge with Team #Gather at (813) 344-0200, email RSVP@ their Jewish heritage. The society from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Glazer Cohn campus, meets the second 81Bay Brewing. 4465 W. Gandy TBJL.org. will meet at Gulf Coast Jewish JCC for card games, ping-pong, and fourth Friday from 10:30 a.m. Blvd., Tampa on Wednesday, Oct. Switching Gears: A four- Family & Community Services; billiards and occasional outings. to noon. The Friday, Oct. 12, ses- 10. Happy hour begins at 7 p.m. part Switching Gears workshop 14041 Icot Blvd., Clearwater. A Bridge lessons: Bridge les- sion at the Cohn campus will in- and trivia is at 8 p.m. This is a free series is taking place from 6:30 to pre-session social with refresh- sons for players at all levels are clude a presentation by the League event. 8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, Oct. 3, ments and library access begins offered on Fridays from Oct. 19 of Women Voters on the Florida Bagel lovers unite: Enjoy 10, 17, and 24 at the TampaBay- at 1:30 p.m. Beginners as well as through Nov. 30 from 1-2:30 p.m. Amendments on the November your Sunday morning with a bagel Job-Links center. TBJL’s profes- experienced researchers are wel- at the Glazer JCC. Cost is $50 for ballot. That same presentation brunch spread on Sunday, Oct. 21 sional career coaches will present come. There is no charge to attend JCC members and $60 for non- will be given at the Glazer JCC on from 10-11:30 a.m. This #Gather interactive content to enhance at- this meeting, and guests are wel- members for the six-session se- Tuesday, Oct. 16. family event is at Ballast Point tendees’ job-search skills whether come. For information, call Bruce ries. Pro-rating cost options are The other four ques- Park, 5300 Interbay Blvd., Tampa, they are just beginning their career, Hadburg at (727) 796-7981. available. tions: Rabbi Jason Rosenberg which has playground facilities for World of Books Club: of Congregation Beth Am will lead returning to the workforce after an Norman Jewish Library the kids. Cost is $5 for members This new club will meet the third lunch and learn classes to explain absence, or considering a career A chaplain’s tale: The and $8 for guests. There will be Tuesday of each month at the the background and significance change. Topics include conduct- guest speaker at the monthly Rosh bagels, lox, cream cheese, coffee Glazer JCC. The next meeting is of Jewish holidays and traditions. ing self-assessments, developing a Chodesh festive meal at the Nor- and juice. on Tuesday, Oct. 16 from 5-6:30 The class is Wednesday, Oct. 17 at brand, enhancing interview skills, mal Jewish Library on Tuesday #Gather offers a mix of social p.m. The first book for discus- noon at the Cohn campus. managing networking, strengthen- Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. will be Chaplain and interactive activities for those sion is In the Garden of Beasts Trivial Pursuit and piz- ing résumés and LinkedIn profiles, in their 20s, 30s and 40s of all targeting companies, and more. Asher (Ira) Shlomo Ehrenpreis, by Eric Larson. If you enjoy read- za: Play Trivial Pursuit and nosh faiths and backgrounds. For more Participants can attend any or all who will discuss his experiences ing, and sharing your impressions on free pizza at the Cohn campus information or to RSVP for #Gath- workshops. The fee to attend is as an Orthodox chaplain in the with other book lovers, then come on Thursday, Oct. 11 from noon to er events, visit: www.bryanglaz- $15 for individual sessions or $50 U.S. Army, having served all over for a lively discussion, refresh- 1:30 p.m. erfamilyjcc.com/gather or www. for all four. Dinner is included. the U.S., Korea, and combat zones ments and comraderie. There is no Chess lessons: Learn how to jcccohncampus.com/programs/ Seating is limited. To register call in the Middle East. Ehrenpreis will charge. play chess on Mondays from 1:30- young-adults or contact Lisa Rob- (813) 344-0200 or email rsvp@ share his adventures, challenges, Plugged-In Workshop: A 3 p.m. at the Cohn campus. bins at lisa.robbins@jewishtam- tbjl.org. and humorous anecdotes about workshop on “Making Excel Work Canasta: pa.com or (813) 769-4723. Meet in the senior how he provides religious sup- for You” will be held at the Glazer lounge at the Cohn campus ev- Support groups port to all faith groups – and leads JCC on Wednesday, Oct. 17 from ery Friday from 3-4:30 p.m. for Alzheimer’s caregiver Jewish services too. The Norman Active Adults 4-5:30 p.m. This is a free event All programs listed are either friendly games of canasta. group: Menorah Manor offers a Jewish Library is at 13207 North and no technical knowledge is re- Movie matinee: Enjoy a support group meeting in the Sam- 52nd St., Tampa. The cost is $10. at the Maureen & Douglas Cohn quired. Laptops are available for Jewish Community Campus, classic movie and popcorn on the son Nursing Center at Menorah Students and military personnel those who need them. Registration first non-holiday Wednesday of Manor, 255 59th St. N., St. Peters- get free admission. 13009 Community Campus Drive, required. or at the Bryan Glazer Fam- the month from 1:30-3:30 p.m. burg, on the first Thursday of the Lifelong learning: The ily JCC, 522 N. Howard Ave. To on the Cohn campus. There is no month from 3:30-5 p.m. For more Hadassah following USF Osher Lifelong RSVP or for more information on charge to attend. The Oct. 3 film information, call Gwen Kalden- A night in the Catskills: Learning Institute classes will be programs at either center, contact will be Music Man. berg at (727) 302-3750. The Tampa Ameet Hadassah offered at the Glazer JCC: Pnina Levermore at (813) 291- Chapter is planning a gala dinner • “The History of Insurgency and 2253 or pnina.levermore@Jew- dance with the theme, “Catskills Counterinsurgency in the 20th and Revisited – A Night to Remem- ishTampa.com. All registrations 21st Centuries,” Thursdays through ber,” on Sunday, Nov. 4 at 5 p.m. should be completed before events Nov. 1 from 10 a.m. to noon. This at the Bryan Glazer Family JCC. begin. class is already under way. Broadway music: The evening will include a si- Take in • “Watercolor Through New lent auction, gourmet dining, a a lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 10 Eyes,” Mondays, Oct. 8 through Catskills-style show, music, danc- from 1-2 p.m. by Erin Horan of Nov. 19 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ing and more. Entertainers will the Florida Orchestra on some of • “Geopolitics Today,” Tues- be the Fred Astaire Dancers, co- the most popular composers of days, Oct. 2 through Nov. 6 from median Francine Wolf, tummler Broadway musicals, including 1-3 p.m. David Vogel and DJ/song writer, Richard Rodgers, Lerner & Lowe • “Russia’s Regained Global David Morris. MC for the show and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The Weight,” Thursday, Nov. 29 from will be Steve “Shlomo” Schw- lecture will be held at the Glazer ersky, radio host of WMNF’s JCC. Follow up with a Florida Or- Sunday Simcha. Sponsorships are chestra concert and a pre-concert available starting at $500. A spon- conversation at the Mahaffey The- sors pre-event party will feature ater, 400 First St. S., St. Petersburg Nathan Hefner, a pianist/vocal- on Thursday, Nov. 1. The conver- ist. Proceeds will be earmarked sation is at 10 a.m. and the concert for breast cancer research at Ha- is at 11 a.m. The program includes dassah’s Jerusalem hospitals. selections from Fiddler on the Cost is $68 for early birds be- Roof and Phantom of the Opera. fore Oct. 1 and $75 thereafter. Cost is $28 for members; $30 for RSVP deadline Oct. 19. For more guests and registration is required. information, contact event co- A lunch at the Hangar restaurant, chairs: Michele Norris (813) 352- 540 First St. S., St. Petersburg, 8765, michelen.hadassah@gmail. will follow the concert. com or Anita Greenberg at (813) Music of resistance: At- 254-3454 at anita33558@gmail. tend a special lecture at the Glazer com. JCC on Thursday, Nov. 8 from Cruise: There are still a few 10:30 a.m. to noon when conduc- spaces available for the four-night tor Daniel Black leads a conversa- Hanukkah cruise, sponsored by the tion about the music of “A Child Tampa Ameet Chapter. The Royal of Our Time.” British composer Caribbean Cruise Lines Brilliance Michael Tippitt wrote the oratorio of the Seas will depart Tampa “A Child of Our Time” in response Dec. 6, sail to Cozumel, Mexico to the events of Kristallnacht. Tip- PAGE 14 A JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA SEPTEMBER 21 - OCTOBER 4, 2018

munity and they need a Torah,’” it is just as important to connect TORAH Mejia recounted. “And I said, older communities with resources • CONTINUED from PAGE 2 ‘Well, funny you should mention to those whose primary asset is ink dries out. If Torahs are not read, that …’” spirit and energy. they’re not breathing, they’re not Word traveled north and south, to “When you bring them together,” living.” Weinberg and to Alonso, and then Mejia said, “they can achieve great The community continued to to Jones-Avni, who volunteered to things.” dwindle, even as the Ottumwa- help coordinate the American con- * * * born philanthropist Ida Rosenman nection. A native of Colby, KS, who The Jones family’s baggage, Sands paid to have the scrolls had also studied in Iowa, Jones- including the Torah, had been refurbished and sank hundreds of Avni realized that if someone could rerouted through Chicago. When thousands of dollars into a refur- get the Torah to Kansas City, her they arrived, their own luggage bishment of the synagogue, which parents could bring it to Paraguay was back with them — but not the Ullman’s late mother, Bessie, pro- on a planned visit. Torah. tectively endeavored to have added “Hopefully the timing would Yet when the Torah finally to the National Register of Historic work out,” she said. touched down shortly after 11 p.m. It was a relay race against the Paraguay time – 19 hours later than Places in 2004. She also arranged Photo courtesy of Sue Weinberg for the city to take over manage- clock. Jones-Avni tapped an old scheduled – nearly a dozen mem- Congregation B’nai Jacob used to fill up more often, as pictured here during Sue friend in Chicago, Leah Jones to bers of the minyan were there to ment and care of Ottumwa’s Jewish Weinberg’s 2006 wedding. The Iowa synagogue closed permanently in May. cemetery. mine her Midwestern Jewish social receive it, as the Jews of Ottumwa “She saw the writing on the At the end of 2017 as a result of house, and here women count for network. Within an hour they had had done, perhaps more than a wall,” Ullman said. synagogue politics, Rabbi Vain- the minyan,” Alonso said. “And found a family – the cousins of the century ago. * * * stein found himself discharged when the time comes that we have cousins of a friend of a friend – in The exact origins of this Torah A continent away, a different from the Hebraica pulpit he had a Torah, women can make an ali- Fairfield, IA, who happened to be are lost to history. Weinberg says transition was taking place. served for eight years, only months yah.” Thus the new minyan became passing through Ottumwa on a that even her mother, Irene – who Of Paraguay’s nearly 5 million before his own daughter’s bat Paraguay’s first egalitarian Jewish visit to Kansas City. Once retrieved died last year at 97 – didn’t know. people, approximately 1,000 are mitzvah. He announced that he congregation. from B’nai Jacob, the Torah rested Cynthia Gensheimer, a Denver- Jewish. Many are also the descen- would be leading Shabbat services Over its first months, the minyan at the Kansas City home of Bruce based historian who studies Mid- dants of European immigrants who at home should anyone wish to join has averaged nearly 40 worship- and Gayle Krigel, before another western Jewish communities at the arrived a century ago, according to his family. He and Alonso prepared pers on Friday nights, with slightly friend of a friend, Amy Ravis turn of the 20th century, said most the World Jewish Congress. Most for perhaps a dozen people. Nearly smaller crowds on Saturdays. Furey, arranged to have it picked likely the community pooled re- of them live in Asuncion, where a 70 arrived for the first service in Jones-Avni’s young family ar- up – wrapped in the tallit of Gayle sources to purchase or commission traditional Masorti (Conservative) January. And like that a new min- rived in Asuncion from Washington, Krigel’s late father. Furey packed it a scroll. At least one and probably congregation, Union Hebraica, has yan, or congregation, was born. D.C., nearly two years ago when in a hard-sided golf club travel case, more of B’nai Jacob’s Torahs pre- existed since the 1920s. “I told my husband, this is my her husband, Dani, a Foreign Ser- which Avni-Jones’s brother-in-law date the synagogue, she said, citing vice officer, was posted to the U.S. collected on a Friday morning and a 1907 report of “one Orthodox Embassy. They began attending brought home to Randolph, KS, – a congregation” in Ottumwa. Hebraica, which had become known 300-mile round trip – so the Torah “I’m certain they would not have as Igualitario Minyan de Asuncion, wouldn’t have to travel on Shabbat. called themselves a congregation “feeling like we’ve found a Jewish As Jones-Avni came to Judaism without a Torah,” she said. home,” she said. Hers is the only in her early 20s, this would be her It’s a distinction that resonates American family among a mix of non-Jewish family’s first interac- with Jones-Avni. mostly Paraguayans and Argentine tion with a Torah scroll. Educating “This is what makes it real,” she transplants that includes very few them on the customs and require- said, polishing the Torah’s ornate English speakers. ments surrounding the scroll made breastplate hours before its Shabbat By spring, the minyan’s founders it more meaningful. debut. “Now we’re not just a group realized that its long-term success “I am moved by the number of of people who get together. We’ve depended on something more tan- Christians that were deeply in- been acknowledged as a group of gible and they asked Jones-Avni for volved in this effort,” Furey added, people who are doing something her help. She recalled being told, including her own husband, who special.” “‘We would like to find a Torah. did the actual schlepping. The next morning, every adult You’re from America. There’s lots Jones-Avni’s parents stopped to member of the community came of Torahs there … maybe you know get the scroll – and her sister – on up for an aliyah before the scroll. of one?’” their way through to Kansas City It was Jones-Avni’s first, and Alon- * * * International Airport, where they so’s first in eight years of “suffering The last full minyan at B’nai checked the precious cargo for the because I couldn’t do it.” Jacob took place in May, when three-leg flight to Asuncion. The next Shabbat, on July 21, Weinberg and a delegation of about Only then did word start to marked two more firsts: the Avni 40 people from Iowa City, many spread that a Torah was on the way. family was called up for the naming also with Ottumwa roots, gathered “There was always a little bit of of its infant daughter, and Alonso to decommission the synagogue heart in throat,” Jones-Avni said. and Vainstein’s daughter Sofia on the Shabbat just before Sha- “If it didn’t work out, we didn’t read from the Torah as she finally vuot. Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz of want people to be disappointed.” became a bat mitzvah. Agudas Achim Congregation near * * * It was somewhat bittersweet for Iowa City led a special ceremony, The journey of B’nai Jacob’s Alonso’s family: A few days after and the Torahs were read from the Torah is dramatic, but may be be- the bat mitzvah, her family was pulpit one last time. coming less uncommon as similar scheduled to make the permanent “We are here to fulfill a dif- small communities dwindle – and move to Colombia with Vainstein. ficult and heartbreaking mitzvah: others arise in unexpected places. The Avnis, too, are set to leave to accompany this community to “This is what we hope congrega- Asuncion in November, to take up its dignified end, to provide good tions will do,” said Noah Levine, another post in Mexico. Jewish homes for its sacred scrolls senior vice president of the Atlanta- But they feel secure about their and other implements, and to cher- based Jewish Community Legacy community’s future now that there ish and treasure over a century of Project, an organization that helps is a Torah – and perhaps a new memories of simchas and tzuris,” synagogues in towns like Ottumwa building. Plans are in the works Rabbi Hugenholtz sermonized. plan for their eventual dissolution. for the minyan to move into an old The Weinbergs’ ancestral scroll Last year, his group facilitated the Sephardic synagogue that has been traveled back to Agudas Achim, transport of a Torah from Pine boarded up for 25 years. and a search began to place the Bluff, AK, to an emerging com- Meanwhile, the final chapter other three. munity in Guatemala. of Ottumwa’s Jewish story is still “We decided we specifically Mejia, whose rabbinate focuses being written. With Levin’s help, a want them to go to egalitarian on creating connections between third B’nai Jacob Torah is destined congregations that really need a American congregations and the for Israel to serve an egalitarian Torah,” Weinberg said. broader Diaspora, sees more op- minyan that meets at the Western Two weeks later, Agudas Achim portunity than anxiety. Wall in Jerusalem. What will be- hosted Rabbi Juan Mejia as its “Yes, some people assimilate come of the fourth, as well as the scholar in residence. Born in and disappear,” he said. “But for shul’s other ritual items, its memo- Bogota, Colombia, and now based the people who come out, there are rial plaques and the building itself, in Oklahoma City, Mejia is the people who come in. For communi- remains to be seen. Southwest/Latin America regional ties that close, there are communi- But B’nai Jacob will continue, director for Be’chol Lashon, a San ties that open.” in a meaningful way. A few days Francisco-based organization that Hugenholtz stressed that the in- before its Torah arrived, Minyan promotes Jewish diversity. He had ternet has awakened once-lost ties Igualitario voted to adopt a new come to Iowa City through his close to Judaism – or, through conver- name: B’nei Iacob. friendship with Rabbi Hugenholtz. sion, new ones – like never before. “In honor of this generous ges- She introduced him to Weinberg, “That is, I think, the vision that ture … and this concern for other who shared the story of Ottumwa the prophets had, that without co- Jews in another corner of the world and its Torahs. ercion, we are disseminating a very that they did not know, we chose Days later, Mejia was at a wed- beautiful and ethical and sacred to identify with that name and ding in Colombia. So was Rabbi way of life,” she said. “And because continue with their legacy,” Rabbi Vainstein, who by now had ac- of technology, people are picking Vainstein posted, in Spanish, on cepted a new job in Barranquilla. up on it and building these con- Facebook. The men met and talked about nections that bind them to Torah.” “It’s a great story, right?” Jones- Paraguay. And when a new Torah scroll can Avni concluded. “Now this Torah is “He said, ‘There’s this new com- cost tens of thousands of dollars, going to have even more stories.” SEPTEMBER 21- OCTOBER 4, 2018 JEWISH PRESS of TAMPA A PAGE 15 Israel reinforcing nuclear sites due to threats from Iran, nuclear chief says (JTA) – Israel is upgrading and ingness to collaborate with all of reinforcing its nuclear sites in light its neighbors” on nuclear safety of “repeated and explicit threats” and security, the Jewish state is made by Iran and its proxies to at- not recognized by several Middle tack them, a nuclear official said. East countries and Iran has openly Zeev Snir, the director-general called for Israel’s destruction. of Israel’s Atomic Energy Com- He called on the IAEA to “con- mission, addressed the issue in a duct a robust verification of Iran’s speech Sept. 18 at a meeting of clandestine nuclear activities,” the International Atomic Energy adding that the covert Iranian nu- Agency, or IAEA. The address clear weapons program is “a docu- was provided to the Israeli media. mented fact.” “These outrageous threats re- “Israel has repeatedly under- quire Israel to take action and con- lined the importance of confront- tinue to protect and defend its nu- ing Iran with its lies and conceal- clear facilities,” Snir said. “These ment efforts,” he said. facilities are constantly upgraded Snir said the new information and reinforced, in line with IAEA recently revealed by Israel “con- safety guidelines, in order to with- clusively proves that Iranian ac- stand any attack.” tivities were part of a well-orches- Israel rarely discusses its nucle- trated plan to continue the devel- ar activities publicly. opment of nuclear weapons.” Snir called for regional coop- He also spoke of Syria’s “unde- eration on nuclear security and clared, secretive military nuclear safety, but noted that while Israel reactor at Dair Alzour,” which Isra- has “repeatedly expressed its will- el bombed more than a decade ago.

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By BOB FRYER artwork to the museum. speak to me, she chose us,” Blan- Photos courtesy of The Florida Holocaust Museum Jewish Press The donation includes 542 origi- kenship said. Toby Fluek lost her father, two nal paintings, drawings, charcoals, Finkler said the donation was sisters and a brother to the Holo- and sketches, plus other materials made so that her mother’s story caust and survived in a rural Polish that include historical documents would be kept alive. “I am excited village near the border with Russia and photographs from her mother’s that her artwork will be exhibited by hiding in barns, cellars, pigsties wartime experiences, book manu- and shared by the Florida Holo- and fields and watched in horror scripts, and personal papers. In caust Museum in their educational as Nazis torched a local hospital time, the works will be displayed outreach as well as digitally and in where her sister, a patient, died in at the museum, though museum museum exhibits. It is important the flames. officials said it will take some that children, adults, museums Those details of her life, and the time before the works are ready and researchers all have access to nightmares she had when painting for display. this unique visual memory of my a picture of the burning hospital, Fleuk, who was a self-taught mother’s world. She would have A photo of Toby Fluek’s charcoal sketch shows soldiers invading a home as a were detailed in a 1990 New York artist, lived in the New York/New been pleased and honored that woman and children cower in a corner of the room. A collection of Fluek’s work Magazine about Fleuk and a book Jersey area until her death in 2011. her work is being made available was recently donated to the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg. she had just published titled Memo- According to the New York Maga- to current and future generations.” ries of My Life in a Polish Village, zine story, it was at the urging of her Fluek was born in 1926 in Czer- 1930-1949. The book, and another mother that Fluek began painting nica, Poland, near Lvov. In her first one she published in 1994 titled scenes of the peaceful life in her book she recalls that there were Passover as I Remember It, include village, as well as horrifying scenes 10 Jewish families in her village illustrations of her paintings and she recalled from Soviet and Nazi before the war. Her paintings of drawings, with autobiographical occupations. her childhood provide not only a text telling of the peaceful, pastoral It took time after Fluek’s death for chronology of daily life there, but life in her small village, Czernica, her daughter to select a permanent also how life was disrupted and Poland, until 1939 when Soviets home for the artwork. Blankenship shattered by World War II. occupied the region, then in 1941 explains how it wound up here: “My mother had very vivid when Nazis invaded, rounding up “While Toby was too ill to memories of her life before and and killing many Jews. visit while we showed her work [in during the Holocaust. She painted Fluek survived the war and got 2005], a family friend and Holo- the happy memories of her village, married to another survivor in a caust scholar visited the exhibition her farmhouse, and her family German displacement camp. The and from what Lilly [Finkler] has before the war – baking challah, couple eventually made it to New said to me, spoke very highly of our cooking, enjoying holidays, and York in 1949, where Fluek was museum and the way we exhibited even cleaning. Her work provides a The simple, pastoral life in a small Polish village was lost forever when war reunited with her mother, who got Toby’s work,” Blankenship said. taste of a world that is gone forever. broke out, Toby Fluek’s daughter said. One of her mom’s paintings evokes separated from her as they hid from “Also, the Florida Holocaust Mu- Her artwork about her experiences memories of that simple life as a woman sweeps the kitchen in her home. Germans, but also survived and seum has built a reputation as the during the Holocaust give a visual eggs from peasants and walked ing, “Two men and a wagon were went to America. only institution that has made it a to her struggle to survive and the through muddy roads to sell them a daily sight on the ghetto streets, In 2005, the Florida Holocaust priority to collect and exhibit art devastating loss of her family,” to city merchants. She also tells of The Germans ordered the Jews to Museum in St. Petersburg exhib- created as response to the Holo- said Finkler. how the Nazis rounded up Jews pick up the corpses. She captures ited some of Fluek’s artwork. Erin caust. For this reason, many artists Some of her works are of the from surrounding areas and put the latter image in a painting that Blankenship, museum curator of and artists’ families has sought us small farm she lived on, of children them in a ghetto. is part of the collection. exhibitions and collections, says out as a possible home for art.” walking to school and of an enamel In her memoir, she writes that The Florida Holocaust Museum that exhibition began a relationship “At one point she had narrowed pot surrounded by red potatoes, a “During the one-year existence of is located at 55 Fifth St. S., St. that recently resulted in a decision it down between us and another staple of her family’s meals. She the Brody Ghetto, about three quar- Petersburg. For more information, by Fluek’s daughter, Lillian Fin- prominent institution and after a wrote of her family’s meager exis- ters of the population died from call (727) 820-0100 or go to www. kler, to donate her late mother’s visit here to see the museum and tence and of an uncle who bought starvation, disease and cold” add- flholocaustmuseum.org

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