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Jewish Community Center For more than 60 years, the JCC has served a vital role in the Valley and is recognized as a leader in quality programs and ser- vices for people of all ages and backgrounds. There’s something for everyone Yehudit Erez, Nya Aron, at our facility including and Gon Erez, sing “Lu a state-of-the-art fitness center, full size swimming Yehi” at the Memorial pool, award winning childcare, summer camp, cultural Service for IDF Fallen programs, Jewish programming and more. (See pages Soldiers held at the 12, 13, and 14 for upcoming activities.) Jewish Community Center in April. (For more, see the story on page 11)

Volume 13, Number 5 t May 2016 tNissan - Iyar 5776 ear of the Youngstown Are 81st y a Jew the ish F ng The 2016 Annual Meeting of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation ed ati er br Wednesday, May 25 at le at the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown. io e 5:30 p.m. – Award Dinner n C 7:00 p.m. – Meeting and Keynote Speaker The Annual Meeting will also include the election and installation of Federation agency board members and the Annual Endowment Memorial Service. The community is invited to attend the dinner for $10/ person and the meeting at no charge. R.S.V.P. by May 20 to (330) 746-3250 x 108 or at www.JewishYoungstown.org. Funds will not be solicited at this event. Awards will be presented to — Esther Marks Memorial Volunteer Service Award to Samuel D. Roth Abe Harshman Leadership Award to Neil Kaback The Marvin and Sarah Itts Community Service Award will be presented to Linda Sniderman and Marilyn Sniderman co-chairs of the 50th Anniversary Program that was held for Heritage Manor in 2015. Suzi Kooperman Youth Leadership Award to Alec Kan

NOMINEES Youngstown Area Jewish Atty. Alden Chevlen Atty. Jeffrey Grinstein Dale Damioli Federation Talia Hagler Atty. Melissa Hively Suzyn Schwebel-Epstein 3-Year Terms ending 2019 Florence Harshman Jonathan Silverman Alice Franklin Lee Burdman Atty. Martin Hume Megan Vickers Louise Kannensohn Atty. Peter Grinstein Ellen Lamb Barry Wagner Claudia Moss Neil Kaback Linda Palumbo Dr. Bruce Willner Atty. Marc Stein Gerald Peskin Dr. Stanley Palumbo David Wilschek Term Ending 2018 Tom Shapiro Gerald Peskin Term Ending 2018 Atty. Jack Kessler Jewish Community Relations Sammie Winick Fran Dreyfus Term Ending 2017 Council Jewish Community Center Human Services Atty. Adam Sperling 2-Year Terms Ending 2018 3-Year Terms Ending 2019 3-Year Terms Ending 2019 Executive director of Ohio Jewish Communities to offer keynote Howie Beigelman, execu- on such issues as safety and security, health and long fairs professional at its nonpartisan public tive director of Ohio Jewish term care, community services to the aging, employ- policy arm (then known as the Institute for Public Communities. Ohio Jewish ment and job training, and nonpublic schools. He Affairs, and now OU Advocacy), where he increased Communities represents also educates elected officials and policymakers on the OU’s political footprint in statehouses and legis- the state's eight Jewish fed- key public affairs issues, including support for Israel, latures across North America. While there, he also erations, their partners and divestment from Iran, combatting BDS, and Holo- staffed interfaith dialogue with the United States agencies in Columbus and caust remembrance. Conference of Catholic Bishops. in Washington, DC on a An attorney by training, he served as deputy re- Mr. Beigelman holds a JD from Georgetown Uni- range of state, federal and search director for New York Governor George Pa- versity where his two favorite professors were Rabbi international issues. taki’s 2002 re-election, which ABC News called the David Saperstein, now United States Ambassador-at- Howie Beigelman’s pro- “best run” campaign in America for that cycle. He Large for International Religious Freedom, and the fessional experience is at the intersection of nonprofit later served in the Pataki administration as part of late human rights activist, Father Robert Drinan, SJ. advocacy and Jewish communal affairs. As executive the press and communications department, including Mr. Beigelman earned his undergraduate degree in director of Ohio Jewish Communities, he is the voice time as a speechwriter. history from Yeshiva University. of the state’s Jewish community, lobbying for its In 2005, he joined the Orthodox Union, an inter- For more information, call Sarah Wilschek (330) concerns in Columbus and Washington, D.C. national nonprofit organization, as founding state af- 746-3250 x123.

2 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine May 2016 What’s in this month’s Jewish Journal?

Annual Meeting...... 2 Candle-Lighting Times Shabbat & Pesach Celebrations...... 6, 7 April 28 7:59 p.m. Culture...... 4 April 29 8:00 p.m. El Emeth...... 17 May 6 8:07 p.m. Israel...... 8, 9, 24 JCC activities...... 12-13 May 13 8:15 p.m. Memorials...... 22-23 May 20 8:21 p.m. Rodef Sholom ...... 18-19 May 27 8:27 p.m. Shlichim...... 10, 11, 15 June 3 8:33 p.m. And much, much more!

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May 2016 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine 3 Online exhibit features the Jewish communities of western Pennsylvania

At one time, 75 towns in Western that funding will emerge for their work Pennsylvania had cohesive Jewish com- to continue. The Thomases Endowment munities. of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federa- When immigrants arrived from Eu- tion was one of the 2015-2016 under- rope and started moving west from the writers for the project. entry ports of New York, Philadelphia, Although the archives aren’t available and Baltimore, the “wandering Jews” as a “hands-on” exhibit, museum-goers first formed minyans so that prayers can instead, view the exhibits online at could be said. Soon, there were enough www.jewishhistoryhhc.org/ new Jews to form congregations, build An interactive timeline allows the ex- synagogues, hire rabbis and mohels. As ploration of the regional Jewish history. these communities grew through the The website tells the stories of families 1920s, aid societies, cemeteries, and who have donated their papers and pho- burial societies were founded as more tographs to the Rauh Jewish Archives. Jews needed to be served and could vol- The site also provides a searchable data- unteer to serve. base of burials in Western Pennsylvania At an April 3 presentation, visitors This tablecloth, now part of the Rauh Jewish History Program and Archives at the Heinz Jewish cemeteries. History Center in Pittsburgh, has each section embroidered by the congregants in one of to the Heinz History Center celebrated Visitors to the site can also learn Jewish life in the small towns of Western more about where to research, read, and the Jewish communities that no longer exists. Pennsylvania through the program “Ev- discover the history of philanthropy and ery Town Had a Community.” giving among Western Pennsylvania’s At present, the records, memories, Jewish communities. oral histories of five Jewish communi- Future issues of the Jewish Journal ties have been archived: those in Do- will explore the Jewish roots of this nora, Latrobe, New Castle, Sharon and area and discuss more fully some of the Farrell, and Uniontown. available resources. The organizers of the project hope

4 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine May 2016 JCRC announces 2016 Holocaust Another year, another flood for commemoration events Houston’s Jews. What now? The Jewish Community Relations torical context about World War II and Council (JCRC) is announcing its annu- the Holocaust, depicts fictional students By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org In 2015, I lost a car in the Houston al Holocaust commemoration programs who are preparing to work on a class flood and had a brief frightening mo- for this spring’s series of Yom Hashoah project about the Shoah. One of the For the second straight year, this is a ment when an elevator I was riding in (Holocaust Remembrance) holiday ob- students is a grandchild of a Survivor story that I wish I didn’t need to write. stalled at the bottom level. At the time, servances. The annual Shoah Memorial thus shares her family’s personal history But for the second straight year, I’m left my minimal suffering paled in com- Ceremony will be held on Sunday, May with her peers. The memorial ceremony with no choice but to help my local Jew- parison to the plight of my synagogue 1st, at 4:00 p.m. at the Jewish Commu- will also feature special music, student ish community heal through the best and its home-owning families, about nity Center, and the 23rd Annual Com- art project presentations, Holocaust-in- way that I know how to do so—writing. 80 of whom were affected by the flood munity Holocaust Commemoration spired readings, historical perspective, Leading up to May 2016, I was ex- and faced with life-altering decisions on event is set for Thursday, May 5th, at and a candlelighting ceremony led by pecting to perhaps write a reflective how to rebuild their homes, or on the Noon in the Rotunda of the Mahoning family members of Survivors. piece on the one-year anniversary of question of whether they could rebuild County Courthouse, Youngstown. The Annual Community Holocaust Houston’s 2015 Memorial Day flood, at all. Yom Hashoah is an internationally Commemoration at the Courthouse which hit the city’s Jewish neighbor- This year, the contrast was even recognized day set aside for remember- will feature a special presentation on hoods of Meyerland and Willow Mead- sharper between my own experience ing all victims of the Holocaust and for children in the Holocaust, a preview of ows particularly hard. But my assign- and that of those who are most severely reminding society of what can happen the new exhibition on the life and legacy ment editor—in this case, nature—had affected in the UOS community. I didn’t to civilized people when bigotry, ha- of local Survivor Henry Kinast, the rec- different plans. even lose a car, nor did I get stuck in tred, and indifference reign. In keeping ognition of the winners of the JCRC’s On April 18, about 11 months after an elevator. Homeowners in the syna- with historical themes set by the United annual student Holocaust writing con- the previous flood, a deluge of simi- gogue community, meanwhile, are now States Holocaust Memorial Museum test, the presentation of a proclamation lar magnitude wreaked renewed havoc faced with starting over from square in Washington, D.C., this year’s local by Youngstown Mayor John McNally, as on America’s fourth-largest city and its one after already spending nearly a full theme is “Children in the Holocaust: A well as a memorial candlelighting cere- Jewish community. The 2015 flood dam- year rebuilding or determining their Lost Generation.” The community will mony to honor the six million who per- aged about 500 Jewish homes (among rebuilding strategy. For this group, the specifically explore how, in any cam- ished. A special, community premiere more than 2,500 homes overall) and material and psychological pain must paign of genocide, children are among of the Kinast exhibit will be held at the three synagogues, including more than be immeasurable. The synagogue itself the most vulnerable targets. The theme JCC on Sunday, June 19, 2016 (addition- $1 million in damage for the congrega- is again displaced from its main sanc- also addresses the fact that racial hatred al details to follow). tion I belong to, United Orthodox Syna- tuary and dealing with questions about has resurfaced again and again in the Both programs in May are free and gogues (UOS). The Jewish Federation of its long-term physical home, the same decades since the Holocaust, and sadly, open to the public. The Holocaust Com- Greater Houston had already projected questions that were already ubiquitous children are affected most deeply. Re- memoration and Education Task Force, an 18-month recovery timetable, with throughout this past year. It came in the flection on such lessons reminds us that a committee of the JCRC, is chaired by a price tag of $3.5 million, for Jewish form of rabbinical sermons for Shab- we must take action to prevent atrocities Rabbi Joseph Schonberger and Rochelle residents and their communal institu- bat, Tisha B’Av, and Yom Kippur, and and vigorously seek justice for the vic- Miller, children of Holocaust Survivors, tions following last year’s flood. It’s too the constant discussions among friends tims of acts of hatred and inhumanity. and is comprised of numerous Survi- early to assess the precise extent of the about the community’s housing crisis. The annual memorial ceremony at vors, children of Survivors, and other damage caused by 2016’s flood, which Simply put, since May 2015, the flood the JCC will feature the premiere of a interested volunteers from the com- brought 16 inches of rain to the Hous- essentially couldn’t be avoided in any newly-created Holocaust educational munity. For further information on the ton area in less than a day, but the UOS aspect of communal life. For displaced film, starring local teens, to be used as an events, contact the JCRC at (330) 746- synagogue facility was seemingly dam- homeowners, especially those who are instructional tool in area high schools. 3251. aged even worse than it was last year. displaced for the second year in a row, The dramatic film, which provides his- the natural question is, “What now?” For prospective homeowners in the synagogue community, including the Open Mothers' Day 11- so-called “young people” who are still 7 renting apartments, the natural ques- Ottavio Musumeci tion could be, “Where to?” Synagogue Chef leaders are trying their best to stay posi- tive and upbeat. Casual Hours: Dining Monday-Saturday. “Thank you to everyone who has Atmospere 11 :00 am - 2:00 am reached out…unfortunately we know the drill,” wrote UOS President Rick Guttman, whose home was among those already flooded last year, in an 4250 Belmont Ave., Youngstown, Ohio 44505 (330) 759-8802 (Continued on p. 9) May 2016 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine 5 Celebrations

Welcome to the world — Celebrating her special birthday — Mazel Tov — Lawren Isaac Rawl (seen here with dad, Helen Passel of Hubbard, receives a giant Anna Lee Clebone and Keith Jonathan Ruskin were married on Feb. 21 in an Michael Rawl. hamantaschen birthday cake at Temple El early evening ceremony in Maui, Hawaii, at the Sheraton Hotel. Jan 13, 2016 Emeth’s annual Purim party. Bettina and Arnold Clebone are parents of the bride. Candy, Ilene and the late 20 inches, 7lbs 14 oz. Lloyd Ruskin are parents of the groom. He is named for his Great Grandfather Anna and Keith reside in Chicago Illinois. Both are physicians in the Depart- Lawrence Rawl, who came to America in ment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Chicago Hospital. 1948 after surviving the holocaust. Parents are Michael and Adrienne Rawl of Liberty and Congregation Rodef Sholom. He joins Share the Joy! A new baby? An engagement? A wedding? Graduation (from high school, college or grad school? sisters Violet, 10, Ivy, 8, and brother Thomas 6, They all attend Akiva Academy. Jewish Journal readers want to read about your simchas. Families are invited to submit information and photographs to The Jewish Journal. Please be sure to include parents and grandparents names (if appropriate); names of schools/colleges and majors or degrees, with any honors awarded, and future plans; positions held by brides- and grooms-to-be. Please send your news to — [email protected]. High resolution photos provided digitally offer the best reproduction. Photos sent through Facebook or via mobile phone may not print optimally.

6 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine May 2016 Good news — Morrisa Clayman, daughter of Michael and Nina Clayman, is graduating with honors from Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, OH. At Reserve she was a four-year letterman on the girl’s tennis team as well as captain for her senior season. Morrisa will be attending Northeastern University in Boston to study international business and Spanish. Her first semester will be spent abroad at the prestigious McGill University in Montreal.

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May 2016 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine 7 Israel Israeli blood services in good hands the structure and function of red blood tific papers. cell membrane in thalassemia (Mediter- In Israel, she chairs the Advisory ranean Anemia). Committee for Blood Usage in Emer- In 1988 she joined Magen David gencies for the Israeli Ministry of Adom Blood Services to direct the he- Health, and is a member of the advisory mapheresis unit. In 1992, she was nomi- committees of transfusion medicine nated as the blood bank medical direc- and of AIDS prevention to the MOH. tor and in 1997 as the director of the In the International field, she is a MDA Blood Services Division in Israel. member of the International Activities Prof. Shinar’s current areas of in- Committee of the American Associa- terest are transfusion medicine, blood tion of Blood Banks, a member of the donor recruitment, the detection and editorial board of the American Jour- prevention of transfusion-transmitted- nal of Hematology and a member of the diseases, the development of new tech- Health and Community Services Com- nologies for blood collection, and novel mittee of the International Red Cross/ uses of blood components. Red Crescent. She is a visiting associate professor Prof. Shinar is married to Yoram, a in the Tel-Aviv University’s Faculty of senior manager in Bank Leumi, and has Medicine and is the author of 84 scien- three children.

Dr. Eilat Shinar, director of the Magen David Adom Blood Services Division in Israel.

Every day, about 800 units of do- “protective,” because she recognizes the nated blood arrive at Israel’s only blood importance of platelets, plasma, gam- center. But Dr. Eilat Shinar “remains ma-globulin, and other products of cool and collected as the day unfolds, blood are to the population. never knowing what the next moment The blood center she directs man- will bring,” explains Debbi Grinstein, ages the National Blood Group Refer- endowment director of the Youngstown ence Laboratory, which supports the Area Jewish Federation, who met with hospitals’ blood-banks, trying to solve Dr. Shinar in March. and diagnose cases of patients with Dr. Shinar introduces herself as Eilat unidentified antibodies or rare blood — her parents named her after the city subtypes and provides them with blood in southern Israel. She has been with the units from the regular or frozen-units, Blood Services Center at Magen David and the cord blood bank, Adom for 28 years following a research Stem cells, which have the potential fellowship at Harvard. to replace bone-marrow and other tis- “Eilat is a face of Israel,” says Mrs. sues in the body, and are currently used Grinstein. “Her personal story connects as an alternative source for transplanta- her to you. The Jewish community of tion in patients with congenital or ma- BOMBA ISRAEL: Journal readers who have seen your editor’s Facebook page may have wor- the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys is lignant diseases — life saving techno- ried why she would be promoting “Bomba Israel.” No, it has nothing to do with action in connected as well. In 2013, we donated logically advanced services rarely found Israel. Instead, Bomba Israel is a volunteer fire unit in Santiago, Chile, composed of Jewish a full size ambulance to Magen David in the Middle East. residents of Chile’s capital city. See a complete story in the June Journal. Adom in our Partnership2Gether re- After serving in the IDF, Dr. Shinar gion of Akko and the Western Galilee.” acquired her medical education at the As director of blood services for Hebrew University and Hadassah Medi- the entire county, Dr. Shinar is respon- cal Center in Jerusalem, Israel. sible Israel’s blood services that may be After obtaining her M.D. degree in  needed for basic surgical procedures to 1976, she became a specialist in hema- emergencies, large scale disasters, and tology, and worked for 13 years in the  the Israel Defense Forces. department of Hematology, at the Ha- “She is confident and proud of her dassah Medical Center in Jerusalem as  team of technicians, most of whom are a fellow and a senior physician. women, says Mrs. Grinstein. They type, For two years, she was a research fel-  test, and separate the blood for redistri- low at Children Hospital and Harvard bution throughout the country. Medical School in Boston, MA., a peri-  Mrs. Grinstein describes Eilat as od that was dedicated to the research of 

8 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine May 2016 Partnership enables international collaboration Fellowship gift cards support more than This semester, Dr. Vered Vaknin- Mandy Medvin, professor of psychol- Nusbaum and Dr. Randa Abbas vis- ogy, and Dr. Linda Domanski, profes- 13,000 IDF soldiers in ited Westminster College in New sor of education. need and Lone Soldiers Wilmington, PA, to share their in- The article, “We Don’t Talk About sights from their teaching experiences that Here”: Teachers, Religion, Public JERUSALEM, April 18 – The Inter- and research in Israel with education Elementary Schools and the Embodi- national Fellowship of Christians and and psychology students. ment of Silence a Binational United Jews (The Fellowship) and Friends of Dr. Abbas, Westminster’s 2013 States and Israel Study” submitted to the Israel Defense Forces, in collabora- Thomases Family Endowment visit- Theory and Research in Social Educa- ing scholar co-taught in the education tion with the Association for the Well- Abbas first visited Westminster Col- tion by Dr. Amy Camardese, Dr. Tina and psychology departments, and Dr. being of Israel’s Soldiers, have provided lege in September 2011 during the Keller, and Dr. Randa Abbas. Vaknin-Nusbaum currently teaches at “Fellowship Gift Cards” to more than third Bridges International Faculty The conference presentation, “Con- Western Galilee College, Akko, Israel. 13,000 soldiers in need and Lone Sol- Workshop: Forging American-Israeli tinuity and Change in Americans’ Per- Dr. Vaknin-Nusbaum shared the diers currently serving in the Israel Academic Collaborations. This inter- ception of Arab Women in the Middle results of her current research project Defense Forces so they could celebrate national college articulation agreement East” by Dr. Sherri Pataki and Dr. Ran- involving 2nd grade Arab children who Passover without financial worries. has resulted in various publications and da Abbas. receive tutoring from her Western Gali- The amount of each gift card is NIS conference presentations for Westmin- The upcoming November 2016 lee College students. Dr. Abbas shared 500, or about $130. Soldiers are able to ster College and Western Galilee Col- chapter, “Photos as Bridges into Hid- her research related to multicultural purchase supplies such as food, cloth- lege faculty, including — den Literacy Lives,” by Dr. Charlene ing, shoes, sports, and leisure items. education and gender stereotypes. Klassen Endrizzi, professor of literacy Both educators also compared and The article, “Integrating IWB use Among the soldiers who receive this in Western PA K-12 schools districts: education, and editors, Richard Mey- financial support are about 3,000 Lone contrasted the curriculum in Jewish, ers and Kathryn Whitmore, Routledge. Arab and Muslim schools versus Amer- The professional development connec- Soldiers – young men and women who tion” in Journal of Interactive Learning The Youngstown Area Jewish Fed- choose to leave their countries of origin ican schools. eration is a member of the Partnership- Prof. DVaknin-Nusbaum and Prof. Research by Dr. Yehuda Peled, Western to immigrate to Israel and serve in the Galilee College in Akko, Israel, Dr. 2Gether Central Area Consortium. IDF. Every year, Lone Soldiers come to Israel from across the Diaspora to join Houston flooding in Israel’s defense and become part of Israel’s melting pot. (Continued from p. 5) The Fellowship and FIDF distribute April 19 email to congregants. “Howev- “Fellowship Gift Cards” twice a year, er, we are immeasurably strengthened during Rosh Hashanah and Passover. by our tremendous community that This campaign is administered in col- shows its strength in the way we treat laboration with the IDF Personnel Di- each other like family. This morning, rectorate and reaches every eligible IDF while assessing the damage in our shul soldier. building, I spent time speaking with a The International Fellowship of new member of our community, herself Christians and Jews (IFCJ) was founded and family victims of flooding and re- in 1983 to promote better understand- quiring rescue. She exclaimed to me ing and cooperation between Christians about how our amazing community has and Jews, and build broad support for treated them, and the wonderful actions Israel. of countless individuals who have sup- Today it is one of the leading forc- ported her family. I am warmed by the es in helping Israel and Jews in need reminder that our community, though worldwide – and is the largest channel suffering from flooding twice in less of Christian support for Israel. than a year, continues to provide sup- Led by its founder and president, port and comfort to those in need in Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, IFCJ now raises such a way that Houston and the entire more than $140 million per year, mostly Jewish world can be proud of. Our com- from Christians, to assist Israel and the munity’s positive outlook will be a bless- Jewish people. Since its founding, IFCJ ing as we assist our friends, rebuild our has raised more than $1.3 billion for shul, and move forward.” thiswork. The organization has offices Editor’s note: Jacob Kamaras is the in Jerusalem, Chicago, Miami, Toronto, managing director and editor in chief of Seoul, and Sao Paulo. For more infor- the Jewish News Service. mation, visit www.ifcj.org. May 2016 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine 9 An Arab woman in Israeli Society This Yom HaAtzma’ut, celebrate red, white, and blue.

Photo/Jewish Journal From left: Alan Kretzer, president of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation, Shliach Gon Erez, Dr. Dalia Fadila, Shlicha Shai Erez, and Mrs. Randa Shabayek of the Youngstown-area’s Muslim community at the JCC . Dalia Fadila is at once an Israeli, a She has led and managed national and Palestinian, an Arab, and a Muslim. international seminars and projects on And, she says, “This multiplicity of issues of gender, culture, identity and identities is definitely a ‘complication.’” education. Moreover, Dr. Fadila is the first wom- As an educational pioneer within her Magen David Adom, Israel’s largest and premier emergency medical response an in her family to study at University. community, Dr. Fadila identified the agency, has been saving lives since before 1948. And supporters like you provide Her father insisted that his daughter get conflicts and clashes arising from four MDA’s 27,000 paramedics, EMTs, and civilian life guardians — more than 90% of her education before she was married. different educational systems that are all them volunteers — with the training, equipment, and rescue vehicles they need. But, as she explains, “My aunt told my governed by Israel’s Ministry of Educa- So as we celebrate Israel’s independence, make a difference in the health, welfare, father that he was making a big mistake. tion. and security of the Israeli people with your gift to MDA. Please give today. She said, ‘You’re pickling your daugh- She said, the Arab system of educa- ter,’” as if her status would forever put tion has no mission. “It’s still operating her away on a shelf. with 1950s’ attitudes.” Teachers in the However, she said, “We refuse to be system are not professionals and still seen as ‘infidels’ who won’t follow the rely on memorization rather than learn- Our New AddressAFMDA Midwest Region 30100 Chagrin Blvd. Suite 150 ways of earlier generations. We’re em- ing how to think. Pepper Pike, OH 44124 powering our tradition not leaving it. However, she explained, when she Toll-Free 877.405.3913 • Tel 216.342.4032 She says she’s the proof that a mod- has tried to talk about improving the [email protected] ern Muslim woman can be married, Arab schools, she’s been told, “it’s not have a family, and live a liberal open life. our culture.” “You’re being ‘jewished.’” “Being married with three children She has continued to insist, “You can be who can hold on to her husband, gives successful and Arab.” you credibility she says. Eighty percent of Arab women in Currently the president of Al Qasemi Israel are neither educated, nor em- Engineering and Science College, Dr. ployed,” she says. “And the 20 percent Fadila has served in the past eight years who are employed work in low-income as provost of Al-Qasemi Teacher Train- jobs. There are 12,000 unemployed ing College, an Arab college of educa- Arab women with degrees in teacher tion in Israel and acted as the president education.” of the college during 2006. Dr. Fadila is She wants to see those women move an expert on organizational develop- from “victimhood to empowerment.” ment, educational entrepreneurship, Dr. Dalia Fadila intends to continue and a researcher of American literature, building her society from within. “With women’s literature and ethnic studies. all I have,” she said, “I should give back.” 10 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine May 2016 Israeli hero pays tribute to the fallen heroes of Israel’s wars His very name, “Nimrod”, is a bibli- for wounds received during battle. cal reference meaning “mighty hunter,” Maj. Erez’s father had told him, the great-great-grandson of Noah. But “When you grow up, you will never Major Nimrod Erez was not celebrated have to fight.” for hunting in the fields. Rather, like the But Maj. Erez says he now knows great-grandfather of his namesake, Mr. that not only did he have to fight, and Erez achieved his renown on the water, his children, and his grandchildren. for his part in the destruction of the Syr- Almost all Israeli Jewish young peo- ian and Egyptian navies during the Yom ple serve for two years in the Israeli De- Kippur War.. fence Forces. He discussed his service at Memorial Maj. Erez pointed out that many Jews Service for I.D.F. Fallen Soldiers held at survived the Holocaust, only to come to the Jewish Community Center on April Israel and then die in one of wars. 18. In addition to Maj Erez’s presenta- Coming under fire, he said, “a bullet tion, Rabbi Joseph Schonberger recited whizzed past my ear where my had been the Yizkor prayer for remembrance. moments earlier.” He was wounded in Student Abigail Sharf said “David’s the battle. Lamentation,” a prayer she had written. Maj. Erez said it was reading about Gon Erez, with his mother, Yehudit, John. F. Kennedy’s exploits in World and Nya Aron sang Naomi Shemer’s “Lu War II that influenced him to become Yehi. Rabbi Oresky chanted El Malei a naval officer. Kennedy earned the U.S. Rachaim. Navy’s highest honor for gallantry for After a prayer for the State of Israel, his heroic actions as a gunboat pilot the audience sang Hatikvah. during World War II in 1944. The future More than 120 people attended the president also received a Purple Heart event.

Photo/ Jewish Journal Nimrod Erez, a hero of the Israeli Navy (and father of Shliach Gon Erez) told those attend- ing a Memorial Service for Fallen IDF Soldiers that first, he had to learn about boats.

May 2016 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine 11 Jewish Community Center Date: Thursday, May 26 Performance Time: Noon-2:00 p.m. | Location: Multi-Purpose Time: 7:00 p.m. ADULT Room Cost: $10 — Register online at jccyoungstown.org/ PROGRAMMING $5/Member $7/Non Member | $10 after May 10 nolatet | $15 at the door Babysitting $5 per child must reserve by May 2 For more information, contact: Darlene Muller 330- J Café — Boardman Jazz Band Always a crowd favorite, the Boardman Jazz Band 746-3250 Ext. 106 Or [email protected]. will once again perform at the JCC. They have MATILDA performed at numerous jazz festivals, community YOUTH events and concerts PROGRAMMING including venues at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and For more on Youth Programming, contact Emily Col- South Street Seaport in lins 330-746-3250 Ext. 152 or New York City. Don’t [email protected] miss this wonderful per- formance! Price includes lunch and lecture. Camp JCC registration now open Date: Thursday, May 19 Camp JCC provides quality care and experiences Winner of 50 international awards, including four Time: Noon – 1:30 p.m. Tony Awards, Matilda the Musical is the story of an to the greater Youngstown community and 2016 Location: Multi-Purpose Room is set to be another stellar summer. Housed at the extraordinary girl who dares to take a stand and Cost: $8/Member | $10/Non Member change her own destiny. Based on the beloved JCC of Youngstown, we provide our campers with a novel by Roald Dahl, Matilda continues to thrill Summer Stock at the JCC safe, fun environment to build lifelong friendships sold out audiences of all ages on Broadway and in through unforgettable adventures. Camp JCC is de- London’s West End. The Wall Street Journal says, TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE signed for campers of all ages and interests, regard- “The Makers of ‘Matilda’” have done the impossible The best-selling book is now a play and is coming to less of ethnic and religious background. triumphantly!” Price includes orchestra seat, trans- the JCC for one weekend only. Tuesdays with Morrie And returning again for another amazing summer. portation, and tip for the bus driver. Dinner on your is the final lesson between a college professor, Mor- CIRCUS OF THE KIDS! rie, and one of his long-lost students and the author own. We want YOU to join the circus at Camp JCC! Date: Sunday, May 22 of the book, Mitch Albom. After seeing his professor in an interview on the show “Nightline,” the author June 26 – July 1 Location: Cleveland, OH is reminded of a promise he made 16 years before You won’t find another Leave JCC: 11:00 a.m. | Return: 7:00 p.m. to keep in touch with him. A worldwide phenome- camp like this anywhere Orchestra: $100/Member $115/Non Member non, the book has sold more than 15 million copies. in the Youngstown area! Dress Circle: $110/Member $130/Non Member Seating is limited. Learn amazing skills such as trapeze and acrobatics The PHANTOM of the OPERA Date: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, May 12, 13, 14 Time: 7:00 p.m. from circus professionals. Critics are raving that this Date: Sunday, May 15 | Time: 2:30 p.m. Then end the week with breathtaking production is performances for your “bigger and better than ever Cost: $20 — Register online at jccyoungstown.org family and friends! before.” The beloved story Nolatet Visit circusofthekids.com and thrilling score with songs to learn more. like “Music of the Night,” “All A night of unforget- I Ask of You,” and “Masquer- table music at the Advanced Specialty Camps ade” is performed by a cast JCC featuring Brian Older campers can choose from Broadway 360 with and orchestra of 52, making Haas, Mike Dillon, Liz Rubino, Website Design & Development and this Phantom one of the largest productions now on James Singleton & Newscaster Camp! Johnny Vidacovich. tour. Price includes seating, transportation and tip Register online today at jccyoungstown.org for the bus driver. Steeped in the grand tradition of New Dinner on your own. Orleans, all four mu- Date: Thursday, July 7 | Cleveland, OH sicians are fiercely Kids Fitness Fun! Leave JCC: 5:00 p.m. | Return: 11:30 .m. independent icono- Let’s get moving with clasts and bandlead- three days of fitness activi- Orchestra: $85/Member $95/Non Member ties geared towards kids Dress Circle: $115/Member $130/Non Member ers who compose, play and navigate their musical lives in their own including Drums Alive, Movie and Lunch Bunch unique way. The musicians have played with such Kids Cardio Craziness and Pickleball. We’ll get our The Age of Adaline musical icons as Dizzy Gillespie, Prof. Longhair, James Booker, Charlie Hunter, Robert Walter, John heart rates up while hav- Blake Lively is captivating as Adaline, a 29-year-old ing fun at the same time! who survives a near-death experience and from that Medeski and John Scofield. You won’t want to miss Date: May 3, 4, 5 day on, never grows older. Adaline guards her secret this one-of-a-kind event! Cash Bar available. and her heart for eight decades until a charming Date: May 9 Time: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. philanthropist, and his parents force Adaline to con- Free Masterclass Workshop Location: JCC front her destiny in this unforgettable tale about the Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. $15/Member $20/Non timeless power of love. Price includes movie and Member light lunch. 12 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine May 2016 Jewish Community Center SHLICHIM LRS Broadway 360 at camp JCC Children’s Yoga The Little Mermaid, Jr (Ages 9-17) The profound power of yoga is truly a gift that keeps For more on Shlichim programming, contact Gon Advanced specialty camp for youth who love to on giving. Just to name a few of the many benefits: Erez: 330-746-3250 ext. 195 or sing, dance and act! This full circle experience increases self-esteem, sparks creativity in ripe imagi- [email protected] teaches group building, the casting process, theatre nations and teaches discipline and responsibility. specialties like costume design, vocal production Let your child experience the amazing benefits of and dance forms. We’ll also rehearse for the hit Dis- yoga. The ages for this unique class are 6-13. ney on Broadway musical, The Little Mermaid Jr., which will be performed for the public on Saturday, Date: Tues/Thurs July 16 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. See the Camp Time: 3:30-4:25 p.m. JCC guide for details. Total Body Fitness Drama Therapy (Ages 5-Adult) For strength, flexibility, balance, agility, cardio, and Drama therapy is an active, experiential approach to endurance, join this class each week. The instructor facilitating change. Through storytelling, projective will emphasize a specific muscle group, accompa- Yom Ha’Atzmaut play, purposeful improvisation, and performance, nied with various resistance modalities, changing it participants are invited to rehearse desired behav- up each week. Come in and challenge yourself to Join us as we celebrate Israel Independence Day at the next level. the JCC. The celebration will feature a performance iors, practice being in relationship, expand and by Israeli-American comedian Benji Lovitt. We’ll find flexibility between life roles, and perform the Date: Tues/Thurs enjoy traditional foods, singing and dancing and change they wish to be and see in the world. Time: 4:30-5:25 p.m. a special program for teens including a movie and 55-minute sessions refreshments. $55/Member $65/Non Member AQUATICS Date: May 16 Jr. Voice Lessons (Ages 5-8) Time: Festivities begin at 5:30 p.m. Introduction to voice for youth is taught by qualified Location: The JCC LRS teaching apprentices. Liz Rubino is available for For more information on Aquatics, contact Caroline Living Room Lecture an additional fee upon request. McDermott, 330-746-3250 ext. 112 or aquatics@ jccyoungstown.org This is a great opportunity to learn more about Is- 30-minute sessions rael. Gon and Shay, our Israeli Shlichim will come $20/Member $30/Non Member You & Me Baby to your home and deliver a lecture on a variety of This is a monthly class where parents assist their Israeli topics. You provide the space, Gon and Shay children in the water. Children will learn how to will bring their wealth of knowledge about Israel. FITNESS float on their backs and stomachs and will improve Minimum participants: 4 Adults their motor skills. Free event: A Taste of Israel — For more information on Fitness and Personal Train- Learn-to-Swim ing, contact Keith Harry 330-746-3250 ext. 182 or Classes are taught by trained Learn-to-Swim Instruc- An in-home cooking lesson [email protected]. tors. The JCC Aquatics department offers swim les- Want to learn how to make traditional Israeli food in Get fit fast with Personal Training at the JCC! sons throughout the year in private and small group your own home? Gon and Shay, our Israeli Shlichim Personal Training Benefits settings. will teach you how to make a delicious Israeli meal in your own kitchen. They will provide all the ingre- • Personalized safe and effective fitness pro- Learn-to-Swim ages 3 & up dients needed and even wash the dishes! grams The deadline to register is the 25th of the previous Cost: $15 per person • Achieve goals in a short time period month. (May 25 for June classes) Minimum participants: 4 Adults • Improve muscle coordination, strength, en- Classes are closed when we reach 12 participants durance, and flexibility To schedule your cooking lesson or lecture contact: Once lessons reach their maximum each month, a Gon Erez 330.746.3250 ext. 159 or gerez@jewishy- Personal Training sessions now include weighted waitlist for additional classes will be taken. Please oungstown.org rope training, suspension training and battle rope register early. training. $25/Member $40 Non Member | Min: 3, Max 4-6 (depending on level) LIZ RUBINO Personal Training Special Pricing First time training clients are now eligible for a one Private Swim Lessons STUDIOS AT THE JCC time offer at a great price. Clients will receive three, Private swim lessons provide the greatest flexibility 30-minute Personal Training Sessions for just $50. among lesson options. The one-on-one attention Contact the Fitness Office for details. provided through these lessons creates a personal- For more informa- ized setting for learning. Private lessons are great tion on the Studio for swimmers of any age from the rookie swimmer offerings contact: GROUP EXERCISE trying to learn the basics to the seasoned swimmer Liz Rubino 330- looking to improve their skills. Private lessons are 746-3250 ext. AQUATICS also great for adults who want to learn-to-swim or 187 or For more on Group Fitness, contact Shelia Cornell, even triathletes looking to improve their skills. [email protected] or lrubino@jccyo- 1:1 student/teacher ratio ungstown.org 330-746-3250 ext. 184 Group Exercise Classes we love! 4 lessons @ 30 minutes $99/Member | $110/Non Member (Continued on p. 15) May 2016 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine 13 Suzi Solomon Golf Classic On Monday, June 13, the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown will hold its 18th Annual Suzi Solomon Golf Clas- sic at the Avalon Golf and Country Club – Squaw Creek Golf Course.

The event includes 18 holes of golf, along with lunch and din- ner. During dinner we will feature a raffle of wonderful prizes and an auction of spectacular items, including sports memora- bilia, golf trips, and tickets to sporting events.

Please join us for the entire day or just for a marvelous dinner. Go to www.jccyoungstown.org and click on the Suzi Solomon Golf Outing button to register or call us at 330-746-3251.

Remembrance Month at the JCC Library May is a month of remembrance. Survivor to Presidents’ Tailor by Martin The calendar lists May 5 as Holocaust Greenfield Remembrance Day, May 11 as Israel Re- with Wynton A Full Range of Exceptional Care membrance Day, May 12 as Israel Inde- Hall. This is pendence Day, and May 30 as Memorial an amazing LEVY GARDENS Day. true story of Heritage Manor The Jewish Community Center li- how Martin Retirement Community brary honors the past by providing used the shirt books for the present generation to re- of an SS Offi- member. The library will have on dis- cer to change play a variety of books and materials his destiny about each of the special days for read- from destruc- ers to peruse and check out. We learn tion to a ca- from the past to make the future a better reer path that place. would take him to the White House. New Books at the JCC Library Recommended by the JCC Library book Master of Ceremonies by Joel Grey. This club. wonderful autobi- Library Book Club ography lets readers Skilled Nursing Services Blending a Quality view the “behind- The next meet- Subacute Rehabilitation Unit Independent Lifestyle the-scenes” life of ing of the Joel Grey from his Library Book Long-Term Care With the Comfort of early childhood in Club is May Adult Day Care On-Site Support the 1930s growing 19 at 1:30 p.m. up in Cleveland, in the JCC Outpatient Therapy When You Need It OH, to his career on Schwartz Juda- Broadway in such notable successes as ica Library. Up (330) 746-1076 (330) 746-3570 the musical Cabaret. Recommended by for discussion, Fran Dreyfus. B.A. Shapiro’s www.heritagemanor.org www.levygardens.org 517 Gypsy Lane • Youngstown, OH • 44504 584 Granada Ave. • Youngstown, OH • 44505 Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz The Muralist. 14 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine May 2016 Shlichim Israel’s Memorial Day and Independence Day eternally entwined gins, according to the Jewish calendar) ity. How can a country and its citizens and one on the next day. One lasts for a move from the deepest state of mourn- minute, and one lasts for two minutes. ing to an extreme high of happiness? Each asks us to dedicate our thoughts, In our country, there is an ongoing for a few seconds, to those who are no debate. Some families who have lost longer with us. dear ones are saying it is impossible for When the day of Yom Hazikaron them to go between extreme emotions turns into night, the entire country is in a manner of seconds, and ask the gov- taking a deep breath and dives into Yom ernment to put a “break” day between Ha’atzamut celebrations. Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut, so The blue, white, and black turn into they can honor the family and friends blue, white, pink, purple, red, and any who are no longer with us, and yet be other festive color you can think of. able to come out and celebrate Israel on Stages, markets, and performances are its independence day. popping up everywhere. The crowds go Whether those two days stay the way out into the streets to sing, dance, party, they occur now or if we will have some and spray each other with white foam days in between, mentally, those days .(Don’t ask me why — it’s the tradition). will always come together for us Israelis. The country becomes one big party If you want to fully capture the es- zone, with fireworks and music. The sence of Israel, you know that no In- TV channels are screening the special dependence Day is whole, without re- ceremonies for this day, and everyone membering Yom Hazikaron. walks and dances around until the next Please join us for Israeli Indepen- morning. The day of Yom Ha’atzamut is dence Day on May 16 at 5:30 p.m. We can usually dedicated to family and friends. promise you a good time and wonderful barbecuing or traveling together and comedy show, (Along with traditional enjoying our day off. food, music etc). I must admit, I can’t help but wonder Your Shlichim. what it sounds like for someone from Gon and Shai Erez Israel, unlike many other countries, people, history and values. Each school outside, who didn’t grew up in this real- does not hold its Memorial Day (Yom organizes a service in memory of the Hazikaron) and Independence Day fallen soldiers and victims of terror ac- (Yom Ha’atzmaut) at a distance from tions. The service is usually conducted Jewish Community Center (cont’d from p. 13) one another. In fact, when Yom Hazi- by 16 and 17 years old kids at the school, karon ends, Yom Ha’atzmaut immedi- those who will soon be joining the IDF ately begins. themselves. Some schools hold an eve- CHILD DEVELOPMENT If you’ve ever been to Israel at that ning service as well, allowing former CENTER time of the year, you would understand students (who are now soldiers) and what I’m talking about. If you’ve ever other people to attend. For more information on the CDC at been able to take part in Yom Hazikaron I will never forget how powerful the the JCC, contact Mililani Perry 330- and Yom Ha’atzamut events, you proba- first year of going to the service was af- 746-3250 ext. 119 or cdcdirector@ jccyoungstown.org bly sensed inside your bones how differ- ter we graduated. Seeing my classmates ent these commemorations are in Israel. in uniform attending their old high The CDC at the JCC Yom Hazikaron is one of two days school service was a remarkable and Enrollment is now open at our award- where the entire country stops and petrifying sight. We were the soldiers winning Child Development Center. grieves. The other is Yom Hashoah, Ho- then. A speaker would read aloud the We offer top-level care for children 6 locaust Day). The television and radio names of the soldiers who had gone to weeks to 12 years old. Our program stations stop broadcasting their usual my school but were no longer with us, is a Step Up To Quality 4 star award programs, or they broadcast only rel- and we could only pray to never hear a winner that offers innovative program- evant content for this day. Some choose familiar name. F.Y.I.-Family and Youth Initiative ming, and qualified, degreed or certi- to show a black screen, as a sign of hon- Unfortunately, with our reality, ev- fied teachers who are excited to be Beach Party! a part of your child’s learning. Come or. eryone hears a familiar name being read Date: Monday, May 16 Schools curricula are changed as — including us. see why we are one of the highest Time: 3:30-5:30 p.m. award-winning childcare facilities in well and are instead dedicated to pro- Two sirens wail on this day: one in Free/Member $5/Non Member grams that explain and teach us about the evening (when Yom Hazikaron be- the area. May 2016 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine 15 Israel Birdwatcher unearths a Passover ‘gift’ from a pharaoh A rare scarab seal belonging to a se- nior Egyptian official of the Thirteenth Pharaonic Dynasty (the 18th-17th cen- turies BCE) has been found at Tel Dor on Israel’s Carmel Coast. The seal was discovered by Alexander Ternopolsky, a birdwatcher, who handed it over to the archeological team working at the site. “These findings may be attributed to the mechanisms of directly witness- ing the multiple maximal adversities to the most important people in their lives, while they themselves fled in the knowl- edge of what was happening to their relatives, their friends, colleagues and their communities,” said Professor Ste- phen Levine of the University of Haifa “The scarab must have belonged to a very senior figure in the kingdom, prob- ably the viceroy responsible for the royal treasury,” explains Prof. Ayelet Gilboa from the Department of Archeology at the University of Haifa, who is heading the excavations at Tel Dor together with Prof. Ilan Sharon from the Hebrew Uni- versity in Jerusalem. “The owner of this scarab filled a similar position to that held by Joseph in Egypt after he interpreted Pharaoh’s dreams,” he said. The coastal city of Dor, at the foot of Mt. Carmel, was a key port city for thousands of years. Until the Romans built Caesarea, Dor was the most im- portant commercial center in the area Photo/ Tel Dor Excavations and served as a hub for commercial Viewed from the north, Tel Dor, is an archeological site located on Israel’s Mediterranean coast, about 30 km south of Haifa. and passenger traffic throughout exten- Books of Joshua, Judges, and I Kings in directed since 2002 by Prof. Gilboa and the site, and thanks to Mr. Ternopolsky’s sive periods in human history. The city the Bible. Prof. Sharon. Findings include settle- keen eyesight, the scarab was discovered is mentioned in Egyptian inscriptions Excavations began at Tel Dor in the ments from the Late Bronze Age (the and handed over to us.” dating back 3500 years, and even in the mid-twentieth century and have been Canaanite period in the second mil- A preliminary study showed that lennium BCE), as well as a Phoenician the stone scarab is engraved with the settlement and Israelite and Assyrian name of its owner, as well as his posi- Wctllgo administrative centers (Iron Age); a city tion and ankh symbols (crosses with a & co. Uthe extra mil, .. and palace from the Hellenistic period, looped head), which symbolized eternal s.t. Bozin for you! including a splendid mosaic; and monu- life, and pillar-like djed symbols that ® mental remains from the Roman peri- emblemized resurrection and stability. REAL TORS od, including a pair of temples that may The description of the scarab owner’s 214 Churchill-Hubbard Road • Suite D • Youngstown, Ohio 44505 have been dedicated to Poseidon, the position includes such phrases as “over- 330-759-4100 god of the sea. “We have not yet reached seer the treasury,” “bearer of the seal,” STEPHANIE BOZIN, BROKER, GRI the settlement of the 17th century BCE,” and more, but the owner’s name has Chuck Richardson • Dennis Spicer • Bob Prof. Gilboa explains, “and this is why not yet been deciphered. “Scarabs were Stanovack • Jason Marsco • Vince Maguire this finding is particularly important. very common objects in ancient Egypt, The rains this past winter must have (Continued on p. 20) eroded the soil on the southern slope of 16 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine May 2016 El Emeth Sisterhood wrapping up its year Coming up at El Emeth Passover Birthday Service and Children’s Yom Ha’Atzmaut By Mary Lou Finesilver produced a show called “Live,” which I believe lasted about five years. Luncheon- Program Well, I guess When that dried up, and she was Saturday, April 30 Wednesday, May 18, 4-5:30 p.m.. that I missed considered too old (?) for TV, Raysa R.S.V.P. for lunch by Thursday, April Children 12 and under are invited to the fact that went into selling real estate and joined 28 celebrate Israel’s Independence Day March was the million dollar sales club. Jewish/Christian Dialogue with fun activities including arts & crafts and Israeli dancing, with help Women’s His- Sometime around the year 2000, Wednesday, May 4,12:30 p.m. tory Month. she and her significant other moved to from our Community Shlichim, Gon Did I ever tell North Carolina and tried her hand at Sisterhood Shabbat and Shai Erez. Snacks will be provided. you about my real estate there. Her next move last was Friday evening, May 6, at 6 p.m. R.S.V.P. to El Emeth sister Raysa back to Youngstown to be near family. Send reservation form for the dinner, Brunch with the Rabbi Rose Bonow? Raysa was an innovator and mover. with check made out “El Emeth Sister- Sunday, May 22 She was born She became one of the first women in hood” to the office by Monday, May 2 Minyan 10 a.m. in 1930 and television behind the camera, directing Sisterhood Closing Meeting and Brunch and Program, 10:30 a.m. died in 2011 and she sure packed a lot and producing. I have left out much of Installation Luncheon “History of Jewish Humor, Part 2” of living in those 81 years. her very colorful and varied life, I know. Raysa was born and raised way before But I have space constraints with the R.S.V.P. for lunch by Friday, May 6 Schmoozing with Smulik Monday, May 23, 10:30 a.m. – noon her time. We grew up in Johnstown, Journal so if you are interested in learn- Women’s Rosh Chodesh PA. Raysa left the nest to go to col- ing more about my sister, Raysa Rose Monday, May 16,10:30 am. Daily Minyans lege at Penn State University for two Bonow, go on the computer to Jewish Please note the time change for this Friday 7 a.m. years. Then when the family moved to Women’s Archive. If the computer is not month only. Tirtza Kohan will be speak- Shabbat 9:30 a.m. Weirton, WV, she changed and went to your thing then call me and I’ll get you ing about Yemenite Jews in Israel. Sunday through Friday 5:45 p.m. West Virginia U. where she graduated a copy. with a degree in business administra- Now on to the big bucks: Sisterhood tion in 1952. With her usual panache, Shabbat takes place on Friday, May 6. baum. Those of you of who were around them as great assets to Temple and Sis- she got a job in Washington DC with — Ronna Marlin and Elyse Silverman have when we were Anshe Emeth and newly terhood. Until we talk again, be well. would you believe? — the CIA. worked hard to make this a beautiful merged as El Emeth will remember Shalom! At that time, I was living in New Shabbat Service and dinner. Please let York, and she decided that would be them know if you will participate in the more exciting. So she gave up working service, and for goodness sake, get your for the CIA, moved in with me, and family and friends to join us. ended up working on the Encyclopedia Sisterhood’s closing meeting of the Britannica. To this day not sure what year is May 10. The board meeting will she did there. be at 10:45 then lunch at noon. At this In 1955, our folks moved to Youngs- meeting we will be presenting pins town, and Dad went to work for Haber to the Torah Fund Benefactors. Holly • Diet Products Furniture. We decided to join them. 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SE Vienna, OH www.moonhawkherbals.com www.moonhawkherbals.com Then, it was on to Philadelphia, and orable Mensch for April in memory eventually reached Boston, where she of her parents Saul and Gert Eichen- May 2016 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine 17 Rodef Sholom Expanding the true meaning of Exodus Temple plans By Rabbi Frank Muller and Goliath, Elijah going to heaven in a and self doubt that disables us. sesquicentennial chariot, or the Exodus from Egypt liter- Now that the week of Passover is al- Congregation Rodef Sholom ally true? Or do they contain profound most over, putting away all the Pesadik Hilari Lipkin writes, “Sitting in our truths about the reality of our lives, foods, dishes and accoutrements will be sanctuary, during the High Holidays, Passover whether they actually happened or not? easier than all the preparations which I was struck with a sense of awe as I tells the Karen Armstrong, the British scholar were required to get ready for the holi- looked around our congregation. I could fundamen- of religion, speaks of two kinds of truth day. It is also a pleasure, if not a relief, feel the presence of souls that came be- tal story of in her wonderful book, The Case for God. to put the matzah away and start eating fore, were with me on that day, and the being a Jew. First there is logos, what we often call sci- bread products again. souls of those yet to come.” She contin- We wan- entific truth. Then there is mythos, which But believe it or not, the toughest ues, “I felt a responsibility to celebrate dered down is the narratives, allegories and insights task connected with Passover is not in this great congregation. I felt the need to Egypt that help us understand our place in the the preparation, the execution, or the to celebrate her past, get more involved and there world. According to Armstrong, our cul- completion of the seven- or eight-day with her present, and work to provide became a ture tends to overplay logos and down- observance of the festival. The hard- her future.” great na- play mythos. Yet it is mythos that often est part is to experience an Exodus, if Part of 150th anniversary celebration tion. But has the more important insights into you will, from the bondage in which so will include a speakers series, a written the Egyptians mistreated us, and forced how we are to live our lives. many tyrants, the tyrants of our own history of Rodef Sholom and its con- us to be slaves. We cried out to God, and The story of the Exodus is mythos. making, hold us. gregants, as well as Havorah groups to God heard our cry, bringing us out of It is the story of a universe that allows What are you doing to dethrone the advance learning. Teens, children, and Egypt with a mighty hand and an out- people to go out from the narrow place inner pharaohs who hold you in bond- adults will all have something to learn stretched arm. God brought us to the (the literal meaning of mitzrayim is age? May each of us experience true lib- and relate to. land of Israel to be a free people in our “Egypt”) into a wide place. It is the story eration by walking out into the sunshine The Steering Committee has been own land. To be a Jew is to accept this of freedom which Passover summons reviewing the many activities being narrative about our people. of redemption, not just the redemption of the people of Israel long ago, but the us. This can be the greatest truth of all. planned for the coming year. Guest But is the narrative true? Were we re- Darlene joins me in hoping all of you speakers are planned for almost every ally slaves in Egypt? Did God really hear redemption of each of us every day. We are all slaves to something in our own experienced a sweet, uplifting, and lib- month. our cry? Did God bring us out from erating Pesach this year. (Continued on p. 20) bondage? A number of years ago, Rabbi lives. We all can cry out to the universe, David Wolpe, noted Jewish author and and the universe is made in such a way leader of one of the largest Conserva- in which people can change. Thus the tive congregations in the country, cre- story yields a profound truth. ated a stir amongst his congregants in Some of us are enslaved by blind Los Angeles by saying that perhaps the prejudice that keeps us from getting to story is not totally true. Maybe it did know our neighbors and seeing people not happen precisely as the story tells it. as they really are. Some of us are en- Rabbi Wolpe found himself castigated slaved by tyrannical habits that rule by members of his congregation as well over us with an iron fist. Some of us are as the press. “Rabbi Denies the Torah,” kept in bondage by ignorance and su- screamed the headline. perstition that stunt the mind and suf- Does a narrative have to be literally focate the spirit. Some of us are fettered true to be true? Does it need to corre- by fears and anxieties that disturb our spond with historical reality to make a days and haunt our nights. Some of us difference in our lives? Are all the great are imprisoned by greed and mean am- narratives of the Bible such as the Gar- bition, by status-seeking and phony val- den of Eden, Noah’s Ark, the Binding of ues. Some of us are shackled by jealousy Isaac, the Golden Calf, the story of David that sours us, hatred that poisons us,

18 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine May 2016 Rodef Sholom May at Rodef Sholom The Sisterhood/Brotherhood Shab- host a family day at Second Harvest bat Service will be at 6 p.m., Friday, May Food Bank on Sunday, May 22, from 6. Members of both organizations will 9:30 a.m. to noon. Everyone is encour- participate in the service which will be aged to attend, and children eight years followed by an Oneg in Handler Hall. old and older are welcome. Participating R.S.V.P. to the Temple office by May 3. together as a community in the mitzvah The 150th Anniversary Summit of helping others is an appreciated and a Meeting will be held on Tuesday, May valuable lesson in volunteering and shar- 10, from 5-8 p.m. in Handler Hall. ing. R.S.V.P. to the Temple office, 330- Simchat Shabbat Service and dinner 744-5001, by Thursday, May 19. A light is scheduled for Friday, May 13, at 6 p.m. breakfast will be served to volunteers. in Tamarkin Chapel. The theme of the The Temple Office will be closed evening will be “Formative Jewish Ex- Monday, May 30, for Memorial Day. periences,” and the service will be led by New officers of the Congregation the children of the congregation using Rodef Sholom Board of Trustees will be the new prayer book Mishkan T’Filah installed at Shabbat service on Friday, Members of Rodef for Youth. This “Joyous Shabbat” ser- June 3. Current President Jeff Simon Sholom’s Sisterhood vice is meant to be a family celebration will be honored as the congregation enjoyed their “Wild with special blessings for those who are welcomes the new officers: Hearts” sip and paint celebrating birthdays or anniversaries President Dr. Arthur Greenbaum party held in the JCC’s in the month of May. Dinner and pre- Vice President Alden Chevlen adult lounge sentations will follow the service with Treasurer Aaron Hively a menu of traditional Shabbat chicken Secretary Tod Newman and a special Simchat cake for dessert. Trustee Ron Heiman Rodef Sholom Sisterhood News Reservations are required for this Trustee Jane Pollack As you read throughout the story of Exodus. event. A nominal charge of $8.50 per Trustee Audrey Schwebel this, we are I then reflect on my own Sisterhood, celebrating and I am moved by their dedication to adult, or $20 per family is due by Tues- Shabbat Services – 6 p.m. day, May 10. No phone/email reserva- the Jewish continue to make Congregation Rodef May 6 Sisterhood and Brotherhood holiday, Sholom Sisterhood stronger together. tions will be accepted. Shabbat Service The Annual Congregation Rodef Passover. As women of Reform Judaism, may Sholom Sisterhood Donor Brunch will May 13 Simchat Shabbat Service and We have we always have the courage and inspira- be held in Strouss Hall on Sunday, May Dinner enjoyed an tion of Miriam. 15, at 12:30. A style show featuring fash- May 20 Shabbat Service outstanding In a few weeks, I will be attending ions from Suzanne’s in Boardman and May 27 Shabbat Service first night the WRJ (Women for Reform Judaism) live music will be preceded by an el- June 3 Shabbat Service and Board In- Seder at Central District Retreat Kallah. This is egant champagne brunch. Reservations stallation our Temple an informative workshop held at the with all Goldman Union Camp Institute in Zi- for this event should be received at the Congregation Rodef Sholom is seek- the tables shining. Kudos to Inspired onsville, IN. The WRJ district women Temple by Tuesday, May 10, but tickets ing a grand piano for use in the sanctu- Catering, Jack Kravitz. and his entire will be coming together to share a warm may be purchased at the door on the ary. If anyone is aware of a piano that crew for making the delicious Passover Shabbat Ruach. I am excited for this op- day of the event. Please call the office for could be donated, please contact Rabbi Seder more than enjoyable! portunity and look forward to sharing more information. Muller or the Temple Office: 330-744- Thank you to Rabbi Muller who al- the retreat information which will help The Social Action Committee will 5001. ways makes the Seder service a new to strengthen our Sisterhood. experience of the meaningful Passover Chag Pesach Sameach story. Rabbi’s dedication and energy Upcoming Dates to Remember provides purpose and inspiration that Sunday, May 15th from 12:30 pm- last many more than the eight days of 2:30 pm at Congregation Rodef Sholom Passover. will be our To my Sisterhood members who al- Donor Brunch & Fashion Show by ways answer the call, thank you for your Suzanne’s. hard work and time in preparing the ta- Rabbi Eliezer teaches, “Let your bles and making the social hall dazzling neighbor’s honor be as dear to you as for everyone to enjoy. your own.” As we settle into this beautiful holi- I look forward to seeing everyone at day, I am inspired by the lessons in our next event. leadership that was displayed by Miri- Your Sisterhood President, am, who showed strength and courage Sally Blau May 2016 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine 19 Mexico’s president tells expatriates in the U.S. to unify like the Jews

electoral period in America, he added. crossing cards to help make Mexico pay Last month, Pena Nieto compared for the proposed wall. Trump’s rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler “There have been episodes in human and Benito Mussolini, and said it has history, unfortunately, where these ex- hurt U.S.-Mexico relations. pressions of this strident rhetoric have Trump has sparked outrage in Mex- only led to very ominous situations in ico with his campaign pledge to build a the history of humanity,” Pena Nieto wall along the southern U.S. border to said last month. “That’s how Mussolini keep out illegal immigrants and drugs, got in, that’s how Hitler got in; they and to make Mexico pay for the con- took advantage of a situation, a problem struction. He also accused Mexico of perhaps, which humanity was going sending rapists and drug runners across through at the time, after an economic the border, and vowed to increase fees crisis.” on some Mexican visas and all border

Tel Dor artifact (continued from p. 16) but the size and quality of this one, its owner’s high-ranking position, and the gold ring in which it is set all make this (JTA) — President Enrique Peña Ni- and another 23 million U.S.-born de- particular scarab a rare finding in our eto of Mexico called on Mexicans in the scendants — is urgent, Sada added, due region,” Prof. Gilboa explains. United States to follow the Jewish com- to the rise of Republican presidential The excavators suggest two possible munity’s example and unite to defend candidate Donald Trump. scenarios for the manner the scarab their interests in an urgent effort to de- “Trump’s latest speech after his vic- might have reached Dor. The first is that feat Donald Trump. tory in New York mentioned Mexico a representative of the viceroy may have The call was announced by the new- again, which makes us vulnerable, cer- come to this important trading city, ly appointed Mexican ambassador to tainly because we haven’t had a sys- which was a supply base for spices, resin, the United States, Carlos Manuel Sada, tematic strategy, which is part of a new and other commodities that were highly during an interview last week with the strategy we are launching,” Sada said. valued by the Egyptians, in order to seal Noticanarias news portal, and made “We’ll find models for promotion, dis- a deal for his superior. Accordingly, he headlines in the Latin American Jewish semination and communication.” would have brought the viceroy’s seal press. All 58 Mexican consulates in the U.S. Unity among the 35 million Mexi- will join the effort in a special public with him (or perhaps even the viceroy cans and their descendants in the Unit- relations campaign aimed at strength- himself made the visit). The second pos- ed States — including 6 million resi- ening Mexico’s image and responding sibility is that the scarab arrived at Dor dents, as many undocumented workers to distorted, biased attacks during the at a much later stage, perhaps even dur- got here and where it has been.” ing the Roman period, when there was The excavations at Tel Dor will re- demand for such “antiques.” Prof. Gil- sume this coming July. Anyone who is (cont’d from p. 18) Rodef’s sesquicentennial boa adds: “Since the scarab rolled down interested is invited to join. This fasci- The opening kick-off, currently The co-chairs encourage anyone plan- from the mound and was not found in nating scarab is displayed at the Mizgaga planned for July 8, will feature com- ning to attend only one meeting, to at- its archeological context, we will prob- Museum in Kibbutz Nahsholim, along- poser and musician Todd Herzog along tend this one. ably never really know when and how it side many other finds from Dor. with guest speaker Rabbi Sam Stahl. As the Temple community grows Co-chairs Lipkin and Elliot Legow smaller, Rodef Sholom become stron- encourage participation. “Our sesqui- ger. Supporting this series of commu- centennial cannot succeed without you.” nity events allows the congregation the A 150th Sesquicentennial Summit is opportunity to realize, “What came be- planned for Tuesday, May 10 at Rodef, fore us and to imagine what comes af- for from 5-8 p.m. in Handler Hall. Pizza ter us. It is also a time for now — the and salad will be provided. present — to recommit to a communal Mrs. Lipkin and Atty Legow say, “It’s experience,” explain the co-chairs. time to start planning each of our events Those who will attend the May 10 beginning with our kick-off and ending meeting may call the Rodef office at with our 150th Celebration weekend. (330) 744-5001 to R.S.V.P..

20 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine May 2016 A trip of a lifetime for Kent State Jewish Studies students

The 2nd Annual Kent State spring exploring the present-day narratives and break trip to Poland was a major suc- counter narrative. The students found cess! Led by Director of Jewish Stud- the country to be beautiful. According ies Chaya Kessler and accompanied to Director Kessler, walking through the by Joanna Huss, a Polish-born profes- rebuilt city of Warsaw tracing the main sor of modern and classical languages, landmarks and learning about the long Twelve Kent State students went on the history of Jewish presence there impact- trip to broaden their understanding and ed all of the participants. knowledge of the “Perception and Re- She said one of the highlights was membrance” of the Holocaust. Only one a visit to the new POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which was recently named 2016 European Museum of the Year by the European Museum Forum. The museum tells the story of 1,000 years of Polish Jewish history, and stands in what was once the heart of Jewish Warsaw – an area which the Nazis turned into the Warsaw Ghetto during Photo/Alissa World War II. Emily Cala at the Chmielnik Jewish cemetery. She was the The location’s signifi- firstmember of her family to visit this site. cance, is underscored by the Museum’s proximity to the Monument to the of the participants was Jewish, the oth- Ghetto Heroes and the main pre-WWII ers coming from various backgrounds Jewish quarter. and ethnicities. While in Krakow, the students cel- The trip highlighted the major cities ebrated Purim with the members of the of Warsaw and Krakow, as well as the Jewish Community Center as special in- shtetl Chmielnik. Madeline, who joined vited guests. the group from the Florence Program The students also met with Paulina, in Italy, described her impression of a Righteous Gentile, who shared her the town. “The town broke my heart — family’s heroic efforts during the Sec- there was a feeling of something miss- ond World War saving Jewish lives. ing — as if the life had been sucked out The trip also included a tour of Oskar of it,” She said, “all the Jews were gone.” Schindler’s Factory and a day spent at The group spent a week in Poland, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentra- The Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw was among the sites the group visited. tion Camp. Natalia Roman, a am still processing this experience, but for all those who participated. The Jew- student who partici- all I know right now is that this is stay- ish Studies Program and the College of pated on this trip, said, ing with me forever” Arts and Sciences at Kent State Univer- “Yesterday was many Emily Cala, a sophomore at Kent sity would like to thank all of the pro- things... We visited State and a proud Jewish woman, whose gram’s supporters with special thanks Auschwitz-Birkenau grandparents had survived Auschwitz, to the Thomases Family Endowment of and looked history in In the Book of Names, she found the the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation the face. The pictures, names of her ancestors, many of whom and the Frances Schermer Charitable the readings, the mov- she had never known existed. Trust for their generous contribution in ies all became real. I The trip was a powerful experience support of this program.

May 2016 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine 21 In Memoriam

Ruth Huberman Bruce H. Silver

BOARDMAN – Ruth Huberman, particular, introduced and inspired Ruth enjoyed a close relationship Bruce H. Silver, 59, passed away 97, passed away peacefully on April 2, thousands of customers and friends with her late sister, Elsie Katzman, on Wednesday, March 30, 2016. at 2016, at Hospice House in Poland, fol- in the benefits of a plant-based diet. who worked with her at the health St. Joseph Health Care Center in lowing a short stay. Max and Ruth were pioneers and tire- food store for over two decades. She Warren, after a six-month coura- Ruth, the daughter of Jacob and less advocates for the benefits of fresh also treasured her relationship with geous battle with stage IV tongue Sarah Shulman, was born at home air, pure water, regular exercise and a her sister, Gladys Saul, who like Ruth, cancer and multiple complications. on Wayne Avenue, in Youngstown on healthy diet. reached the same extraordinary age of He was born on February 22, Jan. 27, 1919. Ruth and Max were world trav- 97, passing away only last year. They 1957, in Warren, OH, son of the She graduated from South High elers, having journeyed to Russia, spoke with each other every day at 8 late, Harry N. and Martha L. (Hat- School and worked as a bookkeeper France, Switzerland, Israel, the Baha- p.m., visited every Tuesday afternoon, field) Silver. He attended Beth Is- for the Robbins Furniture Company. mas, and most often to Aruba, where shopped together at Trader Joe’s and rael Temple Center. they enjoyed a timeshare for over 15 Whole Foods almost every other Sat- She met the love of her life, Max Hu- Bruce graduated from Warren berman, at the USO on Hazel Street, years. They were also both socially urday. Western Reserve High School in in downtown Youngstown, while Max and politically active in their support Most of all, Ruth treasured the love 1976. After sustaining a back in- was briefly stationed in Sharon, Pa., for Civil Rights, their opposition to of her two sons, Jeff (Raquel) and Mark jury, he retired from Copperweld before shipping off to fight in World the Vietnam War (Ruth was a member (Wanda), for whom the sun would al- War II, in China, Burma and India. of the Women’s Strike for Peace Move- ways rise and set. As she would often Steel in 1992. Before his retirement, They corresponded all during the war ment) and champions for a clean envi- say when asked about them, “Where Bruce spent time fishing, boating, and upon Max’s return to New York, ronment. Upon the sale of their store did I go right?” snowmobiling, and attending car on Thanksgiving Day, 1945, the two in 1991, Max retired but Ruth kept Ruth was blessed to have five shows and flea markets. of them got engaged and married four working up to the age of 90! grandchildren, Jacob (Elena), Heath- He had a few close friends and months later, on March 24, 1946. They Max and Ruth were married a re- er, David (Oshrit), Lisa and Liz; and lived a rather a quiet life. He loved lived and worked in New York for markable 62 wonderful years and four great-grandchildren, Eli, Shira, to spend time with his family and about two years before returning to were always inseparable. Following Gavriel and Shayna Rachel. dogs. He met many challenges in Youngstown for better employment. Max’s death in May 2008, Ruth moved She was a founding and devoted his life with a positive attitude and Ruth returned to her work as a in with her son, Mark and his wife member of Ohev Tzedek Temple, humor. bookkeeper for Robbins Furniture Wanda, who provided all the loving where she was a fixture at Saturday Bruce is survived by his sis- and Max became a salesman for the care she needed. Her devoted grand- morning services. She was also a life ter, Paula (Jerry) Silver Muir and same company. The owner of that daughters, Heather Huberman and member of the National Health Asso- nephew, Dr. Kyle (Sarah) Muir. He company introduced them to vegetar- Liz Fowler, were always there when ciation (NHA), which has advocated was preceded in death by his par- ianism and natural hygiene, a lifestyle Mark and Wanda could not be. the plant-based health program to ents and grandparents. they followed for the rest of their lives. Almost until the day she died, Ruth which she credited her extraordinary Funeral services were held on In 1958, Max and Ruth opened a worked out daily at Lifeline Partners, longevity and vitality. Sunday, April 3, 2016 at the Lane health food store on Market Street, shopped at Sam’s Club and Marc’s and Donations in her memory can be Family Funeral Homes, Roberts near the corners of Kenmore and Wil- played crazy eights and five hundred made to the NHA or the Temple. Clark Chapel, with Rabbi Joseph liamson Avenue. After two years, they rummy before going to bed. She also Calling hours took place on April Schonberger officiating. Burial fol- moved the store to Boardman, where enjoyed tender loving care from her 4, at Ohev Tzedek Temple on Glen- lowed in Beth Israel Cemetery. In they operated Natural Health Foods extraordinary caregivers, Dot Clark wood Ave. Services followed with lieu of flowers, donations may be and Barbell Center, for 33 years. Dur- and Tammy Ludt, who helped bright- burial at the Temple Cemetery in made in memory of Bruce to either ing those three decades, Ruth, in en her days. Cornersburg. Hospice of the Valley, 5190 Market Street, Youngstown, OH 44512, or the University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, Institutional Rela- tions and Development, 11100 Eu- May their clid Avenue, MCCO 5062, Cleve- memories be only land, OH 44106. for a blessing. Our sincere condolenc- es to the families.

22 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine May 2016 In Memoriam Dorothy Zoldan Victor Sperling

Dorothy Zoldan, 101, formerly of Zoldan of Warren, OH; seven grand- WARREN – Victor Sperling, 80, unteer work at Heritage Manor, Warren died Wednesday, March 30, children and several great-grandchil- left a legacy of laughter and family. City of Hope, Temple El Emeth, the 2016, at her residence in Phoenix, AZ. dren. Victor Sperling died in the early Youngstown Area Jewish Federation Dorothy was born on February Dorothy was preceded in death morning hours of April 19, 2016, sur- and the Jewish Community Center 26, 1915 in Pittsburgh, PA. a daugh- by her husband the late Morris H. rounded by family. He spent his last of Youngstown. He also spent many ter of the late Ben and Bertha (Good- Zoldan, whom she married on No- hours as he spent the rest of his life, hours reading to local school chil- man) Ackerman. She was a member vember 19, 1934. Morris died on Oc- interacting with his extended family dren. of Beth Israel Temple in Warren until tober 28, 1995 after 60 years of mar- and friends. Above all, Victor cherished his moving to her retirement home in riage. She was also preceded in death Victor is survived by his wife of family. He made quality family time Arizona over 50 years ago. by a granddaughter Patty Pollock. 58 years, Suzanne; children David the number one priority in his life. He She will be missed by her children; Graveside service were held at Beth Is- (Pam), Staci Cohen (Yossi), Adam loved family trips to the Outer Banks, Walter Zoldan of Hollywood, FL, rael Cemetery on Sunday Apri l3. Care (Ashley), Cammie DeSalvo (Joe); attending his grandchildren’s many Judith Landsat of Naples, FL, Deb- was entrusted to Lane Family Funeral and grandchildren Joshua, Daniel, sporting events, golfing with his wife, bie Weight of Canada, and Stanley Homes, Roberts-Clark Chapel. Rachel, Samuel, Benjamin, Zachary, sons and grandsons,. and heart to Cameron, Jordan, Jenna, Joey, Jamie hearts with his family. He would al- and Jessie. ways listen and offer good counsel, Prior to his death, Victor looked but never insisted his way was best. Freda Friedman at his family and said, “You are my His wife, children and grandchildren legacy. I can die feeling good about felt that they were the most impor- what I have accomplished.” tant person in his life because he Freda Friedman of Pittsburgh, PA Friedman Supply. Victor was born to Helen and made each of them feel that way. died on April 12, 2016, at the age 94. She loved to dance and sing and Donald Sperling on Sept. 14, 1935, in Victor taught the value of humor She was born in East Pittsburgh, was a real balabusta. Youngstown, where he lived his en- through his sharp wit and love of a She is survived by her children, The Friedman and Weiss fami- tire life. good pun. He brought a smile to his Howard (Carol) Friedman, Ellen lies would like to thank the staff at As a high school student at The many friends’ faces by always know- (Gary) Weiss, and Jerome (Robin) Levy Gardens and Heritage Manor in Rayen School, he met the love of his ing how to lighten the mood with Friedman; and her grandchildren, Youngstown, OH, for the wonderful life, Suzanne Margel, and they were laughter. Even to his last days, he was Jesse Reed, Zachary and Rachel care given to Freda. Graveside ser- married three years later. After grad- joking with his wonderful hospice Friedman, Lauren and Jared Fried- vices were held in Agudath Achim uating from Youngstown College workers about his condition. man, and Sarah Weiss Schild. Freda Cemetery, Forest Hills, PA. Profes- with a degree in History, Victor en- Victor embodied the ultimate was the beloved wife of the late Leon- sional Services by D’alessandro Fu- rolled in Case Western Reserve Law Jewish value, “do unto others as you ard Friedman. She was a loving aunt neral Home and Crematory, LTD., School, from which, he graduated would have them do unto you.” He to her nieces and nephews. Lawrenceville, with Rabbi Chuck with honors. treated everyone with respect, gen- Freda was very active throughout Diamond, officiating. In lieu of flow- Victor valued honesty, hard work erosity and kindness. The Yiddish her life and was well known at the ers, contributions may be made and putting others first, through language has a wonderful word to de- Pittsburgh JCC — exercising, visit- to the Jewish Community Center, his many years of practicing law. In scribe such a person. Victor Sperling ing and playing maj. She played a big Squirrel Hill or to Heritage Manor, 1974, he was one of the founding was a mensch. The values he taught role in the family business, Leonard Youngstown. partners of Anzelotti, Sperling, Pazol and embraced will live on in his fam- and Small. Throughout his career, he ily. was focused on obtaining justice for Services will be at 11 a.m., Friday, his clients. His more than 50 years of at the Rodef Sholom Temple, with dedicated service was recognized by calling hours one hour prior to the the Mahoning County Bar Associa- service at the Temple. tion. Contributions may be made to the After retirement, he spent many Temple El Emeth or the Congrega- hours at the office continuing to work tion Rodef Sholom. on behalf of his clients. Arrangements were handled by Victor also taught the value of the Shriver-Allison-Courtley-Weller- service to others through his vol- King Funeral Home.

May 2016 The Jewish Journal Monthly Magazine 23 A Bar Mitzvah boy’s mitzvah Bringing high-tech to Israeli children JERUSALEM, April 21 – At a special ceremony at Jerusalem’s Gan Sacher today, New York City bar Listen. Help. Heal. mitzvah boy Noah Helfs- tein unveiled Israel’s first- ever, portable high-tech in- novation lab that will bring do-it-yourself technol- ogy to less fortunate Israeli children. Noah, 13, who attends the 7th grade at the Abraham Joshua Heschel School (founded by Peter Geffen, husband of Susie Kessler, and son-in-law of Mollie and Gerald Kes- sler, of blessed memory), worked with UJA-Federa- tion of New York’s “Give a Photo/Ronny Tuvia. Mitzvah-Do a Mitzvah” pro- Noah Helfstein on the first-ever “Maker Bus,” recently gram to support this project unveiled at Jerusalem’s Gan Sacher. because of his own interest in 3D printing and educational technol- ily friends joined him for the special ogy. dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremo- Noah’s $76,000 in bar mitzvah gift ny at Gan Sacher, Jerusalem, where the money funded the first-ever “Maker Maker Bus was officially presented for Bus” — a specially renovated, full-size the first time. “The Give a Mitzvah – Do a Mitzvah “This is what I bus outfitted with innovative technolo- was meant to do.” gies and educational tools that enable program of UJA-Federation enables bar and bat mitzvah students like Noah to Thomas Macabobby, MD “making,” or “self-manufacturing” and St. Elizabeth Boardman “Do-It-Yourself (DIY)” technology in- put their interests and love for Israel Family Health cluding 3D printing. and the Jewish people into action,” said The Maker Bus will offer regular Lori Strouch Kolinsky, director of the weekly courses as well as one-time Manhattan division of UJA-Federation. workshops, and is aimed at vulnerable “We are all so inspired by Noah and students ages 8-15, including ultra-re- his incredible project, which will bring ligious Jews and Arab students who re- technology education to young Israelis and strengthen the relationship between side in outlying, less affluent communi- Choosing a Mercy Health Physician is one of the healthiest choices ties in Israel’s north and south. New York’s Jewish community and Isra- el, she said. you can make. We are more than your doctors, we are partners in Israel’s Reut Group and Ofanim, your long-term health. We listen, help and heal, and we are there a nonprofit, are both partnering with “Given my passion for new technol- when you need us most. Because caring for you, your family and Noah for the project. The Reut Group ogy, I chose this project because I would the ones you love — this is what we were meant to do. has been helping Israel lead in the self- like to give disadvantaged children in manufacturing movement, which has Israel the opportunity to interact with been heralded as the “Third Industrial new technology. I’m grateful to my fam- To fi nd a physician like Dr. Macabobby in your area, call Revolution,” in part through broad so- ily and friends for supporting my proj- 877-654-8594 or visit mercy.com cial inclusion. Ofanim is Israel’s leading ect and I’m excited to see the Maker organization promoting accessibility of Bus,” said Noah. His parents added, “We technology and science throughout the are so proud of Noah for choosing this A Catholic healthcare ministry serving Ohio and Kentucky Israeli periphery using extensive out- bar mitzvah project and wanting to help Cincinnati | Irvine | Lima | Lorain | Paducah | Springfi eld | Toledo | Youngstown reach and mobility. disadvantaged children have access to 5726YOUADV (1/16) Noah’s parents, Stacy and Jason Helf- 3D printing and other new technology stein, his younger sister, Talia, and fam- that Noah enjoys using himself.”

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