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Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage E PAID Norwich, CT 06360 Permit #329 TH RETURN TO: 28 Channing St., New London, CT 06320 Serving The Jewish Communities of Eastern Connecticut & Western R.I. CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED VOL. XLIII NO. 10 PUBLISHED BI-WEEKLY WWW.JEWISHLEADERWEBPAPER.COM MAY 26, 2017/1 SIVAN 5777 NEXT DEADLINE JUNE 2, 2017 16 PAGES HOW TO REACH US - BY PHONE 860-442-8062 • BY FAX 860-443-4175 • BY EMAIL [email protected] • BY MAIL: 28 CHANNING STREET, NEW LONDON, CT 06320 From cooking to peace! 23rd Annual Film Festival underway (Editor’s note: see photo spread on pages 8-9) By Mimi Perl, Editor By Jerry Fischer JFEC Executive Director & Mission Leader - to in-depth descriptions and video clips for the - One movie screened and eight features to go movies. over a period of three weeks; so, you have plen Another handy reminder of what’s being Volunteering can lead to wonderful rewards. Just ask Flor ty of time to catch a movie or two or more along shown, dates and venues can be seen on the ence (aka Flossie) Betten and Jane Kierstein. with three shorts. By now,rd most of you should last page of this paper. You will also find a list of Last year they responded to a call for help when the JFEC have received the 23 Annual International- festival sponsors. Their generosity has allowed needed sous chefs for the SNEC Partnership2gether visit of Chef Film Fest of Eastern CT brochure in the mail theSunday, committee June to 4, obtainDENIAL the wonderful films Dekel Oren. They worked their fingers to the bones at the home with a full line up of the movies, with descrip being screened. of Len and Robyn Wolman, and the next day at Congregation Beth tions, venues and cost. If you want even more will be screened at El, and, at the prompting of Neta Kopelzada, the Living Bridge information about the films being screened, go 3:00 pm at TheFILM Garde FESTIVAL in New London CONT. ON followed PG 13 - Coordinator for our Afula/Gilboa region, decided to organize a to the JFEC.COM website and click on the Film - Culinary Mission to Israel. Fest link on the home page and it will take you It was to be kept small so that everyone could actually pre pare and cook food. It was to be kept affordable so that daugh Unparalleled gift to give & receive ters could join Moms, and it was to be perfect for first timers and returning Missionaires. And the Mission was accomplished! Flossie Betten and her daughter Paige came to Israel for the first time. Rosa Goldblatt and her daughter Rachel, Jane Kierstein and her friend Leslie Brenner, Joan Gordon, and Merrill Mazzella all returned to Israel for a unique and very special encounter- with Israelis, Israeli cuisine, Arab Israelis, and Palestinians. - It was billed as a Culinary Mission but could have just as eas ily been called a Mission for Peace. We visited the West Bank vil lage of Beit Sahour and met with community leader and activist Jiries Attrash, ascended the Temple Mount to view the Al Aksa By Marcia Reinhard, Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, visited and feasted with the JFEC Ass’t Director Zouabi family in Kfar Nein, just outside of Afula, where we met- do you need to do to be a host family? Not nearly as much as Middle School principal Nael Zouabi and three of his fellow Arab you’d think. First and foremost, you simply open your heart and school educators and toured the village and saw the view of Hai It is hard to believe we are welcome this person into your home and slowly but surely, he or- fa from his home, and then the group travelled to Jordan to see coming to the end of another she will become part of your family. the natural beauty of Wadi Rum and the exquisite archeology of school year which also means- Next, they need their own bedroom, but can share a bath the Nabatean settlement in Petra. we are nearing the time we say room with your kids if need be. While it is a bonus if they have But it was the cooking that left aCOO greatK INGtaste inCONT. our ONmouths. PG 9 goodbye to our Young Emis their own bathroom, it is not required. The Jewish Federation saries, Tal and Guy, and in just provides them with a car and a cell phone so getting around is three short months we will not a problem and they are easily reached via texts, phone calls Emissary farewell; be welcoming two new Young or emails. Emissaries. Here“One is ofa testimonythe most rewarding from a past experiences…no host mom that wait!!!….Three will give you a JFEC Annual Meeting Without the generosity and tasteof the of themost experience rewarding this experiences could be forfor us your as afamily: family and even kindness of 36 families in our- as an individual… have been the opportunities to host our - community, we could never have had this gem of a pro EMISSARIES CONT. ON PG 13 There is still a month before Emissaries. Tal and Guy head out gram in Eastern Connecticut. to workPlease at jointheir us respective on Thurs., camps June and 22, return for the in August Jewish for Federa a cou- In no small part, it is thanks to tion’sple of weeksAnnual for Dinner their final and goodbyes Meeting for the community fare- All pomp, no substance all the Host Families now and well to Tal and Guy in the past, that we have had By David Brinn, Jerusalem Post (Opinion) - . Congregation Beth El, 660 Ocean Ave. in- such successful years with our - New London will host this event. Dinner is being catered by Beth Young Emissaries. The experience of hosting Trump’s visit hit all the right spots but won’t likely have last El’s Donna Casey and will feature chicken and a vegetarian op ing effect. - tion. is a unique one and a great op portunity to truly get to know During his lightning visit to Israel, US President Donald Trump- The dinner is by reservation and is $15 per person and will- saidOP-ED all the right things to leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netan begin at 6:00 pm followed by the Jewish Federation’s Annual these amazing young people on a very personal level. What yahu and his ministers- cheering like they were pu Meeting at 7:00 pm where Tal and Guy will speak to the com- JFEC honors vets bescent teens at a Justin Bieber show. munity and say their collective goodbye. There will be a dessert Iran will never get a nu- reception where you can speak one on one to Tal and Guy, imof- clear bomb on his watch, he [email protected] followingm the meeting. Monday, June 19 To honor our Jewish War reiterated at the Israel Mu Please contact the Federation office at 860-442-8062 or Veterans who have passed seum on Tuesday afternoon, no later than so there- away, flags were placed by May 23. There can’t be peace is enough time to purchase and prepare the dinner. There is no their graves in the area’s if terrorism is rewarded, he- RSVP needed to attend the Annual Meeting and Dessert Recep Jewish cemeteries by Jerry told Palestinian President Ashernet photo tion at 7:00 pm. TRUMP CONT. ON PG 12 and Deborah Schwell and Mahmoud Abbas that morn Tal and Guy are looking forward to seeing you there. Hope you Jerry Rubin. Todah rabah! can make it. 2 THE JEWISH LEADER, MAY 26, 2017 Mention & Menschen for Jewish People. NADINE LIPMAN WOWOW!!!Very impressive place, and [email protected] they offer quite a bit (including a small bistro with pizza and falafel). We got a kick out of the little preschool girls walking excitedly by in Artie Dean theirof them tutus, blurted carrying out totheir everyone oversized that, backpacks “Today is and constantly dropping their shoes, while one Last week threecalls hisseparate column events “My happened2 Cents;” little ones, we saw a large gym and all types of well,that madeI’ll raise me him admit to 3 thatcents!!! I was wrong in my my birthday!” Besides dancing classes for the thinking throughout the years, something that rooms for special purposes. They have a pool,- they offer activities for all ages, fitness classes, Jerusalem tourism stamp sheet issued in November 2016. Image happens very rarely (if my husband reads this, too many to list here...we even saw a bus deliv courtesy of Israel Post he will probably laminate it and frame it.) We ering residents from local senior housing to the need Leta Jewish me start Community with this disclaimerCenter WITH Walls.. JCC to attend programs. - here. - The final thing that contributed to my Record tourism numbers : I am not By Viva Sarah Press, Israel21c thoughtspreviously about when a JCCI was in oureagerly region trying was tosome put on the Board of Directors of any Jewish organi thing that actually happened a couple of days zation. In a previous life, I sat on the Board of - Deb Schwell who is in Directors of Congregation Beth El and was very together a column with very little news (FROM Incoming tourism to Israel tallied up impressive numbers in involvedthe Jewish with Leader B’nai Brith Women (now Jewish April 2017, with 349,000 tourist entries recorded — a 38% in YOU!!!) and I wrote to Women International).