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WE ARE STRONGER T GETHER The Jewish Federation of Delaware ShalomDelaware.org supports a community-wide network of organizations that do two things: Care for people in need here at home, in Israel and around the world and; Nurture and sustain supporting families with needs to funding The extraordinary impact of the Jewish the Jewish community today and for future Jewish education and Israel experiences… Federation can be felt around the generations. the Jewish Federation is focused on community and around the world. In addressing the most pressing issues facing Delaware and the Brandywine Valley, we Through our community-wide network of our community every day. provide opportunities for Jewish culture to partners and agencies, we actively seek flourish and are working toward reaching out and address the most pressing issues Federation provides an effective and our broad, diverse, and growing community. facing our community every day in order to meaningful way for you to give Jewishly. feed, clothe, comfort and rescue people in With one gift, we address causes and In Israel, Federation provides funds for need. We also inspire, educate and connect issues of importance to our community. training and educational programs to break people to their Jewish identity. If you or someone you know receives the cycle of poverty, enrichment programs financial or scholarship assistance, enjoys for children at risk and provides support for For more than 80 years, the Jewish PJ Library books, or has been a participant new immigrants to integrate successfully Federation of Delaware has been raising on Birthright Israel, then you know how into Israeli society. funds to meet the ongoing needs of our important the Jewish Federation is to our Jewish community. Federation continues community. And this is just a small sampling And Federation is active in more than 70 to be the single largest annual fundraising of services we help fund. countries around the world. Through our arm for our Jewish community with broad network of partners and agencies, thousands of people providing support to a During times of crisis and natural we actively seek out and support innovative community-wide network of organizations disasters, Federation responds. The Jewish solutions in order to provide basic that care for people in need and nurture Federation system has a long track record necessities in life, rescue people in need, and sustain the Jewish community today of carrying out big bold initiatives and and educate, inspire, and connect people to and for future generations. mobilizing great resources during times their Jewish identity. of crisis. We helped airlift thousands of Federation truly supports the fabric of Ethiopian Jews to safety in Israel, rescued Federation’s success is dependent on Jewish life in our community. By working and resettled more than one million building and strengthening a vibrant and with community leadership, we ensure Soviet Jews, and we provided lifesaving caring community that is committed to that the programs, institutions, and values humanitarian relief in the Ukraine as well improving the world. that enrich our Jewish community remain as during the natural disasters in Houston, vibrant and strong. From feeding the New Jersey, New Orleans, Haiti, Japan, the Thanks to your continued support, We Are hungry to helping the unemployed...from Philippines and New Jersey. Stronger TOGETHER.

September 2016 | JEWISH VOICE | 1 JCRCCORNER NEW DELAWARE LAW ENFRANCHISES

By Mark Wagman The bill attracted cosponsors from both JEWISH VOTERS JCRC Member chambers and parties, and from throughout the state. Cosponsors in the House included Reps. Paul Baumbach (D, Newark), Ruth The primary sponsor of the legislation, Briggs King (R, Georgetown), John Kowalko hen members of the Jewish Representative Earl Jaques, Jr. (D, Jr. (D, Newark South) and Charles Potter, W Glasgow), summarized the process: Community Relations Committee Jr. (D, Wilmington North). In the Senate, approached election officials and key “Election Commissioner [Elaine] Manlove Sen. Margaret Rose Henry (D, Wilmington legislators about a conflict between Rosh and I met with [representatives of the East) was the primary sponsor, and Sens. Hashanah and Delaware’s primary election Jewish community] and we talked and we Brian Bushweller (D, Dover – Central Kent), in 2018, we did not know how responsive came up with some proposals and found Brian Pettyjohn (R, Georgetown) and Bryan they would be to our concerns. What the best proposal and wrote a bill.” The bill Townsend (D, Newark) were cosponsors. followed was a high degree of sensitivity written by Rep. Jaques, HB 377, moves the and cooperation by virtually all involved, primary election from September 11, 2018, As with many bills in the General Assembly, resulting in a new law that eliminates the the second day of Rosh Hashanah, to the action was focused in June, the last month of conflict. previous Thursday, September 6, 2018. the legislative session. Between June 8 and 23, the bill moved successfully from House committee to the full House, then from Senate committee to the full Senate. The bill

World Zionist Organization passed in the House by a vote of 37 to 1, with Department for Diaspora Activities 3 absent. Final passage in the Senate was by Beit Ha’am Journey - East Coast a vote of 19 to 0, with 2 absent.

WALKING A TIGHTROPE: Fortunately, passage of this bill did not The Supreme Court involvement in defending and shaping prove to be nearly as difficult as the the Jewish and Democratic identity of the State of Israel ultimately successful two-year effort in 2003 and 2004 to move Delaware’s primary ROTEM election from a Saturday to a Tuesday. MALACH Nevertheless, the involvement of JCRC and community members helped to keep the bill MONDAY EVENING on track and to emphasize its importance SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 for the Jewish community. Herb Konowitz, 7 PM | SIEGEL JCC Josh Schoenberg and Mark Wagman Both a licensed attorney and a teacher, Rotem Malach maintained a presence in Dover, while JCRC works as the central emissary in North America for the Director, Rabbi Ellen Bernhardt, monitored World Zionist Organization’s Department for Diaspora Activities. the status of the bill and coordinated CO-SPONSORS: our efforts. Community members who JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMITTEE responded to the JCRC Action Alert by WINE&WISDOM and ISRAEL & OVERSEAS contacting their legislators to urge support ShalomDelaware.org also played an important role in ensuring For more information, contact RABBI ELLEN BERNHARDT passage of the bill. JCRC Director | 302-427-2100 FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC MORE ON NEXT PAGE

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to the importance of HB 377 for us. We are grateful to Representative Jaques for writing and sponsoring the legislation, to Commissioner Manlove for her critical support and assistance, and to the General Assembly for their broad bipartisan backing. Thanks to Governor Markell for signing the bill and for his continuing friendship with our community. We Are Stronger TOGETHER.”

More generally, this bill protects our Signing of Bill HB 377 PHOTO BY JFD STAFF democracy by ensuring that a barrier to voting for the Jewish citizens of our state is Manlove and several Jewish community eliminated. Unlike some state legislatures, JEWISH VOTERS leaders. Seth Katzen, Chief Executive which even recently have tried to erect new CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 Officer of the Jewish Federation barriers to voting, our General Assembly has Governor Jack Markell signed HB 377 into of Delaware, stated in gratitude: shown that it is committed to minimizing law on August 1 in his Wilmington office. “The Delaware Jewish community is such barriers. Josh Schoenberg has rightly In attendance at the ceremony were very fortunate that officials of state pointed out that “this is a perfect example of Representative Jaques, Commissioner government have shown such sensitivity the ‘Delaware Way’.” The CandidaTes Forum THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 | 7 P.M.

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PARTICIPANTS WILL INCLUDE CANDIDATES FOR: i US Representative i Governor i Lieutenant Governor i Insurance Commissioner i i i i i The program begins promptly at 7:00 p.m. (Doors open 6:30 p.m.) For more information, CO-SPONSORED BY: please contact Siegel Jewish Community Center Rabbi Ellen Bernhardt, HADASSAH 101 Garden of Eden Road in Wilmington JCRC Director WILMINGTON CHAPTER i [email protected] JEWISH COMMUNITY (302) 427-2100 x830 RELATIONS COMMITTEE THIS PROGRAM IS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Jewish Federation of Delaware does not endorse or oppose any of the political candidates. The forum is being conducted for educational purposes.

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Federation has long been involved in supporting the development of the Negev, the southern region of THE NEGEV Israel that stretches over half of its landmass. The Negev Funding Coalition, a group of Federations with deep ties to the region, has been working for several years to make a significant, catalytic impact upon the region’s IS NOW! growth and development through ongoing investments and major partnership programs. Now, in collaboration Federations with partners representing more than $7 billion in Israeli public funds, Federations have launched the Negev Strengthening Now initiative. The goal of this initiative is to increase the vitality and attractiveness of the Negev in the eyes Israel’s South of its current and potential future residents, enhancing resilience in the region for years to come. PHOTO COURTESY OF JFNA By Talya Levin Talya Levin is the Assistant Director of Global Programs, Israel and Overseas with The Jewish Federations of North America. EDITOR’S NOTE: Jewish Federation of Delaware supports the Negev Funding Coalition and is chaired by Dr. Robin Karol.

The Jewish Federation of Delaware is the AFP Philanthropy Day 2016 on Tuesday, the proud recipient of four winning November 15th at the Chase Center on the entries in the Association of Fundraising Riverfront. Professionals (AFP)/Brandywine Chapter’s 2016 Fundraising and Communications “Winning multiple FaCE Awards in Excellence (FaCE) Awards. consecutive years is a wonderful achievement and a testament to our JFD Receives The 2016 FaCE Awards recognizes and professional and lay leadership’s dedication honors not-for-profit organizations whose to excellence,” stated Seth J. Katzen, Four Fundraising & communications demonstrates excellence, Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish quality, creativity and overall effectiveness. Federation of Delaware. “We are honored Federation’s four winning entries include to be receiving the most awards of any Communications Annual Report, Awareness/ Branding, single nonprofit organization in this year’s Newsletter, and Special Event categories. competition.” Excellence (FaCE) Federation will be accepting the awards at About the AFP Fundraising and Communications Excellence (FaCE) Awards: The AFP Brandywine Awards Chapter strives to advance the profession of fundraising and the institution of philanthropy for the public good. We serve the communities of the Brandywine Valley, including Delaware, Southeastern Pennsylvania, Eastern Maryland, and Southwestern New Jersey. For more information, please visit AFPbrandywine.afpnet.org/

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JEWISH VOICE EMPOWERING TABLE OF CONTENTS A COMMUNITY SEPTEMBER 2016 Comm.unity 1 JCRC Corner 2 Federation Focus 4 FED IMPACT 10 Jewish Scene 12 Agency Update 18 he Ethiopian National Project (ENP) unites global Jewry, the Government of Synagogue News 22 T Israel and the Ethiopian-Israeli community in its mission to advance the integration of In Israel 24 Ethiopian-Israelis into Israeli society. Jewish Life 26 FEATURE: Threads of Our Heritage 28 ENP is a partnership between the Jewish Federations of North America, the Government Nosh on This 32 of Israel, representatives of Ethiopian Jewish community organizations, the Jewish Art&Culture 35 Jerusalem Post Crossword 37 Agency for Israel (JAFI), the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Israel (JDC- Rabbis’ Voices 38 Israel) and Keren Hayesod-UIA. ENP works in true partnership with the Ethiopian-Israeli Candle Lighting 38 community, involving them at local and national levels at every stage of the creation, LifeCycles: Simchas 40 implementation and evaluation of ENP programs. LifeCycles: Obituaries 42 Community Calendar 44 After an extensive review of the needs and programs available for the Ethiopian Reflections 47 community and a broad process of consultation, ENP decided to focus its efforts on youth ages 13 – 18. In 2004, ENP launched a major multi-year effort in order to provide COVER ART BY FLASH ROSENBERG; quality opportunities for Ethiopian youth. ENP’s programs includes after school scholastic assistance, neighborhood outreach centers for youth-at-risk and workshops designed to STORY ON PAGE 28 empower parents and community leadership.

MAIN OFFICE The Ethiopian National Project strives to provide social and educational opportunities 302-427-2100 to help Ethiopian-Israeli teenagers realize their full potential. ENP programs take a “big DEADLINES picture” view of the cultural, social and emotional challenges faced by Ethiopian-Israeli OCTOBER 2016 High Holidays teens that constrain their advancement. Today, the Ethiopian National Project operates EDITORIAL due by: SEPTEMBER 9 in 23 communities across Israel, serving approximately 3,413 youth in its scholastic ADS due by: SEPTEMBER 14 assistance programs and almost 1,900 youth in 14 outreach centers.

NOVEMBER 2016 Food to Table Two key initiatives are at the heart of ENP’s work: EDITORIAL due by: OCTOBER 7 Scholastic Assistance (3,413 students): A holistic program providing supplementary ADS due by: OCTOBER 13 • hours of educational support to improve student achievements in core subjects, EDITORIAL: ADVERTISEMENTS: increase motivation to learn and improve self-confidence. JAIDY SCHWEERS KATHRYN [email protected] WEISSENBERGER • Youth Outreach Centers (14 centers): Ethiopian-Israeli teens have a second home Main: 302.427.2100 [email protected] at the outreach centers, which offer a range of extra-curricular activities, one-on- Direct: 302.394.9063 Main: 302.427.2100 one emotional support as well as leadership opportunities. Fax: 302.427.2438 Direct: 302.394.9057

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On Wednesday, August 10th, Jewish Federation of Delaware (JFD) sponsored Jewish Heritage Night at the Blue Rocks, Delaware’s minor JEWISH HERITAGE league baseball team. This year was the first year JFD fully sponsored the event. A concerted effort was made to ensure the evening included elements of Jewish culture and community, from the Israeli flags carried by Blue Rocks mascots Rocky and Mr. Celery, to the availability of kosher NIGHT AT THE food, to the showcasing of Jewish agency logos flashed upon the big screen. The evening certainly had a Jewish presence, both in community BLUE ROCKS and symbolism. This presence was there before the game even started. As the first 500 By Emma Driban attendees entered the stadium, they received a free commemorative JFD Intern t-shirt, imprinted with the JFD logo on the front and Blue Rocks, translated into Hebrew, on the back. Hatikvah was sung by Cantor Mark Stanton of Congregation Beth Emeth (CBE), followed by the CBE’s Adult Choir’s beautiful rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. After the national anthems, Clay Horowitz, accompanied by Governor Jack Markell, had the honor of throwing the opening pitch.

Throughout the night Jewish-related music could be heard playing in the arena, including classics, like Hava Nagila and Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu, as well as selections from some more recent musicians, like Matisyahu, Moshav, and Levi Robin.

Even some of the activities between the innings went along with the theme of the night. Trivia was played on two occasions, once with questions about famous Jewish ballplayers and another with questions about Judaism and Israel.

“Jewish Federation of Delaware is proud to sponsor Jewish Heritage Night at the Blue Rocks as it provides a platform to express Jewish pride to a broader audience,” says JFD CEO Seth J. Katzen. “It was a great way of Alan, Clay, and Stacy Horowitz with Governor Jack Markell showing the greater Delaware community that Federation, our beneficiary PHOTO CREDIT: BRAD GLAZIER PHOTOGRAPHY agencies and synagogues are strengthening community every day.”

This message underlies the general position of our Jewish community: We should live Jewishly, and proudly celebrate our heritage, every day, and not just at synagogue or during the holidays. The purpose of Jewish Heritage Night is to bring the community together.

Though the Blue Rocks lost (5-6) to their opponents, the Frederick Keys, Jewish Heritage Night was a success.

Says Katzen, “We look forward to continuing to be a part of Jewish Heritage Night next year.”

So be sure to look out for the date of next year’s Jewish Heritage Night.

6 | JEWISH VOICE | September 2016 ShalomDelaware.org JEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE PRESENTS BUSINESS JEWISH SERVINGVOICE DELAWARE & THE BRANDYWINE VALLEY PROFESSIONALS Jewish VOICE and Shalom DELAWARE are published by Jewish Federation of Delaware. BREAKFAST PUBLISHER’S REPRESENTATIVE: Seth J. Katzen Chief Executive Officer EDITOR: Mr. Buccini co-founded The Buccini/ FEATURED GUEST SPEAKER: Jaidy Schweers Pollin Group, Inc. (BPG) in 1993. Mr. [email protected] Buccini has grown the company to main 302.427.2100 direct 302.394.9063 ROB BUCCINI over $4 billion in assets, including CO-PRESIDENT ADVERTISING: ownership of six million square feet BUCCINI/POLLIN GROUP Kathryn Weissenberger of office and retail space, 6,500 hotel [email protected] main 302.427.2100 direct: 302.394.9057 rooms, 2,000 apartments and four live entertainment venues. In addition, Mr. BILLING: Buccini co-founded and is co-owner Joy Toler [email protected] of Major League Soccer’s Philadelphia 302-427-2100 Union. CREATIVE DIRECTOR/DESIGNER: He is also Chairman of the Wilmington Carolyn Katwan Housing Partnership, a non-for-profit VOICE COMMITTEE CHAIR : developer that is one of the region’s Meredith Rosenthal leading home builders, member of VOICE COMMITTEE : the Board of Directors for the Vice Kimberly Felzer, Rae Cook, David Margules, President of the United States Residence David Satran, Michael Sigman, Jennifer Steinberg, Mark Wagman Foundation, the Nature Conservancy of Delaware and a member of the Cornell University Council.

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What will your Jewish legacy be?

“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our “We have made a legacy commitment for our daughter. We see it as our children.” obligation to insure that this community, from which we derive – Unknown so much, continues to thrive.” ~ Gina and Josh Schoenberg

C A J L J F of Delaware’s Jewish Fund for the Future and is funded in H G F. It is every person’s responsibility to leave the world better than when they entered it. hatWe will are leaving your a legacyJewish because legacy we believe be it is our duty to help ensure the future of CREATE A F our Jewish community, C and A toJ allow L future generations T M to enjoy C the A wonderfulJ L sense P Jew sh C [email protected]. of family and belonging we have enjoyed Legacy DELAWARE ShalomDelaware.orgegacythroughout our lives. –Lisa and David Driban

Create A Jewish Legacy is a program of Jewish Federation of Delaware’s Jewish Fund for the Future and is funded in part by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation. ShalomDelaware.org/Legacy

For more information about Create A Jewish Legacy, contact Rachel Jacobson, Create A Jewish Legacy Program Coordinator, at (302) 427-2100 or [email protected].

8 | JEWISH VOICE | September 2016 ShalomDelaware.org PLANNING FOR YOUR FUTURE TO FEDFOCUS INCLUDE YOUR JEWISH COMMUNITY By Scott Kaplan, President and CEO, Tidewater Jewish Foundation Adapted by JFD Staff

You may believe that “estate planning” is only for the wealthy. Maybe you think it is too expensive or that you will not have an “estate.” Possibly you think you are too young or healthy or you just don’t want to think about it now. How much time do you put into planning a family vacation? Don’t you owe it to yourself and your family to plan for your future NOW?

It may be a good time to prepare or update your estate plan if: • Your marital status has changed; • You’ve welcomed a new child or grandchild; • You’ve sold or purchased a business; • Your plan was created too long ago and you don’t recall the details, OR • You want to include or modify a gift to charity Helping Planning is something that can be done in your 20s or in your 90s. There are many ways to plan for your future AND take care of your community. Planning may include talking Families with a professional advisor (estate planning attorney, financial advisor, and/or accountant) and working in partnership with your local Jewish agencies to explore how your Jewish Navigate community can be included in your planning.

You may think of your Jewish community as one of your children, something that you Their have cared for during your lifetime and want to see thrive for the next generation. There may be one or more Jewish organizations that you care about and have supported for Financial many years. There are many options to consider when planning. Two basic options are highlighted below: Lives • A charitable bequest is one way you can ensure Jewish continuity through a simple codicil (amendment) to your will to benefit a synagogue, the Federation, or any of our ~ Since 1985 ~ Affiliate agencies. This bequest may provide a specific cash gift, a percentage of your estate, or remaining assets of one’s estate. Bequests, like other gifts, can be designated for many purposes or given without restriction. Designating a bequest that creates a single fund through Create a Jewish Legacy can provide annual support to various community agencies, as you may desire. • Designation of a portion of your retirement plan assets (IRA or 401k) is another easy option to establish your legacy. Too often, income taxes imposed on these plans make them a poor choice for passing on to your heirs. As charitable gifts, however, retirement www.lauassociates.net plans can be powerful tools for endowing a charitable legacy to the community. By careful planning during one’s lifetime, a loving parent can make a sizeable gift to the community that could otherwise create a heavy tax burden on their heirs. 20 Montchanin Rd, Suite 110 You are never too young to make plans for the future. Greenville, DE 19807 Contact your attorney or financial professional for guidance on how best to ensure your legacy. You may also contact Rachel Jacobson, Coordinator of Create a Jewish Legacy for the Jewish Federation of (302) 792-5955 Delaware at 302-427-2100 or [email protected] to schedule a confidential conversation to explore how you can make a difference in your community and leave a lasting legacy.

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FED IMPACT

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By Karen Friedman Executive Director, The Milton and Hattie Kutz Home ONE PURPOSE & Lodge Lane Assisted Living

The Kutz Home, Lodge Lane Assisted Living, and credits her niece Penny for her devotion, and The Kutz Home Auxiliary have one and the staff for their dedication and common purpose - providing the best care commitment to her and all the residents of and services to our residents. both buildings.

The Kutz Home Community consists of The Our history dates back to 1902 with the Kutz Home—a five-star-rated Rehabilitation establishment of the Bichor Cholem (Visiting and Skilled Nursing facility, and Lodge Lane the Sick) Society, the precursor of the Assisted Living—an apartment facility, Auxiliary. At that time its purpose was to and a Kosher Deli open to the public. Both “assist the dependent sick and others in facilities are part of the same not for profit need,” which continues to ring true today. organization, and are on the same campus The Bichor Cholem Society raised funds, but have separate entrances. All residents and over the years purchased properties to AUXILIARY receive the highest quality of care in warm provide housing for residents who were then and welcoming environments. called “inmates.” As the need increased, so did the size of the property and the services Resident Esther, moved into our community offered. In the late 1950s the need for a first to Lodge Lane, and now resides at the Kutz Home. She had a seamless transition, MORE ON NEXT PAGE

10 | JEWISH VOICE | September 2016 ShalomDelaware.org ONE PURPOSE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 FED THE KUTZ HOME & LODGE LANE IMPACT BY THE NUMBERS THE KUTZ HOME • 90 bed Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing facility larger, professionally managed facility LODGE LANE ASSISTED LIVING became evident. Studies were conducted, and • 51 apartment facility a 40-bed facility was recommended to meet • 34 general Assisted Living apartments the needs of the community. • 17 Memory Care apartments • Kosher Deli open to the public Hattie Kutz pledged funds of $350,000, a sizable amount at that time. In September Since 1960 there have been: of 1960 the Milton and Hattie Kutz Home • 23 Kutz Home Presidents opened on property owned by the Jewish • 31 Auxiliary Presidents Federation of Delaware. A new resident of the • 4 Executive Directors Home was quoted to have said, EACH YEAR: “Mrs. Kutz, you are a millionaire. I’m not a • 130,000 resident meals are served at the Kutz Home and Lodge Lane millionaire, but here at the Home I am living • 170 residents are cared for at the Kutz Home like a millionaire.” • 800 Meals on Wheels are provided to seniors at home • 104 is the age of the oldest current resident Hattie Kutz had a mission: “It is my wish and • 37 years is the longest tenure for a currently employed staff member desire that the aged of our Jewish community have available all the comforts and convenience which in their declining years will afford them happiness and contentment, and Throughout the years, renovations and in fund raising, but also its members enjoy at the same time maintain and generate for expansions occurred. In 1970 42 beds spending time with the residents during them the dignity and respect to which they were added, bringing the total to 82 activities such as the Treat a Resident to are entitled.” beds. In 1995 two new wings and a very Lunch program, the Donor Luncheon, the large Lobby were built. Older wings were annual Chanukah party, and taking the With the opening of the Kutz Home, the converted, and the new capacity was, and Commissary Cart around the building. Bichor Cholem Society was now called the still remains, 90. In 2003 the Kitchen and Although our new Co-Presidents, Sherry Auxiliary of the Milton and Hattie Kutz Home, Laundry were renovated and expanded, Simmons and Michael Tannen, both natives and although their function became focused along with the installation of a freight of Wilmington have personal connections on fund raising, the purpose remained as it elevator. In 2013 Lodge Lane Assisted Living to the Home, it is through these activities had been in 1902. opened with 51 apartments. The addition that they have become more involved. of Lodge Lane expands our services and We are most grateful that they have A plaque on the Wall of Remembrance at provides a continuum of care for seniors agreed to assume leadership. Not only will the Home dated 1960 states: G-d alone can in the community. Our next project will Michael and Sherry be working together bestow the gift of long life, but only love and be the renovation and expansion of the as Co-Presidents, they also work together compassion make it worth living. Rehabilitation Department, graciously at Michael’s firm. Michael, a retired New sponsored by the Auxiliary. Castle County Police Officer, is the first male Resident Jayne, says, “This exemplifies the Auxiliary President, and along with Sherry, staff at the Kutz Home, whom I cannot The Auxiliary, all for the ultimate benefit a retired court reporter, follow an illustrious possibly praise enough. I felt like family of the residents has, financially supported group of women who have had this position from day one. The Auxiliary members are the capital projects, as well as other and established the Auxiliary as the vibrant wonderful, and the Treat a Resident to Lunch expenditures. The Auxiliary has always been organization it is today. program is a real pleasure.” the Home’s partner, and is not only involved

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1 JEWISH HERITAGE NIGHT PHOTOS BY JFD STAFF On August 10th, Federation sponsored Jewish Heritage Night at the Wilmington Blue Rocks. We celebrated Jewish culture as one community including free com- memorative t-shirts to the first 500 fans, a first pitch ceremony 4 with Governor Markell and Clay Horowitz, singing of both Ameri- 1. Cantor Mark Stanton with Rocky can and Israeli national anthems, 2. Sylvia and Mark Wagman with David Margules Jewish music played in-between 3. Rocky, Wendy Berger, and Bella Rosen innings and a kosher food kiosk. 4. Dylan, Jenn, Tessa, and Mitch Steinberg

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1. Posing with the evening’s guest speaker following his presentation The Negev is Now is Doron Krakow, AABGU Executive Vice President (center) and the evening’s hosts, Carolyn Glazer-Hockstein and Neil Hockstein. 2. The Associate Chairs of the newly established Delaware Chapter of the American Associates, Ben-Gurion University attended an informational program with close to 40 guests, July 25th, at the home of Carolyn Glazer-Hockstein and Neil Hockstein. Sitting from left to right are Robin Karol and Lelaine Nemser. Standing from left to right are Stuart Nemser, Barry Kayne, Chapter Chair, Neil Hockstein and Bob Davis.

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1. Senior swimmers at the North Brandywine Swim League are recognized during their Swim Invitational at the Siegel JCC. PHOTO BY JCC STAFF 2. Camp JCC Campers show their team colors for the Camp Maccabi Games. PHOTO BY DONNA HARLEV 3. Swim team members from the Brandywine valley come together and make new friends at the Siegel JCC. PHOTO BY JCC STAFF 4. Camp JCC raises the American and Israeli flag PHOTO BY DONNA HARLEV 5. Swimmers capture moments together with a Selfie Stick at theSiegel JCC’s Swim Invitational. PHOTO BY JCC STAFF 6. Swim teams from 18 local pools dive into the Siegel JCC’s pool to warm 6 up before the North Brandywine Swim League Invitational. PHOTO BY JCC STAFF

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ShalomDelaware.org September 2016 | JEWISH VOICE | 17 AGENCYUPDATE What happens when a retired adult and a fifth grader sit together to learn texts of our tradition? After the initial awkwardness, there is much more than two people getting acquainted. For one thing, in bridging generations, they are experiencing connections that rarely happen anymore outside of family. For another, they are studying, not just struggling to converse. Most importantly, though, they are experiencing learning as a living endeavor.

This month, it is happening. As part of the Siegel JCC’s Delaware Valley Learning Institute (DVLI), Einstein fifth graders will be learning with adults in our community in the class called Generations of Torah. This three-week series offers a chance to learn more about the Torah, to learn TIMELESS LEARNING how we teach at Einstein, and to learn across the generations. By Rabbi Jeremy Winaker, Head of School Too often children go to school, and school becomes a bubble. The learning, academic and social, stays in the classroom. Even extracurricular activities focus students on peer interaction; adults of any age are in the stands or watching from their seats. At Albert Einstein Academy, students regularly engage adults: training to welcome visitors, presenting their learning, visiting with seniors at the Kutz Home, and more. Generations of Torah is just another example of a standing effort for our students to be engaged in community.

In our increasingly siloed world, it can be very hard to strike up a conversation with someone a generation or two different than you. The joke that our children know more about technology than their seniors is worn out. These same children are often over-scheduled while seniors are often sidelined or isolated in our society. Bridging the gap is no small matter. By placing a text that begs for interpretation in between child and adult, both become students who have to listen to each other. That alone is worth it.

Even more, though, this class offers a special opportunity to develop the critical thinking skills that have even South Koreans learning Talmud. For thousands of years, Jews have studied texts (written and oral) by Sophia Platsis and Grandfather Ron Vederman learn together at referencing previous attempts to understand them; commentary is a way Einstein’s Special Friends’ Day. PHOTO BY SIMA MALKA of life in Jewish learning. At Einstein, students are given two opposing views from rabbis throughout the ages on the meaning of a verse of Torah; they are also given two opposing views by “virtual” students their own age in an Israeli classroom; and they are asked for their own opinion. Add the face-to-face perspective of an adult today and you get the magic Albert Einstein Academy is a Beneficiary Agency of Jewish Federation of Delaware. of timeless learning from multiple angles. This paired learning, called chevruta (friendship), is likely not only to review in greater depth the Albert Einstein Academy is the Brandywine Valley’s premier different ideas of others but also to produce new ideas! Jewish Day School, located minutes from the PA border, we serve elementary school students from Delaware and Pennsylvania. AEA Texts across time, studied across a generational divide, and breathing strives for excellence through a well-rounded curriculum in both new life into the text and those studying; What could be better?! Einstein general and Judaic studies. Albert Einstein Academy is accredited is proud to be teaching the skills to make learning so engaging, so by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Questions about the school can be directed to Rabbi Jeremy Winaker, Head of productive, and so timeless. Come join the class; join the community; School, at (302) 478-5026. and if your child is an elementary school student, join the school. Timeless learning and lessons await.

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JFS PEER LEADERS PROMOTE POSITIVE Ke’Anna Williams (left) at JFS’s summer prevention program. By Meredith Stuart PHOTO CREDIT: DON’T JUDGE ME PRODUCTIONS Marketing & Development Specialist CHANGE IN DELAWARE SCHOOLS

“Youth learn best from their peers.” form of charity is acting to strengthen throughout New Castle County. After This truth drives Alice Stevens’ work as a others so that they become self-sufficient,” training, planning, and team building over credentialed Prevention Specialist at Jewish says CEO, Dory Zatuchni. “Peer Leaders the summer, they will be implementing Family Services of Delaware. It is the reason takes it one step further – as they will unique prevention programming in their why she wanted to start a Peer Leader be passing it on and strengthening their schools during the year. “Instead of adults program at JFS. peers.” going out and telling them that things need to change,” Alice explains, “we want the Inspired by Jewish values of justice, JFS’s inaugural class of Peer Leaders Peer Leaders to be in charge of making community, and caring for others, JFS has includes 10 young men and women, those changes.” provided counseling and support services ages 13 to 18, attending different schools MORE ON NEXT PAGE in Delaware and the Brandywine Valley for nearly 120 years. “If you go back to Maimonides’ levels of charity, the highest Jewish Family Services of Delaware is a Beneficiary Agency of Jewish Federation of Delaware.

ShalomDelaware.org September 2016 | JEWISH VOICE | 19 talks a lot about her friends – the influence peers and instructors, she became more AGENCYUPDATE that they have on her, and the influence comfortable in the spotlight. that she has on them. She was nervous at JFS PEER LEADERS the beginning of the interview, but when “Ms. Alice brought me out of my shell,” she CONTINUED FROM PAGE 20 she started speaking about becoming a says. “She made me do a lot of things that I Peer Leader, her demeanor changed. wasn’t comfortable doing, but now I can do Ke’Anna Williams, who became a Peer them. Like going out in public and talking to Leader in June puts it this way: “When you “Where we live, there’s not a lot of positive people.” become a Peer Leader, you go out in the things going on,” she said, leaning forward, community and in your school to teach her voice strong and passionate. “I wanted “Many times as parents or community people how to do the right things, how to to be a part of the program because I want members, we allow the students to stay in make the right choices, and how to help to be a person to change it. I want to show their comfort zones,” Alice says. “One of other people.” there is positivity in the world and help the ways we are succeeding is in pushing other people build up positivity.” them outside their comfort zones, because “JFS takes pride in training youth,” says that’s the way that they are going to find Director of Youth and Family Support Ke’Anna first got involved with JFS in 2014 their voices and grow.” Sophie Namugenyi. Peer Leaders, she through the agency’s Prevention Program. explains is an extension of prevention and Through the class, she helped write, star in, Peer Leaders start with a three-day training workforce development programming that and shoot a PSA encouraging her peers to in how to handle difficult situations. “The focuses on building skills and helping youth “choose their own image” instead of letting first day,” explains Alice, “is about getting become assets to their communities and others define them. to know themselves because in order to future employers. be a Peer Leader, you need to know your “I was really shy,” Ke’Anna remembers. strengths and weaknesses.” Day two Ke’Anna is a 10th grader at St. George’s “I didn’t want to be on camera, I didn’t focuses on conflict resolution and mediation, Technical High School in Middletown. In want to do it.” But after getting to know and day three teaches the students how to many ways she is a typical teenager. She the group, and being encouraged by her lead sessions with their peers.

Ke’Anna learned a lot from acting out different scenarios ranging from helping cheer up a peer with positive reinforcement to supporting a friend who is being abused. “We got taught how to take care of that person – not to just go tell the teacher by yourself,” Ke’Anna said. “You can’t take the power away from that person, you have to let them speak out for themselves.”

Now back at school, the Peer Leaders will Academic each be implementing the program in their Excellence. own way, in line with their own interests. Pride. One Peer Leader wants to offer tutoring Leadership. to help with homework, another wants to tackle bullying.

As for Ke’Anna, she plans to create a group where students are comfortable sharing their feelings and they can work together THE PROOF IS with their peers to resolve their problems. IN OUR GRADUATES “It’s an opportunity to get everything out,” she said, “because holding things in doesn’t Located just minutes from the PA border. have a good outcome.” Albert Einstein Academy | 302.478.5026 | www.aeacademy.org

20 | JEWISH VOICE | September 2016 ShalomDelaware.org AGENCYUPDATE Q&A with ANDREA MORRISON The Siegel J’s new Recreational Services Director

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TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOURSELF. to make “working out” not so much “work.” Some projects I’m working on right now WHAT IS YOUR CAREER BACKGROUND? If you can get the same benefits of exercise include our Fall program, Girls on the Run, I recently moved back to Wilmington from doing something you actually enjoy, why not? which begins in early September, getting Fenwick Island where I spent more than our Pickleball program up and running (join four years as the Director of Recreation at WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO IN YOUR us on Saturdays at 10am and Wednesdays a private resort. I grew up in Landenberg, FREE TIME? at 6pm for pick-up play!), and exploring PA and attended St. Elizabeth High School In my free time, I like to be active, explore some other ways to make every trip to the in Wilmington and Immaculata University in new cities and restaurants, and make some J exciting. I’m also working hard at plan- Malvern, PA, where I played softball and was progress towards my “go to all the zoos in ning the 2017 Mid Atlantic Junior Maccabi very active with the intramurals program. the world” goal. Games, which we are thrilled to be hosting in the Spring. So come in and visit me at the I have always worked in the fitness, DO YOU HAVE ANY HIDDEN TALENTS? J! Or reach out by email: andreamorrison@ wellness, and recreation industry. I began I don’t have any hidden talents but I am a siegeljcc.org. I can’t wait to hear from you! my career as a personal trainer and group published playwright and have a (not so) exercise instructor in commercial fitness, secret sweet tea and Twizzler addiction. moved to employee wellness in a corporate environment, and then found my niche in WHAT IS YOUR GOAL HERE AT THE JCC? recreation at private and now non-profit My goal at the JCC is to constantly improve our organizations. offerings to continue to bring our members relevant, effective, and exciting programming WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST ABOUT to help them achieve their fitness and wellness RECREATIONAL SERVICES? goals. The JCC is a wonderful and unique place I love recreation because it’s fun! It’s no secret to be and I would love for us to be a one-stop that being active is a huge key to being and shop for all of our members’ fitness, wellness, staying healthy, and recreation is a great way and recreation needs. Ciro is … • an Attorney Siegel JCC is a Beneficiary Agency of Jewish Federation of Delaware. • Teacher • National Guard Captain • Artist Jeffrey P. Stape • Husband and Father REALTOR R Champion for … Broker Associate • Seniors • Small Businesses • Teachers • The Arts Buy or sell your home with me during 2016 and receive a free home warranty pattersonschwartz.com (valued up to $430) Democratic Primary: SEPTEMBER 13

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ShalomDelaware.org September 2016 | JEWISH VOICE | 21 SYNAGOGUENEWS You wouldn’t expect an introduction to a new confirmation program to begin with a spirited game of passing several balls simultaneously around a circle, but that’s exactly how Shalom Corps at Congregation Beth Shalom kicked off. The program was introduced by Michael Sigman, who, with his wife, Linda, is co-vice president for Education at the congregation.

SHALOM CORPS BECKONS Explaining The Priority Game, Sigman issued complicated instructions on how each ball, including one declared “the priority,” was to be passed. A circle of about a dozen post-b’nei mitzvah teens POST-B’NEI MITZVAH TEENS and a similar size circle of their parents competed against each other to be the first to complete the task. By Ellen L. Weingart After the game ended — in a tie —Sigman facilitated a discussion about key points of the activity. Thoughts and concepts included in the discussion were: focusing on “the priority;” not being confused by distractions; many things happen at the same time; working as a team; and a sense of humor helps relieve stress, all of which, the group agreed, could be applied to life in general.

“With youth engagement ranked as one of the five key pillars for our synagogue’s success, the launching of new youth groups last year, and a Tikkun Olam Committee to manage our synagogue’s involvement in community efforts, this was a logical time to create an even more compelling curriculum for our teens as part of this long term plan,” said Sigman, explaining why the confirmation program was being revamped.

Confirmation’s roots lie in Germany as a Protestant celebration for teenagers, intended as a mature statement of faith and often required for membership in the church.

Rabbi Michael Beals, spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Shalom, said the German Reform Movement of Judaism adopted confirmation as a replacement for bar mitzvah, feeling that “it was Michael Sigman gives instructions on passing “the priority ball” before ridiculous to consider a Jewish boy of 13 a man.” The movement the start of the Priority Game. PHOTO CREDIT: HAYIM WEISS later reintroduced bar mitzvah and added bat mitzvah for girls. Jewish confirmation was brought to the United States in 1846 by Reform Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise.

Without abandoning bar mitzvah, the Conservative movement added confirmation to its education program. And, at a time when the Conservative movement was not fully egalitarian, confirmation gave Jewish girls a vehicle for feeling they also had a place in Jewish tradition.

“We have a wall of [photos of] confirmation classes going back to 1925,” said Rabbi Beals, adding that fewer Jewish teens now MORE ON NEXT PAGE

22 | JEWISH VOICE | September 2016 ShalomDelaware.org SYNAGOGUENEWS are making it through confirmation, component; Israel in the 21st century; typically grade ten. “The model is old and environmental issues; and conversational addition to social time during each class, no longer relevant to the majority of our Hebrew. there will be events that are purely social in teens.” There are studies, he added, that nature. show young people looking for unique The teens will also be involved in social action programs and personal community service projects, which, Sigman “These are our future leaders,” said Cantor meaning. By revamping both kehillah (the said, can be addressed based on their age Abrams, referring to the teens. “If Judaism congregation’s participation in charities and and abilities. He also added that Shalom isn’t meaningful now, it never will be. This is other communal affairs) and confirmation Corps also has a social function, and in an investment in the future.” and combining them in Shalom Corps, he continued, “we hope there will be more Jewish teens to socialize with, to do Jewish- inspired projects, and to attain Jewish knowledge that will last a lifetime.”

CBS’s Cantor Elisa Abrams, who has taught confirmation classes at Beth Shalom for the last four years, has been working with the Sigmans and various committees of congregants to design the new program.

“It can be hard to keep kids engaged beyond b’nei mitzvah,” she said. “We want the synagogue to be a hub for teens. We looked at what teens are interested in and that’s primarily social action, so there will definitely be a social action component.” The program will also teach leadership skills and provide a way for the teens to be with their friends; attributes, she said, that will last a lifetime. Thursday,

“Shalom Corps will provide an opportunity September 8, 2016 to learn, help the community, and get together socially,” said Sigman, adding that @7:00PM the program was being developed with Siegel JCC Auditorium input from lay leaders in the congregation. FREE Screening Open to the Community “And many of our congregants are Post-Screening Discussion to follow connected with other organizations in our community. We plan to take advantage For more information, contact of those connections to offer support to Katie Glazier at (302) 478-5660 those groups through volunteer hours. We also have talented clergy who will play MORE ON NEXT PAGE significant roles in the program.”

There have been several focus groups about possible courses with top interest going to connecting with Jewish teens around the world; Jewish food traditions and cooking, with a possible social action

ShalomDelaware.org September 2016 | JEWISH VOICE | 23 INISRAEL/OP-ED Love him or hate him, Donald Trump’s are not immune to the phenomenon, once unthinkable ascension became a and Israel is no exception. Indeed, new reality this past July, following a largely research has found that the process of drama-free roll call vote on the Republican personalization in Israel is more extreme National Convention floor. Trump, who will than in other states. This is especially the represent the Republican Party against the case in the virtual or online world, where Democratic Party’s nominee Hillary Clinton, politicians can gain quick, easy, inexpensive is a prime example of a candidate whose and direct access to their constituents, vision and ideas are not a direct reflection without going through traditional media or of his party’s values and policies, and who, party networks. in many ways, battled his way to the top of the party. My team at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) found that Israeli citizens prefer to Trump’s nomination is just one example “like” the leaders of their parties on social of a current trend toward political media, rather than the parties themselves, personalization, a process in which the more than the citizens of any of the other THE TRUMP 24 democracies we studied. Analyzing the influence of individual leaders in the political process has increased, as the Facebook following of 121 parties who centrality of the political group declines. won 4 percent or more of the votes in two PHENOMENON: consecutive parliamentary elections as This is not surprising. After all, we’re in the of February 2015, we found that in most age of me. countries social media exposure is greater Israeli Politics for the parties than for the candidates. This process of personalization is also taking In Israel, however, there is an extreme bias in the ‘Age of Me’ place within the business world. More and toward the party leader. more companies are identified with their CEOs. However, there is a difference: In Some Israeli politicians, such as Prime By Prof. Gideon Rahat | JNS.org the business world, companies either thrive Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yair Lapid or go bust as part of the market forces at (Yesh Atid) and Naftali Bennett (The play. In politics, the rise of individual players Jewish Home), stood out in the absolute EDITOR’S NOTE: Views expressed in isn’t just a danger to this or that party, but number of online followers they attracted, re-printed opinion pieces do not necessarily is likely to threaten the continued existence especially when compared to party leaders reflect the opinion of theJewish VOICE, of the political party as an institution, and in other countries. This trend is especially the Jewish VOICE Committee, or Jewish democratic governance as a whole. After significant when one keeps in mind that Federation of Delaware. The following some of these nations are much more article was selected because of an interesting all, democracy is based on the rule of law, parallel the author draws between the age as expressed through political institutions – populous than Israel. of politics in both the U.S. and Israel. not the rule of any specific single individual. And this is specifically valid for parliamentary Another parallel trend, though less democracies, like Israel, for which political extreme, was on the supply side. Israeli parties are central and essential. party leaders were more active on Facebook and Twitter, than most (but not The decline of political parties and the all) of their counterparts in the other 24 personalization of politics are not unique democracies we analyzed. to any one country; this is an international phenomenon. To be sure, the American In this age of Facebook likes, 140 characters political system has always been more on Twitter and personalized media options, Prof. Gideon Rahat is the director of research of personalized than its parliamentarian will we be able to preserve the power and the Israel Democracy Institute’s Political Reform counterparts, with the former’s open influence of Israel’s political parties, Project and heads the research team of IDI’s primary system and direct election of the Forum for Political Reform in Israel. president. But parliamentary democracies MORE ON NEXT PAGE

24 | JEWISH VOICE | September 2016 ShalomDelaware.org INISRAEL/OP-ED as other democracies have done? Parties still have a role to play in democracies, essentially defined as run by the rule of law and institutions, not of any specific person.

This is a uniquely complex challenge. But I think we can turn this challenge on its head.

Social media can be transformed into tools for strengthening political parties and Israeli democracy. After all, unlike on TV, which gives a clear advantage to politicians over parties, abstract entities like political parties can live happily in the virtual world. Furthermore, social media platforms allow political parties to simultaneously connect with people who have widely varying levels of interest, knowledge and abilities by combining verbal, visual and written communication, while creating layers of information and facilitating activity. Social media thus hold the promise of fostering broader civic participation in policy debate and formulation than at any other time in our history, and they provide a platform for ROSH HASHANAH heightened accountability to the public. Erev Rosh Hashanah L’SHANA TOVA Sunday, October 2 - 7:30pm from Rosh Hashanah - Day 1 Parties still have more resources than Monday, October 3 - 9:30am their leaders (at least most of the time). If TEMPLE BETH EL Youth Services 11am–12:30pm Grades K–2 / Grades 3–7 political parties can learn to harness social A Teen Discussion 10 - 11:15am media to their benefit, this could help Welcoming Family Service 4–4:45pm counterbalance the excessive focus on Tashlich Service 5pm individual personalities in Israel, and put the Contemporary Community Rosh Hashanah Day 2 believing in a modern future, Tuesday, October 4–9:30am personalization genie back where it belongs Rosh Hashanah Day 2 and all family/ while rooted in Jewish Tradition afternoon services are open to the – within the institution of the political party. community, NO tickets required. JOIN US YOM KIPPUR for Kol Nidre/ Erev Yom Kippur PHILIP BERGER MUSIC Tuesday, October 11 - 6:30pm Timeless music for extraordinary events Shabbat Services with Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein Yom Kippur Wed, October 12 - 9:30am . social or business Friday 7:30 pm . Saturday 9:30 am Youth Services 11am–12:30pm functions Grades K-2 / Grades 3-7 RELIGIOUS SCHOOL - PRE-K-10 Teen Discussion 10am–11:15am . fund-raisers Yizkor 12pm GAN -- 3 & 4 year olds . celebrations Family Service & Afternoon Andrea Finestrauss - School Administrator Service 4:45pm Ne’ilah Service 5:45pm www.tbede.org 301 Possum Park Rd. Final Shofar blast/ philipbergermusic.com Havdallah 6:30pm 302-366-8330 Newark, DE 19711 Childcare available, please RSVP no 302.427.2251 later than Sept. 26th at 302-366-8330. wilmington, de All are welcome to attend these AFFILIATED WITH THE JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST MOVEMENT musical and inspirational services.

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“What kinds of stereotypes emerge from this character?” she asks the roomful of ENROLLMENT IN JEWISH nearly a hundred students. “That Jews hate Christians,” one student STUDIES GROWS AMID answers.

By Charlotte Albright “That they are blamed for the crucifixion,” GLOBAL UNREST Dartmouth News another adds.

For the next hour, Heschel and her class explore the politics of prejudice—how England, Spain, and France expelled Jews or forced them to live in crowded ghettoes. Nearly 25 percent of Dartmouth Many African American students and Asian sophomores take Jewish Studies classes American students also see affinities with Ashwath Srikanth ’18, a history major, in history, religion, Hebrew language and Jewish cultures as they try to navigate the is taking the course to broaden his culture, anthropology, and government. demands of assimilation and their desire understanding of Judaism. “History is not That’s a sharp increase over the past decade, to retain identities that may conflict with just important figures and battles,” he says. and it’s one reason the Faculty of Arts and those demands. “It’s also learning about different cultures Sciences has recently granted permanent and heritages that we all share in the United status to the program. Chair Susannah Some students are in the class because States and around the world.” Heschel, the Eli Black Professor of Jewish they read stories about the Middle East Studies, says many other colleges and conflict in the news every day and want to An observant Hindu whose parents universities are lamenting a decline of interest understand the background. emigrated from India, Srikanth says in Jewish Studies, but not so at Dartmouth. he wants to learn more about Jewish Their Jewish Studies classes also help immigration to the United States. “They “We have serious and thoughtful them understand why the modern world, have overcome long prejudice to build scholar-teachers,” she says about the Heschel says, is experiencing a “crisis of a position of power and respect in this interdisciplinary program, “and students liberalism.” country, and it’s important to follow that who really do want to study. Their interest evolution,” he says. changes over time, but right now many “The fervor of attacks against Muslims in students really want to know more about this country and elsewhere helps students The Jewish Studies Program, like several the modern period.” understand anti-Semitism,” she says. “Or, others on campus, fosters cross-cultural to put it another way, the study of the education, says N. Bruce Duthu, the Frank Most of those students are not Jewish, history of anti-Semitism helps students J. Guarini Associate Dean of the Faculty for says Heschel. “For example, many Native understand the kind of attacks that one International Studies and Interdisciplinary American students come into my classes hears of today directed against Muslims, Programs and the Samson Occom Professor and see parallels with Jewish experience: African Americans, and so on. I think some of Native American Studies. the intertwined nature of their identity scholars in the field of Jewish Studies have that includes history, language, religion, sharpened our powers of analysis.” “Jewish history, intellectual thought, and ethnicity, and culture. Jewish students cultural and religious traditions are vital discover aspects of Jewish history and Sharp analysis is what Heschel models and components of our national story and the religion that they had never known.” asks of her students in “History and Culture of unfolding of world history,” says Duthu. the Jews,” one of three popular courses she “Our students recognize this as evidenced The courses are popular: This past summer, is teaching this summer. A lively discussion by ever-increasing enrollments in Jewish 246 students enrolled in the three Jewish topic: Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in Studies courses. This is a notable moment Studies classes that were being offered, Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. for both Dartmouth and this program.” about a quarter of the sophomore class.

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For most Americans, traditional Jewish culture summons up vary greatly in their diet, language, dress, and folk customs. Most images of Passover seders with steaming bowls of matzah ball pre-modern Diaspora communities are categorized into three major soup, black-hatted, pale-skinned Hasidic men, and Yiddish-speak- ethnic groups (in Hebrew, sometimes called eidot, “communities”): ing bubbes (grandmothers) and zeydes (grandfathers). In reality, these snapshots represent only one Jewish ethnic group of many. • Ashkenazim, the Jews of Germany and Northern France (in Hebrew, Ashkenaz) Shared Jewish history, rituals, laws, and values unify an international • Sephardim, the Jews of Iberia (in Hebrew, Sepharad) Jewish community. However, the divergent histories of Jewish com- and the Spanish diaspora munities and their contacts with other cultural influences distinguish • Mizrahim, or Oriental Jews Jewish ethnic groups from one another, giving each a unique way of being Jewish. Worldwide, Jews from distinct geographic regions MORE ON NEXT PAGE

Rabbi Rachel Miller Solomin is an educator living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was ordained from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of the University of Judaism (now American Jewish University) in 2001.

28 | JEWISH VOICE | September 2016 ShalomDelaware.org ASHKENAZIM FEATURE f The Jewish ethnic identity most readily During this period, Sephardic Jews reached THREADSo ourHERITAGE recognized by North Americans–the culture the highest echelons of secular government of matzah balls, black-hatted Hasidim, and and the military. Many Jews gained renown that includes a series of special foods eaten as Yiddish–originated in medieval Germany. in non-Jewish circles as poets, scholars, and omens for a good new Year and the eating of Although strictly speaking, “Ashkenazim” physicians. New forms of Hebrew poetry rice and legumes on Passover. refers to Jews of Germany, the term has arose, and talmudic and halakhic study took come to refer more broadly to Jews from on great sophistication. MIZRAHIM Central and Eastern Europe. Jews first Although often confused with Sephardim Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish language, unified reached the interior of Europe by following (because they share many religious customs), Jews throughout the peninsula in daily life, ritu- trade routes along waterways during the Mizrahim have a separate heritage. Mizrahi (in al, and song. Ladino, a blend of medieval Span- eighth and ninth centuries. Hebrew, “Eastern” or “Oriental”) Jews come ish with significant loan words from Hebrew, from Middle Eastern ancestry. Their earliest Arabic, and Portuguese, had both a formal, Eventually, the vast majority of Ashkenazim communities date from Late Antiquity, and literary dialect, and numerous daily, spoken relocated to the Polish Commonwealth the oldest and largest of these communities dialects which evolved during the immigrations (today’s Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, were in modern Iraq (Babylonia), Iran (Persia), of Sephardic Jews to new lands. The Sephardic and Belarus), where princes welcomed their and Yemen. skilled and educated workforce. The small Golden Age ended when Christian princes consolidated their kingdoms and re-established pre-existent Polish Jewish community’s Today, most Mizrahi Jews live either in Christian rule throughout Spain and Portugal. customs were displaced by the Ashkenazic Israel or the United States. In their new In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella prayer order, customs, and Yiddish language. homes, Mizrahim are more likely than other expelled all Jews from Spain; soon after, a simi- Jews to maintain particularly strong ties lar law exiled Jews from Portugal. Sephardim Jewish life and learning thrived in north- with others from their family’s nation of immigrated to Amsterdam, North Africa, and eastern Europe. The yeshiva culture of origin. Thus, it is not uncommon to find a the Middle East. Others established new com- Poland, Russia, and Lithuania produced a specifically Persian or Bukharan synagogue. munities in the Americas or converted publicly constant stream of new talmudic scholar- Likewise, Mizrahim are not united by a to Christianity, sometimes secretly maintaining ship. In 18th century Germany, the �askalah single Jewish language; each subgroup a Jewish life. These converts (known in Ladino movement advocated for modernization, spoke its own tongue. introducing the modern denominations and as conversos and in Hebrew as anusim, forced converts) often maintained their Judaism in institutions of secular Jewish culture. The unique Mizrahi culture has penetrated secret. In the 21st century, there are still people Israeli mainstream society in recent years. in both Europe and the Americas who are dis- Although the first American Jews were Yemenite music entered the pop scene covering and reclaiming their Jewish ancestry. Sephardic, today Ashkenazim are the most with Ofra Haza, who blended traditional populous ethnic group in North America. instruments, rhythms, and lyrics with modern Wherever Sephardim traveled, they The modern religious denominations flair. Yemenite silversmiths create sacred brought with them their unique ritual developed in Ashkenazic countries, and objects used by Jews of all backgrounds. customs (minhagim), language, arts, therefore most North American synagogues “Mizrahi” restaurants–where large platters and architecture. Sephardic synagogues use the Ashkenazic liturgy. of skewered meat and breads and bowl upon often retain the influence of Islam in bowl of salads and condiments are shared by their architecture by favoring geometric, SEPHARDIM a group–have become fashionable gathering calligraphic, and floral decorative motifs. Many historical documents recount a large places in Israel. Although they may align with the population of Jews in Spain during the early Ashkenazic religious denominations (usually years of the Common Era. Their cultural Despite these trends, Jewish ethnic barriers Orthodoxy), the denominational identity of distinctiveness is characterized in Roman remain strong. In Israel, Ashkenazic Jews Sephardic synagogues is, in most cases, less writings as a “corrupting” influence. Later, still dominate leadership roles in public strong than their ethnic identity. with the arrival of Christianity, Jewish institutions. For much of Israel’s history, legal authorities became worried about Sephardim and Mizrahim were dispropor- At home, Ladino songs convey family assimilation and maintaining Jewish identity. tionately underrepresented in the govern- traditions at the Shabbat table, although Despite these concerns, by the seventh ment. Yet now, they make up more than Ladino is rapidly disappearing from daily use. century Sephardim had flourished, beginning half of the population. Sephardic Jews often maintain unique holiday a time known as the “Golden Age of Spain.” customs, such as a seder for Rosh Hashanah MORE ON NEXT PAGE

ShalomDelaware.org September 2016 | JEWISH VOICE | 29 FEATURE THREADSofourHERITAGE Massive economic disparities exist among different eidot, since Mizrahi immigrants JEWISH DIVERSITY STILL MATTERS frequently were brought to Israel by emer- Many Jews today live a multi-layered Jewish gency airlifts, arriving with minimal property existence. Ethiopian Jews attend Hasidic or wealth. Partially as a way to combat these yeshivot, and Sephardim serve matzah discrepancies, Israeli political parties are often ball soup at their Passover seders. Jews formed along ethnic lines, such as Shas (Sep- from all backgrounds often borrow each hardic), Agudas Israel (Ashkenazic), and Atid other’s cultural traditions. Many populous Ehad (Ethiopian Jews). Jewish communities have a diverse range of ethnicities, and that diversity presents itself Some Jews protect their ethnic identity in Unaffiliated, egalitarian and even within individual families. other ways. Religious Jews will follow the welcoming congregation minhagim of their ancestors in both their Tickets not required; donations welcome Though some of these cultural divides have homes and synagogues. Others consciously healed–partially due to the increase in mar- study their traditional Jewish language, ROSH HASHANAH riages among members of different ethnic whether Yiddish, Ladino, or Farsi and join Erev Rosh Hashanah Service groups–ethnicity is still highly relevant in Is- social clubs based on their ethnic heritage. Sunday, October 2 at 7:30 p.m. raeli society. For example, the public school In North America, where secular schools Epworth United Methodist Church (EUMC) Rehoboth Beach, DE curriculum over-represents Ashkenazic often celebrate multiculturalism, Jewish cultural achievements and history. At least supplemental and day schools have begun Rosh Hashanah Service and Activities to include Jewish ethnic diversity in their & Services for young people one study recently reported that Mizrahim Monday, October 3 at 10 a.m. are still half as likely to attend universities curricula. Indeed Jewish ethnicity becomes as Ashkenazim. a way to trace the course of Jewish history. Tashlich Monday, October 3 at 5 p.m. North Shores Marina September Shabbat Shuva Service with Chant, Your Meditation, Torah Study Kosher Deli’s Menu Friday, October 7 at 7:30 p.m. Seaside Jewish Community Building Rehoboth Beach, DE Partial September Menu Selections Change Every 2 Weeks Teriyaki Glazed Salmon YOM KIPPUR Stuffed Flounder Florentine Kol Nidre Beef Sloppy Joes Tuesday, October 11 at 7:00 p.m. Italian Style Chicken Cutlet EUMC Italian Style Beef Meatballs Buffalo Chicken Salad Rotisserie Chicken Salad Wednesday, October 12 Chicken Marsala 10 a.m. - Yom Kippur Service with Vinaigrette Rotisserie Chicken Salad Yizkor and Activities & Services *Roasted Red Bliss Potatoes for Young People *Roasted Farm Vegetables 4:30 p.m. - Study session *Green Beans w/Peppers & Onions 5:30 p.m. - Mincha, N’ilah & Havdalah *Steamed Asparagus 7:00 p.m. - Break the Fast $9 Build a Meal- Advance reservations for meal required by Oct 5 Available by Choose one meat (8 oz) and 2 sides* (6 oz each) the Pound or $12 Build a Meal- Build a Meal Choose one fish (8 oz) and 2 sides* (6 oz each) For more information and to reserve Break-Fast, contact us: SHOPRITE OF BRANDYWINE COMMONS Catering • Deli • Market • Bakery www.seasidejewishcommunity.com Dedicated to providing the highest standards 1300 ROCKY RUN PARKWAY, WILMINGTON, DE of Kashrus. Under the supervision of the 302-226-8977 (302) 477-3270 SHOPRITE.COM/CATERING Va'ad Ha Kashrut of Delaware.

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One of the ubiquitous symbols of Rosh Hashanah is the pome- granate. On the second night of Rosh Hashanah, Jews eat a “new” COOKING WITH fruit that they haven’t eaten in 30 days. One of the most popular is the pomegranate. The pomegranate is a fruit of Israel and is said to have 613 seeds – compared to the 613 mitzvot in the Torah. On Rosh Hashana besides the new fruit “shehechiyanu” blessing, we say an ex- POMEGRANATES tra blessing on the pomegranate of “sheyirbu zechuyoseynu k’rimon” By Sharon Matten – may our merits be many like the seeds of the pomegranate. With aish.com a great blessing like that I would think that we would want to use as many pomegranates on the holiday as possible! I’m sharing with you some of my all-time favorite, delicious and fabulous pomegranate recipes. Have a happy and healthy New Year!

POMEGRANATE POMEGRANATE CRANBERRY Preheat oven to 350° F. Cover a large 2 1 rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil RICE STAR-FRUIT CHICKEN For a bigger pomegranate flavor use 3 cups This recipe is a great way to use two and spray with non-stick vegetable spray. of pomegranate-cranberry juice blend and “shechiyanu” fruits in a single sweet and Set aside. 1 cup of vegetable stock. If you can’t find tangy recipe. Your Yom Tov guests will Add the ½ cup of honey and the star-fruit to pomegranate infused dried cranberries, ooh and ahh at this unique and gorgeous the syrup. Simmer 10 minutes. Add the dried you can use traditional dried cranberries chicken dish! Make sure to use only ripe pomegranate infused cranberries. instead. star-fruit or they will be sour. 1 large white onion, finely diced (around 4 cups pomegranate-cranberry juice Heat olive oil in a large skillet. Brown chicken • • on both sides, then place on prepared bak- 2 ½ cups) blend, no sugar added (I use POM 2 tablespoons canola oil brand) ing sheet. Evenly spoon the syrup mixture • over the chicken. Bake for 45 minutes, • 2 cups basmati rice • ½ cup sugar 2 cups pomegranate-cranberry juice 1 tablespoon lemon juice basting with the sauce every 15 minutes. • • Serve topped with oven juices, star-fruit and blend (I use Langers) • 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 cups vegetable stock 8 chicken breast halves, tenders re- cranberries. • • • 1 teaspoon sea salt moved For additional sauce: 1 ½ cups pomegranate infused dried ½ cup honey • • Combine the pomegranate-cranberry juice cranberries • 2 ripe star-fruit, thinly sliced blend and corn starch in a small saucepan, • 1 ½ cups dried pomegranate infused making sure to dissolve all the starch. Cook Heat the canola oil in a large stock pot. cranberries (you can use standard dried over medium heat until thickened. Serve Sauté the onion in the oil until slightly cranberries if infused ones are not avail- warm sauce ove r chicken. browned. Add the rice, juice and vegetable able) stock to the pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce • nonstick vegetable spray. heat and simmer for 15 minutes until rice is cooked through. Allow the rice to sit for Additional sauce (optional) 10 minutes, then stir in the salt and dried 2 cups pomegranate-cranberry juice • cranberries. Serve warm. blend, cold or room temp (I use Langers) • 2 tablespoons corn starch MORE ON NEXT PAGE

In a medium saucepan, combine pome- granate-cranberry juice with the sugar and Sharon Matten lives in Chicago and is a Freelance Pastry Chef, Kosher Food Writer & Blogger, Cable TV lemon juice. Bring to a boil then reduce heat guest Chef, Wilton Cake Instructor, Cookbook Contributing Editor, Electrical Engineer, Wife & Mom (not and simmer for 75 minutes until reduced in order of importance!). She writes the weekly www.koshereveryday.com blog about cooking kosher and thickened. (Can be made a few days in with a family and busy life – pictures and recipes included! To get more great recipes, and to find out advance and refrigerated until ready to use.) more information about Sharon Matten go to www.koshereveryday.com.

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NO-BAKE FRUITY POMEGRANATE 3 MOUSSE PIE (makes two 9” pies) This is the perfect light and creamy ending to your huge Yom Tov meal. It’s quick to make, and doesn’t require precious oven time to prepare. Using ready-made graham cracker crusts also speeds up prep time so you have more time to spend with your family and Combine dessert jel and juice in a small Spoon into the ready-made graham cracker guests! bowl. Fill a small saucepan with 1 ½ inches crusts. Smooth the top using an offset of water. Bring to a boil then reduce heat to spatula. • 2 9” ready-made graham cracker crust a very low simmer. Set the small bowl in the • 3 ounce package Double Berry Jel Des- saucepan and stir until mix is completely Whip the remaining 2 cups of whipping sert (I use Kojel) dissolved in the juice and warm to the touch cream. Spread or pipe decoratively on the • ½ cup Pomegranate Cranberry Juice (not hot). Remove from the water and set top of the filling. Refrigerate for at least 2 Blend, cold or room temp (I use aside. hours. Slice and serve garnished with dried Langers) cranberries or fresh pomegranate seeds. • 4 cups whipping cream, divided Whip 2 cups of whipping cream until stiff Can be made in advance and frozen. Defrost • Dried cranberries and/or fresh pome- peaks form. Add the Jel/juice mixture to slightly before serving. granate seeds for garnish the whipped cream and re-whip until stiff.

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At the Siegel JCC ArtSpace September 18 through the end of October:

DRAWING AT THE SPEED OF THOUGHT Flash Rosenberg’s Live Conversation Portraits and other drawings

In the Showcase: Flash pillows, scarves and fabric by the yard

Reception to Meet the Artist Flash Rosenberg PHOTO BY DAN BRODY Sunday, September 18, 3-5 PM. FREE DRAWING AT THE SPEED OF THOUGHT FLASH ROSENBERG TALK: Drawing at the Speed of Thought Jewish Women’s Gathering Brunch By Kerin Hearn Flash Rosenberg at Sunday, September 18 Siegel JCC ArtSpace Committee 10 AM—12 PM the JCC ArtSpace Flash tells stories and demonstrates drawing at the speed of thought Please reserve online or at the front Faster is the buzzword for artist Flash Rosenberg—in her thinking, her desk, $20 speaking, her art, and her life in general. She is always seeking faster ways to communicate through her art. A static drawing is not enough. It needs to tell an instant story, show a complex thought or thinking pat- tern, communicate humor or sadness at-a-glance.

Drawing at the Speed of Thought is Flash Rosenberg’s installation in the Siegel JCC ArtSpace, mid-September through the end of October. A free reception to meet the artist will be held Sunday, September 18, 3-5 PM.

Flash will speak on Drawing at the Speed of Thought at the annual Jewish Women’s Gathering brunch on September 18, 10 AM to noon. She will tell stories of her life, show examples of her theory, and give participants a chance to draw thoughts. Her rapidly moving hands will be projected on a large screen as she draws.

Flash Rosenberg is an artist on an imaginative adventure, with many quests of her own devising. Her stories are punctuated with quick smiles, WoMenorah Notecards ARTWORK BY FLASH ROSENBERG jubilant laughter, and sparkling eyes. Her play with words places the most common expression in an amusing juxtaposition, something she learned early through Hebrew transliteration games. Her drawings are whimsical, The Siegel JCC ArtSpace is located across from the front desk in the humorous, complex, and intellectual and almost always reflect words in main lobby. Visit the exhibition during regular lobby hours. Artists in- some way, using cartooning as language. terested in exhibiting at the Siegel JCC ArtSpace should contact Katie Glazier at [email protected] or 302-478-5660. MORE ON NEXT PAGE

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Flash nee Susan Rosenberg, attributes her Jewish upbringing to influencing her art. She was raised in Newark, DE, where her parents helped start Temple Beth El. Her siblings were among the very few other Jews in her school. She vividly remembers sitting on a snow bank and pulling her boots off to prove to the little girl down the street that she did not have hooves! Flash Think on Distraction ARTWORK BY FLASH ROSENBERG She was the first young woman to agree to photos in magazines, then taking her own A heckler in the crowd called out “Flash… be confirmed at her temple. In her studies, faster photos. A single photo was not fast her name is Flash” and it stuck. she interpreted Judaism as a celebration of enough, so she developed multiple-image inverses—books go the “wrong” way, from sequences with captions. It was during this In Philly she started her performing career right to left; days begin at nights; biblical period that she burst onto the Delaware at WXPN recording a series of “photos for “men in bathrobes” lead the people, so contemporary art scene. Her photographs radio” which became the award-winning, they must wear a suit and tie to bed. From and a short experimental movie made of daily feature Flash Moments. Because fans this she was inspired by the idea that the 7,000 still photos were recently featured in wanted to “see” her, she began making ap- exact opposite of everything she knew Dream Streets: Art In Wilmington 1970-1990 pearances in clubs. In 1992 and 1993, read- to be true “could happen” – and it would at the Delaware Art Museum. ers of The Philadelphia City Paper voted her still be all right. Her Rabbi encouraged Person Most Likely To Make You Laugh Until questions, assuring her that doubt is more When she moved to Philadelphia, one of her It Hurts, along with Ed Rendell! important than faith. first jobs was to photograph the Founda- tion for Architecture’s first Beaux Arts Ball. This distinction prompted her to move to At the University of Delaware, she created Being a costume ball, she decided to go as Manhattan where she focused on creat- her own major by asking the question: How a Censored Photograph, affixing strips of ing original comic performances. Her solo do we know the things we know when we black duct tape over the obvious places. shows toured internationally. Performing haven’t been told?—a perceptual puzzle Alas, when she showed up virtually naked, led to main stage urban storytelling at The she has tried to solve her entire life. she was mortified to suddenly discover Moth. The host, also affiliated with the this was THE society event of the year, at- New York Public Library, invited Flash to The arc of Flash’s career flows from draw- tended by 4,000 people. When the judges be a pioneering Artist-in-Residence there. ing to photography to writing to perform- announced that she won the prize for best Drawing at the Speed of Thought began ing to animation. She began by tracing costume she hesitated to reveal her name. with videotaping her hands drawing discus- sions between prominent authors (such as Werner Herzog, Sandra Day O’ Connor, and Your old car has never been more valuable... Keith Richards) and culminated in creating animations, or Conversation Portraits.

Now you can donate it to This successful artist now inhabits a fabu- Jewish Family Services. lous, airy studio loft in the shadow of the Empire State Building. It is filled with cabi- nets of meticulously labeled and organized drawings, toys, props, fabric, oddities, and gizmos. And so the ever-quirky Flash moves A tax deduction for you www.jfsdelaware.org/cardonation on creating amusing, unusual, and always Stronger families for Delaware. (877) JFS-4CARS / (877) 537-4227 original art at high speed!

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39 40 41 42 43 44 45 4. Foot of one described in 3-Down 5. Schluff sound 46 47 48 49 50 6. Loathes (like Netanyahu regarding the Iran deal) 51 52 53 54 55 7. Scarlett Johansson voiced one in “The Jungle Book” 56 57 58 59 60 8. Newman’s ___ 9. Eradicates (Amalek) 61 62 63 64 65 66 10. Having one is good if Israel gas prices get too high 11. Talmidai Chachamim in school? 67 68 69 70 71 12. “If the Messiah came....” 13. Age at which David became king 72 73 74 18. One is OK for a “peaceful house” 23. ____ HaZeh 75 76 77 24. “Seinfeld” uncle 25. Need to pay back an (interest free) loan 26. Total in Ginsberg and Kagan’s group 28. El Al competitor, once 29. They’re in Rehovot? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 49.9 Give10 one a parnassah,11 like12 a boss13 30. School exams on the Avot? ACROSSR A M P S A B O 51. RThe entireT book of Samuel,K A perhapsT 14 15 16 32. Support the Shul, e.g. 1. Stairs alternative in the Temple 53. Day of Atonement mth., often O C E A N B O W I E N T H 35. Black-eyed Rosh Hashana item 6. Halt (an IDF mission) 55. Former home of many Israeli immigrants: Abbr. 17 18 19 36. Sorts (of Hasidim) 11. Actress Dennings 56. “The best of them is like a ___, the most S H O W O F H A N D S O B I 38. Breastplate item 14. The Mediterranean merges with one upright...” (Micah 7:4) 20 21 22 23 41. Deborah or Hulda, e.g. 15. David who rocked Tel Aviv in 1996 58. A mint copy of Action Comics #1, in the H E W R I O S L O W E R 44. Letters that might run the Tikun app 16. Godly power? collectors’ world 24 25 26 27 45. When Norsemen violate of the Second 17. Taking a Birkat Kohanim vote in school? 61. Parsha often doubled up L E B R O N A L I S T Commandment, he’s sometimes involved 19. ____-Wan (Abrams used his voice in a 2016 smash) 63. New England Coll. whose head, Evelyn Handler, 28 29 30 31 32 33 47. ____ name (Waze tag) 20. Use an axe (to shape a large mezuzah) was also Brandeis’s only woman president T O P E S W I G A T T Y 48. Carmel Forest, for one 21. Where Yarden Gerbi won bronze 64. Letters for Jon Leibowitz and Natalie Herschlag 34 35 36 37 38 50. Postpone ‘til after Shabbat, with “off” 22. The wit of most compared to Woody Allen 67. Lieber’s chips alternative W H O O P I E N I G M A 51. “Shawshank” triangle? 24. He reportedly didn’t get along with David Blatt 68. Herschel Krustofski and others in school? 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 52. Rambled on, like an over-zealous Rabbi 27. Choice roster with Portman and Day-Lewis 72. Comprehend (like a piece of Talmudic logic) A S P E L S E V E L I T 54. Has faith 28. Gulp the Manischewitz 73. ____ Chayil 46 47 48 49 50 57. Some Shabbat table sides 31. Gulp the Manischewitz 74. The other of Reitman’s “Ghostbusters” Q U A K E S E M P L O Y 59. Judaica reference publication: Abbr. 33. Dershowitz, e.g.: Abbr. with Bill, Dan, and Harold 51 52 53 54 55 60. Lug 34. Goldberg of note 75. Sheeran and Asner O P U S S E P T U S S R 62. ___-ran, like Bernie Sanders 37. Nazi device 76. Makes like Noah’s dove 56 57 58 59 60 64. Bristles in many a cholent 39. Snake in “Raiders of The Lost Ark” 77. Part of kashe varnishkes B R I E R R A R E S T 65. Bubby might do it 40.61 Superboy’s girlfriend would be62 Ana Ang 63 64 65 66 without them DOWN 66. Like Jonah on the run T A Z R I A U 1. StartN ofH a holiday?A K A 69. Nahal center? 42.67 Former rib of note 68 69 70 71 43. Observed the 25th of Kislev 2. A Dead Sea dip might soothe one 70. Sat. morning talk U T Z C L A S S 3. SoundC LmadeO by manyW roamingN S in Israel’s alleys 71. “...be a wise man ___ fool?” (Ecc. 2:19) 46.72 Seismographic episodes73 74 ShalomDelaware.orgS E E E S H E T E R N I E September 2016 | JEWISH VOICE | 37 75 76 77 E D S S O A R S P A S T A

RABBIS’VOICES EACH MONTH, RABBI PETER GRUMBACHER, ALONG Contemporary music need not be limited WITH RABBIS FROM AROUND THE STATE, ANSWER to western pop music either, the growth of YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT JUDAISM. Jewish chant music and Kirtan music, a call Have a question? ASK THE RABBI! and response style based on eastern reli- Send your questions to: [email protected] gious practices has also emerged as a highly participatory form of worship.

Within the Jewish worship service, there Israel has also begun to see the emergence HOW HAS THE has always existed a delicate balance of progressive grassroots prayer communi- between evoking ancient sounds and ties such as Bet Teffilah Yisraeli and Nava Q: sentiments together with contemporary CONTEMPORARY Tehillah bringing the soundscape heard in ones and instrumentation. Liturgical music post army travels, and adding them to the MUSIC OF THE evolved from biblical times from a form of contemporary Israeli musical culture. One a call and response style chanting of wor- might find a worship service on the beach SYNAGOGUE ship to a more solo lay-led in rabbinic times of Tel Aviv framed around a series of Bob with the invention of the prayer book, the Marley songs or other reggae pieces whose IMPACTED WORSHIP? siddur. This in turn evolved into the chazzan sentiments match those which are deeply or cantor. Contemporary liturgical music in entwined within our liturgy. So that “Mi many ways blends these and has seen an RABBI MICAH Chamocha”, our liturgical redemption song, increase in participation, whether it be by and Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” are BECKER-KLEIN voice, instrumentation, percussion, addi- Temple Beth El blended since they touch a deep shared A: tional rhythms, or joining in the niggun, the universal sense of redemption. wordless melody. In general, the music of Zamru ladonay bekinor vekol zimra. contemporary worship that has had a last- It was our medieval Kabbalistic teachers, “Sing to God upon instruments and with ing impact tends to be those that increase many voices...” --Psalms 98:5 who helped instill within Jewish life a sense the participation and connect to the energy that we can lift up our prayers with the melo- of the worshippers, the participants. dies we hear around us. Pieces such as Lecha Dodi and Shalom Alechem were written with FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 the intention that they could fit to differ- Light candles at 7:13 PM ent melodies, and multiple melodies were SHABBAT Shabbat, September 3, 2016 indeed used for these prayers. With each Shabbat ends at 8:10 PM melody taken from the secular realm and brought into liturgical prayer the holy spark CANDLE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 of the melody would be elevated along with Light candles at 7:02 PM the intention of the worshipper and lend LIGHTING Shabbat, September 10, 2016 new meaning and energy to the prayer itself. Shabbat ends at 7:59 PM I think that today we are experiencing our version of this experience. The holy spark TIMES FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 we experience when we can hear a prayer Light candles at 6:50 PM in a new light or as a new metaphor evoked Shabbat, September 17, 2016 by the melody of the song itself. So today, Shabbat ends at 7:47 PM when we enter a worship service to new sounds and rhythms, we can be open to the FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 deep tradition from which they emerge. Light candles at 6:39 PM Shabbat, September 24, 2016 RABBI PETER GRUMBACHER Shabbat ends at 7:35 PM Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Beth Emeth

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 I’ve said that if a person came to my home Light candles at 6:27 PM congregation in New York City in 1937, Shabbat, October 1, 2016 memorized the Shabbat morning liturgy Shabbat ends at 7:23 PM of our wonderful cantor before becoming deaf, then came back in 1967 singing what he

38 | JEWISH VOICE | September 2016 ShalomDelaware.org remembered, absolutely nothing would have synagogue. Then I said to myself, “C’mon, changed. The German liberal synagogue is practice what you preach!” RABBIS’VOICES famous for magnificent music, music that is uplifting and formal. But there is little diver- Back to the subject at hand... sity, rotating perhaps between Lewandowski And they’re designed for the organ. In my and Sulzer! What you heard one Shabbos The camps of the Reform movement and, opinion, guitar music simply doesn’t belong morning is what you heard virtually every I’m certain, the camps of other movements, in a High Holyday service. Shabbos morning! nurture musicians whose melodies for the camps have also become music of the Having said that, if your synagogue allows Most people in Beth Emeth know that I love synagogue itself. It might take a while, but for instrumental music, it does belong in liturgical music, and we have had a wide the influence of kids coming back to their a Shabbat service. But even without an variety across the years. Why? Because there youth groups with melodies they actually instrument, there is something unique about is more to select from than the miSinai tunes sing is influence that brings those tunes to contemporary music. The melodies of today heard by our parents, grandparents and the sanctuary; chazzanim study those camp emanate from the ruach, the spirit, of youth. probably great-grandparents, maybe going songs as well as the classic melodies. It’s not just youth services that now include all the way back to what Moses heard on those melodies but “adult” worship as well. Mount Sinai (miSinai meaning “from Sinai”). I believe in balance. There is room for both. Forty-four years ago Beth Emeth worship- Yes, worshippers who are “regulars” are Especially on Rosh Hashanah and Yom pers didn’t sing but left it to the choir in the comfortable with those tunes, and those not Kippur, the glorious melodies - singable or loft up above; today we do sing along with accustomed to weekly worship want to hear not - highlight those days’ status as yamim the cantor and we sing with gusto. Many what they remember from their youth. noraim, Days of Awe, not only theological of the melodies are contemporary; most of but liturgical awe as well. The music should them are fantastic. They will be the classi- In fact, that’s how I felt. As much as I love impress you so you sense a difference be- cal tunes in another generation. Hopefully variety, when I returned to my congrega- tween the holydays and, let’s say, Shabbat. those, the ones written in the 19th century, tion in NYC I wanted to hear what I “memo- They are designed for kedusha, holiness, and the ones my grandchildren will hear will rized,” the glorious music of the German so your prayers might ascend even higher. all be integral to synagogue worship. Quaker matters. Come see why. OPEN HOUSES 10/15 • Preschool - 5 10/16 • Grades 6-12

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LILLIAN K. BOYS REBECCA KEYSER AARON OKEN PHD 1921 - 2016 AGE: 81 • Wilmington AGE: 93 • Wilmington Lillian K. Boys Age 94 passed away peace- Rebecca “Becky” Jeffery Keyser, was born Dr. Arron Oken, a true renaissance man, age fully July 27, 2016. Born in Philadelphia, PA 81 years ago to Marian Govaerts Jeffery and 93 died on July 18, 2016 at home holding on November 1, 1921, she was the daughter Thomas Jeffery. Becky graduated from Mos- hands with his devoted wife, Rose Lynn. He of the late William and Anna Krasnick. Lillian sic High School in Pennsylvania in 1952 and was the son of the late Leo and Dora Oken. lived most of her life in Wilmington, DE. She attended nurses training at Kings County Aaron was an extraordinary intellect who was a Bridge Master, everyone’s life coach Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. She moved could do and did almost anything; he was and loved for her loving kindness. Survived to Wilmington in 1953 and soon met Alan a bomber pilot in England during World by daughters, Susan Swartz and Barbara Keyser. They were married in 1954. Becky War II, an organic chemist who received his Grossman (Dr. Len); grandchildren, Alison was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother Bachelor’s degree magna cum laude and his (Adam), Jacob, Alex and Karly; great-grand- and great grandmother. She really enjoyed PhD from Stanford University. Aaron was children, Julian, Ethan, Jonathan and Kara, hosting big family holiday dinners when all an innovative scientist and inventor, an avid Lillian was preceded in death by husband, the family, including all of the in-laws, at- hiker and backpacker, a successful invest- Arthur and brother, Martin Krasnick. tended. She and Alan enjoyed traveling and ment advisor, a self-taught ocean going In lieu of flowers, the family suggests saw most of the world. Becky worked for sailor, and much more. contributions to the Kutz Home, 704 River several years as a Real Estate Agent after As a prolific chemical inventor at DuPont, Road, Wilmington, DE 19809. her children were grown. Becky is survived Aaron invented a coating, Elvax that spawned by her Alan Keyser and daughters Carol hundreds of products from the plastic coat- Iadisernia (Daniel), Lori Schwander (Lewis) ings on paper milk cartons to EVA insoles Y Y and Susan Keyser, grandchildren Michael used in athletic shoes. As an independent Schoenberg Schwander (Jenny), Matthew Schwander chemist Aaron developed a gold decorating Memorial Chapel (Katie), Christine Engle (Chris) and Katie paint that became the industry standard and Iadisernia (Merrill), great granddaughter An- having sold that process and retired. How- Dedicated to serving our gelina and brother and sister-in-law, Kenneth ever he continued to use his home kitchen communitywith Compassion, and Geraldine Jeffery. to invent and patent products that improved In lieu of flowers, the family suggests on existing technology. Only two years ago, Competence and Dignity donations to the Ronald McDonald House of Aaron was granted his last patent, “selective Delaware, 1901 Rockland Rd., Wilmington, polysulfide composite membrane”. DE 19803. For online condolences please visit 519 Philadelphia Pike . Wilmington, DE Chandlerfuneralhome.com (302-478-7100). MORE ON NEXT PAGE 302-762-0334

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Aaron was preceded in death by his wife, Sylvia, and his brother, Murray. He leaves behind his beloved wife, Rose Lynn Rostocki Oken, who brought him so much love and happiness over the past 23 years. Aaron also leaves behind his daughter and son-in-law, Judy and David Hodas; three grandchildren, Nathan, Sam, and Maria Hodas, and Libby and Matthew Wentworth; four great-grandchildren whom he adored and always looked forward to seeing; Leo, Eli, Geoffrey, and Henry; and his niece, Linda. Aaron is also survived by his extended family; Michael Rostocki, Janet Protack and her husband, Peter Paul Jr., grandchildren, Tim (Ann Marie), Jamie LET US CATER TO YOU. (Jen), and Josh. He was especially proud of his great-grandchildren; Gus who he This fall, let Janssen’s do the work for all your gatherings or family and friends. From hand sliced Nova to traditionally prepared Break the Fast platters, we can create a customized menu just for mentored and shared a special relationship, you. L’ Shana Tovah! WWW.JANSSENSMARKET.COM Louis, Annabel, and Molly who could always 3801 KENNETT PIKE, GREENVILLE, DE make him smile, Chase, Max, and Tyler who Contact our catering director today at (302) 654-9941 x3. 302.654.9941 also brightened his days.

SYLVIA SAMUELS Jewish Federation of Delaware Age 84, of Mt. Laurel, NJ, passed away July 22, 2016. Sylvia was born in Philadelphia, PA Tribute Cards and was the daughter of the late Charles and Jeanette Rosenstein. She was married for 62 Designed by Riva Brown years to her loving husband, Bertram. Sylvia enjoyed simple pleasures: the companionship of her husband, dining out with family, a clas- sic movie and talk radio (back in the day when it was good). She was not a dedicated sports fan, but always supported her husband, Bert, a true Philly sports fanatic. Sylvia was deeply devoted to her family and reveled in the com- pany of her two children and seven grand- children. She was an intelligent and engaged person, a dedicated humanitarian and animal Recognize and thoughtfully lover. Sylvia is survived by her husband, Ber- commemorate life cycle tram; her sons, Ron (Jean) of Wilmington, DE events including simchas and Barry (Kim) of Plano, TX; her brother, Ir- and honoring a loved ving Rosenstein of Philadelphia, PA; and seven one’s memory. grandchildren, Jake, Abby, Zach, Catherine, Acknowledge friends, family and community members with the added benefit of supporting Josh, Jamie and Grace. Federation’s mission and allowing us to address critical needs within our Jewish community! In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contri- Available online at www.ShalomDelaware.org/Tribute in packages of 12, butions to the American Cancer Society (www. including 3 simcha, 3 sympathy, 6 shalom/general cards and 12 envelopes for $72. Contact Federation to handle individual tribute requests for $18 per tribute card by calling 302/427-2100. cancer.org) or the ASPCA (www.aspca.org). Y ShalomDelaware.org September 2016 | JEWISH VOICE | 43 Visit Jewish Federation of Delaware website at COMMUNITYCALENDAR ShalomDelaware.org for a full, up-to-date listing of community events.

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WRITING FOR MY FUTURE By Emma Driban JFD Intern

I didn’t think I would get any responses. Delight spread through my veins as I read it. Someone wanted to meet with me. This could be my first job in my field of inter- I sat, staring at my computer, obsessively refreshing my inbox est. The possibility made me so excited that I forgot about the on the morning of March 9th. I had just sent out an email titled: other emails I had sent. That’s why it was a shock when I received Seeking Summer Internship. It contained my resume and a short another email just two days later. introduction, each tailored to the five local publishing houses and magazines I found and researched. My hands were shaking and my I’d love to speak with you. Seth Katzen, our Federation CEO, is able to heart pounding as I sat, filled with anxiety, waiting for something join us on Monday, March 14th at 1:30. Does that time work for you? to happen. Little did I know that I would be offered positions with both the Within an hour, I got the first email. Jewish VOICE and Out & About Magazine. Now, as the summer comes to an end, and therefore my internships as well, I get to Thanks for your email. Unfortunately, we will not have any openings reflect on all of the things I have learned and accomplished. this summer. Good luck to you! When I first started, I didn’t really know what to expect from Doubt bloomed in my mind. Why would they hire someone with no either internship. I knew what I would be doing, writing and edit- experience? Then, out of the blue, ding! A new message was wait- ing, but to what extent? How much would I be writing? Would I ing in my inbox. have other responsibilities? Despite the many questions floating around my head, I was eager to get started. Thank you for reaching out. We’d love to meet with you! How is Tues- day the 15th at 2 pm? MORE ON NEXT PAGE

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WRITING FOR MY FUTURE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 47

Over the past three months, I have learned so many new things. I have reported on all kinds of events, conducted interviews, and written columns about local happenings. I’ve edited, researched, promoted, edited, written, attended events, edited, edited, edited. Did I mention that I’ve edited? Because I definitely have! I had to learn that reading over my work or others just once is not enough. It’s easy to miss things, and it is not uncommon to read and edit the same piece five or six times.

I have learned that criticism can be difficult to take. Sometimes, someone higher up comes along and changes your words just because they feel like it or because they can, even if there is nothing wrong with Another thing I have picked up along the The most important thing that I have gained what you have written. Though it’s frustrat- way is that style guides differ between pub- from these internships is an idea about ing when it happens, it is a good learning lications. Out & About has a three-page long what I want to do in the future. experience. Just because the writing is tech- document on their rules about abbreviations, nically fine, doesn’t mean that it fits with addresses, numbers, dates, and even certain Everyone always asks me what I study in the style of the magazine or the theme of words and phrases that are never to be used school and it’s common for my reply to elicit the content. in the magazine. On the other hand, the Jew- not-so-positive responses. Saying that I am ish VOICE is a little more relaxed, with a short an English major causes people to wonder 10-item list of guidelines. Between the two, what I could possibly do with that. A lot of there are even some things that contradict. the time they ask if I want to be an English One style guide says to use a serial comma, teacher, thinking that it’s the only possible while the other says to NEVER use a serial career path. But being an English major is comma. One indicates that the time should more versatile than they might realize. Every be written as 11 a.m., but the other asks it company needs someone to do their writing, to be written as 11 AM. Often neither guide whether it’s business proposals or press matches my personal style of writing, and releases. And while I know in general what I at times it is difficult to keep track of which want to do, there are still choices that I will publication calls for which rule. Though it have to make. I know that I want to go into can be confusing, I am up for the challenge. publishing and editing, but does that mean It has helped me to stay sharp when editing for books or magazines or newspapers or and taught me to really look at the miniscule even blogs? This summer has given me in- details to make sure that everything is cor- sight into the world of magazine publications rect. This also helps me to remember that and will help me make an informed decision the rules of grammar aren’t always black about my future career. and white. Things can differ between the publications, so long as each is consistent I could not be more grateful for the op- and simple to understand. portunities I have been afforded and I look forward to what the future holds.

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